Political Developments Now

 I watched Meet the Press and I have a number of political observations as of late.   Donald Trump was speaking when I first arrived and he was being asked about this rampant climate of hostility he had engendered.  He was given opportunity to walk it back a little but being The Donald, he declined- - and continued to justify everything he’s said and denied in any way that he was responsible.   Marco Rubio and John Kasech both are reconsidering their pledge to support Donald Trump should he win.  They and Cruz are referring to the chickens coming home to roost and all of that.  This campaign violence was all in the news even into Saturday.   Ted Cruz strikes me now as the most Presidential of the Republican candidates the way he conducts himself.  You can tell he weighs his words.  I wouldn’t vote for Kasech since I found out yesterday that Kasech actually is all for the Trans Pacific Partnership.  Ted Cruz made it a point to say there is still a possibility he could win the race outright without going to a brokered convention.  If Trump loses Ohio and Florida Cruz will have to win 56% of all remaining races or something but if Trump wins Ohio and Florida, then Cruz will have to win eighty percent of all remaining delegates.   As you know Shawn Hannity was mad enough to spit nails learning that Marco Rubio told his supporters to vote for Kasech in Ohio.  But Kasech is NOT returning the favor and isn’t telling his supporters to vote for Marco Rubio in Florida.  So Kasech is more piggish.   In terms of delegate “Math Death” Rubio would have to win 98% of the remaining delegates and Kasech would have to win 112% of the remaining delegates to win the contest outright.  Things don’t look too good for Hillary right now and she is suddenly afraid of her prospects in several of Super Tuesday II’s states.  She said “Missouri looks too much like Oklahoma”.  And Illinois and Ohio don’t look too good either.  Rom Emanuel is a negative factor in Illinois and he knows it and has been kept out of the public eye.   Really most of Hillary’s best states are behind her, and Washington’s blog has stated that from now on the odds will favor Senator Bernie Sanders catching up to Hillary in votes.

The following three paragraphs were from a letter to someone a week ago.  I believe pollution and global warming are major problems and we need to wean ourselves off of fossle fuels.  I believe in a twelve dollar minimum wage.  (not fifteen)  I am against "bad deals" with either China or Iran or the Trans pacific partnership.  I want to crack down on cyber theft of China and regotiate NAFTA or eliminate it.  I agree with Rubio and Kasech that we need a "path tword citizenship of eleven million illegal aliens to bring them out of the shadows.  I believe in GMO labeling.  I think the FDA needs to be overhauled so that they don't approve dangerous drugs.  We need to negotiate the price of drugs.  I would like to see some sort of increased competetion of health plans like going accross state lines like the republicans want.  We need to get rid of Obama Care because it's a disaster.  I agree with Kasech and Trump that we shouldn't go around trying to start World War III with Russia.  Putin is a dangerous fellow but he has Nukes and has indicated he intends to use them.  I would try and negotiate other nations to help fight ISIS.  I would renegotiate the Iranian deal.  I believe in States rights but am against people like Governor Snyder of Michigan would rob local cities of THEIR rights.  Municipalities should retain the right to set pollution standards and also to outlaw certain types of firearms if they want.  I think the senate fillibuster rule has been over-used in the past.

In terms of Supreme Court rulings,  I would overturn Roe vs Wade.  I would also overturn Citizen's United.  Money is not "speech".   I disagree with the gay marriage ruling.  I would seek to overturn that.  I'm anti abortion except in the case of rape, incest and the life of the mother.  I am cautious about genetic research except in cases of specific restoritive gene therapy to restore the human being to the way God intended it - - for instance in the case of some dread disease such as Tay-Sachs.  I am against trying to create some "super species".  I am against these doctor assisted suicide laws such as Oregon.  I am against no fault divorce.  We need to continue to crack down on child sexual predators on the internet.  I believe in religious liberty and freedom to pray in public and post the ten commandments and manger scenes and all of that.  But I am against Trump's plan to "Ban all people of Moslem faith" from entering the country.  I don't want any Holy Crusades against Islam.  I'm not entirely comfortable with the phrase "This is a Christian country" in terms of our foreign policy. 

I'm not happy with any one candidate.  John Kasech, whom I was considering, has come out in favor of the trans Pacific partnership agreement.  This disqualifies him in my eyes. We need a candidate who is for civil liberties and won't collect bulk data collection on all of us.  I agree with Leo Le Port that there should be no back door codes where the government can break in any time they want to into incrypted programs.  I think we need to crack down on Wall Street and various tax laws and loopholes, and believe the Federal Reserve has rigged it to make stock prices artifically high.  CEO's should not be paid in stock options.  I would bring back glass steigell.  We need to restore things like margin requirements and also I'd like a small "stock traders tax" to cut way down on stock speculation and basically "computer cheating".  I believe we should audit the federal reserve and get interest rates on T Bills and such to a more "honest level" reflecting the true availablity of money.  We need to immediately stop this "monetization' stuff.  I would also institute a massive- - infrastructure repair program to fix our roads, bridges and water works.  There are idle people and work needs to be done.  I am against your philosophy of "slash everything" and to "start paying off the national debt as quickly as possible".  I don't see the debt as an urgent priority at this point.  I am against "Free college for everybody" but I think interest payments on student loans can be refinanced so young people aren't bankrupt for years.  Material in blue was just now added.  

Syd Barret is the one we heard from when George Martin died.  Syd was talkative about how his "spirit" was the one that was extant during the peak of the Beatles' psychedelic period.  Syd gave us a song line up.  His first track with the Beatles was "Girl".  The second one was "I'm Only Sleeping" followed by "Strawberry Fields Forever".   Syd sang every Lennon track on Sgt Pepper except the Lennon part in "Getting Better".  He was later asked "So Lennon did that track himself" and Syd responded inigmatically "I didn't say that".   We have a samantic problem with "Magical Mystery Tour" the album because Syd was referencing our "Make an album" version from a couple years ago.  He said "All You Need is Love" was the only Lennon track.  But our version of "Tour" lacks "Baby You're a Rich Man".  Instead we throw in three bonus tracks from Yellow Submarine.  Syd did of course sing on "I'm The Walrus" on MMT.   Also Syd sang on "Accross the Universe" and 'Hey Bulldog" (which as you may know we stick on Abbey Road of all places.  Finally Syd takes credit for vocal on every Lennon track on "Abbey Road" with the exception of "The End", which Syd said WAS Lennon in this case.  Syd later amended his remarks further to say that Greeny was responsible for the lyrics of "Good Morning", "Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite" and about two thirds of "Getting Better".   The Beatle producer Jeff Emerick or whoever took a couple albums off- - the White Album and "Let It Be".  So asked him about if there was a Syd Barret persona coming through on various Lennon tracks.  In terms of Keith Emerson's death- - - as far as the Federation is concerned, ELP is basically Greg Lake with a back-up group.  This is because Emerson and Palmer's cosmic origens are unknown- - at least to this writer.  Greg Lake of course is an Aldeberan IX, and was part of the "Aldeberan IX invasion of the M 51 planet in late 1967 and early 1968.