Did We Dodge A Bullet With North Korea?

EIGHTS AND ACES rel August 11th.

Enter Sandman (Metallica)
Draw the Line (Aerosmith)
Alive (Pearl Jam)
You Got Another Thing Coming (Judas Priest)
Anytime That You Want Me (Journey)
Rock and Roll (Led Zeppelin)
Joan Crawford (Blue Oyster Cult)
Halo of Flies (Alice Cooper)
Back, Jack, Do It Again (Steely Dan)
Damned For All Time / Blood Money (Maurie Head and friends)
Hang On To Yourself (David Bowie)
Magic Man (Heart)
The Court of the Crimson King (King Crimson) *

Released just in time for tonight's meteor shower.  Front cover picture is a room in the Mideast where there are a bunch of poker players all in traditional beddowen garb with head dresses.  All except for the character playing the part of Judas who is wearing some priestly outfit and no head dress and also has shorter hair.  He is holding three Aces and two Eights, a full house but also a jinxy hand.  The others have their cards face down.  There is a slot machine by the wall and it's showing three hangman nuces.  Also in the corner there is a Wheel of Fortune wheel with the same stuff on it, assuming we aren't violating copyright laws.  On the back is a game show set called "The Game of War".  There is a host off a little to the left made up to look like Alex Trabec.   The three contestents are Vladimir Putin with no short, and President Trump in the middle wearing a black Oriental wig, and Kim Jung Um to the right in his Oriental garb.  On the scoreboard Putin and Kim are in the tens of thousands of dollars but Trump is in the red.  On the set there are drawings of ICBM's to put you in the mood.  Plans for this album weren't even laid till August 8th and at that time it was anticipated there might be some Declaration of War announcement in a couple of days, but that didn't happen.

Right now I'm going to put on my magic specticals and peer six weeks into the future and what do I see?  I see North Korea as a new and bigger problem now with World War III looming even closer than it was in early August.  Again the rhetoric is heating up and more lines are being drawn in the sand and we're adding one more relevant track to celebrate this nasty turn of affairs with the threat of detonation of hydrogen bombs over the Pacific or whatever else Kim Jung Un has planned for us in his addeled mind.  We are also giving "Judas" more air play by adding another song today, to bring this compilation up to normal length.

  *this is the full unedited version and not the You Tube version with the ending whacked off a little before five minutes.   Today's mystery word is "drawer" as in "The anagram is kept in an anagram".  It's about our shortest compilation. Again this is because a few days back it was anticipated there might be some world calamity crisis occuring soon that would eclipse all other news.  When Angie lived in the apartment right below mine I would go down stairs at night to buy booze and her little boy about two or three would see and one time I heard him ask "Mom, who is that" and she said "That's the sand man!"

On Tuesday President Trump talked about "unleashing Fire and Fury unlike the world has ever known".  People wonder where he got those words "fire' and "fury" since they aren't a part of every day conversation. Someone suggested they were from the Bible, from Isaiah 66, which is a chapter of vengeance.  But it doesn't look as if we are going to have any kind of armed conflict with North Korea, let alone a nuclear war.  Things seem to have settled down.  On Thursday President Trump in a news conference that preempted large segments of my soap opera he spoke of "Perhaps those words weren't strong enough".  Korea spoke of something taking place "By the middle of the month".  I assume he meant August and we're almost there.  Korea also threatened to invade Guam, "where America's day begins" according to all the convention speeches.  It has been suggested that destruction, even on a large scale, doesn't bother North Korea as much as it would us because North Korea suffered imensly during the Korean War and they dug themselves out from the rubble and built up a powerful military state.  But Kim Jung Um isn't like ISIS or Al Qaeda.  He isn't on a suicide mission.  He cares too much for the legasy of his father and his grandfather, and intends to be around for a long time as a respected world power.  That's what he wants.  Respect.  Norman Goldman has suggested that the reason China isn't more forthcoming with help for the United States is because they see North Korea as a buffer zone between South Korea, which China sees as a military enclave of the United States- - and themselves.  Kind of like Russia supposedly sees Ukraine.  It's also been stated that North Korea has large stockpiles of chemical as well as biological weapons he could unleash on South Korea or Japan or whoever.  We fan chide them for brainwashing their young.  Yet I imagine many world leaders see people here as brainwashed subjects of FOX news.  Thom Hartman has said he sees FOX news playing all over the place in areas where you wouldn't expect such as hospitals.  At any rate it looks like the crisis has passed.  Now you can thank all of your Born Again friends for praying to God who warted off the clear and present danger, at least for a few more years.  It would be nice is the world didn't have so much war in it.  I guess a slight fear of mine is that I'll be reincarnated as a young child in a Mideast or African country that is in constant war and see my family members going to war and perhaps dying and soon I'll be called on to make a decision who's side I'm going to fight on.

“Dictatorship” literally means a government from what is dictated/said whenever government “leadership” says so. The US has lost almost all Constitutional rights to the dictates of “leaders” in government. In contrast, a constitutional republic is limited government acting within its constitution; that is, fair and objective rules all agree upon.

This is basic high school-level education we all learned, and are demanded to either live or lose.

Rome’s empire expanded by always claiming “defensive” wars from such constant “enemies” eventually becoming tragic-comic oligarchy, and Washington’s Blog documents 71 admitted false flag attacks in history using this same lying narrative.

The United States is devolving into tragic-comedy, with no end in sight. The most accurate description of its government is not limited under our constitution, but a rogue state empire. For just a few examples:
When Americans are told an election is defined by touching a computer screen without a countable receipt that can be verified, they are being told a criminal lie to allow election fraud. This is self-evident, but Princeton, Stanford, and the President of the American Statistical Association are among the leaders pointing to the obvious (andhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here). Again, no professional would/can argue an election is legitimate when there is nothing for anyone to count. The facts show Bernie Sanders won the Democratic Primary election, and claims by Democratic “leadership” of Russian election “meddling” are without factual documentation.
US military now illegally occupy eight bases in Syria (and here), with escalating bombing of Syria and Iraq of over 4,000 bombs/month and over 84,000 since 2014. The US acknowledges ~500 civilian deaths from these bombs, with independent count of ~750 in just in June 2017.
Among dozens of independent writers, I’ve documented that all “reasons” for wars on Iran, Syria, and Russia are easily proved lies (recently, here, here, here, and going back to 2005), with US Department of illegal Wars of Aggression (so-called “Defense”) claiming to have “lost” $65,000 for every US household.
The US is a literal rogue state empire led by neocolonial looting liars. The history is uncontested and taught to anyone taking comprehensive courses. If anyone has any refutations of this professional academic factual claim for any of this easy-to-read and documented content, please provide it. Rogue state empire is the most accurate term to describe the US for the following reasons:
People around the world view the US as the greatest threat to peace; voted three times more dangerous than any other country. The data confirm this conclusion:
Since WW2, Earth has had 248 armed conflicts. The US started 201 of them.
These US-started armed attacks have killed ~30 million and counting; 90% of these deaths are innocent children, the elderly and ordinary working civilian women and men. The US has war-murdered more than Hitler’s Nazis.
The total deaths caused by rogue state empire for resource control (natural and human) in the last 20 years is ~400 million, more than all total wars and violence in all recorded Earth history.

Likelihood of War with North Korea is Dramatically Increased

The likelihood of full scale war with North Korea had dramatically increased in the past day or so.  North Korea has perfected the ability to miniaturize a nuclear warhead in order to put it aboard an ICBM.  This is an ability we were saying they wouldn’t be able to do for another several years and now they’ve done it.  They have the potential for distance on their missiles to at least be able to reach the west coast of the United States and perhaps further.  Now North Korea has made an overt threat against the isle of Guam.  It’s something they are seriously thinking of doing.  In response to all of this yesterday President Trump made a statement where he said that “North Korea is going to find that they will be met with fire and fury and great power such as the world has never seen”.  Was Trump implying that our first move against North Korea might be nuclear war?  North Korea itself has been making abundant threats against the United States in the past few days.  We’ll just have to wait in see if in the next few days things either get worse or hopefully the rhetoric will cool off and we can both draw a breath and take a more rational look at the problem.  But it would seem that it’s the closest the world has come to Nuclear War in the past fifty five years.  Perhaps this time we could do it right for once and actually get congress to declare war.  We went to war with Iraq because they had “Weapons of mass destruction”.  Well I’d consider a nuclear warhead in the hands of an insane leader a weapon of mass destruction.  Now people are saying “Well they have the distance but do they have the accuracy?”  Or they are saying, “Will their missiles withstand the heat of reentry to the earth’s atmosphere?”  But clearly we are running out of time and no longer have the time for a watch and wait view of the situation.  Clearly Kim Jan Um is an unstable personality and we can’t assume that he’ll always do what’s rational.  War with Korea is a clear and present reality. 

We had sloppy Joes for dinner and French fries and there were seconds on those according to Bill.  I should have gotten seconds but didn’t.  We had applesauce for dessert.  I was reading rock compilations from earlier this year.  I goofed and put “February 29^th” instead of March 29^th as a re-release date of “Relics from a Different Age”.  I am a relic from a different age.  I may do a blogger retrospective on the year 1998.  I do have “Holliday in Cambodia” listed in “For the Record” from May 2006.  I wasn’t sure I had included it.  “I’m Leaving You” is that Scorpions song on “Relics from a Different Age” and I had You Tub on for this.  “The Final Brick in the Wall” is not as good of an album as “Coda” but it occurs April 9^th.   “Coda” was out in late March of this year.  Bill gave me the pack of cigarettes he owed me.  Bill turned on the TV news.  Trump is threatening North Korea using the rhetoric of the other side.  Phrases such as "fire and fury" are phrases that world dictators use to fire up the enthusiastic crowds.  

We alll need a Vacation from President Trump

It's a good thing in my oppinion that President Trump is going on vacation for seventeen days because that way we don't have to hear any more cheer leading by these trained right wing fanatics who are almost like groupies.  George W Bush sure took a lot longer August vacations than seventeen days when he was in office.  There was that Donald Trump rally held in West Virginia a few days ago, which apparently is the reddest of the red states.  It was a very pumped up crowd, if not hopefully deluded and brainwashed.  This was the rally where Trump announced that coal mining exports have taken off in West Virginia as well as the whole economy being in virtual overdrive.  This is also the rally where the Democratic governor of West Virginia announced he was turning Republican.  It was obviously an all white audience.  This is what it's going to be like.  I'll tell you what will change it all overnight.  That's when the economy folds.   We may think this recovery will go on forever and that's what President Trump is hoping.  He's hoping this Obama recovery will go on for four more years uninterrupted but history tells us things like that just don't happen.  And the minute the economy turns south so will President Trump's fortunes and democrats will start to get elected to the House and Senate.  

There is a big question about that press conference of AG Jeff Sessions and Trump's CIA chief.  We know that they will prosecute White House leakers to the fullest extent of the law.  They've trippled their anti leaking staff (Known in the Nixon administration as White House plumbers)  The big question is whether they're really going to go hard after the news reporting profession.  We already have a pretty cowed press as it is since they are afraid of offending their many corporate sponsors.  Now they've got Jeff Sessions to worry about.  This will intimidate the news profession even further.  The thing is I'm wondering whether Trump WANTED these leaks to take place because that's the sort of guy he is.  He's kind of a verbal exhibitionist after all.   I think it was pretty tacky to tell the leader of Austrailia that "This is the worst conversation I've had all morning.  I liked to talking to Putin a lot better".  Even Trump can't be that tactless, can he?  Clearly these leaks are coming from people in the inner circles of government.  It's kind of hard to believe all the leaks are coming from just one or two people. 

It's the 55th anniversary of the death of Marilyn Monroe this date of August 5th.  I hadn't yet entered puberty when she died in 1962.   Some say that Robert Kennedy had the mafia kill her.  Conspiracy theories abound.  It's just the sort of thing that happens to so many celebreties when their fortunes head south and their whole world appears to be falling apart.  They had already begun production of her next movie "Something's Got to Give".  They already did the title credits.  But other things in Marilyn's life were pretty shakey.

 This paragraph was typed Thursday.  I had Days of our Lives on.  In today’s development Trip met with his father saying that the Vitalli family doesn’t let go of grudges.  Steve knows that Trip is the one who sabotaged Kayla’s employment carrier, but Trip isn’t going to let it go at that.  I went outside for juice and a graham cracker.  I agree with Bill.  It’s hot out there.  I had the Steve Hardy show on.  They had a thing on unwelcomed house guests meaning ghosts.  There was also this very gifted eleven year old foreign looking little girl who is an amazing singer.  Then it was Eye Witness news. 

Radio Ready - A to Z Compilation

Not to many of the compilation tracks I have made are getting played on the radio these days.  There is one change from the June of 2007 original.  We added a track because of the strong AC - DC lobby and we axed a George Harrison song.  I'd rather these were live links you could actually listen to but I guess most of them can be had on You Tube.  "I'm Looking Through You" is out of alphabetical order as "Honey, What Do You Do for Money?"  I thought of stripping the format but I didn't like the results so here is the result formatted like the previous file it was on.  

R A D I O - R E A D Y - A to Z

disc one

About a Girl (Live Nirvana)

African Night Flight (David Bowie)

After Forever (Black Sabbath)

Aladen Sane (David Bowie)

And She Was (Talking Heads)

Anthem (Rush)

Astronomy Donnie (Pink Floyd)

Blue Collar Man (Styx)

Baby Blue (Badfinger)

Born To Be Wild (Steppinwolf)

Can’t Find a Better Man (Pearl Jam)

Carmen (B L T)

City of New Orleans (Arlo Gutherie)

Cocaine Blues (George Thorogood)

Corporal Klinger (Pink Floyd)

Crawling King Snake (The Doors)

disc two

Crystal Ball (Styx)

Cylus Stingy (The Who)

Deep Blue (George Harrison)

Disguises (The Who)

Divine Wind (Blue Oyster Cult)

Double Vision (Foreigner)

Everybody Knows This is Nowhere (Neil Young)

Eyes Without a Face (Billy Idol)

For Your Eyes Only (Blondie)

Green Eyed Lady (Sugarloaf)

Going Out to the Country (Canned Heat)

Heart Shaped Box (Nirvana)

High, High, High (Mc Cartney and Wings)

Hold Me (Fleetwood Mac)

Honey, What Do You Do for Money?  (AC -DC)

Holy, Holy (David Bowie)

House on Puneil Corners (Jefferson Airplane)

disc three

I Can’t Wait for the Nights with You (Scorpions)

I’m Looking Through You (The Beatles) (Anthology version)

I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight (Bob Dylan)

It’s Too Late (B L T)

Journey to the Center of the Mind (Amboy Dukes)

Lady (Styx)

Lather (Jefferson Airplane)

Lazy Day (Moody Blues)

Leopardskin Pillbox Hat (Bob Dylan)

Let’s Go (The Cars)

Let’s Lynch the Landlord (Dead Kennedies)

Lost, Little Girl (The Doors)

Make Rock Not War (Blue Oyster Cult)

Man on the Moon (R E M)

Midnight Rendezvous (The Babies)

Night Prowler (AC CD)

disc four

No Quarter (Led Zeppelin)

One of Nature’s Children (John Lennon)

Parachute Woman (Rolling Stones)

Peter Rooter (Chich & Chong)

Pictures of Lilly (The Who)

Port of Amsterdam (David Bowie)

Problem Child (AC DC)

Pump It Up (Elvis Costello)

Radio Radio (Elvis Costello)

Ride the Tiger (Jefferson Starship)

Robert's Box (Procol Herem)

Second Time Around (Blue Cheer)

Ship of Fools (Robert Plant)

Southern Man (Neil Young)

St. Luis Blues (Instrumental) (Steely Dan)

disc five

Sundown on the Union (Bob Dylan)

Tainted Love (Soft Cell)

Tank (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)

Teddy Boy (The Beatles)

The Chain (Fleetwood Mac)

The Damage is Done (Foreigner)

The Music Must Change (The Who)

The Necromancer (Rush)

The Three Fates (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)

The Vidgil (Blue Oyster Cult)

The Wizzard (Black Sabbath)

disc six

This Year’s Girl (Elvis Costello)

Tombstone Blues (Bob Dylan)

Twelve Bar Origional (The Beatles)

Viscious (Lou Reed)

Waiting for the End of the World (Elvis Costello)

Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed)

We Could Be Together / Volunteers (Jefferson Airplane)

What’s the new Mary Jane (Beatles)

When You Get Drafted (Dead Kennedy’s)

Whiskey Train (Procol Herem)

Who Are You? (Black Sabbath)

With A Gun (Steely Dan)

Word on a Wing (David Bowie)

Wreck of the Hesperus (Procol Herem)

Would I Lie to You? (Eurithmics)

Young Boy Blues (Honeydrippers)

A Sea of a Cradibility Gap

I can remember a time when we used to be up to two weeks ahead of the learning curve on the news but nowadays we’re running a day behind.   It’s a general sea of insanity when you talk about the Donald Trump administration.  Now the President is referring to the White House itself as “a real dump” and that’s why he doesn’t want to spend time there.  Then we have the defeat yesterday of Trump being forced to sign a sanctions bill against Russia that he strongly disliked but he had to sign it because it was passed with a bi-partisan majority.  But he let his dislike for the bill be known.  The word is that he warned Putin that this bill would be passed and he’d have to sign it.  Then there is the strange story about FOX news and how a democrat was accused of leaking information about Hillary to the Russians.  But further investigation has revealed that Trump and the FOX network colluded to put out this story and people like Shawn Hannity still believe it and repeat it. It gets stranger every day and it’s anybody’s guess what the news from the Trump administration will be six months from now.  Hopefully impeachment proceedings will be brought against Trump by then.  Even this congress must realize that there is only so much nonsense that will be put up with from the Trump administration, even if over a third of the American public is brainwashed by FOX news.  Still his overall favorable rating is just 36% and it seems that at that rate a successful campaign should be achieved by democratic opponents running against incumbents in both the House and the Senate. 

Donald Trump attacked Obama's birth cirtificate for years till renouncing that he'd ever said it during the campaign.  Tomorrow is President Obama's 56th birthday.  Trump said he wasn't going to recommend the prosecuting of Hillary Clinton right after he won but now he's changed his mind and wants to pursue the prosecution.  Trump is indecisive.  Now Steve Miller or some aid of his is criticizing the poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty as not what America really stands for.  But if Thom Hartman is right the very rich, especially those born rich, are exceptionally lacking in compassion and empathy.  They're much more likely not to listen in an engaged manner in a conversation but are too preoccupied with their cell phones.  They don't give sacrifically to charities like poor people do.  They don't value other human beings the way poor people do.  Thom Hartman's show seems to think there are white people out there would like the slogan of the Trump campaign to be "Make America White Again".   They want to go back to an America most of them never experianced to begin with but believe that "perfect America is out there- - within reach, if we just work hard enough to bring it about".  I've heard others who claim that liberals don't give as much as those on the Christian right because "They expect government to do that".  I don't know who is correct.  People like Richard Nixon and Barock Obama may be rich in their later years, but they were born poor, and as such remember what it was like to be poor and still have that sense of connectedness and compassion.  

This is Wednesday August 2, 2017 and the fiftieth anniversary of the first time I threatened to commit suicide in 1967.  But the weather then wasn’t as hot as today.  It’s been pea soup head about 95 degrees and about 85 percent humidity, like Houston or New Orleans must be,  not that I’ve visited either place.  This morning Thom Hartman was on about five minutes and they switched to some music and I turned the computer off and turned KFI on.  They were having a Bill Handel substitute.  Nora came in about ten to ten and said to open the shades.  I did and I left.  Then I got snacks of juice and a graham cracker.  Jennifer brought Gabby to work today for the first time in over a week.  I checked the room and was surprised at just after ten that Nora was done.  She’d changed the linens and mopped the floor.  Usually she takes the time to do a lot of other stuff.  Bill and I watched “The Price is Right”.  The air conditioning worked a lot better after I closed the window.  Bill wanted to keep it open claiming the AC wasn’t blowing but it obviously was because the room was kept cool.  I don’t know the names of the guys I sat at the table with today.  I’ve lost track.  We had teriyaki pork and vegetables and fluffy rice and I mixed the rice and the pork together.  They had seconds on the pork and rice and I took advantage of that.  We had a banana for dessert.  I had the Gary and Shannon show on.  I had Days of our Lives on.  Abigail still isn’t out of her coma but she’s in surgery now.  Paul has the theory that Victor organized Damos’s murder but he’s keeping his part secret. 

I don’t know if they ever had refreshments.  There was a resident’s council meeting in the back room.  We learned that Sarah has a son diagnosed with some horrible disease.  I thought she just had two daughters.  Patty didn’t have her notes from last time.  It was the first time I was in the back TV room since they remodeled the room.  They painted it a lighter color and put in new flooring.  There are some “airline seats”.   They were arranged rather inefficiently in part of a semi-circle.   Linda made the official announcement that anybody now can get milk with any meal just by asking for it.  You don’t need a doctor’s slip any more.  Augustine came in and told us all to keep our windows closed for maximum air conditioning.  There weren’t that many chairs in the room and people went in and out but there was never a time when we were short any chairs.   It was the timing.  Food came under discussion and I said desserts weren’t as frequent now, but I’m glad they’re finally serving waffles and things.  Linda has that mouse in her room that’s still running around- somewhere.  The clock in the room was slow and we ended at ten to three by that clock because Dr Messina was here and people’s names had been called, such as Ron Flowers.  Back here it was Eye Witness news on.  They are still getting a lot of rain out in the desert.  There is a dream called dyspraxia, which has to do with “clumbsy child sidrone”.  Now that has a name.  Trump news appears to be quiet today. 

We had BLT sandwiches for dinner, short on bacon.  We had French fries with that and chocolate chip cookies for dessert.  I didn’t note the guys sitting at my table.  They had two ocelating fans in the dining room but they didn’t seem to be doing much good.  The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed over 22,000 for the first time.  So far this prosperous economy is making president Trump look good, probably better than he deserves.   Barbra wanted me to lend her money but if she can panhandle and make money that way I guess she doesn’t need mine.