The Perils of "New and Improved"

In 1969 there was a rock album that came out called "New and Improved - Blue Cheer".  But I was warned not to buy the album because it wasn't nearly as good as their first two.  Now there is an eleven year old kid who says you can tell when a product package is being downsized because they put 'New and Improved' on the box.  And the facts bore that out.  At times I worry about new software downloads of programs I already have and work just fine, because I have a paranoid they are downsizing it, and it doesn't do what the former release did.  People have mentioned this as it relates to cars depending on which year you buy it.  Sometimes a later year will not fetch as good of a price.  Would anyone buy a New and Improved Facebook stock now?  In particular when I downloaded an update to "Google Earth" one time, I lost the use of "Planets in Motion" and haven't had it back since.  And we move on to Christianity.  I had already been confirmed by my local church on Palm's Saturday - - of 1964.  Calvary Chapel wasn't offering anything better.  The reward was still Eternal Life.  But now you have to pay a lot higher price to get it.  You have to schmooze with all the members and "click" socially and buy the same records and books as they do to really be "In".  Someone may have thought Tom Leykis was being blasphamus talking about "Jesus brand Ice Cream Sandwiches".  Yet is this Marinotha stuff any better.  I remember one time in August of 1990 at a Jesus rock concert, at the time I was pushing forty and "too old for this sort of thing" and I looked around at everybody else younger than I war.  And they are all "In" on the latest groups and had their own lingo.  You can't just sell Jesus like a box of laundry detergent with new bright day glow colors, but the package is smaller.  Oh I know, you all thought I was going to parody that line about "Jesus offered me his stimulus but his Package didn't stimulate me".  Well, what do you know?  I slipped in that line after all.

The American embassy was stormed in Cairo and in Libya today on account of a new anti Islamic movie that’s put out by that Terry Jones pastor guy who burned a copy of the Koran last year.  It depicts the prophet Mohamed in a less than proper manner- - - in a religion that forbids any photographic reoresentation at all,  So they are insensed in Egypt and Libya.  They tore down the US flag at the embassy and hoisted the black Al Qaeda flag.  (?)  I am inclined to be in sympathy with the Moslems on this one.  I know they have been overbearing in the past but here I think they have a legitimate complaint.  I think people like Thom Hartman or that Mr Grouver guy I had as a teacher of eastern religion in the spring of 1973 at Cypress were right.  A lot of people just don't "get it' when it comes to the true exercise of religion.  It's not just a product you can peddle like a new movie promotion, with loud blairing music and cleaver editing and quotations out of context. There are probably times when I have fallen prey to this "cheapening" of religion myself.  People live around fakes so much, when they see the Real Thing they don't recognize it, but they freak out, and their use of intelligent speech is suddenly gone from them.  It's funny how George Bush originally referred to the Iraq war as a "Crusade" before some P R people got after him for it.  Besides "weapons of mass deception"  make that destruction - - (perfectly logical mistake) - - - the OTHER issue for President Bush was "Bringing democracy to the Mideast".  But even then people like Judy were slipping in to their repetuire of remarks the following, "Of course you know that these people are not Christians and since they aren't, democracy will never work for them, because you have to have your heart changed from the inside by the Holy Spirit".  Yeah, I'd like to have the Holy Spirit on the psychaiatrist's couch or in that legondary "empty chair" of Clint Eastwoods.  Oh the conversations we could have!  But back to my point - - Do you really think Judy would come out AGAINST President Bush's pursuit of the Iraq War all those years?  I wouldn't hold my breath.  These Republicans will use ANY slogan if they think it will win their point.  The goal for them is not principle, much as they say it is- - but rather it's just Winning for winning's sake.  That is- - getting the Better of the Other Guy.  And of course the whole thing boils down to Money for Money's sake, and Power for Power's sake.  And that's what it's really all about.

Meanwhile in Chicago the school teachers continue on strike for the second day.  They have the support of the community as well as the parents of those affected students.  Mayor Ron Imanuel is a republican Stooge on this issue and Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney have praised his stalwart actions in opposing the strike. That only goes to highlight the tea party's feelings about education in general.  It's an entire field of endeavor they have absolutely no respect for.  Teachers have complained that "The average person in politics hasn't a clue as to just what being a school teacher is all about".  It's not like going to the supermarket and picking out the best apples and congradulating yourself what an astute shopper you are.   Here again without knowing the specific issues, I am inclined to sympathize with the teachers. I feel that people like Governor Christie have villanized whole professions- - as the tea party people at large have.  It's like they see somebody who still hasn't been affected by the massive government downsizing, and they say "We aren't happy with our millions- - we want your pittance of a salary, too.  There's lots of money to be had in raiding union strike funds and government pensions.

Now they are saying that fish oil is bogus and does not help.  I don’t know.  People have been calling fish “brain food” since the early sixties.  Something else fishy are all of these Republicans who now want to throw Mitt Romney under the bus for slipping in the polls.  So you have Laura Ingrem, Donald Trump, and George Will now sounding the alarm.  Now they are playing “Amazing Grace” on bagpipes, while reading off those names of the fallen.  I digress.  You know that given a head to head choice between Romney and Mc Cain their own people already MADE their choice.  They made it four years ago when they chose Mc Cain, even in South Carolina!  So they are running a man who was beaten the man, who was beaten by President Obama.  Doesn't sound like a winning combination to me.  This is nothing short of Ironic since just a few days ago Judy was saying to me "These left wing socialists who support President Obama will get rid of him if they feel he is lagging in the polls.  And we all know support for the President is shrinking and the man is not nearly as popular as four years ago.  This is common knowledge".  Those are her words.  But of course the problem was that Romney wasn't "Packaged" properly.  Now their task was taking an essentially Smaller man than they had to work with in 2008 and still somehow making it appear as though the republican Consumer was getting More.  It seems that Larry Flint offered a million dollars to anybody who would produce Mitt Romney's tax returns for those ten years.  By that wording, Mitt Romney himself could stroll in there and pick up a fast Million dollars.  Hell.  I'd whore myself for THAT price!  But Mitt Romney if nothing else is an astute student of money.  He knows the cost of everything.  He has figured out that in the overall Big Game- - - he would have a hell of a lot more to lose by taking the Million if it meant the American people knew what was in his tax returns - - and all the damaging political baggage that would go along with it.  You must remember that these people opporate on a Pay to Play basic.  They put in money and political favors pop out the tray at the bottom.  I one said with great lament that the one talent my parents exhibited that outshined all the others- - was the ability to accumulate Money.  And Mitt Romney shares this trait.  Jesus words about "Thou fool.  Don't you know that this very night thy soul will be required of you" mean nothing to Mitt Romney.  Because if actions don't lie even if words do, then Mitt Romney really doesn't believe in the teachings of Jesus.  No surprise there.  Mitt Romney can't get specific about ANYTHING and that INCLUDES any discussion of economics.  How provident that one poll concludes that the American people now trust President Obama more on Economic issues than they do Mitt Romney.  This was Mitt Romney's trump card.  Now he has lost it.

9 - 11 "Enough, Already!!!"

At the risk of sounding a little cold I would like to cite an example from the movie “Inheret the Wind” where Gene Kelly remarked of the death of “Matthew Harrison Brady” the following.  He said, “Why should we mourn for this man.  Heaven knows he spent enough time mourning for himself while he was still alive”.  One could say the same thing of Jesus Christ.  He was a man who violated the Rush Limbaugh rule of “A true hero does not stop and plot just how he is going to remembered and celebrated after he is dead”.  Now we come to the David Cruise show on at three.  Of course it’s all about 9 – 11.  The very thing he said he didn’t want us doing was in fact what I ended up doing.  After listening to ten minutes of his moaning and sermonizing I turned the station to 92.3 FM and listened to funky-soul music, which by the way wasn’t very today.  The only song with any potential at all was “Boogie Wonderland”.  After this I switched to Katie Kuric.  So it was about one third of the hour on each of these.  But of course today for the eleventh time there are the commemorations and rememberances and the reciting of names.  So this is in essence “Armed Forces Day” number four.  That is if you count Armed Forces day, Vetterans Day, Memorial Day and 9 – 11 plus whatever other special occasions prompt memorials of our fallen men.  Let me tell you we would have been climbing the walls if this sort of thing were going on forty years ago during the tailing years of the Viet Nam War.  You know sometimes the adage is true.  “Your feelings will lie to you”.  That is, when they are being played like a violin by the media, who tells us every emotion to have on almost any subject.  They tell us the unemployment numbers were bad.  They tell us that despite the onrush of new workers, students, immigrants, Veterans returning from the war that “Droves of people are leaving the work force”.  According to Rush Limbaugh in another four years the work force will continue to shrink the same rapid rate.  I didn’t know the “safety net” was so cushy these days that it posed such a magnet.  I thought unemployment was cut BACK from 96 weeks to 76 weeks due to budget cutting.  James Dobson said “Your feelings will lie to you”.  But nobody ever stops to think for a minute that “What if I’m being played like a violin by a voice on the radio.  You don’t suppose the sudden feelings of self doubt about my own intuition - - that THOSE FEELINGS could be a Lie?  No, never.  Does anybody ever ask me that I think?  No.  It’s like a Sunday sermon.  We are ALL somehow supposed to be thinking the same thoughts after the message is delivered.  All this talk about monuments and such, the Greeks would say our society is suffering from an extreme “edifice complex”.  When I saw what was happening I was amazed at how even the media was informing us the buildings would collapse even before they did.  When someone played “Imagine” on the Laura Schleshenger show, Dr. Laura came on and objected telling the producer “Be sure and deguise that card”.  (meaning erase)  Can’t have any sentaments about a time when we won’t have War.  No! No!  We have to all hate a country that wasn’t even responsible, and not the fifteen of the nineteen hijackers, who were from Sauti Arabia, alias Bush’s good buddies.  When senators were on the fence about 9 – 11 a few envelopes in the mail containing anthrax solved that problem.  Lagging in the polls?  Just raise the “Alert” level to Orange.  If you are still lagging in the polls- - - how about a Bin Laden video just before election time?  We were told the passengers of Flight 93 “Sacrificed themselves gladly” by running the plane into the ground so it would not hit an important building.  This is so even though all cameras showed of the site were a very few pieces of debris, and a whole lot of smoke.  “Hey, all we need is a few smoke bombs over here”.  Nobody ever asked themselves “You mean an entire plane crashed here”.  And “What happened to the steel beams?  Shipped off to China, you say?”  You know in another country they were showed propaganda film after propaganda film in preparation of the people psychologically for the invasion of Poland.  The conservatives still want to invade Poland, to put back the missiles that the Obama administration failed to approve.  Why - - we are told that in Kenya they occupy their spare time singing “God bless the USA”.   So in the words of that famous Latino, Jose Himanez I say “Ya, Basta!”  “Enough Already!!!”

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. - -

ARTICLE II, SECTION 4 OF THE

CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have committed violations and subversions of the Constitution of the United States of America in an attempt to carry out with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes and deprivations of the civil rights of the people of the United States and other nations, by assuming powers of an imperial executive unaccountable to law and usurping powers of the Congress, the Judiciary and those reserved to the people of the United States, by the following acts:
1) Seizing power to wage wars of aggression in defiance of the U.S. Constitution, the U.N. Charter and the  rule of law; carrying out a massive assault on and occupation of Iraq, a country that was not threatening the United States, resulting in the death and maiming of over one hundred thousand Iraqis, and thousands of U.S. G.I.s.
2) Lying to the people of the U.S., to Congress, and to the U.N., providing false and deceptive rationales for war.
3) Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on civilians, civilian facilities and locations where civilian casualties were unavoidable.
4) Instituting a secret and illegal wiretapping and spying operation against the people of the United States through the National Security Agency.
5) Threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by belligerently changing its government by force and assaulting Iraq in a war of aggression.
6) Authorizing, ordering and condoning assassinations, summary executions, kidnappings, secret and other illegal detentions of individuals, torture and physical and psychological coercion of prisoners to obtain false statements concerning acts and intentions of governments and individuals and violating within the United States, and by authorizing U.S. forces and agents elsewhere, the rights of individuals under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
7) Making, ordering and condoning false statements and propaganda about the conduct of foreign governments and individuals and acts by U.S. government personnel; manipulating the media and foreign governments with false information; concealing information vital to public discussion and informed judgment concerning acts, intentions and possession, or efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction in order to falsely create a climate of fear and destroy opposition to U.S. wars of aggression and first strike attacks.
8) Violations and subversions of the Charter of the United Nations and international law, both a part of the "Supreme Law of the land" under Article VI, paragraph 2, of the Constitution, in an attempt to commit with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes in wars and threats of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and others and usurping powers of the United Nations and the peoples of its nations by bribery, coercion and other corrupt acts and by rejecting treaties, committing treaty violations, and frustrating compliance with treaties in order to destroy any means by which international law and institutions can prevent, affect, or adjudicate the exercise of U.S. military and economic power against the international community.
9) Acting to strip United States citizens of their constitutional and human rights, ordering indefinite detention of citizens, without access to counsel, without charge, and without opportunity to appear before a civil judicial officer to challenge the detention, based solely on the discretionary designation by the Executive of a citizen as an "enemy combatant."
10) Ordering indefinite detention of non-citizens and now actual citizens in the United States and elsewhere, and without charge, at the discretionary designation of the Attorney General or the  Secretary of Defense.  Legal citizens of the United States may now be targeted for assasenation by the President.  President Obama is worse than President Bush as far as the use of unmanned Drones that are responsible for the deaths of countless innocent civilians.  

Got Political Bullshit -If You Want It

CLINT EASTWOOD:   Hold it- I'm getting a message from Sylvia Brown from St. Augustine.  He says "If you build it they will come".  "Build What?" I asked, a baseball stadium?  "No- - all we have to do is construct a concrete ediface of Eternal Life in the Kingdom to Come"  "But Augustine - that's a mighty tall order".  "What's that - you say you have connections with the government?  The Geneva cement comany?  Oh"  "You say you have a son with the same name as a famous pitcher"  "OK - - what's he pitching?  Harry Houdini was a pitcher, you know.  A pretty good one.  What's that you're saying now?  Something about a famous Federation ship captain and the year 2061?  Something's going to be repealed in 2061 you say?  Oh, is that Obama Care?  No - - you say Gravity - - -  will be repealed in 2061?  Oh, you know that with the certain of a metal hammer falling in a positive gravitational field.  You do not need to know the end result to deduce that it hit the planet?  Well- - OK but now Sylvia Brown is telling me that Impostors only seem to have a longevity of about seven years and that story has been around since 2005.  I'm afraid that myth is getting a little long in the tooth with no takers. Uh - come to think of it- - that's about how long Mitt Romney has been running for President?  (laughter) "Uh what's that you're telling me now?  You'd never vote for Mitt Romney because you're a Roman Catholic?"  (audience laughter)  Well that's OK,  We know that Augustus was a Roman and he was "Catholic" in the totality of his Rulership over the Empire.  No siree- - - you can't go against anyone who is named after a Diety.  No Sir!"   Now wait a minute!  I'm getting another message from Sylvia Brown.  She says to look on the back of this empty chair?  Well let's see here.  It says "THIS SEAT IS TAKEN"  (laughter)  "What?  - - OK I finally get it. I guess I'm just a little slow on the uptake on that one"  (more laughter)

WELL - - - the conservative blogger Stu is at again with his 'Stu-tistics".  Now he's claiming that even if you count the whole fiscle year of 3009 as belonging to President Bush - - just going on fiscle years 2010, 2011, and 2012 therefore - - our friend Stewie claims that President Obama's deficets are three times both President Bushes at over six percent of GNP or something - - - (?) and President Bush's deficets including the whole of 2009 were only 2.7 percent of the GNP when the long term average over the past forty years or something is 2.6% so that President Bush's deficets were only a tenth of a percent over the forty year national average for Presidents.  He further this deficet can only be held this LOW is there are massive tax increases and all of the troop withdrawals go as planned with no reverses.  I'm reporting this because good or bad I want it "out there" to be scrutenized and examined by sane people whose math knowledge extends beyond grammar school.

George Obama is an embarrassment to his brother Barock, we are told.  Brother George has all but disowned his Presidential brother because supposedly the people in Kenya are sufficiently conservative that it is a source of shame to the community to even have the last name Obama, as such a radical, socialist President.  And George says that it's hypocracy for "sharing the burden" a topic expressed a lot at the Convention- - because President Obama really doesn't care for the poor and the "down and out" or he would help out his brother.  My sister in law loves to point out that conservatives exist who give more than the President does, and that in fact the President is a major tightwad when it comes to giving of either himself, or his financial resources.  But he will compell the country to do what he himself refuses to do.  But George takes it in strides because he's a conservative, and as we all know "Conservatives don't complain".  I bet you never knew THAT did you.  Well, that's because it's simply not true.  Conservatives are world class complainers and blame shifters.  And by the way how to my brother and sister in law treat me.  When I was "down and out" and "needed time" to recouperate from alcohol withdrawal did they offer up their home to me?  You bet your sweet petuti they did NOT.  In fact they insured that book I self published in 1980 got destroyed at great capital loss, not to mention my loss with the Anaheim housing authority.  Thanks to them action my monetary situation was forever altered to the more adverse.  So all this crock about "Christian kindness" doesn't actually seem to apply in a lot of situations I've been in.  "Don't confuse me with the facts" seems to be their mantra. President Obama chose to be a community organizer and there has been no end of criticism to that one.

Now they, meaning my brother, is complaining because the Democrats DID mention God and scripture and country and all that so much so "They out did the republicans on use of certain buzz words on a three to one ratio".  But he goes on "But this only goes to show what cleaver con artists they are, and people are going to express the fact they weren't fooled come November.  Well I don't know about being fooled but two days ago Obama had a three point lead.  Yesterday he had a five point lead, and today he has a six point lead.  This is after being DOWN one point to Romney just over a week ago.  So it can basically be said that in the past seven or eight days he has risen seven points in the polls, which makes about one percentage point per day.  As one person pointed out "In this world of a total of a six percent Undecided rate, as in a low scoring football game, every score counts a lot more than it otherwise would".  (Selah)  So count this as just a little reminded.

The word pronounced FOR or F long 0 and R, in the English language has so many meanings.  There is the number four of course.  Then there is the phrase "I stand four square against liberalism" or something.  Then there is calling out "Fore" in golf.  You speak of things being in the FORE ground.  And then you speak of an animals FORE paws referring to the two front paws.  Then you speak of people being fore armed or fore warned of something.  Then you have FOR such as, "The travelers had no dinner that night, FOR they had no money".  You speak of FOR as meaning "in the place of" like "I'll swap two prisoners for every one of yours" or "Do you have two fives FOR a ten"?  Then you have the use of function such as "Apples are FOR eating or telephones are FOR talking long distance.  And then you have the election application or "What candidate are you voting FOR.  or "I am all FOR proposition 32"  (which I am not)   The you have doing a favor such as "The candy striper got a pillow for the patient.  Or "I have a surprise for you".   Then you have slang like a person is really mixed up you might say that "He doesn't know what FOR".   Then you have For as parts of other words such as forgiveness and forbearence.  Or you will have mixtures of meanings like as "Here are the accessaries you ought to have for your motorcycle.  Anyhow, this is just a mental exercise.

The Future Is Upon Us

 Since school is starting this week for many it's only fitting that we devote a posting to an educational theme, courtessy Google and George Washington's blog, for this first paragraph.  It seems that education will take a rather Orwellian term.  I don't think having a research source do ALL the thinking for you is necessarily a good thing because you might encounter a situation in life sometime when you actually have to USE your native powers of seat of the pants reasoning, as well as having a good memory of facts you need to know.  For instance how long would it take an imperitive algerithmic computer program to solve a SUDOKU puzzle?  You would have to do a program that plugs in every number and then eliminate all other logical possabilities in meeting the rather simple criteria of the puzzle solving specs, and hopefully after the computer ran down the zillions of possible numeric combinations and permutations - it would yield the one answer.  Maybe.  But it strikes me that this new Google technology will make people "mentally flabby".  With Google glasses on their faces, students won’t even need to type in a query to get information. They can simply ask the glasses what year a battle was, to calculate sums, or find pretty much any kind of information. That doesn’t mean that memorization will become obsolete, but it will continue to decline in importance as information becomes ever more readily available for reference, anytime and anywhere. Students will increasingly be able to focus on finding ways to use that raw information to solve problems, be creative, or answer more in-depth questions, all tasks that will be essential in the coming decades. 5. Who needs a classic textbook when millions of books are available right in front of your eyes at the touch of a button? While tablets are already bringing e-books and e-textbooks into the classroom, Google’s glasses technology may turn the entire format on its head. Instead of reading books in a traditional format, students can have text, images, and even videos streamed right to their glasses. Students won’t need to bring books with them to class, as everything will already be available, on demand. 6. Equipped with Google Glasses and a wifi connection, teachers can take their classroom just about anywhere. Since presentations and other visual and textual information can be viewed right from the glasses, teachers don’t need to bring along hefty projectors, white boards, or laptops; they’ll have all the media they need in one small device. What’s more, students who can’t make it to the actual classroom might even be able to participate virtually though a Google+ Hangout or other service. 7.  Visiting a historic landmark is cool, but it gets a lot cooler when students have the ability to instantly get information about the site as they move through it. Location-based information systems already exist in some places, but Google Glasses would help take them to the next level, making the information part of the visual and spatial experience of visiting just about anywhere. Even better, any questions about the trip that students have can instantly be answered, just by asking them to the device. It could build a much richer educational experience on field trips that can’t quite be replicated in classrooms today.  8.  Learning a foreign language is an important asset in today’s global economy, and it can also seriously expand your mind and improve your language skills in your own native tongue. Yet, tools like Google Glasses may change how students view the language barrier, literally. Using Google Translate through the glasses, it is possible for students to instantly see and read what someone is saying in another language. This could make it possible for students on opposite sides of the globe to talk, share, and even collaborate. More importantly, it could foster a sense of global unity and cultural understanding that will prove incredibly valuable in the modern economy.

Randy Rhodes mentioned something I hadn't exactly thought of.  In my talk of parrellel universes I once said that ALL POSSIBLE universes would have a certain 'comonality" about them because, after all, they were all Created by the same Deity.  As such math and geometry and all that would necessarily have to work the same in every universe, and the rules of scientific method would have to work the same anywhere.  As such one could argue that something CANNOT exist in ANY Universe that is an "inherently logical construction" of human verbal ramblings, of the sort that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan engage in.  Randy has accurately pointed out that Ryan and Romney's answers to the questions they were asked on their respective news interviews last Sunday were completely Unsatisfactory.  But be assured:  Joe Byden and Barock Obama won't let them get away with their verbal nonsense.  And if this is true- - how much less would a foreign diplomat let them get away with such verbal nonsense?  People in the military also need to be clear.  They can't speak in double talk and somehow, as if by telepathy or empathy, that the troops "understand what they were really trying to say".  Take the Bin Laden raid they interviewed about on Sixty Minutes.  There you had to have a plan, and also clear contingencies drilled into you, that you would then pursue, should the primary plan fail, by virtue of the unforeseen such as a helicopter crash.  Say what you want about logic, but in point of fact, success in anything is "the art of the possible".  Any military man will tell you that the Unknown is the enemy of success, and the more you can decrease the Unknown factor, the better your chances are.

KIDS SAY THE DARNEDEST THINGS

I went out to the courtyard for coffee and Sarah was so prompt in her arrival, (and I salute her for that) a long line didn’t have time to form.  I had two cups from Sarah and she told me about that lady psychologist who isn’t just a figment of Joe Drisco’s immigination.  Except I didn’t know she was a woman.  They were talking about Elvis when I walked in.  One guy had a Picaso on the fireplace mantle and right next to it sharing equal space was this yarn drawing of Elvis done on black velvet that was purchased in Tijuana.  She then gave us this draw picture riddle about the school bus and “which way is this bus traveling?”  Have you heard it?  I looked at the drawing of the bus and it was perfectly bi-latterally symmetrical and I concluded that the question couldn’t be answered.  Then she said ‘It’s easy- - kindergarten students get it”.  That was all the hint I needed and my mental wheels engaged.  I’m going to frustrate you by not giving you the answer, particularly those of you who are “geometrically challenged”.  Then she began talking Art Linkletter’s “Kids say the darndest things” program, with all the raunchy humor kids come up with.  If you ever want to really embarrass a new pastor just put little kids in the audience because they come up with the simplest but smartest questions to make that pastor look like an ass.  Here is some of the raunchy humor.  One kid tells Art that there is a dead cat outside the studio.  And Art asks him, “How do you know the cat was dead”.  And the little kid says, “I pissed in its ear”.  This went out over Live TV.  But then after a while they arrived at the truth of the matter and what the kid meant was I leaned over and whispered “pssssst!” in the cat’s ear and he didn’t move.  That’s like the one about the kid asking his mother how you spell “Whoom!” like the noise a plane makes.  But the mother thought he meant the other word and said “W O M B”.   Oh, the teacher also talked about heteronyms, which are not homos that have gotten therapy.  They are words that are spelled identically but are pronounced differently and English has five thousand such words.  The teacher then spoke of ways we people use the word “Up”.  FH came to me afterwards and he informed me “We Romulans have the identical word for almost all of those examples she used”.   Apparently this kid saw an octopus and then remarked about how he had a lot of “testicles”.  And Art says, “An octopus has eight tentacles” and the kid says “Yeah- - he has eight testicles”.  There was a little boy who told his mother what he learned in math the first day in class.  And she wanted an example.  So he said “2 and 2; the son of a bitch is 4.  3 and 3, the son of a bitch is six, four and four, the son of a bitch is eight”.  The mother hurried down to the school to complain to the teacher and she says “What I was saying are the words “the sum of which is - - - “ and the kid got confused.  And there is that old story about the little girl who is afraid during a loud thunderstorm - - this is back in Indiana where they have really bad thunderstorms.  She wants to sleep with mommy tonight.  And the mother says “I’m sleeping with your daddy tonight” and the little girl says “Oh - - - “Is Daddy afraid, too?”  She was here till a quarter to three- so conducts a fairly long class.

TODAY'S DOINGS IN SOAP LAND

OK in soap land today we learned that Abigail is still a virgin.  She strikes me as one of those girls who’s “been having sex forever”, if you know what I mean.  Also Melanie turned down Chad’s proposal of marriage because of her latest trauma with Andrew.  She’s wandering around the Kiriacus mansion looking for somebody there when who shows up but “Nick” the “hardened criminal” whom she is deathly afraid of.  At that point I’d pinch myself to make sure I wasn’t dreaming.  By the way does THAT ever work?   Do you EVER think to pinch yourself when you’re having a nightmare?  If Sammy had had another two minutes with Raphael she’d be rolling around on the couch with him.  But instead Elvis walks in and she drops Raphael like he was never there and throws herself at Elvis.  Nichole found a way to “get to Daniel” like the song says.  “Don’t you see that I’m just trying to get to you”.  All she has to do is talk about babies and Daniel has all these “Parker flashbacks” and naturally Nicole has the perfect way for Daniel to fill this void in his life, by being Godfather to her newly ultra sound discovered son.

AN EDUCATIONAL LOONEY TUNE

If you want another "hit" to the answer of that bus direction riddle, there is a little hint on one line near the end of "The Trial" track on "The Wall" album.  Also there is another macro hint about life's reality of near Beatle-esque perportions is you listen to the 'ambient chatter" and isolated words.  Just a word to the wise.  Of course Bruce Bushman must be in charge of remixes of Dark Side of the Moon.  An old saying of mine is that each time the album is remixed the wierdnesses and babbelings get louder and louder.  Many people think I no doubt plumbed new depths of mental illness in referring to imaginationary conversations by people that itself was somebody who was austensively imaginary, even to them!.  Here are some more clues for you all.  If we view the entire "tenure" of "Howard" as months odd short of seven years  My "walk in" for "the first half" had the initials of J C, who was another of those southerners with the initials J C in a previous life, if you use Allan White logic.  You remember him- don't you?  The original drummer in the Plastic Ono Band.  You know the most common reference about Him is- don't you?  (logoc- brother!)  Anyhow one incident in the life of J C in December of 1970 was that he went on a money spending spree.  He bought a brand new Mercedes Benz and also bought out a lot of gun shops and amassed quite an arsonal of weapons.  And it says "His wife and his father ganged up on him to grill him about the expenditure".  And for "The Second half" the initials were D D for that individual.  By the way J C's initials in that previous life that straddled the turn of the twentieth century- - - were C Y.  Those initials will keep youall on the right track.

When I was young I used to wait
On Master and give him his plate
And pass the bottle when he got dry
And brush away the blue tail fly

My house he run he jump he pitch
He throw my Master in the ditch
A jury convened to find out Why
The verdict was the blue tail fly

"You say you are HOW old??  And you believe you once knew all of the verses to this song you say you learned in Kindergarten?"

"By the way how did a guy who once attended the University of Nebraska end up at Cal State Fullerton, which is where he met Pete Richards?"  I honestly don't know the answer to this question, except to say that to attend Nebraska, J C must have had a specific interest in this school.

Checking In For Duty

Just a few reminders here of what a Mitt Romney Presidency will be like.  It will be one of real world class excuse making.  That's all Mitt Romney did on Meet the Press today.  He refuses to admit that there is even a possability that he either might have been or IS NOW wrong- on any issue.  He tells us to "trust him" on the matter of Insurance companies cutting you off or refusing coverge for "pre existing conditions".  One of those 'pre existing conditions" of course, is being a Woman.  He has no foreign policy experiance and therefore is "unseasoned" in this area.  He wants to get us into a War like Bush did, for monetary gain.  He wants to raid the Social Security fund and leave retired people to the whims of the stock market.  He wants vouchers that only cover 60% of medical expenses, if that.  He claims he could have remained a business man but he got bored doing that.  Remember he got "bored" at Bain, too, till he discovered he could make more money by putting companies deep in debt with a high assasessed valuation from the banks and pocketing the cash, and leaving the corporation with the debt.  This is what George Bush did to the nation, and Mitt Romney wants to follow in his footsteps.  He will be regarded by History as the WORST President we've ever had.  This is all but fact.  As such he will also bring shame upon the Mormon Church, which he is a Member of.  Also the idea of Christianity having to embrace Mormonism is a "spiritual compromise" only a few years or so is something they Never - - Ever - - would have considered.  His Presidency will be highly polarizing between rich and poor.  Crime will probably go up, because Mitt will inflame it.  There is a danger at least of some attempted "people's revolution" that will be bloody and costly for sure.  He will crash the economy with his policies and he doesn't care, just like he didn't and still doesn't care about all the people he betrayed when he was CEO of Bain Capital.  These are observations that David Gregory left out of that soft ball interview today.  I wasn't going to post at all today except I was having Modem problems earlier and I want to post this to make sure everything works properly.  I think the Modem just needed to reboot.  The following stuff is some recent writings in Word files.

Mathews also said that the unemployment figures were bad and will hurt this president.  Somebody claimed that some four hundred thousand jobs were “lost” this month.  They also said that the “work force” is the - - smallest in thirty years, which makes absolutely no sense because we know that jobs have to grow by at least 150,000 just to keep the unemployment figure from going up.  So someone will have to explain that one to me.  CMK members - - or two of them - - were over here and told me they were routing for Syracruse over USC.  They had heard I had “thrown [designation withheld] under the bus” alias Howard, and they don’t see how I could have done that.   I asked Bill this afternoon about the time when Nora was briefly here how come Elena hasn’t come back to work after three months and he just said, “I guess she isn’t working here any more”.  I’m really sorry to see her go, if that’s the case.  [further down page] We just had chicken noodle soup with a cold cut sandwich and French fries and I didn’t wait long enough for seconds.  We got an orange for desert.  Leo Le Port discussed the whole idea of how Google’s encryption code cannot be “reverse engineered” even apparently when you know what other code translates as.  Leo spoke at length on this subject. 
 [further down page] I turned on the Today show.  They had the Jamaica connection with two people on the program whose families from Jamaica.  One of them was a neighbor of Bob Marley, who played the drums or something.  We have had our mystery diseases this summer with West Nile, and now the Hanta virus from Curry Village ion Yousemite, and now a seven year old girl came down with the bubonic plague.  She got that from a camping trip when she placed her pink sweat shirt near a dead squirrel and the fleas jumped in to the sweat shirt.  She is fine now.  I shaved before breakfast.  The clock seemed to be ticking at double time or something.  Today is Grandparents day.  This Sunday back in 2001 was also September ninth, and President Bush at this point in time in 2001 had stagnated in his Presidency.  Nobody appeared to pay him any notice, and he had to do something about that.

I went down to breakfast at 7:08 and the doors were soon opened.  But we just sat and sat there having received only drinks - - apple juice and milk.  I drank the milk because I needed the protein.  We did not get our oatmeal till after seven thirty, or it would have been hot.  It was getting pretty cold because they waited till forever to serve it to us.  It wasn’t until past a quarter to eight that we began getting served the rest of our meal.  That Irwin wanted to borrow my sugar that I’d been saving in my pocket for days, when he had his own.  He wanted to borrow my napkin when he had his own.  And he criticized the coffee when it was much better than usual.  We had one of those omlet squares which was good, and also a sausage, that was cold.  I went and smoked and when I turned on the TV for Meet the Press it was after eight.  That’s how long breakfast had taken.  Mitt Romney was on KNBC and Paul Ryan was on KABC and both were spouting pure bullshit and pre-packaged lines from which they never varied.  David Gregory and George Stephanophilos respectively trued to draw them out and when they met with non-responsiveness, they moved right on to another topic.  It was kind of that way with me and Pastor Halliday.  One topic would meet with disaster so I’d move on to so many others, which also met with disaster- - till I finally ran out of topics.  Mitt Romney spoke a lot longer so I moved over there.  Then it was the roundtable- - but by then I was getting rather bored and drowsy.[final words in "forward" file] Yesterday I was thinking how my level of emotional growth and development from March 1968 to about March of 1971 was very slow.  Added text for blog:  Whoever served in the capacity of my "walk in" or "alter ego" during this period set a very low bar for me, so that I didn't "grow"  Yes I took one full load semester and had that Computer class and Speed reading class in night school, but I held the academic bar very low for myself.  I had in a sense become more “retarded” during this period.  I was still a virgin, and my academic progress was near nil.  Musically it was an entirely different story of course because there were quantum leaps forward there.  But people don’t like to feel stagnated even though there are worse states to be in, like under a bad jinx.  I’d trade one for the other any day.  Stagnation isn’t the worst thing in the world because it gives you an opportunity, if not a prompting, to sit back and think and reflect.  Clearly the media still likes to kiss Mitt Romney’s ass and bash Obama.  They claim they treat then as equals- but they always seem to favor Mitt Romney in their “explanations” rationalizations, and rhetoric.

I made coffee and turned on KNX 1070.  I listened to the President talk about 9 – 11 but patriotism and keeping America safe seems to count for nothing in this election.  We had corn flakes for breakfast.  We had to wait forever for our fried egg and toast. And we didn’t get that till ten to eight.  David gave me his toast to eat while I waited.  We never got butter and jelly.  Dr. Levy showed up and I’m afraid I was in a fowl mood partially because I was thinking “That flake hasn’t been fired yet”.  There will be no “new psychologist” to bring some sort of fresh energy.  Dr. Levy varies so wildly in arrival times.I didn’t get in the room till just about eight o clock.  There was an empty spot on the couch waiting for me.  The class averaged around eleven people at any one time but others were coming in like Maryanne Woods, and people like Wally and Joe departed.  Patty did an extended check in and went into detail about her employment and her mental illness.  Dr. Levy had a page for us to go over that was printed on both sides, but he collected them all back at the end of the class.  The them of the pages seemed to be the value of friendships, and I informed him that relations between me and Paul are stressed out by political disagreement.  Later Dr. Levy said that his wife is a “liberal democrat” and his 24 year old daughter listened to the two of them disagreeing at the dinner table when she came for a visit.  I was surprised when Dr. Levy called an abrupt conclusion of the class at ten after nine as we were about to go over the line about cell phones and facebook.  After this I turned on KTLK and listened to the CO Q 10 and Resveritrol pitch one more time – and B 12 and D too.

My Romulan friends - - strangely saw "Howard" or at least "phase one" from late summer 1964 to early March 1968 - - - as a real person.  This is the type of dialog we carried on.  I asked them one question and was a bit taken off guard by the answer.  I asked them "was there any change in 'Howard" after about April of 1968, and they said "Well- - - Howard has ceased to become relevent to us then - - we're concerned about earlier.  However there was sure a change in YOU around that time. Something seemed to have gone out of your spirit.  You just didn't have any "Fight" in you any more".