Thumbs Down on the Obama China Deal

The Mc Laughlin group featured the China deal that the President was working on in China.  One questions why the President even went on a trip with all the negotiating he should be at least attempting with Mc Conell and Boehner according to Chris Matthews.  Matthews claims the President should have broken the immigration agreement down feature by feature and negotiated all of the terms in a face to face meeting.  This would make it harder for Boehner to claim that “He doesn’t really want the deal” when he claims that he does.  But this deal with China is bad on so many levels.  Apparently nothing will be done about the massive cyber theft that is going on with China, ripping off our programs.  And we are all sick of NAFTA, CAFTA, and SHAFTA, southern half of Asia free trade agreement.  Apparently- - judging from the past with Korea, we make all the hard concession and the other side gives a lick and a promise and continues to keep our goods out.  Pat Buchannon was the only one of the group with his head screwed on right.  He says “Of course China is nationalist, as we and Britain used to be”.   He pointed out all the ways that China will profit from the deal.  And in terms of air pollution- - apparently China conceded nothing despite the fact that marathon runners have to wear gas masks when they run to avoid the fumes.  In fact the Chinese government ordered a massive shutdown of factories and the cutting off of heat to people’s homes, just so the skies would be blue when the President showed up.  If I were the president I would have said “I am not impressed one bit by this”.   But our side has all these constrictions of the economy we have to live up to.  With all the other diplomatic fopahs like the Nicotine gum - - this visit did nothing to increase President Obama’s stature and the whole trip had negative value.  Chris Matthews continues to insist that the XP Canadian pipeline is destined to come about and it’s only a matter of when and not if it will be built.  I strongly disagree considering the pipeline is still tied up in court cases in Nebraska.  Matthews has this closet “republican” streak remaining in him.

I watched Meet the Press.  There was another ISIS beheading.  Today I was informed by my friends from the “other side” that it’s their belief that ISIS might be just a shadow “front organization” secretly doing United States bidding.  They are, shall we say, just a little obvious and propagandistic in prompting the American People to keep the Mideast war going – whatever the form.  Before we ever heard of ISIS (way back earlier this year) there was one blog entry I read that stipulated that “The United States will manufacture an incident in the Mideast to start another war.  This new guy on NBC asks better guestions than David Gregory ever did as far as nailing certain key issues to the wall.  Janet Nepolatano who is now the chandelor of the California University system was on at nine.  She made a good case for raising both the salaries of the reigents but also of the tuition Students pay.  Apparently there was some question about lowering academic standards for out of state students because they provide more revenue with higher out of state tuitions.  Janet denied this was going on, and I’m inclined to believe her and to distrust anything Jerry Brown says at this point.  Jerry Brown has turned into such a money skinflint I don’t know what to think about him anymore.   I did not post on Saturday and so the anti war thing on my blog has been the lead posting since Friday.  One motive in pirating someone elses’ posting is to get my own blogger reader numbers up, and then presumably after I have bagged the readers’ attention, they’ll go on to read my own ideas.

There are a lot of myths and facts concerning the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, which USA Today outlines quite well.  Yet there are countless myths about the promises the President made that don’t appear in his acceptance speech.   First of all the speech was shorter than normal.  It was 45 minutes but that includes marathon applause and music at the beginning and the president primping - - before he goes on to remind people of his humility.  There were endless adulations to family members and the Clintons and Joe Byden - - and then he launches into an endless series of personal examples of people who got fired from their job or students in trouble or talks more about his own past.  A list of the promises NOT made in this speech is downright staggering.  At no time does he say “We must end the Iraq War now”.  At no time does he propose ANY timetable for ending that war.  At no times does he discuss the torturing or our prisoners of war or the closing of Guantanamo Bay.  At no time does he talk about personal rights to privacy being violated by the government, or secrecy or war crimes committed by the Bush administration.  At no time does the President discuss global warming or the measures that have to be taken.  At no time does he propose an end to fossile fuel addiction.  On the contrary the Presidential nominee talks about “clean coal” and increased drilling for natural gas, alluding to fracking, no doubt.  At no time does he say we shouldn’t have more oil refineries or new massive oil pipelines to those refineries.  At no time does he criticize ANY supreme court decision or talk about a woman’s rights being scaled back in the case of abortion.  At no time does he mention abortion doctors who were murdered.  At no time does the President pledge to either raise the taxes on the rich, or to scale back the deficit.  He never criticizes the Bush Administration for medicare part D not paid for or funding two wars “off the books”.   At no time does he say these international trade agreements such as NAFTA or CAFTA are bad for American jobs or American business.   He certainly never talks about working vigerously to maintain the voting rights of minorities.  He never specifies what shovel ready government public works products he will do.  He offers no specifics of any health care plan at all.  At no time does he pledge to insure every American.  At no time does he speak of either single payer or a “public option” to keep the private insurance companies honest.  He never speaks of the Dream act- - or any real immigration reform at all.  He never talks about ending these massive subsedies to big energy and big agri business.  He never comes out against genetically modified organisms.  He never speaks of patent reform in drug laws or going after drug company profits.  So what DOES the president talk about?  He speaks of the cynicism of Washington and restoring trust.  He spends a whole lot of time attacking his yet to be opponent nominee John Mc Cain.  He spends a lot of time talking about the “Spirit of America”.   Look how long it took me to give a bare bones outline of all the things the President never promised in that Convention Speech.

 Chris Matthews criticized President Obama for developing a spine- - perhaps.  He says he’s going to take action in immigration, but of course- - hasn’t done that yet.  So has anything really changed?  Is this yet something else the Republicans are going to talk or bully him out of doing?  In like manner the President delivered a speech indicating a sympathy tword not signing the XL Canadian pipeline bill.  But the President never said that he either would or wouldn’t sign the thing.  So once again we’re in the dark.  The issues where the President has taken a clear “moral” stance are few and far between and tend to center on women’s rights and gay rights.   On no other issues does the President have any firm principles at all.  I still view events prior to 2008 as "The good old days" because I associate such a drop in my own "outlook" since then, and this roughly corresponds to the period when Dad has been dead.  Last night I did ruminate about those “Dad” references I read from 2007 in Google Desktop.  Perhaps Dad was sicker than I was willing to admit because there was incident after incident or a diverse nature indicating all was not well.  It was “Not something we would all laugh about a year from now after the crisis passed” any more than this crisis with the tea party controlling virtually all aspects of the national government now is something that will “pass” any time soon.  

I had Leo Le Port on - - and he says that some slow DSL is only one and a half million BPS.  Mine is two and a half MBPS.  Yesterday Leo reminded us that cable is more prone to slow downs than is DSL because the more people using the pipeline the more congested it is.  Last night on the Mc Laughlin group- - everybody seemed to be weighing in AGAINST net neutrality, and I don’t remember Eleanor Clift saying otherwise.  Of course if you have to pay to get “Proper service” it’s kind of like a roadside shakedown like the cops or the mafia in the old days in the big city.   My point is that even though it isn’t a problem now, that the point of declaring the internet to be a common carrier is to PREVENT stuff from happening of an “untword nature”.  I thought we were all on the same team as our President here, but apparently not.  You know if the people eighty years ago were as lacking in foresight as we are today- - America would be a lot less nicer place to live in today.

I wanted to just a little make reference to Bill Clinton’s daytime TV program interview of yesterday.  Clinton says that apart from age- - all of the differences we see in people in terms of their intelligence or temperament or hair color or thickness, or body build, or eye shape or color or skin color or body build- - all of this is a half of one percent of Human DNA.  With such a tiny percent of DNA changing making such physical alterations- - such as tigers evolving into house cats or wolves evolving into Collies or what have you - - it is easy to see that basically what unites the human race is far more pervaisive, the 99.5% as opposed to the traits that divide us.  We won’t even speak of the vast differences that are due to strictly geography, or the linquistics and culture of a locality.  We spoke of creation in our last posting.  The Bible says “We are all of one blood”.  There is that 99.5% that unite us, that declare us to be created in the image of God.  Those are all the traits that HAVEN’T changed in a million years or so.  But just to set some of your minds at ease- - it's more a commmonolity of the Design, rather than the Designer that I'm talking about.  I'm talking about carbon based life forms that for the most part consume water and have at least molicules recognizable as DNA even if they are vastly different from ours.  It's this comonality of design and "nature" which unites us as a people.