Our lead story is obviously that shooting in Florida. Bob Dylan once had in a song lyric " - and the license to kill is given out to every maniac". I forget the song. This "self defense" law passed by Governor Jeb Bush when he was in power in 2005 states that you get to "stand your ground" and don't have to actually BE physically threatened or hide or retreat or attempt less deadly force before shooting the person you're suspicious of. This guy named George Zimmer called the local police department at least 46 times over a period of only a few months. His name was no doubt on the "frequent caller list" and it ain't like the frequent flyer list. This is not a good thing. It means he routinely wastes the local police department's valuable time in pursuing these false leads and having to expend costly man power on each and every call. The thing is he's a really smooth liar because he makes the sort of calls that vaguely sound credible by stealth wording. It's "my wife saw someone" or "now he's got something in his hands" or "This guy definitely has a screw loose" or "something's not right with him". These are the things ordenary people would say with real complaints. George Zimmerman was 28 and he gunned down an unarmed seventeen year old Black teenager who was returning from the store with a bottle of Arizona iced tea and a bag of Skittles. He was screaming hysterically for help and everyone on the block called 9 - 11 to report what they were witnessing. But these dispatchers have such ameoba like reflexes and all of them seem to be on qualudes or something because they hnever react. Then the sound of a gun shot and the screaming stops. And the witness says "There was a gun shot" and - - kind of an "Oh - - that's nice" from the other end. That's what they might as well be saying. It so happens because of this National Gun Association inspired law that "justifiable homocides" are now tripple what they were before this law was passed in 2005 and now seventeen states have such laws on the books, and people don't know. George Zimmerman has never been charged for this crime even though it happened only three weeks ago and is only now getting into the national press. The decedent's name is Travon Martin. All these Black people have strange's names. The victim's father is calmer in dealing with this situation than I'd be under the same circumstances. I'll tell you that. The entire local police department seems to be working to cover up the crime. In these cases they never even test the shooter for drugs, even though they'll test the decedent for drugs. The cases never see so much as a day in court but are automatically dismissed because of this law. Now the Obama Administration today is filing Federal Civil Right's Law violation for a Hate Crime. This case isn't a "shooting"; it was an Execution. The cops falsely reported that teenage girl witness had backed up Zimmerman's "self defense" version of events, when just the opposite is actually true. Normally law enforcement doesn't like these sort of Vigelante laws because they interfer with proper Law Enforcement procedures. But with the NRA running loose it's a different story. Zimmerman still has his gun. And obviously has NOTHING to say in his own defense since ALL should be that if ever there was a Completely Unjustifiable killing, this one is it. And yet none of the three or four Republicans have even weighed in on this crime. This only goes to show that for all their "human life is precious" some life is more precious than others. If it's a white fetus, then it's precious. That's how they reason. But neither Samtorum, Gingrich nor Romney DARES say ANYTHING about this crime for fear of upsetting their tea party base, which must be placatred at all costs.
The other news of the day is the revival of this Paul Ryan budget. As you remember the President and the Republican Congress worked out a debt reduction deal where cuts would be made accross the board in the federal budget. All of the candidates falsely reported that :"nothing has been done" to score debator's points, even though it isn't true. The Paul Ryan budget slashes tasex from a low of 15% to a high of 35% down to a new rate of a 10% minimum and a maximum, even for billionaires, of 25%. This Ryan plan slashes 5.3 Trillion with a T - - from the federal budget, in just one year I believe. Rush was trying to tell us how much this ammount of money actually was. Of course they want to restore defense spending so we will have the funding to wage the planned war with Iran whenever we get around to proviking it. If you're an NRA gun slinger you know "You need to be proactive about these things". So most of that 5.3 Trillion with a T dollars will come out of things like medicare and programs to help the poor and food stamps. That's just the way people like Paul Ryan and Rush Limbaugh like it. Of course Rush Limbaugh had the gall today to bring up this example of a one hundred year old woman, who "may be" denied money for surgical instelation of a pace maker. As I understand heart pacemakers they are an elective surgery done by rich people with money in anticipation of many decades of life left. How many children will be denied vaccines to prevent the next epidemic because that old lady needs to have her pacemaker. These Republicans will never admit to so much as one old person being denied whatever tests and services the imaginations of the medicare people can come up with. Clearly the program wastes money. Of this there is no dispute. But the bigger question is would the vast majority of these elder people benefit or be hurt by being thrown out into the health insurance private market to try and negotiate a new policy at their age? People like Paul Ryan never think that far ahead. Obviously they couldn't and large numbers of people would die needlessly, rather than do a sensible budget trimming plan of the current system everybody could agree on. I hardly see how such a massive tax rate slash could possible INCREASE federal revenues. The answer it doesn't it never has. It didn't under Reagan and it didn't under Bush. It's not as if we're talking theory here. Clinton raised taxes and revenue went up. Perhaps one of these days these people like Paul Ryan and Rush Limbaugh will figure out how gravity works.
Today is the day of the Illinois primary and once again it's pretty immiterial who wins. The media has lied about one thing. They have falsely stated that NOBODY can win now because too much time has passed and there are not enough remaining deligates in a three or four way race for any one person to get the majority. This is very false. Romney only has just over 500 deligates and he's in first place and 1100 are required to win by 51% which means that almost twice that many will be sent to the concention. The race is still obviously wide open. Not even Ron Paul is mathematically excluded from a first ballot victory at this point but the media isn't telling you that. Illinois itself has only 56 deligates. At that rate we're going to have to have an awful lot more primaries before we even get CLOSE to that 1,000 figure. Of course now women are organizing for President Obama. Rush started to talk about a New York times article on "disaffected people who voted for Obama in 2008". But Rush Limbaugh, just like Neil and so many others can't even follow a logical train of thought they themselves initiate. Because Rush got off on this kick of "Well there are those soft liberal republicans who disagree with the President here and there". And then "There are the true blue people like you and me who HATE this President". And the unspoken line "The way every Good American should feel". I said last July around the first I recall that I felt Obama should not run again. That's because the cry heard today is much left "That Democrat so and so" but rather that OBAMA so and so. It's Obama this and Obama that. The President has become almost the exclusive focus or repository of all their hates and prejudices. And we know where too much Hate is gathered together on one place that spontanious combustion can and does occur. I think Rush is delighted with discord. In fact he has admitted he thrives on it, such as "opperation chaos" four years ago with tampering with a democratic primary. Rush made a few remarks today about "his radio program being under attack". I imagine all those sponsors who have left him, be it 23 or a higher number, aren't coming back and Rush Limbaugh is a permanent drop in revenues for whatever radio station he happens to be on. One might think market laws would take over soon.
I've been mentally distracted today. I have discovered a potential check overdraft problem due to automatic deductions- - a program I did not want. In another area one individual has flaked out on me at least twice and I'm wondering if he's going for a third time- - - or it's a total loss. It's no secret that Christian's track record with me sucks, and the more Power they have, either over me or as representatives of the Faith- - or both - - the more destructive they are. I was thinking of doing a whole article called "Can God Be Saved" but pretty soon concluded that He couldn't be, if you're talking about the Christian Church, which like a five time Iraqi vetteran, by now has had all the humanity bled and conditioned out of him. Sometimes a part of me wonders whether there is any place for "The Church" in modern society. I was telling someone the other day even if the Moslems followed their own Teachings, they would be much better people. Well I've got to go. Time is awasting. Bye.
CBS News estimates that Mitt Romney will defeat Rick Santorum and his other rivals to take the Republican presidential primary in Illinois. The estimate is based on early exit poll results and vote totals.
With 18 percent of precincts reporting, Romney had 88,870 votes to Santorum's 44,377. Ron Paul was in third with 14,872 and Newt Gingrich in fourth with 10,934.
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