Quixotic Tales

The State of Kansa has passed a law banning “foreign Law” from being used in Kansas Courts to decide cases; laws such as these have grown out of fear mongers frightening the people that Muslim terrorist are going to force Muslim (Sharia) Law upon the American people.  See Huffington Post, 5/11/2012, at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/11/sharia-law-kansas-ban_n_1510773.html

After each article, readers have an opportunity to comment on it or respond to the comments of others, and I did.  The discussion was interesting to me.  The comment thread follows.

MY COMMENT:

The First Amendment to our Constitution prohibits Sharia Law or Christian Law from being enacted; it is the separation of church and state amendment.

RESPONSE TO MY COMMENT

First Amendment? What a joke. You really believe that there is separation? Then why have “In God we trust” on the money? Why have a government sponsored Day of Prayer? Why have abortion and birth control laws imposed on the government by the Christian extremists? Why have Christmas scenes on public property and the Ten Commandments in public buildings.  Dream on.

MY RESPONSE

The “God” printed on American money might very well be the god Zeus, unless you are an American Christian. Oh yes, there have been a multitude of violations of the US Constitution, but that does not make it right or lawful. Law exists, but it is up to the people to assure they are enforced; sometimes it takes a revolution like 1776 and sometimes it means a difference of either taking action or disregarding a conspiracy like America’s “Citizens United”, “Bush vs. Gore”, or Governor Walker’s Wisconsin conspiracy against democracy but it is up to the people to preserve a democracy like the American democratic Republic.

Ultimately it is up to the people; will it be a 1776 Revolution or submission to a Third Reich conspiracy? It means either accept returning to a society like a medieval type feudal system of royal despot and peasants without a working middle class or recall a despotic Governor in Wisconsin. In Wisconsin, the people are recalling their governor and it’s not easy.

America is a nation of the people, by the people and for the people only if those peoople are willing to fight like hell for it!

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US Constitution Article VI

“This Constitution and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary not withstanding.”

North Carolina just changed their Constitution to ban gay marriage; North Carolina previously had by law banned interracial marriage that was declared unconstitutional.  Though gay marriage is the controversy, the issue itself is not about marriage; the real issue is about the Law and the Constitutional equal protection under the law and the separation of church and state.

Fox News’ O’Reilly and the radical and extremist Republicans are now defending the North Carolina constitutional amendment.

Bill O’Rielly, “Most of the media will not even consider the traditional point of view on marriage”; sorry Bill, the gay marriage issue is not about tradition or the horoscope, the issue is about the Law.

When Bill says tradition, he mans religion. The real issue is the First Amendment which ‘separates church and State’ and the 14th Amendment which requires ‘equal protection’ of individual Americans under the law.

Every Ameican has a right to a religious marriage ceremony with rites of the church of his choice; but by law, ‘legal marriage’ is not a holy rite but a legal contract with many legal implications.

Strange that O’Reilly and the church are not more concerned about divorce, where half or American marriages end up despite gender, race, religious belief, or who put the dent in the fender of the family car.

North Carolina now has a ban on Gay marriage just like the ban they had on interracial marriage before; but then, no one cared about the ‘traditional marriage’ when interracial marriage was banned, either.

O’Rielly speaks with a radical and extremist Republican mind set; Democrats on the other hand appear to believe that if a cowboy wants to marry his horse, it’s OK with them.  So with all the unemployment and depression in the land, why is gay marriage suddenly the big issue in choosing a President in 2012?

Tom Brokaw: “Its Time to Rethink the White House Correspondents’ Dinner”, Huffington Post 5/7/12: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/06/tom-brokaw-white-house-correspondents-dinner_n_1489850.html

Brokaw, “ proceeded to criticize political coverage for focusing on too much on the extreme ends of the political spectrum.”

With due respects, Mr. Brokaw, and I do respect you, politics of today do not reflect the White House Correspondent’s dinner, the WH Correspondent’s dinner reflects the politics of today.

The basic problem sir, is that when compared with foreign media, the American media is obviously controlled by corporate advertiser profits and corporate ownership and do not reflect needs and concerns of the American people. Compared with foreign media, American media is censored, edited, and biased.

In America TV and newspapers are practically free, media profits are from advertisers; media misinterprets news, history, and the Constitution to appease advertisers reflecting THEIR interests and not the peoples. American “Freedom of the Press” is freedom for the media like Fox News to be misinforming; the Supreme Court’s ‘Citizens United” decision that established Corporate America as flesh and blood with freedom of speech took a terrible toll of democracy.

Democracy is under fire today from John Birch Republican ideology. These are political extremist concepts you and your political pundits should address, like the John Birch Republican fiasco in Wisconsin. When you interview these extremist candidates for office, they should specifically be asked their opinion on the John Birch ideology. Are you in the media allowed by editors to mention John Birch Society ideology: anti-democracy, anti-Labor Union, anti-Public Schools and manipulation of voting rights restricting the electorate? None of you ever do it.

Today’s comparison of President Obama’s speech from Afghanistan and President Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” is ridiculous; so is reciting miscellaneous poll results.  What is important is what no news commentator will report.  Invading Afghanistan was a tragedy.

President Bush had to invade Afghanistan in 2001 because Constitutional minded Americans did not accept him as President because of the political Supreme Court’s 5 Justices “creation” of W. Bush to be President; he was not elected and the world knows it.  All despots “manufacture” wars to rally subjects to support them; Bush was no exception and Afghanistan was his rallying war.

Nothing was accomplished by war in Afghanistan because President Obama did in Pakistan in 2011 what President Bush could have done in Afghanistan in 2001, apprehend bin Laden.  Getting bin Laden was President Bush’s “excuse” for invading Afghanistan; now it is plain it wasn’t ever necessary.  It’s also evident that President Bush and 5 Neocon Justices on the Surpreme Court were incompetent politicians.

President Obama inherited an 8 year disaster in 2008; he got bin Laden in 2011, he has to clean up after Bush’s disaster in 2012, and Americans have to suffer the consequences until 2024.  No one could possibly envy President Obama being President today?

Holy crap!  It’s time Americans considered the real facts.

Of course everyone should know that Bin Laden’s incentive for 9/11 was retaliation for  President Papa Bush, President George Herman Bush,  putting a US military base in Muslim Saudi Arabia Holy Land (US 911 Commission Report) during the Desert Storm War in 1991, another unnecessary war.  For example the vote in Congress authorizing the Desert Storm War was 250-183 in the House and 52-47 in the Senate; it was a war of aggression, America was not threatened.

Be sure to vote in November if you meet the Republican qualifications.

Mitt Romney has no clue about what the American electorate is like; Romney has led a life in the 1% bubble in America.

Romney is telling students, “Borrow money for college from your parents.” Those are the words of a total ass. I worked 40 hours a week at night through 4 years of college during the day; I spent the rest of my life trying to convince my parents that they had not failed me because they could not financially help me to get a college education. I pity mitt; he should have had parents like mine; they gave me more than money.

Today I saw a special video about what American voters are like; they are like Americans at a baseball game. Watch the video; you have to know baseball game audiences and autism to really understand.

http://www.godvine.com/Autistic-Man-Singing-National-Anthem-Gets-Some-Help-407.html

This is what American voters are like! Mitt wouldn’t understand.

I am a child of the Great Depression; I see some similarity between Barrack Obama and Franklin Roosevelt; I see some similarity between George W. Bush and Herbert Hoover.  As a great baseball player once said, “It’s déjà vu all over again”.

Republicans opposed President Franklin D. Roosevelt, however, they could feel the desperation of the American people and ended up voting for some New Deal legislation because they could see the way unemployed working Americans responded to FDR and were afraid to oppose popular progress.  2012 Republicans have failed to see the tenor of the public with President Obama, and have done nothing but oppose progress.  Pity!

I was only 2 years old when FDR was elected.  But I came to revere him as one of our own family; FATHER WAS LAID OFF, WE WERE HUNGRY, OUR PRESIDENT FED US,  AND WE NEVER FORGOT.  The Republicans said, “FDR is not following established rules of government”; we answered, “HE FED US.”

President Reagan came along after and said, “The Depression is over, we don’t need those regulations any more.”  W. Bush followed suit and we are in a W. Bush/Hoover Depression!

You are saying, “You were only 2 years old, how do you remember.”

“Franklin D. Roosevelt, was elected President for FOUR TERMS.”

A US Senator, Sen.Grassley, whose name does not stand for anything productive in the annals of American History has publicly called the President of the United States who was duly elected by a majority of the electorate, “STUPID”!

Grassly calls the President of the United States, “Stupid”, for citing historical facts about the US Supreme Court and the history of the United States in response to questions about an exceedingly important bit of legislation, providing universal health care for America’s people, that is being challenged by totally unproductive and obstructionist special interests and politicians representing those special interest.

This is the quagmire of corruption, dishonesty, and ignorance into which the once great American democratic Republic has descended.

Grassly and his ilk revile the President of the United States while defending a Supreme Court who in 2000 threw out the democratic votes of the people of Florida and anointed the Presidential candidate, W. Bush with less popular votes of approval of the people, to be the President of the USA; It was this President W. Bush who bankrupt the nation’s treasury with aggressive religious and oil wars in violation of International Law, who destroyed the economy even further with tax cuts for America’s wealthiest plutocracy raising the national debt, and who sadistically ordered the torture of prisoners of war in violation of human rights and International Law.

This is the same US Supreme Court who in 2010 declared UNCONSTITUTIONAL, bipartisan law that protected democratic Constitutional elections from exorbitant contributions by wealthy corporations and alien interest that corrupted democratic elections.”

People throughout the world, even in the most remote places, can and do see and listen to the words of Senator Grassley, and his Republican cohorts. These Americans of Grassley’s character don’t care what the world thinks bout America nor do they care what other Americans think about a defiled America; they believe they are above it all.

However, America cannot escape the fact that the former positive image of America is shamed and dirtied.  America no longer is the glimmering land of a democratic, compassionate society, a land of hope and opportunity.  It has been dirtied, stained, and corrupted by those like Grassley, W. Bush, McCononel, Gingrich, Santorum, and Romney as a land led by a stupid President who had the audacity to attempt to provide access to equitable, affordable medical health care insurance for all of the American people.

Rich Santorum has created a Republican political Jesus that was hell-bent on consuming liberal democrats and a lot of voters bought the Santorum message; God didn’t.

Holy crap!

Holy crap!  Only the members of the Republican Party are intelligent enough to know that the only way to eliminate the national debt is to cut the taxes for the wealthy!

There is one thing that the American government could easily do that would stop the runaway exorbitant rising health care costs and improve health care for the American people.

The Federal government would built a huge medical training program, with Federal hospitals and Federal medical schools in every State, that would produce many, many highly quality physicians to ply their trade; then the famous open and free market that Republicans and the top wealthiest 1% talk about, would take effect.  To compete for patients, fees, and income, the physicians would have to charge lower competitive fees.

This would also put an end to the immigrating of  foreign physicians, coming to America for higher fees and personal income.

Viola, lower health costs and better health care. Ain’t capitalism grand!

This grand idea for providing better health care for Americans was actually proposed in the sixties, but the American Medical Association lobby shot it down; they opposed having competition among doctors.