Rush
Limbaugh claims that David Gregory was fired by NBC because he was too hostile
to Hamas and too friendly tword Israel.
I find that very puzzling. If
their ratings were really low you’d think we’d know why Gregory was
fired but we don’t. Rush Limbaugh
challenged a caller who said “The family of Mike Brown only want justice”
because Rush said “What if justice means acquittal” and then made a lot of wild
statements after this. I switched to
Bill Carol for the period right before lunch and after lunch till 12:30. Then Sean Hannity had that Dr Baden guest on,
who was a forensic pathologist doing the autopsy for the Brown family. I think he testified in the OJ trial. We have new information on this Ferguson case
a lot of people won’t like. Mike Brown
was not shot while running away from the police and was not 35 feet away. In fact the lethal bullet seems to have come downward
through the skull and out the jaw, as if either fired from a 2nd
story window or Brown was in some sort of a charging position. (Either that of he was trying to make second
base) The latest story now is that Brown
had been running from the officers but then turned around and faced them and
either began taunting them, or else charged them. Brown is nearly six feet five and weighs 280
pounds like a linebacker or something.
And marijuana was found in his system.
Bill Carol wonders that even though the officer didn’t know Brown had
just burglarized a store, that maybe Brown was in a combative mood anyway and
just looking for a fight. This is
speculation. There was more violence in Ferguson, Mo last
night. Tonight they aren’t even going to
have curfew, which in my opinion is a mistake.
At this point it seems best to err on the side of law and order. However as early as nine o clock apparently,
violence erupted, and drew a response. During
the LA riots the cops abandoned the area to the looters, and this was a bad, if
not cowardly move on their part. I guess
they figured “Let the niggers trash their own property if they want to”, which
is a cynical viewpoint. Every time you
think this story is going to die down, something gives it new birth. For instance now the officer’s story is now
public. The officer knew that Brown had
robbed the convenience store even though the store denies reporting the robbery
so soon. Brown and a friend were walking
in the street and the officer told them to get on the sidewalk- - and it
escalated from there. When Brown and his
friend were told to “freeze” as they were walking away, this is when they
turned around and Brown taunted the officer saying “You won’t shoot me” and the
next thing the officer knows, “Brown bum-rushed me so I fired”.
In
the Zimmerman case my cry was “It’s the forensics, stupid!” and Norman is
saying the same thing in this case. If
Mike Brown was taller than the officer, the logical inference was that the
officer was somehow shooting down on the victim. This would make sense if Brown were on his
knees. I hear that the officers did NOT
interview the witnesses. I have also
heard that they did not call for an ambulance because according to Sean Hannity
“The officer could just look at Brown and tell that he was dead by the look of
the wound”. Then Dr Baden responded that
the officer could NOT tell how serious the injury was by just looking at the
head wound because of all the hair and such.
But this one caller- who brought up Zimmerman - - said the community
would not be nearly so upset if it were a Black officer that had gunned Brown
down. The caller though wouldn’t “Play
Norman’s game” in that he wouldn’t keep the same facts of the situation as
identical except for the race of one of the other principle parties. The right wing can’t stand logic- - but
consistently hide behind the same- - I’ll say it - - racist rhetoric.
Other
than Marco Rubio the only other candidate the Republicans could nominate would
be Paul Ryan. Republicans want block
grants instead of specific allocations for specific purposes. You heard that “earmarks’ are bad, but at
least earmarks were specific. What the
nightmare would be is for a republican congress to issue block grants signed by
a Republican President, to be given out to Republican governors such as Perry, Walker
or Christie, or for that matter Rick Scott.
Ryan calls his plans for Medicare vouchers as “more flexible” but is
gambling nobody will do the math and fast realize you are talking about drastic
cuts in funding. Of course the
overriding mantra of the Tea Party is “The makers verses the takers”. If you are rich you assumed to be a
maker. Everybody including me has their
own frame of reference of course. You
could divide this whole century into a kind of Dream of Joseph in the Bibles,
who forecast seven good years followed by seven very lean years. For me the turning point might well have been
when I got DSL from A T & T in October of 2007. It’s only too bad Sylvia Brown vanished from
the public eye right about then, October of 2007. Because it would have been interesting to
find out what Sylvia Brown’s predictions for the next seven years would have
been. I personally have been labeled “A
Taker” by the right wing- - more in these past seven years than the entire rest
of my life. This can’t be
coincidence. It doesn’t matter that you
don’t get support- - or very little- - from these people who label you a Taker
or sponging off of the government or whatever- - it’s the very fact that you
EXIST that’s a crime. Just as with Black
people merely seeing a group of them on the street is enough to make a lot of
people want to call out the Riot Squad.
Mitt Romney nailed it when he spoke of the lazy 47% that were takers,
which is nearly half the nation. It
would seem to me if you are fortunate enough to be in the upper half of income
in this country- - rather than attack the have nots, the first thing you should
do is get on your knees and thank God you are spared the economic problems
other people go through on a regular basis.
But this would never occur to them.
Rush Limbaugh stated this morning that “It makes no sense to exploit the
topic of racial injustice, because the Blacks already vote one hundred percent
democratic anyway.” What’s wrong with
this statement is that many of the elderly, the black, and the poor don’t vote
at ALL. And as such when you do a
political ad, you aim your campaign to at least the top fifty percent in
income, but more probably your real audience will be the top twenty percent,
which seems to be about the only group advertisers in general think even
exists- - or spends any money. It’s like
“every time you see a commercial for anything - - just go out and spend a bunch
of money”. (Selah)
Both
John Fugelsang and Thom Hartman know the Bible better than most tea party
people who call themselves Christians, I bet you. Basically people like Neil Savedra forfeit
the debate before the battle is even engaged saying things such as “I’m not
going to stoop to getting into a Bible quoting contest”. I bet white baseball players used to say the
same thing when up against a superior “negro” team. “I’m not going to degrade myself by playing
with them!” I told Judy if she was
worried about Mom accepting Christ (before she dies or whatever) I would inform Mom that “There is a major new
movement of liberals endeavoring to take Christ and the Christian tradition
back from the right wing whack-a-doodles.
And it would be a sin to allow yourself to be lulled or deceived, if
this is your reason for NOT accepting Christ.
I’ve never myself officially heard Mom say “I am not a Christian and don’t
accept the atonement of the cross”. If I
hear that out of her own mouth, then it’s necessary to probe further and find
what motivates this statement. I would
point out to her the person of Pope Francis, who has extolled traditional
Christian values. From a utilitarian
point of view, the world would be a much better place if we all accepted
Christian values. One could argue from
an evolutionist point of view that morals evolved because they insure a longer
and more satisfactory life than without them.
I
need to pray for Mom and Paul and Judy’s situation. It’s turning into a big hairy mess with
apparently loads of paper work. Judy
says “Having money brings a lot of paper work”.
I need to talk to Mom myself to see if her lapses in memory are really
as bad as Judy portrays it, or Judy just caught her under a bad day under a
period of particular stress. I know what
that’s like. You know there are tax laws
where you are allowed to give as a gift up to ten thousand dollars a year to a
family member without having to pay taxes on it. If Judy is that worried about paper work
while she deals with Mom’s money, maybe she could remember that. Judy also reminded me that Andy won’t be
around if my computer ever needs more major work like it did. Judy also stated that you can’t buy Windows 7
in the stores anymore. Windows 7 used to
have an excellent file search system people liked, but for Windows 8 they got
rid of it. Judy also reminded me, in
case I was thinking of trying to get Windows 7, that none of my stuff would
work with it anyhow. So I’m stuck in the
dark ages for the foreseeable future.
She mentioned seeing that movie dramatization of the Star of Bethlehem,
in sort of a “part two” of the material I saw there the last time. But she said it would not be possible to
visit Mom this week because both of them would be really busy, but it’s still
something to think about. It would be
something if they could actually prove that prayer works. Perhaps it does. I have not seen any specific testing that it
definitely doesn’t. I’m just saying for
me, I wish my own prayers (more like twenty or thirty years ago) had a better
track record; that’s all.
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