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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia: State Of The Union Is “A CHILDISH SPECTACLE”  Right On !

Let's get rid of it as did president Thomas Jefferson who discontinued it, calling it "a speech from the throne"  —"too monarchical!"

That's right, folks!
  From 1801 till 1934,  our founding fathers and including many other POTUS's,  refused to deliver the state of the union speech.   Not until Woodrow Wilson, did it start again.  Now,  what makes "Woodie" so interesting to me is that he was a southern born,  Princeton University Professor who was extremely pretentious and intellectually obtuse.
But even more interesting is the the fact that Wilson was completely the political creation of a Colonel House (Edward M. House 1858-1938),  who really ran the US government along with Wilson’s wife the last one to two years of Woodrow Wilson’s life . 

  The reason? 

  You won’t believe it!! 

  Woodrow Wilson was ostensibly running the country during the last two years of his presidency while he was in a COMA! 

I am not kidding.

  We had the first neurologically comatose president running the U.S., he was completely medically incapacitated…at least he had a legitimate excuse.

  But now, I can say from a  physician’s point of view [POV—movie jargon] that “WOODIE”  had a real medical reason not to show up even though he reinstated his the State of the Union. 

  However, back to Judge Scalia’s MOMENT OF TRUTH and WARNING to the AMERICA PUBLIC:

"The State of the Union has turned into a CHILDISH SPECTACLE [my emphasis].   I don’t want to be there to LEND DIGNITY TO IT."   Scalia said with a certain amount of MISCHIEF. 

“MISCHIEF” –is what we,  ordinary citizens call the "TRUTH". 

The justice as been there for a while now, so Scalia doesn’t go when a Democrat is president.  He stays when the president is Republican. 

In other words, this Italian Scholar,  firearm afficionado,  and "PURVEYOR OF THE TRUTH" is saying forgetta 'bout it!… We Americans are wasting our time and money watching childish play acting….just like Sandy Hook,  9/11,  Benghazi,  Fiscal Cliff  etc.

  So how did our great nation get into this farce of pomp and circumstance signifying less than nothing? From a  Historical [ a.k.a. HYSTERICAL] perspective the practice of the State of the Union arose from a simple ‘command’ given to the president in the Constitution of the United States:

  “He shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judged necessary and expedient”. 

  Article II, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution. 

While not required to deliver a speech,  every president since Woodrow Wilson has made at least one State of the Union speech delivered before a joint Congress. 

Before this time, most POTUS’s delivered the State of the Union as a WRITTEN REPORT!!!!
  Did you get that? A WRITTEN REPORT!!

  Now that’s American tome!! Unpretentious, Simple, Practical and non-intrusive. 

  So the COMMUNICATION between the POTUS and CONGRESS evolved thanks to the radio, television and the increasing SOCIOPATHY and NARCISSISM of our subsequent Presidents since “WOODIE” and especially FDR,  no slouch be he, in the  ‘WATCH ME FLOUT MYSELF DEPARTMENT”--- the written State of the Union message turned into a huge histrionic, monarchical Shakespearean drama with queens and royalty galore.   Ready made for our media sycophants,  ready to spout verbiage aplenty -- filled with platitudes-- vapid insights ---and contentious palaver. 

  Much Sturm und Drang signifying nothing! 

But "Ching, Ching” goes the TV  money machine providing another soap opera for all of us too busy to watch All My Children.

However, there was one recent President who refused to give a televised State of the Union speech.

  Can you guess whom? 

The same POTUS who singlehandedly created the only peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.

  And the only POTUS to fire over 4000 USELESS CIA HUMINT OPERATIVES. 

And the same POTUS who first introduced HUMAN RIGHTS into our foreign policy—eventually to become the key variable in taking down the Soviet Union. 

Yes,  I was a DAS under him,  but I also resigned over  his mishandling of the Iran Hostage Siege—not to be confused with Ben Affleck's “ARGO” [total boring entertainment and self –glorification of the INCOMPETENT CIA]. 

You got it, President Jimmy Carter! The Peanut Farmer, himself. 

Hey, folks, despite his many faults , he was never one to put on AIRS---at least not in public. But, I am open to being corrected. 

  Back to the Honorable Judge Scalia [by the way,  I don’t agree with all of his decisions,  if not most of them] but in this case, he goes onto to give us, American citizens,  an insightful perspective in terms of our new MONARCH or EMPEROR OBAMUS and his centurion parasites. 

Scalia continues:

  “I didn’t set this…… 

[ [sic]his talk at the Smithsonian Associates sponsored by NPR Nina Totenberg—go NINA!!!] 

 …up tonight to UPSTAGE THE PRESIDENT, ‘Scalia said, “The State of the Union is NOT SOMETHING I mark on my calendar,  like EASTER AND YOM KIPPUR” .

Now, this is my kind of American –celebrates our Judeo/Christian Heritage …. he asks for forgiveness in the synagogue while he eats the wafer in church.  

Scalia said, “The justices in attendance inevitably keep their eyes on their Chief Justice, who decides when it is appropriate to applaud.”

Scalia continues, "If the President of the United States says that the United States is a great country,  the judges clap away.  But no justice can clap, “if it’s anything anybody CAN DISAGREE WITH.”

  So what do we have here in the Supreme Court, ladies and gentlemen? 

  In effect what Scalia is implying is that we have trained monkeys dressed in black robes making constitutional decisions on cue and on demand.

  Hey, what can you tell me now? 

  That the President is just a CIA stooge? 

  Are you going to tell me that our CIA is running the country according to the Irish/American ethos of ethanol and Roman catholic Sodomy/pedophilia?

Are you going to tell me next that the USA Patriot Act which is nobly entitled, “THE PATRIOT ACT” which will in fact  give the federal government full power to take away all your individual liberties?  Please thank,  George Tenet,  James Clapper,  Michael Hayden,  John Brennan  and others in the WH and DOJ!!!!

  Are you going to tell me that congress is the real estate extension of our legislative bordello called the K-Street whorehouse of special interests? 

Are you going to tell me that such honorable and stately senators like Max Baucus [D-Montana] and Orrin Hatch [R-Utah] would insert a costly,  dangerous provision to literally subsidize "Amgen" and "Genentech",  two antiquated, dangerous genomic disasters with over five hundred million dollars of our tax payer's money because each of our “HONEST” REPS received major donations from both Genentech and Amgen—while their products ‘literally kill’ cancer patients. 

Sidenote:Believe me that I know a lot about these two companies since their respective inceptions and ‘fairy tale’ accomplishments’ Ask Sally Fields about “Boniva’ and how she and Genentech were threatened by me to discontinue their dangerous so-called ‘osteoporosis therapy’ ads.  But that's another blog.

 

Please don’t tell me that our great REPUBLIC is dying while the EMPEROR and his COURTIERS are playing out the last mazurkas of our times [sorry for the mixed metaphor, but I like Chopin].  

  Rome is burning and Emperor is concerned about his LEGACY!!

  From my humble point of view,  he has less than a nil legacy.  In other words, he has done ZIP!  and will continue to do zip!

But in the world of BULLSHITSKI-----he is up there in direct competition with Bill Clinton and his corpulent avatar, Hillary.   A close second of course,  is the war criminal Dick Cheney with his side kick Bush Jr. 

What we don’t know and will not know is the following…..

How long will we, the ordinary hard-working citizens, [including eleven million of us veterans who also fought in wars that were ersatz and completely unnecessary] of every day America, be willing to continue to put up with the FARCE that we call the federal government and its presidency?

I feel like Howard Beale in Network (1976- screen play Paddy Chayefsky) "I want you to go to the window, open it, stick your head out and yell: I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

The truth is that I can’t be correct and at the same time our government can’t continue their CHARADE as an effective REPUBLIC. 

One of us, has to be wrong!!!
It’s for you, my dear readers to decide!!!
Good Luck!!!

P.S  btw POTUS---from now on,  just put the state of the union speech in an email and send it to everyone,  then we can hit the delete button.