We have some new laws
going to effect today, most of which I’m not happy with. It’s the end of the era of the plastic
shopping bag in the city of Los Angeles.
Now you have to use a reusable bag or pay ten cents apiece for a paper
bag. Small liquor stores don’t have to
comply for another six months. It’s the
official start of gays in the Boy Scouts, which is an absurd of outside
organizations pushing off their values on to a private organization. Now many Church groups will understandably
decline further affiliation with the boy scouts, and that’s sad. Also that paperatzi law goes into effect,
spawning a whole lot of nucience trials of people who didn’t know the random
photos they were taking were of the children of celebreties. It’s kind of like someone working as a
stripper in a strip club - - but doesn’t like the way some of the men are
looking at her and decides to have them arrested for voyarism. The reason why these bozos get paid so much
is because they CHOOSE to be in the public limelight. But on the good side the recreational marijuana
law begins in Colorado. I guess if one
were doing a blog they would say “How they feel about the beginning of a new
year”. They might inquire how their
readers feel about a brand new year. On
the Today show this morning this economist was trying “to pump sunshine up our
skirts’ to quote a movie line- - and say that at last we are really going to
have a booming economy. It’s been so
long I’ve forgotten what it’s like, and it hasn’t happened yet. The commentator seemed puzzled which
political party would be helped by the better economic news. This one is a no brainer. Democrats of course will be vastly helped by
the good news because the tea party has been almost exclusively fueled by hate
and fear, and without these they won’t be able to survive, hence they will
wither on the vine, and democratic candidates will win. I suspect there is an overall “Tea Party
weariness” among the American public at large.
In terms of resolutions- - they are always harder to keep than you
think.
Just a little reality
check about the local weather that the networks now are raving about for Los
Angeles and this legendary “heat wave”.
The high temperature in Cypress, a city that borders Stanton, was 69
degrees, or only a couple of degrees above normal. The low was 47 and when I checked a couple of
hours ago it said right now was 58 and “feels like 58”. But there is good news on the Rose Bowl
front. Michigan State defeated Stanford,
as I was hoping they could even though I couldn’t watch the game 24 to 20. One USC fan was hanging around lording it
over Stanford that “USC finally “got” Stanford this year”. That’s right.
Meanwhile Torranto defeated the Detroit Red Wings in a hockey game that
NBC was showing mid day. When I eat
popcorn I reach for it with my left hand, even though I’m right handed, so that
diet trick wouldn’t work on me one bit.
I have a few of these “cross dominance” anomalies.
I watched the Katie
Kuric show this afternoon and she had “Project Innocence”. For instance there was an older man who was
accused of murdering a nine year old girl.
But he was among the first in the late eighties to benefit from new DNA
technology before it was abused in the OJ case.
In the real world DNA is used to bag the right suspect and not to be
explained away endlessly by Barry Sheck.
The real perpetrator was only five foot six but this big old guy was
charged who weighs 230 pounds and looks about as different from the original “description”
of the killer as you can get. At first
nobody was able to identify him in a line-up but two weeks later some young
kids called the PD and said that they had “Changed their minds and that they
should have selected number six in the line-up.
That sounds very suspicious. But
the major case was none other than a 48 year old Black man who was on death row
for eighteen years, and even had the date of his execution set. It was a case of prosecutorial misconduct- -
when they brow beat and intimidated withesses and surpressed exculpatory evidence
concerning the accused. The cops had a
white suspect but “They didn’t think he could have done it alone” and so they
said “We’ll let you go if you finger those two Black guys you said you saw in a
jeep” and so the deal was made and the Black “got it”. The sad thing is with police departments,
and I didn’t believe this 25 years ago, but they are no interested in vengeance
than justice, even if it means executing the wrong man as long as they get
Somebody for the crime. This could be a
variation of the Neil Savedra doctrine of ‘Our system of justice is so
inherently perfect that we can not allow one crime to go unexecuted- - even if
the man we kill turns out to be the wrong man.
The man’s name is Anthony and he is not bitter over the experience- but
claims that it’s all part of God’s glorious plan. And apparently he was recompensed a great
deal of money. The prosecution in this
case was never charged with misconduct.
It must be a racist DA.
I
had Nicole Sandler on for the last time.
Her “subby” awards weren’t clear and there weren’t that many of
them. Today’s Days of our Lives episode
was largely a wasted effort except for the dressing down of Jack Junior by his
mother for meddling in her dating life.
Nicole signed off at three and that’s the last of her or any progressive
we’ll hear from on KTLK radio. Randy
herself won’t be back on till Monday anywhere.
I was just thinking about how for the last six elections or 24 years, we
have elected Presidents from my generation.
Two of the three have been avid war mongers and all three have tended to
be “statists”, wanting to increase the arbitrary power of the unseen
centralized government. In-dividual
liberties have definitely taken a back seat to the “compelling interest of the
State”, which can’t lead to anything good is the trend continues unabated.
We had our Newyears
Party of sorts. We had lentil soup and
then we had a cheeseburger and French fries, with raspberry ice cream for
dessert. The usual suspects sang. They played that Oldies record of songs from
mainly the early sixties starting with “Twist and Shout’ by the Isley
Brothers. We did our sparkling cider
toast, and said a prayer for health and prosperity in the new year. They held some kind of a raffle, but Sarah
was selective about who she would allow to even pick a number. I left.
I was done. Seconds didn’t appear
likely. In terms of one more word from
“The other side” it seems now that “Duke of Earl” and “Since I Don’t Have You”
are both “Trumbolian” songs. “Smokey
Places”, that Drifters clone song, is a Belmont group and Mal Evans favors that
group over the Drifters themselves, who are “Seveners”.
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