A lot of us were brainwashed even about US History. For instance it's said that in the 1700's many White people chose to abandon their society and go off and live with the Native Americans "because it was a more peaceful and pleasent society". Do you think you know the causes of the Great Depression? The Smoot Hawley teriff of 1930 did not cause the Great Depression, we are informed. It’s what I read in High School history but the tariff was only another percentage or two on top of the perveiling thirty percent rate. International trade dropped because the depression hit all around the world. So much of the rampant anti tariff bias is based on this notion about how the 1930 teriff caused the Great Depression. Scott Walker is taking money from education so the Milwaukee Bucks can have a new stadium paid for with taxpayer dollars. In Kansas, home of the Koch Brothers it’s worse. Education is being gutted so bad that their Supreme Court has ruled the neglect of the educational system as unconstitutional. Therefore Governor Brownback wants to just abolish the Kansas Supreme Court. Somehow that doesn’t sound legal, either. Governor Brownback has reduced corporate and “pass through” unearned income to zero percent. But he’s trying to make up for that by hiking food and sales taxes or ordinary people, and also cigarette taxes. So what he’s doing is what Reagan did in 1986 shifting taxes from the rich to the middle class and poor. Donald Trump has reversed his position and now come out as a “Free Trader”. Needless to say somebody “got to him”. Donald Trump used to be against the Trans Pacific Partnership.
The idea has been put forth that President Obama is just stupid and uninformed in his support of the Trans Pacific Partnership. This is a highly naive belief that Thom Hartman has, who would portray his TPP support as an “innocent mistake”. This is nonsense because this thing has been in secret negotiation for years. The President has dug in his heels and shown dogged determination to get the TPP passed. The President has been very proactive in criticizing anyone who expresses hostility to the trans Pacific partnership. He has pushed harder for this one agreement, and the TTIP too - - like his life depended on it. I have a news flash for you. This President is NOT stupid. The latest news is they are not going to have a re-vote today but now fixed it so that they are to hold a vote in the House anytime between now and July the 30th. They are putting this “provisional vote” thing as a part of some Intelligence bill. According to Robert Reish (who was a Clinton economist) - - two people, Froman and Reuben - - were instrumental in brainwashing President Obama into supporting the Trans Pacific Partnership.
The Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup last night in Chicago defeating the Tampa Bay Lightning two to nothing. I was headed tword Glen’s room to get my coffee (which I got) and I noticed the crowd cheering on the big screen and they were about to score and Chicago just scored their second goal when I returned here. At about eight fifteen I turned it to KCOP for a confusing Law and Order where I obviously missed key scenes. All I know is that one Black guy was the product between his mother and grandfather, and someone else was feeding information to the defense, and the guy got off not guilty for rape and murder.
This whole “trans racial” thing is strange. At first I wondered what the big deal was if a woman claimed to be Black or not because the NAACP isn’t racist are they? They don’t hire an employee based on race, do they? No, they don’t. But there is an argument advanced by “real blacks” the way there are “real women” (a good way to put it) that “real women” have had to face all the discrimination in hiring and fear of rape and pregnancy and being talked down to by doctors and all of that. Jenner had the luxury of missing all that. In like manner it’s argued that unless you grew up Black you don’t know what it’s like to be Black. But here the argument is weaker. Because she has adopted Black siblings and she’s married to a Black man and had genetically Black children.
Shawn Hannity talked about Jeb Bush but featured none of his speech live. But I replayed the live speech along with a couple guest speakers – before three. Bush gave a good speech hitting all of the political highlights the far right likes being hit. There was no shortage of “red meat” in this speech. Jeb Bush speaks fluent Spanish and there seems to be the feeling that Bush has the Latino vote sewn up. Norman Goldman did not mention the speech. I watched a nine minute video of Mike Papentonio criticizing Hillary Clinton and those “centrists” who support her, thinking they have no other choice. I believe it’s also fooling yourself to think that her rhetoric means anything at this point. We know from Obama there is a difference between applause lines, and true, heart felt conviction. There was a David Packman thing on religion and “trustworthiness”.
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