Bin Laden Private Diaries Made Public

Those navy seals made a real find in securing all of Bin Laden's private writings and note and plans for the future and they make for an interesting read to glean the mind of an addled, aging xenophobic.  He was concerned about his health and feared for the future of Al Qaeda, and set up splinter groups that are still thriving in places like Yemen.  Bin Laden was interested in targeting exclusively the United States and was making plans to Assasenate President Obama.  He said he'd like to see Joe Byden as President because he is not prepared for the trials of the Presidency and will prove incompetent and lead the nation into chaos and the people will rebel and riot.  He showed interest in the use of various poisons, possibly neurotoxins or biological weapons of some kind.  He was again wanting to train people for suicide missions involving people learning to fly planes, leading many he was planning to stage another 9 - 11.  Bin Laden was frightened of US Drones plying the air space of Pakistan and was scared spitless to leave the compound.  He was also interested in some new experimental kind of bomb or device to start forrest fires here in America, particularly because our climate has been so "favorable" to propigating forrest fires lately.  This last threat is the one taken most seriously by the media because apparently, thanks to Bin Laden, there are now instructions out there to produce such a "device" on the internet right now.

Spirit Airlines has sprung up to take up the slack of no new small airline because all of the Big Carriers have bought out all the little guys and city after city has been cancled in terms of direct air routs meaning that increasingly to fly between two medium sized cities you have to go out of the way through a major airport first.  People say that passengers will save money if they are willing to drive a little further to the airport of a larger city.  Memphis and Cincinatti are cities a lot of Airlines have dropped recently.  Their whole pitch now is that passengers flying Spirit Airlines can still save money by flying them instead even though they have to pay an additional one hundred dollars for "carry on" luggage, which is luggage that has to be stored in the overhead comartments, which too many passengers are taking undo advantage of. Thus it continues to be true that Air Travel is going to Hell in a hand basket.

That blind Chinese dissident who eluded his guards last week by crossing a river using his keen sense of hearing- - is now hoping that Hillary Clinton will make room for him on jet on her return trip to America.  Chen Quan Chan was talked into leaving the US Embassy yesterday, which many regard as a mistake, and instead is being treated in a Chinese hospital, where he has had visitations from his loved ones.  It seems that Chen Quan Chan's wife had been beaten by the Chinese authorities and he was threatened by them that if he did not leave the United States embassy, that his wife would be killed. And now bloggers all over the world are taking up his cause and his own countrymen have praised him for his courage and balls.  Bloggers have taken to uploading photographs of themselves wearing his trademark sun glasses.  The ball is now in Hillary Clinton's court and she needs to decide what she needs to do.  I would strongly suggest that she do the right and moral and couragious thing if for no other reason than to serve her President's campaign and to make the Administration look morally upright and corageous.  Apparently the Chinese government has taken this difficult decision out of our hands by granting Chen Quan Chan permission to pursue academic studies in New York.

THE NATIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT RATE dropped to 8.1% last month.  So we are only one slim tenth of a percentage point it's agreed - between an Obama victory and a Romney victory.  The number of jobs created in March was upgraded to 150,000.  About 130,000 private sector jobs were created in April  As you can see the employment picture in the US has improved unmistakenly.  Some 27,000 jobs were saved last week spawning the biggest single weekly drop in the number of new unemployment applications since the onset of this four-plus year recession.  The media has been saying that College graduate recruitment by employers is way up this graduation year.  Clearly for every dime the price of gas at the pump falls more jobs are saved and more money is spent, and so it is that every job that is produced means more dollars for the people to spend to stimulate this economy.

Proposition One in North Carolina is a matter of national attention.  Apparently while exclusive hetrosexual marriage in the state remains preserved - rights are granted to others, including single people living together.  Some have said that the proposition is both beneficial to Whites and adverse to Blacks.  Given any room of mixed races, it seems when Blacks hear the terms they are swayed to vote against this proposition, while Whites hearing the same terms are not swayed one way or the other.  It seems that Ashville is a more progressive area than the rest of the state.

On a personal note Dr. Levy's funds have been cut off from the Northwest Orange County College District or whatever, so Dr. Levy will no longer be coming here bringing his near twelve year tenure here to an end.  Arleen told Joe and Marsha believed Joe and Marsha god confirmation from "Nita" who does her own class and wants Dr. Levy's students to join her own class even if according to Marsha all they do there is play trivial pursuit.  Dr. Levy now has a better paying class he teaches on Mondays on self esteem.  No doubt his fatter wallet brings him "self esteem".  Dr. Levy could at least come by to say good-bye and bring a sense of "closure".  He had been intending to do a May newsletter where he promised to put more of Arlene's drawings and my writings in it.  Well it's May and so far there is no newsletter.

Yeshua was with some desciples and Stewart Sutcliffe called him over saying he wanted to talk privately.  Stu told Yeshua that he wanted him to depart the Jordan River valley, "The Jordan is mine" he said, 'And I don't want all your exorcised demons running loose and contaminating my people.  Go practice your religious voodu in the Cities of the inland if you will but not here.  He then got sarcastic and spoke of "I know all your groupies are waiting for your little tent meeting over there.  The trouble with you is you think you're God or something.  Do you remember what you said to me the day I baptized you?  You said "You rather ought to be baptized by Me".  How contemptuous!  And then Stu begins bowing down to him Moslem style extending his arms and saying "Perhaps we should grant you a whole book of the Scripture.  We can insert a book of Yeshah neately in-between Daniel and Hoseah.  We already have a Messiah and he risked the perils of crusifiction a year or so ago.  Yeshuah said, "But he wasn't the one who died on the cross.  He escaped.  A man named Judah ish Kariot died in his place on the cross.  So an innocent man died for a man who who had comitted murders in a riot and ended up going free and fleeing to Egypt.  Stu Baby then said "I would not hold up Judah as any model of virtue.  They found a big sack of sheckle coins in his room he pilfered from poor people because its the blood money he got paid off in".  Yeshua:  "Why do some of your followers call you Bones".  "It's because of these little black pieces of wood here with white dots on them many use for divining.  They go from double blank to a double nine and there is fifty-five of them.  Fifty five is a mystic number.  Yeshua said to him "My followers rejoice at my wonderful deeds, but they rejoice more because their names are written in the Book of Life.  Stu Baby "Well I don't care about your own personal "Dean's Life" just you and your followers vacate this area or you'l find a lot of trouble you weren't counting on.  The doninos don't lie.  Yeshua:  That's a blasphamy.  That's the Latin word for God.  Stu Baby.  I don't care what it is.  Just I don't want to see you or your followers around here.  Capish?

All The Nuts Come Out At Night

"Some men are [gay?] because they were born that way.  Others were made [gay?] by other men.  While others are that way because of the Kingdom of God.  [It's a mis-translation you know.  The scripture is not 'God Hates Fags" but rather "God hates figs".  From Adam and Eve on, figs have gotten a rather bad rap in the Bible.  At times no ammount of furtelizer will help.

Leonora Overiture No. 1:

Captain Piccard: This photograph is NOT the planet we were just at a moment ago.  This is an old file photo.  It’s been cleverly altered to throw us off, but it’s the same image.

Leonora Overiture No 2.

Jimmy Stewart was able to blow up the photo image large enough to reveal the presence of a newspaper dated Christmas day 1991.  In it the article interviewed someone about how ex President Borgachev was already regarded as multi dimensional and innovative, but in the end he proved just too far behind the times and failed to adapt an all-together just too square.

Leonora Overiture No 3

Jesus said to his desciples, “Behold we are going to Jerusalem”.  And his desciples said, “But we’ve received death threats if we return there.  We’ll all be killed.  Jesus said: “Are there not twelve hours in the day.  As long as you travel in the light you do well.  My father works, and I too must work.  But behold the Night is coming - - when no man can work”.

The term is from a Beethoven Opera that he never finished.  Like Ray Maland in the ‘Lost Weekend” he could never get that far past the Overiture, if you know what I mean.

Randy Rhodes had some interesting stuff on her show when I tuned in at two.  Well, you’ve heard of Birthers.  But now we have a new term called ‘Preppers”.  No, they aren’t Beatle fans who like both Sgt Pepper and Revolver.  Neither are they College preppies.  Santorum wouldn’t like them if they were.  No, this is the current lingo for people awaiting the End of the World in this day and age stockpiling all manner of stuff.  But like Stu Baby before her,  Randy Rhodes points out that “If we’re all destined to die - - if the world is destined to really End- - then let it happen while we are all in the process of living and not preparing to die but instead getting on with the day to day business of life”.  It’s a lesson many need to heed.  (Selah)

I thought I was a guy who’d heard it all.  You know how they kept saying in the George Zimmerman case if the races were reversed they’d be declaring the day Trevon Martin died as a national day of mourning.  And George Zimmer would have been put in a hole so fast and the key thrown away it would make his head spin, facing a murder one charge.  But here again we go with upside down Florida justice, or as the White Judge in the Orangitang costume said, “Obviously you’d call it Upside Down since you occupy its lowest rung”.  There is a victim of repeated wife beating with a Masters degree in Business Administration, who was also a woman of color.  The term “Of Color” as used by the Federation connotes a person of great spiritual and religious depth, by the way.  Anyhow this case is another example of Florida justice.  This woman had a nine day old baby so she’d just given birth, and also had a young child a bit older in the house with her.  Her estranged husband who has a long record of arrests and injunction violation does not dispute the basic facts in this case.  He has bragged that “I have beaten just about every other baby mama I’ve been with”  (how many?)  Anyhow this night he was at it again beating this woman Merissa Alexander.  She pulls out a gun to get his attention and fires it into the air.  He has her arrested.  She is put on trial and the jury took all of twelve minutes t convict her of “agrivated assault” which carries a minimum sentence of twenty years!  The Judge told her that the “stand your ground” law could not be used in his case, and neither could the Castle doctrine, even though the shooting occurred in her own home.  Of course one has to imagine that it’s because the woman was Black, and the jury were all thoroughly racist.  It is Randy Rhodes’ hope that like the Zimmerman case, this one will gain media traction.

A fourteen year old teenage son shut his father, an ICE agent through an open window while he was just watching television and kills him dead.  This case is now being investigated.  But as David Cruise points out, fourteen is a key age for a young boy.  It was most certainly true in my case when I was just about that age when my Mom first began laying mental illness terms on me like Paranoid and Scitzophrenic.  Not the best self image to give your son.

This next case is in Arizona, which is a thoroughly messed up state to begin with what with John Mc Cain being its senator and all.  Russel Pierce apparently was let go as a Mitt Romney foreign advisor in his Cabinet.  (I didn’t know he was President yet)  And this Russel Pierce guy is trying to deny that he politically endorsed this other bozo named J T Reddy, who was a Neo Nazi Mormon gay person or something.  (I might have facts conflated)  And this J T Reddy guy apparently went nuts and killed his wife and eighteen month son.  I’m going to Google him.

Now it seems that yesterday all of the conservative nuts were coming out of the woodwork to one and all condemn the Obama Campaign’s new slogan of “Forward On” or something although many military organizations have the term “Forward” in their name.  It seems that various Communist groups, no doubt from the 1930’s when they were so popular, used this term of “Forward” and apparently it’s some kind of “signal” to Obama’s Socialist and Communist “political base” that he’s really “one of them” despite what he may say in the Campaign.

Finally we do have this Reverend guy who in a Sunday sermon of ranting and raving and shouting proclaimed that if you have a young teenage son who is “limp wristed” you should slug him and tell him that God made him a male and to “Man up”.  This seems a little strange because the last time I checked homosexual lovers regarded themselves as males, and use their male organs to derive sexual pleasure from their partners, do they not?  Or is Marcus Arelius just behind the times?  And if you have a teenage daughter it’s OK for her to excel in sports if she “gives the glory to God” like Eric Little, but at times she had better “Dress like a girl, act like a girl, look like a girl and smell like a girl, by God!”  OK Fine.  But I can’t help but wonder whether if she was not particularly well endowed by nature whether this would put pressure on her to be something that she can’t be.  I think all of these stories must be because of the full moon or something.  Some force is sure making people behave crazily all at once.

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Sound Engineer:  Hey Blind Melon.  That thing of yours is so long I’m not sure we can get it all in on the Album Cover

I’m looking over – my Dead Dog Rover – who was hit with a power lawn mower

One leg is missing – the other is Gone -  another is plastered all over the lawn

No need explaining the one leg remaining is spinning on the car port floor

I’m looking over my dead dog Rover, that I overlooked before

John Arbuckle:  Garfield – quiet playing with whatever you’re piddeling with in the corner and come over me and help me assemble this Computer.  Garfield, have you seen the Mouse?

Garfield:  Mouse?  What Mouse?  I didn’t eat no Mouse.

Nobody loves me everybody hates me – that’s why I eat worms

First you pull their heads off – then you pull their tails off

Then you suck their insides out

You better not laugh when the corpse goes by

For if you do you’ll be sure to Cry

They’ll wrap you up in a bloody sheet

And put you in a hole – six feet deep

All goes well till about a week

Then your bones start to creak

The worms go in – the worms go out

They turn your guts into sour Krout

I shot Santa Clause - - yeah I shot Santa Clause - -

I caught him before his midnight run

And said “I’m going to take away all the Kiddies' fun

And then I gave him the Gun – I shot him

“Allright, Rudolph – Give me some Hoof”

“Take it – Mickey”

What would you do if you saw Marilyn Monroe in the bathtub?

“Rubber balls and Liquor”

What’s the difference between Marilyn Monroe and a Rooster

One says “cock-a-doodle-do” and the other says “Any cock will do

Eat every carrot and pea on your plate

What did you have for breakfast?

Pea green soup

What did you have for lunch?

Pea Green Soup

What did you have for dinner?

Pea green Soup

What did you do all night?

Pee green soup

G I P Funny

In 1864 - - My Daddy went to War

He pulled the trigger – and shot a Nigger

And that was the end of the War

On top of spaghetti – all covered with cheese

I lost my poor meat ball – when somebody sneased

It rolled off of the table – and on to the floor

And then my poor meat ball – rolled out of the door

It rolled out into the garden - - and under a bush

And now my poor meat ball – is nothing but moosh

Hey Guy, have you met Jack?

Guy:  You mean – Jack Tracy?

No – Jack Meoff

Jack and Jill were riding on an Elephant

Jill got off and helped Jack off the Elephant

When Isac saw Rebecca, he lit off his Cammel

I was fifth grade – you were fourth grade – when we came to Be

“Be WHAT?”

“I know what I am but who are You?

Cerca 1988:   Kathy:  Endora do you want to change the baby?

Endora: “Change him into What?”

Rex Mc Leod:  Guy, how come girls don’t have hair on their chests?

Guy: I don’t know

Rex: Because playgrounds have grass.

You have stranded me at the gas station of life and now I’m forced to use the self service pump.  And I’d rather dive naked into a swimming pool filled with razor blades than spend One More Minute - - with You.

I wish I was a little rock a sitting on a hill

A doing nothing all day long but just a sitting still

I wouldn’t eat – I wouldn’t sleep

I wouldn’t even Wash

But just sit and rest myself – a thousand years by gosh

Zachery stood at the far end of an ice hockey rink from the opposite goal aiming at the puck and somebody asked him, “I hear your Brain has turned to Stone.  Is that so”  Zachery says “Pretty much – except for the loose rocks that are still Rolling around, but at least they no longer have Jagger edges.  You know who else was a big ice hockey fan- - T L”  “Wow- - really?  I knew Travel Lodges were getting more elaborate these days but now each one has their own Ice Hockey rink, huh?  Zachery:  “Now, watch this drive”.  Zachery hit the puck with the hockey stick and it became airborne and went over the fence of the Coo Coo’s Next and landed squarely in Nurse Rachett’s mouth where it was stuck and she couldn’t get it off for three hours.  She says it’s the worst three hours of Hell she’s ever experienced, not being able to talk.

The alligator said to George Bush - - “You know me and Governor Perry never did see eye to eye on things and I’m glad he’s gone.  And I don’t entirely trust Mittens but maybe these next three months I can properly prepare him for an appearance at the Convention in Tampa.  And Ricky is complaining about having to go back to the Santorum in San Barnadino.  He says it’s really the Pitts, and besides, he says – “On the Inside I can’t even get a Philly steak sandwich”.

Jim Morrison sent Stu Baby an E mail offering condolences as to the loss of Junior Sayou because Bones isolized him as a football hero.  He said “It’s been a long time since I’ve been in your neck of the woods and maybe I could come and pay you a visit and maybe attend any Junior Sayou memorial dinners if you want to organize anything like that.

Jimmy Mc Culloch met up with Mick Ronson saying “Those were sure the breaks - - with your big Demotion and all.  Mick responded with “You know we’ve known each other a long time since 1975 when we were both still Alive.  How are Venus and Mars doing?  Jimmy:  Oh, Mars is still chewy and delicious and Venus is still looking for her shield and mirror according to Alex.  Say if you don’t mind my asking what sort of gentleman is your former boss Mal Evans.  Mick Ronson:  “He’s not a bad sort really - - if he could just get over that God fixation thing.  Jimmy Mc Culloch:   Yeah well the crowd I hang around with says Mal Evans is just a myth anyhow because none of them actually have never seen him or know what he looks like, like the Wizzard of Oz”.

Mark Germain: People talk about Steely Dan songs, but I’m beginning to think the band is a myth because I’ve never actually met a guy who owned a Steely Dan album”.

Sir Guy, “Well, you’ve obviously never met Me”

Tonight’s performance of Seven Tricky Pieces will be dexterously performed tonight by the renound pianist - - Shrouder - - and as always the lovely Ms Van Pelt will be in the front row cheering him on.  Here is a bit of Trivia for you but back in 1961 the part of Lucy was being played by Denise Robinson.  Shrouder’s hair piece is generously provided by Surfer Joe Whigs, a division of Countess Wilimina Cosmettics.

Pete Richards:  So your name is Denise.  (not the same one as above)  I guess you’re my new client.  I hear that you’ve been having relational problems with your Mother.  We’re going to work on that.  You know that Reverend buy says that you need to “Shake your daughter pretty”.  Well – you look like you’ve been put in a paint mixing machine”.  Denise: “I’m sure there is a complement buried in their somewhere”.

The Preacher says:  “It’s time to tell your limp wristed son to Man Up - - and give him a punch in the mouth as you remind him that he’s a blessed creation of God”.

In the money draw line Sir Guy stood impatiently behind Mickey, and Richard Moore was just behind him in line.  Sir Guy turns to Richard Moore and says “You know, to be fair about it, I believe you come ahead of me in line”.  Richard says, “Oh that’s OK, you’re obviously more in a hurry to get your money than I am”.  Sir Guy:  No, it’s just that the guy in front of me smells like a dead animal.  I sure hope for his sake that isn’t his usual scent.  He needs to be scrubbed down and Acid Washed.  The Acid might help his brain think more clearly anyhow.  Then Mickey speaks:  “I know what it’s like to be dead”.  Guy:  “You what? - - - Really?””  Mickey:  “I know what it’s like to be dead”.   Guy: “You know after being this close to you I think I can actually believe that”  Mickey:  “I know what it’s like to be dead”.  Guy:  You better get yourself another groove. You’re stuck.  Mickey, “I know what it’s like to be dead”.  Guy:  “Oh really?  Then say hello to Bob Guyer while youre there, as well as Richard Powers and Rose, and Jackie”.  Micky again speaks:  “You know those other three you named should have made video tape records of their lives like Bob Guyer did when Dr. Levy gave them all the chance, something to pass on to their grand kids to understand the times a little better:  Guy:  (flabberghasted)  How the Hell did you know about that Tape?  It was made before you ever Got here?  Mickey:  “Ancient Chinese Secret”.  Guy:  “Richard - - you’re Sure you don’t want to cut ahead of me in line?”

Bluebird is Dead.

But Burt took the dead bird and painted it Electric blue in the classical tradition of his people in mourning the Dead, and also to honor Robin’s passing the other day.  That was one gregarious woman.  Das Ist Alles.

Back to the Future - Twords 2061

It would be easy to talk about the "Future Reactionary Shock" people from times gone by would feel were they transported to our time in ways the Tea Party should well take note of.  People twenty years ago in their worst nightmare would never have envisioned the sort of political realities that are standard and ongoing in today's world.  People fifty years ago from 1962 would be almost but not quite as myffed by the reactionary militaristic fever of today's times.  Even people of one hundred years ago from 1912 would find Newt Gingrich's campaign ideas - if not as reactionary ad we liberals see them today - but even they would agree that Newt would be representing the traditionalist, status quo contingency of society, wanting to take us back to the era of President Mc Kinley, which I imagine many still fancies as the best of times back in the Guilded Age.  However in the Future Oddesy Mark and I did around May first of 1982 we we read the tea leaves, we saw governments as continuing to toggle back and forth between the democratic and republican parties, as a flat refutation of many psychic claims of the time that "The political parties as we know them will disappear from the scene very soon".  Mark and I both saw this as 'Not the case".  We, and particularly Mark, saw governments as increasingly "Statist' and repressive denying basic human rights.  Mark in particular saw some sort of medical crisis developing in the 1990's where "needed medical care would be deliberately denied patients by the government" and vital drugs for instance, for cancer patients would be denied patients without seemingly any reason.  We both envisioned a major war that would culminate in an exchange of nuclear weapons between Red China and some "Asian axis of the yellow races - - covering the interior of Asia but NOT countries of Southeast Asia.  We saw areas like Mongolia and Sin Juan provences involved and most likely Pakistan.  This whole Pakistan - China axis our country had been encouraging since the days of Nixon would come back to bite us in the ass.  Of course Star Trek foresaw some "ultimate test where nuclear weapons were exchanged".  Our oddesy is rather silent concern the teens and into the 2020's.  Perhaps this would be a period of utter world chaos and climate convulsion and nuclear night and all of that.  But then around 2030 we forsaw "global warming" and heavy polution and the new "normal for society" would be a highly restrictive overseeing government with travel restrictions and denial of rights for virtually anybody except the government elite who had passes.  We then foresaw another War but this one would not be as destructive and would be more of an urban guerilla "war of the people" kind of along the lines of "conquest the Planet of the Apes" where the "Apes" alias the common people would emerge victorious and take over and make major, needed reforms.  Because of the improved government environment - - possibly - - a new Spiritual Movement would commence about 2040.  Mark in particular was adement that "It would not be all that different from Today but people of the future would regard this time of 1982 as "The good old days", which I had trouble believing.  It would be kind of like the whole Christian Movement was from about 1970 through about 1978 when the Moral Majority took over gradually.  But that was kind of an east coast Lynchberg Virginia kind of thing - - without the laid back west coast quality of Christianity out here as we knew it then.  It would be "Not so Biblicly based but have more of an inner Siritual, mystical quality to it that the clergy would us to develop individually.  This improved spiritual state would then pass on to better economic times, which in turn would enable fantasticly rappid scientific discoveries of the 2050's which would be good economic times also.  Then in 2061 we would make "First Contact" with other Alien cultures outside our Planet and "The secret of gravity would be discovered" and man would no longer be earth bound.  Much of this thinking stems from the scenario on Rush's "2112" album.  However the 2061 dates back to Sir Isac Newton.  However in a "Stephano Di Mira moment" of mine, I discovered that Newton himself picked this (bogus?) date based not on any scientific formulas about gravity, but rather from some Bible nuts he had been hanging around with.  Man would now be sending Star Ships to traverse the nearby part of the Milky Way galaxy.  "And now watch this drive - - "

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We are on page four, as I move the headphones out of the way.  In soap land news Lucas and Samantha just had sex with the front door of their apartment wide open.  Seems a little spontaneous to me.  At this point I have to question how serious Lucas was about his “fiancé” Autumn back in China that he’s able to put behind him so quickly – like a drowning man clinging to a razor blade.  Lucas is “back for more” from Sammy.  Kate walked in and apparently tried to pawn off the lie to rattle Sammy that she still owned the name Princess Wilimina Cosmettics and corporate logo, when she knew she didn’t.  Stephano put in the contract not only all title and trademark rights that were known, but those yet to be discovered.  It’s kind of like Gerald Ford pardoning Nixon for “All offences he committed or may have committed”.  It’s my policy not to issue pardons to people who’s full offences are yet to be known, perhaps because they are being deliberately conceiled.  Marlena, Carrie, Raphael, Bo and Hope are trapped inside the safe house with a bomb set to explode is anyone opens any windows or doors, and all the cell phone coverage has been jammed and Roman is on his way there to enter a code which if successful will kill them all.  So why is Stephano more vindictive these days?  Elvis just discovered papers saying he is not Stephano’s son and Stephano walks in and they talk about it.  This whole idea of his being sick when he was a baby and his mother apparently took him away from the custody of Stephano to see doctors known only to Alice Horton to cure the boy of his serious illness, and the lack of paternity was discovered during that time, possibly because of a failed blood match.  It’s kind of beyond me how Stephano could not know or why Tony gets a paternity “pass” but Elvis doesn’t.  This whole Italian “blood line” tradition must really be strong.  So now we know the other half of the Alice Horton ticking time bomb in a vault.

The question is - - is being a Gay Republican a permanent condition or a something you can be conditioned out of with the proper therapy and counseling.  Randy says the state is not incurable and there is hope.  Being Republican is not a state you are born into.  It’s a condition of choice.  Another caller stated that some Gays like the cloak of being a Republican because he helps then “stay in the closet” without being suspected.  It’s an interesting concept.  I wonder if it will fly in the fall campaign.  I tuned KPOJ Portland back in.  Thom Hartman was walking down memory lane again talking about on April 14^th of 1789 George Washington was riding in a coach along a trail and happened on a man and the President Elect inquired of him where he might by any fine suit that was Made in America, because then the British controlled almost all of the textile industries of fine clothes.  The man showed him where.  Ronald Reagan’s granting of illegal aliens amnesty in 1986 was not the problem.  The problem according to Hartman was that at the same time Ronald Reagan released employers from the requirements that they ask for documentation that the people they were hiring were legally in America.  This opened up the floodgates of illegal alien labor, from which we still have not recovered and Republicans have a million reasons for not wanting employers to check citizenship - - the most obvious one being cheap labor to drive the wage base down, which is what these people are all about.  Hartman said that Oral Tradition was often better than written tradition because books can be stuck on a shelf and forgotten about but Oral tradition relies on people’s conscious collective memories.  There are reports about the receding ice sheet in New Hampshire from ten thousand years ago that is more accurate than all but the best geological projections.  White settlers were then afraid - - of the Iraquois nation because these five tribes formed a large land mass with a government so advanced white people patterned our constitution after the Iraquois.  People did not initially know how big the Iraquois nation was and they had trading all the way to the Pacific.  Of course the white man’s disease decimated Native tribes everywhere.  According to that program last night pandemics are just “nature’s way of keeping the world’s population under control”.

After three I tuned to KGON 92.3 and listened to two songs.  That blind Chinese dissident offered US protection now wants to get out of China because he no longer feels safe there dispite any agreements.  I heard it was the very first dissident to be protected by the United States since 1989, which flabberghasted me.  It is beyond me why President after President gives Red China a “pass” on human rights violations.  Nora is here now.  Apparently there has been some sort of Civil unrest in Portland, if I didn’t say that already.  Joe Drisco says “There were riots all over the country yesterday” that I sure never heard on the news.  I’m still not sure why President Obama was in Afghanistan except to prove he could really do it.  Someone said he signed some ten year pact with Afghanistan committing our troops to that nation for the next ten years.  That’s hardly something to be proud of.  This whole tradition Republicans have of picking the loser of the previous four year’s race, is a tradition that goes back to at least 1976.  Reagan lost in 1976 and was picked in 1980.  Bush lost in 1980 and was picked in 1988.  Bob Dole ran in 1988 or sometime and lost and was picked in 1996.  And John Mc Cain ran and lost in 2000 and was picked in 2008 and the loser Mitt Romney ran in 2008 and seems destined to be picked this year.  So will we be picking Rick Santorum in the next election of 2016?  Maybe this tradition is as Maurice Evan once put it “Better observed in the breaking of it than in the keeping - - you know - - like a bad egg”.  What’s so great about “planning for the previous war”?

Over the noon hour Newt Gingrich made a rather long winded, apparently, speech saying that he was “Suspending’ his campaign for President.  There’s that word again.  It means he’ll continue to collect money and keep what he has already as a nest egg for his function as “King Maker” down the line at the Republican Convention or something.  I turned to KABC for Sean Hannidy who had it without all the commentary.  But Sean said “The local station can decide to continue coverage or go into their usual break.  Our “local” station chose the usual break.  But Randy still had the speech after the commercial there.  Newt was still at it thanking a seemingly endless list of people and discussing all the political pipe dreams and so called triumphs.

May Day - Celebration and Consolidation

I am generally pleased with the topics of talk radio today from Ed Schultz to Randy Rhodes.  People were talking about the celebration today as perhaps the start of spring, that is a "liberal spring" as well as a time to sit and reflect about how far we've come and to mentally collect ourselves and make plans for future strategies.  Republicans have rightly come under the microscope.  As the bible says 'You shall be judged on every idle word that comes out of your mouths".  Interestingly when Chuck Smith quoted this passage in Matthew - words Jesus actually spoke - - he immediately followed it by the disclaimer "but of course I don't believe this scripture is literally true".  He did well do do this considering how many lies Calvary Christians have told over the years.  None the less I believe it is a sound Biblical principle found both in the old and in the new testaments.  So we have Mitt Romney's words about how it would be a needless expenditure of time and effort to catch just one man, no matter who he is.  John Mc Cain went farther. He rebuked Senator Obama's words in saying he would go after Bin Laden in Pakistan by saying "We can't go into Pakistan because Pakistan is a sovreign country and we wouldn't want to upset or go contrary to their wishes because we need them as an allay for support".  Of course the President knew better- - - literally.  The President said "It is a risk worth taking" and a risk he did take, and won.  Had he not been successful in the mission a year ago you know Bin Laden would be on every campaign poster of the Republicans in the 2012 elections this year.  Bin Laden and George Bush are the best friends each other has ever had.  Each desperately needed the words and deeds of the other as a recruitment incentive for their side.  No wonder a pall of doom and gloom and a distaste for celebration - - if I may say so - - for the death and "bringing to justice' of Bin Laden.  As some Black caller put it today "Now what they did to Martin Luther King was an assasenation.  What happened to Bin Laden wasn't an assasenation; it was a bringing to justice".  Well put.  My only disagreement in strategy with the President is that were I in his shoes last year I WOULD have showed photos of the dead Bin Laden.  Showing death photos is a power incentive and rallying point for our side and I would hope "our side" consisted of ALL Americans - - not just Democrats.  By his Refusal to air these photograph he was saying to the other side 'I'm not Bush".  And the other side needs no more reminders that "Obama is not Bush", if you catch my drift.  Now the president has just made a speech from Afghanistan in TV prime time and I missed it because I was at dinner at this absurdly early hour out here.  But the bottom line is that the Republicans did NOT want to get Bin Laden because he's worth a lot more to them alive than dead as an issue, in the same spirit of Roe verses Wade was to Bush, which is why he never moved on that issue when he was in office.

Now we hear that they are surgically implanting bombs in the innards of terrorists and sending them out to board planes and detonate the bombs in mid flight and kill a lot of Americans, and that these bombs don't have any metal parts.  Airport security is told to be cautious but one wonders how they would possible screen for such a thing.  But I never really was that worried.  These people have cried "Wolf" too often.  Clearly- - - and this is something else the Republicans hate- - the CIA scored a major intelligence Coup in taking out Bin Laden.  We have his writings where he bemoans the "suffering setback after setback" of Al Qaeda.  There was talk of abandoning overt presence alltogether and going into a more underground, cloaked phase or something.  The US Army, once against the wishes of Rush Limbaugh who believes the military are just for "killing people and exploding things" has done a lot of grunt work in working with the people and the government of Afghanistan, and trying to bring the Afghans into the twentieth century, if not the 21st. in terms of health and women's rights and all of the amenities we Westerners take as normal.  Obviously many now see America in a whole different light lessening the threat of terror.  This obviously is the last news the Republicans want to hear.  Fear and terror and war are their bread and butter.  Groups like Blackwater and Haloburten rely on war to profiteer and get access to cheap oil or whatever.  You must keep in mind that Jimmy Carter TOOK a risk to get the hostages back in April of 1980 but that mission failed because of a sand storm.  So we already KNOW how the republicans respond when a President tries his damndest and still fails in a mission.  So to say they would not have done the same with Obama is just kidding yourself.

The US Supreme Court upheld the ninth circuit court of appeals in a ruling that stated that prisoners have the right to sue the LA County sheriff - -  for acts the DA and Sheriff's office may have instigated  or at least not dealt with and otherwise ignored, when it came to certain prison violence, either guard on prisoner or prisoner on prisoner.  Often racial gang vendettas are encouraged for their own reasons.  The Prisoners are still protected by Federal civil rights laws and these are not forfeited merely due to incarseration.  There was one guy in a related issue who was placed on an Immigration Hold while his papers were varified.  He had a Visa but apparently it needed to be checked out.  So he was thrown into the LA county penal system.  But technically he could be held, not just 48 hours - - as long as Federal laws permitted- - but indefinitely.  And since "technically" he was under a state of "Arrest Warrent" he didn't get Bail and could be held indefinitely by the Sheriff's office.  The guy was going nuts in prison rightly seeing himself as Innocent of any charges.  And the other inmates - - predominently minorities- - were sympathetic to his cause and showed kindness to him, because they too know what it's like to be charged on the most petty of matters and thrown in the Tank.   But as David Cruise says, this is an issue that the LA Sherif's office will now have to be accountable for.

I would like to offer three object lessons here.  The first is that the rice for dinner was the most impallitable form of mush meal scarcely even recognizable as "rice".  I don't see how they can consistently screw it up so bad because it always comes out fine when I make it myself.  The object lesson here could be applied to religion or government or whatever.  When I eat rice I kind of like the idea of individual distinct grains of rice.  If not exactly "aldente" they should still be discernable as separate grains with a little texture as such to them.  Object lesson number two.  I noticed that my medication said "Resperidone" rather than"Resperidol" as I had always thought.  Was it a different drug or have I just had the word wrong all there years.  If the latter than a table made had the identical "misconception".  The med lady just said that I must have had the word wrong all these years.  Here's a free bonus extra.  My table mate is perfectly comfortable talking to me about the topic of cooking and food preparation.  It's something we have both had experiance with.  But the table mate also indicated he used to work in the aerospace industry.  When I began sharing what I knew here - - he phased out- - as if nothing I said he could relate to.  If I didn't know better I'd say he was "non compus mentus" on the topic, kind of like the kid doing an oral report on a book he's supposed to have read and the teachers knows he's faking it.  Even if he thought I was full of it (and I don't think I was) the least he could have done was to show me up and correct my (many?) errors.  We now move on to object lesson number three.  You know that story in Oh God about the Tiger that George Burnes told John Denver and he asked what the point was and Burnes said tohim "There's no point to it - - I just think it's a cute Story".  But clearly there WAS a point to that story.  And that is "Don't pull the same bullshit on the one who told you how to do it as you do on everybody else".  So kind of in that vain I'd like to offer up a story with perhaps a more obvious point to it right now. You know that little girl and the lion at the bank?  I was thinking of a skit where I tell the little girl “I’m going into that room down the hall where God is waiting for me and I’m going to take a picture of him and send God into the Lion cage at the San Diego Zoo.  I leave and come back a minute later and tell the little girl, “Well, God is gone now.  You can go in the room and check yourself.  Then I say, “And now I’m going to take a picture of your mother because she’s so hot” and the little girl says, “No, Marcus, no” and I explain to her, “Don’t worry, this camera only does that with made up people like God”.  And now I'd like to do a little word exercise with you.  We know that "Words mean things" just as "Actions have consequences", which is one statement the "broken clock" in the guise of Rush Limbaugh speaks that is actually a valid point.  Is it proper to say, "Let me pour you another glass" or "Let me fill you another glass".  Don't answer too quickly.  Techincally the correct answer is "Fill" rather than "Pour".  Because "Fill" is a transitive verb that takes the D O or "glass".  Whereas if you talk about "pouring a glass" one may infer that your pouring liquid glass into some mold or something.  Capish?  No you POUR whatever it is you are pouring such as Ale or Wine or what have you.  You would no more properly say "Pour the glass" than you would "Fill the wine".  Now we come to the word Ontological that Rush Limbaugh was so taken with.  You can speak of something being a physical certainty, or even a metaphysical certainty, or total certainty, or absolute, or 100% or what have you.  But what you cannot say is "Ontological" certainty.  No.  The word "Ontological" goes with "Necessity".  Something is an ontological necessity - - but not an ontological certainty.  It's different words.  Here is an example of ontological necessity.  There is a computer program where I give the exact WRONG instruction in it saying "make this variable Zero".    ZERO is the ONE number you should NOT use with this input variable.  It's like if you say a "prayer of consecration" to God - - you lay your life out and say "OK God, I have Nothing.  I can offer nothing to save myself.  I need your help.  It all depends on you.  I look to you now".  Whatever happens - - - OUGHT to be 100% GOD's doing.  Of course as a determinist I believe GOD is 100% in control of everything that happens anyhow.  But Particularly in the case of a Prayer like this- - God ought to be Accountable for Whatever next comes to pass.  Capish?  Good.  Point made then.  Entonces eres verdad.  Eso lo que dicho.