Our Liberalism Must Be More Proactive

You know I hope the Democrats will be given sufficient time by the media to sort out and expose all the lies told at that disgusting exhibition by the Republicans this past week in Tampa.  One TV evangelist used to say that the first thing you need to do in evangelism is “draining the swamp, before you can even think about laying the foundation, which is Christ”.  Apparently Romney told his people “not to be bothered by the fact checkers.  We aren’t listening to them this week”.  I believe that. In other lies told at the Republican convention it seems that this steel plant built in a field in Indiana, had at least six other investors besides Bain capital.  Mitt Romney left that out.  Also this plant, like the Olympics, got considerable government help such that a county in India had to dramatically raise their property taxes to cover the cost of constructing access roads to and from the steel plant.  It was pointed out today that two more corporations associated with Bain Capital just went bankrupt today- - and Randy was talking about one that went bankrupt in 2002.  Also Romney was talking about “getting two nine dollar jobs instead of your old $22.00 per hour job” but in fact, the average salary in Staples is $8.50 or something.  I have heard before that Staples really didn’t take off economically till it had “recovered from the trauma” of dealing with Bain Capital.  And also Gingrich used to want to separate himself from President Reagan after all that Iran – Contra stuff.  But now that he’s dead he’ll say anything the tea party wants him to say about President Reagan.  Of course Oliver North was in charge of laundering drug money through Saudi Arabia, yet he dresses up in his military uniform and everybody thinks he’s a hero.  And of course you know about that GM plant in Wisconsin that went belly up in December of 2008 while Bush was still President.  Therefore the plant was already GONE by the time President Obama assumed office the next month, so he could not possibly help that company.  That is, of course except in the mind of Paul Ryan, who blames the President shamelessly.  I’ve said it before.  The amount of sheer crap this President has had to suffer at the hands of the tea party is nothing less than disgusting, and something which should never, never happen in America.  If it were me I wouldn’t have cared a bit if they called me an “angry Black man”.  I’d take decisive action to shut the lying mother fuckers up.  You know, the Presidency has a lot of prerogatives, if the President has the will to use them.  Or to put it more succinctly “I’d give the bastards something to cry about”.

We have another police shooting to report.  This one is by a US Marshal.  Normally marshals are those people who escort you in and out of court aren’t they and keep decorum and all of that.  But they pack heat, and this guy was packing even though he wasn’t un uniform and in fact nobody knew his identity.  He got in a physical altercation with his wife in the Fairfax district.  There were a bunch of friends of the woman there and one guy took it upon himself to separate the then unknown US Marshal from his wife and this one guy managed to get him about thirty feet away.  Then as he turned back the guy began following him- and somehow the Marshal got knocked down.  But it was a full minute later when the Marshal pulled his gun and shot the rescuer in the left shoulder.  Now the guy began walking fast away for fear, and the guy got out his gun and shot him four more times, killing him.  He never let the guy he killed know either his identical as a Marshal and took steps to conceil his firearm.  This incident took place back in July and today Federal Charges from the Justice Department were filed.  Some on the political right are fond of saying that Eric Holder is no good and good for nothing, and they positively loath cases like this.  Later David Cruise told some story about some woman who wanted to drop off her children and ended up getting killed by five cops.  I don’t know the details on that one.  Of course the Marshal lied about everything and if they hadn’t had a video of it the truth would never be known.  One wonders how much “testa-lying” is done by the cops.

Melanie on Days of our Lives is writing what I call a poisoned pen letter to the parole department to keep Nick Fallon in prison a while longer.  Brady and Chad pressured her into it because she didn’t want to do it.  There is something very cold about a letter, as opposed to talking to someone face to face.  I wouldn’t like it if it happened to me.  I don’t remember this case too well but Hope and Julie are strongly urging that he be paroled and point out that his life has already been threatened once in prison.  I don’t really remember this case but apparently it involved being mentally incompacitated by drugs and killing Trent, who is Melanie’s evil father who forced her to have sex with strange men while still in high school.  Nick sought to protect her from that.  A lot of time you don’t realize in conversations that “the waters have been poisoned” and they don’t want to even relate with you because they are “all talked out” because someone who claims to know you well has been filling their head with a lot of crap.

Some people utter lines of utter wisdom despite themselves.  You’ve heard the story about the husband who comes to the Pastor’s office plaintifly saying “You know, Pastor.  I don’t get it.  When I first met my wife she was bubbly, exhuberent and full of life.  But now she’s downcast and never fixes herself up and kind of drags through the day”.  And the Pastor aptly responds, “You JUST told me the effect marriage to YOU had on her”.  Romney gave a good line last night I’d like to re-work.  “You know you’ve picked the wrong religion when the best feeling you ever had about Christ was when you first came to the altar to Confess him and get saved”.  People know a bad fit when they see it.  I never liked the “feng chue: of my parent’s house in Laguna Hills they moved to in late 1990.  The timing of the move is curious.  Earlier in the year I and my parents went to “mission study meetings” to help shape the course of our Church for the future.  But it was within ten days of moving into their new house the new pastor, the Asshole from El Paso took over.  They didn’t waste time in selling our old house we had lived in the past - - in the neighborhood of three decades.  They sold the place for $181,000 – which is the sort of price you get for a place you’re planning to break up and use for fire wood.  I think the place got sold with all dispatch- - while they were still living in it.  In November sometime there was some article about deciding on a new pastor - - soon or now or.  And my Dad sent out these vibes like he already knew who it was, and I said “You know who it is- - don’t you?” excitedly.  Then he clammed up.  Some of the tracing of subsequent “behavior patterns” is curious.  As to the house itself- - it’s downright ugly from the outside with a horrible roof line.  It has all these tiny windows- which my Mom used to hate. It was over-grown even by my standards, particularly that long, wandering hedge path to the front door.  Add a few cob webs and the place reminds me one of those “King of the realm” houses on a perch of land- - - and it had things about it my Mom formerly hated such as these step up and step down bits my Mom used to say “If we ever had a paraplegic over here that would be a definite problem.  I hated the black venetian blinds, and with the square tile pattern of the floor and subsequent furniture covers- - one is overwhelmed with a sensation of squares and lines.  I don’t like it that every room is the exact same color- - kind of this pervaisive off white. The outside colors clash.  There is this “marine blue” window trim –a color I’ve always hated anyhow, with kind of a beige.  The inside of the house would strike you immediately as “over-sized” and it had this really high, cavernous roof line my Dad formerly talked against.  When we moved into out old house- - my Dad wanted a house with “not too high a ceiling which wastes heat energy”.  He was fuel conscious in those days.  It almost reminds me of the house Jimmy Stewart used to throw bricks at when he was younger saying, “I wouldn’t even live there as a ghost”.  Of course now we have this rather incompatable, ill suited relic- - as the Republican Nominee for President.  Chain saws will have to work overtime just to cut away the underbrush.  I’ll tell you this.  I thank God every day that Barock Obama is President now instead of a Republican such as Bush.  America is in much safer hands.  President Obama is “the thin blue line” between sanity and complete tea party madness, which will be unleashed in full if Romney assumes office on January 20^th.   The best way to “Impeach” Romney- - is don’t elect him to begin with.  If we don’t solve thie “Romney problem” now- - it will be a lot harder to deal with later on.

In Pursuit of Yesterday's Glories

An apple a day keeps the doctor away

A scripture a day keeps the Republicans away

Behold at the judgement no act of human kindness will go unrewarded

Behold if the blood of lambs and goats were sufficient to atone for our sins, than the Messiah, the Annointed One, would have had no cause of action against those people when he came.

-Stu Sutcliffe

I tell you this today:  These Egyptians who you see all around you, vexing you today, from hence forth you will never behold be troubled by them again

And it came about that Leban no longer looked on Jacob with kindness.

Without first having respect, any potential Love is doomed.  And I don't respect Mitt Romney, no matter how many stories they tell  Actions trump words any day of the week.

Captain Piccard.  I'm sure this comes as no surprise to you but over the centuries I've managed to alienate quite a few cultures and people throughout the galaxy

-"Q" of TNG

You know, sometimes “sad days” aren’t what you think they are.  Do you want to know one of the most ominus days of 1992 was?  It was the day I’d found out I’d passed all my tests at ROP and gotten my DeBase IV certificate, which was my third there.  The depression didn’t hit all at once.  Since the last few days of February were warm and sunny I hung out with Kathy and Nicholas around the pool.  It wasn’t till that Sunday when I saw my family that depression was knocking at the door.  This day even though I had something to crow about, it’s as though I had lost, failed.  I felt as though I were being “glass ceilinged” by ROP.  Clearly the theme of this Republican Convention night was “Return to the Glories of Yessterday”, which to some degree appeals to a return of an America that never really War.  I checked sporadically before seven to see what the hell was going on in Tampa but nothing was.  At seven I turned to KNBC because I liked their commentators better.  First it was that “performance’ or exhibition or whatever it was with Clint Eastwood, who is obviously into his doteage, or just going Senile or something.  None of the people at NBC could make heads nor tails of it.  Then it was Marco Rubio’s turn and he spoke for fifteen minutes beginning at about 7:18.  His was the best speech of the whole convention and one only wonders why Rubio wasn’t picked as Vice President rather than Paul Ryan.  He stressed the values of hard work and family and the privilege of coming to America and escaping tyrannies and stagnation abroad.  It was an inspiring speech.  Then it was Mitt Romney’s turn.  His speech was accompanied with a lot of chants and cheering.  But if you  apply the Dr. Phil test, the speech fails miserably.  Dr. Phil says “The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior”.  Mitt Romney talked about taking risks and “everyone encounters failure”.  He didn’t.  He was betting with the house’s money one hundred percent of the time and never at any time was he in danger of any loss.  The stock holders of the companies he claimed to be helping took all of the risk, and suffered all of the loss when these same companies were deliberately crashed.  Mitt Romney lied when he said “Getting rich does not mean exploiting others so that they must lose”.  This just what Mitt Romney did.  Tom Brokov points out that the Moon landing was a government project with only later dividends in the private sector.  Mitt can talk about getting tough with China but he personally aided and abetted China.  In that touching Mexico story with his grandfather, he convieniently leaves out that his grandfather went down to Mexico in the first place to escape US polygamy laws.  And when he spoke so highly of his own father he failed to mention that his father was a progressive of sorts, who believed in inclusiveness in the Republican Party.  Mitt not only abandoned his father’s honest profession to strike out in a more shadowy realm, he also abandoned the values of his father.  I didn’t hear any of those stories from people saying Mitt Romney helped them.  But I do know this convention has as its theme a lie of “We built this” deliberately taking the Presidents words out of context and editing them with a little snip, snip, and playing it as though it were truth.  John Mc Cain thought it was scandalous the way Mitt Romney squandered the government’s money in the Utah Olympics.  And to answer his question- - - I am definitely happy that we have Barock Obama as President rather than George Bush.  What Mitt failed to mention is that he wants to put all the people that drove the economy off a cliff to begin with - - back into power.  Again words are one thing but actions are quite another.  And so the whole evening was an appeal to the past.  Perhaps Mitt was no more self relivitory than when he dismissed the idea that oceans rising or the planet being in danger was something to care about.  He virtually pledge to throw the rule book out the window and disregard all we have learned about ecology and global warming over the past twenty years.  He lied when he said that President Obama had hindered small businesses due to ever rising taxes.  He lied when he claims the Republicans were all hopeful and willing to work with the new President in January 2009.  You know what the truth is.  Mitt lied when he said that he alone really cared about the debt of college students or the medicare of retired people.  He lied again when he said that people’s IRA’s are LESS secure today than they were three and a half years ago.  He lied when he in essence says “He feels our pain”.  We know Mitt loves firing people and thanks to them a lot of families were utterly wiped out.  When he speaks of dealing with foreign leaders by “being a whole lot LESS flexable and showing more backbone” one must question just how far he would go to uncerscore his “lack of flexability”.  They all lie when they say this President has turned his back on Israel.  But the biggest lie of all is the one where he makes President Obama this omnipresent “boogy man” that is alone the source of all of our economic woes and discontent.  Other despots have come to power during trying economic times exploiting anxiety and resentment- - and harnessed that resentment into scape-goating innocent targets.   In short, Mitt Romney is one of the most dangerous demagogues we’ve ever known, and if we don’t stop him now at the ballot box, more extreme measures may become necessary.

This is Thursday August 30, 2012 and we are in “ocean”.  We have had a variety of “weather” in the basin this day.  KCET again did not have the convention – on any sub number.  But KCOE had it, but it wasn’t worth watching anyhow.  I’m tired of these flook minorities even Eye Witness was beguiled by.  “Oh we have minorities in our party here” but when you probe their lives you learn – as in the case of that guy from India in the movie – they are the farthest thing from typical.  Eye Witness disputes the 94 percent to zero Black support of Mitt Romney.  ABC has been notable for their moves to the right in just the past few weeks, and I don’t like it.  I made coffee this evening and gave Bill some.  Richard Moore relented and gave me a cigarette.  Tomorrow morning is not far off.  I had Dr. Oz on.  First they were talking about buying some things in bulk as bargains, but certain things such as frozen vegetables it does not pan out because all that reopening and closing produces freezer burn after a few times.  Shampoo and vitamins are good things to buy in bulk, but not tooth brushes.  Then they had two award winning dishes under the heading “From Take Out to Fake Out”.  I don’t know if you can confuse my metabolic system.  It’s likely to know when it’s been cheated.  But then they had a bunch of quicky stuff at the end.  I told you I bumped the digital clock up two minutes so I left in plenty of time for dinner and as it turns out dinner wasn’t served till a full fifteen minutes later than yesterday, when I was late.  We had spaghetti made with tube pasta.  There was meat in it.  There were green beans and a green salad with lemon pudding for desert.  Laura hit our side of the room first with seconds and I had seconds on everything.  The new guy made himself obnoxious by repeating about twenty times that he didn’t want spaghetti, he wants a sandwich.  Laura tried to explain how it works, for probably the tenth time or something.  This guy is a little dense.  We’ve been keeping the door open because the AC is rather inoperative.  By the way Paul Ryan made a fool out of himself if he thinks A to Z consists of AC DC to Led Zeppelin.  He obviously hasn’t the first idea of the filing system of rock groups- - not to mention he’s far too young for either of those groups.  Keep in mind he would have been eleven, if that, when Ronald Reagan assumed office.

Read My Lips - "Ya Basta!"

"Donde esta la carne" "Sus palabras son solomente para el sitio de basura"  "Ve los puercos hablando en el quarto grande"  "Yo no sabria que hacer se tuviera hablando asi todo el tiempo"

And now a matter-amti-matter value Control M coded message:   EBOREG W QRSNYPB - BHE OHFVARFF VF PBAPYHQRQ

Presenting one of the great party platforms of 19 - - check that - - 1812!  Maybe 1812 was a good year but I don't care to relive it.

Christie's point is well taken.  Before you can have Love you've got to have respect.  The trouble is - neither the Tea Party - nor God Himself - - seems to have learned this basic lesson.

Today's wisdom nugget courtesy Randy Rhodes:  Projection is fine for theater managers but a bad thing for those who would claim to "assume responsibility for their actions".  Capish?

I’m doing the blogger portion of this entry first.  It was pointed out that I was rather “incomplete” in my criticism of Governor Christie.  Let me recap last night at this time: .  Anne Romney gave a complete nothing of a speech and Bill said “She didn’t say anything’ before I said it.  She didn’t.  We know absolutely nothing more about Mittens than we did before she started except that he was good looking,  they met at a high school dance, and they married young, and she wanted at least one girl.  Then I went for one cigarette.  When I returned Governor Christie was already speaking.  It was 7:37 and he spoke till 8:01 so it was not a particularly long speech and he spoke fast.  He said a lot of good platitudes and trueisms, that could be applied generally and I agree with.  The trouble is virtually none of the good things he said applied to the Romney campaign and I’m sure that Obama and Byden will point that out.  NBC broke away from the hall very soon after eight.  It was pointed out that I was rather “incomplete” in my criticism of Governor Christie.  This is because I believed when I heard it that he HAD pulled off some kind of a New Jersey Miracle as Governor.  The facts are quite different.  In the first place governors of all fifty are required to balance their budgets, so why single him out as though he’d accomplished something unique.  He raised pension funds and broke teacher’s unions.  But even though he cut come taxes it was merely a form of burden shifting because local property taxes had to be hiked way up to make up the different.  At this time unemployment in New Jersey is over nine & a half percent right now.  Randy thought that it was a rather combative, humorless, angry speech.  And they say he pissed off Romney in refusing to even mention the nominee for the first fourteen minutes into the speech.  And I saw it when he had everyone stand up and Anne Romney stood up, but Mitt Romney refused to stand up and Randy says “I bet he was really pissed at Christie at that point.  Apparently Santorum kept using the word “hands” in one of his speeches and Randy thought he had an obsession like that John Boulton had a “hands” obsession with Bush.  And John Boehner told this drunk about a guy who walked into a bar, but he sounded a little crocked himself to me.  And the more he talked the less funny he sounded, which is the classic problem of lushes anyhow.  They think they are a lot funnier than they really are.  There is one statement of Anne Romney I agree with and that is “We aren’t dumb enough to realize that certain problems have no easy solutions but we are also to smart to realize that- - in essence, certain constructive steps could not be taken to make the problem a lot more bearable than it otherwise would be.  The tag line is “This pain we are going through is worse than it has to be” and in this I am in agreement.  However it’s this republican obstruction congress that has blocked passage of needed jobs bills.  As such, almost all of the statements made at yesterday’s convention have a hypocritical ring to them.  At first paste- blogger "86"d the whole rest of this first paragraph for some reason.

There are uglier things occurring that they aren’t reporting.  One deligate from Puerto Rico was trying to speak and was interrupted by loud choruses of “USA”, which I gather were unwanted at the time.  Some say that Christie went off the plantation last night in that he did not give the scripted speech agreed on beforehand.  There was a lady CNN camerawoman who was taunted or something when people - - deligates I guess- - threw peanuts at her saying “This is what we feed the animals” and of course the woman was Black.  Ron Paul people are furious because neither he no any other candidate was even allowed to have their names put into nomination.  But worse than that Romney as head of the party has “retroactively” made rules concerning the conduct of deligates, and also the fact I gather that Romney will personally be in charge of all future deligations and the whole primary election process will be done away with, and that the deligates now at the convention do not have a right to vote for the man to whom they are pledged.  I’d still unclear how Romney did all this “retroactively”.  Of course Ron Paul refused to endorse Romney in his proposed speech but he felt he was entitled to give a speech anyhow since he was a major candidate, and reason dictates he should have a slot.  Tonight Paul Ryan is speaking and that should be a real freak show in itself.

The LAPD is out of control once again.  As you know almost from the inception of my first snail mails to the media in mid 1974, I’ve been down on the LAPD.  We thought that since the dark days of Daryl Gates in excess of twenty years ago, things had improved markedly.  But there is now a new militarization of police departments all over.  According to David Cruise, who likes doing this police relations stuff,  Here’s a news flash from Rand Paul.  “My wife told me to count to ten before I lash out about health care STILL being unconstitutional.  The trouble is of course- - - I Can’t Count That High- - - so THERE!”  There was a White - - five foot four woman and a registered nurse- - was pulled over by LA cops in Tajunga (which last I checked was no where near Paccoima) and they were in a taco bell parking lot.  And the cops ordered the woman out of her car because she had been using a cell phone.  Then the two of then threw her face down hard into the parking lot, and then handcuffed her.  And then they three her down AGAIN - - while cuffed- - and one cop kind of leared over her to insure that her head slammed into the pavement with maximum force, without use of hands to break her fall.  They say the video is painful to watch.  Then they did sort of a hi five with their fists.  And now we hear that people who chose who gets hired actually screen FOR the more violent and “proactive” cadets to be accepted.  Because when it comes to Las Enforcement “Violence is IN again”.  David Cruise had another story this hour concerning a Hispanic woman at a city council meeting who spoke a bunch of obscenities in Spanish.  And by the way “Ya Basta!” is not an obscenity.  But I’m still not going to tell you what it means.  If you’re not from these parts than - - Tough!

Apparently there is a new book called "It's even worse than you think it is" concerning the political right wing.  I don't see how it could be any worse.  But who would guess that congressmen and other tea baggers met at the beginning of President Obama's term to map out a strategy on how this administration can be made to fail, and at all costs to prevent his reelection.  I mentioned I'd heard a story about certain racist football teams sabotaging black quarterbacks that are hired.  And the White receivers will drop the ball deliberately to make these Black quarterbacks look bad and hopefully to get fired.  The Republicans were exactly this way with the whold debt ceiling thing and doing everything they could to push the United States government into default.  And I told you Rush Limbaugh was downright giddy that day at the prospect of this happening.  Apparently a far right terrorist plot has been discovered that will poison the water of Washington State and to sabotage the apple crop or whatever.  Of course you know the ammount of stuff that occurs that doesn't make the news would fill a book.  Who would guess an Iraqi vetteran being booed when he asks a question at a debate.  Who would guess funerals of military heroes who died in the war would be disrupted by Hate groups, and the Courts would side with the hate groups?  Now I'm hearing that FOX talked over the singing of the national anthem last night.  You have churches preaching that 9 - 11 is the judgement of God for homosexuality.  You have this utterly hypocritical theme of "We Built That" held in a convention center that was two thirds funded by the government and one third by a sports team.  You have one of the speakers who said 'I built my business alone" but received a seventeen million (?) dollar grant from the government or some such thing.  You have Paul Ryan going to college on OASDI insurance, now bad mouthing the government that paved his way in life, in the tradition of Clarence Thomas.  They are happy to climb the rungs of the ladder extended to them, but then pull up the rope ladder to insure that no others follow after them.  And then they taunt you with sayings like "Anybody can make it if they try".  In my own personal case - right wingers I know treat ME one hell of a lot differently than they claim to treat people in general "who are honestly trying to get ahead".  Rather than welcome original thought and new innovations- - I can personally tell you these people stand for the exact Opposite.  What I WAS going to use this paragraph for was to Reveal the sizable area in my life where I had created an extensive labyrinth of myth.  But I concluded 'It would be just too traumatic for my readers to take".  (probably a gross over-reaction)  So I decided to focus on the myths of OTHERS instead. Let me give you hints.  (I owe you that)  The dates according to myth are late February 1966 - December 1975.  The actual dates are May 1973 - December 1975. [ Let me interrupt myself right here to mention the "pre note" guitar riffs in "A Whole Lot of Love".  Today "A Whole Lot of Myth" was recorded, but this is primarily a song about the tea party rather than yours truely.   This whole 'precognative maneuver - - was also employed with both Jim Cooper - - and Dick Llyle.  Back to text] Chapters in the "myth exposed" might consist of "The Chicago phone call August 1967, "Going to Chicago" David Graham: lead vocal March 1970.  The Catalina trip June 1970. ( "An institutional favorite - ha ha").  RAM.  Imagine.  The truth about fall 1980.  First cousins and other bogus associations.  Aston Martin.  Dick Llyle: A chapter right out of Maxwell's Silver Hammer.  The Wrigley connection.  The Spaniard in the works - - Eating chocolates.  If you think these chapter headings are strange, what about the Chapters in "Essential Christianity" - which are equally "strange" but everybody believes them as rock ribbed reality.  (Selah)

Today it was Federico rather than Sarah who took us to Wall Mart.  I noted that the sign up sheet said nine o clock, and like I say I was number ten on the list. They were just loading the first group into the van when I got out there and then I borrowed a cigarette from Glen and after smoking decided to check on the room and take a leak before Nora got there to change the linens.  I hurried back down and soon Federico returned and I told him I needed to go to the bank.  He was actually non committal but I got in the van anyhow.  It wasn’t till we were actually parked at Wall Mart that he was explicit in saying yes he would take me to the bank.  It was just about a half mile away or only a couple blocks down La Palma.  There was virtually no line and I copied the account number and used my card.  I got that old lady teller who is really nice.  She kind of reminds me of Terry Hill’s mother.  It turned out there was only just in excess of two dollars in my account but that was enough for a ten & a half can of Master Chef from Wall Mart.  I got my two dollars and receipt and we headed to Wall Mart.  I hurried into the store and got my coffee on aisle seven.  There was virtually no check-out line.  If they had raised the price I would have been up a creek without a paddle.  I had to make a number of assumptions but they all panned out.  People began filing back and joined me at the bench.  Federico said he would give us an hour but I don’t think (unlike Sarah) that was actually that long.