Meric Garland is the Justice nominee Obama picked. I’m watching him on C-Span introducing him in the Rose Garden. He was head of his high school class and head of his college graduating class. He gave up a good carrier in private practice to go into public service as a low level government prosecutor and worked his way up. He prosecuted the Oklahoma City bombings. (I’m sure some conservatives will never forgive him for that) He has served in his current post as DC circuit court justice for nearly twenty years. Now the President is admonishing anyone who will listen about making this into a political football. Shawn Hannity accused Judge Garland of being a "hard left liberal". Other Republicans like Mitch Mc Conell didn't seem to care what political philosophy Judge Garland was- - he isn't even going to take up committee procedings. Mc Conell says it's his constitutional right not to even LOOK at this candidate. He is mistaken. President Obama should have done a recess appointment, if he could get away with it. This Senate is so lazy anyhow they're going to take the next two weeks off. Usually when you go to C-Span the last thing they're having is a congressional hearing anyhow. As to Shawn Hannity there's no reason to even listen to him anymore because he lies about everything. And he over generalizes to the point of gross distortion kind of the way Paul does. The good Judge is a little liberal on gun rights and environmental issues. But he's a hard liner on law and order and slow to afford the defendants any rights. That's what I've heard.
This whole political climate is so toxic anyhow and stands in stark contrast to the feelings in this country twenty years ago when President Clinton has smooth sailing to reelection. Even Rush Limbaugh seemed reluctant to put up much of a fight in the fall of 1996. Things have sure changed! You have liberal talk show hosts grossly over-estamating their own power or the power of "the movement" of the left. It wouldn't be an exaguration to call the situation progressives find themselves in now as "grave" and those who deny it are whistling past a grave yard. There is no "movement" going on now. It's been said "We're in the middle of some grand change for the better but it's s historic that we just can't see it when we're living through it. I refer you back to twenty years ago. No sane person would dare to say that things aren't a hall of a lot worse in every way than they were then in this country's national politic. Something else that's almost as morbid-bound as the democratic party is Christianity. But that's a tale of woe we'll leave for another day. I think it was James Carvil who said the first things democrats have to do is "get desperate". This is no time for half way measures. It's like trying to fight an advancing tank with a water pistol. I've seen enough on the internet to know how grave things really are for progressives in the courts and in law enforcement, and in the media. The corporatist media is particularly bad, and we have the communications act of 1996 to thank for that. It's like liberalism is drowning in quick sand and none of us know it. (Selah) Stagnation is not our friend. Grudging acceptance of the status quo is not our friend. Half way measures are not our friend. And to quote Barry Goldwater, "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue".
John Kerry gave a
speech on the genocide of “Dash” alias ISIL alias ISIS presumably this morning,
because he was wearing a green tie. “Dash”
is destructive to so many different ethnicities and cultures. There can be little doubt that the war
against ISIS must be pursued to the end.
I would only hope that the “coalition” we assembled is as broad as Kerry
said it is. Today Norman “Heinz” Goldman turns 57. In good news in the Mideast yesterday Russians announced they were pulling troops out of Syria saying that their "mission" there has been accomplished. Regardless of how it happened, I"m glad it has. At least that's one threat of World War III that won't become reality. I just question how serious Sauti Arabia is about stopping ISIS or "Dash" or whatever they're called now. Because philosophically they are like two peas in a pod, with basically the same goals and aspirations- - at least as far as I can see.
Given the sort of hostile attitude even the "main streme" republicans have in congress I continue to be puzzled why Shawn Hannity sees these leadership republicans in congress as the enemy. Aren't they doing a good enough job of obstructing any and all legislation proposed by President Obama? Right now I have it on WCPT three o clock news. Donald Trump states now that if he were to fail to be nominated at the Republican convention that riots would break out in the streets. Is this a man who is full of himself or what? Actually I'm not sure if there were to be riots whether I'd join the anti Trump or pro Trump forces. As bad as Donald Trump is- - and his campaign has been awful, there's no denying that. But still Trump has some good ideas- - such as a tougher stance tword China and fair trade and opposing the trans Pacific partnership and all. Even at this date Trump is not all bad. It's hard to actually believe Trump would institute systematic torture of the people in Guantanamo Bay. It's patently illegal and he would be brought up on charges as an international War Criminal. That's something to consider however. However I still say Trump would be more resistant to Wall Street than Hillary Clinton would. We hear the word "Crony Capitalism" thrown around. Maybe someone should refresh my memory as to exactly what that is. It seems to me that Hillary Clinton is up to her eyeballs in it. It just dawned on me that if Trump fails to get the nomination of his party some of his supporters might want to come over to the Bernie Sanders camp, because we don't like this sucky government any more than Trump does. It's something to think about.
I watched the soap opera. If we believe the plot now- - Daniel Jonas
was conceived in the late eighties and Summer is twenty years older than he is
and born on the farm when Maggie was seventeen around 1967 I’d guess. That makes no sense- either one. Summer is nowhere near fifty years old, and no way is summer twenty years older than Daniel Jonas. Who writes this stuff? There are so many dangling plotlines out there it's time some loose ends were developed into an ongoing timeline. Let's see - - we have the whole Patch taking the rap for Eva's death. We have Hope getting off Scott free for a murder she comitted in blood of Stephano. It isn't inconceivable that everybody in the Salem PD as well as DA Justin knows the wrong person is being charged but there is some sort of Brady code of silence, that's been previously unknown on this show. We have that dangeling rape case. All of these are story lines that need to see some sort of forward progress. We have Dario, and we have Damos, and Edwardo and "The Stealth Alliance" and then we have Benjamin Weston - - and we still don't know if EJ is really alive or what happened to Samantha - and the question of whether Johnny and Allie will be teenagers the next time we see them - - and we have Jennifer and her pill problem. Sometimes Connie is in the habbit of staring
at me. Both Connie and Joe Driso were
wearing orange pants with a green shirt.
I had two cups of iced tea from Emma and orange slices.
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