TIME TO FACE THE REAPER

There are certain political grim facts that everyone has to face sooner or later because those in the know agree that the evidence is overwhelming and to deny them is futility. I was just watching a C-Span thing on the outlook for Democrats verses Republicans in the next Congress, notably the House. Of the four speakers I listened to three of them were very partisan in favor of the Republicans. This last guy says that it’s political suicide for Democrats to attack the tea baggers just as it was suicide in 1994 for Democrats to attack Born Again Christians. Clinton is noted to have remarked after the 1994 loss “The Nazis are coming”. In the first segment there were four key swing years pointed out 1894, 1994, 1930 and 1946. In the latter two cases, time-wise, the party threatened by the turn around hung on to the presidency. In the first two cases, a la Cleveland and Hoover, these two men appeared to rigid to fight the landslide tide. The numbers for Democrats are grim. Virtually every survey in every state except D C shows that more people call themselves Conservative. Only in the northeast if the ground even vaguely neutral. Also when you are doing the probability numbers a few months ago when Obama was more popular the probabilities for a Republican takeover was 39% and that rose to 62% a few months ago and now the probability is 75% that the Republicans will take the House. Numbers for taking the Senate aren’t as bad, but they’re getting there and it’s forty percent probability now. It was pointed out that when Obama’s popularity numbers were at seventy percent many Republicans wanted to get on the band wagon and join the democrats in a stimulus package for the economy so together they could take credit for it. That isn’t happening now. The Democrats, by this line of reasoning “went for broke” and in the next election they are going to pay. These people say that for a long time liberal meant forward progress with new measures passed whereas contervatism ment stagnation and little done. That has all changed. We haven’t seen a real liberal wave of legislation since Clinton’s first year in office. This faulty assumption that progress was inexorably forward- - was and will be the democrats’ undoing this year. Many people in the know saw the landslide of 1994 coming. And in many ways the situation is even more bleak now for the Democrats than they were in 1994 and the economy is Exhibit A on that accord. One is tempted to dismiss all this as republican froth and hype. However these are thoughtful people who have devoted study to the matter and I am forced to defer to their opinion. I’ve already talked to Born Again Christians who say “Even if the republicans win it won’t be enough” to suit them. That’s how far to the right some people are. The whole idea of the “size of government” and “debt” even being viable issues is a relatively new thing. For most of the past sixty or seventy years- - these issues have been considered almost passé and irrelevant. No more. Now we are living in that upside down Planet of the Apes world of our worst nightmares.

The unemployment rate has risen to 9.6% and 54,000 additional jobs were lost. This is the news Republicans today are popping champaign corks over, and may well be the news that seals Obama’s fate. There have been now sixteen consecutive months in which unemployment has exceeded nine percent. The recent record is nineteen months during Reagan’s first term and he managed to recover. President Obama has been much poorer at maintaining a positive leadership image than Reagan was. This president is an idiot because he has surrounded himself with all of the wrong people. In September of 1994 by contrast the unemployment rate was only 6.1% and the deficit was nowhere today’s number in terms of being a percentage of the G N P. Clinton had the media on his side back then, but since then there has been a conservative C change in the media that had and will continue to work against the democrats. This conservative revival is something a lot of people, including me, have prayed would come about. It only proves the adage “Be careful what you wish for – it just may come about”. Live and learn. President Obama in his weekly address wanted to encourage Congress to pass the aid too small business bill. But that won’t happen unless the Republicans decide not to be political. And that means failure to pass needed stimulus bills for the economy because the Republicans want to see this economy crash and burn the same way Rush Limbaugh wants this President to be a colossal failure for these four years. This is the reality we are facing now.

Craig’s list will stop advertising certain “adult sites” for escort services, etcetra to aid men in their pursuit of a good woman. But the world at large is not as sexophobic as we are here so the sites will continue internationally. They had a story about a teenage girl with Downs sindrone and we all got déjà vu of the plot of “Carrie” because she was invited to the senior prom by a nice boy who is well spoken of. But the father called the boy’s family to “check him out” and make sure the offer was on the up and up with no strange alterior motives like being covered in a bucket of pig’s blood. I could picture Neil Savedra as that father calling up and saying “You know she really is retarded. She isn’t just a little slow, she’s in Forrest Gump territory with an IQ of 75. So I wouldn’t blame you a bit if you reconsidered and decided you really didn’t want to take her. I really wouldn’t”. Of course you know that the nerd population looks upon anybody who doesn’t score at least 130 in an IQ test as “kind of slow”. But a lot of people don’t apply themselves on these tests. They don’t want to be intelligent. They rather enjoy being dumb, because if gives them the carefree attitude of life going through life acting like a cosmic retard. So if a liberal comes up with a theory about life and wants them to listen they will kill the person with phony praise and say “Well that’s OK for you but not me. I'm just not into any activities that require any thinking or interruption of my usual routine”.

Well now we hear because of this math-o-phobia that Stephen Hawking is dumbing down his latest book and deleting any reference to complex mathematical formulas that would scare people off. It’s like someone quoting the Bible to someone who doesn’t attend church. The alarms go off in their brain “Danger - - Danger” and they shut down and don’t listen at all. It was the Ionian Greeks who were early proposers of the idea that natural laws existed apart from the will of the Gods. But now Stephen Hawking is going to take us all one giant leap for mankind backwards by proposing, if I understand correctly, a realm where ALL laws of physics are out the window and that Universes can form with no regard to any natural laws as we know them. That’s a world of difference from the Stewart Sutcliffe model where time goes out in all directions in that “porcupine model” of ours- - and where there may be great diversity in “what happens next” after the big bang, still other Universes have to obey the same basic laws of physics that ours does. But as I say if there are literally Millions of universes out there then all the Christians who say evolution can’t happen- - have to go back and refigure their math. Maybe Mom will buy Hawking’s book, and I can borrow it.

Yesterday I heard a cosmic roomer that is that- - "If the Ionians formed that alliance with the Romulans they were talking about- - - then We (the Cassiopian Eagle group, we I’m calling them now), would be toast." But they say that the Romulans are too lilly livered to go for it because they’re too used to losing. As to the fear of disclosing military secrets, (the sharing with the Ionians of all the vast military mapping they have done) the Romulans have one of the more open governments (like the US) where everything that happens seems to become public knowledge anyhow. Among Cassiopians there are the “Allied Forces” as we tagged them back in the summer of 1991 when they invaded certain leadership sectors of the Federation. Though this is a line from a “Triumph” song, that group is Aries Mu (and 13^th and not 12^th brightest star in Aries) the term Allied Forces was just a name someone came up with from somewhere. In World War I we referred to the enemy as “The triple alliance”. There is also the “Phil Collins” group that is another Cassiopian group. The Crestorians is another Cassiopian group. But the one I’m talking about is the “Eagle” group. That term has been around before but only lately have I heard it pegged to the “United States of America” in terms of our national war prowess. And that, as Paul Harvey would say, ‘Is the rest of the news”.