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.