Isn't it strange that we ask of our kids things we'd never ask of politicians. Sometimes we think our kid should have made choices with options that exist only in our own Minds. In life we are presented Choices based on Something - - based on the facts and circumstances we have before us, and NOT ones that exist only in the mind of a TV or Radio Evangelist- - who often bases judgement of us based on the choices that HE had, but WE may well not. We have options but we don't have "the whole enchalada" so to speak, ans as such need to Choose from Among the options we Do have and not from ones we Don't. We either will go with one and reject the other or visa versa. Many Judge other people too harshly in failure to recognize this basic human condition.
In one of
the biggest news stories people will be talking about for weeks, the jury in
the John Edwards trial was declared a hung jury by the presiding judge after
the jury only was able to come to a verdict on one of the six major charges,
which added up together would have amounted to thirty years prison time, as
well as making John Edwards a convicted felon.
As of now, Edward's license to practice law is intact. Edwards may be a heel for how he treated his wife- but he’s no
felon. Edwards himself recognized this reality about his own state today when me made this mia copa or "I have sinned!" speech at the end of the Trial. This is a clear case of Edwards
being over-charged by whoever in the Bush administration made the
decision. I think it was to get even
with Edwards because they never got over the fact that John Edwards was the
best candidate running for President in 2008, who consistently won in caller polling
of liberal talk shows, and also was the one who was “most in touch with the problems
of the ordinary American.” To me it’s
karma that Edwards was acquitted, and personally I am delighted over the
news. There will be lots of celebrating
and popping of champaign bottles in liberal households all over America
tonight. Of course there were
indications of some jurors acting strangely, but apparently it wasn’t anything
that would invalidate a ruling. There
was the one lady who flirted with Edwards.
And there was the wearing of all red shirts one day and all yellow
shirts another day. Of course with this
mistrial on five of the six charges (and outright acquittal on the sixth) there
isn’t a snow ball’s chance in hades of the Government ever refilling charges
again. The political climate had
deterioriated so far today because of the Citizens United ruling by the High
Court a couple years ago- - that what Edwards was charged with is a real joke
now. I personally hope John Edwards is
somehow able to pick up and go on and put the pieces of his life back
together. I can’t imagine the sort of apoplectic
fits the right wing will be going through tomorrow. You know how Rush Limbaugh gets when he’s
totally flustered. I will close with
this. There will be another big let down
for the right next month when the High Court - - - invalidates Obama Care. The Mitt Romney campaign desperately needs
this “individual mandate” thing is a red hearing issue and without it they
haven’t got squat. People on the right
are saying “If the court invalidates Obama care then the stock market will go
up, and this eventuality will help President Obama and he may win because of
it. Think of that!
We’ll get
back to more political commentary in a few sentences. But meanwhile let me say that in my personal
life I see “light at the end of the tunnel”.
We can hope and pray that if the month of June works out auspitiously in
news events than I may finally have more credibility in the things I say to my
family and in-laws. Of course tomorrow
morning is the moment I’ve been waiting for when I finally get to go to the ATM
machine, a moment I’ve seemingly been waiting for the majority of the past
month. Dora just announced coffee. I was down there sitting in the only wrought
iron black chair still in the sun, too lady to move it but I got tired. The four remaining birds were in the
cage. I wanted to get back up here to check out KTLK, for obvious reasons.
Randy Rhodes is saying that nobody
on the Republican right will actually defend Mitt Romney as a person
directly. They will only say that any
offer of evidence and facts to refute their statements is all “just a liberal
talking point”. And the conversation
ends there. Their brains are so hard
wired to believe whatever it is they believe about the President. Tonight there is a big debate in Wisconsin at
nine between Governor Scott Walker and democratic challenger, Tom Barret. In new data, they say that the old and the
poor and the infirm are during out very heavily to vote democratic in early
voting. That’s encouraging. Ed Schultz says that the new jobs figures are
“encouraging’ without saying what they are, for this past week. But now the President has added 4.2 million
jobs to the employer payrolls, since his policies have been in effect. It is pointed out that the media is hyping this whole "Made in America" trend now. ABC news featured a lengthly segment on this months ago. So private business is taking matters into their own hands and "picking themselves up by their boot straps". Because now we hear government agencies in charge of making bank loans to home owners here in California have only made a tenth of the loans they were comitted by the government to making. In other news they say that eighty percent of
the people in California are in favor of medical marijuana legalization. Fifty percent of the population of California
is in favor of outright legalization of marijuana. Former Senator Feingold of Wisconsin was
known for holding more town halls before the tea party hijacked the whole
concept. Feingold is saying that the
people are exoeriancing “buyers remourse” with Governor Walker. The suspense is mounting. That’s for sure, and a lot of questions will
be answered in Tuesday’s election. And
remember as Ed Schultz points out, if the democrats lose this one, they aren’t
ever going to stop with their programs to destroy unions, any more than
Stephano Di Mira is going to stop finding new ways to torment John and Marlena
Black, and Hope and Bo Brady on “Days”. Sometimes when a situation or obsticicle "breaks' it breaks with a vengeance. Like when the first cop decides he's had enough and fires his gun at the suspect all the rest of cops file suit so their is a hail of bullets. Some say Cops use this "piling on" move as a means of "never knowing which cop fired the fatal shot". We don't know who will fire the fatal volley against the Tea Party but whoever he is he will be a hero, and we will all benefit by the action and giving credit to one specific person won't matter.
In other
affairs - - a Florida Court handed down a ruling to the effect that the new
voter surpression laws enacted down there are unfair in several respects. For one the league of women voters didn’t
like the 49 hour time limit for turning in voter names, and the court agreed
that this was an unreasonable demand.
Also a US circuit ruled against the Defense of Marriage act, apparently
invalidating the entire law for all time in this nation. That is a significant development. And in Wisconsin 180,000 voters have been
wiped from the voter rolls by Governor Walker.
And they say he only won by 57,000 votes to begin with. All I can say is that if we don’t nip this
whole voter surpression thing now, we may reach a tipping point where it’s just
too late and nobody will be able to do anything because the Republicans control
everything.
On the
Bill Press show- - - Press came out against the President militarily
intervening in Syria no matter how bad it gets there in terms of the mass
slaughter of civilians. That ABC lady
reporter with the British accent was saying last night that two options were
off the table. The idea of “waiting for
the cease fire to work” is off the table, and it’s also clear that economic
sanctions are useless at this point.
This leaves other more proactive options such as our bombing key sites,
perhaps by the use of drones, which seems like a pretty low risk idea to me,
and it will get the point accorss.
Another thing we can do is to give aid to the rebels. Bill Press is against both of these choices
and I’m puzzled as to why- but when asked he only says ‘Well, if the
Republicans are for them I’m against them”.
It could be weeks before any world governing bodies actually gets around
to Doing anything about Syria – till a lot more people are killed.
I think this is the first time "Escape from Egypt" has had a place for a title heading in a really long time. You people aren't escaping metaphysics entirely. You know - they said of St. Thomas Aquinas that what he taught- - extoling Nature and all- - was contrary to Catholic teaching but as one person supposedly said "alas- - but I suspect the whole world will soon have to listen to his ramblings" or something. There is that line in Jane Eyre that "We are not here to conform to nature" when the nuns chopped off her beautiful blonde locks. Yet the Republicans are continuelly fighting "nature". Don't they know that the heavens themselves declare "a leftward shift" and we know that each night we view a progressively left word view of constelations, and ditto for each passing hour in any given night. In Marcus "natural trig" I always figure degrees from zero plane right and work counter-clockwise through the circle. In this spirit I must correct one minor thing I said in a recent posting. That whole "S" thing- - is in fact a true S and not a backwards S. And it also is a "downward" S rather than an upward S in that the high part is on the right side of the meridian of the circle. So it's those hospital heart monitors that are backwards- - the ones you see in all of the movies, with the ascending spikes, when it's really descending spikes. You know of course that "Red Shift" in another word means "Retarded" in it's most generic sense. Romulans of course do "Naval scope" calculations counter-clockwise starting from the west for "follower". And they put West where we put North on a map. I think we can safely say that this whole tea party "interlude" we have been in - in the past four years has been "Most retrograde to God's desires" to paraphraise the King in Hamlet. You just can't go upstream forever without something having to give somewhere. The United States has become grossly out of step with the rest of the World on so many issues already. The History books will be indeed very unkind as they look back on this four year political nightmare we call the Tea Party.
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