Gary Rumor’s Anti-Entropic Continuum

I have back pain. I was almost sold on the idea of the 55 plus getting medicare. After all I was fired last spring and denied unemployment and couldn’t afford the COBRA and I really could have used the insurance since I had a surgery a few years back due to a life threatening illness, but what was available to me? Nothing. No medicare, no medical, no insurance unless I could come up with $460 a month. So I toughed it out.
But over last week or so emerged a compromise on the health bill, alow the public option to die and lower the minimum age for medicare to 55. It was not a great trade, after all it was unfunded until 2014 and only available to people who are unemployed and uninsured. But I figured it was better than nothing at all. Well Joe Lieberman just went on the record opposing the age lowering option that he had originally campaigned on as Al Gore’s vice presidential partner in the 2000 election. He supported it in 2006 when he last ran for the Senate and again as recently as a couple of months ago in an interview with a Connecticut newspaper. Oh boy something Joe believed in. But not the new improved Joe Lieberman. The up to date Joe is now opposed to lowering the age of medicare, just as he is opposed to a public option and single payer. In fact Joe Lieberman seems to be only interested a health plan that the private insurance industry is in favor of or so it would seem based on his new found love affair with the filibuster that he at one time tried to end.
Old Joe is certainly singing the Insurance industries tune. Do you wonder that he gets more money from the Insurance industry than anyone except perhaps Senator Nelson from Nebraska, think Mutual of Omaha. As the saying goes follow the money and you will find out where the power to decide lies. Will we get anything at all in health reform besides perks for the industry? It doesn’t look like it.

President Obama has actually said he is mad at fat cat bankers. He even said that he did not run for president to serve their interests. That is interesting. The president standing up for the average American small businessman, not the consumer, not the homeowner, but the small and medium sized businessman as he so stated. I guess that is better than being blatantly in favor of big fat cat bankers. But then that position is probably only popular with fat cat bankers. Maybe we need to bring back the good old days of the 1970’s when red blooded patriotic communists would shoot piggy bankers in the knee caps. Now those were people with the right idea. It seems the President is irritated because the financial industry has been able to get most Republicans and 27 Democrats to vote against the financial reform legislation as weak as it is. Apparently even Congressman Kusinich voted against the law because it was too weak but most people who voted against it because they were in the pocket of the you guessed it, the fat cat bankers.

What are they thinking in Uganda? It seems that the Family with their fundamentalist agenda have finally found a country willing to put their version of the lords will into law. Death to gays if the law passes. It seems that Uganda might just let it pass if only to spite the politically correct world. I bet the Fox watchers are salivating over that one. Rachel Maddow is pretty unhappy about the whole thing, in fact I think it is pretty sad to see Africans being manipulated by neanderthals to serve the interests of hate and overpopulation.

On the other hand Houston, Texas has elected a lesbian Mayor. Houston is the fourth biggest city in the USA and it is in Texas. Go figure. Texans for all their fundamentalist tendencies have a liberal streak and perhaps that is simply a sign of the times. If we can believe Anthony Burgess when liberals take over being gay is encouraged and the police become very active in repressing dissent. He made that point in his novel ‘The Wanting Seed”. He also stated that conservatives push the family and the army and like wars. Am I a cynic, pretty much.

Last night there was a ridiculous semi-documentary on the subject of intelligent design. This fairly well known comedian decided to take on Darwinism and stretched the comparison to the point of saying that Darwinism lead to Nazism. He put on a dour face and interviewed a Polish scientist who said that America had no intellectual freedom when it comes to the issue of intelligent design. He had to go to Poland to find a scientist to agree with him. It is the only country in Europe where people still go to church. He would have been hard pressed to find a reputable scientist to say that Nazism was a result of Darwinism. He neglects to note that Christians have committed pogroms against Jews and other non believers for centuries. I thought it was a joke when he compared the scientific establishments support for Darwinism to the Soviet Empire and even let the old communicator himself Ronald Reagan speaking about the Berlin Wall become the poster boy for intelligent designs battle for credibility against the scientific establishment. Good luck there.
The one good point he made was to bring up the theory of seeding, that aliens seeded the Earth with life. That is what I believe. He unfortunately seems to believe in the God of the Old Testament. What planet is this guy from?

Here is a newspaper article about it from the Chronicle of Higher Education.

“September 27, 2007

Scientists Say Intelligent-Design Movie’s Producers Deceived Them Into Participating
Several prominent scientists, including Richard Dawkins, the University of Oxford biologist, say they were manipulated, under false pretenses, into appearing in a movie that supports intelligent design, according to today’s New York Times.

The scientists say they were told that the film, a documentary titled Crossroads, would examine the intersection of science and religion. But press notices about the movie, now titled “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed”, say that it shows how “university professors unmercifully crush any fellow scientists who dare question the prevailing system of belief,” namely Darwinian evolution. The movie also asserts that professors were fired because they challenged evolutionary theory. Included in the film is the case of Guillermo Gonzalez, an astronomer who was denied tenure this year at Iowa State University.

The Discovery Institute, a leading supporter of intelligent design, plugs the movie, which stars Ben Stein and is scheduled to open in February.

But PZ Myers, a biologist at the University of Minnesota at Morris, says on his blog, Pharyngula, that the movie’s producers were dishonest in representing its premise to him. In a post today, he says the original description of the project on the movie’s Web site “was a well-groomed merkin designed to cover the disease-raddled organs of whorish professional liars.” —Richard Monastersky”

What the heck is a merkin? That brings me to the story about the North Carolina city councilman who is an atheist in a state that has a law against Atheists taking office. Apparently there are 7 states where it is illegal. Texas is one of them. Go figure. At least its not illegal to be gay there, yet.

Berlusconi got a statue in the face. Man what ever happened to pie throwing? Way to go in Italy.