Thom Hartman pointed out that there is a parrellel between last night's debate and Jimmy Carter's lone debate with Ronald Reagan, in that Reagan could stare right at the camera and tell a bold faced lie in the most sincere voice. It takes a special personality trait to do this. Mitt Romney is obviously good at it because last night Romney told 27 outright lies in just under forty minutes. There was a move afoot called "The Carterization of President Obama". This is an attempt to make your opponent appear "Unreasonable" to the American people. For instance Ronald Reagan in the 1980 debate came out against the minimum wage and he related this touching story about, "Last week I met up with some black teenagers, and they were telling me the reason why they were now unemployed is because the state of California raised the minimum wage". But if labor unions kill jobs how come Clinton said quite a number of years back "If we were at the equivelent earnings power of the minimum wage of 1968 then the minimum wage would be ten fifty an hour". And in 1968 the unemployment rate was below four percent. Today it's been a long time since the federal minimum wage has been raised so we should be going like gangbusters right now. But later they discovered that the whole story with Ronald Reagan and those teenage Blacks - - was made up out of whole cloth. It never happened. Ronald Reagan said "Why we in California, thanks to my instigation, had OSHA before they had it on a nation wide basis". But the fact is the Democrats pushed through OSHA in California and Governor Reagan fought it. Ronald Reagan also said "The department of Energy has not produced so much as one drop of oil or one lump of coal". It's not the Dept of Energy's job to find energy. The only thing they are in charge of is producing Atomic Bombs. So the point was irrelivent. According to Randy Rhodes, despite the republicans' protest against energy taxes, apparently in the mid 1980's in a push to ease the federal deficet that cutting taxes for the rich caused - - Ronald Reagan instituted a gasoline tax, and truckers and others were out protesting against it. We now move to Mitt Romney and last night. Romney lied when he said he didn't propose- - and has never proposed - - a federal tax policy that would cut Federal revenue by five Trillion. He talked about his five "boys" and how they sometimes lie and the President is like this. Romney said not only are his taxes completely revenue neutral, but that Romney will NOT hike taxes on the middle class. Romney said the problem with the Dodd Frank bill is that it prevents by legal means, Banks making business loans to people who need it. Romney also pointed to six apparently non existant "Economic studies" that say his Tax Program will NOT make the deficet worse, when the President had just said 'All of the economic experts say that Romney's tax program would be a disaster". Of course Mitt Romney lied when he said "I never said that General Motors should go bankrupt. In fact I agree with exactly what the President did". Paul Ryan has said some horrible things about Social Security. Ryan and Romney are really close. And yet Mitt Romney says "Neither I nor the President wants to touch social security". Is this a lie? Do you suppose Mitt Romney lied to those business at Bain Capital saying "I promise you if you go into deep debt it will have no adverse consequences on your business"? Huhhhh? Labor unions and employee pensions were not discussed at all last night. Race relations or immigration weren't discussed. Alternative energy was discussed very little. Race relations, law enforcement, and drugs were not discussed at all. And the 47 percent figure was not brought up by the President. Mitt Romney said "I know of no law on the books that gives a tax break for relocating a Business off shore. If there is one, then my accountant is derelict in not telling me". Also Romney tried to allude to those "Death Pannels" and how Obama's plan distates the type of medical care you get. But the President expressly stated that this Board Romney makes reference to is expressly forbidden from recomending which medical care to get. So someone is lying there. There was another interesting revelation that came to light. Mitt Romney seems to think of "the top three percent of Small Businesses in income" when he uses the term "Small Businessman". The President said "Under Romney's plan - Donald Trump would qualify as a Small Businessman" and Mitt Romney did not dispute that statement. It was 27 lies in 38 minutes. That's pretty good.
As you can see we have updated the template of this blog, similar to "Rocca Rolla" I think, except for the title letters. I guess we have talked about the debates enough now. As you can see from the dates it took us almost three months to cycle through all the Blogs this time to get back to where we were. The "rotation time" has grown a bit recently because we aren't at quite the frantic pace of posting that we were a couple of months ago. You know I'm not a very good liar. I think my facial expression usually gives it away. If I tell a lie it's perhaps to throw someone off the scent - - trail - - - so I'll just neatly slip in a little falsehood to help myself. But the thing is I don't pound the table and repeat this lie ten times louder each time, like a politician does. I'm mentioned it before but with Christians- - the bolder the lie- - the more blatant- - - the more insensed and Indignent they become when challenged or doubted on it. Check it out for yourselves sometime. This trait carried far enough can become almost sociopathic. I don't know- - maybe you have to be a bit Sociopathic to be a good Politician.
Isn't it funny the things that "should be so" but aren't. Gasoline prices should be headed down because everyone says the economy is slowing down, and besides the "fall and winter" blends are cheaper to make. But they aren't. In California they are threatening the $4.50 mark, almost up to where they were at that last peak playing footsie with the five dollar mark. That should make Dr. Levy's day. Gold is now in the high seventeen hundreds. This is in the face of what Glen Beck and others refer to as "world wide recession". Obama was supposed to demolish Romney in last night's debate. After all people from the Federation told me so. But it didn't happen. Nobody thought the Rev Chuck Smith would ever be alive enough to turn into a tea bagger, yet he has bought the most extremist views on President Obama. Now there isn't even any decision to make whether to "go back to the Faith" because now there IS no church to go Back to. I have slipped into the gully of despair. I'm not supposed to be losing weight, but I am. Foreign leaders such as with Israel, aren't supposed to get involved with domestic US political campaigns. But Netenyahoo has. President Obama and many people in the abstract would believe that "Any Black who could keep his cool and have a steady hand in the light of all sorts of verbal abuse and some physical threats". But people don't respect Obama. We talked about the "Carterization" of President Obama. This economy has become "Carterized" now with food and energy prices going through the roof, and precious metals making new highs and NOT coming down - - - period. Moving to this place was supposed to "solve" tensions with my family. It did for a while, but not the past four years. Normally an increase in gun violence has the "silver lining" of people alerting to the problem and writing remedial legislation. Not this year. That whole "silver lining" bullshit that Christian pastors are always talking about- - Just Doesn't happen. Sometimes a tragedy is just a tragedy. "You hear that, Neil!!!" There ARE no "etherial lessons to be learned".
Many such as Dr. Levy are in love with the notion of "The hide and seek God". Even in the Bible we have all this stuff about "seeking" and "finding" like it's some kind of game, with winners and losers. Dr. Levy went so far as to say "If I were God - - this is just how I would Play it". It's kind of the "Don't Ask - Don't Tell" doctrine of Religion. So you read things in scripture like Jesus is in a group and none of the people gathered dared ask "Who are you". And if anybody says "You're the son of God" Jesus says "Keep that piece of information to yourself". It is my theory that anyone who propounds such a doctrine of a hide and seek God, seems themselves as the Beneficiary of such a doctrine, or one of those "Special people to whom the Truth has been revealed". Michael Benner says you can't prove psychic phenomon because it's like "Your very participation in the experiment - - distorts the data you obtain from it". That's a mighty convienient doctrine. It's akin to "being on the field of play" during a baseball game- - altering who gets thrown out. "Spectator interference". They say in this age of computer Social networking that people are more Alone than ever. It's another thing that Shouldn't Be. Pastors go so far as to relate stories about their own five year old son being crushed to death in the machinations of a draw bridge- - yet to stop the bridge from raising would cause injury and death to hundreds more. And so we are to believe "God often finds Himself in moral delemas like this". We are told by people like Neil Savedra and Fred Price- - that Acting on something you Know- - won't get you brownie or "Faith" points. The only way to score with The Big Cahona is to act on some half cocked notion you've got and people think you're Crazy. And that's the sort of "Disciple" God can have respect for. Again I just say Screw it all to Hell. It's pointless. If people are Sane because they do things that Sane people do- - - then people who pursue what most people would call Madness or at least Eccentricy- - - will end up as balmy as a man who thinks he's a dog and is chasing his tail in a ten by ten foot padded cell. I would conclude with that little nugget at the end of the War Games movie of 1983 which is, "The only way to Win the Game is - - - Not To Play" (Selah)
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