You
know it’s funny how people today such as Stephanie Miller have been referring
to this period “between vacations” as just sort of “fill in period” where
nothing ever happens. Apparently nothing
ever happens these days in December except for the compilation of all of these “Best
Of” and “Worst Of” lists. And apparently
in Mexico the whole business community closes down in the month of December.
(?) Still we do have a few fleeting
news items. That star of all of the “Fast
and Furious” movies, Paul Walker died at age forty. They called him a person “whose star was
still rising” with a lot of production irons in the fire at the time he
died. Of course today is Cyber Monday,
and these made up terms are accepted as “News events” by the media. But now we have others to join them such as “Black
Friday”, “Small Business Saturday” and “Give Thanksgiving the bird”
Thursday. People behave like animals at
these big shopping malls. One poor guy
had his car windows smashed in by cops because he left his infant son in the
car for a few minutes. It matters not
whether the kid is comfortable and content; but that he did it at all is a
felony or something. And then we have
Cardinal Mahoney of Los Angeles, who has been covering up all of these
pedifilia sex scandals. And Roger
Mahoney treated us all to this orgy of self pity and “why me?” and claim that
he’s “Tired of being humble about the whole thing” and inwardly seems to
believe he’s done nothing wrong. He also
primarily believes his mission is to protect the church organization and hierarchy,
rather than the people who actually attend church every week. David Cruz had a Mannie Vegaz on his show for
about twenty minutes, who is a grown victim now. And then the Kelly Thomas trial has gotten
underway this week. Manuel Ramos and
Cisenetti are the officers charged in this case, and for once it seems to
genuinely look as if these two wayward Officers will be convicted.
None
of the radio shows except for David Cruz actually had much newsy to talk
about. Randy Rhodes was doing a lot of “fill
time” assuming the whole program wasn’t a rerun from sometime, and took few
calls. This morning after Stephanie
Miller I tuned in the Monterey station on computer. But Ed Schultz hasn’t been on that program in
weeks as far as I can tell, or when I have checked. And today’s show didn’t impress me. But I listened to the Rush Limbaugh fill-in a
bit and Randy hit it right on the head.
People who work menial jobs for a living are devalued by conservatives
like they aren’t important to the economy or somehow don’t really have anything
to contribute (unlike Rush Limbaugh who gets paid forty million for three hours
work sitting in a plush chair shooting his mouth off for three hours and
insulting and damaging so many) The way
this guy today was talking perhaps the employees should pay these fast food
places for the “privilege of getting their first job” there. After all they are taught to follow procedure
and not vary from it, and to be clean and look nice, and presentable. And they always say “Well if we pay these
people more- - then everyone on the entire economic ladder will demand and get
more- - and then we will have galloping inflation. I’m sure words like “unions’ and “socialist”
made their way into the conversation, one way or the other.
This
is Cyber Monday December 2, 2013, or “1202” day, a day I tagged as lucky in
1991 when it probably was actually lucky.
Ryan O Neil may have to give back a portrate painted personally for him,
that was promised him by Ferrah Faucet, because the University of Texas claims
that ALL of Faucet’s art work is the property of their school. In soap land it was a good day in three
respects. First of all Anne Millbauer
got the hook today when Teresa refused to read a list of lies against Dr Jonas
at his inquest hospital hearing. You
have to know that hence forth all of her power is gone. Samantha Brady lost one of her thirty
thousand dollar ear rings, and why she would be disposing of dead bodies in
thirty thousand dollar ear rings is beyond me.
But Theo picked it up and therefore when Samantha went back to that spot
by the river, she failed to find it and naturally is in a panic right now. The other good thing is that Jack Junior
showed the fortitude of moral character not to get stoned on pot before heading
off to history class, with his friends.
He tagged them as losers. This is
the fourth day I’ve had this cough, and the med guy this morning at the window
said that I didn’t have any unused cough medicine, when I thought I did. Tonight we had Polish sausage and what passes
for scalloped potatoes around here. I
ended up having four sugar cookies for desert, and didn’t even wait for the
seconds tray.
Paul
Crouch died. As you know he was the
founder of Trinity Broadcasting Corp back when it was known as the PTL network
or “Praise the Lord” and ‘Praise the Lord” used to be their opening theme song,
before Jim Bakker claimed he owned the term PTL. I never had a problem with either Paul or Jan
or most of their regular guests from way back when, such as Greg Laurie, Mario
Merillo, or Joe Megliatto. And by the
way I regard Jimmy Swaggart as a force of good in my life. Whatever offence he is accused of barely
registers as a blip on my radar screen. There
aren’t many people I can say that about today.
Perhaps Robert Schuller.
I
forgot to take my camera to Mom’s and would have had I thought of it. We made good time going down. [Pete Richards] worked two eight hour shifts at his work
almost back to back, and had to get up at five thirty this morning to work
another shift, which he says he doesn’t mind.
We talked a little about that Star Wars book, which is a hard cover book
with large print that I borrowed last night- - and has a map of the whole Star
Wars cosmos. [name withheld] and Wendy were already
there. Wendy had some kind of flight
attendant navy blue coat. I “caught up
with Mom” but that exchange was much more brief than I had figured it would
be. My smoking was never mentioned the
entire time, except maybe me. Mom still
keeps it at 74 degrees rain or shine.
Now Mom’s blood pressure is consistently around 120 just like mine. How did she do that? Mom seemed in good spirits. There was the usual Saturday afternoon singer
to pre-recorded sound-track There was
some delay before going into the dining room as we were all waiting for
Mom. We ate at a circular table but some
of the place settings appear to have gotten mixed up. Marie kept saying she didn’t want [blank] to
import any more magazines from Mom. I
had a beef brisket and the meat was starting to go bad, and I had loose bowels
later that evening. My weight was at
163. They only gave me a half of a baked
potato, but did give me sour cream. I
got spinach with that, and I went to the salad bar for a green salad with
Russian dressing. Wendy talked about her
trip to Spain visiting three different cities in three days to attend a rock
concert, and also toured numerous other places in the United States. Wendy prefers office work to interacting with
patients. Me and Wendy had a banana
cream pie for desert. I never got any
coffee refill, but didn’t care since I was kind of hyper to begin with. I picked up a 2014 Bird calendar
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