THE TEA PARTY MARINE AND THE PRESIDENT CONTINUED AND EXISTENTIAL COMPLAINTS. The internet is circulating this composition as President Obama's words: "Because I was kind you thought I was a lamb; because you went too far you will see I am a lion, And I will rise" which, in a world shaped by the mythology of hagiographic absolute monarchs one worse than the other still strikes a key in some who confuse rules of order with a belittling patronizing kindness and the power concerns of a man compared to a rampant limb mauling animal with justice. Kind of a jeremiad, all to say you thought I was weak, but I'm strong and I'll rise above, even though for a man who is the president of the United States where is there to go? This trend is not surprising since the Bush presidency photographs had their subject illuminated by behind, and included even Clinton,perhaps less heroically, who as a Democratic centrist thought for Republicans by believing with Justice Ginsburg that it's a tough deal for "us" to pay for those without health insurance,economic disparity be damned, by seeing foreign aid as a good platform for future business opportunities, which in itself is not inherently bad, by trying to privatize social security but failing because it brought an unproar, and who as one of the richest presidents we have ever had (Kennedy being another; all self made) narrates how he like all those who know how to accrue capital was in debt at the end of the presidency. This did not impede an attempt to impeach him for sexual impropriety by a team of Republicans who, as a party, said absolutely nothing when the first President Bush had been discovered having an affair at the end of his presidency, why is anybody's guess since now both he and George Bush the second head a charity to bring aid to Haiti. He did much good as well; is working to help people with AIDS and to improve the living conditions of people in Africa, creating extra income that helps educate children. Perhaps if he had been more of a president with New Deal plans in times of less Republican opposition than today, more would have been done. But Hillary Clinton did have a plan for universal health care and that failed, criticized by car stickers as being socialist. So centrist it was, and centrist is what Barack Obama is, promising not to bow down to the right wing inspired individual mandate, then ceding, only to have the same conservatives claim it anti constitutional and universal healthcare an affront to American freedom. Same process in promising not to build the XL pipeline one day, then the next inaugurating its southern states construction. So with this whole new debacle involving the Free Speech rights being sustained by the ACLU for a political thought that sustains discrimination in its ideology, isn't it truly "bipartisan" if you coalesce further power to the presidency by legitimizing the Tea Party constitutionally while also scaring away Democrats from satirists with Darrell Issa? And allowing for the lives of marines to be endangered by a Californian Republican claiming that all marines think alike in a case involving the burning of the korans? And, as an aside, why do emails requesting set amounts to contribute to President Obama and not only vary in amount, seemingly depending on the income of the recipient? Isn't that too much information to have? And who else is doing what with that information, if it's so readily available, information which may amuse giggling social calvinists doing God's work by impoverishing the wretched, so as to have a repository of convenient help Columbus for one exploited, as long as it is not those directly involved, because the draw to get something for nothing until there's nothing left because it isn't you is a powerful lure from which no group has ever been exempt, and after all, isn't you builds the complicitness needed for exploitation. Interesting days, these. Things have been getting on my nerves. By coincidence, the day of the Supreme Court decision to body search, I was stared at by a cop in a bad mood as I ate my meal, this as he went back to his car not the same way he had taken in, for whatever reason. I'm sure he thought of mixing business with his own lunch break, as overdiligence allows. Crime, after all, lurks everywhere. I can't wait until they declare eating a hamburger by someone they don't like a felony, with the full blessing of the Supreme Court, who instead of being concerned with how universal health care will affect us the people, mostly asked questions on whether the expenses would be too elevated for the Health Insurance companies. It'll be a ground breaking decision, based on the one instance a man who flung his patty on the ground and stepped on it kidnapped and serially stabbed loaves of bread from supermarkets at a later date. And for that matter, when I was in the same general area where Occupy Wall Street took place, I was asked by a chatting stranger if I had been around "those parts", gesticulating toward the general direction of Zuccotti Park. The person seemed unconnected to them, vaguely unsympathetic, and the place I was in had nothing to do with Occupy, but there you have it. Never hurts to ask out of the blue. Or for that matter,lately everybody's in a state. I recently went to bookstores where the staff suddenly finds something to do in the area you're in, and shouts they're walking by, or looks at you with hostility, with you left wondering what exactly it is you did to elicit such a response besides browse, when other areas depleted of customers would beckon their restocking as mine would the courtesy of waiting until I moved on out of the way. This at the Barnes and Noble on 18th and Fifth, which also cut its return time in half of what it usually is: no longer 14 days, now seven.Tomorrow just about fifteen minutes. And at Saint Marks Bookstore.So I usually make their jobs easier for them and leave the store to allow them to cherish the customers they deserve.