Texas Governor Rick Perry Indicted

Obviously this is not Rick Perry

Texas governor Rick Perry had been indicted by the state AG or something on two counts of violation of “ethics” charges.  If we were living in the milenial reign of Christ, these charges might make sense- - - in an ideal world.  But compared to what Governors Christie and Walker do on a routine basis as regular as eating and sleeping, these charges seem awfully trumped up, and I’m beginning to wonder whether Ted Cruise might be behind them, perhaps by paying the Attorney General to prosecute Perry to hobble him for the next political campaign.  Of course if Cruise did something like this it would be found out and they’d both be knocked out of contention and then we’d be left with Marco Rubio as the only one still standing. At this point in time (a heavy qualifier) it looks like Marco Rubio is the odds-on favorite to be the Republican Party nominee in 2016.

In the early days of the tea party back in 2009 and 2010, they were ardently against funding for these wars of choice which presidential administrations do.  But now it’s a different story.  But if Ron Paul actually wants to campaign against this defense or “war lobby” I’m right behind him.  If Ron Paul wants to come out against the Wall Street bail out of 2008, or now attack Bush for two wars and funding of Medicare part D “off the books”, again – I’m right behind him.  And now Rand Paul has come out against this heavy funding to militarize the police departments that don’t need all that high tech equipment.  Also Paul it seems is actually coming out in favor of the Black man by saying that this charging someone with a felony to get it on his record and ruining him for any jobs he might try for- - - this is also wrong.  Rand Paul it seems gets enthusiastic audiences among various young people like at Howard University.  The idea has hit that if Ran Paul could make alliance with liberals on certain issues, we might actually have something.  As you know years ago I suggest forming a “Reform libertarian party”.

I don’t like what is going on with Notre Dame, and I mean the NCAA organization wanting to retroactively take away games in the Win Colum from previous seasons.  This is not only “changing the rules during the game” but “changing the rules after the game is over”, which is even worse.  It’s dirty pool and I’m wonder if there is some legal way for Notre Dame to lodge some complaint against the NCAA for charges about certain players cheating on exams, that have yet to be proven.  I really wouldn’t look at the test scores of ANY college football player too closely- - because I think it’s generally accepted there are there for their athletic ability and not for their academic abilities.  OK maybe Notre Dame is one school that’s kosher in this area.

As to this whole Ferguson thing- -  the protesters were again active last night – after a certain period of deceptive calm.  I am a little surprised the protestors got riled up with the police revelation that this “promising Tech student” this ‘model citizen’ in fact had just committed a minor- - burglary stealing a box of cigars.  So is this a felony?   It’s like he was unarmed and didn’t threaten anybody, if you don’t count “lethal shoving”.   Clearly some “outside force” is whipping up these protestors.  I imagine people like Judy are probably saying that this whole “incident” is a campaign whipped up by the liberal Media.  I confess to being puzzled by this barrage of stories now on shootings and such of seemingly innocent people, and now we have this Autistic black man of limited mental capacity- - who was disoriented and got arrested yesterday.   We can agree that police officers lack adequate  training in confronting suspects.

When some people think of “Religion” speak of some sort of prayer or communion with God or other supernatural force.  But certain others think only of Church government.  So we hear that in Massachusetts before that state signed the Constitution- - they actually took row call in Church and if you weren’t in attendance you were prosecuted.  I am not a “Statist” period.  I don’t believe in bribing people to vote by entering them in a State Lottery- - or taxing them for not voting as they apparently do in Austrailia.   We are reminded that until the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, technically state governments had the right to have their officially approved “state Church”.   People speak of “freedom of religion” but if the Puritans had truly respected freedom, they wouldn’t be looking for their first chance to oppress other people as they once were oppressed.  The same goes for King Henry VIII.   Why don’t we give King Henry VIII’s split with the Catholic church equal standing as a holiday with Thanksgiving?  That would be the logical thing to do.  I spoke in the previous posting an inigmatic double negative.  I spoke of something “Whose non existence is irrelevant”.   I don’t know if you picked up on that or thought you’d misread it.  What I meant by this was - - in our present state of knowledge- - certain things appear “hypothetically impossible to prove”.  But this ALSO means they are hypothetically impossible to DIS-prove!  However religion takes it a step further than that.  They are not content to say ‘You can’t prove your revelation from God is real- - and since it came after ours, our church does not accept it” as per Joseph Smith.  No.  The Church goes further saying it KNOWS- - that God has not spoken to ANYBODY since the Nicene Creed in the fourth century or whatever.  Since then it’s as if God is deader than an extinct species.