Let them Eat Cake

John Mc Cain today has stated that he is thinking of cancelling the St. Paul Republican convention is the hurricane Gustav crisis materializes. The best indications are that Gustav is headed right for New Orleans. After it left the mountains of Cuba it went from a three to a four and now some say a category five storm. Winds are at least 145 mph. Mc Cain doesn't think it would be right to hold the convention under such circumstances. There is talk that the Media will be "confused as to which story to cover" if there are two events going on at once. But as Johnny Wendell says it isn't as though we have some shortage of reporters that they can't allocate their time well and cover both. Of course three years ago George Bush was presenting John Mc Cain with a birthday cake on his then 69th. birthday. Apparently Marie Antwenette was tortured by her Jacoban captors into being forced to watc the beheading of all her clossest survants before she herself was beheaded in the Guillitine. But John Mc Cain has more pressing problems. There is talk his vice presidential pick, Sarah Palin, won't last out the week. The "vetting" process has begun and there are so many scandals in her closet it isn't surprising that Mc Cain doesn't know them, since he apparently chose her after meeting with her only once, after one phone call. Sarah Palin is the governor of Alaska and before this was the mayor of a town of only 6,700 people. She is a gun freak and likes to skin and eat wild moose. She goes to the assembly of God church, and doesn't even believe in abortion in the case of a father raping his own daughter. It would seem that Alaska is a hotbed of political corruption. Sarah Palin was for the "bridge to nowhere" before she was against it. She had this "Who me?" attitude when picked, like a woman who'd just won the Irish Sweepsteaks. She told someone that she didn't even know what the dutues of Vice President were. She brought a Wal-Mart to her city, which is kind of a strike against her knowing all the people that are driven out of business. She is definitely against the little guy. Apparently she worked to bring some Sports Arena to her city but refused to offer the owners a fair price for the property but apparently began building the Arana anyhow, and now the city government is in big legal trouble and each and every tax payer is out a cost of three thousand dollars a piece. Also there was a "trooper gate" type case where a popular qualified commander was fired out of sheer spite and not even given severence pay. But the new guy she hired only lasted two weeks, and he for that two weeks was given a ten thousand dollar severance package. No doubt her views on abortion will be praised by some. She gave birth to a child with Down's sidrone despite being warned of this fact before she gave birth. Apparently she connects with John Mc Cain on some emotional level. But since this is the first "executive decision" candidate Mc Cain made, it's a shame he didn't make a better choice. In my mind I'm not sure whether Mc Cain is competetent either. There is stil those anger issues that appear unresolved. Johnny Wendell believes the media will protect Paylin from scruteny for the same reason they rig the polls so that Obama is never very far ahead. It reminds me of that Star Trek episode where Kirk revs up his phaser to full power and yet can't even make a dent in the wall he is aiming out. But Kirk says "How do I know I just didn't put a hole in that wall a mile wide but you people are preventing me from seeing it? Some would say the Democrat Convention as a whole "knocked the ball out of the park". But now matter how well they perform people like John Kovel will say "the whole thing is pointless anyhow".

All told I would rank the speeches given at the Convention in the following order. First place goes to John Kerry. Then Bill Clinton. Then Hillary Clinton. Then Joe Biden. Obama's speech was better than most speeches he's given and he "pulled a lot of things together". It was more like a Sunday sermon than a speech. He seemed to address his audience like Roosevelt used to do with his radio fireside chats. He treated the situation as some crisis for which every American would have to make sacrifices. There were things "that got left out of the biscuit recipee" as Everett Dirkson once said of a 1967 speech by LBJ. There are certain things nobody talks about such as terrifs and trade and NAFTA. This is such an important issue it can't just be ignored. Also left out of the biscuits was any reference to the impeachment of George Bush or the many misdeeds of George Bush and torture and abuse of powers and unauthorized spying on Americans or the Patriot Act. Also the Don Siegelman affair wasn't mentioned that has Karl Rove's fingerprints all over it. How can naked political abuse go unnoticed. And I haven't even gotten to the election irregularities of 2004 or Republican caging practices of potential voters.

Some might say not to grow weary in well doing. Dr. Dean Edell today was talking about vaccinations and is it OK if one person doesn't vaccinate his kids for various "reasons"? Sometimes things are a clear if not a present danger. The doctor says vaccinations are like speed limits and stop signs. The world won't come to an end if one person speeds, or rolls through a stop sign. But if society as a whole does it, you know you're headed for problems. So it is with vaccinations and "herd immunity". There is historically shown a specific point where if you go below it as far as percent of vaccinations is concerned, all those old diseases will again get a foothold. Besides they took the mercury out of vaccinations ten years ago and this autism thing is more hysteria than anything else. Did you know giving chili peppers to a horse is illegal? It seems it makes him run faster and makes him less sensitive to pain, and we can't have that. Even though some would call it a "natural drug". One "natural drug" herb now has been hyped on a radio station I listen to to restore the brain cells in your brain and prevent memory loss. It is said that if caffein were offered as a new drug today as a white powder that the government would never approve it. It seems that marathon bikers all use caffein. They just can't give chili peppers to horses. I guess nobody wants to start the roomer that in fact caffein will be the next target of the liberals as a substance they want to ban. They've already gone after tobacco and fast food. It would seem each subsequent thing will make less sense to ban than the previous thing so that in the end you will have media hysteria rather than reason ruling the day.

I myself am still loosing weight. I've lost in excess of fifty-five pounds in the last 26 months, and that's thin enough for me, and now I have a cold, which can't help. I have cut my cigarette buying expenditures to a third or less than what they were two and a half years ago, but I'm not sure that's enough for my mother and one brother. This is in the face of raging inflation where I got a four dollar raise for the year. Rent has gone up in the face of collapsing real estate prices. And like I say I'm one of the few people that didn't benefit from George Bush's tax rebate. Of course I promised "God" I'd quite smoking if Obama was nominated. Yet Johnny Wendell said something today that got me thinking about the credibility of Christianity. There is a fact, actually a set of two parrellel facts if you know what I mean, that if focused on and thought about even a little would leave Christianity quite vulnerable and "unprotected". If this fact were generally known (or believed) Christianity in total would go up in flames faster than that paper machet Thanksgiving table decoration Lisa Simpson had on a Simpson's episode.

Do you ever have a thought that just reverberates around in your mind and you wonder if it means anything or your brain is just on overdrive? You know that line Drive radio played the other day about President Reagan doing that radio mic test where he says "We have now declared the communist empire against the law. The bombing begins in five minutes". Of course we had a President Luther thing on "Smallville" the other night where Lex is even more evil than he is in real life where he blows up the world world in World War III to start anew and build a master race or something. Some worry about whether an aging President Mc Cain wouldn't decide life was no longer living because one of those skin melenomas will eventually do him in, and why not just take the rest of the world along with him as long as he's not going to be here. The vision in my brain was of that star, Krypton blowing up. I was musing on how there was that Jewish deliveror in 135 AD who started a war for Isrial against Rome. And his name in English means "Son of a Star". Is this a comon messianic theme where a star blows up and the lone survivor goes to another planet and becomes the Messiah? I don't know. I'm just thinking. And what of that dream I had were some star went supernova or something on December 12th. of a certain year? Does that mean anything? The trouble is if we did see a star go supernova this year- - it would have occurred years ago like in 1989 or perhaps much forther back.