Since this is the first Monday in October the Supreme Court met for the first time. They decided not to hear a case on the idea of should the steel from the wreckage be buried in a venerable place because it contains the ashes of loved ones. I thought all of that “evidence” was shipped off to China nearly a decade ago so that it could never be investigated. Of course you know they only decide to hear about half the court cases per year that they used to hear 25 years ago. They’ve getting lazy. They don’t want to give people their constitutional rights. Of course justice Elena Kagen is really weak on granting people civil liberties. I have a feeling this is the coming trend in the US justice system. Victoria Jones was remarking that England has also seen the loss of civil liberties in matters of arrest just as we have here with the advent of the Patriot Act. Apparently England and those in Europe aren’t as upset by “security alerts” like we are here because they’ve gone through so much worse like the Blitz and everything. They take it as a matter of course. They also point out that you are more likely to be murdered on US streets with our higher murder rates than you are of becoming a casualty on a European tour. But it’s just the way things are now that even the Obama administration feels the urge to ramp up the fear. Maybe people will forget that they hate the president and see him at last as our national leader and perhaps a man to be listened to.
Randy Rhodes spoke of a ninety year old woman calling a show with a Black host and asking the colored host why the coloreds complain so much. She said “Rather than ask what we have done TO them they should be thanking us for what we have done FOR them, with welfare and all. There was one caller today who claimed to be a mix race Jewish progressive, but he asked how come there were so many socialist and communist signs at the Washington rally. I guess it was Nicole who fielded that call. I would have said “I would prefer there not be those kinds of signs there, but people have free speech”. Nicole turned it into an us verses them type situation. As you know I was not real pleased with the Washington rally. They said that attendance was down from what they had hoped. And they apparently used a photograph taken at seven in the morning before the people had arrived that had a lot of empty reserved seats. Of course they talked about education and they talked about jobs and getting out of prostitution and pimping and drugs and all. But for instance what about police violence. There was a hold up at a convienience store by two thugs working together and one of them had a gun. Meanwhile the brother of the store owner called the cops and they showed up very quickly. The brother went outside to point in the direction that the bad guys fled. But instead of saying “thanks” he was fired on eight different times by the officer”. I would not be in a forgiving mood after that experience. It would be one thing to be told to put my hands in the air, but to be shot at repeatedly- - -this shows the cops had their heads up their asses. I’m not sure of the store owners were a minority race or not. I find it difficult to believe cops would shoot repeatedly at an unarmed White guy like that.
In one call in show on KTLK this morning it was mentioned that Meg Whitman should have known her housekeeper wasn’t documented. I guess Jerry Brown really took her to task on this during a debate. Oddly the atmosphere in the media air waves are so contentious my first impulse was to disbelieve the accusations and Gloria Alred must be lying. But I should have known better than that. Gloria Alred is a smart woman and she doesn’t take a case where she knows she doesn’t have really solid grounds. Of course now there is that letter that Meg Whitman’s husband wrote a hand written notation on saying “Nicky, you should really look into getting documentation”. But many would believe that an other wise conscientious woman would somehow sluff off in a moment of carelessness and hire en employee in her personal service whose background she hadn’t investigated. This development won’t affect my vote but my feeling now is that anything that tilts the table in favor of Jerry Brown is fine with me.
They said that the temperature will have dropped 45 degrees in one week. Last Monday it was a record 113 °. This week it’s probably 68 or cooler out. I started off in a short sleeved shirt but then put on a Pendelton about ten as the weather seemed to be getting colder. This was just before snack break. I really want blog readers to know that I haven’t done a disappearing act. If I don’t do a blog today it might be till late Wednesday I get back to it. But as I told you know who, I have been in an uninspired blue funk lately. It seems that everything that can be possibly said about “stuff” had already been said.
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