Friday, April 22, 2016

How's the Obama Revolution Treating You?


Norman Goldman was talking about the so called Obama revolution. People like Goldman and Stephanie are constantly singing the praises of Obama as though he were a trail blazer in progressive thought. Let’s look at the facts. Yes there have been cultural changes in two major areas. Marijuana is more socially acceptable now and Gay Marriage has become part of our culture along with certain bathroom priveleges. Are we to credit Obama and Hillary with these. Neither campaigned on a platform of gay marriage or marijuana lieniency in 2008. Bernie Sanders is doing that now with marijuana. There was talk in 2008 about getting the economy going again and raising incomes of workers. You need only to look at how the republicans are campaigning now to realize that the average American believes things are getting worse with the economy. President Obama supports the Trans Pacific Partnership which nobody wants. It isn’t “free trade” but a windfall for international corporation with laws tailor made to suit their needs. President Obama had a chance to campaign on the gun issue in 2012 and didn’t. He remained silent. If Obama Care were really as good as Millar and Goldman claim it is in terms of eliminating “what’s wrong with the health care system” then it would have been a winning issue in the 2014 Congressional election. Instead all the candidates ran away from it. Race relations are worse. Race relations with the police are worse. The President campaigned in 2008 on ending war in the Mideast, or at least we all thought he did. One need only go to the Republicans and look what they’re saying and clearly things in the Mideast aren’t getting any better. President Obama is the Drone King. Let me give you a couple of thought pictures. Did Herbert Hoover talk more- - or less about the recession and the economy in general than Coolege did? Sure he did. People don’t talk about something unless it’s become a problem. So it is with race relations and gun violence. And people like Goldman say “Well the President has scaled the wars the Empire fights around the globe. OK- - consider this example. We all know Elvis had a weight problem. People say Hillary never met a war she didn’t like and how she has to fight wars to prove she’s as macho as any man and all that. Well we know in 1968 Elvis starved himself for his big NBC Comeback special. Just as Hilary now is trying hard to sound progressive. But just as Elvis reverted worse than ever to his over-eating problem, so the minute Hillary gets in office she will revert to being a pro war President. I don’t know about you but I’m getting sick and tired of people like Norman Goldman imputing wrong or improper motives for wanting to vote for Bernie Sanders. It can’t be that we are voting for him because we honestly believe him to be the better candidate for the job. No. It has to be something dark and sinister like we all have some sort of emotional problem. We can’t face reality- - and the list goes on. And it’s silly for Goldman to say “Well- - perhaps this is just is not the year to fight for progressive issues, but someday in the great bye and bye we’ll wake up and all our goals have been met. Wars aren’t fought that way. They are fought in the here and now- - today- - and each side is fighting as if their lives depended on it. Because both sides know they are fighting for key pieces of ground and if they lose this battle today, it will make it that much easier for the enemy to win the next battle tomorrow. Just as Citizens United made it easier to win the 2010 election for the Republican this victory in turn set it up so the republicans could Gerrymander the districts to make it that much easier to win in the future. These kind of negative feedback loops are not that easy to counteract, and Norman should realize this.


So what do people want to read about in tweets or whatever?  I don’t even feel qualified to even talk about Prince because I was not a major fan of his.  Stylistically he’s a little like Adam Ant although musically I prefer Adam Ant to Prince.   Prince was certainly politically aware and advocated for a lot of Black causes including giving money to Trayvon’s family, and that’s a good thing.  Now John Fugelsang is saying that Prince could be a bigger genious than Hendrix and sings better than Hendrix.   True to form this morning is overcast but there is no rain.  Apparently the rain is restricted to Bakersfield and points north in the Central Valley.  Prince has kind of driven politics off the top story headlines so for that we’re all grateful.  This is Friday morning April 22, 2016 and Earth Day.  Stephanie is wearing her purple shirt and this is the reign of the purple, with Stephanie going to Miniapolis on May 7th.    FH had the idea of putting out a Prince commemorative album called “Reign of the Purple” even though it would not have the endorsement of the “Prince lobby”.   Mal Evans talked with FH this morning.  Mal Evans has lost power to another spokesman who has taken the lead in making pronouncements of the Federation.  Prince is said to be stingy with releasing his songs to just anybody on the internet or anywhere.  It is hoped that now that Prince is no longer with us there will be more of Prince’s songs available on You Tube.  Last night the Federation saluted Donald Trump on his stance on this bathroom parody issue of letting you use the bathroom based on the sex you NOW identify with.  This is Donald Trump’s latest way of shocking his audience with yet another outrageous stance.  Stephanie is announcing she’ll be in Chicago on September 10th and will be back in LA for a sexy liberal tour on November 5th for a pre election extravaganza.  Stephanie is reliving all her favorite lesbian memories listening to Prince songs.  This whole Prince thing has gone crazy with the media making the death of Prince the lead story on the news and the media has expended considerable coverage on the death of Prince and we really don’t know that much yet until the autopsy is performed today.  We know that Prince is from Miniapolis – which is Romulan territory and the Romulans are a little jealous they didn’t get Prince after he died.  Actually it was that friend of Stu Sutcliffe I haven’t heard from since July, that made the statement that the Romulans should have gotten Prince. 

These days I’m making my entries shorter.  I was going to perhaps do a blog entry reviewing Einstein’s special theory of relativity but I didn’t have the mental energy to write it and my viewers don’t have the mental energy to read it.   However we should know about the world around us and how laws of chemistry and physics work.  The more we know about all kinds of "stuff" the more well rounded we are.  Some are expects in working in wood, or some are experts with dealing with horses, or dogs, or some can tell you everything you want to know about oil painting.  It's good to excel in something.  It bothers me we are coming into an era where computers are not even regarded as computers any more but appliances.  Leo Le Port has it as his goal to "use them without having to think about it".  You just turn them on and if all the steps in using them aren't completely instinctive and intuitive- - then it's too hard.  They didn't design them right.  In other words- - let the machine do our thinking for us.  I don't need software in my microwave or refrigerator and I don't need thermostats that automatically go on and turn on various lights or worse yet anticipate our needs and "guess what we want" at any given time.  People in the media are starting to wonder again whether computers will begin to Out-think us, and take the initiative and instead of machines doing our will, we end up doing their will.  It's something to think about, anyhow.    
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