Betrayed By Pakistan

You've heard the old saying, "Do I have to draw you a picture". How much more obvious can it be that the U S can't trust Pakistan and shouldn't trust them as an ally than what just happened in the past few days. We know that the sailors on the boat from which Bin Laden's weighted body was cast into the Arabian sea, arrived home safely today and were rightly lauded by the local people. But I bet you didn't know that those brave souls in Pakistan who were so instrumental in fingering Bin Laden were not so fortunate. There were about six key figures each instrumental in gathering information on and locating Bin Laden, were detained by the Pakistani government as some sort of common criminals. Like they say, "No good deed goes unpunished". What is President Obama going to do with Pakistan? Why on earth do we even need them- - now? Personally I'd prefer not to get in bed with a whore, especially is you wake up with some sort of disease. President Obama appears to be suffering from the termanal disease of cowardess. It's time that he "man up" and prove that the United States is made of better stuff, and we can afford to be at least a little picky about who our friends are. I mean, are we that afraid of being Nuked? (Selah) Of course Newt Gingrich in the debate said that the Times Square bomber of last May (2010) was willing to swear any loyalty oath he heeded to so those "lists of questions" that others would ask prospective cabinet appointees wouldn't be relivant in Newt's mind. After all Newt quotes that terrorist as saying "Well, guess what? I lied. You are my sworn enemy". And so now there is a new religion called "Prislam". This is the prisoner recruitment of radicals. Some would way we aren't as paranoid as we should be. Newt says that "When we used to go after Communists and Nazis, we didn't observe all the niceties of constitutional law. But it worked". I don't know about that. But it's pointless to be hot and bothered over some blowhard nuts in prison, when you have a nation like Pakistan around and running loose.

Well, Wheel of Fortune has now taken to guimicks. Each and every game on today's show has all the words starting with the same letter. (apparently just one round) So you look for a three letter space on the board and take a not so wild guess that every word starts with a T. As in a Tiny Tim song. Get it? Now perhaps they could try other patterns such as making every word in the puzzle an anagram. That would considerably speed up the process of solving. They would make every word in the puzzle begin with an odd numbered letter. In fact they would have to about do that. Do you know why? They couldn't make every puzzle word begin with an even numbered letter because each and every vowel, A, E, I, O, U, and even Y and W, are odd numbered letters.

You know some people can sleep under circumstances that would give most men palipatations. For instance in the movie All About Eve, Anne Baxter chose to take a nap right before a big Broadway performance after she had betrayed her best friends. George Sanders knocks on the door and Eve complains "You are interrupting my nap" and Sanders says, "You could sleep at a time like this, couldn't you?" So we know that two of Jesus' desciples, John and Peter, who first posed the question, knew that Judas was going out to betray Jesus. So then, why are they sleeping the evening away, despite numerous rousings by Jesus to "watch and pray?" I guess John Boehner like a killer lion after a satisfying hunt, can lay down and sleep, even knowing that his vote may have doomed the economy to a major debt crisis come August 2nd which is only about six weeks off. Now they report that there is this whole bank of computers keeping track of the debt and monitoring the money supply. But they tell us that on August 2nd that the entire bank of computers will shut down. At least George Bush when he saw the banking crisis of September of 2008 coming, he probably sweated a little and finally took action. I can't say the same thing about John Boehner. Some people "wait till the last moment" to get a needed task done. While there are others who wait PAST the last moment, and their slothfulness and inattention doesn't seem to bother them. Does John Boehner really believe the debt crisis won't come back on him. Is he content to let the rest of America suffer if he feels he is somehow insulated from it? I have seen no sign that the log jam in congress is close to be averted and that action on this urgent matter will finally be forthcoming.

Now there is a crisis in the life expectancy of women. The rate at which women are living longer is lessening and leveling out, whereas the actuarial tables with men are continuing their steady climb. Woman as of now are living to age 80 where as the average man dies at 75. I'm a little surprised at these figures. I've heard rosier ones. But there are certain problems unique to women. For one thing, women's blood pressure seems inherently harder to control. I know my Mom is still having trouble controling her blood pressure whereas mine has been controled for ten years. Also women don't get the warning symptums from approaching heart attacks that men do. Now they say that women having a higher pain threshhold don't mind the pain, and are less likely to complain. That's contrary to common belief for sure. And lastly, women are just more overweight then men and inherently have more problems trying to lose weight. Now they are cutting out chocolate milk in the LA Unified school district. This is a really bad idea because what they avoid in sugar is more than made up for by the vast ammount of vital nutrients that are to be found in a glass of milk. I say, "Rethink your position".

Finally let's talk about youth verses age. Some say "Youth is wasted on the young". Someone once raised the issue of would you like to live forever. While theoretically this would be a panacia there are certain impediments. For one thing even if you were restored to a young, vibrant, healthy body- - you would still be an "old man" in your mind. It would take Time to readjust your thinking and your perception of yourself. I have a more pragmatic reason for not wishing to live forever. For people living in S S I this is a life sentense. I've been disinherited by my family. This is a life long penalty. They say once you're on S S I it's about impossible to get off. Kind of like moving in here, and Dana is finding that out. To me I'm not sure it's entirely prudent to "think like an old person" with an aversion to taking risk and finding new adventures and experiances in life. To the Young this is instinctive. They say if you fall off a horse the thing to do is to get right back on. If you are flying and crash a plane, like Ernest Hemingway did, the thing to do is to get right back into it. This is because you know the things that bring you real pleasure in life. And pleasure is living. The person without desires is not "Enlightened"; he is Dead. (Selah) And if you're Evil Knevel on the Simpson's you may crash your motorcycle in a jump but even while youre laid up in traction in the hospital, you are dreaming of when you get out and can do your next ride. Scientologists would find another reason for "getting old". In order to rid yourself of Age, even with a healthy body, you need to rid your mind of engrams. And many times rather than "getting right back into it" you instead become mentally and psychologically traumatized. You go into a state of psychic unsciousness, which has nothing to do with measuring your vitals. In this "unconscious" state, you have this Black Hole in your psyche, from which all sorts of horrible things eminate, and if you could see it you could eliminate it, but you can't see it, unless a trained person helps you. Young people think they can live forever. As such they have already what Born Again Christians long for and struggle to achieve, but don't, and that is "Living in the Now".