This
morning I got up around five thirty and listened to that whacko guy on KFI till
six. Clearly he’s not strictly tea party
because he was talking about this whole selling of munitions thing we have
going trying to play “both sides against each other’ stirring up conflicts and
shipping arms to both sides for profit.
There was that program “Burn Notice” last night where this guy had a lot
of whitty wisdom. He said “Sometimes in
order to take a fanatic down, you have to become as it were, his “prized
student” and learn from HIM- - what will make HIM go down. (Selah)
Sometimes long time relations can be ended by “some tragic
misunderstanding” but at other times the ‘misunderstanding’ itself can be “engineered”
by one of the parties as it were to “look like a hap hazard event” when it’s
really anything but. I can’t help but
think of Pastor Bill Halliday with this.
How often have I said to myself after contact with him that went really
badly “Well, it must just be some horrible misunderstanding”. If you are criminal with no scruples you
have the ‘edge” on your competition because you can be strictly “goal driven”
with no hesitations or moral doubts to get in your way. It could be the US Military policy is like
this with foreign governments. He spoke
of Iran-Contra, which was a classic case of playing both sides against each
other. Of course Oliver North was there
in his fancy uniform before congress like some kind of a God damned hero, when
he was anything but. There was one
guest on Meet the Press that talked about- - minimum federal sentences for drug
offences, so that you can get ten years for mere possession of a few grams of
cocaine. This guy has been among these prisoners
and seen that hey have “no lives to go back to “even if they were to get
out. They aren’t “rehabilitated” and
really need more “life skills” instead of prison serving as an apprenticeship
for becoming a more hardened criminal.
It’s an old argument and one that gets routinely rejected because no
congressman wants to be labeled as “Soft on Crime”. I guess what the people are to assume is the
“Bed Seed” theory where once you spot one of these bad seeds in society it’s
best to pluck it out right them- - before it can contaminate all the good seed. We have five percent of the world’s
population yet 25% of all the world’s prisoners. We have the highest per capita imprisonment rate
in the world. What’s wrong with this
picture?
You
had one of these “Juicer” things on TV.
Only lately has it dawned on me that there is a fundamental difference
between a Juicer and just a Blender.
This one features a low inductance motor- - for you V = IR fans out
there - - magnetic inductance is basically how a motor works, so this Juicer
gets More done with Less power. And it
extracts a whole lot more juice from the fruits and vegetables than a
blender. Of course you don’t want “cooked’
apple juice, or any other juice. Melinda
Lee herself is down on “clarified butter” because it has neither the flavor nor
the nntrients of regular butter. And
ditto for juices. Personally I keep
resolving I’m going to start drinking V 8 for its red, orange, and green
carrotenoids- - and in particular the nutriend Aztezanten. But I don’t follow through. He used the fish tank illustration to
demonstrate how you need to “clean the water in your system” to get rid of all
that schmootz. Never eat anything died
bright orange- - or anything that’s air puffed or with the consistency of a
sponge- - or with a shelf life of six months or longer. Personally I don’t consume those flavored
potato chips, just the plain. I wonder
what sort of chemicals you are ingesting with all of that artificial
flavoring. Some people scarf down whole
big bags of whatever, but I don’t because at least I’m a little aware of sodium
content. Probably bottled water would
be a good idea, too. But I think refined
wheat is better for me personally. Cane
sugar is better than corn sugar.
I
didn’t get around to turning Leo Le Port on till after one. Since I’ve never used either a DV-R or a
Tevo- - I didn’t know the difference.
Tevo’s are more expensive and have more features and options. Leo said you can use the analog hole to
record movies but I didn’t know that with DV-R you had to confine your viewing
to that television and couldn’t digitally copy to your heart’s content to disk
drive or whatever. Apparently you can’t. So how much does the DVR store in the way of
recordings? Do you have to play them
back really soon? So OK, digital is
HTMI, but on the Component plugs- - this is High Definition also, but it’s
analog – or electronics the way God intended it. I listened to the show till two. Now Windows 8.1 is out but Leo continues to
maintain that Windows 7 was the pinnacle of desktop computing software and that
with Windows 8 “Microsoft is in its adolescence, trying to make the awkward
transition from desk top to tablet computing- and isn’t particular good at
either”. Apparently “surface’ has a
newer, better version out. Leo continues
to warn us that ‘As soon as Microsoft has its Tuesday updates, install them
right then because the minute Microsoft announces an update, it flags that
particular weakness to the bad guys, so they know just where to hunt stuff down
and hack into your system. I listened to
the program all the way till two o clock.
Not
to go out of order or anything but I listened to Breakfast with the Beatles
from the beginning almost continuously till about eleven or so and sporadically
after that. OK we know “I Don’t Want to
Spoil the Party” is one of John’s favorite songs. I have yet to get a confirmation on that from
my own “contact”. There was this whole
raft of “Leslie Gore’ style songs about crying at parties and being jealous of
a girlfriend- - and you’ll dump her if she looks at another guy and all”. Julian Lennon was the guest of the
morning. It was kind of a trippy experience
because he seemed a whole lot “less like John” than I had imagined. How whole accent is more reminiscent of
George Martin than his father. His
latest album is “Everything Changes”. If
I were ever to do an album a more likely title would be “Nothing Changes”. So they played the tracks of “Beautiful
People” and “Invisable” and some from “Photograph Smile” and finished with the
ultimate anthem, his breakthrough single of late 1984. So I guess he’s working with Steven
Tyler. That one Mc Cartney song about “It didn’t hurt
me none- - it was good for my soul” - - seems to be channeling George Harrison
a little in the guitar work.
This paragraph is last because the editing isn't as tight as it could be.
We’ve
all heard about misbegotten idea or ideas that were DOA or “killed in the crib”,
nipped in the bud or whatever.
Cosmically they never got their act together like “star crossed lovers’
or something. I would like to discuss
two parrellel tracks. The first is the
idea of Universal Health Care, and the other is my becoming a Born Again
Christian. People wonder why President
Obama seems so “snake bit”. For one, I
think he is fundamentally an impatient man who thinks more highly of his own
ideas than the rest of the world does.
So he has that slogan of “Yes we can” and nobody ever stops to figure
out what that means, or whether it means anything at all other than something
that helped him sell a book in 2007.
This whole economic recovery seems snake bit. They say that in 1983 that “The US economy
had a tail wind and everybody was pulling for it, and working together-
congress and the President, to insure that it was a successful recovery. Mitt Romney comes on Meet the Press today- -
and one thing I’d be saying if I were he - - would be that “If I were President
this economy would be performing a whole lot better than it is”. Because the Congress would be passing those
jobs bills and endeavoring to make the President look good. But
let’s compare the current Affordable Care Act with Medicare in 1965. A year later the thing was up and running and
nobody questioned it. By 1968 as someone
pointed out, not even George Wallace made an issue of Medicare’s right to exist
as a functioning element of government.
This time we have a bill that was submitted premature, by a President
who was elected at least four years premature, before he had sufficient experience
to know what he was doing - - and lo and behold here we are nearly five years
later and even democrats are saying “perhaps we should re-think this whole
process because Obama Care clearly isn’t working”. In a cold, objective view of the situation,
a one year delay in any mandate would not be inappropriate at all to
request. People say “Well it’s only five
percent of insure people who are affected”.
But it’s a case of “death by a thousand paper cuts” or more aptly, “Death
by a thousand anicdotes”. Part of this
National Aversion tht America has to health care can be traced back to Ted
Kennedy, who single handedly prevented us from getting Health Care in early
1974 when President Nixon proposed it.
This is the same Ted Kennedy who almost single handedly got Ronald Reagan
elected because of that highly devisive speech he delivered at the Democratic
Convention. Conservative sources also
say that Ted Kennedy was undermining Jimmy Carter in other ways, such as
foreign policy. We now come to my Born
Again Christianity. In 1972 or so I
seemed well on my way to becoming a born again Christian. When Hal Lindsey was delivering one of his “Last
Days” speeches at the Anaheim Convention Center- - I was routing him on. I was all for it. “End of the World? - - that’s Cool”. Even in 1973 there was all of this “Henry
Kissinger is the Antichrist” stuff. But
just as Health Care died on the vine under Harry Truman and other Presidents- -
so my interest in Christianity was dying on the vine because starting around
mid 1973 a Wall went up between me and my brother that lasted over two and a
half years. So we jump to June of 1975
when I was again showing interested in this supernatural stuff- - - I was into
the book Aracne Rising - - astrology - - “Venus and Mars are allright tonight’
and all of that. I bought those Eric Von
Donnigan books such as Charriots of the Gods and Gold of the Gods. Even Jimmy Swaggart in those days, whom I
listened to on the radio said that “heaven is a planet”, not that I entirely
bought that. In October I ordered Doug
Clark’s latest prophecy book in a letter and received it shortly, and I was
reading the books “666” and “1000”. But
at some point- - perhaps “1000” was a bit too much to take- - my interest in
the whole thing cooled. I stood to get a
real job in recording engineering if I could get through the Golden West
Recording Arts program. That was the
real world- - and not this other hocus pocus.
But the wall between myself and my brother remained. Even when he announced his divorce, or what
looked like one coming- - Paul’s remarks were directed primarily to my parents
and not me. I felt like a fly on the
wall or something. He gave me “Evidence
that Demands a Verdict’ that Christmas.
It made interesting points. But
as you know I fell into a depression in January of 1976 and I’m not entirely
sure why. Why does the economy “slip
into a depression?” Was it some
biochemical imbalance? Maybe I just
looked at my life so far and came to the conclusion “It isn’t happening” whatever
IT was. This WALL between me and my
brother wasn’t broken until March 20th of 1976. One must keep in mind that I had not been
over to my brother and his wife’s apartment ONCE in the entire year of 1975, so
far as I can remember. At this time Paul
invited the family over to see where he was living now, with a married couple,
and the dog, and the garden and all.
After maybe three weeks or so- - you could say he was “settling in”. One might think, “Well that’s a good start”. I was thinking “If I can get back a relation
with Paul maybe we can talk about religion again - - we’ll see”. But that’s not what happened. It’s like President Obama in 2004 can have “asperations
of being President some day, but just not tomorrow”. On March 24th 1976 just four days
later- - I “Became a Born Again Christian”.
Suddenly a lot of weird stuff began happening we have discussed
before. But it’s like Obama and the
Republicans. There was this WALL between
the President and the Republicans in 2009.
Sometimes you just Can’t say that “Come hell or high water I’m going to
get this Health Care bill passed.” You
just can’t shut the Republicans out and say “I won the election so I make the
Rules”. This breeds ill feelings. In terms of my Born Again Christianity - -
one can argue that I “really didn’t know what it was all about” till late
summer of 1977 a year and a half later. From
that point in time, and in the next few weeks and months you could say “I
became Educated on the whole subject” and I assure you, not in a good way. I “found out what it was all about”. I have covered this gallery of horrors
before in my writings. But this era
would kind of symbolize- - “What will happen when Obama Care is actually rolled
out and people have to live with it”.
We wouldn’t go to war with Syria because Obama didn’t have the support
of the American People. Obama’s rating
in the polls has been dropping steadily for months and his popularity has
fallen to 42% or something. I’m just
thinking in my mind that- - like Mort Zucherman and my sister in law say- - is
Medical Health Insurance rates are skyrocketing NOW- - where are they headed? How do you have all hell braking out around
you and say “It will all be better” when your track record on the topic
completely sucks? Another topic
discussed on Meet the Press was this idea of dumping Joe Byden and making
Hillary Vice President. This idea didn’t
poll well because people saw it as a basic act of disloyalty to Byden, and if I
had been asked I would have said “Keep Byden”.
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