The Rumblings of our Discontent

And tomorrow is one month away from that fantasy “rapture” date of 9/28.   Of course those things never happen, but this doom and gloom proves something you have to endure a whole lot longer than you’d care to think.  President Obama wants to make it a clean sweep of eight years of disaster.  It’s already been a six year disaster for the democratic party.  No President in this or the last century has been so consistently unpopular or the butt of derision the way this President has been.  Maybe once he’s out of office he’ll get a job as a Wall Street banker and laugh and say the whole liberal thing was all a big act.  Meanwhile more bad tidings are in store for the here and now.  Rush tells us that in the Florida primary that Governor Rick Scott got 250,000 more votes than Charlie Christ, the democrat.  This is despite the fact that there are 450,000 more registered Democrats in Florida than there are Republicans.  Despite this 150,000 more Republicans showed up to vote then the democrats.   The Republicans are still in line to take the US Senate, but I don’t know what use to them controlling the Senate will be.  Rush made the point that “Rick Scott got his message out and that’s why people turned out to vote for him”.    I just don’t see how with 14% popularity- - how even Republicans are going to turn out in droves to reelect these same do nothing bozo congressmen.  I said in May that we just take "stuff" another two years.   To me it’s so completely silly to say “Just wait till 2016 and then we’ll show them!”.    I do agree with Hannity about one thing.  He says that President Obama "has become strangely detached these days".  Nobody can argue with that.  This President reached his own "Goal he's been dreaming of" the day he got himself elected President in 2008.  He seems to have completely forgotten about promises or implications "reforms just around the corner" made to the rest of us about what he'd do when he assumed office.  We haven’t got that long.  (Selah)  And here’s just an impartial tip.  Sean Hannity puts on a much better radio show in the first long segment than Norman Goldman does with his.   Sean Hannity gets right into an engaging topic, whereas Norman expends so much time he just pisses away- in endless saying what he’s going to talk about tomorrow- - or later today- - or his Norman Goldman fan club, or what have you.  He mentioned a possible shooting war on the Golan Heights with ISIS forces, which have advanced that far.  But having “teased us” with yet one more topic, he moves on.   We don’t have endless time to just piss away- - because the fabric of American politics is showing severe signs of advanced necrosis as it is- -  and it may already be too late.  I’m so sick of Democrats one and all just giving up on the 2014 elections without a fight.

This morning I had Mike Papentonio on.  Let’s talk about that right now.  I watched virtually the whole hour.   First he discussed the Rick Perry indictment and the part Rick has most to fear is the idea of giving cancer research funds out for the price of a political donation to his campaign.   These Texas court judges are apparently hand picked either by Karl Rove or the Koch Brothers.  They are political hacks heavily funded.  And they’re there to issue court rulings nullifying laws duly passed.   Or else they overturn the verdicts of jury law suits where one was tried by a jury of his piers.   No matter how obvious the civil suit- - these judges overturn them.  Karl Rove says he wants to do to the whole country what he’s done to the state of Texas.  The other item on the docket was this drug Xerelto, which prevents strokes and heart attacks and the like.  But it’s one of the most dangerous drugs on the market according to Papentonio.  But no matter what doctors who test the drug conclude about it, and how dangerous it is, there are still more than enough beaurocrats in the Food and Drug administration to overrule them and rubber stamp this drug, like they did with the Staten drugs, and this low T stuff.  It would seem that if testosterone is applied directly to the skin it combined with some enzyme called armonol or something –and turns into estrogen of all things, which is more dangerous for a man than testosterone.   He said that it’s actually women who become “low T when they hit menopause.  I never knew. 

There is another story I was greeted with this morning from Stephanie Miller about that Ferguson shooting audio tape, but we don’t know it’s authenticity yet.  That is everything.  But what it reveals is that Officer Wilson fired six shots - - six, as Brown was fleeing.  Then he stops firing for three seconds as Brown turns around and surrenders.  Then Wilson gets off four more shots and one of them was the lethal shot.   If this recording is kosher, it proves Officer Wilson was a liar when he said that his first shot wasn't till after Michael Brown turned around.  Evidence would strongly suggest that no less than six shots were fired at brown before this point- - as he was running away.  I have heard reference to this tape nowhere else and am curious why I haven’t.   But there are just  countless things you never hear in the “Drive By Media” news now.  It’s all fluff.   I just can’t believe all that human interest fluff and lost dog and bear in the pool videos - - is all they think we want to see.

This whole frensied competetion to "give away their Tax base" to lower taxes further and further to get a movie produced in your state of have a particular food or retail franchise in your city- - is self destructive, and we need to do something to change the system.  It's just another way that Big Business impoverishes the rest of us.   As the Republicans continue in their total control over the government, stranger and stranger things are going to happen.  So - - what "unseemly things might happen?   Yanked from our moral moorings all sorts of things.  We've been brainwashed to think all of our problems are behind us.  There IS no racial problem in America.  That's been solved.   Political corruption is a thing of the past.  That only goes in in movies made in the forties about Chicago.  Well, how about selling body organs?  You know there is an organ shortage, don't you?  How long before some bright person gets the idea to put organs desperately needed by sick people up on auction to the highest bidder?  Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh would live it!  It's capitalism at work.   Not only are we in a post racial, and post bigoted, and post corruption era, we seem also to be in a post era where anyone remembers what the Great Depression was like - - and the abuses that caused it.   Lastly, we are in a post Patriotic era- - where greed trumps patriotism - - and people like Sean Hannity are leading the cheers.   In fact Greed has become so sacrosanct, that people like Judy say it would be "wrong" to interfere with people's natural Greed in economics.  So we can't have tax laws that discourage people moving companies out of America.   And of course Laws duly passed by legislatures are a thing of the past, because now they can be struck down virtually at will.  One of the most sacred pillars of Conservativism is that they opposed "Legislation from the bench" and "Judicial activism".  But alas once again - - the conservatives were against it before they were for it.

   Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity both carried on about Warren Buffet and how he is a Burger King investor who favors the move to Canada to avoid taxes.  And by the way Rush agrees with me that the corporate tax rate is 35% and not 39%.  So they’ll save nine percent but not “cut their tax bill in half”.   Sean Hannity will say anything.  Sean was even madder at Buffet than Rush.  I don’t see how Buffet’s personal finances are any of Rush or Hannity’s business anyway.   It seems if you are an espousing liberal, they hold you to a much closer microscope.   The point is that Buffet never said “I will always endeavor to pay More taxes than I owe on my returns”.   But also it means that certain things are things you SHOULD do- - and being patriotic is one of them.  I can’t just declare myself a citizen of Somolia or something and adopt Solomian tax rates- - just because I feel like it; I don’t have to move or anything.   Burger King was not have to close so much as one branch here. 
     

Last night I was reading other “Opera” blogs from August of 2008 and November of 2010.  Contrary to what Sean Hannity says people on both sides of the aisle perceived President Obama just about the same way now.  I was viewing him with a lot of suspicion even then, and the right was saying things like “We don’t want anybody from an exotic race as President”.  That was Pat Buchannon.  So it’s a myth that Barock Obama was inspiring anybody, even then.  But you always here this cry about "Back then we had so much hope for change and transformation".  I didn't, and reading my own writings proved it.  I remarked though “both sides are going to pick really dull Vice Presidential candidates, who won’t attempt to steal the lime light”.  This obviously was pre Sarah Palin and the whole deboccle that ruined Mc Cains chances for the White House.  Back then the anti Obama rhetoric was a little pointed- - but it hadn't quite evolved into the pitched and fixed pre scripted rhetoric we see from FOX news, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity today.