. President Obama will be giving his Jobs speech on Wednesday September 7th. We’ve been hearing forever about this impending speech, and now anticipation has raised expectations greatly.. House Speaker John Boehner originally accepted the invitation to address congress. But at noon Rush Limbaugh got on the air and started spewing - and others were outraged Obama would preempt a Republican event as the Reagan library. The Republicans are having a major debate this night, which will actually be televised. Rush said something about “They need to put this man in his place”. Well, his “place” is leader of the free world. Rush Limbaugh did just about everything except refer to the President as “Boy!” Then suddenly at four in the afternoon after Rush is off the air, John Boehner says “Well they need the additional 24 hours for a security sweep”, as if it would take 24 hours to do that. However this part of it they didn't have on any news I heard yesterday. I only found it out early this morning. There seems to be no lengths the republican right won’t stoop to. There are a lot of decent, ordinary Americans on our side who truly care about their country. I just have my doubts about our sides ability to organize anything because these “conserva-dems” seem to be taking over. Bill Press kept saying the President needs to “Go Big”. Actually I think Mc Donalds took that off the menu as an option, because of all the nanny state protests. The only reason why the President would offer up a grandiose program is that he knows it's the only air time he's going to get and the last time in a long time Republicans won't be controling the news cycle. I was up fairly early again and turned on Bill Press and brewed coffee. Then I learned that President Obama had actually capitulated to John Boehner last night and decided to deliver his speech on Thursday evening September 8th after all. I was flabberghasted. How could a President of the United States be refused by the House leader from speaking when he wanted? The “optics” on this are really bad. It’s shades of President Truman being forced to wait for General Mc Arthur to arrive late so that he could make his grand enterence. Regardless of what you thought of it personally, the damage it would do to the Office of President would set a devastating precident, and therefore could not be permitted. It seems that Ed Schultz and Bill Press agree with me on this issue that the President should never have backed down. Stephanie Miller thought it was no big thing. So I’m making a mental note to listen to more of Ed Schultz and Bill Press and less of Stephanie Miller. As to the “optics” of the issue, Pete Richards is a master of that. For instance going back - - I declared myself as a Born Again Christian on March 24th 1976. My first Bible study attended was May 10th 1976. That’s six weeks and five days later, if your counting. That means there were six whole Mondays I could have been invited to a Bible Study at his house and never was. If I had gone the logical thing would be for him to introduce me as his brother and that I just became a Born Again Christian. But by the time I actually did attend one I was relegated to part of the furniture. President Johnson was interested in the “optics” of a situation, like taking the oath of office right there in Texas, even though at that time the constitution did not require a Vice President to take the Presidential Oath, I don’t think. Also on those tapes where he had these cordial conversations with Jackie Kennedy- - LBJ knew would make for a good historic record that the two were getting along. My complaint about President Obama is that in backing down on this issue of the dates of his speech- - he does what he does best and forfeits that football game before the team even takes the field. If he can’t win on this issue, how can he possibly expect to get his way on anything he says in his speech one week from now? This is truly an era of moral darkness we are living in.
The Republicans are going to have eight or more debates in the coming months. The first is on the 7th and the 2nd will be on the 12th and the third will be September 22nd. Obviously it will be the first time America gets to see Rick Perry in a debate situation. There may well be a “sudden death” debate where Perry says something really awful and loses everybody’s support. I don’t know how many Republicans will be debating. Will it just be Perry, Romney, Bachman and Ron Paul? Or will there be a conspiracy to freeze Ron Paul out of it altogether? So will there be questioners? What will they say on alternative energy or is it just “drill baby drill” and strip mining for them? What do they feel about US corporations paying the second lowest effective taxes in the developed world? There has been talk anew about limiting the salaries of CEO’s. Some have said that “all corporate taxes do is cut the pay of workers, and raise the price of goods, and cut the dividends of stocks that old ladies rely on each quarter”. Somehow I get the fleeting suspicion that isn’t the whole story. Some US corporations don’t pay any taxes at all such as G E, Capital Cities, and Vorizon. And the solar energy situation doesn’t look that bright. They say that China is under-cutting US solar energy corporations because most other countries in the world subsidize solar power. Well if that’s so then Americans should be buying a lot of solar cells made in China. But they aren’t. It seems clear that solar can’t make it on its own. To tell you the truth I think Rick Perry is a jinx. Ever since he announced that fateful Saturday of August 14th - - my life has had jinxes. I sense a pall hanging over me. We are descending into moral darkness in this country.
In Libya they celebrated the end of Romadon as well as the end of the Qadafi regime. Football season is upon us in the colleges. Sonny told his parents about a week ago that he would be transferring to Salem U in the fall. Given soap opera time where one day takes two weeks, I wonder where Sonny found the time? Well guess what? “The Fall” is upon us. It’s August 31, 2011 and this summer has gone by a lot more quickly for me than the previous two summers. I’ve been writing fewer E mail letters to both of my brothers. I haven’t heard anything about a Labor Day barbecue yet. We only have a few waning days of summer stagnation in the media.
. I reread “The Final Disappointment” from just after Dad died. I thought I could use some political excerpts in a new posting as a refresher or at least do an outline and base my remarks on that. But the posting just wasn’t that relavent for right now. The Jeopardy Final is finishing up now. I want to check one more thing now. I checked back around August 9th. Interestingly this was the time of the big loss in the Wisconsin primary. That may have affected my overall psychic protective aura just like the Sarah Palin thing did, and I became vulnerable to jinxes. They started in a few days later. This was that Beatle album blitz, and also the Larry Barton talking marathon at night. So my sleeping patterns were disturbed that night. . Last night I had another of those troubling dreams. I dreamed I was at San Diego State College, I believe, and I was in a dorm room, and there was this neo Nazi group on campus. It was actually sort of a Satanic group that sacrificed and tortured animals too, that was based in Dallas originally. I remember lying in bed having to go to the bathroom and I figured “I’ll get up and go to where the bathroom is in the other part of the house, when it’s safe. After this I transferred to Cerritos College (?) or some College “to the northwest”. And this same Nazi cult was active on campus there, too. It seems they were on a lot of college campuses now. Then I transferred to Cal State Fullerton, but that campus looked somehow different from what it actually looks like. I was out in the athletic area and it looked like some military environment with a lot of quansit huts and such. And these people were playing mind games and everything with me and I just wished they would go away but they didn’t. At some point I told someone or blurted out “I’m never attending a California State campus again” and- - about that same day a lot of arrests were made of members, but still a lot remained. Then I thought I woke up, but I was in some auditorium and I was talking to people in the next row in front and complaining- and one of them almost laughingly said “I smell sour grapes. You’re just mad because your balls got wrecked in one of their little experiments”. I didn’t know what he was talking about and didn’t want to know, either. I woke up. It was a quarter to one. I decided to go out for a cigarette even though I had only four left. When I got out there and felt cold just there in an under shirt. Larry was out there and I knew that was bad news, because likie two weeks ago he engaged in one of these non stop chatter marathons where he talked about everything from details of his finances to going to see his girlfriend on Monday. I’m still not sort of relation Larry has with Linda, but I’m not certain he’d tell me the truth, either. Basically you have a guy with a reputation for bullshit going on and on in everything in the greatest of detail. He mentioned that he was getting an inheritance from his family of two hundred thousand dollars. I asked no questions. I didn’t want to give him the least bit of encouragement. He said when he got the money he was going to sign it all over to this place and from that account he would take out three hundred dollars a week. I asked “Why would you want to do that?” I didn’t get a very coherent answer except “I like it here”. I hurried and finished my cigarette and then went in. I remember thinking just as I climed back into bed something like "Gee if President Obama said he wasn't running next year it would sure as hell change the political balance for the better".
I finally saw that Mickey guy that Wally mentioned the other day. He said there was a guy in here that looked just like me except there was some height discrepancy. He was six feet one inch. Well I saw him at last this morning in the medication line and I think he’s taller than that. But he indeed looks amazingly like me. Loretta was generally in a pushy mood today. But in particularly she made two remarks to me that were inexplicable and negative. Food service was really slow and we didn’t get out of there till a quarter to eight. That isn’t a record but not too far from it. I remember when they didn’t used to open the doors till five or ten after seven. Now they obviously open them up before seven but I never arrive there that early. We had oatmeal and Loretta had two bowls. Then there was the real long wait before the main course. We had scrambled eggs and one piece of French toast with not enough syrup on it. I continued to have Stephanie Miller on but I don’t know why. Thom Hartman was back today.
Of course you know Nicholas on DL was right when he said that if someone dies it ends any chance of theirs for “rehabilitation” or whatever. If you are a Calvinist you believe that nothing happens without God’s will, indeed, pre-ordainment. Sometimes I am troubled by hypothetical events I don't know for sure have happened. For instance the guy fighting in the jungles of Viet Nam who is unsaved along with his friend. And the first guy gets killed and the second guy lives to get saved and tell all his stories of glory at some religious arena. You know the guy around here who apparently survived when the rest of his platoon got killed. I'm not sure whether he had other orders or he just lagged behind the rest of his platoon and so didn't get killed So after eleven years and a few weeks I decided to rescind my “decision to renounce Christianity”. I guess I thought it was "the honorable thing to do". God’s response came a number of weeks later when Dad died. I sure wouldn't want to die a death like he died, with all that hospital mal-practice. Obviously he was taken out of my life- - and as such both of us lost the opportunity to improve relations with the other. Obviously all you can do them is “to put the whole thing behind you”. But I have a theory that for every bit of energy you spend surpressing thoughts you wish you didn't have, you sap your strength for facing the future. In like manner I believe the left expendless needless energy rationalizing the deeds of President Obama selling us out, that could be better put to use in a unified push forward. Even Rush Limbaugh says that you lose votes when you forsake your base and try to gain the vote of the illusive independant by selling out.
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