Rick Perry Number One In Republican Polls

Richard Perry has leapfrogged to the clear Republican front runner now leading Romney two to one. His meteoric rise has been at the expense of all three of his rivals in the polls, Bachman, Romney and Paul. Unfortunately I can’t find any numbers for you. But if what they say is true, Rick Perry practically has the Republican nomination locked up. They say he is the “prefect candidate for Republicans, and well suited to the psychology of that party now. Others have pegged him as “George Bush without the subtlety – and even less brains”. Rush Limbaugh has now abandoned the Rove and Bush forces and come over to the Perry side. This is obviously a big endorsement, but I’m not sure how Jeb Bush feels about it. Perry is governor of a state where executive power is weak. But of course that will change once he gets into the White House. Then he’ll be issuing orders with a lot more far reaching implications than sending convicted criminals to their deaths. Richard Perry is apparently a believer of the old Bill Clinton adage that “It’s better to be strong and wrong than to be right and weak”. My problem personally is even though I’m right most of the time- - I don’t have the power. People are waiting for that proverbhial political pendulum to swing back at least to neutral. But they may have a long wait. That pendulum reached its leftward peak about 1974 and has been swinging to the right most of the past forty years. I don’t know; maybe the political pendulum is broken, or stuck, or something. “This isn’t a drought; it’s climate change!” As I said in a recent post, there is no guarantee at all that Obama will win the election next year. Ever since Sarah Palin first appeared on the scene almost exactly three years ago in 2008 there has been a shadow hanging over this country, generated by the tea party. Their presence has changed the whole tone of political dialog in the media. There was an ABC news thing a few months ago where Rick Perry was not even on the radar screen as a possible Republican candidate. Get ready for hyper religion. We are about to overturn 224 years of political tradition by bringing Jesus into a Presidential campaign. Michelle Bachman wants everybody to know that Jesus Christ is the creator of heaven and earth. At the same time she wants Jewish voters to think she is Jewish, because she says that’s what Romney is doing. Now we are informed that only 38% of Americans even believe in Evolution now. I guess the rest of us believe we came here via lepricon pixie dust. Some have called Rick Perry, “ignorant, mean, and dumb”. The only actual person I’ve met who has been a partisan of his is Dr. Levy. These people on the far right make you pay to attend their “Town Halls” and then if they think you are a hostile questioner, or if you are caught with any kind of video or audio recording device, the cops throw you out. There seems to be no pretense these days of a Presidential candidate having to pass any civility tests- - - or civics test, for that matter. I am not among those who is rooting for him to win because “He’s so far right he’ll never win over the moderates”. They said the same thing of Ronald Reagan at about this point. So I say, “Be careful what you wish for”.

This is Tuesday afternoon August 30, 2011 and it’s cooler today. I heard my name and went down for money draw. Glen was behind me and Marcia and Andy were in line, and Richard Moore was ahead of me. They weren’t exactly doing names in order. [name withheld] told me I had fourteen dollars after the medical co-pay deduction. Of course I’ve got thirty dollars in the bank and that is the highest “trough” figure in a long time. She counted out the money and I took a piece of chocolate and then went for coffee break and got two cups from Dora. I went out to the liquor store for a jar of coffee creamer and a pack of John Black menthol because they were out of cherry. Now at 3:00 they are talking about the aftermath of hurricane Irene in the news- - and the torrential flooding in upstate rural areas. Lots of historic bridges were downed in Vermont.

Two items of Days of our Lives “pressed my buttons” today;. First of all they have had all too many episodes that are like a love-in for teenage couples speaking sweet nothings to each other, seemingly endlessly. And Daniel thinks he has a sense of humor. Someone should tap him on the shoulder and inform him he is totally un-funny. Then we have thie “Tee” guy who is “set up” as some kind of a villain on the show. He made some remark about old folks and more remarks against gays. OK, he gets points off for not “reading the group” very well. But tell me why is Daniel Jonas a half hour later eatcn up with anger tword some twerp teenager who makes one remark? The other issue is that asshole therapist that Carley has. You know I hate these therapists who have watched to many of these psychology movies from the ‘forties and think they know everything about everything and how things will play out. Well, I have news for you; they don’t. I know this from personal experience. And she has the gall to say to Nicholas “Why are you angry with me when it’s your mother you should be angry with?” If it were me I’d shoot back “I know exactly whom I am angry with, thank you. And if you don’t see that I’m going to have to get myself another therapist.” Hasn’t anybody ever told that woman that there is a time and a place for everything but this isn’t it. These therapists get their cocks off not showing any emotion themselves, kind of detatched and above it all, but boy they sure enjoy pulling the strings, kind of like Dick Chaney.

It seems Randy Rhodes likes to tap dance around certain issues, over and over - - and I do mean over and over. You’ve heard of the Texas two-step. Randy apparently likes to do the Florida side step. Time and again she had the opportunity to “man up’ and face the issue no talk show host wants to touch about Dick Chaney knew about 9 – 11 in advance. When he watched the buildings go down he was probably thinking “I see our men placed the explosives in the right area”. Buildings don’t go down like that on their own. There just wasn’t enough heat. Buildings have been known to burn for hours on end without falling. And the last time I checked, heat traveled up and not down. So why were there all those explosions? As to the idea of conversations and incidents not being the same way Bush wrote them in his book- - - I’m not bothered by that. Randy got too wrapped up in what amounts to a mole hill. Now if you want to talk about reports on the resurrection of Jesus, well THERE you have looming contradictions, of the type that simply cannot be explained away. The big fear of mine, like Oliver North before him, this psycho will be hailed as some kind of a hero or something. But personally between the two of them, Oliver North is by far the bigger liar. But it does to show the political climate today that a book like Dick Chaney wrote would not be roundly condemned in the media as the work of a meglo-maniac. Apparently also on dateline was a boy who died on the operating table and came back to life. Haven’t they had him on before? Isn’t he the guy who talked with Moses and all those other Bible characters?

I don’t know, the reflexes of this computer are getting about as bad as Grandpa Simpson. Maybe it’s hotter in here than I thought. We had Chinese stir fry tonight, or that’s what it was supposed to be. Loretta refused to eat it. There was rice and peas, with applesauce for desert. This is the third dinner in a row we’ve had some kind of fruit for desert. Of course even the professionals don’t know what Chinese food tastes like any more. It’s supposed to have things like bean sprouts, pea pods, and bamboo shoots in it. Rotsa Ruck with that. Eye Witness news is on now. I’ve forgotten all the people I’ve loaned out cigarettes to and haven’t gotten back. Mike just borrowed one.

I’d like to call this final paragraph “Don’t Poke the Bear” after Rush Limbaugh. You know we are over 350 parts per million now C02 on planet earth. So we are already over the line. Today there were protestors outside the White House and they were dispursed by law enforcement. It seems the Obama White House wants to import Alberta’s nightmare and have “tar sands” oil processing in this country. One person said, “If we do that it’s Game Over for the environment”. President Obama is developing a regular tin ear when it comes to energy and ecology matters. However the alternatives aren’t panning out. Solar power costs fifty cents a kilowatt hour in Germany, whereas geo-thermal can be had for only eight. There was a proponent of geo-thermal on Thom Hartman’s show today. It’s cheaper than wind power, which in turn is cheaper than solar. Though the price of solar has come down is everybody went solar the agragate costs to consumers would skyrocket, experts say. In Germany Thom’s pet project has been scrapped after ten years of putting a solar panel on every roof in Germany. Apparently that allowed time for all the people with it now to “pay off the bills”. Thom is really into this veggie oil stuff- which to my way of thinking is really energy intensive to obtain for what you get. Hartman engages in almost pencil neck geek logic to justify it. Some people don’t think Judgement Day will ever arrive for planet earth. But I say “Don’t poke the bear”. I say the same thing to those who continue to loudly proclaim “Deficets don’t matter”. They sure trumped this saying under President Bush. But as with global warming, there comes a tipping point where no matter what we do it’s already too late, and we may well have hit that point with the economy. Of course if you read my posting on exceeding light speed a few back in the previous blog, you know that I believe you can’t “push” forever and expect that it will continue to mean nothing, even though Einstein insists that you can. I’ve been “pushing” at God today, “Poking the Bear” if you will, with my numerous fleeces or bets with God, that I’ve been winning. Actually a lot of Evangelicals believe in a Gospel of Einstein. I guess it’s up to me to write it for them, since you know they are incapable of doing it for themselves, even if it would help them. It goes something like this: The faster you run FROM God the bigger he looks and the closer he seems. Conversely if you are on a path tword God- - you become aware of the painful knowledge that your obsticals and hence goals are getting smeller and smaller, and hence your accomplishments thereof - - but God is just as distant.” Of course you know if I had to boil down Neil Savedra of KFI’s overall message down into a single sentense it would be something like “You should not only be aware of your limitations; you should be obsessed by them”. One of the few statements Neil has made not linked to the Bible is that “Nobody can travel faster than light”. You know that Egyptian priest who said in some movie the following, “We Egyptians posses an almost painful awareness that we are possessors of the entire totality of knowledge”. Yeah, kind of like Zeus on Planet of the Apes. People who never seem to learn anything new, as if they had no use for knowledge they don't already have- - those people worry me. Could Neil Savedra have gotten one of his most charished doctrines from Satan himself, judging by how much he talks about it on the radio. What if I came to you and said "I am being tormented by Satan- who continually buffets me with messages" and then I go on to espouse "While I was in such a state I got this word from God that you can't find so much as one verse in the entire Bible to support", wouldn't you say my "message" was probably also from Satan? Some people say the Bible is not true but merely "truely stated". As such there can be irreconcilable contradictions in the text because "sworn witnesses in count even get confused". I guess I'm wondering that is this is so, how did Neil Savedra become able to make holy pronouncements with the utter certitude of Papal Infallibility?

You know you could reduce my teaching to a thirty second TV spot to drive home the point with a little visual aids. You remember that model of earth circled by two space ships on a regular orbit. Well after all the introductory stuff back up the camera and show the model of Earth on a black pedestal and a black wall of a room behind you with a table. And then someone switches on an LED light to the right of the model and a voice says “Does this LED being switched on suddenly cause one of the ships to spontaneously expand and the other to shrink? And they show a guy with a bewildered, puzzled expression who says “Well - - - Maybe”. And then the camera pans over to the other end of a long table to the LED at that end and now that is also switched on. The announcer says “How about now?” and suddenly the guy in the room gets a serious expression - - and he says “I don’t know”. Here is a here is an even blunter thirty second commercial plug against Einstein’s special theory of relativity. There is a guy in a space ship and he looks alarmedly at his control panel. He begins pressing one button after another and is becoming increasingly panicked. You see the ground approaching rapidly as the land marks grow geometrically larger and larger, and at about two miles away or so the land and the screen goes dark. Then an announcer’s voice comes on and a caption saying the same words, “It doesn’t take a degree in rocket science to realize that this man is going to crash”. (Selah)