A Diet Of Scitzos In the Morning

It was Breakfast with the Beatles.  Someone, perhaps that woman referred to (?) wrote an auti-biography called “Big Girls Do It Better”.   I assume she’s not referring to being a bus driver.  I was thinking of writing a thing called either “Black Men Do It Better” or perhaps “Scitzophrenics Do It Better”, but if you’re talking about love-making that’s problematical, particularly is it’s a woman involved with a scitzophrenic man.  Patty Boyd was on KLOS this morning.  Mal Evans has tagged her “Everybody’s Favorite Beatle Wife”.  As to the song “Wild Honey Pie” her opinion swaying a whole band who were against putting it on an album is interesting.  To borrow from Sara Lee a bit "Nobody doesn't like "Wild Honey Pie".  There aren’t that many songs that could be called “Psychedelic” on the White Album.  You have Piggies, and Glass Onion, and Revolution 9 and perhaps Dear Prudence, and that’s about it.  I’m looking for the first person to put out the roomer that Brian Jones really wrote Piggies and not George Harrison.  (remind me to run that idea past Valerie Shoffner next time I see her)  We of the classic music bent have these thing we look for called compositional integrity and Piggies has it.   I didn’t know “Hey Bulldog” was a problem because people asked them not to play it so much.   Last week it was cowbells and this week it's harmonicas.  According to one source, an early John Lennon harmonica was when he saw a new one in a store front window in Hamburg right when they arrived and decided to do a five fingered discount.  People from the other side have pointed out that from mid 1963 onward "The most indisputably pure John Lennon songs were the ones he did on harmonica".  (just to make the list more comprehensive- throw in 'It Won't Be Long" and 'Not A Second Time" to that list) (see *) There is one exception to this rule but KLOS decided to OMIT this particular song anyhow, and that one was "I'm a Boozer"   - - no it's I'm a Loser.  I have a very definite idea about how that song should end, and I mean End as in suddenly, and on one particular Note.  Certain songs you hear live versions of and are used to and you hear the studio fade-outs and they sound a bit odd to you.  (I was going to use the word "queer")  Two glaring examples come to mind.  One is "Smoke on the Water" and the other is "Something For Nothing" from the "2112" CD by Rush.  However- - consider that I've heard from two sources that Carl Perkins was present in the studio when songs like "I'm A Loser" (or is it "I'm a Luger?"  - - anyhow - - were recorded.  Certain songs on this album have a more organic, earthy quality that up to then had been lacking.  Sometimes Beatles bring in outside people and you can almost psychicly sense their presence.  Like Billy Preston's influence on the Let It Be sessions.  Arguably - - here we are going "round the bend" a little - - Yoco was this outside influence on the 'New York City" album, which makes this album great.  But then he needed a new Yoco for "Mind Games" and picked - - - Me.

(*)  And we can also include "If I Fell" and "A Hard Days Night" from that third CD in this "pure Lennon category that survives the double Romulan whiplash test.  By the way I was apprised about "Just Give Me Some Truth" by Syd Barret last week.  This song according to him was written in early 1968 and was meant to contain word gibberish to fill out the lines- - in the "jump rope jingles' tradition of "I'm A Walrus" that had the line "Yellow matter custard- - dripping from a dead dog's eye".  Syd did not even know Richard Nixon again was intending to run for President and had only fleeting knowledge of the term "Tricky Dick" to begin with.  And the original end of another line was "Mama's Little Short Cake"  (not "Chovenist")  As to the tune we see the clear Syd Barret genious and he points out he "uses the double sub-dominent, just the way I used that chord in that context in "Day in a Life".   He also says "I knew I wanted it to be a Beatle lead guitar part and I also wanted the lead guitar break to come relatively early, just as it does in "Nowhere Man".

"And now John Lennon will regale us with his talents on the mouth organ as he sings "Gona Go Down Town gonna see my Baby, Gotta See My Babe Gona Show Her My Ding Dong"

Certain songs I still have a “warped ear” because I’m used to hearing them on a fast turntable that I used to have, and they played one of them today, “Eat At Home”.   Others of this bent are ‘NSU” by Cream, “This Ain’t The Summer Of Love”, “What’s Coming Down”, which they evidently played, and “Can You See Me”.  Apparently “Coming Down” is officially titled “I Know I Know”.   There was something about Stevie Nicks mentioned that reminded me of that time exactly Nine Months ago I tried to remember her name and couldn’t, and I looked in the drawer and found two CD’s missing, which were “Return of the Rocker’ and “Yellow Submarine”.   The only remnant of YS I still have is that altered version of ‘Northern Song”.  Like that weekend it’s the 30^th and the next day I get to go to the ATM.  I went down to the courtyard for one cup of coffee and bread pudding from Laura and then back up.  Patty Boyd is just one of those people who exude positive vibes- - but I honestly didn’t know she was really into photography the way Linda M is.  And now we venture into the absurd.  Richi Valenz evolved in his guitar playing.  He claimed that Eric Claptin was a role model- - but two stronger roles were - - “The Swinging Blue Jeans”, which is a real group I’d call definitely formative.  The other is one of his Detroit Romulan friends named Dion R and the last name is some hard to pronounce Italian word.  He’s the other guy- - along with Cabrillo Capeta and Phil Wrigley- - the latter of course, who plays bass on Cold Turkey.  However what I didn’t know was on that same tape are several attempts at Savory Truffle- - not much in the way of singing but there is Black Bart on drums as before, and Phil on bass, Richi on lead, and Black Bart’s brother on organ.  Strangely the main lead guitar “bridge” is missing also.

This is Sunday June 30, 2013 and as long as we’re doing anniversaries of 1963 on this date in history our family went to some organized picnic at Irvine Park and me and brother Al won first place in a three legged race.  I think Dad has movies of the event.  I just remember that date of Sunday June 30, 1963.  I was still recording certain events involving the sun in the first half of 1963 and the last reading was for Sunset on June 24^th.  Just now that new lady gave me her last Time cigarette, saying she let me have a whole white cigarette because I hadn’t asked for one.  And I hadn’t intended to ask for one hearing she was short.  She talked on at length about her life history.  I am watching Meet the Press and Ralph Reed claims that even now post Court ruling if any state like Texas claims racial bias in redictricting- - then they are free to apply the portion of the Voting Rights law that was left intact.  On another matter I get uncomfortable when someone says that in 1963 there was little push in the country at large to abolish segregation on a nationally mandated level.  That is not even accurate, so trying to carry over this logic on to the gay marriage issue is doubly distasteful.  I remember reading Theodor White’s book, that both the Democratic and Republican platforms had strong Civil Rights advocacy planks, and the Republican plank was due in large part to the pressing for it by Vice President Richard Nixon.  But even in 1948 Hubert Humphrey pressed hard for a Civil Rights plank in the Democratic platform.  Now they are discussing the abortion issue.  Contrary to the impression left in blogger, I would actually have voted FOR this abortion ban in Texas, because I believe abortion is immoral, and also inhumane- - and anything that would limit it and save lives, I am for.  If that means closing down abortion clinics, fine.  Some people live by the adage “If you are able to get away with it, then it’s OK”, kind of a perversion of “No Harm; No Fowl”.

I got up at five thirty this morning after lying in bed a while hearing a lot of commotion in the halls.  I had time to listen to that UFO guy on KFI talking about the “Seti” project, that I don’t know what is.  The host was saying if he were given a chance to be on the first space ship to Mars or live on Mars for the rest of his “earthly” life (so to speak) then he’d do it, and “see what another world has to offer”.  I smoked all three of my remaining cigarettes before breakfast and possibly this was unwise.  Neil Savedra was the guy who mentioned the Chinese proverb about asking a question and “being the fool for five minutes”.  You see I didn’t know where I’d heard that, and thought it was something Leo Le Port might have said on his show.  But now Neil is talking about this college professor who chucks all of his vast acquired knowledge in the trash can because he’s “exposed to something new”.  I would hope one’s beliefs were not so shallow that merely by “meeting a Christian girlfriend” or even a future wife- - that that along would color one’s perception of everything else, but perhaps this happened with C S Lewis.  Then there was the line of Neil of “You just aren’t listening to the advice of another because you think you’re better than they are”.  I guess we need then to define who the “they” is.  Because may “they” in turn- - think, a la Dr. Levy, that THEY are better than you!  (Selah)  Being a sponge isn’t necessarily a bad idea but sponges in time get dirty and attract germs.

On the KNXT morning news they had on this rather healthy looking eighty year old lifeguard, who has been in that profession since he was a teenager, and enjoys teaching swimming to the next generation.  Then they had the case of a seventeen year old who forfeited his last year in High School and wasn’t part of his 1944 graduating class, all so he could join the Navy and serve his country in WW II.  Then there is this lady who wrote twenty steamy- - and pornographic Love Novels- - in the space of one year.  How could a person physically go literally from being booted out of their house for failure to make the mortgage payment, to writing twenty novels and having them all best sellers on-line?   People won’t even read my blog postings.  I have talent.  I wrote that “Suicide series” of things starting April first 1996 that went on for about three months.  There was that show “Nowhere Man” and each of these “bits” I typed would end in a different state of Reality, and the big question was- - which one was the real one?   I also wrote “History” and “Civil War”, which are also fanciful fiction with a lot of veiled messages and barbs at people.  But these two stories are badly organized.  Sometimes I think the stuff I wrote in 1996 and 1997 were better and more realistic and down to earth than my writings from 1998 and 1999 after I began taking Judy’s vitamins.  Because what strikes me about reading this stuff is that I seem so “up” all the time and I’m asking my screen “What have you got that makes you appear so emotionally up?”    Of course so much of my stuff was trashed by parents either when I moved here- - or like the day of Uncle Bob’s funeral when it was a day not unlike today.  It was oppressively hot and we were all hot and tired- - but presumably had a stop watch on us like the old KABC game show “Supermarket Sweep”.  Ideally I would have allotted myself maybe five times as much time to go through all of Dad’s tapes and pick out the ones I wanted in a more deliberative fashion.  But name me one time when Mom’s slogan doesn’t seem to be, like with my own writings “Just throw it out”.  And even at Dad’s funeral she had to be reminded by Pete Richards not to drown herself in the mundane- - and “to consider Dad’s passing as a whole life to celebrate and think of what sort of a person Dad was”.  This is a human being, a human life that passed- - and it isn’t “Just another chore we need to do”.   Mom always asked me whether I saved writings from things I sent to the TV media.  I told her I thought I had copies of the majority of things I sent.  But like for instance that “Gulf War I” drama I did that was a parody of Rush Limbaugh’s idea- - I typed that at ROP and ran off copies on the Printer- and I haven’t run across it yet.  And ditto for that letter I went to Mark Bove in February of 1991 that I ran off a copy on the Printer- - and hopefully saved a copy for myself.  Of course then starting in the early spring of 1991 the writings break off entirely and that material then and in 1992 and 1993 and in 1994 is lost, apparently.  There was a lot of good stuff written then, because I believed starting in the spring of 1991 my stuff became more focused and organized.  Flash: Event conflation Alert somewhere in the Previous Paragraph.  Can You Find It?

I went off on that longer than I intended to, but it’s important.  Now it’s ten after nine and the TV is still on.  The AC is working fine.  They are holding 5 and 10 K runs in the city of Pasadena this morning starting at seven AM to get it in early.  They were talking about doing a half Marathon, which would be 20 K but they may have canceled that.  Yesterday it got up to 121 in Indio and 122 in Palm Springs.  It was 118 in Phoenix, and Death Valley clocked in at 128 degrees, six degrees off the all-time record.  They are “only” predicting a 98 for Anaheim, so we get a two degree break from initial prediction.  Right now it doesn’t seem all that bad, yet, outside.  Last night they were comparing Audis and BMW’s on some station claiming that both car manufacturers have matched model per model- - with Audi now the growing trend because it costs a little less.   Friday afternoon at three on the Katie Kuric show they had the top of “over-parenting’ for a full hour.  There were various aspects of that and the concencus now is that perhaps a child should nurse from the breast until he turns two.  Someone coined the saying that “if you’re old enough to ask for it, you’re too old to get it”.  I like that one.  But in general they have been talking about these apron string parents like in Sixty Minutes for the past decade or so with the same observations made about the Millennium Generation that they feel “special” and “entitled” and as little kids they experienced being at bat “until they got an on base hit”.

 

They Call It -Irreconsilable Philosophical Differences

Apparently some Ancient Chinese Philosopher once said 'He who asks a question is a fool for a moment.  He who fails to ask that question is a Fool for a Lifetime."  There is an old joke, and I use that term advisedly, about this guy who was asking all these questions about the book of Genesis.  He was asking questions like "Where did Cain get his wife?" and "How do we know a Day was a Day then since the Sun wasn't Created Untill the Fourth Day" and "Well, if God was around since Eternity, then What was He going before he Created the Heavens and the Earth".  The answer goes 'He was creating Eternal Hell for all the Unbelievers like You".   The problem with this filppant answer is that it really isn't spoken in jest.  It isn't a joke.  This is how these people opperate at their Core.  For instance the question arises "Since Christianity was being peddled to a Roman audience- - why have this whole Jewish thing at all?"  The answer is contained in a remark that Walter Martin made a long time ago, which goes to the effect that "First and foremost the thing you start the Gospel message with is that- barring anything else- - everybody is headed tword Hell".  Of course Seid had some interesting comentary on Hell which he says was invented in the fourteenth century by Dante.  And that it was in response to all of the dead bodies that were accumulating during the Bubonic Plague where the Population of Europe was reduced some forty percent.  But due to the high water table in the ground at that time, they were unable to bury these bodies so they just dug a ditch and set the bodies ablaze and kept the fires going day and night to burn away the infection and destroy the bacteria so the disease wouldn't spread further".   Oddly enough if you've read this trilogy- - Dante believed that the earth was round- which puts him one leg up on the people who lived a hundred years later on in Columbus' time.

Jesus told his disciples not to fear so much he could bring about death and kill the body, but afterward had no further power over an individual, but to fear him who had the power to destroy both body and soul in the flames of Hell.  He said this to drive home the idea that "He who denies my name before Men, I shall deny that individual in Heaven before the Father".   My Dad used the saying to convince me at age thirteen that I should become a Christian and it was genuine and real because he said 'Somehow, some way- - the whole thing got going- - and it's been growing for the past two thousand years".   I thought that if a moment was not even afraid of Death itself, then there had to be something behind it.  Unfortunately I found out in the following Decade that most Calvary Chappel Christians were more personally shallow and bigger cowards than I ever dared to believe".  People repeat stuff.  Like for instance- - and this really happened- - there was one old lady, who really was a "Crazy ass cracker" and she lodged complaints against all sorts of the other tennants- - over and over".   So I would receive one of these notices talking about 'Numerous complaints of this or that".  This worried me till this other guy named Perry, who happened to be Black, said "Oh - that's because she complains about nothing over and over again.  I've had all sorts of problems with her myself".  There is this one Story you read in books about "The apostolic fathers" about how Ireneus knew this guy named Polycarp, who said "For 76 years or whatever- - I have served my Lord and he has done me no harm up to now- - so how can I now deny him" just before he was burned at the stake- - sometime around the year 165 or so.   And Polycarp knew the Apostle John - - who according to all of the accounts lived right up to the beginning of the second century so he must have been pushing one hundred".   No other previous Christian writer informed us of this "Apostolic connection".  No other previous Christian writer informed us that John lived so long.  In fact as I have said - - if you search out the names of the Apostles around Jesus in Justin's "Apology I" you will be disappointed.   But the thing is- - Jehovah God did indeed say that the wages of Death were for something- - but it wasn't steadfast martyrdom.  No- - the wage of Death was for Sin.  In fact there is an old Jewish saying that goes "Where there is Life there's hope".

If there are three things I would call the most deadly impediments to being a Christian- - number three would be that honestly searching for the Truth will reap rewards.  In other words this is a person who believes that "There is a Truth out there".   Every so often they announce on the news one artifact or another is roomered to support Christianity.  But they research it and the claim always comes up empty.  The number two most deadly "shortfalling" is - - having a poor self image.  Coming to Christianity from a stratigic position of weakness, and humility if you will.  Perhaps the thing Satan can advise a person that will Damn him more surely than anything else is "Be humble and submissive and open and trusting tword other Christians, who have been in the faith longer".  Oh- - but number one- - the most indicting deadly sin or "personal lacking' of all, and that is - - being Poor.  Being economically poor, being emotionally poor and being poor in terms of how you think of yourself.  Remember Judy's voice tightened once in early 1981 when David Snow suggested I lead a Bible Study, and she said to me 'You should not lead a Bible study because you don't have the Love of God".  Again it wasn't that I didn't practice Love- - but that I didn't - - Have - - Love, and I suggest there is a difference.  Clearly she was alluding to a certain pre-existant condition (like insurance companies talk about all the time) that I couldn't remedy merely by acting differently - -assuming I wasn't behaving right to begin with.  Rush Limbaugh has an abiding hatred of the Poor as a class.  To him and to people like Judy it breeds all sorts of other moral conotations- - like they vote wrong- - and they have lived their lives wrong- - and probably that they are socialists or communist or something and are somehow "Out to steal from the people who really earn a living".   However you define the word "Poor" it is a damning indictment.  Neil Savedra once said that Athiests "Have issues" or maybe it was "Emotional issues", which I learned at the Fullerton Mental Health clinic in late summer of 1999 the word "Issues" was a euphanisum for being mentally unballanced.  But Neil Sevedra goes on to say however (this was to a different caller- ) he said "I don't see why being mentally ill should be an impediment to being Saved" after he had already labored so long explaining why it was.

Conservatives are big believers in the necessity of "Collateral damage".  Neil and all the rest or instance are completely unconcerned about the fate of those who never heard the Gospel, or if the missionary's car broke down on the way to the village or a bridge was out or something.  That is, real things that could and no doubt do happen all the time.  And I raised the issue of troops fighting at the front and one of the two gets killed, possibly the braver of the two men, who stuck his neck out in a time of a need for action.  But then the other guy- - the one who was less bold- - he gets saved while his braver comrad goes to Hell.  This is spiritual "collateral damage".  If course we talked about how the Rev Bill Halliday was a "Spiritual abortionist" because he sure aborted my Christian faith in 1991 and 1992.  It would seem that Rick Perry has a more basic "respect for all life" than either Neil Sevedra or Bill Halliday.  The whole idea of sacrificing the lives of the innocent so that the guilty can continue to live in a lifestyle to which they have become accustomed - - is one that has always bothered me.  On the soap opera "Passions" we were informed by some Priest, that to have this doctrine of sacrificing the innocent - - is a sinful doctrine.  Yet the cornerstone of the Christian doctrine is based on this "Sinful notion".  How can that be?  We are reminded that Abraham did not go through with sacrificing Issac.  But Jeptha DID go through with the sacrificing of his virgin daughter to fulfill some petty vow, that I can't remember what it was- - just as Bob Dylan can't remember why those rednecks in the South killed Emit Till.  And we are also informed that five sons of one of David's wives- - "Hung before the Lord" and I don't mean in picture frames.  I mean that they were sacrificed to Jehovah because some prophet said these five sons needed killing as some 'offering' to placate some wrong.  Of course on the subject of Forgiveness- - this one gets me down because with the Church you seemingly are "Always trying to dig yourself out of a hole" and you may not even remember what the sin was that "got you in the hole' or whether there even WAS a sin that "got you in the hole" all you remember is the impossibility of digging yourself out.  We told you that Jesus forgave the two debtors- - but then got on the one's case because he did not forgive someone who owed HIM money - - and he retracted the forgiveness, which he had previously granted him.  We told you about Shimiai who taunted David.  And King David as he crossed the Jordan in retreat said, "Let him taunt" and went his way.  But later ordered his son to carry out vengeance against him.  And also Joab his general- - and one of my dead friends from the other side- - experianced this one personally- - Joab apparently sometime decades ago killed ONE man unjustly -  (OK I forgot about Absolem, that makes two) - under circumstances where people in the Bible get killed every day and Jehovah never says a thing about it.  But now King David puts out a hit on Joab, who was loyal to David all his life, and fought heading his army when Absolem his son rebelled against him.  It was Joab who said to David after his son was killed "It seems to me that you'd be happier if the whole Israeli army had been wiped out- - if your son came back alive".  I guess the moral of this story is that- - if these cases are not forgiven - - then the Tea Party feels free to hold President Obama's ethnicity against him - - or thinks every Latino immigrant is a violent felon - - or thinks that people who get pensions or health care are getting unjust "Entitlements".  I was going to put on my list of Christian short-fallings - - maybe I'm not as gushy and "stroking of people's ego" as others, but I also don't their burning Hatred of so many groups.  There are times I have almost been tempted to pray to Jesus "Lord, make me a better hater" till I saw the utter folly of that.  Anyhow to sumarize- - these are among the moral problems I have with Christianity.

The Ghost of Medger Evers is Alive and Well

Before we do anything else let’s review the court procedingas as of late involving the George Zimmerman trial.  So far the prosecutor gets an F in presentation.  First of all George Zimmerman did not say “Fucking Punks” he said “Fucking Koons”.  I heard it plain as day.  They were SO concerned about putting vocal analysis experts on the case for fear it would prejudice the jury and yet they did it themselves in this “Koons’ thing.  The next thing is making it clear that the “they” in “They always get away” were Niggers.  Clearly Zimmerman was deluging the 911 lines with reports about “those people’ or whatever that “always get away”.  Clearly the path was set right there to say in Zimmerman’s mind that Trayvon Martin was one of those “they” people that this one time HE was not going to allow to “get away”.   Clearly the PD told Zimmerman “We don’t need you to do that” in terms of pursuing him himself.  It was pointed out that if Zimmerman WAS functioning in his capacity of “Neighborhood Watch” all he needed to do was to identify himself and ask Trayvon what he was doing there, and that would have ended the thing right there.  That Zimmerman did not do this and that the prosecutor did NOT point this out to the jury, is dereliction of his duties.  But then we come to the first three witnesses he put on the stand.  This is prosecutor legal mal practice in the first degree.  Every prosecutor knows the very FiRST thing you hit the jury with is the foul bloodiness of the crime.  You show photos of the bloody victim- - and you put on all of your forensic experts on.  And you mention that Zimmerman was not given any sort of drug test himself.  You point out that Zimmerman lied and said he needed to go to the hospital- - when the paramedics cancled the trip for Zimmerman because he was NOT in need of medical attention that way.  You show the photos - - video of Zimmerman at the plice station “whistling Dixie” as David Cruise s aptly put it- - clearly looking pretty healthy and not bleeding anywhere.  But no- - two of the three of the prosecutions first witnesses actually testified contrary to the case- - almost in Kato Kayland fashion in the OJ case out here.  Two witneses said that the Black man was on top and the white man was on the sidewalk.  But I never heard testimony that this was the configuration WHEN the fatal shot was fired.  Nobody ever pointed out that neither witness testified to THAT.  They did make the point about nobody saw anybody banging someone’s head into the concrete- - .    This point WAS made pretty clear.  Also Zimmerman testified that AFTER his nose had been “broken” by Martin- - that Martin put his hands over Zimmerman’s nose.  Yet- - Zimmerman’s blood was not found on Martin and Martin’s blood, more significantly was not found on Zimmerman- - not so much as a single DNA drop, if I’m getting this correctly.  But then we come to the stupidest thing the prosecution did.  We all know the defense grilling that they gave the girlfriend that Martin was talking to on the cell phone.  How can it possibly take a full day to cross examine a witness involving a fifteen minute phone conversation?    Numerous legal rules were violated here.  You CANT cross examine a witness about material NOT in direct testimony.  So here the whole bit about whether she can read cursive writing- - or how well she knows English is completely immaterial.  Her literacy or the lack of it is NOT on trial.  Having gone into it they fail to mention that the eighteen year old was tri-lingual in Hatian and Spanish and English- - but her education level was low.  The girl was NOT on trial for her lack of education or that she didn’t know cursive writing.  But now we come to the stupidest blunder of the prosecution of all.  This whole bit about the “Perverted ass cracker” who was following Zimmerman.  It is Completely immaterial what the lady thought of whether the remark was racist.  She was REPORTING someone someone told her.  Had she said anything different she would have been guilty of purgery- - and everybody knows that.  But then the defense attorney goes on to say “How do you teel about what is racist and what is not.  Do people in that neighborhood use racist terms.  Do you think that is a good idea to use racial terms?   I’d have moved to strike this Entire line of questioning.  Her was not to function as some Socialogist giving some expert societal commentary on various neighborhoods.  The notion that she was “combative’ is a silly one.  ANYONE would be combative if they were grilled about the content of a fifteen minute phone conversation for a full day.  Then for Moe Kelly to get on the radio and say “The prosecution blew it” is sickening.  And finally may I submit that this whole idea of “reasonable doubt” and the ‘burden of proof” is completely mis stated in ALL the media commentary.  Nobody is Disputing WHAT happened.  There WAS a shooting and someone was killed and the defendant DID it.  So there no longer is ROOM for any “reasonable doubt” argument to be had.  If you are going to raise a self defence argument- - that’s one thing.  This defendant DIDN”T .  He did not even DARE to claim the “stand your ground” law- - because the defendant would have purgered himself all over the place, and for this reason Zimmerman could never be put on the stand.   But this sick idea of Moe Kelly and others that the defendant doesn’t HAVE to tke the stand because there is “reasonable doubt” is silly.  If you or I shoots someone in the dead of night, a burglar who enters our house- - you know damn well we will be grilled about it no end.  The burden of proof at that point shifts to US to prove that it WAS self defense.  Everybody knows that, even in Florida.  We have to prove that we honestly thought our lives were in imminent danger.   Even on this soap opera- - Samantha will have to prove self defense in her case about appearing from a bathroom and firing away shooting an apparently unarmed man in the back and killing him.  Samantha can not then say “If there is the slightest glint I might be justified you have to let me go”.  It doesn’t work that way.  Unfortunately in Samantha’s case we know the shooting WAS absolutely necessary and that she was being set up by dirty cops stealing the murder weapon- - the perp was going to use against an unconscious and helpless Officer Hernandez as he lay in a hospital bed.  In that case the only thing that will save Sammy was the fact that she did not know the victim and for this reason there is no apparent motive for the crime.  In Zimmerman’s case  the MOTIVE is obvious.  The victim was Black.  Just as with President Obama the tea party people feel justified in lodging the most erratic of charges against President Obama because of that one malody that outshines them all- - he’s Black.  Now they have cases where white Cops pull over Blacks for speeding and conthiscate their drivers licenses and promise to give them back later.  But in the mean time that black party can’t use that ID to register to vote.  This is the latest stunt they are using in the South.  Of course- - they had to eliminate the Voting rights law because of the VERY fact that the President won with black votes last time.   OK, I guess we’re done.

Actually no I'm not.  It has come to my attention on the Chris Matthews show that this West defense attorney fellow asked the witness to speculate that "Perhaps the entire conversation of Trayvon to you was a gigantic ruse so that YOU wouldn't know what he was planning on doing to Zimmerman.  This question was COMPLETELY improper and should have been flagged immediately.  This is not a "zealous defense" it's legally stepping over aboundary line.  You never ask a witness to speculate on something they would have NO IDEA of the answer to.  The purpose of testimony is to illicit facts and not wild "what if" speculation.  It was legal mal practice on the prosecution's part not to immediately Flag this question.  Also - - there is an objection that can be used "This question has been asked and answered".  Clearly this notion was a stranger to this court.  This was obviously a case of "bagering the witness".  Neither is it the attorney's job to illicit some kind of cultural prejudice or bias against the witness.  Indeed this is supposedly why juries are screened in the first place.  This trial is a complete sham- and the Prosecution is definitely rigging it so that they will lose.  You do that in baseball boxing and guess what?  They bring you up on gambling charges.  Think about it.

Wednesday was a decidedly warmer day than was Tuesday.  Thursday was a hotter day than Wednesday and yesterday was way warmer than Thursday.  Today they are predicting it will get to 96, which was warmer than yesterday and they are predicting 100 degrees even for tomorrow.  Yesterday on some playground with metal equipment it got up to 162.  And on the Las Vegas pavement it got to 164 degrees.  Death Valley may be challenging its alltime record of 134 degrees, the highest in the nation and second highest recorded in the world at 136 in Saudi Arabia.  Yesterday in Death Valley it was 126 degrees and that was not necessarily even the hottest reading of the day.  There were predicting 129 for today.  There was a couple from Finland there and they said “This place is about as warm as a malfunctioning sauna in my own country”.  That doesn’t even qualify as a bad joke.  The President is concerned about the rash of droughts and fires in the West and flooding in the heartland caused in part by the “wet snow’ engendered by warmer climates that melts faster.  The President pointed out in his Saturday morning address on KNX that this global warming thing costs all Americans money in fire fighters and emergency workers - - and lost worker productivity.   But all John Boehner can see as far as pollution regulations in coal mines is concerned is "loss of jobs" - - not that Speaker John Boehner would vote for ANY jobs bill- - of which the President has submitted many.  

The US Senate on Thursday passed the immigration bill 68 to 32.  But John Boehner says he won't allow any bill to come to the floor without the ability to carry a Majority of Republicans on the final vote, assuming the speaker even ALLOWS one.  We all know these people's propensity for not even ALLOWING votes to come up on bills, which if a vote WERE allowed, would pass handily.  And these people contradict themselves.  Arguing against the immigration bill the other day the republicans were making the argument that now we will spend TOO MUCH on border securety and now we can't afford it.  Amazing!   John Boehner says the Senate immigration bill is Dead On Arrival.   Senators from Utah, Texas, and Alabama told so many lies about this immigration bill that over their objections Passed in the Senate 68 to 32 - -  they told lies saying it wouldn't really reduce the numbers of illegals here- - or that it would balloon the federal deficet, or that felons who had been kicked out of the country once would be voted back in.  And they spoke of "granting instant legal status' to illegal aliens.  But also in the host of charges, and this Utah guy was the most articulate in this area- was the idea that amendments were not allowed in the bill even though dozens of amendments, seemingly - have been submitted- most of them being "poison pill' amendments to sabotage the thing.  And there were the usual allusions of some "secret agenda" writers of the bill had.  Just as last summer that Obama movie spoke of a "secret agenda for the president to conthiscate our guns.

They say that the power grid is OK and they are preparing for “worse than we have now” should it come.  The AC is working good in here, thank God.  The United Farm Workers has regulations about giving workers in the field water, and even giving them shade now and then, should they need it.  They say that symptums of heat stroke can cascade into a major crisis on not really that much warning- - so beware.  Apparently the job overseers have not been too dilligent to give the migrant workers these rights and are being sued.  But now they are running this Anti United Farm Workers adds saying "The Farm Workers Union is trying to take away worker's right by taking three percent of worker's salaries.  And has the gall to add "This provision is in direct contradiction to everything Caesar Chavez stood for".  Can you believe that?   Obviously if your salary under Union sponsorship doubles, and other worker conditions are improved- - you will gladly pay the three percent.   I don’t know how these people who drill holes in the asphalt do it - - in this heat.