Properly Framing the Political Discorse

There has been a lot of the origination of the word "Thug".  Where I most often heard this term growing up as a child was on Superman episodes, where there would be some guys hanging around in trench coats or something mennacing the people of the city.  Most often they would be White.  I would say that a Thug is some kind of crime boss or someone who is a close underling of a crime boss.  But my understanding of the term "Thug" is similar to the origen of the word Assassin.   It was some group of Pursian Islamists in the middle ages- - where they would knock you out and fill you fill of hashish and you'd wake up in this walled garden and suddenly be surrounded by all these young virgins fawning all over you.  And later you'd end up where you started and they'd tell you "You just experianced a little bit of heaven - - and to get more of that you need to kill people we tell you to".  It's kind of the equivelent of being a "made man".  Like on Tomorrow People and that Julian guy you have to "prove your worth" to the Organization.  The Thugs were a specific contingent pronounced "Tuggs" but they would spell it with a TH.

I watched Governor Jerry Brown’s State of the State speech today.  It was exceedingly short with lots of prior speakers.  The speech itself couldn’t have been more than about fifteen minutes.  In it, the Governor said nothing about restoring the renters rebate or any of the other welfare cutbacks he ordered over the years.  Now we have a “rainy day” fund but Brown admits we have a lot of pension fund debts that amount to a considerable number.  I know how “efficient” we have been at wasting money for Education what with those over priced I Pads and all.  Of course California has added a lot of jobs in a growing economy putting the lie to dire forecasts people like Judy made about how the recent carbon tax would torpedo the reviving economy.

Hoboken, New Jersey was under water and was one of the cities most needful of major flood and relief assistance from Hurricane Sandy.  She hear Carl Lewis saying that he had his own encounter with Governor Christie, first promising him something, and then pulling it away.  There is always a problem that it could be a case of it just being your word, if you don't have proof.  But then we need to ask ourselves "Whose WORD is worth more- - Carl Lewis or Governor Christie" and I think you know the answer to that one.  Now we have the former governor of Virginia on trial.  He's not the guy that was defeated in 2012 but the guy who was governor when Obama was first elected and presumably was one of the first people who vowed to "get" Obama.  Now we hear that in violation of their Word - - - not that John Boehner breaking his word is anything new - - but that the Debt Ceiling could once again be made a major thing of next month.  On the Ed Schultz program they just suggested a "Ninety Nine Percent March on Washington" kind of a Glen Beck day in reverse.  Sometimes when liberals have these events the speeches tend too be dull and flowery and rambling and - - Off Point.  We need to make sure the message is completely On Point.

We are all set for one of those classic "perfect storms" that seem to always happen at some family occasion like a graduation, a wedding, or in this case a Christening, along the lines of the first Godfather movie.  When the Priest gets to the part about "Renouncing Satan and all of his works" what is Gabriel going to do?   She's already as nervous as a long tiled cat in a room full of rockers.  Now you have Abigail and Elvis and Julie and Hope coming together in some kind of Atomic fission reaction.   Allicen Sweeney has never NOT been on the show in the past 21 years but right now they're going to have to write her out of the script for five to ten years because she'll get at least that as an accessary, if not instigator and participant of a murder along with Kate Roberts.  So we are all waiting here with baited breath for tomorrow's episode, or perhaps Monday's.   Of course Sonny and Will are a couple of slime-balls, too, but they'll only be charged with accessary after the fact.

Ted Nugent claims he doesn't drink or use drugs.  This is to his credit, no doubt about that.  And one more "redeeming thing' about Ted Nugent is that so far I haven't him talk about Christianity or "Christian values".   All of Ted's values seem to be self determined.   One more thing that's just slightly redeeming about Nugent is that he hasn't gotten into politics.  He's certainly brainwashed and parroting lines he's heard from others.  But this happened to Bob Dylan, too.  Dylan  forsook all of his most charished ethical values when he became a Born Again Christian and in the words of "Yeserday" Dylan suddenly became "not half the man he used to be".   

We have to set our political sights now on getting rid of three governors in particular.  These are Governor Snyder of Michigan, Scott Walker of Wistonsin, and Rick Scott of Florida.  Again - - Christie and Scott are such birds of a feather that Christie could not stay away from a campaign fund raising gathering, even though or perhaps Because, the media spot light was now turned full on him.  This war on the poor and the working man and minorities and seniors and the infirm- - is just Evil.  There is no other word for it.  It's a coordenated money effort of 'I'll scratch you back; you scratch mine".    On the Randy Rhodes the theory was advanced that it's the politicians themselves that "Extort' the corporations and Obama makes a good foil in all this because when a moderate piece of legislation is threatened - - the Congressman will call up the Corporation and say "How much is it worth to you to not have this piece of legislation passed?   Indeed they have their little show "hearings" before the cameras, but that's all they are.  They are just going through the motions to somehow "appear proper".   It's questionable whether or not actual Supreme Court decisions by the Highest Court in the land aren't "bought and paid for".   Someone said the day Obama was reelected that "We have slowed down the course of the coming upheavel Revolution in this country.  It would have occurred sooner with Romney, but it's going to occur just a little later with Obama's re election.   Again the History Books will comdem this whole period of 2009 to 2014 as the greatest period of moral and political decidence this country has ever seen.  So you wonder why I talked a rapture date of 10 - 12 -14 - - - (revised time of 9:44 PDT)   I'll tell you this.  Either THEY go or WE go because we cannot continue to all co-exist together any more than E J and Abigail and Julie can all exist in the same room in a Catholic Church together without their being some kind of a major confligration.  (Selah)

I was meaning to feature [the paragraph taken out] before.   As it turns out there is a previous listing of what was here before I took it out.   It's the lead posting in "Retro" now.  As you can see it's from that green file, which is several days back.   What I was intending to do was to list favorite versions of Beatle songs that perhaps used to be played on the radio but those versions aren't now.

Love Me Do (Pete Best demo version)
And I Love Her (Mono track vocal version)
I'll Cry Instead (U S version)
She's A Woman (US version)

Eight Days a Week (the un-faded version)
Day Tripper (original "un fixed" version)
Rain (orivinal 45 version)

I'm Only Sleeping (the now rare US version)

Yellow Submarine (original mono version)

Got to Get You Into My Life (original mono version)

Tomorrow Never Knows (original mono version)

Penny Lane ("Rarities" album version)

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (original radio version)
Sgt Pepper Represe (orig radio version) 
A Day in the Life (Blue album CD version)

I Am the Walrus (original radio version)

Magical Mystery Tour (original radio version)

Blue Jay Way (original radio version)

Mr Soul  (original radio version)

She's Not There (original 45)

GTO (original 45)

Paint It Black (album version "Through the Past Darkly") 
Helter Skelter (mono mix)
I'm Looking Through You (anthology version)
You've Got To Hid Your Love Away (anthology version)
I'm So Tired (with lead guitar overdub)
Revolution I (You Tube video version)
Good-bye My Love (unknown demo)
Suicide (unknown demo)
One of Nature's Children (unknown demo)

Teddy Boy (anthology version)

While My Guitar Gently Weeps (original anthology version)

O Blah Dee O Blah Dah (anthology version) 

Say the Word  (un-faded version KLOS)
Not Guilty (anthology version) 
What's The New Mary Jane?  (Anthology version)
The End (anthology - with guitar overdubs)

Accross the Universe (original Oct 1969 version)
I've Got a Feeling (anthology version)
Let It Be (anthology version)
I Me Mine (Let It Be - Naked)