In Order To Form A More Perfect Union

On talk radio today has been talk of how school teachers, police and fire are “the enemy” because these jobs are public sector and not private.  But my discussing this topic again would only be reinventing the wheel since both Randy Rhodes and that Latino guy from KTLK 1150 have already covered this topic much more in depth and better than I could hope to.  So we are going straight to the pramble of the Constitution just to parse a few words, a favorite pastime of mine just to break down the meanings of the words and establish we are all on the same page.

The first line is to FORM a more perfect union.  With each of these five injunctions a different verb is used and the use of each one is significant.  Form means to create or fashion or bring into existence that which did not exist before.  The second sentence is “To ESTABLISH justice”.  Establish has a somewhat different meaning because in the case of the former, the object of the sentence “Union” did not exist before.  But here we are “entablishing’ something that already had an existence before, if you are into the Bible or English common law or whatever.  The image here is “establishing a beach head’ as with troops in a new location, or establishing a colony of earth people on another Planet.  The word can also refer to such things in police science as Establishing a time line for the crime, or Establishing certain facts, which can be relied upon.  The facts were already True before but now we are “establishing’ them officially as something we can rely upon.  In Establishing a business - - most likely- - for instance selling designer T shirts- - where the people already had the skills and were already doing it on an informal basis but this is merely a new “venue” or means of accomplishing the same ongoing thing.  Then we have to PROVIDE for the common defence.  This means that this activity is mandated to be monetarily provided for with tax payer dollars.  Then we have our next sentence of to PROMOTE the general welfare.  The word here is not to provide for but merely to promote.  However people like Thom Hartman point out that inequity among the rich and poor to too great of a degree is bad for everything from crime statistics to mental health issues and overall satisfaction of the people with society.  Someone said today that the middle class within a certain income bracket has lost some forty percent of their net worth in the last dozen years, whereas the rich own an even Bigger piece of the pie.  We should PROMOTE the opposite.  So here we have a clear case of constitutionally mandated “class warfare” if you will.  Finally we have the phrase to SECURE the blessings of Liberty to ourselves and Posterity.  Here the word alludes to a binding into place or tying up, as with a horse to a post or a boat to a dock.  The image here is to insure that it doesn’t “get away from us” inadvertently.  Capish?

Elvis Di Mira did Will Horton a real favor in getting him out of jail by going bail.  It makes a big impact on the jury I’m sure to see a man walk into court a free man rather than be led in by a balif in handcuffs.  My advice to Will is “don’t think too long” about E J’s offer because it’s a good one.  The fact that Junior trusts Will again sends a loud message that at least the son trusts the accused enough to let him back into his good graces and that the son does not suspect (for all they know) Will of the murder of his “beloved father”.  The only one in danger of spilling the beans on this one is Lexi.  And to reveal this little factoid would be to do everyone a disservice.  Will desperately needs Elvis as an allay and now he has him as that.  Elvis wont rat Will out now because they are friends and supposedly working on the same side.  I guess it’s pretty much a case of “You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours”.  Otherwise this case could become really messy.  But right now the police don’t have squat on either of them.  Ideally anybody guilty of a crime would confess it immediately.  In this case they might as well because the whole town of Salem would hail them as heroes.  Why make the innocent suffer one more day or expend one needless minute of police man power's time when you can put an end to it right now?  All I can say is that it's human nature to put ourselves in the best light and a lot of that means others NOT knowing what secret faults we may have.

I had Breakfast with the Beatles on when Face the Nation ended their special show at nine thirty.  I didn’t know that Eric Cpaltin played on “Cold Turkey”.  Ken Scott was the engineer of that song, and the previous Claptin song was “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”.  Ken Scott was on the whole last part of the program starting before eleven actually and going on till noon.  He was “third in line’ on Rubber Soul, but he took over as the engineer proper during Magical Mystory Tour when Jeff Emerick had done the initial recordings of ‘I’m The Walrus”.  Ken Scott engineered the White Album, as well as the ‘Lennon” album and ‘Imagine” apparently.  He also did “Truth” by Jeff Beck, before moving on to David Bowie where he produced all but the first Bowie album with Mick Ronson on it (ending with “Pin-ups”) or the Bowie albums he did with RCA.  He is also proud of “Crime of the Century”.  Supertramp IS a musical “crime of the century” of bad taste.  I thought Ken Scott played saxophone.  Apparently there was a long-standing second in line named Norm, who was Ken’s boss for a while.  Ken Scott says it’s only a myth that the Beatles didn’t have a lot of fun doing the White album.  It’s just another of those myths that seemed to develop a life of its own.  Chris Carter also played “Mama, You’ve Been on my Mind” a tasty Harrison rendition of the Dylan classic and if that’s really George going the guitar work it’s the best I’ve heard from him.  Scott refused to choose between George Harrison and Mick Ronson.  That one for me is a slam dunk.  I’d pick Mick Ronson every time.  Allow me now in the Alfred Hitchcock tradition to insert myself into this story.  I knew Jeff Emeric from Abbey Road.  I never met Ken Scott but if he produced the White Album he gave Ringo’s drumming a unique sound that’s never been duplicated on any other album besides the first “John Lennon” album. The final song of the morning was the rarer version of “Isn’t It a Pity?”

I wanted to talk just a little about this persistent roomer I’ve been hearing that President Obama has decided to “cease and decist” as far as talking about Mitt Romney’s role at Bane Capi8tal.  This is the heart and soup of who Mitt Romney was for vast periods of his life.  He loves sticking it to people like he enjoyed cutting that boy’s long blonde hair, and posing as a police officer to frighten people, which is by the way illegal in just about any state.  I think it’s clear the Romney has been a “Poser” much of his life.  And we know his prime passion is getting what he wants by hook or crook out of people or corporations and not caring one bit who suffers from his actions, as long as he himself is in the clear and can’t be touched.  All of Romney’s republican opponents mainly Gingrich and Santorum attacked Romney for his activities at Bane Capital and I believe even Rick Perry got into the act with his “vulture capitalism” line.  Of course I’m sure at that point Rush Limbaugh regarded Rick Perry as a traitor for uttering this remark.  But for the president to suddenly take all this “off the table” is to stipulate that he doesn’t regard any of it as a moral impediment or anything that can be held against him.  In essence this places the President on the same moral par as Mitt Romney because the Bible says that to approve of something is to vicariously take part in it yourself.  This is just another of the many reasons why I will be voting Green Party or something this fall and not for returning this President to office.  I imagine I’ll be voting straight democratic for every other office.

THESE LITTLE TOWN BLUES  The Latino host in the morning said that in the case of the Catholic priests molesting young boys, it isn't the religion's fault but merely of the acquition of power that some people can't handle without abusing it.  The situation with the whole Jerry Sandusky trial is that it is a horrible example of what happens in a small town where "everybody knows everybody".  It's like Harper Valley PTA where everyone knows about everybody else but they wink and look the other way and gleefully get on the phone to gossip to someone about what they've just learned, for its "entertainment value" much the same function as these Tabloid Entertainment shows on TV serve today.  The trouble is this is a serious case so when you have the attorneys going on fishing trips with the judge over the weekend or something- - they are not inclined to view this familiarity the same way "city slickers" view it.  The Big City prides itself on being cold and dispassionate.  But did you know that no less than eight of the twelve main jurors in this sexual molestation case are actually involved directly with Penn State in one way or another.  Nobody cared to screen them out of the jury pool.  It's apparently "just the way they do business" in a small town, and so when acquittal comes when it is sure to come, don't way you weren't warned, just as in the Mc Martin case.


We all know that Born Again Christians all have a story to tell.  But the question is do the guilty have the nerve to tell it?  Charles Tex Watson of the Manson Family may have admitted to and described countless other murders out there in the desert in1969 we know nothing about.  I told you I have encountered Christians I felt withheld "vital information" from me.  So the question is whether Tex is really ready to "Man Up" and face whatever consequences befall the Manson family now- - or will he use his not so new Christian Faith as kind of that magic shield from 'The Past" like so many others do?  Will he continue ti withhold evidence the police should rightfully have?  Will he allow the chips to fall as they may?  Or will he use this stock line about how certain things are "off limits" and stonewall?  Many people have the motto of "Even if I did it you'll never prove it, so that's really the same thing as if I didn't do it as far as you're concerned".  These people exhibit no fear of God what so ever or respect what the Bible says about confessing sins.  Instead they really don't believe in God as they claim to or they think "God is stupid' or something, or is too dull whitted to even care or trouble himself about such a thing.  Yeah.