We need to speak again on this whole notion of “Slave holding and the Christian right” because people like Larry Elder insist that the right wingers were foremost in crusading for civil rights for minorities and don’t have a racist bone in their bodies. But let’s go to a document Thom Hartmann read on the air this morning. It was from South Carolina and their reasons for seceding from the Union in December of 1860. It was because “fourteen northern states have shirked their constitutional duty to round up fugitive slaves”. They quoted from that passage in the constitution I’d forgotten which says that “Any person to who service is due to another state- when he flees to another state- - shall be returned by that second state on claim of the first state to whom service is due”. They were very artful in those days in avoiding the word “slave” in the constitution. Because states like Iowa and Ohio had liberty for slaves statutes where “Even if a slave were part of an insurrection, they would not be delivered up”. So forget all this “economic exploitation of the South by northern bankers” stuff you hear about. It was an issue of slaves and slavery. We now move to the year 1935 which was a very bountiful year in the national congress. FDR had actually gained seats in congress in the 1934 congressional off year elections, which I rare. Some of us had hoped Obama would repeat this in 2010 but of course that didn’t happen. The idea is that people wanted change, and once they got that, they wanted more change at a faster pace. And that’s what they got from FDR in 1935. There was the whole OASDI thing (Old Age Survivors and Disability) but also seemingly in one stroke with the passage of the Wagner act, any Business had to go Union if fifty one percent of the workers in that company voted to unionize. Southerners thought this was horrible because it elevated the Black man in a Union to a status of economic control and power he’d never had in his life before. So there was this guy named Vance Hughes with his “Christian Liberty” group- - who sought to restore the “Southern way of life” (according to TH) He labored tirelessly to get the Taft Hartley act passed in 1947 otherwise known as the right to work for less law. Of course if you will remember (and I didn’t know till literally months ago) that Southern bankers were empowered by the G I bill not to give credit loans to Black men. Now Scott Walker comes along and claims in last years reelection campaign (according to Hartmann) that he isn’t going after the private Labor Unions but only the government Unions. Of course he lied because now he’s going after private business too. Just like he said he had no intention to go after abortion rights in Wisconsin in the campaign, but turns around and does just that. “Divide and conquer” is still a major weapon and there are people who can be “played” like a violin, still.
Another issue presents itself today. The Alabama Supreme Court, the Supreme law of that so called "sovreign state" has decreed from On High that "Gay marriages shall not be performed in the state of Alabama". You know how I feel about gay marriage. That isn't the issue today. What we have here is the doctrine of state nullification of Federal Laws. This is an issue that was resolved "By Force" (the ultimate way of resolving an issue) via the Civil War and the Reconstruction Amendments of the Constitution. There was a guy we studied in history John C Calhun - - of South Carolina, who was a champion of the doctrine of nullification. Hence we have in play a major Constitutional Crisis, which needs to be resolved.
The Supreme Court
arguments on the State medical exchanges were held this morning. And it seems Justice Kennedy by the questions
he asked- might be voting to uphold all
of the benefits statutes in the Affordable Care Act. The issue boils down to common sense. People need to go after the clear intent of a
law. Clearly the intent of the law was that
the States as a matter of course (and common sense) would be setting up the
State Exchanges. As it turns out only
sixteen states did. However Norman Goldman just now pointed out the "smoking gun" in the democratic arguments. Because the law, as long as we're going to word pick- - - says "In the event the States do not set up these prescribed exchanges- - than the Federal Government shall set up such exchange (themselves)" The words "such exchange" is an anticedent referring BACK to the exchanges that would provide all of the monetary credits. It's clear as a bell. The fact that the
states that DID set up the exchanges are faring better economically than the
ones that didn’t- - isn’t the immediate issue today. But I didn’t know that the court had a “let
it alone” or “Don’t be radical” doctrine.
If there is a line in a law which might tend to invalidate the law- - if
possible look for other lines and clauses which would presume that the law was
a valid one. If you find those other
line, the rule of precedence set by the
Court itself- - would presume that the law is a valid line- - and those very
few words that are questionable- - are taken to be what they are- - a flook of semantics. So let’s assume that both Justice Roberts and
Justice Kennedy are in play on this ruling.
If the odds of either voting for it are fifty percent, than the odds of
the law being upheld would thus go to 75%.
Capish? Keep in mind if Scelia and Allito and Thomas get their way - - Insurance Companies will be the ones forced to "Eat The Loss" in that realm of unexpected consequences. This is because all of the healthy people won't be able to afford insurance any more and will drop out because most of them are young and healthy. Hence what we have left are the oldest and sickest segments of the population, which will provide an unsustainable premium payment base.
In terms of the
Department of Justice report on Ferguson the Adam & the Ants song comes to
mind, “They cut you in half- then they give you a band-aid.” Because after denying that there was criminal
violation of Michael Brown’s civil rights (something for which there is ample
proof) they go on to talk about all of the incidents of racial bias in the
Ferguson Police Department. Let's contemplate what this means. Eric Holder claimed that "The Facts" do not warrent any further criminal charges. Next question. What are the facts? HE never told us what "The facts" are, any more than Buchannon or the rest of them. All he said was "Misunderstandings come about due to polarization in the community". That answer won't cut it for me. What "Facts" I say again- - compelled him to come to the conclusion he did? He also said "The facts as they appeared in the media led us to the wrong conclusion". Nobody just makes a statement like that and then offers nothing to back it up- - that is - unless they're just blowing smoke out their ass. Not one witness was cited by Eric Holder in the few minutes I listened. But we got the icing on the cake, even if we didn't get the cake itself. Of
particular note- - Black cars are searched a lot more often than Whites - but despite this- - more contraband is
actually recovered from White cars.
Think about that one. Of course
what’s true of Ferguson is true for half the police departments in the
land. If you’re Black you are going to
get stopped more, frisked more, arrested more, and serve more time in jail and
on stiffer charges- - - than if you were a White citizen. (Selah)
Thom Hartman is right
to a degree when he says current stock market prices don’t represent the true
values of businesses. All of the
economic statistics are rigged and jimmied - - and only the short term is
thought of. Remember these CEO’s who get
paid in stocks, have every incentive to artificially jack up the price of their
own stocks. And these people are also
the ultimate as far as “inside information” goes. If there is trouble brewing that only an
insider at this time can see- - - they’ll be the first to bail out. They have a golden parachute. You won’t.
One term you hear on Ring of Fire a lot is “Worse than the Mafia”. A lot of things are worse than the mafia
these days but prime among them are these banksters. These Big Banks, unlike Mafia dons, are “too
big to jail” and so on their merry way year after year. What the Federal Reserve itself has done
lately is bizarre- - pumping literally billions supposedly “into the economy”
but we don’t see a penny of it. Of
course we could talk about the FDA - - food and drug administration, keeping
good and natural substances off the market but on the other hand peddeling
poisons into our system. It’s all a
giant drug promoting money making racket.
The Federation has gone
ahead and hired a Taccoman as Minister of Propaganda. I had asked them about it yesterday and they
hadn’t made a decision yet but were still deliberating. Today they’ve made a decision and he will
officially take office tomorrow. What
this means for me and other “earth people” is that our interests will be more
catered to. Also there will be some kind
of public campaign to make them more “space alien” conscious. So, look for that one.
President Obama got his
Nobel Peace Price on October the ninth of 2009 in one of the LEAST deserved awarding
of the Nobel committee of all time! Who
bribed them? This came just over three
months after the June 28th 2009 coup in Honduras where a progressive
government was thrown out and an ultra rightist dictatorship was
installed. One blogger insists that
Obama and Hillary had something to do with this. How did President Obama get that Peace award
and what the hell did he accomplish to get it?
Any award that starts being handed out for no reason at all inherently
is cheapened in the process. I would
hope that doesn’t happen to the Nobel Peace prize. Then of course Obama and NATO bombed the hell
out of Libya destabilizing their government and eventually destroying it and
allowing anarchy to reign supreme.
President Obama hyped up the image of the “Islamic Brotherhood” you don’t
hear too much about any more- - just as in turn Obama was hyped to death in the
2004 Democratic convention- - giving one of one of the most vacuous speeches of
all time. In fact even President Obama’s
2008 acceptance speech was frustratingly devoid of substance, if you’ve heard
it.
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