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.
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