The Intellectual Degeneration of Mc Laughlin

I used to admire the Mc Laughlin group headed by John Mc Laughlin as a politically stimulating and diverse group of experts that aired on PBS.  However the group has degenerated into political silliness.  You might suspect this when a candidate who is overtly to the political right of Governor Rick Perry is cheered for his electoral victory in the Republican Party.  Some of the dialog on the death of Gore Vidal was perplexing indeed.  It seems you have to be Dead to be respected for being a flaming liberal.  Gore Vidal wrote Myra Breckenridge and I read the book when I was eighteen.  Hopefully I have intellectually matured since then.  You can't say the same for the people on the show.  It's getting harder and harder to distinguish this group from FOX news.  It seems Gore Vidal nurished a grudge against William Buckley, the saner of the two men, till the day Buckley died and Vidal worte a tactless and scathing euligy against him.  Yet Pat Buchannon acts as if he and Gore Vidal were best budds.  This is a Queer development indeed.  I can tell you the issues that apparently were NOT imoportant enough to discuss on this week's show.  Syria didnt merit any notice, though I admit the UN just keeps passing one resolution after another but nothing ever gets done.  Of course Romney's income taxes didn't merit notice.  Neither did the fact that Romney's tax plan will actually raise taxes on working class Americans by two thousand dollars.  Romney's disaster of an overseas trip merited notice only to say that Romney boosted his standing with Polish Catholics.  But as it was pointed out, the majority of Catholics are from safe states for Obama like New York, Illinois, and California, where a Romney vote will do no good.  Someone should point out to these people that this is not 1979 any more and that the Soviet Union no longer exists so promoting "solidarity" against them is about three decades too late.  Pat points out that now a lot of today's catholics aren't "real" Catholics, because they're Latinos who will vote for Obama.  Someone should also remind people that the National Council of Churches endorces government health care.  And the National Counsil of Churches represents slightly more churches than James Dobson.  And then there is Romney's five point job's plan which basically is akin to "I'm just signed a bill into law that abolishes welfare forever".  The five point plan is a big bunch of nothing.  It's all platitudes and pie in the sky.  But of course the group reminds us it's exactly what Ronald Reagan did to get us out of the 1982 recession.  Fed Stimulation and a ballooning deficet apparently had nothing to do with it.  Pat keeps saying how the unemployment situation is really worse than 8.3%  But he gave the - - Deliberately - - false impression that droves of people were LEAVING the employment right now when in fact the exact OPPOSITE is happening and more people are being ADDED to the labor market today.  Pat forgot to tell you THAT.  And of course we have the case of Mort, who used to be a Democrat but has jumped sides, and that Black guy who was a liberal - - is no longer on any more.  Mort claims that there is a world of difference between Clinton's and Obama's economic approaches.  But of course Bill Clinton gave one of the best speeches ever, four years ago that supported Obama for President, and this year Clinton will nominate Obama.  I received a tea party mailing the other day to the effect that "Bill Clinton was furious at Obama and urged Hillary to run against him".  Nobody believes that one.  This so called Clinton rift is just another tea party pipe dream. And by the way Roman Catholics favor reelecting President Obama by ten points.  In their closing shot they are trying to revive the Solindra non-scandal.  By the way - - the Republican congressional comittee found that President Obama was NOT responsable AT ALL for the "fast and furious" guns contraversey.  You wouldn't find THAT story mentioned on Mc Laughlin.  This whole four against one routine that Eleanor Clift has to face every week on that show has to be a little tiresome.  I don't know how long she's going to continue to to put herself through that.  They might as well just replace her with some conservative intellectual like Glen Beck or Sean Hannity and make the transformation complete.

I watched all of the Friday Chris Matthews and a long thirteen plus minute segment of Thursday’s episode where the report was out on Romney’s tax plan and how it would increase taxes for the lower incomes.  There was that Stephen King guy talking about dog fighting and equating that somehow with transporting a thirteen year old girl across state lines to obtain an abortion and then bringing her back and “dropping her back on the playground”.  There really isn’t enough new material to blog about.  They suggested that the best campaign adds were ones where new facts are learned that are also made relevant to their lives.  Obama has scored big in this field lately what with all the new stuff on Romney out now.  Romney adds in Florida come off as duds because they only remind the people of Florida that they are poor and they already knew that.  - - - I listened to Eric Cantor on the morning response on KNX 1070.  He said that small businesses don’t want to hire new employees over uncertainty about rising taxes and regulations.  Who is feeding that uncertainty.  Note that he did not say ‘Small businesses have higher taxes to contend with this year”.  It’s all based on fear.  Then it was that Nite Vit thing on KTLK with a new Purity product of Calcium-Magnesium.  Then it was that other Cal-Mag product and another “stress” program to follow.  The idea is to take your calcium in a form where it can be best used by the body.  I turned off the radio at twenty minutes to nine and went out for a smoke.  It was only the third cigarette of the morning.

I mentioned all the extra food and sweets I’ve been eating to gain weight and Dr. Levy just said that I shouldn’t get my calories from sugar.  Dr. Levy did not bring a box of my books over so I didn’t have to be bothered with that.  Dr. Levy had breakfast bars for us.  Joe and I had Mr Goodbars, and I had an apple cinnamon, which was good, and two raspberry breakfast bars, and they tasted artificial.  Then Bruce spoke of going to Sea World.  I brought up Long Beach and Dr. Levy went in to a bit more of his history and how he learned Arabec, because I had expressed an interest learning Arabec would be an interesting challenge.  Dr. Levy didn’t learn English still he came to Chicago at age six and he moved to Long Beach at age thirteen in 1969.  Dr. Levy spoke of “rainbow pier” which is different from Nu Pike.  Finally after ten Dr. Levy introduced the topic of the day which was “making your life count for something” and we talked about that and Dr. Levy suggested I write something on the subject.  The session lasted an hour and forty minutes and ran right through coffee break without a break.  We broke up at 10:25 and Dr. Levy said that we would be meeting at that time from now on, on Saturday.

The Martian rover will land on Mars tomorrow night (Sunday) and the procedure will be unusually elaborate and complicated.  Of course people like Neil Savedra hold certain negatives about Science with an all consuming tenacity as though their religious lives depended on it.  This craft is especially designed to search for life on Mars.  Many Christians feel as though if they found out there was life on other planets it would destroy the credibility of the Bible in logic I don't quite fathom.  Neil of KFI holds it as a matter of religious certainty that nothing in the Universe will EVER travel faster than the speed of light and so talk of Alien beings from other Planets becomes unlikely to impossible.  Of course according to the leading theory by which he derives this doctrine- - Black Holes themselves - CAN'T as in C A N T - exist.  So what is Neil to do?  Of course he follows in the hallowed tradition of the Catholic Church in the early part of the Renasance, and they lost a lot of credibility for their stands.

Tomorrow if I wake up early enough I might check in on that KFI quack thing before six.  Of course if one were to ask the question of ‘Is there any advantage in this life of learning about the supernatural dimensions of things?” I would have to say on the face of it “No”.  One can use the methodology of the scientologist for getting rid of engrams, which has ramifications in the psychic world.  It’s just better if it’s not done by a scientologist, so you don’t have to join that church.  The last I heard you couldn’t patent a “religion”, which is what they still call themselves.  Of course you could learn about the basic teachings of Jesus and doctrines of the early “Justin Martyr” era of the Church, from the Mormons.  But it’s like generic drugs and patents.  They tinker around with one molecule, and suddenly you get a new patent.  The thing is patent laws back a hundred years ago weren’t as they are now, where new innovations were not actively discouraged by the government.  Big business likes government laws as they are because it eliminates competition by legal fiat.

Life is Too Short - - -

We have a number of anniversaries around this time of the year.  Yesterday August 2nd was the 45th anniversary of my first threatening to commit suicide.  I had planned to rig up some thing where I'd be electrocuted and be unable to get out of it.  In general the whole causal thing with brother Al and the threats and hassassment and destruction of property I was subjected to - was pretty much shoved under the rug.  The next day me and Pete Richards were dropped off near Nu Pike amusement park, which was a mile or so from where my Mom worked on PCH, and we paid for the excoursion (and one way bus fare) with our own money.  About the only upshot was that a couple of weeks later I went to a Dr. Ralph Duncan for some informal psychotherapy.  Duncan was actually my mother's personal physician.  My dad has his own set of doctors - - or quacks.  Dr. Duncan said he was going to hypnotize to "erase certain traumatic events from my memory".  I told my parents I don't believe that ever happened.  But they said "Well maybe he did hypnotize you and then erased your memory so you wouldn't remember the session.  August 4th is Becky Daniel's birthday.  August 5th is the fiftieth anniversary of when Marilyn Monrol took her own life with sleeping pills.  Though some say it was a mafia hit in that a member of the Mafia was seen breaking into her bungalo and injecting her with some drug to shut her up because she was a threat to reveal too many mafia secrets that lover Bobby Kennedy had told her about in confidence.  Of course ex wife Laura's birthday is the day Elvis died, August 16th and Laura was an ardent Marilyn devotee.  Our wedding was Friday August 14th the day that Elvis mother Gladys died and two days later we went on a "honeymoon" or sorts.  Neither Laura nor I had ever gone to a chicken dinner at Knott's Berry farm so that Sunday we decided to make a major day of it at Knotts.  In the invervening day Saturday, Bill Gunderson was at the Saturday night Bible study making jokes about medflies, and brought over this musical album of the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.  Of course August 6th is the anniversary of the Heroshima bombing, the first use of the A bomb, and something to give every citizen of the world pause.  The line itself "Life is too short to be shy" comes from a Dr. Demento song I recorded off the air in late September of 1990 about a Comedy stand up artist making snide come-backs to those who would be his detracters.  In those days most of the parody stuff you heard was AGAINST the Gulf War, and not pro war, as you would be getting a lot of later on.  Nobody knew then just how strong the Iraqi army was or wasn't and many people rightly feared for the safety of our troops with Saddam Hussein's reputation for using poisonous gasses and the like.  Life is to short for people to rationalize their shortcomings with bullshit.

Rush Limbaugh on his show attacked Harry Reed for saying on the senate floor, apparently, that he had personal knowledge that Mitt Romney had not paid taxes in ten years in a row.  Rather than assert that the alligation was false, he seemed to be giving the basic assertion a thumbs up but accused Reed of getting the information not from a fellow Bain Capital worker, but from the IRS report itself, and now is trying to accuse Reed of reading confidential tax information on Romney illegally.  Neither Rush nor anyone has explained why Romney shouldn't just step up to the plate and admit it.  All any of them on the right can say is that "If we had all the information on Romney it would just make it a whole lot worse for our side, and Romney is no fool".  If that's the way they want to play it, fine. Harry Reed understandably is not naming the guy who told him.  That's not important fur us to know, it's only important that Harry Reed know who it was. Romney's trip overseas was an unmitigatted disaster of course.  He accused the President of the United States as somehow alien to "A basic Anglo Saxon common history".  Apparently only three questions were ever allowed to be asked of the Romney enterage during the entire foreign trip.  When reporters wanted to know more in Poland, one Romney aid told a reporter 'Kiss my ass" and then reminded the reporter that they were at a holy site.  Mitt Romney utterly disgusts me.  I can't stand to listen to another word that he may say about anything. Mitt Romney built his political carrier playing it safe and sticking to the script.  He is utterly unable to think on his feet and in general is terrible relating to people.  I can't imagine him even wanting to debate the president in the fall because the President will rip him apart in the first debate and by the third debate we will be saying Mitt Who?

There is brighter news for Obama.  It seems one survay projected that if the Election were held today that Obama would win 290 electoral votes to 191 for Romney.  I looked at the election map state by state and if that's the way it breaks down it's a slam dunk for the President because achieving that is no problem.  Of course 165,000 jobs were added to the employment rolls last month, which is double recent months.  At no month has their been a loss of jobs, and the agragate job increases over a sustained period is impressive.  There is also the news that the real estate market has turned around and that prices are on the rise and that sales are picking up and foreclosures are way down.  Other polls continue to indicate that the President is "just a more likable fellow' than Romney".  Other polls of a more specific nature show impressive leads for the President over Romney.

In terms of Chick filet their whole PR drive is totally bogus.  They were crying "We believe in free speech" and yet their employees have to sign a pledge never to talk to the Press about anything.  These workers are like share croppers or serfs.  They are workers who are never allowed to leave the plantation.  One big conspiracy is to keep people so poor in this country that they never acquire enough capital to even think about starting their own business.  The whole chick filed outfit is like a giant cult like the Salvation Army or something.  They not only own the building you work at - they own YOU.  You have no rights and have questions asked of you that probably violate federal law.  Where the hell is the EEOC in all this?  Equal employment oppettunity commission.  You aren't allowed to ask about a person's religion when hiring, and normally you aren't allowed to ask about your own sexual orientation.   That's not your employer's business.  You are asked about your merital status and not even Rush Limbaugh or Newt Gingrich would past muster on the application.  Only a tiny fraction of those who apply are actually given a chick filet Franchise.  You have to give 65% of your earnings you make to management.  And they use the money to give to hate groups to further take away your rights.  Larry Elder once said our tax laws on small business were too conthiscatory.  But here you have to pay 65% of your earnings over to them BEFORE you even think about paying your taxes.  You pay on the gross and not the net.  The average chick filet franchizer takes home less than a third of most franchises.  I can't help that such a capital drain would adversely affect prices.  But everybody says that the chicken itself is well worth it.  I'm just disgusted by the whole opperation and I can't see myself ever going there for a meal now.

In terms of the previous posting it's a case of "Back by popular request".  What I did was took a few of the more distracting comments off.  There are also gramatical corrections, and also the red letter commentary elaborates on the original remarks.  The original piece was typed with amazing rappidity one evening when I was inspired by a few lines I heard on a TV program.  I really felt as if the thing is well worth trotting around the block once again.  They are insights well worth reflecting on.

THE DETERMINIST DEIST RETURNS

CHRISTIANS ARE BORN - NOT MADE

Certain destinies can neither be earned or learned in God's sight
GOD'S TRUE ORIGENS ARE 'BEYOND MAN'S PAY GRADE' TO KNOW

This is not an agnostic oppinion but a mere statement of fact

G O D - GIVING OUT DIRECTIONS

God's edicts can not be over-ridden in this four-dimensional Universe

S A T A N - STAND AGAINST TYRANTS AND NARCICISTS

James Dobson is Satan; Chick Filet is Satan, Sheldon Adelson is Satan, George Zimmerman is Satan, Mitt Romney is Satan, 

BEHOLD YOU DIDN'T CHOOSE GOD - GOD CHOSE YOU

What you have no power at all to control, you're foolish spending one minute trying to over-ride
PIDDELING AWAY RESPECTABLE YIELDS - - - - - - P A R Y

PUSHING REALIZATION AWAY from YOU - - - - - -  P R A Y

Says an old addage "If you want something done right - do it Yourself
IT'S A SIGN OF TRUE ENLIGHTMENT TO BE ABLE TO HOLD TWO CONTRADICTORY TRUTHS IN ONE'S MIND AT THE SAME TIME  - F Scott of the House of Montgomery

THE ONLY STUPID QUESTION IS THE ONE NOT ASKED

THE ONLY SMART PROPOSITION IS ONE YOU ACTUALLY GOT OFF THE DINE AND MADE KNOWN

GOD SHALL STAND AS CONDEMNED BY MAN FOR NOT REALIZING THAT THE WORST ANSWER OF ALL IS THE ONE THAT IS NEVER GIVEN

RELIGIOUS IS IMPOTENT WHEN THE OPPERTUNIES COME ALONG FOR IT TO 'RISE TO THE OCCASION'

INTERCOURSE WITH RELIGION INCREASES THE RISKS OF VD - - VIGELANTE DEPRAVITY

ANYONE WHO SELLS HIS OWN SOUL HAS A SHEISTER FOR A BROKER AND A FOOL FOR A CLIENT

ANYONE WITH AN OPPORTUNITY TO BUY BACK ONE'S SOUL IF HE GIVES EVERYTHING ELSE HE HAS - - HE IS STILL GETTING A BARGAIN

TEA STANDS FOR - TOTAL ECONOMIC AMNESIA

CONTINUE ORTHODOX FAIRNESS in FREE ENTERPRISE ENDEAVORS - - - C O F F E E

Tea Party mentality is all designed to "keep the workers on the plantation"
GOD DOESN'T NEED TO EXPLAIN ANYTHING TO US

Realize the ramifications of this reality and then 'get over it".
WE DON'T NEED TO EXPLAIN ANYTHING TO GOD, AND IF WE HAVE TO EXPLAIN IT TO OURSELVES, IT'S LIKELY, WE'VE ALREADY GONE DOWN THE WRONG ROAD

ONLY MAN IS MORAL; GOD IS AMORAL

FAIRNESS IS AN ANOMALISTIC CONCEPT OF LIBERAL EARTHLINGS

HE WHO IS WITHOUT MORALITY IS IN NO WAY DESERVING OF THE SLIGHTEST AMMOUNT OF OUR TRUST - REGARDLESS OF HIS POWER OR WORKS

This saying is not limited to human beings, and it is not limited to God, but if the shoe fits - - -
THE FUTURE TOO OFTEN IS SOMETHING WE TRY TO DENY AS A MEANS OF KEEPING OUR RATIONALIZATIONS TOGETHER

IF GOD HAD GRANDCHILDREN - PASTORS WOULD BE OUR GODS AND WOULD INDEED DESERVE THE TITLE

The very idea of a "Pontiff" or Bridge to God is a blasphamus concept in the New Testament
IF GOD HAS NO GRANDCHILDREN - THEN IT FOLLOWS THAT WE MUST BE VICTIMS OF GENETIC ENGENEERING JUST LIKE MONSANTO PRODUCTS - AND AS SUCH ARE TO BE PITIED ALMOST AS MUCH AS THOSE WHO TRY AND ASSIMILATE OUR NECESSARILY VAIN WORDS

Genetically engineered produce cannot reproduce.  It is designed to fail after one generation.  If we are not "natural" then we are artificial and hence phoney.  Phoniness begets phoneyness, and lifelessness, - doesn't produce anything.
IF GOD TRUELY FORGAVE EVERYBODY FROM THE CROSS THAN WE WOULD HAVE NO ALBITROS HANGING OVER OUR HEADS TO PRESSURE US INTO BEING CONVERTED

ASSUMING THE BIBLE TEACHES UNCHANGING TRUTH THEN IF THE JEWS WROTE MOST OF THE BIBLE THEY WOULD NEVER BE IN A STATE OF BEING THAT REQUIRED BEING 'SAVED' FROM THEIR OWN RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

The short of it is - "If God lied once to you - what's to stop him from lying again?"
WINSTON O BOOGY IS A TYPE OF CANCER CELL THAT DOES AN IRISH JIG IN CELEBRATION WHEN IT WINS

PEOPLE TRY TO PASS COUNTERFEITED OBJECTS BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE BEGUILED INTO THINKING THERE IS A 'REAL THING' THAT IS OUT THERE TO BE COUNTERFEITED, WHEN IT'S ALL A VALUES ILLUSION

THE PRINCESS AND THE PRINCESS DISCUSS WHAT IS VALUABLE AND WHAT IS NOT - IT DOESN'T MATTER INSIDE THE GATES OF HEAVEN

ANYONE WHOSE CHIEF GOAL IS TO DESTROY EIGHTY YEARS OF ECONOMIC SAFEGUARDS IN AMERICA IS BY NO STRETCH OF THE IMMAGINAGION A CONSERVATIVE

A LIBERAL IS A PERSON WHO BELIEVES IN FREEDOM, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY - FREEDOM OF THE MIND

HE WHO GIVES LIBERALLY HAS NO FEARS OF POVERTY

HE WHO SOWS SPARINGLY WI,LL REAP SPARINGLY

STRINGS ARE THINGS WE ALL HAVE ON US FROM THE MINUTE WE ARE BORN AND GOD IS FREE TO PULL THEM AT ANY TIME - OR NOT

HE WHO SEEKS INDEPENDENCE FROM GOD IS A FOOL - BUT HE WHO SEEKS DEPENDENCE ON GOD IS ONE WHO SEEKS TO RE-INVENT THE WHEEL

CIRCLES ARE POSESSIVE THINGS - BUT BEING IN ONE PROVIDES PROTECTION FROM MANY UNWANTED THINGS

DESIGNS HAVE NO REALITY IN OUR UNIVERSE - BUT SUBATANCE HAS NO VALUED RELEVENCE PER SE TO THE HUMAN SOUL

A DEAD END IS A MISTAKE THAT IS CAUGHT IN TIME

IF IT WEREN'T FOR SHORT CIRCUITS IN MANY PEOPLE'S THINKING, THE TEA PARTY AS WE KNOW IT COULD NEVER EXIST

BUYING PROTECTION AND SELLING BIRTHRIGHTS ARE BOTH GAMBLES

ANYONE WHO CHOOSES NOT TO DECIDE - STILL HAS MADE A CHOICE

FREE WILL IS A PATENT FALSEHOOD WE NEED TO BELIEVE IN IN ORDER TO KEEP OUR SANITY ON THIS PLANET

I believed we are to be judged more by our ethics and values, more than our personal achievements.
GOD IS NOT IN THE INSURANCE BUSINESS AS WE HUMANS UNDERSTAND THE TERM - AND HE WHO BELIEVES HE IS - - IS A FOOL

IT'S OK TO DOUBT GOD BUT TO SECOND GUESS HIS JUDGEMENTS IS FOLLY AND IT"S WORTH NO ONE'S TIME TO SPEND A NANO SECOND THINKING ABOUT IT

YESTERDAY IS WHAT A LOSER WORSHIPS, AND IS ALSO THE LIGHT WHICH A FOOL IS BLINDED BY

'THINGS THAT LAST FOREVER' ARE 'LOGICAL POSSABILITIES' WITH GOD - BUT NOT A 'GIVEN'

PEOPLE GET TIRED OF WHAT THEY OUTGROW

IF 'THE FUTURE IS THE LEAST REAL OF THE THREE TENSES' AS A FAMOUS CHRISTIAN WRITER ONCE STATED, THEN HE IS ADMITTING THAT THE THING CHRISTIANS WORSHIP MOST IS AN EVER VANISHING COMODITY AND INCREASINGLY INABLE TO NOURISH THEM WITH WHAT THEY NEED TO SURVIVE ON

Today - a Glimmer of Hope for Democrats

Yes, there are glimmers of hope today for democrats on the campaign front.  First of all 165,000 jobs were added to the economy last month.  That’s good news for Obama and bad news for Romney.  As you will remember two & a half weeks ago the Mc Laughlin group predicted that the unemployment rate would be closer to nine percent than eight percent on Election Day.  With their luck – it could wind up in the sevens.  Also starting today August first, a whole host of preventative care provisions will be opened up to women who are now covered by Obama’s health care plan, and will assure votes in November.  These involve wellness visits that are actually in the interest of insurance companies because birth control pills are cheaper than either abortions or ceaserans or whatever.  And cancer diagnosis at an early stage also saves costs down the line.  An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.  There is a new poll out that states that in three swing states Obama is leading decisively.  The President is leading in Pennsylvania by twelve points, and by six points in Ohio and Florida.  These three states combined wield a lot of electoral votes.  There is still a strong racial bias against the President and for Romney.  In terms of the Romney tax plan the analysis on this is also in.  It will cost 456 Billion in terms of the federal deficit, so it’s a money losing proposition.  They took account any possible “pump priming dividends” from lowered taxes stimulating growth, which was only slight to begin with.  Business grows with customers and patrons - - and not the generosity of billionaires.  Not even they are that powerful.  But it’s a major tax shift.  For the tenth of one percent earning over three million they will save $250,000 each year.  The average person over a million in income will save $87,000.  On the other hand taxes for the average person will go up a couple thousand with several tax hikes.  Just to review President Reagan slashed tax rates for the rich from 70% to 28% but Reagan raised taxes eleven times on the average worker.  The Romney tax most importantly will eliminate the home mortgage tax credit, which has been the staple of so many Americans for decades.  It will also eliminate deductions for your child’s education, and health care expense, and also state and local taxes, which by necessity will probably go up here in California.  I don’t think the average voter is aware of these facts.  Since the President has been campaigning a lot today I’m sure he’s been reminding them.  Of course as you know Harry Reed the other day says that a month ago a Bain Capital representative came into his office and said that Mitt Romney paid no income taxes at all for ten years in a row.  Harry Reed is not one who is known as an attention seeking flame thrower.  He’s your regular Casper milk toast who makes pee-wee Herman look like a body builder in comparison.  He pretty much fades into the woodwork and almost never gets “excited” about anything.  Romney for his part echoed his mentor Sheldon Addelson who said “I only talk to rich people because they’re the only ones that are smart”.  The problem is a lot of us don’t take giant tax write offs not because “we aren’t smart enough” but we just don’t have the financial where-with-all for it to be lucrative.  You will remember in that mock interview Mitt Romney spoke of “creative destruction” of businesses, and of getting bored with normal financial transaction- - so he endeavored to take risks.  But not with his own vast resources, mind you, but with the company’s where Romney would rake in the cash and maximize his own profits.  One person on the radio likened it to someone starting a fire and then volunteering to put it out- - but then they say they want to be paid for their work, and while they are putting out the fire they loot everything in the house that hasn’t burned.

Chick filet has scored big with today’s “lunch in” protest of what appears to be the tea party set.  The thing is though I may agree with management’s stand on traditional marriage, they donate to a lot of other right wing organizations with which I may not agree.  But I still say it’s their business.  I just don’t want them to cram politics down my throat while I’m eating with Bible quotations and Romney stickers on the wall, or whatever.  The adage is a sound one that “don’t discuss religion or politics in a bar”.  Of course we called it first right here - - that the whole protest on the left would backfire big.  David Cruise is not happy about certain ways in which this day has been publicized in the media.  Of course there is a radio commercial I take exception to that also mixes politics with business.  This Rick Eddleman financial group wants you to sell all your stock holdings by the end of the year claiming the Obama tax hikes will take effect January first and capital gains taxes will go up to 20%, what they were during the Clinton boom.  Let’s assume their darkest prophecies come true and dividends are really taxed it 35%.  This will only occur is you are already in that tax bracket.  Also if you think about it, you can pay 15% capital gains- - and the following year derive zero income from dividends on lucrative stocks you no longer own.  OR you can pay zero percent capital gains this year and keep your stocks and not pay Rick Eddleman their little commission- - and continue to still get two third of the stock dividends that accrew to you.  It’s your choice.  It’s amazing how common sense is!

If God has a political opinion on the tea party it would be interesting to know.  It was Mike Meloy who observed that the hellfire inferno that was the western plains and American heartland caused the forrest fires in the Rockeys, and because these fire departments cut services to save tax money, they could not put out those fires.  I personally however, prayed for God to show mercy on these people and to calm down those hot winds to get a handle on the thing.  Don’t thank me.  Of course while 70% of the corn crop in most of the nation is wiped out because of drought, California is relatively unaffected by the hot weather and drought.  This summer has averaged consistently below average all summer.  Today is the first really uncomfortable hot, sticky day we’ve had in a long time. God wanted to make sure those who waited in long lines to get into chick fillet, had appropriate climate.  Of course here in California we have almost all of our crops irrigated so not only are we not subject to the crop loss, but also we’ll get a higher price for the product we do put out.  That’s justice for you.  California was one state that successfully resisted the tea party juggernaut that swept over the rest of the mation in 2010, and now God is weighing in with his opinion.  One time in 1994 there was this woman, Debbie Lies, whom I had romantic hopes for, was getting married.  It happened to be on the first Saturday of August in 1994, which just happened to be the hottest day of the year up to that point without question.  The spring that year had been downright frigid.  It was just God throwing in his two cents.  Of course this was the period in August of 1994- - one of the reasons why I didn’t go out for beer till nearly nine o clock at night was because it was so darned hot that I wanted to stay in my air conditioned apartment for as long as possible.  Then I’d bring the liquor home and then listen to Mandentory Metallica at nine on KNAC.  It was during August of 1994 that I did a lot of writing on multi dimensional entities, and the derived mathematical relation between them.

There is a rising middle class in China and now in India and they are necessary consuming a lot more petroleum & an expanding carbon footprint and also buying a lot of Gold in India accounting for 32% of the world’s gold consumption.  As such for the first time I can remember precious metals spiked upward- - without the following crash downward.  When you’ve been tossing up a ball all your life up in the air, you kind of get used to the notion that it’s going to come back down, and are surprised when it doesn’t.  I have told you that in terms of the Obama campaign - - the Venus cycle has never failed - - pretty much - - since 1892.  That’s what you call a really long track record of reliability.  We’ve heard the tea party and know their issues and platform well.  Many people are completely ignorant of just what our President believes because they’ve been brainwashed to believe lies.  Once the President gets out campaigning in ernest- - and gets to a head to head debate with Mitt Romney, the truth will become a lot more evident.  Because people will discover that Mittens can’t think on his feet at all –except to put his foot in his mouth - - without rehearsed lines scripted for him by his tea party mentors such as Sheldon Addelson and Grover Norquist.  I still believe Mittens is vulnerable on the religious issue because few religions are so nakedly established on an outright Lie, a faborication.  You have to believe in the gold plates with reformed Egyptian hyeroglyphics on them that just disappeared, and the Urin and the Thumin and all of that- - and the magic underwear- - and baptizing Jewish holocaust victims decades after the fact in what amounts to little more than “cultural rape”.  Personally I believe Obama would pursue him on the Guns issue, because I think he’s really vulnerable on that issue- - if you look at polls of the American people.