The Fifth Anniversary Episode

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This is the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War. I had a dream just before getting up at a quarter to seven. The punch line is that there is always a movie out during one war which almost exactly predicts the nature of the next war, if the people will just pay attention. In January of 1985 there was a movie out about a four day campaign of US troops to invade Iraq. At the same time there were real life war games going on in an Arizona desert, or perhaps it was Mexico. And they made the remark that the shadows were about the same length as will occur when the US is involved in a future war with Europe in the summer time. Introduced this time was an electric guitar with an odd looking plug that accepted some secret government computer software. Again as I said with each new war there would be a movie out. The whole idea was that the people of America would come to view War as entertainment and when a new war began they would all be sitting in front of their big screen TV sets to watch it avidly. But that “computer software” thing grew into bio-technic genetic research, and soon they were growing a real live crop of “Bush babies” that would be used to fight future wars. At various points in the dream I would be thrown back in time to warn people about what the government was doing, but of course every time I tried I was ignored.

People such as Randy Rhodes were saying what an epic masterpiece Obama’s speech was. I don’t know. It’s hard to imagine a grandmother who used racial epithets. I was raised in a household steeped in a liberal tradition where epithets of any nature were looked down upon. About the closest anyone came to it was sometimes grandma would talk about “Meeting a woman whom I swear was as black as the ace of spades”. Of course people talk about tension between the races and would you rather run into a group of Blacks on a dark street late at night or a group of Orientals going to a Bible Study. In my old apartment of course if you went out the back gate you were instantly in all Chicano territory and were aware of that. Out on the street in front were a mixture of blacks, whites, and Orientals. There would be a mixture of prostitutes, pan-handlers, and psychos. I’ll tell you my least favorite race to run into and that is Whites. It’s whites who are the psychos. Charles Manson and Ted Bundy were murdering psychopaths, and they were White. Obama talked about the frustrations of Whites who have failed to participate fully in the American Dream, because of our economic system which screws the working class. It’s kind of like the recessitation of Bo Brady in soap land. Can Obama recessitate his Presidential campaign with one epic making speech?

I think I’ve figured out why a potential President Mc Cain doesn’t want to be forced to withdraw troops earlier than he wants to. It’s like when I’m smoking a cigarette and Gary wants a few puffs off of the cigarette. So all the while I’m smoking I have to think in terms of “Gary is going to be wanting this”. So it isn’t really my time or my cigarette but I’m being watched the whole time. It could be that President Mc Cain has every intention of pulling our troops out of Iraq, but he just wasn’t want a gun pushed to his head while he’s doing it. Of course Mc Cain had that senate vote where he refused to condemn torture, and if we judge by that vote Mc Cain now thinks torture is OK.

Let’s discuss my new money proposition some more. My “economic aid to the poor will consist on “windfall” profits poor people can use. I plan to keep the Kennedy half dollar, which will be worth $2.50 in old dollars. Two old Kennedy’s may be brought to a redemption center for one new one or a 150% profit. The steepness of the pay-off on some coins is so that the old coins will be driven out of circulation. I'd also put limits on how many new half dollars you could receive at one time. But the old ones technically will only be worth ten cents in new currency because the “new” minted half dollars will be back ( ) to 75% silver and 25% nickel and store managers have to look for the sandwich copper. Old quarters won’t be used but may be turned in for a “new” dime worth fifty cents in old currency for a 100% profit. The new dimes will be the same size of the old dimes only golden color and thicker. The “new” quarters will be the old Sakaguia dollar piece, which may now be cashed in at what amounts to a 25% premium. Or they may be just spent and worth $1.25 (old currency) for the same 25% mark-up. Two old dimes may be turned in for a nickel, in a perverse form of justice, for a 25% premium since otherwise they’d only be worth four cents. Old dimes may also be legally spent as two cent pieces. Old currency can be turned in for premiums to encourage the public not hoarding these coins. That leaves pennies and nickels. Here you get a free ride. These coins will both rise to five times their value since neither will be recalled but both as legal tender.

This is Wednesday March 19, 2008 and I did not type yesterday. Yesterday morning I was wide awake when it was really early. There was so much commotion and voices in the hall I finally “gave up” and decided to get up. The clock said ten to six. Oddly during Obama’s speech on the radio I dozed off before the end. I had looked for it on TV and didn’t find it but it was on KTLK. Last night I caught the eight & a half minute edit of the speech in CNN, aware I was missing key elements. I downloaded a complete text of the speech from NPR, where I was inform you’d find it. But from here it gets strange. It was about a month ago I was at a web site done in red and white I thought was called “People for the American Way” but this was all conservative, and had stuff by authors such as Dennis Miller, Hugh Hewitt and Michael Medvid. I thought I could find this site again last night but to make a long story short I was unsuccessful, though there is a place where all conservative websites are listed, and also a “topics” page where web sites of multiple political stripes can be found. But it’s just strange to be at a web site that’s the opposite of what you thought and then the next time you visit it, the whole thing flip-flops politically, and you think you’re losing your mind. I think I've come up with a new meaning for "Sliding in and called Safe". If you're a fifth-dimensional slider and you run into danger in one dimension, you can always "slide" into another dimension and be Safe.