President Obama to Act On Syria Any Day Now

Our lead story has to be “shall I or shant I” when it comes to President Obama deliberating on whether he’ll follow through with his long standing threats against Assad.  And no I’d never get the name mixed up.  I know all the arguments for NOT going in.  Ronald Reagan pulled out of Lebanon and yet did nothing when Saddam Hussein gassed the Iranians in the ‘eighties, and then the Kurds.  And how many dead people are there today in Samalia today because we didn’t intervent.  Yes, and I know about Darfore in the Sudan.  But the thing is all of these “wrongs” can’t” be corrected by yet another “wrong” of not intervening in the Syrian slaughter by Assad.  Mario and I were definitely on the same page this morning because he articulated my views quite well.  People have this tendency to be “traumatized” by a mistake we made ten years ago when we were “beating the drums for war”.   It’s rediculas to compare apples to pomigranates.  We need to look at each problem we face, and psychologists will even tell you this - - you see it as “here is the problem and here are the circumstances, and I need to know what I need to do to solve the problem.  How do I get the tools to solve this problem that I have?”   The idea of “what about that guy over there?” or the endless roster of “If only’s” will do nothing twords solving your present delema.  I have bored my blog readers endlessly as they read with bleary eyes the long laundry list of reasons why Syria is a completely different situation from either Iraq or Afghanistan.  John Kerrey yesterday brought the matter to national attention- - in case some of you were sleeping.  This Seran gas slaughter is not a “false flag operation” or whatever else they’re calling it.  The battle ships are all in position now to fire their missiles.  Joe Byden is now making the pitch for an air strike.  We knock out the fortresses and crater the air fields- - and hopefully even get Assad himself.  We know how this President loves to take out suspects with Drones.  How here is an opportunity for his crowning glory.  People like Nicole Sandler say “What’s the big deal” and yet chemical weapons such as these have been taboo in war for nearly a hundred years, and neither Stalin nor Hitler used these weapons in a theater of war.  The Dow Jones Industrial fell 176 points.  Not to brag or anything but I have been way out in front of the learning curve with my comentery on Syria.  Just like I was way out front on the learning curve on the “Days” plot.  It’s gratifying to see that Gabrial, one of the characters on the show- - is voicing sentaments now that I spelled out months ago.  Sometimes your internet speed is really good- - and you look at the podcast and it’s two-thirds buffer and only one third elapsed play time.  That’s getting way out ahead of the game.

This latest news with George Zimmerman is just the sort of bizzare extreme of credulity we expect from him.  We hear he's touring the gun factory and publicizing the gun model he killed Trayvon Martin with.  This man truely has no shame.  But now we hear the State of Florida has to reemburse Zimmerman for all the expences he put out for his defense.  This raises some interesting questions.  Since Blacks don't win nearly as often, we can conclude that few Blacks profit from this law because they are in prison.  And it also seems to reward the richest people and the biggest spenders.  George Zimmerman is thus reembursed for that totally ficticious 3 D display of "The Crime" as Zimmerman wants to imagine it.  This bit of theater was barred from the trial as not constituting 'evidence" but it was allowed in the sumation- - where it was sure to have Maximum Impact on the Jury.  It's like the little girl who was playing on the monkey bars in a dress and her mother said "Somebody might have seen your underwear".  And the little girl says, "That's OK because I wasn't wearing any".  So George Zimmerman not only is reembursed expenses for shipping witnesses in that a Black defendant might not be able to afford, but Zimmerman gets the money paid back in full.  But another more glaring ethical problem exists the news media hasn't even touched.  We know his wife lied about how much money they raised for his defense.  That's right.  Zimmerman just needed to hold out his tin cup and there would be a flood of biggots out there ready to assist.  So will Zimmerman have to pay all these people back the money they thought they gave because Zimmerman needed it?  When in fact he never needed it at all because he knew the more he spent the more he'd be reimbursed by the state of Florida?  Whoever came up with this absurd law doesn't have the intelligence or logic of a pencil neck Geek.

We have the story of Robby Riggs throwing the historic “battle of the sexes” match in tennis- and event that was hyped like a historic event- - that I personally remember.  Bobby Riggs first had a match with Margerete Court “two months earlier” as Mario remembers it, and that jives with my memory of it.  Mario says “that was kind of like the pre event”.  Bobby Riggs did not win a single set, and afterwards - - Billy Jean King refused to have a rematch with him “even though it was in the contract they signed”.  The new story now is that Bobby Riggs was deep in debt to the Mafia and he worked out this deal with the Mafia to pay it back, where the Mafia would bet against Riggs in the match, if he would throw the match and “make it look like she was really overwhelming him”.  He was fifty-six; she was thirty.  But if you ask me I don’t believe a word of it.  If anything of this sort had happened- - there would have been all sorts of press stories about it at the time.  There were none.  Nobody questioned the victory.  Both the Federation and the Regelus V Romulans- - think the very idea is an absurdity.  As a man you might think I would welcome this news.  But I’m not that petty.  Obviously this victory boosted the status of women tennis player with such stars as Chris Everett.  

Jerry Brown announced today that he would NOT release a single prisoner, as mandated to do by the US Courts.  But supposedly Jerry Brown had “another plan he’s implementing to relieve overcrowding”.  Apparently the state is going to “lease out cells in Federal Prisons” by way of compromise.  I’m inclined to support Brown on this one.  After all this is the US, in fact it’s California.  How bad can conditions be?  My philosophy I would like to see the numbers declines because crime convictions are truly down- - and not because I have a legal gun to my head, which means John Q Public, knowing how they are, will become apprehensive.

This is after dinner and David Cruise was on a topic I’d like to expand on at length.  I actually share one trait with conservatives in that I, too get annoyed with certain segments of people who live their whole lives with this “sense of entitlement”.   But the topper of the topper was the news that lobbyists actually are entitled to pensions from the people they work constantly on to corrupt.  Lobbyists not only get pensions in twenty states including California, but they also have been granted health care benefits.  Keep in mind that normally a lobbyists job is to BRIBE government officials with money and perks, and not Receive them.  It makes absolutely no sense.  Other examples come to mind.  As you know in soap land I’m not only bugged by the fact that the two biggest stars are gay “characters” who flaunt it in public, but also this growing sense of ‘entitlement” that pervades their very souls.  Rush Limbaugh once talked about people placing bottles of Sparklettes water out in the Arizona desert for all the illegal aliens crowing the border getting into this country.   You heard the story about this owner of a mansion who was going to have all the rose bushes from his yard removed because his grandkids might get pricked by the thorns.  Next thing you know- - they’ll be giving out miniature sombreros to all the red ants in your yard, so that the ants don’t get sunburned.  One of the most annoying people was the teenage deaf girl in that movie ‘Children of a lesser God”.    How any sane person could tolerate more than about ten minutes of her “attitude” I don’t know.  Then you have J W Serrell around here.  He was yelling at someone today for bumping his chair.  He sticks so far out into that path that often you have to be an acrobat to get around him.  And is brushing against his wheels the same thing?  Yet wheel chair people love to run you over with those same wheels and think nothing of it.  That’s what I mean by entitlement.   At times even I get a little edgy at these Arab terrorists who demand every last “nicety” of our legal system and hire slick attorneys to insure that they receive them.  Yet if you were to be arrested in their home country for a much lesser offense - - you’d be rotting in some prison somewhere without air conditioning or maybe even food, and if you’re lucky in one week they’ll let you make a phone call.   And then they have this issue proposed on an old TV show called “The Advocates”, which was “Resolved:  Union strikers should be allowed to receive government unemployment checks”.  Oh no they don’t.  Because they can go back to work any time they want- - and are an insult to the “Truly needy” as Reagan used to call them- - who had pounded the pavement for weeks looking for a job.   Partially disabled older people have to keep on working after age 65 now.

 
This whole "Ben and Jerry's" story about printing things on our money that weren't put there by the government, seems to me to be a really iffy notion.  Ben of Ben and Jerry's has this "stamp" program where you can chose from one of four stamps to stamp messages right on your money, that supposedly won't wash off or land you in prison for defacing the currency.  Like I say it seems really iffy.  The most popular choice if "This tender is not legal for buying elections".   Others are "money is not speech" and "Get the money out of politics" and "Corporations are not people, my friend".  I don't know.  The print would have to be so tiny to fit on the meager blank spaces on US bills the print would be too tiny to read- - especially is it's done in hand script- - without really good reading glasses.  But just think of all the people that would see your message!

And now we have one of those concluding paragraphs where we get into “Lively Libations” or whatever.  As you know they have a “kill switch” they can use in new I Phones you can activate if someone else steals your I phone so they can’t use it.  But Apple is working in a finger print device, they hope to have perfected for the October release.  But knowing how Apple was under Steve Jobs, they often hype more than they can deliver.  Of course the copy protection in the original generation of DVD’s - - was hacked within a few short months by a high school student, who will be turning thirty soon now.  I wanted to talk a little more about Romulan cloaking.  The term for cloaked objects being solid to each other is in fact a familiar one “congruency” or sometimes “co congruency”.   The term “physiognomy” is used, and I see that’s an actual word.  Holy Mackerel.  That is it’s matter with the same incryption altorithm in use.  We said two years ago that there were Romulan cloaking devices available for sale in the Federation, and the instructions are in Federation print.  This is sort of a squarish style of letter- - not exactly like Korean- - maybe a few diagonal jags thrown in.  As you know Lanian script looks very much like Iranian.  And Reigelian script to me resembles the small letter Greek lettering.  And you know about the all caps Sirius letters- almost identical to English.  I was told two years ago that - - “It can’t be established as a fact that the Romulan cloaking method has never been reverse engineered”.  But if it has been- someone is keeping it “unofficial”.