They
say that you are entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts. But a Romney aid last year made it plain that
they weren’t “going to let the fact checkers hamper how their campaign was
conducted”. More so than liberalism- -
the Conservative mindset is a system highly based on the virtual deification of
a system of Beliefs rather than facts.
They intent their “Truths’ as they call them, and then immediately
certify them as “Eternal Truths” even is there is little or no historic basis
for most of them. Paul Ryan is convinced
his economic plan is the correct one and that the President’s plan will wreck
the economy. The President asserts just
the opposite. To solve this riddle as to
which view is the correct one they don’t check to see which one is factually
based and supported by respected economic theories. But rather they will reason “Well the
President is BLACK and you KNOW how Blacks are” - - and this satisfies their constituency. Personally I honestly don’t know whether the
Affordable Care Act will help or hinder the economy. The democrats say if we abolished it today it
would indeed Cost us money tomorrow. I’ve
heard from others that the average health care bill will be hiked something
fierce under Obama care. I’ve also heard
that droves of doctors will leave the medical profession because Obama care
will continue to make their practice of medicine unaffordable. Randy Rhodes’ topic of the day was criminal
prosecutions- - or the lack of them - - in the Wall Street community. They say “too big to fail” is “too big to
prosecute”. They claim that all a Chief
Executive Officer needs to say is “I was given bad advice by my subordenates”
and they are off the hook. I’d like to
see the passage in any legal book that asserts that the man at the top can jump
ship - - in his “golden parachute” and be responsible for nothing. Randy asserts that “Going to trial is usually
the Worst decision any disputing party can make”. She goes on to say that - - for some strange
reason- - it’s always vastly more profitable for the companies to settle up and
pay a fine that is only but a fraction of the profits that were ill gotten. It would be as if you held up a bank and
stole a hundred thousand dollars, and got fined ten thousand for your act and
got to keep the other ninety thousand. She
said that Elizabeth Warren is highly assertive for a freshman senator, because
they are told to “be seen and not heard” and all of that.
March 12th
is Juliet Low day is it not, founder of the Girl Scouts. It’s been fully a month since that Latino
mother and daughter were shot at by cops, wasting their truck. They promised them a new one within a week
and so far have not been forth coming.
What about damage to the neighborhood.
I bet Cops actually mortally shoot more people just by “mistake” by a factor of three more - - than cops who
are ever killed by criminals. I’ll go further and say that the number of
shootings that “rise to the threat” of a TV drama- - are in a decided minority
of police shootings. I would wager that
the vast majority of the time a cop kills someone they were in no real danger
by the criminal - - except of course “in their own minds”. And in many states now after tea party
action- - if you feel threatened “in your own mind” having to prove nothing- -
you are exhonorated. Here’s a wise
saying of the day. Dig this. Any belief that can be picked up and embraced
without any evidence- - (such as “in
Faith”) can just as easily be discarded without any evidence. Chew on that one a little, Neil Savedra. [material left out here ] We got our pancakes and sausage one minute
short of the all time record at nine minutes after eight. Paul gave me his entire plate with two more
pancakes and three sausages, one of which I gave to Jay. So I ended up having three sausages and four
pancakes – so it was worth the wait.
However the pancakes were all a bit underdone and could have used a little
more syrup. Since it’s non threatening
food my innards feel much better. Right
now Stephanie Miller is talking about Paul Ryan’s double flip flop on that 750
Billion dollars in savings. One minute
they’re a part of his plan too. Then
during the Romney campaign Ryan and Judy came out against the 750 billion in
cuts saying “It’s just a plot to wreck medicare as we know it to put single
payer health care in place”. The logical
problem here is that nobody is even vaguely suggesting the possibility of single
payer health care. But now Paul Ryan has
come out again to being in favor of the 750 billion in cuts.
We
had cheeseburgers for lunch and onion rings, a novelty here. We had that mushroom soup they have so often
now. We had mixed fruit. Seconds weren’t a factor today. Sarah weighed me and I weighed 153, which
means my weight is static. It’s still an
open question whether something is wrong with my metrabolism or not. I grew drowsy during noon Randy Rhodes. Christine Di Mira is so sickening to even be
around- - that I don’t see how she can stand to even look at herself in the
mirror without vomiting. I went down for
afternoon coffee break and got two cups from Dora. Leeshia asked me where money draw would be
held but I was uninformed myself. Money
draw was called about three o clock in the front room and the line proved
short. I only was allotted five
dollars. So I decided to use my debit
card and buy coffee and also creamer, and two packs of John Black grape. I still have the five dollars in cash. I owe Janet a dollar. I am in hock now and have to get that money
back in my Chase account by the 23rd or get socked with a heavy
overdraft. I made a batch of coffee, and
I appreciated the lift.
So
– would “So help me, God” be “Entoncess me ayuda dios?” “Quien sabe?”
This is at five o clock and we are in concrete. This is Tuesday March 12, 2013, and black
smoke came up from the one vote the cardinals took today at the opening of the
Conclave. Of course “clave” is the past
tense of “cleve” just as “trod” is the past tense of “tread” and “smote” is the
past tense of “smite”. Alright quickly,
give me the present tense of “slew”. We
had Chinese stir fry for dimmer and today I was given a social brush back. Jay accused me of “engaging in small talk”. I’ll tell you exactly what I said. He went across the room to get ice tea. I responded by saying “You’re lucky you got
it because Elizabeth and Oscar are picky that way. But it’s good tea even though I don’t drink
it. I kind of at some point found ice
tea incompatable with my alcoholism”.
That was pretty much it. Jay has
gone on monologs easily five times that long talking about science in a bag of
mixed metaphors and examples denoting major mental confusion. And I never complained about him. Dora was in charge of seconds and made it all
the way around the room. But first
Loretta gave me part of her triple decker peanut butter sandwich and some
potato chips, and Paul gave me extra meat.
We had chocolate pudding for desert.
Jim is in for a rude awakening if he thinks anything can successfully
clean that glass table outside. Nothing
short of sandblasting or something will fix that glass top. Last night I read a generous portion of Al
Gore’s book of 2007, “An Assault on Reason” and I ended up apparently boring
Marsha with that one. Maybe some of
these people should flash a yellow light ten seconds of the point where they
think they’ve heard enough, so I’ll know when to stop. I paid Marsha the cigarettes I owed her and
paid Larry Barton the six cigarettes I owed him, and Paul the two I owed him.
In weeks old Federation news - - Donavin and Country Joe and the Fish have excellent Denelus II credentials. According to Black Bart the group "The Raiders" has a Denelus II annointing, but Mark Lindsey himself does not. The very early Turtles and Grass Roots stuff started out Denelus II but both lost the annointing very quickly. Ditto for the Young Rancals. The Turtles lost it at the end of 1965 and the Grass Roots lost it in early 1968 sometime and the young Rascles lost it prior to spring of 1967. The Turtles and the Young Rascles both became affiliated a group notitable for a lot of late sixties pap- - including B J Thomas and Jackie De Shannon. Blue Oyster Cult is an atypical Sirius "0" group- with a strong Atlanta Romulans affiliation. Blue Oyster Cult is the only Sirius "0" group in the ZAC tarrot deck that I'm aware of. I have to go. With the Men in Black now out of the room, we can continue. AC DC so far as my addeled brain can recall is the only Sirius "B" group and the second oldest of the Sirius B groups. Disco station fans in LA may have a leg up on guessing the oldest group - or not. Jethro Tull and David Bowie are the two Drewanian representatives. "Blondie" contrary to what some believe is not a Drewanian group but "a proprietary Federation group" meaning- - they were a small outfit that was assimilated by the Federation. Others from this outfit not in the tarrot deck are "Berlin" "Soft Cell" the "Eurithmics" "Killer Pussy" and the B 52's. Queen is Cremorian and ELO is Rizzonian - - and we aren't going to do all of them now. I've been having Copy and Paste problems assembling this posting and i hope I haven't screwed up my own documents either. Now all we need is a photo.
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