No Crisis Left Behind

DATELINE 1962 -
RUSH LIMBAUGH RUNS FOR
STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT
OF HIS GRAMMAR SCHOOL

Rush says he is running on an irretractable progressive campaign platform. He graduated at the top of his fifth grade gas, and is flatulant in three languages besides his native Ozark. Rush says he wants to usher America into the jet age and bring about the complete Stratification of society. He also wants courts to exhibit a maximum ammount of equivication in its court rulings favorible to the poor. He says he wants to abolish prayer in schools so students don't cheat and get test answers from God. He also wants let fast food chains advertize in the cafiteria line.

By now you have all heard about that fourteen year kid, who looks more like twelve, who lectures old conservative men five times his age on the subject he knows best. He claims he stands for four basic ideas. He's a constitutionalist. Well, so am I. I am an originalist constitutionalist for just about all issues but I also believe in "staree decesis" or whatever that word is that means "settled law" provided the rulings have preferably been around for a century or two and aren't and wern't considered "contraversial". The lad's second plank is "A reverance for Life". I don't know if that means if he sees a caterpillar on the ground he will gently place it back on the left it fell from. I reverence life, which means I'm against abortion, euthanasia and all that other stuff. Nowhere was the 14 year old talk about God. As you know I now call myself an Anti-dispensationalist Calvinistic Deist Objectivist, with Utilitarian tendencies. I'm a utilitarian when it comes to harmonizing with the Planet and making society work smoothely with the caviat that any "Life" issue trumps utilitarianism. I'm against cloning or anything that smacks of eugenics. OK? The 14 year old's third issue is limited government. I believe we should all try for limited government. I believe in the free market. In fact, I'm for vouchers, which is the free market with poor people choosing private schools when given the choice. And I also am for plank numver four of "responsability for one's actions". This separates me from a lot of Born Again Christians, who don't believe in that. I believe in the work ethic. In generally my views as per those four items differ little from the 14 year old's. The Bible teaches against "oppression of the poor" and also teaches charity tword the poor. The Bible is also against any sort of "corruption" including business corruption. Averice is one of the seven deadly sins and yet Gordon Gecko says, "Greed is good". Wantint to better yourself and your family is good because it's a survival mechanisum and as such is necessary for natural evolution. But Gordon Gecko says at one point "Why did I wreck Blue Star Airlines? Because it was Wreckable". You know the saying, "Why does a dog lick himself in the groin? Because he Can".

Perhaps I should make this paragraph the lead paragraph. Certain Things Just Have the Ring of Truth to them. When we see Truth, we know it sometimes instantly. In my prophecy book (the second book I wrote) I state that bank employees are never shown counterfeit money but only shown the Real Thing to study every detail of, over and over. That way is something varies even slightly from that, they'll pick up on it. I know almost instantaniously that that version of "Sunshine of Your Love" wasn't the original record, when they were running that. That's because "Disraili Gears" has a very unique "accoustic signature" or ambient sound, and this recording didn't have it. When I was a senior, Coach Freeze was our sex education teacher for the duration of the class. I remember very little from that class. But I do remember his saying when you find true love, you know it. He says with his second wife he only knew her two weeks before they decided to get married. Sixty Minutes had a thing on recognizing suspects in a police line-up or from photographs. The more you "have to think about it" the greater the liklihood that you aren't sure and should keep looking. People who see it know it. You know that old expression "I don't know what it is but I know it when I see it". People talk themselves into things from mis-placed "positive reinforcement" of a pre existing error. I myself am not that good with faces, but even I would have passed that "Test" they gave on Sixty Minutes. Maybe I'm smarter than I think. This principle extends into the field of religion. When one is exposed to Atheism, one senses an almost magnetic attraction quality to the whole philosophy. Something just "rings true" about it, even though you may not even be able to place it into words. I say again I'm a deist, like Thomas Jefferson and not a "Theist", hence an A-theist. On three different occasions (three being a significant Bible number) desciples of Jesus either "wern't sure" or "didn't know" that they were talking to Jesus. On one occasion they didn't "decide it was Jesus" till he "vanished from their sight". Once perhaps I could overlook, but for three times having as it were a witness "impeached" doesn't bode all that well with juries.

I salute President Obama's signing off on the stem cell research funding order. While adult stem cells are useful for a lot of specialized things already, they don't provide the wealth of possible options that embryonic stem cells do in areas including Parkinson's disease, Alzheimers, Parylisis, Diabetes, and other areas. As you know I am a utilitarian. These empryos are "only going to get thrown out anyhow" to parody a George Carlin skit. Sometimes it's better to be a leftover, like if they're taking people out to be shot. Thom Hartman says that nature is utilitarian in that nothing gets wasted and everything is used by something else. The thing with religious people is their argument is basically a re-worked centuries old one, "Well God has his reasons for wanting people to suffer, because we don't know what wonderful works might be wrought in them, that they never would have done hadn't they suffered". My philosophy is simpler, like the Little Red Hen. "If you won't- - then I'll just have to do it myself". Again let me repeat the caviat about not using the research for either Cloning or some sort of Eugenics where some sort of programmed "race" is manufactured. A lot of people are scared by that line of President Bush "- - Human - Animal Hybreds!"

President Obama came up with an appealing position today. He said that good teachers would be the ones to get a raise in pay and that bad teachers should be repermanded or fired. This is a simple, old fashion concept, but we need it today. Unions say that "Competetion is bad". I am tempted to say "competetion is never bad". Perhaps that's over-stating it. But I believe the market place- - - free markets can resolve a lot of problems with more equity than can be done by any other means. I just wish that they would have government vouchers so that ghetto kids would have some kind of a choice where to go to school. If they were given some monitary help from the government they would. If private schools wern't superior to pulbic schools, people wouldn't be trying so hard to get into them. Some would say we need to extend the school day or the school year, so we're like Korea. "I don't want to be LIKE Korea". Oriental people are really bad at original, creative problem solving. They do everything by the book. What we need are better teachers and bringing discipline back into the classroom. Also an aid to student performance is that the student be well rested with sufficient "down time". There are places in America right now where it doesn't begin to get light untill after seven AM. And there are also places where kids are picked up for a long bus ride at 6:45 or earlier. Education should be a joy for our children, but I don't believe it should consume every waking moment as Obama would have it. My watchword is "Quality Time" rather than quantity time. Most student's heads are like sievs anyhow. There is a tremondus ammount of waste and repetition, as the teacher gears down the learning curve for the dumbest students in the class.

People say that our economy is like a car with sabotaged brakes careening down a steep road headed tword a cliff. Another image is the one of falling dominoes. Pat Buchannon said that if one bank falls it will cause a run of the other banks- - not of depositors but of stock holders, who will sell off their stocks. The question is whether President Obama can surf the internet and chew gum at the same time. If a house is on fire and a fireman sees some unused cans of gasoline at one end of the house, isn't he going to move those cans out of harm's way before they explode? There was a republican on C-Span this morning who spoke of this carbon tax that's going to get slapped on everything and increase the price of everything we buy, like a nation-wide sales tax. I disagree with Obama in that I do believe it's possible to spread yourself too thin, like with Health Care, or education. Our primary objective indeed should be the economy. I don't even think we should expand the war in Afghanistan now because it will only escalate into a boondoggle that we'll only live to regret later. So why not making this one war we stop before it starts? I agree that the government should direct increases in funds twords reducing the deficet and not engaging in some permanent expansion of government. Obama is a man who wants to do it all. If it begins to look as if Obama is whisteling in the dark and nothing is getting passed because congress doesn't trust him, he could have the worst of all worlds if the Republicans use this very failure to gain votes next year. On the other hand if Obama is focused and makes the economy number one on his list and solves that problem, then the democrats will gain in 2010 and in his last two years perhaps he can toy with some of his other ideas.