A Two Year Political Nightmare Scenario

The worst of our political nightmares may be just starting.  As you know President Obama "got Mitch Mc Connell and John Boehner mad" last week with the immigration thing and I'm having second thoughts as to whether it was worth it.  What the President may gain with a few grateful Latinos, he may lose in not getting any bills he wants passed at all, with one notable exception - - the Trans Pacific Partnership.  The President may not get funding foir his so called "amnesty program" for immigrants.  He may not get any of his cabinet or other judicial appointments confirmed.  Even getting a new Secretary of Defense is problematical.  Nothing is assured at this point.  That is, except for one thing.  The Trans Pacific Partnership.  This is something the Republican party wants so desperately they are even willing to be tagged by some as "giving the President what he wants" to pass this one.  With the Trans Pacific Partnership, the President is playing on the other side's team because the provisions are so un-American and undemocratic.  Of course we've told you that the political right isn't against big government but they ARE against small D democracy.  They are for taking the power out of the hands of the American voter and the TPP accomplishes this marvelously.  This treaty can override anything even this congress might choose to do in the future.  If some smaller polluting nation wants to drill off our shore or Canada's shores, sovreign nations are powerless to stop them because it can be called "an action in restraint of trade" or "blocking the potentiality of profits".  Remember we told you the only actual MANDATE of corporations now days is to make as much profit as possible.  And often corporations can have a nice tax dodge if they pay their CEO's a lot of money - it shows up as an expense in the books and cuts way into the taxable income.  Of course it also cuts way into what this same company ordenary people invest in can pay in dividends to their stockholders.  But you can throw environmental laws out the window.  You can throw the OSHA safety regulations out the window.  There WILL be no more "occupational safety" any more.  Mitt Romney's fantasy has come true about buying that sweat shop of largely unmarried women in China working for nothing.  They are basically prisoners there and eat and sleep there in shabby conditions.  Mittens loved that!  Now we'll have a lot more of that, maybe even in this country.  Minimum wages?  You can forget those, too.  Minimum wages cut into profits.   Let's talk just about the trade aspects of the thing.  This will ship US jobs to China and Vietnam and Malaysia or whatever.  These small, backward countries will now be the ones to set the standards for the rest of us.  As a result of depressing the wage base further- - and reversing the employment gains we've had the past several years- - our living standard will go down as the economy finally achieves that long sought double dip recession that Mort Zuckerman has been longing for for so long.  Our balance of trade figures will be nightmarish- - and our private personal debt figures will skyrocket at least for a while.  If this Republican congress chooses to cut taxes to "spur the economy" the tax savings won't begin to compensate for the new loss of earning and spending power of the American people.  I'm puzzled why after fighting for suprenacy for so long against President Obama that they'll only have for two brief years anyhow, they now want to give that up and let some comittee out of somewhere assigned to enforce this treaty determine what laws this congress can and cannot pass.

But the President has been more on the Republican's side all along than people ever suspected as witness his appointing people like Larry Summers and Eric Holder, who are in business' back pocket.  Now apparently he has appointed a Mary Jo White as head of the securities and exchange comission.  This is the outfit in charge of enforcing Dodd Frank and implementing the many suggestions made in that legislation.  Now for all practices because of the appointment of Mary Jo White - - - Dodd Frank is dead.  All of the promises for economic reform in the great bye and bye off in the future- - are now dead.  That is - - here in the present- - Dead.  This is what executives do is gut bills they don't like.  The Republicans didn't like it when we favored it with immigration reform- - and now we don't like it when they do it with Wall Street "reform", which is no reform at all.  Basically they are throwing out the rule book and returning to the "Wild West" days of the 1920's, and we know that one ended badly.  I'm predicting another crash - - based on latest information- - maybe in 2016 but maybe 2017.  At any rate- - even if the Republicans should succeed in electing Ted Cruz or someone like that as President- - they will have a major economic crisis on their hands in the first year, which will be WORSE than the one President Obama faced when he came into office.  It would be ironic that this Stockmarket Crash would occurr just as the stratigic moment when "The Experts" people like the Mc Laughlin group and the other talking head comentators on the major networks say "Well it's clear that- - Obama didn't build this economy.  In fact this economy occurred in spite of President Obama's efforts".  This is what they will be saying, but of course it won't be true.  But the minute they're all convinced "We did it" then at that point, the bottom will fall out of the economy.  Right now I'd still recommend that if you are in either oil stocks or airlines- - just sit tight and watch your earnings go up for the next year or so.  I won't be springing a "Sell" notice on you without a warning.  So far those immediate warning signs are not there.

We did slip into politics, actually, talking about the morality of rich verses poor people.  In this blogger exclusive in red - - Bones came by to monitor the conversation and happened to just come upon this political wrangling- - which is the first major political brawl at a holiday gathering in four years.  But Bones didn't stay long, he tells me "Because I sensed other psychic entities around you- - and I got freaked out and thought that maybe they might be reading my mind".  Bones of course was Romulan cloaked at the time, so they probably didn't even know he was there. Still I was troubled by the remark.  The conversation was getting rather heeded till Mom change the topic to medical stuff, which was the dominant topic at Paul and Judy’s.  It was well past three before we ever thought about the pies- - - and I had some cranberry Martenelli cider in a red glass.  They had to scrounge for chairs for the table.  I had two pieces of pumpkin pie with whipped cream and one piece of Wendy’s “unsweetened” apple pie.  There was talk about computers and Paul and Judy had gotten a “Surface”, which they paid a lot of money for.  There was talk about the C-dificil bacteria that Judy had Mom checked out for- - - and all of the different hospitals Dad was in.  And also Grandpa and Grandma didn’t leave us with medical decisions about when to revive and what measures to be taken.  Apparently Judy and others would not like much done if they were to suddenly have a crisis.  I guess Jenny was mad because the hospital took measures to revive Uncle John like give him fluids.  But what Wendy has said in the past, his wife seemed a little too eager for John to kick the can and be done with it.

Winter time is upon us and it’s cold out.  Yesterday I got one cigarette from Paul in the early morning and one just before I left at ten thirty- - and did not get another cigarette till about eight last night.  I went over to Lisha’s room and fiddled around with her computer sitting on the bed with the bad light and I couldn’t see the keys.  The backspace didn’t work and I kept losing the curser for the address bar.  But after trying freespeec.com and also Google.com it was clear her machine was not hooked up to the internet.  I told her she better contact Time-Warner about that.  I thought she had “wireless broadband” but if a cord were unplugged I think she would have made that clear that she wasn’t wireless, but I had too much sugar from the pies and not enough cigarettes – to think clearly, myself.  When you’re playing in someone elses’ ball park you have to negotiate certain environmental things such as the sink holes in the outfield, the clumps of poison oak by the catcher, and the kid in the stands randomly aiming laser beams in the player’s faces.  I’m just not in my element- - and the top row of keys was shrunk down to nearly nothing.  She didn’t have a mouse pad so the covers served at my only traction.  Otherwise the news on the athletic field was good for Oregon fans, even if the Beavers had a lot better looking uniforms.  Every time you see Oregon they’re wearing something different and the only element of commonality is they’re in bad taste.

I watched Meet the Press at eight and it was Breakfast with the Beatles at nine.  The first song I remember as “Long, Long, Long Time” by the Beatles.  I went out and had two cups of coffee in the courtyard.  It had not yet started raining.  They had Gary Wright on.  Gary Wright is Federation but he got conflated a lot with Nielson - - who is Renwah, or however you’re supposed to spell it.  Wright played piano on Neilson’s “Without You”.  Mal Evans as you know has never been a fan of Renwah people- - including Badfinger.  But Gary Wright is suddenly George Harrison’s best friend, who was “there” at all the major moments.  You learn something every day.  And apparently George wrote a melody in 1971 and after George died on November 29^th of 2001, Gary Wright recorded a song played on piano- - which has chord progressions at times more remonicent of John Lennon than anything George ever wrote.  We had spaghetti for lunch with garlic bread and corn chowder for soup.  There were no seconds, but we got a banana for desert.  Joe Drisco had the show playing on his transistor radio out on the benches.  There had been a downpour just before lunch, but otherwise it didn’t start to rain in earnest till about two when we were lining up for coffee and I was near the front of a very long coffee line.

Bridging the Racial Divide

The racial divide is worse than ever now.  It’s less that the Ferguson incident “created” this, but that this shooting incident revealed this racism.  It allowed it to manifest, such as a shingles virus is looking for a point of weakness of resistance in a human organism to manifest itself with symptoms.  As I think I’ve already stated- - you can tell who is objective in this whole Officer Wilson and Michael Brown incident - - because OUR side can state almost our whole case without one time mentioning race, which was the case in my blog, which was also the same text (minus the first paragraph) pasted to my letter to Tim.  You can attack the whole process based on the procedure and its many irregularities.  For instance if one hostile to officer Wilson is speaking, they will be attacked by the inquisitors with remarks such as “I don’t want to say you’re lying, but you’re definitely lying”.  Normally in a trial there are legal safeguards such as “you’re badgering the witness”.  Another  common objection is “You’re leading the witness” such that if a witness states that Michael Brown was “reaching for his waste band” or perhaps a wound where he’d just been shot- - the inquisitor may interject a remark like ‘Do you think perhaps that he could have been going for his gun”.    There is a form of bias that’s introduced into society called “confirmation bias”.  So if you’re White- - you will be pressured by your kind to confirm in your conclusion- - from evidence “Which neither lies nor tells the truth because evidence isn’t verbal” - - and you will say “Of COURSE this example proves your theory”.  But personally I’ve never seen so much as one transcript where any witness supported the claims of Officer Wilson himself- - only Officer Wilson made the claims Officer Wilson has made.  And yet if a body of questioners says “We have the Truth already”, you’re pressured to conform.

Thom Hartman stated something disturbing yesterday morning when I was gone.  He said that the apperatus or infrastructure is already in place to launch a police state.  This was not true 25 years ago.  It couldn’t have happened then.  But now you have prosecutors so called who are rather open in their bias, conducting what amount to secret trials where the verdict was never in doubt, much as the Cardassians practiced on Star Trek.  Officer Wilson has been caught in two more lies.  He said “I felt like a five year old in the hands of the Incredible Hulk” with this man” and yet Officer Wilson was himself well over six feet tall and also had a high creatine count in his urine.  I point this out because in February of 1998 when I was taking GNLD vitamins, I too had a high creatine count- - which is expressed as a ratio in the urine.  And since the figure is a ratio- - it isn’t dependant on the strength of the urine.   This substance creatine- - gives you energy and I believe it’s related to Aztezanten- - which is a carrotenoid.  So you get this substance in part from eating things like carrots, tomatoes, various kinds of chili peppers- - Picante sauce- - ect.  No it isn’t “Roid Rage” but it may well be a dietary supplement.  But officer Wilson’s testimony is also inconsistent with his superior officer on the matter of whether Wilson knew about the liquor store robbery.  The superior officer stated many times on the stand that Darren Wilson assured him multiple times that he did NOT know about the robbery alert issued.  It’s contradictions like this that prompt the need for an actual trial to sort out who is telling the truth.  But as you know - - Judges in general are more open in their bias these days and it’s no longer considered improper for them nakedly to be in support of one political group over another or that the reason why they were picked to begin with was the people who picked them were ASSURED that these judges would render certain verdicts in certain cases.  Of course in the days we called these Kangaroo courts.  And in some kind of an Orwellian age that we are moving into- - propaganda and deception are the key elements of the “regeme’s” success.

George Harrison sings in a song “We were talking about the space between us all” and yet those in the cosmic “know” state that time and space are but illusions.  My cosmic friends have to the point of annoyance- - stated to me that earth people are so ignorant about the illusury nature of space – and they live in a world of illusion.  From there I deduced that since time and space are both generated by the Higgs Bozon - - that Time therefore must be an illusion also.  From the eighties I was told by Mal Evans and others that Synchronicity is a fact of an incident being the Same Incident separated by either Time or Space or Both, but it didn’t matter.  If the nature or soul of man is based on a psychic reality- - this isn’t dependant on the laws of measurable physics as we know them.  It's like you need to take these assertions on faith.  Not a "pie in the sky - - Peter Pan type of faith- - but a Faith of suspended immediate judgement awaiting further confirmational information, like "Trust, but varify".  But it would be wrong to say that we will NEVER be able to "quantify" what we refer to as consciousness of things involving a psychic state of awareness.  We just haven't done it yet.  But my cosmic sources tell me that we WILL be able to do that, perhaps sooner than we think.  Neither is it a case where Michael Benner says "We CAN'T ever the psychic realm because we are always "on the field of play".  While this is technically true, even golfers know enough to not be in the path of the ball.  At least there IS a "path" to "get in the way of".  All the words we use to denote space - - even the word infinity - - but certainly geometric shapes and colors - - are when you get down to it - - human abstractions based on a reality for us as "something other" than what a "scientist" might measure.  The ONLY reason why I say this is some would say, "Well, the REALITY of space and time are so overwhelming OBVIOUSLY they have to be fixed, unchangable things.  We SEE them as "fixed" and "obvious".  But my cosmic friends tell me that the "illusiary" nature of space and time are just as REAL from a scientific point of view - - - in other words The Big Truth - is that space as we know it is an illusion THIS truth is what's real.  Do you follow?  It is a Newtonian reality that there IS no “stationary point” of an absolute measure.  Since there can be no absolute STATIONARY point from which we measure - - and since moving vectors prevent a skewed view of “reality” - - we can’t say how “fast” that “fast” or “fastest” is.  Without a starting base, terms like “fast’ or even “fastest” are meaningless terms.  In the same way words like "far" and "farthest" can only be relevant given some sort of fixed reference point.  

Teresa likes to talk about her four peach trees and two pecan trees in her yard.   Southerners pronounce words different like “New-ALL-lins” for New Or-LEANS.  They should move Thanksgiving back to October since this country had obviously undergone climate change with “the dead of winter” starting in mid November.  I remember an old Drew Carrie episode where he was waist high in snow drifts by Thanksgiving, but we all dismissed it because it was Cleveland and their lake effects snow.  I guess there is a strong varience in the amount of snow just “across the pond” in Grand Rapids, as opposed to Chicago.   But we should have Thanksgiving where they first proposed Veterans Day on the fourth Monday in October, for example.  This makes sense.  It’s also United Nations day around then.  And it would be fitting and some would say pleasing to God, if we as Americans broadened out our perspective about ourselves- - rather than just one meal at Plymouth Rock, to being thankful to God as being blessed among the world’s nations, and celebrating around UN Day would remind us of this.  Also it makes more sense from a “Harvest Celebration” original perspective of the holiday.

Today is Thanksgiving November 27, 2014 and the only typing yesterday was before breakfast when I wrote that paragraph “Last Thoughts on Ferguson”, and I did a blog of that paragraph, adding to it at the end, and also sent that paragraph to Tim.  But there I had formatting problems because now they black out material pasted from blogpost.com - - so you have to run it through some sort of filter like Word- - in order to be able to read it.  I would add that they should have initially done the thing as an internal police investigation away from the press and the editorializing of FOX news.  Then when they said “We think an indictable crime has been committed” they would refer it to a grand jury, which would meet for three or four days and then render out a recommendation for the DA to charge the subject of the inquiry.  It would not have helped Officer Wilson’s cause to admit to George Stephanopolis that he might have been emotionally affected by the fact his father was a police officer who was killed by a Black man.  It’s certainly not a guy you’d want on a jury.   You could even get mean and pull all of this psychological crap about “The loss of a parent is a traumatic thing for a child- - how did you ever get through the emotional trauma of it all - - how did you choose to deal with it?”

I got my medication before breakfast from Christian.  We had corn flakes for breakfast followed by scrambled eggs, hashed browns, toast and butter and jelly.  We were served our main plates amazingly promptly.  I consumed one plate waiting around for coffee.  Then Paul offered me his entire plate in a gracious Thanksgiving Day gesture.  I have something to be thankful for.  Then Paul gave me his coffee, too, so it was almost a clean sweep.  I have Today or something on now talking about substituting Kayro corn syrup in pecan pies.  I am unsure whether I’ll do a blog post today.  There will be a special lunch here but no official “Party”.   Tuesday evening I paid Glen three cigarettes and promised him a total of six, which I haven’t paid yet since I didn’t try for coffee yesterday.  This is partially because Glen said that he lost his jar of Espresso and some chips in a bag left in the van.  It was the ABC network news with the Daren Wilson interview- - which was a bunch of deceptive bullshit in my opinion.  As I said at the time all George Stephanopolis could muster was words like “Wow!” – and “Really?”  It wasn’t exactly hard questions.  Just between you and me, I highly doubt Officer Wilson was on the stand for four hours being peppered with relevent questions like, for instance that fat girl, teenage witness was whom Trayvon was talking to on the cell phone.  SHE was indeed "being grilled" as attorneys endlessly but unsuccessfully tried to break down her testimony.  She held firm.  Just as the pro Michael Brown witnesses held firm.  That’s all for right now.

My Final Word on the Michael Brown Shooting

Martin Luther King is quoted by a blogger yesterday as having said "Race Riots are the language of the Unheard".   And indeed the government of Ferguson was bent from the beginning on covering up the truth of that happened in the street on August 9th.  And there is no other way for the people to vent their frustrations.  Not to compare or anything but compared to what we faced in Los Angeles with the Rodney King beating- - these people have a much Stronger Case for protesting.  The officers in the Rodney King beating were put on trial which was televised.  You could see what was going on.  Rodney King also provoked the officers that night.  In the case of Michael Brown he just isn't beaten up - - he's Dead.  And I am not convinced that Brown ever comitted any act that merited being shot multiple times.  Here are more of the specifics.

I wanted to wait to “render my own decision” about the Michael Brown shooting till I was personally satisfied I had all the evidence worth having – to consider.  I would first though refer you to the Chapiquittic incident with Ted Kennedy - - which Rush Limbaugh used in his comic example of “The only man (in Iraq) to cross a bridge bombed”.   Ted Kennedy changed his deposition perhaps more than once in the days following the Mary Jo Kopechney drowning incident, and we were all upset about that.  I didn’t know depositions could be changed like that to somehow “fit the facts” or make the person look better.  I would also ask you in your minds to contrast the George Stephenopolis interview last night with the way the Supreme Court justices hear arguments.  From the git go the advocates of an argument are pelted with confrontative questions all the time and required to clarify and defend their positions.  One would suppose that if you were being grilled by a grand jury this would only be heightened- - out there alone defending your position having to take on any and all questioners with no defense attorney up there calling ‘objection”.   But the best George Stephanopolis could muster is an occasional “Wow! - - or Really?”  There is an element that weighs heavily with me and that is timelyness of testimony - - and also consistency.   These people at least four or five of them - - who said that Darin Wilson was guilty - - got their message out there and on the internet within days, and just yesterday those two Black women for instance, reaffirmed every word they said in their testimony.  Mayor Giuliani stated “Well I believe the grand jury had probable cause to charge with a crime- - but witnesses changed their testimony”.   OK in the first place- - if you as defense attorney believe you can “break down’ someone’s testimony- - that’s why you have a trial.  So all the facts of a crime can be aired.  But here we didn’t even know the name of the officer for a while week, and it was long after that we still didn’t know his testimony.  No police report on the Ferguson shooting was made and NO witnesses were interviewed at the time.  This to me spoke volumes- - and the fact that there were protests shows to me that “the people of the community” themselves had come to the conclusion that the officer was guilty.  Sean Hannity has said that any friend of the shoplifter’s testimony should be thrown out “Because he’s associating with a felon and felon’s testamonies aren’t allowed”.  In the first place, Sean, Felon’s testamonies are used all the time.  The jury is just advised that such testimony could be suspect.  Sean Hannity and the Ferguson people spread the LIE that Wilson’s orbital eye socket was fractured.  Also Wilson testified that Brown was “The strongest man he’d ever encountered”.  And “he was so scarey - - like a demon” and of course there were the endless “I was in fear for my life”.  Again use common sense.  You’ve seen battered women - - swollen and black and blue all over.  You’ve seen what boxer’s faces look like after they’ve been pummeled a while.  Did Wilson’s face look like that?  No.  There was some redness- - it didn’t look swollen and it certainly wasn’t black and blue.  Sean Hannity LIED about another key point.  This tape of the shots being fired was - - dismissed by all the conservative broadcasters almost immediately.  They kept saying “It hasn’t been authenticated”.   But what they DIDN’T tell you was that the FBI got this tape on their own and the tape WAS authenticated.  I learned that from the Norman Goldman show yesterday.  This is a key piece of evidence in terms of the number of shots fired.  There was a whole stream of shots and them a few second pause and then another volley of shots.  This goes to another falsehood of that Ferguson official himself that Norman Goldman highlighted.  This is the fact that - - saying “someone was shot in the back” may be what you SAW happening at the time.  You see a guy fleeing and an officer firing round after round at him, as the tapes show.  Brown had eight bullet wounds and a LOT of shots missed.  Officer Wilson was a bad shot right from the git go in the car.  We also have officer Wilson’s testimony about the number of feet away that Brown was from him.  Norman Goldman said that Brown was 151 feet away from the squad car because that’s the farthest extent of the blood trail.  But then Brown came back - - apparently 25 feet out of 151 feet in total.  As such if Brown was “only ten feet away from me” when I shot him - -  - Brown was running away for 151 feet and only approaching Wilson for a maximum of 25 feet, perhaps less.  We are also told by one government source that “Michael moved tword the officer” just before he was shot.  This prosecuter guy on TV was fond of speaking in the passive voice saying “shots were fired - - more shots were fired at Brown” as if some phantom shooter.   But this whole failure to question Wilson by George Stephanopolis I’d like to address.  First of all we were originally told that Michael Brown opened up the police car door and came in.  This is untrue- - and officer Wilson changed his testimony to conform to the evidence.  It was all “through the window” just as the witnesses said all along about- - the officer reaching through the window at Brown and Brown was trying to get away from the officer.  But there is the whole physics of the whole thing if Brown did try to go for his gun.  It was the driver’s side of the car and Brown would have to reach over the door, and also over the officer himself to his right side where the holster would be- - while the officer was mainly in a sitting position, and then pull out the gun and get in a wrestling match with it.  And let’s use another example your familiar with.  Scrambling for a loose football after a fumble.  Do you generally use one hand or two hands to go for the ball?  Two hands.  To get more traction.  Yet Brown supposedly used one hand and put the other hand in front of the gun to block Wilson from firing the gun- - which would make sense- - if you were trying to protect your body from being hit too badly.  It makes NO sense to put a hand a foot or so from the barrel if you’re going for the gun with your other hand.  I am told some officers have a lock on their holster so that only the police officer can remove the firearm. This brings us to the final lie of officer Wilson.  There were none of Browns fingerprints in the officer’s firearm.  So they could NOT be “wrestling with the gun and it went off - - “ or whatever.  Michael Brown’s hands never TOUCHER the gun.  These jurors haven’t lived in the real world.  Of course Officer Wilson showed the initial hostility by saying “Get the fuck out of the street” so it could be argued that right then Officer Wilson was biased against these two guys.  Which leads me to my final point in that I got through this whole thing without once mentioning the race of the officer or the two “suspects”.  OK.  Let’s see the other side try and to that.  They can’t.  You even hear Officer Wilson justify his actions by saying “It was a hostile environment with all the gangs and stuff in that area”.   One more thing we might as well mention.  Witnesses state that Brown had his hands up when he turned around and says "OK - OK".  There are wounds on Brown's arms consistent with his having his hands raised.  Officer Wilson gave us a whole new story saying that Brown made a Black power fist with one hand and with the other reached for his waist band.  Come on -  is this isn't guilding the lilly I don't know what is.  Officer Wilson says "Perhaps he did have a gun after all that he was reaching for that I didn't see".  Officer Wilson, according to Norman Goldman was "whisked away bu the authorities" and pumped and primed as he honed his story so that he could tell it with a straight face without flinching".   It also bothers me that Sean Hannity has been such a cheerleader for the Ferguson authorities- - having all this 'inside information".  Hannity ought to have as his them song "I've been everywhere".  I mean - he's been to Israel - - talked to the elite there - - he's been to the El Paso border and talked to the authorities there- - and Sean apparently heard some story that the rest of us never did- - that convinced him early on of Officer Wilson's innocence.

Loving Whom They Love and Hating Whom They Hate

We’ll be waiting forever for the Ferguson grand jury to render their verdict.  They’ve already delayed it at least twice- - and the current bizarre time of nine PM will probably pass without incident.  I wanted to talk about for this opening paragraph of my greatest failing as a practicing Born Again Christian.   Is it for instance that I don’t read my Bible enough, or don’t attend Church regularly, or that my theology is incorrect, or that I balk at prayer sessions that always seemed to get longer and longer?  Perhaps it’s my social interaction with them.  No.  My biggest failing as a card carrying Evangelical Christian is that “I don’t love the people they love and hate the people whom they hate”.  In other words, in repuliation of the Sermon on the Mount, my “love” is not selective enough.  I’m too inclusive.  I’m too willing to give the other person the benefit of the doubt.  We speak of bombing ISIS and yet as Hartman points out- - if you see your country as fighting for independence, bombing will only HARDEN your resolve against them, and not weaken it.  When the Revolution in America first started- - one third of the people were for independence - - one third were royalists-  and one third didn’t care.  But the second or so year into the American Revolution - - ninety percent of people living in America favored the revolution.  Republicans themselves point out that “Obama’s pin prick bombing raids have had NO EFFECT on ISIS recruitment, but have only encouraged it.  Norman Goldman would suggest that conservatives would like to go back to some fabled point in the Past.  This is not true.  The only political organization that resembles the tea party today is NOT the Islamists or the Communists either Russian or Chinese.  No - - the NAZI party of Germany is the only political organization that resembles the tea party.  Both appeal to a “past” that Never Was, and you should remember this.  Some would say they’d take us back to the 1920’s.  There are certain points in common.  There we had a lot of Xenophobia and fear of immigrants and “the other” and racial bigotry was in its hay day.  There were few of the modern stock market safeguards.  And need I remind you when the economy crashed that time- - tax rates and the national debt were falling- - just as they are now.  (Selah)  However there are marked differences between now and the 1920’s.   First of all industrial terrifs were high then, and people were of a largely isolationist mentality and shunned foreign wars.  There was a lot of competition in business, notably the automobile manufacturers and also in radio station ownership.  Back then you didn’t have one propaganda apperatus that could reach the entire country to indoctrinate it.  Back then people welcomed your quoting of the Bible.  But the tea party is so bereft of similarities to scripture- - they will most likely cringe when you quote from the Bible.  And I mean anywhere in the Bible- - any book, old or new testament.  Because there are admonitions against greed from Genesis to Revelation.  There are scriptures about welcoming of strangers and ministering to the poor and the afflicted.  Lot’s greed in wanting all the best land is condemned.  Nabal had his downfall when metaphorically “he refused to pay his taxes”.  There are prophet’s assistance who lied to obtain personal riches- and were punished.  Solomon was admonished not to multiply either wives or houses or horses, because these were a sign of oppulant wealth.  And the lord told the people in Ezra’s day not to belittle the work they were doing even though their temple was in no way as grand as Solomon’s.  Jesus’ parables are replete with the poor being blessed and the rich being condemned.  We then come to Revelation where a poor church is counted as rich by the Lord, and a wealthy church is counted as being spiritually impoverished.  We are told from cover to cover not to trust in riches.  This is almost “the first and greatest commandment” among the tea party set.  “Thow shalt trust above all in greed and riches”.  What if God decides to punish these plutocrats with their oppulant life styles by bringing about an economic crash- - and one which all the machinations of the government can’t prevent?

When it comes to Bill Cosby there are still people in the media who applaud him and dismiss all sexual misconduct charges.  It just dawned on me that there is a cigar, phallic symbol thing with a lot of male shovenist pigs.  Rush Limbaugh hates women and disparages children, and Gene Scott hates women and disparages children.  President Clinton is famous for his cigars in inappropriate places - - and has a disrespectful attitude tword women.  Gene Scott defended Bill Clinton, and now we hear that Rush Limbaugh has ardently defended Bill Cosby on his show.  For me is an issue of “Bill Cosby disparages children and disrespects them – using them as the butt of his humor, even his own TV sitcom children.  For the longest time Bill Cosby’s humor is very un-funny.  So it seems as if Bill Cosby fits into the same general personality profile category.  Of course it’s worse because Cosby hires people to “guard the door” while he’s doing the dirty deeds there on the NBC studios.  Also Cosby’s character was “an open secret” with all who worked with Cosby but they all circled the wagons to protect him.  Now Bill Cosby refuses to respond to any of the many and growing alligations against him, in the spirit of Clarence Thomas - - a guy whom Rush admit “has stacks of pornography lying around”.  It’s all part of a personality profile.  So it only pleases me that venue after venue has turned its back on Bill Cosby.  The whole man’s “mystique” has all come crashing down around him.  And it couldn’t happen to a more deserving jerk.

The Art of War is the lead topic on “For the Record” right now, and we will be getting into war again.  They have been saying in the liberal media that President Obama’s getting rid of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagal is because Hagal was too dovish and his stance on “the winding down of our nation’s wars” is incompatable with the Adminestration’s current stand on wars abroad in general.  They said “There has been a marked change in the Administration’s position on Mideast war in general in the past three days” but I’m not sure how.  This build up to three thousand troops in Iraq was announced a week or two ago.  It isn’t new.  Watching the Presidential announcement of Hagal’s departure from the Cabinet - - - contained no real confirmation of this thesis.  There appeared to be no ill will between Hagal and the President but only high praises were heaped upon Hagal by the President.  Right now I have the sound of some global warming conference for 2015.  (?)  That’s on C-Span.

The final (to date) results of the latest Bengazi investigation were released Friday night and they state there is no evidence of any conspiracy.  There was no order to “stand down” or in any other way to cause delay in action rescuing people.  There was no compromise or “insufficiency” of the Security of the Embassy.  There was no intent to deceive - - and Susan Rice was just going with the CIA intelligence of the time.  But Lindsey Graham is having the vapors over the latest report.  Stephanie Miller persists on likening Lindsey Graham to some delicate Southern Belle.  There is supposed to be some sexual attraction between Lindsey and John Mc Cain.  Lindsey Graham says that this latest report ‘Is a bunch of crap” and he doesn’t believe a word of it.  And Graham made his feelings plainly known to a CNN reporter.  Lindsey Graham was asked “Does this report exonerate the Administration”.  And Graham said “No”.  What do you do with a guy like this?  All their plans are up in smoke.  There can be no conspiracy trial because there IS no evidence; there is no “There” there!

Another issue for Republicans to get the vapors over is Iran.  Iran is a continuing threat whether we try and lull ourselves to think otherwise or not.  Because the administration just agreed to continue these Nuclear Negotiations for another seven months.  I’m not saying I agree with this one.  I would put back economic sanctions and say to Iran “This is just to keep you honest.  Now you will have every incentive not to putz around with us or stall – and buy time to get your centrafuges going and enrich Uranium for Nukes we still suspect you of desiring to construct.  Iran’s behavior is so suspicious I wouldn’t trust them, and from where I sit we have nothing to gain from trusting Iran.  And besides we can always sick Israel on them!