Is Today "April Fools!" or Something?

Some conservatives are more honest about their beliefs than others.  This guy was straightforward enough to come right out and say “Almost all of the economic gains of this economy over the previous five plus years- - has come to the one percent that is despised by the left.  This is because they had the capital to speculate in homes when prices were low, and also the capital to accumulate stock.  He even admitted ‘These days the average person has very little investment in the stock market compared to the moneyed rich’.   There was talk about how Blacks and the gay lobby are instituting new standard Debating Rules - - where you are not even ALLOWED to suggest or imply in any way that homosexual behavior is the least bit abnormal, or else they will call you bigoted.  To me this is running a rigged crap game.  If the Blacks and the gays are serious about winning debates, they need to learn to play by the rules that are tried and proven and respected by all.  And apparently in a bizarre case of left wing bigotry - - this one woman or student- - a feminist at that- - was barred from speaking at her Graduation because in her speech she came out against genital mutilation of women and overall abuse of women in places like Afghanistan and Iran.  Are we in some kind of an upside down world where- - appeals for Human Rights is somehow prejudicial and speech that is “Not Allowed”?

OK this is April 21, 2014 and we are in Rainbow in honor of it’s being Earth Day tomorrow.  We had tuna sandwiches for lunch and a thick beef and rice soup, and coleslaw that wasn’t as good as usual.  We had watermelon.  On computer I ran the “Charts” program in Power Point just before Randy Rhodes.  Today was like some kind of a triple April Fools day because Randy said she was leaving the radio and that Friday May 16^th would be the last day she’s be on the air.  I was shocked at the suddenness of this announcement, and nothing she said after that made any sense.  She relived her whole life and spoke of raising Jessica and how fulfilling it was.  She’s been on the radio 23 years or so, and also got a college education in the process.   But now Randy says (like these phoney rewrites of soap plots with a back-story that never existed before) now Randy is saying “I’ve been thinking of getting out of Radio since last August when I was told I’d be off the air, and I was thinking and planning for the rest of my life”.  But all we knew was how happy Randy was to be renewed in her contract and how she’d have hated to miss the 2014 campaign, and we all agreed.  Now she is saying things like “There are more important things in life than a job”.  I didn’t know she regarded as what she did merely as “:a job”.  To me “a job” is something like mowing lawns or washing windows.  It’s something you do to earn money.  You would never in the world hear Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity announce suddenly they’d be off the air permanently in three and a half weeks.  Not only that but she’s apparently discontinuing her web site and as it were severing all her relations with all of her viewers.  But stranger still is that she did not say one thing about what her future plans, only that they don’t include being on the radio or any of us.   It’s like of like Ross Perot announcing in July of 1992 that he was pulling out of the Presidential race.  And the thing is once you do something like that, once you change your mind and get back in the race, it’s never the same and some of the followers you had never come back, and the ones you still have will probably never trust you as much again.  Suppose Rick Warren announced he was leaving Saddleback Church.  Of course Ed Peacock left our church at the worst possible time when he was must urgently needed.  It was strictly a case of cut and run.  I never thought Randy was like this- particularly with her military background, and make no mistake about it.  We are in a major political battle this year possibly fighting for our very lives- - the future of progressivism itself hangs in the balance.  Suddenly though Randy now has “Things that are more important”.

Then we have Days of our Lives.  The one susupcious thing about today’s episode, and a new comer wouldn’t think anything of it- but they spent the whole show on one topic, which believe me is VERY out of character for this series.  It all centered on Samantha’s discovering that Elvis was unfaithful to her and that he’d twice had an affair with Abigail, and that at one point Abigail thought she was pregnant.  Samantha remembers this pregnancy scare and all of the other clues along the way and together it all fits into a very ugly picture.  She threw a fit and began throwing things and at one point threatened EJ with a letter opener or something.  Then Marlena came in and she said she was going to get the kids and they were leaving.  Elvis in turn turned on Samantha saying he only had the two incident affair because Samantha refused to commit to marriage.  It was all very detailed and gripping.  But it all apparently never happened but only a momentary - - flash thought - - not even a dream.  We are all just led merrily down the garden path of one-ups-man-ship.  But even when they jumped to aupposedly what was “real” there was this feeling EJ had like he was walking around with one foot in the grave.  And Jennifer was wearing the same red dress she wore in E J’s “fantasy”.

Well the Boston marathon went off without a hitch and seemingly in record time with record participation and also record crowds.  Good for them.  I’m sure everybody in Boston is breathing a sigh of relief tonight knowing that everything went off without a hitch.

The third jewel of this “triple crown” was last night in the “Family Guy” episode which was strange and made no sense.  They don’t kill off - - a character who is actually the smartest character on the series and the one I most identify with.  Brian the dog was run over by a car and killed.  But there was nothing about tracking down the motorist or suing him in court.  Everything about this episode was strange.  Stu Baby was lamenting how bored he is becoming with his time machine.  In fact to show how completely bored he was- - he destroyed the time machine in a trash masher.   You’d think he’d at least –  charge other people to look at it as a curiosity or something.  Then Stu says “Now I can spend more time with Brian outdoors” and almost instants after he says this- - Brian gets run over and they get a new dog, with this Italian accent to fill the void.  What’s really strange and bad timing is that it’s near the end of the season and the series has been on the air a long time with Brian as one of the main characters.   And all summer they’ll be showing reruns with Brian and the Time-machine alive and well.  This all just too strange.  Then it was meteors and judging how old the universe is by the lead content of meteorites near meteor crater in Arizona.  The obvious thing wrong with this assumption is how in the world do you know it’s just “lead” lead, and not completely decayed uranium?

In another bit of April Fools three weeks late- - I went five hours without a cigarette- - and nobody seemed at all inclined to even give last puffs.  After dinner I went first to the upstairs patio and then down to the west patio where I just stared at everybody and they were all just puffing away and ignoring me when I asked for a hand-out.  Laurie asked how come I had no money and I said it was my internet expense.  By the way that internet slowed to a crawl this afternoon.  I had heard Randy say that Stephanie Miller announced her departure on her show.  I had Stephanie on a little this morning and I didn’t hear word one about Randy - - nothing about Randy at all.  Norman Goldman didn’t even come in except maybe one second at a time.  He had been talking about President Obama proving his manhood by droning this truck of ten Al Qaeda terrorists going down the road- - and three innocent construction workers were killed, too.  I guess I am puzzled.  Are we are so to speak “At War” with Al Qaeda?  I mean President Obama regards any member of Al Qaeda as fair game- - even if they happened to be an American citizen.  Obviously knowing how Islam feeds on death and martyrdom - - this is the best recruitment tool they could ask for.  Even Yule Brenner as Ramses II had more sense than this saying - - with respect to a Death Sentence for Moses, “No phantom is going to come between us in the night” and made a convincing psychological case for keeping Moses alive.  So now where was I?  Oh yeah- - I decided to make my way to the north patio.  Nancy Bell had said she’d be willing to give me a cigarette yesterday but I declined and I said “There’s always tomorrow”.  Now she gave me a Philly and then Anita a couple of benched down also gave me a Philly.  I’m saving that one for later.  We are on page three already.  There was this old later and this younger guy who- - I don’t know if he’s her son or what?  She told me this is the nicest “place” she has been in and the staff treats her well and respectfully and “I can sleep well at night”.