Sometimes Events Conspire Against Candidates

In terms of politics sometimes events conspire against certain candidates.  We know the third democratic debate was just before Christmas on a Saturday.  What the democratic party wanted and got was one “sudden death” debate where they hoped Bernie would be exposed as an inferior candidate.  Hillary was unusually on her game in a way she hadn’t been before, but even so Bernie won all the early telephone polls.  But the Media got ahold of the news and they hailed Hillary as the great victor of that first debate.  Now we have this whole Paris terrorism thing which totally eclipsed whatever candidates were planning and studying their material to introduce at the debate.  It would be like throwing out your whole term paper on some sociological subject because of some news event in the headlines the previous night before you turn the thing in.  It’s silly.  Because we’re going to forget about this Paris event eventually and come January of 2017 all of the economic and other security and banking and environmental stuff Bernie talks about will still be relivant.  But if we’re really serious about ISIS terrorism we know what to do.  We need to work closely with the Russians and lean hard on Putin to go after ISIS and leave out “moderate rebels” alone.  I don’t know who these “free Syrians” are but supposedly there’s enough for some credible fighting force.  But now they’re saying we’ll have to reintroduce forty thousand fresh fighting troops in this extension of never ending war in the Mideast.  I’m not sure we’re ready for that.  Saudi Arabia has the third biggest army in the world they tell us- - or at least the fourth largest and what are they doing to help us?  To me Saudi Arabia isn’t part of the solution; they’re part of the problem.  Senator Sanders and O Mally are buried by this news and both have undergone a major loss of power and prestige in the past month.  In terms of cosmic news- - - Bones alias Stewart Sutcliffe has re-emerged as of November 4^th on Sirius A and even he admits he doesn’t remember the previous couple of months or so almost as if he astral projected into another body in that time.  (These things are known to happen)  He agrees with me this morning that Bernie Sanders was conspired against by these news developments.  Of course Washington’s Blog will no doubt weigh in on all of this terrorism stuff in Paris.  And they can be pretty synical and tough on the United States and their motivations.  For instance there was a convoy of fifty or more white trucks doing down a desert road and the United States didn’t fire so much as a single shot.  What's the use of having attack aircraft if you don't use them?  Washington’s Blog has said that the United States and ISIS are actually working together to quelsh Putin and Assad of Syria and that’s the goal of the United States.  We want Assad of Syria gone seemingly at any price.  Even two years ago people were saying when there was talk about “moderate rebels in Syria” that there IS no such thing as a “moderate rebel” and all the rebels fighting Assad are dangerous as hell.  I’ve heard a lot of questions and situations posed in the news in the past two days, but precious little – or nothing- - in the way of workable step by step solutions.  It should theoretically be as “easy” to defeat ISIS as it was when the whole world came together to defeat the Nazis.  We had a goal and in a few years the Nazis were gone.  Why can’t it be just that “easy” with ISIS?   Yet people only speak of ISIS as continually growing and all of are bombings are just “pin pricks” and have no effect on ISIS.  This is what Shawn Hannity alledges.  Donald Trump and Rand Paul are still against our getting involved in what could be a major war that actually eclipses the Iraq War of 2003.  Back then we thought it would take six weeks to handle the problem.  This is what Donald Rumsfeld said.  Now nobody is at all optimistic.  ISIS is like that cow pasture in our neighborhood that isn’t going away.

That KFI fellow indicated that the reason why America hasn’t been attacked by terrorists are three things.  Our Muslims are more assimilated than Muslims are anywhere else in the world.  America is a gun culture and it’s these gun free zones that are magnets for terrorists.  And our police have faster reflexes and can fire more quickly at suspicious people.  But also our internet activity is heavily monitored such that nobody could get away with looking at how to build bombs and not attract the attention of the US government.  These are all good talking points for Shawn Hannity.  It’s a mindset worth considering the validity of.  It’s pointed out that our (liberal) media has distorted the news in that most terrorists - - a k a refugees coming over to Germany and France are young Arab males and not the women and children as they are perported to be.  And they are also ungrateful because if you give them water then will pour it on the ground in contempt and demand to be taken to Germany right away.  It could be that now France will be more like us in response by monitoring their internet more closely and being more trigger happy and altogether less trusting of “them”.

David Duke has rushed to the defense of racists and bigots on the University of Missouri campus who draw swastikas in feces on walls, and say that denying racists the right to “self expression” is a dangerous abridgement of their civil rights.  Except it wasn’t David Duke who said this but Dr Ben Carson.  Donald Trump has chimed in calling the President who resigned a weakling and if he had been Chancellor he wouldn’t have resigned.  It struck me as kind of funny that it was when the football team threatened not to play their scheduled games causing loss of revenue to the school- - is when this Chancellor decided to resign.

 I’ve heard a lot fewer clips from this round of debates than I heard the last time.   I’m hoping “Hardball’ will show a lot more to better judge how bad the silliness really was.  Maybe they’ve played almost nothing because almost nothing was said.  I had the krill and fish oil combo thing from Purity products on with the B 12 jell caps.  If Mom wants to do something for me she can fix me up with some good vitamins from Judy.  Before this was this Republican from Montana saying that Obama Care was an irreparable mess and we need to scrap the whole thing because rates are continuing to rise forty percent with increasing deductables.  In the morning I got up a few minutes to six.  Glenda says it isn’t grammatically proper to speak of serving “egg” rather than “eggs”.  I got my medication from Tom.   Silva was saying that Larry Cramer had cold flesh.  I sat in the front room a while and then went to the liquor store for coffee at five to seven.  Joe was getting coffee from himself and Glenda, both large cups.  Phyllis was in there but not getting coffee.  I caught Obama’s Veterans Day speech on KNX radio, which I’d turned on earlier.  I drank the coffee in my room.  We had oatmeal for breakfast followed by a fried egg and toast and butter and jelly.  I had black coffee from Rico.