Today is the final primary contest for a long time, six weeks. All indications are that Obama will easily win today's contest in Mississippi. The next "phase" of primaries kicks in late April and the month of May. But meanwhile the convention is not for another five and a half months on the calendar. The Democratic Convention starts on August 25th. This is after the Olympics in Peking and also pre season NFL football will have begun to kick in. It's an understatement but all sorts of things that are totally unexpected could happen between now and then. It's very likely that the things we consider such pressing issues now between Clinton and Obama will by them seem almost laughable and irrelivant. Of course I guess one of one of the most important things to happen while people were just "waiting" was the Rise of the Christian religion. This was invented to ease the boredom of people waiting around for Jesus to return because they needed to give their lives meaning, so the profession of theologian was invented, and the Catholic Church began acquiring all the gold it could get and forbad priests to marry so they couldn't pass wealth on to their kids. There is a book out now called "Bad Moon Rising" about the Reverand Moon and his ownership of the Washington Times. It seems that the conservative movement is "hostage" to Reverand Moon, even people like Jerry Folwell. You learn something new every day. Of course putting any rational news outlet at all is a real achievement for these people.
In keeping with "waiting" is the notion of reruns and reprocessed material, and we're going to make use of re-worked previous written material in this blog. Fair warning. Oil has now gone to $108.00 a barrel, which is a new record. The Dow Jones Industrials are now in the 11,000 range or the lowest in a long time. Gasoline in LA has now topped an average of $3.50 per gallon, and there have been incidents of four dollar a gallon gas. Also they are talking about the "baby boomers" in a general selling mode for their larger houses, so there will be a glut of larger homes for the next twenty years that will tend to depress prices. In food there trends where a permanent inflation of some items will be on progress for the next five years hence.
. I also watched Sixty Minutes in its entirety. The first segment was on John Mc Cain. Apparently the North Vietnamese wanted to let him go because he was the son of an Admiral or something but Mc Cain stayed with his comrades. There is no question John Mc Cain is a man of moral principle. The question is "Will is better nature be the one to come through in the campaign?" I think a lot of people will need reassurance that a President Mc Cain will be able to handle economic matters. The next segment was on a Black man who was in prison for 26 years for a murder he didn’t commit in Illinois, and he still isn’t free. It’s two attorney’s fault. It’s an ethical requirement in some code for attorneys to withhold the truth of another person’s innocence even if it means they get executed. They claimed they were “morally tormented” or something over the event, but apparently not troubled enough to do anything about it. As you know at least three times I have been betrayed by authority figures whom I thought I was speaking in confidence with, and I turned out to be betrayed. The whole issue is kind of a sort point with me. There are certainly topics, such as sexual matters, that I would never in a million years share with any Christian authority figure. Finally there was that corporate raider guy who has had to modify his activities just a little after laws were passed. Now stocks have a lift called the Icon effect. The man passionately dislikes C E O’s. I'd have to mull over each case in my mind to morally dissern whether the man did right or wrong. I guess some would say "You always have a choice". If you don't want to make an economic decision you'll later regret, then don't make it in the first place. Some people make their money because "They are able to keep their heads while others are losing theirs", as per the words of "Run for Your Life".
This is Monday March 10, 2008 and I am unsure whether I’ll do a blog today or tomorrow. My guess is not too many blogs are dated on a Monday. Last night I did go out for that cigarette and then watched “Family Guy”. I had dreams I don’t remember and woke to awareness when the announcement was coming over the P A at 6:47. the shower was cold so that went quick. We had Raison Bran for breakfast and Manfred gave me extra eggs and toast from others’ plates. I appreciated that.
I had Stephanie Miller on from 8:30 and Thom Hartman on at nine, but I fought drowsiness that first hour. At ten I switched to Judge Joe Brown, and continued to drowse a bit through that. I shaved during Craig Mathass. Manfred gave me extra coffee at lunch so I ended up getting the coveted three cups. In terms of smoking I got the two back from Gary at 8:15 and smoked the next one at a quarter to ten. At times I would go out to the patio even when I didn’t smoke. I got a cigarette from Marsha after lunch and purchased a cigarette for 25 cents in change from Richard Moore at 1:30. Oh by the way "Yvan Eth Nioj", youall!
Hugh Rodham and Tony Rodham have both entered into shadowy agreements with President Clinton about Presidential pardons. Also rich people have “cut deals” such as Arab sheiks in donating to the Clinton library. It had been announced that donor’s names would be confidential. Randy Rhodes says she “sitting on a whole stack of stuff” on Hillary, and as the time passes she has become ever more down on Hillary. Time does bring clarification. I don't think "the past" is somewhere Hillary wants to go.
It’s after five and we had a good dinner consisting of pork chops, baked potato half, and green beans. The only thing that would have made it perfect would be if we’d had something besides orange Jell-O for desert or if there had been official seconds. Unofficial seconds were courtesy of Thu Thai. I couldn't go for the usual coffee because I was out of money.
Drugs are coming out of our faucets according to the news. Our water is not safe. You’ve heard of commercials in movie theaters, but now they have stop lights on Freeways. The first freeway to freeway metering system has been done in the San Gabriel Valley. There was a shooting in a bar in Tenecula in a bar. The guy who shot a lady’s boyfriend dead right through the chest was an off duty Costa Mesa cop who was drunk. An hour earlier he had inappropriately groaped one of the women. I guess Cops are always “On” with their trusty gun at their side ready to fire at a moment’s notice.
A seven year old mature looking little girl is dead tonight after a trip to the dentist for a tooth extraction. She was complaining of a toothache. Apparently the dentist dropped the tooth down her wind pipe and she suffocated. Apparently in incidents like this they call it an inadvertent “accident”. You can’t sue for that like you can sue Mc. Donalds for coffee that’s too hot. Too bad she isn’t a popular soap opera character like Bo Brady. Then “they” wouldn’t dare kill her off.
The governor of New York was nabbed by the Feds for seeing a prostitute, a high price thousand dollar call girl. This guy had formerly been known as “Mr. Clean”. This whole idea of kiss and tell has become so fashionable I'm wondering whether anybody cares any more. I myself don't talk about my past sexual involvements as you know. That's just the way I was raised. Sex is something you did; not something you talked about. Of course some cases of adultry are more grevious than others. For instance if the offending party is a guy you already don't like and are also suspicious of, and believe your wife may already be adversely affected by him, and worse of all the guy out-ranks you on the religious pecking order. Then when the deed occurs it makes it so much worse because you told yourself "Well, he's so pious he'd Never do anything like that". So your whole "faith" structure falls apart.
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