This is Wednesday June
19, 2013 and it doesn’t look like I’m going to be taking more pictures any time
soon so I ought to just download the shots I’ve taken. Randy Rhodes was on at two and she was discouraged
concerning virtually everything about government. Everything is for sale, even our national
security. All our politicians are bought
and paid for and the vote of the poor is jerrymandered out of existence. And the tea party likes it that way no matter
how much they still complain. The
immigration bill is most likely dying a slow death in the House despite John
Boehner claiming he wants an immigration bill voted on. The United States is only thirteenth in
median income among the world’s nations and seventeenth in minimum wage, or
perhaps those figures are backwards. The
minimum wage remains at $7.25 – a figure nobody can live on. Once again they have failed in their latest search for Jimmy
Hoffa’s body. The Whitey Bolgier trial
is proceding in Boston. I think there is
one statistic here that the United States is 27th in medical
care. Some have held out the hope that
once people have positive experiences with Obama Care they will be more
amenable to voting democratic. The
problem is that the red states have the option of “opting out of the
program”. I’m not sure what jackass
slipped that little measure through. So
the people in the blue states will be happy but the red states will continue to
dominate and thus provide that one House government of the entire country as we
all have to dance to their tune. I did
not receive my bank statement this month and it’s late and I want to see it for
obvious reasons. I haven’t received mail
in some time. We had baked ham for
dinner with decent mashed potatoes and peas, with applesauce for desert. There is a new lady who showed up on the
patio. She says she is only fifty-five
but looks much older. I am not a bit
happy with what Governor Brown is doing now and would not vote for him again.
He is hiking the salaries of the state legislature members to the highest paid
in the nation. And he is proving free
Apple computers for all the school kids.
For some reason the public will not mind if every other aspect of state
government languishes, as long as we spend money on schools like there’s no
tomorrow. He refuses to restore the cuts
in Social Security of a year and a half ago.
And nobody is talking about restoring the $230.00 renters rebate we used
to get up till 2007. That money would go
far around here. [we'll just leave a little of the material out of the narritive here] I was afraid NBC would leave us in the lurch
again promacing us a Game but not delivering, like with game three. The Boston Bruins are up to games to one at
the start of game four, which is in pre game mode right now. They showed the sun shining brightly in Boston
after eight o clock at night, assuming it wasn’t earlier footage. James Gandelfini died today of a “massive”
heart attack in Italy at the age of 52.
He played Tony Suprano of the HBO series. I guess he’s one guy who aged ahead of his
time. Of course in so many ways you
wait for things to develop like on the soap opera and they never seem to. The George Zimmerman trial technically began
on June 10th but who knows when we’ll be viewing actual
testimony. And of course were running
out of the month of June and the Supreme Court this year has rendered very few
decisions on cases pending, as opposed to any normal year. This summer will make two years after the
Presidential campaign of 2012 actually began.
The darned thing just seemed to go on forever. I think all of those tea party debate videos
will make a nice freak show for our descendants to view some day.
In 1996 I remember
Tammy Bruce came up with this theory that it was this missile that brought down
this commercial airliner just after it took off, off the shore of Long Island,
and blew up and flamed out and fell out of the sky. It was an hour or so after sunset. The government investigated this for four years
and according to a new film out soon, they covered up the truth that the plane
suffered either a terrorist attack or some ‘accident’ from our own
government. Government people who were
investigating “came clean” about it.
President Obama is in Berlin, which usually is a good omen for US
Presidents. But the same scandals which
dog him at home have followed him to Europe.
Such is the international political age we live in. It was ninety degrees in Berlin, and it was
86 degrees or higher in Alaska and people sought refuge by the water. A lot of the natives don’t like the heat, but
it’s just another symptom of global warming.
Slim Whitman died at age 90. He
was that country singer that kind of yoodled as he sang. He was a mentor of Elvis. Though he was ninety- - Elvis had he lived
would be a young whipper snapper of 77. Now Overtime is in progress in Boston. They had trouble with the ice in game three
because the heat and humidity of Boston was so oppressive. They want it at 40 but it was at 59, and
tonight is at 64% relative humidity. The Chicago Blackhawks ended up winning the game scoring against the Bruins near the end of the first Overtime.
I was going to do a thing called "The art of psychic warfare" in the Sun Su tradition. Let me just say that I am guilty of making the mental mistake of approaching the game of Risk the way you would a chess game thinking of "controling space". You can do that with chess because even a lowly pawn can take down a Queen. But in Risk my pervaisive weakness is thinking in terms of "controling space" but spreading my troops to thin, and concentration of forces is the name of the game. Of course this strategy will work if you're a Roman legion with unarmed civilians, but don't get cocky in this game. And even if you are winning battles (rolls of the dice) and someone is cheering you on with each victory, remember that in Risk there are no Allies and stabbing your best friend in the back is the name of the game. He's only using you for "cannon fodder' to be in the Front and weaken the enemy so that that friend can finish him off, when it comes his turn. We have spoken of "psychic down tuning". In my mind I sometimes think of "psychic down-shifting' but this is a misnomer because you're real Up shifting, like into overdrive, to increase your leverage and "externalize your power" akin to buying Securities on heavy margin. Actually the "industry standard" of "tuning down" a minor third- - would give you 25% more power if you thought of chess pieces, or football players. I'm not entirely sure how that would translate. Of course you want the relation of the power or driver gear to be greater than the transfer or receiving gear, to achieve this end. But in the same way that your engine RPM is reduced with each up shifting initially- - your karmic orbital torque may be compromized if you down-tune too far, and this would defeat your purpose. Ghenghis Khan had this practice of "sheep herding' the enemy troops into rounding them all up in one place and then finishing them off once they were surrounded. Many times a certain strategy will work for a while but "the condition on the battlefield may change". For instance in Football whenever you get inside the "red zone" the field shrinks. Which means the "space" your own team has to play with is reduced, so you have to re-think your strategy. Many times if you knew your enemy's next move you could meet it advantageously. For instance if you knew he was planning on blitzing you could get your end- - to do a run around the line and throw behind the line in a successful pass- where your receiver would have few men infringing on his running.
In terms of the soap
opera so many know the secret about Samantha’s association with that rogue cop
on the Salem PD, but nobody wants to let on he’s a rogue cop even if that
information might help Samantha. But
everybody else knows. There is the dead
man, and Samantha, and Chad, and Abigail and Elvis Di Mira, and now Sonny. And Abigail was about to tell Lexi’s half
brother and he knows something is up with her.
You can’t keep a secret with that many people aware of it. The odds of other witness coming forward to
observe the tension or worse between Samantha and the rogue cop, are very
probable. Will is still in the hospital
room recovering from a gunshot incurred nearly a month ago. That’s how slow time passes. Adrian doesn’t want Will dating her son, and
told Will face to face in his hospital bed.
Then I went down for coffee in the courtyard. Dora came out and served me and a couple
others one cup and then darted back inside before I could get seconds. Something is really funny about these
afternoon outings. We had hamburgers for
lunch, and French fries, and that was a good thing to brighten an otherwise
unpromising day. I’m kind of getting
used to the routing of reduced tobacco and little coffee in the evening (none
tonight and one other day) and no coffee in the morning prior to
breakfast. We are on page seven
now. The A C is working just fine.
David Cruise talked
about fructoce corn syrup, which they are putting in all sorts of foods that
aren’t necessarily even sweet. They
could cut back on the sweetness of the hostess fruit pies, if they still sold
them. But they put fructose in things
from tomato sauce to salad dressing to pizza.
And now we know the difference is that dextrose, when you get a
sufficient amount, “turns off” a lever in the brain that informs it that you’ve
eaten enough. This lever doesn’t
function when you consume fructose, which explains why the food companies love
it, because they get to sell a lot more food you don’t need and isn’t good for
you. But as David Cruise pointed out aptly, the corn syrup lobby runs these ads with the light hearted music saying 'your body thinks it's just sugar because it doesn't know the difference", which is a lie, and I've always known it was a lie. But don’t expect the government to
take action on this one. Not with the
grip the tea party has on the short hairs of Congressmen. But David Cruise on a lot of topics lately
is very inarticulate in describing what the hell he’s even talking about, but
expects all of us to somehow be psychic.
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