It’s easy to have a good reputation, when everybody in town always looks the other way. Despite all evidence to the contrary, the Cowardly Lion of the Senate still believed he could win the oval office in either 1984 or 1988, at least that’s what Senator Tunney told the Ruskies . . . and there hangs a tale . . . .

Even when his anti-nuclear energy initiatives blew up in his face and folks around the country were sporting bumper stickers proclaiming “More People Died at Chappaquiddick than Three-Mile Island,” Ted Kennedy still wanted the ultimate prize and seriously thought he could get it no matter the price. The London Times in 1991 brought all this up but somehow the NY Times, Washington Post and liberal media totally missed it . . . fancy that . . . . Later a famed American historian researched the incident deeply before putting it in his book, again the American media protected Ted Kennedy and never seriously considered the story.

                First level facts: shortly after Boris Yeltsin threw open the whole history of the late great Soviet Union and their communist bosses (all their documents and records), Tim Sebastian came across a memorandum labeled “Special Importance” composed in 1983 by Victor Chebrikov, #1 KGB official in the entire USSR addressed to Yuri Andropov, former top KGB man and then #1 political power in all of the Soviet Union.    The subject was U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy. The translation reads like so:

                "On 9-10 May of this year," the May 14 memorandum explained, "Sen. Edward Kennedy's close friend and trusted confidant [John] Tunney was in Moscow." (Tunney was Kennedy's law school roommate and a former Democratic senator from California.) "The senator charged Tunney to convey the following message, through confidential contacts, to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Y. Andropov."

                Kennedy proposed a bit of mutual back-scratching with Andropov. He would lend Andropov a hand dealing with U.S. President Ronald Reagan in return for the Soviet Union’s help in challenging Reagan in the 1984 presidential election.  Kennedy evaluated the situation like this:

                "The only real potential threats to Reagan are problems of war and peace and Soviet-American relations," the memorandum stated. "These issues, according to the senator, will without a doubt become the most important of the election campaign." Then he got down to specifics . . . .

                Ted Kennedy proposed to visit Moscow to “arm” (his word according to Chebrikov ) the Soviets with information and explanations regarding problems regarding nuclear disarmament so to better prepare them (so they could be more convincing during appearances in the USA which Kennedy was going to discuss later in the Tunney-carried message. Kennedy proposed helping the Soviets deal with Reagan by telling them how to brush up their propaganda.  Why?  How?  For what purpose?

                Kennedy offered to make it possible for Andropov to be interviewed on American television making a direct appeal to the American people (something Kennedy said would attract a huge amount of interest and attention in the USA) . If Andropov thought the proposals were worthy of further consideration, then Kennedy and his people would take steps to make it happen with the largest TV networks; setup the contact with Andropov for an invitation to Moscow for the interviews . . . crucial, in Kennedy’s view was that the initiative should be seen as coming from “the American side” via the media.  Kennedy assured Andropov significant air time and a strong semblance to an honest journalistic  interview.

                Kennedy claimed “like other rational” citizens of the country to be “very troubled by the current state of Soviet-American relations.”  But that high-minded concern represented only one of Kennedy's motives.   Apparently, Victor Chebrikov, was intrigued enough to dig deeper into Kennedy’s motives and asked some questions. “Tunney says the senator wants to run for president in 1988 and does NOT discount that even during the 1984 campaign, the Democratic Party may officially turn to him to lead the fight against the Republicans and elect their candidate president."

                Although the memo story was written up in the London Times and American historian Paul Kengor reprinted the memorandum in full in his book “The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism,” the incident was apparently never regarded as newsworthy by the mainstream American media.  Kengor after making numerous serious attempts to “debunk” the memo contacted Kennedy’s office.  They and Kennedy would NOT deny it so it found its way into the book.

Of course, Reagan’s path was confrontational rather than conniving with the Soviets. He called them, “The Evil Empire.” Later in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, he would shout, “Tear down this wall, Mr. Gorbachov!” Reagan also sat down with Gorbachov and the rest is history as the Warsaw Pact disintegrated and the Berlin Wall did get torn down.  Yuri Andropov, of course, was not in good health even before he achieved the Soviet General Secretariat and  died ten months later without, so far as is known, ever responding to Kennedy's initiative, or should one say "sell-out?"

IF Andropov had acted on the Kennedy memo, would history have changed? Would the Cold War still be lukewarm in the evening news today? Would Reagan have been defeated? And more importantly, IF the American public was privy to the facts, would they still be allowing Cowardly-Lion of the Senate Chappaquiddick Teddy to be buried on the hallowed ground of Arlington?

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

                Q: “What’s the difference between a doctor and an engineer?” 

A: “Miscalculations can crush engineers, but doctors bury their mistakes . . .”

Q: “What in hell’s that got to do with anything, Boy?”

A: “Liberals are more like doctors than engineers . . . “

It’s already happened four times with Social Security . . . first in 1988, then in  2002, then in 2018 and now in 2037 Social Security is scheduled to go broke each time and then miracle of miracles, to hide the embarrassing truth, liberal majorities create some sort of expensive rescue bill that hides the ugly fiscal nightmare's revelation for another sixteen or twenty years or thirty years. Social Security, that ill-conceived government boondoggle spending program, was conceived in 1934 and never has been put on a truly sound fiscal footing.  As a result, it’s been on the verge of bankruptcy numerous times and to prevent that embarrassing happening, the liberal voices in congress and the oval office have repeatedly “refunded, restructured and covered-up” that embarrassing truth and pushed its ultimate reckoning day further and further back in our children's and grandchildren's history.

Now it’s Medicare’s turn to be covered up. That is the main purpose of the Obamacare (perhaps soon to be named Chappaquiddick TeddyCARE?) bill, to cover up the $34 TRillion obligations now contained in Medicare, scheduled to be bankrupt in 2016.  Heaven forbid that the GASP truth about how those scoundrels have driven this country deeper and deeper into red ink should ever surface . . .  anything but that!

These government-spending-boondoggles is where national debt comes from. It’s why the nine-cent loaf of bread in 1933 now costs $4 per loaf and why (with Fed Chairman Bernanke in early 2009 printing fourteen phony bills for every dollar circulating in 2008) that loaf of bread might well jump to $60 much sooner than most people think. This is the legacy of 76 years of liberal thinking . . . .

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

                 When the Brazilian soccer players are known just by their nicknames, it’s kind of cool. When the liberals go out of their way to come up with B.S. names for guys who spent their whole lives slopping at the public trough spending, nay wasting, the money of the decent taxpayers on their B.S. programs, it’s downright annoying. They called Hubert Humphrey the “Happy Warrior” and he did actually battle for civil rights, so that one was deserved. In fact his speech at the ’48 Democratic national convention was when the Dixiecrats walked out of the convention and went on to nominating their own candidate hoping to defeat Truman.

                The “Lion of the Senate,” however, is pure B.S. Ted Kennedy has done not one whit of good for the people of this nation. His desk has always been BSC (Boondoggle Spending Central) -- oh sure, shallow people can see superficial results and claim “Kennedy was good for this . . or that . . ."  but in truth when analyzed carefully and accurately, Ted Kennedy was only good for Ted Kennedy’s re-elections, helping well-positioned friends and most assuredly for growing huge vats full of red ink for America’s demise. 

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

                 A new wave of bank failures is threatening the stability of economic recovery as the grim banking picture continues past its twenty-sixth month. The financial crisis brought down eighty-four banks so far in 2009, compared to twenty-five failures in 2008 and just three in 2007 and, with the possibility of runaway inflation thrown in, seems to be among the biggest threats to any full-fledged recovery in the nation. 

The number of failures within the first eight months of this year could lead to 2009  surpassing the bank failures in the early 1990’s at the peak of the savings and loan crisis (in the 1980’s and 90’s 745 S&Ls went under). Typically, banks are much, much bigger financial institutions than S&Ls and the crisis so far has seen the collapse of some very large banks such as Washington Mutual, Colonial, Guaranty Bank, Bank United FSB, and IndyMac.  Remember, Washington Mutual had $307 Billion in assets supposedly when the collapse came and then WaMu was sold to JP Morgan Chase for $1.9 Billion (bursting the bubble by a factor of 99.4%).

                The sad string of bank failures has sapped billions from the federal deposit insurance fund which recently stood at just $10.4 Billion, its lowest level since 1992. There is no comfort in the fact that analysts are predicting another 100 to 300 banks could fail before stabilization of the crisis occurs: 416 banks are on the FDIC’s “problem bank list” at present. The problem list stood at only 305 in March, 2009.  Failed banks are a tragedy and headache to depositors because recovery rates can range down to as low as 40 cents on the dollar and take eight or nine months before the depositor recovers his funds.

                The problem is that the original sub-prime lending crisis (the Clinton-era mortgage-guarantee Laws of 1998 forced banks to give mortgage loans to poor-risk clients: hence the phrase "sub-prime") has largely run its course, but the recession created by that crisis has created a monstrous crisis of its own for American business and especially the American construction industry. Large banks with large amounts of normally safe construction and development and business loans in their portfolio (and that includes a good two-thirds of all banks, large and small) could find themselves at serious risk of bankruptcy. Meanwhile smaller banks are still being brought down by a wide variety of other problems: at least 75 of the banks that have failed in 2009 held deposits less than $500 million. For the banking industry, unfortunately, with these recent commercial loan problems, the hits keep right on a-coming.

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

The Good:

Cutting edge technology revealed recently . . .    

. . . permits a wheel-chair controlled by brain waves to allow paraplegics, quadriplegics and other injured persons to retain mobility despite their debilities.  The Japanese invention is “just the first step” according to the inventors who foresee wide-ranging applications.

. . . may have finally conquered the congested urban roadways at an extremely cheap price. It’s called “E-Max,” a German produced plug-in electric scooter that travels 50-55 miles on a single charge of electricity and it’s virtually silent. Cost is $4,300 and it’s very efficient. In Singapore where the E-Max has been recently introduced, “green-lots” (parking lot wide designated electrical charging lots) have been built throughout the area to encourage ownership of the E-Max and other electric vehicles. 

. . . Brazillian scientists believe they’ve discovered a “miracle compound” in the saliva of ticks. Rats with tumors saw shrinkage within three weeks when treated with the tick spit. Better yet,  within six weeks tumors disappeared:  all without harming normal cells.

The Bad:

                A floating refuse expanse whirling about in a vortex formed by ocean currents in the north Pacific Ocean about a thousand miles from the California coastline now contains trash covering an area the size of Texas. To top matters off, the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” is only about one-fourth the size of its bigger brother located at another such vortex in the southern Pacific.  The Scripps Institute of Oceanography has recently begun monitoring it to see its effect upon marine life. 

The Ugly: 

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut               

                It’s a quagmire. Democratic business owners find themselves in a cross-fire.  If they go with their gut and support their liberal president, they, are in effect condoning the rapid shift to socialism and attack on capitalism, and their business and self-interests, which Obama’s leading. If they stand up for traditional American values and capitalism, they risk backlash from fanatics insisting only the strictest interpretation of the “party line” is valid.

                Senator Edward Kennedy was a champion of the left wing and that including feminism. Like Bill Clinton twenty-eight years later, Kennedy’s dalliances and cover-ups were never seriously questioned by the National Organization of Women (NOW) or individual feminists because Teddy was “one of the good guys” -- a backer of abortion on demand. The feminist blind eye toward Kennedy never was able to see the truth, that Kennedy was a coward, a drunk who used women. Even after Mary Jo Kopechne died as a result of a drunken Kennedy driving his car off a bridge and then leaving her to drown in seven foot of water, Ted was always their hero.  Kennedy could get away with murder in their eyes.

                Kennedy, perhaps because of his Catholic upbringing, was at first a pro-life advocate. However, when the liberal wing of his party turned virtually 100% for abortion on demand following Roe v. Wade, Kennedy changed almost immediately into a “feminist’s best friend” and no amount of philandering or drunkenness, not even the memory of poor Kopechne could ever dissuade feminists otherwise.

                So great was feminist support for Kennedy that long after Chappaquiddick when all hope for the oval office was long, long gone . . . more than any other group it was the feminists still leading the “Draft Ted Kennedy for President” movement every four years. A decadent legacy for Kennedy and for feminism . . . .

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

                Rajjpuut really appreciates the Rasmussen Reports. Their polls tend to be straight-forward and not assume anything . . . unlike a poll that shall go unnamed that asks people if they are conservative or liberal and for roughly seven years straight then gets the same ambiguous answers, because they don’t realize that there are many things to be conservative about or liberal about. Americans for roughly 17 consecutive years have, on the other hand, called themselves fiscal-conservatives favoring smaller less-invasive government consistently between 60% and 67% of the time. 

                In a nutshell, it’s the I-word: “invasive.”

                Republicans are regarded by a five-to-one margin as the intolerant, nosey and fussy, old-fashioned party.  Democrats, yes, tax-and-spend is applied to them; but Democrats are also seen as less interfering, less judgmental, more open to all individuals and and willing to change and grow. It’s the "I-word."  Republicans are seen as “invasive” of personal prerogatives.  Test it yourself, take around a clipboard and ask these two questions of every absolute stranger that you see in your local mall or shopping center.

Tell ‘em you’re taking a three-question political survey. Here’s what you ask?

                When you’ve talked to 100 Independents here’s what you’ll see. Independent Women by about 6/1 and Independent Men by about 4/1 will answer both questions "Republican-Republican" and give you the the 5/1 ratio Rajjpuut mentioned above. That’s why people who deeply value and assert Republican beliefs don’t vote Republican, because Republicans don’t practice what the name of the party says Republicans believe: in short, because too damn many Republicans have slipped into hypocrisy. This is the Dixiecrat legacy, what the Silent Majority honored by Nixon has done to the party, cut the G.O.P. off from what’s best and best-loved about themselves.

So what to do?   Create a party platform that honors only five things:

a.   Open-transparent-accountable-honest government

 b.  Low Taxes and smaller government (set about repealing most of the ugliness that Barak Obama has passed)

c.  Fiscal conservatism and non-interference with free markets

d.  Strong national defense

e.  Getting government’s foot off the neck of the people

                Mention nothing else: NOTHING! The response to any question is this: “the party stands on five issues and only five issues, those five issues are: 1. Etc.”) Ronald Reagan was just about the most popular and respected and effective president of the last sixty years. Reagan began his political life as a Democrat and came to Republicanism late. He was a union president before he became California Governor. Republicans need another Ronald Reagan and Republicans need to drop away all “litmus” tests and welcome anybody into the fold who wants those five things and only those five things.

Ya’ll live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

                The Rules of Kindness say, “If you can’t think of anything nice to say, then say nothing at all.” Rajjpuut is apparently NOT a kind person . . . The most important law in medicine which is ignored 95% of the time by modern so-called “doctors” is “First Do NO Harm!” That rule applies every bit as much to politicians as to medicians . . . if that is the standard by which Senator Edward Kennedy’s life is judged than he was a monumental failure for he did monumental harm. He was a driving force in more government spending boondoggles of larger proportion than any single liberal Democrat in history until Barak Obama.

                Within hours of now, a man who has already done far more harm even than the ineffective and dangerous Ted Kennedy . . . a man that Ted Kennedy “blessed” with his support for the presidency of the United States (Barak Obama) will speak eulogizing Ted Kennedy. Obama will surely make Chappaquiddick Teddy seem like a hero. Nothing could be further from the truth. There is a certain sense in which men like Hitler are preferably to men like Ted Kennedy and Barak Obama . . . no thinking person has any doubt about the evil of Adolf Hitler. Unfortunately, a lot of people do NOT think, or do not think well and Ted Kennedy is considered “The Lion of the Senate” and worshipped by such people.  More’s the pity. The poor foolish girl Mary Jo Kopechne probably did more good (with her untimely death) in preventing Teddy from becoming president than any 100,000 normal citizens might expect to accomplish in their combined lives.

                He was always great in spending other people’s money on his “compassionate” and expensive causes. The Democrats called him the “Lion of the Senate” and fiscal- conservatives considered him the world’s biggest pain in the rump.   In recent years, Senator Edward Kennedy’s most momentous decision was “blessing” the presidential aspirations of Barak Obama which the media saw as a “torch-passing” rite of passage from the most liberal senator of the old generation to the most liberal senator of the new one.  And now months later, even in death, Ted Kennedy “does the wrong thing” by giving the only American in history who’s done more harm than he's done, Barak Obama, a monstrous photo op. Bah, Humbug!

He might have been president but for that incident. It certainly haunted him all his days. When Kennedy tried to lead the anti-nuclear energy contingent, within a week, bumper stickers saying “More people died at Chappaquiddick then Three-Mile Island” were seen all over Washington, D.C.  Kennedy threw himself into a wide variety of liberal causes for the next 40 years after Chappaquiddick and probably played a huge role in more government spending boondoggles than any ten lesser liberals. Though not sorry to see him gone from his Senate seat, Rajjpuut understands that love is love (and not always rational, Thank God), and wishes his family consolation and God's love to help them deal with their loss.

Rajjpuut

                Let’s take a real life example: like all good stories we need a villain and indeed we’ll take two villains rolled up into one medicine: Lipitor, a.k.a. “atorvastatin.” Lipitor, like all statins,  is most famous today as a “cholesterol-reduction” medicine.   Lipitor was often used in the past to lower high blood pressure (more correctly called "hypertension”) and perhaps some doctors still use it that way today. 

                Lipitor is a statin, Rajjpuut elsewhere has documented that statins are the most profitable class of drugs ever created.  We’re talking hundreds of billions of dollars of profit for the drug companies. Rajjpuut  has also documented that statins’ popularity is based upon a 43-year old (or longer) lie that high cholesterol causes heart attacks. Since 53% of those who die from heart attacks do NOT have high cholesterol . . . in one phrase we can demolish any remote idea that a cause and effect relationship exists. High cholesterol does NOT cause heart attacks. Lipitor and other statins are expensive and carry with them some horrendous side effects. Here’s just one:

“Lipitor (atorvastatin) can cause a condition that results in the breakdown of skeletal muscle tissue. This condition can lead to kidney failure. Call your doctor at once if you have unexplained muscle pain or tenderness, muscle weakness, fever or flu symptoms, and dark colored urine.”

Since Lipitor does NOT do a great job of controlling high blood pressure and no statin is effective against heart attacks since their main benefit (????) is lowering cholesterol which does not reduce heart attack incidence; and since Lipitor is expensive and carries a whole array of dangerous or annoying side effects why should anyone ever use this damnable drug?

On the other hand: here’s, that Ol Health Educator, Rajjpuut’s simple, effective way to dramatically lower heart attack risk and high blood pressure, quickly and effectively with absolutely NO side effects . . .  the “trick” of it is something picked up from jet pilot trainers** which is now sold in a hand grip that costs about $320. Rajjpuut’s cheaper version actually delivers far better results . . . . 

How to dramatically and NATURALLY Reduce

Blood-Pressure in Three Weeks

By Rajjpuut http://rajjpuutsfolly.blogtownhall.com/

If you’ve recently had a physical and no serious health concerns but do have blood pressure higher than you’d really like or should have (if your health is otherwise see your doctor and talk about the program), try this simple proven program:

Commit to gentle aerobic exercise 30 minutes a day 4-6 days weekly

Eliminate fried foods and virtually all junk food

Eliminate smoking or at least reduce it greatly

Cut alcoholic drinking down to the equivalent of a six-pack a week

Get 6-8 hours sleep minimum nightly

Spend $7-$20 to buy a simple "V-shaped" grip strengthener  from any sporting goods store:  best is one that it takes a bit of effort (perhaps one and a half hands worth of pressure to “moderately-easily squeeze shut”

Every other day commit to the following 10-minute or so routine

1.  Squeeze full-strength for two seconds w the R hand pause 10-12 seconds

2. Repeat w L hand for two seconds then pause 10-12 seconds

3. Squeeze 30% strength for two full-minutes w R hand pause 1 min.

4. Repeat w L @ 30% for two full-minutes then pause 1 min.

5/6. Repeat steps 3-4 and you’re done.

Take BP once weekly to monitor progress . . . aim for 112/70 and a pulse under 76. Ideal?   Perhaps 104/58 with a pulse of 46 for a marathon runner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood-pressure

The obvious question is this, if this simple, more effective non-invasive technique is available for $7 to $20, why should anyone ever risk any drug intervention other than in emergencies?  Certainly life-long subscriptions to expensive dangerous drugs make no sense at all in many similar cases that the AMA and the doctors and the FDA and the drug companies are not wild about people learning.    There is a conflict of interest here and doctor's need to search their hearts and decide whether or not they're on the right side ethically.  95% of modern medicine is dangerously invasive, violating the key concept "First Do NO Harm," that sad fact needs to stop NOW!

Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,

Rajjpuut

**pilots would tend to lose consciousness in some steeply banked turns; so a system of “gripping” was developed to keep them from blacking out. A side-effect was that those with comparatively elevated blood pressures saw their BPs drop in a few weeks.

                Ol’ Rajjpuut is sure showing his naivete these days. Recently he learned that Disney, a name he’d always associated with “wholesome entertainment for the whole family” was into the slu t-creation business. It seems that of late, marketing real innocence has become not nearly so profitable as marketing virginal nymphs such as Miley Cyrus and then turning them into wanton tramps before the public’s unwary eyes. Cyrus received her recent notoriety for a partially clad pic in Vanity Fair and a more recent seductive pole-dancing scene. 

Hannah Montana, what’s happened to you? Apparently, young girls are not at all surprised by these “transformations” while Rajjpuut was almost shocked: “What do you expect, they’re Disney.” The last word actually semi-sneered from a pre-teen wise beyond her years.

The Cheetah Girls Adrienne Bailon’s reputation was apparently scandalized by a nude pic. Other girls from “High School Musical” are apparently not immune to nude photo-choppings and Britney Spears’ and Lindsay Lohan’s utter slu ttiness have been huge Disney moneymakers no doubt. So pervasive is this new wave of decadence from our once old trusted GP brand Disney that typing “Disney Slu t Factory” in your web browser you’ll get 322,000 hits. But with “Disney Skan k Factory,” you’ll get 1,510,000. Who knew?   Certainly the lifestyles and seeming lack of virtue that the Disney “Slu ts” are selling seems incongruous  when juxtaposed with the old corporate image during Walt Elias Disney's lifetime. I guess a little tawdriness is never harmful to the ol’ bottom line . . . Wow!

But what do parents, particularly mothers think of all this? Apparently, the fan clubs grow and grow and a few thousand angry letters from upset parents is not going to change anything. In fact the shocker is . . . today’s moms are largely not upset at all. Rajjpuut, doing some wanton editorializing here will blame it on “feminism” (not the women’s movement seeking a fair and square deal for women, but feminism) and that total-society transformational nightmare’s affect upon some of today’s females. As he so eloquently stated in a recent blog about the National Organization of Women (NOW):

       Should Rajjpuut add that problems that didn't exist before 1970 are NOW dominating the American scene?  Women NOW get lung cancer and heart attacks roughly as frequently as men;  are found in huge numbers NOW in jails and prisons and mental institutions;  women alcoholics and drug addicts are NOW quite common; and female suicides are also dramatically higher NOW.  NOW women see psychiatrists, psychologists and take drugs for depression far more often ever before.  Women are NOW roughly three times more likely to live below the poverty line than they were in 1955 and divorced and broken families are NOW quite common.  NOW Rajjpuut has to hand it to you.  Nice job, feminists!

                It’s very strange that women who make a point of male-bashing will dress their 7-8 year old girls up like tramps to attend elementary school . . . presumably the kids are dressed to attract men, sooner or later . . . none of it makes sense . . . .

Obama, who art in D.C.

Obvious is thy shame.

Thy will is done,

Unearthing thy hellish inflation

Tax even this day the food in our mouths

We excuse once again thy trespasses and thy debtors

Although you forgive not your debtors nor those who trespass against your falsehoods

And lead us NOT into the temptation to curse thee

But spare us thy evil encroachment onto the free markets

For thine are all the resources

All the power, all the glory

As forever the people have none