On The California Drought

Rush Limbaugh’s remarks (transcript) on a recent program centered on two themes.  First of all he said that thirty plus years ago that the Gay population said “We just want to be left alone”, but that today they don’t want to be “left alone” but they want overt acceptance and being embraced by the main stream culture.  I have trouble finding fault with this logic.  It’s just that I too am “homophobic” but I don’t advertise that fact, because I think being rabidly anti gay is a non starter in this current political climate.  So the question is “Am I going to come out of the closet that I’m actually anti gay?” But then he moves on to the Southern California drought.  This is the fourth full year of the drought, that actually began in 2011.  Rush Limbaugh believes our problem is that we didn’t build enough resavaurs when times were good to store more water.  It doesn’t make any difference how large your resavaur is if there is no water to put in it.  I was never told “All of our lakes and resavaurs are to capacity- - we can’t save another drop”.  My memory is that there has ALWAYS to one degree or another been a LACK of water in our lakes and resavaurs.  I am inclined to lend a sympathetic ear to those who say we don’t need “smart meters” to monitor us all minute by minute and insure that we confine ourselves to five minute showers.  And I told you about the microwave emissions that will take place which some day will endanger the health of the residents of the home.  And unspoken in this- - was the likelihood of these new microwaves causing interference with other electronic devices.  Yet at the same time they are letting water OUT of resavaurs ON PURPOSE so that the fish will have more water to swim in.  Clearly though this particular drought is worse than any of the others.  Apparently the next driest season was the 1960 – 1961 season.  Now they are telling people to rip out their lawns that they’ve labored over and nurtured trying to get them growing good and green.  To me this is nothing short of absurdity.  Grass is good for a whole host of things- - like kids playing in the yard - - ect.  It looks nice.  But more importantly it COOLS the air and also absorbs carbon emissions- - so it’s an ecological move.  In this era is trying not to WASTE energy it seems to pointless to get all manner of bulldozers and such- - consuming energy to rip out lawns and put in a rock and cactus garden- - that looks tacky and is a constant reminder that we ARE in a drought- - and most importantly heats up the air driving our Air Conditioner bills up.  I do not relish the idea of “federalizing” this crisis.  That’s just more beaurocrats to get in the way.  One thing wrong with the handling of Katrina was that each governmental layer blamed someone else.  I got to be a little much.  Some are “confident” that our government is going to become more totalitarian all around.  For instance today it’s water.  Tomorrow there will be laws on what we can spend our money on and our whole economy will be “monitored” much more tightly, as presumably massive new rounds on taxes on new groups of people will take place.

Hillary Clinton is kicking off her campaign for President tomorrow- - and it’s staged and pre planned, which we will be seeing a lot of.  The video for it has already been recorded.  For some strange reason she’s going to be “not herself” but pretend in some new plastic campaign that she is a “new voice” in American politics.  Bill Clinton will play a minimal role in the campaign, which Shawn Hannity regards as a major mistake, and I agree.  Hillary has collapsed in the polls going from 67% and 64% as recently as a couple of years ago- - to 48% now and now is losing to Rand Paul in the key states of Virginia, Iowa, and Colorado, three “purple states”.  She seems not to be noticing this total collapse of support around her.  Just now I saw Hillary’s announcement of 2007 when she spoke of the Bush Administration and conversation in Washington getting a little styfeling.  It still is.  Then as now she opened up a “listening tour” and I guess she’s satisfied with that campaign formula.  Virginia Governor Jim Webb might be a "non threatening" form of liberalism - - because Webb confines himself to the issues we'll need to face next year, without saying "This is the way a political Liberal looks at the situation".   

They had extensive coverage of the Rand Paul campaign and this idea of “nation building” Ran Paul talked of in his speech- - I took to mean that there will be no humanitarian or bridge building or schools for women or anything like that.  Our foreign policy will veer away from diplomacy and concentrating on lobbing bombs, preferably Nuclear Bombs- - on whatever Islamic country we think deserves it.  And yet this same group that “Swift Boated” John Kerry- - “Committee for a Secure American Future” or whatever- - is now doing a saturation or “carpet bombing” campaign in the media attacking the Ron Paul campaign before it can get off the ground.  Even Michael Steel admits these people in the Dick Chaney wing of the Republican Party are dreadfully afraid of him.  They are accusing Rand Paul of being pro Obama backing the President’s stance on the Iranian deal- - when I heard Rand Paul say just the opposite.  They had a thing on the White House staff under Nixon and others in a segment I partially skipped over.  There is a fiction that they are “only there to serve” like robot androids who have no emotions or thoughts about what they are hearing in the conversation.

The Apple watch came out yesterday but they have a backlog of orders already until June.  Leo didn’t spend that much time talking about them, except he enumerated cases where they could come in really handy.  Leo says they might come out with a twelve inch deluxe I Pad come October.  Leo is saying the I Phones come out in September, but I remember a time when they always came out in June.  I guess there is a deeper issue here- because the media has been and does now- - talk to us and pitch goods to us as though there is or has been no economic recession the past seven years.  One wonders how any sane person could ever afford something so frivelous as a watch you have to have an I phone to even use properly.  The media sees us as completely bored with money to burn and willing to spend a seemingly boundless ammount of greenbacks on the most trivial thing that strikes our fancy.    Congress has not met for two weeks but are supposedly scheduled to be back Monday.  It’s seemed longer than that.  The US Military now had dropped all restrictions on active servicemen getting tattooed.

If “The Bible Continues” as a series continues to play it as some “political movement” or philosophical movement of “a new way of thinking and seeing the world” one wonders why it would even be relivant whether Jesus physically rose from the grave or not.  If he as Pilate says “just a decaying piece of dead meat” how do you go about saying anything other than that (grim fact) - about his current physical state?  Or if you do allude to some improved "state" (such as ascended into heaven now) and yet offer up no evidence.  It’s like Joseph Smith and the gold tablets that appeared and were transcribed, and then taken back up into heave, and you’re supposed to take the whole experience of others “on faith”.  To me that is a much weaker message than repeating the words and message that Jesus actually taught, more so in the first three gospels than in the Fourth Gospel, laden as it is with heavy theology.  No.  Without the over-lay of Gnosticism, what Christianity essentially IS, a “Belief System” rather than a way of living daily life- - would have never gotten off the ground.  Without the “Born Again” experience of Gnosticism, Christianity may have evolved very differently indeed.  (Selah)

 Thom Hartman was just reading off a bunch of postings from Palm Beach police on the best way to give a suspect they don’t like a hard time.  They say to use a realistic looking beebee gun as a thrown down rather than a weapon actually used in a crime, which they would have to explain.  There was talk about sprinkling marijuana leaves on the car- or having a cocaine bag in the car at all times to plant.  This whole exchange between multiple officers was obscenity laden.  Were I accused of a crime in this area I would merely have my attorney make reference to exchanges like this.  Clearly the officer’s word is no good.  Norman’s show was on the idea that good cops or doctors will not get rid of bad cops or doctors, so the way I see it, we can “temporarily forget that there are good cops or doctors” when we criticize them.  Because it’s if they are saying “We don’t CARE if you see the whole group as bad- - “ so I’m merely agreeing with them.  OK our Blogger number is up to 31 so this blog is getting off to a better start.  OK this is later and I just watched about half of a VP Joe Byden speech on Iraqi unity in the face of the ISIS threat.  There is more unity and resolve shown by ALL factions than Shawn Hannity would ever dare admit.