The Bible warns against people who trust in riches. You may be fermiliar with the movie "The Two Mrs Grenvilles". It was about a wife who murdered her husband and thought her riches could get her off on one of those legal technicalities if her funds could just buy her a good attorney. Well the rich people did indeed rally around her- - in court - -and she was legally acquitted of the charge. However the rich community of which she was a part - enforced their own form of "justice" in the form of social isolation, and later she went on to live an utterly desolate and generating quality of life. Well if you're rich enough you think you don't need the government. Who is Meg Whitman to suppose that she can win an election for California governor when she's been found guilty of insider trading and other faults. She'll find that the conservatives turn against her the same way they turned against Swartzenegger before her. I have as much as deduced that no amount of electoral victory in November will be able to ashwage the fears of the Rich about this economy. Even do nothing gridlock for two years in congress will not satisfy them. Whitman, a woman who never voted at all till recently, is running against Jerry Brown, a man with vast political experiance and know-how to get things accomplished. As he says 'At this stage in my life" he has the maturity and seasoned experiance to be able to exercise sound political judgements. Of course Carley Feurina is worse. She out-sourced all our jobs to China AND took a tax deduction- - so cutting taxes will not satisfy the rich. There is no way you can make it low enough to suit them. This brings us to Vivian Alamaine. She is a soap opera character who has been trapped inside a big old crypt these past few weeks, being spoon fed grewl through a straw. She can see and talk with passers by who are aware of her existance. But a funny thing has happened. She was put inside the crypt as a pay back for plans to entomb a romantic rival of hers, Maggie Horton. It's like the story of Hamen in the Bible being hung on his own scaffold. You can say the original guy did an an impulsive act and maybe he himself was having a personality melt down when he did it. Then his girlfriend Nicole finds out the entombing. She goes along with it. Then her former husband, Victor Kiriacus finds about it. He goes along with it, too, refusing to let Vivian out. Now Victor's ex wife Kate finds out about the little family secret. She hasn't decided quite how to react, yet, but it seems she too will be happy to go along with it. Vivian has money. She tried to offer Nicole untold riches saying if she lets her out she can have her own plantation on a private Isle and some oil fields. She also told Nicole that her boyfriend, Brady would dump her because, as Vivian puts it "visions of dead corpses of former lovers are a poor aphrodesiac to a relationship". She has a point. Then Vivian decides to bargain with Kate saying "If you really want to cheese your enemies off like Nicole and Voctor, you can do that by letting me out". But nothing works for her. In the life to come the rich will try and use their untold wealth trying to curry this or that favor from God trying to aquire power over others like they did in this fleshly life, but they will find that their money and power is of no used to them in the Life to Come. And so it shall be with the rich. They find themselves trapped in an illusiary sea of their own self-obsessed thoughts.
You know some people are hard to talk to because they’re swimming in their own negativity, lost in their own thoughts. Trying to cheer Judy up about the future of the US economy is darn near impossible. Even when I tell her the Republicans will sweep into power and block all spending bills in the next two years she isn’t happy. She’s obsessed with the idea that we have “monetized our debt” or have turned on the printing presses in an attempt to cheapen our currency. When I suggested the federal government accumulate Gold she said that we may well do that but we won’t pay people fair market value for it. She said in the 1930’s that Roosevelt only paid people twenty per ounce for their gold and then revalued it at $35.00. So he pulled off a fifteen dollar per ounce scam. Judy still imputes cherub like qualities to the idle rich believing they can do no wrong. She says “being an astute money manager is no crime”. These people are anything but astute because they sponge off privileged government regularion the rest of us will never experience. She again repeated this line about “Thou shalt not covet” and we are not to question the rich’s right to hang onto their money and she says “Pretty soon the rich will realize they are the Only source of the government’s money and they will leave the country”. She condemned this high speed rail thing as “make work” and says once these phoney jobs wear off the government and people will still be in recession as the new high speed system collects dust because nobody will ride it because nobody wanted it. She as much as said that no matter what we do we are doomed. We are either doomed to be in a worsening recession (from cutting government projects) or else we will be like the Wimar republic. (She’s still on that kick) You know Vivian Alamaine is another person who is lost in her own thoughts these days. She has no friends. Everyone who find out she’s been trapped inside a heavy coffin is content to leave her there. It’s kind of like the big Kiriacus secret. When you don’t have friends there is no one to come and rescue you in your hour of need. The people on the right will feel pretty darned isolated after two years of republican rule. By that time some of Judy’s fears may well come into reality. Later in the morning she’s taking Mom to the doctor.
Thom Hartman has a stand-in for today as Hartman debates Michael Medved tomorrow night. This morning I went to the bakery as usual for a large coffee. We had oatmeal with that burnt taste in it and visable burnt chunks. We had scrambled eggs and waffles. Once upon a time they offered seconds on waffles. I wasn’t even able to get seconds on coffee. Yesterday Bill Handel endorsed the marijuana initiative. A man of his prestige and background carries more weight with me. He’s used drugs and knows what they are all about and has overcome then. And if he says it’s OK, then I’ll vote for it. Bill says that the initiative will cut the Mexican cartell’s money to 80% of what it was.
We have had wild and wooly weather in the midsection and middle Atlantic part of the US. There is a mamouth 950 milibar low system that used to be centered in Minisota. This is a Low equivalent to a level three hurricane. There have been winds in excess of a hundred miles per hour all over that have caused massive destruction, punctuated by a few local tornadoes. Minisota has seen snow. Tornadoes usually occur between March and June and usually start in the mid south and work their way to the northern plains as spring advances. I blame it on Global Warming.
Now the media is telling us like a steady drum beat thare will not be one big strike by Al Qaeda but rather the hope is a lot of ordinary US citizens will be radicalized. And so you have yesterday’s arrest in a sting operation. This guy was conspiring to set off a lot of these bombs in satchels on sollers in subways around the Pentagon in Washington DC where a maximum amount of government people would be killed. Well, I’m glad our government is at work infiltrating and stopping these people before they can act.
Last night San Francisco beat the Texas Rangers in game one of the World Series by a score of 11 to 7 or something. It was definitely a high scoring game played in San Francisco. The top of the ninth inning was a little suspenseful. The game ended just a little past 8:30. I had ABC news on some of that time. The pattern with their news is they increase the commercial breaks as the show progresses so know when to cut away.
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