Leadership We Can Trust

President Obama will be signing the economic recovery bill on Friday. The conference committee between the House and the Senate didn't take at all long to hammer out a compromize. The final bill is 789 Billion, which is less than either the House or the Senate bills alone. Some democrats fear that some of the best stuff in the bill was taken out. There is nothing that says things left out of this bill can't be resubmitted at a later date. Apparently Arlen Specter, author of the single bullet theory with the JFK assasenation, was the one who "hung tough" and kept this bill in check. Some liberal talk show hosts complain that the majority let a minority of republicans, who lost the election in November, dictate the terms, even though when the Republicans were in power they raised the threat of the "nuclear option" or getting rid of the sixty percent rule alltogether. The democrats were scared to death of the republicans back then. Some are saying that the republicans stared us down and we blinked. She should have called their bluff and made them fillibuster, and let the chips, and the bad press, fall where it may.

In terms of the banking part of this economic recovery project, the name of that is TARP for Toxic Assets Removal Program. But some would call it instead "Trap". Banker after banker paraded before Congress yesterday and each said the same thing. They are being careful with their money now. Each gets a salary of only a million dollars and none of them is getting a bonus. Even Ed Royce called up on one of those robo-calls and says that the thing we need to do is enable people to pay off their bad mortgage loans. Hopefully we all agree on this. At one time this whole 700 Billion dollar package was considered an "investment". We the people buy up these tainted and toxic assets and gamble that enough of them will pan out and be paid up, so that in the course of time the government might even make a profit on them. That's the original story that the Bush Adminestration was selling six months ago. Of course there is a risk in running up the federal deficet so high. But inflation is not the terror it was 25 years ago when Paul Volker was running the Federal Reserve. We are in a deflationary cycle and the dollar is actually gaining against the Euro, and this is a good thing. I don't know of any exact "formula" for how much is enough or excessive, but anyone with an Excel spread sheet can run the numbers and find out for themselves. In World War II we also at that time ran up astronomical deficets but nobody thought anything of it because so much was at stake. My concern, and I am sounding like a broken record on this point, is that our trade figures are an unmitigatted disaster. We need to raise product terriffs to about ten times the level they are at now. It's silly to fear a trade war because our products are already being walled out of so many countries, and our compeditors have no problem with government subsidies of their industries as we do. If we allow domestic industry to die we are literally killing the goose that laid all those golden eggs. We need good paying unionized industrial jobs and then we can "grow our way" out of this recession. There is much work to be done and we need to set about doing it now.

It’s time for more science adventures. There is another Oxy compound, Oxytonin, that women develop when they deliver a baby. It's involved with fertility and a lot of other women's issues. This substances causes all mammals great and small to be monogamus. If you give it to permiscuous mammals it makes them monogamus and if you block it from monogamus it makes them promiscuous. It would seem that governments could put this substance in food to regulate society, in liew of the usual God thing. Flu viruses prefer dry air without humidity. It’s the absolute humidity that matters. Most colder air has less moisture in it so contrary to the bit about windows being closed, it would seem that if you open the windows you increase the chance of catching a flu virus. They say that rich people are less attentive as they listen to you than poor people. Rich people do things with their hair and straighten their tie and do other things to busy themselves while they are listening to your problems. In a poor clan, you are much more likely to feel as though you have really been heard.

Vioxx has properties of coagulating blood. I guess this is official now so that Vioxx will actually cause a heart attack. It’s not just some statistical blooper. So if you take Viox, take it with an asprine to reverse the blood thickening actions of the drug. They say that if it weren’t for the trial lawyers, the corporations would rule the world more than they do now. They’d run the table and rig every outcome so that they were never held accountable for the products they endanger the public with. Every time you hear “Tort Reform” just think about Gothem City. Surely someone on the Gothem city council might sponsor a resolution to get Batman out of town because he was “upsetting the balance of society”. You know people on the right, as opposed to the left, want Federal supremacy over all, as opposed to the intervention of local or state governments when it comes to one thing and that is tort law. If it’s air pollution of product safety these people will declare “If the food & drug administration says a drug is OK that makes it all right.” That’s their insurance policy as they see it, against ever being sued. You know gasoline companies are being pressured now to lower their prices at the pump on warm days because when it’s 85 degrees out, you get less gasoline bang for the buck because gasoline expands. But the dirty little corollary of this is when it comes to paying taxes on their own sales or inventory tax or what-not, gasoline companies already demand that they be charged less in warm weather because they are storing and selling less gasoline. So they have both ends covered. But I say they can’t have it both ways. If they are going to take deals from the government based on temperature they should pass along that savings to the customer. Customers should also benefit from temperature based price

Writers determine the fates of soap opera people. They determine what will come to drive them. We know these forces in the brain as engrams. I guess one could say "God only knows" when it comes to people's engrams. That's kind of a literal truth. With the soapys, the writer is God. Philop caught Melanie red handed trying to print out a copy of the secret blueprints for Nick’s project. She was also caught on video camera. But Philip says he wants to forget the whole thing. He just fired her and told her that if she were ever seen on Titan grounds again that he would have her arrested. Victor didn’t like Philip’s leniency. But the thing is now she’s getting a copy of those same blueprints from Max Brady. If I’m Philip I’m going to forget how nice I was to her when I see Di Mira enterprises developing the project with his blueprints. And I’m not going to worry about such details like “she wasn’t successful in the heist”. I’m just going to release the video tape to the press and the rest, as they say, will take care of itself. Daniel acts like he’s not grateful that Clowie broke it off with Lucas. She makes the ultimate sacrifice for him, and he just shrugs. Brady has really put his ass on the line for Nicole. Maybe he’s not having sex with Nicole now but for what he’s done for her she owes him, say, about five times in the sack. Brady has cast suspicion on himself by making Victor think that somehow he’s gone back to taking drugs. Nicole owes him a lot, and I hope she realizes it. Brady may still be in love with her but he doesn’t know it. You know in the movie Dune they say "He who controles the spice rules the world". But in reality it's "He who controls the en-grams controles all of society. It's engrams that determine how many noble deeds are done or what crimes are comitted. If I were I to do a paragraph entitled "A Conspiracy of Invisable Forces" some of you might think I was talking about space aliens. And yet there are invisable forces that are like steering wheels for the brain, just as the brain steers the body. People with the power to controle the engrams of others, that "software of the brain" in truth, control the world.