Is There Anything Under the Dome?

 

Howdy Comrades!

I am interrupting my recuperation to warn everyone not to spend your bottom dollar.  If you depend on a Social Security check, VA pension, federal paychecks and even food stamps, you will probably experience a world of grief next month.  The answer to the question of how can this happen is that there's nothing under the dome at the US Capitol except several hundred criminally stupid republicans.  Rather than reach a compromise on taxes and closing tax loopholes, the Tea Party wing nuts are going to allow the United States of America to default on its obligations for the first time in our history.  This brilliant move is supposed to ensure that Mr. Obama won't be reelected President.  What a clever tactic:  Hold all Americans hostage while collapsing our economy. 

                Save your money folks.  If you've bought gold or other precious metals as I've recommended, you will get a good price for it in August.  Be assured that the Treasury's number one priority will be to pay bondholders.  Its no choice.  The moment a holder of a US Treasury bond is unable to get paid is the moment we fall into an economic black hole.  Compromise, even painful cuts to entitlements would be better than that situation as long as everyone shares the burden by agreeing to raise revenues.

Regards,

Chairman Mal

Power to the Peeps!

Ben Laden Be Gone!

 

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The announcement by President Obama that the terrorist leader Bin Laden was killed deep in Pakistan by United States military forces both astounded and elated me.  So many of us had given up hope that this incarnation of evil would never receive the justice he so badly deserved.  When I heard the news, I had to call my friends to make certain my mind wasn't playing tricks on me fearing I'd entered some kind of temporal anomaly and slipped world lines.  I had a similar feeling in November of 2000 when Florida was first awarded to Mr. Gore only to hear Dan Rather move it into the Bush column.  I really questioned if the world had gone mad or I had slipped some gears.

Comrades, those of you who are Christian, Jews, Buddhist and humanists, the monster of the third millennium is dead.  I hope we will join together in cherishing the removal of his evil from our planet.  Bin Laden's remains will be treated in accord with the religious traditions he espouse.  I find this appropriate but ironic because his life work did so much to distort the truth of Islam.

The struggle is not over, not here, not anywhere in our imperfect world.  Still, the unity expressed throughout the world when Bin laden destroyed  3000 lives on 911 should rekindle so that we build on this victory and lay this man to rest in a way he denied so many of his victims.

Regards,

Chairman Mal

Power to the Peeps!

April Showers Death on Alabama

 

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This last month I've practiced quietism, reflecting on changes in my life, my possible future and more esoteric topics.  The vicious storms, some tornadoes a mile or more wide with winds at or exceeding 200 MPH have devastated my home state of Alabama.  At least 205 dead in Alabama alone and other states experienced another hundred deaths at minimum.  Some of my friends have asked me how God can allow the destruction of whole towns, the death of children and many good people.  I tell them that there's no good answer to why God allows evil or injustice, cruelty and degradation.  Obviously, one anser is that there's no god and the multiverse was created by no almighty Creator.  Instead natural laws we don't understand has evolved what we perceive as reality in our lives.  Others deny this materialistic assertion arguing for a loving God who regularly intervenes in individual lives.  Comrades, I don't see how either of these views can be correct.  There's still much science has yet to explain.  I recall prayers for victory in a high school football game during pep rallies.  Does anyone seriously believe God cares who wins a game between squads of boys playing a team sport soon to be forgotten?  If so, they are deluded.  I would not asked God for such inane blessings as winning a football game and suffered derision for my so called disrespect for the creator.  My reply was that I felt asking the creator of the universe for such a trivial advantage was an insult to our deity.

I still have questions about why so many people had to die in the storms this week.  I don't think God causes the destruction but allows the natural laws of creation to play out for some reason I can't yet fathom.  I still feel the pain and sometimes the doubt.

Regards,

Chairman Mal

Power to the Peeps!

 

Garden of Freedom

Howdy Comrades!

It's the first full day of spring 2011!  So much has happened throughout the world, I'm simply speechless, totally unable to encompass all that's happened.  There's still real hope for human rights advocates throughout the Middle East and countries in North Africa.  Yet, there's concomitant suffering for the Japanese people and many caught up in the Libyan uprising. 

In my minescul part of the world, I am considering my garden, hwere to place which plant and if one or the other will do better in this patch or that.  It seems so trivial.  I no longer see the blooms that will blossom in May and June but hold the beuty of them in my mind.  On good days, I may even glimpse one of them with my residual vision if the light is just so, falling in those withering photoreceptors in my eyes.  I see it poorly but add detail with my mind.

Comrades, I suggest if you can, start a garden whether a garden of plants or a garden of words and action which one day may yield liberty.  We can all share this hope in the future.

Regards,

Chairman Mal

Power to the Peeps!

Texas Needs Revolution!

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We need a revolution like the one just occurring in Egypt right here in Texas.  Travis County is largely an oasis of Democrats surrounded by crazed Republicans.  Our Governor, Rick "Pompom" Perry, recently sent his agency heads to testify at budget hearings held by the overwhelmingly Republican Legislature.   These agency big shots were ordered to be good soldiers and accept billions in budget cuts to programs benefiting the aged, sick and disabled.  Take Vocational Rehabilitation for instance.  The budget for the Blind Children's program will be cut by 1.5 million bucks, half the current budget.  As many of you know, Voc Rehab funds are matched by federal funding in basically a 20 to eighty percent match.  Well, our so-called compassionate conservatives want to cut two million from Rehab funding.  They don't seem to care that this means the Federal Government will cut eight million in matching grants.  Consequently, VR could be slashed by ten million.  Rick Perry's hand-picked agency heads merely state that they will cut the fat and improve efficiency.  Comrades, I could birth a bovine!  How stupid can these people get?  By the way, Texas has many billions of dollars in a rainy day fund which the governor won't touch.  If this budget passes, Rick Perry believes he's got a chance with Tea Party Republicans backing him all the way to the Whitehouse.  Americans aren't that stupid.  This is merely the former aggie cheerleader having delusions of grandeur!

Regards,

Chairman Mal

Power to the Peeps!

Today We are all Egyptians!

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Today I feel as though I'm an Egyptian.  In only eighteen days, young Egyptians began a peaceful revolution culminating today in the end of a brutal dictatorship.  Yesterday I despaired that Mubarak was demented and would attempt to cling to power.  Today, all I feel is joy and thanks to those brave Egyptians who fought and died for freedom.  I will recall this day so long as I have a single neuron functioning in my aging brain.  Will the next dictator to fall be Kadaffi?  Iranians wanted to demonstrate in sympathy with Egyptians but were threatened with death if any dared express an independent thought.  Those criminals will not be long for this world.

I feel so lucky to have witnessed history in the making!  Peace and long life to liberty!

Regards,

Chairman Mal

Power to the Peeps!

A New Broom Sweeps Clean-Reform in Egypt

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A totally unexpected conjunction of novel technologies, social media, a push for generational change and massive contradictions of class and life-styles has nearly driven Egypt to the brink of anarchy.  Of course, we first noticed this phenomenon in the thwarted green revolution in Iran.  I still expect the need for change to again circle back to the so-called Islamic Republic despite the brutal suppression by its current criminal regime.  Of course, the first success was in Tunisia but without the United States propping up Mubarak in Egypt, his thirty year reign will soon end.  The only question is at what cost?  Will the death toll rise from the hundreds to the thousands?  My thoughts are with the young people and the poor of Egypt in their struggle for democracy and better living conditions.  I don't believe Jordan is another example of this movement.  The king seems to be genuinely loved by his people.  Who knows what will happen in Yemen, Libya and Saudi Arabia.  Some of those regimes will likely attempt an Iranian response to dissent but this tactic will ultimately fail.  If anyone knows of blind people in any of these countries, please ask them to contact me through this blog or my website:

http://www.chairmanmal.com

Regards,

Chairman Mal

Power to the Peeps!