Glen Beck says, "I Was Wrong on Iraq"

Today is June 18, 2014 and you may want to remember this date because it’s the date Glen Beck did his ‘Mia Copa’ last night turning against all of our military adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan, and saying ‘Not one more troop should have to die” and personally I agree.  It must have taken an act of God to work such a turnaround in Glen’s philosophy of life saying that liberals and the tea party can come together on certain issues.  He cites the VA scandal where liberal and conservative can agree.  He seems to be against this Common Core testing stuff.  I’m against any test that lends itself either to cheating or teachers “prepping” students for the exact sort of questions that will be asked.  Education is a lot more than parroting back exactly what some teacher tells you the night before.  It seems the Chicago school system is against this Core testing, but Bill and Melinda Gates are all for it.  A key element in any test- - I don’t care if it’s academic, or a military dril, or some “test” a Mafioso comes up with- - the element is to “be prepared for anything” and the element of surprise is key.  You don’t tell restaurants that they are going to be inspected by the health department the following day so they can get all the cockroaches out of sight.  Glen seems genuinely disturbed by the divisiveness in this country he frankly admits has never been worse.  There is an element of strife and hate we haven’t witnessed in a long time.  Glen agreed with President Obama in his 2008 campaign saying that President Bush left us divided in dispirited.  At first I was wondering whether perhaps Glen would retract what he said.  It was a fifteen minute speech and much of the early part of the speech covered things other than the current Iraq crisis.  I have always regarded Glen Beck as somehow more “earnest’ or perhaps “spiritual” than either Limbaugh or Hannity or certainly Dick Chaney or Grover Norquist and that whole gang.   Over the past six or seven years or however long- - I have been a lot less critical of Glen Beck than I have been of Hannity or Limbaugh.  While the video is still up- - I suggest that all of my readers Google it immediately.

I need to come out ardenly against this ruling of the Federal Trade commission issuing a ruling nulling the Washington Redskin’s trademark.  What the FTC did is patently wrong and immoral.  The Washington team OWNS that trademark,  and the government has no right to just come out and take it by force.  And as Rush Limbaugh aptly puts it “They are doing it less out of any racial sensitivity, but more as an out and out power play and throwing their weight around, and – just to prove they can”.   This is what I was talking about yesterday.  With the trademark logo and all that goes with it gone- - now every Tom Tick and Harry can open his own “Redskins BBQ Spare Ribs” or “Redskins Gym” or whatever.  In other words what the government claims they don’t want will be the very thing that happens.  The court overruled the FTC once before in 1999 and they will do it again, but the team owners shouldn’t be subjected to this high handed “bullying” by government, and have to go through all this nonsense.

I had Thom Hartman on this afternoon and clearly the Arabs as a people are the most culpable of any race on the face of the earth when it comes to enslaving other races.  A lot of our own slaves in this country came from Arab slave traders to the north.  Now they are doing it in Sudan and other places.  They will kidnap whole groups of people and enslave them, and perhaps ravage their women- - and then maybe they’ll dump the old or the disabeled slaves no longer functional off at the border and leave them to fend for themselves in the desert.  One thirteen year old boy was blinded by cyanne pepper in his eyes- - and apparently is now being adopted by an American.  Thom wants to make it clear that low wage workers should never be said to be “slaves” because that cheapens the word.  Even Jehovah God himself is culpable in the Bible because there are any number of provisions made there for slavery, as though it were a perfectly normal part of society.   On the other hand we need to stop any more of these trade agreements like NAFTA CAPTA and now SHAFTA, as Hartman puts it.  This would be the South Half of Asia Free Trade Agreement.  Because everything the Neo Cons do is to further low labor wages and work people to death without any hope.  We should come down hard on employers who hire illegal aliens in this country.   People like Sean Hannity are tone deaf on this issue- - and in general the way so many Americans have been adversely impacted by the shadow of the crash of 2008 we still have to live with.  In fact I was so personally offended by one interaction with a caller by Sean Hannity, I’m not going to watch that show any more.  Don’t ask me to explain that, or we’d be here all day.  Let’s just say that what Sean said to this one caller personally offended me more than all of the remarks Ted Nugent has made publically in the past three years.

Thom Hartman reminds us that “the system” is giving all of us a royal screwing over every day.  You see it in these drug companies with their virtual lifetime patents, which Thom Hartman calls “welfare for the rich” worse than all of the oil and military subsedies we pay out annually”.   Think about it.  A drug company tweaks one molecule in a drug compound- - and they get a fourteen year extension on their patent.  Or some big corporate giant buys out a young inventor before he can get his product off the ground by psyching it out.  Then they take HIS idea and patent it, so he doesn’t even have the rights to his own discovery.  Thomas Jefferson proposed a three year patent limit.  I would make it seven myself, with no extensions.  This would give a business time to get their new product off the ground with money for development and marketing- - and once the money began rolling in - - then the patent would run out.  I would also pass a law, assuming one doesn’t already exist- - that if a company so chooses, they may have tax income averaging for like a seven year period- - so if they begin suddenly making a lot of money as reward for their hard work, they can average in the fat years in with all the lean years they suffered through where the income wasn’t coming in, and of course this would include any deductable losses on the balance sheet during that time.  The thing that Thomas Jefferson believed was that long term patents discourage innovativeness and new inventions.  Sir Isaac Newton wisely remarked ‘If I have seen farther than any other man, it’s only because I have stood on the shoulders of Giants”.  Thom Hartman echoed this theme today when he said that “Almost any invention (with a few exceptions) are somehow some way an improvement upon a previous invention.  You can’t re-invent the wheel or the wedge or the pulley.   This idea of “resting on your laurals” or even the whole idea of “old money” of a dynastic nature, is historically un American to begin with and it’s pointed out that none of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, were millionaires, even in today’s money.   But also “The man” can steal from you in other ways like deciding which books get “deep sixed” and never see again the light of day, kind of like Gabriel Hernandez on Days of our Lives.  (What the writers did to her character is a moral abomination)   There are five books in particular that were “Deep Sixed” that some organization now wants to bring back.  There is a book on how hard it is for women to get legal abortions in the south now.  I am less troubled by this than just puzzled.  After all I thought Roe verses Wade gave women the “right” to a safe and legal abortion.  Now in southern states they are denied this basic “right” established by the Burger Court, and I don’t see how these governmental powers can get away with it.   There is one book on Organized Crime in the NFL and how pervasive it is.  There is another book on the Nazi influence after World War II in the creation of the CIA.  That one is called “Blowback” it says here.    There is another called the Phoenix Program involving CIA activities during the Viet Nam war.   Then there is “Lords of Creation” a book that came out in 1935 about the Robber – Barrons.   A book can be killed by an unfavorable review in the New York Times, even if it’s based on distorted and just wrong information.  Books that were best sellers and were slated to go into paperback, suddenly get deep sixed and were never heard from again.  (Selah)

If this Amazon phone thing catches on- - it will spur others into making inovations.  And I'm for anything that takes a "bite out of the Apple".   They claim they have 3 D images that don't require special glasses.  Amazon says they also hope to appeal to people, and there are many of them, that don't own an I phone.   So, let's wish them luck.

Last night I was researching two items that may be connected.  One was on dark matter- - which is in the heavens of course.   Just so you know - - these are not just stars that aren’t very bright so we can’t see them.  This stuff isn’t even matter as we know it, because it isn’t made out of baryons, which all of our matter is.  This dark matter neither reflects light or is able to absorb light but can be said to be “insensable’ to light, not reacting with it in any way, yet it is the majority of matter in the Universe- - along with dark energy, which I didn’t even look up.   There were questions about how large, spinning spiral galaxies are able to hang together since Newtonian laws state that the stars on the outer edges should not be able to “Keep up”, but they do.  I have my own theory about it.  But dark matter was “invented” partially to explain this and other anomalies in mass gravimetric readings.   Many religious theories I see, such as Jesus’ frequent references in his parables of being “banished to the outer darkness”.   People naturally are just intrigued by “invisible matter”.     The other topic I researched was this horrible “Plague of the Third Century” that threw the body into torment with vomiting and diaria- - and your eyes feel like they’re on fire, and death from this disease is a horrific experience- - and they buried the bodies in quickline after they died- - or perhaps even before they died.  There is this Roman Emperor - - Claudius II, who lived around AD 270 that died from this horrible disease.  People in Egypt got this disease and feared that it was the “End of the World” and maybe this is why the population of Christians exploded during this time and the subsequent Diocletian.  They were all so willing to die because they feared if they disobeyed God he would put this disease on them.  During the third century, the Roman Empire almost fell apart and split into three parts.  There was the area of Syria and eastern Turkey, and there was Gaul, and there were the portions of the Empire strattling the Medeteranian.   So this may be another reason why Christianity grew during this period because “Things were falling apart politically” in sort of an early day Glen Beck scenario.   Many are wondering whether “Romulan cloaking” might be involved with this Dark Matter, but as you know- - cloaked matter lets light and gravity in, but doesn’t let any light out- - and exhibits no mass either.   What we call baryons, the Romulans refer to as Hadrons,  and what they call Baryons - - is some combination of quarks, but they won’t tell us what.  I’m lot going to let myself off that easy.