Rick Santorum does a "Take Two" for Presidency Audition

Rick Santorum is the latest contestant from the Clown Car to step into the Presidential race.  He’s kind of another recycled moldy oldie.  How does Santorum ever think he can differentiate himself from the rest of the gaggle of geese running?  Santorum did say something about “standing up for the working man” and also critically mentioned “the influence of big money in government”.  We can hope.  But this is the guy who also made his kids participate in a funeral for a fetus.  Remember that?  How much absurdity can we take?  We shouldn’t even be talking about the President Campaign at this juncture.  It’s nearly a year and a half out from the Presidential race.  We should be discussing the functions of government, federal, state and local.   But that would be too much an overdose of reality.  Santorum gets more media play than Bernie Sanders did, even though Sanders is in double digits, and the bottom eight or ten candidates on the Republican side are in single digits.  So we get endless stories about the weather we never used to get.  There are seemingly minor police blotter stories punctuating even the national network news.   If there are “food deserts” there are also “media information deserts”.  (Selah)

Thom Hartman had a critique of FOX news watchers and concluded they were like PTSD or their brains are flooded with cortizol or something interfering with their higher brain thinking functions and are running strictly on fear and instinct being fed the constant stream of factual lies from FOX.   Just remember the major part that the Ebola threat played in delivering the Republican landslide of last year.  Then there was this default panic mode of “fight or flight” and once the elections were over with- - Ebola no longer seemed so darned important to the media.  There is a lie that the cop who killed the twelve year old boy with the toy gun- - that the boy was instructed three times to drop the weapon and put his hands in the air.  Videos of the scene reveal that less than two seconds elapsed between the cop stopping the car and the kid being killed.  Now FOX news is saying that in the cash for clunkers program- - that fifty thousand dollar trucks were routinely destroyed because “people couldn’t afford them”.  (?)  And will FOX news report what Rand Paul said today?  Paul said that US foreign policy is what has made ISIS as strong and well funded as it is today.  FOX news viewers are LESS informed than those who don’t watch any news at all.  Some people will plainly admit they know very little, but FOX news viewers believe they know everything about everything.  Many people are such FOX news addicts it’s like a drug of choice where “weaning them off” the stuff and on to something “less addictive” such as CNN, is a near impossibility.  As you know that GMO guy lied to Thom’s face numerous times yesterday.  He blamed the anti GMO people for the people in India and Shri Lanka being malnourished- - which is absurd because GMO products don’t produce their own seeds the way crops have for thousands of years, so if anyone is creating mass starvation it’s the GMO people.  They used to mix rice with sweet potatoes and other edible roots where they got their vitamin A, but with GMO products they don’t do it that way anymore.  The guy lied when he said Europe was now letting GMO products into their countries because they have “reconsidered”.  That is a lie.  He also said there were NO indications of harm to any human.  But Thom pointed out that they double down on Round-up and other herbicides and the guy lied saying “No product in the US escapes the FDA regulation on herbicides.  This too is a lie.  GMO people get a free pass.  Also as Judy and others pointed out there are adverse impacts to bacteria in your guts where 70% of the immune system lies and these good bacteria are destroyed- - so illness is much more commonplace.

 There is a story in Acts which illustrates why CEO’s who get paid raises in stock options- - don’t have the best interest of the company in mind.  It’s because they are less “owners” who have a vested interest in the continuing well run management of the company - - and more like real estate speculators or something, looking for a quick buck.  It’s almost like a pump and dump thing that stock brokers do.  It’s like when Paul and the ship’s crew advised against taking a voyage so late in the season- - but their decision- - for the welfare of the ship and crew- - was overridden by the ship’s owner who was thinking of getting a quick profit getting the goods to market.  And so the predictable results occurred of ship wreck- - which is what happens with corporations.   Tom said something puzzling.  When a CEO buys a block of stock he ‘retires it” taking it “off the market”, which jacks up the price of the remaining shares.  It’s the same amount of money chasing fewer tradable shares.  How DO you just “take a stock share off the market?”   The conservatives are dictatorial.  John Kasec just overrode the will of two thirds of the voters in Ohio who voted for collective bargaining of government employees.  But Kasec just got rid of that via executive order.  It’s against the law in Wyoming to even take pictures of horrendous pollution areas in the state.  This case will be brought to the Supreme Court for violations of the first amendment, “Free speech”.   One thing I also don’t understand is how rich people can actually MAKE money by being philanthropic.   Somebody explain that to me.   I understand how you can jack people around with stock options.   You can lay off people and jack up the profits of a company and double the price of stock- - then you get to exercise your free option by buying twenty dollars worth of stock for ten dollars.  But that is a dishonest racket because it’s the ultimate “insider trading” scam.  Who would ever WRITE an option like that?

Washington’s blog is doing an expose on Thomas Drake, an early whistle blower in the National Security administration.  I watched a good chunk of that interview.  Bush threatened to indict him but President Obama actually did.   President Obama claimed to be the most transparent administration ever but I’ve never known that meant.   President Obama when asked about prosecuting Bush and Chaney for war crimes said “That’s all in the past.  We’re moving forward”.  First of all HAVE we moved forward or backward on so many issues in the past six odd years?  Backward.  That’s on budget and race relations, and even our desire to be at War somewhere.   Now the president wants to prosecute Whistle Blowers even though THAT is supposedly in “the past”.  Other than water boarding, are there ANY other issues where Obama has moved the agenda to the left?  Julian Assange points out that whether Wikileaks is even legal or not is taken out of the hands of Courts and Judges.  Courts were put in place in the Constitution for situations where they need to arbitrate and look at the evidence.  But now “the evidence” itself is deemed classified apart from any judicial decision.  Julian can’t even answer any charges because there have only been threats of charges. such FOX news addicts it’s like a drug of choice where “weaning them off” the stuff and on to something “less addictive” such as CNN, is a near impossibility.  As you know that GMO guy lied to Thom’s face numerous times yesterday.  He blamed the anti GMO people for the people in India and Shri Lanka being malnourished- - which is absurd because GMO products don’t produce their own seeds the way crops have for thousands of years, so if anyone is creating mass starvation it’s the GMO people.  They used to mix rice with sweet potatoes and other edible roots where they got their vitamin A, but with GMO products they don’t do it that way anymore.  The guy lied when he said Europe was now letting GMO products into their countries because they have “reconsidered”.  That is a lie.  He also said there were NO indications of harm to any human.  But Thom pointed out that they double down on Round-up and other herbicides and the guy lied saying “No product in the US escapes the FDA regulation on herbicides.  This too is a lie.  GMO people get a free pass.  Also as Judy and others pointed out there are adverse impacts to bacteria in your guts where 70% of the immune system lies and these good bacteria are destroyed- - so illness is much more commonplace.