Some Things Are a Big F---ing Deal!

It’s hard to say just what makes a trial jury render a corrupt verdict.  Clearly in the case of K C Anthony, justice was not served.  Here was a woman charged with murdering her two year old daughter, and the two year old girl’s body was found out in the woods.  The traditional story was that little Caley was accidently drowned and the mother panicked and her father then took it upon himself to cover up the crime and take the body out into the woods where the police found it.  As defenses go, that’s pretty pathetic.  But like any liar she can’t even keep to the same story but has to keep inventing new ones.  Now she is telling her attorney named Jose Baez (I guess that’s Joan Baez in male drag or something) – she’s telling him that her father molested her when she was between eight and twelve, first by just touching, but then by full sex.  But the attorney noted a certain cold, recitative nature of her words devoid of the expected emotion.  She was also devoid of emotion talking about her daughter’s death.  Often shrinks and attorneys would describe her as “cheerful and upbeat, but not manic, and seemingly without an emotional care in the world”.  Now she also adds on to this list that her father molested her daughter.  Now she says that her father presented her with her soaking drenched daughter and K C Anthony is troubled and the father says “Never mind, I’ll take care of it” and then disposes of the body.  It was noted that the ONLY time K C Anthony showed any emotion at all was – not at news of the death – but rather at the idea of her Dad making her tape the rap for the murder.  Given all this, I can’t conceive of any trial jury rendering a verdict of not guilty.  But now K C Anthony has the unmitigated gall to try and peddle her story to the media- as though anybody with any moral fiber at all would pay one red cent to hear the ramblings of this evil, pathological and lying sociopath.

There have been persistent roomers of the Talliban suing for peace with the Obama administration.  That would be a real feather in the President’s cap if he could pull that off.  Given the short shelf life of stories in the media, the President is going to need some fresh triumph to take to the people to convince them not to vote for the Republicans next November.  So it’s either to announce that the Talliban has laid down their arms, or that he had decided to Nuke Iran, and the latter could get rather messy.

I guess there is some trial at Camp Pendelton now where a Master Sergeant ordered his men to massacre 24 men, women and children in Iraq.  In other news, four GI’s are in trouble for urinating on the bodies of four dead Talliban members.  As that General Di says, we are supposed to respect the enemy in his capacity as a fellow combatant, laying his life on the line just as our side is.  And then we have the case of former Mississippi governor Haley Barber pardoning over two hundred convicts.  But the trouble is 21 of them were high risk murderers and the like.  Now in what I regard as an unprecedented move a Court Judge has stayed the order of those 21 pardons citing constitutional grounds, saying that the State was not given sufficient notice of these pardons to “review their cases”.  I don’t know how Mississippi law works.  But I have no idea why Governor Barber would pardon such dangerous convicts as he leaves office, except it seems to be a common practice for departing governors.  Presumably it’s because it’s a “custom” to ‘do a favor for convicts who are employed at the governor’s mansion” or something.  The whole arrangement sounds a little seedy to me.

In terms of my personal life, of that long list of problems and complaints, most of them are still in evidence, except the coffee one has been fixed.  Loretta is still not back from the hospital and it’s going on sixteen days.  Interestingly, 97% of Mormons regard themselves as Christian.  Bill Handel asks, “What to the other three percent regard themselves as - - Moslem?”  I don’t know.  By the way, Seid and Nicky are a married couple and not two men.  I just wanted to clear up that misapprehension.  You know, Dr. Phil talks about certain decisions we make when we are younger having adverse consequences later on.  There are “chapters” in my life I would like to think are over and done, but I know they really aren’t.  Some people will judge and wag fingers on the slightest of pretences.  You know some people say that Politics is like a soap opera.  There is such a jumbled mass of “stuff” happening that most of it is completely irrelivent in the long run and will be forgotten a year from now.  Well I beg to differ with people like Thom Hartman who says that this whole Romney and Bain capital thing won’t amount to a hill of beams come November.  Thom Hartman, like I say, has been pretty much a “No Show” on this whole Romney issue.  Sometimes it takes a certain ability to discern what really IS a “Big Fucking Deal”.  Sometimes teenagers can make decfisions now that cast a long shadow over their lives later on, like Will Horton is in the process of doing in at least a couple of areas of his life.  But before you start playing that old “Change My Way of Thinking” record, you better think twice about what you are giving up.  Some people, especially if they have any hopes of going into politics later had better think NOW about the decisions they make, because it may render them useless as a candidate later on.  Mitt Romney already had two strikes against him.  First of all he’s a Mormon.  The second thing is that he’s a flip-flopper.  Make no mistake about it;  Mitt Romney has done 180 degree turn-arounds on a whole host of issues, and Randy Rhodes was playing old tapes of his speeches like in 1994 running against Ted Kennedy.  Usually when I see or hear old speeches of mine I’m impressed at how prophetic I was that long ago.  Unfortunately not everybody has my stellar record.   I honestly don’t think Hartman has given this whole matter sufficient thought at all or he would have come to a vastly different conclusion, as I have.  To put it bluntly,  this whole thing with Bain Capital is about the WORST thing that could Happen in a political primary by one party.  It’s on a magnitude, for instance,  of the Democrats being split over the Viet Nam War in 1968 or the Republicans being split on the Civil Rights bill in 1964.  On this issue of Bain Capital you see the Republican Party split right down the middle.  You have Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin and Rick Perry on one side, and people like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Rick Santorum on the other.  Also a key factor in this whole thing is FOX news and “Big Money”.  Because whatever Big Money decides, is who is going to get elected and FOX news and Rush Limbaugh will pitch any line Big Money tells them to.  Now Rush Limbaugh has been ordered not to use the word “Capitalist” because it doesn’t play well in these troubled times.  Rather he and FOX news are to use the words “Economic Freedom”.  Just to be clear about it - - Rush Limbaugh is not as biased as Sean Hannity and today has shown some inclination to present both sides of the issue.  Newt has not handeled this issue well at all.  One minute he’s releasing that 30 minute film on Romney.  Then after talking to Sean Hannity he says “Maybe I crossed the line” and later on that evening he tells another reporter “I never said that I crossed the line”.  Newt has been entirely too much of a pussy footer on this whole issue.  Newt wants to make clear that “I’m not attacking Capitalism per se, but I’m merely questioning the decisions made by one man, Mitt Romney, and whether such decisions of a man running for President or wise”.  I never thought anything else.  Sarah Palin adds that we need to see the balance sheets and tax forms of Bain Capital to get the full story and then make a decision, and hopefully these will be forthcoming.  Clearly if Newt plays his cards right it would score first place in the South Carolina primary and it’s a victory he very badly needs, and if he doesn’t get it now, he may never get it.  The question is whether Newt has been too badly bloodied by Romney in Iowa to still be a viable enough candidate.  Rick Perry is only pulling five percent in South Carolina, which surprised me.  I thought he’d be closer to twenty.  Mitt gave up half his big lead in New Hampshire and now had fallen fifteen points, so I hear, in South Carolina from 37% to 23%.  This is not a small change – in such a short period of time.  Whether it’s too early to say “Mitt is going down in flames” I don’t know.  All I know is if the Republicans don’t get their act together and soon, they will be in deep doo-doo come Convention time, regardless of how well the President does running the country at large.  Four months ago I was ready to vote for Ralph Nader in November or something in disgust for the whole process.  I think some people may vote for Ralph Nader or Tom Hayden or whoever- - if either it looks hopeless and the President cannot win, or else- - the President is so far out in front of the Republican candidate that a few votes don’t matter and that there is an expendable margin to play with.  Everybody always wants to appear timely in their writing and in these trying times that is hard.  Still I plan to look back in November to see how relevant I was now.