On April 17th 2013 - Justice Was Not Served. You know my mental vibe yesterday afternoon was strangely akin to the day when I learned that the Jury in the O J Simpson double murder case had acquitted the client - - and I was thinking "Can they do that? They haven't even taken any time to discuss the case". I remember I was at the corner by Mc Donalds on my way home on a bright and sunny, crisp day, not unlike today, when I heard the news coming from someone's car radio. Apparently today in Government - - the momentus political decisions are not made in the halls of Congress in open debate- - but as part of some pre arranged political "gentlemen's agreement" behind closed doors, where money is exchanged. David Cruise talked
about the gun legislation that failed.
He announced he doesn’t even like to talk about politics on his show any
more usually but “this is an issue of life and death”. We can say that because the gun freaks are
continuing to stockpile weapons- and as it has been said - - many may be
literally against the background checks because they Themselves fear they could
not pass a background check. Someone said that actually the overall percentage of Americans who even own a gun - is dropping. I wasn’t
about to tune in to either Fox News or Rush Limbaugh because we know what
jubelization must be in the ranks of the gun lobbyists as they take each other
out to dinner last night and toast their success. This was not an up or down vote on the bill-
- but this was merely a procedural vote- which effectively killed this
pathetically watered down gun bill, but any potential future gun bills. One caller said “Well, it looks like
President Obama is going to turn out to be our first four year lame duck
President’. The host was pot off by this
remark, but it’s true. President Obama
half a press conference just after two on the Randy Rhodes program- - and he
was visibly shaken and upset at the vote.
The President was introduced by a Sandy Hook bereaved parent. The President said “The gun lobby told lies
about this bill saying that it was setting up a Federal registry on gun owners,
even though this is expressly forbidden in the bill. Also the President was highly offended that
somehow these gun victims are used as “props” or that somehow they lose their
rights to express their opinion for future legislation. This of course is the Neil Savedra doctrine
that if you have been personally hurt or traumatized by something- - you are
mentally unfit to talk about it in the future.
There had been hope that if the clochure vote were one or two votes
short that the President could lean on the wavering Senators because “Nobody
wants to be on the wrong side of history” and often when such votes do pass- -
a whole lot of others want to get on the band wagon so that in such cases “The
vote is often 65 to 35 or something”.
But alas, in this case it went the other way.
After nine I checked
out the Ed Schultz show. The thing here
is that it seems the democrats lost ground and now were no longer confident
they could muster the sixty percent needed for the upcoming gun bill vote. Ed went on and on about how these Democratic
senators from red states still have to face a powerful gun lobby. I dispute this since the overall approval of
the bill was 92% and one should keep in mind this was just a procedural vote to
cut off debate – and not a vote on the actual bill itself. I then went out to the courtyard and got two
cups of coffee. I then decided to go
live and local- but one should keep in mind these commercial breaks or so long
the actual program did not come on till 10:22 or so. They take four commercial breaks an hour but
with each break running six or seven minutes this cuts down considerably on
talk show time. There was a guy at the
Boston Marathon in a white cowboy hat who was passing out American flags. He lost one son in Iraq and the other son
upon hearing of the death of his older brother- committed suicide. This man ran tword the explosion and helped
out a woman whose legs had been blown off but she was still trying to
stand. She would have bled to death had
this guy gotten a volunteer to make a tornaquet out of a sweater and save her
life. Of course just before eleven CNN
came out with the story that there had been an arrest in the case and the
female host kept talking about “making it within the 48 hour line” because they
say a case often grows cold after a certain initial period- - and I thought it
was 72 hours or three days. There have
been countless false announcements of a press conference held by the FBI. It would either be at one o clock, or then
two o clock, and then five o clock, then “There will be no news conferences today”
and there have been none this next day, either.
First they fingered a young dark skinned male- - but then they said they
had “Video identification of the suspects” and there are believed to be two of
them. But they still have not been
apprehended. Some say they are hesitant to
go public with what they have to prevent any more Richard Jewell situations.
There were two Riesen
laden letters sent by some K C guy from Mississippi and the guy was apprehended
today by the FBI because he signed the death threat letters. One was to a Mississippi senator named Weiker
and the other letter was to President Obama.
Also a fertilizer factory blew up in Waco Texas today. Tomorrow is the anniversary of the Branch
Davidian demise. And there is a Judge
and his wife who conspired to kill at least two District Attorneys in Texas. So it’s been a busy, if troubling news
period. I’d like to say “We’ve seen
everything bad that CAN happen this week- - but alas, I’m not that confident,
and more unpleasant surprises may await us. Moe Kelly says He is concerned about how Americans will react when we learn the ethnicity of the bombing suspect. Rush Limbaugh has expended an awful lot of "political capital" gambling that the perpetrator is NOT a white right wing political extremist. [splice] I turned Randy Rhodes
back on. This was the shocker that
ruined my whole day when she announced that the vote on the gun bill had failed. The Democratic proponents of the bill only
mustered 54 votes and 46 Senators voted against it. I later learned this included four
Republicans including John Mc Cain voting on our side, and four democrats
voting against the bill including that Senator Baucus guy from Montana - -
which made Stephanie Miller particularly furious today. I went around the rest of the day in a blue
funk, and did not even have the psychic energy to go on computer and do either
this chronology- or a blog post.
Then Janet offered me a
bag of two rolls in it, and I got another roll from Richard, who had a bag of
them he was passing out at the table.
Later on Janet gave Bill and me one of these ham sandwich things with
some mild hot sauce mayonase. I made
myself a cup of that non caffeine instant coffee and also a packet of Swiss
Miss. I was lethargic in the evening all
night. It was the ABC network news and
Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune with “Suburbitory” on at eight – which is another
of these episodes about snotty girls who are so full of themselves no boy would
date them anyhow. It was during this
hour I fell asleep. This is the only
actual time I dozed off. I roused about
ten after nine and had a cigarette and whatever- - and was in bed by nine
thirty. This morning I woke
just before six and had a diaria attack - - both before and after my
shower. I asked the med guy for diaria
medication- and he gave it to me- and then I went right up stairs and had more
diaria. This is probably the worst case
of it I’ve had this year. But finally
the medication kicked in. Breakfast
being so late actually worked in my favor.
We did not get orange juice and milk for our Rice Krispies till 7:35,
and then it was another protracted wait till about eight for our main
meal. But it was worth it. We got hashed browns (with catsup on the
side) and a fried egg and a piece of toast with butter and jelly, and then
Hilda kicked in with another piece of toast.
That housekeeper Jesse was just in here and he cleaned the bathroom and
mopped the floor. I don’t have any media
devices on now. President Obama went to
Boston today and addresses the congregation at some big church. It was kind of a rah – rah – for Bostonians
kind of speech. We know what fighters
Bostonians are since the days of the Kennedy’s or for that matter- the days of
the American Revolution. Today April 18th
is the actual anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride. And we know from Bewitched that Paul Revere
was a silversmith. I’ve been plagued by
problems with itchiness all over my body today and recently. This dry weather doesn’t help. I should really seek prayer in determining
what the nature of my next blog posting will be. Maybe the American people are getting tired
of me.
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