National Unemployment Rate Falls to 7.7%

The national unemployment rate for February dipped from 7.9% to 7.7% and the economy added 236,000 jobs last month.  Since November the economy has averaged the addition of over two hundred thousand jobs per month.  Moe Kelly claims to have said last October that is Romney were elected President in November that his reelection would be assured and that is the President won that day, then the democrats would be perfectly poised to continue in the White House after 2017.  The reason for this is simple in that the economy- - all economies eventually recover on their own from any recession.  In this case the President took steps to shorten the recession and insure the recovery.  But besides the employment numbers you know that if you have a 401 K or IRA or a mortgage you are substantially better off today than you were four years ago, with increased capital worth.  The new minimum wage bill in my opinion could put this in jeopardy because they want to hike minimum wage from $7.50 an hour to $10.10 an hour.  This increase is far too steep, and when Bush signed the last minimum wage hike in 2007 it didn’t bode two well for the economic employment picture.  I would rather not see the same thing happening again as small businesses will be no longer able to stay in business.  Of course in the real estate markets here in California I heard there are only one sixth the number of houses on the market that there were a couple of years ago.  But to the republicans this is all bad news.  Moe Kelly claims that sequester places this rosy recovery once again in jeopardy.  I never thought the republicans would let stand such disperportionate cuts in our defense spending as opposed to other areas of government, but it seems that the Republicans hate the idea of this President succeeding with the economy, than any professed love for the armed forces they have.

The Cardinals in Rome just voted today to officially begin their Conclave to pick the next pope this coming Tuesday March 11^th.  This will not give them much time to pick a new Pontiff prior to Holy Week, which begins less than two weeks from then on March 24^th.  I guess they’re not worried.   It used to be in the old days they would lock them in from the outside, and starve them of food should they take too long to pick the next Pope.  To my reckoning it takes fully two weeks for the Cardinals to pick a new Pontiff once the Conclave process has started.  In other news Los Angeles may be the first world city to get the Summer Olympics for a third time, and that would be in 2024 when LA major Antonio Viragoso is lobbying to get the Olympic games once again for the city of Los Angeles.  Kate Middleton will be giving birth to a daughter.  Because of the change in the law allowing daughters equal footing with sons now,  this royal daughter will be the next in line to become Queen after Prince William himself passes on, which might now be, the way things go- till the waning portion of this 21^st Century.  This Royal Princess would be third in line of succession after Prince Charles and Prince William, neither one of which have even begun their royal reigns yet.   Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher will be in the next Star Wars Movie - - Episode Seven, which is not scheduled to be out till 2015.  I guess maybe Princess Leah will be in an old folks home by then. 

President Clinton signed the defense of marriage act or DOMA in large part to head off a growing more then by Republicans to make prohibition of gay marriage the next Constitutional amendment to make the rounds for approval by the states.  Also if the President has not signed this act- - Bob Dole would have received a lot more votes from marriage traditionalists like me, and I did vote for Bob Dole in 1996.  Some are quoting the former President that this DOMA bill was part of an actual strategy to strengthen rather than weaken gay rights, which were under assault at the time.  Of course is Proposition Eight were put up for a vote today it would most likely fail because since the measure passed in 2008 four and a half years have elapsed and there has been a profound shift in the opinion polls on this issue.  There was a lengthly Dr. Suis poem that was read on the Stephanie Miller program this morning- - that  and every line ended with the letters “an” or “and”.  In the poem were numerous other rights that Rand Paul has not been for including gay rights, disabled access and employment rights, and minority race rights.   Stephanie and John Fugelsang’s point is well taken that we liberals take to attacking each other when we don’t agree on issues.  It’s a natural consequence of our free thinking nature.  However when the other side marches in lock step they are more disciplined and able to accomplish more.  I generally try to make my blogs news and event driven rather than “Topic” driven, which is the same philosophy that Rush Limbaugh employs.  I am much more likely to bring up a topic if it’s been in the news lately- - and hence manifesting new relevance for you readers.

Many times a story comes accross the news wires on some complicated scientific theory or discovery and suddenly everyone becomes a self appointed expert on the subject, just as when the stock market makes new highs and it's all over the news- suddenly everyone at the office has an oppinion on the subject.  Now there is new evidence in support of the "God particle".  But as i was telling Jay, this new guy at the table after Irvin's unannounced but permanent departure,  it's an issue where you need to think before you start putting puzzle pieces together which you may be doing all wrong from the inception.  In Sketch they used to have this rule for lines that cross - - called the "bulivard stop rule".  This means you may continue, but only coming to a complete stop for a respectable period of time.  This is true- - and I want you to catch the thought image here- - - this is true because you are connecting a line from Point A to Point B, and the way Sketch opporates- - if the software isn't sure just where Point B is- - then it- - guesses, and it's often wrong. 
The whole idea in logical thought is not to "guess" needlessly because in SUDOKU - -  - your bad mental choices made now will come back to bite you in the ass later.  Most "strings' are like that- - going from point A to point B - - if you're into the string theory of the universe.  But this God particle has already been physically descriped as not a particle like a ball bearing or a "string' bur rather as a circular ring.  As I told Jay, it's one of those strange factoids I don't entirely understand myself that Gravity, rather being the strongest of the Four Basic Forces- - is in fact the weakest of the four, and various physical explanations are given for this.  Many people like to tie- - light in with gravity- - both having in common of traveling either through "empty space" or as I more logically infer- - some "medium" such as aether.  This "capacity of posession of Mass - - is said to be the key criteria in imparting what we call "Materiality" to matter.  Just so this paragraph doesn't go impossibly long I'd like to share the other brilliant thought I had at the table that I expressed to Jay, and that is this notion that for God- - - Time is like an "Opporating System' is to a computer.  It gives a template or interface- - in order to give events meaning.  As I said in September of 2004 without Time - - even Death as we know it would not have meaning.  Here is another bulivard stop alert.  Jay made the statement that "To have Time you need Motion".  This is of course ass backwards reasoning.  You - on the contrary- - need Time- - Time is an ontological necessity- - in order to even perceive Motion.  I have spoken of the idea that forward Time- - - as we know it- - - is the whole basis of Scientific Laws being in force all the time.  Jay and I both agreed that "God created the Universe and then insured that his Laws of nature and whatever, would Always be in force.  May I suggest the means of this "enforcement' - is Time.  And just as there was once a time when Computers had no opporating systems- - so there was an aeon or era when there was no Time.  As such you did not have Effects following Causes - - as we have now.  You kind of had the cause and the effect and the sequence all mashed up together.  To return to Programming once again - - a common word or vehicle in computer- - is the Array- - or Sequencing of like variables.  Time enables this "evidence chain" that law enforcement speaks - or a causal "Nexis" leading to the Outcome or Effect you see before you.  With my somewhat modified theory on the Creation of the Universe- - - it is less a Big Bang now- - where you have this seemingly random "Explosion" into directions or dimensions yet undefined- - - but rather you have "The big hyperbola swing" where there is this physical Force, which needn't even be alive or conscious- - that propells events into the "matrix" or framework that we know as Time.  The subtle distinction here is rather than "differences between the parrellel universes" totally dictated by the "randomness of the explosion of the Big Bang- - we would impute some sort of causality- - of events prior to the existance of Time- - and each event somehow generating a closed system, which we know as a Universe.  Of course Albert Einstein believed in the old Egyption proverb of "The Dice of the gods are loaded".  As I said at the table, "God doesn't play dice, except in the third "Oh God" movie, and God unlike the Devil, knew the outcome ahead of time.   By the way- - Jay was talking about how Black Holes disprove the absolute speed of light.  Technically you could say that Black Holes are "Sequestered space" meaning completely Isolated and unreachable by any logical means- - yet it Exists none the less.  I'll tell you one that got my attention about Jay is that he knew that a particular chemical formula was a Salt- - merely by looking at it.  This denotes a level of acquired knowledge most people don't have.  By the way speaking of meals, the lunch bell calls.  There is a lot more I was thinking of including here by way of background and expository example- - but the length of the paragraph would have proved unendurable for you readers.

Dick Chaney - A Natural Born Sociopathic Killer

Perhaps all this talk about Rand Paul and his filibuster of yesterday was just a grand distraction from the real news story of yesterday.  According to a new documentary or book or whatever, Dick Chaney was even more of a blood lust killer than we all believed.  It is said that Dick Chaney’s appetite for blood and gore and death was nigh on insatiable.  That in the end Bush had to sideline Chaney in his second term lest we be drawn into three or four more wars with massive body counts.  Dick Chaney is an amoral blood-lust sociopathic killer, and the thing is he’s a coward, too.  Like Ted Nugent he too dodged the draft.  Apparently Dick Chaney flip flopped on the whole Viet Nam war after claiming to witness some “anti war protestors in white sheets drenched in pig blood”.  Apparently something in him snapped and from that moment on it was his desire to get into the highest echelons of government.  Of course when Dick Chaney appointed himself as Bush’s aid in “seeking out Vice Presidential nominees’ he never intended that that job be held by anyone other than himself.  Apparently he played on George W’s fears of being a whimp like his father was accused of being.  And clearly it was Chaney’s War of aggression in Iraq.  Bush was just an empty headed vessel and in the early days would have been lost without Chaney.  When 9 – 11 occurred of course it was on Vice President’s express orders that Flight 93 be shot down.  What is said in that Movie is an elaborate Hollywood lie made to distract from the guilty.  Chaney made sure that he was in control after 9 – 11 making all the key decisions leading the President all around the country with one distraction or another.  So in reality this term of Darth Vader is not far off the mark when it comes to Dick Chaney.  Mike Meloy compared Dick Chaney to people like Eichman and other of the world’s greatest killers.  And I’ll tell you this.  If people like Judy and other Christians refuse to come out and comdemn people like Dick Chaney- - which they won’t.  One of two things is apparent.  Either these Christians who support Dick Chaney are the world’s worst disobedient blasphemers, or else- - God himself is a sociopath and hence is more appropriately to be cursed and shunned- - rather than deemed worthy to worship.  According to Mike Meloy again, and I’ve heard it said previously, that Dick Chaney- - like those Nazis hiding out in Brazil- - is so universally regarded as a War Criminal of the first magnitude- - that he would be immediately arrested, or worse, should he ever deem to take so much as a few steps outside the confines of US borders.

There are more details coming in about that lion attack.  The lady intern had been on the job two months and “Koos Koos” was her favorite big cat.  All her life her dream was to get a job working with big cats.  The owner told the intern never to go onto the lion’s cage alone.  But apparently there was an ajoining area and the lion methodically lifted up the door of the cage, which was ajar, and then bit the woman immediately breaking her neck.  She died almost instantly and she died “without suffering’.  The lion continued to chew and maul the victim, and others tried to distract the lion, not knowing that it was too late.  Finally the authorities came and shot the lion.  They spoke of "Koos Koos" as "pampered ever since he was a cub" and only treated with kindness.  Yet he turned into just another wild beast killer.  I know what the Lion's excuse, but what is Dick Chaney's?   Because similar to that Lion, Dick Chaney grew up in privelege without the slightest indication he would "turn vicious".  Others on the "other side of the void" have put in their two cents on this issue.  Actually “Bones” weighed in on this story tonight and said that there are things they aren’t telling us- - but Bones couldn’t tell me what they are.  He had talked to Jim Morrison already and Morrison said “Obviously there is a story untold here”.  I am not so charitable.  But on the subject of drones it’s different.  Bones said “Of course in the Romulan Empire we have express treaties against this sort of thing as conduct not tolerable in civil unread, or even an undeclared war, which all the ones in your country are.  But Bones added “Still I don’t have a background in the cultural context behind the conditions under which drone attacks are permissible, and I feel I’d be doing an injustice to comment further on this without studying the situation much more extensively than I have”.  Once again I am not nearly so charitable.  Clearly we need an express law that says “Drones shall never be used inside the territory of the United States on US Citizens- whether they are suspected of a crime or not”.  I’d make it just that simple.  Clearly this “window of opportunity” stuff is a bunch of crap because there is no danger of their slipping into Pakistan or what not.  Also as Rand Paul pointed out this morning, you could drive a Mac Truck through the hole in the definition about whether a certain thereat was “iminent’ or not.  It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the phrase “We must strike within the window of opportunity- - if more conventional action would result in undo risk”.  Yeah, these Admerals might mess up their manicure if they had to actually go out and physically put themselves as risk to get revenge.  Now they say another of Bin Laden’s sons was captured.  So at least this son wasn’t killed and so we can actually get information from him.

In the hour or so before dinner I watched a four-pack of stations on C-Span.  First it was the notion about cracking down on straw purchasers at gun shows and the like funneling dangerous arms to Mexican drug cartels and street gangs.  I guess there is a way of slapping on a really stiff sentence to the gun broker who makes the purchase as aiding and abetting crime.  But the exact wording of the legislation hasn’t been worked out but there seems to be a broad concencus that it needs to be done.  Then there was North Korea.  Now they are planning to shoot a nuclear missile on us.  There is more talk about successfully engaging China in our cause and that they are “getting tired of dealing with North Korea and would rather move on to more constructive pursuits.  This idea of their attacking us is so silly that someone should sit their young punk leader down and inform him of the facts of life.  “You know what we did to Iraq in two or three short weeks don’t you?  We carpet bombed the country and leveled the place and took out a half dozen or so of Saddam Hussein’s palaces, as well as destroying a lot of archiological sites thousands of years old.  We can easily shoot down any of your missiles that by some flook miracle actually made it half way across the Pacific to the United States”.  You know you have a point though.  Maybe we should just drop a half dozen bombs on your nation right now without waiting for further provocation.  And the world would side with us, you know.  Then we have Nancy Pelosi and her news conference where she talked about the sequester and the general economic rift between the tea party and the White House.  And finally we have cyber crime and once again, here there appears to be a general spirit of corporation between both the various government agencies such as Department of Homeland Security and the Justice and Defense Departments, but also between government in general and corporate business in general.  Apparently there is a general willingness of corporations to share their “classified information” with the government in the interest of stemming cyber crime.

 

 Yesterday was obviously a busy news day.  One thing I completely missed yesterday was Rand Paul’s filibuster that went on for nearly thirteen hours.  It started just before noon yesterday and ran till just past nidnight.  But they don’t have but a small half hour excerpt on C-Span and I’m puzzled as to why except that nobody takes him seriously.  I was a little flabberghasted by the way Ed Schultz handled this issue.  Ed Schultz didn’t take it seriously and Randy Rhodes was worse engaging in heavy sarcasm on the subject.  Apparently- - people like Ed Schultz and Randy Rhodes would rather name-call than deal with the real constitutional issues that were raised.   In the morning I watched John Mc Cain and Lindsey Graham in the senate- - and some other guy who was saying that the Sequester not only had no harmful effects upon the economy but that less public spending is actually good for the economy.  His point is well taken.  Personally I think the whole sequester is rather oberblown by the media, and polls reveal that the American people at large are not buying into the panic.  The stock market continues to make new highs and people's "personal worth" is now again equal to what it was before the Recession began.  Mitch Mc Conell also spoke for a while.  As to Rand Paul himself- - it was a thirty minute segment where he had a dialog with a Republican from Utah on legal matters and precedent, and also with the new Texas Senator Ted Cruise, who was more articulate on things of the law than I ever imagined.  But some such as Stephanie Miller are calling Paul a hypocrite because he is against drones being dropped in this country on people who are United States citizens, yet won’t support abortion and gay marriage rights-  - as if the two were the least bit connected.  I don’t like my intelligence being insulted even by those on my side of the political aisle.  It is a technical fact that private business "Have the right to Refuse service to anyone" on any grounds - - except for that of race.  That fact should be an eye opener.  Nowhere in the constitution does it say that either gay marriage or abortion on demand is a right.  Indeed the Constitutional Fathers would have cringed at the mere suggestion of either.   What we are talking about here is rights Expressly guarenteed by the Constitution, and if I were Stephanie or Randy I'd at least have enough respect for constitutional principles to know the difference.  We believe certain Rights- - come from the hand of God, and not from the state.  No sane person would ever claim that a woman has the right to kill her unborn fetus and that "God told her it was OK".  Just think about it.  And by the way it's physically impossible for Marriage to be "discriminitory" because gays can't do it,m because Inherent in the Very Definition of Marriage- - is the Union between a Man and aWoman.  Given this definition of marriage- - the inclusion of a non marriage element such as gay sex- - is completely irrelivent, because that is NOT what a Marriage consists of.  (Selah)  And in six thousand years of the history of the world it never has - - prior to this past decade.  Apparently Ron Paul finally had to take a bathroom break.  Now they are saying “Did you know that having a large bladder means you have a small brain?”