Michelle Bachman Number One In Iowa Poll

Well, Michelle Bachman, that woman whom Randy Rhodes wanted to be the republican nominee for President because she is bat crap crazy, won the Iowa straw poll today. She polled an impressive 28% of those who voted. Ron Paul got 27%. But the headline in the news was not that Ron Paul came within one percent of upending the front runner, rather the headline was that Tim Pawlente came in third. The Media has been running its campaign against Pawlente for weeks, and you have to wonder what is going on. The fact that neither Romney nor Perry even "showed" in this poll seems to have escaped the media notice. But by virtue of not coming in third they are still qualified to "still be in the running". This whole bit about "knocking a candidate out of the running" is pretty silly anyhow. The Iowa straw poll isn't known for predicting squat. If it were, John Mc Cain never would have become the Republican nominee four years ago. Of course many whackos on the right such as Dr. Levy like Michelle Bachman. But as Pawlente points out, at least HE has some kind of a track record of accomplishments in an executive position. Bachman has virtually nothing to show for her years in congress save for the "light bulb freedom of choice act". But Bachman has been noted for making a lot of extreme statements. They did a poll in the debate with the following question: "If you were President would you sign a debt ceiling raising bill that was weighted ten to one in favor of government cuts over revenue raising. All of the candidates on stage raised their hands. As Chris Matthews pointed out, "That's wasn't a poll response; that was a Reverand Sung Young Moon wedding." Of course you know these people around them are bat crap crazy from the questions they asked. One question was to Michelle Bachman who was asked "Do you promise to be submissive to your husband?" Rotsa Ruck with that one. Michelle Bachman is so far to the right she voted any debt ceiling increase and indeed has campaigned that the debt ceiling should NOT be increased, with or without a constitutional amendment. She says the S & P 500 people were right when they downgraded US credit to an AA plus, which even Lisa Simpson would be pleased with. Someone said "it takes the average country nine years to get their tripple A credit rating back once they lose it". I have a definite feeling it won't be NEAR that long in our case. Of course the results of a poll done just last week states that 62% of the US population favors a jobs program over concern about the national debt, which is only 22%. Of course people talk about being "given a job" like those people at Founders being given a "make work" job for three dollars an hour limited to ten hours a week. Well, as the Black guy on Chris Matthews points out, there is all sorts of Work, tasks, that need to get done in this country such as roads and bridges being built and water works being up to standard. And there are school buildings throughout the country that are in disrepair. Matthews suggested that "The best defense is a good offence. Why don't you take your message out into enemy territory, like John Boehner country, and in this way you have the potential of making real headway".

Richard Perry officially announced his candidicy for President today, in one of the worst kept secrets. He kind of reminds me of that "Joe Cantwell" guy from the movie "The Best Man" starring Henry Fonda. He has the body language and swagger of a southern Evangelist, which may play well in Texas, but not the rest of the country. Perry has "left the door open" for Texas cecession from the United States, and falsely claims there is some historical precident for this. Of course Perry is known for creating jobs in Texas, but I've heard Texas has the highest percentage of minimum wage jobs anywhere in the country. Many Texans don't know how he got reelected. It seems that Perry only won last time with 39% of the vote because he ran against three Democrats who divided the opposition vote. Of course Perry is still in favor of teaching creationism in the schools. The only other person the news media named in this straw poll was Rick Santaurum, who came in a close fourth place to Pawlente. Dr. Levy has also spoken fondly of Rick Perry. But Perry has one major obsticle in Texas politics in the person of Karl Rove, who is noted to support any candidate who will oppose Perry. I never thought I'd say it but, "Go, Karl". Go sick 'em, and knock him out of the race and nip one bad apple in the bud.

Former LA police chief William Braton has been asked to go to England to serve as a law enforcement advisor to find out a way to quell all these riots they've been having in England in places like London, Birmingham, Bristol, and Liverpool. I wish him my best. Braton was the best LA police chief we've ever had, at least in my lifetime. His community policing techniques have greatly increased cooperation of law enforcement in ghetto neighborhoods. It's a refreshing change from those dark days of sky high crime rates and police relations that sucked, under Mayor Tom Bradley and former police chief Daryl Gates, whom we suffered through for fifteen years. Many say that the problem with Europe, and Pat Buchanon might well be right this one time, is that there has been a lot of rapid racial immigration not allowing sufficient time for cultural assimilation. And others have said that the London police were initially too "soft" allowing the whole thing to get out of hand. Also people in other countries don't have the crime computer data bases we have access to here.

Now they have a simple blood test that women can use barely into their pregnencies that can be employed to determine the sex of their unborn babies with 95% accuracy. This contrasts with ultra sound, which relies on visual information with only 90% accuracy and according to that Dr. Mendelson guy- - fries your baby's brains. Of course knowing the gender can also alert the parents to certain well known sex related malodies such as color blindness. Most people consider it an ethical problem to have the sole reason for termanating a pregnency being based on gender. Still I think it's just the price we pay for progress that one of the great mysteries of life is now gone.

One of the ideas I've been kicking around for a posting is playing the "what if" game with "The Ten Commandments" movie. You know that scene where Moses is pulled out of the mud pits and is on the barge with Nephretiri, and she urges him to go to Seti's jubliee, and he says "But first I have to pay a call on the master builder". When I first heard that line I assumed he was referring to making prayer to God. It turns out however his intent was on killing Baca, alias Vincent Price, the Master Builder. I am thinking "what if some other entity entered his body, mind and will just then". How might history have been altered? Well not to speak ill of the dead but Joshua would not be alive to finger Moses for being Hebrew and not Egyptian. So Ramses would have to find out from somebody else, if he found out at all. While Baca would still be alive and a partisan of Ramses for Pharoah, my view is that I would rather face a live opponet as opposed to a dead Albitros. (Selah) So what would happen when again Seti met up with his one time protogee. Would he still be in chains? Would he perhaps not plead for himself for for his mother, Bithia, who in his eyes made him everything he is today. We will never know that, short of fifth dimensional travel, but what we just might keep in mind is that there may be "walk ins" right now entering people's bodies, that right NOW are altering history. So it might be arguing that the "normal" was preempted by the Impossible, which is the Reality we have now.

We have a little "unfinished business" from a few posts back. The one zinger example I decided not to use goes as follows: I was rolling these things over in my mind on the way to and from the store last night where I bought a pack of John Black cherry, after it was already dark. I have often stated that God is an amoral being. He has no concept of either black or white. Neither does he have any concept of Time. Many people can have a form of "color blindness", which means there is one or more areas, it could be race, it could be gender, that they just "don't notice" or perhaps don't even here all the where-with-all to notice, such is my voting for Bob Dole over Bill Clinton in 1996 with Character as the deciding factor in my mind. It dawned on me that another word for “forgive” is to “suddenly not be aware of”. You remember how screwed up the battleship Cain was in that movie. And Captain Queeg says, correctly in my oppinion, "These are things we are going to start becoming aware of again". Neil of the house if KFI has even stated that "sin begets sin". Often error can have a compounding effect, like a nuclear chain reaction in a reactor. So it’s like all those bad events that reaped untold havoc- - “never happened”. Neil of KFI says that “God can’t really forgive because he’s so inherently Perfect”. It "sounds good" when he puts it that way- - all that "Holiness"and all. ButThat’s not the reason. The truth is that God has no concept of a moral infraction because He doesn’t deal in Morality, and as such has no idea what you’re talking about, at least from a moral standpoint, when you say “I don’t know how God could possibly have permitted this or that event to happen”. God has no inkling of the adverse consequences of his own acts due to their lack of moral consideration. Then we have the concept of Adam and Eve. It has always been said that Adam and Eve wanted to be like God in that they knew Good from Evil. And that somehow the Serpent was trying to appeal to their vanity. The theory here goes "Adam and Eve had a sense of entitlement" and we KNOW how bad "Entitlements" like Social Security are. The reality is that Adam and Eve were a lot more like God before they “fell” than afterwards. So to quote another Bible verse, "Divinity is not some etherial quality they needed to strive for". Curiosity is an inherent quality of the very young. If God had had any experiance with raising Children before he would have known this. But they didn't "fall". It is kind of funny that they never had sex and conceived a child before they "fell". If they had- - then I guess their child would have geneticly inhereted the former "perfection". But to say what happened to them constituted a "fall" is a strange choice of words. Because after the Fall they became moral creatures and people of conscience. As such they were now capable of things like guilt and repentance. But there was now a giant rift between these two and this god with whom they suddenly share a lot less in common with. (Selah) I don't see any way, or for that matter any necessity, to try and bridge this "moral divide" between a moral human being and an A-moral deity.