Comedy Inovator Harald Ramis Dies

It would seem that really for evil to succeed you need an intense desire on the person who would do Evil but you also have to enable that Evil to make it possible to operate.  Like in “Double Indemnity” Walter Neff says to Mrs. Dietrichson “You only wanted him dead; I’m the person who made that reality possible”.  So the tea party and fundamentalist Christian alike “wanted certain things” for a long time but often times were so adverse for them like in the seventies they never had a prayer of getting them to come to pass.  Now due to the poisoned political climate, due to a lot of methodical planning and preparation- - their sick, perverted dreams are now at their disposal and their heart’s desire can be put into action.  They have the force of law so that they can pass all of these “freedom of religion” acts for businesses like Jan Brewer of Arizona is contemplating signing into law now.  It seems that you have the right to impose your religious beliefs on your customers, and this would include not serving Jews, I guess, if you believe they are “without Christ’ or something.  And of course is gay behavior violates your religious tenants then you can refuse to serve gays- - and I guess Atheists would fit here, too.  The trouble with all of these restrictive laws about no gay weddings or whatever- - is that all of these newly passed state laws are violations of the Federal Civil Rights bill that forbids certain kinds of discrimination.  You can fire a guy or refuse to serve him in your business if you don’t like the cut of his coat, but not because he’s an Arab or a Moslem.  They are stressing that the anti gay part of the thing is “validated because gay behavior offends my religious sensabilities”.  Of course we also have this roomer that Republicans will put pressure on Wall Mart stores NOT to boost wages of lower level employees because it would show a lack of solidarity with the tea party or something.  This is just what happened with the Volkswagen auto plant where the company itself was expecting the shop to unionize, and would prefer they did.  But various government officials of the state of Tennessee thought this would “send a bad message” and perhaps give other Unions the idea that the State of Tennessee would be fertile ground for them, too.

Noted comedy director Herald Ramis died today at age 69 of a lengthly illness.  He was the producer of such movies as “Animal House” “Caddy Shack” “Vacation”, “Ghost Busters” and “Groundhog Day.   He was mentor to a lot of the Saturday Night Live crew.  And yes, his passing was noted by Mal Evans and the Federation, if you care about that.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagal today announced a major cutback in the manpower of the United States Armed Forces from 480,000 troops to 440,000 men.  But to make up for this cutback, we will be using more drones instead of manned spy planes and other high tech updated “smart weapons”.  If you look at a long term graph of US military manpower, this will be the lowest figure since before World War II, which is the charge that Mitt Romney made during the 2012 presidential campaign.  In a way this cutback seems odd in this era of troubled times and knowing our manpower is already strained to the max.  If I were President in these times I’d at least threaten to bring the draft and run more recruitment ads as kind of a carrot and stick approach to get our manpower up, and send some kind of a message to Syria and Iran.

Uganda has instituted a life sentence for repeat homosexual offenders, and a twelve year imprisonment for a first time offense for homosexual behavior.  To me this is really over-bearing.  The move seems to be deliberate as an act to send a message of “hostility to the United States”.   Well, at least they’re not instituting the death penalty no doubt in some grizzly manner.John Brown was the final Jeopardy answer as to one man that was even more strident as far as “giving it his all’ to advance the cause of the Black Man than even Fredric Douglas was.  There aren’t that many men willing to die for a cause bigger than themselves these days.

Carrie Kennedy, daughter of Robert and Ethyl Kennedy age 54 goes on trial for drunken driving and being under the influence of the sleeping pill Ambien, which she claims she took by accident instead of her thyroid medication.  The Governator of old was just on TV.  Katie Kuric had tattooing for the first half hour of her program.  Tatoos, particularly for women, is coming back in style and many women got tattoos after Janis Joplin died, just like her heart one.  It seems that laser surgery to remove them isn’t as complicated as I thought because the laser kind of bores down through the skin and fragments the ink particles so that they flake off.  Now there is a repent “service dog” scandal of people using this bogus definition to take dogs places where they aren’t allowed.  There is a “service dog license” problem.  After a smoke break I listened to classic rock on KLOS for about 25 minutes.  We had Polish sausage for dinner and sourkrout and potatoes au gratin.  We had sugar cookies for desert and since Owen didn’t want his Teresa and I had three.  Mardi Gras is now under way last weekend and next called “Carrni-voll” in Rio.  As you know Rio De Jenero will be the host to the summer Olympics in 2016.  I went down and got my medication on the east hall from Donnie, and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.  The sun was still above the horizon at 25 minutes to six on the patio.   The rain is still scheduled to arrive on Wednesday with a much more major storm on Friday.  We’re all waiting with baited breath.

 Days of our Lives featured Samantha in a stormy mood.  Her anger switched from Nicole to the Di Mira family - - and husband Elvis made it clear to Abigail that he no longer has any use for her “because sex with Samantha is the most intense experience in the world”.  I went down for coffee in the courtyard and talked to Lisha just checking about whether she got her notebook computer to turn on and she says she did.  So I don’t know what the hell the problem was.  I had two cups of coffee in the afternoon break and two cups in the morning break.  Nora was by while I had Sean Hannity on, or is it Shawn Hannity- - but I’m not in the habit of spelling it that way.  Hannity spent a lot of time with one caller trying to defend the Obama Health Care plan and was making an idiot of himself because no matter the prodding would never admit that the President flat out lied when he said 'You can keep your doctor" and 'You can keep your policy if you like it- - - Period."   The President repeated these words over and over again for years, which was something I was always personally puzzled by.  Why would the President stress over and over again a "selling point' that was a complete lie, other than a lot of Christians do the same thing with their "selling points" that when put to the test, turn out not to be true - - in my humble oppinion.  Now there is a new “no running into the catcher” rule for trying to score at home plate.  They don't want baseball turning into a contact sport.

Terbulance and Peril in the Ukraine Republic

Pat Buchannon is a sold out “Freak for Russia” it seems. The good news is that the President of the Ukraine Republic. Victor Yanocivitch, has left the country and he took up the time to pack up his things in a deliberate fashion, as if he were not intending to return. The Parleament and the President are antagonistic to each other- - but how it’s said that the Parleament’s action of giving Yanocivitch the boot- - may be an illegal action. Of course Vladimir Putin interfered with this nature applying pressure on Ukrane to turn away from the West and the European Economic Community- - - and become part of the old Soviet Sattelite orbit, just like in the cold war, which is what they are comparing the climate too right now. Pat doesn’t care that government troops fired on non violent civilians. Pat Buchannon doesn’t care that the Parleament is happy that he’s gone, or that the previous President in exile has been set free from prison. Whatever agreements there were Friday seem to have fallen apart. Now David Gregory questions just how safe the Ukrane Republic is right now, or whether this is just the latest chapter in what could erupt into the most major War that Europe has experienced in the last seventy years. That’s what I’m afraid of. Pat Buchannon criticized President Obama for “siding with the west” - - which is part of a growing and ever more transparent pattern with Buchannon to side with Russia. Pat was saying months ago “Ukrane growing closer to the EEC is obviously a provocative act- because the action is making Vladimir Putin feel “Encircled”.

Senior Juaquin “El Chapo” Groosman- - is the drug pin that’s been running the Mexican drug syndicate for a long time.  Apparently he deals in everything from marijuana to heroin.  He was arrested yesterday because he came out of hiding and appeared in a public place like Mozatlan where he was taken into custody.  They say he may be responsible for more deaths than Osama Bin Laden, which number in the thousands.  He’s one dangerous dude.  He broke out of prison thirteen years ago in 2001 escaping in a laundry basket.  And he only has a third grade education.  Of course others will quickly take his place.  It’s like with Al Qaeda it’s an endless game of Whackamo - - and you never seem to get anywhere.

The four topics on the Mc Laughlin Group were the Ukraine, and North Korea, and the minimum wage, and the Trans-Canada pipeline.  Most everybody there was for the pipeline.  They are stating it as a solid fact that the Trans-Canada oil is “going to be shipped out- - one way or another”.   And there is that old chestnut about how “The US doesn’t want to be held hostage to some Mideast oil supplier”.   That line gets really old.  Eleanor Clift was out gunned at least three to one on the minimum wage issue with Mort Zuckerman saying that the jobs market now is still too fragine to withstand the economic impact of losing five hundred thousand jobs.  Even if you accept this “high” figure as fact, that’s still only three month’s economic growth- - and we’re had four & a half years of economic - - growth.  And sixteen million people will be helped out a lot, a fact that the group disregards altogether.  North Korea has been newly found to be in violation of human rights in a major way in grizzly ways we didn’t suspect, according to a new report.

I figured I’d turn on the radio before nine and wondered whether Neil Savedra could manage to offend me in the couple minutes left on his show.  He managed to.  He had a caller who was fed up with church.  He had gone to church all his life and now says he’s in his mid forties and church attendance seems meaningless because he’s heard it all before and knows everything in the Bible backward and forward.  I immediately “got” what he was saying since I’ve had the same experience.  However Neil scolds the guy as - - whatever- - impatient and “not realizing a relationship needs to be worked at”.  So like if I get married at age thirteen or fourteen in kind of a custom of my society where I feel pressure to get married- - and me and my wife were never totally happy even in the best of times- - and now in the last ten years we aren’t speaking to each other at all and even when we do happen to talk- - my mind is someplace else and her mind is someplace else- - Neil would say there is nothing wrong.  First of all Neil doesn’t have an ounce of humanity or empathy for any of the callers he faces.  The Real Jesus would know, as I did, what the man was going through.  They say that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.  Neil said that his producer “Has the same problem not going to church”.  May I suggest that if Neil treated his producer the same way he treats his callers, these two wouldn’t be working together very long.  I am convinced no pastor would ever say the condemnatory things to his friends that he says to his congregation.

If I can give this place a 0 star I would. Please don't take your loved ones here. Please find a better place for them. THERE ARE NO EMPLOYEES OR EVEN A SECURITY GUARD TO LOOK AFTER YOUR LOVED ONES AT NIGHT. The place could get robbed, and it did, at night since nobody else is there except for your elderly loved ones. They go to bed but of course some of them are mentally challenged and sick so you cannot guarantee that they will be sleeping all night because they can wake up in the middle of the night or really early in the morning and leave the place without anybody else noticing SINCE NOBODY IS WORKING the graveyard shift (and that has happened)   This place has a very big issue when it comes to SAFETY. Something very important that we need to look for when we ask to care for our loved ones.

This is a review of the place where I live.  This place has numerous other Issues - - and I wouldn't be saying this now if I weren't getting pretty pissed.   Safety definitely is an issue though.