Monday, April 23, 2012

The Thin Veneer of Racial Civility Today


Well we do have a thin veneer of politeness in society.  You don’t even dare give people an opening to vent racist sentaments.  Randy Rhodes had a caller who said ‘I’m a conservative but I don’t hate Obama” yet Randy was able to isolate all the areas where he had accepted whole these various false tea party proclamations.  That’s what you have to look out for.  They have their secret “inside information” they believe over actual news.  Gasoline prices are headed down and have been for two weeks.  Now according to David Cruise- - the net immigration from Mexico is almost reduced to zero because almost as many are leaving voluntarily as coming here due to our bad economy.  Also the Obama administration is deporting record numbers of aliens and the tea party won’t tell you that, either.  But David Cruise points out without this influx our population will “Age” like Europe’s has with their tough immigration policies, and as such it will make Social Security and Medicare even more “top heavy “ than they are now.  The average White is a lot older than the average minority age, that’s for sure.  This newfound racial stability will give us an opportunity now to perhaps re-think our immigration policies as far as giving people who are already here an opportunity to legitimize themselves.  If Mitt Romney continued to talk about building a border fence he can be reminded by Our side of the reality of the current situation.  Crime, of course is down, but you’d never know that fact, either. 
The Republicans say all the cuts in the Obama budget are cosmetic to non existant but when it’s pointed out that Obama cut 200 Billion in medi-care, saving that expense because he got rid of Medicare Advantage, which was stealing funds- - then the Republicans go “He’s going after your Medicare”.  You can’t win for losing with those people.  Of course Romney’s clear strength in the polls is White men.  But I would narrow that to “white men between 30 and their early fifties”.  Men who are thinking about the day they’ll retire have to be worried about things like health care the republicans want to eliminate, or else age discrimination.  Men under thirty and “generation Y” or whatever and are different in that they take a looser attitude tword things such as homosexuality and the classic “social issues”.  So that’s Romney’s base- - between 30 and 55.  For the most part they are people who have known only “businessmen” who succeeded as Republican Presidential candidates.  And also two constitutional status university graduates for the Democratic candidates.  So the question is “what happened to this middle year demographic to make it so right leaning?”  That’s the mystery of the century.  Marco Rubio is on the Vice Presidential “short list” and yet Marco praises George Bush as a good President.  When asked to say how Mitt Romney would differ from the Bush years, Rubio refused to answer the question.  These people will never answer a direct question.  Randy Rhodes put a caller in his place for not knowing that Aid to Families with Dependant Children both had a work requirement and a five year limit.  But the myth of the Black “Welfare Queen” lives on.  Don’t tell these people that caucasions get more federal aid than Black people.  They won’t ever believe that.  Even the ones who begin by saying “I don’t Hate Obama” in truth, they do.
They had that Sixty Minutes thing on Lehman Brothers going bankrupt.  The SEC has filed NO charges in the intervening four years.  I hope the tea party is making note of that, since they think people like Lehman are as ethically pure as the driven snow.  However the SEC was monoroting closely the financial activities of Lehman brothers and “had set up shop” right there in the building.  Apparently Lehman used the “Repo 105 dodge”.  They merely shipped fifty - - Billion dollars in debt off shore so the fifty billion in dept didn’t show up on the books.  One guy as long as November 30th 2007 said that Lehman Brothers was in serious trouble.  Maybe the Obama Administration might want to press the SEC into prosecuting this case now.  The thing is, we need to learn all we can about HOW this happened - - and I mean the whole stock crash - - in order to diagnosis the problem, which not even the Obama administration cares to delve and this is cowardess on their part.  But an even more important question than HOW, is WHAT happened.  Like when there is some explosion in a plane 40,000 feet in the air- - in order to figure out just how Bad the damage Is, and what measures need to be taken.  There are people who continue to warn that Wall Street has done almost nothing to reform its ways, and the same disaster that occurred in 2008 could occur again in not that distant future.  Then there was a segment on Palistinian Christians, which have shrunk to a two percent minority in the city of Bethlehem, which they still have control over.  It pretty much kills the arguments of people like Chuck Smith anyhow that sometime very soon there is going to be a Christian spiritual resurgence in the Mideast, particularly in Jerusalem.  I think I fell asleep during the final segments on finding lots of emeralds somewhere- - - and the number of them affecting the price.
We did indeed have cheeseburgers for lunch and potato chips with an orange for desert.  We had a second half burger.  I went in the livingroom and waited for Dr. Levy with Arleen and Bruce and a couple of others.  Whats-her-name left and where were just those two remaining, and me, and I left to listen to Randy Rhodes when she came on.  I thought I heard Sarah make an announcement and came back down only to find that Dr. Levy was still not there, meaning I won’t be getting any cash today.  I got only my third whole cigarette of the day from Nancy Bell.  I went down the lobby and sat in that southeast alcove and looked down the hall.  Then I went out to the door to the “new” smoking area where I got the cigarette from Nancy.  Then it was more of Randy and then Days of our Lives where now they are saying Lexi will be dead from her “agreessive, inoperable tomer”, which I don’t believe for a minute.  She’s too established a star to be dumped.  As for EJ and Nicole picking up stakes and leaving Salam there is a little thing about E J being just elected as mayor of Salem.  And apparently Sammy gets E J’s kids and as Nicole puts it ‘You’ll have to be content to raise Raphael’s baby when it’s born”.  She knows how to make a deal you can’t refuse - - - NOT.  EJ is not going to leave his sister when she is “gravely ill” even though she looks in the pink of health.  The make-up artists are going to be kept busy if they are going to portray her “going down hill fast”.  Sammy is still dousing the fires of Austin’s insecurity with gasoline, and then she’s trying to turn Lucas against his mother.  And while we’re speaking of home wreckers, Lucas can’t can’t bee too happy about having to give up Autumn, “The girl of his dreams - - the woman he wanted to spend his life with”.  But for Samantha it’s all about her.  By the way Ian may be a snake, and I’ve never liked him, but right now he’s one of the few lucid people. 

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