Cosmically, It All Balances Out

Today is August 28, 2014, Thursday.  Few republicans according to Thom Hartman know the actual definition of “Libertarian”.  I believe that.  Larry Elder think he’s a libertarian and he is not.   In fact most Republicans don’t accept the Libertarian’s own definition of themselves.   Thom Hartman has buttressed one of my private views.  I said I would not want a remote ‘kill’ switch on my I Phone.  I wasn’t entirely sure why I felt this way except I didn’t want my phone remotely hacked.  But there is a much clearer danger that the government could en mass shut down all cell phones in case of a massive protest somewhere like the Egyptians had when they broke loose from Morisee a year or so ago.  The scene in that town square was liberty in action.  Now they are putting out a super size I Pad that will be twelve inches.  Some have said “You don’t want to carry anything around so large it feels like a pizza box”.   I’d buy a twelve inch if I were into that sort of thing.  When you think about it Steve Jobs didn’t live that long to enjoy his great success.  The I-Pod, which you rarely hear of now came out in 2001.  And the I phone didn’t come out till 2007, when Steve Jobs had just over four years to live.  The I Pad didn’t come out till 2010, I am reminded.  It’s been three years already since Steve Jobs has been dead.  He is a cosmic fraud because after meditating in India he got the revelation to be a greedy capitalist, and his co workers hated him for a lot of reasons, including not letting the people he’s worked so closely with when he was poor, have any shares of stock when the company went public.  That’s bad karma.  Now of course he is in what you might call Andromeda D heaven.  But tell me what solice it is to be the most carnal person in heaven.  These things have a way of cosmically balancing out.

We are still gun crazy in this country.  This nine year old girl was trying to shoot an automatic Uzi and lost control of the weapon and killed her instructor when the gun veered to the left.  This was at the “guns and burgers” shooting range, in either Nevada or Arizona, depending on who you ask.  Nobody stops to think how traumatized this child will be over this act her whole life.  Apparently if you carry automatic weapons to shopping malls in Arizona, your fine.  But in another part of the courtry one man was getting ready to buy a toy gun for his son, and was shot dead by police.  Now the state of California wants only bright colors for toy guns.  What’s to stop a criminal from spray painting in florescent colors his weapon to make the cops think it’s just a toy?

The first hour of Stephanie was a rerun of Tuesday so I went to Bill Press who was talking about this latest airlines incident.  This man put on one of these “knee savers” on his food tray on an airplane, which completely prevents the seat in front of you from reclining.  It is Bill Press’ belief that these cute little inventions are perfectly legal, but one airline spokesman says they are not.  Even Bill Press believes enough in business propriety to say that “You are instituting a device fundamentally altering the operation of the Airline.”   But of course they said that 34 inches used to be standard distance between the row seats.  Then they changed it to 32, and then 31 and some even 30 - - endeavoring to cram more rows of seats into a plane.  They say it’s rare to ever find an empty seat on a flight today because of “over-booking” you are very likely to be bumped from a flight- because the airlines are so chincy about leaving any empty seats.  I heard from Rush or someone that they have some new kind of bomb now that - - when seen in a scanner just looks like part of your body or something and goes undetected.

Rush Limbaugh this said some things which warm the cockles of my heart.  Rush was in a state of near political despondency.  He says the Republicans are between a rock and a hard place because if they react to President Obama’s “delivering of immigration amnesty” on Labor Day- -  it’s a case of “Don’t stop me from doing something stupid! - -  why did you just make me make a fool of myself”.   Because the mantra goes “Obama WANTS the Republicans to close down the government to garner democratic votes for the November election.     In other words the Democrats are so sphengolic like they have the power to “force the Republicans into doing something stupid, like try and impeach the President”.   Rush also echoed my sentaments of the other say seeing if the Republicans win big in November, what have they won?  More strife and division - - that’s what.  The media will still be just as sympathetic to the liberals- or at least no less than they are now.   Rush put it succinctly when he said “The republicans are trying to get fifteen yards for a first down, and the Democrats have their eye on winning the game, when the Republicans aren’t even close to getting a touchdown”.   Rush also said something else “If you have inside political information you should keep it to yourself” not that women and conservative social issues don’t mix.  We knew that.  The way for Democrats to win is to play on women’s fears of conservative social issues.  So even if you were a democrat who believed in traditional views on social issues, you wouldn’t at all mind the Democrats playing up these fears that women have.

Stephanie Miller reports that the Republicans are thinking of running Romney again and apparently Paul Ryan still likes Mitt Romney.  I mean, who else have they got?  Perhaps it’s time to bring back Goldwater and Miller, of course now it would be Miller – Goldwater, Stephanie Miller and Cee Cee Goldwater, his granddaughter.  What we are crying for is an all woman ticket.   It would be just like the Republicans to take a bold leap into the past - - and it would turn out to be the smartest thing they ever did.  I would now like to relate some dialog from “Say Wally” an old vinyl record comedy track.   “Say Wally, what do the Goodyear Blimp and Walter Mondale have in common” - - “They’re both full of hot air and running around in circles”.   “Say Wally, do you think Jesse Jackson is going to run again for President in four years”.    Wally says, “Oh, no - - Jesse Jackson has gone way beyond that!   Now I hear he’s running for GOD!”   “Say Wally, what do you think the Republican’s chances are in four years”.   Wally says, “Gee I don’t know; I think we’re got our work cut out for us.  I hear the democrats are going to put up Andre Gramico for the top spot.  After all, who else have they got?”

The Federation has not cone down on Burger King for wanting to move to Canada. One reason why they haven’t is because Burger King is “a proprietary Federation property”, and that word “proprietary” is used, to denote one of the minor races and not the major ones such as Dardanians or Reigelians.  If you are any kind of Reigelian fan however you have three choices to go with.  Of course any kind of racial Reigelian to one degree or another has greenish skin.   Taco Bell is Cortessian, and Arby’s Roast Beef is Bajoran.   In terms of either Carl’s or Mac Donalds, they have no cosmic credentials at all and neither does Wendy’s.  And as to this White Castle place, I’m not sure I’m going to get my meat from any place that soulds like some kind of poultry disease.  But Bones is telling people- - as the choice of his Romulan friends (and the Southern California Romulans) to go with Jack-in-the-Box for all your fast food needs.  Jack in the Box is part of that “Crosstown Traffic” group we spoke of musically a few months back.  I would now like to put up an alternate explanation from how they got their name- - other than what we told you a couple months back.   This Crosstown group was part of the old Reigelian Federation, but they never joined with Orion because they refused to sign a contract everyone who joined the Federation has to sign, because they didn’t want to give away their sovereignty.   They advertise the fact that they aren’t Federation.  This planet got its name as a “stopover point” for Shuttle craft who have to refuel- - and who are evading the Federation.    In other news we have two more cosmic rock group identities to report, “Hewey Lewis and the News” is Karn – Evel (and that’s how it’s spelled) and of course “99 Red Balloons” is Berliner, a fact I’m sure that comes as a surprise to no one. 

The Rumblings of our Discontent

And tomorrow is one month away from that fantasy “rapture” date of 9/28.   Of course those things never happen, but this doom and gloom proves something you have to endure a whole lot longer than you’d care to think.  President Obama wants to make it a clean sweep of eight years of disaster.  It’s already been a six year disaster for the democratic party.  No President in this or the last century has been so consistently unpopular or the butt of derision the way this President has been.  Maybe once he’s out of office he’ll get a job as a Wall Street banker and laugh and say the whole liberal thing was all a big act.  Meanwhile more bad tidings are in store for the here and now.  Rush tells us that in the Florida primary that Governor Rick Scott got 250,000 more votes than Charlie Christ, the democrat.  This is despite the fact that there are 450,000 more registered Democrats in Florida than there are Republicans.  Despite this 150,000 more Republicans showed up to vote then the democrats.   The Republicans are still in line to take the US Senate, but I don’t know what use to them controlling the Senate will be.  Rush made the point that “Rick Scott got his message out and that’s why people turned out to vote for him”.    I just don’t see how with 14% popularity- - how even Republicans are going to turn out in droves to reelect these same do nothing bozo congressmen.  I said in May that we just take "stuff" another two years.   To me it’s so completely silly to say “Just wait till 2016 and then we’ll show them!”.    I do agree with Hannity about one thing.  He says that President Obama "has become strangely detached these days".  Nobody can argue with that.  This President reached his own "Goal he's been dreaming of" the day he got himself elected President in 2008.  He seems to have completely forgotten about promises or implications "reforms just around the corner" made to the rest of us about what he'd do when he assumed office.  We haven’t got that long.  (Selah)  And here’s just an impartial tip.  Sean Hannity puts on a much better radio show in the first long segment than Norman Goldman does with his.   Sean Hannity gets right into an engaging topic, whereas Norman expends so much time he just pisses away- in endless saying what he’s going to talk about tomorrow- - or later today- - or his Norman Goldman fan club, or what have you.  He mentioned a possible shooting war on the Golan Heights with ISIS forces, which have advanced that far.  But having “teased us” with yet one more topic, he moves on.   We don’t have endless time to just piss away- - because the fabric of American politics is showing severe signs of advanced necrosis as it is- -  and it may already be too late.  I’m so sick of Democrats one and all just giving up on the 2014 elections without a fight.

This morning I had Mike Papentonio on.  Let’s talk about that right now.  I watched virtually the whole hour.   First he discussed the Rick Perry indictment and the part Rick has most to fear is the idea of giving cancer research funds out for the price of a political donation to his campaign.   These Texas court judges are apparently hand picked either by Karl Rove or the Koch Brothers.  They are political hacks heavily funded.  And they’re there to issue court rulings nullifying laws duly passed.   Or else they overturn the verdicts of jury law suits where one was tried by a jury of his piers.   No matter how obvious the civil suit- - these judges overturn them.  Karl Rove says he wants to do to the whole country what he’s done to the state of Texas.  The other item on the docket was this drug Xerelto, which prevents strokes and heart attacks and the like.  But it’s one of the most dangerous drugs on the market according to Papentonio.  But no matter what doctors who test the drug conclude about it, and how dangerous it is, there are still more than enough beaurocrats in the Food and Drug administration to overrule them and rubber stamp this drug, like they did with the Staten drugs, and this low T stuff.  It would seem that if testosterone is applied directly to the skin it combined with some enzyme called armonol or something –and turns into estrogen of all things, which is more dangerous for a man than testosterone.   He said that it’s actually women who become “low T when they hit menopause.  I never knew. 

There is another story I was greeted with this morning from Stephanie Miller about that Ferguson shooting audio tape, but we don’t know it’s authenticity yet.  That is everything.  But what it reveals is that Officer Wilson fired six shots - - six, as Brown was fleeing.  Then he stops firing for three seconds as Brown turns around and surrenders.  Then Wilson gets off four more shots and one of them was the lethal shot.   If this recording is kosher, it proves Officer Wilson was a liar when he said that his first shot wasn't till after Michael Brown turned around.  Evidence would strongly suggest that no less than six shots were fired at brown before this point- - as he was running away.  I have heard reference to this tape nowhere else and am curious why I haven’t.   But there are just  countless things you never hear in the “Drive By Media” news now.  It’s all fluff.   I just can’t believe all that human interest fluff and lost dog and bear in the pool videos - - is all they think we want to see.

This whole frensied competetion to "give away their Tax base" to lower taxes further and further to get a movie produced in your state of have a particular food or retail franchise in your city- - is self destructive, and we need to do something to change the system.  It's just another way that Big Business impoverishes the rest of us.   As the Republicans continue in their total control over the government, stranger and stranger things are going to happen.  So - - what "unseemly things might happen?   Yanked from our moral moorings all sorts of things.  We've been brainwashed to think all of our problems are behind us.  There IS no racial problem in America.  That's been solved.   Political corruption is a thing of the past.  That only goes in in movies made in the forties about Chicago.  Well, how about selling body organs?  You know there is an organ shortage, don't you?  How long before some bright person gets the idea to put organs desperately needed by sick people up on auction to the highest bidder?  Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh would live it!  It's capitalism at work.   Not only are we in a post racial, and post bigoted, and post corruption era, we seem also to be in a post era where anyone remembers what the Great Depression was like - - and the abuses that caused it.   Lastly, we are in a post Patriotic era- - where greed trumps patriotism - - and people like Sean Hannity are leading the cheers.   In fact Greed has become so sacrosanct, that people like Judy say it would be "wrong" to interfere with people's natural Greed in economics.  So we can't have tax laws that discourage people moving companies out of America.   And of course Laws duly passed by legislatures are a thing of the past, because now they can be struck down virtually at will.  One of the most sacred pillars of Conservativism is that they opposed "Legislation from the bench" and "Judicial activism".  But alas once again - - the conservatives were against it before they were for it.

   Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity both carried on about Warren Buffet and how he is a Burger King investor who favors the move to Canada to avoid taxes.  And by the way Rush agrees with me that the corporate tax rate is 35% and not 39%.  So they’ll save nine percent but not “cut their tax bill in half”.   Sean Hannity will say anything.  Sean was even madder at Buffet than Rush.  I don’t see how Buffet’s personal finances are any of Rush or Hannity’s business anyway.   It seems if you are an espousing liberal, they hold you to a much closer microscope.   The point is that Buffet never said “I will always endeavor to pay More taxes than I owe on my returns”.   But also it means that certain things are things you SHOULD do- - and being patriotic is one of them.  I can’t just declare myself a citizen of Somolia or something and adopt Solomian tax rates- - just because I feel like it; I don’t have to move or anything.   Burger King was not have to close so much as one branch here. 
     

Last night I was reading other “Opera” blogs from August of 2008 and November of 2010.  Contrary to what Sean Hannity says people on both sides of the aisle perceived President Obama just about the same way now.  I was viewing him with a lot of suspicion even then, and the right was saying things like “We don’t want anybody from an exotic race as President”.  That was Pat Buchannon.  So it’s a myth that Barock Obama was inspiring anybody, even then.  But you always here this cry about "Back then we had so much hope for change and transformation".  I didn't, and reading my own writings proved it.  I remarked though “both sides are going to pick really dull Vice Presidential candidates, who won’t attempt to steal the lime light”.  This obviously was pre Sarah Palin and the whole deboccle that ruined Mc Cains chances for the White House.  Back then the anti Obama rhetoric was a little pointed- - but it hadn't quite evolved into the pitched and fixed pre scripted rhetoric we see from FOX news, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity today.

The American Culture of Death

And now the latest smash hit from that up and coming pop star, Rick Evanstan singing his latest sensation "I wish that I was Victor's whore".

Will Horton:  "I never intended to expose you as a Whore or anything like that"

Abigail:  "Well you know something- - what I did I take responsability for.  - - - I went into that affair with E J with my eyes open and we both knew what we were doing.  It was mutual.  But as for you, you were paid three thousand dollars for whoring yourself out to Victor Kiriacus.  Now you tell me, between the two of us, who is the bigger Whore?"

Have you ever asked yourself this question?  What do all of the infamous Cult leaders we know about have in common?  They’re all Alive.  People don’t go much for dead cult leaders.  You won’t find any Jim Jones veneration societies to honor his great teachings.  Elijah Mohamed used to be someone really great and influential, till he died.  Then you never heard any more about him.  How about Donald De Freeze of the SLA?   You don’t find any David Koresh societies around today.  If you saw last night’s “Law and Order” a dark thought may have entered your mind like it entered mine.   The minute the guy opens his mouth and says “I words have the authority of God”, just to put a bullet through his brain and see how long he lives, or people care to hear what he has to say.   Cliven Bundy is alive.  Do you think anyone will much care about Charles Manson once word comes of his death?  We in America have a culture of death, but unfortunately dead cult leaders are not high on the request list.  You don’t find religious memorials to cult leaders.  Some of you might say to me, “Well what about Jesus Christ.  He died yet his teachings live on to our day”.  Well, look again.  Do you remember that passage in Galatians where it talks about “he who has another teaching – let him be accursed?”  Some of you are nodding.  Well, let’s play a game of fill in the blank.  “Even if an angel comes down out of heaven and offers a teaching different from BLANK, let him be accursed”.  Some of you may thinking “what Jesus teaches” or “What the apostles teach” or “What the Bible teaches” or “What the Jerusalem Church teaches”.  No.  The blank in this case is “than - - from what I teach”.   The word is referring to self.  Acts portrays a church not cented either on Jesus, or on “the apostles” but on the person of St Paul.  So once again- - the guy holding the whip is alive and not dead.   We have a culture of death in society.  It should not even escape Sean Hannity’s notice that the majority of nations that still employ the Death Penalty are Muslem.  Check it out for yourself.  And unlike what the right wing says it isn’t just “Northern European liberal nations” that have abolished the death penalty.  It’s Mexico and Austrailia, and large portions of South America, virtually all of Europe, and even much of Africa.  In Japan the police carry guns but they rarely use them and deaths from police shootings are in the single digit zone going back years.  They are trained to use methods to subdue suspects other than firearms.  Some liberal spoke of this “Culture of death” such as the five percent of radical Islamics out there.  And George Washington’s blogs points out that both US wars like in Iraq, and things Israel have done lately violate the world standards of conduct of War.  Sean Hannity is a gun freak, and he admits he’s been on close terms with firearms since he was twelve.  He is now talking about his skills in the marshal arts.  If you’re like me you’ve noticed that people like Sean have really been negative all the time lately.  There is endless moaning and carping about how he’s being fleeced by the poor- - you’d think he was giving every last penny to the poor the way he talks.  And the attacks have taken on a certain personal, confrontative nature you don’t even hear from Rush Limbaugh.  It’s a personal thing with Sean.  He seems himself as kind of a victim.

There is a peace treaty that is being brokered by Egypt between Gaza and Israel, and the people of Gaza are already happy and celebrating.  We are told the same parties will meet again in a month to work out the thornier issues.   Leave it to Sean Hannity, though to say that “when the peace treaty is broken - - “ ruin will follow, or something.  There is the persistent roomer that on Labor Day the President is going to “pardon” five million illegal aliens, and that this will send the economy into a tail spin.  So we have to look at other claims “golden oldies from the past” like the 2012 movie that stated President Obama has plans to conthiscate all our guns after he gets reelected in November.  We were told that because of some new security regulation the stock market was going to crash starting the first of July.  We were informed a few days ago by these right wingers that “You see how just recently the market is already down a thousand points from its highs”.   We are told the price of gold could double before the end of the year.  I remember that California was supposed to have economic devastation in 2013 because of some ecology measures passed in California.  Of course forever we are told that President is a stealth Islamic agent and he’s just waiting for the right moment to sabotage our foreign policy.  We also were told “If we just had more domestic energy production that OPEC would no longer dictate the price of oil” and maybe domestic gasoline would be selling for a buck fifty a gallon because it was produced here or something.  How many times do these right wingers have wrong before we stop listening to them. 

Washington's blog features four new measures of what used to be known as "The economic Misery Index" other than the usual unemployment and inflation figures, which we both agree can't be trusted, and this has been the case for an awfully long time.  One of the four graph indicators particularly caught my attention and this was "the volecity of money".  Because money growth is a myth.  In fact if you looked at this chart it would seem we have been in a major contraction for years.  Also the number of people in this country who wand a job and don't have one- - or who otherwise do not have a job, this figure is constantly gone up over the past twenty years, believe it or not.  It has never NOT gone up during this whole period.  The two other indicators the blog mentions also have graphs to illustrate them.  Basically all four of these indicators have been getting continually worse for the past seven years, since 2007, without let-up.  You will note this is a period BEFORE when those who claim to be in the know, say that this recession even started.  But the biggest myth of all is that somehow there is any danger of what used to be known as "demand pull inflation", which the last few Federal Reserve chairmen have been so afraid of.  Inflation is one of those pavlovian bugaboos that when Right Wingers say the word, we're all supposed to tremble.  How strange it is that with all the things that actually ARE wrong with this economy, that the powers that Be, would fixate on the one indicator that is NOT any sort of economic threat. 

This afternoon I yelled back at the radio “Sean, are you done complaining- - are you sure?  Are you sure you don’t want to complain a little more.  Sean is all upset because Burger King finds their corporate taxes so high they have to move to Canada to have them reduced to 26 percent.   Taxes for corporations are only 35 percent to begin with and not forty.  And I’m sure Sean knows this.  Also President Obama proposed a plan a couple years ago too reduce corporate tax rates to 35% and close loopholes just like Romney wanted- - but this republican congress turns everything down this President proposes, including things they privately said they were in favor of.  And I guaren-damn-tee you that Sean Hannity does not pay sixty percent of his income in taxes.  He does know that when someone says “I’m in the 39% tax bracket they don’t pay 39%, but that tax rate is only on the top portion of their incomes.  Dr Levy in the past has slipped into this same rhetorical falsehood.  You know how I know Sean Hannity is full of it?  He’s been saying this for years now and he still hasn’t made that move to Florida or Texas, just like Ted Nugent isn’t “either dead or in another country by now” as he said in 2012.   One real gravy train issue for conservatives of course is abortion.  I don’t know what conservatives would ever do if they got their way on that issue.  They’d have nothing to talk about.  As for Linda, she’s worse than Sean and the more you hear her the less you like her, and I didn’t like her one bit the first time I ever heard her, and now she’s on all the time.  And then Sean and Linda say they have the goods on that Highway Patrol officer (Ron Johnson) who acted so friendly.  Because they have a photograph of him last year holding a gun on three WHITE bikers, as if that has anything to do with the price of tea in China.  First of all he didn’t fire any shots.  And the next thing is Sean goes on and says “Well - - if Michael Brown “came at Wilson in a threatening manner” then it’s a justified shooting”.  And then Sean goes on to say “I have two good reasons why I believe it’s more likely than not that Michael Brown came at Wilson”.  But then he didn’t say what those reasons were but only paused and (as if re thinking) said “Well, uh- - you know he MUST have done SOMETHING to make Officer Wilson feel threatened, or he wouldn’t have used his gun”.  In other words for Sean- - he takes his own mental conclusion as to what happened and then deduces BACK from his own conclusion to “figure out what must have happened”.

They DID NO INVESTIGATION in the Ferguson police shooting.  It was one thin fill-out form.  And whether that one page form is accurate remains to be seen.  Norman Goldman points out that when a death occurs- from anything- - it could be a traffic death, or it would be someone falling off a twenty story balcony with a loose railing, the police make twenty, thirty and even more paged reports complete with photos and diagrams.  Since there was none of that here, and no knocking on doors speaking to potential witnesses- - this in itself, this abnormal behavior, is indicative that the police KNOW this wasn’t a kosher shooting.   Conservatives are apparently criticizing Al Sharpton’s presence at yesterday’s funeral for Michael Brown, which was a good old time gospel revival.  But Reverand Al was invited by the family to speak.  And I have heard remarks attributed to Rush Limbaugh I don’t even want to repeat because they are so strange.  I think it actually BOTHERS the right wing that calm has returned to Ferguson now.

There are some strange birds in America these days, like no drinks bigger than sixteen ounces in New York City, as if there were some law compelling everyone to buy a large soft drink.   Personally I want freedom to either buy or not buy something.  I don’t like my behavior of NOT having insurance prior to 1997 as somehow “criminalizing my past”.   And people whine about high property taxes in California and keep threatening to move to Texas or Oklahoma.  All I’m saying is- if they were saying that in 2010 and they’re still here, then they prefer whining to doing anything about it.  And Rush brought up this strange story about some new kind of nail polish that changes colors if your boyfriend has slipped a date rape drug into your drink.  Apparently there are some queer forces out there (and I used that term in its generic sense) that believe merely by having the option of using such nail polish that changes colors you are living in expectation of rape and therefore somehow Encouraging rape.  This is like the old condom argument gone mutant.  There apparently (according to Rush) some queer bird feminists out there that actually believe that women should not have to take ANY sensible precautions against being date raped or actually raped.   In fact - - cop radar detectors - -  are things that it would be hard to take off the market once they’re on the market.  But once again, if you believe having such a radar detection device is somehow ‘cheating’, then you don’t have to buy one.  We learn from “Burn Notice” that a good way to knock out surveillance cameras and other security measures- - is to phone in a bomb threat because they bring in these powerful radio jamming devices to keep any bombs from being detonated remotely from a distance.

Ties of the Bush Crime Family to the Saudis

Saddam Hussein has been active in Iraq government in one way or another since at least 1963.  The Bath party was around even then.  Iraq had one leader, and Nassar wanted to make Iraq part of the United Arab Republic along wity Syria and Egypt.  And there was a communist faction.  The CIA intervened tilting the balance to the Bath party and Hussein, who eventually took over Iraq but not till 1979.   The United States supported Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war.  But then Kueit began slant drilling for oil under Iraq's territory and Saddam asked our government about any treaties against moving into Kueit since some in Iraq considered Kueit the nineteenth province of Iraq.  In a July 1990 memo, April Galespie of the Bush administration said we had no treaties with Kueit.  What the United States should have done was to work out problems with oil rights and the slant drilling Kueit was doing, but instead we declared war on Iraq and you know the rest.  The media has never talked about the close link between the Bush "crime family" and the Saudis and Prince Bandar.  If it had been a Democrat in office in 9 - 11 you know John Mc Cain and Lindsey Graham would be going nuts lodging all sorts of accusations.  After 9 - 11 Bush pulled all of our US troops out of Saudi Arabia, which was considered holy ground.  Of course Friday beheadings- - executions- - are common in Saudi Arabia as a public spectical.  But of course the media never talks about that or anything that would in the least besmirch the "good name" of the Saudis.  This is true even though fifteen of the nineteen hijackers of 9 - 11 were from Saudi Arabia, and after wards Bush got the Bin Laden family to safety.  Bin Laden had a brother Solman or something, who died in a plane crash in Texas.  Of course you'd seen all those photos of Bush holding hands with Saudi leaders.  Nobody at FOX news questions any decision President George W did during this period.  Neither does anyone point out on FOX news that the Saudis and nations like Yemen and Qatar are the chief funders of organizations like Hamas.  All we hear from Sean Hannity is how "Most of the Arab world sides with Israel now".  Then how come these same "Arab leaders" fund Hamas?   If any of tthese points were ever raised in any political debate they would be topics for the morning news.  Nobody that I know of has ever asked Bush "What is the significance of fifteen of the nineteen hijackers being from Saudi Arabia?  What is the significance of Bush seemingly choosing NOT to go after Bin Laden, to the point of Afghanistan's offer to deliver Bin Laden into our hands for justice?  People go on and on about the four lives lost at Bengazi but ignore the possibility that nearly three thousand lives could have been saved if those two buildings didn't collapse so quickly after being hit by the planes.  We told you about that advanced computer system the Clintons had ready to go to track down terrorists, and Bush canceled it, just as he ordered NORAD to stand down that day. Some have argued that the Saudis saw Iraq as a competetor and perhaps a threat.  And it wouldn't be excessively paranoid in my oppinion to question the Mainstream Media corporate ties to big energy producers who are the sponsors.  In short nobody questions the relation between the Bush family and the Saudi princes like Prince Bandar?  There is little here of actual new information but it's just, so far at least, just "facts- - hanging in the air" that have never been addressed.

It would seem that Officer Wilson's fan club consists mostly of racists and partisan tea party people,  and no Black people at all.  There are obvious facts about the way this police investigation is being handled that doesn't depend on who's testimony is more truthful than another's.  At this point I have become convinced that the Ferguson, MO authorities are already set on the notion of exhonorating Wilson of all charges and reinstating him.  FOX claims to be "fair and balanced" but make up stories like this whole eye socket fracture thing.  Where is the "balance", where is the "other side" that FOX supposedly considers and weighs while producing their "Fair and Balanced" news coverage?  The Apostle Paul in the Bible says "You can judge a man's character by the company he keeps".  I think I am qualified to comment on Sean Hannity and his defending out and out racists like Cliven Bundy over and over.   All of the alleged ties of President Obama to leftist organizations are fanciful speculations about what personage may have influenced Obama in his college days.  But the ties to extremists of the right with FOX and Hannity are present in the here and now and can't be denied.

6.1 Earthquake Hits Napa County in Bay Area

There was a 6.1 earthquake in Napa County in the upper SF bay area.  It struck at 3:21 in the morning, when deaths would not be as great because people would not be out and about.  This earthquake was the most major one in the Bay Area since the Loma-Preata earthquake in October 1989.  And it lasted fifteen to twenty seconds.  The soil is wine country so it’s soft and unstable, like the soil we have around here.  I’ve heard both sides of the argument as to whether softer soil or bedrock is worse for the transmission of earthquakes.  There were major fissures in roads, leaving major horizontal as well as vertical displacement.  I would imagine the quake was felt strongly in places like Berkley and Richmond, but they didn’t say.  It was felt as far away as Sacramento.  There were neighborhoods where almost every chimney toppled- - and they said there were thirty water line breaks (?) and massive gas line breaks, and the calls of that were only increasing the later into this Sunday morning it got.  I thought injuries were minor but then they said ninety people went to the hospital for injuries.  Coverage of the quake continued to past nine thirty.  I changed stations from “This Week” to coverage at eight minutes to nine.

 I watched the Mc Laughlin Group and thankfully they are staying away from the top two topics we are all sick of.  I had the wrong slip of paper.   The Mc Laughlin group has a poll that says 43% of the people would prefer a Republican Senate and a Republican House,  and 41% of the people would prefer a Democratic Senate and a Democratic House.  My one solace from these numbers is that the Republicans’ lead is narrow in both cases.   But all five commentators agreed that the Republicans would take the US Senate and add a few seats to the already Republican house.  I’m not ready to be that pessimistic yet and would remind you this still August with two and a half months to go.  Of course the break-down on the Ferguson shooting is by race with a majority of White people favoring what the cop[ did, and the majority of Blacks against it.  Someone had a poll that when President Obama wanted to go into Syria last summer, and announced that- - more democrats supported that decision than republicans.  But the Republicans refused to approve those funds.  And now the Republicans are saying it’s all the president’s fault for not “Stopping” ISIS while they were still in Syria.  There is no pleasing them.   Some of these grammatical Word suggestions can be comical.  Never send a computer to do a man’s work.  Then we move on to the death penalty.  Both Mc Laughlin and Mort Zuckerman believe the death penalty will be done away with within ten years.  Even the conservative brunette they have on from time to time- - seemed a little dovish on this issue.  Pat Buchannon said “So a guy squirms a little bit before dying - -it’s no big thing”.  That’s where his head is at.   They moved on from there to the meatier topic of automatically piloted cars.  Even now you don’t “do as much as you think you do” because there are all of these safety overrides and warnings that even now influence your driving.  But “People may be unwilling to give up control entirely.  People like to think they are the ones in control”.   California and Nevada are two states where these drone cars are already legal to have on the roads.  There are things fiendish people could do if they wanted to hack the computer system.  But as Pat reminded us “If you sabotage the braking system so that the people in the car get killed, it’s still murder; it makes no difference whether it’s a computer hacking job, or you do it the old fashioned way”.   Good point.   But there are things creative people could do to cause a lot of mischief that you could not do before by long distance.  I guess the next step is having these solar and LED panels on the roads, like was promo’d on the internet last spring.  I think even Mort is admitting that his years long dream of a bear market and an economic “double dip” are vanishing before his eyes, and he’s finally getting with the program.  The Republicans have exagurated the extent of the minor downturn we just experienced.

Of course "This Week" led with the ISIS story.  Secretary Hagal says it's the most serious foreign terrorist threat we've faced, and there was speculation about whether they'd be over here within the next year or so.   As I say further down - - my Cosmic friends don't seem to be concerned about that aspect of things.  They see it as a localizd threat to just that part of the Mideast.  And at this point it doesn't hurt any democratic causes to blow up the crisis to as big as proportions as possible, in other words "pull a Judy", who is famous on a micro level of pronouncing a perticular development "a crisis" when it is nowhere near.  There are sick, depraved acts going on in the world every day and the news usually doesn't cover them.  I imagine if you talk to feminists organizations they would tell you there is not only a "war on women" here, but it's all over the world, and it's getting worse, and the media is not giving it enough attention.  Channel four had Napa earthquake coverage we’ll get to in a minute.  I thought maybe NBC was canceling “Meet the Press” now that David Gregory was fired and nobody else wanted to do it.  “This Week” is OK but there are two far right people on.  There is that gray headed man, and this lady, who speaks in this “intoned- - serious voice” like some kind of a preacher who’s suffering from constipation.   It gets to be a little much when you hear that same tone of voice no matter what topic she’s on.   But that was last week, and there is a whole other week coming up for us to be bowled over by new stories.

I had Breakfast with the Beatles on, sometimes openly competing with the TV. The one highlight of this show was this guy with a heavy British accent who went along with the Beatles in concert in 1964 and 1965. There really isn’t much to tell we didn’t already know. This guy went with the Beatles when he went to visit Elvis at his Perugia Way house in August of 1965. He relates the same familiar story of how they sat around awkwardly for about twenty minutes and Elvis was getting bored but suggested jamming and the Beatles’ faces light up. It would seem in general that George is the Beatle most likely to be cantankerous or abrasive. He spoke of John of having a very bright, but warped sense of humor. Paul of course is the diplomat. Everybody knows this about him. But Ringo is probably the most popular with the girls. But the screaming of the girls was so loud and constant, the Beatles could not even hear themselves at these concert and the Beatles frequently criticized the poor sound systems of these stadiums. He said “Mal Evans and Neil Asphanol” were the only two men in charge. I have a LOT of trouble believing there wasn’t a whole enterage of ten or fifteen people. But he also said that personal security was virtually non existant. He also confirmed that “Long Tall Sally” was always their last song, and I had hear before that they almost always played the exact same set. Other groups played for 45 minutes (including the Rightious Brothers, who probably sounded a whole lot better in the pre Phil Specter days) but the Beatles only played a half hour- - and still had this thing about “making an escape” because “they would be torn apart by the crowds”.

I do have a little cosmic something for you people today. I heard a day or two ago a warning. Or in the words of a blog post three years ago in 2011 “A level one psychic dimension report”. This level consists among other things, of brief imparitives. Here is one for you. In this whole thing with ISIS there is a warning “Don’t cross the Syrian border. Don’t extend the conflict into Syria”. To me “in the natural” so to speak, this warning doesn’t make sense because there really IS no line- - but it’s all one solid land-mass occupied by ISIS. But the warning was insistent that if we deemed to cross the line into Syria that dire consequences would follow. And we have new news on that “40 second tape” Ringo was listening to. Mal Evans now admits he’s wrong. He checked. The Neir Reigelians had always denied the recording was theirs. And it turns out the tape is actually Federation in origen, in fact it’s Dardanian. He tracked it down. I had thought perhaps it might have been North Romulan because Brian Epstein, Tony Sheridan and Pete Best are all North Romulan. But they were asked about the tape but never got back to us. If you are wondering Mal Evans to me anyhow almost never talked about his days as a roadie with the Beatles. Also learned just today was that the Rout 66 Theme and the Peter Gun Theme, contrary to what I had been told, ARE actually “Tornio” songs, but a different variety of Torino, kind of like distinguishing a Shiite Muslem from an Allawhite such as Al Assad. But they both occupy the same home planet. The only other news regarding that “Demented Again” compilation, me, John Lennon, and Stu - - agreed on the original version and all three of us wanted that Will Horton-esque “exposé” tape on the militaristic but shady history of Israel - - on that album. But management made other executive decisions at the last minute, but a few pressings of the original line up were done and probably all gobbled up by collectors who’ll now charge a premium for them.

Yes, Virginia, They Think Differently

First paragraph newly expanded Monday morning Aug 25th just after eight AM.

For the right wing, everything seems to be a comodity that can be bottled and marketed, so to speak.  Unfortunately this also applies to what they refer to as "The Truth".   Truth no longer is an abstraction that can be found anywhere for the disserning to discover, it's a product, kind of like Monsanto and GMO's.   You need to come to "The Source" (them) for it.  FOX news is "The Source" for news, and, for instance, if "The Source" tells us that Officer Wilson suffered a blown out eye socket, we have to believe it.  I just learned today that this "orbital fracture" or whatever, is a complete fabrication of FOX news, and there is no substiantion of this story that has made the rounds to buttress the argument that there was some major assault in the squad car.  I was furious when I learned this story was completely made up.  But we see this "centralization" in other areas such as retail.  Thom Hartman points to the dramatic change in composition of stores you see in shopping malls.  Where formerly they were a bunch of independant ventors, today it's the same bit corporate conglomaterates, everywhere and all alike  Apparently not only have department stores become more monolithic, meaning one source controls many outlets, the same thing is true in newspapers and things like Political Parties.  Most parts of the world have a multitude of political parties- - and usually a Prime Minister upon his election will attempt to "form a ruling coalition" from the various parties.  Not here.  In the United States it's corporatist party A and corporatist party B.  Them's our choices.  The very idea that a group of people who believed in a true Cause could get together and form a political party is an absurd notion in American politics.  It's all centralized.  Not only that but BECAUSE of this corporate centralization - - a government post isn't filled by anybody with any credentials in the thing they're supposed to be in CHARGE of any more.  So, justices no longer be the ones with the best legal background and understanding.  And don't expect that heading the department of labor means that you have any kind of a background in the labor movement.  This seems true in most any cabinet post.  For instance if you are in the SEC or the NLRB or something- - you feel the need to tout the 'corporate line' in everything.  The EPA takes a back seat to the chamber of commerce.  And even Newspapers no longer are what they were for instance in the "Superman" era we all watched as kids with the "Daily Planet" competing as one among many newspaper outlets in "a major metropolitan area.  These newspapers used to have a "police beat" meaning a reporter who looks into dealings with the police department, but now even the New York Times is used as a mouthpiece by police organizations to get their standard line accross.  We have new word definitions such as "strong armed robery" now means shoving a store clerk and then running away.  And "bum rushing" apparently is something you do when you already have a half a dozen gunshot wounds in you.  But this term "bum rush" was used twice by Officer Wilson.  The first time was when he claimed that Michael Brown "bum rushed" his squad car.  The version by Johnson is much more believable.  He says the squad car backed up so closely that Officer Wilson could not even get the car door open and it bounced back on him- - and then the officer let loose with a sea of profanity.  And Wilson's own testimony is not free of conflicts.  Because one time he ways that Brown "bum rushed him" but describing the same incident another time he said "Brown stopped and turned around, and I became convinced he was getting ready to attack me, so I fired".   Clearly in this case you have a guy with multiple gunshot wounds delivered over a period of time, and even when Brown was going down, Wilson continued firing.  But I didn't know this whole thing was not even called into the station till forty minutes had elapsed.  So what the hell took place those forty minutes?  We of course know that no ambulance was ever called.  Now I hear not only does the police report fail to take other witnesses into account, apparently Wilson's OWN account is not listed in this report, either.  One thing that distinguishes liberals is that they are people of conscience, and in a constant search for the Truth of the matter.  Conservatives by contrast come right out and state they don't need to SEARCH for the truth, they already KNOW the truth- - as in the case of Religion, for instance, what they've had drummed into them by others since they were a small child.  Indeed the conservative brain, biologists have show, apparently never advances from this child like simplistic mode.  The whole idea of education scares them.  The idea of new knowledge mortifies them with insecurity, because they feel that anything that contradicts what they've been indoctrinated with is inherently threatening.   Many liberal sources say that it's SOP in a police department top close ranks at all costs and apparently if it's a Black whose life we're talking about, they really aren't worth that much anyhow.  Conservatives seem by nature "anti humanity" and they hate dealing with too many actual detailed facts as to any situation.  They keep saying "If minorities really gave our political position on issues a try, they'd turn to us in droves.  But they project a lot.  Because evidence shows THEY relate to some official source- - the guy calling the shots - - the official "spin" everyone's required to put on an issue, they believe there is some world wide conspiracy by liberals to do the same thing, some revolutionary, communist, socialist, Islamo-Fasciest shadow organization out there- - going into every knook and crany of almost every other nation on earth besides the United States and telling the people in the most remote back woods or the inner ghettos- - what to believe and how to vote- - and that somehow denying either other nations or minorities in this nation- - a right to have their oppinions listened to- - is some great Patriotic Act.  Like when Patrick Henry said "Give me liberty or give me death" these people think "Yeah, and the right to Tweet out the latest news feature on FOX news instantaneously to all of my sycophant friends.

In "The Week" magazine we are reminded that police are the only people who are allowed to make so called "innocent mistakes", even fatal ones.  Obviously they don't believe the Rush Limbaugh adage "actions have consequences".  Not for the police.  In Wisconsin apparently 142 cases of "internal investigations" were done in shooting cases and in every one it was labeled a "justified shooting".  This one blonde haired blue eyed teenager was shot by a cop - again by that old chestnut of an excuse of "He was going for my gun".  As it turned out there was none of the young man's DNA on either the gun or the holster and they guess "the officer snagged his gun on a broken car mirror".   That one's right up there with "I can't help it I botched the plastic surgery job, I was drunk".   Try making a major "mistake' like that as an attorney.  Or how about a roller coaster opperator.  "Well I ran the ride in good faith.  How did I know the inspector wasn't qualified?"  No.   Christians have even evolved a term for this type of "justifiable" bullshit.  They call it "prophecy in Faith".  Now there is a group saying that insuring patient's rights in law suits is "Bad" because "It will raise mal practice rates".   That's like a beaurocrat denying charity warm clothing to the poor during some freak cold snap by saying "I'm so idiologically pure, I don't want to inadvertaintly help the wool industry". To this day we hear of "tort reform" meaning elimination of the rights of private citizens.  Someone said today "The Republicans emphasise the rights of the individual and stress individual responsability and morality".  Nothing could be further from the truth.   On another subject Rand Paul said today "They have Fargo ordering all of this anti terrorism equipment.  But if the terrorists have penetrated all the way to Fargo, North Dakota, it's curtains for all of us anyhow".  Amen.

If you're wondering about my personal life- - it pretty much sucks these days.  Things just don't seem to be going my way.  I keep hoping for the proverbial "Tide" to turn at last and for things to go more favorably for me, but problems only seem to loom bigger and bigger.  The following three paragraphs are from Thursday Aug 21, 2014.

 Now they are saying pregnant women should eat fish, and never mind a mercury poisoning.  As sun screen use increases and become stronger, the skin cancer rate continues to rise, and nobody ever thinks that the sun screens themselves may be causing the cancer as they throw logic out the window.  As Rush Limbaugh would say the froth and hysteria over some issues the media plays up - - knows no bounds.  Now there are groups that are refusing to utter the name Washington Redskins out of some protest.  The simplest way to settle this matter is to let actual fans of the Washington Redskins vote on it, and let all parties abide by the decision.  Why should people who have no interest in NFL football at all be dictating the terms?

A new account office report (?) tells us what we already knew.  That the President broke the law in not notifying congress of a five for one prisoner swap a couple months back – with Bo Bergdoll verses five hardened Islamic terrorists.  Also the money itself that the defense department spent to arrange the transfer was a non approved defense expenditure.  I’m not trying to be a twit or something; I’m just stating the facts, and facts that have always been true.

There was a blog on the WCPT web site saying that liberals do things from the heart and their own individual conscience.  Conservatives do things based not on their own moral judgements appraising a given situation, but they do or don’t do it based on some moral creed or code the group subscribes to.  In other words, loyalty to “group think” trumps individual conscience or what you might call the “human factor” of interaction.  Whoever wrote this piece almost seems to be responding to sentaments of a similar nature I wrote a week or two back .

Bad Situations Aren't Getting Any Better

Chris Matthews is taking a stance on ISIS to sound the alarm and call out the troops like it’s World War II or something.  There is almost a hand wringing thing of “How did we managed to ignore this crisis for so long?”   How we need to attack ISIS in Syria as well as Iraq because “That’s where their headquarters are”.  If this isn’t “mission creep” on a major scale than I don’t know what is.  I see a potential diplomatic problem on the world state- of going beyond Iraq where it can be argued we have a commitment, to Syria, where we have publicly stated more times than Obama would care to admit that “we have no commitment”.   It did not escape my notice that Syria did not try to stop us with their massive air power when we staged that failed rescue mission of James Foley in early July.  The mission was perfectly executed.  The operation was a success but the patient died.  So they are now saying “Perhaps Syria is kopecetic to the idea of us going into Syria to clean out ISIS infiltration.   Although when you look at a map of ISIS territory it looks a hell of a lot larger than “the state of Indiana’ or whatever they said it was.   It almost seems like contrary to all those John Mc Cain photos posing with ISIS leaders, that now suddenly we and Assad are best buddies or something- working for a common cause now.  

In terms of the witnesses in the Michael Brown Ferguson Mo shooting- - there is an excellent editorial by Laurance O Donald on MSMBC where he takes on a very badly written New York Times article.   This article prints these catch phrases the police use, and uses phrases like "a dozen witnesses disagree with the eighteen year old friend in dreadlocks, and you can see his testimony.  The phrase "coming tword the officer" means he had already been shot - - repeatedly.  He was shot while fleeing- - this is illegal use of force right there.  Shot more times he lowers his hands formerly raised in the air (and the autopsy points that he one time had his arms in the air) and now grabs his stomach doubled over and then falls forward.   I've seen this phrase "a dozen witnesses" all over the internet- but nobody has produced them.  Nobody has produced all of this "conflict of the witnesses" you hear so much about.  All of the best witnesses - - the ones with the best view and most detailed and smooth flowing testimony- - agree with Darian Johnson's testimony.   Johnson was grilled by the FBI for four hours, and I presume he never varied from his original statement.  You know, a polygraph would go a long way twords establishing who is telling the truth.  But I've heard from several sources that the local PD has not interviewed witnesses at all and apparently DON'T WANT TO HEAR anything they say.

Some things you hear and alarm bells go off.   The prosecutor in the Ferguson shooting case has at least three close family ties to police officers.  And the clincher is that his own father who was a policemen, was shot and killed by a felon who grabbed the gun out of his hand and shot him.  A dark part of me wonders whether Officer Wilson didn’t know this and may have completely fabricated the story about the wrestling with the gun.   This is what I don’t get because there were no marks on Brown’s body indicating he had been in any physical skirmish with Wilson in the car- - and if there were a skirmish - - I just don’t see how some witnesses can say that Brown slammed the car door on Wilson- - and Wilson himself says just the opposite that “No, Brown opened the door and came in the car and we wrestled for my gun”.   But Sean Hannity is a liar if he says “Oh I’m perfectly a disinterested neutral party and if anything I think the officer is guilty”.    You only need listen to Sean’s other remarks.   “Wilson was stopping two dangerous criminals who had just strong-armed robbed a liquor store” and then, in case anyone was unclear how Sean feels said “Their story about just being stopped because they were walking in the street- - is a Lie”.   This is what Sean Hannity said.  Sean also then said “We have to make sure the WRONG SIDE of this particular issue doesn’t gain media control of the news about it”.   Sean Hannity may have known about these three close family ties- when he said “Just let the governmental process play itself out” even though Hannity dismisses the three first eye witnesses who had the best view of what happened.  Certainly Hannity knows the most credible testimony is consistant from the very beginning- - not stick your finger in the air and see which way the wind is blowing and then craft your testimony.   Of course on Days of our Lives- - we know Christine Di Mira is the quintessential flight risk, she is a lying and highly manipulative person and her crimes are based on these personality attributes- - she is from a criminal family - -  of virtually unlimited financial means- - and Christian lied flat out as to the circumstances of her capture.  There is “bought and paid for” justice in this country.  Now any government would not insist that a prosecutor recruise himself in a case like this is beyond me- - because now we know the outcome of the thing IS pre ordained.  And if the rioters knew this too- - they’d still be rioting.

The big news was her Sea Ridge condo which Mom sold to this lady in 1999.   This is in Dana Point where there was some kind of weather damage.  The homeowners assessed a fee on everybody.  I thought the damage was only twenty thousand but the daughter of that lady Mom sold the place to took out a second mortgage for $196,000 - - which to me was suspicious in itself.  But then she wanted Mom to give her a loan of an additional $350,000 for “improvements to the place because I plan to move in after I retire”.   There were red flags all over the place.  She’s been subletting the place illegally because the homeowners association doesn’t allow it.  So she’s been getting a steady income.  But now that is going away, and if she retired that will be more loss of income, and apparently there is still some damage to the place that wasn’t fixed, which means a further drop in equity.  Not only that but every conversation has been of a Christine Di Mira manipulative nature to “get the other person to act right away without thinking”.   There was also some provision in the original Mortgage her mother signed that said that upon death, the balance was immediately due and payable.  This was ignored.  Paul believes we should be nice to her though because Mom’s legal footing is not as certain as we would like- - because somehow the “lean” on the property was “lost” as though title just vanished into thin air or something.  (?)

(last night - narritive in progress)  I had an ice cream sundae for desert, it was custom order.  I had half vanilla and half chocolate ice cream with caramel sauce- - and walnuts and whipped cream.  I’m puzzled how that dark spot got on the table clock because I don’t remember spilling any.  We went back to her place and talked considerably longer.  Mom was curious about whether I had contemplated relationships with any of the women around here.  I told them that we had changed the smoking area to only the back parking lot now and Allan said “It’s probably because they know the wind will blow the smoke away from the building.  Mom asked about Bill and Olivia.  I had not lost any additional weight when I weighed myself before dinner but freely admitted I’ve lost weight the past few weeks.  We’d spent over an hour in the dining room.  There was some solo violinist playing the Masterpiece Theater theme.   They asked me about ISIS and foreign policy but it was clear nobody wanted to talk about politics this night, which was just as well.  Tim and Judy compared notes about back exercises each is instructed to do.  The topic of Allan’s rumored retirement never came up.   Maybe he changed his mind.  There was a little talk about how overbearing social services are with family care law.  Judy made her pitch for the methylated B vitamins and notably methyl folate and B 12.   Allan said “That’s interesting” but otherwise had little to say on the subject, and there was no response when I suggested Tim might be interested in looking at the videos on the subject. 

 I think AT&T is slowing down my internet services but Judy disagrees saying that if I de-fragged and did disk clean up, it would speed up.  Not in this case.  I’m paying more for less service.  Last night I got home just after nine and Donnie was already holding open the door.  I got my medication.  Back in here Bill says Elizabeth was taking towels out of here yesterday.  She took the big towel and left the little one and now I have another problem that needs dealing with around here besides the lamp, and failure to confirm an appointment.  I didn’t see Elizabeth this morning.  I did get late coffee from Glen and went down twice to smoke before retiring.  I woke early at five fifteen and went out to smoke while pitch dark.  When other people were around it seemed almost conversationally jinxed because there was complete disinterest in anything I said about yesterday.  I went to the store just before seven- - and that truck guy was preparing his cup and when he went to talk to Ben I thought it would be OK to pour myself the coffee, but it was still brewing.  I only had it off the pot a second or two but Ben was all over it with a rag, and made remarks about me always being in a hurry.  This brought to mind an awkward conversation about two months ago based on an event that didn’t even happen but Ben thought it might.