If you haven’t tuned in Dennis Prager lately you will find that the morphing process into a full fledged tea bagger is complete now. It used not to be so with Dennis. He called himself a moderate. He believed in legal abortions up to the twelth week and also believed that city localities should set aside a district for prostitution. He used to say that “any kind of religion will do as long as it’s Religion”. Kind of a “Brand X” religion. Well, OK. Do you believe religious faiths can differ on their stands tword contraception? Well, a 57 year old retired woman school teacher called up on how show to weigh in on this whole idea of contraception becoming public policy, and even though she called herself a Born Again Christian she was thinking of voting for President Obama this time around. But of course Dennis lapsed into a whole rambling, rabbit trail laden almost incoherent rant about all sorts of things. He asked why she was getting pension at such a young age and said if she lived to age ninety she will have spent half her life getting a pension. Dennis went on of course to attack labor unions in general. Then he launches into this “pre employment retirement” rant, and said “The labor unions won’t be happy till we all get this”. Then he mentioned that guy in El Paso who gunned down a bunch of people and mocked the idea of “pre war post war trauma”. Then he went on a rant about how President Obama is into “Islamicism” and “leftism”, and mocked the idea that Republicans oppress women, but said “It’s really the democrats that oppress women”. Then he tied it altogether talking about the war on traditional marriage and religion by this President. Then he said that a woman’s birth control was not a “health issue” and said “if being the pill is a health issue, then eating food is a health issue”. Then he started talking about “Cletus the Fetus” and said no woman refers to her unborn child as a “fetus” when describing things like movement. Dennis did not weigh in on this idea of the mandentory “Vaginal probe” passed in certain states. I didn’t know that ultra sound was a vaginal probe. (?) But my concern is less for the trauma of seeing the baby that you are about to abort than the whole monetary angle because don’t ultra sound procedures cost over a hundred dollars? That will be added to the cost of every abortion. This is on what used to be KIEV in Glendale, and I’d had about enough.
After lunch I looked in the front room and saw it was almost empty except for Arlene, and went out for a smoke and paid James a quarter for a cigarette. I talked to Glen about having gone past two Dollar Tree stores just this morning and went in one of them. Again I check Dr. Levy and now it was just Antony in there. So by now it was a quarter to one and I came back up here and put on a cup of coffee. I’ve got two filters left. I sold Bill a half a cup for a quarter because I figured I’d need to drink the rest because I didn’t get any coffee with lunch. Then I noticed that Randy Rhodes was on. Today it was kind of a political freak show. It seems that Nancy Pelosi’s daughter Alexander (?) did a survey of people in the South to gauge where they were at. She claims she did not edit the tape in a biased way but there were dozens more just like these people. You hear the xyzidiko music playing in the background. They spoke of “having lost the war but we’re going to change that” and you realize they mean the Civil War. These were people often with no teeth except for a few nubs gumming their tobacco, and still probably skin their own possum for dinner. She took voter profiles of the people of the states of Mississippi and Alabama. Only 23% of them believe in the theory of evolution. Over half of the people in Mississippi and nearly half in Alabama believe that President Obama is a Moslem and only twelve percent in Mississippi believe he’s a Christian and fourteen percent in Alabama. About thirty percent of the people “weren’t sure”. The bottom line for Randy was that one sees that the South basically hasn’t changed in fifty years. It’s a time warp down there. They people are actively not just mis-informed but Dis-informed by FOX News.
Everybody who’s important watched the movie “Game Change” often more than once. The spotlight continues on Sarah Palin. Of course the whole like about “I can see Alaska from my house” was evoked in the first place because Sarah wanted to convince people she was uniquely qualified on foreign affairs. She says she and Mc Cain are a good team because they were both “Mavricky” and independent. But a caller pointed out that for all her “being a good mother” and caring for a special needs child, she hasn’t done diddly in terms of supporting the cause of disabled children in general since she’s an Ex whatever. It was also pointed out that Democratic Presidents once they leave office accomplish amazing things, but as for Reagan, in the throws of Alzheimers, and Bush and Chaney, they’ve done very little for humanity. Sarah only appears out for herself. During the campaign the Mc Cain people about had a cow when they realized she was associated with some Alaska sececessionist group. Also she was seen in 2006 wearing a T shirt supporting the famed “Bridge to Nowhere”. Many people in the movie saw how ill informed and messed up she was they were routing for her to just do Something right, like Bart Simpson tried so hard to pass his fifth grade proficiency test to move on.
We did that posting of “Things that aren’t around any more”. Perhaps we should have used a photograph of Owen Martin instead. Owen Martin was a guy around here that nobody particularly liked, including me, and now he’s gone and nobody knows what happened to him, and nobody cares. Things were so gosh darned different in 1972. You know that Lou Reed line in “Take a Walk on the Wild Side” that goes “Went to the Apollo, you should have seen them go, go, go”. To this day I don’t know whether he is referring to what were then regular moon shorts, or the Theater. Of course I don’t know what I’m going to be doing mornings because it seems KTLK has decided just to drop Thom Hartman altogether. Now there is a joker on who isn’t funny, even if his “multi ethnic” credentials exceed my own. People would like to “vet” me I’m sure like “What were you doing in 1972”. Well I wasn’t sitting on communist tanks posing for pictures. I wasn’t fighting for the IRA in Belfast like in the David Bowie song, even if I did think I could “make it as a rock and roll star”. A lot of people what to know what’s up with this whole Ireland – Romulan connection anyhow. “But what are you really saying?” Well they both celebrate St Patrick’s Day and they both like to wear green. But things were so different back then. People had the hope that letting eighteen year olds vote would swing the election. You had Revolution freely sung in all the rock songs, and revolutions were common everwhere from city ghettos, to college campuses to Prisons. Airline hijackings took place on a regular basis. Back then KWHY the financial station had this group called “Forty Plus” and I thought “Wow – forty, that’s really old. Everybody has job security by then”. Now at my age I’m not even sure I’d want to date a woman much under forty. Of course language meant something back then. They actually had radio “dials” on older ratios where you turned the pointer to a station number in a semi-circle. And of course telephones had dials back then so you actually “dialed” a number. They had to stock the Washington Post set with dial phones when they filmed “All the President’s Men”. But if you’re under forty this is completely alien to you. But some things are more standardized now, like computer keyboards. It used to be every work place had their own specially designed keyboard. They even had these devices in stores that were just like Word Processors you could buy. And some like me would say “But I want to do other things with a computer”. And they say “You mean Computers are actually good for other things than word processing?” Back then and perhaps now - - a single incident could literally torpedo a candidates reputation for all time. Like Ed Musky breaking down and crying, or Thomas Eagleton admitting that when he was younger he’s had electroshock therapy in a mental institution. People don’t want their icons to have human vulnerabilities.
I did have the time today to check briefly into Soap land. Abigail is a woman woman wrecking crew for a marriage. Other than write it in blood I hardly see how Austin could have been more explicit in saying he doesn’t love her and has absolutely no romantic interest in her but loves his wife. And now she’s in Austin’s room alone and Austin has his shirt off and wife Carrie walks in, and like me and Christianity, she’s so insecure she assumes the worst. Of course you know Brady Black must be lobotomized or something to now be pining away after Madison. People talk about love getting under their skin - - like poison ivy. They even write songs about it. Some people think God told them something that’s just their own psychological compulsion - - I’d almost say less to please themselves but more to believe some Religious Phantom they cougured up in their minds under the machinations of their church pastor. These people do the brainwashing in society, and people in the South believe every word. You may note that we have departed from a trend we’ve been exhibiting steadily over the past several weeks. If what it is escapes you, maybe ask if Stevie Wonder picked up on it. You people really didn’t want to look at dead fetuses did you? I didn’t think so.
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