Fighting for our Political Lives

• April 12 – Galileo Galilei convicted of heresy by the Roman Catholic church ^[1]
• June 22 – The Roman Catholic church forces Galileo Galilei to recant hisheliocentric view of the solar system: Eppur si muove (Italian) (Which, in fact, he did not say).
• Cambridge opens up a division in Arabic studies sometime this year of 1633
• 19 X 20 would be a significant figure in the Mayan calendar.

Let's start with the major headline of the day and this is the very reveling video of Mitt Romney talking "candidly" with his fund raisers.  In the piece he says he can never hope to get the 47% of the voters who's come rain or shine vote for the President because they are "dependant on the government" and "freeloaders' and "victims" and the like.  Rush Limbaugh missed the whole point of the video in saying "I know Mitt Romney cares about those 47 percent and would love to reach them and liberate them from their dependancy" and all of that.  This is NOT what Romney said.  Mitt Romney was clearly writing off nearly half the American population if the most rosey scenario comes to pass.  This is what he was approsing his donors of.  This video comes to us via James Earl Carter IV, grandson of the President who likes to do investegating of this sort of stuff in his spare time.  He got a hold of that MMNBC guy,  David Corn, I guess, who works for Mother Jones.  The original person who shot this video's identity is still a secret.  Essentially Mitt Romney is buying into the idea that there is at most a six percent undecided vote, and polls indicated most of these, too, are already in the Obama camp.  Of course it's the Red States more so than the Blue States that are guilty of "sucking off the government teat" and who have the positive money flow to their states.  Will Mitt Romney close loopholes for the rich such as subsedizing the offshoring of businesses and making foreign accounts illegal?  Or more likely will he go after the Middle Class on areas such as mortgage deductions and earned tax credits and all of that?  We have a partial answer 30 years ago from President Reagan.  Reagan eliminated credit card interest deduction for the average consumer out there.  The rich don't need "credit cards".  They can pay cash.  Also there were things like taxing unemployment benefits for the first time President Reagan instituted for the poor.  But Mitt Romney said many other shocking things.  He said if he were Hez Bellah he would steal some fissionable material and blackmail this government by threatening to set off a bomb.  If you want to hear strange stuff don't listen to a five year old saying "If I were God" but rather listen to one of these Evangelists.  As bizzare as Jehovah God's interractions with man are in the OT as far as striking with leporacy and hemmeroids and cracks in the earth opening up and swallowing people and throwing giant boulders from Heaven at Jericho- - - the typical Evangelist thinks God is too soft and would add to this list of attrocities.  There is an old saying of "Get the other guy before he gets you" and if Romney is this suspicious of Iran- - what schemes of his OWN furtile imagination do you think he's dreaming up of his own?  And then we have of course the idea that a PLO state, Palestinian State on the transjordan would be impossible and if a secretary of state suggests the possability Mitt's Response if "I don't want to pursue that one".  And then he fawns all over this Chinese sweatshop factory that employs young single women saving up a dowery to get married.  And there are like twenty to a bathroom and they sleep in big dorms and work for almost nothing and are surrounded by barbed wire and guard towers.  He is told "Oh, this is because people are dying to get in there".  And Mitt listens and is astounded and his friend from Bail Capital says "It seems like a wonderful set-up to me".  And the thing is that Mitt Romney owns factories like this.  As you know during his trip, Mitt Romney said something like "The reason why Israel has ten times the GNP of the Palistinian Territory is that, "The Arabs just don't have any business sense, or something.  It's just not a part of their culture.  So he's ignorant on top of everything else.  Someone today said 'If there were to emerge a video of Mitt Romney playing a prominent role in a Black Mass, it couldn't possibly do him any more damage than the videos that are already known about him".  That's a real sobering notion.

We are fighting for our political lives now.  We cannot afford to lose one more election, just like the first war Israel loses will be their last.  President Obama, as impecable as he is in his private morality- - knows the slightest flaw of mistep could be the end of his political carrier.  Now there is this right wing Voter Monitering group in Texas and other areas that ride shot gun over the election booths to "insure" that no unauthorized voters get a chance to vote.  So you have to cast your vote in the booth, within eye shot of these self appoint Goones.  Of course like I say if Romney is only saying he'll have at most a three percent margin- - then obviously he's worried he could lose the popular vote and the more cheating that can be done, the better.  Of course Stephanie Miller had that democrat from Virginia who is running up against Eric Cantor.  He's a Colonel or something and a very accomplished, not to mention articulate fellow.  He knows Spanish and French and translates them, and is also a specialist in decripting secret code.  Again he is intelligent, articulate, and well spoken in the expressions of his issues on all the relevent political issues.  We have to field WAY superior people to the Republicans though in order to have a chance at winning this thing.  We need every vote.  I don't know if the average person even has enough sheer imagination to envision how bad things will be for the average lower class person living in America if Romney gets elected President.

Prince William is understandably pissed about this paperatsi taking candid photos of Katie lying out on the beach of a secluded island, topless.  Here is a case, unlike a Mac Donalds case involving spilled hot coffee, this is a case there the punitive fines SHOULD take this guy for everything he's god and put him out of business.  The imense ammount of damage this paperatsi has done to the British Royal family is immeasurable.  Actually if it happened in this country that someone got that close to our President to take a picture, he may well get shot as an violator of presidential security I wouldn't want to be in Prince Williams shoes facing some jerk-off who is hawking candid photographs of my wife.  We need to restore a sense of propriety and decency in this society or else we are in grave danger of descinging into Anarchy.  And just by the way- - these corporations that regarded paying off law suits as "just another cost of doing business' may I suggest they aren't being penalized Nearly enough?  It seems that Mitt Romney is so shaken up by bad press he has candled today's campaign appearences.

Proposition 32 here in California is really bogus.  It comes off as a campaign finance reform bill but it only targets labor unions and other associations liberals belong to.  The rhetroc of the yes on 32 is openly anti Union.  And yet it seems to exempt "the very groups who are sponsoring the proposition", which should come as no surprise.  Today I updated the template of this blog.  I am endeavoring to make all of them a little different.  But I'd like to keep Soap Opera of Life the way it is, with its "Monet Moment" because I updated that more recently.  Money draw came two hours early today, coming just after lunch.  But I'll still be up a creek without a paddle next week.  I still have a good coffee supply.  You know if parent's remarks to kids were scrutenized they would come off as silly.  For instance if a little kid doubts the story of Santa and his sleigh and reindeer he might well protest that "But Mommy it doesn't usually snow here".  Or if a kid is using too much salt what if the mother says to him "Why do you need salt.  Are you a sand dune?  Are you an ocean?  Why do you need salt?"  Or how about this one.  You're in a squadrin of fighter planes and all of you have been hit at least once.  And Joe says to George "George you better eject now.  Everyone else is doing it".  What if George came back with the retort of "If ll the other kids jumped off a cliff would you do it too?"  Silly, huh?

We may not have to worry about cracks in the earth opening up and swallowing people.  However one thing that was bit in the news last year but has been completely Ignored this year is that date on the Mayan Calendar of December 21st 2012.  I told you that this would be a good signal for progressives because I believe the opperative interval is 380 years.  I stand to be corrected if that's wrong, but my hunch is that's the correct interval, which takes us back to the year 1633, which doesn't mean anything in itself but it was during the thirty years war, which was basically a war on the Holy Roman Empire, which was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire but was "founded' by Charlemeign, whom Joe Drisco says could neither read nor write.  I wouldn't know.  As you know it was around 1648 when the British Common Law rights were expanded to citizens of those we know today such as trial by jury and the right to cross examine witnesses and the right to compulsary witnesses on your behalf.  These were quantom rights forward.  Forward is a good word.  Kepler was revolutionizing astronomy.  The germ of "industrialization" even with water paddle wheels, commenced about this time.  Descartes was the first to introduce "psychic consciousness" of a sort with the expression "Cogito ergo sum".  Of course Newton would soon come along to revolution the fig industry.  Wrong dude.  No.  He would be indeed the first "motion relivist" who once and for all refuted Aristitle's notion of the "Unmoved first mover", which as you know was the philosophical foundation of the Cosmology theory of God's existance.  So in truth it was the very Foundation of Belief in God that was shaken by Newton.

I went to that new "senior topics" class meeting for its second week.  That lady was talking about new words in the dictionary.  She mentioned “brain freeze” which isn’t some memory block thing or writer’s block or “analysis peralysis” that Mark Bove talks about, but rather those spike headaches you get between the eyes from ice cream too fast.  There was also “ear worms”, which has nothing to do with Star Trek of the Wrath of Kham, but rather songs that get in your head and you can’t stop humming them all day long.  And “bucket list” isn’t things so dreadful they make you barf.  No.  A bucket list is a list of things you want to do or accomplish before you die.  She also spoke of Craig’s list and trading a big red paper clip for- - eventually a movie contract.  She did not bring up as many topics today.  I got there at a quarter to two and the class ran till about ten to three and Sarah served coffee in the room about two thirty.  I got the feeling she was going to talk about “work on the brain” and how troops allow people to experiment on their brains because they’re so desperate.  Of course they are constantly doing experiance on severing the bridges between hemispheres, surgery they perform for some epiliptics, and effects on Alzheimers in old people, as well as brain exercises that delay the onset of the disease, and there are effects of educational stimulus on the very young, and which hemispheres light up under which stimuli.  And she had this little exercise about words beginning with the letter “R”.   Apparently there are certain things that are easy for the average individual that are a major challenge if not impossibility, for someone with brain damage.  Arleen was very astute today in class.  All of that reading she does really pays off.  I envy her discipline to read all those novels.