One blog states that the average person is 55 times as likely of being killed by a police officer than by a terrorist, presumably an Islamic terrorist. The range nation wide was in the three hundreds, but better data suggests that 928 Americans were killed by police officers last year. Left unstated was how many of those at the time were in the process of comitting a crime. You're more likely to have your brain eaten out by the mad cow bacteria or whatever than you are of being killed by a terrorist. And yet we see police as the good guys and terrorists are imputed an almost supernatural power to strike us down at any time. Stalin said the one death was a tragedy; a million deaths was a statistic. So now two Americans are beheaded and presumably those are grounds to go to war with Islam for the next thirty years. Because that's how long "they say" that it will take to defeat this Islamic mennace. I don't know. If more join ISIS than we are able to kill in the same period, even with all our bombing- - some pragmatist needs to come along and point out the fact that we are losing the war with ISIS, just as Roman Emperor Diocletian was losing the war against Christians, regardless of how many of them he killed. And make no mistake about it. We've heard it from on high. There IS no difference between ANY form of Islam be it ISIS or Al Qaeda, or the Iranian Shiites or the Syrian Alawites or whoever. They're all working for the same thing; they're all working for Islam competing for who wins the "game of Thrones" or however Netenyahoo referred to it. According to Netenyahoo "The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy". So to Netenyahoo it doesn't matter whether or not Iran is fighting along with us to defeat ISIS. I'd like to know which four nations that Iran has "taken over". I've heard even liberals claim that Iran has "essentially taken over Iraq". I personally would like some independent confirmation on that and not just take their word for it. But as lopsided as well as revealing current statistics are, most likely they will get worse as we continue to progress to a full on police state. What was fiction back in 1948 is almost a "behind the times" novel now, since many of us can foresee a time when "1984" wasn't so bad considering to how bad things are REALLY going to get. (Selah)
Los Angeles had their elections yesterday and two things are apparent. Though the turnout was only a plaultry ten percent- - those who did bother to come to the polls voted all the incumbents back in, we are told. The other thing is that these incumbents will be rewarded with a longer term this outing because the voters also voted to have the Citywide elections on even numbered years, when presumably more voters will bother to come out to the polls and vote. I am among those who thinks this isn't a good idea because we are so inundated on even numbered election years as it is with all manner of TV and radio commercials, and increasingly long ballots on these years. Why tack on a bunch of other stuff to these already long ballots? I can picture the average voter out there getting "voter fatigue" and not even looking at the local races.
So how many lies has President Obama told? How many is he telling now? The whole thing with Putin and "Russian agression" is problematic. Some accuse President Obama of telling a string of lies every time he speaks on the subject of Russian agression and the Ukrainian war. A lot of my recent jabs at Vladimir Putin have not been "backstopped" by my friends on the Other Side, if you follow my drift. Why are they suddenly going silent? Do they know something? OK I guess some things like Crimea as in Crimea a River (ha ha) are maybe just a little justified. Crimea has only belonged to Ukraine since 1954 and before to this it was a part of Russia for over two hundred years. We hear that ninety-odd percent of the people of Ukraine favor being a part of the Russian Empire, or whatever they're calling themselves these days. This same writer also wants us to know that Obama lied like a rug when it came to his health care roll out as far back as May 2007 when he first came out with his plan "For universal health care either with public funding, or else some private plan". President Obama justifies his desire for "Obama Care" because he wants "Universal coverage of every American". And yet only 2.7% more Americans are covered now than there were in 2007. That's a markedly unimpressive figure. Of course the President also said that rates could come down to "affordable levels' and that didn't happen. Many liberals now are almost hoping the whole Affordable Care Act blows up and then we can get serious about single payer. I guess this Ball fellow in the Johnson administration wanted to lower the rate to fifty five a few years after passage, and then keep lowering it till all Americans were covered. President Obama is a demogogue wanna be. He tries to tell people he single handedly "ended the Iraq war" and brags about other accomplishments that blow up in his face. If I attend another Presidential Library it will be Ronald Reagan's, hopefully while the famous car collection is still there. I have a feeling all I'd hear at the Obama library would be lies.
Daylight savings time is this weekend, unless someone with any sense changes their minds. I've actually been enjoying these mornings where we get some sembelence of sunshine before breakfast. But now all that is going away and it will again be pitch dark when we get up. Paul Harvey used to talk about how long US farmers traditionally worked. The farmers got up to milk the cows at 5:30 and some may wonder why they just couldn't sleep in a little and milk the cows at 6:30 instead. The problem is that the "traditional" farmer got up before dawn and worked all day while he had daylight, and when the sun went down it was the end of the day and he could relax a little after dinner. He could get out the fiddle and rosin up the bow and have an impromptu hoe down or something. But now construction workers have unions and they don't work all day but have eight hour shifts- - or make that nine. I've been around enough outdoor workers to know that they really enjoy taking a full hour for lunch break, and chug down a few beers. So at three thirty they're done and they've got the light of the rest of the day to do whatever they want in their free time. I'd like to go back to starting Daylight Savings time on Final Four weekend, if for no other reason than it's easy to remember.
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