Largest Typhoon On Planet To Hit Philipines

They say that one of the biggest typhoons ever to hit the planet is headed for the Philipines today and ten million people will be severely impacted, if not wiped out.  There are going to be winds ranging from 145 mph to something like 195 mph or higher in a storm that’s at least three hundred miles across, and perhaps bigger.  And the news media for the most part is not covering it mainly because “global warming” is something they are trying desperately to avoid any examples of to fit in with their tea party “meme”.    But clearly this will be a storm that people won’t be able to “ride out” since it’s bigger and more deadly than Hurricane Andrew in August 1992 ever was in Florida.  But we move to this story to Bobby Jendle who believes that creationism needs to be taught in Science Classes.  The point of commonality here is that it’s not really “creationism’ they want taught but rather some imaginary Being who justifies their absurd political positions.  It’s the classic “nyah - - nyah- - I’m better than You” stance, which the Calvary Chapel Christians are so famous for.   The truth is if you believe God in Genisis then you believe that Man is a Steward of the Earth and that God gave man a perfect creation and told man “Don’t mess it up”.  It’s people like Rush Limbaugh who give credence to evolution saying that if the earth warms or changes than “a lot of species won’t die; they will just evolve into something that will”.  This is a basic scientific falsehood on Rush’s part.  As to that caller on the Stephanie Miller program, I turned it off after that call and went out for a smoke.  If I’m not going to listen to people on the right who aren’t morally respectable then I need to be morally consistent.  The caller tried to explain Creationism in a Christian perspective and never got the chance because the hosts kept changing the subject, and would not allow the caller to answer questions they’d JUST asked him.  Because they didn’t WANT answers.  All they wanted was some mockery session where they only joke among themselves.  So the caller hung up.  I would have done the same thing.  But none the less - - it’s a valid concern not to have superstition as a part of science class because next thing you know you’ll be talking about these hoaxes in Texas where a man’s footprint is found inside of a dinosaur footprint- - or the idea that all of these new fossle finds are Satanic hoaxes or that the loch ness monster and Sasquach are real. 

President Obama can be said to have had three major goals in life.  One was to be the first Black man to be elected President.  This was not a MEANS to an end for Obama, it was an END or goal in itself.  The next one is to promote gay marriage and the third- - is this obsession with a health care program nobody wants.  There was a Black (?) caller who like 95% percent of Americans does not like Obama Care because this President told the lie time and time again that “If you have insurance you like, you can keep it”.  The President repeated this lie so annoyingly much during the campaign I was wondering “If your bill affects only a small percentage of America why are you willing to risk your Presidency not to mention the entire US economy to get the thing passed?  But it’s like my Mom when I was getting on SSI.  She hyped the thing to death as a solution to all my problems and repeated the statement ‘If you just get your way on this by hook or by crook- - you’ll never have to worry about Money again”, even though I wasn’t worried THAT much about money before.   The analogy is similar.  If she had told me, “Of course you know if you take that SSI you are as much as disinheriting yourself” of course I’d thought differently.   If the President has said that young men would be paying for things like diabetes and cholesterol drugs, and breast pumps and pediatric dental care- - of course they would say “I don’t need all that”.  There was a cartoon that had Paul Revere or someone saying “It’s good that King George III didn’t have Justice John Roberts on his side, because then he’d know that you could tax Americans for refusing to buy our tea”.  Personally I don’t like having my behavior “criminalized” like it apparently was for decades because I did not have any association with medical insurance or health care plans.  I was inundated with them in the mail in early 1997 and found myself in a frazzled and besieged mental state because of it.

Hollywood Park is closing and December 22^nd will be the last horse race there, only weeks away.  I’d heard the Inglewood race track was closing before but I guess I didn’t know it would be this soon.  People don’t go to the track any more to watch the race, and bet on horses at off track gambling sites.  This is a sad thing because it’s a bit or organic foliage etcetra in the middle of this Urban blight we call Los Angeles.  Maybe I should attend just one race there be4fore the place closes down.   Trans fats were again in the news yesterday.  The government now wants laws and regulations that ban ALL “trans fats’ and hydrogenated oils in foods, which is a complete absurdity, because I guarantee you that whatever they replace those trans fats with will be LESS organic and less healthy for us than trans fats.  I hate this ever growing presence of the Nanny State.   In another story there was that Meteor that appeared in our western skies around eight o clock on Tuesday evening that shone really bright, like a fireball.  I saw it- - and pretty much suspected it wasn’t an airplane- - because it was all round.  Others with better vision could probably describe it better.  Now the media is telling us that meteors may be more of a threat to earth than we had previously thought.  We’re sure seeing more of them.

As to this strange bullying story about a Miami Dolphin - - I don’t know what to make of that.  But it seems to be that clearly you want to aim your wrath at players from the OTHER team rather than your own.  Because if a team is squabbling amongst themselves- - you get disconuity and divided efforts.  Many are concerned about the “whoosification” of the National Football League.  They say there are too many rules.  In the past I have told you about certain rules I would do away with in the game.  Since injuries have been on the increase, particularly head injuries- - I think there would be a maximum weight rule.  After in boxing you don’t take on someone who isn’t in your weight category.  Perhaps they should have a maximum weight limit such as three hundred or maybe even lower like 285.  This alone might make the game a lot safer as well as a lot more realistic so you don’t have genetic freaks out there.  Clearly there seems to be a weight where injuries are more likely than at lower weights.  I’m not going to pass judgement on the specifics of this bullying case since I wasn’t there.  But to respond to some host yesterday who said “Why would you just walk away and not even go to the Coach and say there is something wrong?”  Some say it was the coach himself who gave the equivalent of a “Code Red’ in A Few Good Man.  If this turns out to be the case, than I’d feel justified in leaving the team.  Because you can deal with a one on one bullying case- - but when the thing has “metastasized” into some institutional bullying- - all hope for resolving the problem is lost.

What the tea party desperately needs is a real “Christine Di Mira” moment like in today’s soap opera episode.  That is on her wedding day a video is accidently shown that depicts her having sex with an apparently lusty Priest.  Of course this tape was carefully edited hiring an expert to put the Priest in the worst possible light.  But Victor didn’t know this when he chose to disgrace the couple publicly.  But the tea party needs that “moment’ when everybody sees them for what they really are.  And they haven’t yet because the Media in general has been protecting them from embarrassing moments.  As to the notion of Rand Paul plagurizing speeches- - I don’t see what the big issue is on that one myself since all candidates hire speech writers anyhow so that virtually none of the words the candidate speech giver are his own.  (Selah)  “His brains” are the person who scripted the speech.  What is stranger than this is the idea that chaotic comedy talk shows like Howard Stern or Stephanie Miller might actually have to be “written” as if the normal chaos is actually “planned out’ in advance.  When you think of it in those terms, then a person like myself who writes off the top of his head actually comes off as pretty smart.

By the way, I too, have noticed the similarity between Moe Kelly and Larry Elder's voice.  And I would like to take issue with Moe on a completely different issue.  Blockbuster video is going out of business.  They would rather clog up the internet lines with full length high definition Blue Ray movies going back and forth, and evolving these huge hard drives of 500 gigs to hold them.  To me it's not only a question of "efficiency of use of the medium" but also of security.  That is - - it just takes a lot longer to stream down a Blue Ray calabre movie in terms of bytes per second and all, but also storing everything in "the cloud' could be highly problematic in case of a National emergency.  There is something to be said for having that solid DVD or CD in your hands.  A physical product that you can keep track of.  If people are too lazy to drive a mile to the nearest Blockbuster to rent a movie, we have truely become worse couch potatoes than even I dared imagine.  There is something to be said for brick and mortar stores.  No virus ever attacked a book.  Not all evolution is good.  I think we are evolving into a cloistered and fearful society, and personally, I don't believe that is healthy.   Of course in the case of religion it isn't "evolution" at all, but "revelation".  Chuck Smith and the Calvary Chapels have over the course of time "revealed" what they always were.  They didn't "evolve" into what they were- - it was always in their nature, but people just didn't KNOW it.  

This final story almost made me physically ill when I heard it on the Randy Rhodes show yesterday afternoon.  Had this story come from Glen Beck or someone like that I would have thought he was off his trolley and given it no credence.  They say that last year Governor Christie actually struck up a deal with Obama and the democratic party.  Governor Christie would “make nice” with Obama and appear with him on the Hurricane Sandy crisis- - and Christie would actually disparage Romney- - in exchange for the Democrats not putting up a serious effort to oppose Christie for being reelected as New Jersey governor.  Perhaps Cory Booker was part of the deal, too, getting him elected to the Senate last month.  So the Democrats got a lot, and the only thing they had to give up was Christie gets a few more years as New Jersey’s governor- - who if the people at large knew what he really stood for on so many issues, they would never have voted for him.  But Christie can go on a couple more years and then run for President.  And if he gets nominated by the Republican Party- - then all of the skeletons in Christie’s closet will come out- - and he will be disgraced as a candidate in the fall campaign.  Randy Rhodes said that she has no problem with this sort of “horse trading’ and that this is what politics is all about.   I guess I’m not too keen on all these “pre scripted” outcomes, myself.