The Perils of Dick Chaney's Pacemaker

 Before we cover what I regard as the biggest story of the past couple of days let’s talk about this Canadian with a British accent, Mark Stein, who we all presumed must be a Londoner by his polished accent.  I mean it must have taken a staff of fifteen comedy writers fifteen hours to come up with a speech that took fifteen minutes to deliver.  And we learn all of these marvelous things we didn’t know, such as the NY Daily News is one of the most famous ‘Liberal’ news outlets in New York.  I’ve heard the NY daily news described as many things but hardly “liberal”.  And apparently there hasn’t been so much as one person to sign up on the state run New York Obama care site, now known as the ACA, as if we needed another acronym.  Of course we in California pass all these gun regulations and so if you are a member of the NRA you won’t find a welcome home here.  NRA stands for “Nuts, Racists, and Anarchists”.  We are what the rest of America is dreading becoming in terms of progressivism.  And the thing is we’re going to drag all the rest of you eventually with us in the march tword Progressive disaster, apparently.  And to accomplish our goals we have relied on such dangerous weapons as State’s rights and the Popular will of the people.  But I see others are echoing my little veiled threat that Jerrymandered districts could come back to bite them in the ass when they elect democrats next year in those districts everybody thought “safe”.   Apparently there was this guy named Jerry that was as slippery as a salamander or something.  Maybe it’s the “salamander” in the Mc Cartney song.  I remember the Sheffield girls next door would talk about all of the “solomanders” in our back yard, meaning Olianders.  Of course these districts are long and lanky like a solomander.  I’m thinking of closing that window right next to me because a sudden chill breeze is wafting its way in here.  Must be the cold right wing winds blowing in from Heartland America, or what Rush calls “flyover country”.   But the President was on the air this morning doing kind of a political pep rally for the Affordable care act.  People are writing the Stephanie Miller show saying “Please pick our town for an upcoming Sexy Liberal tour appearance”.  But I am becoming convinced that the Republicans are indeed cleving in two, like one of these layer cakes one kid baked on the Chef Ramsey show last Friday.  Once you’ve experienced the empassioned frenzy of a tea party rally you need a “cooling off period” or else dire things happen.  So now even Jeb Bush has joined the ranks of those who think the Republicans have gone nuts.  And Mike Huckibee- - et tu Mike Huckibee- - whom born again people must regard as a Judas among them- because he too, can no longer subscribe to the tea party madness.   Like I say there is that Bill Buckley point-  -like with the snit semites in the ‘fifties, you have to conduct that long overdue political purge of your party to get all the slag out of the pig iron if you’re ever going to “Steel yourself” to try and win another election.  Of course some people would have you believe that I come up with my stuff in mere minutes what it takes a whole staff of comedy writers hours or days to produce otherwise, and who am I to dispel such an illusion?  

We now come to the pies de resantance of the morning- - the Dick Chaney story.  When I first heard a promo for the Sixty Minutes piece last night- - I had it pegged as something that would go in an entirely other direction.  When I heard Dick Chaney had written out a resignation letter to President Bush to resign as of March 31^st 2001 I figured perhaps it’s because Bush considered him such a whacko that he knew he was “toast” and a liability to the Bush administration.  Chaney made no bones about how he’s the guy that came up with the whole enhanced interrogation thing and turning the NSA into some police state operation here, domestically, and then there were those other POW abuses in Iraq.  So the story of Dick Chaney and his pacemaker is that it was intended to have wireless capabilities so that you could issue it orders from a far away location.  Lord knows why you’d want that.  But his doctor says “perhaps we better disable this feature because some terrorist could hack into your pacemaker and give you a heart attack just like in that movie a few years back.  Chaney admits he’s lucky to be alive now that he has a new heart.  And he plans to take care of it- - unlike these Hollywood celebreties that get a new liver and go on binge drinking just as before.  Chaney says it almost a magical thing to be able to wake up each morning and feel young again and dare to do the things he’d never thought he’d be able to do any more.  Except he doesn’t ski but that’s because of bad knees, and not his heart.  Dick Chaney has been playing footsy with death since his days in the Ford administration.  He had about five major heart attacks- - and one was during the 2000 presidential campaign- - and he’s had stints and angioplasty and all sorts of things done.  But though his heart was bloated to double its normal size, the blood vessles were almost non existant - - and blood pumping efficiency was minimal.  So ol’ Darth Vader still has a lot of good years left in him.  They just called “coffee time” so maybe I’ll go down right now.

What struck me last Saturday with Paul and Judy was the extent to which people still really do see God as kind of this “old man in the sky” who is sitting there taking notes, in preparation of Judging planet earth very soon.  I pointed out that “In the last two thousand years, there is very little written about in Bible prophecy and it’s all extrapolation, except perhaps for the reformation of the nation of Israel and the greening of the area.  Judy and Paul maintain “There are a lot of secrets in the Bible that will be revealed and made manifest to us as the Last Days approach”.   So we are to believe that headenism and homosexuality are in the forefront of the “signs of the impending wrath of God”.  But when you look through history it is liberals rather than conservatives who have been in the forefront of Moral causes that weren’t always popular at the time.  Take even the right to trial by jury in England, or the abolition of Slavery, or the prevention of disease - - or treatment of the mentally ill, or the Marshal plan, or the formation of the UN- - or the move tword nuclear disarlement.  (The Peace symbol is semaphore for N and D for Nuclear Disarmment”.   But how about marriages that are no longer pre arranged but rather based on true love?  This is a conception of Liberals.  How about raping your own wife or wife beating- - or selling your daughter to be the wife of some rich foreigner with a lot of money?  How about food and health safety standards or OSHA - - or how about our energy and ecology laws.  Our air now is a whole lot more breathable than it used to be.  Of course there are still groups like Green Peace that still turn to unconventional or even violent measures- - such as the group that attacks Japanese whaling ships, where they are violating International Law to begin with.  This whole concept of “saving the planet” means thinking of someone besides yourself, and is the polar opposite of Ayan Rand’s philosophy which is the deification of Self.  It is Ayan Rand – rather than the Bible that is the guiding star of the Tea Party philosophy.  The Bible teaches that Wealth too - - can become an “addiction” I darkly suspect, a lot more than being a latent homosexual can.  Because they indeed want “more and more’ and are never satisfied but are driven to make increasingly outrageous demands.  Indeed they violate Sol Allinsky’s prime directive that goes “If you’re going to make a Demand- - it must be in the Other Side’s capacity to fulfill it”.  (Selah)  Do you remember the little story Nathan told King David about the rich man who had flocks and herds but for dinner to impress a guess, he slaughtered his poor neighbor’s pet ewe lamb- and served That to his guests.  You can talk about inheriting money.  But I have learned the follies of “chasing after money- - and things that can’t come true” - - a la the Grass Roots song.  I think what Dennis Wilson learned about the way Charles Manson ripped him off was that “It’s only money” and he was lucky to have escaped with his Life.  (Selah)

This paragraph is going to be posted out of sequence.  Everybody already knows how utterly corrupt all of Congress has become.  In the words of the Bible “There is not one of you who does good - - no not one”.  They are ALL on the take- - even Maxine Waters, which I find exceedingly disappointing.  There is one thing that Unites flaming liberal and tea bagger alike and that is that Nobody wants to pass any “Campaign financing reform laws”.  But they now have something called “leadership pacts”, where none of the campaign rules apply anyhow.  And get this- - they loan their “Pact” money to their “Campaign fund” at eighteen percent interest- - that they are diligent to collect.  So they actually end up paying themselves for money they pretty much stole to begin with.  Not only are any and all personal expenses OK- - I mean they involve the most extravagant trips to far away locations like Edinborough Scottland for a wedding- - and they pay lobbyists and lobbyists pay them.  Nepotism is rampant in ways that would never be condoned by a Corporation in the private sector.  Indeed during the government shut-down their own lifestyle wasn’t infringed upon in the least.  They see themselves as having this “lifestyle entitlement” because of these “leadership pacts”, which is an old fashioned political slush fund, and old fashioned bribing for political favors also rages unabaited.  They love to wind and dine anybody and everybody, and they are downright self righteous about it, too, as “necessary”.  Of course Sixty Minutes said that half of congressmen leave to become Lobbyists full time, anyhow.  So as I say, serving in congress is like an apprenticeship for them.

 

It’s funny how you develop RADAR about certain sounds- - like an animal of prey out on the Savanna or something.  If you miss your cue you’re dead.  I was getting coffee in the courtyard and I heard the rumble of the floor mopping thing, which turned out to be in the far hall on the second floor.  I also got lemon Jell-O but they had no spoon to eat it with so I had to come back up here.  There was some left over stuff from the last paragraph of our last posting I can bore you with now.  For instance- - the word “valcon” also spelled “falcon” and sometimes I’d spelled with an upside down B- - the word means stalker or hunter- - but is most used to denote the occupation of being a government Agent in Romulan.  Also the word “Rincon” means “Rendezvous” a shade different meaning from Spanish.  The word “Esquina” generally means “market place” or town square or whatever- - however it can refer to either having a corner office in a high rise- - or else a prime corner location to draw business.  The word tends to mean “prominent” or “on the point”.   There is a “bird” group- - which the Flamingos, who made “I Only Have Eyes for You” are from.  The guitarist of that song is Bejoran, by the way.  Bejorans love to point that out.  I’m not sure if it’s the Pheonix constellation- - but in their own tongue they call themselves either “The Firebirds” or the “Thunderbirds”.  More information needed.

Just A Review of What We've Learned

People think that may I’m pigeon holing the tea party and Christians trying to put them in a cliché mold that might be months or years out of date.  Not so, as yesterday with Paul and Judy indicates.  So right now I want to separate out all of the political stuff and devote a paragraph just for that.  First of all the charge is made that “President Obama needs to exercise leadership”.  Of course when the right says this they mean “Roll over and do whatever we want him to”.  It’s really pretty silly.  It would be as if- - instead of Judas repenting and going to the authorities and saying ‘I have betrayed innocent blood” and throwing down the money- - that instead perhaps seeing Jesus and Jesus says “Judas, what have you done”, and Judas goes into this long rant about how “Jesus brought all this down on himself because he failed to exercise leadership in leading an armed rebellion against the government”.  This next one – is something I’ll throw in as an extra.  Walter Martin says he believes in a literal interpretation of the Bible.  But then if you quote Martin a verse that contradicts his theology he will say “I’m not a letterist” as though there even were such a word as “letterist” as distinct from “Literal”.   As to this argument that cutting taxes is always good- - well lets liken it to an athlete.  Suppose an athlete used to regularly bench press 180 pounds and jog twenty miles and swim twenty laps and all that - -every day.  Then he noticed that this routine was making him “tired”.  So he cut back.  He cut back on everything from the pressing to the jogging to the swimming.  He felt better for a while but soon noticed he “began feeling tired again”.  He continued to cut back his routine till eventually he was exhausted from a mere walk around the block.  Nobody thought to remark to this athlete that perhaps his physical health is in question and he’s headed downhill unless he gets checked out.  So it is with taxes.  We had one of the most phenomenal growth economies of all time in the fifties- - and almost as good- - in the sixties.  But somehow since then such sustained growth has eluded us- - all except for the Clinton years.  As to Aztezanten and Resveritrol-- - these were the two shows I watched all or parts of- - mostly parts- - on KTLK on Saturday morning.  Aztezanten as I suspected- - is a carrotenoid- one of many, that burns fat and turns it into energy and all that.  Resveritrol is a poly phenol found in red wine, but the trouble is that they synthesize it from some really strange plants now- - and not red wine grapes.  Of course at the dinner table- - we got into politics after having avoided it pretty much till then.  Paul went on this rant about how ‘President Obama and Harry Agreed said “Shut down the government” if they refuse to negotiate on the Obama care bill”.  This “refusal to negotiate” misnomer is silly and I pointed out that John Boehner could have had passage on that bill to fix the problem any time he wanted- - and it was he who refused to take the vote.  That quieted Paul down for a while and Mom indicated her discomfort with politics.  Then there was that Texas magazine- - calling it “The United States of Texas”.  This is a transparent tea patty puff piece that Time stooped to publishing.  They had a big map showing the states that lost population- - which were New York, Illinois, and California.  I note Illinois that stands out among states- - because it is of course where the President is from.  The whole connotation that these ‘loser’ states are in black, whereas the brightest blue states, like Texas and Florida, were the big winners.  Also the Carolina area got some immigration- - as did Colorado.   The article as much as stated that Texas simply did not have a poverty problem, and there are few discontented poor there.  However the article had to admit that despite the population influx- - Texas has miserable climate what with its sustained over 100 degree temperatures for ten days straight- - and 87% of the state is in continued drought.  Then there all of the tornadoes.  And of course the education system sucks, and there is a high crime rate, and why anybody would go to the expense to move INTO the state of Texas is beyond me.  Paul and Judy at times act like they’d like to move there tomorrow.  I doubt the accuracy of the information- - and whether it’s up to date- or somehow isn’t cherry picked from a small time frame of reference.  Judy has always been obsessed with “debt’ and how evil it is- - and in general debt is about the worst thing this side of masturbating in public.  And it should come as no surprise to anybody that the fact that President Obama has cut the deficit in half after Bush labored so long in increasing it- - means nothing to Paul or Judy.  Debt is evil.  Judy even admitted that “The government is under pressure not to raise taxes”, which is the obvious solution.  Judy is against that, too.  Paul and Judy are both against one more minute of debt ceiling extension- - because Judy says “If you are in dept you just - - Stop Spending”.  I failed to point out that instead of SAVING us money, the government shutdown COSTS us - - 24 Billion dollars.  I mentioned “growing us out of our deficit” thinking of the jobs programs that have been voted down.  All Judy could say is “They regulate us to death in ways you’ll never know – so that it’s impossible for any business to grow”.   Judy went on on the usual rants of how “Unusual” this President is- - how he is the most liberal, the most anti Israeli president we have ever had and “He refused to meet with Netenyaho”.   He refused ONE meeting with him in five years.  She reminded me of all of the “Facts” in the 2016 movie.  Then the attack just became broader.  “Obama is not one of us”.  He doesn’t have Christian morals like we do because he wasn’t raised a Christian.  And when China holds our loans- - you know it’s only a matter of time before they pull the loans because “They don’t believe in mercy like we Christians do” but Chinese (unlike Christians) cheat each other in business all the time.  Then there was just the general morality question we talked about driving up El Toro on the way over.  I mentioned that “God is also a liberal and that liberals have moral inclinations, too- - that should be paid attention to”.  Paul agreed with me that liberals USED to be that way.  Of course there was talk about “Forgetting God- - and God gets pissed when people don’t follow his plans”.  And of course the gay thing was raised- - and now New Jersey is the fourteenth state to institute gay marriage.  I said “It seems inevitable the march of gay marriages will go on and is unstoppable’ to which Paul said “Let’s not give up hope”.   I felt like saying “If China didn’t pull their loans during the just passed debt crisis that YOUR side initiated- - there isn’t the slightest indication they’ll pull them now, and I said “China has not so much as hint they were thinking of doing it’.

Before we get to Beatles news - - Judy had more charming things to say about the gay community.  She said that homosexuality was like an addiction and you want more and more of it and you're never satisfied.  My response, "Oh, you mean the way Christians feel about the Holy Spirit?"  Paul was saying 'You know, sugar is the one thing you can eat and be hungrier after you ingest it than before."   This of course is more absurdity.  You mean if I'm starving and someone offers me something sweet- - because if I actually eat it I'll be hungry?  I'm hungry NOW, you idiot".   And of course Judy said "It 's like you with your smoking.  You keep wanting more and more of it for it to satisfy you".   What I'd like to know is 'Just whose experiance are you speaking for?"  But she brought up Sodom and Gamorah and how these men weren't just satisfied with having sex among themselves but sought out new virgin territory- - and if they could corrupt an Angel this would be a real feather in their cap.  And the Bible tells how they would bang on the door in desperation".   Perhaps this is an eye opener because we'll see how "satisfied" gays are with "just being married to one person".  But as Judy says "When it comes to homosexuality - - with God, that's one of the big ones".

Laurance Jubar was on Breakfast with the Beatles.  They played almost the same line-up of BB C songs as the previous week, and also the same selection of new Mc Cartney songs as the previous weeks.  I did not go down for coffee.  In the realm of new facts Eric Claptin played on “Cold Turkey” and today October 20, 2013 is the anniversary of its release in 1969.  Cold Turkey was recorded September 30th 1069.  What I didn't know was that while Abbey Road was being wrapped up, John approached Paul and wanted to release "Cold Turkey" as a Beatles single (before it was even recorded)  Paul declined.  Speaking of "inside information you really don't know because you weren't there" how many of you have figured out what Eric Burden song "Cold Turkey" was originally conceived as a dark parody of.  I don't think we have any takers on the song "Imagine" ripped off musically that was out in March of 1971. I've been letting this quiz question hang out there for a long time.  Apparently in England they release 45's with spindle plugs in the record.  The song Chris Carter and I like the best off of “New” Mc Cartney- - is a “bonus” track, don’t ask me why.  “I’m Getting Closer” was a Mc Cartney composition from 1974, so he held it off a long time.   That final Mc Cartney track of the morning - - I was approached by "the other side" who played me a recording of Blue Oyster Cult doing that very tract (only just slightly slower) they told me was recorded after finishing 'Cultesaurus Erectus" but before that album hit the stores.  The unspoken inference was that the band was transported to Sirius O to record this track.  We're adding two songs to the list in the final paragraph.  You early draft people, can you figure out which they are?  Oh- and that "dead lead guitarist I am most acquainted with"?  That's a bit of a trick question because most always I refer to as Burt Lombard, rather than his actual name.  He joined the band he's best known for in 1970 and recorded five albums with this artist.  Track four of his first album with the band appears on 'Metal Militia".

We ran into some sort of traffic congestion around that five way interchange with the 22 and the 57 and things cleared out amazingly after we had passed that.  We got off at Katella as usually.  In the last few miles we talked about genetically modified foods, and foods from China that were sabotaged with all manner of poisons- - and not subjected to this nation’s food safety safeguards.  Judy went on her award winning rants about mercury light bulbs and how the has-met people need to be called to dispose of the mercury, that I thought was silly.  She lamented that the United States doesn’t produce anything in this country any more.  Bones greeted me soon after I returned- - which was around twenty to eight.  I got my medication and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich from Donnie.  Bill had on that other “Bones” on KCOP.  For a moment I thought perhaps the game had been rained out.  Boston won- - beating the Tigers in a grand slam making it five to two, after trailing one to two.  The Red Sox just missed hitting another home run when the ball hit the top of the “green monster” just six inches from the top.  Of course the Red Sox will be playing the SL Cardinals because the Cardinals beat the Dodgers nine to nothing, apparently- - Friday night.  That came as a jolt to me- - even though the Federation predicted that those two teams would win.- and is happy they did.  I smoked three cigarettes after I got home, which perhaps was a mistake.  Bones actually agrees with Judy on things mentioned in this paragraph - - even the light bulb thing.  Bones is into incandecents.

 I don’t like being stiffed by Dr Levy.  And then he shows up at the least probable times and wonders why the room isn’t packed.    He still hasn’t shared with us his “Balanced Living” essay.  And I haven’t found it on his web site.  Dr Levy moves at glatial speeds.  Months and months ago he acted like he was all gung ho over this trip to El Dorado Park, but we haven’t heard another thing about it.  That Teresa lady is still sitting at the table with us.  We had oatmeal and I had a second bowl from Dora, and Teresa gave me a pink sugar.  We had a fried egg and toast with butter and jelly.   I still don’t have anything I particularly want to post in a blog today.   Sometimes I wonder why I even bother since blogger numbers have seldom been anything but pathetic.  I should at least be getting numbers in the hundreds every day- - and a four digit entry would not be too much to ask for considering that a cat video will draw tens of thousands of hits per day.  It’s hard to believe with the whole country- and beyond- - as your market- - there are so few people who are interested in even hitting a link.   The thing is even the “hits” are no sure fire thing they have read the blog through.  They might hit the link and glance at my blog, and then rapidly move on.

And now here is a little more cosmic crap for your dining and dancing pleasure.  There is one cosmic group we have never mentioned- - that was pivotal in producing the Rock and Roll many in a lot of the country associate with that genus of music.  Fats Domino was the earliest here from 1952 or so- - and then we have the early Pat Boone stuff and the Platters from early 1955 and then we have tracks like “Devil or Angel” and “Eddie My Love” and even Gail Storm - and also "Singing the Blues" and Clarence Frog-man Henry- - and Jimmy Dorsey’s swan song “So Rare” - - and then there is Jimmy Clanton ("Go, Jimmy, Go") and "Since I don't have you", and we move on to this groups last three “hits”, which are “Stagger Lee”, and “Sea Cruise” and “Harbor Lights” once again from the Platters.  The name of this group- - it’s spelled the Barthchettes - - but the Romulans just call them Barchetas.  The word in Romulan means “Frat Boy” or “Preppie” and they are from the Surpent Slayer constellation- - and they have few if any allies in our social sphere- - which is probably why you never heard of them.   Now we move to a group you have heard of- - the Belmont Group.  This group- - is located in the dog star constellation- - but is not a Sirius race but their own race.  They are in close proximity to another group we’ve referred to before - - the Metzerschmetzen.  What I didn’t know till virtually today was that the Federation itself- - that is - - the Dardanians- - didn’t get in the whole rock scene on planet earth till 1963.  And for them their first forays were the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds- - and the Pretty Things - - all around late 1963.   All of this of course comes under the heading of information you don’t need.