The Final Disappointment

You know in that Peggy Lee song, “Is that all there is” after relating all her woes and tribulations of life she goes, “Well if that’s the way she feels about it, why doesn’t she just end it all?” and she goes, “Oh no. Not for me. I’m not ready for that final disappointment.” This morning I would like to announce a death. The death of the Democratic Party. Death came in the early evening hours of last night in New Hampshire during the debate. We’re all familiar with the sense of betrayal we felt when the democratic congress legitimized all of Bush’s abuses that he deserved to be impeached for last July. Yesterday the democrats passed a War resolution giving the President permission to go to war in Iran. Sometimes a patient will display disturbing symptoms but you’re thinking “Well this isn’t major. We’ve got years and years to work out the problem”. Then last night all three democratic candidates deliver the death knell. All three of them announce there will be no reductions you can count on in Iraq and as far as they are all concerned you might as well have George Bush as Presidents because there will be lots and lots of troops still in Iraq in January of 2013. Not only this but now these democrats have advanced to a level of necrosis of “Not saying anything that could be used against them in the general election”. Apparently they are worried because Gepheart and Howard Dean took pot shots at each other in the Primary campaign of 2004. That was so long ago I don’t even remember. And of course Mr. milk toast John Kerry came out the victor. If that had happened in 1960, Stewart Symington would have been the Presidential nominee and Nixon would have won that election, because Symington being the “safe candidate” would have failed to go after Nixon with the vigor that Kennedy did. Clearly the democratic party has delivered the final betrayal and it’s now time for liberals to form a new party that will speak for their interests.

There is one thing about death in that it is a final chapter in the relationships to all the lives the decedant touched. People who knew him might say “Well, there were issues in his personality that he needs to work out”. But there comes a moment when time runs out. You go into the hospital room and are told that the decedant has passed. You go over to the bed and feel the corpse. He still feels warm. Perhaps there is hope. You try to make sense of that expression on his face, one of apprehension mixed with puzzlement. You wonder what “facial expression” the Democratic Party is frozen in. You remember Harry Truman’s words about Kennedy. “It isn’t the Pope, it’s the pop that bothers me”. In the end Joseph Kennedy had virtually no input on the new administration. Sometimes with either a loved one or a passing acquaintance there is a chemical substance abuse problem that has never successfully been dealt with. I guess with the Democrats it’s a “fear of not fitting in” or “not being patriotic enough” so you do things to get your “fox” of patriotism, so you “feel good”. The Democratic Party is addicted to Not Rocking the Boat.

They say that the decedant died of a secondary infection, caused by an attempted cure for a primary infection, that was caused directly by the hospital and had absolutely nothing to do with why the patient was brought in to begin with. I guess the question with the Democratic Party is, “Who do we sue for their death?” Would a million dollars suffice? The concencus is not to sue at all. It doesn’t even enter into people’s minds that the Democratic Party was killed by anything. I guess the party will go on in sort of a phantom existence who, in Sylvia Browne’s terms, “Doesn’t realize that they are dead”. For me, to vote for something merely because it has the label of “Democrat” on it, is henceforth, meaningless. I think the idea of having a nomination locked up for either party locked up by the September the year before the election and one primary vote has been counted is more than absurd. It’s time to take another look at Ralph Nader.

According to segments of the debate played on the Thom Hartman program, John Edwards wants to end combat missions in Iraq. Good for him. The great phantom fear is that somehow if we leave will "leave the field to the enemy" and the specter of genocide is raised, but just who against whom is unclear. We are not against supporting Sunnis who attacks Shiites if they are from Saudi Arabia, and yet we pillery Iran for "daring to get involved" in this war. Now we are going to start a war in Iran that will spread to Syria and perhaps even involve the Palestinians in some sort of an Armageddon scenario that even Chuck Smith's fanticies could not bring about, but which George Bush's machinations put us in danger of.

The democrats and republicans, as one person put it, “Are two wings of the same political party, the War party”. Yet you’re willing to throw objectivity out the window. We’ve all heard President Bush say, “Bin Laden, I don’t know where Bin Laden is. I don’t think about that”. We learn that just last month our troops again had a chance to capture Bin Laden and once again he slipped through our fingers. It’s a complaint made by men against woman that “They won’t want to Solve their problems, they just want to roomanate about their problems and say the same things, over, and over and over”. Such is this “perpetual state of war” that Larry Elder gets so giddy over. Most people see a “State of War” as a necessary evil, and as a state they hope not to be in all that long. But for the Bush – and future Clinton administration, War is not seen as a means to an end but as an end in itself. In this state certain pet corporations cam maximize their profits, as we slash civil rights at home. I guess even the Supreme Court is behind the time. They are actually starting to strike down parts of the Patriot Act. Good for them. The trouble is, if the Patriot act were up for a vote of this democratic congress, they, unlike our Courts, would reaffirm every bit of it.

We have in a sense been at War with Iran since the 1979 hostage crisis. Today the Keil – Mc Cain amendment passed, which strengthens the sanctions against Iran and calls their whole army mere terrorists. There was also a military action provision, so we have a duplicate of the October 2002 weapons of mass destruction resolution. Now we are officially sanctioned to make war in Iran. It does not look good. The thing is that Iran is three times the size of Iraq both in terms of land mass and in population. Clearly the democrats of the Senate are acting more and like republicans with each passing day. There was a concencus that any attack on Iran by our President would be political suicide. But it’s just a question of “preparing the public” psychologically for it.

Bush vetoed some children’s aid bill because the democrats didn’t word it right. But Bush said that he wanted “No child left behind” supported, and I am inclined to agree that we should give the President what he wants in this educational area.

The judge in the Phil Specter trial was threatened, which is a felony with a three year sentence if convicted. The perpetrator tried to perhaps allude that Phil’s wife was behind this action. Meanwhile the jury is still nowhere a decision in the case, which has gone on way more than any case I can remember in my lifetime. Now they want to see a replay of some video tape evidence and will be meeting in court at one thirty.

I called [name withheld] early this morning asking about the funeral. Apparently it’s going to be at [name withheld] house because the ashes won’t be delivered till Friday or Saturday. They say we can’t meet at the cemetery because “it’s too big there”, whatever that means.

Last night it was the usual stuff on TV. I watched “Bones” at eight and had trouble following the plot. About eighty thirty I booted the computer and looked at the “Campus” file again, thinking of changing it some more, but I gave up on that idea. That file has certain fundamental flaws and has had since creation that are too problematical to remedy. I slept well last night but one time when I woke up I was thinking, “What if yesterday never happened?” I talked with Dave Praither about it before breakfast.

Some vandal attacked the Crystal Cathedral yesterday. He carved in the same cryptic inscription in glass, in metal, and even in granite and they said damage would amount to $40,000. The guy had no respect for a house of God.

Now they are saying if you eat meat you can’t be an environmentalist. If that’s the case then cross me off the list because their logic was silly. They said it does more damage to the Earth to raise animals and eat meat than the entire transportation system of the whole world contains. They kept referring to “factory farms”.

Now it’s soap time. Andre has pretty successfully been calling all the shots but now that Stephano may come out against his nephew, perhaps there’s hope. If Andre will threaten Elvis’s life I guess Stephano regards him as dangerous.

This is at six. For dinner we had chicken patties and not the scheduled “oven baked chicken” but with scalloped potatoes. I had seconds. I went to the bakery after five thirty for my coffee and was just watching TV before this. Sylvia Browne was on Montell Williams and it was a rerun. She says in twenty years we’ll be talking to dead people just like talking to anybody else. Marcus implied that he had heard some sort of roomer about me. Nobody ever came in here to clean. The weather warmed up.

The Phil Specter trial ended in a hung jury. They polled all twelve jurors and they all agreed continued debate was pointless. They had taken six votes just today. The vote each time was ten to two for conviction, as three votes got swayed. They only spent 44 hours deliberating in the two weeks and two days it took. The D A plans to re-file charges. The topic was discussed on the Johnny Wendell show.

George Bush was giving a speech at the U N before breakfast but after breakfast Bill had his TV on and I got fed up with about ten commercials in a row, and this isn’t the first time I’ve just seen him watch them. I turned on my set but Bush was no longer on. For breakfast we had Cheerios and hashed browns and fried eggs. Bush was talking about a monk protest uprising in Burma. Last night I heard about Burma on the news and apparently there’s been nineteen years of repression that people are just beginning to react to. He also talked about Zimbabwe and also Sudan and the genocide at Darfore going on there. He also talked about all the educational help we’ve given to children.

Yesterday I had Randy Rhodes on at noon and watched the soap opera yesterday and today at one. Now Stephano has re-emerged and is talking peace. I switched to station 4.4 at two o clock and they were having President Amedinajab of Iran. This guy really has the hootzbah. He just stands there and takes insult after insult that is heaped upon him by his Columbia University host. That’s Dennis Prager’s alma-mater and perhaps they have some conservative bent. I would have walked off the state myself because I would have seen anything I said given the poisoned atmosphere as pointless. Nonetheless the Iranian President made a stab at it and got metaphysical and talked about God and Science and revealed knowledge and spiritual matters being superior to the physical. He alluded to the Mormonesque doctrine of the Priesthood of Adam and how Adam was superior to the Angels. He either reminded me of St. Thomas Aquinas or else Ron Hubbard. He also talked about the hypocricy of the United States. But they cut the thing off when it came time for questions and the same thing happened on the rerun today. Are those people capable of even asking a QUESTION that isn’t some sort of mindless diatribe? After this I went out for that Coke. Then I tuned in Montell Williams where they talked about this woman back-packer who survived a sixty foot drop and dragged her now paralyzed body in an effort to “survive”.

Mark Germain is flaky, like a crescent roll or something. I thought he wanted to discuss President Amebinajab but instead the conversation degenerated into a debate between himself and his lady producer about “Can you speak out against the President here and get away with it?” In actual fact you can’t if you’re perceived as a threat and there have been so many examples of government intimidation and hammer-downs I don’t want to go into them. It will be people like Mark Germain yapping away when the authorities come to take him away and he won’t know what hit him. We know they listen and they keep records and the IRS and other agencies monitor and harass you and make your life miserable if you go against them. The Federation has never liked “Mr. K” as he is known, and yesterday did not improve his standing with the Orion Federation.