Doing What You Have to Do

This file as you know is named after Sean Brady’s one time ex wife. Fortunately they’re better at serving food than they are at not lying to their husband.

Well, it would seem as if Randi Rhodes has pulled off a Mark Bove. As you know Pastor Mark Bove was fired because he took a stand and wouldn’t be pushed around by the church organization. After he was fired, due to the fact that he had a very loyal following, he had a new church up and running within ten days. In such case you are gambling when the stakes are high, but when you prevail the victory is that much sweeter. Randi Rhodes was fired by Air America when they tried to cram certain contractual restrictions down her throat, and I guess one of these was her right to leave at any time. Now she is with the Nova-M network, or whatever. The miracle is how she could line up all her old radio stations and sponsors when she was on Air America. We have missed her on the public air waves. We need someone like her to spell out the issues as they are and not pull any punches.

Well, people are still talking about a Clinton – Obama dream ticket. My psychic vibes tell me that isn’t going to happen, but of course I’ve been wrong before. It would seem now that Hillary is rebounding in the polls and many say she will now carry Pennsylvania by fifteen points. She is also slated to win in India but be beaten by Obama in North Caroline, whose primaries are the same day on May 6^th. Hopefully on that day we will know which one of the candidates has prevailed. You know, she is offering him the Vice Presidency. I’m wondering whether he shouldn’t just go ahead and take it because it’s unlikely he’ll ever be in a position like this again. I’m one of those people who is always shouting “Deal” on the “Deal or No Deal” program. Many people get pig headed and piss away their advantage. The thing is if the super-deligates do what everyone believes they’ll do and pick Hillary, then Hillary might not want Obama any more. At that point he’ll be a defeated also-ran. He should act now while he still has status. The thing is we still are a bigoted, narrow minded, even racist country. There are a lot of places like rural Pennsylvania out there. Remember: people don’t Think, they Feel. Experts and psychologists agree people don’t make political decisions based on rational study. Hillary for good or bad has tapped into the mind-set of the American public. If she wins two of the next three states she’ll claim a major victory.

In my personal life it looks like I’m not going to be getting any tax rebate this year because technically I’m not on Social Security. I can file on line, I suppose, and the worst the IRS can do is ignore me. There have been “things” where my credibility has suffered lately, including the spreading of a roomer that proved utterly without merit.

I like to blow up the TV picture in “At the Movies” so there is less darked out area. With Yahoo trailers you don’t get the running background commentary.

Sixty Minutes had two fascinating segments. If you believe them they have discovered a cure for cancer- - - Again. This is some Buck Rogers type invention involving home produced micro-waves arranged to zap the cancer. It might make you sterile but I have my doubts about the cancer. Apparently they inject metal into the cancer site, which is microscopic gold dust. I believe they call it nano-particles, or is it “nanites”, or is that a StarTrek show? Anyhow these “nanites” are sprinkled with cancer anti-bodies to help them seek out the DNA of the cancer cells anywhere in the body. When this gold dust settles into the cell (these particles are much smaller than blood cells) then the micro-wave is turned on and the metal expands and it zapps the cells. And all without side effects! Do you believe it? - - The other segment was on this Venezuelan youth orchestra. Apparently the local cure for delinquency and the way out of the slums is to start playing the violin at age four and practicing five hours a day before and after school and on Saturdays. Then you get really good and can play all this lovely music which has a refining effect on the soul. They have a lot of different trainer orchestras but the flag ship orchestra travels all around the world and is in the greatest of demand. On their last American tour they sold out Carnage Hall.

The problem between the Romulans and the Federation now centers largely around the newfound “raproshma” or whatever between the Romulan Empire and the Ionians. This is a group whom the Federation has positively loathed for three thousand years and in 2005 there were roomers that the Ionians were going to ally with another old nemesis, the Centaurians, to invade the Federation, the Romulans, Andromeda, and whoever else was in the way. If anything the Romulans deserve a medal for diffusing this bomb. People are still wondering what it is the Romulans gave them that would induce roomers that the Ionians were going to share their technology with the Romulans. We know of course that the Ionians grew disaffected pretty fast with the Centaurians and have left them pretty much to twist in the wind. It is speculated that if the Ionians pulled some Nepolianic stunt and went on the attack against everybody you’d have a World War II type situation where the tide would slowly but surely turn against them. At any rate certain things like Holiday celebrations on Sirius A the Federation suddenly finds “annoying” when they never used to before. We still don’t know how this will play out. We know like Japan and Germany, there has been a growth of a militarist movement in the Romulan Empire. They are tired of playing second fiddle to the Federation for fifteen hundred years. You’re thinking, “Gee, it’s too bad there isn’t a movie coming out”.