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.