Mike
Papentonio was talking about whistle blowers.
Seldom are they in it for any reward for their services. They are whistle blowers often because vast amounts
of money are at stake and very likely human lives when it comes to health
services or polluting corporations.
They credit this “shipping off to Syberia” bit with Richard Nixon. But that’s not the worst thing that could
happen to you. After all at a hospital
some superior may threaten you “if you say anything I’ll have you back emptying
bed pans so fast it’ll make your head spin”.
After all if the issues are grave enough you may not care. You’ll just quit. But Mike Papentonio mentioned how often they
will saddle you with a difficult project nobody else wants to attempt- - like
capturing Bin Laden. No wait a
minute. That’s been done. It amusingly reminded me of Paul who if he
had a “tough case” he would turn her over to me. One time at the Bosc house in April of 1981
Paul just said “You talk to Jeane, I don’t have the patience to handle her any
more”. So they are pretty “far gone” by
the time I get them. But what a
corporation will do is call the whistle blower a “nare do well” and kind of
lazy- - falling down on the job, when in reality he’s been “set up” to
fail. And he will be assigned a
corporate “Toadie” (a term I first heard
in an obscure VHS tape movie I got from my dad, that I still have) A toadie is a yes man who will do anything
they are ordered to by their superior.
He will ride shot gun on the whistle blower, writing down notes - - “compiling
a case” that maybe the guy has major emotional problems or better yet, is just
psychologically unstable, and the information can be used to discredit
him. Mike says “For every one whistle
blower we get in a drug company, there are probably a hundred who wanted to do
the same thing, but got scared out of it”.
President Obama is said to be highly unsympathetic to whistle blowers.
There
was a very biased article on Senate filibusters. The biggest test was not yesterday when John
Boehner got another term as House Speaker.
No. The biggest for the Senate
Democrats was keeping the sixty percent filibuster rule alive. And it appears they will succeed at doing
that. Of course the Republican Senate in
2008 was absolutely merciless in applying the filibuster in blocking a lot MORE
house bills which were passed, but never became law. But in that case these red state Senators
might represent ten or fifteen percent of the population. Since Democrats come from the more urban,
populated state- - it really isn’t the same thing at all when THEY filibuster,
which I imagine they’ll be doing quite a bit of now. We’ll let John Boehner’s words come back to
haunt him in saying “I regard the bills we BLOCK from passage in this session
as our most importint accomplishment, rather than the bills we do”. However it looks like the Keystone XL
pipeline bill will pass the filibuster standard this session, since they came
damn near close to passing it in the senate session immediately passed. You will not the spelling on “passed”. But oil prices are down to $48.00 a barrel
and reportedly falling, wwith no upturn in sight for prices probably till the “summer
formulation” that they require here in California, which will raise prices at
the pump. I’m not all that happy about
the carbon tax taking effect in California at this time because we already do
have stricter pollution standards than the rest of the country, and it’s just
one more stumbling block to a more robust economy in this state. But I would return to the topic of the XL
pipeline because that outfit can’t make a profit at $48.00 a barrel for the
oil. Not even close. From what I’ve heard if the per barrel price
is anything below sixty five dollars per barrel then forget it. And with it- - go all of those glowing pipe
dreams of Sean Hannity.
If
you are wondering, the Federation has editorially come down hard on these
terrorists who killed a dozen people and two cops trying to intimidate a satirical
newspaper in France. Rush Limbaugh
points out that President Obama himself warned this same magazine that
publishing nude photos of the Prophet Mohamed isn’t such a smart idea. They said “You have the right to publish it,
but it shows poor judgement”. But the
problem is this. These Islamics came to
France and agreed presumably to abide the laws of that country. Presumably they are French citizens who swore
allegence to the French constitution with it’s civil rights including Free
Speech. It’s rather stupid for a caller
to do what he did on the Norman Goldman show today to say “Oh, you are free to
publish whatever you want, but you have to realize there are Consequences for
publishing material that we Islamics personally disagree with. There is a significant “French contingent” in
the Federation, but normally we hear about them on their St Barthalamew’s day
on August 24th. No foreign
outsiders- - and that goes for both Calvinists or Islamics. I understand that President Obama was under a
lot of political pressure back in September of 2012. But the Romney contingent does have a point
that the Obama administration tried to really hype the idea that “Al Qaeda is
on the run. They have become a thing of
the past”. I think some of the “Arab
Spring” hype of the Obama Administration may have been trying to do the same
thing. It’s as if they were saying, “Look
there is nothing to fear from Islamics any more, they’ve adopted democracy”. The trouble is the President has consistently
exercised a lot of “bad judgment” himself in the things he chooses to brag
about and say “are so” when we know they “aren’t so”.
We
have some cosmic stuff, and some of it we included in a paragraph that was lost
when the computer crashed yesterday. So
we will say those things over, and add other items to the list. Most Romulans of any stripe were for the
Detroit Lions in Sunday’s game with Dallas.
The two exceptions are the Dallas Romulans, and also the Atlanta
Romulans. The “tea party” contingent of
Sirius A (otherwise known as the orthodox nut job wing of the ZAC) have always been Dallas Cowboy fans because
of the five pointed star and the blue and silver decore. January 7, 2015 is today and January
seventh is when the Romulans who celebrate Christmas, celebrate it. Not on the sixth but the seventh, or thirteen
days where the Julian Calendar is removed from the Gregorian calendar. We seem to have a one day difference of opinion
in calculation. But basically we are
talking about the Torranto and Hamburg Romulans- - or the ones who also
racially live on Sirius A. By the way
some of that cockney accent these Romulans have may date back to the seventeen
hundreds when the Cirius A’s hung out among the British lower classes, of lot
of which talked that way. If you’re
curious, the Southern California Romulans have always celebrated Christmas day
on December 25th. But this is
why Bones told me on Christmas Eve “It’s just another day on Sirius A”. We have some other racial identities for
you, and also informing myself that we’ve just entered page seven so the
majority of today’s journal will be on another file after I post this and if I
get around to it today. “Hewey Lewis
and the News” are Doobies. This of
course is the Gemini group that’s half Centaurian and half Andromeda E. The Doobie “invasion” occurred in the early
to mid seventies with the Doobie Brothers as the “Drone” group. (They like the term “drone” rather than “pilot”
group) Three eights of the Dallas
Romulans are as follows, the Delanians, the Renwah - - and the Fiorians. We now have identity to the Fiorians. We told you they hang out in Atlanta. They are actually half Crestorian and half
Delphi - - -
. This is Daneb the star in
Cygnus the Swan. And we have at least a
name to associate with some eighties rock groups. We told you previously that REO Speedwagon,
Wham, Rick Springfield, and Hall and Oats - - were all in the same group. They call themselves the Chase group. But hold on.
That is pronounced “Shase” and that’s in their native language and
translates “Chute” as in either an emergency chute on an airplane, or a
bobsled, or one of these water ride things they have in amusement parks. By the way these Romulans who celebrate
Christmas on January 7th generally follow the script of that movie I
saw with Paul, to the effect that the Three Wise Men arrived on Christmas
night, and attended the birth of the Lord Jesus.
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