All The Presidential Candidates

I have updated to new blogger and switch to my Google password. My old password was more cleaver. Perhaps not as good as "Lonely Splicer" but those of you who know what that refers to have a hint of at least part of the old password. I hope to talk more about life in Bosc land and Pinewood Avenue and other environs back around twenty years ago, but not today. There is also more stuff about Mal Evans I'd like to talk about. Mal Evans is widely known as "The Beatles road manager" but he had at least something to do with both Sgt. Pepper and Magical Mystory Tour, evidence shows. If you're looking for a "guiding spiritual light" steering a lot of our Federation remarks, look no further. But we're not going to do that today either. We're going to splice together a few remarks already written down and "edit" when necessary. Here we go.

Randy Rhodes talked about the three Republican candidates. First there is senator depends. Randy says that John Mc Cain wears adult diapers. She said he was 72. I thought he was only 68. Those four years went fast. That’s a little old to be running for President for the first time. He’s flip flopped on the topics of Roe vs. Wade and also on the gay rights domestic partnerships issues. I’ve lost all respect for him. Ed Schultz nabbed him on his criticism of Donald Rumsfeld behind his back but then praises him to his face and before the right croud. Senator “happy pants” Juliani of course has had three wives and his fires wife turned out to be his cousin. It seems like he really has to juggle his women. Randy says it was Denkins that did some of the work of cleaning up the streets. Blacks aren’t going to like him when they find out his police civil rights record. What scares me about Juliani is I’m afraid Hillary will go easy on him because they’re both friends and from New York and “respect each other” and all that, and she might even let Juliani win because he’s the man. If Hillary didn’t like being dominated by a man she’d have divorced Bill long ago. Then we have Brownback, or whoever that is apparently a Christian fundamentalist. Then we have Mit Romney, who has flip flopped on the issues of abortion and on gay rights just like Mc Cain has. Mc Cain even changed his position during a commercial break on a TV program when his advisors got to him. Mormons still don’t poll that well at 57% top vote – worse than Jews, Blacks, or women. It seems Chuck Hagel is the only candidate worth voting for and he isn’t running yet.

Brittish are withdrawing fifteen thousand troops from Iraq or something like that. They are stationed in Bosera where it’s relatively safe so according to Bush, their withdrawal won’t detract from the Bush surge. As we said yesterday it looks like a near sure thing we’ll invade Iran even though their population is more Westernized than most mideast countries. If they go ahead with their “nuclear program” or any more deaths are tied to their weapons it looks like the Iranians are done for.

This is Tuesday February 20, 2007 and [sound of pigs frantically squeeling] in the year of the fire pig. Last night they were talking about the 150 fold increase in autism on Sixty Minutes. I guess it was Sunday. You should really take note of the symptom even a toddler displays. Last night they were saying on one of the sub stations that the diet industry is kind of bogus and that obeisity is overstated, and I agree with that. They’re just trying to define everybody as abnormally heavy. Then someone from AARP called me up for a brief survey but it must have run fifteen minutes. She said it was about half over when Glen came over with coffee. Had she told me the truth I probably would have hung up right then because it went on another ten minutes and perhaps longer. I was finding it hard to get the 58 stations last night. I watched “Prison Break” and “24”. Bill got up super early and I got up pretty early.

They sure had different veterans regulations when Dad was in the Military during WW II. Back then if you [sound of street drilling and police sirens] check for life. Today people are in the hospital at death’s door and they want back payments for “mistaken” combat pay or reenlistment bonuses return. And they often cut you off with no continuing medical coverage even after you’re release but still have your disability. One guy had half his brain missing from shrapnel from something and they checked his high school math records and told his wife, “Well, he was mentally retarded anyway” and the wife goes, “Then why did you take him?” I had Randy Rhodes on before and after four. We had ham and yams for dinner and I had seconds on ham and salad. Chocolate pudding. I went out to the bakery for a large coffee.

Thom Hartman likes to play these old tapes of speech. He played Franklin Roosevelt saying “We are not a warlike people; we do not covet one square inch of foreign land”. Well, maybe. He played Richard Nixon speaking at the Convention in the summer of 1968 being critical of LBJ creating the mess of the Viet Nam War. Yesterday he played Kennedy vs. Nixon and their differing approaches to the subject of segregation. Anybody from the past sounds like an egghead compared with today’s standards.

The LA Marithon will be run in a non circular path on March 4^th. for the first time. They will be going through Hollywood for the first time in years. A few years back they rerouted the trek so it didn’t get to Hollywood. This is the first time where it starts in one place, notably Universal Studios, and ends in another place, notably downtown. It should make it more interesting for the runners.

The New York Times was criticized by Thom Hartman today for its shoddy reporting and the same reporters who hyped the idea of a war in Iraq are now doing the same thing with Iran and hyping a war there. He says their editorials are OK but the reporting on the front pages comes from these same discredited “National Security Sources”. With the Wall St. Journal it’s just the opposite. They have developed outstand and innovating investigative reporting and have broken many key stories- - but their editorials are just too right wing. So says Thom Hartman.

The US is not accepting help from its enemies to attack countries we call neutral. Apparently the Mujah-hadeem and other terrorists groups from Pakistan who we now call our enemy are conducting terrorist raids against neutral Iran. Pakistan became our enemy when it began shielding Osama Bin Laden a few years back. Pakistan also did that train bombing in India a few months back causing much injury. It seems almost any excuse will do when it comes to reasons for attacking Iran.

John Mc Cain has now criticized George Bush’s global warming policies. This is an area where Mc Cain disagrees with the Adminestration- - and one he is campaigning on. Mc Cain also has little respect for the overall way the Iraq war has been fought.

George Bush last October signed a bill that was amended that gets rid of the Posse Cometidus laws that were enacted after the Civil War. This law made it illegal so that never again would the US military fire on innocent civilians in this country. Just last week Bush issued an executive order saying it was OK for the US military to fire on civilians. Every day we’re moving closer to a police state.

Brittany Speers now has decided she will indeed go to that drug rehabilitation center in Malibu, which she ditched out of yesterday. She fears she could lose custody of her two young sons to husband Kevin in court if she refuses. Interestingly the Orion Federation has now taken up Brittany’s cause, arguing in editorials on her behalf. Mal Evans came back into favor in the summer of 2004 after being out of favor for over a dozen years. There was some "project" that Mal was involved with but everybody at the Federation was keeping it a big secret.

People on the liberal side are against school vouchers and also “No Child Left Behind” calling the program a tool of the Testing industry. We need to have these standardized tests to get some kind of objective idea of what our kids are being taught, and also whether they are learning it. In terms of vouchers there is no law that says that economically needy families can’t use vouchers too to send their kids to a decent school and get them out of the rat trap of the public school system. This is a basic American right. I think there is nothing like market competition to get the other side to turn out a better product. It works with car manufactures domestic vs. foreign, and it also can be applied to private schools verses public education. We all end up winning.

Apparently the “secret” to liberal talk radio was learning from conservatives. The fairness doctrine went away and Rush Limbaugh came on in August 1988 and started a “Herd Mentality” and sponsors thought the only kind of talk radio there was was conservative talk radio. But the liberals in 2004 showed that if you had the right imaging and “station consistency” where all the liberals were also segregated into their own station, that liberal talk radio could work, too.

Vladimir Putin has been making overt threats against the United States in little three inch colums in the newspaper. We want to put our “Star Wars” defence missiles in places like Poland and the Check republic and Putin has been saying that if we do that he will guarantee that Russia delivers a “disperportionate response”. That is scarey and nobody is talking about it. Apparently the Russians have been “playing possum” with us since 1991 but it’s the same crowd still in power. That could turn out to be the most bogus lie of all time that Russian communism ended in December 1991. I’ve never figured out why Bush and Clinton have been nice to Putin.

In North Korea we cut some sort of a deal with them a week or so ago to take the pressure off as to “how we will respond”. Bush is criticized for “doing what Clinton did” to keep North Korea from being a pressing threat. I guess we need to make all the deals we can make now coming from a position of military weakness like we are.

Well this whole political candidate race is sure heating up. They’re calling it a “Rock Star” contest. People want to be on the plane with either Hillary or O Bama and they don’t care squat about the others such as Edwards. It said that it Joe Byden would go to fourteen percent it would be more significant than Edwards being at 18% because these days Edwards is considered yesterday’s candidate and what the media is waiting for is either the Black man or the White woman to “gain traction”. Of course both Obama and Hillary visited this area in the past few days and they showed Obama’s speech on station 4.4. What struck me about O Bama is that it seems like mostly empty rhetoric. He has all these platitudes but that’s all he says. He’s not forthcoming on substance. It’s a question of “Where’s the Beef?” Of course it’s believed Hillary will be vindictive against the right wing if she wins. Do we need a polarizing candidate like that? And Joe Byden is called “the Adult candidate”. He’s the one who asks “And then what?” with regards to our pulling out of Iraq. He wants to partition the country between Suni, Kurd and Shiite “just like it was in the Ottoman Empire before World War I”. It’s stated that Iraq’s constitution lacks all power to levi taxes in Iraq. It’s as though Larry Elder wrote the Iraqi constitution. They wanted some dream corporate state where they did not have any strong government leader who’s in control, and that’s just what they have. So really the groundwork was laid for the chaos of today the day we wrote the current Iraqi constitution for them. So that’s how things are.