THE PRESIDENT has just issued a couple more executive orders today. This is a productive means of Presidential proactive leadership. Today the President decided contrary to the Patriot Act or whatever other Bush regulations, the not all terrorists would be taken out of the Criminal Court system, but now we would return to most people involved in domestic terrorist acts would be treated as common criminals, with the emphasis on "common", meaning that they will be treated just like any other citizen would be. Also today the President officially did away with the dreaded "Death Pannels" that so vexed the Republicans, or so they would have us believe. They were officially called I-PAD. This agency or agencies never did have the force of regulitory law but could only make recomendations, and this was just to coordenate the patient's best care coverage, should the worst happen and medicare funding get cut. But it was always congress and not this committee that had the final say so, and always did. This just takes another major charge out of the Republicans' hands, among so many things that have been taken out of their hands which they hoped would be a means to pilery the President during the fall campaign.
I think it's safe to say why Rick Santorum lost so big in Michigan and in Arizona. First of all Mitt Romney had his new found buddy John Mc Cain to campaign for him in Arizona as the sensible way to vote. Some said that Romney people took steps in Arizona to keep the whacko vote from showing up. But clearly in Michigan the people just rejected Rick Santorum for all of his "out there' political stances lately. Wisdom dictates that honesty is not necessarily the best policy in politics, as synical as that sounds. The Senator from Pennsylvania said "President Kennedy's words on separation of Church and State in 1960 made me want to throw up". You don't say words about a beloved ex President and get away with it. Of course now the word is that John Mc Cain is speaking out against the Citizens United Supreme Court decision and that the days of these giant donors may be drawing to an end. Others have postulated that when Mitt Romney gets elected President he will indeed to another flip flop reversion to a more progressive stance. They say that the New York water delivery system is over one hundred years old. The average aquaducts and water delivery systems and septic systems in the United States are over fifty years old. This would take a lot of employed people to replace. Unfortunately when Ronald Reagan became President the decision was made just to mortgage our future and ignore all this stuff in favor of tax cuts for big corporations and more maximization of their profits. If the economy picks up because of Mitt Romney public works measures next years he will take credit for it himself no doubt. But the trouble is that President Obama being a Democrat could not afford to go on any major government spending spree now, but a President Romney, under Republican Party Political Cover, would be free to do this.
So does having a lot of the green stuff in your pocket somehow confer to you a certain piety that the lesser classes lack. People will say that religious people have a higher living standard and more of them are married and live in better neighborhoods so there is less crime and all of that. People think of the poor as the morally compromised class. When I mentioned to Judy at Christmas that so many socio-economic factors played into minority problems such as poor health and crime she responded, "Not all poor people are immoral. It's values and not economics that's relivent". Of course the only "poor person" of any value to these people is someone like Abraham Lincoln who was honest and grew up in a log cabin. But other than that the lower rabel classes are pretty much seen by the Rush Limbaugh set as no good and good for nothing. But are these moral observations valid? No they are not. A survey was just completed that said that ten percent of the Sociopathic personalities are from the upper classes. In other words the rich have Sociopaths at ten times the rate of everyone else, where the figure is around one percent. Other surveys of months ago have concluded that the rich were truely the sociopathic among us. They ran some experiment involving economics and paying for something that wasn't delivered right away and somehow involved trust. It involved trusting your neighbor to come through for them and be true to his word. Virtually all of the people who "flunked" this test were either your rich banker - economic tycoons, and also a few people who were potential psychopathic murderers also flunked this test. Now they have done some new tests. They tested their honesty to see who would honestly state what number on the dice they rolled. They were told the highest roll would win a prize and they thought they were in a booth alone away from prying eyes, and the others would believe any number they told them. It was the honor system. There is no honor among the rich. Because there was a hidden camera in the room and the rich lied way more than any other class. There was another experiment involved stealing candy from a jar the person was told "These are for the children who will be here later". Well, guess what. The rich stole from the jar much more often than the other classes, and on average the Rich person took three times as much candy as others did. They ran a test with traffic laws and found that the rich were much more likely not to obey traffic lights and roll through right turns and such, and also that the rich were even a lot more likely to run over pedestrians legally crossing the street than the rest of us were. Of course in the military they said that Generals make fifteen much as much salary as a Private First Class. But in this country as opposed to Japan where this number is only around 30, in this country corporate executives earn about 350 times as much money as do the poorest workers. As such there is a lot of temptation for high ranking military officials to go Rogue and start working with private corporations. We know that an awfully large percentage of military "abuses" we've heard about were actually private contract companies. Of course the Salaries of the top C E O's and the rich has gone up 25% not counting inflation and taking after tax income. The ordenary age earner on the other hand has steadily lost earning power over the past thirty years. And this is deslite the fact that the average worker is significantly more productive today than he was thirty years ago. This all goes to Corporate Profits and not into the worker's pockets, as it should. I elaborated on this theme in that "Socialist Manifesto" thing I posted a month and a half or so in one blog. To to sumarize, "Yes, Virginia, The Rich Really Are Crooks". So when the right bemoans this Occupy Wall Street crowd as somehow the unwashed, greedy, moral values lacking masses, you people need to set them straight.
Now of course the Red States like to think of themselves as the financially well off sates and point to Welfare Magnets such as California and New York as the financial paracites. However - - once again the truth is a little different. The flow of government funds flows to the Red states with their agricultural subsedies and disaster relief and the like, getting paid for not growing surplus food to keep farmer's prices up or whatever. And now there are all the discredited ethanol subsedies. And of course FIMA knows that this area is a magnet for every form of natural disaster, and they always seem to need to be bailed out. I don't fault them for this. But some might say if they are so tight with the Almighty how come their prayers for protection aren't listened to? I know the expression "There but for the grace of God go I", and I'm not disputing it. I'm just saying that maybe just once these people ought to get off their high moral horse. Because earlier in this administration you had a hand full of Hartland senators representing perhaps ten percent of the US population being able to block a whole Avelanche of laws that were passed by the Pelosi congress, that would be the law of the land today were it not from the out-sized representation from rural states. They err historically because the old expression was "No taxation without representation". And these people are over represented by any accounts, and their propaganda message, for what it's worth is broadcast loud and clear in the Media.
Kate: "You wouldn't lie to me, would you, Sammy"
Samantha: "I swear on my sacred honor I wouldn't lie"
Kate: "The day you break that oath will be the last your eyes see"
If Randy Rhodes thinks the Monkees wrote their own songs, in the words of Anne Baxter, "You've been drinking too much honey wine". In terms of those Seven Mountains of society that I've heard about that the Dominionists believe in of Politics, Law, Entertainment, Religion, Education, and what have you - - -I haven't yet found specific reference to those seven - - yet. But now we are told that this Saturday Mick Huckibee is going to sponsor a "Forum" (not a debate) where Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum will be discussing dominionism. So it will be two "Christian Dominionists" debating one Mormon. Just to get our terms right, Mormon is a non-Protestent religion but not a "Non Christian" religion. Protestents are those that came out of the European reformation such as John Knox, John Calvin, Zwinglee (?), Luther and, yes, King Henry VIII. He was most certainly a religious reformer, and I'm not being cute here, either. Mormonism does not spring out of this protestent "tree" of Faiths. However they do believe and Teach the Bible, which is something you can't necessarily say for some of these other groups. And since they teach the Bible they know that the whole idea of "making the world righteous enough so Jesus can return" is pure horse pickey. No. The return of Jesus will be "as a thief in the night" and even casual fans of religion know this. Jesus (or rather John the Baptist) teaches that it will be as sudden as when the lightning flashes from east to west, and there will be absolutely no time to prepare and a whole lot of people will be caught unawares. So if Romney wants to do theological battle with the other two Dominionists, he should be saying "Well - - Bring it On!"
Davie Jones of the Monkees just died. They were just saying he was going to appear at some concert this weekend. Of course it was Micky Dolens who sang the plurality of the lead vocals, with Davie Jones and Peter Torque singing less often. Of course they had David Crosby on the other day. Of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, Crosby is known of course as the most drug wasted and the most "symbolic" of this genus of music. Of course Grahm Nash is the only member of C S N & Y who is not an Andromodan. All four Mamas and Papas are Andromadan. I could just have as easily talked about Byrds albums in that recent posting. Of course we know the Mamas & Papas last major hit. I'll give you a hint right now. Some of you wanted to know who "Charlie" was, a name that popped up the other day. Well, this is a free country. You are free to guess. At any rate the answer as to which was the M & P's last major hit is as follows. You know what the DMS key on your Windows calculator does don't you. Well using calculation calibrations used with that key- - - take a quarter out of your pocket and think of it's most mathematically conceise value expressed in terms of a certain denomination. (as long as it's not Episcapalian) Now cut it in half and you've got the answer. This M & P single - both sides - I used to hear playing on a juke box all the time at this Pizza place where my church youth group stopped by after-wards to hang out eat pizza and smoke cigarettes at the corner of Euclid and Ball. By the way, as far as I can tell Mike Love was the early "main singer" of the Beach Boys you hear most, rather than Brian Wilson. I just thought you'd like to know.
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