Basically - Just More of the Same

We then come to Meet the Press where the topics of the day were very similar to last night on the Mc Laughlin Group, which I watched.  Judy had invited me to come over for a home cooked meal and watch that Cambrian Era explosion on DVD I had expressed interest in but I reluctantly declined, but considering the game result, I might decide otherwise today.  It seems that Robert Gates book is being treated with an importance as though it came down from Mt Sinai or something.  But people delight in twisting Gate’s words to put the worst possible light on President Obama.  Gates said that Joe Byden did not have a single good idea.  But I think partitioning the entire Mideast region into Sunni and Shiite is an excellent idea.  Any school leader knows that when you have two boys continually fighting, you separate them.  But since was US Foreign policy about logic?   And the idea that the President’s goal was on “getting us out of two wars” isn’t strange at all.  That’s what he was elected to do in 2008.  So of course the President is going to test the military credibility with hard questions.  At other times Gates praised Obama’s decisions, but people ignore that.   President Obama was very concerned about “mission creep” as he should be.  We’ve been in Afghanistan going on thirteen freeking years already.  Come on!  President Obama distrusted President Karzai.  Well so do I, and it’s always puzzled me that President Bush didn’t.  Another topic of the Mc Laughlin group was this whole unemployment situation and Mort Zuckerman gave a rather empassioned pitch for continued unemployment coverage for the long termers.  Zucherman may be a pessimist, but he’s a concerned pessimist, and says “These people really need help for the sake of keeping this economy going”.  Governor Christie and bridg-gate was the other topic.  Of course there are many similarities to Watergate because both involve “Whether close aids somehow are able to do things behind your back that you never talk about or express the slightest bit of curiosity about.   Both Nixon and Christie have said “I was unaware of these events before X Date, and when I found out I took swift action”.  Nixon claimed to know little of Watergate before John Dean apprised him of the situation on March 21^st 1973.  But this Mayor guy of Ft Lee was a major disappointment.  He reminded me of Fred Mc Murry when he was with his two comrades on the way to do a report on Captain Queeg and “Tom” gets cold feet at the last minute.  If your lead man is going to suddenly go soft, and struck with a sudden case of impotence with an “inability to get the job done” then the whole case just might fall apart right there.  I found the Major of Ft Lee’s “testimony” a major disappointment- - and am now mystified just as to why he did not stick to his central complaint that he was threatened.  You see this all the time in ‘Law and Order” episodes where a major witness backs out, and the whole case falls apart.  But then you have Reins Prevus- - who engaged in a major ass kissing exhibition for Governor Christie.  If you think for an instant Governor Christie will do well or even respectably in the Iowa caucuses, you don’t know the people of Iowa at all.  They don’t tolerate shit like this.

Just one little “bit” and I’ll add more not in this file when we get into Blogger.  For instance - - there is that "magic chandlier" in the Bosc dining room there you look and see four candle things just looking at it but if you look in the window reflection, there are five candles.  There's a very simple explanation but it makes a good photograph.  Then you go back to mid March of 1968 where me and Pete Richards are jamming or something and - - - at one point I am playing the guitar part to "Suki Suki" but the thing is when I played the tape back, Pete Richards was singing the words to "Foxy Lady" in a microphone somewhere else.  We'd just invented the first mash-up!  But Paul or somebody said “You know I got turned off on the later Elvis Presley songs, once he stated using things like trombones in his songs”.  Right away I thought of “Hard Hearted Woman” and I was thinking ‘I know what you mean”.  But it’s possible the Beatles may have been referring to the Jail House Rock soundtrack- - and actual trombones playing in that jail band, which I’ve always thought was strange.  But if you’re really into trombones- - one of the five songs listed following is the trombone kind.  Can you pick out the song?  They are “Norman, My Love” - - “By the Time I get to Phoenix” - - “I Am the Adulterous” - - “Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls” - - and “Red, Red Wine”.  And you will note a single theme running through these five songs.   "I Tell You There's No Problem, only Selucids".  This is one of my misquotes- - when I talk about the Antichrist coming from the old Selucid Empire in "God's Winepress" in 1980.

I had Chris Matthews on just after nine.  I watched all of Friday’s show, and at least the first long segment of Thursday’s show, and perhaps more.  Christie has used this ‘a subordinate lied to me” line before.   It was some education head in 2010 that was fired for some minor mistake and Christie says “I didn’t fire him because he made minor mistakes but because he lied to me”.  But then the guy produced documentation that he’d been telling the Truth, so we know that Governor Christie lied, when he accused him of being a liar.  I think we have the same case like that.  There is this - - fictional “hour long questioning session of my staff” in December where apparently the line went ‘Tell me about what’s been going on in my government for the past three months”.  It’s ludrcris!   Christie’s middle names are things like “take charge” and “hands on”.  The idea that such a massive conspiracy among the whole staff could go on for three months is insane.  Christie invented this “story” about some “traffic study”.  But now that story was falling apart and the media was getting suspicious.  He had to face the media in a couple hours so he invents this “session with his staff” I don’t think ever happened.   We haven’t heard from Brigette Kelly at all.  Any more than we got to hear Trayvon Martin’s side of that murder case.  But it’s ludicris that the Port Authority would believe the word of an Aid.  But further the order was given by an E mail of “Time to cause traffic programs in Ft Lee”, and the next minute- - an E mail is sent “Message understood.  We’re on it” type of thing.  You tell me that – such a major order was complied to THAT quickly?  No.  The message of “traffic problems” was clearly the “signal” that the parties had agreed upon previously.  Lindsey Graham came out and said that Gov Christie wasn’t credible.  I skipped the ten o clock coffee outing.   Then it was Melinda Lee on the virtues of pre soaking your pinto beans before you crock-pot them.   We had chicken nuggets with BBQ sauce for lunch, and potato salad, with soup, and a banana for desert.  Dora provided two more nuggets and potato salad for seconds.

The first football game of Saturday was really good, the second – not so much.  Seattle got off to a sixteen to nothing half time lead at the half, but alas that score was unchanged throughout the whole third quarter.  New Orleans began scoring.  Bill had it on EWN just after dinner (and yes, Blog readers, we do eat that early) and I promptly turned it back.  It seems that New Orleans was attempting an onside kick with 26 seconds left to play with the score at 23 to 15.  So the Saints needed to run the entire field and score and then go for two, just for the chance of a win in overtime.  Well the guy practically drop kicked the ball into the hands of a Saints player.  But a brilliant play was then followed by a very stupid decision.  The Saint player rather than go out of bounds- went for an illegal forward pass.  The referee announced “by rule we are running ten seconds off the clock; the same is over”.   Yippee!  The Sea Hawks beat the Saints 23 to 15.  But in the evening game New England just over-powered the Indy Colts.  The closest score was at about 21 to 12 Patriots over Colts, and then the Patriots went wild and began scoring a lot, and the final score was 43 to 22 Patriots.  The game ended at eight thirty, when Bill asked me for the time.  We then watched the final half hour of “Burn Notice” and I let it roll on to the next episode but I was tired from not enough coffee- and when Bill went out for a smoke, I decided to go to bed.  I slept well last night.  No dreams, no nothing.  I guess I got up a while after six.  I had debated going to the store and using a debit card for coffee but didn’t.  I went for my medication before breakfast.  It’s been a good morning.  I got seconds on oatmeal.  And Loretta gave me a whole second cup of coffee.  We got two whole pieces of French toast with ample syrup- - and Teresa gave me her bacon - - and we had generous bacon this day

This is Saturday January 11^th coming up on 1:20 and FOX is previewing all of the football games this weekend.  I’m a little ticked off with Leo Le Port.  Today it was the occasion of his annual trashing of the Las Vegas Electronics Show.  He calls it “The Hostess Twinkies of Electronics Shows” and every year he belittles it and calls it irrelivent.  Of course it’s the biggest Electronics show of the whole year and the media is sent out to cover it.   I think Leo gave his guy with the back-up software some bum advice.  The caller complained that nothing was backed up when he ran the program last week- - of a later date than 2010.  Leo says “Well those are probably the dates that the files were created” and then changes that.  “Well, if you ran the program and copied them, they’re there.  You just haven’t found them”.   I’m thinking of Google Desktop where “with the information the program has” I’ve written nothing since 2012 even after the passage of a whole year.  I think we have a case of the same thing right here.

Actually "Here we go again" is an interesting song.  It's the first piece John Lennon wrote after he and I got our "final divorce" in late 1973.  There was never another Lennon song that had any of "My" influence on it from that point on. OK Chris Carter!  Right NOW you're playing my Second favorite Ringo drumming record of all time.  Can you guess my Number One song- - of Ringo's drumming?  You might play that one.

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.