US Supreme Court Voids Montana Law

Today the United States Supreme Court Struck Down Montana's one hundred year old law banning corporate donations to any political campaign.  They really did this without a lot of comment.  So where are all the state's right's people on this one?  This is another of those areas where the federal government has stuck its nose into state doings where they in my oppinion overstep their constitutionally prescribed "federalist system" limitations.  Other such areas in my oppinion are things such as air safety polution and safety laws where the federal government has assumed preeminence.  Another obvious such area is the counting of voter ballots in the Florida presidential election where men in black robes on their own designate that George Bush would be the next President.  Then we come to Arizona where you have another state and Federal conflict.  Jan Brewer has her ideas on the subject and President Obama and Att Gen Eric Holder have others.  Here I am sympathetic to Arizona in that I feel that Jan Brewer is somewhat justified in her attitude that a state has a right to determine whether certain citizens are legal or not.  From what I can tell the Court kind of punted on this one.  They struck down three of the four major provisions of the Arizona law leaving in tact the most important "show us your papers' provision.  They do say that police are limited in not unreasonably detaining a subject for arrests such as jaywalking there- - it would be a violation of their rights to hold them while they check them out.  I don't think there are any clear winners in this case.  Then we come to Health Care, but it's roomered that Justice Roberts doesn't want to go down in history is the Justice who put a stop to medical health care laws "75 years in the making".  Franklin Roosevelt wanted some sort of federal health care laws passed in 1935 but he knew he couldn't do it.  Harry Truman ran in 1948 as the President who would give us Health Care - - in his attack on the republican congress as a "do nothing congress".  After winning the election and getting a democratic congress still no health care bills were passed.  When the Johnson Medicare bill was being debated in late 1964 there was talk of gradually dropping the minimum age every ten years till everyone was included, but that never happened either.  There is no Medicare part E, for everyone.  Finally we come to 1993 when the Hillary Care bill was up before congress.  The Republicans and the Heritage foundation came up with their own alternate medical care bill in 1993, which contained the individual mandate to buy insurance.  The Heritage Foundation aptly points out that to drive a car you have to own liability insurance.  This is a pragmatic requirement in this day and age due to the way insurance laws are constructed in this country.  Clearly the President thought ht was "giving the Republicans what they wanted" in adopting the Heritage Foundation plan to require the individual insurance mandate.  But the tea party and people like Mitch Mc Conell has already said that they intended to "break this President", whatever that is (and it doesn't sound good) and would do anything to oppose him on any issue, even by not passing desperately needed jobs legislation of the past year.  The tea party had an agenda as far back as 1971 when Louis Powell sent some White House memo saying that the Nixon administration needed to set up some kind of "All Republican News Network" and two decades later Fox News was born, whose stated purpose was to be a propaganda instrument for the far right wing.

In right wing world we have the Romney's and their drassage horses.  This is a sport of the elite rich, for people like the Reverent Gene Scott to partake in.  Us conomers would not even know the finer art of appreciating such "horse show" events.  Apparently Mitt Romney tried to pull a fast one and sell someone a lame horse for $120,000 by drugging a horse and trying to pass it off as normal or something.  Now we learn that Romney as a father- - used to have a favorite past time of playfully shoving his son's faces into a stick or tub of butter and then just laughing about it.  Clearly, as with other areas, Mitt Romney's sense of humor is different from a lot of ours.  Of course you already know about the whole thing with Bane Capital setting up corporations, at Romney's instigation, to facilitate the export of even more US jobs to China.  Whatever Mitt Romney was as "a person" ten years ago he is clearly NOT that now in a lot of ways.  Back in 2002 he walked about his expertise in "creating jobs" running for governor as Massachusetts, but once he actually got into power, he then lost jobs for the state, and was back to his old tricks of exporting jobs to China.  Just call him the outsource king.  It's a case now of why are you going to allow yourselves to be conned by this man again?  Who obviously has no sense of decency or personal honor.  I think we know pretty well by now Mitt Romney's "mindset" on the whole jobs question.  And since we know he wan't be trusted when he tells the Cubans in Florida "Trust Me" on the immigration issue- -  there is no reason why they should.  By Mitt Romney not agreeing to keep the ban in deportations in place, what he is really saying is that my "final solution" to your problem- - is to Deport you, and now that I have lifted the President's ban on your being Deported there is nothing any longer to Stop me from Deporting you all.  So all of those "dream act" people can just wave "Bye Bye" to all their hopes and dreams about a better life and job prospects and education in America.

Michelle Bachman has come out of the woodwork apparently to announce that the Obama government is crawling with Moslem Brotherhood members.  Now it's official that a member of the Moslem brotherhood will be the next leader of Egypt and the people are celebrating, and let's hope they aren't let down.  In recent news Alex Travek is recovering from a heart attack today.  California is the only state where kids are allowed to reapply suntan lotion during field trips and the like.  Two sisters were red as beets and one had a form of Albinoism.  They say that women who get fertility treatments have kids that are on an average of one inch shorter.  A can of Coke would go nicely about now.  Now there is talk about bringing back debtors prison, the same way people way Newt Gingrich wants to bring back child labor.  In terms of the whole thing with Daryl Isa, apparently it's clear now that Isa is not accusing the President of any Watergate style "cover-up".  So in essence all the tea party people are just blowing smoke out their ass.  It's pointed out that all those relivent documents Isa wanted were after the entire opperation Fast and Furious had been closed down in January of 2011, when they want documents on or after February of 2011.  So there is not even a possability that somehow they would learn about how this so called "crime" was organized.

I guess you could call this next paragraph "The Last D J" or in our case the Last Liberal.  The last gasp of "Classic Rock" could be in the first half of the nineties.  You have "Last Dance with Mary Jane' by Tom Petti as well as "The Last DJ", which isn't on his Best Of - - album.  You had "Get a Haircut and Get a Real Job" out in 1993 by George Thorogood.  The Dr. Demento Show was on its last legs in 1993.  You had Next Generation - - winding down for UPN fans.  Kurt Cobain died in early April of 1994 and that kind of signaled the beginning of the end of the Grunge Rock movement- - whose songs were respectable enough to play on KLOS.  You know the groups - - - you had Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots. Alice in Chains, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, as well as last gasps of fame by even the Beatles with their Anthology Series.  Jerry Garcia's dying in mid summer of 1995 more than anything else signaled the end once and for all of "Our Generation's" music.  Oddly the Grateful Dead got a lot LESS air radio play after Jerry was gone than before.  Usually as a way of honoring the Dead they will play more of a group after they are gone, for a while, but not this time.  1996 was the year that I ended my long carrier of writing snail mail letters to the media.  I'll tell you this:  Night Time TV was a whole lot better eighteen or twenty years ago than it is now.  My brother even remarked how back then you did not see near the drug commercials that you see on TV all the time now.  These times are so distressing you have to be drugged to face them.  Of course you actually HAD "real liberals" in congress back then such as Senator Feingold of Wisconsin, and Robert Byrd, and Ted Kennedy.  Someone said there were only fifty days between Al Franken being installed as senator and Ted Kennedy dying and you couldn't pass everything they wanted to in a fifty day window, even an immigration bill that Mc Cain and Kennedy worked on in the Bush Administration that President Bush indicated he was for- - but they couldn't get it past the Republican congress.

There are places in the Bible where Jesus says "There will come a time when every private thought you have will be made known.  What you today in Secret will be shouted from the Mountaintops".  This could be prophetic of the Internet.  However many Republicans cloister and make certain decisions and set their goals to accomplish in Secret.  We know that time that Governor Scott Walked thought he was talking to a Koch Brother on the phone.  He got elected on one platform, but did far more radical and draconian actions once he assumed power- - just as he told his followers in Secret he would  We need to insure that Mitt Romney does not do the same thing.  Most men of Faith will admit that "God knows everything.  He knows everything ABOUT everything- - and there is no Secret that is hidden from him- - - either now or in the Future, I might add.  God already knws who the winner of this year's presidential election will be.  I would imagine if God actually were to deem to communicate with anybody like Pat Robertson or whoever, he would speak with this knowledge of the Future in mind.  A lot of people pride themselves on their Stupidity.  When I remind Dr. Levy about how President Clinton raised taxes and the economy took off and the deficet was eliminated, Dr. Levy responds, "Well, I don't know anything about that".  My response back should have been "Then what DO you know about in the subject of economics??"  There's a Lennard Skynard song that goes "I Know A Little" - - and some would say "A little knowledge is dangerous" like the Packlid race on Star Trek.  They are like the tea party.  They are really retarded but know just enough - - they "have enough working digits to be able to pick up a pen and sign the bills we write out for them in advance".  Sometimes people think " - - And Baby I Can Guess the Rest".  You never know.  Sometimes Movies I leave in the middle of end up not playing out at All the way I thought they would, when I come back and check with people.  A more proper attitude is 'I don't know what I don't know- - but I'm prepared to investigate and find out, and also to pick up a lucky clue when one is dropped into my lap now and then".