What We Didn't Learn

We all know now about Governor Blogoiavitch (?) of Illinois who is one of these classic "shake-down" artists of old. He would hold up a highway construction approval if the cement manufacturers didn't kick in with a donation, or withhold funding from hospitals if they didn't do the same. He tried to get a reporter from the Chicago Tribune fired because that reporter was working on a story on him. Now the federal government had to move fast with our old friend Patrick Fitzgerald at the helm to stop Blogoiavitch before he appointed "Senate Candidate number five" to Obama's old senate seat. In an explitive laden tape he went on and on about what a plum prize this was and how he wouldn't let it go for just "appreciation". But now the question is how to get this governor to resign. Impeachment could take some time and there is talk of getting the state Supreme Court to remove him. But now Jesse Jackson, who is candidate number five, himself is under suspicion because his name was on a tape as willing to negotiate the terms of his taking the seat. Some on the far right have tried to tie Obama to this governor even though Obama is clean as a whistle and doesn't have the sort of political ego that other politicians have. As the Federation put it "People love having sausage but they don't want to tour the plant and see how sausage is made. We people in Illinois kind of resent the idea that this is some sort of unusual situation in politics, as if it doesn't go on every day. We all know how the Republicans love to fixate on one thing and exploit it for all it's worth.

In the election campaign for President in 1968 the Nixon campaign tried to sabotage the Paris peace talks while our men were dying in Viet Nam at the rate of twelve thousand a year. Lyndon Johnson talked to Republican Senator Everett Dirkson and said this action of Nixon ammounted to "treason" and he just wanted him to knock it off. But Johnson didn't dare go public with the news because he felt, I believe wrongly, that it would reflect badly on the Johnson adminestration that he was trying to somehow throw a monkey wrench in the Presidential campaign and "interfer with the electoral process". Instead Johnson got the Christian Science Monitor to pull the story they were preparing to run in the Nixon sabotage. It is generally conceded now that Nixon lied to his face when he said he had nothing to do with it. Part of the problem is that when you deal with crooks all day you expect everyone to be a crook so that if you ever come accross an honist man he comes off as an odd-ball. Johnson was used to political wheeler-dealers and to him this sabotage was just another of the routine events in political daily life. But of course even now the news media isn't talking about this new Nixon revelation on the Johnson tapes. The media is too interested talking about Brittany Speers or Paris Hilton. People think that Nixon was as clean as a whistle before Watergate but now we know he won the election by manipulating events.

Congress is giving the auto makers fourteen (or is it seventeen?) billion, which is way less than the 34 billion they asked for. But the Republicans to not hold their oppinions with pure motives. These people from Alabama speak of Michigan as though it were another world where the workers need government help to keep their jobs but nothing like that would ever be the case in Alabama. But as Thom Hartman points out there are a lot of foreign auto makers in Alabama, which is a leating center in the south now. And Hartman says each job down south costs $200,000 a job, as opposed to five thousand a job up north, which the Democrats want to give to the big three. The bill appears to have passed today. But we know that forty percent of the senate can hold any bill up. My only question is why they just didn't wait for the new congress where all this stuff could be voted through with much less friction.

OJ Simpson has been sentensed to at least nine years in prison now for his hold-up in Las Vegas last year. Of course you know our friend Stewart Sutcliffe from the "other side" was a defender of OJ during his murder trial and even at this late date is sympathetic to Simpson saying that "he was only trying to get back his own stuff". I don't know if we've heard the last of Simpson. My hunch is that he has a lot of friends out there, and somebody may try and break him out of jail and he'll be in the headlines once again.

Back in 2007 this author remarked that December 12th. of 2008 would signal some event of cosmic significance and it may have some astronomic aspects like the discovery of some new Super Nova or something, or some other world event of cosmic significance. I might at this time mention that there was a little recording of Mal Evans included on the CD version of those songs listings that ran 6:54:32 and that isn't six hours. Rather the Federation uses a unit that is a sixtieth of a second that is in the comon language that everybody knows about. The whole bit with the descending numbers seems to alude to a count-down of some sort. What stands out on the tape about John Lennon's death is that Mal acts as though he hasn't been in touch with Lennon at least for a really long time. I don't know is this is some "role assumption" for dramatic sake, or whether it is an actual fact. OK you all think I'm nots anyhow. It does raise a question in my mind whether certain people are held "incommunacado" from other people.