Not "Politics" - but Common Sense

This is a blue Monday, Mexican Independence Day September 16, 2013 – and in 1981 it was the last time we took Toby on an outing to any park.   Melinda Lee last Saturday is sponsoring a luxury cruise next year that goes all around the Baltic like to Copenhagen and Stockholm, and St Petersburg.  They keep talking about how the latest power ball win pays off 250 million dollars if you take it in a lump cash settlement.  This cruise is really luxurious- - and a whole lot of expenses are included in the fare- - so it's a good deal if you have the money.  My heart really isn't in this posting but we might as well do the news of the day.  Since it's the seventh blog in this run - I guess we'll be switching to another blog for the next posting.  There are only two weeks remaining for the Republicans to stop Obama Care before it kicks in on October first.  Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune have their season premiers tonight.  We can predict one thing for the coming year.  It will be a year where scientific progress exceeds that of people in Society learning to be civil to each other.

Well, there has been another mass shooting.  So what else is new?  It seems like there have been more than enough “hints” that society as we know it is falling apart.  Aaron Alexis is the shooter’s name, and yes he is a Black guy.  He’s 34 and from Ft Worth, Texas - - and he used to be in the navy but got a “general discharge’ rather than an honorable one, which comment-ators say is indicative of a “checkered past”.  Aaron Alexis used an AR 15 semi-automatic rifle.  The shooting occurred in a Naval yard southeast of Washington, DC near the Ronald Reagan airport.  Twelve people are dead and the shooter is dead being gunned down by authorities.  The problem is while killing the perpetrator does save the tax payers a lot of needless formality of a court trial- - I imagine it really doesn’t help with the pain of the loss all the loved ones of the victims feel.  But congress is never going to pass gun control legislation.  The authorities thought there were two other gunmen involved – but that notion didn’t pan out.  Governor Jerry Brown, in contrast, has been continuing with his aggressive progressive agenda in the Legislature.  Now a bunch of ambitious and restrictive gun bills are on the verge of being passed- - which the NRA plans to use as a constitutional test – if I read them right – on having the whole California assault weapons ban thrown out in California.  Feel free to pray about this issue if you want to.

In soap land it was a depressing and sobering day.  E J was “found out’ as far as that bank deposit scam he tried to pull.  “We” had all been led to believe it would take weeks for the FBI to investigate the thing.  But lo and behold- - they put the FBI expert on the stand as a surprise witness.  I wish they could do that in real life.  It violates this dumb rule called “discovery” that they have now.  So after this guy testified in great detail exactly how the scam was pulled off- - and what the truth actually WAS that they were trying so hard to disguise- - Samantha and company were dead in the water, seemingly without a prayer of escaping prison.  But someone gave Samantha a lucky charm from Mrs Brady.  So Elvis decided to throw himself on the mercy of the - - DA.  He offered to tell the lady District Attorney he would do anything he could to help her in the  taking down of his father, Stephano.  He stands at considerable risk himself, so his actions at least in this- - are an honorable attempt at atonement.  But you can’t say this for Jack Junior.  His heart must be made of stone.  He turned down spirited pleas for reason from his sister and his mother, and even from Hope.  The only people he trusts now are his doper friends.  But clearly the guy is headed for more trouble.  Even an eighteen year old should realize that.

Yesterday afternoon it was “Face the Nation” and I was less diligent in searching out each and every clip than usual.  But I got the gist of it, and based my lead blogger paragraph on this Bob Sheefer and co commentary.  I didn’t see a bit of the Raiders and Jacksonville (?) game played in Oakland, but the Raiders prevailed.  We had beef Strogenoff for dinner, which was good, but there wasn’t that much of it.  I had seconds on the stroganoff and also the cornflour with cheese sauce- - but even so I was hungry because the portions were so small both times.  We had bread pudding for desert.  We had to go down for a cheese sandwich from Donnie.  I had on ABC network news and also Sixty Minutes.  This program had a little bit of Assad, a little bit of President of Obama, and a little bit of the CIA chief.  All three were basically losers, in my opinion.  Johnny Wendell has stated that the American People have completely tuned out on the whole idea of war.  They are is “resolved” in their decision as Jack Deveroux is in his.  And no amount of persuasion will change their mind.  The Simpson’s had that “Assistant Pastor” rerun, where he relates every crisis not to God or the Bible, but to a TV show plot.  Bart was the hero of sorts bringing in a plague of frogs, based on something from the opening scenes.  I watched a good deal of Sunday Night Football with Al Michaels.  Seattle creamed and pureed San Francisco up north.  That bummed me out.  I may have done dial twirling after this.

Johnny Wendell covered the two other issues that are up for debate here in California and he was pretty convincing, too.  He said that the minimum wage will have none of the economic drag effects people predict.  People won’t suddenly stop eating Big Macs, even is many think that wouldn’t be a bad idea.  Of course they are going to pay another twenty five cents for their burger- - given the wealth out here.  Many people think at least a twelve dollar an hour would be equitable for fast food workers, yet they are willing to settle for ten.  Johnny states that all this will do is increase the overall commerce and economic health of the state   I pray that he’s right, because it’s coming, but we won’t even see that ten dollars an hour for a couple years.  The other issue is the drivers license thing for illegal aliens.  This issue is beginning to look like a slam dunk for me now.  Because it will insure that everybody is legal and main stream these illegal aliens as a responsible part of society.  It won’t be the “inducement not to return to their hom country” because economic factors have much more sway in these sort of decisions rather than whether one is driving legal or not.   Even Utah has more liberal driving laws than we have.

Perhaps Johnny’s finest hour today was his major theme about the intransigence of Republicans in congress.  They refused to vote funds for Hurricane Sandy relief, but at the same time nobody from the northeast would consider voting down funds for either the current Boulder Colorado disaster, or the tornado that wiped out Moore, Oklahoma.  But in Colorado they deliberately let their flood control system of dams and such - - fall into disrepair because they figured in part “well there is a drought now, so who has to worry about stuff like that.  But the rich want to make sure that the Koch Brothers in Oklahoma and the Coors family and others, get their big tax refunds in Colorado.  One question I’ve always had if that if these people are so strapped for money that they can’t hire on new workers or lend money, or engage in whatever business they are supposed to be in, how come they keep giving their chief executive officers such large pay raises.  Maybe Mitt Romney or somebody can explain this one to me.  There is apparently a town in northern Texas where there has been an outbreak of the measles and the reason why is that one of the members of this particular church, visited Indonesia recently and came back with it and spread the virus to others.  Of course these are among the school of right wing nuts who say that vaccine with primarisol gives your kids autism or whatever, a theory that’s been discredited multiple times.  They keep invoking the name of God, but as Johnny Wendell points out, they never contemplate one time that perhaps God is the one who gave man brains to think with.  Johnny admits that no matter how sure footed your logic and reason is with these people- - they are intransigent and won’t budge on their political positions.  But if we believe the stories in the Bible - - God has always had problems with stubborn people, who seemingly have to be hit over the head with a two by four for God to get their attention.

What We Need Is Wine and Women

First of all if you're as tired of Politics in all its forms as I am about now, you'll be relived to learn that basically we aren't going to talk about that.  I woke up a little before two this morning- - and I was thinking that short of having people like Sarah Palin or Ted Cruise as President- - nothing much will change in the lives of ordenary Americans (like Me) because when all is said and done it's people in your social and personal sphere who affect the course of your life.  I was all set to do a rant called "No Words For My Love" after the Mc Cartney song- - which is really a song about God- - or more to the point people in the position of God in your life- - the ones with Gravitas and whose orbits you must conform to.  So I started making a list of all those people who "Offended" me, and I don't mean just with words, but their attitude and basic philosophy of life "offends" me.  But then I smoked that cigarette on the patio and Jim was out there grousing about whoever- - to somebody.  I don't want to be another "Jim".  He's complaining and gossiping 24 hours a day.  Sometimes I think he's gossiping about me.  So I got to thinking- - - Twelve Years - - that I've been without "Wine and Women" and I'm wondering why I haven't felt "quite myself" in a long time.  Twelve years is an impressive number, no matter how you slice it.  But the other problem is getting old, like Jagger sings about "What a drag it is getting old".   "You know wine and women- is all I crave" because I was born under a bad sign or something.  Of course another problem that's more than apparent that never used to be the case- - having money in the bank definitely helps.  And what is the first thing you're going to buy with that Money - - - wine and women, of course!  Getting old is a tripple pronged curse.  First of all you are just spontanious and responsive and all that.  You don't have the "energy" you used to, and you can take that any way you want.  The other thing is when you look in the mirror and you don't like that bald head staring back at you - with the drooping muscles.  You could always not look- - but you can't ask the entire female population out there to "not notice" how old you are.  And the third thing is- - you hate the fact that women prospects themselves are most likely getting Old.   I had an Eastern Religions teacher named Mr Grouver in the spring of 1973 and he said "With Buddahism you have the choice of diluting the wine and giving it to all of the people- - or else allowing a few chosen devotees to taste the fine wine full strength.  I thought of this skit you could do to drive home the point that life long marriage is an absurdity.  You start with really expensive- - chainte or something - - and first you drain 30% of the wine out and replace it with water- - sugar- - corn starch - - grape Kool-Aid, and people "yukk - - all that junk is in my food?"  And then every seven years you dilute it by ten percent- - like clockwork.  This is what most marriages are like.  You know they say the average Bible Study lasts about two and a half years.  So let's double that for a marriage- - and give it five years.  Ask yourself this question- - would you rather have the good, undiluted wine for four years- - or have the diluted swill for forty years.  If I had gotten married to Becky Daniels in 1973- - we would be in our fortieth year of marriage this year.  To quote someone out of context "What would be the point?"  I'd sooner have sex with my sister, if I had one.  I mean you know Axel and Susan are really getting it on when they turn the cameras off.  It's kind of a case of "OK I'll stop behaving like an idiot and you stop acting like a jerk- - and let's just have sex".  I mean in the first place you know that the reason why parents come down so hard on their kids on dating and sex is because basically - - they're jealous as hell and wish They were young- - and in fact probably going through a "mid life crisis" themselves that they aren't telling you about.   But really you could carry this "four year principle" into politics (so we managed to slip a little of it in anyhow.)  I voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and I gave him four years, and then voted for the democrat.  I thought that- - frankly four years of Reagan was enough.  OK I "proved a point".  We needed to get a little of our national pride back.  We did that.  And we had the 1984 Olympics and all.  But instead people voted for Reagan in 1980 but the thing is we've still GOT Ronald Reagan's policies thirty-three years later.  That's what you call - pathetic.

Several Months Ago - - I was in the Social Security office- - and noticed that two years before I began drawing checks- - and one year before I applied- - they stated I was "not disabled up to that point".  I was somewhat relieved by this.  I was afraid that diagonis is Stanley E Abott- - when I was nineteen and a few months of paranoid schtzophrenia- - would stick with me in some state records and some how the Social Security people got a hold of that record.  But I guess they didn't.  Fortunately this diagnosis "Which occurred at the onset of the decade - - (contrary to liner notes) was NOT a prognosis for the entire Decade, and of course we're talking about the 'seventies here and not the nineties.  But even if we go back to the second half of 1991, it's not that I became mentally ill- - it's just that people like my family around me- - began acting really strange.

We talked about "Gravitas" a minute ago.  We need to clarify something about Sirius A, B, and O.  In Gene Scott's world, these are stars by that "Ziggy" group in Africa- - the "Dogone" people.  For us they are Planets- - around a compound star system consisting of a bright and a dark star- - which might be a neutron star.  Sirius A and Sirius 0 (that is, the planets) are rather far away from their own son- - but Sirius B is more earth like in that you get a lot of the same sunlight we have here.  But I'm informed that the path of the sun is a little zig-zag.  Some of this is the whole "common center of gravity" thing where it's basically the Dark mass rather than the one you SEE that the planet is rotating around.  (There is a lesson here, kiddies)  But Sirius B has a bigger problem.  First of all there is a lot of gravitational pull from that dark star.  There is an awful lot of Iron in that planet's crust- - and the iron is not evenly distributed- - so that the planet has kind of a jerky course- - throughout the day as it spins around its axis.  So if you're using a sun dial on that planet- - don't count on getting reliable readings.

The whole top part of this posting hasn't been written yet.  There are a few threads I've left dangeling that I want to remedy kind of like a Windows update.  Some might warn you that I might be trying to do a Christin Di Mire job on you- - meaning I commit more offenses than I atone for.  First of all- point one - - ZAC theology never tried to "conceal" the fact that Howard may not have been rich.  This is evidenced by such songs as "Ain't No Fun Sitting Waiting Around to Be a Millionaire" and 'It's a long Way to the Top" by AC DC.   This next thing just occurred to me in the last day or two.  At no time am I aware of being told about Howard's funeral arrangements or where he was buried.  I naturally assumed that perhaps his family was protective of him and took control of the body wanting to "protect him" from a bad crowd me may have gotten in with.   The next question is 'How could he be a relation of yours if you claim you've never met him, or don't think you have".   The exact relation is - - the son of a half first cousin, which would make him a half second cousin, I guess.  Mal reminds me "Don't speculate on what you don't know, or you'll just get yourself into more trouble".  OK there are photographs of Howard- - on the Catalina trip of early June of 1970 and if that date sounds suspicious, it should.  In these photos there are a lot of foxy chicks on the boat but Howard looks half sick- - and has a camera in all of the shots.  As to myself I never even owned a camera till I got my digital camera- - and a lot of places I go I forget to take it with me- even when I had been intending to.  I can't get over this thing about "people with cameras are nerdy".  Then we have the "Drive My Car" stuff- - we did a few months ago.  Here the lie index is cranked up too high for comfort.  While it's true that Allan my brother often said "Just don't say anything stupid" - - usually of older people whom Allan idolized - - there was no such "new encounter" here in early March of 1966.  I picked this date perhaps because of the Johnny Rivers song- - or perhaps Bat Man being new to the air waves- - or "Drive My Car" being played on the radio- - and I was in Drivers Ed and all of that.  But the biggest mystery that I'd like to "Solve" today is the reference to Denise D "Holding the other key".   Let's just say I have come into posession of new knowledge of- - a certain swath of events from about late May to early July of 1970 that - - yeah an "unreleased diary" or what not, you might say.  The Catalina trip is contained in this batch of stuff along with other trippy stuff.  But I was ready to dismiss it as just her word- - - untill - - this is going to sound really strange - - but one event on a sarcasm laden sitcom - - pin pointed or sparked my memory- - of mine- - of an event in Her life- - that a lot of people say never happened.  But since I remember it- - that's confirmation that it Did.  So that memory increases Denise D's credibility on other stuff.  I told you this whole paragraph wouldn't make sense.  But I felt obliged to modify the record. 

Moderation in - Moral Conviction, Is No Virtue- Either

Hopefully people read my postings to help formulate their ideas on how to process all of the information they are getting from the media and how to interperet it and “break it down” if you will into its causal components.  Sometimes I myself have to let the information perculate down in my brain like with Meet the Press this morning.  What I carry away from that is that the President is a major screw up and as I’ve been saying is indecisive and directionless.  And he is also RE-active rather than PRO-active, an observation I’ve now begun hearing from others in the media.  But basically Bob Sheefer is a lot more astute today in “painting the president’ in the correct hues- - - .   For instance it was President Obama who promised the rebels of Syria that we would give military aid to them two years ago.  It’s kind of a Howard Hunt type situation.  They as it were put themselves out there and “walked the plank” but we did not come through for them and as John Dean was warned, sometimes when you do that to someone “Unseemly things begin to happen”.  In this case- - the rebels were mostly Democratic in their thinking.  We heard that the people of Syria wanted a more democratic Union and more rights.  Perhaps not too many women’s rights right now- - but maybe in time.  Then the President talks about Red Lines- - but it’s like that Robert Redford character in “The Candidate’ movie.  The firm convictions of yesterday becomes today’s political mush.  Here’s a hint.  Nobody likes a flake.  I don’t.  But we hear both this morning and on line now- - that this President on so many issues tends to “over-think” every decision- - and waffle back and forth.  Here’s another hint.  The American people don’t feel at ease with such traits in their Chief Executive.  Certainly you’ve heard the adage that “It’s better to be strong and wrong- - then weak and right”.  After all if President Obama heeds history- - he would remember what happened with President Jimmy Carter.  But let’s suppose “the worse’ happens and Assad falls - - - seriously could ANYTHING be worse than that?   And not to take advice from dead people or anything but Mal Evans pointed out to me that even NOW - - Afghanistan is far better off with the Soviet troops out of their nation.  Because if they had not been dislodged- - who do you think would be next?  Pakistan.  Which we already know is an unstable nation.  Certainly the argument would be made “The Soviets would gain a major advantage if they had an outlet on the Indian Ocean”.   Why, if they played their cards right, they might even be able to cut a deal with the International Oil providers.  (and that’s something that never would have occurred to me thirty years ago)   Pat Buchannon is right when he says that today the Nazi Party is a joke.  Why not use the same logic to deduce that Al Qaeda is not nearly the threat it used to be- - even if the worst happens.  As it is now- - the President has virtually straight-jacketed our foreign policy- - leaving it up to the whims of others (who do NOT have our best interests at heard) just “How the whole thing will play out”.   I don’t know- maybe some of these Christian pastors have been pumping him up with these Fairy Stories about “Dying to self” and “leaving it in God’s hands and trusting in a favorable outcome”.  I guess my attitude tword God these days is “Trust but verify”.   People talk about this President- - as if somehow history will somehow Transform him at some date in the future, into something he never was.

I had this inspiration (from Mal Evans) to write what would constitute a good part of any blog posting on “The Fine Art of Sleaze-baggery”.  But I don’t feel like being a sleaze today.  In fact I feel the need to clarify remarks I’ve made to my blog readers in the past, where I may have pervericated a bit.  But that's not happening in this posting.  Billy J Cramer was Chris Carter’s early guest on Breakfast with the Beatles.  He is of course a Romulan, so I played close attention to him.  It seems John Lennon suggested he put the J in his name to add a little class, just like Homer J Simpson.  They said that none of the Beatles as far as they know, has spoken to Beat Best after he was kicked out of the band,  and I don’t have anything to add to that assessment, cosmically.   One remark that Cramer said I’ve heard from Stu Sutcliffe before of “You really haven’t heard the Beatles until you have heard them at the Cavern club”.  Someone said they re-created the thing and Carter said “They didn’t recreate the smell did they?”  According to the authors of “Shout” it seems you were intoxicated with the scene of urine mixed with chlorine.  Of course you Marcus trekkers out there know that all the relivent stuff about ‘Me” in the early Beatle days has already been covered in “Shout” or one of the other books.  I keep hearing what an in-depth book “When they were Boys” is.  But perhaps due to bias from Stu, I’d be more inclined to buy “The Beatles- the True Beginnings” by Pete Best, first.  A lot of people think Pete was a better drummer.  In a rare fact about “Me” you didn’t probably know is that the first Lennon Mc Cartney song I ever heard was Billy J Cramer’s “Do You Want to know a Secret?” and it was apparently Cramer’s first single.   I was trying to remember all the words to “I’ll Be On My Way” the other day, and the one line I couldn’t remember is ‘Just one kiss and I’ll go”.    One thing that stands out about “Bad To Me” is the drumming is very Ringo-ish.  He out Ringos Ringo.   Cramer knew Brian Epstein in the early days and the two have always gotten along and Cramer describes Brian as “attentive”.   They had Denny Lane later with the obligatory “Go Now”.   Of course cosmically- - Lane is from what we call the “pre Aldeberan IX” immigration flood era of the M 51 planet in the constelation of Orion.   Otherwise they played a lot of good songs including “Give Me Some Truth” and “The Light that has Lighted the World”, which is definitely tagged as a song about Zachery.  Demo version.  I don’t see why it can’t be a song about Christ, if you want it to be.  I didn’t know that “You” was from a Ronette’s sound track with Harrison’s voice dubbed over it.  It’s perhaps the worst track he’s ever put out.  I mean “My Bologna’ by Weird Al shows more creativity.  There was another Mc Cartney song about the old Liverpool days- - they’ve played before- but I’d never heard this track.  Billy J Cramer has a new album out- and the track they played was OK - - and I’d be curious what it would sound like with Ringo singing it since “Maurine” is mentioned.  As to that “I’m In Love” song- - I thought they played the old Billy J Cramer original of that.  This track isn’t to be confused with “I Must Be In Love” by the Ruttles, which stands out as the one non parody song on that album.   It was right about this time of year fifty years ago that John Lennon, (or whoever was occupying his body at the time) recorded a new composition the rest of the band had to be shown how to play, which I call "My ode to Mary Wells".  And we are reminded on a different subject that September 15 is the 50th anniversary of when those four Black girls were killed making national news.

Washington and Green Bay were playing in Landeau Field, and Green Bay was winning big.  That was the FOX game.  Like I say there are a few other little “bits” that need clarification for my blog readers- - if I can remember what they are.  In terms of this whole Assad and chemical weapons thing - - the story is getting a little moldy around the edges these days.  I’m tired of it.  It’s time to move on to something else.  But sometimes it’s wise to “have a reserve of stuff” just in case you need to pull something out of your hat in a hurry to finish off a blog.  We had an open faced turkey sandwich for lunch with the usual mashed potatoes and gravy, and green beans.  We had pudding covered banana slices for a desert.  It is DSL extreme that runs those ads on Leo’s show expressly stating that you get phone and twenty MG internet for $39.95 under-cutting my present bill by nearly nine dollars.   I’d be a fool not to switch.  Which brings us to “Face the Nation”, which I may look in on – and we’ll take it from there.  Paragraph one in part reflects my diagnosis.

Alabama gave Texas A & M a good thumping, so Steely Dan and Forest Gump should both be happy today.  Last night it was Note Dame defeating Purdue.   I was tempted to past in that little song we learned my first semester in Savanna Band.  Maybe I’ve already used it but it’s sung to the Notre Dame fight song.  Then it was that “Sleazebag” episode on two and a half men.  Don’t you just love it when sitcoms wax operatic for no reason?  I’m not sure what the program was on after this- - and to be honest I was so sleepy I thought I had it on five and not two.  I went to bed at a quarter to ten.  They say that if you sleep well you actually become more attractive.  I hope so.  So if the body does “repairs” at night- it then sort of like Cal Trans?  There was a story of the drummer of the Grateful Dead experimenting with this ESP device that could actually transmit information telepathically into other people’s heads.  It could also do things like turn light bulbs on and off.  I know they are attempting this type of technology with prosthetic limbs, where all your brain has to do is to express the “intent” to move this or that muscle, and it happens.   I guess if you change your E mail address to something non standard- - you may get snagged in people’s Spam filters because they don’t know you have a legitimate reason for contacting them.  (?)  Every time I heard the term “Mail Forwarding”, and it’s something I’ve never attempted, I think of that dirty trick that Bo and Billie’s daughter, Chelsea, played on Hope by re-directing her mail to her- - and then changing it, before sending it on to its destination.  Sounds like a handy little device.  It’s always these skinny brunettes who make all the mischief on that show- - like Jan Speers or Jeanie at present.  And there is something about how E mail providers won’t let you send out more than so many of the same mailing because they’ll suspect a Trojan virus has hijacked your computer.  Now they are sayi8ng that “being the first in line” helps with job applications because employers feel some sort of loyalty or obligation to give the FIRST applier for the job- - a fair shot at it.  People say that pupil size affects attractiveness.  Hell- - they might just think you’re on drugs!   People say that “Spelling’ is obsolete as a subject now with spell check a universal thing.  But personally I don’t trust spell check- - and Word’s grammar check is just “wrong, wrong, wrong” a lot of times.  

Pat Buchannon - What Happened?

I just have one question about tonight’s Mc Laughlin group discussion, and that is “What the hell has happened to Pat Buchannon over the past few years.  He used to be an American, or at least I think he did.  Now he is touting the Russian line about now no nation, including the United States has the right to defend itself, and somehow is not a sovereign entity as to the wars it chooses to fight in.  Pat went on to praise Putin’s article in the Times the other day and said ‘He landed one right down the smoke stack” alluding to the alledged accuracy of our missiles during the first Gulf War.  He also said that Putin has the inherent right to give military aid to Syria, and also bought into the Putin lie that “For all we know it could very well be the rebels that used that Seren gas”.   And frankly, I am highly offended that the former head of the Russian Communist KGB would dare to invoke the name of Got, to buttress his authority.  I’m surprised his tongue didn’t fall out of his mouth as he said the words.  Mort and others countered that “There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that Assad was the one who ordered the attack. Pat was generally at odds with the three other panelists, one of which was new, and Mort Zuckerman by far was the one in my not so humble opinion that was dead on target in his perception of the entire situation.  We know that Israel, in shades of the first Gulf War, is under pressure to keep silent now, but we all know who Israel is desperate to be the victor in this stand-off and it’s not Syria’s Assad.  There was talk about the Pope’s message and now “violence leads to death”.   That’s like saying “Hunger leads to food”.  Not necessarily.   Not to cozy up to the NRA or anything but sometimes the most effective remedy to a bad man with a gun is - - a Good man with a gun.  You can play Ghandi if you want to and tell all the British subjects they can ward off the Nazi advances if they just assume the locus position and contemplate their navels, but we live in the real world.  We don’t have time for such “ethereal” matters now.  It’s like a famous person once said, “Either lead, follow, or get out of the way”.   It’s almost as if every word out of Pat Buchannon’s mouth was put there by Putin himself.  But let’s look at the UN resolution itself.  First of all I have a major issue with Russia being allowed permanent Veto Power status over anything the so called “security countil” decides.  So they did major dental extraction surgery and made this resolution against Assad a toothless exercise in futility.   As I have been saying all afternoon - - I think we’re pretty much doomed to more of this rudderless media commentary on the whole Syrian affair.  But maybe David Gregory is one person who hasn’t completely lost his marbles and will see what’s happening now in Syria for what it is- as Russian backed aggression against Syria’s own subjects- - and in general an eventual threat to other nations in the region.  There is Israel, but also virtually all of the Suni nations- - notably Turkey, have condemned this sham of a UN resolution as a farce and a joke, and worst of all, merely a delaying tactic.

The Chris Matthews show has been operating a little rudder-less lately.  Putin is really a good guy and is under “pressure” to keep Assad in line, and all of that.  No, if the President had been a whole lot more proactive with Syria, we would not even be facing the problems we are now.  If President Obama had bombed Syria, the whole Putin thing now would not even be a problem, and I assure you, for President Obama, Putin is “a problem”.   Putin has been in power since the end of 1999 so he’s coming up on the conclusion of his fourteenth year.  They changed the law so he could be re “elected” for a third time, as if anybody took those elections seriously.  Of course Pastor Don lied flat out to me when he claimed he wasn’t breaking church law by even running for the job of full time Pastor.  (I’ll explain off camera)  But then there was the matter of Mitch Mc Connell being “promaried” from the right.  And this lady Sec of State is beating Mc Conell in the statewide polls- - and also this Las Vegas Democratic king maker is throwing money to the democratic candidate.  She actually is not “anti coal” but this is the lie that the Republicans are hoping to win the election with, even though they are behind.  Then we have an older democrat facing off with a younger republican in Virginia - - and the democrat is leading in that poll, too.  Meanwhile the topic was raised that Liberals believe in tollerence and open debate with opponents.  Liberals will watch the Mc Laughlin group- - but Republicans will not listen to Stephanie Miller.  (Even though she was raised in a republican household, which makes my point)  So conservatives want to secede (because of their innate separatist nature)  either counties- or in the case of Texas, a whole state, as Rich Perry said in 2009.  He said that “When Texas joined the union in 1836, it was with the explicit agreement that we could leave any time we wanted to”.  I think the Civil War had something to say about that.  So now the western rural counties of Maryland want to secede and join West Virginia, where they’ll feel more at home.  And Suskyu county along the Oregon border in California- - wants to leave California and join Oregon.  Four counties in northeast Colorado (presumably the ones closest to Cheyanne) want to leave Colorado because that state is now too liberal.  They past gun background checks- - so the NRA is now funneling a whole lot of money in to defeat any pro gun control democrat.  I watched all of Friday’s show, and the first long segment of Thursday’s program. 

I slept right through last night and got up at seven minutes to six.  I had KNX radio on.  KTLK has that jamming interference that only occurs on that station and nowhere else on the AM dial.  We had oatmeal.  I am out of creamer and was hoping to swipe a few creamers but didn’t.  There was a protracted wait that was becoming absurd, for the rest.  Finally we got a fried egg and a piece of toast.  Dr. Levy is always boistres when he arrives.  You heard right.  The one day we were SURE he wouldn’t be here, is when he was.  Ned seemed to take a dislike to his - - almost pretentious nature.  I went to the store to buy cigarettes.  And I had my own religious duties to perform, worship at the church of the nicotine plant.  Attendance was sharply down from last week.  Joe was talking about his Messianic Jews stuff.   Well you know, don’t you that the one Rolling Stones song with the word “Messiah” in it- is called Monkey Man.  Monkey messiah are entertaining and less threatening than the human variety.   Dr. Levy deliberately turned my words around 180 degrees and picked a fight with me before I could even complete the first sentence.  He gets up and comes over and wags his finger at me.  I had to explain that I was actually going to side with him.  Isaiah 53 is about a martyr for an issue, because the subject of Isaiah 53 was willing to put himself out there and protest- - like Martin Luther king- - so in a way he vicariously suffered for all of us who agree with him but were too cowardly to get out there ourselves.  I also reminded Joe in particular, that the Jesus was prophesied as “being reckoned as Dead by his own generation.  (Selah)  I then asked Dr. Levy to explain what HE believes about all this Messiah stuff from a Jewish perspective.  Dr. Levy said that “The Messiah will come when we are worthy and have basically solved all of the world’s problems before he gets here”.  I said that “I come from a completely different frame of reference”.  There was talk about religious pluralism and I put in plugs for the I Ching and also Confucious.  I told David I prefer Chinese religion to Indian religion because the later is too ethereal for my tastes.   But then Dr. Levy goes into this thing about “I don’t associate with anybody who isn’t tollerent like me”.  And asked me in particular “You wouldn’t have anything to do with a fundamentalist Baptist, would you?”  That put me in an awkward position, kind of like getting Bob Dylan to disown David Bengurian.  I reminded him that “The Baptist religious frame of reference is almost identical to the frame of reference I was raised under” and explained to Dr. Levy that this is the way the world is.  People aren’t necessarily “prejudiced” just because they were raised in a completely different cultural mind set.  Dr. Levy did have coffee for me- - four packets of Breakfast Blend, which I like.  I told him that would last me a long time, considering I still have a substantial amount of the Master Chef left.   Dr Levy said he was fasting and that it was no fun, and he had to be at his Synagogue at nine thirty so it would be s short meeting.  There was this new lady there whom James Fisher brought, who was talking about her husbands and children and great grand children ect.  I told James- - that Windows 8 is really a big leap for anybody.   Dr. Levy forgot to bring that installment of his “book”.

This is Saturday September 14, 2013.  Now for the most important news.  I am two and 0 on my college football picks today.  I predicted, much against the tide, that UCLA would defeat Nebraska at home, which they did.  I liked UCLA’s uniforms today.  Nebraska abandoned their trademark red-orange.   This game was airing on the TV in the big room.  UCLA got their second wind in the second half- - perhaps inspired by that dead Nicholas guy.  I had an attack of drowsiness this morning and was too lazy just before lunch to go back to the room, so just plopped down on the black couch and watched the game.   The others at the table saw that I seemed - - drowsy.  We had a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich for lunch.  I had almost two helpings of lima bean soup - - since Paul gave me one.  John Metz, who is sitting at that table now abandoned his plate- - and I just took the potato chips because for some reason that was not a BLT sandwich on his plate.  We had a banana for desert.   Melinda Lee and Leo Le Port suffered from the same complaints.  What I heard from both was more in the nature of an information rerun (which is a bit unusual, actually) and also both shows were hopelessly drowning in commercial breaks.  KNX has traffic breaks on all the odd numbers – or every ten minutes, which means the show is almost half traffic.  Melinda and Leo both do their own commercials, which is fine, but then they throw in the other “usual commercials”, too.  I had the Oregon and Tennessee game on in the afternoon.  We just changed the official color to a light blue.  Oregon creamed and pureed Tennessee.   There wasn’t that much time to kill before dinner.  We had a pretty decent hamburger patty with not enough gravy for it and the rice also.  The rice has reverted to its former mushy state.  But we had spinach, which I like.  We had vanilla pudding with fruit in it.  Roxanne and Ned were playing some kind of verbal games with each other.  One of them said “I know, you’re not saying anything because you want to keep out of trouble”.   John Powell arrived late.

All of the paragraphs prior to this one will be (and presumably are now) pasted in reverse order from the order they were written in.  In terms of all that Howard stuff - - we left out the song contributions to the Howard saga from one other rock group which the Powers that advised me - - wanted left out of the mix.  Mal Evans approved the following few hints.  The name of the group is actually slipped into the narrative but it’s done in a “Secret” manner.  And the word “secret” itself, is a Clue.  Let he who hath ears hear.   Here’s the other hint.  In the line “Killer Queen” there is a line in there that goes “dynamite with a laser beam”.  Look for an album cover with laser beams on it.   OK, I’ll narrow it down.  An album with laser beans- - that of all the albums this group has put out- - in my concerted opinion - - has the best sound engineering of any of them.  In my opinion.  The Opening Track of another album of this same group - has a clue we already talked about quite a few months ago in a posting - one of those classics given invaluable exposure on channel forty a few decades back - - also has a key tie-in clue.