Historic "March On Washington" 50th Anniversary

A certain religious radio host today announced that the theme of his program tomorrow morning was "playing the Blame game".   Suppose you also learn that this is not a Black preacher but a white one, and you also learn that this show will be on a notoriously conversative media outlet.  And you know that today Black people are taking a fifty year look back as their progress, or the lack of it, over this period.  Certain thoughts are going to go through your mind.  First of all there are a lot of these "Psychological sayings" that are used to either sell books or get viewers all based on the assumption that None of the things these "Excuses" or "Ploys" people are said to use, actually exist in the Real World.  So you will hear expressions of "He's using the race card" or "She's playing the Rape card" or it's "The victim card" or the "Lack of Opportunity" card or the Poverty card or whatever.  Let me ask you this.  If you run a Business and hundreds of thousands of dollars is disappearing from your company unaccounted for- are you going to sit back and say "Well I don't know about that- - I guess it must be God's will or something.  I'd certainly never attempt to affix any blame for it".   No you would not.  You would launch an investigation and get to the bottom of it.  In the Army and other venues of human endeavor- - often people are punished Corporately.  This is not punishment to the Body but rather the punishment of a Whole Group that screws up.  Why would someone punish a whole group you ask?  Think about it.  It's to put pressure on the Guilty Party or Parties within that group.  Because the group Itself will "smoke out the guilty party" if they aren't aware already, and reap their Own kind of retrobution against the Guilty Party- - perhaps in a more "blunt" way than they would have faced from Management Itself. Management isn't stupid.  They understand psychology.  Now it could be just a strange "coincidence" that "Golly gee- the LORD picked This Sunday above all others to talk about "Not placing Blame on people".  But to quote a line in one recent Sitcom - - "There ARE no Coincidences - - - Only Clues".  Out of the mouth of Babes - - - .   Some would say to me "Well why would you even Notice something like that?"  And they will dispute my objectivity for noting the existance of something- - which clearly does Exist.  I'll tell you right now- - Born Again Christians and Tea Party people are best at one game in particular and that is Denial.  And we all know "Denial" is not just a river in Egypt.  (Selah)

This is Saturday morning August 24, 2013.  I guess this is a morning of contrasts.  On one hand you have decent Americans celebrating with the people at the capital the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I have a Dream” speech.   The general theme of that was moving America forward.  On the other hand (back at the ranch) you have the KNX republican response and this Indiana guy saying that it was the states who gave permission for the Federal Government to exist, and not the other way around.  If we carry that logic out to its ultimate manifestation, then every born again Christian is greater than their Lord and Messiah, Jesus Christ, because each and every one of them “gave permission” for the Holy Spirit to come into their lives, and presumably you would wake up one fine morning and give the Holy Spirit the boot.  So there was a whole lot of talk about what a fine job all these Republican governors are doing at revitalizing their state economies and cutting expenses and cutting state taxes.  But we know such a lofty image is based primarily on lies.  In fact talk show liberals have claimed that we were "swapping roles' with China and India, that We were the new "wage slave working class" in order to cater to the new Markets opening up for corporations in China and India.  In the first place- - and I said this when George Bush was still in power.  Back then people like conservative comentator Larry Elder were defending this state of affirs saying that "The liberals are getting greedy.  First they want just jobs, but now they are complaining that Good jobs aren't being created".  Most of the jobs created are part time jobs in the lower income positions such as fast food service.  And the people taking these positions very often had a much higher station in life before the Great Recession.   Workers are indeed more productive than ever, but wages have dropped over the last three or four years, particularly in the lower income brackets.  And when they say they have “cut taxes” it’s only because they have shifted the tax burden to various fee hikes like for national parks or Dept of Motor Vehicles fees or whatever.  Heck- some of you righties out there may even have had to pay more for your hunting licenses.  And sheer logic would dictate that if the whole of something isn’t doing well then most likely the individual pieces of that something aren’t faring very well either.  We know from other statistics- - that blue states are in a lot of ways doing better than red states.  

Now - - as to Obama Care- - I will agree with you that the best thing this President could do is just surprise the hell out of these Republicans in the House and actually Signing one of their forty-odd bills repealing Obama Care.  Just about everywhere I look the Affordable Care act is in the business of making health care LESS affordable for the majority of Americans and would seem to be creating uncertainty in the business world.   There are a lot of things I would be doing differently.  Like I say if I were President Obama along about two years ago I would have announced that I would not be running for President in 2012 but let someone else have that headache for a while.  But I also realize the President has a logistics problem because sometimes you might WANT to do the right thing- - but you don’t want to do it with a gun pointed to your head- - and if it were me in his shoes, I would find a way of giving Boehner and company what they want- and somehow not lose face.

There is a memorial service for the two victoms of that firey house inferno of three weeks ago where Hanna’s brother and mother lost their lives.  Ethan was an eight year old bright youngster with his whole life ahead of him.  Now they are calling De Maggio a “family friend”, which to me is an odious designation for him.  I can’t fathom for a minute the idea that Hanna would hire someone to “off” her own mother and little brother.

Meanwhile they are calling the “Rim” fire in Yosemite National Park, one of the twenty worst fires in the West.  The thing was browing by several hundred percent on a daily basis and whatever they would announce on the evening news in terms of acreage burned- - the figures would be off by a factor of several just the next day.  One report a while back said the fire was “five percent contained” and then they down-graded that to just two percent.  Now it’s back up to five percent.  The fire is along the northern entry road of HWY 120.  The other two roads are a more vital landmark of “inspiration point’ and all, and would be a key choke point of traffic flow were fire to strike there- - not to mention the lovely forests along that Fresno highway.  They are keeping the park open, and I would suggest this would be a good times for all Americans to be in prayer, not just for the brave firemen but for the physical surroundings and natural beauty itself.

Hidel Assan is that Fort Hood shooter who killed thirteen people at Ft Hood several years ago.  He took thirteen lives, and 32 more were injuired.  He was this guy who was supposedly a psychiatrist, who “turned Islamic” and figured that somehow to be a good Moslem you had to kill a lot of people.  He’s not the only person out there who needs to be “disabused” of this notion.  On Friday the jury took just seven hours to convict him on all charges.  However he hasn’t officially gotten the death sentence yet because that will be in the penalty phase of the trial.  They say it would be the first time the Army had executed anybody in fifty years, or something.    Obviously we’ve been getting all of these violent stories in the news now.  You know someone pointed that as to the Atlanta elementary school weapon firing incident- - people shrugged and “went back to normal” a lot more quickly than they did after Newtown, Conn.  This is really sad and pathetic that we as a people are this way about firearms.  It’s like “Are you disappointed because there was not a massive slaughter this time and you feel like as long as a dozen or more students weren’t killed it’s a case of “No harm;  no fowl?”  Well there is harm and there is fowl, and it’s in the Republican House of congress for refusing to act on the President’s fire arms legislation.  Capish?

Maybe they should change that song to “Boy, you’re going to Push that Weight” because President Obama is like a heavy weight- - like a giant round steel ball you have to push up hill because it has no power on it’s own.  It’s like a car that’s out of gas- - that is easier to push when the gears are NOT engaged.    I guess the President is a man who would see himself with his “gears engaged” and some of us are wondering “Do us all a favor and go on vacation.  Then maybe John Mc Cain and some of the rest of us can pass resolutions about the Syria situation”.  I find it disturbing when the FIRST thing I hear out of this President’s mouth is what he will NOT do, such as he will NOT institute a “No Fly Zone”.   This President talks, and talks, and talks about Syria.  How bad it is and all.  And now they are finally maneuvering a vew battle ships in position for possible military action or whatever.  That’s good.  That’s well and good.  But if I’m your average citizen in Syria with mad man Assad at the helm, I’m thinking that our people don’t have all the time in the world to “deliberate properly” the way the President seems to.  I mean, it’s great and all to say you want to take “The Time”, but not when it’s someone elses’ Time.  Like if your whole family is getting slaughtered around you by mad man Assad- - and pretty much you know he’s a pawn of Putin and Iran- - how are you supposed to feel?

This Bob Phillner guy ticks me off the same way that Ed Peacock did.  Because when Ed jumped ship on our church he was so pontifical about it like God was calling him to a better place- - and he was so great and all and every decision he did was never to be questioned- - and when Pastor Peacock would make return visits the stuff he’d say to me and others would be really annoying.  Bob Philner like so many politicians who are too full of themselves- - STILL don’t “get it”.  He thinks somehow he was driven out of office by those “bad people’ out there and even now will not admit that he is guilty of any sexual harassment.  The networks not covering the rest of his egotistical and ponthical speech- - tended to make him look like something other than the jerk he was.  And the strange thing is the recall petetition guys STILL are not sure he will resign on August 30^th but somehow will find an excuse NOT to.   As you know we had fish last night- - and there is still something fishy about all this resignation stuff.  It’s like we’re all just waiting for some surprise Bomb to be dropped.  Last night we had bread fish and “seasoned rice” and a vegetable, and lemon pudding for desert.   I was trolling around looking for a cigarette and eventually I went to Glen’s room and he gave me two John Blacks inside a Golden Deer pack.  And later I got one from Marsha.   Janet said something like “I’d like to know how you’re going to get through the next six days without money”.   If I were only a Calvary Christian I could just pray for it and the money would drop out of the sky.   There was football on last night.  On CBS it was Green Bay playing the Seattle Seahawks at Landau Field.  The Raiders weren’t faring so well in their first half against the Chicago bears and the score was 27 to 3.  But not having had coffee since about one - - I was drowsy and didn’t see the game through to the end- - and for all I know the Raiders might have found their second wind and turned things around.   I don’t think it was much after nine when I went to bed.   I just figured “Tomorrow’s another Day” or whatever.