O’Reilly may grumble to Valerie Jarrett that: “You’re going to have to get people like Jay-Z, Kanye West, all these gangsta rappers, to knock it off. That’s number one.” But it’s hard to tell what, precisely, he’d like them to knock off. Neither of them wear “the hats on backwards,” for the most part, favoring designer labels and suits that are extravagant in their displays of sobriety. If they offer up “terrible rap lyrics,” the values they’re espousing aren’t exactly anti-capitalist, and their gender politics not so far from the vision of a fallen world O’Reilly espouses. If they talk about “the drug,” for Jay-Z, it’s mostly in sketching in his past, rather than advocating the continued selling of those kilos of coke. In fact, O’Reilly’s own views on personal marijuana use don’t seem terribly far out of line from that of most rappers.

“It’s the gangsta rappers, it’s the athletes, it’s the tattoo guys,” O’Reilly prophesies darkly. But if he’d relax, and listen to the music that freaks him out, he might find cause to celebrate. Jay-Z and Kanye West are already enthusiastic ambassadors for many of the ideas O’Reilly wishes America would embrace. He’s just too hung up on superficial signifiers like tattoos and cocked hats to notice.

I wish to get into a rant.

Sometimes I wish to ignore the fact that some 'conservatives' have points to make.

I question their motives every goddamn time.

But today, I just wish to discuss some points of agreement as an old man facing imminent death—5 years or twenty years, what the hell is the difference?

I despise O'Reilly for a number of reasons. I usually stay away from his vomit that he spreads all over cable although his average audience is four or five years older than me!

But....

If you wear a Mohawk hairdo and have tats on your face; GOOD LUCK!

And if you decide to dye your hair purple and then apply for a job; good fricken luck!

And if you decide to leave High School in the tenth grade, good fricken luck!

And if you do really wear pants that fall down all the time and you use the 'f' word all the time; good frickin luck.

Yeah but that millionaire cheats on his wife, cheats on his taxes and feigns a belief in some Almighty contends that America should get into more wars when you have never been in one....

Fine!

You got me there, but you are going to have a very minimal chance of getting a good paying job.

And selling weed or stolen goods is not a way that 99% of those entrepreneurs are ever going to see daylight!

President Obama has just addressed this problem; even though he has been addressing this problem all of his public life.

O'Reilly would attack him because our President will not put rappers in jail?

O'Reilly would have us believe that if we could only keep people from sneezing, we would have no flu epidemics!

O'Reilly will seldom attack the right wing militias or the Nugents or the Hannity's for that matter.

Sneezes are reactions.

Hatred and deep deep hatred of society is a reaction.

As far as I am concerned the first 'rapper' was Bob Dylan.

Johnny's in the basement mixin up some medicine and I'm on the pavement thinkin about the government...

Look out kid, no matter what ya did....(*)

But even the primary purpose of this post is not to attack O'Reilly. I find him to be a bully, a hypocrite, a lying bastard, a powerful person, an immensely rich person with absolutely no sympathy or no empathy or no compassion for those who have not won the lottery of life.

This man is absolutely sure that he arose from his 'middle class life' (and his history is certainly eschewed) because he is a genius and a family man and a hard worker and a wonderful American and a man with real insight into the human condition and....he is sure that HE DID IT ON HIS OWN!

And it is all bullshite.

BUT...

Sometimes there are arguments present in other arenas that I eschew just because I question the motives of others.

SO HERE GOES:

Here is a right wing squib talking about how badly Krauthammer is being treated by the liberal press:

In an editor by commentator Charles Krauthammer, he brought into question the “reality” of the concept of global warming. This instantly drew the ire of global warming alarmists. Ah, now that the Olympics are nearly over, the global warming debate is ready to begin again.

This is just a squib and I get no more than this because one has to donate a hundred bucks or something to get into the discussion.

Global Warming alarmists!

Fine

Here is the Washington Post link on all of this.

But the WP lets me peak in from time to time without sending them a hundred bucks.

The Kraut simply said that he is against unregulated CO2 getting into the air. It is just he questions the scientists who would forecast doom over the next 90 years (and I remind my readers that I will not be available to see the results of those forecasts!)

I do not like Kraut. I have never liked Kraut since he left the McGovern candidacy.

But we do not know how the atmosphere, how the earth itself will appear in 2100.

And, if I were to have the opportunity (which peasants never achieve) to ask Kraut about other poisons like Methane and Arsenic and Mercury and....a host of other poisons being released into our air and water...well there might be some contention.

The Chinese go to work in many of their municipalities wearing masks and they are not part of the fire departments of these cities.

Smog was the big thing when I was a kid, and we had acid rain.

LA looks better today.

Is LA and its environ better today? Yes.

And that is because we now have an EPA that we did not have in them old days, and our atmosphere—at least when the weather patterns do not send us the poisons from China—is better.

So pollution must be our primary goal.

If you cannot breath the air and drink the water....what is the use?

Now, pretend I have a business.

I make plastic bags.

And each plastic bag cost 1 cent to manufacture and I sell those bags for 5 cents?

But the cost, the real cost that our citizenry experiences is ten cents.

Our consumers might experience two cents in costs but what if the plastic bags cost us as a nation $0.20?

WHO SHOULD PAY FOR THE DIFFERENCE?

If fracking gives an oil company a cost of $50.00 for a barrel or some other quantity and that oil company receives $100.00 for that quantity well the company 'wins' fifty bucks? But there are environmental consequences for that fracking and it ends up costing Americans $200.00 per barrel or whatever....WHO PAYS?

See, there is no problem with seeing what is happening right now in comparison to what will happen a hundred years from now?

Kraut has a point, and we must address it, regardless of how we deal with his extremely passive/aggressive style.

Kraut has a point, and we must address this point, regardless of how we view his motives.

It was 3 degrees F as a high today and we shall see -30 below tonight. And that is about the same extremes that I saw 90 days ago.

Actually, today the 2nd, I awoke to 29 below zero, but we got to +12F. Tomorrow it will be +20?

You aint never goin to convince the people up here that we are entering a global warming period.

I get the Polar Vortex and all of that.

But we live in a capitalistic funded democracy; and there aint no way we win this argument—at least this year.

Now 'the left' has changed or amended its original message to Climate Change rather than Global Warming. hahahahahah

All I am sayin is that Kraut has a point.

So lets just keep goin after pollution.

It is there, it is real, it is documentable, it is graphable, it is FOR REAL.

You cannot argue that scientists might ….

OKAY, ENOUGH ON KRAUT

Remember I detest this sombitch.

But he has a point.

I just see clearly that those on the right will never see that our President is making the same point!

We must attack capitalistic argument with capitalistic argument.

The capitalist bets on some enterprise.

All we have to do is make sure that the capitalist pays all charges relating to that enterprise.

I purchase a ship load of shrimp and I transport it to California and sure enough, fifteen children die from mercury poisoning.

I HAVE TO PAY THE DAMAGES TO THE PARENTS OF THOSE CHILDREN!

Who really disagrees with this contention?

I provide restaurants with beef; and now it is discovered that the beef is perverted?

I have to pay back the restaurants the cost of their loss.

That is simple math to me!

Who would disagree with this.

And if somehow, that perverted beef ends up in a consumer's stomach and that consumer ends up with medical bills approaching a hundred grand, I HAVE TO PAY THOSE MEDICAL COSTS.

THERE IS NO FREE RIDE.

THE RIGHT ALWAYS TALKS ABOUT A FREE LUNCH FOR CHRISSAKES!

I can purchase insurance, I can oversee my operation with protocols providing for good testing performed by scientific experts, I can do a number of things in order to protect my clients/customers and my operation.

But there is always a cost and there is no free ride.

Or at least there is no free ride unless you work on Wall Street!

I mean you are a Spanish Investor in the 17^th century, and your ship fails at sea, unless you are insured you are screwed!

THAT IS CAPITALISM.

I got into a live chat back in October of 2012 by accident really.

I just saw the election of 2012 looming and there was this hurricane looming and people all over the East from this Dagblog site just honed in!

Can you imagine 50 million folks being attacked by an Act of God a couple of weeks before a national election?

Now we are confronted with what repubs say all along.

Fed monies will be stolen by crooks and imposters and....whatever.

Now we have Christie, who happens to be a repub (now) using and abusing those Federal Funds in felonious ways after hugging my President?

Kornacki is my favorite guy on cable.

I read him religiously over the years and he ends up in some slot on week-end MSNBC Show thru a fluke really (after Hayes was promoted) at 7 AM on week-ends even though some lefties are mad that a minority person was not promoted. Hahahah. Kornacki was saved in my mind anyway, with the promotion of one of my favorite MSNBC's lady, Melissa Harris-Perry.

Well, for the last month or so, Kornacki shows up all the frickin time on MSNBC because he was born in NJ, has studied in NJ, was monitored in NJ and knows all about frickin NJ. Hahahhaahahh

You can see him just before Melissa Harris-Perry! On the week ends before more prison highlights.

Well....all this Fed money that was supposed to go to 'victims' of Hurricane Sandy, why was so much money being sent to pricks like the old time Rockefellers and such?

See, Federal funds are lost thru graft!

That is all I got right now.

Maybe I go into a chapter two or three or whatever...

The right has some real cogent arguments with regard to politics and with regard to the real function of Federal Government vs. State Governments and vs. municipal governments.

There is an argument here.

Again, that is all I got right now.

There are real arguments to be addressed in this country.

And Dylan Ratigan just throws up his hands and says:

Watch Maher @

(Except my link goes to the 28th instead of the 21st.)

I get his emails all the time because he intrigues me.

Avlon has just gone to the dark side, I mean he cannot even countenance the Tea PARTY. hahahahahaha

But Dylan just refuses to see THE DIFFERENCE. hahahhahahaha

WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?

I do not have all the answers.

But I know this.

When Dylan says that there are minimal differences between what repubs and dems do when in office; I just do not see the minimal.

Can you just imagine the type of legislation that would have been passed if Mitt had won?

I really have no argument with that perspective.

My next blog will address why I am in real disagreement with Mr. Ratigan.

But I do underline what Dylan Ratigan's real message is.

And that is that we must address these issues as individuals on the municipal and county levels as citizens where 'our vote' still counts.

But repubs in many many states, take away the vote and Dylan seems to say:

THAT'S NOT MY PROBLEM!

NO IT IS YOUR PROBLEM DYLAN AND IT IS MY PROBLEM AND IT IS OUR NATION'S PROBLEM.

The end for now!

(Sorry, too damn long, give me a couple days with nothing to do and well....)