Yes, Virginia, They Think Differently

First paragraph newly expanded Monday morning Aug 25th just after eight AM.

For the right wing, everything seems to be a comodity that can be bottled and marketed, so to speak.  Unfortunately this also applies to what they refer to as "The Truth".   Truth no longer is an abstraction that can be found anywhere for the disserning to discover, it's a product, kind of like Monsanto and GMO's.   You need to come to "The Source" (them) for it.  FOX news is "The Source" for news, and, for instance, if "The Source" tells us that Officer Wilson suffered a blown out eye socket, we have to believe it.  I just learned today that this "orbital fracture" or whatever, is a complete fabrication of FOX news, and there is no substiantion of this story that has made the rounds to buttress the argument that there was some major assault in the squad car.  I was furious when I learned this story was completely made up.  But we see this "centralization" in other areas such as retail.  Thom Hartman points to the dramatic change in composition of stores you see in shopping malls.  Where formerly they were a bunch of independant ventors, today it's the same bit corporate conglomaterates, everywhere and all alike  Apparently not only have department stores become more monolithic, meaning one source controls many outlets, the same thing is true in newspapers and things like Political Parties.  Most parts of the world have a multitude of political parties- - and usually a Prime Minister upon his election will attempt to "form a ruling coalition" from the various parties.  Not here.  In the United States it's corporatist party A and corporatist party B.  Them's our choices.  The very idea that a group of people who believed in a true Cause could get together and form a political party is an absurd notion in American politics.  It's all centralized.  Not only that but BECAUSE of this corporate centralization - - a government post isn't filled by anybody with any credentials in the thing they're supposed to be in CHARGE of any more.  So, justices no longer be the ones with the best legal background and understanding.  And don't expect that heading the department of labor means that you have any kind of a background in the labor movement.  This seems true in most any cabinet post.  For instance if you are in the SEC or the NLRB or something- - you feel the need to tout the 'corporate line' in everything.  The EPA takes a back seat to the chamber of commerce.  And even Newspapers no longer are what they were for instance in the "Superman" era we all watched as kids with the "Daily Planet" competing as one among many newspaper outlets in "a major metropolitan area.  These newspapers used to have a "police beat" meaning a reporter who looks into dealings with the police department, but now even the New York Times is used as a mouthpiece by police organizations to get their standard line accross.  We have new word definitions such as "strong armed robery" now means shoving a store clerk and then running away.  And "bum rushing" apparently is something you do when you already have a half a dozen gunshot wounds in you.  But this term "bum rush" was used twice by Officer Wilson.  The first time was when he claimed that Michael Brown "bum rushed" his squad car.  The version by Johnson is much more believable.  He says the squad car backed up so closely that Officer Wilson could not even get the car door open and it bounced back on him- - and then the officer let loose with a sea of profanity.  And Wilson's own testimony is not free of conflicts.  Because one time he ways that Brown "bum rushed him" but describing the same incident another time he said "Brown stopped and turned around, and I became convinced he was getting ready to attack me, so I fired".   Clearly in this case you have a guy with multiple gunshot wounds delivered over a period of time, and even when Brown was going down, Wilson continued firing.  But I didn't know this whole thing was not even called into the station till forty minutes had elapsed.  So what the hell took place those forty minutes?  We of course know that no ambulance was ever called.  Now I hear not only does the police report fail to take other witnesses into account, apparently Wilson's OWN account is not listed in this report, either.  One thing that distinguishes liberals is that they are people of conscience, and in a constant search for the Truth of the matter.  Conservatives by contrast come right out and state they don't need to SEARCH for the truth, they already KNOW the truth- - as in the case of Religion, for instance, what they've had drummed into them by others since they were a small child.  Indeed the conservative brain, biologists have show, apparently never advances from this child like simplistic mode.  The whole idea of education scares them.  The idea of new knowledge mortifies them with insecurity, because they feel that anything that contradicts what they've been indoctrinated with is inherently threatening.   Many liberal sources say that it's SOP in a police department top close ranks at all costs and apparently if it's a Black whose life we're talking about, they really aren't worth that much anyhow.  Conservatives seem by nature "anti humanity" and they hate dealing with too many actual detailed facts as to any situation.  They keep saying "If minorities really gave our political position on issues a try, they'd turn to us in droves.  But they project a lot.  Because evidence shows THEY relate to some official source- - the guy calling the shots - - the official "spin" everyone's required to put on an issue, they believe there is some world wide conspiracy by liberals to do the same thing, some revolutionary, communist, socialist, Islamo-Fasciest shadow organization out there- - going into every knook and crany of almost every other nation on earth besides the United States and telling the people in the most remote back woods or the inner ghettos- - what to believe and how to vote- - and that somehow denying either other nations or minorities in this nation- - a right to have their oppinions listened to- - is some great Patriotic Act.  Like when Patrick Henry said "Give me liberty or give me death" these people think "Yeah, and the right to Tweet out the latest news feature on FOX news instantaneously to all of my sycophant friends.

In "The Week" magazine we are reminded that police are the only people who are allowed to make so called "innocent mistakes", even fatal ones.  Obviously they don't believe the Rush Limbaugh adage "actions have consequences".  Not for the police.  In Wisconsin apparently 142 cases of "internal investigations" were done in shooting cases and in every one it was labeled a "justified shooting".  This one blonde haired blue eyed teenager was shot by a cop - again by that old chestnut of an excuse of "He was going for my gun".  As it turned out there was none of the young man's DNA on either the gun or the holster and they guess "the officer snagged his gun on a broken car mirror".   That one's right up there with "I can't help it I botched the plastic surgery job, I was drunk".   Try making a major "mistake' like that as an attorney.  Or how about a roller coaster opperator.  "Well I ran the ride in good faith.  How did I know the inspector wasn't qualified?"  No.   Christians have even evolved a term for this type of "justifiable" bullshit.  They call it "prophecy in Faith".  Now there is a group saying that insuring patient's rights in law suits is "Bad" because "It will raise mal practice rates".   That's like a beaurocrat denying charity warm clothing to the poor during some freak cold snap by saying "I'm so idiologically pure, I don't want to inadvertaintly help the wool industry". To this day we hear of "tort reform" meaning elimination of the rights of private citizens.  Someone said today "The Republicans emphasise the rights of the individual and stress individual responsability and morality".  Nothing could be further from the truth.   On another subject Rand Paul said today "They have Fargo ordering all of this anti terrorism equipment.  But if the terrorists have penetrated all the way to Fargo, North Dakota, it's curtains for all of us anyhow".  Amen.

If you're wondering about my personal life- - it pretty much sucks these days.  Things just don't seem to be going my way.  I keep hoping for the proverbial "Tide" to turn at last and for things to go more favorably for me, but problems only seem to loom bigger and bigger.  The following three paragraphs are from Thursday Aug 21, 2014.

 Now they are saying pregnant women should eat fish, and never mind a mercury poisoning.  As sun screen use increases and become stronger, the skin cancer rate continues to rise, and nobody ever thinks that the sun screens themselves may be causing the cancer as they throw logic out the window.  As Rush Limbaugh would say the froth and hysteria over some issues the media plays up - - knows no bounds.  Now there are groups that are refusing to utter the name Washington Redskins out of some protest.  The simplest way to settle this matter is to let actual fans of the Washington Redskins vote on it, and let all parties abide by the decision.  Why should people who have no interest in NFL football at all be dictating the terms?

A new account office report (?) tells us what we already knew.  That the President broke the law in not notifying congress of a five for one prisoner swap a couple months back – with Bo Bergdoll verses five hardened Islamic terrorists.  Also the money itself that the defense department spent to arrange the transfer was a non approved defense expenditure.  I’m not trying to be a twit or something; I’m just stating the facts, and facts that have always been true.

There was a blog on the WCPT web site saying that liberals do things from the heart and their own individual conscience.  Conservatives do things based not on their own moral judgements appraising a given situation, but they do or don’t do it based on some moral creed or code the group subscribes to.  In other words, loyalty to “group think” trumps individual conscience or what you might call the “human factor” of interaction.  Whoever wrote this piece almost seems to be responding to sentaments of a similar nature I wrote a week or two back .