Mitt Romney and Barry Goldwater both campaigned on wanting to get the United States into a major war. The difference is that Barry Goldwater was actually a conservative with a brain. He had values and could process new information and weigh and evaluate it to see if it was wise to act on. Romney with his etch-a-sketch personality is like an empty vessel awaiting to be filled up by the military junkeys around him. Romney has taken to hanging out with Dick Chaney and John Boulton. This was Bush's UN secretary who had before taking the job affirmed that he wanted to put an end to the United Nations, and he's the guy Bush picked for the job. Today and yesterday in Israel Mittens was handing out with his good buddy Sheldon Adelson. This is the man who said he was ashamed to wear the uniform of the United States. Romney told people that the reason why Israel has a lot higher G N P as opposed to the occupied Palestinians is because "Israel's values are superior". According to Romney apparently it has nothing to do with being an occupied, oppressed nation. People are still scratching their heads over that "common Anglo-Saxon values' like where he stresses that President Obama does not share fundamental American values. Mike Papentonio was reviewing all the screwy values of the tea party that Romney has never repuliated. For instance there is UN "Resolution 21" that supposedly will bring about a socialist America where the government takes away all our guns. Then there is the roomer that there secret plans under way to unite Canada, the US, and Mexico into one nation. Of course Michelle Bachman had that remark about "Why should workers have rights and pensions, after all, that's not the way they do things in the Chinese economy" as though the US was amis in not taking the lead of Communist China. Mike Papentonio talked about "Bio-Whores" or people who doctor up these scientific studies to state and tell those that hired them from the military that there Is no such thing as Global Warming". The tea party loves this kind of stuff. We are also reminded that the second amendment, the gun's rights amendment, was NOT enacted so that individual citizens could fire on the very government they just bled and fought for in the Revolutionary war and were now setting up officially. The second amendment is all about setting up state militia as sort of a "minute man" outsit that could be ready at a moment's notice in liew of a "standing army". But the thing is these people on the tea party right are complete scientific, economic, socialogical, and historical ignoramuses. Perhaps this is because they are products of right wing home schooling where they don't believe in teaching these things. Virtually none of them seem to have any record serving their country in time of war, and yet war is all they fantacise about. They want perpetual war. World War II lasted three & three-fourths year, and the European theater was less than three & a half. And yet for these people, ten years is too short a period to wrap up a war, which is why Rick Perry proposed that we send troops back into Iraq. Romney and his buddies WANT a war the way Bush and Chaney WANTED a war with Iran, to develope all that "political capital" and all. It's thoughts like these that keep Romney warm at night. The idea of cutting the Military ten percent as they agreed on in that debt crisis last year is too much for them to bear. They intend to produce weapons the pentagon says they don't need, and then all they need is a war to use them on. As to this talk about Romney saying "I believe in American excellence" (as though we ALL didn't believe that) could be turned around on him. A reporter might ask, "Well it seems to me you didn't much pursue excellence for your Bain Capital clients. You set the bar mighty low". Romney also mentioned "I'm against any President who apologises for any misdeed of the United States abroad." So I'm inferring if his troops killed a bunch of the enemy they weren't supposed to who were innocent, or if one lone nut just began shooting up the barics, then Romney would have no sense of owing an apology. There is enough Romney material in this foreign trip for about ten attack campaign ads against Romney.
The Colorado shooter was officially charged today in court. The judge barred cameras, which is one area where a judge has absolute discretion. David Cruise and me personally favor cameras in the courtroom as a fulfillment of the sixth amendment of the Constitution, which says every American was entitled to a speedy PUBLIC trial. To me "Public' means public, which means to not hide the identity of jury or prospective jury members. Holmes was charged twice for each act of murder making 24, because he was charged with "either" complete indifference to human life and suffering, or else pre-meditated intent to cause bodily harm or loss of life, and the jury can take their pick. So there are about 140 charges in all, which takes up quite a number of pages just to type out. Some of the shooting victims were there wearing batman shirts. Apparently because of this the judge thought seeing how people were dressed on TV audiences would be a "distraction". I don't follow the logic of this reasoning. They say that Holmes was more lucid and alert this time, answering questions. But other reports continue to say he still seemed spaced out. Holmes still has not made an official plea of guilty or not guilty, nor has the possible enactment of the Death penalty been determined.
Greetings to those who just discovered this blog. I tend to be mostly liberal except on a few issues. I believe in property rights and have a bias against emvoking "eminent domain". I'm generally opposed to the 'nanny state' and believe many FDA regulations are more a function of common sense and a little research. I am against the food police. And I am certainly against the smoking police and believe smoking restrictions have gone way too far. I'm also in favor of eliminating certain beaurocratic regulations on small businesses that are pointless and a pain in the ass. I'm pro traditional marriage, just not for me. And I am also staunchly anti abortion. I am a creationist to the extent that I believe if we lose certain species that "they aren't coming back" and don't expect evolution to do the inherently impossible. I believe in the wisdom of "mother nature" so to speak, and believe DNA engineering should be proceeded with, with the greatest of caution. I have a bias against medical assisted suicide and believe in the preciousness of life. I'm also in favor of religious rights- - - for people of ALL faiths. Other than these enumerated issues I'm a liberal, so be warned. Certain people claim to have read my material but it's obvious from talking with them afterward that they haven't. I am insulted by this. Some people like to posture in the name of "not hurting my feelings". Please spare me the pretence. That's another thing I hate is pretence and hypocracy.
Like the President's mother, it's possible I have former slaves as ancesters. Just to let the new people know, I am the person who likes a variety of topics and styles. I do discuss "other dimensions" we can't see. This is not to say that we should believe in things we can't prove. It's merely to state that we might be inherently limited in our perceptions of certain things by the way we are designed. In terms of my personal money crisis, I took four fifty cent pieces today which helped in my buying a bargain pack of cigarettes to get me through Wednesday morning when I can go to the ATM machine and withdraw cash. I hope not to repeat the monetery crises of May, June, and July, at the end of August. I am hoping for better things. I regard quitting smoking as something important I should do sometime. But I don't regard it as "Urgent" and there IS a different. Often what is important, like health care and energy regulation, can be screwed up by half-ass and ill thought out measures that at times can be worse than nothing. In other words, I don't believe it's wise to "set yourself up for failure" because this only plays into the hands of the other side. (Selah) That basically means "meditate on this truth".
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