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”.