THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO

THAT CAN'T BE DONE

Have you ever endeavored to prove something to others, for which you had virtually no evidence? This is the place John Denver was in in the “Oh God!” movie where he was in court and he says, “I now call for my next witness- - - God”. And of course nothing happens. And Denver goes on to lecture the court “But wasn’t there a moment of eager anticipation when I said that? And in that very air of expectancy lies the cintilla of doubt that proves my case”. Well, as you know I have stated that on the Saturday night before Columbus Day of next year 2010 will be a rapture of “believers” (whoever they turn out to be) and the event will be news worthy because a group of the population will have been literally transported to another Universe. But how do we go about proving that other dimensions exist. You can argue any case in science and put in as a stipulation “there is no evidence for what I propose- - in the time-space dimensions we are aware of”. As you know Scientists say there were originally eleven dimensions, represented by my eleven blogs on a subconscious level. And you are all familiar with the star asterisk symbol that Stewart Sutcliffe talks about. These represent other “Big Bangs” that took place in the Fifth Dimension. And each and every Universe thus created has its own time-space continuum that are necessarily separate from that in this universe. As you know in the John Lennon song he sings “There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done” and “There’s nothing you can see that isn’t Shown” and a lot of these. But in this case my detractors might argue “You did a better job of channeling Ronald Reagan on the previous posting than you do at channeling Lennon”. Because I just may have missed the point by 180 degrees on this one. I thought Lennon arguing that you can’t do anything unless it’s first Possible to do. However you could argue that Lennon is saying, “There is nothing you can Imagine- - that can’t be done” meaning that “All things are Possible”, just as it says in the Bible. For “all things” to be “Possible” you have to overcome John Calvin’s theology- - and the way this can be done is to argue for a fifth dimension that we at the Federation refer to as “The dimension of unreality”. How do you prove scientifically that “Unreality” exists? (Selah) Because there are those who have put forth the Proposition- - - (to quote Jim Morrison) - - - that “Anything that CAN happen WILL happen, with metaphysical certitude. As such this Rapture I speak of WILL occur. As you know the Romulans celebrate “Cold Turkey Day” on October 16^th. This celebration can be traced back to a small group of Romulans in 1970. And the idea apparently caught on and is widely celebrated now on Sirius A, etcetra. This day of course is a few days after Canadian Thanksgiving, which is also - - widely celebrated among Romulans. (Though the Romulans I hung out with didn’t talk about it) We all know what you do on “Shin Whacking Day”, you celebrate in Las Vegas for three days. But what do you do on Cold Turkey day? Apparently, according to one recent source, you literally eat cold turkey on this day. Perhaps you do other things, too.

At nine was Chris Matthews. Bob Novak died last week at age 78 or something and they made a big thing out of his passing. It was time to lament the passage of the local newspaper in general. They played old movies like Superman and Citizen Cain, and All The President’s men. Woodward remembered the incident with Ben Bradley the way I remembered reading it in the book. When figuring out how high the scandal goes up and is Haldeman involved Ben Bradley said “Look, our cocks are on the chopping block here”. But in the movie they changed that into a lecture about the constitution and America as we know it. They say that when you had a newspaper that you would “graze” the newspaper looking for “whatever” and would often come across unusual articals you might not see in your distilled internet search for news. I think what we’ve lost is this corporate sense of “doing things together” as a society be it our news, or the type of shows we see on TV. People have less to talk about in common today. It was lamented how newspapers used to be crusaders for public causes. We are definitely missing that element today. We are also missing the whole area of “investigative journalism” and digging around for the story behind the headlines. People’s slogan today is “Don’t dig too deeply; you might not like what your find”. On this show they talked about the four tell-all books coming from each of Condaliza Rice, Don Rumsfeld, Dick Chaney, and George W Bush, and the group of panelists say that Dick Chaney’s book should be the most interesting and will probably out-sell the other three combined, simply because Chaney “knows where all the bodies are buried”. On the other hand for secretary Rice, it “just isn’t in her nature” to let her hair down and to say what she really thinks.

Michael Jackson will be buried at Forest Lawn, Glendale at a service at 7:00 PM on Thursday September 3^rd. The whole birthday thing was deferred because they needed more time to arrange things. Let’s just hope the body stays buried this time. I have a sneaking suspicion that they are going to move the body to Neverland and charge admission to see it, and upgrade all the roads and disturb the neighborhood and all. Neverland is really too much of a potential money machine for these people to pass up.

Then I turned on the Beatles and they were still doing Brian Epstein. Brian was most proud of them in the last days on Sunday June 25^th. 1967 when they did the satellite thing of “All You Need Is Love”. It was the pinical of “his boys” popularity. Brian was in on the planning stages of Magical Mystery Tour. I had previously been led to believe this was something Paul pulled out of a hat after Brian’s death. Brian on Friday, August 25^th. 1967 had a party at his country estate. But that evening apparently a lot of the scheduled guests didn’t show up. Of course Brian like Elvis and Michael was drug dependant taking uppers to get him up in the morning and downers to put him “down” at night. Brian decided to drive home to London and the next day was found dead at his London apartment. It is said now that had Brian lived he was planning to renegotiate his commission at ten percent recognizing that for things like concerts and artistic control he wasn’t involved any more but was still able to make himself useful for the ten percent with his other contacts. George Martin said that “Brian is the best thing that could have happened to the Beatles at that stage”. Now they are saying that had Brian lived he might have been able to keep the Beatles together. I think you all know my theory about the “force that was keeping the Beatles together”. Cynthia firmly believes that the Maharishi would have saved her marriage with John, had John not walked away from him. The first two songs that KRTH played after this show were “Paint It Black” by the Rolling Stones, and “I Will Survive” perhaps appropriate. Then I went out for coffee.

Cover: The Beatles in African safari outfits going through the jungle with notebooks and cameras and stuff. I figured since this in 1970 play up the ecology angle and have lots of dissertations of ecology and ballance of nature in the rain forrest- - and how some bugs are dependant on other bugs, like mites get "bus rides" on cantepedes. And stuff about how insects and microbe dissolve the dead waste on the forest floor. In terms of the five songs the Beatles didn't write, well it was time to "shake things" up and go with the unexpected here. I goofed in not zeroing out paragraph settings in the original document, so it carried over.

SYMBIOSIS - Released two weeks before Christmas 1970

The Art of Dying (All Things Must Pass) new recording

This recording has a lot less re-virb

Who Am I? (Lennon Album)

Oh Woman Oh Why? (Mc Cartney) rush released Xmas 1970

Working Class Hero (Lennon Album)

Without You (Paul: Vocal) A Badfinger re-recording with “Hey Jude” ending

The Beatles did this song just to show they could out-sell Badfinger

Side Two

All Things Must Pass

Like “Anthology” with “Hey Jude” style drumming & rhythm guitar

Another Day (rush released Xmas 1970)

Well, Well. Well (with more lead guitar overdubbing)

Junk (Instrumental)

Isn’t It A Pity? (The Single version)

Side Three

It Don’t Come Easy (Rush released for Christmas 1970) Ringo

Do You Want My Love (or are we through) (an oldie tribute)

Patterned vaguely after “Dig a Pony” or “Oh Darling”

Early 1970 (Rush released for Christmas 1970) Ringo

I Think I’m Gona Love You for a Long, Long Time

Backward guitars

and singing islike “Here There & Everywhere”

Isolation (Lennon Album)

Side Four

The Losing End (Ringo: Vocal) Neil Young composition

Slightly faster tempo with Paul on backing vocal

Hold On, John (Lennon album)

Kreen Akrore (Instrumental)

She’s Got You by the Balls (Rolling Stones “actual” composition)

This is kind of another tribute to the “Let It Be” sound

Let It Down (George) (Do a Fresh Recording)

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The Beatles’ spring 1970 Single release would take this form.

Maybe I’m Amazed (Paul Mc Cartney)

- - Backed with - -

Not Guilty (as the “hard to find” B Side) George Harrison

Only in one song do we “cheat” with a 1974 song, but who is to say the Beatles would not have come up with “Balls” first, if they were together, collaborating. I figured I’d go heavy on the love songs, because people expect these from the Beatles.

NO QUARTER - (NOT ONE DIME, EITHER)

In many ways I approach problems psychologically like a conservative. For instance in answer to the Dr. Phil question, “Which would you rather be- - Right, or Happy?” I would answer that I would rather be Right than Happy. That’s just the way I’m wired. My belief is that if you choose being happy over being right that in the end you will be neither happy nor right. My psychological mindset is definitely more akin to Malcolm X than it is Martin Luther King. I believe in descriptive declarative statements rather than fuzzy if emotive moral platitudes. I am a firm believer in self reliance over the whining of a political interest group. I am also a firm believer in the statement of President John Kennedy that “Human rights come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God”. In like manner I recoil as the sort of Choice that Johnny Wendell set before us the other day saying that yes we should have government health care but since we’re getting health care from their “generosity” then they have the right to check up on us and invest time and energy monitoring us that we don’t gain weight and we eat right and don’t smoke and our Body Mass Index and cholesterol are within proper preset bounds. Given this choice or nothing at all, I would without batting an eye say, “Nothing at all”. Johnny Wendell was a conservative’s best friend in making all of their worst nightmares com true about the government overruling your own doctor, as to your health care. In some ways “balance” and “diversity” are bad things. Let me give you a descriptive example. Suppose it is an absolutely true fact that without that gigantic 700 Billion bank bail-out we would have slid into a deep ‘30s style depression? Some who would “compromise” would say “We’ll compromise. We won’t retire the national debt in the next ten years. In fact we’ll run a little deficit. But there will be no 700 billion dollar bail out”. A person could say this and we would be in a 1930’s style depression now. Sometimes “balance” is another word for “bullshit” like when Jesus Christ uses the word on KFI. Pastors love to put “balance” in their sermons to negate what the Bible states explicitly in the text. I’m a believer in the axiom “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of Justice is no virtue” (Selah)

It is my contention that we democrats made a big mistake in electing Barock Obama rather than Hillary Clinton for President last year. Hillary billed herself as the woman who could “get things done” because she “knew the ropes” and didn’t need on the job training. Hillary would have taken a “take no prisoners” stance with Congress. Conservatives were afraid of her because they said she was vindictive against republicans who wouldn’t go along with her. She was an Advocate. She was up front about the sort of measures she would try to get passed. Many Hillary supporters were such die hards in supporting her that if they couldn’t vote for her they’d just as soon stay home. But it was my feeling that Hillary’s supporters were objectionable. To me they were too White, too old, and too rural. I didn’t like the places where her support was coming from. But still in direct head to head contests she most always won the most hard fought elections. Much of my prejudice against Hillary stemmed from the Rush Limbaugh days when I listened to his show all the time. There are certain people who won’t compromise. They can’t be coaxed, cajoled or bullied into changing their stance. The gonads of the day award today goes to Bo Brady on “Days of our Lives”. He took the uncompromising position that he wasn’t going to pay off kidnappers who were holding his little daughter for ransom. His reasoning was sound in that he said “As long as they are hoping to get money. But if we pay them the money what’s to stop them from killing Sierra since she’s the one person who’d be able to identify them”? Have you also considered this slogan to live by, “People who have been spoken to by God have the advantage that comes from Knowing”. Or try this one. “Ignorance of the future doth make cowards of us all”. Once you know to a metaphysical certitude what the Future holds, you can find new courage in your positions. The coward among us can finally “grow a pair”. Sometimes you do what you have to do so that you can look yourself in the mirror each morning and not want to vomit. I know when I got on S S I, I had grave moral reservations about doing it. I was not real comfortable with myself, even though I had a lot more money because I also now had reduced rent. Now some may say we can wish away our problems. But a man who is not true to himself has already screwed himself over even before he comes in contact with anybody in the outside world. President Obama wrote “The Audacity of Hope”. If you think about it- -there are times when having Hope is audacious. You don’t deserve to have Hope if you haven’t already done everything you can to help yourself to achieve your ends that God or whoever has placed in your heart. There is that guy on TV who says “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at- - change”. My problem is that people who adopt this strategy seem to be the type of people who prefer rational and mental gymnastics- - to actual intestinal fortitude and effort. Bo Brady could have bent to the will of his hysterical wife and well meaning Attorney, and gone ahead and paid the kidnappers what he wanted. But instead when he picked up the phone from his wife, he told the kidnappers “You’re not getting one dime out of me. And I’m going to take some of that money and pay every two bit thug informant within a five mile radius and we’re going to hunt you down and get you”. Hillary believes in actual, concrete action with the experience of wisdom. Obama believes in dreams. Unfortunately he’s “Dreaming his Presidency away”. Let me just ask you this as a clear example that that guy on KCET is an idiot. Did people get Hope from reading Obama’s book? Did they in other words, “Change the way they look at things”? Now. Is the other part of the statement true? “Did the things they look at - - change?” Don’t all speak at once. Did they change? Are Bush and Chaney in jail. Have “extraordinary renditions” stopped? Has the Patriot Act been repealed? Have tax cuts for the rich been repealed? Have we withdrawn all our troops from foreign wars? Do we have health care? Do we have a vibrant economy? We don’t? What is our President doing now? He wants to “split off” the public health coverage portion of the health bill and try to pass it separately. He is that afraid of the Republicans and the Blue Dog Democrats mainly in the Senate, despite the fact that one hundred house democrats will just get “fed up” and not vote for the health bill at all. Does President Obama want that?? Maybe he does. In May of 2006 I made the following predictions of what a Hillary Clinton administration would look like. I wasn't very accurate.

· Looking over my laundry list of accomplishments for the Hillary Clinton administration we have - “Hillary is a tough campaign fighter”.

· Peace was concluded with both Iran and North Korea before she even took office so these two nations were not a problem.

· Smoking was banned virtually everywhere in the country where kids might be in proximity of any cigarette smoke.

· Junk foods of all sorts were banned from being advertised over the air waves.

· Hillary nominated first a gay lesbian justice for the Supreme Court and then an avowed Atheist justice got sworn in as the second pick.

· The problem of the deficit was solved and Hillary ran up the biggest surpluses ever. Other than that the economy is not even referred to as any factor at all during these eight years.

· Stem cell research was supported by the government and was fruitful.

· Gun sales were restricted nation-wide but one anti gun law was struck down by the US Supreme Court.

· The crime rate plummeted.

· The US Government prosecuted parents for not employing the V chip on their TV’s with kids in the house.

· Under new eminent domain laws supported by Hillary, lots of small community churches were bulldozed by the government.

· And there was a proliferation of copy protection in software.

It’s notable in all this there is no reference to the economy or banking or insurance interests, or any mention of national Health Care. There was apparently no concern about air pollution standards or energy usage or the carbon tax. There was no concern about the trade deficit, and NAFTA was never mentioned, either pro or con. There was no concern about terrorism, either pro or con. And there also seems to be a complete absence of any hate groups, or even spirited protests by the opposition, except pool Blacks complained about HDTV.

THE PASSAGE OF TIME BRINGS

MORAL CLARITY OF VITAL ISSUES

Today as one looks over the political scene, a sense of mental clarity is descending on some. Certain things just seem more obvious now. Twenty years ago all we knew about Afghanistan was that they were “the god guys” warding off the Soviet Empire from its attempted domination. Today we see Afghan society as a place of the oppression of women, yearning to be free. They are no longer content to live with their despotic husbands. But when they run away after being beaten they are either imprisoned, or worse yet, taken out and stoned. The concept of women’s rights is spreading world wide. Today in the stock market we can tell a real recovery from a phoney one. They say this whole stock rally was generated by “belt tightening” and increased productivity and efficiency. I alerted my readers to this phenomenon a few postings back, and now the media is finally catching up. But a real recovery can’t begin till the consumer gets back into the market buying goods and services. All this government belt tightening is having the perverse effect of retarding an already languid recovery. Other issues we see more clearly today is that war doesn’t solve everything, and sometimes it doesn’t solve anything. War is more of an addictive pastime than the sort of moral crusade people like Ronald Reagan invisioned it as. People look at the evidence of global warming and find that what was so clear in Al Gore’s movie, can prove quite illusive to document in scientific data. We know we will have to do something about it. But we also know that fixing this economy is far more urgent and this is the clear and present “reality” we have to deal with right now. Besides, since our economy is so depressed we know that energy consumption is being cut by the mere fact of being in a recession- - in many cases more than it would be cut by cumbersome conservation measures that may be more trouble than they are worth.

Further back in this file I was commenting on Ronald Reagan’s speech in 1964. But if you were to step into a time machine and go back only twenty years you’d be amazed at the similarities to today. Personally I wouldn’t mind one bit going back to 1989 if me and all the people I knew would be twenty years younger like we were then. Nobody my age would mind that one bit. People who say they are happier in their late fifties than their late thirties must be - -smoking something that ought to be illegal. I think all the polls on this issue are nuts, saying there is anything positive about aging those twenty years. A UFO alien would be hard put to tell the difference - - in terms of just stepping out of his space craft and looking around. The tastes of the American people have changed amazingly little, and what changes there have been are for the worse, like cell phone devices everywhere. A space alien would notice a lot less the increased use of personal computers. What he would much more likely notice was how little we progressed in space exploration and technology these twenty years, and changes in commercial aircraft would be minimal, except people are more paranoid now. Then as now the Republicans seemed to have the “upper hand” in media coverage slanting stories their way. The clothing people wear wouldn’t be much different. The buildings would only appear different if you knew what to look for because nowdays they do the old ball and chain routine to relatively new buildings. A space alien would see a lot of “needless” changes in Sports stadium locations. Music on the radio is indistinguishable from today. There have been no musical innovations in twenty years. Yes, they had rap in 1989. It had been around a couple years. Democrats then as now were on the defensive. Then as now you had Rush Limbaugh on the radio, with his viewers believing every word he says. And were you to ask whether the people of 1989 were “ready” for federalized health insurance the answer would come back a resounding “No”. Just like we weren’t ready in 1948 when the democrats had the issue in their party platform.

Health Insurance continues to be the big news of the week. There is this week a “counter-tide” of people on the left rising up and saying “Don’t take away our public option”. The liberals have boiled it down to three requirements. Any medical plan must contain a public option, to increase price competition and “keep the insurance companies honist”. Conservatives bemoan this in saying that the liberal’s goal is to eliminate private medical insurance entirely. I ask, “Would this be such a bad thing?” Certain issues are shall we say “clearer” than they were twenty years. The abuses of the Executive Branch are the most notable. It is clear that many people can no longer afford medical insurance whether they would like to have it or not. Young people find it too expensive. Others have been dropped by their insurance plans. There is the “overhead” which is in excess of thirty percent for private insurers. They say profits over the last ten years for insurance companies are up several hundred percent. Rates are unaffordable. Cutting off people for having a “pre existing condition” is unacceptable. All the paper work these companies put doctors through is unacceptable. Thom Hartman points out that private insurance companies are not accountable to anyone the way a “public” government servent is. If you picket their office you won’t be arrested. These medical insurance companies appear to be without a moral compass of continence. Not only this but Ronald Reagan could never have foreseen the vast amounts of money changing hands as congressmen routinely take bribes to secure their favorable vote. Such explicit “lobbying” ought to be illegal, and would be in most European countries. The “Free Market” system is broken. Drug companies will go to any length to sell you on a drug whether it’s way overpriced or ineffective or dangerous, or not. President Obama appears to be in bed with the drug companies. Our President says that the public option is only a “sliver” of the whole health care program. But in truth – without the public option you have nothing but a big pile of bullshit. I’m disappointed that our President can’t tell a program that will do something about our health care problems- - he can’t tell that from bullshit. The fact is we have to do something, some time soon about health care in America, because we just can’t go on the way they are now, and if we ignore the problem we know it’s getting worse all the time. Perhaps it’s time to scrap the entire current bill and start with a simple premise- - such as letting people under 62 enroll in medi-care. We need some sort of reasonably priced program that the average American citizen can actually afford. It doesn’t have to be this year, but soon. We can’t afford to wait another fifteen years, which is what the conservatives would like us to do. President Obama used to speak of “the urgency of NOW”. What steps does our President want done NOW? Why doesn’t out President get on television and pitch the basic provisions of a bill he can endorse- - to the American People, in plain and simple terms they can relate to- - much as Ronald Reagan used to do while he was still a democrat. I have seen astonishingly little real “Leadership” of the type we used to routinely expect of our Presidents. He seems much happier putting his finger to the political brease and adopting his positions accordingly. Even if you are not now a follower of Obama, a good speech should be able to win a lot of people over to his side. This is what President John Kennedy used to do.

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This is a few minutes to six on Monday August 17, 2009. I smoked my last cigarette at a quarter to one. Randy Rhodes wasn’t on and Frances and Angela otherwise known as “Freangela” were substituting. On the soap opera now Philip has punched out Nathan for hanging around with Stephanie. Stephanie says she wasn’t want Melanie ever walking off from a situation “mad” because “she always finds a way to get even”. Well now Melanie has decided to make a play for Philip after all. Meanwhile Philip doesn’t see why Victor wants to defend Daniel. He doesn’t know all the facts, though. I went for coffee in the courtyard in the afternoon and had one cup and a part of another before she ran out. Both the morning and the afternoon coffee lines have been really long. There are a lot of addicts to service. Meanwhile Raphael’s sister let a baggie of cocaine drop at the Brady pub and Brady, like radar, saw it immediately. Meanwhile Hope and Bo are bickering under stress and now have received an official ransom note from Sierra’s kidnappers. If you think about it, even submitting a ransom note is like asking to be caught, because you can always set up a sting operation.

I had “Deal or No Deal” on at three and at 3:30 decided to switch to Oprah just for a change of pace. I was out a number of times on the patio trying to borrow a cigarette, and Larry finally let me have one. We had grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch, and to my way of thinking, they were short on cheese. We had beef stew for dinner and a dinner roll and small salad. I wanted seconds because I was hungry and they said there would be no seconds. That seems to be getting more common.

I walked down to the smoke shop for one pack of menthol Santa Fe. I had to decide about my money and bill paying and decided I needed to trim two dollars off my upcoming check to the phone company. I stopped at the bakery for hot coffee from the pot. I needed something to fill me up because I was hungry.

Then I played Reagan’s 1962 speech on Medi-Care. Reagan wrongly said that all doctors would be hired by the federal government and would be assigned geographically according to need. Then I watched a 1964 speech for Goldwater in black and white. In it he spoke of farms being auctioned off because a farmer illegally planted when the government told him not to. He talked of over-priced, bloated government programs. He spoke of a new three million dollar building in Cleaveland having to be torn down because some government environmentalist said it was the wrong use for the land. It was a beguiling speech. He quoted our founding fathers quite a bit and spoke of government being evil and how when even a bad program gets instituted, it never goes away, but there’s always a new duplicate new one tacked on to it. As to the end of the speech, it was one I think Jesus Christ ought to listen to. He says is peace so dear and life so sweet that it is purchased at the expence of our liberty? This is a question Jesus should ask himself. If Jesus Christ were in Egypt he would not only refuse to free a single slave but tell the Egyptian government a good place where they can obtain even more slaves. You see classic Christianity is liberal in that it subscribes to the liberal axiom that men are basically evil and government is basically good, instead of the other way around. And since men are evil, the Jewish people were evil, they had no right to attempt to even fight for their liberty. Whereas the Roman government was at best “neutral” and hence morally superior, and at worst – the Roman government was doing God’s bidding in enslaving a people. Many of the same defeatist lines used by the liberals of Reagan’s day in 1964 have been used on me, by people claiming to be speaking for God such as “You’ll never win – why don’t you don’t just give up”. Also just as the Viet Nam war was led by people for whom victory was not even an option, so the God who has been guiding my life seems not to have any concept of trying to improve MY life or give ME victory over any of the many problems that vex me. As such I have often spoken of my own personal Spiritual Viet Nam. The thing with Medi-Care is that some on the radio are saying that the current program ought to just be extended so that it isn’t limited to people over sixty-two. The problem with this is, it will jack up hospital and service prices into the stratosphere with demand-pull inflation, so that in the end we will be no better off. As Geddy Lee said, “You don’t get something for nothing”. I agree there is a major “problem” with the insurance companies. But “paying them off” the way this current bill does, won’t solve anything. Many of the things in Ronald Reagan’s speech appeared logical and to be making sense from the vantage point of 1964. And this is exactly where Thom Hartman develops telescope vision. Because he superimposes the present of today onto the past of 1964. We know that the nation didn’t go communist, but they didn’t know that then. One socialist apparently said back then, “If Barry Goldwater is elected, it will greatly impede the progress of Socialism in this country”. That was a guaranteed applause line.

WHAT ELSE I'VE BEEN DOING

Yesterday as you know we made another trip to the Regency where Mom moved in on Friday. And in this blogger report we'll have at least eight or nine details not in the Word document summary of the event done this morning. We left here about five after three and took the customary rout to the freeway. Judy asked me how my Norton 360 was doing and I filled her in on details, but told her I haven't backed up any files in Achronis yet. Today's question for you Blogees is what did we stop at Cosco to pick up? When we got there I marveled again how high we were already up even though it didn't seem like that big of a hill. The contrast in weather conditions was apparent since it was so smoggy yesterday compared to the pristine clarity of July 4th. Of course we all noted how nicely the furniture she had picked out from the house fit into her new place just perfectly. Bringing that coffee table Mom called "a mistake of the movers" but actually this mistake proved providential because it fit in so well. I forgot to ask Mom whether she had gotten a ninety-nine cent card for me, or whether she just expected me to pick one up myself. Judy was remarking how low the computer chair Mom had was. I remarked that I thought she should have used the other desk and chair. Judy was downloading some sort of anti-virus. The Cox Cable software was still on Mom's computer even though she was using a different service was. There was continual debate whether we should leave to move furniture from the other place or not but we desided to defer that. As it was it was a good thing because you had to get there to get a good table, in this case, right next to the salad bar. Since it was a Hawaiian style luau there were lots of tropical fruits. I fished out extra chunks of pineapple to "enrich" my carrot salad, but I didn't have a whole slice. They had lots of crackers and various sliced cheeses. They were having a "happy hour" and at one point I said I'd like to get a pina collata without the alcohol, but I never followed through on that. [Pete Richards] was downright flirtatious with the females. He asked three young women dressed alike whether they were the dancers and they embarrassedly said "No, we're just dressed alike". They had the roast pig. In fact they brought in a whole new roast pig while we were there. So actually they had two different kinds of pork. If I had known how good those spiced up yams were I would have gotten more. I "only" had two deserts, but then they took my fork away. The coffee was OK but I wouldn't call it great. Me and [Pete] drove down to the old house. They had torn the place apart with remodeling already under way. The floor was all ripped up and the rugs removed and rolled up, and all the kitchen cabinets had been lit into. The new owner wants to replace everything. We moved all the furniture on to [Don Stanley's] blue truck. Of course he would go straight home to Woodridge and not follow me and [Pete] back to the Regency. They didn't have three componet outlets. [Pete] or someone said the place was built around 1964, "for his mother". It was now dark and we visited more with Mom. Then we went down stairs where the Hawaiian music had moved indoors. Judy was doing Hawaiian dancing, which is something I didn't know she was into, after knowing her so long. She says that only in Tahiti and other Islands do they do the violent movements. In Hawaiiai, the dances are gentle. It's a part of the culture she grew up in. When we were on our way home, it was me rather than Judy that brought up the notion of the health care bills. Some may have thought "You're changing your tune". I wasn't speaking with forked tongue, I really have thought about the health care mess, and have pretty much come to the conclusion that the best thing to do is skip the whole thing entirely. Like the song says, "You say tomato, I say tomoto, let's call the whole thing off". It's just going to cause too much unnecessary government intrusion into too many areas. Besides this it's going to raise the premiums of all those who DON"T have "pre existing conditions". Despite what Hartman says the whole thing is going to cost a whole lot of money. Nothing is free, and it's money that we don't have. We took the usual rout from the Freeway to my place. When I got home I smoked my first cigarette in about seven hours and to be honist my first thought was "Why did I light this thing up?"

"Meet the Press" pretty much bored me. I learned little from that hour. I still believe that the oppisition was orchestrated by far right wing groups, but it seems nobody else believes that. On the Chris Matthews show they were trashing the whole concept of a "Woodstock Generation" and one only wishes that Pat Buchannon's words were true that the Woodstock culture has taken over main stream society. There would be a whole lot more peace and love in the world if that were true. But my own generation is pulling this "I never knew you" shit, as though the people who attended the concert were space aliens or something. Frankly I never expected that when "my generation" came to power, we would still be embracing a lot of reactionary values like prejudice and racism. Now when you are hearing a crotchity member of "the older generation" speak, you have to think in the next breath, "that person is my age".

Here is today's Beatle trivia question. If there were only a live web camera in this room you people would be able to answer it. As you know two radio stations aired the same material about Brian Epstein about ten minutes apart. What somg did I listen to virtually in its entirety- - twice, because I wanted to hear it. It's a song the "fake" John Lennon may have written with Paul letting the audience know that one of the members was no longer who you think.

Judy asked me about that "mathematical theory" of mine. I finally remembered what she was referring to. I devised a program in Excel to add rational fraction numbers- - in this case Einstein's "addition of volicies" in the special theory of relativity. It is a bit of genious, isn't it?

In late news there are now three Hurricanes in the Atlantic after two months of absolutely nothing. It's the slowest season since 1992 but in that year we had hurricane Andrew.

There never have been the votes in the US Senate for the "public option" in health insurance. This is just another symptom that the entire bill is dying on the vine.

They now report that cash for clunkers was not enough in July to boost retail sales. They were still down by a tenth of a percentage point, and would have been down point six were it not for the clunkers program. Meanwhile in Germany and France they are doing much better because those peoples haven’t felt this recession because they don’t fire people there but put them in four hour days and the government pays them as though they had worked eight. Thom Hartman was talking so much about sociopathic CEO’s. He says three percent of the population is sociopathic, but only a small percent of these qualifies to be a C E O. This is why they get paid so much, because it’s hard to find men as wanton and greedy as they are. But now President Obama has cut a deal with the insurance and drug companies on this health care plan, but somehow I bet the story will get buried in the media. The President met with these people and they agreed to cut drug prices two percent from the asking price, and in return they get everything they want, which means no public health care. The thing is that multiple times during the campaign last year candidate Obama said that if any party so much as attempted to cut a secret deal with the drug companies, it would be broadcast on the internet for all to witness. Of course Obama is only following in the shoes of his good buddy, George Bush, who came up with "Medi-Care Part D", in which you have the "right" to opt out of Medi-Care for a private insurance plan, where you'll be charged a whole lot more money. That's a sweetheard deal for the insurance companies, huh? But now our President doesn’t care. You know what they say, “Money doesn’t talk; it swears”. It’s the liberals that should now be out protesting and complaining about the Presidential back room deal with the insurance companies and drug companies. The Veterans Administration routinely is allowed 40% off. In Canadian health care, discounts will range anywhere from 35% to 55%. But we, the US tax payers are now told the maximum savings we’ll get is two percent. This bill, like the Bush drug plan, will cost the US tax payer major bucks, and we will get nothing for it. Actually another issue that should be addressed is forking out so much health care for illegal immigrants. If we pruned these from the system, maybe it would work. But the illegal aliens seem to have some all pervaisive lobby that no matter what the cost, covering them is a first priority, even they already get first priority in emergency rooms.

Now apparently Terry Sanford is saying that he intends to and has done a lot of time travel and that his next news conference will be in 1892. Perhaps he can say Hello to Commander Data’s head, from Star Trek, while’s back there. But now he has an excuse for why he's gone for weeks at a time. You've heard, haven't you that women drinking and driving is up 37% while for men the figure is down 7% Men are more blatent about it. They tell the little woman, "Honey, I'm going out to get drunk". Whereas women integrate their activities, so that they go to pick up the kids from hockey practice, and by the way, she's drunk now.

Extrordenary rendition is still going on in the Obama administration. Only now they are dropping the word “extrordenary”. But there was a rendition in early April of this year of a Lebonese business man on some contracting irregularities. He seems he was set up in a bribe “sting” operation. The US says they have no resources to go after the big time business swindlers, but they had the resources to go after this guy because he followed the Mideast practice of paying a bribe, which is kind of expected, like a tip is in this country. The man was strip searched and subjected to hypothermia, and then shipped off to Virginia for justice. That’s a better fate than those in the past have had.

Now Windows is cutting corners. They are getting rid of Movie Maker and Office Photo in Windows 7. Whose lousy idea was that? These are long-standing applications we've come to expect. Apparently Vista was too fancy with excessive visual appeal, so they are going to tone it down in Windows 7.

Actually I did see a doctor twice prior to 1997. I made use of Dad’s eye doctor in Fullerton both in late March of 1989 and also in February of 1994.

The government is now telling us that the recession is “bottoming out” but in the same breath they tell us that it could be two & a half years before the average person on the street notices the difference, with corporations actually hiring. Much of this 45% the stock market has gained is because of job cutting and product and services cutbacks, all in the name of increased “efficiency”. Productivity is way up now, but this is small consolation for the average worker. The deficit is projected to be 1.2 Trillion and this “only” translates to every man, woman, and child in America owing the government four thousand dollars. You know the President could sponsor a national “pay your bills” day and wipe out the deficit with a single sweep. If the average household earns $69,000 a year few would be affected by any tax hikes over $250,000 a year, and yet everyone is concerned by this, as though they were personally affected. It would be actually more difficult for the average family to “make it right” with Gene Scott, who demands as the bare minimum a tenth of your income. He’s big on talking about “tithes” plural, and “offerings” plural. If everyone just pretended they were tithing to Gene Scott, we could wipe out this deficit with money to spare. On the Stephanie Miller show they said that paying money to churches is “taxation without representation”, and who can argue with that? Do you on your most giddy day believe for a minute Gene Scott (post mortem) is going to invite you or I in to the processes of his church government? The thing with this economy is that we are so far away from “light at the end of the tunnel” it isn’t even funny. We won’t begin to see any real improvement, going on the November 1982 model of things, until the Dow Jones Industrials tops fourteen thousand, or some five hundred points from right now, and there is no hint we are getting that far any time soon. We have, if we believe the experts, now had six & a fraction quarters each with a lower GDP than the previous one. As such it’s logically harder and harder to come up with an even worse number than the already depressed previous numbers.

This Lockerbee, Scotland bombing bothers me. In December 1988 Pam Am flight 103 was bombed out of the sky and fell to earth at Lockerbee, Scottland killing all 256 passengers aboard. The lone guy convicted for this Libya terrorist bombing was given a life sentence. I don’t know why on earth he wasn’t given the death penalty and executed but that’s the way British law works. But now these Brits want him released on “compassionate” grounds because he has prostate cancer that’s advanced and incurable. So he wants to go home to the motherland, Libya. I say “No”. He showed no compassion on the 256 people he killed. That’s a lot more than Susan Atkins killed. I see no earthly reason why he should receive the slightest compassion from any government. They say there is some Libya oil connection involved and the Brits are now cozying up to Quadafi, and as such, they don’t want to offend him. I say screw that. The relatives of the victims are still grieving. Their pain isn’t going away.

Dick Chaney is coming out with a “Tell All” book. Of course if there is anything really new in this book, it's probably the manifestation of some mental delusion or out and out fantasy. People are looking for a glimpse in the mind of Darth Vader. The question is, who will believe any of it. Chaney’s chief beef about Bush is that he “went soft tword the end of his term” and that he was too “shackled by public opinion and criticism”. Chaney tried to the end to secure a pardon for Scudder Libby, but failed.

How many people remember Rush Limbaugh's famous comment, "Roosevelt is Dead! His policies live on but we're in the process of doing something about that, too". The thing is that conservatives are not attacking recent ideas now but often ideas that are century old. For instance it was not Franklin, but Teddy Roosevelt who said that there should be a "Living wage" where a man can provide for his family and his children's education and medical problems, as well as insure a confortable nest egg for old age. And yet even today congress is loathe to raise the minimum wage up to the twelve dollars an hour it should be to match where it was on an inflation adjusted basis to where it was forty years ago. It was John Pastore who in August of 1964 beraded the Goldwater republicans for wanting to undo social security, "First by making it volentary, then by making it weaker and weaker, untill they have destroyed it" and to "Turn back the clock 32 years on all this social progress". I myself am ashamed of the fact that only a few years ago was hoping President Bush would allow Social Security recipients to invest their funds in the stock market and make more money. That would have been a disaster. In 1968 when I was in a motel in Panguich, Utah (?) I heard a republican convention keynote address where one of the applause lines was "What we need are fewer people on welfare rolls and more people on pay rolls". What's funny is that this is when the unemployment was only three & a half percent. One could only wish we had the same economic situation now as then. The thing with Lyndon Johnson is that he got things done. Hubert Humphrey campaigned on a slogan in 1948 of national medical health care when Truman was president. So by the perception of the liberals, the passage of Medi-Care in 1965 by LBJ was a long overdue event. I say all this so you all can keep our current contraversy on Health Care in perspective. There are some today who would roll back the clock a whole century before Teddy Roosevelt made his "living wage" speech.

The President has decided now to personally take this health care fight to the people by personally speaking at Town Hall meetings. Hopefully they have better security than they do at some of these gatherings. Roomers are that people like in New Hampshire and Vermont and Arizona are bringing guns to these meetings, sometimes strapping guns to their ankles. Needless to say anybody can see that guns and the sort of emotions generated in these Town Hall meetings makes for a highly volital combination and it seems only a matter of time before someone gets shot. The President is addressing issues such as the government wanting to euthanize grandma by depriving her of health care. If anybody is responsible for "rationed health care" it is the insurance companies, who mark people off for benign neglect and eventual death. My father was the victim of these sort of machinations. He died of an infected large intistine, which is not why he went to the hospital. He was also deprived of salt and water, and nobody to this day knows why. Yet this whole idea of the Obama Death Pannel has caught on among the American people. People seem perfectly willing to believe such fantastic roomers about their government. The other roomer that won't go away is how "wonderful" things are now with your current health coverage, and that the government would "force you out of a medical plan you love, because your boss would demand that you get on the government plan because it's cheaper". My only response here is that if the government can give you the same coverage at a lower price, why not take them up on it? It's really an issue between you and your employer, and not you and the government. Doctors hate the current system because before they can perform any procedure on you they have to check to see if it's covered. I was just throwing out some old mail from 2001 and there were two bills I had to pay out of my own pocket for procedures done on me in the hospital that wern't covered by my insurance. But as I said in the previous posting, I do not believe any of these protests are spontanious. They have all been orchestrated by the insurance companies, who are forking out big bucks in order that congress defeat any health plan and to keep things the way they are now.

NO BROWN SHIRTS AT TOWN HALL MEETINGS!

Well, you've heard the slogan of the Bush Administration, haven't you? "We have nothing to offer but fear itself". Fear is what they offered to defeat the Clinton health plan of 1993. Rather then fear socializing fourteen percent of the economy, rather, you should fear the fourteen percent who are right wing whacko nuts out there, who attend these town meetings. Hitler's brown shirts used similar tacticts during the early 1930's to disrupt German society. These people are not there to ask any questions or to seek answers. They are there purely to disrupt and be insulting. I assume you've seen examples of how these Town Hall meetings go on You Tube. Often they will run the host of the meeting off and turn the entire thing into a far right pep rally. If you listened to these people you might end up despizing terms like "liberty" and "Constitution" and "take our country back". No, "taking our country back" was what the voters did last November when they rejected these far right policies of people like Sarah Palin.

Let's get into the specifics. Right now President Obama isn't even pitching any kind of single payer or publicly funded medical plan. Basically all the President wants to do at this point is to spread the risk around so that healthy people get their rates jacked up so that they pay for the coverage of the really sick people with pre existing conditions. This is Thom Hartman's pipe dream is to get a lot of healthy young people into the system who otherwise would never choose to be in it. Prior to Halloween of 1997 it had been easily twenty years since I had been to a doctor, other than dentists. The one time I did see a doctor I was referred there by Social Security, but that was purely a rubber stamp opperation with no intent to diagnose. I'll tell you where President Obama goofed. There are now five bills before congress. There are two bills in the house and three in the senate. As such there is no one "bill" that these right wingers even have any business attacking. Their complaints are premature. If they want to offer any constructive input, they should mention specific issues to their congressmen. But these people never think that far. They have as little taste for the nitty gritty details of every day government any more then their mentor, Sarah Palin does. All they like to do is whine. But the President should have done what Hillary Clinton did, and that is to pitch a complete bill that you can enthusiastically support. These are different times from 1993 and I can almost guarentee that had the President done this- - the health plan would have had a far more auspitious outcome than did Hillary in 1993. Because people are a lot more fed up with insurance companies now than they were then. The President needs to be more of a Victor Kiriacus partisan for his own issues, and you "Days" fans know what I mean. That means you are dedicated to a cause and you pitch it in a positive matter. But just "letting congress fight it out" was no solution. Because that way - congress does what they do best. They consume valuable time and end up with a bill only a tenth as potent as the original.

I myself have questions I'd like answered about all of the five bills. But I also know if I try hard enough I can research the bills on line. But nobody is talking about THEE bill yet. Personally I don't think I would support any bill that doesn't work to get insurance companies out of the loop entirely. They are obviously making tons of money, else they wouldn't be able to afford the massive propaganda effort they are putting out now. Why don't we pass laws like they have in Europe where it's illegal to make a profit on any insurance plan? Personally I wish Obama would get BEHIND a progressive bill, rather than IN FRONT of it. People who want a bill that actually makes sense have to now go around the President because he has become just another obstruction. Some have suggested that the progressives split off from the rest of the Democratic party. I'd rather have a smaller organization that's alive, rather than a larger one that is already DOA. The Republicans dare not do other than support the current two party system, because if for instance libertarians split off from them they will truely be a splinter party.

The church says that this is a "moral issue". I don't see it as any sort of Christian charity by proxy, but rather I see National Health Care as an idea that just "makes sense" now in this modern age. I think its eventual adoption is inevitable. But right now fear rules the day. They say the bill or bills encourage abortions and euthanasia, even though both things are already illegal under federal statute. Others fear that they will lose their Medi-Care. What is so farsical in the first place is that most of the people you see at these "brown shirt" rallies, are retirement age and on Medi-care. They will say things like they don't "experiment with socialized medicine" but in the same breath say "But don't you mess with my Medi-Care. Others are Vetterans, who really do have socialized medicine at the V A. Other people propound the myth that "people shouldn't be made to give up an insurance plan they are happy with. Although if they are happy with it, it's probably because they have never needed it. The whole thing smacks of a Joe the Plumber scam, and we now know that Joe wasn't a real plumber and never made over $250,000 - as he would lead you to believe. These people throw up non existant red harings. If they couldn't use fear and ignorance, the weapons of choice of demogogues everywhere - if they couldn't resort to scar tacticts, they would be out of ammunition. But suppose they win this year and nothing gets passed? These problems aren't going away and others will come out with new and perhaps more radical bills next year, and the odds of passage will only increased. This is because National Health Care is simply an idea whose time has come. People in years to come will look back on these protestors and obstructionists with disdain, and they will be memorialized in negative terms in out history books.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR IS CONFIRMED BY U S SENATE

Well all of the Chicano women, or at least that's what they claimed to be - most didn't look like it, were celebrating the confirmation of Justice Sonya Sotomayor to the highest court in the land by a vote of 68 to 31 or something with Ted Kennedy not present. As I said in Word, I guess I would have voted for the Justice just as a show of solidarity with President Obama and to show that I'm not a racist, even though I have serious disagreements with many of her oppinions. As you know she is replacing the liberal Justice Sutor, and so the complexion of the Court will have changed very little. I imagine the conservatives are reserving their really big guns for when one of their own desides to retire. Then you're going to see all Hell break loose.

George Sardini or Sandini or whatever- - went into that women's health club and began firing on Tuesday night. You've been hearing all about it in the news. This psycho had been blogging all over the internet but apparently nobody read him. So you know it's possible to be out on the internet and still be ignored. The cops say that even were his writings to have come to the attention of law enforcement, arresting him for just "words" would be problematical, as strange as that sounds, and getting an arrest warrent from a judge would be darn near impossible. Now we're just left with trying to psycho analyze a Looney Tune. This man who says that he's been rejected by thirty million women. Well, I've been rejected by thirty-one million women, so what do you think of that? I think in the future our society will have evolved screening techniques to pick up on this sort of abberant behavior so that it doesn't graduate to the point of action.

Batula Massud was a Talliban leader-terrorist who was bombed in a customary flight by one of our drone planes, which regularly carry out bombing raids on Pakistani civillians. Only this time they hit pay dirt. Hopefully by this act we will show Pakistan that it's just the extremists we are after and we only want to get back at the Talliban for what they did to us on 9 - 11. Of course we have heard reports many times of how we got their "second or third in command" in some raid. How many "seconds" do they have, anyhow? Hopefully life will be a little safer now in the world.

Laura Lynne and Ula Lee or whoever, those two Oriental women who were sentensed to hard labor by North Korea were brought back in a jet safe, by former President Bill Clinton. I would suppose that conservatives would somehow manage to find something negative in this as they do virtually all the accomplishments of the Obama administration. You would think these people like Rush could just be happy these two women are back on US soil, but you know how Rush Limbaugh's mind works. When he sees the success of good deeds of an opponet, he becomes hyper sarcastic to the point of being non-sensical. I'm not saying he's done that this time because to be frank I haven't had him on since the incident but I'm going on past experiance.

That Jesus “movie screenplay” thing which heads the "Karmic Suicide" blog now - has almost comedic aspects to it. And treads into ground previously untrod anywhere. Such as getting your signals and showing up at the wrong place, or exploring the things a person can do when driven by an overwhelming sense of guilt and the unintended consequences. There are several “bits” I left out because the thing was already long. In the rape scene, Pantera is given a condom by Mary the mother of Jesus and she says “If you have to then use this” and Pantera examines the packet and the writing on it says “Courtesy New York City school system” and he throws the condom down in a rage and says “Now!”. There is the scene where the three wise men can’t locate Jesus and give up and decided to go back to Jerusalem and make a very generous donation to the Jewish Temple. And one of them says, “Perhaps it will assure us a very generous reward in the after life”. There is the scene where King Herod writes Pilate an urgent letter saying “Have nothing to do with this innocent man and I urge in the strongest possible terms his immediate acquittal” and the letter is hand delivered to Pilate by special currier. There is the scene from “Day of Triumph” where Judas is in the howling mob yelling at Pilate and Judas calls out “Free the Nazarene”. And then there is the scene where Jesus is with the Roman guards during the night and they put a burlap bag over his head and begin to pummel him and then they say, prophesy for us, who hit you?” And Jesus points “You - - - and then You - - and then You”.

This movie is sheer originality however there are other inputs to the story and if you are well read you will pick up on them. There’s a couple of references to “I Judas” the novel, and the influence of an otherwards unidentified Jesus movie (the scene with King Herod) and there are allusions to “Jesus Christ Superstar” and “The Di Vinci Code” and even a bit of “Schindler’s List” as well as that Luigi Coscioli website, and the lyrics of “Jerusalem” by Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and a little Harry Potter, and a legond of the founding of Nazereth. There is that “Judas” dream I had in early 1988 in modified form, and the “Barrabus” movie and of course that famous “Rush Limbaugh” skit.