Chimes of Freedom

CHIMES OF FREEDOM 2012

Economic times may be getting rough out there

For all you cats and kittens

It’s hard to manage while living on a pittance

And you really don’t know and you really don’t care

So with the tea party you are smitten

But whatever you do just don’t try on those Mittens

Weaving such a labyrinth of lies so devious

The bashing of all minorities just fills you with disgust

They say so plain “The next one named

You know it could be us”

Far off they hear the chimes of freedom crashing

To fully - - realize him

You come to know him and despise him

He grins with that plastic smile

Just like a crocodile

To know, know, know him

Is to Re-al-ize that

He’s a fool - - He’s a rat

He’s a rat - - He’s a fool

He’s a rat - - - ratta-tat-tat

Perhaps if we really want to go the hokey rout we could play “Getting to know you” during all of the “Find out about the real Mitt Romney commercial spots.  Because the more you get to know the real Mitt Romney - - well - - the conclusion is self evident.  Mitt Romney’s chief claim to fame that flagged a lot of people’s attention early was how well he Organized the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.  What you don’t know was that Mitt Romney was running out of money and went to Clinton and Congress and got a 1.2 Billion with a B dollar bail-out from the federal government, and that is what saved the Olympics.  John Mc Cain stated this before Congress.  This is the same Mitt Romney that said a government bail out of GM would “guarantee the denise of the US auto industry”.  Someone asked him the following question, “What specific talents did you learn at Bane Capital that uniquely qualifies you to be President?  Romney did not answer this question at all.  He just said, “Well that’s an unfair question.  I spent time in France (during the Viet Nam War) and I know about the international trade balance, and I know how to read a balance sheet”.  But the question is does he know how to Produce a Balance Sheet- - one that actually portrays the economic state of the company.  Since he says his time at Bane Capital is his best qualification as President you’d think he’d consider it fare game for scrutiny.  But he resents it.  And people like these attacks on his time at Bane capital just cropped up.  Randy Rhodes played a varitable tag team of people critizing his economic vulture record at Bane, and the leaders in this were Rick Perry and Newt Gingric.  But also John Huntsman threw in his two cents and they even managed to find a lucid statement of Sarah Palin of all people, on this topic.  None of them speak the least bit favorably of Romney.  And the question is- - Romney is not even thrifty with his own money by keeping it off shore in a Swiss Bank account.  You know that the Swiss government CHARGES you three percent to keep your money in that country and not ask any questions.  Now we move on to his record as governor of Massachusetts.  Massachusetts was 47^th in job creation.  Romney was governor there during the best economic period we have had in the past twelve years.  You knew that didn’t you?  That would be the years 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 inclusive.  Massachusetts’ GDP only went up .9% during this time, or nine tenths of one percent.  Contrast this with Mittens complaining about the President “only growing the economy 2.5% per year on an average.  Sometimes we’ve been above that.  During the period in question California increased their GDP over four percent and North Carolina came in at seven percent, and even New York was two & a half percent.  Randy says that even Hurricane Katrina didn’t hurt Louisiana’s job formation bad enough to be worse than Massachusetts.   Romney can’t even complain about the price of oil per barrel now because that has dropped from over a hundred to now ninety dollars per barrel.  Housing sales are up three percent in the latest figures.  The Euro is down.  So much for “foreign countries being better off than we are”.  But despite all of this somehow Romney is either tied with the President in the national polls, or else ahead of him and I don’t know how he’s doing it except now Anne Romney is now a sympathy figure- -  and married women are now going for President Obama in droves.  I’m not sure what can be done about all this- - but somebody better get an idea.

“When are you free to take some tea with me?”

“Well to tell you the truth I think I’ll pass on that offer.  You see, I’m not ready to have my mind messed with.  I don’t want to HAVE “Total Economic Amnesia”.

People speak of the decade of the “oughts” being the lost Bush decade.  But they speak amis.  Because NOW is the period of “the lost - - something”.  I think someone should come along and snip everything between late August of 2008 and a point in the future yet to be determined- - - right out of the calendar.  Five years ago look the good old days by today’s perspective.  Back then the candidates were talking about 9 – 11 still and New York’s ex Major, Rudolph Giuliani was considered the nominee designate because he was such a solid continuing of the Bush national security legacy.  Of course he was pro abortion and pro gun control but republicans were coming to realize these issues weren’t really the important ones either.  You had other candidates such as Fred Thompson and John Mc Cain in the race.  On the Democratic side it looked like Hillary Clinton had a lock on it.  But there were other candidates in the race.  You had Dennis Kassinich, and John Edwards, both fine candidates.  And you had this new guy named Barock Obama nobody knew anything about except he made a speech at the Democratic convention of 2004.  Back then I myself was on a solid economic footing.  I wasn’t rich, but I was keeping my head above water and not running out of money before the end of the month.  But the intervening four years can almost be likened to John Lennon’s “Lost Weekend” that lasted eighteen months.  It was time when he just went off the rails.  “We all go a little nuts now and then” as Tony Perkins says in Psycho.  Nobody in their most paranoid fantasies would have come up with the issues of the day now like taking guns to political rallies, vigilante racial killings, gay bashing, “Nigger head rock”, or the President of the United States held up to the most vial racial and ethnic slurs.  Back at the end of 2006 the future was bright and it looked at long last like the United States was headed on the right path.  Bush was consigning people like Dick Chaney to the back burner.  People were waking up and voting and signing impeachment petetions and all.  There was a liberal revolution in the talk show scene.  These past years have just been one long bad dream, and let’s hope that by the end of the year we “Wake up”.

Well it was thirty years ago this spring that Stephano Di Mira was first introduced as a character on Days of our Lives.  This is when they didn’t know that Jake Kosecheck was the Salem Strangler.  Mark used to come over to the Pinewood place after work and tell me about the day’s episode.  Sometimes Bobby Hayden would come home for lunch and watch the episode with him.  Later on in 2003 I told Bobby Haden that Abe Carver had been murdered by a new mystery Salem Stalker.  Bobby said, “Oh no, not Abe Carver- - I remember him from thirty years ago.  He was a good man”.  Well today the four Knights of the Round-table caucused, Hope and Bo Brady, and John and Marlena black, the chief victims of all of Stephano’s machinations.  They now think they can snag him with an Environmental Protection Agency violation on pollution charges because the poison gasses in the tunnels under his Mansion that lead to “Doug’s Place” on the lake - - these tunnels are where cousin Andre held a bunch of hostages including Lexi.  I really don’t remember that but I’ll take their word.  Of course we just passed the thirtieth anniversary of the Saturday night when we got Bones as a kitten.  We got him just after an evening of Miniature golf- - on May 22^nd I believe- - so actually it was the weekend before Memorial day.  As I said higher up- - knowing Memorial Day weekend is finally here makes me “see light at the end of the tunnel” as far as my finances are concerned.

Perhaps “Yes We Can” shouldn’t be the first Slogan we think of.  There is another question we should ask first and that is, “Is it Doable?”  In the case of conducting a nuclear plant raid on Iran the Israeli government concluded that it was NOT “doable”.  I heard that first on a Saturday night on the Mc Laughlin group.  They had conferred with the experts who informed that them that a raid would not be happening.  And this was proved correct.  When I talk about metaphysics I mention things I call inherently NOT provable.  But “concave” space does NOT fall into this category.  With the term “hyperspace” as we have been using it- - this is a theorized solution to a puzzle is “what happens when you surpass the impossible threshold in the addition of velocities equation?  It’s something that for all practical purposes “Can’t exist” under Einstinian reasoning and the reason why it “Can’t exist” is because under his theories it can NOT exist.  It is as it were “For proper thinking – all conception of it should be wiped from the human mind”.  For concave space it’s a different story because here we are talking about actual mass as we know it and physical laws and spaciality- - and gravity “as we know it” and we work from there.  Hence there is no “metaphysical” or better yet “mystic” connotations to concave space as the psychics use the term.  In the case of those four Soap Opera people roomanating among themselves- - they have to decide “What’s doable”.  They want Stephano “Gone” and the law won’t help them.  Not to put too fine of a point on it but Dr. Phil Mc Graw would say in such a situation, “Would you rather be Right- - or would you rather be Happy?”  Dr. Phil says that the correct answer is “I’d rather be Happy”.  Well, you take that premise and work from there.