Excuse me for going "Rev Rick Warren" on you but if there is close as anything to a pure Evil entity out there it is the American Legeslitive Executive Counsil or A L E C out there. Some may think of Alex Keaton, the sitcom character played by Michael J Fox. We don't know what sort of character this individual may have "morphed" into thirty years later. Perhaps they should do a sequel. But this group is a major player in poisoned pen legislation throughout the land in the "several states". They are the ones who have gotten these whacko "stand your ground" gun laws in now 24 states and I had no idea the figure had climbed that high but Chris Matthews says it has. He produced a map which shows about two thirds of the land area of the United States now with these kinds of laws. What is bad about the wording of these laws according to a Matthews guess is that it takes the "burden of proof" off of the gun user and places it on to the DA to "prove" that the shooter did NOT act with mal intent. This is because the justification for these shootings of unarmed "suspects' is solely at the drescretion of the gun user on how he happened to feel at the moment, like in the Hattie Carol song. "He was just feeling that way at the moment". So now a man can pursue someone and get out of his car and pursue him on foot and be justified in any action he chooses to take. This has gotten so strange that in Texas a guy called the cops and said a robber was at his neighbor's home and the cops told him repeatedly to back off and they would take care of it. We have the actually audio recording. The dispatcher at the other end becomes increasingly alarmed at the impulsive state of the guy on the phone with a gun and finally the guy with the gun says "I'm hanging up now. I've gotta do what I've gotta do" and grabs his gun and you hear "No" at the other end of the phone. A few seconds you hear a series of shot gun shots or something and the guy is dead. I think they tell this story because perhaps all charges were dropped. In the case of George Zimmerman, he got in this bar altercation with law enforcement. The cops were there to arrest the bar tender for serving alcohol to under age patrons. Zimmerman because verbally abusive and threatening to law enforcement and I think "assault" was one of the charges filed against Zimmerman for interfering with Law Enforcement. Such a crime is a Felony in Florida. But someone pulled strings and the charge was reduced to misdomeanor, and then dropped entirely. So Zimmerman gets to keep his gun. Now of course we hear from the brother and father that Zimmerman's head was so bashed around so much by the much lighter Martin, that he feared brain damage and would "end up as a vegetable having to wear diapers the rest of his life" and so he acted. Someone said two facts we "Know" is that Zimmerman physically knocked the cell phone out of Martin's hands, and at the time Martin was expressing fear and alarm to his girlfriend. We don't know exactly what occurred in the next few seconds. There are good shots of Zimmerman with his buzz cut revealing an unblemished face and no head wounds minutes later. We know that it was higher ups in the state of Florida that bore pressure to drop this case. We also know that A L E C is not responding to any rise in the crime rate. As you know the crime rate is down the past twenty years. There have been no "calls from the public for tougher gun laws" but these laws have been passed none the less. In absolute number of Murders - - killings - - the number is up, of course in Florida because these are killings that Never would have been Contemplated under their old laws. So overall violence is hence up. A L E C is also responsible for this crack down on minority voters and photo ID and all of that. Once again it's not because a cry has gone up of "voter fraud" from the Public at large. In fact there is every indication that A L E C is merely following the Rev Paul Warwick's battle plan to get the number of voters Down, so that "Our sway in the elections goes Up". So here you have laws passed purely and exclusively to tip the political balance in states throughout the land - - to the Right, in order to elect more tea baggers who never would have gotten in, othersise. And then's the political realities.
In Political news the tea party right was salivating over the "open mike" event at the UN or something when the President was overheard saying "Just wait till after the November election and we'll be a lot more flexible as far as missile defence in Europe and all, and you'll get what you want". It's a remark a President Marcus would NOT have made, that's for sure. None the less Obama made it and now he's paying the Price with this 'James Bond' add like Obama is some kind of an energy double agent to Russia or something. Meanwhile in the "battleground' states the President is doing well. He is up "two or three" points in Pennsylvania. He's actually up seven points in Ohio and six points, even in Florida and in Wisconsin against Mitt Romney Obama scores an amazing 52 to 35 percent over Romney or something. None the less people are still worried. This morning the President returned to "I want to have the rich pay their fair share so all Americans get an equal shake. To the tea party right these are code words for "lets make everybody Equal like the Socialists and Communists want to do and destroy our way of Life". Of course it looks like it WILL be Mitt Romney as the nominee. The Samtorum Surge has pretty much fizzled and now it's just a question of consolidating his base for Romney before he goes after Obama. To that end he's secured so many endorsements already such as people like Mc Cain and John Huntsman. But more recently he's bagged the support of Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush, as well as H W and Barbra Bush and Paul Ryan. Now the democrats want to tie Romney to Paul Ryan's meat axe plan to cut Medicare as we know it. If anything I think Romney is flattered. There are still a lot more primaries and deligates to be chosen but the battle lines for November are being set.
They are still of course trying to say that no energy source other than Petroleum will EVER be commercially viable as a way of solving this country's energy crisis. Any impulse to cut back on waste as seen by people like Rush Limbaugh as somehow 'Un American". He won't be happy till every American family owns an SUV. The idea that there are redwood trees still standing in California Rush must must regard as a blatent insult to the lumber industry. I think the way Rush sees it, if we cut all the trees down, then more will just magically appear - - just like that. Of course there IS global warming. And there will come a time when a carbon footprint energy tax is appropiate. I do not believe that time is now. Of course Global Warming means a colder Europe, especially in the Winter. You do know that. Because the polar ice caps will be doing all that melting and cooling the North Atlantic and this sill shut down the Gulf Stream or the heat conveyor belt from the US East Coast to France and England and all those places that expect more temperate winters in the winter time than they've been having. Dr. Levy calls Al Gore "The biggest hypocrite I've ever come accross". No. A hypocrite is someone who preaches something that in private They DO NOT Believe themselves if you talk to them. Al Gore isn't like that. To him Global Warming IS and has been quite serious. And all the scientists in the world are not engaged in some vast left wing conspiracy, either.
The reason why I identify with Atheism even though I am not a "physical Atheist" is because I believe that Man has inherent rights to find the Right for himself without aid of a Preacher or "descipler". So some would say "If you don't believe in God that makes you a moral Relivest where every man does his own thing". That is not true. I believe there are moral Absolutes but I believe they exist apart from a creator God. Actually Dr. Levy is to the left of me on this issue being more of a "relivist' than I am. I am a physical Marcionite, as opposed to a Moral Marcionite, which is what Protestents are. Neither Catholics nor Mormons buy the Marcionite Pauline line on pure pass / fail black and white Morals. But I do believe this "dividing wall" does occur between - - well - - those in concave space, as opposed to those in convex space, to use my trig analogy of a few postings back. The two are in entirely different worlds. Laws of moral karma don't carry over into the physical. Not really. Christian's greatest beguiling power over you is getting you to believe that they Do. (Selah)
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