The Randy Rhodes show was among the dullest she’s done. In this “National Enquirer” Day her show was a let down. She accused the academy awards of being dull. They were long. The awards ran three hours and fifty minutes ending at nine twenty. There were so many of those extra “bits”. I did learn one new piece of information from her. George Bush stage managed that “Mission accomplished” speech more than we thought. Now only did the Bush people lie about just who put up the signs, but they also manovered the ship into just the right position to catch the sun, and also to provide the illusion that they were way out at sea and not just outside San Diego. Randy says the men were anxious to get home and were a half mile away from their goal.
There is an archiologist’s report that they have found the graves and bones of Jesus, his mother and his wife, Mary Magdolane, and also their son, named Judah. As you know we have said Jesus had a natural daughter named Sarah, who went to the south of France in 42 AD when she was twelve. I think the line “This changes everything” is only true if the archiologist can properly document his findings. Of all the people they would possibly be what makes him think it’s Jesus Christ and family?
Well, Scudder and Shooter may be off the hook. A jury member of the Libby trial was kicked out. It was a 70 year old woman who openly admitted she read something about the case over the weekend and shared it with the others. The foreman ratted. But they aren’t replacing the juror now after four days of deliberation because they’d have to start over. Rush Limbaugh quite properly says the fact it’s taken the jury so long for a verdict on such an obvious case indicates the defence may just luck out in this one. If so it will surely be a gross miscarriage of justice. I would imagine it highly unlikely they’d re-try the case. Even if Libby is convicted the word is he won’t see any jail time, as he would if he were any other common criminal. That’s just the way things work.
There has been a lot of disturbing news today if any of it’s true. We are told they were going War Games last night where they were doing emergency mode drill at the White House of what emergency steps would be taken in case of a nuclear attack. But President Bush was AWOL. He was out riding his bicycle. (cue Queen song) But this isn’t the first time Bush has been out riding at the wrong time. In May 2005 there was a plane that violated Washington DC tightly regulated air space and was reported to be heading straight for the White House. But Bush was out bike riding and the aids who were with him decided it would be better not to interrupt the President on this matter. Would he do a Captain Queeg, “What’s going on?” startle response? Dick Chaney is either in Pakistan or Afghanistan. It’s roomered that he’s working out a deal with the Pakistanis to get permission to use their air space in case it’s needed in the coming invasion of Iran, that’s roomered to occur in April. That’s a disturbing thought. There is also talk that all of these detention centers that were built by Halliburten and are ready for use right now will be activated in case there is some sort of Nuclear or other terrorist attack on this country. As you know with the revocation of Posse Cometatus, the Military is now empowered to make war on civilians. It’s said at this point the American people, unlike Nazi Germany, will rebel because the light of liberty is not extinguished here as it was in Nazi Germany. I know there are all sorts of executive FEMA orders that could be activated at a moment’s notice. There is talk that Al Qaida that they are going to stage some offencive in the spring. One CIA guy who has talked to Al Qaida in Afghanistan has stated that they want to drop a nuclear bomb on us because “You people don’t take us seriously”. Al Qaida is frustrated but also amused because they claim we aren’t really at war with them and that all this Iraq activity is accomplishing nothing. Some other Army Chief of Staff has stated that we indeed don’t care about capturing Bin Laden or bringing him to justice for the crimes he has committed. This has always been a mystery to me why Bush doesn’t really care about Bin Laden. To further confuse matters it was stated that on January 19th. that the Iranian government made a dramatic peace overature to this country and the memo was sent to Dick Chaney who told everyone to ignore it. The memo stated that Iran is prepared to stop all aid to Hez Ballah and also to do what they can to promote peace between the Palistinians and Israel. Of course as you know Bush hasn’t been exactly neutral in this Civil War between Shiite and Suni, but has sided dramatically with the Sunis, and many say that Bush wants some other “incident” to occur so that he can complete his mission of turning America into a Prison state.
Thom Hartman brought up the subject of Jefferson and slavery today. This issue is relivant because we still have de facto and actual slavery in the world today. We buy computers with parts made in China where they have no freedom. We buy soccer balls made by the nimble hands of ten year olds in India. And we gladly import Mexican aliens to do our other work. Hartman says, “There isn’t an alien problem but an illegal employeer problem” stating again how corporations always want to keep the wage base down in America. He stated that slavery is an entrenched system and that Virginia in the 1706’s enacted punitive laws that make it difficult for owners to free slaves even if they want to without going bankrupt. Jefferson was land rich but money poor. Apparently if it could be proven Jefferson fathered Sally Hemmings that she would be taken away from his care and given first to a church group for two years (???) and then sold on the general slave market. Jefferson had hoped that slavery would be abolished in 1808 when the Constitution said we had to stop importing slaves into this country. Jefferson was appalled in a letter to an old friend writing as an old man in 1920 that the day Misori was admitted as a slave state was a dark one for the future of America, and spoke almost prophetically of the coming Civil War. Blacks are right. There really is “a system” that keeps blacks, poor laborers and women down. We need to bring back the sort of protective Terrifs we had in this country that served us well for two hundred years.
Well here we are folks still at the funny farm. You all know of what today is the anniversary of in 1990. On Monday February 26th. one evening I decided to go out to Stater Brothers to buy one of those big three quarts of Carlo Rossi white wine, which they stopped selling in 1997. I came home and drank some and then went out again cutting across the Highway, something I’m more likely to do when I’ve had a little. I noticed the crescent moon in the west. Since I don’t know who’s going to be reading this file I better give you the edited version and not the version in media snail mail letters. I guess you’ve heard they’re thinking of coming out with a “forever” stamp but otherwise they’re going to raise the first class postal rates to 42 cents. I turned and went down the “great white way” as I used to refer to it because in those days all those buildings were white and the roof was lighted interestingly. I went into Thrifty drug and bought [among other items] two rolls of Maxell tape, which I proceeded to record on. I remember recording “Eastern Boys and Western Girls” among other songs. There was one event particularly on my mind that I did commentary about. I wonder how Forest Gump would fare on a psychological profile test that asked him to evaluate the expression "- - but it's kind of like locking the barn door after the horse has been stolen." If you read snail letters sent to the media at this time I comented on how on tape I discussed [cue orchestra to come in loudly] It was also around this time that in Cypress computer lab I did the file "Nu-berth", deliberately misspelled to allude to a train sleeping car.]
This evening we had teriyaki chicken for dinner. I waited for seconds but then they started clearing away the dishes so I left. Actually I’m not sure it was chicken. It was kind of a dark reddish. It might have been rabbit or worse. I guess you’ve heard that North Korea may have solved their food problem because Germany bred these giant rabbits and N K immediately saw the possibilities. As I was down the street someone shouted out to me “Where are you going”. I said “What”. I heard them the first time but I wasn’t quite sure who was saying it it was so far away. I went and bought my Wild Horse at the store, the first I’ve had of that brand in some time. Gary appears outside as I come out. I’m a guy who doesn’t like to be tailed. (Perhaps it goes back to my Howard Richard days) Gary wanted me to sell him a cigarette. I went on to the bakery for my coffee. On the TV there was storm action around San Francisco before dinner.
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