Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Some People are Patient to a Fault


Norman Goldman had a Hillary melt-down with a caller.  Some of these “liberal” talk show hosts are becoming increasingly more strident in favor of Hillary Clinton and against Bernie.  Keep in mind only four states out of fifty have voted last time I checked.  And yet everyone is pronouncing the race over.  This tells you something about Hillary’s hammerlock on the politics of the democratic party.  All she has to do is snap her fingers and a bunch of extra union employees go out to caucus for her.   Are we to infer that Hillary is more strongly in favor of or has a higher prospect of success of raising the minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour than is Bernie?  I don't think so. You could look back over the past twenty years (early 1996) and call it twenty years of regression.  We “fixed” the welfare problem.  For a while we had the unconstitutional defense of marriage act.  (for technical reasons)   If you are gay, if you are among that three percent of the population you can say that YOU have had progress in the past twenty years.  It’s my guess that some minority of that three percent has actually gotten married to the same sex.  Maybe it’s a third of three percent, which makes one percent of the population last time I checked. 

  If you don’t like the “commercial modernization act” or the way the Media is now, we have retrogressed.  Don't even get me started about the loosening of Wall Street and banking regulations under Clinton and the axing of Glass Steigell.  Let me ask you a question.  Is President Obama more or less strident in enforcing banking regulations now, as opposed to what it was thirty years ago under Ronald Reagan?  Let's talk about the illegal alien "problem" of eleven million people living in the shadows, as it were.  Fifteen years or so ago President Bush wanted to do something about bringing all these illegals out of the shadows and into being responsible, tax paying citizens.   If you are for equal pay for equal work- - we’ve gone from women getting 78% that of men to some slightly higher figure.  Some say it’s 82%.  Bernie has been using the figure 79%.   Have we made “progress” on the minimum wage during this time?  What about prison overcrowding?  What about racism in general in the media and in the American people at large?  Is that getting worse or better?  Bernie was in the trenches getting arrested and stuff for his protests activities.  Bernie has been a whole lot more consistent on gay rights and on a whole lot of other things than Hillary.  Have you compared their respective positions on marijuana?   Here is another area where we have made actual progress.  Are there fewer wars or more wars than there were twenty years ago.  How about health insurance costs?  Have they gone up or down for the average American in the past twenty years?  What about areas such as racial bias among law enforcement officers?  Is this getting better or worse- - if you had to make a guess.  What about issues such as global warming and ecology?  What about labor union rights in places like Wisconsin and Michigan?  Are these getting better or worse?   What about intangibles such as the politeness of candidates?  Have campaigns gotten more polite and “cerebral” or have they gone the other way toward coarsness and vulgarity?   I don’t even think Norman Goldman knows the proper definition of the word “patience”.   

His problem is that when you go to the basic questions such as “How do you solve this problem in America”?  You don’t START with “patience” any more than you START with “God” in my opinion.  There are times in my life where I have put “God” first.  Where did it get me?   You may for instance come up with three methods of solving a problem.  Maybe some methods are inherently slower than others.  Certain solutions necessarily require that thing called “patience”.  But in the absence of a PLAN or some PROPOSED METHODOLOGY any talk of patience is nothing short of silly.  President Obama was not “patient” when it came to putting his Presidential plans on hold while he matured a little over four or eight years.  No.  President Obama needed immediate gratification in becoming president.  That was his goal.  Solving America’s societal ills was never on the top of his agenda.   There was one caller who stated that Hillary had no intention on following through on any of her campaign promises.  I’ve learned that when a natural born LIAR uses the word “NOT”. Saying “I’m not this or that”, this is EXACTLY what he or she is.  Hillary told us in late January of 1992 “I’m not some kind of Tammy Wynette stand by your man type”.  This is EXACTLY what she was- and is.   I don’t see how the average American woman can look at Hillary Clinton and all the trashing of various women she’s done- - and in any way think Hillary is looking out for THEM.  We could talk about the Federal Reserve, or the means by which rich bankers get PAID - - - NOT to lend the vast amounts of money they are freely given.  We could talk about CEO’s and the profit driven a-moral stance of your typical large corporation today.  We could talk about the Trans Pacific Partnership.  Tell me, is this progression - - or retrogression.  We have had twenty years of retrogression on all of the fronts I have described in this paragraph.  Ted Cruz claims to love the constitution and yet the Trans Pacific Partnership- - and all the others- - will make both the Constitution AND the Supreme Court obsolete!  Just think of this for a bit!  We then come to the issues of Hillary’s psychological temperament and how does she treat subordenates?  Is Hillary or Bernie more likely to fly off the handle under pressure?  I say again maybe Hillary asks patience of us, but she isn’t demanding patience of herself.  But more to the point it’s people like Norman Goldman on the radio who is less than useless in advancing the progressive cause.  Where does he propose the American people get the vast amount of patience required to fit into his mollasis agenda?  We’ve all seen the Wizard of Oz.  Dorothy didn’t get action from the Wizzard until she lost her patience with him and exposed all his flaws.  Someone needs to do that with the Hillary Clinton wing of the Democratic Party before they destroy us all.  Just think about it.  


On Days of our Lives Brady wants Summer to come to Salem with him and his “two wives” to meet Maggie, her supposed biological mother.  It’s a little far fetched.  Summer at least admitted she was adopted, and was raised to be a Texas fundamentalist.    Eva tried to OD on morphine but it was more just to get attention rather than any serious attempt to end her life.  On yesterday’s show Eva hit officer Horton over the head with a brick and made her escape from a commercial flight to Italy.  I smoked my last cigarette at two.  I got one cup of iced tea from Dora and a piece of bread pudding.   So far I don’t have any ideas for blogger.  The “Real Goal” of America and Israel is to shatter Iraq and Syria into many small pieces.  I fail to see how that could help.  I think the real goal of the USA and perhaps Israel is to put pro oil and pro Western governments in these two countries that offer a minimum of civil rights to people but get along well with the Saudis.  

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