A Big Bunch of Nothing

Well Tomorrow is yet another anniversary of 911.  It's like a VFW convention every year in the United States.  The same tired old Vetterans get together and live the histories they have in common.  The President's speech turned out to be a big bunch of nothing.  There were roomers that Paul Ryan was going to give the "response" to this speech.  I can see it now- -  CNN is doing coverage "Live from the Lincoln Center, where the President is about to deliver his Gettysburg address."  And in deference to the great god Two-Side now here is Paul Ryan for what the Christians euphamistically call "The Balancing factor".   And now here are a few jokes.  Antony Wiener is at a debate and people don't think he'll do well, and one Comentator says before the Debates even start "Stick a fork in him, he's done", and Wiener objects saying "Give me a break people- - I'm a Wiener- not a baked potato".   And now here is one involving Stephano Di Mira.  One person bragging about President Obama's achievements says "Did you know that President Obama has Osama Bin Laden's head preserved in a jar of fermaldihyde in the Lincoln Room?"  And then a Bush apologist steps in and says "Well, my boy is a lot more pro active than that.  He's the only guy after all who carries fetuses in a jar".  And then a Stephano goon says "I can outdo both of your claims.  My boss Stephano likes to collect various specimines of Beans and Franks in jars".  And there is some slight snickering.  Then Peter Griffin says, "I don't get it.  I don't see any problem here.  Not unless there is a prolonged power failure- - jars of beans and franks should last a really long time- - in case the President gets into a nuclear war and there is a major food shortage or something".

I guess it was Monique’s revenge with San Diego and Texas or whatever.  Now everybody is saying that the Chargers are going to have another bad year.  Yesterday I was wearing my Chargers jersey.  The Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Washington Redskins.  By the way I agree with the owner.  Who says that the name of the team will be changed - - over his dead body”.  (OK maybe I ad-libbed that)  The whole idea of changing their name is ludicris.  Personally I wish they’d bring back the Baltimore Bullets in the NBA.  It has a lot better ring to it than the “Washington Wizzards”.  This P C stuff just gets out of hand.  Too many people are just paranoid.  I did not get any coffee last night.  It was your usual ABC game shows and then it was a Bones rerun.  This is literally a case of “being given a dose of your own medicine”.  Why don’t more people employ this rather “effective” method of punishment?  I watched the very start of the next episode but Bill was dead to the world and I saw no reason to stay up - - without coffee.  I’ll say this.  I slept really well, and didn’t wake till about three after six.

Jerry Brown and the veto proof State legislature have passed a few screwey bills this year.  Rush Limbaugh has forever talked Obama State socialism and “outcome based” everything and this next story has it.  They are going to charge people who live near the coast MORE on their electricity bill and CUT the rates of people who live in places like Fresno or Blythe, where it’s hot all the time.  Not to mention the obvious inequity of the bill, it makes absolutely no sense ecologically because it will encourage people in hot climates to use MORE air conditioning when we have been trying hard to get them to do the opposite.  I’m wondering whether some land speculators in the Central Valley or perhaps Indio are promoting this bill as a way of starting some new inland rush.  Keep in mind that right now people who live on the coast don’t do so for free.  Those ocean breezes don’t come cheap.  You pay out the wazoo for property taxes and entry prices for your homes.  The reason why all that land is so dirt cheap in places like Fontana is because nobody wants to live there because it’s so hot and smoggy.

The new I Phones were announced today.  We have your top of the line I Phone 5 S that has that fingerprint ID system, to insure that only you can use it, and it will be of great comfort if your phone should ever be stolen.  Apple says your incrypted print will be stored in the Apple cloud and not handed over to government or insurance agencies.  But there is a lower tiered phone that comes in colors – presumably to indicate they are cheap – that are steel reinforced phones whereas the “expensive” phones are made out of aluminum.  Perhaps these people should study structural physics.  The cheap phones are sixteen gigs but can be upgraded to 32, whereas the top of the line I phones start at 64 gigs, which is what whole desktop computers used to have not so many years ago.  Apparently while I Phones are doing fine domestically, abroad, in places like China - - the Android phones are cleaning up and leaving Apple in the dust, so the "low end phones" are for all these Chinese who want affordable I Phones.  So I hope everybody’s questions are answered now.

I watched Meet the Press and have little to say.  There was a broad spectrum of opinion, but the thing is I’ve heard it all, and now all there is to do is to wait until Tuesday evening, when President Obama gives us the next installment of this grand Soap Opera.  Breakfast with the Beatles was on and they had the secretary named Freda, to Brian Epstein.  I really found out nothing about Brian I didn’t know before.  In that book “When they were boys” it seems they dealve way, way back, to John learning to play banjo and things his mother would say to him at these times.   Chris Carter said that either “Get on the Right Thing’ or “Big Barn Bed” (and I forget which) was a “Ram” album holdover.  I am disinclined to believe this about either of the songs, because the acoustics are different - - much more lavish.  And perhaps David Spinoza just made a guest appearance on “Red Rose Speedway”.   They played some individual era rockers from later.  I heard nothing from Ringo all day.

  
OK and to finish with another joke.  This one guy just "died" and his afterlife is destined to be with the Federation and he sees Mal Evans' receptionist- - and she says to him "You know I've been studying your background and I must say that most people like you usually get filtered out before they ever get this far.  And the man is brought in to meet Mal.  And Mal says "Greetings and Welcome to the Orion Federation.  Do I have your last name right.  The man says "Yes, it's Strossberg".  And Mal says "Well OK Herr Strossberg but I must apprise you of the fact that there are a lot of Frankofiles among us.  I hope that won't be a problem for you".  The man says, "Am I to infer from your remarks that you don't keep Kosher up here".  And Mal says "Oh! - - - You're one of THOSE kind of Strossbergs!"