San Antonio Spurs Win Fifth NBA Championship

"The Problem with that guy is that he believes that his shit don't smell!"
(and I agree with him, but never put it so - eloquently)

"If you engage in straddles long enough, it can pretty well be deduced that you have no balls"

"Certain tax deductions for millionaires are counter productive.  A millionaire should not get to pay no tax at all when the common laboror pays fifteen percent or something"
-spoken by that great socialist, Ronald Reagan

Before we do anything else I want to talk about this pathological notion that the Republicans are at all “Conservative’ in the sense of  “conventional” or “normal” and “stable” or any other term that would come to mind when one thinks of conservative.   Thom Hartman is talking about the deboccle in Iraq right now and most view it is a true tragedy.  It most certainly is for anyone in the Orama-bush administration, which is basically one seamless fabric – and a statement from Obama about the war in 2011 is basically as though someone from the Bush administration who could just as easily have said it.  The fact is that as Romney and Lindsey Graham point out we needed a “status of forces agreement” and didn’t have it, and we never leave our armed forces in nations that don’t have it.  Graham also points out that Meliki himself is a real screw-up and didn’t really follow through with our implied agreement that he would be President of ALL the people in Iraq, and not just Shiites.  I do not relish the idea that “Oh this is just what liberals were saying before the war ever started in 2002.”    I had no idea in 2002 anything vaguely like this would happen, especially, since Thom Hartman points out “There was no Al Qaeda in Iraq before the war started”.  There was a story about one Al Qaeda member having lunch in Bagdad, which turned out to be false.  Then we were told it was Operation Iraqi Liberation, which someone pointed out spelled “O I L” so they had to change it.  Then it was we were pursuing “Freedom” in Iraq and the words “Freedom” and “Liberty” punctuated President Bush’s speeches back then.  One reason why I voted for Bush in 2004 is because elections in Iraq were already scheduled to happen.  It is not my contention that we Democrats “Wanted President Bush to fail” in 2001 as Rush Limbaugh alleges, because Bush was such a complete nothing for the first several months in office, nobody even thought that much about politics then.  I didn’t; I had too many problems of my own with alcoholism in those months.  But then it is the fact that Obama is Black- - that is a major driving force of hatred and animus with the Republicans.   But as Vince Bugliosi said in a book “George Bush and Dick Chaney ought to be brought up on War Crimes charges”.   And Vince is not one noted for “conspiracy theories”.  My one observation about Vincent Bugliosi is that he over-glammorized Charles Manson as this mystic who followed the Beatles or something, when actually he was a murderous sociopathic thug, who probably should never have been let out of prison in 1967 to begin with.  Ronald Reagan funded both Iraq overtly and Iran secretly in that eight year drawn out war between the two of them that resulted in the deaths of millions.  How do we do that as a nation and NOT deserve the designation of a blood thirsty War loving nation, funding both sides of such a violent conflict involving the gassing of civilians.  Then you have the head of the Talliban offering to turn over Bin Laden to be tried by a neutral country in 2001 after the 9 – 11 attacks, and President Bush declined the offer.  He’d rather start two wars- each of which went on for another ten years.  Again over a million innocent people died not to mention thousands of our servicemen.  And as that caller said, if we were at all objective and “unbiased” we would be holding hearings on the events of 9 – 11 as they unfolded step by step.  God himself in the Bible is morally revolted by people whose continual desire is for strife and conflict, and War, as Bush and Chaney are.  And yet if you tell this to the Republicans they will put their hands on their ears and shout “I can’t hear you!”.  Of course there is such a wall between people now that even relatives can’t talk to each other about these things at holiday gathering in a civil manner.

Counterfeiting is something you do which indeed throws into question the value of “the real thing” but I fail to see how the analogy fits with gay verses straight marriage.  The simple reason why it does not work - - is that counterfeiters try and make their product identical to the real thing, whereas in gay marriage there is no vague attempt to make a gay marriage look “straight’ and hence there can be no possible confusion between the two.  So the gay marriage would be like 'play money' at best.  Nobody is “accidently” going to fall in love with the same sex and get married, as one would accidently pick up a counterfeit twenty dollar bill.  Actually there is a dark part of me (and I’d never admit this to my Christian friends) that rather relishes the idea of gay marriage.  Because I believe marriage as an institution itself is hypocritical and is probably used to subjugate women- - and also an attack on marriage in general weakens the Church, which has been an oppressor of yours truly, so anything that weakens the church- - such as a weakened institution of marriage, I have mixed feelings about.  The “angels of my better nature” says ‘marriage is a good thing that keeps society from falling apart”.   And this is how I would vote as a politician- to keep marriage as what it’s always been, a contract between a man and a woman.  Certainly other things have “brought down” the institution of marriage including the number of divorces both celebreties, and politicians- - even Christian politicians have.  But alas the "better angels of our nature" cause many of us to "take that step you've been thinking about" and "trying to make a go of it".  But in the course of time it becomes evident evident that the thing just isn't going to work.  By the way I think Thom Hartman should know that is I have never bought in to, or argued for the theory of "Homosexuality is a choice".  To be frank, if push came to shove I'd say "I don't have an answer" to the homosexual problem.  But according to Thom (and he's pretty darned cleaver to come up with this argument) if "Homosexuality is a choice" for you, then obviously you're a bi-sexual, since you could be happy with either sex.  In like manner for Neil Savedra to say that "A decision for Christ" is a choice, is to presuppose that there are no "prior events" influencing your decision like your personality or the way you were brought up or whatever and God is just kind of standing there just waiting to see what you'll do without the vaguest preconception what your choice will be in advance.  An argument of this nature is to throw St Paul in the trash can, obviously.  It's kind of like saying that the victim of a mugging has a "choice" whether to hand over his wallet and watch with a gun to his head.  What I find most offensive of all is what the Catholic Church does is disallowing a divorce but allowing “annulments”.  What this does is to profoundly disempower women, who after a twenty year marriage it’s as though it never happened and now her best years are behind her- - but the man is free as a bird without a financial care.  I’ve always hated these people who act as if their first wives or first marriage “never happened” like that person never existed.  And if you are a Kennedy you can have all the abortions you want and still be a Catholic in good standing, but the average perishoner has to be pure as the driven snow”.

 The San Antonio Spurs won their fifth NBA championship last night.  The years they won were 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 20014.   The only game Miami won was in SA the night they got the air conditioning fixed.  The Miami Heat lost by 19 and 20 points in their two home games, and last night San Antonio and looked invincible, as Ricardo noted when I got my meds.  Of course they had the team trophy and the MVP trophy.  That was a really young fellow.  And they interviewed Tim Duncan, who apparently started in finals in three different decades.  Crowds in both stadiums get an A for team spirit.  Miami has been in the finals the last four years in a row and won two out of four of the matches.  They won last year apparently against the Spurs (my memory isn’t clear) and so 2012 and 2013 were back wins.  The season coming to a conclusion on a Sunday night and on Father’s Day probably made for good ratings.  After this I watched a Simpson’s rerun about the art plagurist who makes the interesting point of “Did you like this painting because you thought it was worth a lot, or because it brought you joy?” and then it was two “Family Guy” episodes. 

Casey Cason died yesterday making his “final exit”.  This as you know was the name of some pro medically assisted suicide book.  It seems that Carrie Cason won control of her father and wanted his hydration and food cut off and they went into “death mode”.  Can anyone say “Death Pannels”.   Such conduct by hospitals ought to be forbidden in my book.  Jean Cason his wife said that “Casey would never want to be starved to death in this manner” but when I heard this grim news (which frankly upset me more than the final outcome) I pretty much knew that the end was year and that he “would not be hanging on for months’ as I heard someone around here state.  We come to the cosmic side of things and it was one morning late last week when I got the heads up – Cason would end up with the Romulans – with all of those congegations of the word “Salir”, which of course has as its root “making an exit” or an escape, or meaning “to get out of” from the viewpoint of the subject.  And as you know in the anals of Rock - - people have a way of ending up in different places cosmically than they spent their carrier.  It happened with Ricky Nelson,  and it happened with either Lieber or Stroler (?) whichever died - - and it happened with Clarence Clemens – the signature saxophone player for the E Street band, who the Federation bagged from his former planet (“he’s the guy who asked all the questions”) – and most notably it’s true for Dennis Wilson and Kurt Cobain- - whom the Romulans acquired.  In Denis’ case it because he was kicked out of his previous group  - - and in Kurt’s case- - and more information was made public just last week about what was going through Kurt’s mind leading up to his suicide.  It was a good strategic move him and worked out rather well for him.  Indeed Kurt was indeed one of the few “born again experiences” where he was able to leave all his “problems” behind.  It’s a good trick - - if you’re lucky enough to pull it off.

On a personal note I'm having computer disk problems.  This computer has crashed twice this morning and the first time coming back on I got the "blue screen of death" with Windows making dire warnings about a hard drive going bad and checking my files.  I don't know how long I'll continue to be able to use this computer at all, but this sort of expense I didn't need.  The Kings victory parade is today in downtown Los Angeles.  This means that for about the sixth time in the past eight days- Days of our Lives will not be on.  The plot was dead in the water anyhow.  It's either that dumb hold up guy in a house, or the French Open or Masters Golf and now a parade.  This computer just crashed a third time while writing this.  I guess I better not press my luck any further.

This is five in the afternoon and the computer seems to be working OK now.  John Lennon proposed the theory last week that Paul did the drumming on 'Me and My Monkey" because according to John "All of the drumming is deceptively easy- - and all the rhythm is in other instruments".   John also said my contribution to Abbey Road was limited to the compositions of "I Want You" and "Come Together".   But that "most of those compositions on side two are out of a confused haze anyhow".