Israel Is Nothing But a Spoiled Child - Capish?

67.8% of respondents to a Google Consumer Survey said Israel should receive no compensation for the US finalizing a deal with Iran over its civilian nuclear program, which was begun at the behest of the US when Washington’s puppet, the Shah, one of the world’s worst human rights violators, ruled over Iran. Obama is currently offering Israel increased aid to compensate for the agreement. Israel is the biggest recipient of US aid at over $3 billion per year, and Obama has increased aid to Israel after each of Israel’s major massacres in the Gaza refugee camp since Obama assumed power. The major study of the issue of citizen impact on US government policy, conducted in 2014 by research teams out of Princeton and Northwestern universities, looked at nearly 2,000 policies and found that average-income US citizens have “near zero, statistically non-significant” impact on them, while the most affluent citizens essentially dictate policy. This dynamic has been illustrated by previous research, such as by Larry Bartels of Vanderbilt.

Another issue to watch for: the “world’s most influential” think tank, the Washington-based Brookings Institute, has suggested (among other options), as a way for the US to gain dominance over Iran, making it appear [define "appear"] that Iran has rejected a “great” deal [define "rejected" ; define "great" ] , then using Israel to attack Iran. (Note the above poll asks if Israel should be given long-range bombers and “bunker-buster” explosives.) The US and Israel have both continued to make threats of force, criminal acts under the UN charter adopted by both countries, against Iran since the agreement, and Obama’s anti-democratic offering [we aren't talking about flowers here] of increased aid to Israel could possibly signal that the “leave it to Bibi” ["Leave it to Benji" or maybe "Benji the Menace" a saga about a psycho "bad seed" who wants to blow up the world] strategy is still being entertained, along with any number of other goals.

  This idea of a whiny brat, which Israel is behaving like, has occurred to me before.  Some would argue that if you were the one who was being picked on by a bully, you wouldn’t want all your trusted friends making peace with him leaving you in the lerch and as some kind of outcast of “bad guy”.  No I wouldn’t.  But the thing is Israel doesn’t want peace at all.  Also if I were the victim of a bully – I wouldn’t go to all my friend’s wives and kids and say “Don’t listen to Daddy; he’s a complete idiot”.  This would be meddling way out of bounds.  Since Israel doesn’t want peace under any circumstances as far as I can see, then so to speak – why do they deserve our help for a peace they don’t want?

We all know Scott Walker is a congenital liar.  In terms of education scores- - these are identical to the year before he became governor, just slightly above the national norm.  The best you could say is Scott Walker has not HURT education scores in his state - - yet.  But he wants to do other stuff- - to the Universities and other lower institutions and the thing is we don't fully know all of the adverse effects Scott Walker's actions may have.  According to Hartman, Scott Walker only increased employment in Wisconsin by half the number he promised in a campaign statement.  Once again the employment numbers in Wisconsin in terms of overall trend follow the overall curve of the nation at large.  Scott Walker at best is like a Rooster who thinks that his crowing every morning is what causes the sun to come up.

This is Monday July 27, 2015 and Thom Hartman is on.  Hillary Clinton wants to restore the law saying that chief executive officers can NOT be paid in stock options.  It was the passage of this law, unbeknownst to me, that the stock market took off in late 1982 and kept soaring.  This is the first hard proposal I’ve heard Hillary make.  Obviously you would pay 15 percent on capital gains (when you sold the stock) and not a guarenteed 39% (potential) top rate every year.  You could hold the stocks till the cows come home and if you didn't sell you wouldn't pay taxes.  This procedure sucks capital out of things like research and investment, such as new factories that would hire on more workers.  It also makes the market "thinner" in that there is not "broad support" for a stock, as people on channel 22 used to put it.   Therefore if something goes wrong, it can go wrong very quickly. 

CHECKING IN ON MOM'S PROGRESS

OK, I turned off Helen Ratner or whoever and then shaved, and hurried and looked out back for cigarette butts.  Then I went to lunch.  We had creamy vegetable soup, of the type where I might have wanted seconds.  The main course was queesh with a toping of hamburger or something in a pie shape, and tater tots and a bowl of cantaloupe right on the plate.  We had seconds both on the queesh and the tater tots.  I grabbed my camera intending to take it to Mom’s.  But I thought of taking a picture of Glenda at the medication room, but the camera wouldn’t turn on.  So I took the camera back to the room and left it there.  Paul met me at the top of the stairs with a big notebook.  We went outside on the upper patio to discuss the history of his power of attorney, and now that’s elevated to a “trustee”.  He made a list of all the questions that Mom has been plaguing him with endlessly lately.  He has a good memory.  I glanced at a list of financial investment but the print looked extraordinarily small.  We went down there and getting out of the car I was talking about how the doubling of the Celexa didn’t help me at all in fact made my symptons worse.  Paul asked if it was a serotonin uptake drug, and I said it was.  He said he and Judy were watching a TV program and fifteen percent of the population react adversely to this serotonin reuptake type of drug and I said “Thanks for sharing that piece of information” because it’s something I’m going to pass along to Dr Messina.  He mentioned that Mom doesn’t like to walk the grounds of the place because “she gets lost”.  Mom is usually the one giving others directions who get lost, not the other way around.  Her air conditioning system isn’t very efficient.  It’s actually notably cooler and breezier over there just three miles down the road than it is here.  Paul wanted to get her to take a walk in the sunshine, because she doesn’t get out of the house enough.  But Mom said “You guys take a walk if you want to”.  After this I headed for the bathroom because I had a diaria attack.  Her toilet is so high off the ground, and her bathroom sink is deeper than normal.  We were all around the table in the windows area of the room and I again began feeling ill - - but it passed.  Paul had mentioned that Mom exhibited all five symptoms of sleep apnea and is having some sleep apnea test performed soon.  Paul says “It would be a real break-through in terms of her health if this explains it.  Tim is in charge of most medical aspects of Mom’s affairs.  Paul handles her finances.  Paul said he was pleasantly surprised because Mom WASN”T going through her usual list of questions.  They seemed to have a productive talk, and Paul admitted this afterward.  I learned I am getting two hundred thousand when I die, but I’m not going to tell you what percentage of the estate that is- - but I’ll assure you it’s not one third.  Even so it should provide some money cushion.  Paul had to get Judy to the doctor at two and we couldn’t stay that long.  Mom had a Thomas atlas out there and I was looking at the city limits of Seal Beach to confirm that the Steak House COULD actually be within Seal Beach city limits.  Judy has a syst on an overy, and the doctor said “It may have always been there as a benign growth growing since she was young but it’s only now become a problem.  There are other aspects of Judy’s health I won’t repeat.  I tried several times to mention my upcoming blood test, and even at the elevator leaving, but somehow it never happened.  Again the temperature difference outside between here and there is remarkable.  I arrived here about a quartet till two.  I didn’t attempt to watch any of the soap opera.  I got iced tea from Dora in the courtyard but only one cup.  Lynne’s class was in session.

 Leo Le Port talked about people hacking the computers of your car.  He went into more detail than usual about it today and says that car companies recognize the problem and are offering “patches” with the next model.  Leo says that computers controlling the engine should be completely separate from those controlling the entertainment systems.  I’m afraid I slept through Chris Marquardt, the photo guy, if he was even on.  I left the room sometime after one. (?)  I hung around outside for some time smoking short buttes.  Finally I asked for and got a cigarette from Donald.  Now I’m back to owing him one.  It occurred to me I should take pictures of Glenda and Lishia while they are both still here.  Now Lishia says she is leaving as early as August the third (a Monday), which is way less than thirty days from her pot offence.  I listened to the rest of Leo Le Port.  Dick Debartoli was not on today.  I went for two glasses of iced tea in the courtyard from Rico.  I muttered under my breath I’m now afraid to ask anybody for cigarettes because I’m so indebted to so many people.

 Bernie Sanders was first up on “Meet the Press” and I missed several minutes of his brief interview.  They talked about that Planned Parenthood baby parts video.  John Kasech was on.  His claim to fame is that he doesn’t hate Washington but is proud of his time in Congress and says we need a president who knows how to actually fix problems and not just make promises with over-blown rhetoric.  Apparently he “Didn’t go the way of Scott Walker” when it came to getting rid of labor unions apparently because of a popular vote taken.  I watched the first tem minutes on legalizing marijuana in California and the best way to safely do it.  This was the lieutenant governor.  Breakfast with the Beatles had all four separate Beatles in quad clusters all through the program.  Elvis sang “Hey Jude” but I know Elvis and this sounded nothing like Elvis.  Only the backing band was a bit of a giveaway.  They played “Eye to Eye” from Ringo Rama.  I need to do a new listing of “Best of Ringo” songs but first I need to find the old list just to see what songs from that compilation I want to carry over.