As of a few minutes ago
around three I watched the Obama informal press conference or statement. Rush Limbaugh didn’t take kindly to the
President’s remarks held just before nine our time this morning. Rush said “It makes no sense to grow jobs by
paying people NOT to work”. That’s an
odd way of phrasing it even for Rush.
Rush Limbaugh reminds me of a guy who whose grass is brown and someone
suggest he water it, and so Rush waters the lawn and it turns a healthy green. But now Rush is “mad at the grass” because IT
has been getting “free water” at “someone else’s expense” and that isn’t
right. Rush said this was the Democrat’s
version of the “trickle down” theory, which it absolutely is not. So let’s get back to what the President
actually said. First of all Randy Rhodes
played Lyndon Johnson’s speech of fifty years ago about getting Americans- -
out of poverty particularly those in appelatia, who were helped the most from
his “war on poverty” not Blacks. That’s
my understanding. He discussed the moral
imperative of doing so, and even said that it is what God would have us to
do. Liberals don’t make speeches like
that now that are strident like that.
Instead they sound like Obama, almost whimpering and apologetic in
asking for scraps. Rush Limbaugh has no
soul, and he’s gambling that none of his listeners do either. This one lady put out “hundreds” of resumes,
which is more than I’d ever put out for a job.
People take pay cuts from a $75,000 a year job to a thirty thousand a
year job. People can’t go to a job
interview if they don’t have a car because their car was repossessed. They can’t respond to a call-back if they
haven’t paid their phone bill and have been disconnected. People “Put out applications for every
conceivable job that they are qualified for”.
They lose weight, and this woman looked mal nourished and covered it up
with rogue. She only heats her house to
58 degrees and walks around in a coat inside to keep warm. The life of the unemployed is no picnic, even
with help. I have no doubt they would
give anything to be through their financial crisis and not worry about how they
are going to feed and clothe their kids.
Personally I still haven’t heard of one Republican bill introduced that
would do one thing to reduce the unemployment rate. If I’m uninformed, please correct me. One more thing just occurred to me. Employers discriminate against people who “aren’t
leaving a current job” right now, which seems strange to me because one would
presume those would be the most eager applicants. But also employers will discriminate against
the long term unemployed. As such if
Rush Limbaugh is serious in anything he says, he should personally write out a
letter to every employer of a long term unemployed applicant who is “proving
they aren’t lazy” and urge that employer to hire the applicant, because “It is
I, Rush H Limbaugh who says so”.
Today Dennis Rodman lost his cool in having to defend the indefensible. You know what I'd like to see don't you is a Ted Cruz or a Marco Rubio losing his cool and completely "going off" before the camera when they realize they are now cornered and have become reduced to defending the completely absurd. You know some people who are recruited by religious Cults become like this. They defend their newfound beliefs or "Faith" to the death, it would seem, and that no price of embarrassment or absurd behavior is too high of a price to pay, for NOT having to - - you know - - Come to grips with Reality.
The consumer
electronics show is starting in Las Vegas today, but Leo Le Port has been downplaying
the thing for years saying it’s no longer relevant, because Apple doesn’t
market there anymore. (?) My impression of the convention is that they
show stuff that won’t at beat be on sale to the public for months, and in some
cases it’s just demo items that will never be marketed to the public. Florida State won the BCC or whatever. I was planning on getting rid of my Florida
State shirt but perhaps I’ll wear it one more time before I get rid of it. Channel seven is coming in well today with no
problems, without any antenna antics even.
Basically I know how to turn that lamp switch so that it goes on, but it’s
not the way it’s supposed to be.
I guess a big beef I
have with not only the Far Right but a lot of other people is this love affair
they have with Labels. Personally I don’t
like labels, and I don’t feel comfortable when asked to make generalizations
about other people. People forget that
the Label is of a lesser or secondary reality than the Thing itself, which you
are “labeling”. It’s less impressive to
me to say “So and so is a paranoid schizophrenic” than to just describe the
particular behavior that makes him seem odd.
I don’t like using the term “manipulative” either, partially because I
don’t like keeping company with others who misuse that word when they
Themselves are the ones who are most guilty of it. Rather than tell me that Christ was “sinless”
tell me what he did in his thirty three years on this planet and let me draw my
own conclusions just how I feel about him.
I back away from the terms “always” and “never”. But one area where these two words are
actually Under-Used - - is the expression “Sometimes we don’t get our way in
life. Sometimes God doesn’t answer our
prayers.” All too often these “Sometimes”
statements can be broken down to either an “Always” or a “Never” - - “Where the
rubber meets the road” so to speak. It
used to be that the term “liberal” had certain connotations. Maybe he wore an Afro, or wore beads and had
long hair and smelled grungy. Maybe he
was always looking for the next new drug to come out to get high on. He was probably a peacenik that was against
war under any circumstances. Or perhaps
he was the opposite. He was a hijacker
or Islamic terrorist. He was most certainly
a Marxist, (I say mostly in jest) But
when you look at President Obama he is guilty of none of these things and yet
his Hatred from the far Right is no less strident. The word “Marxist” is used most feely to
describe ANY economic policy that is contrary to this ultra right nternationalist
big money, create a new permanent underclass, type philosophy. Virtually none of the things liberals used to
be “guilty” of are true now. There are
many liberals who are true to their wives and are good family men and raise
their children relatively strictly. On
the other hand there are conservatives addicted to all manner of prescription
drugs, or who are closet gays, or guilty of multiple divorces and remarriages under
circumstances that would have gotten they looked on with a lot of suspicion in
a lot of Baptist churches. They say the
word “Values” but seem to have none worth striving for or emulating. “Values’ has become another buzz word.
I would like to clear up the matter of Quarks, the sub-atomic particle. By now you should know generically what a quark is, and if you don't just Google it. But one thing I looked for in my study of quarks was this alleged "Quirkiness" we've all heard about. We were told of this 'mirror symatry" where quarks do this little choriographed "dance" where their actions are mirror image synchronized. I think you brighter bulbs out there already know where I'm going with this. Because you may know that - - light travels at a fixed speed. Just as you can have inverted interest yield curves in Bonds and other financial instruments, so you can have reversed light- - where you are truely "viewing light backwards". Just like with a mirror - - it isn't the lateral image that's reversed. This is an illusion. It's what I call the "longitudinal image" or dimension that has been reversed, causing the illusion it's all "reversed". As you may know in my theory - - OK I guess Einstein would agree - - that since gravity goes where light goes, "What you see is what you get" in terms of that "Dimension" or aspect of THINGS we call "Materiality" and by "we" I mean Me. The apparent light source of Light is now from the Opposite direction - - and as such - - the "apparent" gravity field is NOW ALSO coming from the opposite direction. So you have an apparent reversed "source' of the image, and apparent "relocation" of the gravity source- - such that were you pursuing such an object- - that object would at sub light speed be exerting a tiny positive gravity field "pulling you tword it" as gravity attracts all objects together. But after the barrier has passed- - you would now appear to be "repelled" by that same object since the "gravity pull" is now BEHIND you. But none of this behavior is inherent to the Quark, and you don't find this behavior referenced in any of the writings on Quarks I have read. This "quirky behavior' is in fact, COMMON to all material matter and not limited to Quarks. Hence there is nothing inherent about a quarks behavior which would single out this trait any more than say, Blacks are inherently lazy or lacking in morals, and prone to violence and anarchy. Get it? Good.
Last night I did do
that blog post on Al Qaeda and the Theta star in Scorpio. Al Qaeda actually got more prominence in that
letter than did the famed “Polar vortex”.
However numbers in blogger were sharply up for both recent blogs, which
pleases me. I guess we had the ABC game
shows on but I don’t remember them. Then
it was “Almost Human” and “Sleepy Hallow” but I didn’t watch the whole
program. I did get four tea bags from
Glen last night as part of a cigarette deal.
I had two bags last night and two bags this morning. The ones in the morning upset my stomach
because I hadn’t eaten anything. I asked
for and got milk with my medication from Ricardo because of this. I had Glen Beck on from six to seven. It’s kind of reminiscent of the Bob and Doug
Mc Kinsey duo where they talked about “hosers” all the time. Their dumb humor gives them a harmless
quality. But the banter is so vapid it
must drive their hard core followers up the wall. We had a good breakfast. We had oatmeal with regular sugar. We had a fried egg, and toast with butter and
jelly, and I got an extra hashed brown from the Oriental guy, with catsup. After breakfast I turned on Stephanie Miller
on computer. I tried Free Speech dot com
but it seems a referral service for other satellite agencies and pay TV
outlets. It seems that all they want is
your money. But one place they said that
Stephanie Miller and friends weren’t even streaming on that network yet. So I had the light show in Windows Media
Player.
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