The United States Is Quickly Moving Twords Fascism

It would seem it’s shades of 2002 all over again as far as working up hype for another War in the Mideast.  You sure got the impression people on Meet the Press last week were gung ho for war.  But the government doesn’t play fair.  Apparently people in the Obama administration threatened to prosecute the family of James Foley for daring to offer ransom to the enemy, which is apparently against Federal law.  And of course James Foley was at an anti NATO demonstration and was the subject of a movie documentary “Four Days in Chicago”.  The government really is paranoid of protestors.  All aspects of the media seem to suppress and distort the views of anyone who is anti war.  It’s not even considered proper to broach the idea that we should not go to war again in the Mideast.   Foley’s certainly resents the idea of the Obama administration using James Foley as a poster boy for the war effort.  One magazine greatly distorted the results of one poll, where 65% of the people seemed to be against “Doing more in military involvement” and said the survey said “America has really come around to a more pro war stance in the past year”.   We know that Pat Tilman before he was killed by “friendly fire” was voicing doubts about the War we were in then- - and the Army burned his notebooks he had compiled.  And we also know that 9 – 11 families who speak out against further war in the Mideast aren’t treated very well by the media.  In fact we seem to be moving tword some sort of a Fascist state.   George Washington blog- - gave all sorts of links quoting various Americans including former Supreme Court justices- - as saying the United States was moving in a dangerous, Orwellian direction with all our drones and domestic spying.  Of course a rescue mission gone bad, like Jimmy Carter before him, is the last thing any President wants.  This blogger also reminds us that the United States is neither a democracy nor a republic, but an oligarchy  (I better look up that word) an elite few powerful people, running the country.  Of course Tim suggested in a phone call with me years ago that President Obama was “selling out liberal interests”  (my words) and he said “Perhaps the President is being forced to do this.  Perhaps certain people have made it clear the President’s life is in jeopardy if he doesn’t play ball”.    I have stated many times Michael Benner has had those same dark thoughts.

I watched that C-Span video on “What the next recession will be like” in this country but it was mostly looking back at the last recession.  Clearly that recession was caused not by anything Greenspan did, or even Bush’s deficit spending, but rather out of control private debt.  That’s the kind of debt no Republican wants to talk about that’s way larger than our total federal public debt.  But another lie was roundly refuted.  Actually before a major depression such as the 1920’s government revenue is actually UP and the government debt goes DOWN.  In fact a sign of an impending recession NOW could be is our federal deficit keeps going DOWN.  (Selah)  It’s no big surprise how a recession comes about.  There is an over-supply of too many unused buildings or goods and the people aren’t buying them and production is cut back, and people are laid off and don’t have money and can’t pay their debts.  But the kicker is that this author states that the banks are lending out lots of money still.   The Republicans in 2012 made a really BIG THING of the non-fact that “The banks aren’t lending to business because of the uncertainty caused by fear of Obama raising taxes again”.    That was the bogus lie of the year because lending- according to this author was only ever cut back by - - - wait for it - - two percent - - as opposed to over 25% in the Great Depression from 1929 to 1930.   And the other lie is that recovery is easy.  NOBODY I read back in 2009 EVER said this recovery would be EASY, in fact just the opposite was true.  I was told that real estate prices would STAY down for a long time and that unemployment would NOT improve for years and years.  If these Republicans imply public knowledge was anything other than this they were lying to you.  In Japan they had a financial crisis like ours in 1991 and may STILL have not recovered from it.  I’ve heard the economy has been “flat” (or flat lining) in Japan for over twenty years.

 I also watched a little “History of Intel” where Packard was from Silicon Valley.  Needless to say HP computers are almost universally regarded as the crappiest computers on the market.   There was praise heaped on Steve Jobs as well as some mentor who was “worthy of him”  (such modesty!) yeah- - Steve Jobs finally came across a guy who was good enough to teach him something named Noyse - - or something like that.  This guy died at a young age and it was traumatic for Steve Jobs.  There was a lot of talk about all of the greatest computer minds flying helicopters and airplanes together and otherwise taking physical risks and  “If anything had happened to us, it would have been like a cyber Buddy Holly type situation”.   (not the most modest person in the world)

This bit about Scotland having a referendum on Independence this Thursday is pretty silly.  Other than pure sentimentality- - it makes completely no sense economically, or in any other way.  But the crew of the Mc Laughlin group was slow to recognize this fact.  One need only look at our own Civil War to see the complete folly of this sort of secession.  After all the South was economically weaker than the North before the war began, and after the war they were nothing- - and could only help to survive by charity from the North.  In fact Quebec had a better cause for independence because they were ethinically and linguistically and culturally very different- - and yet the people back thirty or more years ago regarded that move as a bad joke.  This one is an even bigger joke, which is probably why I haven’t mentioned this news story before.  But I see it heads up “The Week” magazine I received at the dinner table.

Neil Savedra can talk about counterfeits all he wants.  Of course he is absurd to do so since if I were to rank Evangelists from totally sincere to totally bogus, of all the people I’ve ever heard preach in the past fifty years, Neil would be as close to pure bogusness as you could get.  Besides nobody in their right mind would CLAIM to be a fundamentalist Christian, if they were not in fact that- - since Evangelists of this sort have such a notoriously bad reputation.   By way of proof - - if Neil of KFI were at all serious about “sharing the Gospel” as the Bible mandates, he would do it for free.  But instead over half the time I’ve checked in-  - during the period when the Jesus Christ show is on- - it has NOT been Neil speaking but a commercial.  And maybe the notion of “Jesus wine” would make an entertaining Saturday Night spoof- - but in reality - - people who wrap themselves in commercialism just aren’t considered credible by the public.

Trying Not to Make It So Darned Complicated

The contrast between conservatives and liberals isn’t terribly complicated;  but the reality of it can indeed be unsetteling.   For instance in 1968 there was a book out called “The Population Bomb” that stated that world overpopulation was a serious problem.  You know the drill if you grew up in the sixties fifty years ago.  They said “If we don’t do anything about the birth rates around the world- - the world’s population we know it today- - will double by the year two thousand.  Now it’s fifty years later and the world’s population has doubled.  And we don’t care.  Yet Thom Hartman tells us a simple way to cut birth rates in women is to educate them and liberate them from the sexual tyranny of men keeping them “barefoot and pregnant” all the time out of some sort of tribal loyalty.  We are told we waste untold amounts of soil and energy resources on growing food for - - animals, for humans to then eat.  It’s a highly wasteful and inefficient use of energy- - both the physical and the nutritional kind.  Yet we do it.  This guy on KNX just now stated “Rather than wage a war on coal, the coal industry ought to be protected – and all the jobs and energy that come with it”.   Yet experts tell us coal cannot be made cancer free – as the “clean coal” advocates suggest.   When it comes to government spending- - we do not have a government spending problem; we have a revenue problem.   We have taken deliberate steps over the past few decades to deliberately create a revenue crisis.   Now some like Pete Richards would say “No- - I know of examples of extreme government waste.  They have all sorts of money if they will use it right”.    Let me torpedo this logic with a simple example.  Suppose you have a leak in your radiator hose and your engine isn’t getting enough water and is in danger of overheating.  Is the answer to say “Well then I’m just going to make sure my radiator is never completely filled up- - and that way I’ll waste less water”.   No.  Not unless you want your engine to fry.  Since when does cutting revenue cut waste?  Hummm?  Because if you still have the same political crooks in power such as Chris Christie, Scott Walker, Rick Scott, and Rick Perry (though he is not in the same league as the other three).   These right wing republicans are the biggest crooks and nest featherors on the planet!   I’ll use a personal example that may drive the point home.  Since about 2008 I have been running a “food deficit”.   If I were in the same room with Dr Phil Mc Graw talking to prospective dieters - - I would tell them “Be prepared to say good-bye to any personal happiness you’ve known with food all these years, because from personal experience I will assure you will never get enough food on these diets and years later- you’ll still be looking for every opportunity to get more.   Some people- - maybe even me have toyed with ideas like “Getting used to the new normal”.   OK unions and pension funds are a thing of the past.  The California renters tax rebate is a thing of the past.   Living in a world without continual war (like under Clinton or Reagan) is a thing of the past.  Constant fear of terrorists and terrorism is “The new normal” for us.  Disfunctional government is “The new normal”.   We hear it announced as if an edit from On High- - months ago - - that “The democrats will lose big this November in congress” and we all blindly accept it.  When Chris Matthews said a few weeks before the Iraq War started in 2003 “Well, we’re all pro Iraq war now” we all blindly accept it.  I have doubts as to whether God Himself regards a democratic victory of any sort as even theoretically possible.   The average bub-bah in the red states is also sold the ego-feeding line of ‘You have rights as an American.  You have the right to be ignorant and proud and never question your own inadequacy or think for one moment some more educated person might know more than you.  You have the Right to expect the sort of first class elite medical care that Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity can get- - you know- - if you you’re your nose to the grind stone and keep voting conservative.  Dr Levy sees nothing wrong with an elite class of the very rich getting new transplant organs all the time and to live to be a hundred and fifty years old, so that not only does your Wealth live forever with virtually no fear of inheritance taxes these days – but you yourself can go on living in your permanent privileged elevated status consuming way more than your share of the world’s resources.  You have the Right to believe that all of these economists and their forecasts- - and energy experts- and their forecase- - and all of the sociological surveys done in society and gun violence- - you have the Right, by God- - to regard ALL these things as some gigantic left wing socialist conspiracy of the ‘College elite” or whoever.”  I would only comment to these same rednecks- - that “You ALSO seemingly have the right to be insulted and LIED TO by these posers and hypocrites who don’t even believe themselves half the things they are telling you.  They may have family members like with Eric Cantor or Rob Portman- - that are as queer as a three dollar bill- - and they love and accept these people- - but they know it’s in their own interests to fan YOUR hatred to get YOUR votes!   Like I say this problem may be unsolvable- even for God Himself.

We’ve heard about this strange younger generation, Generation Y, whose collective life experiences are so different from my own growing up in so many different ways - - such as heightened dependence on parents- - how they view their own job prospects - - or even things such as human values in general or character and discipline.  In a Little Rascals thing- - this one guy Tubby was always talking about his father taking a razor strap to him to keep him in line.  And we’ve all heard Granny Clampet talk about “cutting a switch” to take after Jethro when he gets out of line.  I don’t know how they discipline in Texas, but this one Minnisota Viking, Adrian Peterson- - - used a “switch”  (traditionally a hickory stick, I guess) to discipline his son, and now the  NFL is accusing the player of child abuse.  Just how far reaching is the domain of the NFL anyhow?   We hear that the term “Redskins” is offensive.  The new mayor of New York wants to eliminate horse drawn carriage rides through Central Park- - no doubt a hallowed tradition people come to the city for- - since the nineteenth century.  We hear that this younger generation is more altruistic and want to save the world- -- seemingly much more in substance than my own Hippy generation ever was.   We hear that in technology not only is the CD on its way out, but that even E mail is considered old fashioned.  We hear that “flex time” and working at home- - is becoming the norm- -but I’m not sure- - maybe in that mythical land Lisa Simpson wrote about called “Equalia”.   Certainly not in any sort of real life I’m familiar with.

I feel like doing the Joan Rivers thing with my readers, “Can We Talk?”  By the way as we all suspected- - there was medical mal-practice involved with Joan’s death, just as there was with my Dad.  If human life is worth little to you- go and vote YES on 46.   The logic of that ad is about as crazy as “There is a conspiracy of the uniform manufactures - - to have a bill calling for more police officers on the street.  Don’t Make The Uniform Manufactures Rich!”   But it is a reminder that death can come at any time when we don’t expect it.  You could go into a hospital for the most minor and routine of procedures and end up dead.  In my writings you may have noticed I have an tendency to complicate things.  Perhaps this obsession for “detail” is part of my mental illness - - like I have a little “Rain Man” in me.   Some people say that the reason why Autistic people can’t hold conversations- - is because their visual cortex doesn’t link up properly with their auditory cortex- - and they view everything out of synch.  So autistic kids will often cover their eyes or cover their ears- - because they can’t process the mental input they are getting.  That’s a new theory anyhow.  Dr Levy doesn’t have that problem.  He simplifies things down WAY too far for my taste - - - so that the average viewer of FOX news can understand it, but when you’ve simplified it THAT far you’ve lost the essence of whatever you are trying to convey.  So how would Dr Levy handle a topic like “The Rapture” or a sudden snatching away from this world to another- - -and not look back.  He might discuss the shock of “Everything in your complete existence being stripped away from you - - even your own body.  Perhaps even what we come to know as material objects and special relations and language.  This would be quite an adjustment for anybody.  You might have to get used to a whole set of alien moral values (and I use that word in its generic sense).   As I myself have pointed out- - don’t assume even your Memories will still be a part of you.  You may have a whole other identity- - and if someone were to tell you what this present life was like for you- - you’d think they were telling you some fantastic story.  The possibility of different Afterlives is endless- - and I confess it might be something even me with my fertile imagination- - have never thought of.  And I would not insult either you or God Himself – by claiming I know what’s “out there beyond the veil”.

Last night the realization hit like a ton of bricks that in my writings I still have ways of presenting things in a way that overly complicates things and makes them too detailed.  And worse yet I play this “hop scotch” game of leaving clues referring to other clues on different posts you have to hunt down.  This is demanding way too much patience from my blog readers.  Last night I made it my mission to hunt down the original truck load of “Beatle Federation releases”.   And I found them.   There are eight single disk things – at least the first seven are based on the number Seventeen, and I call it “The seventeen club”.    There is an eighth disk in this “Boxed Set” – titled “The Best of the Rest of the Beatles’ or something – and I specify the use of the picture from Beatles Anthology II for that one  - which draws mainly from the Anthology series- - which is a real entity and can be found in any record store, assuming they have those any more.   This was done in early February of 2013 in case anybody wants to go looking for it- in Psychic Balance, which should be renamed ‘Psychic Imbalance”.  Now- - if you go down a few posts - - to late January of 2013 you will find that illusive “Red Album”.  It’s shorter than I imagined it.  There are only thirty songs in two disks.  And it too relies amazingly heavily on Beatles Anthology.   And there ARE post Beatle tracks on that album, but not as many as I had imagined.  "Cold Turkey" is on it.  Most all the tracks on side two are in alphabetical order.  It’s pretty easy to remember which tracks they are.  You have the Ringo single from 1971.  That’s it for Ringo.  You have the George single from July of 1971.   There ARE no Mc Cartney singles from 1971.  Instead we use the last three songs off of the Mc Cartney album of 1970.   That leaves John, and there aren’t most of those Lennon singles I talked about either.  “Shaved Fish” has been in the stores since 1975 and anybody can find most of them there.   I pick my two favorite tracks off the Imagine album and use those “Give Me Some Truth” and ‘I Don’t Want to be a Soldier, Mama”.   "Sour Milk Sea" and "Come and Get It" were demo tracks done by the Beatles for other groups.  This RED album - - is the one with the ‘Hey Jude” picture cover.  The thing with that vinyl thing of “The Beatles” this is all in black décor, no doubt for the sarcasm of it.   So that’s back - - early February of 2013.   You have to go back to mid January of 2013 (a few weeks earlier) for our “Expanded White Album” CD - - which is the WHITE in the whole RED and WHITE and BLUE thing.  

Tomorrow Never Knows

Have you ever observed or analyzed a situation, or perhaps come upon some soap opera scenario where you concluded "There is only two possible outcomes for this situation" but the trouble is, Either scenario seems completely impossible and you can't imagine Either thing happening if you think about it a second or two.  Months ago I told you that if the Lord or whatever other Force out there was to intervene in human affairs it would be months and not years because 'We just can't keep on going on the way we are going".  Are you people really expecting that we are prepared for two more years in congress of even Worse gridlock than we have had the previous four years, and some would argue the previous six?  Things are so bad the right wingers aren't even agreeing with each other.  These is this regular Black guy that appears on a Thom Hartman program who says "The Republicans are ready to approve this renewal, or some would say, the resurrection of the Mideast war.  It's just a matter of Obama giving the thumbs up signal and congress will storm the gates in eagerness to heartily vote their approval.   If this scenario were to be true- - then the President's choice would be easy.  All he needs to do is to become the new "Bush" and it will be like the Republicans again have a kindred spirit in the White House.  Personally I can't conceive of this happening.  I think that Black guy is full of it because he lies about everything else, and was just trying to make points.  But nobody believed him that Congress was champing at the bit to support a new war.  Hartman didn't believe it, we the audience don't believe it, and I doubt if the guy himself even believes it.  On the flip side of the coin we have Rush Limbaugh working himself up into a froth going on and on about how if President Obama prosecutes this war- - bombing campaign- - whatever - - that the President is violating the Constitution in a more blatant way than even President Bush dared to do.  Only in his dreams could President Bush violate the constitution without once consulting congress or getting approval for another war.  So which is it?  If President Obama this power mad violator of the Constitution - - or still the same snivveling, timid coward he's always been?  Hummm?   A complicating factor enters because often Rush Limbaugh is so sarcastic at some point even his most ardent supporters have to be confused as to what Rush really believes.  It was several months ago- - maybe even a year ago - - I was wondering what the heck this President would do once he got out of office.  He could become a Wall Street banker or an insurance company attorney and make lots of money.  If Obama did this he would be another Steve Jobs, starting off life on the left side of the fence and going completely to the other side.  Then is when I heard the words - - was it my fevered over-imagination or for real- - - the words came to me "What President Obama chooses to do once he leaves office as President won't even be an issue".  The words were spoken with a strident, almost cocky confidence.  This gets one's mind to imagining then - - the only logical alternative would be if the President didn't survive this remaining term in office.  These words have haunted me.  I don't know how long we can just keep going on in gridlock and disfunctionality in government- - which you will scan the history books in vain to find a parrellel period in American History.  The other alternative is that someone yells "Cut - - - that's a rap" and this whole sorry thing we call human history comes to an end.  I am sticking to the date two weeks and one day from now.  That's it.  Two weeks.  That may be all we've got left.  We've heard a lot about star allignments and I've gone into that in the past.  Some would have you believe that we can prove Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah using Astrology alone.  Does anyone believe in the stars any more?

Minimum wage is a continuing hot topic today.  You've seen the productivity verses wages chart haven't you?  For years and years productivity pretty much kept up with wages- - but at some point- - almost as if someone ran a bell- - the wage curve began to fall off- - and the gap between wages and worker productivity has only grown larger and larger into a gaping gulf.  People will say "These fast food workers just aren't WORTH ten dollars an hour", with the distinct implication that they're just lazy, who "don't want to earn what they get paid".  This Black guy, as become common now- - cries crocadile tears for all those poor Blacks and Latinos who won't be able to afford their burger and fries because prices have risen so much, pointing out "You know it's mainly the poor who buy these products to begin with".  He further makes the argument that "Well, young teenagers trying to get their first job just won't get hired".   Let's look at both of these claims.  Fast food is not like gasoline.  Everybody doesn't raise their prices on the exact same day.  And the competetion among fast food outlets is much more fierce than for petrol products.  You can go to another outlet or try an entirely different kind of food, or decide to eat healthy and discover the virtues of the all lettuce diet or something.  I mean- - what's particularly insulting to the intelligence- - is that this Black guy knows - - if what he said were actually true - - about affordability - - the poor people themselves would be the first to enlist in the ranks of His side.  These republicans - particularly the few Black ones- are just posers and hypocrites, saying what they don't believe themselves.  In terms of the employment market- - right NOW teenagers have to compete with twenty and thirty year olds for their jobs - - i e against more experianced workers.  The corporations know that if the minimum wage is increased- - they will only have one choice but to trim their gigantic profits just a little.   For a franchise owner the only question he asks is "Is this neighborhood a great market for my product" and if it is- - he knows he's got it made.

“Law and Order” criminal intent - was on.  The first episode was about this fervent Mideast woman who is a sociopathic liar.  Sometimes the adage is true “The louder they protest – the bigger of a liar they are”.   My tooth is getting gradually looser and I doubt it will last the six days necessary.  But as I told Judy, I too am concerned about gum infection and that has to be cleaned out in its own right.  So far this year I have been spared long ceremonies of bell ringing and roster name calling.  But I don’t see how if it’s the case “All the signs were there for the previous eight years in the Clinton administration and yet nothing was done” how can you then see “George Bush was innocent in not taking action to prevent it because it came as a surprise to all”.   Sometimes the logical content of the rhetoric of the right shifts literally from one minute to another.

Norman Goldman announced new evidence in the Ferguson police shooting case Thursday at four.  I set the DVR on Media Player - - to listen later.  Two new witnesses have come forth to confirm the dreadlocks friend of Michael Brown - - concerning how Brown was being hit with shots - - and was grabbing his belly and then throwing his hands up in the air.  He said he was in a position to see Brown's brains being blown out with the fatal shot.  Even without this there are three or four strong witness that tell us what happened.  And also it is the FBI themselves that "found the guy with the audio tape".  I say this- because some on the right would have you to believe it was just some fraudulant oppertunist.  So far the Ferguson police department has shown about zero reason to trust or believe anything they say.  It doesn't take a rocket scientists to conclude the whole situation is racial and racist- - because obviously Cliven Bundy engaged in a combative duel with the Federal Officers- - and the Feds backed down once they saw Bundy's guns, or something.  Clearly we have a complete disconnect in how law enforcement chooses to deal with protesters depending on what their race is.  We can agree that this is beyond dispute now, can't we?

Oscar Pestorius, the “Yes, M’lady” guy- - was cleared by the judge of pre meditated murder but could still receive fifteen years for involuntary manslaughter.  If you just had a violent argument with your wife and she’s in the bathroom cowering and you are so angry you fire four shots through a locket - - bathroom door, I just don’t think you can chalk it up to “some sort of negligent oversight”.  But the judge says she personally believed the defendant’s testimony and personally didn’t think the many witnesses of the prosecution were credible.

Meanwhile Ray Rice that Baltimore Ravens guy made it clear that last May or whatever when he apologized for striking his wife that- - oh- - he did strike his wife.  How could a thing like that slip the NFL’s mind?   But at the time in February he told bystanders as he dragged his wife’s unconscious body from the elevator that “she’s just drunk”.  And a police officer states now that he personally gave the NFL a copy of the key video from inside the elevator.  So the NFL right now is just lying through their teeth saying they didn’t know.

Last night we had beef Strogenoff and corn and a green salad and corn.  We had tapioca pudding for desert.  The Ravens and Steelers game started just before five thirty with a superior rendition of the national anthem.  I could have watched the game for nearly an hour but expended a lot of time getting in and out of the medication line.  I had about given up when I came down to leave upon Paul’s phone call and the line was short with just Glen and Steve ahead of me.  Steve seemed like he was not in line.  Those are the worst people who end up taking five minutes at the counter.  Fortunately Yadera was forthcoming and I was able to get my meds.  Paul was about to enter the building when I came out and we went to the car.  I didn’t know that Paul and Judy even had air conditioning, till I came out of the house at nine fifteen and the air was so much warmer outside the house than inside.  I said I was hungry or something and was given two thin slices of cantaloupe- - and Paul placed a bowl of corn chips out there and apparently I was responsible for emptying the entire bowl.  I got into kind of a Jethro Bodeine “crunch frenzy” and just kept eating as long as there was food.  But the movie was very late in getting started.   We were talking with Judy’s mother who was there.  And no she doesn’t look anywhere near 94.  I told Paul I thought she was at his wedding but I drew a complete mental blank when he asked “How do you remember what she was like?” but when I saw her I knew I had seen her from somewhere.  She is living at the house now.  Judy herself said she was tired and wanted to take tomorrow to chill down because she’s been overworking herself.  We talked a little about current events.  Paul said to Judy’s mother “Go ahead and ask him any question; he’s really smart”.  I tried to defuse that invitation- - and also said I was plum out of ideas when it came how to best handle this ISIS crisis, but shared what knowledge I had.  That dance partner of Paul’s with the far right political views- - said initially she’d be delayed, and then that she wasn’t coming at all.  We started the movie at twenty five to eight.  About ten minutes later that Mexican lady friend of Judy’s arrived from Santa Ana.  She acted like she’d met me before but I don’t remember.  Judy had previous said “Oh you know Anita- - she was the one sitting on the end of the sofa”.  I don’t remember.   Apparently Mom is having increasing bouts of stretches of time people say she did- - that my Mom plain doesn’t remember.  As for some checkbook reappearing mysteriously under her nose- - as I said about Joe Drisco’s remark about “some kind of voodoo” that- - I wouldn’t put it past “The Powers that Be” to disappear an object and then make it magically reappear again.  It’s more reasonable than Mom not seeing it- - despite the fact it was found almost exactly where she left it.  The movie itself had the usual booming base- - and Paul said “all those horse hoofbeats got to be a little much”.   Every time a crisis in the movie would arise- - like the Roman Cencus- - he would be heralded by horses.  In another scene- - Herod demanded a half sheckle tax on the temple- - and planned to raise more taxes for when he built Massada - - and if you couldn’t pay- - the troops had the legal right to take one of your virgin daughters- - and also one third of your farm land, which you don’t have to spare.  Paul is right about the business with the three stars- - the mommy star, the daddy star, and the King’s throne- - coming together for the first time in “three thousand years”.  OK folks, this movie will never be popular in the Romulan Empire.  I remembered the scene where Mary came back now pregnant- - and she was going on and on about Elizabeth having a baby and one of the elder priests says “Elizabeth has a Husband”.  I saw that portion of the movie in the back TV room.  They had all three Wise men with their names and personalities.  They featured their desert journey and Joseph and Mary’s desert journey.  But one time Joseph prayed for a sign- - and then he saw a mountain stream or something and the caravan – and animals went into the water and then a poisonous snake appeared- - “Shake- - get out!”.   At the conclusion of the movie I developed pink eye- - and asked Paul how bad it looked.  In the bathroom Bones greeted me there and said “Of course too bad all those innocent children had to die.  You know an excellent ZAC slogan would be “Nobody died when Zachery was born”.  Good point.   Anita or whatever her name was- - had to leave just as quickly as I did.  The front door was unlocked so maybe Yadera had remembered what I said.  I went straight through the building to the back for a smoke before going up to the room.  Bill was watching “House”.  I get a little weary of watching “House” because the guy is such an impulsive screwball, kind of like Clay Doyle.   But I will say that I have more of a feeling of peace today and assurance- - with a bolstered belief that “If God could get all those peole through that major crisis- - then he can get me through my problems”.

The Economics of Revolution

Senator Bernie Sanders is on right now.  People say he’s a “Socialist” but I have always found Sanders to be perfectly level headed and reasonable in his economic ideas.  But Sanders hit on a key fact that CANNOT be overstated.  And that is that people don’t KNOW who their congressman is, and probably never thought of writing him on any issues.  Many do not even know which political party runs the house, and therefore when nothing gets passed, well these people DO know who the President of the United States is and so blame him for EVERYTHING and not caring whether it’s other people’s doing.  Sanders reminds us that this is the most unproductive congress in the History of America!  Why isn’t this fact trumped by every democratic house candidate running this year?  But some staggering economic reality comes from Mike Papentonio.  First of all- - when Rush Limbaugh opens his mouth on anything economic- - even when I was a fan of his- -I knew THEN he had NO credibility when it came to economics.  But Rush Limbaugh had stated the meme of Judy and others of “There isn’t enough MONEY in the country where even if the Rich were taxed at a hundred percent- - it would only provide a drop in the bucket to help the poor or cover the national debt but the ONLY effect of getting at this wealth would be to - - - wait for it - - Impoverish the Rich.  But what are the facts.  My motto is “When all else fails look at the facts”.   Mike Papentonio interviewed this book author of “The economics of Revolution”.   I hinted at this in my latest blog posting before I had even seen last Sunday’s “Ring of Fire” this morning.  Dig these statics.  The real inflation rate is not “below two percent’ as the government states, nor is it seven percent- - as I had come to believe-- - but this guy says it’s more like Ten Percent.  He said that the average household income has gone down 8.3% since 2007 when the recession began nearly seven years ago.  But then he says that the average Capital Wealth of the average American has dropped 43%.  That should be doomsday print sized newspaper headlines all over the land!  But it isn’t.  And as to the ability of JFK’s remark about “For now man holds in his hands to eliminate all human poverty”  - - remember that?   FDR in 1944 stated we needed some economic plan because of the great advancements in industry and technology the time is fast coming upon us where commercial wealth will skyrocket and the time is foreseeable when we will be able to completely eliminate poverty in America.   I won’t mention his suggested tax rates for the rich.  But now the author this morning of “The Economics of Revolution” claims the top one percent had thirteen Trillion dollars in known wealth.  That is wealth on the books.  But when you figure in the estimated illegal wealth in off shore accounts- - the figure comes to over Twenty Trillion with a T - - dollars.  That’s MORE than enough to completely eliminate the national debt and have trillions to spare!  This author suggests that if wealth were distributed equally in this country it would mean a $700,000 check in everyone’s bank account.  Doing the math myself I reach the figure of $83,000 for each American.  That's still a nest egg.  That’s a seven with five zeros.  So the next time some conservative tells you that welfare programs like food stamps or energy bill assistance for people freezing their tooshes off in Michigan - - just let them know that these government programs are a drop in the bucket.   There is a move afoot to pay fast food workers fifteen dollars an hour.  Why don’t we start with $10.10 first like the President suggests, and then see what happens.  I have told you that in principle I’m against tinkering around with the wage market because I’m kind of a free market idealist.  However the whole employment market- - has become so skewed due to rigged laws and economic policies favoring employers now- - that the free market itself is NOT what it would be under any kind of fair conditions.  I think more and more fast food and Wall Mart employers will hear cries of “We’re as mad as hell and we’re not going to take it any more”.   As I have said before- sometimes the thing you fear the most has a way of coming upon you.  This is an almost Biblical principle, and it applies most aptly to stubborn people with their heads in the sands.  The Glen Beck types talk constantly of crashing economies and Revolutions - - caused by the Federal Reserve I guess - - yet these same people will by their own attitudes now almost guarantee that these things will in fact occur.

Some people of the conservative persuasion would say “You liberals are only thinking of I, me, mine and not seeing the big picture”.   So let’s look at the macro picture a bit.  I believe in human responsibility.  This extends to things like computers and the internet where I don’t think people should get into computers or the internet without being properly educated with at least a rudimentary computer background.  Some would say that the way to help the “many who are poor” in the world is to give them $70,000 starting job salaries on an oil rig or something and that “energy equals prosperity”.   Some rich might even quote me the verse that is nowhere to be found in scripture that “The Lord helps those who help themselves”.  Or else they would quote Jesus and the parable of the talents, where Jesus ordered the man with the one talent have it taken away from him and given to the guy with ten, because the guy with the one talent did not develop it.  I have a somewhat different take on this passage.  Because it’s the rich who refuse to invest in this economy.  Indeed the Fed gave free money to the rich bankers with the “suggestion” that they lend it out to those who needed it and get a fair profit for it.  But the rich bankers for the most part haven’t done this.  People with money in bank accounts in the Camen Islands or in Switzerland- - aren’t helping the US economy one bit.  So in truth it’s the poor who “give back” and contribute MORE to this economy than they receive due to the multiplier affect, that Jesus also talked about.  Jesus spoke of giving away your Blessings so that others also might be blessed.  Indeed it’s the RICH who fit the profile of the man with the One talent who stuffed the money away in his mattress.  Then Jesus asks him to account for that money and the guy admits that he did not “trade” or - - lend to others- - using the wealth he had.  So by this logic it’s the rich rather than the poor that deserve to have “what they have- - taken from them”.  (Selah)

On The Nasty Neo-Republican Art of the "Pre-buttal"

This is the next morning.  "The morning after" and the President's all too fleeting speech last night stunk.  Sean Hannity was right.  Neither the words "War" nor "Islamic" nor "Victory" were ever used in that speech, almost s though he'd been tipped off.   I was almost dumber for having listened to it.  I certainly learned nothing.  I don't know just exactly who all this "coalition" consists of or what specific agreements were reached or how much bombing we were doing before of how much we'll be doing now.  I am puzzled as to whether the President was even asking the Republicans to vote any money for this opperation, which apparently could last weeks, or months - maybe years, just like before.  I am completely unclear as to Why this new Iraqi government is so much better and what agreements we've made with them.  Turkey is NATO and they are at war with the Kurds, but we are backing the Kurds.  Isn't there a problem here?  Right now it's a quarter to six AM and completely dark still outside.  "Yeah, it's always darkest before the dawn - and all that".  In my personal life there are some definite encouraging signs.  Be sure and catch all that "album release" folderall plus a lot of personal input from John Lennon, and also three songs I just remembered that were on that "mystery compilation" I haven't found yet but know I posted about a year ago.

This whole thing with the Republican pre-buttal or rebuttal before the fact, is getting way out of hand.  As you Mitt Romney took the platform and began lambasting the whole Bengazi thing litterally while the thing was still Happened- - and we had no idea WHAT the facts were.  John Boehner is famous for his "Pre-buttals of a major speech the President gives- - - hours before he's even made it.  On this Sean Hannity and I agree that John Boehner has got to go - - as House Speaker- because he's horrible!  But now Sean Hannity has taken this Presidential bashing to new heights.  Of course George Bush got criticism from time to time from leftward democrats- - either saying "I don't think his war strategy is wise" or else poking fun at his former cocaine use- - or skipping out on military service.  But now Sean Hannity just makes it blunt.  He lists all the conceivable problems in the world today and says "They are all President Obama's fault".  Even though there are things like leaving US equipment behind for ISIS to use- - the President could not possible have control over- - just as the withdrawal timetable was already set by George Bush.  If anything you could make the charge that President Obama was trying his darndest to drag out the Iraq war for as long as possible.  But Hannity quotes from a Bush speech - - - played - - where Bush is saying "We need a strong presence in Iraq to detur Islamic extremist terrorism" but I darkly suspect this was in connection with the alleged link between Hussein and Bin Laden, which is proven to be bogus.  But the sound byte makes President Bush look prophetic.   But then Sean says "Military service is the highest calling a man could aspire to- - why, it's almost a spiritual calling".  Well if it's such a high calling- - how come Sean Hannity did not join the military Service?  But then he drags Jesus into it quoting scripture "Greater love hath no man that he lay down his life for his brothers" and then says "I believe Jesus was referring to going to war when he uttered these words".  Blasphamus.  That's what Sean is.  And the standard Pre-buttal rhetoric was also opperative, meaning that Sean Forearmed himself in case the President SHOULD deliver an inspiring speech.  So Sean said "Well- - it doesn't matter what the President says, because we know the President's word is no good".  You can't please these republicans.  If the president says "I can't take that action because I believe in following the law" like with an immigrant's right to a hearing.  On the other hand if the president so much as threatens to take executive action, like on Immigration then people like Sean will say "The President has exceded his constitutional authority and because of that everybody conceivable south of the border is storming the gates to get to America.  You can't win for losing!

As to what I would say if I were the President (I'm typing this a few minutes before five) I would shock everybody by saying "I confess; it's Bush's 43's fault".  Keep in mind all of the President's detractors will be listening so "you might as well give them something to complain about".   I would say that past US activity is largely responsable for the funding of Islamic extremist terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda.  I would also show photographs of John Mc Cain with ISIS leaders a year ago, and Ronald Reagan being corgial with Saddam Hussein.  I would talk about where the funding for the 9 -11 attacks came from, from Saudi Arabia and that the United States has had a dangerous, indeed lethal connection with Saudi Arabia for decades and it has to be dealt with now, since it wasn't after the 9 - 11 attacks.  I would mention how President Bush '43 pulled the troops out of Saudi Arabia.  I would mention that even now there are economic interests the United States is too friendly with that are involved in the funding of ISIS.  I would also remind Americans that "This President made an error in judgement by getting caught up in the Arab Spring hysteria.  And also "These revelations may be shocking to many Americans even now, but these times are too serious NOT to address them now and allow them to go on and fester.  I would also mention that we need to get off of dependence of Mideast, and particularly Saudi oil imports, and that the United States would have been much more energy independent now had we implemented President Carter's far sighted measures in 1979.  I would conclude that people who PLAN to go to war- - - usually end up GOING to war because they can't let all of their well laid plans just "go to waste" as they say, but if we planned more for a lasting and just peace we might be able to prevent future wars like this and spare any further ultimate sacrifices of our brave young men. - - And of course for that all important religions touch I'd say "With God's help and looking to Him for guidance, I am confident that all of this is possible.  Good night and God bless you.

Thom Hartman states that in early 2004 the tide of American oppinion was turning against the Iraq War with people like Howard Dean speaking out.  But then in the spring of 2004 there were some vicious murders done by Al Qaeda in the province of Felugia, which may have made that area now a bone of contention for our troops to conquer.  It newly fueled the public paranoid over Al Qaeda.  Many of the objective expects (not to mention Bones, whose oppinion I have given short shrift to lately) state that ISIS is not any kind of an overt threat to the United States itself.  It's all a localized affair.  But Thom Hartman claims there is a speech of Bin Laden, where he does almost this "Bush campaign strategy mia copa" admitting that these "incidents" of people being violently and publicly butchered are "just to get us mad so that we will continue the war".  OK the thinking is more than a little nutty.  It's like my parents used to tell me when I was a teenager "Your brother is only doing those things to you just to get you mad.  If you ignore then he won't succeed".  Well, guess what?  He succeeded!  Big surprise, huh?  It sounds nutty that Bin Laden would actively WANT America to step up its war effort.  But Hartman claims "Bin Laden used to brag that he would bleed America dry and bankrupt us- - - and every dollar Al Qaeda spends brings about a hundred fold by way of return.

I am rethinking my stance on the whole "Crash of 2016" scenario, but NOT because I have some left wing (or worse - socialist) personal axe to grind.  No.  Rather I have observed that these great gains of Wall Street and bank and corporate profits- - - CAN indeed do this in the short term.  But historically to expect that it's a never ending kind of thing is like whistling past a graveyard.  Because we have the glairing example of the 1920's where after a while there was just no Base- - no consumer demand for product, and at some point all of the short term guimicks won't work any more.  You can only CUT corporate taxes so many times and you can't cut them any more.  In like manner airlines can only "economize" and cut back service and leg room on plans so far before the public just Balks!  They won't take it any more.  And ditto for job cuts.  You can only prune back the employees so far- - and the remaining ones working fifty and sixty hours per week at no overtime pay will just balk and not do it any more.  Keep in mind- -  every thirteen year old boy knows that masturbation pays diminishing returns after a while.  So this 'self stimulating" activity of buying back your own stock and being paid in stock options- - can be done for a while but there comes a point where there is no new guimic- - no new stunt you can pull or new supply of sheep ready to fleece.  At that point the bottom will fall out of the market and the thing will just crash like a house of cards.

[name withheld] knocked on the door before nine while Stephanie was on talking about fifteen dollar minimum wages.  I’m sure he felt funny about that knowing what his co workers around here probably get paid.  [name withheld] got me an apparently new lamp just taken out of the plastic, but then had to transplant the knob from the old lamp. (?)  The bulb worked and the lamp worked, and it’ll be a lot easier to dust than the old one.  Thom Hartman talked about the Irriquois tribe- and how Benjamin Franklin said of them “If ignorant savages can come up with a Constitution, than certainly we educated Englishmen can”.   He invited a deligation of them to the Constitutional Convention in 1787.  John Hancock greeted them and Abigail Adams sent her husband a letter speaking well of them, and saying “Don’t forget about the women”.  Up to that time the word “male” by way of any restrictive clause, had not been used in the Constitution.

This is Tuesday September 9, 2014 and Apple will be making their big announcement today at ten AM.  Of course on Sirius A they have their “new releases” at ten AM New York time, even if retail outlets normally open at nine, they make the customers wait an extra hour on new release days.   Stephanie Miller was a new episode today.  I didn’t think I had seen that exact color of blue shirt before Stephanie was wearing.   She’s back with Maximum Mookage because Jim Ward is back.  Apparently a “Mook” is someone from New England.  Everybody is still talking about the President’s ten suit.  I had one cigarette left in the pack.  Later before seven I got another cigarette from Bill.  Joe was happy just to see light in the clouds this morning.  I went to the old patio to get a good look at the slightly super full moon.  I waited till meal time to take my medication after what happened yesterday with that nausea panic attack thing where I felt like I might just barf at the table.  I had KNBC on TV.  I didn’t get coffee at the store but didn’t need it because Paul Evans gave me an extra cup, as well as an extra patty and a half of hashed browns.  We had scrambled eggs and toast and butter and jelly.  We had thick oatmeal I used milk on.  I know- I’m getting absurdly detailed.  One of these days I’m just going to chuck it all and not say anything.  Sometimes I do for a while but then I think “is there anything that’s happened important that I should write down?”   In terms of that beating up of the fiancé in the elevator, I agree that a logical deduction is if they show a guy dragging an unconscious woman from an elevator, it’s not because she fainted.  I already mentioned the “Double Jeopardy” thing.

We told you last month about Sirius A record releases.  But we said the Federation would release something at the beginning of September.  So here is that story.  Let's give you an update as to Federation and other recording releasing history.  The Federation on September 2nd released that first two disc "Classic Dementoids" I believe was the name of it, in the identical line-up.  But the "Get Punked" free bonus album was delayed till the ninth because there was an contention about the Dead Kennedy selection - - because they didn't like "Let's Lynch the Landlord" but had another suggestion, but in the end, that album too was released with the identical song line-up.  However for the other "Demented Again" album- - the song line up was still another contingency.  They wanted to include most of that anti Israeli speech- - but they edited it down further to 25:25 (as in you know what song) but John Lennon thought the editing sounded choppy.  The three tracks AFTER "End of the World" consist of "Refrigerator Heaven" by AC, and "Nazi Punks Fuck Off!" but the next track is "Something Happened to me Yesterday" by the Rolling Stones.  Those three last tracks would cut into the playing time of the lecture track so it had to be reduced.

We now have our tribute to Vinyl.  Also released yesterday by the Federation was by almost way of a joke was "The White Album" in clear blue vinyl.  It has the traditional green apple label with the outside of the apple on sides one and four of the product, and the inside sliced apple sides two and three.  BUT - - we took a few bizzare liberties with the song listings.  We wanted to make it both a little shorter and include one more George Harrison track for more "Beatle parody".

THE BEATLES

Back in the USSR
Dear Prudence
Glass Onion
Good-bye, My Love (Mc Cartney demo)
Wild Honey Pie
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (with studio count down)
Happiness is a Warm Gun
-----side two-----
Martha, My Dear
I'm So Tired
Why Don't We Do It In The Road?
Piggies
Don't Pass Me By
Not Guilty
Rocky Racoon
-----side three-----
Birthday
Yer Blues
Can You Take Me Back Where I Came From (long unedited version)
Me and My Monkey
Sexy Sadie (longer mono version)
Helter Skelter (shorter mono version)
Long, Long , Long Time
- - - - -side four- - - - -
Revolution no 1  (alt mix - - Longer edit- - slow fade out to 6:20)
Honey Pie
Cry Baby Cry
Savory Truffle
What's the New Mary Jame (identical to "Anthology")
Good Night

As you can see a number of songs just got eliminated.  But also we DID eliminate ONE George Harrison song if you count "Sour Milk Sea".   It's vinyl and the "Hey Jude" front cover.  The back is black backdrop and white lettering.  It just says THE BEATLES and a few production credits - - and then the four sides are listed in white print sides one and two to the left and three and four to the right.  Below this is a rather tasteless plug for three more Federation CD's.   The Blue album is identical to the commercial release.  Our version of the White Album (see previous) is longer with more tracks - - and our own custom "Red Album" that is completely different.  This album features most of the "Let It Be" sessions - - with the exception of "Two Of Us" and the tradition here is "there has never be a Let It Be compilation without at least one key song missing.  For instance the KMET bootleg tapes were most obviously missing 'One After 909" and "I Me Mine", whereas "Naked" was missing "Teddy Boy" and "Anthology" is missing "Don't Let Me Down" and of course the Phil Specter original LP was missing both "Teddy Boy" and "Don't Let Me Down".  But all of the Red, White, and Blue are double disk compilations- - and to fill the roster out we have various Beatle 45's that are NOT on the official "Blue album" because the criteria is that there would be no duplicates on the "Blue" album - but certain ones like "The Inner Light" and "You Know My Name" would be included, and the "Come And Get It" demo, and also post Beatle single 45's through 1971,  and at least four John Lennon A sides,  the first two (I believe) Paul Mc Cartney solo singles, and the first Ringo single - A and B sides, and the Bangle-desh single both A and B sides selected other songs (and I wish I could just "search" for the listing right now but various early songs such as "Maybe I'm Amazed" "Working Class Hero" "Isn't It A Pity" and perhaps "The Art of Dying" and "Give Me Some Truth" - or songs written before the Beatles actually broke up-  and here's three more that were on it "One of Nature's Children", "Junk" and strangely enough "Yesterday" for bizzare reasons I won't go into - and - - to clarify about "Accross The Universe" it's the Let It Be Naked version because Paul and notibly John Lennon prefer that version, even though that ism't my favorite version.  However we used the Anthology version of "Long And Winding Road" because I preferred the order us the use of the words "Standing" and "Waiting" better- - and of course the "bridge" features Paul just talking the lyrics- - and all Phil Specter had to do was put heavy strings over that part.

Now at the time the "Red Album" came out and also the "Cleasic vinyl" versions "The way they should have come out" of both "Pepper" and "Mystery Tour" - - the song "Hey Bulldog got burried - - .  John Lennon was given assurance that the song would be "picked up" on the re-release of Abbey Road, and that's what happened today Wednesday September 10th.  The spirit of the KLOS crew is alive and well.  We used the unfaded version of 'Hey Bulldog", which we slip in between "Oh Darling" and "Octipusses Garden".  John Lennon says that "Come Together" is the only song on Abbey Road with a normal "fade" and all the rest of the tracks are endies or else they segway into another song.  This takes us to another KLOS bit- - because "Her Magesty" (with the final last note restored) is stuck in between "Mean Mr Mustard' (with the final last note restored) and "Polyteme Pam".   By John's specification, the space before "Magesty" is only about a third as long as the pause after "Magesty".   We now come to "The End" and since Burt Lombard (alias Mick Ronson) was mixing this- - he used the splice from the Anthology version- - with the extra guitar overdubs.  And it was carefully matched for EQ and volume, and compression to make it as undetectable as possible.  And finally ten seconds after the conclusion of "The End" there is that Mc Cartney blurb heard at the end of "Penny Lane" on Anthology where Paul is saying "People ask us- - just what are you up to".   By the way way too many White Albums were printed up for the Federation to sell- - about fifteen times more than we'd ever expect- - so Reigel said they wanted them because Reigel VI  (as a planet) has more people that still use vinyl than any other part of the Federation.

You'll Never Guess What the Police Are Doing Now

Let me just ease my way around to my topic sentence.  It’s a fact of life that if someone has your password and has access to any account you have - - there is nothing to stop them from just changing the password and not telling you the new one, thus locking you out of your own account.  There seems to be a lot of police paranoia about videos.  In one case today, there was this guy when the cops came into his apartment wanting to search the place in case he were harboring criminals- - I would have just let them.  But that just might be a mistake too and I’ll tell you why.  I’ve seen more of those “Cops” shows than I care to admit where an officer says “Can I look around your car kind of quick like?” in a cheerful voice.  It never ends well.  If it were me I’d answer any question an officer cares to know like “Where are you coming from and where are you going?”  Those who don’t in my opinion appear to be looking for trouble.   One guy had police under video surveillance in his own apartment and apparently one of the cops just shined a flashlight continually at the camera blinding it.  There is another case where a guy was yards from his own property and an officer says “We want you to answer a few questions for us” and the guy kept walking on into his house.  Five minutes later the place was swarming with police cars and officers had the house surrounded talking to each other on their radios.  Then there is a case on the New Jersey boardwalk where some undercover beach patrol took exception to this guy shooting Videos with a bunch of his friends on the pier.  The guy thought this guy was an obnoxious jerk and ignored him.  Later a bunch of officers followed him and showed up at his house.  Now for the punch line.  According to Bill Carol, the police now are “requesting” that you give them your private passwords to your video surveillance cameras so that the police can “check up on you” any time they care to.   They say “It will make our jobs easier for us in case of any terrorist threat”, as though that happens every day.  Bill Carol says “No” to this.  He will be a good citizen and report anything he sees out of the order- - but he’s not going to turn over his passwords over to the police.  The police are overbearing for sure.  Race is still an issue.  In one case a bunch of cops (?) watch this one Black guy like a hawk any time he goes into a convienience store to make sure he doesn’t shoplift, and yet white kids routinely shoplift there all the time and they do nothing about it.  Thom Hartman says if he’s ever in “the wrong side of town” an officer might stop him but merely to ask if he needs help and to make sure he’s safe”.  It’s what you call White privilege- - that invisible backpack of special passports every White person gets when they are born that gives them an instant leg up.  In another case there was this Black guy out with his black friend- - and both people were rounded up by the police because there was a crime “committed by a Black man” in the area- - so the police just round up every Black person in the neighborhood regardless of whether any other evidence fits the crime.

Two brothers - - Black, of course- - were released from a North Carolina prison after thirty years because in 1986 they were convicted of raping and murdering an eleven year old girl and when they found her she had her panties shoved in her mouth.  In fact Justice Scelia used to refer to this case as “An outstanding reason why we should never get rid of the death penalty”.  But of course now we have DNA evidence and both brothers were exonerated and released, hopefully with a new suit of clothes and some cash in their pockets.  Apparently they aren’t bitter about it.  Bill Press says he would certainly be bitter about it- and so would I.  I would want to make sure “someone paid” somewhere, somehow.  There have just been so many of these Death Row cases where later they were exonerated by DNA evidence, which didn’t exist till not too many years before the OJ case in 1994.  Bill Press says that it’s been proven that keeping these convicts on Death Row all those years is just more expensive- - then doing what Pat Brown once suggested we do with murderers of “Dropping them in a hole and forgetting about them”.

There is a theory that the reason why Black young men pose as such macho dudes all the time in public with women and such and talk about bashing “Ho”s around- is because these young Black men are repressed in their masculinity because of the matriarchal situation they face at home with a dominant single parent mother.  Out on the street they are Mr. Macho stud, but once they close the door at home it’s “Yes mam, no mam, anything you way mam.”   I have had a small taste of this in my youth with a bullying brother.  So once I leave the house I change my attitude and what standards I’ll accept from other people.  I’m wondering whether Black kids would be less likely to join a college fraternity because of this.  By the way I didn’t know that hazing was illegal in this state.  From everything I’ve heard- - I thought college hazing was getting worse and more lift threatening all the time.  I would not join a fraternity- - so maybe I have a little of that “Black mentality” going on myself.  I think it may also be true with why Blacks are pretty cold to the idea of a gay lifestyle or in any way being seen as anything other than totally masculine.  They want to assert their masculinity because they feel repressed.  But of course times are different today.  My Dad used to smoke cigars regularly in the car, as did Bill Carol’s.  That would be frowned on today.  He said he didn’t want his young son taking “selfies” of himself in his underwear making faces at the camera on his daddy’s cell phone, because someone might see it (like an officer who asks to see his cell phone) and he might have some explaining to do.  It’s a paranoid age.  These days you don’t see eleven year old boys on bicycles delivering the neighborhood newspaper.  Today they are “drive by’s” thrown from a truck.   In terms of the “Home alone” thing- - the past hour I've been thinking that over.  I think we had lady babysitters up through about the middle of 1960, at least some of the time.  But I do have a specific recollection of the fall of 1960 when I was starting fifth grade that we were alone while parents were taking an investment night class.  They wanted to know what to do with all the money they got from finally selling the Weschester house in August of 1960 and they were advised to invest in Disney stock because "Disney was in a slump".  They didn't, and my Mom regretted it. But now they want to make it some kind of a statute like no younger than twelve or something.   Certainly nobody used seat belts assuming the car you were in even had seat belts.  And today they have these absurd booster seats.  And of course I have ridden in the back of a pick-up truck a time or two in my youth.  It never entered anybody’s mind that you had to be strapped in.  To hear Judy talk (about the government) you might come to wonder if even the standard church potluck or picnic was still legal.  People tell me that in shoe stores, they used to routinely have these X ray cameras in there where anybody could stick their feet in and see their bones.

Israel has illegally conthiscated the natural gas fields off shore from Gaza according to George Washington’s blog, which put out an extensive, thorough posting on this subject.  They are working out a natural gas export deal with Jordan right now.  They say “This changes the basic energy situation with Israel, which now makes them an exporter rather than an importer of energy.  So much of what Israel has done throughout their history is illegal, it seems.  But everybody insists on giving them a pass because after all “They’re Israel” and part of that Judeo-Christian American tradition which Newt Gingrich and Sean Hannity are always talking about. 

President Obama, as you know, is going to deliver a major address to the American people on Wednesday evening on going to war with ISIS.  If I heard right, Norman Goldman was just saying that there will be NO war authorization act voted out of both houses of congress because the Senate and House will never agree in provisions.  I have a democratic senator’s plan all cure up right now and ready to go.  Yes, congress is back today so send in the clowns!  Of course the big news of the weekend is how Mitt Romney went on FOX news and pretty much put the President in his place, stating the republican point of view- - shall we say, more intelligently and diplomatically than you’d hear from Rush or Hannity.  There of course is that Romney surge in the polls now, as presumably everybody has “buyer’s remorse” in voting for President Obama less than two years ago.  Because a very good point can be made there would be much less strife in the nation today and the economy could be doing a whole lot better than it is now under Obama.  But not only that, but with Obama gone so would that “boogyman” be gone- for Republicans to make a continued whipping boy of.  The democrats right now would psychologically be in a whole lot stronger place- - with Mitt Romney in the White House.

Most Unresolved Problems Only Get Worse

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Today's Wheel of Fortune puzzle "Where Are We?"

Meet the Press had President Obama on- - which used to be something you wanted to see.  The President’s explanation for postponing any executive action on immigration - - seemed completely nonsensical to me.  It was that way with every subject.  He was moving his lips but not telling us anything.  So lately I can’t stand to listen to him, because it’s just a reminder of how completely impotent he has become in office.  But never fear.  He’s going to take the anniversary of 9 – 11 to tell us his plans about ISIS.  So - - does he plan to fight them on horseback or with swords and shields?    But NBC seems to be taking a news tack on politics and is starring to sound more like FOX news.  They were going on and on about how local Mayors don’t need Washington gridlock these days but are quite able to engage in a little work and sweat to get the job done themselves.  They mentioned Oklahoma City.  Now I know why the Oklahoma Thunder has been championed by the Federation.  They used to be the Seattle Sonics - - and are the Skyway group, a group friendly tword both the Federation and the Romulans.  See, I managed to slip in some of that cosmic stuff anyhow.  But they mentioned how Oklahoma is redder than red, but they don’t mind paying higher taxes is the taxpayers feel their getting something for it.  They mentioned Detroit- - and how this city is bouncing back.  All three cosmic groups I know about there say emphatically otherwise.  I guess there is kind of a Republican panacea for the elite rich or something.  And then we hear how much better things are economically in Wisconsin than in California because Scott Walker has brought commerce back to Wisconsin- - and it looks as if now he’ll have no problem being reelected.  Well I guess if you don’t earn wages for a living- - aren’t a member of a union- - and never plan on retiring- -maybe you would consider it OK.  You know something “I give up”.  I’m crying “Uncle”.  The Republicans have one.  “Yes the Republicans are great (repeat 3 times) the Media tells me so”.  Can I get an “Amen”?  And they mentioned Seattle as a “city on the rebound” but they didn’t say just how.  And they said Houston is on the rebound.  I never even knew Houston was ever in trouble.  And we hear constant reports of how State Governors of red states have “turned their states around” economically.  I don’t get it.  So since there are so many powerful red state governors and all these states have happy, clappy people- - then the only reason why they claim to be unhappy at all- - is just to make President Obama look bad.  And the President is wrong.  A Senate takeover will have nill effect on anything.   We live in a nonsensical world.

Judy’s point about four points that summarize the Affordable Care Act, make a pretty clear point which I agree with.  And that is the whole notion is a money shell game.  I would not call it socialism or “redistribution of wealth” per see, but if I were President I would never have put forth such a universally hated bill.  President Obama has bragged that “I take the long view on issues” but this “long view” was glaringly absent here.  Actually I’m not sure where the hell all the extra money goes, except that it criminalizes the behavior of those who prefer not to have medical insurance because they have always had good health.   As far as Governor Christie is concerned there were new filled-in details on Bridge-gate.  Now Police Officers who were whistle blowers were overtly threatened and told to “shut up”.   So did Brigitte Kelly orchestrate this “enforcement mechanism” all by herself?   But what was disturbing if that I heard a disturbing amount of waffeling about whether Christie and the others would be charged by anybody for anything.   President Obama said today “Yes, you republicans are perfectly correct.  The minute the election is over with I’m issuing sweeping reforms in immigration laws”.  Is he completely stupid?  Why couldn’t he just say “We have no plans” or “We haven’t decided” or perhaps even “I’m reassessing my whole opinion on this immigration in the face of public opinion of the American people.”  The President did the worst conceivable thing he could do!

I was strangely surprised by the Governor’s debate on Thursday night that nobody watched.  My mindset was to vote democratic come hell or high water.  But Kashkari pretty much mopped the floor with Jerry Brown, whose platitudes seem strangely empty now.  California is 44^th or something in jobs creation and the middle class is nowhere, and if Kashkari has any ideas how to reverse that, I’d like to hear them.  We need to scrap that high speed railway.  It’s gobbling untold sums of money from the treasury that could be diverted to other things like reallocation of water sources, which father Pat Brown was in favor of.   It would seem as if the business climate still sucks in California.  We have been fiftieth - - dead last among the “several states” four years in a row.  And Kashkari enumerated four major businesses that are relocating to other states.  Then both candidates reminded us that this “cap and trade” thing doesn’t even start till next year.  I didn’t know that, but gasoline prices are slated to rise when that occurs.  I need to recalculate this into my thinking - - - .  In terms to teacher tenure – I have always wondered about teachers “with too much seniority to fire”.   I’ve never entirely understood it.  According to Kashkari nine poor kids sued the teachers union for “Violation of their civil rights” and Jerry Brown “sided with the union bosses”.   One big point that will weigh against Kashkari in my mind however, is that he’s one of these TARP Wall Street freeloaders.  I have to give the nod to Jerry Brown the way he answered the Prisoners question.  You can’t violate a federal court order.  The prison population has skyrocketed in this state and that got the Federal government’s attention.  Kashkari says he’s just going to ignore the federal court order, and instead choosing to plead the fear card about “more dangerous felons on our streets”.

I’ve been in kind of a crappy mood today despite it being the first Sunday of NFL football.  I was going to give you some cosmic stuff but the way I figure- - when they start helping me, I’ll start doing their bidding.  A malaise had descended on me.  Maybe it’s the heat which has taken on kind of a Miami like soupy quality that just hangs.  The upside is that I don’t have the skin irritations when the air is this moist.  And thank God we still have AC in this room. This morning I woke up around three and for the first time since they changed the smoking location to downstairs in the back the last week of July- - I went out and smoked almost two cigarettes but I gave a third of the second to John Metz.  The money situation has never been worse and I’m locked into it having lost control of my own AT&T account.  I went to the office and Yadera claims I wanted ONLY appointments on Wednesday morning - - which is a strange misunderstanding.  I asked her about the lamp since the days are getting shorter all the time.  She said [name] would not be able to fix the switch mechanism, but she’s speak to [name] or [name] about getting a new lamp in here.  So we’ll see.  I actually swallowed some mouthwash after swooshing it around my bad tooth- - and I was able to sleep the remainder of the night.  I got up at six.  But I snapped at Glen when he knocked on the door because basically I hadn’t counted my cigarettes.  I later felt bad for turning and went looking for him and I gave him one before breakfast and promised him another, which I gave him a couple hours later.  I had a lone dollar I spent on a final cup of coffee for the week.  I also got my medication from Christian at the med room before I left.

It's Hail to the Mono Beatle recordings- - in vinyl, of course.  I guess the boxed set comes out tomorrow.  I like my Beatle music uncircumcised.  Examples of this are - - let's start with "Tomorrow Never Knows" - - I grew up with the Mono version.  Also the mono 45 version of "I"ll Cry Instead" and the mono 45 of "And I Love Her" and "If I Fell".   And let's just say that the American version of "She's A Woman" is a little more "ebuliant" than the British version.  And how about that unfaded version of "Eight Days a Week" huh?  In terms of "I'm A Walrus" the mono version - - leaves out a Ringo drum riff at a key point, but includes those couple of extra bars- - George Martin likes the mono version.  John Lennon however wanted the offending measures snipped out because he said "It only happened because I was screwed up in my timing".   (Don't look for that remark in any Beatle book)  My vote for last week's "Who's Singing that Beatle song?" was Ozzy Osborne, but I have an almost perfect track record of being WRONG.  Then we have the greatest "uncircumcised" masterpiece of all - - "Helter Skelter" but I like the momo mix better anyhow, it's more "radio ready" and just sounds clearer.  Other mono favorites of mine are 'Paperback Writer", "Rain" and "Revolution" because the Hey Jude album really screws up the stereo versions of these songs.  And we have also for your mono dancing and dining pleasure "Got to get you into my life" "Yellow Submarine' and "Taxman" and also "Lucy in the Sky" and Sgt Pepper and the Represe - - as well as "Magical Mystery Tour", "Blue Jay Way" and "Penny Lane".   I don't think "Strawberry Fields Forever" is the same either - - but somebody tell me what that morse code beeping is all about?  Nobody has ever commented on that.  Finally we have "Slow Down" and "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" - - and when I heard the stereo versions of these two tracks I remarked to my brother "someone has really messed around with these tracks".

In terms of Howard Stern- - the Federation does not regard him as all bad.  Jim Morrison vouches for the accuracy of a psychic who told Howard that "Elvis is in a secret compartment in heaven.  Nobody knows where he is".  According ti Jim Morrison - - there was just such a roomer circulating around the Federation in 1992.  Also Howard spoke fondly of San Kinnison- - and Sam is Federation and they made a bit thing out of his "Crossing over".   Let me just close talking about the SF '49ers.   Roomer had it that their native cosmic group - - the Vegans (pronounced like the car) were in bad spirits because they were dead set against the '49ers moving out of candlestick park.  Roomer has it- - I heard this while the game was only a few minutes old - - that the guardians of the Dallas Cowboys were just plain overconfident about this game and fully expected the '49ers to fall flat on their ass.  They say their home game will be a lot more challenging.