Re-taking Lost Ground (from 2006)

I am still for Bernie Sanders despite what I wrote in the previous blog.  I still say we need a man to run because people still won’t vote for a woman and the voting numbers have proved it.  Elizabeth tends to get a little whiny and that doesn’t go over well.  But on the issues I am all for Elizabeth Warren.  And I respect Stephanie Miller for supporting her.  But Stephanie herself said she would vote for Bernie with “Orgiastic” enthusiasm.  I’m holding her to that.  We talked about the psychic chessboard last time and perhaps football at times is a better analogy than chess.  After all you don’t capture pieces.  The goal is to control as much of the board as you can and make it easier for your men to maneuver about and make it more difficult for your opponent to get his men where he wants them.  It’s important to listen to your captain and when he gives the command to take ground at a certain spot, I want all men to assume their new positions.  Some say that Bernie aims too high, and that his goals are too lofty.  Keep in mind that not even Bernie will pass Medicare for all or free college education, unless he has a congress that will go along with him.  The implementation of a program is more in the hands of congress than it is the president.  But at least we have to have a worthy goal to shoot for.  You may not make that thirty yard long bomb pass every time.  But maybe the next time you’ll get it.  The thing to do is to keep trying and play the odds.  You may not make that twenty yard running play, but you might gain ten or fifteen yards.  That’s good enough.  It will get you a first down.  Chessmen have the volition to either move when they are supposed to or not.  You have to open up that space and take new ground.  Or in our case, it’s recapturing old ground we’ve lost over the years. 

This is Sunday February 16^th and on this day in 1964 they had six more Beatles songs on the Ed Sullivan show.  It was the first time Paul Mc Cartney had ever seen a palm tree.   They were in Miami and they overlapped three songs from their previous week.  That would tend to make viewers think the Beatles were short on songs playing repeats.  They had a lot of “Good Morning” songs including “It’s gona be a great day” and “All Things Must Pass”.  Only in the case of Ronald Reagan all things haven’t passed.  Ronald Reagan may be long gone but his government budget policies live on forty years later.  I watched Meet the Press at eight and Joe Biden finally saw fit to do a news program.  He says if he’d run in 2016 he would have done a real bang-up campaign.  I think he would have been a better candidate then simply because he wasn’t as old and mentally fuzzy as he is now.  Then the woman of the hour Amy Clovichar was on.  She’s confident that once people discover what she’s all about people are going to vote for her in mass.  Bloomberg was put to a lot of criticism, and in fact used to be a Republican.  He once approved of red-lining so heartily that he said eliminating red-lining is what caused the Real Estate crisis of 2008.   He told a female employee to get an abortion, “kill it”.  

Yesterday Maggie on the Bill Gardener show was talking abut one dead singer and one who was still alive.  Dion Warwick is still alive and Joe says she has white hair now.  She has to be in her eighties and still touring.  See her while she’s still alive.  I would go to her concert just to meet with her back stage and talk about her psychic hotline.  Etta James is no longer with us.   As you know she is a “Sixer” living on the southern half of Reigel VI.   Dante spoke of heaven being various planets in this solar system.  We just extended that.  It is the part of all of our teaching that is the least supportable as far as having it fit into any reality.   For one thing, why would people tell me where dead people were living and nobody else in the LA area?   I’d like to meet Clyde Mc Phatter who is also dead and I guess Hank Ballard is, too.  These represent the first and second 45 rpm singles that Bill Gardener bought.  He played “Such a Night” but the ending got cut off.  I was going to talk about the planets where dead people go to but I think that’s too strange for these rationalistic times.  Psychics are not fashionable now.

I had no need to go to the store in the evening.  The sunset last night was 5:31, so we’ve finally made it past five thirty at mid month.  Then I watched the ABC network news.  I heard someone say that Norma was here for the Bible study.  I finished up the network news and then went out for a final cigarette and then went in to check on it.  Norma was just getting her Bible ready at a few minutes past six and I just hoped I wasn’t there so late I was disqualified for the chicken.  She preached in chapter six of Revelation.  It was the four horsemen of the apocralipse.  The first rider went out to conquer but though he had a bow, he had no arrows.  I think maybe this was just an oversight of the author.  Norma said it’s because it was Jesus Christ who went with his gospel of peace to win hearts.  Brother Bart was at the Bible study and he disagreed and says his church teaches differently.  I don’t know if this is why Bart left the study.  Then there was the red horse of war.  There was a lot of talk about the crime rate now.  The black horse is famine and not death as I had thought.  This features the scale weighing out the grain.  Then there is the pale horse, which is death.  There was a lot of stuff about this new locust plague in Africa now.  And there was a lot of talk about the corona virus.  I mean they are quarantining people for two weeks and they get back here and it’s another two weeks so they don’t see their families for a whole month.  Norma took longer in getting the fried chicken out to us.   And she insisted on serving the women first.  Larry Barton hung around as if he were going to snatch up a piece on a moment’s notice.  Norma passed everyone’s chicken out to them.  We didn’t form a line as usual.  Joe came in and got one piece.  I was still hungry after two pieces.