So the question is will there be a "Progressive Spring"? President Obama laid down the reality of the energy and gas price situation pretty well yesterday morning in Saturday address. There is a "world market" on energy and people don't stop to think that even a solely "domestic production" of oil will be bowied up by the world market. The idea that our two percent could affect world markets is absurd. Perhaps if the President repeats this truth enough it will sink in. Now they are saying on these Roundtables that Newt Gingrich wants to be this year's Warren G Harding and have a brokered convention and win on the 104th ballot or whatever and be the big Conservative Hero. That figure can't be right. Even the fourteenth ballot would be high considering these votes take perhaps an hour each. The media can't spare that much air time nowadays. Now they are saying that Gingrich is really Santorum's friend and opperates as his "wing man" because he is keeping Mitt Romney at bay, and even if they don't want Newt they may prefer Santorum. Of course they showed commercials by Romney against Santorum and Chris Matthews rightly says these charges are rather vapid. The commercials by Santorum against Romney are better on a factual basis but on the surface sppear strikingly similar. It's too much the "Brand A is better than Brand B" and it's all determined by what sort of dark music is playing or whether the photography is in black and white or in color. However the appeal of the Romney people could backfire. "Do you want a candidate who is practiced at screwing over the people economically, or would you prefer a man who's spent his whole life in government trying to help and serve his constituincy? I haven't been one of these people that has used absolutist, extremist rhetoric against the moral politics of Santorum, as others have. It's "not that important in the overall scheme of things as President". It's a fair question. As to whether these "Wall Street protests" will resurge again, I wish they wouldn't because "the point has already been made" and people's cnsciousness is raised on these issues.
Now with all of this global warming this new film on the "Cold planet world' takes on added significance of "this is a whole World that may not exist fifty years from now because there won't be any more cold weather'. Those of you who have seen the winter scenes in "Fantasia" know that there is real beauty in the Winter season of the year. Ironically the tune played during these winter scenes is "Waltz of the Flowers" for those of you who are "cracked up" for classical music. This movie shows the interrection of a mother polar bear and her cubs, and when when a young one makes noise and spoils a hunt, the mother puts him in "time out". And you have scenes of penguins and such that look as of they were choriographed. You have snow flakes forming and underwater shots with whales hunting seals or whatever. And you have wolf hunts where there was danger to the photographers. You have an extraordenary ammount of patience and time by the whole production crews. You have technically excellent photography. The first three photos I downloaded last night from Flicker are extraordnary. This photo here was actually "tweaked" so it's an even better photograph color and composition wise, than the original in my oppinion.
The whole bit about bullying is brought to the forefront now by this new documentary movie on bullying that's rated PG 13 but people advise you to see it even from "family groups". As loathesome for me as it is to say it I have to concur with Neil Savedra's little opening speech this morning on KFI. Perhaps this film should have been rated PG 11 or something, because eleven year old boys in particular should see it. If they aren't in Junior High, they will be next year and become apprised of those realities. Of course when we visited that "Family Counselor" in July of 1968 the guy there kind of intoned things Neil was complaining about of "You really shouldn't use such coarse language talking about this stuff". But the reality is you HAVE to get down to the nitty gritty and explain the reality of certain situations, even ones that exist in your own family. Actually I was in four official fights in Jr high. One in seventh grade, two in the eighth, and one in the ninth and the one in the ninth was with a bigger and tougher guy. The results of all four confrontations was "indecisive", kind of like Santorum in Ohio. The four names of the combattants are James Kilppenstein (he looked like his name sounds) Brent Jones, Bob Ottis, and Greg Barthalamew. I was not in any actual fights in High School however my interractions with Ron Adams in the latter part of my Sophamore year were definitely a bullying type situation. Before then I never had any negative impressions of "Jocks" but this guy changed all that. Of course Carl Babb in nineth grade was understandably offended when I told him that his rock band was definitely the worst of the three bands that performed in the tallent show concert the other night. Around here there was Marcus Blackwell who was bigger than I was and a little younger and definitely had the more dominent of the two personalities. He used "coarse language" in the pressence of Janet, and it was a bad a reflection on her as it was on him. I kept thinking "Why are you saying all this crap. There's Lady present". In another situation I probably would have taken more "proactive action" to shut him up, however they'll kick you out of here if you fight. Sometimes there is such a gap in ability between the you and the person you are challenging that the other guy doesn't consider you worth it. One time in the eighth grade I confronted ninth grader Al Lopez because he was slapping and shoving Janis Freeze around and I stepped in and said "Hey, don't you treat her like that". He just looked at me like I was crazy or something and I slinked away. However I think that event scored points with Janis because she was friendlier tword me after that. And then we have Ken Brown from around here in March or so of 2006. This guy was a holy terror around here and he was a BIG guy, like a track star or a football player, and he looked young enough to be my son or something. If you saw Ken Brown in the halls the smart thing to do was head the other way. He didn't last too long around here but definitely had a hair-trigger and "anger management" problems.
Of course Ken Brown is the name of the original Silver Beetle bass player back when they were playing at the Casbah Club in Mona Best's basement. Actually this was earlier in latter 1959 when the going term was "Johnny and the Moon Dogs". One night Ken Brown was sick and didn't play. The next day John Lennon threw a spaz when Mrs. Best paid him along with the others when he didn't play. It sounds like something I might have said. (I've never been a fan of Jesus' workers in the vinyard parable.) The thing is I don't even think he was sick. In fact he was actually There that night. He just didn't play. Later on after Stewart became the bass player someone said to the Beatles, it may have been Alan Williams, "Your band still doesn't have a drummer. How can you play gigs without a drummer?" to which one of the Beatles said "Oh, we're such a naturally rhythimical band we don't need a drummer". About the only parrellel situation in this life that occurs to me was in the early days of the Savanna Band when the band was rehearsing a song called 'Rock Band Jazz" without the drums present for some reason. I thought "We sound pretty good". But then when the drums showed up what struck me is how LOUD the drums sounded, to the point of being surpurfelus, and I was thinking "We almost sounded better without the drums".
The LA Marithon is kind of a right of spring around here. The sun just came out. Of course we should have fast times this year because it's cool weather. Also they keep changing the course, and this year and a few years past it's been almost all downgrade from Dodger Stadium to the sea at Santa Monica, so we should get fast times. Of course breakfast was a joke this morning. We wern't served till five after eight after getting there at a quarter after seven, and we got a ham and salami sandwich because they ran out of eggs. You are at the table waiting for your meal when half the dining room is already vacated and they are already cleaning off the tables there. It's exasperating. Yesterday I was wondering whether the computer was opperating on mental telepathy. I was "thinking" about copying files and I'd often start to mark them off but never hit Copy and yet you would see miltiple images of photos appear- - - not at the target destination of the Hitchi hard drive but in the current drive. So I don't know what the Hell was going on. We are getting needed showfall in the mountains and their slogan is "better late than never". Today is March 18th.
I would venture one more slice of advice about Neil and his "Church laws" speech. He says "Many non believers don't understand why the Church has so many rules and regulations. Well they are to Protect the people from harm". I would say to that that you need some kind of an outside religion Ombudsman, to PROTECT you FROM the Church, or at least keep they apprised as to what is happening. I hear that word "Protect" and isn't this how every despotic kind since time began sees himself as a "Protector" of the people? And I think of that Planet of the Apes thing where the Orangitangs defended the outright Lies they were telling the people under the guise of 'We are protecting the People from a Truth that would be too Painful for them to bear". Spare us! What strikes me as really funny about people like Chuck Smith saying "People criticize Christianity without spending twenty minutes in serious study of the Bible". If me means in Seminary Class like he did, I'll grant that. But it's a downright insult to himself as well as us when he implies that spending maybe ten years listening to nothing but Christian sermons doesn't contain at least "twenty minutes of Bible knowledge". Are they Really saying their Own sermons are that Vapid? Rev. Bill Halliday has kind of intoned the same sentaments using even less tactful terms. I would repeat the adage, "Before you Accuse Me, Take a Look at Yourself". (Selah)
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