You
can’t take people’s words at face value anymore because Truth as a concept
seems to be becoming an obsolete concept in modern society. Another casualty of modern society is
civility, and you see this on the internet in places like Twitter and Facebook,
where the mot outrageous statements are made with no inhibitions or fear of
blow-back, they would face were they saying it to someone face to face. According to the June 20th White
House press briefing all these stories ( like reported in Washington’s blog) of
ethnic cleansing in the Ukraine against the Russian people are patently false,
and that any violations of human rights, according to a recent human rights
report, is on the part of the insurgent Russians. And Putin appears to be reassembling troops
along the Ukrainian eastern border once again.
But like I say truth is a casualty.
We all remember George Bush’s response to the Clinton surplus he inherited
was “We can’t keep this money; it belongs to the people. We have to give it back in the form of tax
cuts for mostly the rich”. The effect
of economic stimulus from this tax cut was minor at best, but we know the
effect it had on the deficit. John Mc
Cain’s statements on the buildup to the Gulf War are being resurrected. Mc Cain said that he foresaw no problems
between Shiite and the Sunni populations.
Others foresaw some kind of an economic paradise in Iraq where we would
do a war that would last “perhaps six weeks, I doubt six months’ that Donald
Rumsfeld said. And we were told that
with the oil profits “The war would pay for itself”. We sure is hell didn’t get cheaper gasoline-
- and under George Bush in the final years, it had never been so
expensive. Often we are told by certain
individuals “Just have a little faith”.
No matter what state you find yourself in you can dig yourself out of it
if you think positive thoughts and are willing to work hard. Christian Pastors love to tell stories about
the “persistence of having Faith”. A
little story just came to me yesterday in the dining room by something I heard
or thought I heard, and it goes like this.
I’m sitting there just gazing intently at a check, that is obviously a
bank check that people see the back of.
And someone says “How much is it for?”
And I say “A million dollars” and they go “Really? Let me see it” And you say “You can see it if you pay me ten
dollars, and in exchange - - I’ll give you ten thousand dollars of this check”. Now you mystery wedge people on Wheel of
Fortune would do the math and say “Ten dollars for ten thousand dollars, that’s
a really good deal”. But just like the “facts”
that the press reports- - - just like all of those discredited losers that were
on all the Sunday talk shows last Sunday- - you figure “I can get away with a
lie to prove my little point about how people lack faith”. Of course the problem is that everybody in
the media in2002 DID believe the War hype, and if you didn’t go along with this
panacea of war in Iraq, you got fired like Bill Mar and Phil Donahew. President Obama “took a leap of faith
himself” when in 2008 he left a church he’d gotten married in and his children
were baptized in because he “believed” that “This will make the Conservatives
happy” and figured it was somehow an “investment’ in his OWN future to betray
his own Faith like that. It’s like that
story I told you about a guy stranded in the desert coming upon a quart of
fresh water and seeing an old water pump and a note that said “Use this water
to prime the pump and you’ll get all the water you can drink”. OR- - you could just drink the water
yourself and know for a fact it would quench your thirst. Which do you do. Bush and Obama chose to throw three trillion
dollars down a rat hole saving these Wall Street banks. How’d that that work out? It was Bush who negotiated the troop
withdraw timetable with Meliki in Iraq, and not President Obama. But the media will not report that
either. The media doesn’t report a lot
of things they should. So in a perverse
way even a right winger- - who attacks the press for being political and not
doing their job, is in a perverse way- - absolutely correct. (Selah)
This
Dr Ben Carson is so full of it I can’t believe it. He talks about demonizing people and pitting
race against race and class against class, and he really comes down hard on the
Press, but the thing is the press is controlled by FOX and the corporate right
wing. He puts things in liberal’s mouths
they never said. He himself is what he criticizes
that’s all “politically correct” in the eyes of the Heritage Foundation and FOX
news. I’ve read “Rules for Radicals’
and if there is one thing that book emphasizes it’s negotiating terms and
“having a conversation” with your opponent.
It’s his own crowd that’s appallingly illiterate. Or it could be some of them actually know the
truth but it plays better in the FOX news press to say that they don’t. He tells this story laying it on thicker and
heavier as he went about how poor he was and how he respects his mother, and
could not even afford the most modest new things. And then he leap frogs from about age twelve
to when he’s in medical school. How
could he afford medical school? How
could he afford college? And every
detail of his story was constantly being laced with rhetoric and political
barbs. I tried to continue with that
Bowe Bergdoll hearing started this morning, but the thing wouldn’t advance –
and I wasn’t about to hear that opening garbage twice. The democratic guy opening made a lot of good
points and historical, perspective, one thing the right is famously lacking in
just about anything they say. They seem
to have instant amnesia about even recent history. Ben Carson would be the next “Herman Cane”
in any debate. These right wingers hate
Niggers, which is the driving hatred of Obama, so – why run Ben Carson? I mean, a nigger is a nigger is a nigger. Isn't that how these Red State yahoos reason?
I
had Chris Matthews on and he opened Friday’s program talking about Chris
Christie, where apparently nobody has fingered the Governor for his many
offences and violations of State and also Federal law, including financial
malfeasance. There was a thing on Scott
Walker of Wisconsin, where again the Wisconsin Governor thinks he’s safe from
any indictment, even though the political manipulation he’s done really
smells. Chris Matthews says “These are
two heavy hitters in the 2016 Presidential race, that are no longer on the
bench as contenders”. Then it was a
thing on Marion Berry, which I was listening to when Paul called. Barry has quite a story to tell about his own
background as the child of share croppers in Mississippi, and how he overcame
the many obsticles against him. Barry
served three terms of mayor of Washington DC and Matthews only voted for him
his second term. Early on the major
transformed Washington into a vastly improved city with improved social
services for the Black population. Some
of Barry’s remarks were a little bit - - racially over-bearing. But I think the reason why Rush Limbaugh
hates him so much is what Barry said.
“These conservatives are against any Black man in my state who overcomes
and makes it big”. Of course Barry was
entrapped in a hotel room by a prostitute coming in and offering cocaine, and
the thing was photographed. Now Barry
after a long hiatus, has been elected once again for a fourth term as DC
mayor. I watched the first long segment
of Thursday’s show where Matthews points out the absurdity if our going back to
Iraq because Meliki “Is a man who’ll never change and has no incentive to
change”. He is hoping to have support
from Shiite Iran as well as support from the United States. The President himself is “playing for time”
hoping some answer will just fall out of the sky. He is making pro war speeches to keep the
Republicans happy, but of course that isn’t working, so he’s ending up just
ticking off everybody. There is clearly
no upside to our returning to Iraq to somehow pick up where we left off as
Chaney and Mc Cain and Wolfiwitz want us to do.
In
my mind before breakfast I had a whole scenario or “sermon lecture” I was
thinking of doing on my next blog posting.
I’m in my own private recession despite what the statewide readings on
unemployment say. Orange county is 4.9%
unemployment and San Diego county is in the five’s. These are good and people here have no need
now at all to think of moving to someplace like Texas to find jobs. And I don’t want to hear any more about
people so poor here in Orange county they can’t afford their property taxes as
Paul intoned a couple years ago. I’ll be
out of my personal “recession” when family relations become better. I'll be out of my personal recession when SSI increases more approximate the real rate of inflation which is way over the 1.3% they claim. I'll be out of my personal recession when California restores the Renters Rebate program, which guarenteed an additional two hundred dollars plus, per year. The roomer is that Texas Governor Rick Perry will be coming to California to reside once he's through with his final term as Governor of Texas. People on the right predicted the economic demise of California but as far as I can see, we are faring a whole let better than many other states, and our health care plan "Covered California" is quite successful. Since the stock markets don't care whether we have war in the Mideast or not, perhaps I shouldn't either.
This
is after dinner. The great unspoken
Truth in my writings today is that whether our nation is salvageable at all is
in severe question. I do not believe we
have to years to “wait out” another session of the “Dictatorship of the Koch
Brothers” in Congress. Because the very
means we liberals have of presenting our case- is vanishing. Not only are left wing outlets such as PBS
being “bought out” by the corporatists- - I see no liberal multi millionaire
such as Bill Gates stepping forward and laying a few million on Free Speech
TV. The wealthy liberals are apparently
not THAT dedicated to liberalism at all.
I got a whole white cigarette from James at three thirty. We had Salisbury steak with a tomato based
sauce and white rice and banana squash for dinner. The vanilla pudding with peaches in it was
served first and since I was famished I ate that first. We got a second whole patty of meat and
sauce, and more banana squash.
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