Walnut Retirement village
where we have nuts, and ad have walls
We have walls to keep the nuts from escaping
especially that rare Mc Cain nut, that
grows wild in the Arixona desert
What the political parties put on now is really not a convention but an extravaganza for public consumption. It used to be at a convention they'd do certain things on Mondays like settle deligate seating disputes by the credentials committee and they'd have fights and votes on this. Then there would be a wrangle about the rules committee. Lastly they would have a keynote speech where the party out of power would take apart the current adminestration and catalogue all the weakness of the past four or eight years. What we see now in this "family" ephasis and human needs is something different. I guess the time is here where as Dylan says "You better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone" because the tide of change is coming whether we want it or not. The powers that Be are intent on turning this country into another Sweeden or something with cradle to grave care and welfare, education through graduate school paid for and all health care is paid for. This is a vision of America they are right in saying that many on the left have been clammoring for for a long time. I guess we'd better haul out Ted Kennedy's 1980 speech at the Democratic convention because it would seem that the Dreams in that speech- - some would say- nightmares- are fast upon us where there is no distinction between gay and straight any more and children are placed in day care ag six months and left there.
Of course growing up Republican is no picnic. I'll grant you that. Randi Rhodes likes to talk about the "fettid womb of Barbra Bush". She is such a cold and intimidating individual, I can't imagine growing up with a woman like her as a mother. Of course her kids had psychological problems. And if Randi is right they didn't even attend the funeral of their daughter who died in 1953. I often wonder what this does to a sibling seeing parents who don't care about the loss of one of their own. If I were the democrats I would have taken on the personality of George W Bush and done a full psychological analysis. Tom Hartman and others have done an excellent job about cataloging what is wrong with the mind set of our current President. Rather than talk about the Hillary fans who are voting for Mc Cain now, perhaps we should do a psychological profile of the registered republicans who are leaning tword Obama this time around.
What's supposed to happen on Tuesday in a "Classic convention" is a fight over the Party platform and votes on whether to include or omit various planks. Then on Wednesdays traditionally they'd put a lot of candidates in nomination. And that would be the time for any personal acolades on various candidates. It seems to me a bit premature for them to so idolize Obama ahead of time before ANY candidate's name has yet been placed in nomination. Were this parliamentry procedure I'd rule them out of order. Hillary is certainly as entitled as any other candidate, and perhaps more so, to have her moment in the sun. Depending on how you tally the figures she won the popular vote. It would to my way of thinking to say "You people should have chosen me" would not at all be out of order. She should say what she feels. Now is the time for it. Of course it used to be they had the plodium in the center of the hall, and you would be very conscious that there were deligations there. And in the old days people from the floor would be giving speeches. Also in the old days if you were pledged to a candidate because of a primary vote, you would be breaking the law if you voted for someone else on the first ballot. I think perhaps we should bring back that rule and let us see what happens.
This is after eight and they are still doing post commentary on KCET. I checked in with CNN this morning. There was no action in the hall then but Obama was giving a speech to locals on another channel. At two I had Randy Rhodes on as usual and they called snacks at 2:15 and I had two cups of coffee. I turned on CNN again, and I’m trying to straighten out the chronology. OK the first time it was that lady officiating the election of Nancy Palosi as convention chair-person and voting on the rules. . Montel Williams had this little girl who had been mauled in a car crash with her mother riding bikes. Apparently the little girl was dragged under the car. I commented about it to the housekeeper who was here, though I’m not sure how much English she understands. Then I turned on Rachael Maddau. Apparently they simocast with MSNBC or something. It was Eye Witness at four. I ran out of cigarettes smoking my last one at 3:20 or so.
Then I dialed up CNN again. It was Nancy Palosi speaking, answering questions from people. They would occasionally have these little story bios of people who’d gotten involved in the Obama campaign. Then they had Hurricane Katrina and then Jimmy Carter spoke. Apparently the rift between Jimmy Carter and Ted Kennedy has never healed, even though he and Ford are good friends. Spike Lee was spotted in the audience milling around. Then Obama’s sister spoke. Then Jesse Jackson Jr. spoke, and then they played funky soul music. Unlike most convention halls all the chairs appeared to be facing the same direction and they didn’t have the usual center pulpit.
After six I switched to KCET. I know the regular networks talk your head off and weren’t even on yet. The Ted Kennedy tribute was the heart of the six o clock hour. First Caroline Kennedy spoke talking how “Everybody loves Uncle Teddy” and then they played the film talking about sailing with the kids. And then they introduced Ted Kennedy himself. He has become the elder statesman of the party and they said 1980 was a turning point because Teddy realized after this he would never be President but instead took the rout of Southern Democratic senators of yester-year, who knew they would never be President because they were from the South, and so threw themselves into acquiring power in Congress. At seven the focus was on Michelle Obama. First her mother dictated a documentary on her. Then Michelle’s brother came out and spoke some very illuminating words. Michelle herself did not exactly give a complete biography of Obama but instead talked of his work in
Marsha came by at seven and gave me the two cigarettes she owed me and then Bill gave me the two cigarettes he owed me, so I suddenly felt rich.
The dietician was by and they did not have drinks on the table yet, to get our attention. I complained about overcooked broccoli. What they should do is take votes with each suggestions by a show of hands, “How many others here feel the same way?” Lunch wasn’t much and concluded with cantaloupe. I had Randy Rhodes on at noon and dozed during the noon hour. In soap land Marlena is clear the effects of the poison that Stephano gave her, and John Black appears to be falling in love with her all over again. Nick has now met Melody and they went to the holding cell of Max and Stephanie. Max overlooks the faults of his newly found sister saying, “I know there is good in her”. And there was an allusion to some “secret” the father did not want them (?) to share.
And now another "Jesus Moment"
Jesus had proved himself very adept in
circumnating the major Biblical Truthes of Scripture
Joel Olsteen yesterday morning had God’s surprises as his topic, and I’d really like a surprise, if it were positive. A lady was talking to Jesus on KFI about how her life fell apart when she became a Christian. Jesus used the absurd rationalization on her that “she was on novacaine and the novacaine was “wearing off” and now she was feeling the true pain of life. Someone else talked about messages from God. Jesus like so many others seems to believe “When in doubt, assume God isn’t speaking to you”. These people love to talk about how “scripture never contradicts itself” and yet there is not one line in scripture about prophecy “coming to an end in the church” or the gifts being recinded. They speak of the cannon of scripture as something nobody in the Bible had, and so they need God. Yet at other times they will say to not quote scripture
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