"It is proved already that you are little better than false knaves." (Much Ado)

.....I simply cannot believe that I've taken to writing blogs again, albeit not quite too often. It seems that whenever a thought comes into my head, albeit not quite too often I have to write it down and pound it to death. Right now it involves health care. From the time I had surgery on my leg on June 15 right up until this day I have had the very best of health care...the kind of care I believe every person, because they are human, needs and deserves, and not only in this country. We don't have it here....in the most powerful and wealthiest State in the world. I cannot make myself abide by the reasons given for not accomplishing this...at least here--here in America, and not turned down by a sign waving mob. Not having every one of our citizens covered is not moral, and as Obama has said, "not in our country's character."

.....Today I received a comment about my "invective" against a rowdy, disrespectful, racist filled mob of ignoramuses, who came--not for a protest--but for a lynching. Perhaps she had a "hard time" reading my blog, because she was born in 1950 and I in 1924. She never had the luxury of experiencing the kind of America I fought for...and this is not it. Not when some hate-filled Senator from South Carolina, no matter his party, can get up in the Congressional chamber and shout at the President of the United States, "You lie!" when he didn't. I know what was not said by him--"You lie, boy!" This guy, I learned, belonged to the Sons of Confederate Veterans and conducted a campaign to keep the Confederate flag atop South Carolina's state Capitol in 2000. In this morning's paper, Mareen Dowd of the NY Times said that she believed "....the frantic efforts to paint our first black president as the Other; a foreigner, socialist, fascist, Marxist, racist, Commie, Nazi; a cad who would snuff out old people; a snake who would indoctrinate kids" has much to do with race. And so do I believe it.

.....The commenter was not there, as I was, when I listened to Martin Luther King's words that still ring in my ears. She may not have read as I did that one GOP activist said a gorilla that had escaped from a zoo was one of Michelle's ancestors. Dowd goes on to say, "Some people just can't believe a black man is president and will never accept it. For two centuries the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the Feds. In Obama they have both." I believe the reason for the "Tea Party" in DC was to bring down the health plan, and thus the President. Just check out the sponsors. The Baron, too, as is the commenter, a true believer in free speech, but that does not mean one should say anything at all or do anything at all in the name of free speech. There has to be a line. Shouting "You lie" at the President during a speech in our Congress crosses that line. Give me a break.

.....I think I'll go along now with the Platonic idea that only philosopher kings should run a country. Now, if we change our form of government so that only the nobility would reign, the Baron would have a chance to make the laws as he sees fit. And the first law he would make would be to have Hershey's make only dark chocolate. It's healthier and would bring down the cost of health care.