"Here at Eternity prep school we teach to the test.  So what we do is shoot up our students with Prozac and Zoloft in order that they don't have those "bad feelings" that are just - Baaahaadd !"


Everybody is talking about blacks getting food stamps and somehow it's all President Obama's fault.  As Randy Rhodes points out, when a bunch of rich corporatists get a government subsedy they high-five each other in triumph.  When a poor mother with hungry children applies for food stamps she goes sheepishly with her tail between her legs and head hung down in shame petetioning the state.  And yet now they have ATM debit card type food stamps where the bank gets a cut of everything that woman spends, so they aren't complaining.  She pays higher prices for food than she would under a total free market because farmers get money for NOT planting crops to keep their prices up.  So nobody is complaining except Gingrich.  Michelle Bachman got a government subsedy for each of the 23 children she adopted.  So who is she to talk?  Mitt Romney was saying that he pays "around" 15% of his income in taxes.  What Randy Rhodes wants to know is whether that figure is ABOVE or BELOW fifteen percent.  Of course you can't resist Newt's appeal that if only his tax plan were adopted then everybody would pay fifteen percent, even those who have to work for a living.  Those who earn around 90,000 a year already pay in excess of fifteen percent.  People talk about racial quotas and yet YALE, Harvard and other private Universities routinely give preference in admission to whether your father or grandfather attended the institution.  So race counts for white people, too.  Rush Limbaugh was his inarticulate self this morning. He opened by the show by admonishing one of his staff not to yawn.  Was this some cue he was about to bore us all?  He then goes on an incoherent and contradictory rant about how the Democrats are instituting their own "opporation chaos", which is what he coined as his own crusade to get his people go go out and vote for Hillary to prolong the nomination process.  So I am to take it that is Newt does well this Saturday it's all because liberals sabotaged the SC results.  Of course Rush has supported just about every "flavor of the month" to come down the pike.  First he supported Perry defending him against Cain.  Then he put in his lot with Cain.  They he fawned all over Newt Gingrich.  How he says that Romney is the inevitable candidate.  If these people weren't so fickle maybe we'd pay more attention to what they say.  Of course some say that Congressmen don't get that much pay since they earn less than $200,000 per year.  Because they fall below the magic $250,000 demarcation line does that make them "the enemy"?  Well, that is not their total remuneration.  They also have a million dollar expense account per year, plus a number of other priveleges.  OH yes, it's these little pesky details that liberals love to bring to light. Of course they are but "middle management".  It's the lobbyists who really run the show.  These people on the right have no credibility on just about anything and they lie about everything.  If this font is too big I'll shrink it.  I've deemed it OK.


A mailing was sent to me saying how the tea party protesters incurred no arrests and no expenses to the government, and there was no public urination or anything.  And this same mailing pointed out that Occupy Wall Street is supported to the communists and Hugo Chavez and Hammas and just about every other subversive group.  We won't do the pinochio test here.  But of course people on the lower end of the income spectrum would love to dress in fine suits and be escorted in air conditioned busses and have all expenses paid by rich people.  When Real people protest it's not always neat and clean.  But now Mitt Romney costs the government because those pensions of the people he threw out of work are partially insured by the federal government.  I guess they used to have a statute called "unjust enrichment" which they got rid of probably due to right wing pressure.  And as to this whole Marxist thing, it's been pointed out that Karl Marx made some quite perceptive observations of the dangers of Capitalism.  And the whole game of Monopoly was based on the premise of one player eventually owning everything.  If the game were introduced today it would be banned.  And also this whole idea of patents being immortal and surviving the inventer is a relatively new one.  Patents were issued to honor an inventor or author for his work.  But they used to run only fourteen years.  But if you as an artist or inventer are bought out by a corporation you no longer own your own work.  They do.  And corporations as you know live forever.  So all that time further creativity and inovativeness is styfled.


Stocks closed at their highest levels in months perhaps because European money is coming here to invest.  Also housing and other economic indicators continue to improve, while all the while interest rates staying at record lows.  Some have advocated the value added tax as a way of sneaking in Corporate taxes that aren't "officially counted".  So since we don't have a VAT, we can't be said to have the "second highest corporate taxes" after all.  It seems the way other countries impose a de-facto anti-terriff on us is that they wave this tax on foreign sales so that the export price is  some 18%  below the domestic consumption price.  Of course if the republicans were to go for any VAT it would have to be "revenue neutral".  What we want, though, is something that is revenue Positive to bring IN revenue to CUT the deficet.  Republicans in California are now saying to Jerry Brown "we don't need to raise taxes now because the economy is improving on its own".  Well you know, some people have a pipe dream of a flat tax rate of fifteen percent for everybody, rich and poor alike.  While this would be Fair-ER, it would deplete the United States of so much revenue that you'd have to do a Grover Norqist euthanasia job on the budget as a whole, which would now be so emaciated that it should be put out of its misery alltogether.


We have just a few brief cosmic notes here.  What we have referred to hitherto as Bajorans are actually Reigel seven Bajorans.  But back on the home planet they also did music, which sounds LESS "Bajoran" in terms of the sound than the stuff on Reigel VII.  There are a few tracks - "Sleepwalker", "Na - na - na - na It Was I" and also "I've Had It".  You may never have heard of any of those.  Also the Detroit Romulans did stuff besides Blue Cheer.  Back in the 'fifties Bobby Day was a Detroit Romulan with stuff like "Buzz - buzz - buzz" and also there was the Dave Clark V (long suspected, now confirmed) and also "Tequila" by the Champs.  And here is another confirmed roomer, the Shantees were originally Bajoran, the Reigel VII variety.  But early on when "Pipeline" showed promise they were bought out by the Sixers.

Now we come to the Canadian oil pipeline.  The Republicans can tell ten lies in fifteen seconds on this one.  First of all it is not OUR oil and not "domestic oil" and the Pipeline isn't even owned by us but will be owned by the Canadian oil company.  They are just using our land as a conduit to get their oil to China in the fastest possible way.  Whether we can even use any of it is up to question.  Now today President Obama says there is a legal snaffoo and Rush Limbaugh is making all these hissy fit noises about "Obama is a slave to his liberal base".  By the way Rush also said that "Obama says he's going to cut the budget and this will be announced, but we all "know" there will be no real cuts".  Rush says stuff like this just to cover his ass for being wrong about stuff.  But as to the whole oil pipeline, President Obama has objections because the state of Nebraska doesn't want the pipeline going through their state.  According to the debates, the Prime Minister of Canada is some kind of an arrogant asshole saying "I'm giving you in America a shot at this oil and if you don't take it, I'm just going to sell it to China.  Are you in America fools?"  I hope this was never actually spoken.  We know the tea party loves to faboricate things out of thin air.  But I would say to the Canadian company "Fine.  You want to sell the oil to China.  Let's see you try and get it there without our help.  Your own province, British Columbia has blocked your efforts.  So you people care just as much about ecology and states rights as we do".  The fact is that if the President were to override the wishes of a state, that in itself could and would cause major legal problems and hang ups.  The Republicans see this pipeline is some sort of holy grail to end all of our energy and economic problems.  They of course are known for their tunnel vision.  At the State of the Union Message I expect the President to spell all of this out clearly so even THEY can understand it.