"Intransigence has its place.  A lot of us would like to live a long, intransigent life where we never change our position on anything.  But I'm not concerned about that now.  Because I've been to the Mountain Top and seen the other side of this particular issue - - and I can say that we as a people will get to the Primised Land of government Medical Care"

I've had a change of heart in at least one sense.  Up till now had you asked me I would have said that I would have voted as a Supreme Court Justice to strike down Obama Care.  I would have done so on the grounds of it being Unconstitutional.  Yet if I'm going to be philosophically consisted with other positions I've taken- - such as Citizens United, I'd have to help to uphold the laws.  Courts have previously decided that Mc Cain - Feingold was unconstitutional.  However Thom Hartman points out that the mere act of a Supreme Court striking down a duly passed law as "Unconstitutional" is itself an unconstitutional act.  President Jefferson in response to Marsha's Marberry verses Madison ruling declared "If this ruling is allowed to stand, the Constitution itself will be as a thing of wax to be molded at will into whatever shape".  Hartman has rightly pointed out that the Courts are for decisions in cases brought before it and make sure the litigants are dealt with fairly according to the laws on the books.  In this vein I would not have voted for Roe vs Wade because this case was "prematurely filed" because the woman had not, and indeed DID not have an abortion.  As such there "was no case".  In this case too there "is no case" because no one has yet been harmed by a law which in fact has not gone into effect yet, much as many liberals were saying, but I wasn't listening.  It's like that California court in the sixties striking down Proposition 15 passed in 1964 which banned "pay TV".  There was at that time, believe it or not, a heavy commercial campaign AGAINST "pay TV" and the measure passed but the courts struck it down.  So I say to let the law go into effect and we'll take it one day at a time after a time.  And if anyone can show "injury" after that, then we'll see who has a case that they can pervail on.

Stewart Sutcliffe rarely changed his mind on anything.  Indeed one of the things I admire him for is his intransigence, the word Lisa Simpson most dreads having in a spelling bee.  But as you know last December Stewart was dropping hints he was having a change of heart on the whole Obama verses Romney thing.  Now Stewart is saying he was "brainwashed" on the whole Obama question.  That's a strong word.  Stewart is now all for Obama.  He is no longer saying that Obama has some "secret agenda".  Much of this derives from his belief that "President Obama does not have any Sutteran connection".  One of those Cosmic things.  Another issue on which Stu Baby had changed his mind was something he repeated a lot around mid 2005 that "Valerie Shoffner is NOT an incarnation of Brian Jones".  For a while there was what was known as "The impostor Brian Jones".  It's like that Hitchcock thing where the circus employer tells this down and out drunk, "Oh, if we hire you you won't be th3e REAL geek, you will be just a stand-in till the real geek gets back".  Of course soon after he was hired it became all to clear that this man now WAS the "real geek".  So it is with Brian Jones.  In the spirit of George Bush and Bin Laden they "gave up" trying to find the "real" Brian Jones and concluded that Valerie S was indeed an incarnated walk in of the "real" Brian Jones.  We had formerly said that "rememberences as animals are suspect".  Of course Bones knew Zachery (alias Brian) both as a cat, and previously as a dog.  But Bones now says "Perhaps I did not have a complete perception of the situation".  This admission is almost as "out of character" as Newt Gingrich alledged statement that "It looks like Mitt Romney is destined to become President".  I never heard a clip of that one.  If this is true about Brian then we suddenly know a lot of new stuff about him.  He's a KLOS fan and claims to know a lot of things about KLOS jocks, at least as of 2005.  He's not above hitchhiking with his girlfriend while not yet fourteen a couple of hundred miles away to attend a Rock Festival.  Sexually he is permiscouous, and seems to regard children as entities that need not be protected by marriage.  He may even say things like "My two sons are so good looking they're going to grow up to be real studs".  So did Brian Jones have an aversion to chicken?  Mark Campbell was most vocal is saying that Zachery has an aversion to chicken.  As to Mark Campbell himself- - - he tended to not want to eat the "home cooking" of other Bosc members, particularly cassaroles.  Yet he loved to mooch food such as pizza and dandwiches from Craigs Sandwith, and was not adverse to commercial food and commercial meats.

In keeping with my "change of heart" I plan to vote for Obama in the June Primary rather than attempt for the "lesser of an evil" such as Rick Santorum.  They are still playing that one Santorum tape about "Obama is just another government Nig-uhh- !  That gets clearer all the time.  That remark is a deal breaker for me.  I've lost all respect for him.  Santorum made that other remark about "Blu - - - " people.   -so was it "Blue people"?  They now have voice analis of that screaming during the Florida shooting and have scientifically proven it was not Zimmerman screaming as he alledges.  But these people will NEVER admit they lie about anything.  For a picture of Intransigence, put Rush Limbaugh as postor boy.  Now they are saying that "Blacks have a bounty on Zimmerman".  But nobody - - not even a literal, regards this "New Black Panther Party" as anything credible at all.  It isn't out side that has politicized this event.  Other than the one remark, the President hasn't brought it up.  But clearly the right has made it a big issue because now the N R A is saying "This event will be used as a wedge issue to get tougher gun restriction laws passed".  Of course there are the campaign posters with site cross hairs drown over the faces of various political candidates.  You have you-know-who saying 'I don't see what the big (shooting) deal is - - Trevon Martin started it".   This same individual was all over the "fact" that now the US has surpassed Japan as the highest corperate tax rate nation.  Of course that' bullshit, but naturally the right is going to repeat it.  Some people are such addictive liars, I don't why I even believe them if they say "The sun rose in the east this morning".

As to my own diet recomendations the idea like that Sixty Minutes doctor said that "sugar is bad in almost any ammount" is absurd.  One internet source said "You see that piece of pastry there.  It's tempting but if you eat it you know it's pure poison".  We don't need that kind of hyperbolic hysteria.  Now the recomendation is for only 120 caleries per day from "sugar", which would amount to LESS than one can of soda per day.  This is if you consumed NO other sugar during the day - - not in coffee or tea or on your cereal - - or hidden in other processed products you eat.  It's damn near impossible to do that, and it's not necessary.  They find the worst sugar junkey and say "You'll end up like this guy if you take that first bite of a sweet".  There are things I avoid.  For instance he said that fructose rather than dextrose was the problem.  This is the new processed corn syrup which is man made.  To say that "both types of sugar are equally dangerous' is false.  Cane growers have every right to complain.  We forget about all the cancer that you can get from contaminated meats- - and various dread bacteria and chemical contamination.  We have processed foods.  I don't eat twinkees or cheetos or chees-its, or those flavored "wafer" crackers- - - or BBQ or sour cream or or other flavored potato chips.  I much prefer plain.  I don't like non carbonated artificial juices.  Some now say that REAL fruit juice is bad for you because it has the fiber removed.  I just say away from the el fako fruit drinks.  However I like Coke, Pepsi, Root Beer, and lemon lime provided it isn't diet.  I don't drink these Diet products because those things ARE bad for you.  I prefer "real bread" rather than this squooshy stuff.  And also we could talk about people who used canned fruits instead of fresh, or who way overcook their vegetables.  You may have your own ideas.  I'm saying that the idea that "sugar is the cause of cancer" is silly.  Others say if you under cook meat that's bad, but if you overcook or char broil it- - the char broiling causes cancer.  I think both of these are utterly silly.  Some say that "anything with pasta in it is bad".  That is also silly.  People love to just run with an idea and go nuts- - - so they become almost as restrictive about foods as people who won't ban smoking but they'll restrict it to death.  I think there is enough room for sensible actions.  Get stuff with less added sugar and salt and processed chemicals.  Stay away from the artificial fructose corn syrup.  If you do this, you will do well.