Dodging A Bullet

We may have dodged a bullet when North Korea’s leader Kim Jung Umm, decided not to start world war III last month when everyone was expecting to.  Moe Kelly didn’t like the idea that when Dennis Rodman visited the NK leader he was treated lavishly when the people of North Korea are starving.  Were I to be invited by Kim Jung Umm to such an engagement and was told “world peace depends on this meeting” I’d for once in my life seek out a Priest to consult with because I’d have the moral dilemma of my going encouraging despotism.  Of course Nick Fallon dodged a bullet today when Samantha Brady decided not to waste him on the spot with her drawn gun.  And make no mistake about it.  I have little doubt that gun was fully loaded and if Nick had at any time said the wrong thing she would have wasted him.  Here’s a suggestion to the wise- - never tell your adversary about your Ace in the Hole- - because in doing so you just put your life in grave jeopardy and you might live another day- - to do anything.  But of course there are many brave among us.  That guy whose Sports Utility Vehicle was hijacked by the Boston bombers- - saw his avenue of escape and he took it.  Amanda Berry saw her one chance of escape, and she availed herself of it.  That soldier who violated orders at Bengazi and rescued all of those men saving scores of lives- - did what he did in direct violation of his military orders but he did it anyway because he knew what he had to do.  President Obama took a great risk invading what has proven to be an enemy country, Pakistan, to get Bin Laden.    I only wish that the President could be as cool as a cumber on other issues where he has balked at taking a courageous stand.  During the Yom Kippur war of 1973, Golda Meir asked President Nixon for a better kind of fighting jet to turn the tide of the war to Israel’s favor.  Had it gone in the Arab’s favor things would not have bode well for other western countries.   The question is whether we as a Nation will dodge the bullet of tea party right wing extremism, which we are in continuing peril of.  If the tea party gets their way - - America as we know it will be gone.   And it has yet to be demonstrated whether we have successfully dodged the ecology disaster bullet.   Because some sources say it may already be too late to turn the tide against global warming.

The news this week has been so strange.  It’s like living in the middle of some real TV horror movie of the week or more like it, a TV mini-series.  There is such a seedy, distasteful quality to all of this sexual abduction stuff and it will take weeks or longer to sort it all out.  It’s people’s theory that Michelle Knight might never have made the news were she the only one who was abducted and rescued, because she was estranged from her family and that doesn’t play well in the press.  But she had already lived a hard life.  She was estranged from her mother at the time of the abduction and there were roomers she’s gone to Florida.  In high school two boys cornered her in the bathroom and raped her.  She gave birth to a son named Joey, whom she lost custody of.   All three abduction victims were offered rides from Ariel Castro.  They said she was having “mental problems” at the time.  Randy Rhodes believes (and it’s most likely true) that sexual traumas of this sort cause people to self medicate with oxy conten and Vicoden and whatever to numb the psychological - - and perhaps physical pain.  Drugs don’t lead to rape.  It’s the other way around.  This Mark Walsh head of the Air Force unit is a real tactless jerk-off.  He made the statement that “We have all of this pick up, and hooking up culture coming in from the Jr. High and High school culture now.  And Randi thought he said “Besides this woman has already been raped, so she’s damaged goods”.  I know all about the ‘damaged goods” doctrine from people like Bill Halliday and Neil Savedra.  You know- - this is another one of those cases where the President morally needs to step up to the plate and take proactive action.  After all they don’t call him the “Commander and Chief” for nothing (hopefully).  Randi points out that if a certain superior officer disagrees with a conviction - - he has the power on his own to overturn it.  Women like - - perhaps even Michelle Knight - - join the Service because they feel they can “make a fresh start in life and get some new input and training”.   That was kind of my thought when I became a Born Again Christian and we know how that turned out.  But back to our story.  Michelle Night was of course twenty when she was abducted, and of all three women she was by far the most routinely beaten by Ariel Castro.  He got her pregnant five times and then starved her and then would punch her in the stomach to make her lose the baby.  And she lost all five.  Now she is the one who remains in the hospital because she’s not sure whether she has a home to go home to.  (Kind of like John Lennon in Hamburg in December 1960)  I know, “How would you know that?”  It has been suggested that people send her a box of Sherry’s berries or flowers or something to let her know that she’s loved and supported.    Light a candle for her.

Then there is the jury ruling on this murder case in Arizona where this Jody woman was convicted of stabbing her husband 29 times and doing a bunch of other stuff to kill him, and she tried to call it self defense.  But of course it wasn’t self defense.   Marsha Clark was Stephanie Miller’s guest this morning.  She knows all about battered women.  Of course this Jody woman will receive the death penalty, and the woman herself says she doesn’t care because she wants to die.   I guess I’m thinking “Let’s schedule an execution date years off and let’s make life as shitty for her in the prison as possible in the mean time”.   It kind of seems to me that we in California could relieve our prison population problem overnight if we’d just start regular weekly executions of the three hundred plus inmates on death row.   I think if people knew that every Wednesday at ten AM or something, another convict was getting “off” d, it would put the fear of God into some of these would be thugs who’d think twice about doing it themselves.

Some would generalize police response as if it’s in a poor neighborhood- - if it’s about drugs than the cops come in like gang busters and are all over the premises ready to kick the door down and ransack the house inside.  But if they get a call or multiple calls from that same poor neighborhood about kidnapped women or missing persons- - they may routinely not even record the call.  I hate to say it but the Cleveland police department seems totally messed up.  Nobody believes that five or so neighbors just decided to make up lies that they had called the police all about this same house, and got no response.  I guess the Federal government may get involved and I imagine for a local PD the worst hell imaginable is having the feds on your case.  Moe Kelly was saying there is also racial inequety.  Because this Black singer who made a lot of money was brought up on charges of not paying her federal Income Tax.  But she paid ninety percent of the million she owed as a good faith gesture before sentencing, and it didn’t help.  Meanwhile Lindsey Lohan gets this automatic pass on everything.  Nobody has gotten that many “passes” by the public since Brian Jones was with the Rolling Stones.  Moe Kelly was upset about some bribe he imagines that Pepsi Cola made to Al Sharpton.  He says any time someone like Sharpton says “The meeting went positively” it means that money changed hands.  But to tell you the truth I’m going to half to look up the podcast because I missed too much of it.

 

The coffee Dr. Levy gave me has been going down quickly and a think the coffee level dropped about two inches after Nora’s visit.  We got an egg salad sandwich from Donnie and Janet asked about that.  Janet has ceased supplying food to anyone around here, it seems.  I noted a lot of activity just the other side of that railing as I was sitting on the bench there with bill, so something has obviously opened up.  For the longest time it was just the liquor store and an empty building.  It was the ABC game shows and I dozed off just before eight and woke during “The Middle”.  I watched most of the next ABC comedy but then twords nine I got on computer and like I say - - I aborted that I Tunes update because it would take too long and I wasn’t in the mood.  I proceeded to the fairly concise blog posting.  I was planning to talk about “The Delaney Group”, which is another rock group planet and culture containing keyboardist Bobby Whitlock, and Delany and Bonnie, Leon Russel, Joe Cocker, and Billy Preston.  I didn’t do that and there is a “cosmic glossery” of alien language words I was hoping to get done at some point.  It was past nine thirty and I watched the rest of Criminal Minds.  I slept well last night- - but sometimes when I awaken in the morning it’s with anxious feelings.  Now Social Security is threatening to stop my payments entirely if I don't make the next appointment for May 23rd.  These people don't waste time.  They got that letter off quickly.