The unemployment rate
notched down to 6.1% but of course the real figure is over eleven and everyone
knows that. Unemployment for Blacks was
the highest, and then Latinos, with Asians coming in the lowest. Numbers of long term unemployed has dropped
and is now sitting right on the three million figure. These are people who have been unemployed 27
weeks, or just over a half a year, or longer.
Mc Conell pledged in a secret tape that he would take no action on any
of the urgently pending bills, which is hardly any secret. Of course congress is still off anyhow for a
few more days. Maybe Apple can put a few new people to work building the new I phones that are slated to arrive next Tuesday, if they can tear themselves away from China. Many including the President has been proclaming that the good jobs are returning to this country- but no right winger has admitted this is happening, if it is happening. Larry Elder's refrain used to be when Bush was President that "Previously the democrats complained there were no jobs. Now they've gotten greedier. They now want good paying jobs!" I remember when the unemployment rate was once 5.4% and Larry Elder was carrying on about how "this unemployment rate is lower than it was in the seventies, eighties, or nineties". I wonder what he'll be saying if the economy again gets to 5.4%. But as it stands now - just as many if not more jobs were created in most of Bush's second term as in the recovery portion of Obama's terms. You really can't say one is better or worse than the other. 120,000 jobs were
added. They claim that a lot of these jobs are good jobs such as technical and engineering, or else in "management". But the bikini graph is now
showing lagging figures and failure of follow through. One thing I noticed is that employment was
shooting straight up through May of 2010 and then something major happened that
dropped net job growth to below zero and fron then on this jobs growth figure
was never the same. And we know all this economy has to do is hickup and people are out to give this economy Last Rites.
When one looks at the
decade of the nineties it’s really a tale of two halves in more ways than I can
count. You could call it pre and post of
Jerry Garcia of the Grateful dead in early August of 1995. Before August 1995 people were still using
Windows 3.1 and afterwards made the big leap to Windows 95 and I imagine that
was a steep learning curve for a lot of people.
Of course through the end of 1994 Los Angeles had two football teams,
and Anaheim Stadium was actually an enclosed football type stadium. Why they expended great amounts of money to
make the stadium smaller has always escaped me. Of course Israel went conservative - and maybe Netenyahoo hasn't served twenty years, but it's felt like it. Up through September of 1996 I
personally was writing snail mail letters to various media outlets. After mid September of 1996 there were
none. I would never write another. Rush Limbaugh's TV show went off the air just before the start of the main campaign season of 1996. What I remember is at about the same time Rush Limbaugh completely lost his sense of humor and became bitter, and no longer played those humerous songs, some of which were predicated on Bill Clinton having only one term. Fox News debuted in October of 1996 and Sean
Hannity got his big break with the Hannity and Colms show that month. Later of course it just became all
Hannity. People at FOX initially claimed
to be “surprised” that people thought the 24 hour per day news outlet had a
rightward bent. Apparently Bill Clinton’s
penis bent to the right because he was left handed. But Sean Hannity was kind of a Wonder Kind to
begin with receiving an elite Catholic education all his years - - and went to
various colleges but dropped out. But
Sean hit the big time at age 35 with the Fox news gig in 1996. Strangely I had kind of a Déjà vu or out of
body experience (?) when I first heard of that show, as if I had been exposed
to that show in another life. There was
also a stock market guy named Paul Kangis I had the same sort of Déjà vu experience
with, like I’d known him from another life.
The Federation has told me that David Koch really isn’t the problem- -
because he disagrees with the hard core right wing on too many key issues to be
a threat- - and the Federation of course reminds us of a corporate competitor in
the chemical research field- - that we much more need to be afraid of. David Koch of course ran for Vice President
in 1980 on the Libertarian party and today’s Republicans are trying to enact
most of those platform planks into law. David Koch is not nearly bigoted enough to
receive enthusiastic support today, and he’s far too old to be a serious
candidate for Antichrist, if you’re wondering about that, since he’s already in
his seventies. But there are other
demarcation lines in the nineties. As I
have implied- - there is kind of a pre internet era and ongoing internet era
after mid decade. Also the DVD came out
in America in 1997 though it had been out in Japan since 1995. However I dispute the idea that you can put
six hours of video on just under five gigabytes as one article claimed. I have a camera after all with a four
gigabyte flash drive, and maybe you could get somewhat ever an hour with that
thing on video. Certainly not six
hours. They have higher capacity double
layered DVD’s. The dimension of the DVD
and CD are both 120 milimeter, as opposed to the 89 milimeter Romulan two-sided
CD’s. Analog CD's. And they said that about 2001 the
DVD gained primacy in video sales over the VHS tape. It was September 10th of 2001 that
Sean Hannity went national with his radio program. It’s almost as though 9 – 11 was tailor made
to kick off his telecast. Of course
there was also a “turning point” in government - - highlighted by the “shut
down of the government” in late 1995 and early 1996, and they reemerged from
this crisis- - by passing a raft of key conservative legislation, and went on
later in the decade to lay the foundation for the economic chaos of 2008 with
the many stock market deregulation bills. As you'll remember the 1996 reelection slogan of the Clintons was "A Bridge to the 21st Century". Instead they built a bridge to the seventeenth century. That's about the philosophical mindset of these Republicans. Someone like John Locke would be too progressive for them with all his talk about "inherent individual rights". It was also about 1996 that I stopped keeping track of new music on the radio. It was just about the turn of the year of 1996 and 1997 that one could
say my life was characterized by turning to alcohol because of various
pressures.
You know that Senator
Brownback is now Governor Brownback. In
Kansas, though, both the governor and Pat Roberts, the current Senator of
Kansas- is in big political trouble. We
told you the democrat had ordered the head of the elections commission to take
his name off the ballot to avoid voter confusion. Unfortunately the highly partisan commissioner
refused to remove his name as he’d requested.
You have another Governor Christie type here playing political games
with elections to feather his own nest.
While such antics aren’t illegal, they are a partisan abuse of political
power. Unfortunately it isn’t the first
time it’s happened. You will remember
Kathryn Harris as the election commissioner of Florida. For years previous to the 2000 election- -
Kathryn Harris had purged a disproportionate number of Blacks from the voter
rolls. There were complaints and
hearings but nothing was resolved. So
when it came time to count the votes- - or not to count the votes- - Kathryn
Harris just decided to halt the vote counting and declare George Bush the
winner. The Florida Supreme Court rules
that Kathryn Harris had acted in error.
But she appealed to the US Supreme Court- - and naturally they rush this
case through in the five to four case we all know well. The US High court issued a special rider
saying “This case cannot be used as precedent in any subsequent rulings”. Jumping to the Present however a Federal
district court ordered Ohio to stop taking steps to curtail early voting in
that state. Of course- -if you’re a real
crook like Christie- - who’s to say you won’t find some sneaky around the
ruling? Someone said that if we
followed the plan of most other Democracies post some nineteenth century philosopher’s
writings- - we would apportion representation in government as a percentage of
the popular vote. This would mean of
course that President Obama would have been guaranteed a majority in congress
for both of his presidential terms.
In terms of Christian
Di Mira- - In terms of this whole not testifying thing- - I don’t even think
it’s possible to decline to testify if called by the District Attorney. All he or she need do is read back your
testimony in front of the grand jury- and should your “testimony” seriously
vary from that you could well be brought up on purgery. Also it’s a distinct possibility that even
absent Eric’s testimony- the DA could
still get a conviction from the jury.
But there is another problem Eric pointed out, which is that sure
Stephano has friends who know all about drugs, such as Dr Chaika. How in the world do we know that whatever
drug Stephano gave John would have horrible and not so accidental
side-effects. But the writers don’t have
to be logical. They just get an idea for
a plot outcome in advance- - and don’t care how they screw up the actual
process of getting from point A to B. In
terms of Samantha and E J, I guess I fail to understand why they almost seem on
the same side now. It’s almost as though
all that seething hatred and revenge never happened. Now there are a couple more reasons why nobody
should make a deal with Christine for anything.
If you say “I’m not going to let her win” and then crumble like aging
concrete- - of what use is your word?
Like I said you could be charged with purgery if you change your testimony
in mid stream. Would you go to jail
yourself instead of sending Christine to jail?
But suppose the best happens and John Black revives and he’s not a
vegetable like Terry Shivo- - and he’s not paralyzed or have total amnesia- -
or some other bizzzare, unimagined new symptom, suppose he’s perfectly
healed? Then you have the problem of
word leaking back to him that initially Marlena “didn’t want to hear anything
Christine had to say” no matter what it was.
What is to stop John from now making a hero of Christine - - (he’s
always favored her over Marlena) and saying to Marlena “In case it escaped your
notice we did get a divorce. You have no
hold over me; I owe you nothing”. Hey, I’m
just saying - - - .
This
is Saturday August 30, 2014. I actually
remembered all nine of the basic cast of “Voyager”, which of course went off
the air about the same time I moved here.
That summer of 2001 was the last of the reruns. The next Star Trek series really didn’t have
the same sort of developed personalities you could remember. First for Voyager it was Kathryn or Kate
Janeway, the captain, Tom Perez – her closest associate, Ensign Kim – who is
Oriental looking, Tuboc – a Black
Valcan, Nelix – the cook, and that
somewhat argumentative female half Klingon and I don’t know her name. There was Jacunti – a “Mokee”, and the
holographic doctor, and Seven of Nine – the female Borg. Of course on “Deep Space Nine” this episode
ran maybe up till about a year before I moved out of the apartment and began in
the winter of early 1993. There was
Captain Sisco – and his brother would sometimes be on the show, and Dr
Bashier, Quark – and his brother and his
nephew, and Oto – head of security and a shape shifter, and then Miles O Brian
and his wife and little girl – lots of familial relations here, and then Jedzia
Dax – and they would often make reference to her predecessor Kerzon Dax - - and
then Warf was added – and sometimes Warf’s brother would put in an
appearance. Also there is an older
Bajoran brunette that Warf dated- I don’t remember her name. I’m not certain these are all of the
characters, and they probably aren’t.
Notre Dame was playing Rice in South Bend. I didn’t want to wait all the way through
halftime, which is longer in college games.
I did not check KTLA for football last night. The Raiders might well have been on. Bill had turned it to CSI after Jeopardy and
Wheel of Fortune. It was an interesting
episode about a sixteen year old psychokiller bent on Suicide by Cop, and he
got his wish. I did some dial twirling
after this but didn’t stay up that long.
When
we were talking about “Voyager” that series came on at the beginning of 1995
and lasted seven years, just as TNG lasted seven years. The word “Talaxian” came to memory of the
strange race that Nelix was a member of, and he was strange. It’s a Romulan word for some occupation - - I
think it’s air traffic controller.
Captain Janeway was the most macho and assertive of the four captains,
whereas Cisco of the four was the most hesitant. Speaking of cautious- - there was a Jimmy
Carter and the Islamic community thing I had on hoping to hear a Jimmy Carter
speech on Islamic relations, but I was disappointed.
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