Ruiner Rouner Goes On A Rampage

Illinois Governor Bruce Rouner is at it again.  This time he’s issuing an executive order that wants to make labor in the entire state an “Open Shop” as they refer to it, meaning that anybody can choose whether you want to join the union or not.  He’s starting with the government employees, but only because he thinks that’s where he has the most power and influence.  He’s like to do it with all Union employees.  There is a fee called a “fair share” fee that Open Shops have the right to charge non union members, but Rouner doesn’t want the Unions to get that money.  No doubt he wants to pocket the money himself.  Of course Open Shops are a way of weakening unions as a whole, and he and Scott Walker’s goals are to destroy the labor movement as a whole.  Since 1935 under the Wagner Act, unions have had a lot of legal power in this country.  Taft Hartley pruned that back a bit saying that “You shouldn’t have to pay dues that go to any political contribution by the unions that you disagree with”.   I have a question.  Since the Republicans only ruled Congress those two years, why didn’t the next congress just haul off and repeal the Taft Hartley act?  That’s one of the mysteries of life.

OK you heard it here first.  The price of crude oil is falling to twenty dollars a barrel within the next year.  During the month of January we saw a "short covering rally", which is KWHY speak for a rally in an over-all bear market.  I was thinking a similar thought already because it's just certain refinaries shutting down temporarily now to make way for their summer formulation, that will be out in a month or so.  I think the worm is definitely turned as far as crude oil prices, and we won't be seeing hundred and ten dollar a barrel oil prices again.  When people just realize THAT will never happen, this realization ALONE will trigger another selling panic, like an avelanche.  Banks aren't shy about publishing these prognostications openly these days.   So - - a word to the wise is sufficient.

The news used to be that Brian Williams had volentarily stepped down as news anchor on NBC news.  Now we hear that NBC is considering replacing Williams with Savannah Guthrie, who- - I'm guessing is considerably younger than Williams.  Of course now the number of questionable stories has climbed to four.  We had the hilocopter one being shot down by rockets.  We have the Hurricane Katrina one where Williams says he saw a dead body floating the water around his five star hotel.  We have the story about the puppies.  And now we have one about flying as an embedded reporter with the Israeli air force.  One wonders why news Anchors would take such assignments.  Other grunt reporters complain "We can do just as good of a job reporting on stories, but it adds status to the network to have the head hauncho go.    Sean Hannity was continuing to discuss the Brian Williams controversy.  Now there is a fourth event from 2006 involving the location of rockets shot up from the Palestinians, as embedded BW was flying with Israeli pilots.  How do these reporters like Hannidy get such “up close and personal” experiences with the military, when for the rest of everything is classified information?  Williams first claimed that he saw rockets being launched from six miles away, to which I'm thinking "He's got a real hawk eye to pick that out".   That's given my bad vision.  But then a month later he says that the rockets were being fired from right under his plane.  With these four stories coming to light in just the past week or so, one wonders just how many stories like this there are.  Others defend Williams saying 'It's part of the tallent that got him where is today that he's good at telling these dramatic action stories where he puts himself in the center of the action.  I don't know.  I'll leave it to NBC to decide his fate.

You already know about the ruling on gay marriages.  Clarence Thomas was kind enough to inform us in advance the court would be ruling favorably on gay marriages this June.  There was a Supreme Court case today that was a preview of the homosexual marriage case that will be dealt with fully in June.  Today in a 7 to 2 decision, the court said that Alabama had to go gay whether they wanted to or not.  Justice Clarence Thomas and Samuel Allito dissented- with Thomas actually writing that opinion.  Of course we old timers from fifty years ago remember Alabama Governor George Wallace standing at the front enterence to a college where two Black students were to be admitted, and Kennedy had to send in the national guard.  So my emotions are definitely mixed on this issue.  Local Judges and one in particular- - are ordering their county clerks NOT to issue marriage licenses for homosexual couples.  There IS no discussion or definition of "Marriage" in the Constitution.  In any other time, this topic would be clearly viewed as a matter in the domain of the states.  But we don't live in normal times.

It’s now official that Kayla Muller is dead.  She is no longer among the living.  Of course Kayla’s parents have been corresponding with ISIS on the subject and the parents reminded ISIS “You told us that you regarded Kayla as a “guest” in your country.  So as a guest under Islamic law she is entitled to be treated with respect and be protected from all harm”.  You see I know a thing or two about Mideast culture.  It doesn’t matter on the specifics on how Kayla died - - the responsibility for her death falls on ISIS.   According to Sean Hannity- - Jordan has done a lot more to destroy ISIS in the past couple of weeks than the United States has done in the past year- - not that Sean would lie or anything.

71 inches of snow, or nearly six feet of the stuff, have fallen in Boston and in that general storm track area of Vermont, New Hampshire, and upstate New York by Albany, in the past three weeks- - than usually come down in a year.  They have every manner of snow removal equipment out there like back-hoes and snow melters, and tremendous amounts of salt and people working overtime with shovels.  Schools have used up all their snow days- - and now will have to cut into their summer vacations by more than a week to make up for it.  So the expression “Boston Strong” is still being tested.

I have been in increased anti psychotic medication now for the past three or four months and I believe my blog writing is less creative now.  I'm beginning to wonder whether the family isn't right and I should be completely OFF Resperidol.  It really isn't solving my basic problem of some vague underlying mental anxiety which manifests itself in mental disorganization.  Just think if I were on no psycho-tropic medication I might have a LOT more mental energy to do a lot of things such as reorganize all my writings.  These next few sentences I could edit out, but - - .  I went for coffee in the courtyard both in the morning and in the afternoon.  They were changing the linens on the other side of the hall.  I was quite drowsy before lunch.  For lunch we had corn chowder and some very poor tasting sloppy Joes I didn’t like, because they left some kind of after-taste in my mouth.  The question isn’t whether the mixture cane out of a can, but whether or not that can was found on the pet food aisle.

It turns out Paul’s blood wasn’t entirely compatible with Sonny’s despite assurances - - and he had a reaction to it and all the readings went haywire.  Sonny appeared to go into shock, and we all thought it was from seeing Will Horton.  Page is moving out from her mother’s place and into a dorm, and now she’s on the verge of finding out whom Jack Junior has been having the affair with.  The whole situation with Hope and Aden in the cabin remains up in the air.   I was thinking that Hope make like a Missouri cop and keep her gun out and ready to fire.  Victor Kiriacus heard a voice behind him in the chapel while he was praying- - and it was Clyde Weston saying “It’s a crying shame about what happened to your nephew, Sonny.  That would be enough to put me in therapy for weeks.  You aren’t telling me the guy has returned from the dead, like Nick, are you?   The body was never found but he was freezing in the snow and had three bullets in his brain.  We know that.