It would seem that
really for evil to succeed you need an intense desire on the person who would
do Evil but you also have to enable that Evil to make it possible to operate. Like in “Double Indemnity” Walter Neff says
to Mrs. Dietrichson “You only wanted him dead; I’m the person who made that
reality possible”. So the tea party and
fundamentalist Christian alike “wanted certain things” for a long time but
often times were so adverse for them like in the seventies they never had a
prayer of getting them to come to pass.
Now due to the poisoned political climate, due to a lot of methodical
planning and preparation- - their sick, perverted dreams are now at their disposal
and their heart’s desire can be put into action. They have the force of law so that they can
pass all of these “freedom of religion” acts for businesses like Jan Brewer of
Arizona is contemplating signing into law now.
It seems that you have the right to impose your religious beliefs on your
customers, and this would include not serving Jews, I guess, if you believe
they are “without Christ’ or something.
And of course is gay behavior violates your religious tenants then you
can refuse to serve gays- - and I guess Atheists would fit here, too. The trouble with all of these restrictive
laws about no gay weddings or whatever- - is that all of these newly passed
state laws are violations of the Federal Civil Rights bill that forbids certain
kinds of discrimination. You can fire a
guy or refuse to serve him in your business if you don’t like the cut of his
coat, but not because he’s an Arab or a Moslem.
They are stressing that the anti gay part of the thing is “validated
because gay behavior offends my religious sensabilities”. Of course we also have this roomer that
Republicans will put pressure on Wall Mart stores NOT to boost wages of lower
level employees because it would show a lack of solidarity with the tea party
or something. This is just what happened
with the Volkswagen auto plant where the company itself was expecting the shop
to unionize, and would prefer they did.
But various government officials of the state of Tennessee thought this
would “send a bad message” and perhaps give other Unions the idea that the
State of Tennessee would be fertile ground for them, too.
Noted comedy director
Herald Ramis died today at age 69 of a lengthly illness. He was the producer of such movies as “Animal
House” “Caddy Shack” “Vacation”, “Ghost Busters” and “Groundhog Day. He was mentor to a lot of the Saturday Night
Live crew. And yes, his passing was
noted by Mal Evans and the Federation, if you care about that.
Defense Secretary Chuck
Hagal today announced a major cutback in the manpower of the United States
Armed Forces from 480,000 troops to 440,000 men. But to make up for this cutback, we will be
using more drones instead of manned spy planes and other high tech updated “smart
weapons”. If you look at a long term
graph of US military manpower, this will be the lowest figure since before
World War II, which is the charge that Mitt Romney made during the 2012
presidential campaign. In a way this
cutback seems odd in this era of troubled times and knowing our manpower is
already strained to the max. If I were
President in these times I’d at least threaten to bring the draft and run more
recruitment ads as kind of a carrot and stick approach to get our manpower up,
and send some kind of a message to Syria and Iran.
Uganda has instituted a
life sentence for repeat homosexual offenders, and a twelve year imprisonment for
a first time offense for homosexual behavior.
To me this is really over-bearing.
The move seems to be deliberate as an act to send a message of “hostility
to the United States”. Well, at least
they’re not instituting the death penalty no doubt in some grizzly manner.John
Brown was the final Jeopardy answer as to one man that was even more strident
as far as “giving it his all’ to advance the cause of the Black Man than even
Fredric Douglas was. There aren’t that
many men willing to die for a cause bigger than themselves these days.
Carrie Kennedy,
daughter of Robert and Ethyl Kennedy age 54 goes on trial for drunken driving
and being under the influence of the sleeping pill Ambien, which she claims she
took by accident instead of her thyroid medication. The Governator of old was just on TV. Katie Kuric had tattooing for the first half
hour of her program. Tatoos,
particularly for women, is coming back in style and many women got tattoos
after Janis Joplin died, just like her heart one. It seems that laser surgery to remove them
isn’t as complicated as I thought because the laser kind of bores down through
the skin and fragments the ink particles so that they flake off. Now there is a repent “service dog” scandal
of people using this bogus definition to take dogs places where they aren’t allowed. There is a “service dog license”
problem. After a smoke break I listened
to classic rock on KLOS for about 25 minutes.
We had Polish sausage for dinner and sourkrout and potatoes au
gratin. We had sugar cookies for desert
and since Owen didn’t want his Teresa and I had three. Mardi Gras is now under way last weekend and
next called “Carrni-voll” in Rio. As you
know Rio De Jenero will be the host to the summer Olympics in 2016. I went down and got my medication on the east
hall from Donnie, and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The sun was still above the horizon at 25
minutes to six on the patio. The rain
is still scheduled to arrive on Wednesday with a much more major storm on
Friday. We’re all waiting with baited
breath.
Days of our Lives featured Samantha in a
stormy mood. Her anger switched from
Nicole to the Di Mira family - - and husband Elvis made it clear to Abigail
that he no longer has any use for her “because sex with Samantha is the most
intense experience in the world”. I went
down for coffee in the courtyard and talked to Lisha just checking about
whether she got her notebook computer to turn on and she says she did. So I don’t know what the hell the problem
was. I had two cups of coffee in the
afternoon break and two cups in the morning break. Nora was by while I had Sean Hannity on, or
is it Shawn Hannity- - but I’m not in the habit of spelling it that way. Hannity spent a lot of time with one caller trying to defend the Obama Health Care plan and was making an idiot of himself because no matter the prodding would never admit that the President flat out lied when he said 'You can keep your doctor" and 'You can keep your policy if you like it- - - Period." The President repeated these words over and over again for years, which was something I was always personally puzzled by. Why would the President stress over and over again a "selling point' that was a complete lie, other than a lot of Christians do the same thing with their "selling points" that when put to the test, turn out not to be true - - in my humble oppinion. Now there is a new “no running into the
catcher” rule for trying to score at home plate. They don't want baseball turning into a contact sport.
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