Friday, May 23, 2014

Plaguing Questions About Our Government

The Big Picture is apparently another thing Thom Hartman does.  President Obama gave a speech one year ago about plans to close down Guantanamo prison, and also that because he had issued a number of executive memos - - that already there were no drone attack abuses.  But the lady guest believes there are still too many secret documents.  Hartman believes that the bill passed by the House yesterday was a “neutered bill”. There are complaints that the secret chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing are still a secret.  But the theory is that they involve some kind of dangerous form on benzene that’s a by-product of refining gasoline.  And it would seem that formerly this chemical would be a waste toxin but now they can pump it into the ground as part of the fracking process.  But Shawn Hannity says that these fracking chemicals are perfectly safe and that there has NEVER been ANY incident of hydrolic fracking contaminating the underground water table.  And Shawn goes to lengths to say that it’s not physically possible that contamination could even Happen.   Rush Limbaugh is all upset about a new and still classified memo that he apparently knows the contents of.  He claims this unreleased classified memo involves calling You Tube earlier in the day before the Bengazi attack, and issuing an apology, and the fast that the US apologized for the Anti Islamic video is “proof” that Obama knew about the attack on Bengazi before it happened.  I can’t follow that logic.  Rush seems to completely ignore the fact that Bengazi is a CIA outpost and not a strictly diplomatic outpost.  

Sean Hannity oughta call his show the Fracking in North Dakota hour, these days.  According to him there is just endless oil shale up there.  The baccan shale they hydrolically fracture, but they don’t mine the shale and extract that, as they would in Utah or Colorado, which would damage the environment even more.  Hannity calls oil “America’s life blood”.  He practically worships the petrol chemical industry.  Maybe they should get married.  Now Nicole has taken to compounding her lies.  If there was any hope of salvaging her relation with Eric she has made it infinitely worse.  First she wants to elope to Las Vegas, but she doesn’t want to tell Daniel and Jennifer they are leaving.  She has a point.  Usually people elope because they want a chance to be alone, away from everybody giving them advice.  But now she’s telling another lie as though Daniel has some irrational reason for being against their marriage.  Kate thinks Lucas is deliberately “setting himself up” to be charged to take the heat off of Will and Sonny.  Hope has caught him telling lie after lie, and then there is Benjamin who’s still a suspect.

Free Speech TV was back on the air this morning, if I didn’t say.  Thom Hartman made a point about young people out of college being $27,000 in debt.  So they can’t buy a home or hope to build up equity- - and this shadow of debt may follow them for a long time, particularly in this bad job market.  Hartman states that never in history before have college post graduates as a class been in such economic dire straits.  In the Torah of course God made provisions for "Jubilee years" where all debts would be forgiven and "all property returned to its original owners".   Sometimes it's the lender that finds certain activities "unsustainable".   For instance Judy is always identifying with Communist China and how they have lent us so much money.  But when I became a Christian I "lent a lot of emotional credulity to the Christian movement".  This was actually a suspension of judgement "on faith".   But clearly there became a point where such conduct became unsustainable.  Various callers on the Jesus Christ show have reached this point, but Neil of KFI refuses to recognize that basic fact.

George Washington’s blog lead story is on how Rumsfeld and the Bushies lied about how “Building 7” collapsed.  There were two videos that were completely convincing on the subject.  These videos involved a lot of physics and math and geometry.  People who got passing grades in high school science shouldn't have any problem with it.  But let me add a fact I didn't report.  One meeting in Building 7 was mysteriously canceled that was scheduled at eight AM on September 11th.  The austensive reason was "one person got ill at the last minute".  I'm wondering - -  why there were so many explosives "disposal experts" on the scene then.  I don't see how the Republicans can make this gigantic "disconnect" with the Bush Administration giving him a "pass" on everything, while giving President Obama a pass on nothing.  (Selah)  Of course Dr Levy died about European countries having a sixty percent income tax rate.  NO European country has a sixty percent rate.  But Dr Levy is insistent over any doubts I had- - that yes if you were going to live in ANY of these countries that had some form of national health care you'd be paying sixty percent income tax.  Sweden is just over 56% and Denmark if 55% and China is 48% or something and a whole lot of countries are 45% including France and Germany.  South Africa is 40% and South Korea is 38%.  Spain is 52% which surprised me.  India is low, but Russia is about the lowest, strange as it seems.  Maybe they aren’t as broke as they think they are.  Wisconsin’s income taxes tend to be a little high.  So obviously the deficit would turn around with the rising economy there.

 Stephanie was talking about gravity being just a theory, that it travels the same way light waves do, which is something I didn’t know till less than ten years ago.  Of course this means - - even if Black holes were possible under Einstein’s math, which they aren’t, black holes would still be precluded from existence by this “What you see is what you get” theory, as I have renamed this gravity as light waves one.  Black Holes are an oxy-moronism under the theory of gravity propounded by such people as Astronomy Cafe.  This is because - - nutron stars even - - have no effect on You - - untill the waves of gravity, which are NO FASTER than light- - actually get to you, just as any Earthquake --has no effect on you till its seismic waves GET to where you Are.  (Selah)  John Fugelsang points out that in one passage men and women were created together and in another Eve was created out of Adam's rib, and the woman was almost an afterthought.  Stephanie does well to wonder how "a day" could exist, since the Sun hadn't even been created till AFTER the earth, according to the Bible.  Here's a problem with Chuck Smith's "belief" that all creation is constantly dispursing and becoming more chaotic all the time.  Gravity by its very NATURE is universal Attraction.  This for instance, is how the rings of Saturn and other planets got formed.  But Chuck's ideas aren't subject to anything as fleeting as "science".  Other questions present themselves.  Samuel got on Saul's case because he ucerped the role as Priest making an oblation to God before a big battle to insure victory.  And yet the Torah states that no one who is Blind can be a Priest, and scripture describes Samuel as both a Priest, and also blind.  How is that?  Stephanie was talking a lot about science.  “She Blinded me with Science”.  We told you about Senator Brownback of Kansas who wanted to teach Creationism as "A Contraversy" and I said I could go along with that.  Brownback also said "We need to distinguished established Facts, from theories.   I've never regarded "avoiding one on one debates" as the best way to either Win a debate or "demonstrate to the other side" that I'm right.   THEY and not ME are the ones who always fear open, intellectual discussions, on just about anything.   Now Christianity has another problem in the whole area of love and romance.  Thom Hartman reports that a loving relation has beneficial lasting effects on people - - even people who aren't perfect- - even if the romance proved short lived.  "A loving relationship accelerates personal development".   This flies squarely in the fact of the "beliefs" of Christian pastors, or people like Neil of KFI or even Dr Laura, who say that the safest course of action is almost ALWAYS never go get into a relation with the opposite sex.   Advocates for Christianity (talking to people who have never "been on the inside) will deny this of course, but then you know how these people lie about everything.  (Selah)

Now on a completely different matter - - "She Blinded Me With Science" (the song) and “In Cars” and “One Night in Bancock” are all “Phil Collins” groups cosmically.  Also this same Phil Collins group has "sponsored" on a temporary basis other big names such as Peter Gabriel (by the way) as well as Pete Townhend's solo efforts, and that big eighties "Yes" album, at least one Stevie Winwood album (in 1986) and Eric Claptin (1985, 1986, 1989)  Many wonder about the suffix of "-ized".   The Bible says in the Greek that people rather than demon POSESSED are actually demon-IZED.   That could be likened to - - for example - - monetizing the big bank financiers of Wall Street so that they are "too big to fail".   Picture a demon like Mitt Romney.  He will enter your life and throw you into karmic dept and for a time lend You his power - - and this is the sort of "power that corrupts" on an almost literal basis.  Like alcohol it will alter your conduct- - and for a time appear to "backstop" you - - much as a mama's boy can get away with being a bully to other little kids- - if he knows no Matter what he does, his mama will back him up.  (Selah)  Now to the problem of Word deviating from Federation spellings of words. I’m so sick of that “ally” ending.  Back in the old days I’d just write “ly” and be done with it.  When I did spelling tests I never was exposed to this “ally” ending that’s on so many words these days.  Another bugaboo of mine is dropping the "e" in words like flakey, phoney, and shakey.   Also words such as behaviour and saviour, and defence, and fasciest and liscense,  and also the whole "ety" thing with rarety and securety, where the rule is "just put a -ty after it, OK?  Also with words like shaddow and ballance, I have a problem with dropping the natural double "l".  “Nobody Walks in LA” is the “Berliner” group, cosmically- - which was popular in early 1983 the same time as “In Cars” which may have engendered confusion in the past.  I trieed Mike Papentonio’s show from May 11th, a week I didn’t think I had seen.  But it kept freezing on the word “addicted” as “Rand Paul is afraid if people stay on unemployment they will be addicted to it”.   So since the video would not progress from that point I went back to Stephanie.

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