America's "Heartland" Still Is a Prejudiced, Racist Cess Pool

Randy Rhodes believes that the LAST thing these republican “tea party” types want is a “simplification of the tax code”.  What they usually mean by this is the instituting of a flat tax, which has been the pipe dream of the right wing for the past hundred years.  But in truth most couples use the standard deduction and don’t itemize anyhow.  Only the rich do that.  So all of those pages and pages of tax code they go through- - are not to find out how to Pay their taxes, but how NOT to pay their taxes.  And so they get cash refunds in addition to not having to pay any income tax to begin with.  President Obama wants to eliminate these big deductions for the ultra rich and to cut the corporate tax from 35% to 28%.  The Republicans during the last campaign said THEY wanted to do just that, but when it came time for them to put their money where their mouth was, they voted against eliminating ANY taxes for the rich.  How many times has this President done just what the Republicans once advocated- - only to still have these tea baggers perpetually mad at him anyhow?   Rush Limbaugh the other day said that the Democrats actually WANT this immigration bill to fail because - - if you can follow this “If it fails in the Republican house then the President can get on the stump next year and decry the failure of the immigration bill and say it’s all because of Republican obstructionism”.  Rush has said that it’s important that this Immigration bill NOT happen because “It will mean so many new minority voters that Democrats will win all subsequent elections”.   Rush once said that he’d grand these people legal status “If you put a provision in the law that they could not vote for the first twenty five years”.   How nakedly transparent can you get?   If you want to talk about “Entitlements” well- - how about feeling “Entitled” to thumb your nose at the US tax law- - and to funnel countless political donation funds through a “legalized money laundering system” where neither the presence of all this dirty money in the campaign- - nor the donors who give it- - - is known by anyone.   How can these people on the Right like Rush - - continually tell the LIE that “The IRS denied approval of our 501C4 status” when ALL of the groups were approved.  And of the 276 groups targeted by the IRS - - 202 of those groups were NOT conservative!

The United States has a serious security briech because Communist China has copied at least eight or nine of our newest and most secret military weapons, and the similarity of theirs to ours is striking.  Only the names have been changed.  It would seem that perhaps the Obama administration could stop investigating FOX news or the Associated Press long enough to spend a little more time investigating China's computer piracy- - because they have gotten away with so much, and this President doesn't seem inclined to do anything about it.  There is almost this "se la vi" feeling about it, like a normal every day happening.

There was a horrific train derailment near Baltimore, Maryland today, culminating in a horrendus explosion that shook the ground for miles around and caused much structural destruction.  There has been a rash of rail derailments and mishaps lately - as you well know from just watching the news - and one has to wonder why, since obviously there are in general fewer railroads in opperation these days, yet the safety factor seems more problematical all the time.  Perhaps we need to institute new safety procedures here.

Home prices are up between ten and seventeen percent over the past year.  The stock market is up.  Jerry Brown is continually surprised at how much revenue the State of California is taking in.  Because of this- - economics is an almost toxic topic for the Tea Party right now.  They haven’t breathed word won about the economy in months.   Since the President’s popularity numbers are also rising, you’d think that just maybe the Democrats might be poised to take back a lot of House Seats in congress next year.  But few people are expecting any miracles like that, because we’ve seen disaster occur in so many elections these past four years.  The tea party pretty much has defined all the issues- - - meaning that any liberal or progressive is starting out playing defense- - and having to dig himself out of a very deep political hole.  I don’t have a particularly good feeling about the Kings and the Sharks tonight even though the game is being played on our home turf.  It’s funny how the road team almost always managed to take at least one game- - and often that one game turns out to be a pivotal - - and deadly one.

CORVALLIS, Oregon (Reuters) - An Oregon teenager accused of plotting a Columbine-style attack on his high school was charged on Tuesday with attempted murder and possession of a destructive device and ordered held on $2 million bail.  Grant Acord, 17, was advised of the charges against him during a brief hearing in Linn County Circuit Court in Corvallis, Oregon. Acord was not physically in the courtroom but appeared via closed-circuit television from a secure location where he was being held.  The high school student did not enter a plea at the request of his attorney and spoke only a few words in response to questions from the judge about his understanding of the proceeding. He was ordered back to court on June 4.  Acord was taken into custody at his mother's home on Thursday after police got a tip that he had produced a bomb and was planning to detonate it at West Albany High School, some 70 miles southwest of Portland.  A search of the residence in north Albany turned up six home-made explosives, including pipe bombs, and bombs made with Draino, which doesn’t sound fun at all.  Molotov cocktails and napalm bombs under the floorboards of Acord's bedroom, authorities say.  In their search of the residence, officers also discovered diagrams of the high school, which "led us toward the conclusion that he was planning a Columbine-style attack," according to Captain Eric Carter of the Albany Police Department.  Carter was referring to the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School near Littleton, Colorado, in which two teenagers armed with guns and home-made bombs killed a teacher and 12 other students before committing suicide.   "He was definitely following a detailed checklist," Carter said of Acord. "It appears he had a systematic, well-documented plan, this was not just an errant note."  

The whole George Zimmerman trial begins in Sanford, Florida on June 10^th.  Today Zimmerman’s attorney petitioned a lady judge trying to get a continuance, and was denied – twice.  David Cruise believes the attorney was trying to talk down to the judge, and it would have served him right if he’d been cut off in mid sentence.  The motive for the delay in the start of the trial is so that the attorneys can corrupt the jury pool with racist and prejudicial propaganda against Trayvon Martin, in that bastion of racism, Sanford, Florida.  That’s about as sleazy a motive as you can get.  It seems that Papa John’s pizza doesn’t know how to be civil to their pizza buying public.  Martin’s father had ordered delivery of a Papa John’s pizza and paid with a credit card that included a 21% tip for the delivery boy.  But on the phone with a fellow employee just afterward there were racial slurs exchanged, and apparently the two employees even made an impromptu disparaging song about Martin with liberal use of the N word.  Papa John’s fired the two employees.  However I and others are offended at Papa John’s for something else entirely.  Management was going on and on about how Obama’s affordable care act would raise the price of a ten dollar pizza by a whopping - - eleven cents.  Just a week or so the store I go two raised the price of a box of crumb donuts by fifteen cents, and I went ahead and paid it.  Clearly Papa John’s isn’t concerned about their customers having to shell out an extra dime and penny for a pizza.  They just like taking political pot shots at this President, and are unabashadely pro Mitt Romney.  And as far as I’m concerned- - I don’t care to patronize any business that crams either politics or religion down my throat. 

It seems as if the royal nanny making preparations for the new arrival to the Royal Household will be using hand folded cloth diapers for the new baby, and not Pampers or any convieniece product.  The Royals are very traditional, and since William and Kate don’t know the sex of the baby they probably didn’t have amneo sentesus.  Of course Samantha Brady was trying to foist amneo sentesus on a pregnant teenager, when the procedure is particularly risky.  Of course given the longevity of the Brits these days- - whether that new royal law allowing females equal standing to inherit the throne- - - this most likely will not happen till late in this century- - and by then the Brits may have decided they’d had enough of all the royal pomp and ceremony and eliminate it entirely. 

In soap land, Christian Di Mira had a regular “come to Jesus” moment.  She decided that what she was doing playing these petty little games with John Black wasn’t appropriate conduct to engage in on the eve of her wedding.  So she threw him out.  Black was mad and wasn’t going to take it sitting down.  So he got physical with her and decided to restrain her from getting out of the room.  Voices were raised.  I thought he was going to sexually assault her there and then, but luckily two Hotel dicks showed up at the door, and asked Christine what the problem was and she said “Restrain that guy - - he’s dangerous”, which is just what they did.  But alas sometimes when you truly repent of a sin and feel “Free at last” of it- - - THAT is the time that God decides to lower the boom on you to make you pay for all your past offences.