Rand Paul's Visions

Rand Paul must be disappointed in Americans. He believes we should go through our daily
lives wearing blinders. Yet in tornado country, complete strangers have been looking all around
them to note their neighbors worries and losses. They are chipping in to lend a hand without
waiting to be asked. Why, because Americans are remarkably adept at coalescence, and at really
believing if they stick together, they can do anything. Many of them are civilized. Sorry Paul.

Has The War With Iran Begun, Undeclared?

Iran has raised the price of its oil, knowing Europe and America are in a fragile recovery.
On the other hand, the Iranians have offered a U.S. Marine sentenced to death for spying for the CIA, a new trial.
At the same time, the U.S. Navy says it has rescued an Iranian sailor in the Persian Gulf, while three other sailors were recovered ... already dead.
One never knows, do one?

The State Of This Union

Judge Cebull used federal e-mail to suggest President Obama's dad was not a human being. So
then how did our President come to be human? Does the judge believe our President is human?
At the same time ...
Radio talk show people are declaring open season on women who need to control their own
body systems. While as well ...
Republicans have hired one million persons to question voters' identification at the November
polls, so that Medgar Evers will have died in vain.
Best of luck to us all, and may the Lord have mercy on our souls.

Post-War Contraception

Frankly, I can't understand why more young men aren't showing some activism regarding

contraception. Ms. Fluke shouldn't be out there on her own. Unlike what some more beastly

thinkers may be spouting, she doesn't want to be paid for anything save protection from

pregnancy; and she can't get pregnant alone. Thank heaven we have a decent enough President, that he called her, he praised her, he wished her luck, and he expressed to her that her parents

had every reason in the world to be very proud of her.

But unless young men want to add early fatherhood to their lives and careers, shouldn't they

speak of for women's rights under the law?

When I was growing up, in the fifties and early sixties, if a guy got a girl pregnant, he often had to marry her. He would often start telling people: "I got my girl pregnant." Or he might say: "I think I got somebody pregnant. I might have to get married." Or, some would say: "I think we're pregnant." Of course, many times the young man called the girl by her name,too.

Then came the pill. Ever after that I would only hear guys say: "She got pregnant."

Some of them wanted to get married, yes, but they still worded the reality as if it were something

anyone could possibly do by herself.

We need young men joining NOW, even if in adjunct capacities.

Young White Males

As Republicans salivate over dissecting women's parts, we wonder if in another life they may have
been serial killers. Where is Shirley Maclaine when we need her? At the same time, we wonder why they would ignore a real 21st century trend which may signal a worrisome set of troubles.
An increasing number of young men in their twenties are undergoing voluntary vasectomies. Doesn't that worry legislators at all; or is it a matter of privacy, and of the fact that
the young man's body belongs to him, as does his decision about sperm production?
What about all the dead life-giving cells? Are you worried about them?
What is it about American society, moreover, what makes men so young decide they never even
want the option of having children? These are not minority males. Do you care?
Young women may not be so far behind these young men. They are not as eager to marry, for
instance, as they once were. Are you helping? No you aren't. You are disgusting young women.
As a somewhat parallel aside, I made my family quite angry one day in or around the year 2000.
We were watching The Oprah Winfrey Show. I made the remark: "even though I prefer to see
black men marrying black women, I sure don't blame the white women who prefer them. Soon
there will be fewer and fewer women of any race wanting to marry white men. These men are
really making a mess of whatever they can. They are escalating their destructive behaviors."
When I said it I didn't realize how racist a sound it had to it. I thought I was speaking in sociologically statistical, dry predictive terms.
But I shut up. There have been mixed-race relationships in my family. I snapped out of it. Then,
in 2005, I felt somewhat vindicated. An article in a major Chicago newspaper cited millions of
dollars had been spent by Texas and Oklahoma attempting to encourage young women to marry.
Dissatisfied with the progress they were making in Texas, that state instituted a law which made
marriage or separation counseling mandatory for anyone seeking a divorce.
I was appalled, because announcing a desire for dissolution of marriage has proven to be extremely dangerous for women. But I recall hoping no one would get hurt by failing to do it quietly.
Last night,as I listened to the day's news, I began to wonder whether any of those new programs worked. Texas passed their dumb transvaginal probe law. Oklahoma has one on the way.
Guys, if the woman doesn't want you, she will find a way to get free of you. Don't get mad ... get
better.

Israel Will Not Simply Defend But Will Protect Herself

Israel has said she will not notify the U. S. if she decides to strike Iran or at least, Iran's nuclear
facilities. Who can blame her? It is not really our business. We don't live in the Mid-East.
Iran has a dictator, a reactionary court system always jockeying for power, and ayatollahs.
Does that sound like a good mix for a democratic country in a hostile geography to have to deal
with over something as fatal as nuclear power?
Iran is completely senseless to be agitating in that region over anything akin to nuclear power.
Israel is not going to allow them to be more of a threat than they already are.
Why would Iran even want the area more unstable than it is now?
Does Iran see an opening for further radicalizing Arab Spring participants?
Sounds a very bad idea to me, because their own citizenry would get the bulk of the horror. Silly
me ... since when does Iran lose sleep over that?
At the same time, Israel should follow the effects of the sanctions with a great precision, because
Iran, like North Korea, is a potential threat to most countries. Israel has no need to put its citizens
through any anxiety just so that it can function as an attack dog for European and American interests.
If Iran is going to do too much posturing for its own good, well then at the risk of sounding hawkish, I guess we had better get ready for them.

Parading Up And Down The Thoroughfare

Yes, they put on short short skirts, covering minimal underwear, and paint red red lips, to stroll

the city streets looking for any takers.

I know why the girls do it. I don't judge the girls. But why are the grown men in the Republican

Party Primary doing it? And is it working? Governor Romney had to ask for Internet money when

he declared his Michigan three point lead over Senator Saint. All this posturing to advertise

themselves as people ready, willing, and able to exploit women to the fullest extents... is it bringing the foreign money into their super-pacs, as it seemed to me they thought it would? I don't think it is working. But they won't give up.

At first they came for the immigrant population.

Then they targeted minority voters.

About that time too, they came for our unions.

Now they have come for the women.

So we are waiting. Who is next?

Are we going to invoke Mr. Niemoller forever?

Since 1970, as a late date, these subversive Republican efforts to institute 19th century politics

into 20th and now 21st century modern life and business have been getting increasingly overt.

They are principally using a righter turning "Supreme Court" in order to chip away bit by bit at

all the civil rights legislation in federal law. What these groups have failed to fully grasp, is that

all that legislation was based on constitutional guarantees.

During the Reagan administration, and during the Bush (the son) administration, these groups

made a lot of progress. They piled up a great deal of case law under every piece of civil rights

law imaginable. Those laws are now nearly as weighted down as the 14th amendment to our

constitution was when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. began to be an activist in the Southern

Christian Leadership Conference.

Now that our laws on civil liberties are somewhat hobbled again, the right wing has Citizens

United on their side. Corporations in America are people. So I imagine multinationals are all

people as well. And since that is done, the rest of us need to be in court chipping away at that

hammer and chisel with a constancy, the way Minnesota is attempting to do.

However, having the tea party successfully stack the states' decks with Republican governors

and legislatures makes it a bit difficult.

Still, if we don't, we can kiss a representative democracy goodbye. I can't even imagine the dredges left in its place.

Now of course that corporations are people, the "Supreme" court has decided to hear a case on

the civil rights of corporations.

And the way that court has gutted affirmative action, we can only guess what kinds of giant rights

the giant people will have.

We should get someone to sponsor a bill which gives rights by the pound, up to a healthy medical

weight per inch of height in an average adult human being. Any "people" not in the norm don't get a vote, and don't get constitutional rights.

(Funny how affirmative action is so wrong when slavery built these universities in the first place.

Americans pay little attention to the true history of the original thirteen colonies. )