The Projectionists

(Correction--In my last post, the John Birchers must have struck through their moles at Google. There is no Milton Eisenhower Foundation. It should have read a New York City-based foundation, which supports eugenics...I was trying to insert Milton in the tag so he would be immortalized as the Communist control agent of his brother.)

So Drudge tries to gin up outrage over Levin's grilling of Goldman Sachs officials over their mortgage fraud deals by citing Levin's use of s..t. So I thought I would look what else may be happening. Seems a Fox New anchorman used the "c" word at the same time.

Wesley Pruden weighs in on Obama's video to the OFA, blathering that it was an attack on white people. I guess no one has ever thought to actually listen to the man or know that YouTube exists. Wes says that now it is alright to use the race card for conservatives since the President did it--Not. Ok, Wes, let's play the Race Card--how about Koreans who think they are messiahs and own the Washington Times. Sounds pretty suspicious to me.

Rush Limbaugh received his talking points from Karl Rove this morning because he, too, accuses Obama of being a racist and he lists, accurately for a change, the people Obama was addressing. "Why doesn't he try to reach white males?" Poor babies.

"Tan Man" Boehner this afternoon has come up with Gold--"The Democrats have a credibility problem. They promise one thing and do another." Can you give us an example? "Tan Man" this year has raised over $3 million from Wall Street, almost double the amount of the nearest industrial group that supports him.

Great news for Wes Pruden. The national director of the Aryan Nation, Charles Juba is opening a nightclub for the under 21 crowd outside of Kansas City. The avowed anti-semite and white supremacist thinks his Black Flag Club could fill in the need for young people, who need a place to go. I guess you'll have to be a skinhead or a Goth. Or say a white male senior citizen, who can share tales of George Lincoln Rockwell.

Mexico has weighed in on the Arizona law. It said,"We don't need some stinkin' papers". President Calderon condemned the law and issued a travel advisory for Arizona. He emphasized that the law would damage bilateral relations with the United States.

Adolf Hitler has made a comeback after being banned from YouTube for his parodies. Now the Great Dictator is seen in a different scene from the same movie with a mashup with Lady Gaga. This might actually fall under the fair use clause.

Mitt Romney has come out denouncing the populism against the banks and the hedge funds, having run one himself, I guess. The Republicans might just come out and designate Romney as Corporate Overseer of the Country and Vice President Petraeus to run the Military/ Terrorist complex. And you wonder why Obama talks to blacks, Ladino and women. These honkies can get pretty scary.

The ace conservative journalist Andrew Breibart has posted a video of Obama's budget director saying there will be rationed health care in the future. Of course, no conservative wants to admit we have rationed health care now. I just hope they put the death panels back in.

I am thinking of creating a new feature--The Comparative Survey of Freedom in American States. This is derived from the Freedom House Survey of Freedom in the World.This idea has been kicking around for over a decade since my colleagues and I were thinking of getting into anti-corruption projects. Our states, including my native New Jersey, my wife's Illinois and others, were perfect for studying political corruption. Then during the last campaign, I noticed that in 45 Democratic primaries, there were serious, even fatal errors in the election administration in 27 states. If you remember, former President Jimmy Carter turned down an invitation to monitor American elections because of these structural problems, saying he and his Center could never say American elections were "free and fair." And now under the Obama Administration, we have a bonanza of state violations of political rights and civil liberties. Arizona is just the latest.

Missouri has announced it wants to copy Arizona's law. Missouri has been at the forefront of insanity for the last two years. Like Utah, Oklahoma, Wyoming and Idaho, they have aimed at restricting a women's right to choose by all sorts of subterfuges. With the resurrection of militia groups, we have more reason to examine their old haunts such as Michigan and Idaho. And good old Virginia, with Confederate month and the anti-gay rulings, has entered the sweepstakes.

After the Earth Day festival here in D.C., John Legend decided to visit friends in Federicksberg. He took two members of his band--both black--and ended up lost because his friend lived in a new subdivision. He stopped to get direction and two rednecks told him he wasn't welcome in the neighborhood because this was "confederate country".

Judge Brandeis said "Our states are the laboratories of democracy." Conversely , they look like they may want to be laboratories for American-style fascism. With the internet, we now can get a greater feel for the politics in our states, which was lacking in past decades. There are , of course, nice examples like Vermont, where they passed this past week a public option for healthcare because they felt the Obama plan didn't go far enough. Also, they have same-sex marriage. Or even Montana, which passed laws to allow for the manufacture of their own ammunition,but was the first state to establish the "health exchanges" Obamacare promised by 2014.

The Comparative Survey feature will be occur as I pile up enough information on a particular state. We could have had a load on Illinois last year. You never know whose going to be next. You never can go wrong betting on Louisiana.

I am going to avoid the brouhaha over the next cloture vote. A major American national problem can not even be discussed or debated. Gee, I'm glad we're not in any wars--right. we are.