Words To The Wise

"Arnald, you know that right now I'm supposed to discipline you"

"Oh, what are you going to use to simulate the sound of the paddle hitting my butt?"

"Your Butt - - - "

"No Man Needs to Take by Threats and Intimidation - what he has Earned by Deeds"

-King Seti of Egypt

"What people don't understand as far as God and the problem of Evil is concerned is that God gave us all free will and will not violate it.  We are the ones responsible"

-Neil Savedra

"Oh, does that mean that if another Christian screws me over it's HIS own fault- - rather than - - Oh - - you know- - that line about how We're all Sinners so I don't have the right to Judge?"

-Marcus Arelius

"Behold for those of his Generation - - he was considered Dead"  Isaiah 53

Oh I see- - so by that logic Jim Morrison is considered Dead by THIS generation and therefore he too, is someone deserving of my Worship" -Marcus Arelius

Let me run some word pairs past you -  "land line phones" "analog TV" "Desktop Computer" - - "Free Radical"   - "Situation Ethics" - "Liberation Theology"  -   

OK kiddies it’s time for a little democraphic realities.  People say that if you’re a communist you lie to the people but the people are ALWAYS worse off than before the leader showed up on the scene.  This is what Rush Limbaugh alledged about Hugo Chavez today.  But the truth is that Hugo Chavez cut the infant mortality rate in half- - and he made health care a lot more available and furthered higher education.  Also keep in mind that Hugh Chavez was the winner in a free election held in 1998 and that George Bush staged an attempted military coup in that country that was successful for a week or two.  But then the people rose up as one in rebellion and put Chavez back into power.  But naturally if you’re Hugh Chavez you’re not going to think too kindly of the foreign leader (Bush) who attempted to oust you in a corporate coup organized by Bush’s buddies and business partners in the region.  Also Hugo Chavez according to one source, gave Venesuela a Constitution for the first time and that Constitution granted people various rights they had never enjoyed before.  Also Chavez allowed the people at large to own their own property and residence, and even to borrow against it, should they choose.  For the first time they had equity or that nasty word “Capital”.  But you will hear none of this from FOX and company.  Rush Limbaugh isn’t even original in his terms.  He has now taken to use our term of the “low information voter”.  But now we have moved on to using the more toxic term of “dis-information voter”.  FOX news is not only meant to mis-inform but to dis-inform.  But we in this country rather than improving in our demographics are moving in the other direction.  Our infant mortality rate is rising.  There is this CRE bacteria that is found in hospitals and wholly 44% percent of the patients who interned in one Florida hospital came down with it.  Eighteen percent of the elderly in long term nursing care contract the CRE bacteria and fully fifty percent of those who encounter the CRE bacteria, do not survive it.  This in large part is due to the fact that many people enter hospitals because they are not that healthy to begin with.  The prominent of this vaccine resistant CRE bacteria is up four fold since 2003.  And we are hearing that if you are not on medicare but pay by private insurance- they will jack up the price ten to twelve fold,  I kid you not.  This to me presents a very powerful argument for a single payer health plan of some sort.  If you had younger patients in the insurance pool- - you could charge a lot lower rates than with medicare.  I’m just saying- - IF, not that we should.  Of course people like Judy say that these high paid Chief Executive Officers earn every penny of their pay through long hours.  Judy goes on, “I can tell you they do from personal experience”.  Gee, I didn’t know that Judy was conceiling a fortune of several hundred million dollars I didn’t know about!”  My motto is “Nobody is worth that kind of money”.  And personally if it was me- - - I’d fire them and take my chances, and use that money I’d pay them to help people that deserve it.  As Randy Rhodes says “Everyone has their hand in the tell collecting their little slice of the pie” or as John Lennon might put it, “Everyone has their hands in the Kill” since you’re more likely to end up Dead AFTER visiting a hospital than before.  I’ll have a little more to say on my posting.

 This morning I listened to Ed Schultz on that Monterey station.  But I noticed both at the ten o clock hour and at eleven, they X’d out the CBS news and instead piped in low fidelity filler music.  I’m not sure why they now don’t want us to hear the hourly CBS news.  Maybe they’re afraid we’ll learn something.  Ed Schultz kept talking about "not compromizing", but "talking tough" around your friends is not the same as a face off with the Republicans, who have been de facto running this country for the past two years.  O Riley “lost it” on FOX news last night in a shouting match with Allan Combs.  Schultz points out that he “gave away” 1.2 Trillion in cuts mid summer of 2011 in a deal where John Boehner claimed “I got 98% of what I wanted”.   Of course the President said he’d used a rigged CPI index- - to refigure social security increases at even a more chincy rate- - and he also offered to mean test medicare payments and also move to “outcome based medicine” where you move away from the very expensive “free per service”  rate paymentand even raise the ellegability age. And of course the President points out that Billions can be saved by we who are covered being ellagable to negotiate with the drug copanies for the best prices. 

  

I went and bought a cigarette lighter that hardly works at all.  But when I went to return it to exchange it for one that actually works, I was refused.  I was personally offended by this.  I have never returned anything at that store before and I’ve been sending an awful lot of business their way in the past week.  But all I got was first a denial that the guy even sold it to me, then he denied that the lighter didn’t work, when it clearly wasn’t working even when he tried it.  And I’ve thrashed my thumb more on this lighter than I wrecked it on the old lighter before it ran out of fluid.  Clearly this one was full of fluid.  We had hamburgers for lunch and potato chips.  The new guy gave me his tomato slice.  We had honeydew for desert.  The pasta soup- - a holdover from Strogenoff night- - was good and it was the only thing that came around for seconds, and she still had some when she got to us.

The soap opera is getting to the point where watching it only gets depressing.  Now Samantha’s orgiastic excitement is heightened by fanticies of mafia hits and people being tortured and killed and begging in vain for their lives, I suppose.  Clowie has decided to move on apparently from Daniel and now is attempting to seduce Father Eric, a move Nicole doesn’t find funny.  And by the way, if you’re going to abandon your flock to chase after some hardened criminal in prison who isn’t afraid of killing again, and intervene to let him out early- - shouldn’t the responsibility for any lives he takes after he’s gotten out fall on you, too?   Listen to Nicole.  Stop judging her and start listening- - you know – two ears – one mouth - - and all that.  As sleazy as Clowie is, she’s never killed anybody.  Samantha has shot two men and was framed for shooting another- - and she “honestly didn’t remember whether she did it or not”.   By the way if Sonny tries using that bigot word around me don’t be surprised if I punch him in the mouth.  When I want to protect my kids from sexual perverts and I’m called Names for trying to do so- that’s pushing it too far.   I didn’t take kindly to David Cruise’s remarks dissing Eric Garsetti using terms I would have expect to hear out of Rush Limbaugh’s mouth.  When he stoops to using cheap stereotypical racial slurs- - that make no sense to begin with- - and that’s the best he came up with - - I say, “Enough”.  The thing is if you going to pile sarcasm thicker than icing on a wedding cake- - at least get through the first minute where you are explaining the background for us.  And by the way- - just as with Gene Scott and Rush Limbaugh- - when you’re obviously so hyper I think you’ve been popping pills and interrupt yourself in mid sentence because you are now ceased by a sudden, new tangential thought- - I don’t even have any respect for you as a public speaker.  People get to elevated high position and think they can abandon standards. 

We had oven fried chicken with some sort of flour coating on it.  I got one piece for the first plate, and generous yams, and peas and carrots.  We ate the apple sauce first because we were hungry.  Dora made it around the room with seconds and I got the rare treat of “end of the line balloon payment seconds”.  Dora gave me about three pieces because she had a few left over.  I was grateful.  A lot of the servers are nice that way including Dora, Laura, and Sarah, and sometimes Denise.   Sometimes zoo animals go vicious and attack, and you’re not sure what provoked it, but as of now animals don’t have the right to Due Process or to speak in their own defense.   Here is a cleaver line for you.  Christians say that what makes them such wonderful people is that they engage in Self Denial.  I say that the problem with Christians is Exactly - - because they engage in continued Self Denial.  The art of “denial of the obvious” is one of the first things you have to instinctively learn when you become a Christian.  They say “Monkey see – monkey do” and just as abandoned apes have to be “taught by humans, so I’m told, how to act as Apes- - so Christians are “taught” and “learn by seeing” literally from birth.  (Selah)