The news is not dead and never will be. Even in the old Soviet Union news traveled by samizdat and most people knew that whatever Pravda and Izvestia printed was a lie. Thus the saying, “In the Truth there is no news, and in the News there is no truth”. (If you don’t know what the quote means do some research.)

So, the real problem that ABC, CBS, NBC and the rest of the left wing press has is that I, along with lots of others, no longer believe that they are telling us the truth. They served as constant cheerleaders to the Obama campaign and constant denigrators  of the Bush administration. They have become as Pravda and Izvestia, media organs of the state. Lots of Americans simply don’t watch their news programs or read their papers and that means that there are fewer eyes on the commercials they run and their corporate sponsors know that. Is it any wonder that the Obama administration wants to prop them up with federal money and tax the new media to do it?

If the old media wants to survive they might consider upgrading their product which in this day and time means telling the truth and avoiding left wing partisan slants. A little fairness would go a long way.

Rest easy folks, this is all a rhetorical shell game charade that is meant to go nowhere. I bet the word has already gone out to the bankers “don’t worry, we have to make you look like villains for a while to cover up for our screw ups but keep the campaign contributions coming in and we will take good care of you”.

When are we Americans going to realize that when politicians target an industry or a segment of society all they are doing is trolling for cash? Call me cynical if you want.

Since “follow the money” is the first rule of politics, that $8.5 million might be important especially in the light of the millions more to come and all of it from taxpayers’ pockets. How much of that will ultimately end back up as campaign contributions to Democrat PAC’s from the ACLU and its members? Foolish question?

The ACLU and fellow travelers get to push their socialist agenda, Democrat politicians get campaign contributions they don’t have to stump for and all of it on the taxpayers’ dime. Who says you can’t have your cake and eat it too!

Oh, one more silly little question, “who gets to pay for the added security for the trial and, just in case the worst happens, who gets to pay for the damage from another Islamic terrorist attack connected with the trial”?  Oh silly me, I should have known! It’s the taxpayers again!

The above quote is from my.barackobama.com/page/content/firstamissues#sovereignty

If the president is really serious about keeping that promise he could very well start by settling the Cobell vs. Salazar case that is still in its agonizing 13 year journey through the federal court system. Despite statements that he wanted to settle the case President Obama’s new secretary of the interior, Ken Salazar, is now backtracking and saying that he has to wait for the outcome of the court of appeals hearing scheduled in May. What a bunch of baloney! If the administration wanted to settle it could do so tomorrow by contacting the plaintiff and arriving at an agreement. A radical change for the better in how the government deals with Native Americans would be a good thing and a good way to start would be for the administration to do the right thing in this case. I don’t think it will happen though but there is still hope.

Two more last comments. This administration and previous administrations have absolutely no problem with giving away billions to other countries, much of which goes into the hands of corrupt and greedy officials with no sense of social conscience for their own people. Billions more have been funneled to foreign banks by means of the recent bailouts. Is it so hard to do the right thing by the remnants of the First Nations of this country?? And, considering the treatment given to the Arapahos and the Cheyennes by the State of Colorado, it would be nice if Secretary Salazar, who is a former Senator from Colorado, could make a step towards wiping that blot out by sitting down and coming to an equitable agreement with the plaintiff.

Again, the question arises in my mind as to what will be my response to a probable Obama election win. My first reaction will be to blame the feckless Republican majority that misruled in Congress from 2000 to 2006, looking to line their own pockets instead of standing for the kind of good government and fiscal responsibility that they promised and who were so afraid of the Democrat minority that they caved in every time a filibuster was promised. Then I will blame an inarticulate president who failed to reign in the excesses of his own party and who failed to stand up and fight back against a poisonous left wing press that set about to destroy him as soon as he took office. I will not blame John McCain and Sarah Palin who have fought valiantly against the toughest odds any presidential candidate team has encountered since the McGovern campaign in 1972. The financial meltdown has probably doomed their campaign.

Again, tomorrow will be a new day but I fear it will be the first day of the slow death of democracy in this nation because the fanatical left wing supporters of Barak Obama do not believe in freedom.

I really have to say what’s on my mind today and that has to do with the election. It looks like McCain doesn’t have a chance. The economy has nixed his campaign. So, it looks like we will have a far left president and a further left Congress. The door is wide open for a real dose of socialism in this country. I have to figure out what to do because no matter what the Obama campaign says we all will pay a bunch more in taxes. It will be in the form of higher prices for all kinds of essentials because businesses will have to pass on their increased tax burden and we will have rampant inflation because the new administration will have no choice but to print a bunch more money to be able to keep even a part of the promises they have made. The irony of it all is that all those low income and middle class voters that have fallen for Obama’s promises of change will bear the worst financial burden of it all.

How easily we have forgotten the lessons of the 70′s and early 80′s when the Government Mint printing presses were running over time but I haven’t. I will always remember making $6500 a year in 1972 and having money to burn and then making $12,000 a year in 1983 and barely making it. The public lost over half its buying power in around 10 years. I have not forgotten the 18% interest on housing mortgages either although I, by the grace of God was exempt from that because I bought a house before the shit really hit the fan and my mom, God bless her, gave me the money for the down payment. I had a 7.5% interest rate and darn glad of it and we are now screaming because we think 6% is too high???

Sometimes we get what we wish for and then oh how we wish we had not gotten it. All of us who work or, like me, have worked all their lives and now are retired better get used to hard times because they are coming in spades. You think only the rich are going to get taxed?? Better get used to being rich!

More later.

The Russians are threatening to get involved and lest we forget, Russia has gone to war several times to protect their friends in the Balkans. The latest and most disastrous was, of course, WWI when they declared war against the Austro-Hungarian Empire to protect the Serbs. There is a close relationship there between Russia and Serbia, we ignore it to our peril and we better think about involving the Russians in a potential ground war in the Balkans over a bunch of Kosovars that will turn on us anyway sooner or later. Anyone who thinks Russia isn’t a formidable enemy is living in dreamland. They now have most of the best of our technology and to nullify Europe all they have to do is turn off the supply of natural gas.

So are Americans going to die in the Balkans? The EU sure as heck won’t try to keep them apart from each other. They will stand around peeing in their pants. Who is left? I say let the Russians handle it. They have much more interest there anyway.

In the end, if we are so darned anxious to protect minorities that have been badly treated and faced with genocide we need to start right here at home. What about the Native Americans? The latest horror story that has come to light is the issue of the billions that were stolen from different tribal groups with the connivance of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Does anyone think, maybe, that would be a good place to start? I sure do. We need to try and make right our own sins first.

So, what is the future of universal health care insurance in New Mexico? Well the governor is probably going to call a special session to deal with it. I hope the legislature is very careful about what they do. Most of the plans going around have some cohersive feature to them. In other words if you don’t want health care insurance that’s just too bad. You will be made to pay by having your wages garnished. Now what about people, of which there are too many in New Mexico, that are trying to subsist on $10 an hour jobs or less? Can they even afford to  work if they must pay out $100 or more a month for health insurance? We are talking about a LOT of workers here in this state that are in these kinds of jobs. So if the taxpayers have to subsidize them where will the money come from to do that? Raise taxes or cut programs? And cut which programs? What about illegals? Will the tax payers be forced to pay for them as well? And, is it constitutional to garnish a workers wages to force them into an insurance pool they can’t afford to be in? We have laws forcing drivers to get auto liablility insurance to reimburse others from potential harm caused by other drivers. But, can we force someone to protect themselves?

Finally, under the governor’s watch the the Retiree Health Care Authority that serves retired public sector workers and retired educators has darn near been ruined with tremendous losses in investments. Service from the Authority’s employees is close to nonexistant. Do we want to put health care insurance for the whole state in the same hands?

There is some poetic justice in the fact that Hillary Clinton, who, it appears, was promoting her own coronation, may now not even get the nomination. I say “may not get it” because it’s hard to count the Clintons out even when they are down and the real dirty tricks have yet to be played. Wait until the backroom deals start to be made amongst the mucky mucks of the Democratic Party. However, it would make me exceedingly happy to see Bill Clinton denied a third term in the White House. And, while on the subject of Bill Clinton, why did he possibly ruin her chances amongst blacks by committing the ultimate political sin of race baiting Obama? Did he really think it was necessary so therefore he was the best to be the heavy and get it done or was he trying to sabotage her campaign thinking that if she won and was a better president than he it would further deteriorate his “legacy”?

In any event, his “legacy” is pretty well tarnished since he has exposed his sordid character to the whole world once again. There is practically no loathesome action or actual crime that can’t be excused amongst the left wing in this day and age, including mass murder and genocide, so even though Bill could be excused for selling the Lincoln Bedroom, taking campaign cash from the Chinese, raping women, selling pardons, loosing his law license for lying to a grand jury and making millions off lucrative back room deals, it is meet that he discovered that acts of racism against the party faithful for political gain wasn’t to be tolerated. This time he really fell off the wall and as “they” say, all of his big media pals “couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty back together again”.

I for one will be glad to see the Clintons with their overweening lusts for power, self-aggrandizement and especially money move off the stage of history.

More to come.