Back to the Future 1998

There was a quazi religious group in August of 1998 that was originally an offshoot of the TM group who used to talk about "the power of the one percent".  If they meditated and got one percent of the people in the world to agree with them then the world will be converted to their beliefs.  They had evolved into a left wing progressive group that was dissatisfied with Bill Clinton as president saying that he had sold out to the Republicans in congress in 1996.  They were saying they'd like to go into the future when the Republicans no longer ruled congress and see the results of it all, rather than having to wait twenty years to see it all unfold.  Some scientist in the group had invented a time machine that he seems to have perfected due to limited experimentation of going a week or so  backward or forward in time.  There were about 290 people in this group and it turned out that some 102 people wanted to take the massive leap into the future.  They decided in August of 2018.  This of course was during the Perseus meteor shower on August eleventh.

They soon realized it was a distopian trip into the future.  There were massive protests in Charolette and they were celebrating the KKK and racial bigotry and brought their guns with them and all, which they learned was a common thing now at protests.  The protests were on August 12th.  They learned that "the era of big government" was STILL over.  They had NOT solved the transportation problem in cities like Los Angeles.  They learned about the College debt crisis.  People were afraid to express themselves on politics because of the poisoned atnosphere now fed by the President who acted nothing like any President they had ever heard of. They were first amused then shocked to learn that Donald Trump was president.  They also learned that there were no Blockbuster videos and VHS had gone completely extinct.  CD's were no longer the primary exchange in album music.   They learned about flat screen TV's and the I POD and the I PAD and the I Phones.  They thought the idea of texting and being tethered to your phones was silly.  They learned that school now starts on August 14th and not only does it start in the middle of summer but they start earlier in the day sometimes as early as seven o clock

.  Many did research originally to fine out about things so that they could better "fit in" to society.  They soon learned they needed it all as "evidence" so they found out about George Bush's plans to start the Iraq War before he was elected and also that the war was based on lies and that 9 - 11 had all sorts of evidence of being to one extendt or another an "inside job" or at the least was collusion between the Bush administration and the nineteen terrorists.  They also knew that nobody was allowed to talk about it.  They learned about Blacks being wipes off the voter rolls in a massive way and the cut back of poling places  They learned about Bush verses Gore and how that single act changed history in a massive way.   They also learned about this strange link between President Trump and Vladimir Putin and Trump's basic love for dictator and that he even had plans to rob ex CIA and FBI officers the security clearance they had always enjoyed.  To them it was all some kind of horrible distopian nightmare.

They made plans to return back to where they came from and virtually all of the people wanted to go back.  What they were puzzled by is why none of them had met their doubles in the future.  They were to find out why.  When they returned to August of 1998 and heard all the talk of impeachment and "wag the dog" stuff that was going on.  How Bill Clinton had bombed an asprin factory in Sudan and killed "a few janitors" in Iraq according to Rush Limbaugh there were rumors that Clinton was willing to get us into a war over his own problems with Monica and someone said "It's starting already".  Guy Owens and several others stowed away on this voyage back to the past of 1998.  They DID tun into their Doubles of the past and had some "splainin" to do.  The government found out and made the whole group of 110 or whatever "disappear" so that they were never heard from again.

As Paul Mc Cartney says "I can make it longer if you like the style- - I can change it around- - "

More of the Usual on President Trump

Now President Trump wants NFL players who protest during the National Anthem to be suspended without pay.  He’s back at it again tweeting.  A Philadelphia player raised his fist and other players either took a knee or stayed in the locker during the National Anthem, which is permissible.  Now the “Holy Jim” fire has burned eighteen thousand acres.  This fire has doubled since yesterday when it was 9,600 acres and the day before it was only 6,200 acres.  Houses were saved today when the red fozcheck covered all the homes, but it saved them.  Amerosa that woman who was fired on Apprentice, was hired on as a white house aid before she was fired.  Now she has a new book out which Trump maintains is filled with lies.  The only thing is we all know Trump is a racist and we didn’t need Amerosa to tell us that.  Why can’t President Trump just learn to be quiet for once instead of catering to his bigoted, racist power-base?  He’s supposed to be president of all Americans but you’d never know that.  Of course that Gates fellow continues to testify at the Manifort trial and nobody questions his word.  It’s not hard to find a whole multitude of people with things to say bad about President Trump.  But it’s that racist base that drives and motivates this President and not what is best for the country as a whole.  If you want to really convince me the recession of 2008 is over with there is one way you can do it.  I would like  to see every state and local budget awash in funds so that they don’t know how to spend it and therefore are restoring programs to the poor previously cut.  When that happens I’ll be personally convinced the recession of 2008 is really over.   

I was listening to the bottom of the hour news on KFI when there was this loud banging on the door.  It was Terry Hill and he stormed right in without so much as a “Howdy” goes into this twenty-five minute spiel on this “Vasquez Rock” near Palmdale where they filmed this one Star Trek episode with Jim Kirk on the top of this tall rock.  They had to lower him in by helicopter because you can’t climb it.  This the only national park (?) with it’s own gift store on Star Trek stuff.  But then Terry goes into this Vasquez fellow who was a Mexican bandito in the 1800’s during the Mexican War and later.  He checked a book out of the library and read all up on his life and he isn’t finished yet.  I guess he was captured on this rock.  Finally I changed the subject to the Genghis Khan exhibit at the Reagan Library and Terry said he hadn’t seen it.  I had been curious about all the weaponry but it’s too far to travel particularly in this hot weather.  Then I asked Terry how his garden is coming and he launched into a lecture about all of the varieties of pumpkins- - green ones, striped ones, white ones, purple ones.  Then they announced lunch over the PA and we made our way down to the dining room.  Terry was talking with Chris making some sort of quip about what was on the TV screen and Chris said something like “When I get to  be as old as you I hope I have hair like you” when he’s years older than Terry. 

We may or may not have another topic.  If not today then in the next posting.

Football Season is Here Again

This is August 6, 2018 and the news this weekend has been the protests in Portland.  There are neo Nazi groups facing off against anti-fascist groups almost similar to Charolette’s Ville one year ago when a liberal protestor got run over.  Will President Trump  once again say that there are “good people on both sides”?   According to Thom Hartman the Portland PD is in league with the ultra-racists and go about their job accordingly.  Let the two sides fight it out and if the protestors on the left are winning only then do you step in, but  if the neo Nazis are prevailing then you let ‘em kick the shit out of them.  Of course in the old days under Bush there would be no consideration of a president of the United States siding with pro Nazi groups.  These are not those times.  We are coming up on the tenth anniversary of “The Lost Decade”, which I define as the day Sarah Palin was announced as Vice Presidential candidate for a major political party.  That’s when all this right wing hysteria began.  The other news of course is this Lebran James thing.  Where Lebran weighs in with opinions about the President.  Then Trump responds with one of his endless tweets saying that Lebran doesn’t have any brains.  Or the way he put it was the reporter was so dumb that he even makes Lebran James look smart and that isn’t an easy task”.   Lebran said that Sports used to be a common ground unifying force in America and now the President uses sports to divide us just like everything else.  It doesn’t look like Muller isgoing to hand down indictments before the congressional elections in November and that’s a sad thing.  He should have already unloaded a bucket of indictments.  You can only investigate a topic so much before you hand down your decision.  I’m afraid this whole thing is going to blow over and people will develop collective amnesia and just be impressed by the favorable economy Trump is taking credit for when he had next to nothing to do with it. 

Today is Hiroshima day.  One thing about Rush Limbaugh’s remarks about today puzzles me.  He says “The Bomb is a good thing because we used it and we ended a war with it”.  Since when have those Bushies on the right ever been happy about ENDING a war?  In my personal life things have pretty gotten back to normal.  There is no truth to the rumor that I had sex change surgery in the past two weeks because I was summoned to my home planet to have it just like that “Orwell” episode last Friday.  I am looking forward to football season starting and we’ve already had the Hall of Fame game.  And frankly I’m tired of all the usual TV programs being preempted with specials.  Welcome to page four.  The weather continually is in the news with fires out here and floods in the east.  The heat never lets up and this will be another heat wave to go with the two record-setters we had last month.  I need to find a way to get my ratings up.  I guess I have to go to a Google site and review what those tips for higher ratings are.  I know it would help if my spelling improved so you could at least Google words.  You Tube has just about any song to play that you can think of.  

Chaos in my Personal Life

I know I haven't been writing about President Trump.  I've had a rather chaotic two weeks with endless distractions and problems.  Paul Manifort's trial has been going on this week and I guess the judge in the cast wants to move the procedings along quickly.  The opening statement didn't take that long.  Paul Manifort wants to blame deputy Gates for all of his problems, a man who had already pled guilty to some charges.  They were going to have Gates be the star witness against Manifort and now they've changed their minds.  Meanwhile on all the talk shows they are still talking about a possible war with Iran.  Apparently President Trump does't realize that Iran and Russia are allies with each other and if Trump is going to start WW III over Iran and the nuclear treaty that Russia may have a thing or two to say about that.  The rest of the nations have kept on with the nuclear treaty that John Kerry signed on to in March of 2015 in the early spring.  Other pundits latch on to the fact that Trump likes dictators and being a dictator and now having the usual government checks and balances because in the business world Trump is king of the hill.  I may have more on this later.

The economy is strong and grew at a rate of 4.1 percent.  Many say it's because exports were up last spring just before the terifs were slapped on to everything.  So if that's true the economy will take a sharp dive in trade this quarter.  Unemployment is back down to 3.9 percent and all of the various sub headings of economic statistics look good.  A rising tide boosts employment in all races and education and genders.

It was two weeks ago this Monday that I was informed by the Orion Federation that "Sweet Madam Blue" by the group Styx has already been included on a rock compilation that we do.  This one was in October called "Predators" and I think it's in "For the Record".  The sub heading is "Is Trump Out of Control" and it was posted on October 10th of 2017.   It was a "translation error" on my part that the next to the last song on my version was "Something for Nothing" by Rush, but we had already used that track on "Don't Take Me Alive" back in May of 2006 or now twelve years earlier.  We now present some of the chaos that's been going on around here from Wednesday August first, which wasn't my best day in the world.  I hope to be posting at a more normal rate soon.  

I woke restless Wednesday morning at five.  I didn’t know why I was restless but I was smoking more all day.  I didn’t turn the computer on.  I think Bill turned on the TV news a little after five.  I got my medication before six.  I ran into Purlita around six and this was the first bad omen of the day.  First she announces that my clothes are done.  But they won’t be returned because Purlita or Melody saw bugs in the trash can Tuesday night.  They were grape seeds and not bugs.  This notice hung a pall over me.  We had sugar frosted flakes and then we had these egg square things sort of like queesh or something, plus two halves of toast with butter and jelly.  I got one more half of toast with Patty’s butter and jelly.  My appetite was below par anyhow.  I then went out to the store and used my ATM card to get forty dollars at the machine.  I misplaced the card putting it in my pocket rather than in my wallet first.  That was a crisis averted.  Nonetheless I was in a hyper, anxious frame of mind.  I was informed that my dental appointment was at ten o clock and not eleven.  I wanted to talk t Mary Jane but as the saying goes “Be careful what you wish for”.  Eventually I got in to see Mary Jane.  She offered to trim my nails and trim my hair but I told her I didn’t have time because I had a dental appointment any minute and was already late for it.  Alvin decided he was finally ready to go.  We went there and we both thought it would be one crown.  That’s what the dentist told me last time.  It was five after ten but I had to smoke a cigarette to settle myself down.  I only waited a minute or two before I was called in.  Everything went quickly today.  That is, as quickly as it can go when they’re doing four crowns right up front center in my mouth, next to each other.  There was drilling like you wouldn’t believe.  They were drilling on the new crown before they even took impressions.  There was an assistant lady dentist working on me.  She said I could “take a break” in a couple of minutes.  I used the restroom but what I wanted to do was go out and smoke but that would be unhearable.  Finally Dr Bui returned and they took the dental impression.  There are four teeth involved but there were only two crowns of two teeth each. They are bigger and whiter than my regular teeth.  Finally she was done at 25 after twelve.  I used the restroom again and went out to smoke and had them call this place.  Alvin didn’t show up till ten to one and he had a passenger with him.  The passenger had an appointment at Hope Hospital (?) in Huntington Beach on Beach BLVD.  We took the Garden Grove Freeway but then missed Beach and went to Golden West and came back down Westminster.  Finally we made it there about one thirty.  It was only then that I learned we were waiting for him.  Alvin and I went to the cafeteria and he got me a Coke and a thick hugurt, which is more like white cheese cake only it’s white, but rich.  Finally the guy showed up at ten to two and we made out ray back home.  It was a quarter after two if not later.

What I wanted to know was- - is the room in a shambles.  They hadn’t begun working on it yet and I gleaned that they wouldn’t be working on the room today.  I think General Hospital was on and then Eye Witness news.   I had missed the curry chicken.  For dinner we had a corned beef sandwich on rye bread and a carrot and raison mixture that didn’t qualify as a carrot salad.  We had red Jell-O for dessert.  I was a bit leary of that sandwich with my new crowns that felt funny.  I guess I didn’t go to the store till after dinner to use my debit card to buy Nestcafe and vanilla cigarettes.  I didn’t turn on the computer.  I had mental parylisis or something.  We saw the ABC network news both times.  I was watching reruns of the same stories.  Then it was Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune.  There was a substantial line but it moved quickly and only that Robert guy was behind me.  “Burden of Proof” is a new program on KTLA.  Leah came out and was talking with me and Bill.  At nine there was a little of the finale of “The Originals” but I knew Bill wouldn’t like that so I turned it to “Dateline” on KCOP.