Steel and Glass

The lead story today is that "Etch a Sketch' moment, where Mitt Romney was referred to as a kid's toy that you could just "shake down" to a blank screen after each use to describe how Mitt Romney could be "reset" after each Stat's primary campaign, and "reset" again for the fall campaign.  The remark was in response to some CNN interview where the host asked "Couldn't Mitt Romney' campaign prove too conservative for the actual fall Campaign?""  Obviously it's one of those classic "gaffs" that naturally Santorum and Gringrich are going to pounce on, because it's too good of a tempting target to ignore.  I question whether the observation is actually fair to Romney because as Pete Richards points out, and I have observed myself, Mitt Romney has run a conservative campaign ever since he was still governor and was interviewed in 2005 by the Heritage foundation (?) about the possability of a Presidential campaign and was already "re-shaping" his stances on such issues as abortion.  Santorum said of Mitt in 2008 that "If you want a Conservative in the White House in 2009, you will vote for Romney".  My complaint, and this is an a-political, pragmatic observation, is that Mitt Romney has been a candidate who has "failed to grow" during the course of the campaign.  Sure he started off a little awkward, but you hoped it was "something he would grow out of", but he never did.

There are a few people, who are even gun owners, who are willing to step up to the plate on this whole Trevon shooting issue.  One gun owner, and I heard the sentament echoed on a KTLK show yesterday, was that the whole "stand your ground" self defence law never invisioned a guy pursuing another guy to the extend of getting in his car and chasing him down.  And Trevon's girlfriend said "Run home" but Trevon told her over the phone "I'm not doing to do that" because Black's mothers tell them not to run.  I believe some parent told me never to run if you ever saw a vicious dog that was threatening you.  Contrary to what others day,  you get the better of a dog by staring them down and showing them you are not afraid.  But obviously if you run they'll think you're a cat and their "hunter instincts" will take over.  At any rate, when a man gets into his car and tracks you down and then gets out of his car and threatens and corners you, it can hardly be called "self defense".  One old later later on in Stephanie's show, was remarking about the racism that has crept into this whole reelection campaign.  The racism of four years ago rather than abating as people realize the President was not a "gorilla in the mist" or some black ignoramus in office, but fully qualified.  Rather than abate, the racism has doubled down and reinforced itself and gotten more vicious.  Now they show Black people with missing teeth, or a gorilla, or signs that say "Don't Re-NIG in 2012".  And FOX news plays right into the hands of racism and prejudice and deception the way they have finally gotten around to covering the George Zimmerman shooting case.  They say "The liberals wouldn't even bring it up except they use it as a tool to go after lawful gun owners".  FOX's coverage is so biased, nobody could call it anything but an organ of the right wing propaganda machine.  Someone pointed out that the sentament of "Obama is a Moslem" is repeated dozens of times over FOX news, and every time Sean Hannity opens his mouth he's reciting another example of how the President is furthering the Radical Islamic Campaign.  I think perhaps Stephanie could have done one thing different with the gun owner she had on is that she didn't "let him talk".  He was actually on her side, but it almost seemed as if she were trying to intimidate him and force him into retreating behind the usual right wing rhetoric.

I continue to get this propaganda from the Right.  One person says she sent me a whole host of videos talking about either how this is a Phoney Oil crisis, which we don't have at all, and all the petroleum discovered in the Arctic will power the United States for 150 years, or else there are secret plans of Obama to declare a national Emergency under his new Executive Powers, and take constitutional rights away from every American Citizen.  I am concerned about one thing, or charge against Obama I've heard on a recurring basic. This is the one that says that John Boehner wanted to compromize last August on the debt crisis, and go for revenue raising measures to solve the problem but that the President rejected the move on political grounds because he thought it would be better in 2012 if he "Ran against a do nothing Congress".  If the President actually believe this, in his own words, he was "Acting Stupidly" because at that time the President sucked in the polls, and people loved their newly elected radical right wing congress.  I believe if you base a whole campaign in a LIE and a deception, you are in an ongoing state of unconfessed Sin, and need to address THAT situation before you do another thing.  That's how I would handle it.

So what the hell, you ask, does "Steel and Glass" refer to?  I don't know.  It's just a John Lennon song and I don't understand it either.  I don't understand a lot of things.  Like the line "your teeth are clean, but your mind is capped.  You leave your smell - - like an alley cat".   Both John Lennon and Bob Dylan seemed to lose their lyrical image "focus' after a certain point and lost their moral clarity.  Dylan in 1979 sings "There's spiritual warfare- - flesh and blood breaking down, when the truth's in our hearts - and we still don't Believe".  I don't know.   How about "Our lives together are so precious - - we have grown - - we have grown".  OK fine.  Now instead of being a moral crusader he goes to LA and stuffs himself on Burger King whoppers and pizzas and has affairs with women and gets addicted to heroin.  And after he's done with that record he locks himself in his New York apartment for five long years, becoming increasingly xenophobic and paranoid, and hardly writing at all.  If that's "growth", it's a whole other definition than the one I'm familiar with.  As to some of my adaptations of Flicker photographs, you would hardly recognize a lot of them because not to toot my own horn or anything but with the vast array of tools at my disposal, me or anybody could make radical improvements in all sorts of photos where many people would dismiss them as mediocre, and I saw "Potential" in the raw photograph and decided to "Go for it".

Right now I'd like to go on kind of a Grandpa Simpson rambling rant where my goal is to connect up a lot of the dots and make you see the picture more clearly and all of the relationships.  In my striving for brevity in conceisness upon the initial draft here, i missed a lot of the "bits that I left up town", so to speak, that Jim Morrison reminded now that I should definitely include.  Jim Morrison is a person who didn't believe in "selling out".  He did not sell out one bit when he founded the Doors.  They always did exactly the sort of music they wanted to record, and Ed Sullivan wasn't going to tell them any different.  And there is the song "Frankie Lee and Judas Priest", which is about the whole idea of owing money because you "sold out".  Never allow someone else to own you.  Of course Jim Morrison in his Ramses I incarnation in Egypt didn't want to "sell out" as he feared his half brother alias "Me" was intending to do.  I was going after this desert Midianite myth about this desert god of a forefather named Abraham.  In Federation loore,  the Jews are not descended from Abraham per se, and Abraham never says they were.  Rather the Jews are referred to as "Perezites" by the Federation because of one son who was born "In a breech", which if the definition carries over, it means he came into the world ass first.  His mother, Tamas says "How hast thow broken forth?"   There is another Tamar you may be more fermiliar with, who was Absolem's Sister, whom half brother Amnon raped.  As I understand it from Theologians, the word "Tamar" both in Federation and Bible lore has the meaning of either "Beauty" or "perfection" or perhaps most key here, "Innocence".  And Absolem rose up and killed half brother Amnon, because father David would take no action against half brother Amnon, and Absolen told his father "Is not your daughter Tamar as good as dead because of this rape?"  However if you're looking for Tamar giving birth to the child of the rapist in this story, you won't find it here in the Bible.  So the whole abortion of "having the rapist's child" does not even have to come up.  Of course King David was corrected by another Bible character, General Joab.  After Joab's men killed son Absolem in a civil war, King David lamented Absolem's demise and made such a spectical over it that Joab finally said to David "My King, I get the feeling that you would rather have seen the whole Israeli army wiped out - if it meant that your Son would still be Alive". This is whole Absolem saga of the rebellion in a Civil War, is not one of Jim Morrison's favorite Bible Stories, understandibly.  Because in it, Jim Morrison was incarnated as King Absolem's personal counselor, Ahithaphel.  (which sounds almost serpentine)  And Ahithiphel was out smarted in this story.  Later on Joab sided up with a Adonijah, which if you believe Chuck Smith was one of the two Hawaiians in the Bible because Pastor Chuck mispronounces the name as "A-Don-a-ha".  The other "Hawaiian" in the Bible would be Malachai, whom of course upset Satan by his strident prophicies against the enemies of God, and so Satan smote him with lepricy, which he died from.  OK, that isn't in the Bible either, but you gotta admit it makes a good story.  Jim Morrison wanted me to specifically remind you that there is absolutely no "familial" connection between the "Israelis" and the children of Esau or Edomites, or as the Federation refers to them as Idumians.  (pronounced "I-do-me-ins" to remember easily.  These are the residents of Aldeberan VIII, who have this mysterious connection with the Beta Centaurians.  I usually refer to them as Centaurians in my writings how most Federation people refer to them as "Betas".  People wonder whether the Betas are really psychic.  One observer put it like this.  "They may well be psychic among themselves but they don't have a Clue when it comes to gauging the minds or feelings of outseders".  Indeed when it comes to outsiders, the Beta people could almost be poster children for an Aspurger's Sydrone poster.  There you have the words Ass and Burger a little too close to each other in a sentense for comfort.  One of the biggest mortal enemies of the Centaurians are the Crestorians, who believe in "That Egyptian", or the guy who really was crucified on a cross on November 24th 29 AD in Jerusalem under Pilate, or was supposed to have been.  Robert Plant has had his run-ins with the Crestorians.  These Crestorians are the same people who brought us both Tarot Cards and most often your garden variety Satanism, and the upside down cross.  Stewart Sutcliffe has been on somewhat friendly terms with the Crestorians in the past.  I guess they use Fire a lot as a positive symbo.  I'm going to leave it here.  There is a whole lot of other stuff I had to say but it'll keep for another opportune moment.