I see that my numbers are up for the past two days, and I can take one guess why. I don't want to let you new readers down. However there are a lot of news items I haven't fully digested yet. Not that I've "evolving" on anything. I don't like that word. It's just a matter of "sorting out the pros and cons of an issue in one's mind". The liberal media such as the Chris Matthews show, "Hardball" seems to be putting the "spin" on Obama's little "coming out" yesterday in saying that it was a bold, political move that is akin to Lyndon Johnson's "getting out in front of American oppinion and leading it" on the Civil Right's issue for Blacks. But to me it makes no political sense to trade off nearly thirty percent of the electorate for the splinter vote or two or three percent gay population, most of which live in West Hollywood or the Bowerys in New York or the Tenderloin district, or what have you. Blacks and Chicanos and particularly Chicanos - - are much receptive to the whole gay thing than white people are. You have either pentacostelist "full gospell' Black people or else Roman Catholics. And they have a Pope that won't even allow divorce or birth control or sex for any reason other than procreation. But the way some conservatives have responded to the news is just as puzzling. Today Rush Limbaugh launched into his usual incoherent rant where you'd have to be either psychic or a long time listener (unfortunately I am the latter) to follow his colvoluted train of thought. He seems to be saying that he has no personal hostility to gays but feels the President is pulling a "cheap political stunt that's all show and no substance' and stresses that no actual laws were changed with yesterday's proclamation. No laws were changed after Mein Kemph either but that didn't stop it from being a contraversial book. He says "even gay people think it's a cheap stunt" and reportedly the log cabin republicans are completely unimpressed. Go figure. Mitt Romney for his part seems completely reasonable to me in his response. He says it's a sensitive issue where 'people's oppinions may differ" but I feel the way I do and I'm not going to change. Personally I wouldn't have been so tactful. Somehow the political bean counters said that it was a good idea to come out with the statement now, and maybe that Joe Byden "forced the President to make the statement now rather than to wait till just before the Democratic Convention, as he had been planning on". OK.
Real Hunter did not testify in the John Edwards case. I guess if they can fail to find the weapon in the OJ murder case then they can fail to have the key witness in the whole thing testifying, by either side. It's a little silly though when the key player in the whole thing is considered so "unreliable" that neither side will touch her. It is my furvent hope that John Edwards gets off. He's a good man. He just seems to have gotten a little over his head here, and needs some way to extracate himself.
Police beatings and bullying have been in the news a lot. They have been showing that Fullerton PD of the cops beating a mental patient for a half hour without let-up by every means in the book including almost crushing his lungs and beating him senseless and frequent use of a taser on him. As to the bullying thing there is another case of Romney bullying besides the so called "Surfer Joe" incident they've all been talking about. Personally I don't like Fraternities and never have. I think all their initiation rituals are silly and don't prove a thing and are often dangerous and on occasion, life threatening. I'd never go to an Ivy League snob school like that anyhow. But Romney is said to have played tricks on a blind teacher. He'd do things like pretend to open a door for him and invite him to walk through and laugh himself silly when he bashed into the door. Most sixth graders would find that prank a little sickening. And for a Presidential candidate to engage in "that sort of thing" often, doesn't bode well for his character. Mitt Romney strikes me as a personal coward in virtually every aspect of his life and strikes me as a shallower man than anybody dared believe. He is not only "risk adverse' on economic issues, engaging only in roulette games that have been rigged in advance, but also by his numerous "flip flops" on virtually every issue conceivable. The man has no experiance in any legislative body, and has absolutely no Foreign Policy experiance, but still has the chutzbah to attack this president as unfit because of his National Security policies. Go figure.
Proposition 29 is assenine. I'm tempted to vote for it even though I don't want to pay more in cigarette taxes. The pamflet I received this afternoon points to the "new beaurocracy" and how the cancer research won't be useful and "It will only worsen the state budget crisis". They fail to mention the one little detail that the measure is Entirely paid for with cigarette taxes not paid by non smokers. How can anyone in the non smoking community fall for this kind of flim-flam clap trap?
If you new people are wondering who "Stu Baby" is- - it's one of my "poetic licenses" I grant myself with my readers. It's one of those "dead rock star" people, and what I report him saying is perfectly consistent with his known personality. You don't have to actually believe in the hereafter to quote dead people. It's just a question of "tapping into their mental energy" kind of like what President Obama sought to do with his African father. I'd like to read "Dreams of my Father" sometime. Some may see what I call the "Federation" a little too much akin to the "Talosians" of the Star Trek pilot episode. It's one of those eternal questions that if you hear or see "something you can't prove that seems to have no material basis" whether it's always errant brain chemistry or what. Some say ALL of it is explainable by such physical causes. Others say there is "something else actually there". I'll let YOU decide. I would just say that - - whatever is SPACE here- - - is completely incompatable with any SPACE that is perceived by "extraordenary means". So it it all illusion in a brain electrode or a little blue pill or what? How can a little blue pill produce vivid geometric patterns where you as it were "amaze yourself with your own creativity" not to mention write some of the best Popular music in recorded history. An ex associate named Frank says "well, the people in the sixties got demonic help". Personally I don't want to go there, either. Let's just stick with errant brain chemistry for the time being, I guess.
Dr. Levy has returned for the first time in sixteen days. To make up for all the roomers circulating around about him - - he's bringing sandwiches and potato chips and Snapple to class next week and stresses that the meat sandwiches actually will have substantial Meat in then. (Not like the sandwiches we get around here) I don't believe what he said about the barbecue that cost "hundreds of dollars' that he threw for Founders last week. Personally were I a prospective employee I'd rather work here than at Founders. Yet Founders seems to be getting the lions share of Dr. Levy's focus. I know the people here and the staff here. And I've seen videos of the "residents' ("inmates" for you people in Rio Linda, as Rush would say) and I'll tell you we have a much higher calabre of resident. I think the song "Too Many People" would make a good Rush Limbaugh "update theme" for this place. It has all those apt lines in it like "You took your lucky break and broke it in two - - now what can be done for you - - you ended up HERE". OK I added the last part. "Too many people going underground". Too many going to the hospital or making that one way trip to the cemetary. "To many hungry people losing weight". We won't do a photo today. I'm not inspired to post anything in particular for a photo today.
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