Supreme Court Rules on Police Shooting Fleeing Suspects

This is Tuesday November 10, 2015 just before dinner.  The Supreme Court just ruled that fleeing “suspects” can be shot at will by police and have no rights.  This has always been a hazy area, because some PD’s like the LAPD say “You can only exercise deadly force if your life is threatened, or to preserve the lives of others in dangers.  In the old days the line was “stop or I’ll shoot” but now I guess you don’t even have to warn fleeing burglars before you gun them down.  At least that’s what Norman Goldman says.  The other news is that the Fifth Circuit Court consisting of southern states, ruled that Obama was wrong in its DACA and CAPA regulations.  One in 2012 pertains to children of illegal aliens who came here when the children were small and they don’t know any other language or culture.  The “P” part of the ruling was 2014 where parents were kept united with their legally born children in this country but they themselves immigrated from Mexico.  Not only were the “legal steps” not properly done, but the President is not allowed to “change the law” even by selective enforcement.  They quote the portion of the US Constitution that reads “- - to take care that the laws are faithfully executed” and the President didn’t do this when he granted de facto amnesty to all of these illegal children and parents.  Well, the Highest Court has spoken so I guess that closes the issue on the subject.  This one should be headliner knows but knowing the networks these days, you never know.

It’s almost five right now but I’m not even going to try and get “FOX business” because I’m sure I won’t be able to.  There are eight people at the big kids debate and four at the small table debate.  The four there are Rick Sandorum, Bobby Jindell, and newly added Chris Christie and Mike Huckibee, who have foundered in the polls.  Lindsey Graham, George Pataki, and that other guy couldn’t even get above zero percent in the polls and were disinvited.  This is Wednesday morning now and apparently since none of the "facts" coming out of people's mouths were screened because the fact checkers took a holiday- - meant that we might as well have had sixth graders up there.  We'd get a more rational reciting of the facts than we got and basically I'm just as glad I didn't watch.  My guess is that their ratings were way down.

  Last night on Eye Witness and ABC news they announced that Shamoo shows will not be held after next year.  The era of the sporty black and white “killer whale” shows are over.  Now they will portray these whales in a more “natural environment’ and highlighting “natural whale behavior”.  But it’s only in the San Diego Sea World and not at Sea Worlds in San Antonio or Orlando.  I wish Sea World hadn’t caved on this issue all because this one state legislator has submitted a law banning all whale shows at theme parks like this.

Here is more review of Ben Carson.  He’s said that he knows homosexuality is not genetically inherited because criminals go into prison as straight and come out gay.  He’s said that under no circumstances would he ever sign a budget that wasn’t in balance.  And yet Andrew Jackson, the only President to pay off the national debt, spawned a major depression in 1837 because people had no place to safely invest their money.  He said that if the Jews in Nazi German had guns the Jewish death camps would not exist.  And Ben Carson talks about that Popeye’s incident where he had a gun pointed at him and he referred the criminal to the cashier of the place, in some act of cowardess.  Ben Carson is against raising the minimum wage above $7.50 saying (apparently) that the lower the minimum wage the more youths are employed.  If this is the case we should have very little minority or youth unemployment now.  When Bush raised the minimum wage- - the next move in the unemployment rate was down. There is a lot of talk about not just containing Al Qaeda but completely wiping them out.  How do you propose to do that?  They said "well they are recruiting people successfully from other countries because people see them as winners and the United States as losers".  This is a vast over-simplification.  If we use the Collin Powell doctrine we could wipe them out if we want to amass a hundred and fifty thousand troops to do it.  My personal feeling is that the Republicans use red hearings such as Al Qaeda and ISIS to cover up the fact that they refuse to deal with pressing issues such as declining incomes and the corruption on Wall Street and the TPP deal, which I bet was not talked about much at all- - since these people are detail and "fact" averse.

This video from LiveLeak purports to be an Apache attack helicopter following a huge ISIS convoy of white pickup trucks crossing from Iraq to Syria … and – instead of attacking – more or less “escorting” it across the border. I watched this video. Another blog is saying that the US engineered this “rebellion” against Assad and what protests there were were precipated by droughts and bad crops rather than “barrel bombs” dropped by Assad. Today the President met with Netanyahoo and both parties appear to be back-tracking in their former statements as a spirit of consiliation and cooperation seems to be in the air.

 

I watched most of Days of our Lives before the thing even got started.  Chad knocked on Benjamin’s door, which is suicide because the last time he did that he almost got killed.  Justin things Hope’s murder may be by a copy cat killer.  Mr. Hernandez and Kate Roberts have been making social overitures to each other.  Gabby has been roaming around the courtyard today.  The plot will completely break down when they show Theo still as a ten year old boy and Sierra, two years his junior, as an eighteen year old woman.  We have Chase with the newfound knowledge that his father is a psychotic murder, who, by the way is dead now.  The sudden aging of Chase and Sierra by about eight or nine years hasn't been explained.

They played November 1957 songs on Rhapsody in Black.  They played ‘Happy, Happy Birthday, Baby” and “Rock and Roll Music” by Chuck Berry and Bony Marone by Larry Williams.  They even played the B side of that single called “You Bug Me” or something.  They played “Cilliuette” by the Rays, “You Send Me”, and both versions of “Raunchy” first by Earnie Freeman and then by Bill Justice.  They played “Mr. Lee” and “Peanuts”, which is the actual name of that song and “This is the Night for Love”, a song I’ve heard about once in my life before.  And they played “This Could Be Magic” and “You Keep a Knocking But You Can’t Come In” by Little Richard.  All in all it was a high number of songs I recognized.