Boot To The Head

People talking in movie shows
People who smoke in bed
People voting Republican
Give them a Boot to the Head

Well today we lay to rest a "cop's cop", Daryl Gates. He was police chief here in LA from 1978 to 1992. He came to media prominence because of the Hillside Strangler case, where the two culprets were Angelo Bouno and Kenneth Bianke. It is said that Daryl Gates is responsible for inovations used in the modern police department including S W A T teams and the DARE program, or drug awareness resistance education. They say he is also responsible for recruiting more women into the police department. I don't doubt Chief Gates' dedication to law and order. It's just from a Black perspective, we see a whole other side to his legacy involving racial abuse, both verbaly, additudenally, and physical. Of course Chief Gates was driven out of office in the aftermath of the Rodney King beating and the LA riots in 1992. Gates said that black people didn't have normal veins and reacted differently in choke holds from "normal people", and he also said stuff about Latinos abnormally reproducing at a young age. But as you know a big part of my ire against him is the guy who approved him for the post, Mayor Tom Bradley. If you look for the definition of the quintessential Uncle Tom, you see his picture. Mayor Bradley was one of those guys I never liked, and even before I knew he was Black I didn't like the tone of his campaign commercials on the radio in 1969. Bradley was a guy who was "full of himself" and took credit for things others did or else credit for things that never got done at all. His rapore with Black people was non existance. Other than perhaps O J Simpson, it's hard to find a guy who traded more on his race, and deserved it less. Bradley was a protogee of Police Chief Parker who was pretty much a full on racist. He found his token nigger to groom. So I say, 'Give him a boot to the head!"

Next candidate for "boot to the head" is Las Vegas Gambling Casinos. They love it when you lose and are happy for you to spend your money- - as long as you lose. But the minute you begin to win they black list you and forbid you to ever come back. The lesson of Rain Man is not lost on me. And there are lots of cases in real life where they suspect people of "cheating", and by cheating they mean finding a way to win. Because you're not Supposed to WIN. Therein lies the "violation" of their unwritten code. You know if I were a little shadier I would set up a special fund where I would advertise "Stick it to the House- - show your opposition- - bet against the house- - place your bets here". Of course this would be one of those Goldman Sachs type opperations where of course the House wins. They win every day, all of the time. So for me bankrolling this "fund" I would be in a position of every time the house wins, I win.

Give the republicans a boot to the head. They are two faced assholes. They say they want to "make sure the provisions of the bill are air tight enough" and that the Democrats leave no loopholes. And so they voted to block the democrat's measure from even coming to the floor to be debated. Do they really think the American people are that stupid?? Don't answer that. What they are thinking - - the "script" they are using- - is one that worked for a while with Health Care. They reason "The American people were all for single payer health care when this whole thing started. But we blocked the bill before the summer break last year- - and then we launched our tea party crusade funded with all the special interests and turned the "average American" against the health care bill, such that it made things very difficult for the democrats and they passed the bill and got it to the President's desk, only with the greatest if difficulty. Give the Republicans a boot to the head.

I would like to mention one church pastor, in this case Ed Peacock. Of all the pastors our church has had the time I was there- - Peacock unquestionably gave the worse sermons. Personally I found him to be a cold fish. His wife Jackie was far more outgoing and friendly than he was. But Peacock, like Bradley, made everything "about him". One time he visited our church after he left- - and something I said to him tripped him off and he went on a rampage of self adulation and how lucky the Church was to have had him all those years. He left the church when it needed him most. I am inclined to draw the picture of Marlena Dietrich and Tyrone Power in "Witness for the prosecution". "It's like a drowning man clutching a razor blade". Even though I didn't think Ed was a good pastor, I knew the church saw him as a symbol of unity and for this reason his presence at the top was necessary. He claims that God himself told him to take a more lucritive, cushy job. But the way I see it- - short of having a gun placed to your head and "being made an offer you can't refuse", Godfather style, he had no business invoking God in his decision. Frankly, even in such extremity as this, making a decision to leave is still of questionable ethics as far as "Christian responsability is concerned". Boot To The Head!

Let's talk about Wall Street and those six banks that control 63% of the Gross Domestic Product according to KTLK. Goldman Sachs is the most obvious example of being a scam artist. But they are not the only one. The whole Wall Street community deals from a sense of entitlement where they privitise the profits and socialize the losses. In general I think people who work with their hands for a living should not be paying as high of a tax rate as those who don't. We have a highly evolved state of corporate welfare in this country with many of the biggest corporations pay absolutely nothing in earnings taxes. Ronald Reagan started this whole mess with his dismanteling all the laws designed to keep big business in check. But today the tea baggers function as slight of hand artists. First they convince you that you're joining a grass roots movement- - and then they convince you that everything the republicans do by way of obstruction is right and then they point the finger at "government", when they mean George Bush but they will never blame a republican so they will say "It's all government's fault. These tea baggers won't blame the big corporations themselves for having to be bailed out but they will mutter something about a "government socialist takeover" as if government out of the blue decided to bring down the financial structure of this country, rather than fight desperately to preserve it. Give them all a boot to the head!

Finally there is the patent office. A "friend" of mine suggest that I would not like it if my computer programs were ripped off and others took credit for them and I got no recognition. And so she wants me to sympathize with these poor people who earn over $250,000 a year. Dr. Levy went so far to say that "People like me if they are taxed more just might decide to give less to our church or synagogue, and that wouldn't be a good thing". But here is a reality check. Software is evolving into a locked down state. Aren't you getting as tired as I am of Apple doing these little soap opera stunts. They leave a phone on the counter of a bar and someone uses it and now the cops are raiding his computer to see if some sort of crime has been comitted. This whole "locked down" state has gone far enough where everything is patentened and copyright protected- - and you can't even "copy a file" onto a hard drive in the way that you formerly could. The idea of even writing a program may be mute, because if these people get their way I'm likely to be told I can't use my own program I wrote myself because somewhere out there there is a patent on it. People today even patent cells of the human body. I believe I said before that about 20% of the known DNA of the human body is already patentened. Where are the feminists on this one?? Talk about "control of your own body". While we're at it I think this whole steroid hysteria has gotten way out of bounds. Steroids are also a natural part of the human body. But why should people be denied a cancer cure of even a good diagnosis, all for fear of violating some patent. I wonder where Jesus Christ would weigh in on this issue? I think there are alltogether too many patents out there. When a patent styfles research- - it's use has been made a mockery of. Now a scientist doesn't dare research anything because he might bump into some priprietary patent. They used to allow patents to expire after a while. But now they have laws that extend them. So I say "Don't lock up the halls of knowledge". Give the patent office a boot to the head!