The United States used to be noted for certain things over the past decades and longer that it is not noted for now. We used to be associated with the Statue of Liberty for one thing. Symbols are important in America. We we believed in extending open arms to immigrents, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be Free" and all of that. We believed in Freedom from opperessive governments and state enforced religious and doctrinal systems imposed by other countries. J Edger Hoover gets a bad rap for a lot of things but basically he kept the FBI on a high moral plane - in the whole spectrum of "Morality". He wasn't going to run any outfit that had the corruption and favoritism of local big city Police Departments did, even under Chief Parker here in LA even. And the FBI did investigate the KKK. They didn't turn a blind eye to civil rights. You knew they were an agency that would look at all of the evidence. The thing that sunk Nixon was getting on the phone and telling the FBI to call off the Watergate investigation. Today we can't trust law enforcement. Growing up there was no conception of granting Amnesty to crooked politicians - - like Nixon was granted by Ford. Even in the fifties President Eisenhour was active in school desegragation. Of course back then we had a President that looked ahead. He saw we were falling behind in our Space technology to the Russians and he and Kennedy decided to do something about it. There were the Interstate Highway programs and things like the St. Lawerence Sea Way in Canada. As a nation we viewed Senators like Joe Mc Carthy as unhealthy for this country and got rid of them. It's the sign of a healthy organism when it's able to expell poisons to the system quickly. People looked to America as an industrial production power house. They yearned to have our sense of free spirit economic inovation. They knew that Made in America meant something. Nobody complained about taxes. They didn't whine and if the economy should slow down for a moment nobody said it was from taxes being too high. Congress well into the 'eighties was known for passing progressive bills that granted new rights to people, rather than trying to eliminate them. We had a media that actually sought out the Truth in a new event, and we had real reporters back them. The news departments were not seen as "money making opperations". Money was considered cheap and dirty. We didn't have all this desperation lottery stuff back them. We believed in conservation and had for a hundred years, since at least Teddy Roosevelt - - and were opening up new National Parks, and not closing them down, as Jerry Brown is doing. Back then the idea of being a college graduate with a BA was a thing of honor to be strived for because it guarenteed you a better income all your life. Back then the academic bar was continually being raised and test scores were on the rise. Today we see the opposite. The Republican party itself had many progressives in it. People believed in a better and brighter future with untold possabilities. Nobody ever told an antrepenure (?) "You can't do that". You didn't have people running around saying "Alternative energy sources to Petrolium will never work- - so let's not even try". Progressives like Martin Luther King and others were spoken of with the greatest of respect. Today if you want to make a name for yourself all you have to do is attack anybody with a tripple digit IQ. I am sure you know all these things, but it never hurts to be reminded of them. We need Thom Hartmann back on the air. There is no doubt about that. This "Local LA" guy is a bad joke. I don't see how he can last. Maybe I better start looking for pod casts.
Rick Santorum made a strange speech where a bunch of words at the end of it were utterly unintelligable. It's like a Ten Kennedy thing Rush played ten years ago that goes "and we're gona re-elect hmornguvgdmvo -- or something. Well, Rick Santorum was speaking "We know President Obama. He ran as the anti war - - government nig-eruvjr suemvuerd nmvyhrm - - - something. I guess it's the "nig" part people caught. So what was he trying to say "Government Niggerette- - - Nigotine - - what? In point of fact Obama ran on a platform of "we're going to be as deliberate about troop withdraw from Iraq as we were rash getting in. Which brings up the example of you wanting your fireman to rescue your son from a burning building. Do you want "deliberation" or do you want - - er uh - "rash, percipitus action". I'll go for "percipitus" every time in that example. In point of fact we DID have "deliberation" about withdrawl, which seemed to take forever. The President also in those speeches implied excalation of the War in Afghanistan, which is just what we got, so what was Santorum walking about?
Now clear your minds and think of a peaceful scene. They say when the mind is at peace the body heals quicker. They say eight hours sleep for night is good for your heart. Chaos is good for the brain. The more coordenated your brain waves are- - it's an indication your on some drug like cocaine or something. We know that liars hesitate at key moments. Like when they are about to say "Bl - - " or "Nig - - " or whatever. You can tell literally by a person's speech cadence where he is lying. If he stresses the same word too often you can almost guess that that Word is a lie, and that's why he's stressing it. Now we we learn the shooter has two family members named Robert Zimmerman. Yeah, and what if I told you I have actually met Robert Johnston. (that's another story) Now Zimmerman's brother and father - - weeks after the event - - have now come up with their own detailed scenarios of what happened the night of the shooting. Oh yeah, first he smashes his nose, and bangs his head against the ground repeatedly, and oh yeah, in the "tussle" his gun was exposed and Trevon saw it and said "I'm going to get that from you" or "thought it' or something, and then said "and now you're going to die tonight". It's kind of like the Gospells. Each subsequent one is more "historic" and detailed than the last, and if they waited ANOTHER century to write then they could probably come up with an even Better story - - if they work at it. You know as well as I is that the first rule of good police work is to get the suspect in for questioning - - and the witnesses too, separately of course, and catch them in the heat of the moment where they say things that they haven't reflected on to "see how it will play in the press" and that's how the police get valuable clues. You want to take lots of photographs as soon as possible. And your job is to "arrest and gather evidence" and not to form a Judicial oppinion. That's for the courts to sort out. Capish?
In terms of Bob Dylan - - - obviously the "change" in him took place on his second album. That album itself has a split personality kind of being half the old Bob Dylan and the new social activist Bob Dylan. In the song 'I Shall be Free" you have a little of both. Even the serious stuff is treated in a light hearted way". Of course when he talks about Making Love to Elizabeth Taylor and catching hell from Richard Burton - - you realize back when I was growing up - - - I regarded Richard Burton as the only man in Elizabeth's life for a long time - - everybody did. And people never heard of Sophia Loren or Briget Bardogh or Gina Lola Brigita or the other actresses listed in that song. Dylan amped up the rhetoric with songs like "Masters of War" and "Seven Curses" and "Only a Pawn in their Game" and "The lonely death of Hattie Carol" and "With God on our Side". But today if you want a political song your best hope is with a rapper group, and aren't sure of it even then. This President still needs mojo as I see it. He carries none of the moral sway of so many of our previous Presidents. I see it as a major public relations image problem for this President. His one salvation is that if Mit Romney is the other party's candidate- - then the bar of competetion in this area will be set pretty low. Everybody will regard Romney as a joke and just a powerless figure-head put in there by the Tea Party in hopes Mitt will do their bidding, once in office.
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