I had KNX radio on as usual for a Saturday. The President’s address this morning was on the confirmation of the START treaty, which the Republican Senate is holding up. This was a topic of discussion on "This Week" on ABC. George Will, being the loyal conservative, defended the obstructionism of the Republicans in the senate on this matter. George Will does now even believe we should allow lame duck sessions of congress. But of course if the treaty can't pass now it will never pass next year. Surely George Will must know this. The Republicans are just following their play book laid down by Mitch Mc Connell to make President Obama a one term President. What is clear now is that the Republicans hate this administration more than they love their country, which I find really disturbing. This treaty is a continuation of the original START treaty under Ronald Reagan under the slogan of “Trust but Verify”. We have not had inspecters on the grounds in Russia in nearly a year. Of course it’s pointed out what a valuable ally that Russia now is helping us with troublesome nations like Iran. Personally I still don't regard Russia as a friend because it's clear they are continuing in their autocratic tradition. You know both the Catholic Church and the Soviet Union have in comon that they started under the doctrine of "From everyone according to his ability and to each according to his need". Many tea baggers say it's no mystery why so many college students find communism attractive because they were raised under this general doctrine by their parents. As college students of limited means they "haven't experianced the true joys of genuine greed" like Gordon Gecko and his multi millions. But in truth the Russian nation is one of the must stuffy, stultifying and stagnent nations on the face of the earth, as is the Catholic Church. The government acquires property from the laety, er uh the people, and they hoard it. And they do anything to keep the fresh breezes of democracy from blowing.
In related news it was announced that the US will begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan as scheduled in July of 2011, but that we won’t have all the troops out of that country till 2014. That’s over three long years away and a lot of military deployments down the line. Other people say to face the fact that we’ll have troops in Afghanistan for the next ten years because they say that’s how long this war will take to win. Our troops claim that the Tallibon kills more civilians than our military does. I highly contest this fact. We killed a MINIMUM of 120,000 Iraqi civilians during that war there, which is a whole lot more than any "insergency" killed. Basically we have about a thirty to one kill ratio. I find no reason to believe things are any different in Afghanistan. Personally, I bet they're worse, with all of our drone flights. Karzai doesn't entirely trust the US and I don't blame him. This Admeral guy on "This Week" also talked about the START treaty and also "Don't Ask' Don't Tell". He doesn't like this one Marine Corps guy speaking up the way he did when they had all agreed to keep quiet till after the committee had issued their report. Of course people have complained about John Mc Cain's "moving of the goal posts" and I don't mean at Wrigley Field. I mean Mc Cain was going to abide by whatever the military agreed to. Now even though the military appears to be going along with eliminating "Don't Ask Don't Tell" Mc Cain, to appease his right wing friends, has moved further to the right. One guy on ABC news said that Sarah Palin "doesn't even have a slight chance of becomming president". To comment further on anything Sarah Palin does or says at this point would be pointless. Clearly she's living in a fantasy world, as are her minions of followers.
And now another chapter of "Those Murdering Bradys". But first Vivian Alamaine tipped her hand that she was no longer entombed in a coffin by talking to Victor almost cocky and mocking saying “You rejected me, but what have you got now? You’ve got nothing”. Brady also had feelings afresh that he really ought to be setting Vivian free because that’s what his mother would want. Samantha is in tears because Elvis gave her the long expected ultimatum that she either had to totally relinquish Sydney and Johnny, or else spend life in prison. E J is in a sense being kind. After all as E J points out it could shd should well be that Will and Raphael both go to jail as accessories to the crime after the fact. But also candidates for prison are police chief Bo Brady, and his mother, Caroline Brady, who have become accessaries after the fact. This whole keeping Samantha's attempted shooting of E J as the family secret - is becomming scandelous. Again, Samantha is a first rate fool if she doesn't grab E J's deal with both hands. Most murderors would leap at the chance never to have their case go to court. Not Sammy. She would rather traumatize her own children when she has a clear choice offered to her. What kid wants to grow up with the knowledge that her mother tried to kill her father. Sydney has had only one father, Elvis, but she has had three mothers, Anna Di Mira, Nicole, and Sammy. Which ever of these women continues to raise her now will be the one Sydney calls “Mommy” in the end. If I were Nicole I wouldn’t feel “used” in doing what any upstanding law abiding citizen would do. She has no reason to be ashamed of her actions, regardless of the consequences. She did the right thing. But I could point out to Elvis that “I know you are a caring, compassionate man. You have seen that side to you and I know that because I have lived with you. And I know you want your children to have the nurturing of a mother figure, even if you aren’t married to her, and I think I am by process of elimination the most logical candidate for that”. There is no need for any sort of groveling, desperation plea.
In personal news I have been getting regular interval interference on my TV reception at certain times of the day. It occurs on all channels and regardless of how the antenna is turned. Clearly there is some short or some applyance that is malfunctioning somewhere else in the building that needs tending to. I have not gotten much traction on this issue yet.
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