2012 - "The Campaign of Shame"

Today is Monday August 6, 2012 and it could well be that the first of the two party conventions won’t start for another three weeks.  And this is already the second week in August.  The political news will be in hiatus for a few more weeks now.   It seems Rob Portman or Ohio's candidacy would be very ill advised since he was President Bush's budget director.  Now there is a new reason for not voting for Romney courtessy Nicole Sandler.  She says she's been researching the Later Day Saints church, and they make every member of a certain rank swear a "blood oath" that should push come to shove, they will be loyal to the Later Day Saints over and at the expense of the United State's government.  The history books will not be kind to this sick political era at all.  In the first place I honestly can't remember When I heard a word come out of Mitt Romney's mouth that wasn't a blatant Lie.  Lies are rapent now.  Who would guess that so many Catholic women use birth control when - - the idea of having birth control pills covered by Insurance is considered a "disaster" on the scale of Pearl Harbor or 9 - 11.  August first is the day various women's rights became established in the Affordable Health Care act.  I have heard wildly varying numbers in terms of the percentage of Planned Parenthood patients that actually get abortions.  Let me tell you I will not take it kindly should I find that the tea party has lied to me once again on this issue where I have been defending them.  Of course you know that Mitt Romney's lie about whether he paid taxes for ten years or not is going to be exposed by a lie.  Harry Reed could get so pissed it's haul off and "Out" his source.  Of course John Mc Cain knows the facts.  The IRS themselves knows whether Romney paid.  And Romney's church knows whether he paid those taxes or not.  Inferentially- - if there were ANY year where Romney DID pay normal taxes, Romney would proudly have released THAT year.  The fact that Romney hasn't released ANY year is telling.  Ed Schultz said "It would seem to me if you're going to call Harry Reed a liar and appropiate come back would be to say "Well then, if you know Harry Reid is a liar, I can only assume that YOU have seen how much Mitt Romney pays in taxes".  The tea party wants to ban birth control in an era of exploding world population.  They abolished the assault weapons ban.  They overturned all those bank and security regulations passed under FDR.  They cut effective corporate taxes to near nothing.  Now they want to start a Nuclear War in Iran, hopefully getting Israel to do most of the initial dirty work.  You have people openly complaining that "The Catholic Church is being taken over by Latinos" as Pat Buchannon did last Saturday.  You have a niggardly President too scared shitless to move a muscle on getting gun laws passed.  You have people pressing for vastly expanded petroleum drilling in the face of the most glaring evidence of global warming this year.  Now scientists have come out and said that there IS direct cause and effect of certain specific events in Nature to global warming.  People will be reading tomorrow's History books and Encyclopedias will be so filled with revulsion and disgust at this era- - Mitt Romney will be running to Lucifer where he'll be more likely to get mercy bestowed him than from these future US historians in America.  The Republicans are so ashamed of their past Presidents the only guy they will even identify with at all is some highly "idealized" and historically distorted picture of President Ronald Reagan.

Just to review the shooting at the Siek temple in Milwaukee- - the shooter was a forty year old military officer and the lead singer in a White Power metal group and has tattoos on his body that spell cryptic initials.  His name is Wade Michael Page.  He was demoted and given a discharge from the military.  The government has already had him on their radar.  Six people have died so far and use “only” one gun.  A nine millimeter semi automatic pistol.  It would seem that Page mistook them for Moslems, not that that would have made it OK.  The media seems to be more sympathetic when he's white people who are killed by a non white assailant.  The FBI considers this a case of domestic terrorism.  Please clarify for me, is the tea party for or against the FBI now?  I know they hate Eric Holder for enforcing the 1965 Voting rights act.  But just in case you need to be reminded, virtually all of those lone gun nuts turn out to be lily-white males.  Of course people like Nicole Sandler want to know why nobody is taking steps to restrict gun sales.  Today the President informs he wants to bring back the assault weapon ban, but no congressional action will be taken. Back when I was in school - - people who took bold stands om moral issues were hailed as heroes of integrity- - and not denigrated as occurs too often in today's corporate media.

 

The Mars rover right on schedule, just seven seconds late.  It is a much larger craft than previous ones that “look like tinker toys in comparison” as Rush puts it.  Rush mentioned all of the five hundred thousand lines of computer code that have to be written without error, and one little error will screw up the whole operation.  Rush claims he was involved in programming holes in punch tape when he worked at an automated radio station in Kansas City.  People like Nicole want to know why we could not divert some money from the military into other science areas, either research or space exploration.  Others don’t see the point in going to an alien planet at all.  They are the negative Nelly’s like Born Again Christians with their head in the sand, or some other bodily orifice.  Even defense research yields fruits of progress used in products every day.  We would see a lot more of these product research dividends if we increased the space program at least five fold, and in this I am in full sympathy with Rush Limbaugh, who doesn’t understand why President Obama shut down NASA.  When you produce a weapon – boom! -  Boom! – and it’s all gone.   Roads and bridges can last the better part of a century.  But all of this is too logical of thinking for the tea party to countenance.  You know I still say that if President Obama would propose a gun law he could boost his ratings five or six points among his base right off the bat.  And if he’s really serious about sticking it to Mitt Romney in the polls he could begin attending church.  Wouldn’t the tea party be tongue tied on that one.  Mitt Romney would be so tied up in knots he wouldn’t know whether to shit or wind a wrist watch” to quote Jack Nicholson.  Of course the announcement of a rebel triumph in Syria wouldn’t hurt either, but Michelle Bachman wouldn’t be happy about that.  47 years ago was the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights law.  It’s landmark bills like that that boost a President’s rating in the polls.  But I’m not yet entirely convinced this President WANTS to win in November.  Poll numbers indicate that the best way to gain points is to shore up his base like the tea party has so successful and efficiently – I might add- - done, over the past three and a half years.

Most of these forrest fires that have ravaged the west were started by dry lightning, and not ninety percent by people, as they falsely have claimed.  We live in a world where people claim so many things.  Dennis Prager has stated it as incontrovertible fact that the whole “second hand smoke” argument is completely bogus.  I would like to believe him.  Certain people like Nicole Sandler like to say that the Civil War was fought basically over the issue of Slavery.  If that were really true than I’d imagine slaves in droves would leave the South to join the Union Army.  That didn’t happen.  Many slaves actually defended the South.  Only a small percentage of the people in the South were even slave holders.  Let’s face it- - the Republicans loved a good war then as they do now- - (which is why they carried on so many active wars of aggression against plains Indians)  -and winning a war became the ONLY concern of President Lincoln as he later plainly admitted.  Assuming the Union won the war they “lost the peace” with the election deal to get Rutherford B Hayes into power in 1877.  Clearly the Republicans then as now valued political power over principle.  Don’t be fooled by Larry Elder’s Niggardly research habits.  Of course when it comes to myths these diet and health freaks live in some parrellel universe.  Does Dr. Oz ever NOT do a show based on diet and lowing weight?  Men need about 2,200 or twenty two hundred calories a day.  One third of those calories would make a caloric count in the seven hundreds.  So Dr. Oz spends the show touting meals around 350 calories.  One more myth that needs busting is that if you’re 200 pounds and diet down to 150 you have to perpetually consume 25% less food or your weight will go right back up.  That’s a bunch of crap.  Your calorie and energy needs are virtually identical at 150 pounds as they were at 200.  You’re still the same body with the same nutritional needs.  Figure it out.  How long could a person go on their Dr. Oz diets with every meal reduced forty to fifty percent in calories, if not more- - without becoming thin as a rail soon.  These Dr. Oz types are as obsessive and one sided on this issue as the tea party is on such issues as “The ideal government tax rate should be zero”.