Here’s
a good opening line. Many people on the
right justify their insistence that we are a “post racial” society and that
racism is a thing of the past by pointing to the polls that White people don’t
believe there is a problem. But one bright
boy produced polls from fifty years ago saying that White people fifty years
ago believed the same thing- - ie that “There wasn’t a problem with the way we
treated minorities”. So the question is
lodged, “If they were wrong then, can they be wrong again?” Randy Rhodes says one in every three Black
American teenage boys get locked up.
This brings us to the topic of Mike Bloomberg and the new US District
Court ruling today that the “stop and frisk” policy of the NYPD has been
improperly applied, and will have to be modified. This prompted a response by Mayor Mike
Bloomberg that “The stop, question, and frisk policy has been dramatic in
cutting crime”. And when I first heard
Bloomberg’s speech, and even before that I was inclined to say “In the case of
a place like New York it makes sense to take aggressive measures to get guns
off the street”. If you can intercept a
young man with a gun “looking for trouble” (can you spell “Zimmerman”?) then you
have done a good thing and prevented a lot of potential violence. There has been more than a fifty percent drop
in the New York crime rate since the dark days of David Denken in New York
twenty years ago when crime was out of control and there were a lot of places
in New York where you didn’t want to venture.
New York for a lot of reasons is a much more habitable place now. One source says the success level of “stop
and frisk” is very low, but I’m inclined to disagree because the deturrance
factor must be taken into account.
People get it into their heads “That’s behavior I don’t engage in any
more”. I have it here that “eight
thousand murders were prevented” with this measure. Big cities are supposed to be civilized
places and no place for anybody to be packing heat on the street. So the bottom line is that I hope we don’t
give up a good thing for some legal niceties.
One note I have here is that the number murdered in six days now equals
the number of people murdered in one day back in the early ‘nineties.
I
had Eric Holder on C-S-pan earlier this morning, but I didn’t watch long enough
for Holder to unveil the Magna Carta of the day. This is a speech that Eric Holder gave today
before the American Bar Association in San Francisco. This is the fact that from now on their will
be no dreaded “Minimum sentence” for many drug offences where you aren’t in
some gangland syndicate or working for some foreign drug cartel. To me this is a good thing because though the
Federal Courts rant about the California Penal system - - Federal Prisons are
in fact a hundred and forty percent of capacity, and as you know there are no
reduced sentences or getting out early in the Federal Penal system. You serve out your time with a long sentence for
perhaps a very minor drug offense. Now
AG Eric Holder is going to remedy this problem by not completely filling out
the arrest forms and leaving blank the amount of narcotics or whatever ceased-
and hence- they will be by an executive technicality- be able to justify not
throwing the book at the defendant. No
doubt the Tea Party people will complain about this and say that congress has
been improperly bypassed. Well, the
latest poll numbers on congress is nine percent, and that figure won’t even
make Herman Kane happy. We spend 80
Billion dollars (a year?) on the “War on drugs” and that’s good money that
could be put to work doing a lot more useful things that needs doing by this
government. Of course though the United
States only has five percent of the world’s population, it in fact has a full
25% of the imprisoned population of the world.
So you can think of hell holes and dungeons around the globe, but just
remember it isn’t these so called “backward” nations that incarcerate the lions
share of prisoners on a per capita basis.
But don’t worry. To celebrate the
ladies book club is going to be eating some special white powder donuts loving
made by skilled jouvenile hands while they say- - discuss the book “Alice in Wonderland”
in a proper environment. “Uh-hump - - -
Yeah man - - - “
This
next paragraph is going to be an Object Lesson to those who have ears. I’d like to start things off by relating a
true life Story of almost Biblical parable perportions and there is a definite
moral lesson to be learned here. I heard it from Tom at lunch today talking
about his work environment at some manufacturing firm. It was a partnership where one guy owned 51%
of the company and the other partner own 49% of it. Understandably the guy with the 49% felt
constrained all the time because his money was going tword decisions which at
least theoretically – he would have no control over. Tom at that time got two weeks’ vacation and
they would throw an elaborate Christmas office party each year. They would roll out a big buffet spread of
the finest sandwich meats such as roast beef and ham and turkey and all the
best Kosher cold cuts, and exotic cheeses and breads and salads and fresh
fruit. Well - - it came to pass that the
guy with the 51% share wanted to retire- - so he made arrangements to transfer
the reins of power over to the other guy.
Now all of a sudden they learned that there would be a mandatory two
week vacation when the company was closed for two weeks around Christmas and Newyears
and everybody had to “take their vacation” then. And in the process they were also gyped out
of two paid holidays because Christmas and Newyears were already hit. And now those fabled Christmas gatherings
were reduced to serving hot dogs and Kool-Aid.
And this guy turned out to be such a tightwad- - he was even tight with
his creditors and made bad decisions in general due to his lack of wisdom - - and
ran the company into the ground because he’s borrow more, which he wouldn’t pay
when his creditors asked for that, either.
Ed
Schult z today on the Monterey station was talking about the “Red” takeover of
a great American city, Detroit. It was a
deliberate Right wing take down of a Big liberal American city. They were routinely starved for funds they
rightfully had coming from both the State and the Federal government. The Tea Party knew that if they could somehow
“neutralize” a big American city- it would be fewer blue votes for their
political opponents. Ed Schultz faced
off with one caller on his show who refused to stay on one topic long enough to
be challenged on it. These people flit
from buzz-word to buzz-ward like a butterfly or a pollinating bee with the “post
hypnotic mantra of their word”. For
instance the caller alleged that “Auto makers moved to places like Alabama
because Detroit kept piling on burdensome regulations”. Ed kept asking him just to “name One” and the
caller couldn’t. Then there is the
mantra of the “greedy Labor Unions” as if they were biting the hand that feeds
them or killing the goose that laid the golden eggs”. But Ed Schultz corrected the caller in saying
that “The Unions saw this one coming a long time ago and made countless
concessions- and were down to nineteen thousand a year for their pensions”. This isn’t that far above the US poverty
line. Dylan started this whole line of
thought with his traitorous “Sundown on the Union” song. Then the caller decided to suddenly spin
around not 180 but more like a dizzying 540 degrees and tout the authority of
President Franklin Roosevelt saying that “The high terrifs passed in 1930
caused the recession”. This is an
interesting statement considering the Great Crash occurred in October of
1929. And we would have had another such
Great Crash, if President W hadn’t bailed out the big Wall Street banks, so
that only the poor and not the rich had to suffer in this recession. There was the repeated statement that “All
terrifs are bad”, which Schultz points out is far from being the truth. It’s just this new strain of Internationalism
that has pervaided the Tea Party wing- and we first saw it in 2000 when Rush
Limbaugh opposed the campaign of Pat Buchannon, who still had economic brain
cells that still functioned. But like I
say some Republicans are so “bent” it’s like their steering rudder is
permanently jammed to the right and they are going around in circles. Now Dana Rorbacher- - who apparently wrote
the most “hard line’ speeches for President Ronald Reagan- - is now suddenly
saying what a great guy Edward Snowden is and what a wise thing it was to pick
the Soviet Union as his home. He says “Back
in the days of President Reagan, nobody in the Soviet Union had rights. So really now in Snowden sticking it
personally to the Obama Administration- - he is contrasting the Russia of today
when all of those pesky repression realities are a thing of the past - - with
this Country, which now according to Dana Rorebacker, is the Soviet Union of
the past and now it’s Our Government that is doing all of the repression. I’m reporting all this just as it occurred-
because otherwise I don’t know if I would believe myself!
Let’s
do the Romulan colors. Red stands for
Confidence and Accomplishment and a “stop and look at me” kind of thing. Orange pertains to youth and lack of
maturety. Yellow is not cowardess but
rather Danger, Fear, and Apprehension.
Green is militancy and directed anger.
And yes, green also means “Go”. These
colors happen to be similar or identical to their assignments in the song “Axis
Bold as Love” by Hendrix. Purple is seen
as “something precious”. Marroon is seen
as “something precious that was sacrificed or lost”. Gold or orange juice orange, like a school
bus is “fool-hardiness”. Chartreuse is
- - paranoia. Light blue is “a male heir”. Hot pink means Fright or Trauma or “shock and
awe”. A more pastel pink stands for “The
dominance of the strong by the weak”. I
think Hillary Clinton may have been in power when that one came up. Navy blue is “those enslaved”. Black means “exhaustion or lack of pretence”
or it could mean “inner peace”. White
means “objective statement”. Gray is
neutral. Lavender means "favor with God" Olive means "A leader of the common people" Rose or beige means "psychologically disturbed or disfunctional" Royal Blue- - in the
traditional Romulan means “selling out” but with Sirius and the Federation - -
royal blue has its traditional “other worldly minded” quality. Brown is “a base thing” whereas tan or kakki
means “gay” as in homosexual. Terquoise
- - in Sirius and Romulan - - alludes to Death, both of the body and of the
psyche. However turquoise takes on
another quality among Reigelians and on the “Rayoll” planet - - that is the
Houston group and part of the Federation.
Here turquoise means “good fortune”.
The Who is about the only non “soul” group to be associated with the
Houston group. This is the planet where
I was “alien abducted” to in September 1986 aboard an Aldeberan VIII vessle. Yesterday Jim Morrison spoke of one profession that "Is even less popular with God than prostitution". I'll give you a little hint. It's a profession which Nazarites, of which Jesus is roomered to be one, is forbidden by that Faith to engage in. There are two constelations in the sky that are seen as mortal enemies and are next to each other, according to one "seasons in the sky" astronomy book I read. Jim Morrison said "That isn't any coincidence" in an answer to a question I had I'm not expressly sharing with you. I'll just say that this response clarified an issue for me and bolstered my belief that "The Bible is based on stereotypes".
This is Monday August
12, 2013 and the Perseus meteor shower is upon us now. Normally this period is an auspicious one for
me. I’m usually in a hopeful mood. But not this year. They said that the LA school system is
kicking off the school year for their vast number of students today, or perhaps
it’s tomorrow. That’s unbelievable! Of course I will probably be called down to
the office and asked more about that theft.
But of course the solution is “If you don’t feel safe here then move out
to your own apartment”. Nothing like this
ever happened there in thirteen years. I
still have all those record albums at Dr. Levy’s and I’m wondering when he’s
going to contact me to say he can’t do it any more, or that he’s moving out of
the state. We all know those tea party
people hate it here in California because of our “high taxes” or whatever. I got up a little after five- - and had loose
bowels. I haven’t had that problem now
in several months. As I said a couple
days ago, my weight is finally back above 160 for perhaps the first time in
nearly two years, and I intend to keep it that way. I can’t count on the usual help from “Church
and family”. I’ll obviously need an
infusion of money from somewhere if I choose to move out and I’m in that unique
position of weakness to be dependant on others now for so many needs. Of course as you know people you expect to
be able to “come to with a problem” I’ve learned you can’t. That’s been true with Dad since at least
1967. And remember that one time I put
some scandal from the Middle Ages about Christianity in one of my letters to
Pastor Don, and pastor Don’s response to the letter was “Well, you’ve barely
scratched the surface”. I don’t
remember. Perhaps it’s that Constanople
was taken by the Moors because they had gun powder and the Christians didn’t, I
don’t know. But the spirit of the line
was “Come on [Marcus], if you’re going to disparage Christianity you can do
better than that!”. In like manner, when
he said to me shortly before he left our church “You should write a book on Why
Christianity hasn’t worked for me” the remark just kind of struck me sideways. There are two things wrong with that
title. I had not yet ARRIVED at that specific
conclusion for myself, and secondly- even if I did conclude that Christianity
HAD failed, I would still have no idea as to WHY it failed. That would be more the venue of others- -
like someone doing a psychological profile of how me and “The Faith” are
basically psychologically incompatable.
Likewise when I wrote pastor Mark that first of two letters mid summer
of 1994, and I said that I had a problem
that could jeopardize my Christian faith.
A normal pastor would be ‘You better talk about that with somebody. You need more counseling. You have drifted too far from close contact
with people. You need to have a long
conversation with me to get your bearings or whatever. But Mark didn’t respond that way. He just said “I’m so sorry to hear that you
are thinking of leaving the church” and as I have said often “No you
aren’t! You’re not sorry; you’re tickled
pink. You’ve been waiting for this
day”. Again this is the problem with
dealing with one time friends. So what if I “need to talk to somebody” today-
- who can I trust? Who will give me an
answer that isn’t totally “Daft” as John Lennon would say. I can hear some of you saying now, “You love
dead people so much- - why don’t you go talk to John Lennon”.
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