The View From Here - - - Now

Well if one were to do a tea party update these it would be “Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies”.  Every day it seems Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan sink deeper and deeper into deluding others, and possibly themselves, too.  Take this whole Islamic Rage crisis they are featuring on the Newsweek cover this week.  It all began when Mitt Romney promised he would issue no political statements to spoil 9 – 11.  But at nine o clock he made the statement that our embassy was “weak” because they said they understood the frustrations of the Islamic protestors.  This was BEFORE the Libyan ambassador and three others were killed.  But he said to delay the release of the statement till one minute after midnight on 9 – 12.  Why did he do this?  He was afraid of just what ended up happening, that the White House would disown or otherwise not back up the original embassy statement.  The whole Libyan murder thing, ironically, was just icing on the cake because it had not EVEN HAPPEMED yet.  So Romney repeated what he knew to be a false statement.   Many other lies have been told.  I think it was on Rush Limbaugh I heard that “Rather than the Libyans escort the body to the hospital, what they really did was tell the terrorists where he was so that they could “finish him off”.  I kid you not.  We were then informed that the Obama administration had forbidden US Marines not to use live ammunition on their weapons, and there was the oft repeated line that “Well the embassy wasn’t properly protected”.  This is another Lie told by the right.  We were then told that the anti Islamic movie could NOT be the source of all the protests because “Nobody in the Islamic world even knows how to use the Internet”.  We have David Gregory’s desperate to breathe life into the Romney campaign by trying to get the Israeli President Netenyahoo to come out and condemn Obama and say “Obama wants to throw Israel under the bus”.  No matter how hard Gregory pressed, Netenyahoo would not say it.  And it would been a bad briech of protocol if he did.  Of course that there is that absurd mock “Press Conference” that Rush Limbaugh had on his show with a really bad actor playing the part of the President, saying things that are TOTALLY not what President Obama would ever say.  Yet Rush Limbaugh thinks it’s great.  Is it any wonder with all these lies that the American people are seeing through it all.  President Obama continues his “bounce” and is up six percentage points in the National Polls, and is up seven points in Ohio, and the President is up five percentage points in the states of Florida and Virginia.  Nobody even asks about Pennsylvania any more since that state is so solidly in the Obama camp.  Some on our side say they even sense an Obama land-slide coming, when November arrives.  It may be a case of “picking the winning horse” and wanting to go with a winner.  Many are seeing a desperate note of desperation in the Romney and Ryan campaign, that’s for sure.  The funny thing is with each new week brings a new Romney gaff or major mistake.  How many more of them will there be?

We come to the movie itself which has been called “soft porn” or “pornography with all of the worse sex scenes edited out”.  And it’s no wonder.  Sam Biselli hared this pornography producer named Alan Roberts to make the movie  His credits include such hits as “The Sexperts” and “The Happy Hooker” trilogy.  So because of that one movie produced in this internet age- - there are protests in twenty Moslem countries, and I assure you all twenty are NOT at war with America.  Rush Limbaugh used to have the saying of “Actions have consequences”.  Rush had another saying.  “Don’t poke the Bear”.  The question is if you pre plan an action leading to tumult and violence- - can you be prosecuted?  I am reminded of a television show where this one criminal was taunting these cops he’d had encounters with and was trying to goad them thinking there would be no repercussions.  So he’d make snorting pig like noises, and say things like ‘Why let these pigs in here?” and “I think I detect the scent of pig”.  Well the police got even with him by throwing in the paddy wagon with a bunch of smelly drunks, and throwing him in the drunk tank at the station where he had to wait the standard twelve hours to have time to “sober up”.  The book of James in the Bible admonishes many times to “Guard your speech”.  Now four American troopers have been killed by “friendly government” when our own Afghan government has fired on our men, becoming commonplace now. One might just wonder whether the release of this whole movie was timed to coincide with the national elections so that it would help Mitt Romney in his campaign by the people seeing in the media every night all these protestors.  And therefore they could say “Look at President Obama.  He has “Lost control” over events in the Mideast”.

Over the weekend was held a conference called the “Value Voters Summet” of all the usual Icons of the right.  Mitt Romney didn’t come himself but sent a promotional film.  Someone joked, “I guess it’s their way of humanizing him”.   This General Boigen guy who spoke there was considered so beyond the pale that he was refused to be allowed to speak at West Point because our own troops didn’t want him to.  He blaimed the refusal on all these atheists.  Of course he repeated the accusation that that Hillary aid was a Moslem infiltrater.  This general Boigen guy urged Israel to attack Iran.  Other speakers said “You don’t want to be a progressive.  Hitler was a progressive”.  Santorum spoke at this gathering and I think he’s the one who said that higher education will never represent our views.  What we need to do is to turn to the two institutions in America that have proved the most reliable- - the Family and the Church.  Paul Ryan spoke at this gathering.  He said “If we show weakness before the Moslems - - they will attack”.  He seems to think that somehow the way to solve every problem in the world is sheer force 

If you've played the game of Risk you know that things are not strictly a "head to head" contest.  So you don't entirely have control over your own destiny.  I am reminded of one event lately where "The Ionian factor" has been mentioned.  Sometimes "higher powers" can intervene in "events that are really none of their business".  Raphael would not file charges against E J Di Mira after that little fist fight that E J started, because he probably felt he was enough of a man and didn't need protection from the legal system to resolve his own personal problems.  Suppose a powerful group - - and I'm picking the Ionians - - - decides they want Mitt Romney to be President for reasons that have nothing logically at all to do with our own issues here in the United States.  There is a Star Trek episode where Bones meets this "community activist"  (the Obama similarity shouldn't escape you) and later she gets involved in politics and is hired as some envoy by President Roosevelt or something and because of her - - peace negotiations are into between President Roosevelt and Adolph Hitler.  You see where this is going.  Because of all these diplomatic overatures our country became "weak abroad" and were ripe pickings for the Nazis to march on in to this country so that by the 22nd century we're all speaking German.  As such when a car ran this lovely woman over in a flook accident Spock pulled Bones back from trying to rescue the woman insuring her death.  Bones turns to Spock and says "Do you know what you just did" and Spock says "Yes, I do".  The trouble is God doesn't read his Nancy Sinatra enough when it comes to me and everybody else.  "Now - What's right is right - - but you ain't been right yet". Fundamentalist Christians are always carrying on about "seeking God's will" or merely "It must have been God's will" assuming that whatever calamity happens is "all for the best".  The trouble is that 99.4% of the time they are wrong.  But these are people who LIVE by the Exceptions in life.  Were it not for the Exceptions- - they would have been out of business long ago.  (Selah)