Perversions and Diversions

1.  You have to love the irony of Obama quoting scripture and Our Lord to justify income equalization while at the same time his political and ideological allies are lambasting the Catholic Church for opposing the sterilization mandate.  The President paraphrased Luke 12:48, “Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.” He said it was because he was a Christian that he thought the rich should pay more in taxes
I guess we should not expect logic and reason to prevail in an election year.


2. I  recorded  the Super Bowl and took a nice hike instead on a beautiful Sunday afternoon in San Diego, I was able to fast forward the entire game and only spent a little over an hour watching the over hyped game.  I did not have the listen to endless blather nor watch the witch Madonna at half time.  Additionally, I didn't watch a single commercial.  Life is too short to sit in from of a screen for 4-5 hours on a beautiful day and be propagandized and marketed to continually.  I realize people get together for the annual rite of bonding while watching the Super Bowl between two teams that they could care less about in other circumstances.  The NFL and corporate sponsors have done a very good job of programming the public to cheer (the game), leer (half time show), gamble (hundreds of millions)  and buy (commercials).  


3. The US is ratcheting up the rhetoric about Iran attacking the USA.  Actually , Sec of Defense, Leon Panetta made two contradictory statements about Iran in the same week.  Just like the Super bowl, the public is being propagandized and programmed to accept the inevitability of another war in southwestern Asia.  I would place the probability extremely high that war with Iran breaks out this year.  It would be what the doctor ordered to ensure Obama's reelection and balance out his other war with American Catholics.


4.  We have heard mumbling from the military over the past decade about the competence and veracity of Washington officials, GOP and Dem alike.  But today a high ranking military officer said that progress in Afghanistan was a misnomer.  If the Iraqis and Afghans are smart they will lay low until Obama's reelection and be assured of more incompetent leadership from Washington.  How can it be that hundreds of bloggers like myself predicted the folly of these wars and their tragic endings?  I can answer for myself.......I saw it coming because of the Vietnam war.  Both of these wars and the Vietnam war were immoral and fought for for reasons that had nothing to with with the propaganda fed to the American people.