Sunday, July 29, 2012

By Popular Demand - - A Thermonuclear War



It won't be any picnic for Mitt Romney next January after he wins the White House, and I did say "when" and not "if" because even Obama's own people are admitting it's virtually hopeless and the polls are unlikely to shift, and the status quo guarantees a Romney victory with the rigged voting machines and registration purges.  We know, if we believe the doom and gloomsters, that the economy is going to get worse in the next six months and that grocery prices will be substantially higher on 2013.  But that won’t be our biggest problem.  Mitt Romney is going to be elected and it’s a pretty good bet he will get us into a nuclear war with Iran.  This is something we have been predicting since the ‘eighties, that there would be a thermonuclear exchange in 2012 or so probably involving Irran and some allay.  That skit “Between the Wheels” we did last June 7th appears less “fictional” with each poassing day.  He’s been meeting with Netenyaho and it seems that Nuking Iran is something they can agree on.  I guess they were already best buds from years ago.  One question Romney did NOT answer is what if Isrial chooses NOT to start a nuclear war with Iran, will Mitt Romney respect THAT, or like his cooligue Michelle Bachman will he personally do everything he can TO foment a war with Iran.  Keep in mind our allay Pakistan has a hundred Nukes- - where Iran at the moment has Zero.  You tell me who the bigger threat is.   The issue of Iran getting nukes had pretty much died away as a topic in the previous months when Israel decided that some kind of major air strike of their nuclear facilities was not doable.  Dr. Levy was going on a couple years ago about qualities he would not accept in people he would call his friends.  Well I’m sure Mitt Romney has all of them in spades.  If ever I would call a Presidential candidate of the US “evil” Mitt Romney would be it.  Were Romney a fictional character in a futuristic novel written back in 1984 I would object that “no one person could be the embodiment of that much evil”.  Yesterday Michael Steel was calling an Obama ad against Romney “misleading” because it merely stated that “Mitt Romney has used every trick in the book in order to avoid his fair share of taxes”.  There is nothing the LEAST bit misleading about that.  Steel said the ad implied Romney did something illegal.  The ad says nothing about illegality but on the contrary lays down the message that perhaps our tax laws should be changed to make them fair.  But the story doesn’t ende there.  Today Mitt Romney was asked point blank “Are there years where you have paid substantially LESS than the 14% you paid in 2010?  Romney says “actually I haven’t calculated that”.  Like Hell he hasn’t!  Do we really want to elect a man who is either that stupid or a bold faced liar, or both?  I would say that the selection of Michelle Bachman for his Vice President is still a real possibility.  After all it was two Saturdays ago that people were all talking about how Romney had the position for VP narrowed down to two people and he would “be making the decision next week”.  Now that week has come and gone, and the following week come and gone, and now we are starting yet another week, and this idea of the Vice Presidential pick isn’t even on the radar.  We did hear Dick Chaney make one lucid admission today.  He said that John Mc Cain made a major mistake in picking Sarah Palin.  Clearly Palin’s presence in the campaign was frought with frictions with the Mc Cain people continuously.

Just as an example of how people on the right get lies and falsehoods going this evening Pete Richards told me that Manuel Diaz had a criminal record with “guns or drugs, or something” and he goes on, ‘It was all inside the OC Register.  Just then I got a message from my friends from the other side Stu Sutcliffe and FH, who just happened to be together at the time, that this stuff was a another vicious lie spread by the right wing.  In an affort to be completely fair I Googeled Manuel Diaz drug record, and got virtually nothing except a reference to one “letter to the editor” in the OC Register, which naturally you-know-who and Judy take to be gospel truth.  I think the hypocracy of this letter is a little naked especially the part about “not rushing to judgement” meaning “rushing to the judgement that he was NOT guilty of the things this letter accuses him of.  Pete also said how wonderful the Anaheim police were and how some protestors have looted stores and others protest in front of Disneyland.  And here’s a twist “You know these people picked Disneyland because they are a big corporation with money and these minorities feel entitled and think Disneyland controls the police”.  The hate and hysteria of people like Paul and Judy can hardly be disguised.  Here is the OC Register letter.
What about the fact that Manuel Diaz, along with a couple of other known gang members, were involved in what appeared to suspicious activity to the police? What were they actually doing in that alley?  If they were not doing anything wrong, why did they run? Evidently, they ran to avoid contact with the police. What did they throw on the top of those buildings as they were running? Does an innocent person act this way? It would appear that the actions of Diaz and his compadres support the police suspicion that they were doing something they shouldn't have been.  What action did Diaz take toward the police who were chasing him? We just don't know all the facts. I know as much or as little as the protesters do. And if it is determined that the police acted erroneously or in bad faith, then the appropriate action should be taken against them. However, we, the people who were not there that night, should wait for the results of the investigation before passing judgment.

I told you if you asked me for the prognosticator with the best track record consistently over the years I’d do a Dick Chaney and recommend myself.  Let’s look at the prognostications of the other side.  Now they are predicting that Obama Care involves implanting these subcutaneous skin chips in the body with magnetic bar codes on them like on food prices.  Glen Beck predicted by now we’d have German style triple digit inflation.  Others predicted a collapse of the foreign bond market after that debt ceiling line was brushed up against.  So many including Thom Hartman have been predicting a double dip recession.  Others predicted a Unified European Union.  In my book in 1980 I said “there are just too many economic and cultural deivisions for that.  It will never happen”.  Who was right.  The latest possible date the Rapture of the Christians can occur is May of 1981, I kid you not.  Of course there are the ever present roomers of “Death Pannels”.  Rush Limbaugh predicted the President would pay the mortgage off of everyone with an underwater mortgage this September.  They keep talking about “Tax-Mageddon” coming in 2013.  Of course we know that Obama wants to take away your guns.  Now they say the President is reducing border enforcement so that more illegal aliens can get across.  Of course the President is guilty of leaking his own national security documents.  And of course the President is against anybody who built their own business.  Mitt Romney claims to know this “just by the tone of his voice”.  Rush Limbaugh goes on to say that “We know that roads and bridges were not built by the government because in China, where everything is run by the government, they have only half the mileage of roads and highways that we have in this country”.  Is Rush that dumb not to know that China has only been building up its infrastructure for 30 years and not for two centuries, as we have.  And we are reminded “The Government did not build the Internet- - - the defense department did.”  (?)  

As of right now I’ve had about seven cigarettes or five whole ones and four or five long butts, in the past one and three-quarters day working out to an average of one cigarette every six hours.  Of course the night is coming and I don’t usually smoke during the seven or eight hours that I am asleep.  I watched the USA defeat Montenegro in men’s water polo.  The Dodgers shut out San Francisco for the first time since leaving Brooklyn in 1957.  They swept the searies with the Giants this past weekend.  I trolled the grounds before dinner looking for a cigarette.  I didn’t find one.  We had Roast Beef and mashed potatoes and gravy and mixed vegetables.  They started seconds on the other side of the room for the zillionth time in a row, but Laura ran out really fast anyhow.  We had tapioca pudding for desert.  I fished a cigarette out of the ash tray that Gloria had placed there after she lit another right up.  I’m sure love to be in the boat of these people around here who are guaranteeing getting ten cigarettes every morning.  That would be a blessing. 

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