According to Stephanie
Miller- - Obama care is not a big success.
Because state after state beginning with New York and California are
finding their insurance rates dropping by up to fifty percent and when they
find out about this they are delighted.
And it seems you can be making up to four times the poverty level - -
and get financial help with insurance.
Also reports that Labor Unions are afraid of Obama care- - are
false. The whole bottom line is that
next year perhaps the biggest single determiner of the outcome of next year’s
congressional election is whether Obamacare is a success or a failure. Obviously the stuff we’ve heard in the past
week or so flies in the face of the avalanche of material I’ve heard about how
everybody and his dog dreads Obama care.
Apparently it isn’t so. And if
Obama care is a success this fill be the final disappointment and nail in the
coffins of hopes for the right wing tea baggers. There are also roomers afoot that the
Immigration bill is in fact NOT dead in the House but action is occurring. It would seem that the Unemployment rate in California has dropped, and that economic activities in the state the previous two months are more robust than previously thought and figures are being revised upward.
It seems as if Eric Holder
has personally has bad experiences with the police. I am uncertain of the specific nature. The only interaction with the police I’ve had
at all in the past twenty years was that traffic ticket I got in December of
1999 which was entirely may fault because I was distracted. And that was from the Buena Park PD. But it seems that “running while Black” is a
major problem out there and many Black people have called to report that cops
have stopped them. It seems like a “nigger
running” is a red flag for a cop. One
man was in a business suit late for an appointment and ran into this office
building and then this white lady cop actually follows him up the seven floors
to the office and asks what business he has there. I’ve heard callers say that there is a whole
list you or your kids have to remember when dealing with Cops if you don’t want
to end up dead. Clearly Eric Holder must
be aware of this. In the Trayvon
shooting the most rudimentary police procedures were not followed. They did not knock on doors to ask all the
neighbors if they saw anything. They say
that half of the people living in this apartment complex were not White. So did those people see anything? Neither did they ask “Do you know where your
children are- - had anybody gone
missing?” Instead Trayvon Martin was
found in a morgue two days later with a John Doe tag on his big toe.
The city of Idlewild is
threatened in a massive fire referred to as the “Mountain Fire”. Oddly I don’t think I have ever actually been
to Idlewild, but I think I came close that time we rode the Palm Springs tram
in July of 1982. Bill Handel was saying
that over forty thousand people were threatened by the fire. They say that fire in Arizona that killed
those nineteen firemen – was traveling fifteen miles per hour when most fires
only travel two mph. And we have heard a
lot about “Heat lightning” where there is lightning but no thunder because it
absorbed in the rising updrafts of air.
They say the winds were blowing west but then began blowing eastward,
which was favorable, but like Massada, they could switch again.
The city of Detroit is
the largest city in the United States to go bankrupt. Naturally the tea party crowd is most likely
extatic, since they would consider an event like this a major victory. Motown and General Motors are not what they
used to be. They said that Detroit has
lost 63% of its population, which would make that city even worse than St
Louis. They say that the crime rate has
skyrocketed- - and that vast portions of the community are like a ghost town.
A witness in the Whitey
Bolgier gangster trial in Boston was found dead today. They say he was just “crossed off the witness
list two days ago” but apparently not soon enough to suit some party. “Kill the witness” seems to be the coming
thing in American justice. Johar
Zarniaf made the cover of Rolling Stone magazine looking like the latest rock
star. I have no problem with it myself
because it’s just a picture, but if your family was maimed or killed by this
man, I can see a problem. But after all,
people generally buy magazines for the content of their articles and not their
covers, and I’d be interested in securing a copy of that issue.
Today is an overcast July
19, 2013 and it’s Robin’s birthday and she turns sixty today in culmination of
the grand cycle - so she was born in the year of the water snake. Tomorrow is Saturday July 20th,
which just happens to be the fiftieth anniversary of that partial eclipse of
the sun that occurred fifty years ago in 1963 at just after one o clock in the
afternoon around here, but it would be later in the afternoon in the state of
Maine where the eclipse was total, and the course of the eclipse was mapped in
two consecutive Stephen King books, Delores Clayborne and Rose Madder, neither
of which I have bought or read. This
morning I had a bag of tea before breakfast and took my medication ahead of time. We had oatmeal with white sugar and
eventually got scrambled eggs and one big fluffy pancake. I had a major case of diaria of the
mouth. I was going on and on about every
subject from nuclear physics, to electrical engineering, to computer programming. I misstated one thing though. I said “If all of these computer hackers are
so smart why don’t they write their own programs and sell them and get rich
legitimately?” The answer is that they
don’t care about the money and will GIVE various programs out free on the
internet for people of less than pure motives can download and undertake their
own activities on computer, which are probably against the law now. I mentioned that programming was like being
on a high school football team, and expecting to be drafted by the National
Football League any day now. I also
mentioned things I’d actually learned from Bruce. Did you know that Bruce was explaining why
Xeroxes were referred to as “photostatic copies”. It’s because literally the difference in the
light and dark image- - as far as the moisture in the exposed paper- creates a conduit
to electrically attract the ink on the page.
I was just thinking of
how things were ten years ago. I'm sure every one of my readers has his or her own story to tell. It was
just about ten years ago that we went to California Adventure and of course I
had the money to pay my own way because I still had a lot of money in my bank
account. I don’t want to say that things
were really different then, but boy were things really different then. It was so long ago Mike had not gotten Sandy
as a girlfriend. The dining room had not
yet been widened. That would be a year
from the following fall. Of course we
lined up to get our meals and service was a whole lot faster, and we got surer
seconds and seconds were usually bigger than first portions. Charlie Crawford was still alive and would
always announce the movie around here. I
won’t even attempt to list all the people who are either gone, or dead
now. I was still going to Green Harbor
then. I think my table mates then were
Ceecee, Beverly, and Bob Stratley. He’s
the guy who kept barfing at the table and we three wanted him gone. Elena was still our housekeeper, as she was
for years. Dad was obviously still alive
and at that time I had not stopped making visits there for Sunday morning
church. My weight then was around 223
and was headed higher, and not lower. TV
fare was very different. Melinda Lee was
still on mid day Saturdays on KFI, and I had never heard of Leo Le Port. I still had my old Epson computer bought used in 1995 and was in fact still using Windows 3.1. Needless to say I was not on the internet then. If I had ever heard of the Jesus Christ show
I had no idea what the show was about.
TV fare then was very different. Needless
to say none of the I phones had come out and even the I PODS were a novelty
item. And as I recall nobody was talking
about the Presidential Campaign next year, because after all it was next year.
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