This whole Trans-Pacific
Partnership trade agreement is a real peril to every American citizen who
doesn’t want to give up United States sovereignty. The President is tone deaf in this area and
there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between either of the President Bushes
and Bill Clinton and President Obama on this one. Of course certain words should be banished
from our lexicon such as “Trade War” or “Protectionism”. Of course we in America value our own industry
over the industries of other nations.
This agreement will be like NAFTA on steroids and impact an enormous
number of nations. This agreement will
help “Wall Street’ apparently and the big pharmasuticals. But we know in China
they put things like melamine in pet food and other poisonous substances. You remember that whole scandal, and Judy has
talked about it how shoddy, as well as unsafe that products from China and
other places are, and of course Bones among my cosmic friends has raised the
same issue. The Republicans have a big
point about how it’s inherently unfair for the United States to have strict
environmental laws, and yet we will willingly do business with nations like
China where cities like Beijing have routine smog days that are several times
than our worst ever smog alerts here. Environmental
laws are out the window and people in Viet Nam could sue to suspend all US
environmental laws as “restraint of trade”.
In Mexico apparently we are forced to allow tuna fisherman to kill Dolphins
because of NAFTA and we can’t do anything about it. They want to “fast track” this agreement,
which means no amendments and a limitation to twenty hours of total
debate. I think the Republicans have a
basic to complain that at times Harry Reed has disallowed amendments on certain
bills. But here is a bill where it’s
essential that we scrutinize it. However
even the information is classified. Even
a congressman might be able to look at it, but no notes, nobody in the room
while you’re viewing it, and you are forbidden to discuss what you’ve
seen. Changing the subject, this Chicago
station is touting the virtues of “tall grass beef” which is richer in certain
fatty acids such as Omega 3 and other nutrients not normally found in grain fed
beef. It’s something to consider for
your family.
There are more problems
with Governor Christie. Now he
redirected federal funding for hurricane relief of the disposed, into a
campaign promotion for Christie to encourage tourism in New Jersey and it
featured his family. Today Governor
Christie is in Florida raising money for Governor Rock Scott, which are birds
of a feather since Scott was convicted of hospital funding fraud and got
elected anyhow. There are a whole lot
more committees looking into Christie now.
But meanwhile there are people who still haven’t gotten hurricane relief
in New Jersey who have been waiting patiently.
Of course there was that special Election held in New Jersey strictly
for political purposes- - that costs the people of New Jersey millions of
dollars. Rudy Guiliani defended Christie
but Ed points out that no republican “with skin in the game” has said word one
about the Christie scandal. Ed says
“It’s only party leaders with nothing to lose, who can be replaced anyway- -
are the ones who are speaking”. Christie
has blocked the minimum wage and suspended new gun laws. One Union guy at the Port Authority says all
he needed to do is go right upstairs to the Port guy in the same building, and
he didn’t do it. Christie let the old
contract expire with the Union and the dock workers- - and denied them any pay
raise, because he didn’t want to appear “soft on labor”. But the biggest thing is calling Andrew
Cuomo, the Governor of New York to “lay off of this investigation” in
December. No E mails but he called a
Governor and said “Hands off of this case.
Don’t investigate it any further”.
This doesn’t square to all of this “Glastnose” we’ve been hearing
about. Stephanie Miller talked about
contradictory body language that was “stiff” and dead when he was expressing
all of this apologetic “compassion”.
They said “It was very much unlike Governor Christie”
Iran is going to limit
their uranium enrichment and open up their plants for inspections in exchanged
for relaxed trade sanctions. I don’t
have a whole lot of Faith in that happening, myself. We should have destroyed their facility years
ago in partnership with Israel and we wouldn’t even have this issue to worry
about now. I am not convinced that mere
economic incentive will balance out a nation’s drive to get the Nuclear Bomb
with the big boys. I think my biggest
fear as President would be to get caught making a deal with some nation I can’t
trust, and then having to go before the American People and explain why I was
so gullible. Many take exception to
Robert Gates writing his book while the person he worked for is still in
office, but personally, in the interests of moral consistency, I don’t have a
problem with that. My problem isn’t
really with the book but the way that the right wing is portraying it to the masses.
The Free Speech TV
channel is finally carrying the Stephanie Miller show live wit pictures. They weren’t doing that last week, at least
on my computer. I admit I was a little
irritated with the site last week.
Sometimes FS TV would run ahead of the Chicago radio station and at
other times Chicago would run ahead of FS TV.
The sound quality is better on the Chicago station. Also the sound on the Chicago station is
better than on the Monterey station, perhaps due to the fact that in the big
city they can afford better electronic equipment.
Last night like I say –
I wasn’t thinking about the Golden Globe Awards. But I was on the patio and saw the TV on
through the glass and since it was not yet eight o clock figured maybe they
were broadcast live, for both coasts. “Twelve
Years a Slave’ won for best drama and “American Hustle” won for best
Comedy-Musical. The star of “The Wolf of
Wall Street” got an award. As far as I
know “Gravity” was just left – hanging. “The
Butler” with Oprah Winfrey wasn’t even nominated as you know. They say they had already met their quota for
Blacks. If it was live, I don’t know if
it was rebroadcast for the Pacific Time Zone.
By process of elimination it had to have been on NBC because all of the
other media networks are accounted for.
This is being typed just before noon on Monday and I’m going to post
this before even checking out Randy Rhode on Free Speech TV, and maybe when I
do if Randy is good enough maybe I’ll have a whole new posting later
today. There is more material on the
cosmic origens of various rock groups that I’ve been saving, for fear of boring
people to death.
Randy Rhodes was
talking about the dresses worn at the Golden Globes that were too obscene, or
just in bad taste, to be worn in public.
Now Elizabeth New Jersey is having problems with the DMV and
Christie. Also Christie “shut down a lot
of scheduled meetings” and the stuff will continue to come out- - like an enema
whether you want it or not. Hoboken NJ
had their grant for a Flood Zone sharply reduced. Some would say "The problem is that our society is too Faminized and that when we see a really macho, manly man like Christie, they get themselves into trouble when they speak" as though Christie's whole society is that the rest of us are a lot of mincing Maryanne's out there. Really! Tom Hartman on Free Speech TV was talking
about industrial toxins. When you hear Republicans
talk they are so tone deaf on this whole issue of dangerous industrial pollutants
that- - to them it’s not even an abstract Possibility that you could ever have
a problem in this area. I’ll tell you
why people are and are not inclined to forgive another. They forgive if they honestly feel that “They
aren’t that person any more”. And by the
way forgiveness is NOT an entitlement. I
don’t know about you but it's really hard to find a story in the whole Bible
about a guy who refused to forgive another who insisted “I am repentant” and
God condemned the guy for not forgiving him merely on his word. However there are any number of stories of
people who fake repentence but God sees through and exposes their continuing
evil nature. Speak of this as you
may. A word to the wise is sufficient. And by the way - - hypothetically - - if I’m
working for someone and screw up in a minor way, the last thing I would want
would be my boss instantly throwing me to the wolves. Because if my boss is a man of conscience, he
knows that “The buck stops here” is not just an expression, and you can’t just
kiss someone off like yesterday’s garbage and act like you never knew
them. No a loyal boss will work with you
and get you a good legal defense and say “Well just do your best and try to get
as low of a sentence as possible. And
now for another of our Famous “Can you find the song that doesn’t fit in with
the others, cosmically”. Here are your
choices: “The Stroll”, “Lavender Blue”, “Let
There Be Drums”, “Out Of Limits”, and “Jack the Ripper”. The correct answer of course is ‘Out of
Limits”, which is Bajoran, in fact is about the last hit Bajor ever had out
there. Of course ‘Jack the Ripper” is
not the Judas Priest song, but rather another instrumental by Link Rey. One song whose cosmic identity remains a
mystery is “Penetration” by the Pyramids.
Some are saying “Oh, it’s the Colorado group” but others doubt that.
