The whole dispute
between Harry Reed and Mitch Mc Conell last Sunday has to do with a senate rule
saying that even though the Constitution expressly states that cabinet posts in
government need only be confirmed by a simple Majority, the Republicans have
made it so that each and every Cabinet and other government post must be approved
by a sixty percent vote, which is silly on its face. After all - - it’s an up or down thing. There is no “debate on the content” or “amendments
to be submitted”. There is the guy. Do you want him or not? It’s a simple matter of an up or down vote Anything else is a perversion of the
Constitution. Of course one can see why the Republicans would want leadership at key government posts left vacant. I have heard ranging from four to seven high posts left vacant.
Leo Le Port says the
C-Net is owned by CBS now. But when you
download something from download.com it plants or wraps a file in something
that will mess up your computer. Many
people in the chat room have all said the same thing. Leo says that no website, even a bogus
counterfeit- - can fake the address bar that has to say yahoo.com to be
legit. Leo was saying one school of
programming was to learn a language like C++ or Java, that is marketable and in
demand. That makes sense to me. But Leo spoke of this “other school” that
claims that you first need to know mathematical algorithms to be
successful. I don’t see why you can’t
have both. To some degree perhaps
mathematical algorithms are a function of programmer intelligence. I don’t know why they call that term
“Phishing” instead of “fishing”. People
are still getting suckered in by those phone calls from India, “something is
wrong with your computer that needs attention immediately”. If you know a person or corporation’s
behavior over a period of time, you come to know the things they will do, and
things they never do.
Cory Montee (?) who was
the actor star of “Glee” died over the weekend.
He was not gay but only played a gay part. But the Westborough Baptist Church isn’t
concerned about such distinctions because they are “protesting him”
anyhow. This is the group that of course
disrupts death of decorated soldiers who also happened to have AIDS or
something. They are an utterly
disgusting outfit. One wonders why the
Right Wing puts certain point men forward, like making George Zimmerman their
poster boy. You know there used to be a
chant that went “The whole world is watching” but the tea party right literally
doesn’t CARE about that any more, because they have become bold enough to do
their shameful acts right out in the Open.
(Selah)
The LAPD now is getting
tougher on violence from the protests about the Sanford Florida trial. I guess they have resumed their “tactical
alert’ or whatever. Randy Rhodes gets an
“A” for today’s first hour summation of the facts. I only wish the prosecutors had done as good
a job. I thought we were done with the
George Zimmerman trial because I wasn’t going to go out and look for stuff and
get even more depressed about what I find.
However more outrageous stuff has come out now. One of those six jurors who “convicted”
Martin – shouldn’t have been selected at all.
Her husband was an attorney, and he went to school and presumably was
friends with Mark O Mare or whatever his name is – Defense team attorney. Deliberation was completely incompetent. They should screen out shallow thinkers who
can’t reason logically along a time line of cause and effect. For instance it was stated “Most all of the
six of us believed that it was Zimmerman’s voice calling for help. NOT because the voice in any way SPOUNDED like
Zimmerman. No. Nothing that logical. But because a witness said Zimmerman “the one
with lighter skin and I couldn’t see very good anyhow” was on top. And because Zimmerman had bumps on his head.
The thing is this case is SO racist people can’t see the forest for the
trees. They say “Look - - there is a
tree. Is that one tree a forest?” No, the Forest is a Forest! Even so for a while there were three votes
for at least manslaughter, and three to let him go. But “one juror put pressure on the rest of us
to wrap the thing up because she had plans for Sunday”. Right away there is malfeasance in failing to
deliberate properly. But there is
more. For instance did you know that
Rachael the phone witness - - had a medical condition which was an under-byte
that she doesn’t want to have surgery for now that affected her speech. The B 37 juror who was interviewed last night
said Rachael was not a credible witness “Because of her speech and the fact
that she really didn’t want to be there”.
That is NOT how you judge credibility.
You judge content. A concept this
jury is unfamiliar with. Trayvon Martin
had just over a minute to live when Zimmerman knocked the phone out of Martin’s
hand. The phone log goes till 7:16 and
the gunshot occurred at 7:17. Of course
this juror doesn’t want to reveal their face (they say) but at the same time she
has a book deal brewing, which raises the question of- - WHEN did she make that
deal if not while actually serving on this jury during the trial. There was a Mr. Donally who should never have
testified in this case because he wasn’t sequestered but sat in court listening
to the testimony of others. Donally told
this story about hearting the cries of wounded people in Viet Nam. In the
Zimmerman call there is a portion talking to 9-11 when Zimmerman says “He’s
running” and the 9-11 asks “are you following him?” and then he says “We don’t
need you to do that”. So in fact
Martin indeed WAS so scared at one point he felt it necessary to run. And one report says this occurred “In the
pouring rain”, so maybe Martin was just trying to get out of the rain. Except we know from other “testimony” that
Martin was not running at all but had merely slipped out of sight of Zimmerman,
and Zimmerman was “on the hunt”. It’s
racial stalking. Zimmerman made 46 calls
of complaint about the apartment complex and every last one of those involved a
complaint about a Black man, or 46 our of 46, and people say he is not
racist??? Attorney Mark O Mera worked
Pro Bono, which means that the million Zimmerman’s wife lied about that was
raised- was not necessary at all for his defense and if the Zimmermans were honest
they’d give the money back to the donors.
“Stand your ground” was used in the instructions to the Jury even though
the Zimmerman side expressly did NOT qualify for “stand your ground”. Also one juror said that “It was the video
during the summation that convinced me”.
This is the “video” of the events involved that are not based on ANY
fact but pure simulations and initially were NOT allowed, but then they
were. But with all of this people say
it’s a heavy lift and a steep climb for Eric Holder to file federal Civil
Rights violation charges. President
Obama is not only the very first Black President, but he’s also the very first
Oreo Presidential administration we’ve had.
Let’s start off with
the most important story. Hostess
Twinkees – and all the other Hostess products - are back on the shelves. However they are slightly smaller now. The new Twinkee has 135 calories and the old
Twinkees had 150. They had been off the market
for eight months. There is still no news
on the royal baby. Not even a
glimmer. Today is July 15, 2013 and
tomorrow is pay day – and I will learn the long awaited results of my Blood
Test from Dr. Saran. Netenyahoo said
that by now Iran would have nuclear capabilities. You all remember that red line diagram of
his. “Dog TV” is set to launch. In terms of the weather in the southeast and
middle Atlantic, it will be very hot. It
was 1996 when in June of that year my spirits rose with the temperature. During the first half of the month I was
still in the spring doldrums and my writing reflected it. But the relation with that lady Dianne heated
up about when the weather did. Her
husband had just left her and she was left alone with her son Zach. (Her husband was a real stud, actually, so -
- ) Of course there was the Sea World
trip with Paul and Terry. And I was a little
snipey with Paul in my writings on computer- - and you can read that. It was at this time just before the Summer
solistis, that I renounced my Christian salvation. We spent a Saturday at Sea World and left the
park around sunset. We had dinner
somewhere down the road on the way home, and as I recall I had a cream pie
because I craved something sweet. Of
course now they are saying that in the heat you should take a little Gator Ade
but though the electrolytes are good- - they think all sugar is bad- - . It was a good Fourth of July and Ken was
still alive. July was a good month, if a
hot one, and there was the Atlanta Olympics.
But right around the end of the month my spirits turned inward- - and my
writing became rather self obsessed again.
I remember a Saturday, perhaps the first one in August, where I was
headed out for a couple tacos at George’s and noticed that the lights were
out. At the place they said we’d had a
power failure. However they were stable
able to prepare orders. This was a
little after three. I spent the next
hour or more reading an old book. I
imagine after a while I took a nice dip in the pool perhaps around five thirty
or six. OK Jeopardy is coming on now so
I guess I’m due for my next cigarette.
We had Polish sausage for dinner which was generous on the sauerkraut
and there were scalloped potatoes with that.
I had seconds on all three from Laura who started on our side. We had cookies and I ended up having four,
which was two sugar cookies and two oatmeal cookies. “The Hitler Diaries were faked in the spring
of 1983”. OK.
I turned Mario on after
three, who spoke of the prosecution being horrible in the Zimmerman case. I’m glad someone besides me recognizes
that. The Federation has been rather
quiet about the Zimmerman case.
Yesterday very early in the pre dawn, Mal Evans suggested some sort of
TV show where all six jurors got bumped off one by one, along with both the
prosecuting and defense attorneys, and the Defendant himself. Of course- - I count this response as tepid
because we all know that TV movies aren’t real life- - at least for a normal
person. This could be because the
Federation has a presence in Ecuador and Peru that may have modified their
stance because George’s mother was from that area. Today Ted Nugent was kicked out of the ZAC
cannon once again - - and replaced by Steely Dan in position 13. Steely Dan is a Bela Tagis B group. Jim Morrison was offered the job first but
said he was so disgusted with Sirius A people in general and also occupying a
position Ted Nugent had once occupied- - he turned it down when Mal and Stu
asked him. So Stewart proposed Steely
Dan and asked how I felt about that and I concurred, so that’s the way it will
be because basically Stewart is in the position now to have the final say
so. Burt Lombard was outraged at Ted
Nugent’s latest statement - - but when went on to lash out at the “Howard and
Robin” lobby on Sirius A. (Not the
people on the radio) Since Howard is a
composite fiction of a whole lot of different people (one of them being black,
Robert J De Falco) the whole idea of a baby born of such a union having perfect
Aryan blood is laughable, and the entire Howard and Robin story, taken literally,
is highly counterproductive to the point they are trying to make. Otherwise - - not a lot of opinions were
given. "Howard Richards" was also partially based on three others, Roger Shepherd, who is English and Latino, and Mike Bloomfield, who had Jewish roots, and Jim Cooper in an alternate avatar form discovered by my Romulan friends. How you can answer that particular trivia question, if asked.
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