Wondering Aloud

For the second day in a row the main link to “Washington’s blog” produced a frownie face.  But there were other links you could use.   I guess RT is really “out there” in terms of vast, far reaching conspiracy theories.  They say that most terrorist incidents that make the big headlines are to one degree or another “false flag” operations.   We hear that ISIS was funded by the Saudis and the CIA or something.  But we need some prime motive for doing this.  What is it?  I know of at least two “terrorist busts” that smacked heavily of entrapment.  If it had been a guy getting snagged by a hooker, it would be easy to find a jury that would acquit him of all charges.  But with terrorism I guess it isn’t that easy.  There is this interview by this - - guy - - who knows all this - - stuff- - about what our government is doing now.  Remember that ISIS came out of nowhere to make the heatlines, kind of like State Senator Obama in 2004.  He was a nobody who was hyped into stardom.  On the other hand we have the ill fated event of June 7^th not to give you too many hints.  This event was a “slam dunk” as far as its certainty- - yet “all of a sudden” it didn’t happen and like Ross Perot faded from the headlines faster than the big chill in the eastern states.  It was like Ross Perot who fell from grace quickly after about the first of June of 1992.  The media just “turned on him” like a rabid dog- - and suddenly all that candor and honesty and insight as to solve the nation’s problems just vanished like a vapor.   I am more conscious all the time how people have “impressionable young skulls full of mush” as Rush Limbaugh puts it - - and nobody has a mind of their own.  It’s like Charles Boyer threatening his wife about “One day you’ll end up in an Assylum and then you’ll be left with No Brain At All”.  (Selah)

Some people say “If you want God to bless you in the future, what you need to do is praise him and thank God for the things he is supplying you with now, and having faith for the future”.   Strangely there was a time when the Reverend Billy Graham was not limited to preaching redemption and faith.  No.  Back sixty years and more Graham was a partisan Republican who strongly attacked the mere existence of Labor Unions.  I didn’t know that.  I didn’t know either (and Thom Hartman could just be incorrect on this issue) that this whole idea of being a “Christian nation” only extends as far back as the early fifties and the election of Dwight Eisenhower.  Because that’s when all this prayer meeting stuff started, and we put “God” in the pledge of allegence and but “In God We Trust” on our coins.  This is the era I was raised in, so naturally I consider it only normal.  So was it “prayer and fasting” that prompted the Eisenhower administration to overthrow Guatamala in 1953 and the elected leader of Iran in 1954 or stop the 1956 election that was scheduled in Viet Nam where Ho Chi Min would have won had they allowed it.  Did God tell Eisenhower to influence the developments of these nations.  I’m just asking the open ended question.  I don’t know.   I guess you could say “I have major doubts”.  Some people say that Doubt is of the Devil and whenever you hear this whispered from Satan you need to rebuke that voice.  Others would say “Not all Satanic oppression is bad.  If Satan ends up driving you to seek God with your whole heart, then it’s a good thing.  They add “Only when Satan gets IN BETWEEN you and the Lord is Satan truly a problem”.  My response to this is “Do you really think Satan is so STUPID that he doesn’t already KNOW the best means of attack?”  (Selah)

We’ve had four days in a row of ninety degrees or higher in Los Angeles, and this is a feat that’s never been accomplished before in the month of March.  There is hardly any conceivable way where the month of March won’t be at LEAST ten degrees above normal, and I imagine when all is said and done, it’ll be more than that.   There was a typhoon named Pam that leveled some small island nation north of New Zealand.  Now there are temperatures of seventy degrees in places like Chicago and the western plains (like Nebraska) , which I find hard to believe, given the deep freeze for so many weeks.  Those people must be suffering from culture shock or something.   “The Ohio River has begun to recede after reaching its highest level in twenty years”.  I think we will continue to see more stark and startling signs of global warming, and this evidence will be harder and harder to deny.  Does anybody want to take bets on how hot summer will be.  And do you really still believe “Warmer weather only increases crop yields”.   Joanie Ernst was grilling some people about “massive fraud against the government”.  It started off with Social Security payments, but then ventured into the area of voter registration.  I kind of knew where the theme of this was going.  It’s like Thom Hartman says.   “A ruling political party can hold hearings on whatever they darned want to talk about”. 

 This is Monday March 16, 2015 after dinner.  I’ve got a grand total of three cigarettes left and then I’m busted the rest of the month.  I guess you could say “I’ll have to trust in God for supplication”.  I’d do that if I knew what it meant.   I’d like to turn the clock to last June 7^th, which was on a Saturday.  Some event happened that day that an irrational part of me suspected would work to my - - cosmic adversity.  I’ll leave it to you people to guess what that event was.  It’s a very precisely defined event within the general public’s sphere of knowledge.  It coincidentally also happened to be the very last day of Stephanie Miller’s “sexy liberal” tours.   She’s not exactly doing those road appearances like she was then.    My money problems began getting significantly worse AFTER that date.  ISIS was after that date.  Ferguson was after that date.  Ebola was after that date.   A whole lot of frictions with Paul and Judy were after that date.  My computer problems were after that date.  We have more for you.  My mom's health problems began in late June and they still continue.  That downed commercial airliner over Ukraine almost spawned some sort of Nuclear incident, or had that potential.   There was a trifecta of jinxes that hit me in the last few days of July.  All the month of August Israel was bombing the hell out of Gaza, like shooting large fish in a rather small barrel.  This mass epidemic of- - shall we say “disappearences” around here was - - after that date.   Connie, Steve Y, Marsha M, Loretta Hill, JW, Glen - and more.  In fact as I said in my Dr Levy letter of this morning- - these “mass absences” have been in the past two months.   My problems with drug co-pay and drug coverage in general was - - after that date.  None of these problems existed- - - prior to that June seventh.   And this is not an exhaustive list.

This little girl Jennifer killed a rival in cold blood, and now she's trying to cop an "Insanity" or drug or diminished capacity defense.   This is "Law and Order".   When the Guilty are cornered they freak out.  My point?   The "guilty" in our government are never cornered.  They are never brought to account.  They are like the Ever-ready battery.  They keep going and going and going.  They become bolder and more blatant in their intent, just like Jennifer.  They can say stuff in public on FOX news they'd be hesitant to utter in private previously.  They lob accusations which in a different setting would sound like those of a mad man.  But just to show you how “poisoned the well is” conversationally here's a for instance.   Can you imagine a topic where if there were a revelation of a broad program of Torturing by our government, that the media would “Interview the torturers and those who favor torture, but not the opponents or victims of torture”.   This is the blog entry the one blog down below the as of now latest posting.  (From December)   Also I can’t imagine some of these wall street crook situations or lobbyist situations like with the Koch brothers, if they existed and were raised at a Bible Study- - that the Koch brothers wouldn’t come in for almost universal condemnation.  Such issues would be “slam dunk” issues in the old days, because such activities would be seen as patently unchristian, by any yardstick.

 I had on live US Senate action where Dick Derbin, Oren Hatch, and this Texas senator were making speeches about this “Sex trafficking” bill up now.  It has to be passed according to Mitch Mc Connell before the AG nomination, which has been held up for literally months, can even be voted on.  Even if the Republicans didn’t ask a single adverse or hostile question to her at the time, they still won’t take a final ratification vote until this silly abortion “Hyde amendment” rider gets settled.  It’s just more silly game playing by both parties and I call on either side to give in.  Then it was the news on KNBC.  We learn that the current temperature was 92 degrees in Los Angeles.  What this means is there is a record four days in a row temperature in LA in March above ninety.

 Concerning Ronald Reagan not only did he disallow taxes on credit card interest rates, but he did the same thing for interest on car loans, and he also taxed Social Security payments like traditional income.  He also doubled or something- - the FICA withholding rate.  Given these things- - it’s believable that the “revenue” overall was at a higher level in 1988 than it was in 1981.  What people aren’t generally aware of that the Paul Volker generated recession (and recovery) put the economy to greater depths than the Bush-Obama recession did.  People forget that.  But you’re not going to sit there and tell me that Corporations paying 28% on their income, generated as much revenue as when the tax rate was seventy percent.  That one I’m not buying.  And the rise in stock prices could have been anticipated by investors who knew about the change in the law about CEO’s now being able to be paid in their own stock.  Given this “self stimulating” quality- - naturally prices were bound to soar.