The Bush Legacy of Oppression Lives On

You know about the case of Joe Wilson and his wife Valerie, who was an under-cover CIA agent in charge of seeing if Iran had Nukes or not. Well now there is another case referenced on Sixty Minutes last night. There was a woman born in Lebanon who came to this country and joined the FBI having been given a background check, and then joined the CIA given several more rigerous background checks. She was a vallient warrior in the Iraq war and was among those who discovered the whereabouts of Saddam Hussein. She had more than proved the test of loyalty to our country in the heat of battle. But now the Bush administration began investigating her in 2005, or two years after she joined the CIA. They sound her sister and her husband had come under the influence of questionable people. Also another investigation unearthed the fact that she got married merely to become a US citizen. But the statute of limitations had expired on this regulation. The Bush investigations found nothing each time they investigated, but they kept trying. Now the woman is going to be deported after having given so much to her country. This paranoia of the Bush Administration knew no bounds. And the thing is there seemed to be no "referee" to blow the whistle and call a time out and let the dust settle on the situation a little. And that's too bad. I think the Bushys have been watching too many episodes of "24" or something, where the most paranoid suspicious turn out to be true. Many people have stated that the Patriot Act itself was not a response to 9 - 11 but in fact was all scripted out months before 9 - 11 and the Bushys were just looking for an opportunity to put it before congress. And as I have said before, having a law on the books is what they are after because they can use it as selectively as they want, or as abusively as they wish. And when push comes to shove, there is barely a dime's worth of difference between Obama and Bush as far as "national security" is concerned. Obama has never considered civil liberties one of his core values worth fighting for.

In California there is now a new measure on the ballot sponsored by a millionaire, that will outright legalize marijuana for recreational use and not just for medical use. Of course the carrot in this little equation is that California desperately needs the tax revenues that would come from taxing marijuana. It would also drive a lot of the illegal drug dealers out of business. Cops and clergymen don't like it because they don't like anything that would tend to degrade the morals of society. The Foustian bargain is that they will allow alcohol, which is by all accounts a more dangerous substance, both in its effect on the body and its addictive properties. But the argument goes "we already have one vice, and we don't need another". I don't see it that way myself. I guess we finally got the Obama administration to agree not to prosecute medical marijuana cases and perhaps we shouldn't press our luck. But polls indicate there is a narrow plurality of those who prefer legalization. I'd be interested in seeing what the adds for it are like. I don't even know if running adds for this proposition to be seen on TV would be legal.

Well, Larry Elder will be crying crocodile tears over this next story. These pay day loans in the poorer areas enable a person to write a check for three hundred against their account, and get back $255.00. Wouldn't a bank love that deal. Now there are people who want to limit interest rates these pay day people can charge to 36% But they are complaining saying such a punitively low rate will drive them out of business, and how they are there "to serve the market needs of the public".

Play Station 3 has an update that's a real singer. After you load it it will virtually cause your Play Station to self destruct and wipe out all of the information, if you were using LINUX. You've heard Leo Le Port talk about LINUX. It's the sensible alternative operating system. But Play Station regards LINUX and many others as a "Security Risk" and "Only wants to protect you". Like Hell They Do. They're just coming down with another case of Apple-itus.

These Jesus militias want to kill people for Christ and stop the antichrist from rising, or something. The group influence is in three states, Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. Nine members of a “Christian militia group” out of Michigan were indicted today by a grand jury. The group is accused of wanting to kill federal, state, and local law enforcement officers “in hopes of setting off an anti-government riot”. And then at the funerals of those officers more officers would be killed because they would set off I E D’s or “improvised explosive devices – of the type used by terrorists in the Iraq war” - - where the officers were congregating for the funerals. Pretty trippy. The only three of the nine indicted members that are related to each other are one son and his parents.

Sarah Palin has rifle cross-hairs on her site under the heading of “targeting congressional democrats”. KTLK has stated that “hate speech” ought to be labled as “sedicious” and as such, not protected by the US constitution. Randy Rhodes also said that “Propaganda” as such is “something we use on our enemies in war, but ought not to be allowed in this country”. That’s her opinion. It is said that the more ignorant you are the more tightly you will hold to your beliefs no matter how prejudiced- - the more criticism you get. Hartman calls it a “basic human reaction”. John Mc Cain used to be above this sort of thing being too intelligent to fall for the simple minded syllogisms of the right wing. Sarah Palin spoke of energy independence and yet Saudi Arabian oil executives are the second biggest owners of FOX stock. If the tea party people were just a little smarter they would realize Obama wasn’t their enemy on energy self sufficience because he agrees with them we need more, rather it is FOX and the old Bushies out there who are the enemy. (Selah) People have said that the tea party movement is the first movement in US History that was not anti corporate but actually sponsored by corporations. And again the fact that Mc Cain is now wedded to this crowd shows that when push comes to shove, this group is more corporatist rather than classic conservative, because classic conservatives were against the bank bail-outs of 2008, which Mc Cain is for, and is being attacked as such by his republican opponent in the primary. They called the Saturday event a conservative “Woodstock” and they plan to work their way across the country to be in the Capitol by April 15^th. It is said these people on the right “get off” on being talked down to, and they all tune in Glen Beck and listen to every word he says, because they view him as some kind of an authority figure. Randy Rhodes mentioned white phosphorous. My understanding about this substance is that it’s extremely unstable and catches fire when exposed to the air.

In Moscow several female suicide bombers in separate explosions knocked out a subway and were apparently Chechnian rebels. The act was targeted for rush hour for maximum impact. 38 riders were killed and another sixty were injured. People like Chuck Smith believe now that rather than communists, that "World War III" will be triggered by Moslem extremists who live in the southern nations of the former Soviet Union. If Russia were honist they'd offer up a referendum on their whole country about "would you secede from Russia if you had the chance, with no threat of repercussions?"

We always here that Republicans are such bastians of morality. Well, Republican Party chairman, Michael Steel, yesterday went to a lesbian bondage and degradation bar with simulated sex acts in Arizona. Somebody was saying that Sarah Palin wasn't exactly dressed like a desert dweller last Saturday. Somebody roomered that she has her own private tanning both in her office. When Bush and Clinton recently were visiting Haitian children in that country Bush wiped his hands on Clinton’s shirt after touching a black child as if to wipe the “Negro” off. Bill Clinton apparently was not aware of it.

President Obama was scheduled to spend the weekend at Camp David with his family but instead made a surprise trip in the dead of night to Afghanistan. It was a 13 hour flight and also dark when he got there. He spent six hours with the troops and made a speech that would befit any made by George Bush about fighting for a noble cause to keep America safe, and all. I think this war build-up is only in the early stages. I don’t think there’s a person alive who believes we’re really getting out of there summer 2011. I heard on the radio today that Obama is doing a “Nixon on China” in reverse. That is he will be pursuing this war on terror more effectively than President Bush ever could have because of the fact that Democrats will give this President carte blanch, because they think they can trust him. If I were President all these troops would be brought home now- and I wouldn’t be offering an explanation to anybody..

US and Russia To Sign Arms Limitation Treaty

You wouldn't have known it from the morning news on either channels four or seven this morning but at around 7:30 this morning President Obama and Secretaries Clinton and Gates announced a new treaty with Russia that's been in the pipeline for months. It reduces the number of missiles on each side from 2,3000 to 1,500 each. This treaty is an extension of the old START treaty that was done in 1991 and expired on December first, but both countries wanted to nail down all of the terms. Presumably president Obama's backing down from the European missile defence system placated the Russians so that they were willing to sign. Of course the treaty has to go before the US Senate with all those obstructionist Republicans in it. Let's hope that won't be a problem.

Pope Benedict XVI has had increasing PR problems with all these child molestation cases he helped to cover up when he was known as Joseph Ratsinger. The countries range from Wisconsin in the US to Ireland, to various places in Europe, to Austrailia. People say that the resignation of the Pope is not even on the table as an issue. Many of these cases are over twenty years old, but the victims have not forgotten them. Of course people can't help but wonder whether women priests or married priests should be introduced into the system to provide a little stability.

The "fixes" to the health care plan signed into law several days ago are all ready for the President's signiture, having been voted on and approved by both houses of Congress. It seems ironic that the republicans would want to vote against fixes to the original senate bill that contained all of the little deals they say they didn't like. Of course how the issue in the news is all the hatred and violence directed against the democrats. People like Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck, rather than condemn this violence, instead point to the media and way they manufactured this whole reporting of the story as an issue. We can't have a nation that resorts to racial epithets and throwing bricks through people's window. Certainly any Democrat would agree that violence from either side is to be condemned. But the Republican right still refuses to admit their side is doing anything wrong. Sarah Palin is now being seen in public with John Mc Cain for the first time since the 2008 campaign and these inflamitory books were written where both sides despized the other. It seems John Mc Cain's philosophy is much more amenable to the ultra right political fringe than some of his own supporters may have suspected.

In George Washington's blog a recent posting said that smaller banks have been loaning out a lot of money and putting it in circulation. It's only the bigger banks, the ones that were bailed out, that are sitting on their funds. According to people on the far right, the reason why the big banks aren't lending is because they are "waiting for the next wave of real estate foreclosures" that fill find them short on cash. Some have argued that if the big banks went down and were out of the picture then the smaller banks would get more business, and since they are more willing to put money in circulation and rescue this economy, then everyone all around would profit.

There are these continuing stories of strange things going on in "Deep Space". Now it seems there are "rivers of dark matter that are two & a half light years long". And these streams are supposedly influenced by a gravitational field "made up of material that was thrown outside this universe during the Big Bang, but never the less continues to incluence matter inside this universe because of an enormous gravitational field". Also people continue to speak of giant black holes that are "continuing to grow". To all of this I say "poppycock". All of this is a mathematical impossibility, to those who have studied the special theory of relativity. In my postings I have proven that scenarios like this can't happen over and over. They say that our galaxy is riding in a "river of dark matter" that is two & a half light years long, and that our entire galaxy and scores of others are being whisked along at a million miles per hour to this one spot in the universe. I guess this "spot" would represent some gigantic gravitational sink, and presumably this river empties into some "drain". If there ARE any rivers or currents in the universe they are not caused by some central gigantic gravitational field, and certainly not one outside the Universe. They call it a Universe because it's a closed system. Even when this author has used the terms of parrellel universes- - -the ones I allude two are IMPOSSIBLE to reach from here and exert zero influence on our lives. Their only POSSIBLE connection to us is literally in the human imagination! Some person might happen to "imagine" something that is happening in this universe that REALLY IS happening over there, but chalk this up to coincidence and NOTHING MORE. Before I hear any more talk about mystery dark matter or giant black holes that are growing I want to see a piece of paper with a formula that disproves the theory of special relativity. If you can do that then we'll talk about black holes. Until them the rest of us can sit back on the secure knowledge that certain things are impossible.