Randi Rhodes just reported that FOX news will not be airing the President's speech on health care tonight, but instead will be running an episode of "So You Think You Can Dance". So it could be argued that FOX is "dancing around the issue". Apparently if you are in an area that only gets FOX, you can turn to FOX news and get a chopped up and re-processed version of the President's speech. One of the roomers about the Health Care bill is true. You heard it said that if the bill passes you will lose your medicare. But actually the insurance companies with their tight grip on congress have written in a provision that if there is a public option you are forbidden from joining it like if you're a Wal-Mart employee and get their crappy insurance, you are now able to qualify for Medi-Cal or some state health plan due to the fact that Wal-Mart workers get paid below the poverty level. But you will no longer be able to get Medi-Cal should this version of the bill pass. Also you know don't you that 20% according to Hartman, of large corporation boards of directors are foreigners from places like Communist China. Of course now conservatives love Communist China now that they are corporitist. But there is a supreme court decision that was argued today in which John Roberts telegraphed the outcome in advance. There was a case last spring involving whether a corporation was really a person and John Roberts apparently told the party "Come back and argue your case broadly in the fall, and you will get a favorable ruling". The case involves corporate financing of campaigns. The buzz around Washington is that the Supreme Court will throw out one hundred years of statutes and say that it's perfectly OK for a corporation to write a direct check for a million dollars to their favorite politician to buy their vote in congress. The concencus now is that Corporations already own congress. The whole Republican party is taken over by the far right, and Thom Hartman says that progressives need to "infiltrate" the democratic party and take IT over so we have at least ONE political party that represents "the rest of us" on the left. As you may know Corporations were given person-hood in 1886 when one court clerk put an addendum on a case in which he quoted a dead Justice's opinion on the subject. So now we have dead judges making Supreme Court rulings. Hartman had said that the upcoming Supreme Court ruling will set off such an uproar it will be the equivelant of the Dread Scott case legitimizing slavery in 1857. But our President has no inclination to want to take on the right wing the way Roosevelt did in a campaign speech of 1936 in which he was very brazen about his aims and who was at fault for our economic woes. Roosevelt came out and said "We are after their corporate power" right out. And the statement met with thunderous applause. But now President Obama says that he is "open to new suggestions and ideas". To me this looks like he's trying to weasel out of the Public Health Care option in any of the Health Bills. I am not at all optimistic about the course President Obama's speech tonight. I'll have more to say on this after the speech is delivered.
According to George Washington's blog, what we are going through economically is not a "cyclical downturn" but the problem is systemic. These are jobs that are going away and not coming back. He had figures on unemployment from the late twenties and early thirties compared to the past few years. In 1930, the year after the stock market crash, unemployment was only at eight percent. In 1931 it had risen to fifteen percent. But there are computations they do now but keep secret that indicate unemployment is already at fifteen percent if you count those who have given up looking for a job, or those who are "under-employed" meaning the pay they are getting isn't keeping them afloat economically. Contrary to what we were all told there was no massive drop in unemployment in the fall of 1992 but figures continued elevated into 1993. Also, Rush Limbaugh in 1993 predicted that unemployment would be dramatically UP in two years (which would be 1995). This proved to be a very false prediction. We won't even discuss how bad Sylvia Brown's predictions are. We know the problem with this economy is that there is no demand. And it's hard to have demand that drives a recovery, with unemployment rates that will probably bump over ten percent in the next reporting. The President, unlike Franklin Roosevelt, is still a foot soldier to the corporatist who caused the problem in the first place, refusing to fire people that Really should be fired.
You know, in the Mayan Calendar there was a four hundred year period of one royal dynasty comprising sixteen kings. And their calendar appared to prophesy this 400 year auspitious period in advance in the ninth of some grand cycle. But a good slogan for empires might just be "four hundred years and then you're done". The Roman Empire was invaded in 412 by some group about four hundred years after it got going good. The United States as a culture has been around not quite four hundred years if you use 1620 as a starting point. Other 400 year periods suggest themselves such as the Ottoman (Turkish) empire and the Russian Empire that ended with the Romanovs in 1917 and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which may be shorter than that. Who is to say what macro-forces are out there. Some people say Time is a "real substance" like space is, because your perception of it can be altered. If time is a THING that is perceived - - then it's just a question of HOW we are perceiving it. Hopefully from the past to the future. Now they have a show on ABC "Flash Forward" where there is a massive black-out of the population and everybody has their own "revelation" of some aspect of the Future. One would hope it's the REAL future and not some Sylvia Brown Twilight Zone phantom. That is, the people are shown actual moments in the future and from THAT moment on, then they can TRY and change things. Of course if the Cosmic Game-master wants to put a "free revelation" into the mix as part of the master opperating program, this is His or Her perogative. So all of these revelations are just as "predestined" as everything else that happens, to make it interesting.
Finally, the Beatles have their Beatle Game out today or 09-09-09. All of their music has been remixed and for the first time their first four British albums are out in Stereo on CD. Also I would wonder whether other items have been "fixed" like the guitar bass in "Day Tripper" or going back to the original mixes of Yellow Submarine, Taxman, Got to Get You Into My Life, and Tomorrow Never Knows. I bet they still didn't release the Christmas records. I do know that people were saying in 1987 that those releases were put out "hurridly".
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