HERMAN CAN IS PATHOLOGICAL LIAR IN DEBATE

Tonight will be another of those political circus republican debates. Those people exist in an unreal world. Randy Rhodes was wondering why the tea party people never got beaten up by police when they carried guns to political rallies and spoke of “second amendment solutions” and went around shooting congress-women. Police are dressed in riot gear in New York constantly expecting the worse. They beat people over the head and run over their legs with their motor bikes. Some protestors ask the police to join them, even as they are being beaten. Meanwhile Herman Cain has a little song for us all that goes something like this, along the lines of “Imagine”

Imagine there’s no pizza

I couldn’t if I tried

Just eating only tacos

And lots of Kentucky Fried

I hope my last posting, which has been up for a day and a half taught a few basic common sense principles about what human to human speaking, is wrong with Christianity. Right now even my link to Mormonism is weakened. Laurie took one remark of mine entirely the wrong way when I mentioned that I knew Yvon Steel and didn’t know, or had forgotten that she was a Mormon. A few weeks ago I prayed specifically for Seid’s health. And apparently now it has taken a turn for the worse. That’s God for you, as far as answering prayers. It was mid day I sent a prayer up to the Lord that I be worthy of the graciousness he has bestowed on me. That’s because things have been so calm lately. So after that I had one of the stormiest afternoons in a long time. The trouble with me and Christianity is that it’s like walking through a mine field. And you have to be pretty careful. I would hope sheer bigotry doesn’t determine whom the Republicans pick as their nominee. For their sakes I hope just once they are able to view things objectively. I guess some indendant agency yesterday ran a survey and concluded that President Barock Obama has gotten about the most antagonistic media coverage of any recent American president. Barock Obama has his own mine field to worry about. He’s still trying to play the “Mr. Reasonable’ and ‘Nice Guy” cards. I think he’s pretty much played those out, and now look to his hand for something else.

I watched most all of the debate beginning with the National Anthem as I was pouring coffee. Larry wanted his cup poured right then so I obliged him. Anyone who pays premium rates deserves service when they want it. Larry wants another cup at 7:30 and so I’m making more, even though I told him I was short for the week. Tonight's debate was sponsored by CNN and it was held in Las Vegas and like with all the rest, the audience was virtually all tea party. As such and as with most other of these debates, problems or ordenary Americans were ignored and labor rights or occupational safety or the environment weren't touched on even a little. At no time has Herman Cane said what he would do about Social Security. Almost not addressed at all were investigating Wall Street or saying that we have relaxed too many regulations, and these are the basic cause of the problems. Turning banks into gambling houses seems not to bother this crowd one bit. Only Ron Paul dared to touch on this topic, even a little. As such these debates are freak circuses bearing almost no relation to the lives or ordenary Americans.

Herman Cain is a pathological liar. There’s no getting around it. He goes on with this apples and oranges nonsense not realizing it’s all money to the people paying the 17% sales tax. Others accused Cain of it being a “value added tax every step of the production process”. Everyone agrees that once congress institutes a new tax that it won’t ever be repealed but most likely increased, now that there is a governmental foot in the door. Others such as Romney pointed out there was no allowances for family and child expenses and Santaurum was the first to bring in the idea of family and faith, which Latinos support. I would have raised this point even sooner, if I were there. Cain is also attackable on the whole bank bail out issue. He keeps flip flopping. If Bush does it it’s OK but if Obama continues the same policy then Cain has his doubts. Ron Paul aptly pointed out that rather than bail out the banks, why not bail out the mortgage holders so that they can keep their homes and prices not be driven down further, and neighborhoods go to seed with boarded up houses driving down prices further. Cain was also challenged mainly by Rick Perry on his idea of an electrified barbed wire fence for nearly three thousand miles of mainly desert. For one thing can you imagine the enormous energy loss as all that voltage gets disapated? It would take thirteen years to build and Rick Perry points out correctly that the same or better results can be accomplished by having surveillance drones and other electronic monitoring along with boots on the ground. Ron Paul wants to take troops from the Pakistani border and transfer them to the Mexican border, which makes sense. Rick Perry may not know a lot but I believe he knows Something about this border issue having had eleven years experience. Romney wants to take away the twin magnets of free health services and college education, and also institute employer sanctions, which Thom Hartman also advocates. Good point. Michelle Bachman’s position on foreign wars seems strange. She was against our activities in Libya where we didn’t have boots on the ground, and yet a government was successfully overturned. But she is FOR opening up a fifth front, if you will, in Iran by going to war with that nation as her “first priority”. Iran could get messy if it wasn’t done right and I don’t trust Bachman NOT to mess it up Ron Paul says it comes down to money. Newt Gingrich says it all comes down to National Security. I believe it comes down to expedience. What works and what doesn’t. If our military is dysfunctional we’ll waste a lot of a valuable national resource, both of men and of money. John Huntsman was given the axe and was not in this debate. As to Yucca Mountain, I am in favor of having one big safe site that will be secure for the next ten thousand years. From a pure common sense bases it’s a whole lot ecologically safer than having it the way it is now, scattered dangerously all around the country. In terms of natural gas, I believe it’s use should be increased and substituted for oil. But only if we don’t have to resort to increased “fracking” to do it, because the dangers of that are more than evident. In my opinion we need to institute a one percent stock transfer tax we can reduce to a half percent after a time. I would wave capital taxes on Real property, but not on securities for reasons I’ve given in the past. I would get rid of the President’s health care program in its entirety in the most expeditious manner possible after becoming President. I do not favor any constitutional amendment either on the following three subjects: Banning abortions nation wide, banning gay marriage nation wide, or banning the notion of these “anchor babies” born on our side of the border. There are other ways of handling these problems. I would however favor a provision overturning all federal prohibition of marijuana laws. All these stances operate on tenth amendment states rights principles.

If you practice my method

Just as hard as you can

You’re gona get a reputation

As a Flag-waving man

I’ve got such a sure fire way of remembering semaphore or flag signal letters that you’ll be dreaming about this stuff. You’ll wake up at night thinking about this stuff. Last night I had trouble getting to sleep, probably from too much coffee and two few cigarettes. And as you know when I haven’t had cigarettes I tend to get a little OCD. So in a future post I will be doing "Semaphore Made Easy". I didn't want to post it tonight because you people have enough on your plate already. Maybe later on we’ll do aids in doing Morse Code, but that’ harder. I don't know why it's not centered right.