Does Hillary Pass My Political Check List? No.

What I need to know from Hillary Clinton before I even think about supporting her, is her positions on the key issues to me.  First there is the Trans Pacific Partnership.  I haven’t heard any indication she’s turned against it.  She probably helped write it.  I thought I read something where she was bribed into giving the XL Canadian pipeline an approval.  Clearly she is in favor of that.  Now she’s 0 for 2.  I want to know her position about “troops on the ground”.  I want to know her positions on military aid both to Israel and Saudi Arabia.  I believe we should cut off military aid to both.  She gets a passing grade in voting rights.  I want to hear more about taking money from this Swiss sex offender.  Have the Saudis “bought her silence” on women’s liberation issues because of the donation to the Clinton foundation?   And most important I’d like to know her position on the Federal Reserve police and “too big to fail” Wall Street Banks.  Of course I’d also like to know how she feels about “too big to jail”.  I want to know her positions about what republican governors such as Scott Walker have done to labor unions.  I haven’t heard word one from Obama about it.  She seems to be for an increase in minimum wage, so now she’s scored two “correct” points.  How does she feel about her husband’s “reform” of the communacations media?  What about “reforming” Wall Street legislation?   Are you beginning to get a glimpse of where she is at politically and where I am at politically?   We haven’t even talked about getting the money out of politics, a major selling point for Sanders.  As such I am perplexed by Thom Hartman’s saying that he agrees with Hillary Clinton on “most issues”.

The job of Supreme Court justice is not an easy one and sometimes no matter which way they decide they are going to come out with an unpopular ruling.  The Supreme Court said that San Francisco’s requirement that people who keep firearms in their home should either have them in a locked place, or with a trigger lock- - is a touchy one.  The last thing you want to do is go scurrying around looking for the key to a night stand when an intruder enters your home so you can protect yourself.  Yet this is just how the court ruled.  Thom Hartman said some interesting things in terms of Constitutional background we all should be aware of.  Thomas Jefferson wrote James Madison a letter objecting to a standing army in America and that every American should have their own firearm to defend themselves with.  Thom then pointed to a nation like Costa Rica, which has no standing army - -  and they haven’t been invaded.  The other case involves the number of abortion clinics in the state of Texasistan.  Apparently the Court says “there must be a minimum number” even if it’s almost down to nothing.   The problem here is that I see nothing in Roe verses Wade which dictates that every woman is entitled to free and convienient abortion services.  As I understand Roe verses Wade the issue for the court was legality and not convenience.  It’s kind of like you have the right to Free Speech but that doesn’t mean you are “entitled” to have a best selling book on the New York Times list like Stephanie Miller does.  You have the right to speak, but not necessarily the right to be heard.  

There were 117 law enforcement officers killed last year in the US in 2014.  Shawn Hannity inflated that figure to four hundred.  Even the 117 figure strikes me as high.  But all told the odds of any one officer meeting death on the job are low.   Shawn Hannity claimed that the reason why that officer at the pool party pulled his gun was “because he had no idea what he was facing”.  See how well that works for the common man.  “Well gee judge- - the reason why I went crazy firing my gun is because I really had no idea what was going on”.  That’s kind of law enforcements job to “know what is going on”.  He had just thrown down a fifteen year old black girl in a bikini to the ground and jabbed his knee into her back.  He could anticipate that others in the crowd might object to this provocative behavior and rush to her defense.  Shawn also stated that Hillary was going hard left.  And Hannity made an interesting admission.  He lamented the fact that Hillary no longer overtly supports the Trans Pacific Partnership (a perception error on Shawn’s part) and lamented Hillary’s move to the hard left.  (Who apparently are the ones who oppose the Trans Pacific Partnership)  Shawn then said “Obama’s entire presidency has been towing the hard left line.  After all he’s surrounded himself with people like Bill Ayres and Bernadine Dorn and Jeremiah Wright”.   Conservatives live in this completely out of touch realm of make-believe.  In terms of playing all those tapes of hysterical Black men- - I don’t see the point of any of that.  This one foaming at the mouth Black man was toting the FOX talking point political agenda - - and somehow even implied that the reason why places like Detroit are economically blighted is because of left wing policies and not right wing manipulation.  One thing I just don’t understand is- - how come police are going on strike as if “teaching us all a lesson that you all really need us”.  It’s like law enforcement throwing one bit infantile tantrum.  If anybody else did that in any other job they’d be pegged as horribly immature.

Vincent Bugliosi died today of some cancer that returned.  His last appearance on the Thom Hartman program was last December.  Bugliosi is the DA who prosecuted the Charles Manson case and also wrote a book saying Marsha Clark was too whimpy in prosecuting the OJ Simpson double murder case, and that's why she lost, because Clark and Darden weren't "firm enough" with the jury in making a moral appeal for a guilty verdict.  But in the two thousands - - Bugliosi write a book alleging that President Bush, Dick Chaney and Donald Rumsfeld be put on trial for war crimes, for murder, starting with the more than four thousand who died in the Iraq War on our side but also for the 216,000 of the enemy that was killed- - mostly innocent civilians in our indiscriminate bombing raids.  Of course there was the lie connecting Hussein with Bin Laden, and the other multi part lie that Hussein had "weapons of mass destruction".  There was a major CIA report that came out October first 2002 saying that Saddam Hussein posed no iminent threat to world peace or to us.  But then about ten days later a heavily deleted version of this same CIA report was sent to congress, otherwise known as "cooked intelligence".  All conclusions that Iraq was not a threat to us were deleted.  So this day we remember Vincent Bugliosi as a life long crusader for Truth, Justice, and the American Way.  

Every day President Obama shows himself to be more and more of a phoney.  We’ve told you of secret interperatations of “secret laws” when it came to bulk data collection and other surveillance by the NSA.  We concluded that even if the Patriot Act expired it would not stop one act of unauthorized surveillance.  Now it’s become more blatant.  Seemingly just hours after President Obama signed the heralded “Freedom Act” the President went to a “secret court” and asked permission to ignore the provisions of the law.  Obama is a president who relies so heavily now on secrecy and skirting of the law in cases such as immigration - - and of course the people who are against “Obama Trade” point to the fact that a lot of our laws will be tossed into a cocket had and permanently ignored because they are all overridden by this “treaty”, which of course is secret.  Go back and read the previous posting if you have further questions here.

The problem with President Obama is he’s a pie in the sky optimist about everything and thinks he has more power than he really does, over a lot of things.  Here are some facts indicating that the European Union might not be too happy with President Obama.  Interviewed on June 6th by German Economic News, the chief economist at Bremer Landesbank, Folker Hellmeyer, says that because of Obama’s sanctions against Russia, German exports declined year-over-year by 18% in 2014, and by 34% in the first two months of 2015 (no later figures), but he asserts that “The damage is much more comprehensive than these statistics show,” because those are only the “primary losses,” and there are in addition “secondary effects,” which get even worse over time.  For example: “European countries with strong business in Russia, including Finland and Austria, are economically hit very hard. These countries consequently place fewer orders from Germany. Moreover, considering that European corporations will circumvent the sanctions, to create production facilities at the highest efficiency level in Russia, we lose this potential capital stock, which is the basis of our prosperity. Russia wins the capital stock,” at the EU’s expense, even though the sanctions are targeted against Russia. Of course this is from a writer ever sympathetic to Russia.

Priveliged, Rich, and White

MORE GARDEN VARIETY GOVERNMENTAL LIES

According to Congressman Meeks, ‘TPP is a force for positive change across the board for all countries, whether or not they belong to TPP,’ although this transformation will require rigorous action. Countries in Central and South America understand that economic reforms and harmonized trade rules are only one side of the coin. On the reverse side, they are committed to addressing socio-political demands, inequality issues, violence, and the informal sector in the economy.

He’s referring there to the uniform standardization that these deals would impose upon all participating countries regarding regulations of food-safety, product-safety, drug-safety, environmental standards, workers’ rights, protections against the defrauding of investors, etc. He is saying that this international uniformity will bring “positive change across the board for all countries.”

What it will actually do is to raise the standards in some countries and lower the standards in others, in order to achieve uniformity across international borders.

So: let us assume, for the purpose of argument, that, for the most part, the net average result will indeed be to raise standards. This is what he is implying (even though it’s false). But there is a deeper problem than whether environmental and other standards within various nations are set higher; and it is that they are, in effect, to be set in stone by these agreements.

Just as it is vastly more difficult to update a provision in the U.S. Constitution by means of its Amendment-process than it is to enact a new mere law that updates an old mere law; so, too, it is vastly more difficult to change an international treaty-provision than it is to change a mere single nation’s regulatory standards and laws.

Whereas to change a law or regulation requires only intra-national, or inside-the-nation, process, changing a treaty-provision requires a vastly more difficult international process, which demands the unanimous consent of all member-nations of the given treaty or international agreement.

These ’trade’ deals are set up, far more fundamentally, to transfer the power over the decisions concerning such matters, away from democratically accountable national governments, to, instead, panels of ‘arbitrators’ consisting of three lawyers, each one of whom is appointed by international corporations — i.e, by the very same parties whose interest is to lower workers’ wages and rights, to lower environmental standards, to lower protections against defrauding stockholders, to lower protections against global warming, to lower protections against toxics in foods, etc.

The system in these ’trade’ deals does not allow nations to sue international corporations, but it does allow international corporations to sue any signatory nation that, a given suing international corporation alleges, has violated the treaty’s international standard — in other words, that has applied or instituted a standard higher than the international treaty allows.

If subsequent scientific research indicates that a given global-warming matter requires a higher standard than was formerly thought, or that a given product-safety or food-safety standard was actually dangerously low and must be raised, then, that’s just too bad, because there won’t be any realistic way in which the given standard, in any participating country, will be able to be raised. The international corporations that have lobbied so successfully for Obama’s ‘trade’ deals to get them as far as they already have, will easily be able to block at least one of the participating countries from going along with a treaty-change to enable increasing the then-established set-in-stone international standard.

So: what’s really at issue here is a transfer from national democratic sovereignty to, instead, international-corporate sovereignty, in which international coporations will have locked-in an international dictatorial control over a large portion of what it is that national governments do, and necessarily must do, in order to serve the public good.

The whole thing is a corrupt con-job.

What is at stake here is nothing less than whether the future of the world will be national democratic governments, or instead an international fascist government. Regardless of whether the old ideal of an international democratic world-federalist government (the old idea of a world government) was a good one, the bringing-about of an international corporate dictatorship is a monstrosity: the very opposite of an international democracy.

Barack Obama wants to bring the world into international fascist control more than has ever yet existed on this planet. If he succeeds, he will thus be the most harmful political leader in world history. His deals must be stopped. They are horrendous.

A L E C - AND RIGHT-WING POLITICS

Today’s date is June 8^th.   ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council- - is sponsoring the repeal of “prevailing wage laws” instituted by Franklin Roosevelt.  This was to discourages contractors cutting wages in order to get a bid award on a contract if the wage was below the average wage.  Scott Walker and several other states are working to get this law passed.  Also Rand Paul is still lacking a billionaire to fund him because he’s finding out how hard it can be to get ahead in the campaign without your own billionaire- - and Rand Paul has been falling in the polls.  If there is one area where I have evolved more than any other over the past twenty years it’s this area of Big Money in politics.  I used to think this sort of “capitalist competition” was a healthy thing in politics.  The trouble is if someone like Rand Paul can’t get votes for want of funding, what chance does someone like Bernie Sanders have against Hillary.  In Wisconsin among the democrats Hillary drew 49% of the votes but Sanders scored a respectable 42% of the vote.  There is still a media black-out of Bernie Sanders.  Net Neutrality is a topic you will never hear discussed in the lame-stream news media.  Most of the ISIS rulers of Ramadi now are ex Bathists.  That’s why I think we need a policy of containment to encircle the ISIS people with some kind of a non agression peace treaty.  Thom Hartman was explaining all of the tribal loyalties - - and talked about Mideast cultures being “hospitality cultures” where you gain status by what you give to others as gifts, and how it’s a major insult to refuse a gift you receive from a host.  Rick Perry believes Social Security and Medicare and all the rest is unconstitutional.  He believes environmental and occupational safety legislation is also unconstitutional.  This explains the remark about the three cabinet posts Perry would eliminate.  Hence there is a lot of radical libertarian influence in Gov Perry.

WHITE PRIVILEGE AND WEALTH PRIVILEGE

According to Thom Hartman, we have never had a case in the entire history of the country where a white cop was convicted of killing an unarmed black person.  This case in South Carolina may therefore be a first.  And because it’s a first (if it is) it may not signal a “new era” any more than Barock Obama’s election as President signaled a “New Era”.  But it will be something that conservatives will point to (the conviction of the officer if it happens) to say that “You see, we are a post racial society now”.   For pledge drive Thom Hartman is advertising the “Bernie Bear” right now, which is sponsored by the Vermont Teddy Bear Company.  Stephanie Miller has her new auto-biographical book out today, which supposedly is highly pornographic.  Walt Disney is firing high performing computer technicians in Disneyland- - to be replaced by people here in a special visa from India, and these victim employees are forced to train their replacement but then are bribed with a severance package, where they promise not to criticize Disney Corporation.  I would not sign that but fight it using any legal or media channel available to me.  Thom Hartman says that a white family out of Apalatia who decides to move to the big city to make a success of himself- has a much better chance of success than someone with Black skin whose IQ is twenty points higher.   Family wealth is more a predictor of future success than an absent father is.  Thom Hartman said, “As wealth goes up, altruism goes down”.  I’ve wondered about that myself.  It’s counter-intuitive but sad if true that giving becomes less “sacrificial” the more money you are endowed with.  There is White Privilege where often when a White person intervenes on behalf of a Black person it’s a shock- - even to the Black victim because he may note “I’d never be able to get away with talking to an officer like you just did”.  For instance - no Black home owner says to an officer "Get off of my property" or "What are you doing here?"  In Texas it seems that mixed swimming parties of black and white are still a little taboo and that the cops were called who began throwing black girls to the ground, rescued by the white girls there.  (?)  Apparently there is a video of all of this.

SOMETIMES CONSERVATIVES ARE RIGHT

 I made the decision to come back here and turn KEIB on after eleven o clock.  Mark Stein is confused why Dennis Hastert should even be in trouble with the federal government, and so am I.  All he did was legally withdraw money from his legal bank account and not inform the government, as if he had to get their permission or something.  But I also don’t understand why these people running their own business such as Judy have to issue “quarterly estimated earnings” and send in the tax due for one quarter to the government.  Why can’t you just send in your tax forms around March of the following year like a normal person and pay that amount.  When you have a refund coming the government doesn’t pay you any interest for keeping your money.  Yet if you earn money not due till next March or so, you’re a criminal if you don’t “estimate” the amount.  I think the "interstate commerce" clause of the Constitution is stretched out of perportion to any intent the constitutional framers had.  Eating food grown on your own farm is not "Interstate commerce" but the government claims it is.  In like manner, growing marijuana on your own property and selling it or giving it away to close friends is not "interstate commerce", either. 

American Pharoah Wins Tripple Crown

American Pharoah broke the 37 year jinx and won at the Belmont and with it the Tripple Crown, one of the most sought after distinctions in horse racing.  American Pharoah with jockey Victor Espenoza made it look easy and the horse led virtually the entire race and pulled out a little further at the very end.  Frosted came in second and Keen Ice was in third.  Materiality was supposed to be a problem but that horse came in last in an eight horse race.  Of course Tripple Crown winners have to compete with fresh horses that didn’t race in the Preakness.  The race wasn’t run till ten to four our time, which is a little late.   Cosmically - - the fortunes of the jockey were cited as a positive omen if he won.  Victor Espenoza rode War Emblem in 2002 and in last year’s failed attempt on California Chrome.  I first turned on KNBC after tea time at 2:20 or so but that was far too soon.   I listened to JACK radio (if they are still calling it that) but they were playing a bunch of duds.  I also tried to read a William Shatner novel I’d been stuck on.

This is Saturday morning and overcast on June 6, 2015.  It’s the 71^st anniversary of Normandy and also the anniversary of the Ziggy Stardust album, otherwise known as Burt Lombard’s third album with the band.  I think Hannity was right when he said this will be the year we get a Tripple Crown at the Belmont with American Pharoah winning.   This has been the year of the exception of the Charlie rule where you get long shots with horse races.  This has been a year of the favorite.  Bones is not a happy camper with Cleveland losing first the game and then one of their players.  Republicans such as Rick Perry are starting to pay attention to the rampant income inequality we have in America.  And I would say to people such as Rush Limbaugh who dismiss that idea that even if the statement proves to be untrue (or if it were untrue) the idea that it’s the common perception that if you “work hard and play by the rules then you can’t get ahead” this is a dangerous mentality for the average worker to have.   Rick Santorum says that in former times “Everyone’s income level would match the level of their worker proficiency” is no longer true in America now.  You have the lazy freeloader rich, who care almost nothing about a real work ethic- - who live to cheat the system with these rigged derivative investment schemes- - where you win if your client loses, violates the most fundamental conflict of interest precepts.  Bernie Sanders started this conversation about Wall Street and now even the Republicans are following suit.  I had Chris Matthews on for quite a bit this morning and Bruce Jenner was a topic for too large a portion of that time.  I would agree with Santorum saying “Catelyn chooses to be referred to as a woman and I am not going to argue with [him] but genetically Catelyn is still a male with Y chromosones and the rest of [her] DNA is male”.   It gets hard to even hold a conversation at times.  I know little about Gore Vidal except he is way too out there in the leftist sphere, and I’m sure I’d be siding with William Buckley in their debates in 1968.  KNX radio had President Obama talk about immigration and on the Republican side there were (I believe) an awful lot of lies told about this Trans Pacific Trade Authority or whatever it’s called.  None of those guarantees are real.   Neither do I believe any of those statistics on the good that “trade deals” do for manufacture and job that were cited in the speech.   On another topic Bones came out with the statement that “You may have a point there.  If President Obama could lie about how much good the FBI anti terrorist program is doing-  - in terms of creating more “terrorism” than it eliminates- - then perhaps we should take another look at the things the Obama Administration is saying about Russian aggression in the Ukraine.”   It was actually that unnamed “associate” of Bones that convinced Bones to reconsider his position on the whole Putin and Russian aggression thing.  They can’t say “It’s coffee time” any more so now I guess they’re reduced to saying ‘It’s refreshment time”.

It seems TISA or Trade in Services agreement, is contained within the TPP.  This controls such things as internet privacy and health information privacy, or even building a government hospital without the permission of a local private hospital.  The scope of TISA seems to affect more countries than the TPP itself.  None of the BRICS, or Brazil, Russia, India, China, or South Africa - - are affected by the Trans Pacific Partnership.  This idea of having a counter block to oppose the BRICS, to me seems fanciful and counterproductive, even if it’s true.   There are much simpler ways to go about resisting the influence of the BRICS than the TPP is.

UNITED STATES ACTIVITY AND PLANS FOR SYRIA

Barsocchini, like Cole, also suggests that Western governments would not admit to wanting a “Salafist Principality,” even privately. This is incorrect. Declassified filessince World War II prove that Western governments frequently and privately admit to cultivating Islamist extremism for geopolitical reasons.  In summary, the Pentagon report is absolutely clear that the West, the Gulf states and Turkey were supporting the Syrian opposition to attain a common goal: the emergence of a “Salafist” political entity in eastern Syria that would help “isolate” Assad.

Even if we ignore the document’s inclusion of “the West”, Dr. Ahmed points out, the pages still show that “despite ongoing intelligence updates proving that their [the West’s] allies were not funding “moderates” – instead supporting their favoured Islamist terrorists – US and European intelligence advisers on the ground simply continued on the same course.”  Ahmed also notes that “despite official declarations of being able to certify support to “moderates” as opposed to extremists, last year the State Department was unable to identify a single “moderate” rebel group in receipt of Western support.”  Indeed, as reported by Patrick Cockburn in August, 2014, “Jihadi groups ideologically close to al-Qa‘ida have been relabeled as moderate if their actions are deemed supportive of US policy aims.”  And Shamus Cooke commented: “…the U.S.-backed “moderate” group, the Islamic Front, is dominated by the extremist group ahrar al sham.”   Ahmed also notes that the EU has bought oil from ISIS.

MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH

This morning I got up at a quarter to six.  I developed a little nausea from taking my medication on an empty stomach before breakfast.  I went to the liquor store before seven to get a dollar coffee and the guy asked ‘How come you aren’t buying cigarettes?”  I drank the coffee up here while listening to Stephanie Miller.  John Fugelsang was on the first hour obsessing over this Dugar family closet sin.  I feel they are running this sisterly sexual infringement thing into the ground.  It’s not as if what he did were the worst sin ever.  President Clinton did worse when he raped Juanita Broadwick.  We had Cheerios for breakfast.  The main part of breakfast wasn’t until eight or so.  Now they are pre mixing the cream and sugar in the coffee and I was afraid they were going to run out before they got to our table.  We had tater tots with catsup, and a fried egg and toast and butter and jelly.  At one point I lent Bill my key to get in the room.

Hillary Clinton verses Franklin Roosevelt

Thom Hartman stated a contrast in opposites.  FDR “ran on a campaign of moderation but then governed like a far left liberal.  Bill Clinton ran on a solidly progressive platform and his speech sound so much like Bernie Sanders in their rhetoric.  And yet Clinton once he got into office governed like a centrist or maybe a little to the right.  Bill Clinton’s convention speech in 1992 is a magna carta for progressives, and I downloaded the text.  But TH reminds us that it was at the beginning of his second term that Clinton said “The era of big government is over”.  So something obviously “happened” between July of 1992 and January of 1997.  But what happened with Bill Clinton AFTER he was elected, in other words after the American people elected Bill on a progressive platform- - with Obama it “happened” much sooner.  In 2007 it’s said that these same Wall Street money sources came to Obama and said he had to government in a certain way if he was ever going to get their money.  The bottom line is that Hillary Clinton’s fortunes are sinking while those of Bernie Sanders are rising, and support for his campaign both in terms of money donations and also campaign crowds- - had exceeded their fondest expectations.  If I feel like it- - I just might paste some of it over for a blog post.  But instead let me just mentioned about how cosmicalogically significant the year 1994 was in a magnum shift of party balance was in Congress that we are still feeling the effects of today.  Bill Clinton did promise Health Care in 1992 but for some reason yet unknown, Americans when the time came, turned against "Hillary Care" when it counted in 1994 and voted out democrats in mass.  I think something "happened" on a cosmic level in 1994 which has yet to be fully explained.  How do we get that pro Democrat psychology back, which we had in congress and in the media for all those previous decades?

The D J I closed at 17, 905.58 or back below the eighteen thousand line.  As such I suppose I can give myself a C for my prognosticative effort.  Had the market dropped over three hundred I’d give myself a higher grade.  I said “Monday or Thursday” and in my mind Thursday was the operative astrological day, once I had my calculations down right.   Had the markets been up today I would have had to reconsider that whole prognosis I wrote a few days ago.  But I would add though Hannity appears to be “playing on my team” with his dire predictions of the economy, the economy is not “contracting” as SH stated twice on his program.  His guest did not even talk about this, unless it was while I was off getting tea.  The economy was up three percent over the months of April and May after weather related contractions in the winter.  The Federal Reserve will not be “raising interest rates” (as if it even WORKED that way any more)  Actually the way the Fed works now if the Fed does raise rates it’s for those big banks hording money and it’s the amount the government pays THEM - - Not to - - lend us any money.  The economy is predicted to expand by 2.5% which has been about the norm the past five years or so.

I had Shawn Hannity on for over two hours.  Emma was here just before one.  Hannity had several guests on at noon and at two.  Shawn had Governor Rick Perry on at one for twenty minutes.  For an indicted felon he made about as good a case as he could have as to why he should become President.  Perry used to be in the military.  Shawn Hannidy didn't seem to have a single good thing to say about Lindsey Graham, whom he regards as a traitor but he and his callers kept saying "We need a governor like Walker or Perry".  One is an indicted felon and the other would be charged with crimes if Walker didn't own the political machine in Wisconsin.  I went out and had two cups of iced tea in the afternoon from Dora.  I also had two cups of iced tea in the morning from Dora.  I was feeling drowsy then.  I generally had Thom Hartman on in the morning.  Bill’s physical therapist was over here this morning just after nine.  Bill says the message on his muscles or whatever feels good at the time.  They had two new “Ring of Fire” episodes up and I watched the one with Hillary Clinton.  Apparently Hillary gave money to Algeria that went for nerve gas and other “weapons of mass destruction”.  Unfortunately I couldn't find confirmation of this in Google searchy.  Maybe some power is keeping this "Ring of Fire" story off the internet.  Hillary also gave money to an Algerian church that decrees that all gays are Satan worshipers and demonic.  The Clinton Foundation is not even recognized as a real charity by agencies who measure these things because too much of the money goes to his political buddies.  Apparently Sweden got some money that they passed along to Iran.  One of the Shawn Hannity guests says that the Clinton Foundation is the source of an endless supply of stories, and will continue to be, but it doesn’t affect Hillary’s poll ratings.  I just pasted over a bar chart that showed Hillary ahead of all the leading Republicans- - which include Chris Christie and Ted Cruz, who have slipped in the polls so this is out of date.  Ron Paul fared the best against Hillary but Hillary was even beating him.

Not to be utilitarian or anything- - or "throwing the most useless person out of the sinking row boat" but it's amazing how much the top five percent spends on health care.  People sink tremendous ammounts of money into their final ten years or so and President Obama knowingly saddled the healthy (and poorer) young population - the youths - - with the bill of that top five percent.  I can't bring myself into mandating that a stuggling college student or newly married couple- - has to finance the sickest five percent in their final desperate years of life.  I don't know the answer.  Maybe this is a question someone should ask God.  I can't find an answer in the Bible.  In there, death usually seems like such a natural, matter of fact occurance. Hezekiah asked for fifteen more years and received them but the majority of Evangelists preaching say that "perhaps he should have gotten his affairs in order and Died when he was first supposed to.  I'm not Solomon.  I'm not going to play the "Utilitarian" care and call these people are "expendible".  That's a slippery slope nobody should walk down.  That would be immoral and unchristian.  It would violate my personal morals.  But still I see a problem.  Because a lot of people are getting rich off the misery of others - - and the overall benefit to society for all that "expense" is minimal.  Everybody talks about going to heaven but nobody wants to go there "right now".   (Selah)  President Obama in his campaign said his health care plan would be volentary - - NOT mandentory.  That changed as soon as he got elected because had the people known, a lot of young people wouldn't have voted for him.  Health is unprofitable.  Sickness is highly lucritive making a lot of hospitals, doctors, and insurance companies rich.  Dr Levy sees no problem in a world where the rich get to live to be 150 on a routine basis with donated (or bought on the black market) organs from others so that when one wears out there's another ready to go.   I wonder if I dare play the "God" care.  Or how about this one.  "Death Happens".  I know what you are thinking.  "Well if it were you, you'd want all the help you could get".  Perhaps so.  We always have to keep in mind the Golden Rule.  Yet still I see a problem and it's bankrupting us as a people and European countries seem to have "solved the problem" a lot better than we have by "bending the cost curve down" in the twilight years of life.  What sort of "death counselors" to they have in Europe?  Would that even be morally acceptable to the American Culture???

What you want to know NOW is "Do you have to die to have some sort of ACTUAL supernatural experiance?   I'm glad you asked that.  You CAN have a "longitudinal" experiance.  You don't have to leave the time-space continum for that to happen.  You can get in touch with your "super self", which is a way of interperating Einstein's special theory of relativity.  I combine a mathematical guimic with what I call the "Moving ether zero" property- - where one's mass can go "South of Zero" and still be Real but not negative.  We have talked at length about the "Ether Wall of Infinity".   Don't make me review all that now.  But you can indeed get in touch with your Super Self (not related to Nietche) and get a sneak preview on the Realities of your life that have already been scripted and you can take the time to get used to and make allowances for them.  There is another "out of the body experiance" of the "Latitudinal" experiance- - and for this one you have to go either to what as known as the Zero dimension (because it is outside of all known space) or what is also known as the Fifth Dimension - - meaning a dimension that goes accress the parrellel universes (highly oblique universes) and at any rate "Out of Time".   I think the sensation (or reality) of being "Out of TIME itself" would most certainly "transcend all human language to describe it" and as such it would be as though one had made contact with God- - however you imagine him to be.

L A City Council Votes to Raise Wages to $15.00 an Hour

This wasn't a snow ball interview but it sure was a softball interview- - and it was the viewing audience that got snowed - in this Bob Sheefer interview of Jeb Bush

Today the LA City Council voted 13 to 1 to raise the minimum wage to fifteen dollars, and there are no exceptions.  There was talk about perhaps exceptions for teenagers or for workers in non profit organizations.  There was an LA business group that was supporting a thirteen percent raise but they withdrew their support when it was raised to fifteen sometime last September.  The LA City Council has to vote one more time to make it official because the first vote wasn’t unanimous.  But then Mayor Garsetti will sign the bill into law.   Two of the three study groups they had said the raise would do more good than harm, but not the third.  The raise will be implemented gradually over the next several years.  Some states - not California have actually passed a law saying that a municipality may not raise the minimum wage on its own.

According to Bill Carol of KFI – a tsunami could strike the southern California area at any time along our coasts, and people are advised that whenever there is an earthquake on the beach, you aren’t as safe as you think but to seek higher ground.  They say that a seven or eight point earthquake could generate a six or seven foot wave at full strength.  The type of faults off our shores are the vertical upward thrust faults and not the strike slip type like the San Andreas fault is.  Because there is a sharp kink in the San Andreas fault there is a “log jam of little faults” trying to relieve the pressure and “get past” the slippage of the big fault.  It is funny the things you learn you suddenly learn were dangers in Southern California.

On Monday we all were introduced to Kateland Jennings on the “Vanity Fair” cover.  They say she looks like Jessica Lang.  Apparently all of the reviews of the “coming out” are positive, but of course this is LA where stories like this assume importance.  Rush Limbaugh mentioned (not without a sympathetic ear in me) that it seems we are making weird behavior to  be the Norm, and also marginalizing traditional, normal behavior to be somehow “no longer the Norm – or worse yet, uninformed and bigoted.   Of course what we really want to know is whether Bruce Jenner would date Kateland Jenner if he met her on the street.  Bill Carol let it slip that this whole trans-gender thing may be just a horrible publicity stunt and that he / she will switch back as soon as all the controversy has died down and the point has been made.

Yesterday apparently the US Senate passed the Freedom Bill which paves the way for extending the Patriot Act which has been changed in only minor cosmetic ways.  It’s pointed out that most likely – government surveillance hasn’t been slowed down or stopped for so much as a second.  President Obama of course is going to sign the bill because he is as big a fan of this mass surveillance as anyone.  The author of the Patriot Act himself never foresaw that the measure would be taken liberties with in the way that it has.  Of course I had the feeling back last week and the week before that virtually nothing could be done to stop the extension of the Patriot Act no matter how momentarily bleak the prospect for its extension once looked.

Some laws are just too liberal for me.  I think this whole trans-sexual stuff being peddled off on school children who have young, impressionable minds- - is dangerous and damaging to the psyches of the children.  This whole idea of boys claiming they’re really girls just so they can shower with then in gym is a little sick.  Of course apparently a whole generation of young people, the milenials - - have been brainwashed that the gay lifestyle is OK.  Now California is reviving the moter-voter law.  I am unsure about this one since I don’t want voter registration to be some so “automatic” that you don’t even have to think about it.  I believe registering to Vote should be a specific and deliberate mental act- - a major decision of one’s life.   Also California is passing more welfare programs for illegal immigrants.  I don’t see why these illegals should be entitled to one penny with so many people who are American citizens being squeezed for cash by the cutbacks that took place in this state in 2008 and we still haven’t recovered from.  I see no reason on God’s green earth why illegal aliens should receive free college tuition. 

There is a guy named Bill Hicks who was a left wing Comedian who died of cancer in 1994 who read this poetry which was spoken in the style which Jim Morrison used to read poetry.   This guy is an interesting fellow.  He reminds me of a composite of Mike Meloy, John Fugelsang, Jim Morrison, and most of all George Carlen.  Two of these people are dead.  I also watched his comedy bit on the Kennedy assassination, and also with another comedian.  He died at age 32 on February 26^th 1994 a date I remember because I started a new tape drinking white wine before noon.  I ranted about two topics in particular.  Mal Evans reminds me that February 25th fell on a Friday so it was Saturday the guy died.   I have wondered whether I've had "contact with him on the other side" and didn't know it.  Mal Evans would not answer that question, but I think he knows the answer.  He also said the stuff I was thinking about writing down and posting was classified information.  (I'm not sure how something which may not even exist can be classified)  Bill Hicks was born in the south on December 16th 1961 and was a maverick from the git go.  I'm not sure what even impelled one of the authors of Washington's blog to even bring up his name yesterday.

If we had to summarize the sickness of our economy and society, we could start by noting that liberation is unprofitable, and whatever is not profitable to vested interests is marginalized, outlawed, proscribed or ridiculed. Examples of this abound.

Liberation from digital communication servitude is not profitable. Don’t have a smart phone on 18 hours a day, every day? Loser! Luddite! Liberation from digital communication servitude is not profitable, therefore it is ridiculed.

Liberation from debt is not profitable.Only the wealthy can afford to buy a vehicle without debt, a home without debt or a university education without debt. For everyone else, liberation from debt is not an option, because debt is highly profitable to our financial Overlords and the politicos they buy/own.

Liberation from the staged, soap-opera political drama of elections is not profitable.Election advertising generates staggering profits for media companies, and the ceaseless nurturing of fear, resentment and indignation fuels acceptance of centralized power and control.

Liberation from the tyranny of central banks is not profitable. Our entire financial system is built on the simple dynamic that everyone is forced to use money issued by the central bank (Federal Reserve) to its member banks and their financier cronies.  Money that is decentralized and not issued by central banks is not profitable.

Common-sense, minimal regulations are not profitable. Regulations feed government fiefdoms and the revolving-door spoils system between the state and private industry, and erect formidable barriers to new competitors. As a result, over-regulation is immensely profitable.

Regulation Run Amok—And How to Fight Back

The ability to think independently is not profitable. The control mechanisms that keep the various classes of serfs in permanent servitude all depend on a dumbed-down populace that has been stripped of the ability to think independently by propaganda, group-think, medications, the education industry and lifelong dependency on the state.

Why Democrats Should Pick Sanders Over Hillary

In an earlier article, I stated the case “Why Hillary Clinton Would Be a Weak Presidential Nominee for Democrats,” and I explained why Ms. Clinton will never be able to rise from her present poor net favorability ratings. All the good publicity about her is past (from her flaks), while her support (being based purely on PR, sheer fluff) was a mile wide and an inch deep. The more that voters get to see her actual record, the more they’ll distrust her words. That reason she’d be a weak general-election candidate is: she’s not at all a trustworthy person (except by her financial backers), and there’s nothing she’ll be able to do at this late date to convince general-election voters that she is. The trust issue is so bad for her, that no matter how much money is spent on her campaigns, it’ll be like trying to paddle a boat not in water but in air — there won’t be the traction that’s needed to get her to being the first person past the finish-line in the boat-race. That boat has already been sold to the highest bidder, even before the race begins. She can evade, but she cannot hide, now that the contest has actually started. As more Democrats learn about this, they’ll turn away. Too many Democrats will avoid voting in the final, the general-election contest, or else will protest-vote for some third-party nominee; whereas the Republican nominee, whomever he is, will clearly be Republican in more than just his official designation. By contrast to Clinton: if Sanders is the Democrat, then voter-turnout on Election Day on the Democratic line will be enormous. And turnout in a Presidential election is crucial also in a much broader sense: it largely determines which of the two Parties will control both the Senate and especially the House (where everybody is up for election every two years). Even if Clinton were to win (which is unlikely), she would then be dealing in 2017 with a strongly Republican Congress, because of 2016’s resulting depressed Democratic voter-turnout. By contrast: if Sanders is the nominee, then not only will he win, but he will possibly (maybe even likely) be dealing with a Democratic Congress in 2017, by virtue of his drawing so many Democrats to the polls on Election Day 2016.  OK you heard it from the horse’s mouth, Washington’s blog.

 Anne Coulter was on Shawn Hannity when I returned from juice break at a quarter after two, till ten to three in both long segment.  Anne has a new book out on “How the United States is being turned into a third world hell hole” because of our immigration policies.  She went on a diaria of the mouth rant as a torrent of accusations flowed out of her mouth such that Shawn could hardly get a word in edge wise.   She said there were not eleven million illegal aliens but thirty million and she says she knows because of school admittance records and prison records and of course mortgages.  She’s big on this idea that there were massive illegal alians stiffing the mortgage companies thus causing the crash of 2008.  She alleges that both the democrats and republicans WANT a flood of immigrants here.  The democrats want to turn them all into voters seemingly as soon as they cross the border.  The Republicans want low wages.  And of course if they send any money back home to Mexico it does right into the hands of the Mexican drug cartels.  And there are murderers and rapists and genital mutilators and of course most of the sex trade you hear about is caused by illegal immigrants.  I’m sure Judy would just eat this book up.  (Hopefully not!)   There was of course the usual commercial break at the bottom of the hour.  At eight to three I went out to smoke and talked to Glen.  I’ve given Glen quite a number of cigarettes and will be low myself.  Finally I got Norman Goldman coming in.  He says the “Lone Wolf” provisions of the Patriot act are those provisions that enable the government to harass and otherwise make trouble for people who just read suspect propaganda on line but otherwise show no other criminal indications.  There is this rampant fear of “Self radicalization”.

Modern scientific discoveries say they have "explained" how some people can get the feeling of an "out of body experiance" and say they have "duplicated the illusion" in the lab.  Nobody knows whether you or "your soul" survives death or not.  Christians don't even agree on imortality.  Some like me claim that the Soul is inherently Immortal.  Other Evangelists say that you are born natural with DNA and all that, and your DNA can even affect your Soul.  Others claim that "demonic activity in your family- - your ancesters- - can affect the "quality" of your Salvation.  Mental illness is a question.  Neil Savedra has claimed both that Mental Illness can affect your whole perception of "God issues" but he has at other times said that mental illness was no impediment to Salvation.  This line of thought usually says that you are born a "Natural man" like an animal, whom these people claim have no souls and do not survive death.  But that you have Immortality "bestowed" upon you by a Higher Power at some point in your life.  Hence the soul isn't immortal by nature but only as some bestowed gift from on high.  The Mormons believe the soul is inherently Immortal.  In fact they believe we all have lived a pre existance in Eternity before we were born, and that when we die our memories of our formal existance will be restored to us.  The Mormons believe the purpose of this life is to "learn certain Lessons you could not have learned otherwise".  If I have to choose I am more sympathetic to this view than the other one.  Some would logically argue that we need "to know what the soul is made of" before we can begin to speculate "where it goes" after Death.  It seems to me that it's easy to fall into some mental trap of viewing Death as some kind of Magic Carpet liberator of the soul no longer being trapped in this body.  But you can also argue that for consciousness to survive death the soul HAS to leave the body and to "Travel" some place in whatever "soul dimension" there is that exists.  After all you can hardly remain there in a dead body deprived of all senses or even awareness- for all Eternity.  Hence there is the logical necessity of some sort of travel in a demension otherwise unknown.  If there is inherent something "not of this world" about the soul, which I have believed- - then the "dimension of travel"  is something we have never experianced before.  We could call it fifth dimensional if you want to.  I see two choices here.  You can take a trip and end up back where you started.  Or you can take a trip only to end your trip in a different city perhaps, if you've decided to relocate.  You can travel OUT of this Universe- - - for a while- only to return to this same time-space continuoum.  Or- - you can travel OUT of this Universe or what we call "In the fifth dimension" only to end up in Another Universe.  As I have said before the possabilities that await us upon Death (if any at all) are positively Endless.

Then it was the soap opera where Melanie is getting out of the script and on the most flimsy of reason is deciding she doesn’t want to marry Brady.  In fact she doesn’t want to be in the same country with him but is moving back to England with her mother.  Remember how only “yesterday” she was professing such great happiness at “being home with her loved ones such as her father and her grandmother and Brady”.  Now she’s throwing all of that in the trash can all because of a threat given by Teresa.   If push came to shove Brady would choose her over his son, because (if it were me) the guilt factor would work with Teresa that she was doing the wrong thing by going to Los Angeles with her mother.  In time Teresa would realize that what worked as a threat doesn’t work so well if you actually get it, because it’s not what she wants - - that is- - living with her parents in LA while Brady and Melanie find marital bliss in Salem.  The worst part of what Melanie did was that now- - - she’s not only inducing Brady to hate Teresa by being saddled with her in a living arrangement he doesn’t want- - but in the end he’ll begin to hate Melanie for making a choice for him, which is a choice HE should be the one to make.

Jim Ward is on with maximum mookage now.  There was a rock compilation listed on the entry “Bastille Day” on “For the Record” which should be re-named “Super Heavy” because all of the songs including ‘Instant Amnesia’ were ‘Super Heavy” not to mention long songs that I doubt would even all fit on two CD’s.  Actually 6 x 13 is 78 so all the pieces need to be is to average less than six minutes in length.   My blogger numbers are rising a little in my current blog.  Actually I was looking for the “Best of Ringo” CD that’s listed somewhere.