I
listened to President Obama’s Saturday morning address on KNX, and parenthetically
it’s good that at least one morning in my “regular routine” I don’t have to
alter my habits. Of course with Sunday
mornings I’ve always gone straight for the TV.
But I heard the speech just before breakfast where President Obama
encouraged congress to act on extending the Unemployment bill. He pointed out that if we fail to act the
economy will slow down and this will adversely affect us all. But I’m a little psyched out because it seems
no matter how sound of an idea it is, if President Obama is saying it right
away the idea is suspect in the eyes of Republicans. There is now this obsession of “how we are
going to pay for it”, no doubt by defunding some other program badly needed as
a service to the poor. That’s how they
opporate. It’s funny that during the
build up to two wars or Medicare part D nobody in the Bush administration ever
asked, “how are we going to fund this”?
Unemployment right now is nearly double the rate it was during the
height of the Viet Nam war. But in early
1970 as the economy was showing signs of slowing- - President Nixon introduced
the idea of “The full employment balanced budget”. But to say that unemployment, at seven
percent now, is only double the rate it was in 1968 is to misread the situation. Because they figured unemployment numbers
entirely differently then. The
unemployment is conservatively at least triple the rate it was during the
height of the Viet Nam war, and it’s anybody’s guess how much lower our
national deficit would be now- - were unemployment now were below four percent
as it was then. So in excess of three
percent higher now- - we aren’t even close to declaring the “unemployment
crisis” over. At eight there was a bill
for research in childhood cancer. According
to the speaker, childhood cancer is vastly under-funded in favor of other
things (like AIDS I imagine). And he’s
right. Any child could se it’s “not fair”.
The Republican guy said this bill could be funded by not using taxpayer funding
for Political Conventions, which they shouldn’t do anyhow. There is no bigger waste of taxpayer funds
than to “put on a show for the media” that they are too bored to cover more
than an hour of per night anyhow. The
whole idea of the Convention worked fine in the horse and buggy era where there
were no communacations and going to one was like a pilgrimage of sorts where “everybody
could get together”. The last
convention with even a hint of any drama was the 1988 Democratic convention - -
where Jesse Jackson was the darling speaker- - yet failed to get the needed
votes.
Phil
Everley, younger brother of Don Everley, died of puliminary disease, they
said. This will no doubt be a highly heralded
event in the Federation because Sirius 0 groups are highly respected as rock
and roll founders. There are only one
groups that are neither Black, nor a Sun Records derivities, nor “Rockabilly”
that is a Sirius 0 group, and those are the Big Bopper, and Danny and the
Juniors. Today is also the 38th anniversary
of Mal Evan’s death on this physical existence.
He was shot by police right here in Los Angeles, and January 4, 2014 (?)
is also the final date in 1970 that the Beatles recorded a track together without
John, which was “I, Me Mine” of course. The
strange introduction to that recording on the Anthology CD is a little eerie. It’s almost forbidding. What they say is that George was playing
around with the track during the “Get Back” sessions - - and I have heard that
recording played on KLO S - - one time. Today
would also be the 22nd anniversary of that infamous anular or ring
solar eclipse that Los Angeles experienced the opening Saturday of the NFL
play-offs that year. I thought then
that the eclipse bode ill astrological tidings for the year to come.
Apparently
we are on the twentieth anniversary of when Tanya Harding had a bunch of her
goons attack Nancy Kerrigan, with whom she was competing in ice skating with in
the Lillyhammer Olympics in 1994. It was
one of a triad of events in early 1994 involving people getting away with
violent acts. Tanya wasn’t really
punished for her act. She was allowed to
compete in the Olympics where she still holds a grudge against the judges
twenty years later. She got away with
it. In soap land- - now this web of
secrecy of E J Di Mira and the murder cover-up has reached its tenticles out to
Abigail because E J tracked her down to the Smith Island cabin where Hope was
mysteriously not there. So what’s he
going to do to Abigail- - kidnap her to some remote island? Or does he have something on her to blackmail
her with? For the third time now- -
Samantha delivers her ultimatum of “something she can’t live with” and backs
down, and now she had “decided to set a wedding date” after all. At least that’s the impression I get. Both Samantha and her son Will have “the
heart of a whore”. They are willing to
whore out, or sell out their moral values at the drop of a hat, and principle
means little to either of them, which I really can’t respect. Vladamir Putin has his hands full dealing with
the two bombing terrorist attacks in the Olympics city. I’d like to say “How awful” but there is a
part of me that dearly hopes Vladamir Putin falls flat on his ass and the
Russian Olympics are a colossal failure.
We boycotted them in 1980 and I think it’s time for us to do that
again. I get the impression he’s turning
Russia back into a police state, and any distinction between Russia today and
the old Soviet Union is vanishing as fast as ice in Hudson Bay WAS- - before
this year’s cold wave. Personally- - it
seems I’ve observed a marked bias in the Communist judges at sports events even
before the Moscow Olympics.
Weather
dominates the ABC network news as it has all winter. This appears to be the coldest winter since
the winter of early 1982 when people still thought we were entering global
cooling. The other cold winter was the
1976 – 1977 season where temperatures were zero or below for what seemed like
four or five weeks. They no sooner
escape one snow storm and another is “cold’ on its heels. It would seem to me that the Polar Bears must
be very happy now, if they really like it this cold. I wonder if the Federation is planning on
“re-thinking their position on global warming”. I guess the big question is - - just how
much cold weather do we have to have to sway that illusive “global average”
figure back to normal. That would seem
actually possible now.
In
terms of the weather the east coast is still under the full effect of
storms. Rush Limbaugh talked about the
game at Green Bay but I was pleased by the notion that he says San Francisco is
up to the task. It’s the NO Saints he’s
worried about going to Philadelphia because the Eagle fans are a rough bunch
and are noted for beating up the other team’s fans, and Rush didn’t seem
entirely pleased that plain clothes cops will be dressed up at Saints
fans. Green Bay will be the coldest
venue by far. But Cincinatti and
Philadelphia won’t exactly be mild. My
guess is that the Chargers will find the cold climate a bit too much for them,
and would have to have an unusually “good day” to beat the Bengals. I believe the Colts are the remaining team
and they would be playing in a dome against Kansas City. I’d like to see the Colts win that one- - and
somehow for the Chargers to survive, too.
Rush gets so sarcastic about football head injuries that a novice
wouldn’t be able to make hear or tails of a lot of Rush’s rambling
remarks. Rush apparently will only be doing “double
duty” on KFI till January 20th.
I guess I’m a little relieved. I
imagine Bill Handel hasn’t gone anywhere.
Of course his most conservative trait is his race baiting on
Immigration. I still intend to download
the camera stuff and do all that directory re-shuffeling.
It's funny how we don't know the future. We are poor prognosticaters of it. You never know in advance which stories and events are going to catch fire in any given year, or how the media will choose to portray this or that particular story. And make no mistake about it. Most of us are slaves to whatever the Media tells us how we SHOULD think about or evulate a story. We know the media just loved George H W Bush in 1991 but they hated him in 1992 and they loved Ross Perot till early June of 1992 and then they suddenly all turned against him, almost as if on cue, and they embraced Bill Clinton, and you know the rest. The media loved President Obama before he got elected, but after they had "told us what decision to make and who we should select as our standard bearer" then all of a sudden they turned against him, as they have been ever since.
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