The big news is Romney's Michigan primary win last night on January 15th. 2008. At least we have proven that a Mormon can gain some acceptance and credibility as a political candidate. The quote of last week goes to Huckibee who said, "A candidate for President ought to remind you more of a fellow worker rather than the guy who laid you off". It was Mc Cain who didn't do so well with his "tough love" message of, "These lost jobs in the auto industry are not coming back". Romney got 39% of the vote to Mc Cain's 30% to Huckibee's 16%. There was that political add that suggested that Democrats vote for Romney to "keep the republican primary contest going". Whether they did cross party lines to vote Republican or whether Romney's message just "regestered" with his own party, is really not material. We have three primaries and three different winners and that just has the media establishment all upset. The only thing that would complete this pattern would be if Fred Thompson won in South Carolina this Saturday.

They now aren't going to tell us if we're being served meat from cloned animals. Of course in an old StarTrek episode there is a thing called "replicative fade", where each clone copy is less "viable" than the previous one. They say Dolly the sheep had to be euthanized, and that other cloned animals tend to be more sickly than than their "original" counterparts. This suggests that clones really aren't clones in the sense of a computer digital copy of a document, but rather something else is going on. It would seem to me to be a wise thing to research this a little more. What I do not like is this irradiated food they sell us that kills all the needed enzymes that are important nutritional building blocks. But selling irradiated vegetables are standard policy now.

I don't know what Thom Hartman is going to say about the Democratic debate in Las Vegas last night. It would have been more interesting were Dennis Kassinitch were allowed to participate. They appealed the case all the way to the Nevada supreme court, with time running out. We it was it was perhaps the most boring two hour debate I've ever watched where the sort of issues Thom Hartman talks about wern't touched. We didn't hear about Blackwater or corporate corruption in Iraq, or all of the wasted and misspent money there. The question of an all volenteer army verses the draft wasn't gone into satisfactorally. They started off the debate with sort of a kiss and make up love fest. Let's remind you what the conflict was. Hillary Clinton said that it was LBJ who signed the civil rights act of 1964. This was an act of political courage and also continuing the dream of Civil Rights reform that had been on both party agendas for a long time. It was finally an idea whose time had come. Whether you want to credit Rosa Parks, or the Freedom Riders, or Bob Dylan's music, or Martin Luther King, or Vernon Johns, the pastor that preceeded Martin Luther King in his church- - take your pick. To me it was "zeitguist" or "spirit of the times". Call it astrology- - call it whatever. Lyndon Johnson crusaded for passage of the 1964 Civil Rights bill. The civil rights movement did not just revolve around one man. Other issues not gone into was the whole idea of bringing back auto jobs and other manufacturing jobs or raising terrifs or undoing the damage caused by NAFTA. All they talked about was who was going to spend more money than whom. Hillary wants to raise unemployment payments and take a no intrest rate hike pledge for the next five years. She wants to bail out all those investors who made foolish choices. The whole tone of the debate was enough to make me want to vote republican, or some third party. I didn't hear talk about civil liberties abuses by George Bush. Indeed George Bush's name was scarcely ever mentioned. You'd almost forget that his is the guy's job you people are after.

I would like to welcome all new readers to this blog. The way we do it is we put in several posts on a blog, usually six or seven, and then we move on to the next blog. There is usually about a six or seven month break between sequences of postings. I of course welcome your comments. This is a rapidly changing world. Something that just struck me yesterday was that Walt Disney could be one of the people keeping organized Christianity alive. They fan this idea of a fairy tale life. Annie Hering on one of her albums talked about how she can't be Sleeping Beauty, because you have to have royal blood, and only Jesus imputes to you "Royal blood". It's thinking like this that keeps childhood illusions alive, and as the twig is bent, so grows the tree. These childish fairy tale myths don't die a natural death but grow into an adult mutant, and from there get passed on to the next generation. Selah.