The unemployment picture is rosier than economists had been projecting. They figured that due to Hurricane Sandy and all this anxiety about the fiscal cliff that unemployment would rise to 8.0% and I heard that figure mentioned yesterday. Today's figure was announced at 7.7% although no matter what it is, those on the tea party right are going to call it disappointing. All the tea party has left is their own lost illusions. Apple will be bringing jobs back to America. They shouldn't be overly praised for this. They are just being normal patriotic Americans. But ABC news says that aside from patriotism, the bottom line of corporations now makes it more lucritive to bring jobs back to America from China since wages have hiked dramatically in China. Also there has always been the matter of the shipping costs, and the fact that wages have dipped so low in America, they don't have to pay labor here that much more. Of course you keep hearing about how rich people want to flee the United States because income taxes are too high here. Well there is the door. Nobody's stopping you. But these tea baggers are far too big of control freaks to want to leave the Union because it is here they have leached out all their wealth from stealing from the poor. They are after power and they can't have that in a place like Switzerland. Nobody will listen to them over there. Jim De Mint left the US Senate today after only two years into his latest term. He's said he's done everything he can and has brought a lot of right wingers into the US Senate. I say good riddance. Of course Tim Pawlente and Rick Santorum are no longer in government but have become lobbyists, where the real money is. I only wish some of these people had made their big Exit move ten years ago before they did so much damage. It was Jim De Mint who spoke of how trying to get the Health Care bill pass would be the President's Waterloo, and "
We will break this President'. With a challenge like that anybody, including me- - might pass even a bill I wasn't completely happy with, just to spite them. May I suggest these people use the exact wrong psychology, and that includes Mitt Romney. Rush Limbaugh explained his line the other day about "Even if the President had 800 Billion in new tax revenues he'd still want to punish the rich". In actuality the thing is - as the Press Secretary and his guest carefully explained- - that there is no way you could raise anything close to 800 Billion with deductions along, and have it be at all fair or reasonable. But then I imagine Rush Limbaugh contributes so little to charities he would not be affected one bit anyhow. Apparently it was Jim De Mint who compared children in Chicago protesting during the school teacher's strike, as the same thing as what is going was going on in the streets in Iran during June of 2009. I don't know.
You'd think this whole thing with Assad and Syria and seran gas would be more in the news today but the story seems to have died away overnight. Yesterday they were talking about seran gas, where if one drop gets on the skin it will instantly kill a man. And now they are loading whole missile war heads with the stuff, and the Obama administration is doing nothing. Hillary just says "Well, if they actually use these weapons on their own people as they are threatening to do, then we'll take action". This stand-offish attitude is puzzling to me. For some reason the Obama administration is scarcely troubled by anything this murderous thug like Assad is doing at all. They don't seemed to be bothered by his massive oppression and despotism. Other Arab nations say maybe they'll do something about Assad, but then they don't. I don't get it.
George Zimmerman is suing NBC because they left out three seconds of questioning on a 9 - 11 call last February. Zimmerman was talking about this guy "hanging out in the rain and he doesn't look right. He looks like he's up to no good and he's black and wearing a hoodie. But the three seconds left out has the dispatcher asking him, "Is he Black or Latino" and Zimmerman answers, "He's black". And so NBC is being sued for promoting racial hysteria or something. NBC issued an apology, and fired three of their employees involved with the editing process, but that isn't enough for Zimmerman. It makes you wonder how important Zimmerman is to the far right tea party cause that they would fund the massive legal team that's conducting these law suits for Zimmerman. Of course these tea party folk can get really testy and inconsistent. It's disrespectful for example "for Joe Byden to interrupt Paul Ryan while he's telling nothing but wall to wall lies devoid of substance", but it's not disrespectful to call the President these racist names or make some of the scandelous statements they have made about how the president conducts foreign policy. You've heard them. But as a clue of how groundless these charges about the ambassador death at Bengazi are- - surely if there were ANY support for the many charges made by the political right, Mitt Romney would have jumped at the chance to bring all these up in his foreign policy debate with the President. It's a case of put up or shut up. And Romney knew how bad he'd look if the President humiliated him, along with the entire tea party on national TV.
The Supreme Court has decided to take up the case of both the defense of marriage act, and also Proposition 8 here in California, which bans gay marriages. I think the tenth amendment has the definitive word on the matter myself. It says those things not prohibited by the Constitution for the states to do, are the domain of the State governments. And marital rules are just such a domain of the state government. It's that straightforward. As such I think we can feel pretty confident that the Supreme Court will uphold the California proposition. But we all have to wait for June to find out. In that time however, perhaps rapidly changing cultural morays will somehow put political pressure in the High Court to strike down proposition 8. Obviously if the rules on marriage are "federalized" in this manner, it will unleash the floodgates of massive protests from the Christian right.
Apparently Santorum and Pawlente
are no longer in government at all but lobbyists. And now Jim De Mint is also finding it more
lucrative to be a lobbyists. I wish they
would ALL just get out of government and find some other lucrative line of work
and leave the rest of us alone. Jim De Mint is the chief of the political nuts and brags that he has reshaped the image of the US Senate. But he says his work there is done. I guess a few statements in here get repeated. On the other hand, maybe you have your own favorite infamous Jim De Mint quote. De Mint has made a lot of strange statements over the years for instance comparing school children in Chicago protesting during a teacher's strike there- - as somehow similar to the violence in mideast countries like Iran. Randy
says that now Insurance companies are unhappy with the Republicans for wanting
to raise the Medicare age, because it means these insurance companies can no longer
“dump” their clients into the system at age sixty five but are stuck with them
for two more years. Of course the Affordable Care act will prove very lucritive for insurance companies. You know, sometimes
I caugh when I’m under emotional stress.
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