Whose Kidding Whom?

In the noon hour of her show, Randy Rhodes was reviewing some of the not too well publicised stuff about what the Assad regeim is doing in terms of imprisoning, raping and torturing by various means- - prisoners - - like throwing acid in people's faces.  I think President Obama has definitely under-played his hand on this one.   Of course various Republicans are disgusting in their responses.  Pat Buchannon, who seems to love all things Soviet lately- - praised Putin for his New York Times article the other day.  And Anne Coulter says "Vladamir Putin has made a monkey out of our President".  I'm sure the term "monkey" was not just an accident.   After all she could have said "jackass" or any other of a choice of non racially tinged words.   And I'm going to personally strangle the next person who says that "Assad is a good guy because he protects Christians".  My response to that would be "Maybe we better take a look at who these Christians really are.

One thing I’ll be able to do now is to go straight from this color to the blog posting because it’s Black right now.  I think my opening topic is “Whose Kidding Whom?”  You know I listened to Moe Kelly in his talk about California Drivers Licenses.  And I was with him when the hour started- - but the guy was such a jerk about it- - I’m not really sure I’m with him now.  Maybe Moe has studied “The art of contra-perswasion”.  It’s like Pastors who give Sermons complaining of low church attendance.  The person who has been subjected to more of these sermons than anybody else, is the guy whose been regular every week.   I’d be the first to say I’m not crazy about some of these leftist things Jerry Brown is signing into law, or legislation now on the fast track to that outcome.   I basically don’t think illegal aliens should be allowed to get drivers licenses.  In fact, it would seem to me that they should be nabbed then and there and turned over to ICE or somebody and deported.  That would solve a lot of these “insurance’ problems right there.  Moe Kelly draws a distinction between having the proper insurance, and being able to drive.  Just as the government draws a distinction between getting a Law Degree, and those things can’t be had earily- - and Moe kept talking about this Black fraternity where you are allowed to do this ‘Stepping’ or something and you can’t do the step without being a member of his club.  Just as Pastors don’t like you preaching from the Bible unless you have a degree from their seminary.  Maybe I’m just not as picky as he is.  When he talks about breaking the law and forever being a marked man- - I wonder how many women get married in Christian wedding ceremonies- - who have slept with other men besides their husband.  As a man I see virginity is something you can never go back to, just as a used product won’t fetch near the price in a store as a new one.  It’s the exact same thing.  Moe thinks you become a member of some “club’ who has certain “priveleges” that other people DON’T have.  It’s the old Judy argument when I proposed the plausible idea of Universal Salvation, Judy’s response was “What would be the point?”  My grounds on opposing licenses are not based on “the privilege game” but it’s more basic that I believe in respect for all laws.  Christians say they are not “legalists” but the ones who say it the most about themselves- - are the ones who the most restrictive and uptight on their world view.   This idea of tagging a license with an easily identifiable difference from regular ones- - - “Given to all us regular Americans, who knew Geronimo personally” - - seems a suitable compromise to me, but perhaps not for Moe.

We have the issue as to what constitutes poverty in this country- - and it could well be that Rush Limbaugh is right and that our statistics are really screwy.   For instance according to the survey- - the vast majority of poor people own cell phones, and have some sort of DVD playing device, and have a T-Vo or DV-R or something.  I didn’t have a DVD drive that worked until two years ago.  And there is still no way I can record a TV program coming off the air waves today.  When I lived in my apartment- - I did not have my own washer or dryer.  I went to a common facility.  And the AC I had then didn’t work that well.  Back in the eighties I did not have any air conditioning at all.  My parents lived in an air conditioned house, but I didn’t.  So like I say I think the government statistics are screwy.  They talk about having an income of twenty thousand.  I have not one year since living here- - ever had an income close to twenty thousand.  I think it’s more like fourteen thousand.  And of course I don’t have a car, and my California ID expired on my birthday back in 2007, so I’m not even “Me” any more.

According to Rush Limbaugh - - Michiel Gorbichev is a Christian, and has been a Russian Orthodox Christian for a long time, and while he was in power.  It’s funny how with my brain I perceive certain things the opposite of the way other people perceive them.  It’s like people telling me some of Emperor Nero’s closest confidants, were Christians, as if I’m supposed to go “praise the Lord”.  I think it was Michael Jackson, the talk show host, who said “I guess it’s well and good that Charles Colsen is a Christian now, but it’s just too bad he couldn’t have “found Christ” three or four years earlier than he did”.  It’s that old argument about ‘Having money you can’t spend”, like on Wheel of Fortune.  So if I’m hearing this correctly- - the leader of the Free World, who by everybody’s admission - -almost never went to church- - - has inferior than this Evil Russian Despot- - on the other side of the negotiation table, with his hand on the trigger.  I refer you to a statement Abraham Lincoln made (that Jesus Christ likes to take credit for) about how “A house divided cannot stand”.   By the way I believe in another Lincoln axiom too,  “Nobody is above the law - - and nobody is beneath it”.  I wonder how many Christian pastors would actually fail to pass this test.   It’s like this one case on channel 40 maybe ten years ago where this violent felon got out of prison by mistake on a clerical error and everybody goes “Praise the Lord!”   Actually I think there is another obvious point to this whole paragraph, and I’ll state it now.  Gorbechev is not nearly the threat- - and never was- - compared to the man sitting there now, Vladamir Putin.

I have wondered “Is there any limit to the extremism that the right wing will go to?”  Is there any lame brain scheme these people refuse to sign off on?  I have my doubts?   Rush Limbaugh made reference to some bill in congress now that will defund the Affordable Care act - - but at the same time safeguard to insure that the government will not shut down but stay in operation.  I’m thinking “Well OK - - it’s an extreme measure but perhaps I could go for that, since everybody hates Obama care”.  Because I saw this lady on FOX talking about the upcoming massive shortage of doctors and nobody wants to get into primary care any more- - due to Obama Care.  And she is saying all of this grim news with the biggest smile on her face.  But do you know what Rush Limbaugh’s take on this drastic compromise bill was?  He against it.  He regards it as kind of a whimpy sell-out to the “out of touch party leadership” or something.  Then Rush Limbaugh issues this challenge.  He said “How BADLY do you wan’t Obama Care ended.  If you agree that Obamacare will take us down the road to Socialism faster than any other threat to government- - what price are you willing to pay to prevent that.  So he’s questioning our Patriotism.   “Because after all you have to ask yourself what the Founding Fathers were willing to sacrifice to insure that they got the kind of government they wanted”.   Of course when congress is in a really industrious mood- - they will work from Tuesday - - to noon on Thursday, and that’s such an exhausting week for them - - they’ll have to take another week off to recover.  Rush Limbaugh seems just as eager to shut down the government- - as an accomplishment in itself- - as he is to end Obama Care, as an end in itself.  Like Grover Norquist, Rush wants to “Shrink the size of government will it’s small enough to drown in the bathrub”.   Randy Rhodes was talking about ALL of these Agencies personally financed by the Koch Brothers, Charles and David.  It could be that as few as two hundred people - - control all of the Money.

Now they are talking about “Rape and Torture – Incorporated” in Domascas prisons in Syria.   Randy just said that Vladamir Putin is supporting all of this stuff that Assad is doing in what euphanistically is called “the theater of war”.  The details are so grissley and explicit- - the topic actually merits its own lead paragraph.  But right now let’s shuft gears entirely.  Let’s do just a little cosmic commentary on Jewish people.  First of all I still do not know the specifics of any "Jewish planet" in terms of either name or location or history.  Not to sound self serving or anything but "I call them as they are reported to me".  Brian Epstein is a Sirius 0 with a “Tularianized brain” from that planet that’s “near by”, and in this case “near by” actually means within twenty light years or so.   I guess John Lennon is actually free to talk to him if he wants to - - and maybe he has, but if he has- - he hasn’t told me.  Then we have David Lee Roth- - who is actually destined, so I’m told, to end up on Reigel VI, and is the only Van Halen member this is true about.   Chieh Merin also is a “home planet Reigelian”, and in this case the term “home planet” refers to a star other than Reigel, and to the Reigel Sixers before they migrated to Reigel VI.