People Who Live in Glass Houses

The big news of the past day has been that George W's new book "Decision Points" or whatever, is out. Last night I missed the interview with the former President because I hadn't had my coffee and my brain was a mental fog and the event just plum slipped my mind. Not to defend George Bush or anything but I am of the school that people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. I don't think stone throwing is a particularly good idea anyhow. I don't like the idea of a whole family clan being classed as mentally ill or "dysfunctional" or what have you. I remember riding home from a dinner with my cousin and his son and our family at a place at Long Beach harbor (I had stead) and we were riding home and a person in the car went off on my father and what a horrible role model he was and how our family (and particularly Pete Richards) suffered for it. My feelings were mixed. My first impulse was to tell them to shut up because it was none of their business and ignormasuses shouldn't pose as experts on things they know nothing about. On the other hand I wanted to hear what this person knew, or thought they knew. People on the inside of families have the right to criticism and confrontation. Outsiders probably don't have the full picture. And if you were to put Obama's upbringing up to scruteny it might not be nice. One could make a lot of the whole mixed race thing or the Indonesian Islamic indoctrination thing or the absent father thing. In Bush's case we are told that Barbra was an abusive woman who worked out her anger in inappropiate ways. When I think of Barbra I think of that Michael Jackson interview in 1988 during the campaign, and how antagonistic and hostile Barbra became to just routine questions. I remember thinking then, "this woman has anger issues". How we hear how the family played golf after the death of George's three & a half year old sister, Robin, when he was seven. And then Barbra apparently did a 180 and had sixteen year old George W drive her to the hospital after she had miscarried and she had her fetus in a jar and she was telling George "this is your little brother or sister". It sounds a little weird to me, but I wasn't there. Apparently with Senator Santaurum it was stranger. They packed up the family for a trip to grandma's with the six year old, the four year old and the eighteen month old, and of course the fetus and had the children talking to the fetus and singing it lulibies and when they got to Grandma's they had a naming ceremony and then burried the fetus in the back yard. People talk about stresses causing George to begin drinking. In my own case I steer clear of both Mark Bove and William Halliday, two Reverands, because I know they would eat me alive if they were able to pin alcoholism on me. I don't know what all goes into alcoholism, and I'm not going to start slinging mud or advance some psychological theory about family upbringing for it. On the contrary I think Bush is superior to Obama in a lot of ways because he answers questions directly and from the heart and doesn't just start babbling rationalistic nonesense the way our current President is wont to do. In terms of the Bush legacy I'll just say that my latest message from the Bush's "guardian angels" on Cassiopia, suggests to me that these of the "Texas group" we we at the Federation call them, are not very happy with the tea baggers and suggest that they will wreck the country unless someone pulls them aside and tells them the facts of life. My only hope is that that statement is true. The Heritage Foundation is still saying that the tea party movement was entirely spontanious and grass roots in nature. It seems already Rand Paul is reversing his position on earmark legislation saying now he's all for them. My other observation about Bush is don't go off attacking him, when our current President has adopted all of his basic pro war and pro wall street policies. People say that President Obama is a lot smarter than Bush was. If that is true - then it makes his acts even more deliberate and increases his culpability. Whatever you say about George Bush - - his administration is over and done and Bush is prepared to fade into the sunset twilight. President Obama's policies are ongoing and in the present and that is the danger we need to fear. Some say you can judge a man by who they are afraid of. President Obama seems really afraid of offending the tea baggers and is willing to compromise with with them in ways that would make Nevil Chamberlin blush. People talk about the Bush war crimes. Well, it was this President's decision not to prosecute them. If you are looking for the most immediate source to blame, blame this President. He continues to live preaching this farsical fantasy that he's a liberal. As is pointed out on the Thom Hartman show today there ARE no real liberals left. Not the kind that world net daily has these wild delusions about. Robert Welsh has gone main stream, and Joe Hill is considered too subversive to even include in the history books. There are no socialists or communists left and Labor Unions cower like Iraqi troops after the first few days of the ground invasion of "Opperation Desert Storm" in 1991. We have expunged the Left from our "American Heritage" and Heritage Foundation should put that in their pipe and smoke it. Remember, contrary to what Hillary Clinton says, tea baggers don't get stronger in hot water, they just get weaker- - and turn bitter. (Selah)

Melanie Layton is in big trouble on Days of our Lives. I'd watch my back. We all know that Clowie is a lying sociopath. She drove one husband to drugs, and insensed one mother in law so much that she tried to have her murdered. Now she's cheated again and regards the Truth as kryptonite. What lengths will she go to to keep her secret? Throwing the keys to the boat in the water is only the first step. Now she is trying to fake having her baby to keep Melanie off the cell phone to her father. Were I Melanie I'd just say "Hell, you won't die in the next two minutes. Just sit there and lie quietly and make it easier on yourself". Then we have the other serpantine character, Vivian Alamaine. Yesterday she was released from her coffin. So now you should expect a reign of terror like Satan being loose from the bottomless pit after a thousand years. I found it interesting the line spoken yesterday that goes "The reason why Vivian lothes Maggie so is that she sees such a basic goodness in Maggie and she can't stand that, so her only instinct is to destroy it". That's interesting. At last we come to Elvis Di Mira as the lone wolf and the only one in Salem who cares whether the person who shot and almost killed him should be brought to justice. It's kind of the dirty little Brady family secret that they all know Samantha pulled the trigger, but nobody wants to say it aloud. I identify with Elvis. I know what it's like to be a minority of one, and now the only ally he had in the world is dead. But that may soon change. Nicole Walker was the lucky dog who found the camera phone recording Samantha's full, explicit confession to the shooting. She says she's going to put it on the evening news. If she does so she has my full endorsement, and Sammy has it coming. It'll put the whole Brady family in their place. Samantha lost my sympathy when innocent lives became affected. And when Adriana's life was hanging in the ballance that was IT for me. Sammy had gone over the line. It may be a way for Nicole to reconcile with an ex lover / slash / enemy to once again get on his good side by giving him what he wants most.

Nicole Walker here with the evening news and this next story will knock your socks off. They talked about the political divide on the ABC news and how the north and west coast don't have the deep religious faith of the deep south. But now something Pete Richards mentioned to me years ago may be coming true. He said that a lot of devout pastors had lost their faith. I didn't believe it. But now ABC news says that it's a growing trend particularly among evangelical pastors of the South with large congragation. (of religious addicts that need to be regularly fed - slash - supplied) And they say that they lost their faith FROM reading the Bible itself. One pastor said that he knew he'd lost his faith and it just wasn't there any more, but he still had to go on. But all the same time was looking for an honorable way out of the pulpit. He feared he had lost his soul but at the same time prayed for God to take his life before he had comitted the unpardonable sin. It seems there are more of us out there than I think.

The news is that contestent on Wheel of Fortune who guess the phrase "I've got a good feeling about this" all from guessing one, letter, the L in feeling. Well, I don't know. The show has always been on the up & up so I'll take Pat Sajac at his word. Maybe it's just true. She really did have a good feeling about this one.