The Right Wing Stranglehold on the Media

 First of all there were two postings done last Saturday which should have been in this blog but instead were in "Rocca Rolla".   If you are looking for more recent postings than what you see here, well, that's where they are.  But the next thing is that the reader numbers have been in the toilet for both blogs lately.  Nobody is reading my stuff so I guess it doesn't make all that much difference where you find it.

President Obama is making a fund raising trip to west Los Angeles yet again.  And leave it to Bill Handel to point out the traffic headaches that occur whenever a US President is touring in this area.  Once again it is for the purposes of raising money and the President knows where he can get it.  Rush Limbaugh once criticized President Clinton for "always being in campaign" mode, and it's even worse for President Obama.  Apparently there are two official speeches that will both take less than a half hour.  The President expects to raise five million dollars but will probably spend more than that in raising that five million in security and air force one expenses.  The Problem with this president is not even money per see but rather the whole power thing.  The President has not had the Media at large on his side in an awfully long time.

Part of President Obama's problem now is that he has completely lost the power to define his own accomplishments.  In truth the President is a horrible campaigner because the more he speaks, the more he drops in the polls.  There was a deal with Iran over the weekend of course. John Kerry concluded a deal with Iran last night, and the President apparently made a rare Saturday night speech I missed.  NBC had auto racing on, but John Kerry was the early guest on “This Week” and spelled out the terms of this limited agreement fairly well.  In case you don't know the terms of this agreement it merely states that Iran will put a temporary halt on "their effort to build a Nuclear bomb", which they are denying doing anyhow.  In exchange we will lighten their sanctions.  But the Republicans in congress want to increase sanctions against Iran, although really- - - if the government has less money to work with they will put ALL of the funds they do have into nuclear research, and starve out the people, thus making it easier to turn the people of Iran against the united states.  This may be what the Republicans want.  After all there is the arms industry and if there is no war it's less likely they'll make a profit.  In terms of the Israeli leader, I'm getting a little tired of listening to his negativity.  He's been saying that 'Iran could have the Bomb any week now" and he's been saying the same thing the past ten years or something.  It's like Chuck Smith talking about the Lord coming back.  "How did that one work out for you, Chuck?"  The trouble is since the conservatives have hijacked the language the word "distraction" crops up a lot.  Democrats taking back their constitutional power in the Senate to approve presidential appointments was called a "distraction" and this deal is called a "distraction".  And Hillbillies in Kentucky who are at last able to get Medical Care - - that is also called a 'distraction".  The Republicans make speeches against a Presidential nominee before a name is announced.  Romney used to be famous for his "prequels" or he would "critique' a certain a certain speech the President of the United States gave on any topic- - Before He Gave It.  To tell you the truth it looks pretty hopeless.  Judy gives me tons of this "documentation" about what a disaster Obama Care is.  You have this woman on FOX saying she lost her health insurance but has a big smile on her face as she describes how much she's lost- - and how insurance rates will be doubled and her deductuctable is now sky high.  The thing with Republicans is that they have these script writers- - and I kid you not, Sarah Palin had a whole staff of script writers working overtime on her stuff- - as dumb as her statements are, she didn't come up with those whitty remarks herself.

This is Sunday November 24, 2013 and on this date at St Paul’s they began grown breaking for the Fellowship Hall, which Dad took movies of.  Needless to say it was the last construction project that church ever engaged in, with exception of the widening of the sanctuary in the late winter of 1966.  At some point after that our church entered sort of a living death phase where they never grew to maturity, like a stunted plant.  You'll pardon the classified information I hope I changed before anybody saw.  Having a church that never reaches the potential the founders dreamed of in some bygone era - - must like giving birth to a mentally retarded child.  Or worse yet something like Tay Sachs that only gets progressively worse with time.  It must be and is heartbreaking to see his piers developing all around normally but it never happens for your child.  Many people who used to go to that church had fond hopes for it way back when.  ABC news is certainly politically stunted in their growth since they seem to tilt twords the politicl right in their political round table discussions.  Only the Black lady and Koki Roberts made sense.  The rest of them seemed in a desperate attempt to fog the issues and rationalize the things the Republican congress has done in the past three years

That tin foil hat guy was on KFI this morning before six and he had on Alex Jones, who is a libertarian and most of what he was saying made sense.  I would remind you that there is very little connection between a tea bagger and a libertarian.  Tea baggers are happy with a big government that strips the common people of their rights and voter representation, and will take us off to war at the drop of a hat to feed the armlement industry.  They are up to their eyeballs in international trade agreements- and the tea party’s vision of utopia is a worldwide corporate-ocracy.   Trying to convince these hicks and hay seeds of this fundamental truth may be close to impossible.  We know FOX news is very skilled at making the most absurd conclusions about anything appear perfectly rational and documented with a lot of facts.  I imagine these people at FOX news have studied the art of human psychology and manipulation well- - and they are most adept at their craft.  Judy sent me stuff from apparently even British newspaper cartoonist meant to convey the notion that Obama's affordable care act is held up to general mockery in the British press, when we know this is not the case since those people have had socialized medicine for well over fifty years.  We are informed by these right wingers that Canada has the worst medical care of any nation in the developed world, and that the United States is where the Canadians go if they want to get decent medical care.  Sometimes I just don't know what to believe.  And if even I'm confused you know all these rednecks from heartland American are going to vote the straight tea party ticket- - and the spotlight will not just be on the House but now it's the US Senate.

 Then it was Neil of KFI giving a little talk on thanksgiving.  He says God loves us and has a wonderful plan for our lives if we will seek him and yield to him and all that.  He views God as this overseeing father figure- - and completely benevolent parent figure.  This is what toothless hillbillies from red states seem to need is some overseeing father figure who steals their money and denies their kids a decent education and calls it "being patriotic' or else "being loyal to God" by not discussing true science- - or covering anything in American History that took place past the civil war.  I'm a whole lot more interested in what took place in the past 150 years in this country than I am in some jerk-off William Bradford, who has slaughtered a few Indians in his day.  These people get this coat of varnish-stains on them to desguise all of their many warts, because if we knew what they were really like we wouldn't want to know them.