"Poisoning the Well" -Over-used Phrase of the Week

Last April John Boehner mockingly said “Don’t make me do it!  It’s too Hard!”   Well that sentiment was short lived.  When Eric Cantor lost the primary contest he was in, John Boehner came to the President and announced matter of factly that it was now just impossible to get an immigration bill passed.  In Boehner’s mind, by whatever convoluted mental process he used to come to his conclusion, passing an immigration bill was now impossible.  Cantor lost a primary bid.  He didn’t just keel over from a heart attack!   But then John Boehner and Mitch Mc Connell tell the president that he has “poisoned the well’ by issuing his executive order on immigration.  Clearly the action was legal.  But three members of the Mc Laughlin group used the metaphor of “Poisoning the well” but as Eleanor Clift points out “That well was poisoned a long time ago” or at least since the second half of June.  Right around the mid year period – my life turned for the worse and whatever mis aligned stars them have pretty much defined the course of not only my life but the immigration bill, and E J Di Mira didn’t know it but the soap gods had turned against him, too.  We then come to the killing of those four people praying in a Jewish synagogue.  Nobody condones death like this in any form.  However I don’t see Netenyahoo bothered in the least by the slaughter of two thousand Palestinians in Gaza last summer.  The Media gods have not treated Islam at all kindly in the past few months either.  I think Pat is right in that it’s NOT “anti semetic” to want a Palestinian State, and indeed it has been on Israel’s agenda.  It’s one of the things they claim to be for just as John Boehner claimed for the longest time he was for immigration reform.  This afternoon I watched George Bush’s speech on his own immigration reform plan in the spring of 2006.   None of the right wing nuts were having hysterics over President Bush’s speech back then.  In terms of persecution of Jewish people in European nations- - I am disturbed that is on the rise.  It’s wrong, of course.  But if God himself were to weigh in on this issue I’d say he’d think “You shouldn’t stoke the fires of hatred and then ask why you have an inquenchable inferno on your hands”.   We kill Islamic peoples with the casualness of a skeet shooter blowing up clay pigeons.  In terms of our old friend Gruber - - the guy who was so instrumental in getting the Affordable Care Act passed- - once again President Obama screwed up in his response.  His mama never told him, I guess, that one should always be frank and own up to his misdeeds.  And clearly the President made a sad misjudgement of character in even hiring this guy in the first place.  But the right doesn’t exactly have clean hands on this issue.  Sean Hannity and company have said “Gruber counted on the American people being stupid” and “If you pass this bill knowing what’s in it, the bill will die”.  This is patently false.  This was perhaps the most highly debated bill both in congress and in the general media, of just about any bill put before congress.  We all knew the bill and its many shortcomings, which is why I was not happy when the bill passed.  The affordable care act was trouble from the lowering of the starting pennant.  It spawned the disaster of 2010.  Back then you actually needed an excuse to vote “tea party”.  This year you didn’t.  In fact it was my theory for this year “All the damage that’s been by the right wing was done in 2010 so assuming the right wing fury is EQUAL to what it was then, it CAN’T get any worse but only equal or be status quo to 2010.  Needless to say I was proven wrong.

In unpleasant news UCLA is winning over USC.   I don’t have any readings on the cosmic forces but I would imagine that when UCLA is on the ascendant, things bode poorly for me and visa versa with USC.   It seems a little unusual that both teams are wearing the same color of gold pants.  Also UCLA announced that they would never issue the number 42 in any sport.  As you know I don’t like retiring of any number in sports.  I figure if the guy isn’t noteworthy enough to be remembered or honored on his own merit- - then he doesn’t need taking numbers out of circulation as if conferring some kind of holy icon with magic powers or something on an inamimate object like a number.

I watched that talk on the medical examinations of President Kennedy on November 22^nd.  What struck me is that they performed backward recoil tests on melons but not firmer objects such as cocanuts, pineapples, or plastic jugs filled with water, and apparently they used some special kind of bullet for these faked up backward recoil tests.  Also when shooting a goat in the head all four limbs flay out in a neuro-reactive convulsion.  However in the Zapruder film we know that first the head flies back – and then the body follows.  Also I was astounded to learn that the people who did the original autopsy were “told” that the President fell forward and not backward and you saw “confirmation bias” in action.  Also in this piece neutron analysis tests were debunked as a way of isolating a bullet to a gun because so many bullets have mixtures of lead and antimony in them.   Many of the original examiners had no experience in diagnosing gun shot wounds.  It’s strange that the original Parkland Hospital doctors, who worked on the President while he was still alive, are in universal disagreement with the men who ended up doing the autopsy.  One of the prime examples showed an entry wound that was ten centameters off- but this gay kept calling them “sonta-meters”.  It’s a pretty large amount.  They picked out one Zapruter photo that was fuzzy and supposed the President was in this position when the bullet was going through his brain.  However their diagram shows a more pronounced downward tilt than the Zapruder photo shows.  One should keep in mind that with distance and taking Newtonian gravitational acceleration and the downward parabola action - - with the great distance involved- - the fired bullet would be traveling progressively slower through the air.

Buffalo got six feet of “lake effects” snow, later revised down to 65 inches, but if anything Grand Rapids, MI got it worse - - but there is that swath of land downwind from the respective lakes- - where the snow really piles up.  Then Buffalo was predicted to get an additional three feet of snow, which would make nine feet if we were being literal.  I think they said they have seven feet now.  But the thing is the respective lakes of Michigan and Erie were unusually warm before the snow at fifty degrees.  Now of course the danger is in flooding, which is virtually certain now as temperatures will heat right up again.  However they got so much snow in Rich Stadium in Buffalo that the Buffalo Bills are playing in Detroit this weekend.  But all of this can pretty directly be traced back to global warming, but many people will never accept this because they’ve been programmed by FOX news not to think this.

[extranious tape fragment]  Then I looked at Finance and noted that the stockmarket is continuing to make new highs- as of last Friday.  I also looked at a lot of the varied sports categories.  Then it was Chris Matthews and that show talked about immigration and we were reminded that the President only had 38% approval for the action even though in the abstract – 74% approve of the actual measures the President enacted, with no reference to the circumstance of them.  Once again the Republic is being scitzophrenic.  It's just like Norman Goldman says.  If you put a label on it- people will go after the label "Like putting a red flag in front of a bull".  But if you don't put the red flag out- - - the rats will go for the bait every time (in a rather poorly worded mixed metaphor)  After snack break it was Melinda Lee- - who says not to use an egg in turkey stuffing because the mixture will be too gloppy.  One lady spoke of  “stuffing” dates with blue cheese and bacon and maybe walnuts.