D.O.M.A Declared Unconstitutional

Yesterday the US 2nd Court of Appeals based in New York, rules in a two to one decision that the Defense of Marriage Act, passed under President Clinton in 1996 so Bob Dole couldn't use it as a campaign issue, this act was Unconstitutional and is the 2nd US Court of Appeals to do so.  This act doesn't invalidate gay marriages in the states of New York or Vermont there they're legal by legislative fiat, but they do put in place other safeguards for normal heterosexual marriages.  Neither side has sought to make gay marriages an issue in this Presidential campaign.  Also Rush Limbaugh's opposition to gay marriage is what I could call "soft".  Just as limp as his you know what.  Of course now that great bastion of Truth out there, World Net Daily has come up with some totally fantastic headlines which aren't exactly new, but Randi Rhodes was talking about this sort of stuff in her opening hour today.   Apparently World Net Daily has said that the reason why there aren't any "sex escapade" stories from young women being brought forward is because as a young student at Columbia University in New York in the early 'eighties, President Obama was into the men.  And fact he and a Moslem gay male roommate in college were co-habeting.  And they even exchanged rings.  President Obama wears this ring all the time that his mama gave him that has Arabec writing on it which says, "There is no god but Allah", leaving off the rest of the saying " - - and Mohamed is his prophet".  I have no problem saying "There is no god but Allah" because it violates none of my religious sensabilities.  Since Eloham, the Hebrew word, is OT lingo for the Holy Trinity according to the Baptist Bible College set.  I have this talisman thing given to me by Dr. Levy a couple of years ago called a "Hansa" or something, which is Aribec for "warding off the Evil Eye".  It has this hand with a big eye on the back of it.  I have it in a drawer right mow but maybe I should start wearing it around my wrist again.  Actually a lot of the evil forces that had been plaguing my left lessened or vanished when I got this talisman.  I also have a copy of the Koran, but I don't have a copy of the Thalmid.  Of course you can use video tapes to prove anything, such as Joe Biden saying a week or so ago, "Make no mistake about it.  President Obama has a big stick".  You see the thing is that the President is supposed to be "into older white men" and they say that Joe Biden still looks pretty good in wet swim trunks.  Of course now the Romney campaign is still obsessed with this Libya thing that should have died a natural death over a month ago. There is a new CIA five paged report that was made public today and the right wing quoted from the first and third paragraph - - skipping the second paragraph, as well as ignoring the whole rest of the five page memo.  You can check Randi Rhode's program podcasts for the details, I'm not going to review all the tedious details for you now again.

Generally, the following material was from my own private writings- - occasionally text-expanded or re-formatted a little when called for.  I'm going to censor out one name Mal Evans doesn't want made public but actually I have slipped up a time or two.  (And I won't tell you where)  Mal Evans may want his name withheld for another reason if you're into our Federation writings, particularly from around June of 2005.

We had a spaghetti sauce style meat balls with tube pasta, and Dora had seconds on the meatballs and sauce.  Again we had ice cream.  Tonight it was raspberry.  I made that final pot of coffee this evening informing Bill he couldn’t have any.  We got egg sandwiched from Donnie, who made it upstairs.  (?)  “The Last Resort” is coming on now.  I’m doing better on cigarettes tonight than last night.  There was more post mortem on the Boy Scouts on EWN tonight.  I am the type who doesn’t like secrets being kept anyhow.  In the case of Raphael keeping Nicole’s secret from his- - EX wife, this is a gray area.  I must emphasize it’s his EX wife.  He disdained her enough to divorce her, so she can’t really lay claim to his loyalties.  Maybe Samantha should ask herself honestly why he would conceivably trust Carrie more than her.  Think about it.

The SL Cardinals are now close to being up three games to one over the SF Giants and are ahead in tonight’s game four to one in SL.  Later information says they won in game four and now have but one game to go to win the National League pennant.  The Tigers beat the Yankees four straight games.  It’s just as well I watched none of them because it would have been depressing.  I have never been a fan of the Tigers.  To tell you the truth, I was a little freaked out when I learned that the Tigers had taken four games straight from the NY Yankees.   Interestingly enough - - - Mal Evans seems to have gone to an Andromadan to get support for the Cardinals against the Giants.  Normally Andromeda rules the Giants but their power was "co opted" from them by the Sutterans.  The same thing happened in October of 1987.  I had the game on TV for various segments.  There was also ABC network news, Jeopardy, and Wheel of Fortune.   

Here is a question about “GOD” I just thought of.  We know that God is not “material” in that he has no “substance” or “matter” as we think of it in this material Universe.  Most people agree on this axiom.  Therefore how can the Catholic Church claim that “The Father’ is ONE “in substance” to the Son?  To allege that God even is possessed of ANY “substance” is to say that said substance has prior ontological existence, for said substance to be used in the creation of God.  Think about it.   Theologians trap themselves.  Here's a question for you.  Does God have what we call a "function" or "purpose" for His own existance?  Be careful how you answer this jaw breaker.  Because both "function" and "reson det" as they say in French- - -imply the act or somehow "Will" of an Outside Force.  In this case that would be a Force bigger than God.  So God lacks, substance.  Got lacks a teological reason for his existance.  What else does God lack.  He lacks Essence.  Some may chafe at that one but think about it.  Do you remember when we talked about how blueberries have an "essence" or "sense of blueberry-ness" we all perceive in common?  But we humans don't "perceive" God.  At best he hides from us and it worse isn't there to begin with.  Finally the final attribute of Creation - - and that is Form.  When I use the word "Form" just substitute "Blueprint".  It can be a schematic or archetectual plan or a chemical or mathematical formula.  It's the "Instructions" or "template" to use a more techy word, for "How do you want to bring said Creation about?"   When you think about it - - most all of the things Theologians, particularly Calvinists - - say about God - - CAN be True.  God is not localized.  God has no shape.  God can be all knowing.  Everything in our destiny can be within God's power.  God can be immutable or unchanging.  But all this and fifty cents won't buy you a cup of coffee nowadays.  What God isn't an Essential thing God is lacking for us humans is - - Relevence.

This is Friday October 19, 2012 approaching ten thirty.  Moe Kelly is doing “Who would you hire and who would you fire” day, and has been the past hour and a half.  Anne Romney stood in for her husband yesterday on “The View” and refused to answer simple questions.  And Tag Romney, a son, said he would punch out President Obama if it weren’t for the secret service agents.  There was one caller who didn’t grasp the concept of the show and by his tone of voice you could tell right away he had some chip on his shoulder.  He said “I voted for Obama four years ago but I don’t like the pettiness of radio shows like yours and therefore I’m voting for Romney this time’ and then went on to attack the President’s children.  Coffee call came just before ten and after a wait of some length I finally got two cups from Laura.  I said Hi to the four birds, who were quiet today.  I just smoked my last cigarette and made it almost to lunch.  They just announced going for the China buffet, although it would be a really early lunch right now.

Last night it was “The Last Resort” on ABC with more authority challenges.  Then it was “Gray’s Anatomy” I watched till nine thirty and the plot seemed directionless.  I slept fairly well and had some dream about a St. Bernard pup that slept on my chest and I was thinking “When he gets bigger he’ll never be able to do that”.  It was almost six thirty and starting to get light when I arose and began today without coffee.  I had Stephanie Miller on.  [name withheld] greeted me at the door and [name withheld] said for us all to grab up apple juice and milk from the cart, and feel free to take Rice Krispies from the cereal cart.  That speeds up the whole process and is something they should have been doing all along.  Coffee was reasonably generous and we had scrambled eggs and toast with butter and jelly.  In terms of news it’s been pretty quiet the past three days since the debate with only occasional sniping back and forth here and there.  Most of people’s attention will be on baseball these next fifteen days or so.  It seems at the Al Smith dinner Mitt Romney broke with protocol, doing his campaign speech- - at a place where candidates are supposed to do self deprication.  Mitt Romney is a guy who doesn’t play by the rules of civility.

This piece of crap that Christians love to dump on you is saying “Oh you can feel free to ask questions.  Doubt is not a sin per se.  But we want you to ask only OUR questions we hand script for you- - even if the questions we suggest are crap and ones you never care to ask yourself and probably don’t even care about”.  I don’t like one’s motives being impugned by the person being asked the question.  And it’s really dumb to say “I didn’t answer that obvious question you had, that’s true.  But you probably had corrupt motives in asking it anyhow.”  And when Paul says “Pastor Halliday is refusing to answer your questions because he knows that isn’t the real question”.  This is from a guy who (A) wasn’t there for any of the exchanges and (B) claims to have never met Pastor Halliday and hasn’t a clue what he’s really like.  But I’ll tell you this, and it goes back to the Raphael thing.  It’s OK to have a “prior loyalty”, which is code for “Of course I reserve the right to tell you boldface lies- - even if I protest to you ten times I’m telling the truth and would never lie.  Because I have an OBLIGATIPN to lie to you because I’ve made a prior commitment”.  Well in court cases and in the case of Grover Norquist- legislation - - we have the “prior commitment” thing come up.  It’s called “Conflict of Interest” and if you FAIL to disclose that you HAVE a conflict of interest- - you are implicitly lying to the Court or whoever else you are dealing with.  Inherently fair people know intuitively this is the case.

Don't Go Black - I'm Going Green

President Obama is a certifiable butcher.  I'm not just talking about the many drone attacks killing innocent civilians in Pakistan and many other nations, most of the Islamic faith.  Indeed some Moslem cleric might well register the charge that President Obama is attempting genocide against those of the Islamic faith.  But I'm talking about the President's stand on partial birth abortions.  He is a staunch advocate of that and seemingly wouldn't back-track if his life, or at least his political life depended on it.  Besides all this he sides with those people who say you can sue a Hospital for "wrongful life" if the aborted baby turns up alive and viable.  President Obama's solution to the problem, which he is a legal advocate of, is to just dump the live infant into a trash bin and allow it to slowly die.  I can't have this for a President of the United States.  I'm not sure what the Green party's stance on abortion is but it can't be as bad we President Obama's is, with evidence nobody can dispute.  Of course had the President's policies been in effect when he himself was born, the President himself might well have been targeted for abortion.  This makes President Obama as big a hypocrite as Clarence Thomas on this particular issue.  Clarence Thomas as you know is the guy who loves to climb the rungs of the rope ladder the government extends him, and then pull up the ladder so that nobody can follow after him, kind of like the birth of Jesus Christ, actually.  Of course Senator Arlen Specter gave Anita Hill a hard time.  Specter died a few days ago after becoming a Democrat and apparently a comedian in his golden years- - after the people of his State voted him out.  Specter may be the last sane republican.  I just didn't like the way he treated Anita Hill in the hearings.  No woman deserves that kind of disrespect.

Mitt Romney broke his own record telling 41 lies this outing as opposed to 28 the other time, or something.  Romney was nailed by the moderater and the president for lying about the Libyan ambassador shooting.  Romney also lied about these "binders full of women" a phrase that apparently has gone viral over the internet.  I must confess when I first heard him say that I thought of this Black new guy in the "Bones" episode a few weeks back that kept saying to his aids, "Be sure to include the information in a binder".  Of course we know now Romney lied about the drop in oil production on Federal lands.  Someone told me at dinner (yes it was my brother) that oil leases on federal land are down some 35% under this President.  I highly dispute that statistic.  I also highly dispute this drop in four million people in the employment market from four years ago.  Romney also lied about his endorsement of the Arizona immigration law.  Romney was explicit earlier in the year about how "Arizona has a model law for the United States" and he also talked about building that border fence.  Now he says this was Never his position.  But in fact Romney said "I am against this legal suit by the AG against Arizona law enforcement".  And the guy who wrote the Arizona law is in fact a chief Romney campaign adviser.  Of course Romney fails to inform us that apparently his vetoes were overridden over seven hundred times by the Massachusetts legislature.  Also it was the women themselves that stormed the gates and made Governor Romney hire women.  The latest child hood warm fuzzy moment with Romney comes when he made his sons get up in the black of night and push big boulders from one side of the lawn to the other, and then back again, saying it builds their character.  I'm not saying it's a necessarily bad thing.  It's just a little strange.

The latest barb against proposition 37 comes from this (wink, wink) 'Doctor" who says that "Lies are being told about the adverse health of consuming genetically modified produce".  These commercials miss the mark entirely because nobody is claiming that you will die from these products.  They are somewhat lacking in nutrition you used to normally get.  But they won't give you cancer.  They aren't radioactive, or laced with arsnic or some other deadly poison that will build up in your system.  The whole bit with these genetic products- - - is that they further world starvation because the seeds are programmed to self destruct after one year.  Then invade "normal" produce.  They are a "life form" with economic patent rights, which is wrong.  Only God should have the right to create life.  Today it's produce.  Tomorrow it's viruses, which already exist.  You can be arrested and sued if you are a farmer and some of these seeds inadvertantly blow into your acreage.  Chew on that.

There is another "Mad Bomber" who has "terrorist asperations" but his bomb was a dud, or he didn't have one or whatever.  This may be the "Danger" that Mal Evans was talking about.  The city of New York was involved.  We should all thank God this wasn't a "legit" terrorist with a Real Bomb.

My Mom has even complained that "My doctor hardly touches me" when I'm medically examined.  They don't check your knee reflexes or "check you out" like your overall health.  How your muscle tone is with no clothes on.  Any strange lumps?  Do you have any skin conditions or bulging blood vessles.  Do you have odd symptums like food tastes funny.  Does he look at hour throat of check for cateracts, and give you a vision test?  Does he do the "turn your head and cough" thing?  Does the doctor even know how to use a stethascope to check out strange heart sounds and air flow in the lungs- - or does he just send you out for an EKG every five years or so?   I think there is something to be said for that old fashioned "bed side manner" doctors used to routinely have.

Stewart saw me this afternoon and said that if he were he he would "vote Green".  He recomended the Green party over the Peace and Freedom party.  He said that just as he himself had to conclude a year ago that Mitt Romney "just didn't have the moral character or temperment to be President" so President Obama is lacking in these same areas today.  Of course in Romulan "going green" means turning into a militent.  Green is the party of war and danger.  There are two different words for "Danger" in Romulan.  One is associated with the color yellow meaning "Avoid - - go around".  But the other word for Danger symbolizes action and charging in straight ahead- guns blazing.  Stewart did not talk about that "adverse potentially dangerous event in a few days' Mal Evans had mentioned.  Of course Obama's stance in gay marriages jeopardizes the institution of Marriage in general- - - certainly as far as the Church is concerned.  This is one of the "Queerest" political positions ANY Presidential candidate in our entire history has taken.  There is another issue with Obama and that is that "Nothing gets to him". He's so "cool" about Everything it's spooky!  He seems to think he's somehow Imune to the perals the rest of us face every day.  It's never once crossed his mind once, I'd guess, that he might lose this election.  He's so cock sure he's infallible, and somehow under some kind of divine protection.

Fast and Furious Debate

I can't compete with all the instantanious "tweets".  That Candy lady from CNN was biased on Obama's behalf and often asked questions that gave Obama more time to allow him to "bail himself of a jam" on various questions.  Obama talked four minutes more than Romney.  The debate ran till twenty minutes to eight or ten minutes over but they needed the time.  Again you had Mitt Romney returning to his "moderate and reasonable' mode, putting distance between himself and Ryan's lies.  The one area where Romney was allowed to run amuk a little was in this whole area of how there are four million fewer people in the work force than there were five years ago and therefore the 7.8% represents lower employment than we had when Obama came to office.  I have been continually puzzled how we could actually be four million employed people down.  I would have been more diplomatic to Romney in some of my answers.  For example on immigration where Romney said he'd give people in the Armed Forces a path to citizenship, I would have ask how many other such "avenues" Romney had for these children of immigrants.  I'd also have put it straight to Romney whether his official position has changed from the Dream act.  I thought Romney did awful on the subject of women's rights in the work place.  Obama pretty much cleaned his clock in this area.  I don't think people care or believe how many women were in cabinet posts of the Massachusetts Governor.  What women care about are policies that affect everyone.  Romney also did really badly on the subject of the assault weapons ban. The President said he was for everything Romney was for in terms of family values and marriage, but he was also FOR a lot of other measures, too.  I wish the President had nailed the obstructionist tea party congress more than he did.  This line of Romney about having "a super majority of his own party in congress for four years" is just plain silly.  It seems the Republicans are already attacking the bias of the CNN moderator.  In general I have been hesitent tonight to want to make a lot of snap decisions the way I did last Thursday with the Veep debate.  Obama won on "Optics" because he talked more and at times it was like he was delivering his own uninterrupted "stump" speech.  I think Obama gave a better closing address this outing.  Obama was given the oppertunity to explain the fact that the reason why oil leases on Public Lands were yanked is because the oil companies THEMSELVES were choosing not to drill for Oil but to just Sit on their Resource, so Obama turned the leases over to others who would actually drill.  Romney did really badly in explaining outsourcing.  Obama also conceded ground to the right in saying that he, too, believes that Corporate Income taxes are too high.  I hope the tea party people were listening.  Romney again dragged in the issue of the Canadian pipeline with the implicit line that somehow WE would be getting that oil.  Obama countered the attack on the jump in gasoline prices fairly well citing economic considerations.  Obama needed however to stress more  fully the extent to which NO president is in Control over international oil prices, but prices at the pump are as affected as much by increasing economic demand in places such as India and China, as they are by any regulations.  I would also have cited that even the Mideast has passed "Peak oil".  I would have talked a little about global warming and pinned Romney down asking "You believed in Global Warming before you were against it".  I also would have been more direct in general in answering specifically what the audience member was asking about.  For someone who says "Get me a job because I just graduated college" I would have asked about whether he majored in the right subject, or how many people were out helping him with friends in high places.  I would ask him if he's confident in his job interview skills and also I would have reminded families that CD's for the average person aren't making any money anyhow.  Neither are capital gains a lucritive way to go now.  I would have said "You should have been either in energy or grain futures or else common stocks because that's where the money is".  And added that, "People like Mitt Romney have access to investment advisors many people can only dream about but instead are subject to the machinations and being jerked around by fast talking investment advisors out to make a fast buck off you, and don't care much how.  I also would have disputed in essence "Romney's whole life".  I would have said (perhaps unwisely) "Well one trait we know about Mitt Romney is he's not afraid to brag about himself.  Excessive humility is not his problem.  He's a man whose contributed virtually nothing to American society his whole life- - and lies about his own past all the time, unlike myself- - whose past is out there for everyone to peruse and examine.

There are two major math probability errors Christian Preachers make when talking about Bible Prophecy.  For instance in that Tom Petti song "Something Big" that may be prophetic about OJ Simpson and the murders.  We could say it being June, and on a Sunday narrow the perameters down. The idea of being in a hotel and talking on the phone a lot and being hyper and "working on something big" and leaving in the late morning not having slept in the bed- - all these things are part of an "overall behavior pattern" for instance of a businessman.  And yet if you were to break each one of them down - not sleeping in the bed - - being hyper - - - talking on the phone - - - it being June - - you could get the probability numbers way up.  One could say "being male" is 1 in 2,  and not sleeping in the bed is maybe 1 in 4.  Being hyper is one in 3.  Talking on the phone a lot  working on "Something Big" is 1 in 3, we'll say..  So what Chuck Smith does to these numbers is multiply the 2 and the 3 and the 4 and whatever numbers we throw in- - to get maybe 1 in 100 that "the song is pure chance".  In other words by Chuck Smith's reason you would jack the probability statistics to perhaps a 95% probability or higher that Tom Petti was prophetic in this song.  But then they comit the falocy of "changing horses in mid streme".  If you talk the Jim Morrison song "Peace Frog" you have the town of Chicago - - one in 100 probability - - blood stained palm trees - - maybe 1 in 20.  And "blood on the rise and following me" a murder - - be charitable - one in one hundred.  They take the odds of THIS song and multiply them TIMES the probability of the other song.  Statisticians know that you don't just "jump to another book" to get stuff.  All the Bible writers were different with different aims and different theology.  You as it were "Don't switch horses in mid stream".  Keep in mind that these theologians say there are some 1,800 prophecies of "The Messiah" but only three hundred or One Sixth of those verses they admit ARE prophecies, have Even Been Fulfilled by their Own Count.  You hunt and pick a verse or two from this book, and a little from this one over here.  One from collum A, one from collum B and one from collum C, and multiply it All Together!  That's where Chuck Smith comes up with his math odds.  Now you know.  These Evangelists count on you're being stupid.  Maybe if you're Lenny from "Of Mice and Men" but hopefully if you're reading this, you're smarter than that, and too smart to be taken in by a Christian Evangelist.

Holding the Tea Party up to a Mirror

The question is - - if you put a mirror in front of a tea party person - - would the mirror fail to fog up?

Hypocracy on the right is so thick you could cut it with a knife.  The rich tell the poor things like "Money can't buy happiness" as if they are imparting some hard won lesson to them.  And yet they are so hell bent in handing on to theirs they'll hire accountants to help them pay less taxes, and in general want to disenfranchise the poor of their money and their political power. The pro Prop 32 people are accusing the anti Prop 32 people of flooding the media with their lies, and yet fail in the entire spot to point out so much as ONE area where our side made a false statement.  President Obama tried so hard to avoid the stereotypical "angry black man" portrate, and was accused of having nothing to say.  When Joe Byden cleaned Ryan's clock in the Veep debats - FOX accused him of being  'bully" and yet when Romney burries his republican competetion in Attack Adds fed by millions of dollars, the same "victims' of said ads turn around and make him their Nominee.  The rich will tell you that "Life is all a matter of making Good Choices" and yet the poor don't HAVE that many choices in life.  If you're sick and poor you have even fewer. I think Obama's speech of June of 2007 would be aptly titled as "Take the bullet out".  What this means is that you don't solve a problem by pronouncing it "old news" like racism, or closing your eyes and pretending it never happened.  It isn't cartoon land where something explodes in your face and you're dead one moment and come back to life in the next.  If the economy "explodes" there is going to be a lot of "rubble" that has to be dealt with one way or the other.  But another good rule is you don't turn the problem over to people who caused it in the first place.  This is perhaps why I have found Christianity to be such an abiding failure in my life.  (Selah)  In the same spirit if the car driven over the cliff by a drunk manages to get pulled safely back on the road - - you don't hand back the keys to the drunk who drove it over the cliff in the first place.  They wouldn't let that "Drunk' speak at one of their business meetings- - - but at the same time they want to resurrect all his policies.  People like Romney will see a man who had a heart attack yesterday to the doctor "You quack, you made his condition worse.  Why - when I was with him four days ago the worst symptum he was suffering from was chest pains, and I told him "It was just a mental pain" and to ignore it."  Of course the hospital bills you after you get emergy service and send a collection agency after you and hound you endlessly.  I know something about that.  Romney has said at times he thinks emergency people are freeloaders, and at other times like on Sixty Minutes, he said it was the preferred way to handle the uninsured.  Of course you could do a pretty good job of editing a debate where Romney debates himself.

  Randy was talking about international weakness.  The Nazis said Germany's problems stemmed from "selling out" at the Versilles treaty.  To hear the republicans talk, this is the first time in history there has ever been turbulance in the Mideast.  Paul Ryan attacked the Obama administration for "apologising" to Mideast countries.  He wasn't specific about certain obvious events for which we should indeed apologise.  He only kept talking about how the US isn't pushing "American values" in the region now.  Well even if we were to "compromize" it wouldn't be a first.  Johnson didn't bomb North Korea back into the stone age when the SS Pueblo was captured. Nixon backed down and prevented Israel from wiping out the Egyptian third army that was trapped in the Sinai in 1973.  The Iranians gave the Reagan administration an ultimatum in late September 1983 that the Marines in Lebanon have to go.  Then they were hit by that explosive truck bomber in late October and Reagan pulled them out.  President Bush pulled out ten thousand troops stationed in Saudi Arabia right after 9 – 11 and everyone has forgotten about that.  It would be advisable for the President to bring this stuff up.

That skydiver breaking the sound barrier succeeded in his task.  He dropped from 124,000 feet and free fell through space.  It was on the same date in 1947 that Chuck Yager broke the sound barrier in an experimental jet.  But he didn’t set the free-fall elapsed time record because he pulled the ripcord too soon.  He was trained by the same old man who set the previous record a long time ago, also going up in a balloon, who jumper from 102,000 feet.  The Space Shuttle is safely in the California Science Center and got there in the afternoon yesterday.  That Italian ship salvage operation of the Concordia that ran aground last January- - will be a massive project to get all that metal to the scrap yard.  But the Captain is actually filing suit for being fired.  Apparently one time on the savanna a lioness was hunting antalope or something and came accorss an antalope cub and instead of eating it, she decided to adopt and nurture it.  Last night KTTV set what I believe is the all time record for record number of minutes- running around ten- - of straight, uninterrupted commercials.

This afternoon I had Randy Rhodes on at noon and at two.  The fact that Syria is involved in a civil war works in our favor because it means they are in no position to be an Ally to Iran in any future wars.  The problem with Mitt Romney of course is that he has no concept of national balances of power. The US has to be careful that weapons don't fall into the wrong hands such as Al Qaeda.  And if they were to, people like Michelle Bachman would be yelping about it.  Perhaps you've figured out that the republicans will argue to the contrary no matter WHAT decisions are actually made. The fact that most always they speak from uninformed ignorance doesn't bother them in the least. Demogogues through time have counted on the uninformed ignorance of the people to be able to fill that mental void with whatever lies they choose to tell.  In the soap opera things aren’t boding well for Jennifer.  She is in jail.  I’m not sure how trigger happy the DA is for a conviction in this case.  DA’s on this show are notorious for being real assholes.  Nicole is on the ragged edge.  Meanwhile the LAPD did a real Chad Di Mira job on this white collar professional who was slipping into some kind of mild paranoia believing he was being followed.  He went to the Glendale PD and the next day went to LAPD and inquired whether he could be busted for using “bath salts” snorting it.  The law says the stuff is still legal even though if you use it you’re really messed up.  Somewhere along the way the cops claim the suspect lunged at them and they were forced to defend themselves.

Nora came by a little before four to mop the floor.  I had on Katie Kuric or whoever on KABC who first had the thing about the toddler who ate too much salt because he had this condition where you crave dirt and clay and cigarette ashes and other non food substances.  I’d rather starve.  He died from too much blood sodium.  His parents were prosecuted and experts are seeking to have the verdict overturned.  Then they had that “Man who fell to Earth”.  Apparently around 1960 man was getting ready for space flight and they were doing these types of experiments.  We had spaghetti for dinner, or our version of it with tube pasta.  It was good.  That’s one recipe that doesn’t let you down.  We had garlic bread and I think squash.  We had chocolate cake for dinner.  I got seconds on the spaghetti from Laura.  Afterward I bargained for one cigarette from Paul Evans if I pay him a quarter.  I just concluded a deal with Larry Barton where I got three cigarettes and he gets a - - standard, not large, cup of coffee.  I’d like this coffee to last till at least Saturday but I don’t know if it will.  We need to go down for medication.  I was thinking of writing a piece called “22 deal breakers with Romney” based on the twenty-two remaining days before the election.  Chuck Swendoll said he’d never accept a male in his church who avoided the draft during the Viet Nam war.  My hypocrite sensor is out however because I’ll bet you this same Reverend is now gung ho for Mitt Romney’s election.

JOHN LENNON'S MEMORY LAPSES.  Richard Lester didn't like "I'll Cry Instead" for use in the Hard Day's Night movie.  It's his loss.  "It's Only Love" was a song ahead of its time.  And they put an awful lot of work into a song John says he doesn't even like. John remembers "Run for your Life" being the final track recorded for Rubber Soul "Because we needed one more song" when in reality "Run For Your Life" was the first track recorded for Rubber Soul.  "Wait" was brought back to fill the final spot, a song Paul wrote in the Behamas in February, about the same time according ti "Pink" that "I Want You - She's so Heavy" was written.  According to Pink, "The original lyrics to Drive My Car were bullshit, so me and Paul just rewrote it, using whole new bullshit".  John says that "In My Life" was his concept and his song.  In reality Paul and John were "having a cup of tea" and Paul stepped into the other room and wrote "In My Life" tune and lyrics, while John was otherwise entertaining himself.  "She Said" started off as a highly lethargic piano piece, before Pink re-worked it into the rocked up piece we know today.  According to Pink - - you know who was responsible for the lines "Writing the words to a sermon that no one will hear" and "wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave" in Eleanor Rigbee.  Ringo write "Darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there" and George came up with "Ah - - look at all the lonely people".  John was on his way out of the room when George said this and he points to George and says "That's it" and he left.  John remembers as power being power mad and "Taking over after Brian died" but the facts show that John was every bit as much "into" Magical Mystery Tour as the rest of them were.  John Lennon said "Hey Bulldog, is a song that means absolutely nothing".  We at the Federation would take strong exception to that.  The whole bit with the Maharishi fooling around with Mia Farrow and other babes- - this is just a roomer that Alex Mardis started out of some personal jealosy that the Maharishi was occupying too much of John's time.  Cynthia is right.  If they'd stuck with the Maharishi their marriage would have been saved because "He was helping us".  John has stated that he was "never happy with the say Strawberry Fields" came out.  I don't know if this was some early attack on George  Martin or not.  Apparently in 1971 John wrote some letter trashing George Martin. The idea that Martin took "Too much credit' for Beatle songs - -is absolutely ludicris.  Take Glass Onion for instance.  The version with the George Martin strings sounds much better.  I say Martin is fully meriting the title of "The fifth Beatle" if you don't want to count Pink.  According to John "What's the New Mary Jane" was in no way spontanious but every note of it was scripted out.  Strangely as it sounds - - even though this song sounds "Pink", Pink had nothing to do with it.  Roger Waters taught John how to do the "Julia" riff- - something musically I had already picked up on.  John did not play on some some songs such as Savory Truffle and Martha My Dear.  The whole thing about Allan Klein is one area where I was actually in agreement with John.  But Paul thought he was being high pressured to "hurry and sign the contract tonight" when Paul wanted time to read the thing over first and finally goes "well, buggar this". (OK maybe he didn't use that word)  It was John (or maybe Pink) who decided to make an abrupt end to "She's so Heavy".  Personally, I'd have just gone for a fade-out.  According to Pink - - you know who played lead guitar on "Come Together" "Polytheme Pam" and "She Came in through the Bathroom Window".  According to Paul, John was making horribly vicious statements about Mc Cartney during the RAM album, which are inexplicable.

"We're Fighting for our Lives".  According to Mal Evans the Sutterans are "fighting dirty" by challenging the Federation to games they don't want to compete in.  Mal told me yesterday that the Sutterans were helping the Giants this Series so the Cardinals better win "or else".  Jim Morrison was known to be a Cardinals fan also.  Fortunately the Cardinals did win - - yesterday.  Unfortunately today isn't going too well.  Mal also announced that "some major national crisis" will break in the next couple of days that will send the stock market into a nosedive.  But the good news is that it won't affect Me.

23 Days To President Romney

I just need to remind every one that when Romney becomes President FOX news will be out of business because they'll have nothing to complain about these next four years.  As to the notion that Ryan wants to 'work with congress" and therefore won't explain why the math just doesn't work on any of his programs- or where the tax deduction eliminations will come from, Judy responded thusly:  "Well we conservatives don't mandate and spell everything out in advance.  We work in general principles.  That makes us flexible.  Of course what she didn't way was that Ryan and Romney will have an all tea party congress and therefore will rubber stamp any legislation, no matter how extreme, they care to pass.  There is a lot of hypocracy on the subject of "bullying".  For instance I let Judy have the "last word" each and every time we talk.  To do otherwise would be suicidal.  I may know more about politics and the economy than she and Dr. Levy contined, but I dare not say so or challenge them on it.  But if I were in Joe Byden's shoes I'd be for once in my life competing on an even playing field.  I've told you my family has the slogan that 'If you can't fight dirty and hit below the belt- - then we don't want to do it at all".  These so called "attacks" are well noted.  Ryan never answered a single question of Byden or the moderator in a matter that would satisfy anybody.  If they can't do their pre scripted lies and plattitude and massive insults and disrespect to the President, then they have absolutely nothing to say.  As to this bit about the embassy- - so far as I've learned, the congressional hearings they keep referring to were about headquarters hundreds of miles away- - in Tripoli, and not at Bengazi at all.  The idea of letting this ignorant little twerp like Ryan spew out NOTHING but lies and right wing propaganda for an hour and a half is more than just about anyone could stomach.  I don't think I heard a bit of civil discussions of the real questions from Ryan the whole night.  Byden talked straight to the American people.  On the other hand Ryan was like this robotic atonoton, who spoke in a monotone seemingly devoid of any passion or true emotion at all, then criticizes Byden for having some.

Attack #1: Holding Ryan and Romney, not Biden or Obama, accountable for Libya statements.

I just want to talk to you about right in the middle of the crisis. Governor Romney -- and you’re talking about this again tonight -- talked about the weakness, talked about apologies from the Obama administration. Was that really appropriate right in the middle of the crisis?  (I would add that Romney began mouthing off before we had even LEARNED that the Libyan ambassador was killed) (And the appropriate response to this question would have been 'No")

Attack #2: Asking Ryan--and only Ryan--to respond to American misdeeds in war.

Mr. Ryan, I want to ask you about -- the Romney campaign talks a lot about no apologies. He has a book called “No Apologies.” Should the U.S. have apologized for Americans burning Qurans in Afghanistan? Should the U.S. apologize for U.S. Marines urinating on Taliban corpses?

Attack #3: Asking what the Romney/Ryan team would do, but not Obama/Biden, about Iran.

How will you do it so quickly? Look, you both saw Benjamin Netanyahu hold up that picture of a bomb with the red line and talking about the red line being in spring. So can you solve this -- if the Romney-Ryan ticket is elected, can you solve this in two months before spring and avoid nuclear –

Attack #4: Asking Ryan specific questions on unemployment, while letting Biden avoid them. Raddatz asked when each team expected to get unemployment below 6%, but then, after Biden was evasive, kept asking Ryan: “When could you get it below 6 percent?”
Attack #6: Attacking Ryan--and only Ryan--for past legislative stances,
While discussing Medicare, Biden brought up Social Security for a moment. Ryan responded, and then Raddatz suddenly turned to Ryan and accused, “You were one of the few lawmakers to stand with President Bush when he was seeking to partially privatize Social Security.”
Attack #7: Accusing Ryan of not offering "specifics"--and interrupting him:

"You have refused yet again to offer specifics on how you pay for that 20 percent across-the-board tax cut. Do you actually have the specifics, or are you still working on it, and that’s why you won’t tell voters?” After Ryan tried to explain, she cut him off, barking, “Do you have the specifics? Do you have the math? Do you know exactly what you’re doing?” She followed by interrupting him again, “No specifics, yeah.”

Attack #8: Falsely accusing Ryan of wanting to add to the defense budget. Ryan tried over and over to explain that he and Romney weren’t increasing the defense budget, just not cutting it, but Raddatz was deaf to him. (Keep in mind that by bi partison agreement there are ten percent accross the board cuts in the entire budget.  The Ryan Romney defense hike includes stuff the military itself says it doesn't need)  Thus:

Raddatz: And you’re going -- and you’re going to increase the defense budget.

Ryan: Think about it this way.

Raddatz: And you’re going to increase the defense budget.

Attack #9: Asking Ryan, not Biden, about the implications of his stance on abortion. Instead of asking Biden why his administration favors abortion-on-demand, Raddatz turned on Ryan:

I want to go back to the abortion question here. If the Romney-Ryan ticket is elected, should those who believe that abortion should remain legal be worried?

Some Attacks of my Own
This was by no means an exhaustive enumeration.  I did the whole thing without even jotting down notes first.  There were so many items.  I had stuff left over.  This represents the Romney constituancy, which is anything but 'Moderate".
By the way - -  the dramatic shift in the Presidential polls is not just from Obama having a "bad night" some eleven years ago.  I believe you can trace it all the way back to the lies the tea party is telling about the handeling of the Obama Administration of this Ambassador shooting crisis.  This tragic incident was Romney's leg up, to exploit tactlessly and endlessly.  There is no way in Hell that President Bush would have been subjected to this sort of thing in the days after 9 - 11 - 2001.

I wanted to talk about just how extreme - - bizzare Paul and Judy's political beliefs have become.  They are against Prop 39 and Judy has argued passionately in favor of not stopping corporations from leaving the country by tax subsedy.  Judy has also said that these Swiss Accounts, which might even be illegal if for tax evasion, are fine with her.  She's against the schools proposition.  She's in favor of privatization of the school system and vouchers despite the fact that many of people early in the nation's history who fought for public education were Christians.  She's downright fatalistic about how "American's don't produce anything here any more' and she chafes against any positive economic news that indicates otherwise.  She goes so far, and I put this question to her today "What if we go into several months of strong recovery and it' January 21st and Romney is in office.  Will he fire a Fed Chairman who brought us this recovery and put in someone who will "take us back into recession"  My words.  She said "If the American people are told it has to be done, they'll go along with it.  I also reminded her that you people shouldn't be so negative about the future because three months from now it will all be Mitt Romney's problem.  They want someone who avoided the draft to propigate a religion Mormonism, up to now so many fundamentalists have falled Ungodly and heretical.  And he does this, not in darkest Africa but from a chateau in France.  The Puritans believed in production and making things and creating wealth for the community.  Romney has never made anything but only his whole life come up with schemes for looting money from others.  The only difference between Mitt Romney and Berny Madoff, is that Madoff is in jail.  When I pointed out a lot of Wall Street people were crooks, Judy's response,  "How can you be against Wall Street?  Your mother has a lot of stocks and money and you'll be inhereting that some day"  (a dubius assumption anyhow)  I'll just add in right here that this was in response to the Occupy Wall Street thing where Judy said all these protesters who just "wanted to steal from the rich".   I reminded her Jesus said to pay your taxes.  And Jesus did not add "But you should complain like Hell and petetion to have them slashed.  Back 35 years ago the very international corporatists and banks Judy regards as pristine pure- - - were considered forces of the Antichrist - - back in my day.  Politics stopped at the water's edge.  You did not attack a President's foreign policy in times of crisis like the Lybian ambassador killing, as Romney did.  In fact the Bible teaches that you are to show your leaders respect.  Paul and Judy go so far as to oppose law enforcement propositions on the ballot, if it costs any money.  As you will remember Franklin Roosevelt in mocking fashion said the following in his 1936 reelection campaign.  He said "The republicans say they are in favor of all the things we are but they can do them better and do more of them, and the best part- - it won't cost Anybody - - Anything"  (laughter of crowd)  Paul and Judy say that Obama has been soft on Islam and that 'His whole foreign policy is falling apart" and "The reason why that Ambassador was killed is because Al Qaeda thinks Obama is too soft on Islam these past four years.  Of course the list of groups Paul and Judy have an abiding loathing for is dizzyingly long.  It inclueds, the poor, people who don't pay federal income tax,  The Chicanos, The Arabs, Islam in general,  homosexuals,  Higher education in general, and it seems they hate people who show any emotion in debates.  They love these atomotons such as Romney and Ryan.  They love the Romney-bot.  They hate Byden's smiling and laughing, but Mitt Romney does that funny liffle laugh every time the conversation turns to his causing another to suffer, like that hair cutting prank in college.  In addition to all this they don't believe any yardsticks of reality.  They say that global warming is a hoax.  In general they don't trust scientists.  They obviously don't trust most economists.  They don't trust the polls in less they are favorible to their people.  They think there is a giant conspiracy in the Media to keep the truth from us.  Judy always comes with this "secret information of what the President is planning" from her obscure web sites.  If the President himself in his own words refutes her accusations about him, she says the President is just lying.  Yet she calls herself a good Christian and a good American.  I don't know for a fact but I bet she's also for Michelle Bachman's stance of letting America default on it's debts in that crisis last summer.  She claims I have it too good and they have it so bad- - and yet Paul the other weekend admitted that parents subsidizedd his mortgage and now it's paid off quicker.  But if I get a three percent in S S I for the first time in three years Paul asks "How come you deserve that?"  Needless to say I have less than zero respect for anything Paul and Judy say.  But the big trick now is trying to hide as best I can, how I really feel.

"Don't Get Mad; Get Even" -Right On!!!

Rush Limbaugh's show was not a "game changer" today.  He said it was "Open line Friday" and yet did not take a single call the first hour.  Rush Limbaugh said he had a lot of clips and he was going to "Expose all Joe Byden's Lies' yet failed to play a single clip the whole hour.  He didn't care.  All he did was talk the whole hour.  Who cam blame Joe for a philosophy of "Don't Get Mad; Get Even"?  Of course he smiled through all Paul Ryan's lies.  Now Rush Limbaugh is calling that "Mean".  Of course Joe wanted to fire up the democratic base.  We were in bad need of "Being fired up".  Rush Limbaugh lapsed into near incomprehenceablity when it came to the Lybian Embassy thing.  I think he was trying to say because we took out Quadafi - that was an "Obama Policy" that triggered the Ambassador's killing.  As I said in the following paragraph last night, Joe Byden used every minute he had defending the truth and what is actual Reality, and connecting with the American people.  He put it to us openly.  He said "Do you believe me or do you believe Paul Ryan about Social Security and Medicare"?  It seems all the analysis I've listened to suggests that Joe Byden stomped all over Paul Ryan.  It wasn't even close.  Rush Limbaugh on the other hand says he has new polls that shows Mitt Romney at 52 percent and that the Democrats have given up in Florida, Virginia, and North Caroline.  I've never heard anything remotely like that before.  There are some times when "Getting even" is the most emotionally theraputic thing you can do.  We know even God does it.  Does not God himself say, "Vengeance is Mine?

I'm not kidding.  I've watched a lot of televised debates over the decades including a whole lot of those intra-party tea party debates.  But never have I seen such naked bias of the lady ABC moderator.  Paul Ryan must have talked twice as much as Joe Byden did.  There wasn't physically enough time for Joe Byden to begin to refute all the lies fast talking Ryan told.  You will note that there was often a similar pattern that kept being repeated.  Joe Byden would get the negative questions such as "Discuss how your state department botched up the Lybian affair".  Joe Byden was almost never the first to get a positive question.  Paul Ryan almost always got the open ended plums.  Then Byden would get his chance to respond but invariably would be interrupted by Paul Ryan, who would continue to spew out nothing but lies and political plattitudes.  Then when Ryan was through, the ABC moderator would ask a real soft ball question again to Ryan, where he could continue to talk.  You will also note other than not getting a chance to ever talk freely and answer a question- - - Byden unlike Ryan, tried as best he could with the limited time he had to refute Ryan well on every point.  Byden made fewer points but they were a lot more relivent to the American Public.  Byden emotionally connected much better with the public than did Ryan, who was like a fast talking used care salesman.  Ryan on the other hand would often not even challenge many of Biden's major statements.  But instead would would subtally changed the topic and get into his bad of lies and political plattitudes, many I have heard too much from my conservative friends.  There was so much crap said about Libya, Iran, and Syria by Paul Ryan and Joe Byden did a pretty fair job of refuting those claims.  The important point is that we used to have a saying that "Politics stops at the water's edge" and Paul Ryan violated this principle with impugnity.

But the facts are this economy IS recovering.  President Obama did NOT "make the economy worse" as charged.  Nobody in the Obama administration used that eight percent figure.  Maybe you've heard this charge fifty times, but you never heard the original statements ONCE from President Obama.  But the facts are unemployment is 7.8% and will probably drop more next month because employment figures are strong.  The fact is that there have been seven percent fewer real estate foreclosures in the past few months and foreclosures are down 16 percent this year.  There are now localized "bidding wars" in various communities where people are fighting over houses they sell so fast.  Unemployment claims are down the lowest in a long time down to 350,000 down from 375,000 people a few months ago. Interest rates are even AT This Moment- - reaching NEW record lows.  Romney doesn't have a leg to stand on.  His one trump card was the economy and now he's losing that

DON'T GET MAD; GET EVEN NO 2. This is the coolest day we have had and we got a little rain before and after breakfast and a cold front went through about breakfast, but none of the full scale rain talked about occurred.  Jennifer got even with Nicole for all her raging behavior by staging a fall down a flight of stairs to pretend to lose her baby, which is already dead.  I wonder how many women have used that one.  So it’s Nicole’s revenge, not only against Jennifer but against E J as well.  Sometimes you just "take it" and take it from people and you'd do just about anything to "shut them up" for good.  Nicole found a very apt way to accomplish that.  Victor told Daniel that ‘Nicole will only destroy another man”.  I hate to say it but in this case I’d like to say to Victor, “It takes one to know one”.  Caroline is visiting with her doctor daughter tonight, so that Kayla can acertain her condition.  Now she not only mistook her son for her dead husband, but also didn’t know where she was.  I ran the coffee grounds through again.  For lunch we had chili which was extra good today, and dry corn bread and a green salad, with an orange for desert..

I am reversing my position on proposition 36 because I misunderstood the thing when I read it over.  Apparently they limit the parameters enough where I now believe it is safe to let these people out of jail, so that people guilty of nothing crimes don’t do life.  Next Item: Apparently the space shuttle will be cruising through Inglewood on Friday.  They are saying there will not be enough viewing areas. I think the local population is getting screwed.  Issue 3:  Lance Armstrong will be having his medals stripped.  We already knew that.  But now they say that 21 witnesses have come out to say Lance Armstrong was doing blood doping.  You know here is a guy who basked in the glory of his victory these past seven years or so, and nobody questioned it.  When he was under suspiciou he denied it indignently despite mounting evidence.  Personally I'm happy to see him get what's coming to him.  Because if you're a fellow amature athlete, the last thing you want to do is compete with a cheater.  Issue 4:  There was a Dr. Mc Dugal who was the guest of that lady in the morning saying people don’t even have to be tested for cancer with advancing age - - if they just eat right.  That may seem irresponsible in this day and age but look.  How many people got cancer screenings a hundred years ago?  Were people dropping like flies from cancer a hundred and 150 years ago?  No.  Why not?  Somebody answer me that question.

Our Military Imigry

Lock, stock, and barrel:
 Something in its totality.  It could refer to taking over, or capitulation or giving up or reliquishing of rights.

Melt down:  Similar to the older term of "break down" but has the conotation of moral credability or moral fibre itself breaking down with the context of evil feeding in itself and compounding the problem untill there is nothing left.

Left-handed:  Something done surropticiously or in a round about or unconventional way.

Minefield:
In my usage it refers to traps and pitfalls hidden in my words to trip up and ensnare the unsuspecting.  It can refer to dealing with a volitile person who could explode at any minute if the wrong topic should inadvertaintly be brought up.

Collatteral damage:  Harm done to innocent people either in real or in verbal conbat or in some act of revenge where other people besides the intended target are impacted.

Loaded for bear:  This of course means ready for an argument, being armed with facts and knowledge about your enemy and a lot of "things' you're just waiting to "do to him".

Hanging on to the firecracker too long:
This is another way of saying "You should quit while you're ahead and not wait till the inevitable bad thing happens.  It's knowing you have limited time to do your thing and make a fast exit.

Exit strategy:  Knowing there is an escape rout or a means of quickly aborting what you are planning or carrying out, should a possibly forseen thing warrent needed quick action.

Datente:
A cooling down of a bad or explosive situation to give a person time to either just do nothing or walk away from it gracefully, or possibly a means of compromizing with an enemy who may prove useful and productive to you in some capacity.

Stealth:  Someone who is sly and lives by the motto that "Others pay attention to what they think is the obvious without noticing what I'm really doing.  Stealth behavior is behavior that puts on a front.

Frontal assault:  Tackeling an issue or situation in a straightforward, above board manner.

Give a person enough rope:  Let the other person "hang himself" with his own mistakes, that you're not about to tell him that he's making.

Drop the bomb: Make an announcement- - - often involving embarrassment or demotion or dramatic loss in status or oppertunity, or asserting control over another.

Start the ball rolling: Time to execute your well thought out plan for the other's destruction.

Under the table:  An agreement between two or perhaps more people in the know- - and by mutual agreement their arrangement is kept from general knowledge.

Doubling down:  Often used to mean making a bad mistake worse, but in more generic terms it means to increase the stakes or risks of what you are either saying or doing to make the reward greater but the consequences also greater.

Defuse the bomb:  Similar to detente.  It means to say something to remove a volitile issue -especially one where your defences may be weak- - from present consideration, to buy you a little time.

Off the Mark:  This may mean insulting someone but you are picking the wrong area to attack, one in which the other guy is will prepared, or to see a mistake someone has made and deciding to let it ride, because they are making a fool of themselves.

Keep your powder dry:  This is an old one.  It means "pick your battle" because you have limited verbal or stratigic resources and have to time your attacks when they'll do the most good.

Shooting blanks:  Most often this refers to a man hoping to become a father but is in fact sterile.

Flaming out:  Someone who fails in a spactacular, and perhaps entertaining manner.

Like going around explosives with a blow torch:  This one is self explanatory.  Often it refers to talking to one in much higher authority in a highly uninformed or inappropiate way- just not thinking.

Hair trigger personality:  One that gets "set off" at the drop of a hat.

Sending up a flair:  Making an open appeal to help, usually from your superiors.

Stabbed in the back:  Betrayal and being double crossed.

Finely honed technique:  Alluding to the sharpening of a knife for greatest effectiveness.

Well practiced:  Someone who's an expert at what they do.

The floor dropped out from under you:  You were BADLY let down and basically you're dead meat. You've been hung out to dry.

Head them off at the pass:  To do an "end run" around the other person to beat him to the destination.

You've got the ball; run with it.  You are the logical person to be front man for our team because you have the oppertunity and a clear field ahead of you to gain a lot of ground for our team.

Premptary Strike:  Being the other fellow to the punch.

Engage the enemy:  Begin firing on him.  Open conflict in any situation.

For-warned is for-armed:  Like the Boy Scout motto:  "Be prepared"

One taco short of a combo:  Mentally unbalanced.

The whole enchalada:  Getting everything and getting it now.

Circling the drain:  A person or long standing institution about to "breathe its last".

Biting the dust:  Dying

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer:  A person who's not very smart, especially in key things.

Pull in your claws:  Usually between two women.  It's an open appeal to tone down the hostility of this conversation, often because the time and place in inappropiate.

A long shot:  This used to be a literal expression but refers to anything with a low or difficult probability of coming to pass.

Giving them both barrels:  Telling someone off and putting them in their place.

High strung:  This probably alludes to archery - rather than a stringed instrument.

He was AWOL:  It means just not "showing up" for a key conflict where your presence is expected.

Gunny-sacking:  It means - often with spouses, one of them brings up a minor issue but brings it up one time too many- - and the other spouse lets them have it- - and brings up every grudge they's had for the past several months.

Burning your bridges behind you:  You shouldn't close off your own avenue for retreat or consiliation should the situation warrent.

We'll cross that bridge when we come to it:  This is a decision that need not be made now.  And when we come to that point we'll be able to see more clearly what we need to do anyhow.

Shooting the wounded:  People who carry social darwinism to the extreme that they even use it on people they call their friends, abandoning them at the drop of a hat when they are in trouble.

Passed the deadline:  Originally a term used in war internment camps where if you crossed a certain ling you would be sumarily shot.

Bringing it to a head:  In the old days sumary judgements were herolded by the beating of a drum.

Dug in:  Prepared to "wait it out" in a situation that won't be resolved any time soon.

They smell blood:  You're in big trouble.  Showing fear in a situation is often suicidal.

Circling the wagons:  The other side has no option left but to stonewall.

Too many chiefs and not enough Indians:  Too many people want to be the boss and nobody wants to do the hard work.

All hat and no cattle:  A guy who boasts a lot but has nothing to boast about.

Maverick:  An un-branded steer.  An independent freelancer.

Going to the mat: Risking everything for a collegue you think is worthy of it.

Spurring them on:  Obviously it's the horse analogy here. You usually do this out of support for an ally but may do it with an enemy if you believe you are leading into a trap.

Putting your cards on the table:  It means coming clean about who you are and what you expect of yourself and others.  It may be related to "putting your guns on the table" meaning "I'm playing fair.  I want to be civilized about this".

Muffing it:  It means a failure to exicute something properly

The Ball is in your Court:  Meaning you're the one who logically needs to make the next move

Dropping the ball:  Starting off fine- - but making a fatal mistake and the other guy is allowed to cease the very issue or point you were going to score with, and score with it himself.

In for the duration:  Someone basically proclaiming undying loyalty to your cause

In for a penny; in for a pound:  Once you make something an issue- - often the key issue is not of Degree but of Kind.  And once you go down a certain road, the "logical consequence' tendency is to keep headed down that same road.

Beating a dead horse:  Harping or obsessing on an issue that's no longer relivent.

Borrowing trouble:  Getting involved in a fight "you don't have a dog in" and take on needles risks.

Too much water has passed under the bridge:  The other person has gone just "too far" to apologise or dare to seek forgiveness from you Now.

Run aground:  Being a C E O and screwing up and improperly "navigating" the business through hazzards.

Paracite:  One who "sucks up all the oxygen out of the room and feeds off of everyone around him and gives nothing back.

A Quiet News Day

This is Wednesday Octmber 10th with less than a month to go before we find out whether Mitt Romney will have that esteemed honor he wants of being the first Mormon president, and also the dubious distinction of being the absolute worst, most despised President of the past eighty years.  Mitt Romney has shot up in polls as of yesterday being four points ahead of the President in one poll, and up one point in another.  Apparently he had wiped out overnight the gender gap, with now women preferring Mitt Romney in almost as great as numbers as do men.  Obama has this besetting fault of being an "academic schollar" but it takes a "good performance" and not true intellectual debating skill to win over today's pathetically educated crop of Americans.  Logic and credibility mean nothing to today's audience.  You can lie a blue streak to them, just as long as you do it with decisive forcefulness and looking them squarely in the eye.   I am hoping to catch today's speech by Bill Clinton on You Tube or someplace.  I am planning to get a new template for this blog perhaps before the day is out.  We now pick up yesterday's narritive a little before three o clock this morning.

I went out and talked to James some more and had a cigarette, because I knew I wouldn’t be able to get to sleep without one.  I told him I had just had diaria and my lower GI tract was still restless.  But then I went back to bed and got to sleep and I woke while it was still pitch dark, but it was already 6:07 so I got up.  I had the Stephanie Miller program on and made the final pot of coffee.  We had Raison Bran for breakfast and scrambled eggs and French toast.  I was still hungry with just one piece.  What else is new.  Denise ran out of coffee before getting to me, that’s what.  Anyhow I relaxed and listened to Stephanie the next hour and Denise brought the laundry basket back.  I put the clothes away just before lunch.  I had “Live and Local” on.  Nora arrived and changed the linens just before ten.  Bill gave me a cigarette lighter that was low on fluid, for free, saving me needed funds.  I went down for morning coffee from Dora but got one cup and she left while I was sitting two chairs down from Nancy, enjoying the yellow cake she also had.  I was just musing on how life was better for me just one year ago.  Later out on the patio I was thinking that Dr. Levy talking about goals five years out is misguided.  I have shorter term goals, like not being served bologna sandwiches two days in a row when the first day it said “ham” and today the menu said “turkey”.  I returned to the room around ten thirty.  Arts and crafts was in progress.  I haven’t changed the calendar from September yet but this month has sucked so bad it’s no loss.  I am far less “adventurous’ in my blogs now from a year ago or even six months ago.  I had more reason to be worried then because you had all these political flavors of the month then.  First it was Michelle Bachman, then Gov Rick Perry and the “Texas Miracle”.  (That’s his back-up band)  Then it was Herman Cane and late in the year 2011 it was Newt Gingrich, as Paul had foretold a whole month in advance.   In late spring of 2011 I was doing that pure math geometry stuff and the thing then was how many lines it takes to surround all possible planes from any given dimension, and I worked out a formula- - and carried it out to four dimensions.  Then I had that “tetra-hedenization” of numbers- - thanks to that Excel chart, with a possibility of going higher in dimensions.  Today my postings are very unadventurous compared to then, like I am phoning them in.  I wish I had more readership.  I really do believe people should read my older stuff because at this point in time - - the older stuff is both more inspired and creative, as well as expanding your mind.  But “expanding your mind” seems to be on no ones priority list.  Mal Evans finally put in an appearance at lunch time.  I played a recording for me, which is like some mash-up combo of “Dust in the Wind”, “Stairway to Heaven”, and “Aqualung”.  You haven’t heard a piece on the radio like that have you?  Mal Evans also explained the reason why he didn’t want me writing or posting anything against Obama - - and it has to do with this martyr complex thing.  Obama will be more of a martyr is all of his supporters stay with him and give him every change to win.  That way if he does lose we can’t be accused of “not doing all we could to help him” and the burden will fall squarely on the Forces of Hate out there, and their Judgement therefore will be all the greater.  I guess I don’t look at things that way.

We had tomato soup for lunch and cold cut sandwich and coleslaw.  I got an additional half sandwich.  We had a banana for desert, and we did get coffee.  There was a bit more “live and local” and then it was Randy Rhodes.  But I knew I getter get out to the back bench.  The place was packed out.  I signed in at number fourteen with only twelve official lines.  The van holds seven passengers but Sarah lately has been limiting it to six since people like Glen are hold-overs from one load to the next.  Oddly enough, Glen wasn’t among this crowd of some fifteen or so people.  Sarah took six on the first load including Pete Spegler.  But after she had left I looked around and there were still some eight people besides me.  I know Sarah has taken me other times when I didn’t think I deserved to be on a certain load.  And Sarah had lost the list but I wasn’t going to take advantage of that by manipulation or wheedeling.  Let those other eight argue among themselves.  Besides I really didn’t “feel like more coffee” at that point.  I went back and caught more of Randy Rhodes who was chronicling Romney’s many flip-flops.  At two o clock she had that “liars club” thing.  There is a speech Bill Clinton apparently gave today where he does his “take” on the Wednesday Debate.  It’s too bad our side can’t have Clinton as front man ALL of the time!  I won’t be posting today.

Jennifer is having a mental break down on Days of our Lives.  That’s starting to become apparent to all now.  But now Dr Daniel is having second thoughts about taking off with Nicole to Utah.  Daniel Jonas is a major flip-flopper.  Nicole is in too delicate position right now, however, to be ying-yanged around.  Also Caroline Brady is having to lot of “senior moments” these days, such to the extent that Bo told Hope he doesn’t think travel around the world in a yacht would be advisable just now.  Abigail is being frozen out by Nick, by Gabriel, and by Chad.  I guess she should take a hint that it’s a private matter- - no matter how “strange” it looks and not pursue it but leave it alone.  I heard floor mopping in the hall so stayed here and watched Dr. Oz, who had Rick Springfield, a one hit wonder, whom they now say hat seventeen top forty hits on the charts.  He didn’t date girls in high school but tried to hang himself at age seventeen, but the knot came undone about the same time he was passing out.  Later- presumably after fame, he became both a sex addict, and also seemed to be apathetic about all his wealth and fame like “It wasn’t the thing I really wanted after all”.  Maybe.  Then I had Randy on only a couple minutes.  After this I went down to the courtyard for afternoon coffee and the four birds were in the cage.  I got two cups of coffee from Dora but nothing to eat.  They are replacing a few isolated floor tiles in the hall up here.  I get the impression it’s just spot replacement and they have no intension of yanking out the whole thing.  Let’s hope not.  I guess we’re caught up and David Cruise is on now.  It’s generally been a quiet news day.