I guess Jesse the Body Ventura is for Gary Johnson as the official libertarian party candidate for President. The Nanny State marches on. Rush Limbaugh pointed out that there is nothing like coconut oil to cook popcorn in and that's what produces the famous "popcorn smell' in theaters. Nothing else is quite like it. And coconut oil is actually good for you. Nevertheless the government is doing everything they can to ban it. And now they want to regulate sizes of popcorn portions in movie theaters. To me this is an unnecessary infringement in normal Market forces. Rush mentioned some other poll that says salt isn't as bad for you as they thought. I've read a lot of blood pressure stuff that says it is when you go into the sodium and potassium balance of the body and how we evolved our DNA from apes who ate leaves and bananas all the time, that contained a lot of potassium and little sodium. Sometimes like saturated fat they now say aren't so bad for you and butter isn't so bad. They are saying now that eggs are OK as an excellent source of a lot of nutrition such as Omega 3's and vitamin A and all. And they used to say coffee was bad for you. But now they say coffee actually protects against certain forms of cancer and has anti oxident properties. I don't think corn syrup the way they do it now of the high fructose variety- - is a good idea, and particularly if it's genetically engineered corn syrup. None the less I believe that certain products can be boycotted. If people won't buy them they'll stop making it. Media exposure and popular demand got "pink slime" in hamburgers off the market. So indeed we can bring market forces to bear, if we work at it.
I heard in the news that some South Dakota University is going to no longer be called the Fighting Sioux, because some high court deemed that name as "hostile". I think that's really silly. Stanford used to be called the Indians. And then we have the Washington Bullets in the NBA that became the Washington Bullets. I like the name of "Bullets". It's catchy and athletic sounding. Yet "political correctness' dictate that they change their name to "Wizzards" which sounds really corn ball to me. We need a sense of balance today. I was against Justice Elena Kagen being appointed to the Supreme Court because I felt she was a "statist". She seemed to want some legal mandate as to what was "correct speech" that would be enforced by the government, particularly on the issue of homosexuality. Many Christians wonder whether a Church Pastor would be free to preach from the Bible the "Word of God" if there were government snoops in the audience.
President Obama's poll numbers with Blacks has dropped markedly - by 21% in just a few months. He had 95% of the Blacks in North Carolina in 2008 but in a recent poll just completed in North Carolina, the poll number on Black people is 20% who overtly plan to vote for Romney. And only 76% of the Blacks in North Carolina are voting for Obama. This dramatic drop is due no doubt to the President's unfortunate "Evolution" on the gay marriage issue. It is said the reason why the President has done so many Hollywood fund-raisers is because his funding from his base is down from four years ago. People on our side are becoming disaffected. This President's fund raising trips have now exceeded those of President Bush in 2004. Rush Limbaugh said that there are statistics going back to the eighteen hundreds that reveal Incumbant Presidents being re-elected - - is no slam dunk. I've heard it said a lot that if an incumbant's approval numbers ever dip below fifty percent - - that President is in big trouble. The President's numbers seldom rise above 45% and I think now he's slipped to 42% or something. The President's poll numbers have NEVER been ahead in a statistical significant manner of the Republicans even in the heeight of the "economic recovery spring" that occurred in the winter. I identify a little with Rush's complaint of the President 'having a bad week" based on the day to say poll numbers. If the President's support is so shallow that six spoken words quoted out of context will do him in "The private sector is doing fine" then it's just "not happening" for this President anyhow. Clearly he doesn't inspire confidence no matter how little nor how much he campaigns. People like Dr. Levy wanted this President to be the standard bearer again simple, I believe, because he was such an utterly weak leader that even a Bozo like Mittens Romney can and is beating him.
There is good news on the Health Insurance front. Now a lot of carriers have announced that those reforms that were instituted about not being cut off insurance if you got sick, or children up to 26 being able to stay on their parent's plan, won't change regardless of the Supreme Court ruling. This may be because they anticipate that the whole mandate thing will be declared Unconstitutional, and they want to allay fears that somehow they will claim they were relying on these mandates to keep premiums down by forcing "healthy bodies" into the pool, who would normally not choose to be there if they were given the choice. This goes to show that "the public" at large has gotten "used to the new provisions' and doesn't want to give them up. Therefore once again Market Forces have supplanted the President in this regard because it will then be economic market pressures rather than a government mandate- - that dictates the decisions insurance companies make.
Bill Press this morning was talking about how we suffer the lingering effects of Proposition 13 passed way back in 1978 because that measure casts a long fiscal shadow even to today's "austerity measures" Jerry Brown is having to wrestle with. People actually didn't have this sort of constant crisis scene in local governments that we have today because people actually paid in taxes what the government services cost. Howard Jarvis and company never made this mental connection between cause and effect and that is that you really have to pay for what you get. I don't believe I've posted the following sentament but the reason why John Mc Cain's remarks about "The fundanentals of the economy are sound" is because going back as far as the summer of 2007, and I have it in my writings, there was talk of employment lay-offs. Even then the middle class was being squeezed. So for John Mc Cain to call it a "mental recession" or whatever- - was clearly something that I think personally was "out of touch" with the 'pulse of American sentament" at that time. Just think about that.
Rush Limbaugh says that "It's been a bad three and a half years for America". Well it's been a bad nearly four years, since September first of 2008 for me. Any number of people would like to snip out of the calendar all the elapsed time since John Mc Cain picked Sarah Palin as his vice president. But we have different reasons for believing what we do. I'm tired of the tea party and I'm tired of a President who has been such a colosally bad leader and spokesman for his own Policies, some of which have actually worked. I's sick to death of this financial austerity bit choking all aspects of government. I was just looking at my finances now, and I'm going to be in fiscal deep doo-doo again this month. Circumstances have been putting the screws to me ever since September first of 2008 when I learned I would NOT be getting the usual two hundred dollar bonus "rent rebate" check, which supposedly falls under the category of "tax refund". But in Florida they have a built in automatic 21% tip expense built into everything. The "new norm" for tipping has risen from 15% to 18%. Who makes these rules? Given the high prices in sit down resturants these days for just about anything- - even paying the bill is a hassle. And now they are going to tack 21% on top of a 9% sales tax too?
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