Everything about the national news- - and everything about this national economy is like a long and never ending nightmare that you can't wake up from. Not only that but every day and in every way things appear to only be getting worse. We keep hearing these glimmers of hope like "The republicans are hopelessly divided" and "The Republican party is in shambles and has no direction and no leadership". And yet there appear to steadily be fewer and fewer liberal outlets, and fewer venues by which liberals might express themselves. It used to be liberal talk shows were common on the radio and that liberal TV talk shows were a dime a dozen. No more. Guess what the first thing to cross my mind when I heard about that Sigma Alpha Epselon story about the racist song? I thought "How long will it be before somebody on the right tries to blame the disselution of this fraternity on the President? We hear endless stories about drones and drone warfare. And now the Secret Service is going to develope a whole anti drone campaign in the skies. We know people aiming lasers at plain pilots can be located almost instantly with all of their GPS equipment or what have you. The government has your DNA and the courts have ruled they can secure your DNA involentarily if you don't offer it up volentarily. The government exhausts itself processing all those drug tests on people they run- - and all of this mind bending volume of data in personal databases trying to develop some sort of cinnister criminal profile on the innocent. You are indeed guilty untill proved innocent today.
There
is an epidemic of “what abou-ism” in the Republican party today. But the trouble with this false equivalency thing-
- - ie saying that John Kerry visiting Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua in 1983 or
Nancy Pelosi visiting Assad in 2007 were offences of the democrats is
this. You can’t have it both ways. If you are going to say two isolated
democrats were wrong in what they did, are YOU then going to say YOU were
wrong, senator Cotton of Arkansas, for what YOU did. Cotton is a Freshman senator, and it used to
be that Freshmen by in large kept their mouths shut for the first year or two,
our of deference to their senior members.
But Ted Cruz sure broke that mold.
He was a freshman senator that virtually became the leader and spokesman
for the republican senate overnight. I
say again that IF you believe the democrats were WRONG in what they did, doesn’t
that make YOU wrong, also? Are you happy
with that kind of flimsy rationalization of your actions? First of all John Kerry went to a government
leader to speak ABOUT what the President was doing in illegally funding the
Contras, and I stress the word Illegal.
Reagan himself should have been dealing with Daniel Ortega, but he didn’t
but instead went behind his back. So
John Kerry was explaining this to Ortega.
But if Kerry did something wrong, there was nothing barring use of the
Logan act against John Kerry, if that’s the direction you really want to
go. If you thought those charges would
stand up in court you could have brought them, but you didn’t. Now in excess of thirty years later you are
comparing the acts of ONE MAN to an entire Republican delegation of Senators
trying to openly sabotage not only a Presidential negotiation, but negotiations
between Iran and Russia, and China and Germany and others. This is a much more serious offence. And these Republicans were very overt about
their intent. Their intent was to
sabotage these delicate negotiations. Contrast
this with President Reagan who didn’t even regard Daniel Ortega AS the leader
of Nicaragua. And you’re trying to
compare these actions? Shawn Hannity
doesn’t even believe these Republicans are hard enough right. For him they aren’t intransigent enough. Oh- - and by the way- - when it comes to
Obama conducting “unconstitutional acts” my saying is “Put up or shut up”. These republicans aren’t going to file
Impeachment charges against President Obama.
They haven’t got the guts. They
know they’d lose. It’s like the issue
of Abortion. If all abortions were made
illegal tomorrow, the republicans would have a lot less to whine about. It’s ditto for the actions of this
president. They just want to whine and
whine through the President’s final two years in office. And to act as if they are going to win in two
years is really jumping the gun on reality.
And it turns out that in the Iranian letter or message sent in response-
- many Iranian leaders speak perfect English and were well educated in the ways
of the Constitution and American government, and reminded the Republicans that
they don’t know the ways of their own government. Anybody who wasn’t brain dead would feel a
sense of shame in this, but not the Republicans. They don’t mind being called Stupid. They wear stupidity like a badge.
One
of the stupid Wayne Dyre statements I just heard was the saying “Change your
thoughts and change your world”. I’ll
give you a very immediate example of how utterly stupid a notion this is. Some people analyzing my writings will note
as of late, and notably in the past few weeks, that my sympathies have shifted
over from relatively pro Sunni to a more pro Shiite stance. So did the Shiites suddenly become, just NOW,
a better sect than the Sunnis just because I have refined certain
positions? Of course not! The idea is completely stupid. And the thing is I HAVEN’T suddenly decided
that Shiites are better than Sunnis. I
based my views in circumstances. Which
is something many evangelists claim never to do. And in part I believe them because their heads
are in the clouds detached from reality most of the time. For a long time I feared that Iran was going
nuclear and their first item on the agenda was wiping out Israel. But I wasn’t thinking clearly. Because although other nations such as
Pakistan and Israel, and North Korea HAVE Nukes- - Iran does NOT have
Nukes. They didn’t have Nukes twenty
years ago and they don’t have them now, and won’t have them in the foreseeable future. People who predict that Iran will have Nukes “within
a few months” are probably the same people tht are predicting major rain storms
in California- - any week now! We’re
waiting! Netenyahoo called Iran’s
former leader Akmedinijab “A wolf in wolf’s clothing” and he calls their
current leader Ruhani- - “a Sheep in wolf’s clothing”. But clearly it isn’t just Iran dealing with
the United States but Germany and Russia and all of those other UN Nations that
are involved. One blogger referred to
Syrian leader Assad as “secular”. I’ve
also heard that “Assad protects ancient Christian sects”. So- - I don’t know. If you’re a Christian you’re supposed to back
Assad and if you’re a Jew you’re supposed to back- - who? - - ISIS? I don’t know! I posted that blog post last night with all
of the stuff about Saudi Arabia being allied with Israel highlighted. You see Judy says that the Arab and the Jew
are natural enemies because it says so in the Bible. But actually the Bible doesn’t make the ‘Ishmeal”
claim Judy and Dr Levy make. No. It’s
the Muslims that make THAT claim. NOT
the Bible. The last we ever hear about
the Ishmealites is that a band of them transported Joseph off to Egypt as a
slave. And need I remind you there are
an awful lot of non Arab (hence non Semitic) Muslims. You have your Iranians and your Pakistanis, and even the Turks for that matter, and Indonesians, and the “Nation of Islam” in this country, who are Black. And by
the way those of you thinking I used to be a Sunni lover- - nobody including me
has ever liked the form of government in Saudi Arabia, or their Sheria
Law. I’ve always thought the Bushes and
the Saudis were just too Close!
Not
to say “I told you so” or anything but the Dow Jones Industrials are down over
five hundred points from their highs just last week. So this is a way of saying that stocks are
about in the range where they were back in January when I was recommending a “Sell”
in the market. I see no reason why this
market won’t stay in this negative “bent” for the foreseeable future. Once it gets a notion in its mind, the market
runs with it. The NASDAC fell 82 points to 4,859 - - or back below the five thousand dollar level. Maybe the price of California gas at the pump is way up but crude oil world is still at $48.00 a barrel.
I’m
listening to Norman Goldman on audio.
Bernie Sanders is not a “socialist”.
I’ve heard him speak an awful lot and I observe no bent twords
socialism. Sanders in his own words, is
not a quitter. He may lose a particular
election big, and come back multiple times and keep on fighting- till he
wins. Sanders has a solid base
supporting him for US Senate in Vermont, and all the people who know him speak
well of him. Now Goldman is saying that
some people feel Hillary was cheated out of the nomination in 2008. I just think the Obama opposition just rolled
over and played dead. Winning big in
elections in big states week after week, apparently counted for nothing. The Obama people were so afraid of “something”
maybe a wayward sneeze toppling their house of cards- - they would not even
ALLOW her name to be placed in Nomination in 2008. What were they so damn afraid of? Even Maggie Horton smells fear in an
individual. And Eve Larsen reeks of
FEAR. I watched the Shawn Hannity
problem and listened to that Hillary interview.
She was calm and cool as a cucumber in that interview and answered
questions to my satisfaction. I don’t
know about you. I would have only added
that with people like Snowden running around hacking government computers, her
computer system and server proved itself to be a whole lot safer. Hillary wasn’t hacked once. The way Hillary explained it- - she did
exactly the things she was supposed to do.
Like I say I’m no Hillary groupy - - if just “calling it as I see it”, as
the expression goes. To me it's a matter of balls and strikes.
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