For the Very Rich- It's a Question of Manhood - Not Money

 I’d like to note a quote that was on the Randy Rhodes show today.  She said that for rich multi millionaires it’s not about the money any more, it’s about proving their manhood.  And as we know from the Simpson’s the way bullies and oppressive people “get points with their pier group” is to oppress or beat up the most defenseless, helpless person they can find.   So this abuse of poor people is sort of a male macho thing for men over fifty or sixty.  One multi millionaire said that they ought to bring back the “Jeffersonian” requirement that you have to own property to vote.  And he also said “If you pay one dollar in tax you get one vote, and if you pay a million dollars in tax you get a million votes, and he was serious!  Then there is this case where Tennessee Senator Corker, went to the VW auto plant to try and influence the ongoing secret ballot elections as to whether the auto plant should unionize with the United Auto Workers.  He went around promising the workers, falsely, I night add, that the company will begin production of SUV’s in that plant if they don’t unionize and that it will mean more jobs for them.  The Volswagen plant refuted this claim and the Volsewagen corporation expects the plant to unionize because all of their other plants are Unionized around the world.  Senator Corker is probably in violation of Federal racketeering laws in either intimidating or misleading or pressuring people as they vote.  But old fashioned bullying is what the tea party has been reduced to now.   You know some people on the right used to say that- - this whole “Occypy” movement was “coveting they neighbor’s goods” and these people were in a state of ongoing sin who couldn’t just accept the fact that the rich were rich and they were poor and that’s the way God intended it or whatever, and for them to just “submit” to this reality.  But clearly it’s the rich who want to steal what little the poor have left now.  They used to say Citizen’s United gave Unions as well as corporations rights to “free speech”.  The one thing wrong with that is that Unions are becoming all but an extinct species now.  Then the argument is advanced that “We no longer need the unions now and that’s why they are vanishing”.  “We are in a post Union age, just as we are in a post racial age”.  Of course this is wrong on both counts and the fact is that life for the average worker HAS suffered with the decline in power of the labor unions, most contrary to what this caller was trying to argue that somehow “non union shops pay almost as much as union shops”.  Even if this were true, it’s only because the presence of a Labor Union puts upward pressure on all wages and working conditions.   I hope this clarifies a few issues for those of you on the fence.

I listened to Rush Limbaugh and I guess he was interesting.  He said a couple of things we should well note.  First of all Rush Limbaugh hasn’t changed.  He’s always been a hateful person hating minorities, environmentlists, liberals and the whole lot.  This isn’t new.  He just knew how to disguise himself as an “entertainer”, which is what he pegged himself in the early days.  Chuck Smith wasn’t different in the early seventies than today.  He was just a lot better at disguising himself in the early days.  So Rush spoke the truth when he said “I won’t change for anybody.  I’m not going to modify my position on the undocumented alien vote just because other conservatives are changing their and now criticize me.  Because I know they really don’t believe what they are telling the media now, but are only “going soft” on illeagels because the Media expects it of them and they feel pressured to do so”.   That’s what Rush said.  He also pointed out a highly prophetic article in January of 1995.  This Time article was time when the main stream media still had a little spunk and stood up for their principles, unlike today.  They had some magazine cover showing Rush’s face distorted into a scowl surround by clouds of blue cigar smoke.  They said people like Rush Limbaugh were dangerous on the radio because he’s telling the uninformed how to vote by propagandizing (and lying) to them.  “This is a dangerous sign in American politics”.   But also the internet was seen to come along and various on-line venues of self expression could make the situation in future decades much worse.  The article also stated “Unlike in the past the far right wing radio call in shows - - have real POWER today because their words are picked up in the media as Gospel in ways that it never was before.

Well, it's Valentine's day evening and it's warm and there is a full moon out tonight.  Love is in the air and all that.  However - - strange doings are occurring in various State Courts.  In Utah a judge all but legalized polygamy in terms of family living, legatimizing a man with four wives and scads of grandchildren.  He considers it his right as an American to live like this, even if it's a way of life shared by religious cultists for over a century leading to child neglect, and child abuse.  Meanwhile it seems that Courts in four states have mandated gay marriage.  These four are all red states, Kentucky, Virginia, Oklahoma, and Utah.  It would seem to me that there is going to be riots and uprisings in these four states, since these Court rulings are so counter to the pervailing cultures of these four states.  Days of our Lives regailed us with a homosexual proposal of marriage.  I imagine this must be some kind of TV first.  Maybe I'm just behind the times.  This to me has become an upside down Orwellian world where people who are entitled to rights under the constitution have none- - but those who have always been regarded as fringe interests are now given rights on a massive scale nobody even dared imagine as little as a decade ago.

This merger between Comcast and Time-Warner is absurd and must be stopped.  Both of these communacations giants just control too much of the market.  I was schooling myself in the ways of these giant mega-corporations this afternoon in Wikkipedia.  Starting with Buckley vs Vellejo back in the seventies this idea of money is "free speech" has gotten out of hand.  Clearly our whole democratic way of life in Americ is now in jeopardy.  I've said it before but to keep our collective sanity there is going to have to be some sort of Revolution to "put things right" again.  I see no way of it happening through the normal electoral process because that has become hopefully corrupted.  What sounded like fringe rantings, perhaps even to me decades ago- is now downright prophetic.  We've all seen the movie "Network".   We've listened to advocates of taking all private money OUT of the election process and having only public money campaigns.  I think what some liberals are saying now is true.  If you quiz people in EVENTS and specific ISSUES they will side with the liberals a whole lot more than people like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh think, at least publicly.  It will kind of be like Egypt.  They had a democratic election several years ago - - but the fruit of that election yield at first only broken promises- - then ineptitude- - then corruption of the governmental process- - and finally to outright oppression of the average citizen.  As such any force or Revolution that would overthrow said government would be welcomed by the people at large.

Two Days Ago - - -

After Sean Hannity I was largely in a blue funk just walking around the building and smoking more cigarettes than I should.  I went downstairs to see if Dr Messina were here today, and it was just my luck that he was not.   If Mary Jane won’t respond to a problem of the magnitude of the past day, what are my odds of getting her to respond to much more minor problems in the future?   I watched ski jumping at the Olympics for about an hour.  I thought I heard they actually refrigerated that sky run, which is funny.   It’s like selling ice cubes to an Escamo whose igloo is melting.  We had a major breast of chicken for dinner, plus ample yams, and corn.  We had green Jell-O for desert and I had Owen’s bowl.  We had hot dogs for lunch and some slaw salad and potato chips.  We had pea soup and a banana for desert.  I had Randy Rhodes on briefly at noon but then remembered that the soap opera was on – so it was only a few minutes.  Listening to liberals is no relief for me either because though Stephanie and the gang laugh and whoop it up having fun- - the state of this nation is very “un funny” when you come right down to it.  I’m sure there were people on the Titanic who knew the ship was sinking and just ordered another round of drinks.   But I know if I step up my Resperidol to 1.5 milligrams- - the real world won’t change a bit.  The full moon will be on Friday.