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.