I
believe I’m going to re-think my position on the Hannah Anderson
situation. The sister of the deceast De
Maggio told her now dead brother “You have to watch out for that one”. The sister doesn’t trust Hannah and says that
she’s not what she seems. Moe Kelly
almost paints a George Zimmerman type of scene here where you have the star,
Hannah - - primping for the cameras and having a high old time, seemingly never
in better spirits. Hannah says that she
wrote those letters to De Maggio “While I was having a feud with my mother”. Of course we can’t ask De Maggio what his
take on this whole thins is because he’d dead,
just as we can’t ask Trayvon his take on what happened in Sanford,
Florida on February 26th 2012.
Moe wonders that since the death
of Anderson’s mother was administered by a crowbar, whether Hannah just might
not have done it herself. It seems
there is not one photograph on any of Hanna’s facebook pages of either her dead
mother or brother. And that at the
funeral there are three shots of her smiling and sitting on a Starbuck’s
coffee. Of course the house where her mother and
brother were killed was set ablaze to try and cover up the crime. As Moe describes Hanna’s subsequent conduct,
I must her behavior seems very strange to me- - for a sixteen year old in
mourning. I don’t know if we are looking
at a sociopathic personality or not.
More information is needed.
There
are so many inequeties in society. I don’t
think fast food workers make nearly enough money- but Rush Limbaugh says that
$7.50 is the market rate for wages in this industry and to consider paying
more- - you might as well make it twenty or fifty. Rush and other conservatives have used this
sort of not funny sarcasm before, but usually it’s mocking the idea that a
minimum wage would help the economy. I
think a consumer strike is an excellent idea, perhaps on a permanent
basis. You see comparing it to a
consumer’s strike on gasoline really is comparing apples and oranges. You don’t need junk food. You do need gasoline if you’re going to
commute every day to work and to the store.
I think is progressives all got together and just made it as a matter of
practice to not patronize these fast food places- - we could break them. It would certainly generate a lot of press
coverage and media debate. I would say
that a fifty percent raise immediately is perfectly in order. They say that in Austrailia the average fast
food worker makes fifteen dollars an hour.
We don’t need to go that high- - at least at first. But someone said that on what workers at Mac Donald’s
and other places get paid- - they make only fifteen thousand dollars a year,
which is significantly below the poverty line.
But the deck is stacked against the prospective employee in
general. As I say you have college grads
competing with high school drop-outs for the same positions, creating a glut of
workers in these lower paying occupations.
But even in other areas- - some newspaper ads say “Must be currently
employed” to get a new job. But why do
they have to check your credit rating.
You’re seeking a job so you can EARN money - - not borrow it. It would almost seem as if this rule is
instituted to screen out lower income people- - who may be juggeling bills- -
and to prevent upward mobility, which conservatives think is better in the
United States than other nations of the world, when the exact opposite is true. Of
course Judy had an excellent suggestion what to do if you’re dissatisfied with
your bank, and almost everybody seems to be.
That is to switch to a Credit Union because you get a better deal all
around there. Since Credit Unions are
backed by the worker’s money- - you know the source of it. LOGEX sounds like one of these computer
outfits but is actually an offshoot of Lockheed Aircraft- - made available to
the general public.
We
then have the story of a fourteen year old female student having had sex with a
54 year old teacher. When this Montana
judge got the case- - he gave the man just thirty days. I get the definite impression he didn’t have
to register as a sex offender or anything.
He said it was “Because this girl exhibited certain traits of being
older than her chronological age”. That
remark sounds a little sexist to me. Oh
- - and just one more thing. This young
girl committed suicide and is no longer with us. She couldn’t take the pressure during the two
years this case was litigated. There
are now steps being taken to impeach this Montana judge.
Our
whole government is really messed up, of course. The Republican Congress does not even return
to Washington for another week and a half, or September 9th. It has become quite clear that this
President is going to do nothing about the Syrian gassing of children. It seems that now our nation lacks the will
to push back in an even minor way- - no matter how shocking the aggression. Of course President Bush had everybody
including the liberal media eating out of the palm of his hand in 2002 and
early 2003. Nobody questioned the wisdom
of going into Iraq. In fact we were so
in love with the idea of being in a near state of perpetual war for eight years
in Iraq alone- - that political campaigns could be lost if one candidate so
much as breathed the idea of a “timetable of withdrawal”. Bush was a President who single handedly was
responsible for the deaths of 120,000 Iraqi civilians, and who joked at the
idea that “I can’t seem to find those weapons of mass destruction”. The
sad part of the thing was that everyone in the room was actually laughing when
there is nothing funny about it. Also it
seems Attorney General Holder has issued some deal or promise never to
prosecute Bush, Chaney, Rumsfelt, Wolfiwitz, Rice – or any others involved in
our foreign policy. I get the idea he
was going to issue some blanket before-the-fact pardon, to totally immunize
them. Now we hear Rathion stock has run
up in the past few weeks because they manufacture the Cruise Missiles we would
be using if there were to be an attack.
But of course the President is going to that Soviet summit or whatever
next week. And of course never expect
any politician to work on a holiday weekend.
So the idea of taking any action at all in Syria is pretty much out the
window.
Brook
Shields has criticized Miley Sirus for her “obscene routing” at the MTV awards
or whatever a few nights ago. I guess I
didn’t see it. Moe Kelly says that they
were specifically moves used in the pornography industry. Miley is only twenty and I guess she is “growing
up”. I guess that’s what her pimp would
say if she had one. So much for all that
Disney innocence and niceness. Moe
Kelly loves to carp at Black artists for one imagined shortcoming or
another. Now he’s down on Black artists
who say they will just “show up” at protest events as opposed to, I don’t know,
delivering some Martin Luther King-like manifesto or something? I will say that personally - - the Trayvon
Martin verdict did seem to meet with a lot of apathetic yawns in the
entertainment community, with only a few artists like Stevie Wonder, with the
courage to take a moral stand. Good for him. Donald Trump is also in the news for conning
people out of $35,000 for attending his “Investment College”. Moe says that it’s silly for someone who
already HAS money to have to be told “How to make it”. I’m not sure why Trump would feel so
financially desperate that he’d have to engage in a two-bit con game like
this. But Trump is absolutely right on
the Obama birth certificate, I hate to say it.
The long form certificate IS bogus, and it’s amply demonstrated if you
visit the proper web sites. It’s been
tinkered with with Adobe software. But I
think it adds to Trump’s credibility that Trump has offered to personally pay
anybody five million dollars if they would produce the president’s college transcripts.
I’d produce MY college transcripts to the media for five million. Hell, I’d do it for five thousand! I can’t imaging that the President of the
United States is so RICH that five million dollars is an insignificant amount of
money to him. While I reject more of
these right wing promotions and scare jobs about President Obama, I must admit
that there is a grain of truth in some charges.
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