The Corruption of Integrety

According to the “Ring of Fire” there is a Tea Party run “charity group” that is completely bogus raising money to help our troops in Afghanistan live a better life by giving them extra Oreo cookies and such.  But they showed old film footage from 2004 that is completely non germain.  Also it would seem that Eugene Scelia, son of Supreme Court Justice Anton Scelia- - is active in “desconstructing’ the Dodd-Frank bill signed into law by President Obama in mid 2010.  This bill promised many reforms such as consumer protection, the end of these bogus investment swaps and derivitives, and most importantly said ‘No bank would be deemed too big to fail” and that something like 2008 would never occur again.  Of course Scelia won’t recuse himself because “It’s up to the discretion of each Justice whether he feels the need to recruse himself” so he won’t.   It seems that Justice Allito also has a son who in normal times would be considered engaging in “conflict of interest” activity.  It seems that the New York Times has been bribed with a lot of money by tea party groups to slant their editorials a certain way.  All of these developments are very depressing.  It would seem that there is no such thing as honesty or integrity in any profession these days and there’s no one who can’t be bought off.  I had just about the whole hour show on with one disconcerting story like this after another. 

To review about Governor Rick Perry.  He was duly indicted by a Texas grand jury in accordance with Texas law to the specification that Rick Perry demanded that the head of the ethics board resign, or else he’d cut off funding to that department.  Of course he wanted to replace a sitting democrat with a Republican, who would then do nothing on ethics.  According to Norman Goldman, Perry didn’t necessarily do anything wrong because the law was too vaguely written.  Goldman pointed out that congress passed an “Honest politicians’ law in 1988 that has had many prosecutions for now these 26 years and all of a sudden the law is unconstitutional.  Or at least it is slated to be unconstitutional.  The Supreme Court today apparently declared this law unconstitutional, as if this were an emergency case that demanded their immediate attention to save the butt of a Texas republican, after no doubt other cases have languished for literally years without the Supreme Court choosing to hear them.  Whatever happened to the principle of “Newcomers have to go to the back of the line”.  Humm?

 The ISIS video was shown sadly to be genuine and the President was furious and delivered a brief speech on the subject.  Unfortunately Islam is the most barbarous of any of the world’s - - major religions.  As the President points out though, these ISIS people don’t much care who they murder.  Of course the President is still bombing, and perhaps we should now step up the bombing and work more closely with the Kurds perhaps sending in advisors or something.  Sadly, this situation is just too grave for the world to ignore.  But I didn’t know whether Sean was madder at ISIS or at President Obama for “getting back to his golf game after a two minute speech”.   Paul Ryan was on after two thirty, the second greatest liar in all of politics.  (Oliver North holds undisputed number one position)  Everything out of Ryan’s mouth was amanipulative political distortion, that served little constructive purpose. But he has a book out now called “The way forward”.  Yeah, right over a cliff!  He had Michael Brown’s attorney on.  I think the facts are pretty clear in my mind.  That Johnson fellow says the cop was pretty much on their case- - when he backed up his squad car the officer claims he just that minute heard an APB over the radio.  The thing is nobody even brought the cigar shop lifting incident till I think days later.  The video wasn’t out till six days later, and that was an edited portion only.  My point is that the store manager was as surprised as anybody that the police claim the officer knew about it- because he didn’t call 911.   And contrary to what Hannity says- - Dorian Johnson’s testimony is perfectly valid unless he’s a convicted felon.  Being with a friend who shop lifts is not my definition of conviction of a felony.  The testimony is that the officer, Wilson, used the F word a lot at him.  Brown slammed the officer’s car door shut.  He wasn’t “invading the car” as first reports had it.  Brown and Johnson was running away and when Brown was hit and he knew it, he turned around and said “I’m not armed”.   Forensic evidence indicates one shot came from the back.  Forensic evidence dictates that Brown who is 6 foot 4 was shot from a downward direction, as if he were on his knees.  But one reason why I don’t believe the officer is because not once did I hear “I was there to make an arrest” or “I need to question you” or anything of that nature.  Neither is there any response by Brown to questions that were never asked.  To me it seems the only reason why the officer “returned” to the conflict is that “he wasn’t done yet”.  They “got off too easy” so to speak.  Now Sean has lodged the accusation that the officer’s eye socket was blown out, which is something NOT ONCE mentioned anywhere till I just heard Sean Hannity raise that particular allegation on his show today.   The Department of Justice seems to have already concluded that the local authorities have no intension of doing a serious prosecution, for reasons Norman Goldman enumerated.

I turned on the Stephanie Miller show, and have her on right now.  I went to the liquor store for a dollar cup of coffee.   We had Cheerios for breakfast followed by two smaller pancakes (than they’ve had in the past) with whipped cream on them.  The coffee was good, but I got no food supplements today.   I intend to do another paragraph on the crucifixion of Jesus and all the interactions likely with the Roman authorities that previously hadn’t occurred to me.  I'll cut to the chase.  We know of all the rioting that has gone on for over a week in Ferguson over the death of one Black guy.  Well, remember in the Bible the authorities reasoned among themselves "We can't arrest Jesus during the Passover because the people will riot".  And yet when Jesus was before Pilate it WAS Passover and the people were close to Rioting in favor of killing Jesus if Pilate didn't act.  And yet we are to believe the minute Jesus was put to death, or even BEFORE he was put to death- - - all was quiet in the streets and there was not one thing that occurred in Jerusalem that merited the slightest mention at all after Jesus was pronounced dead.   There are no further arrests, no rioting or protesting or vows of reprisals for this unjust act.  Stephanie Miller notes there is a major cover-up and deception by these Ferguson cops.  That video doesn’t necessarily prove ‘robbery” but all we saw, all we were shown, was the last few seconds of an obviously longer encounter where there was a bit of a scuffle between the store owner and Michael Brown.  Stephanie and Chris point out that such a video released now may be a not too subtle attempt to contaminate the jury pool. 

Both of last night’s Law and Order episodes were disturbing.  You had this sixteen year old girl who was raped – twice by her estrange stepfather’s boss- - who always had a “bad attitude”.  But the jury let him off because the girl herself was under a great deal of emotional distress and at one pointed recanted the fact that any rape took place.   Then you have this case of Jake, who seems like your postcard wholesome kid, whose a fairly good looking eleven years ago and reasonably articulate- - the type of kid who might run for student body president when he got older.  But he’s a cold blooded murderer, and they are saying he’s a dangerous sociopath “who will only kill again”.   Anyhow the dead boy’s father just learns the kid killed his own little boy Henry- - and that he’s going to “get off” for it and that these other boys at the reform school regard Jake as a real psycho.  Anyhow right there in the court house the father grabs this officer’s gun and shoots Jake, which is a completely insane act right out there in public - -where he easily could have gotten shot himself.  Here is where I feel uncomfortable.  If that had happened with me- - where I just “went off the rails’ like that, I would not trust anything I’d say at that moment and want to get into therapy immediately and I certainly would be demanding an attorney.  If ever there was a case of “Don’t talk to the authorities without a lawyer” this is it.  Anyhow the guy got off- - and right after his acquittal he admits everything the female prosecutor had been wanting him to admit.  I guess he just "wanted to give the finger" to the legal system. 

ISIS May Have Beheaded an American Journalist

Jim Foley was an American reporter in Syria originally covering the oppression of Assad on the Syrian rebels.  However ISIS didn't quite see it that day. Today a video surfaced people fear is the real Mc Coy showing the beheading of Foley, in an orange outfit.  And of course there was the usual forced confession the victim had to read before he was put to death.  And now there is another reporter that ISIS is also threatening to put to Death is ISIS doesn't get its way this time.  It is apparent that ISIS wants to kill Americans because they see us as "the enemy" and seemingly the cause of all their problems.  There haven't been a lot of details in the news as of this point but hopefully we'll learn more.

Things are only getting worse in Ferguson, MO as another Black man is shot.  This one seemingly comitted "suicide by cop" because he is described as a wild man wielding a knife and coming at an officer.  Of course in the case of the shooting of Michael Brown the authorities are careful to release only information that is detrimental to Brown, to defane his character.  Meanwhile they are saying very little about the coroner's report or how the investigation is proceding, except that the guilty officer has not been charged yet, and has not been arrested.  These actions would go a long way twords settling down the protestors.   I don't fault the Missouir governor as other liberals to.  He's just trying various tacticts in this situation he doesn't face every day and he's just seeing what works.  Rush Limbaugh got into the act by pretty much saying that since both President Obama and Eric Holder are Black, that naturally the Federal investigation is going to be racially biased.  Norman Goldman shared the constitutional background as to why the Federal Government even has the right to intervene in such cases.  If a major constitutional civil right is violated, the Federal Government has the right to step in.  I would remind you that Rush Limbaugh said in 2008 concerning Collin Powel's endorsement of Barock Obama that "It's just not partly about race- - it's ALL about race!"  That statement pretty much tells us everything we need to know about Rush.  Actually if the Obama Administration DOES intervene in this case in a big way it would be out of character for them because the Obama Administration has a long, sad history of NOT supporting progressive causes, as you well know.

I didn't know till today that the GI Bill for World War veterans, is only for White - - veterans.  Southern Congressmen specifically wrote provisions into this bill to give racist bankers in the southern states the right they insisted on to deny any loans to Blacks, even if it's part of the GI Bill.  Maybe that's the only way the bill would get passed.  Senator Strom Thermond was the first US democratic Senator actually put into action the "Southern Strategy" because he was the first major political figure to switch to the Republican party after the Civil Right's bill was passed in 1964.  Of course people like Larry Elder will attack Robert Byrd till the cows come home for once being a member of the KKK, even though he evolved into a respectable progressive senator, but Larry Elder has never attacked Strom Thermon.  This only highlights his complete moral inconsistency.  Of course Red Lining was legal by the insurance and Real Estate companies till the late seventies when it was outlawed by the Carter Administration.  So it didn't matter if you had good credit; you were a priori penalized by for living in a particular neighborhood.  In Atlanta apparently they had laws that no Black would live on "Peachtree Street" and apparently Peachtree streets sprung up all over the city.  That sounds confusing to me.  People like Rush Limbaugh can't consider the point for a minute that maybe ghetto Blacks haven't had the same experiences with police officers that he personally has.  It's the same idea that Rush Limbaugh believes that somehow if we just didn't have Obama Care- - that all Americans would be able to get the same quality of health care either he gets or someone like Dick Chaney gets.

There were two high school students, 16 and 17 who were scheduled to start school next week in a local high school in South Passadena.  But of course the two boys were conspiring to stage a mass shooting in the school and looked at all sorts of computer sites on armed conflict and sniper attacks and the like, and the police say were it not from one loan phone call maybe dozens of students would have been dead at this time next week.  So- someone deserves comendation.

Don Pardo - - gameshow announcer from the sixties, passed away today.  He announced the Price is Right and Jeopardy, and I think he also did several other game shows because you heard his name all the time.  I guess he is most famous for announcing Saturday Night Live.  So a bit of American history has passed.

Was the Government Prepared to Deploy Snipers If the Occupy Protests Gained Momentum?

TruthDig reported last year:

“Did the FBI ignore, or even abet, a plot to assassinate Occupy Houston leaders?”

 asksinvestigative reporter Dave Lindorff at WhoWhatWhy. “What did the Feds know? Whom did they warn? And what did the Houston Police know?”

A Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Washington, D.C.-based Partnership for Civil Justice Fund yielded an FBI document containing knowledge of a plot by an unnamed group or individual to kill “leaders” of the Houston chapter of the nonviolent Occupy Wall Street movement.

Here’s what the document said, according to WhoWhatWhy:

An identified [DELETED] as of October planned to engage in sniper attacks against protestors (sic) in Houston, Texas if deemed necessary. An identified [DELETED] had received intelligence that indicated the protesters in New York and Seattle planned similar protests in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin, Texas. [DELETED] planned to gather intelligence against the leaders of the protest groups and obtain photographs, then formulate a plan to kill the leadership via suppressed sniper rifles. (Note: protests continued throughout the weekend with approximately 6000 persons in NYC. ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests have spread to about half of all states in the US, over a dozen European and Asian cities, including protests in Cleveland (10/6-8/11) at Willard Park which was initially attended by hundreds of protesters.)

Paul Kennedy of the National Lawyers Guild in Houston and an attorney for a number of Occupy Houston activists arrested during the protests said he did not hear of the sniper plot and expressed discontent with the FBI’s failure to share knowledge of the plan with the public. He believed that the bureau would have acted if a “right-wing group” plotted the assassinations, implying that the plan could have originated with law enforcement.

“[I]f it is something law enforcement was planning,” Kennedy said, “then nothing would have been done. It might seem hard to believe that a law enforcement agency would do such a thing, but I wouldn’t put it past them.”

He added that the phrase “if deemed necessary,” which appeared in the bureau’s report, further suggests the possibility that some kind of official organization was involved in the plan.

Texas law officials have a history of extreme and inappropriate violence.

Kennedy has seen law enforcement forces attempt to secretly entrap Occupy activists and disrupt their activities in the city. He represented seven people who were charged with felonies stemming from a protest whose organizing group had been infiltrated by undercover officers from the Austin Police department. The felony charges were dropped when police involvement with a crucial part of that action was discovered.

A second document obtained in the same FOIA request suggested the assassination plans might be on the plotters’ back burner in case Occupy re-emerges in the area.

Justice Is Weighed- Not Cosmetically Posed

Rush Limbaugh claims that David Gregory was fired by NBC because he was too hostile to Hamas and too friendly tword Israel.  I find that very puzzling.   If their ratings were really low you’d think we’d know why Gregory was fired but we don’t.   Rush Limbaugh challenged a caller who said “The family of Mike Brown only want justice” because Rush said “What if justice means acquittal” and then made a lot of wild statements after this.  I switched to Bill Carol for the period right before lunch and after lunch till 12:30.  Then Sean Hannity had that Dr Baden guest on, who was a forensic pathologist doing the autopsy for the Brown family.  I think he testified in the OJ trial.  We have new information on this Ferguson case a lot of people won’t like.  Mike Brown was not shot while running away from the police and was not 35 feet away.  In fact the lethal bullet seems to have come downward through the skull and out the jaw, as if either fired from a 2^nd story window or Brown was in some sort of a charging position.  (Either that of he was trying to make second base)  The latest story now is that Brown had been running from the officers but then turned around and faced them and either began taunting them, or else charged them.  Brown is nearly six feet five and weighs 280 pounds like a linebacker or something.  And marijuana was found in his system.  Bill Carol wonders that even though the officer didn’t know Brown had just burglarized a store, that maybe Brown was in a combative mood anyway and just looking for a fight.  This is speculation.   There was more violence in Ferguson, Mo last night.  Tonight they aren’t even going to have curfew, which in my opinion is a mistake.  At this point it seems best to err on the side of law and order.  However as early as nine o clock apparently, violence erupted, and drew a response.  During the LA riots the cops abandoned the area to the looters, and this was a bad, if not cowardly move on their part.  I guess they figured “Let the niggers trash their own property if they want to”, which is a cynical viewpoint.  Every time you think this story is going to die down, something gives it new birth.  For instance now the officer’s story is now public.  The officer knew that Brown had robbed the convenience store even though the store denies reporting the robbery so soon.  Brown and a friend were walking in the street and the officer told them to get on the sidewalk- - and it escalated from there.  When Brown and his friend were told to “freeze” as they were walking away, this is when they turned around and Brown taunted the officer saying “You won’t shoot me” and the next thing the officer knows, “Brown bum-rushed me so I fired”.

In the Zimmerman case my cry was “It’s the forensics, stupid!” and Norman is saying the same thing in this case.  If Mike Brown was taller than the officer, the logical inference was that the officer was somehow shooting down on the victim.  This would make sense if Brown were on his knees.  I hear that the officers did NOT interview the witnesses.  I have also heard that they did not call for an ambulance because according to Sean Hannity “The officer could just look at Brown and tell that he was dead by the look of the wound”.  Then Dr Baden responded that the officer could NOT tell how serious the injury was by just looking at the head wound because of all the hair and such.  But this one caller- who brought up Zimmerman - - said the community would not be nearly so upset if it were a Black officer that had gunned Brown down.  The caller though wouldn’t “Play Norman’s game” in that he wouldn’t keep the same facts of the situation as identical except for the race of one of the other principle parties.  The right wing can’t stand logic- - but consistently hide behind the same- - I’ll say it - - racist rhetoric.

Other than Marco Rubio the only other candidate the Republicans could nominate would be Paul Ryan.  Republicans want block grants instead of specific allocations for specific purposes.  You heard that “earmarks’ are bad, but at least earmarks were specific.  What the nightmare would be is for a republican congress to issue block grants signed by a Republican President, to be given out to Republican governors such as Perry, Walker or Christie, or for that matter Rick Scott.  Ryan calls his plans for Medicare vouchers as “more flexible” but is gambling nobody will do the math and fast realize you are talking about drastic cuts in funding.  Of course the overriding mantra of the Tea Party is “The makers verses the takers”.  If you are rich you assumed to be a maker.  Everybody including me has their own frame of reference of course.  You could divide this whole century into a kind of Dream of Joseph in the Bibles, who forecast seven good years followed by seven very lean years.  For me the turning point might well have been when I got DSL from A T & T in October of 2007.  It’s only too bad Sylvia Brown vanished from the public eye right about then, October of 2007.  Because it would have been interesting to find out what Sylvia Brown’s predictions for the next seven years would have been.  I personally have been labeled “A Taker” by the right wing- - more in these past seven years than the entire rest of my life.  This can’t be coincidence.  It doesn’t matter that you don’t get support- - or very little- - from these people who label you a Taker or sponging off of the government or whatever- - it’s the very fact that you EXIST that’s a crime.  Just as with Black people merely seeing a group of them on the street is enough to make a lot of people want to call out the Riot Squad.  Mitt Romney nailed it when he spoke of the lazy 47% that were takers, which is nearly half the nation.  It would seem to me if you are fortunate enough to be in the upper half of income in this country- - rather than attack the have nots, the first thing you should do is get on your knees and thank God you are spared the economic problems other people go through on a regular basis.  But this would never occur to them.  Rush Limbaugh stated this morning that “It makes no sense to exploit the topic of racial injustice, because the Blacks already vote one hundred percent democratic anyway.”   What’s wrong with this statement is that many of the elderly, the black, and the poor don’t vote at ALL.  And as such when you do a political ad, you aim your campaign to at least the top fifty percent in income, but more probably your real audience will be the top twenty percent, which seems to be about the only group advertisers in general think even exists- - or spends any money.  It’s like “every time you see a commercial for anything - - just go out and spend a bunch of money”.  (Selah)

Both John Fugelsang and Thom Hartman know the Bible better than most tea party people who call themselves Christians, I bet you.  Basically people like Neil Savedra forfeit the debate before the battle is even engaged saying things such as “I’m not going to stoop to getting into a Bible quoting contest”.  I bet white baseball players used to say the same thing when up against a superior “negro” team.  “I’m not going to degrade myself by playing with them!”  I told Judy if she was worried about Mom accepting Christ (before she dies or whatever)  I would inform Mom that “There is a major new movement of liberals endeavoring to take Christ and the Christian tradition back from the right wing whack-a-doodles.  And it would be a sin to allow yourself to be lulled or deceived, if this is your reason for NOT accepting Christ.  I’ve never myself officially heard Mom say “I am not a Christian and don’t accept the atonement of the cross”.  If I hear that out of her own mouth, then it’s necessary to probe further and find what motivates this statement.   I would point out to her the person of Pope Francis, who has extolled traditional Christian values.  From a utilitarian point of view, the world would be a much better place if we all accepted Christian values.  One could argue from an evolutionist point of view that morals evolved because they insure a longer and more satisfactory life than without them.

I need to pray for Mom and Paul and Judy’s situation.  It’s turning into a big hairy mess with apparently loads of paper work.  Judy says “Having money brings a lot of paper work”.  I need to talk to Mom myself to see if her lapses in memory are really as bad as Judy portrays it, or Judy just caught her under a bad day under a period of particular stress.  I know what that’s like.  You know there are tax laws where you are allowed to give as a gift up to ten thousand dollars a year to a family member without having to pay taxes on it.  If Judy is that worried about paper work while she deals with Mom’s money, maybe she could remember that.  Judy also reminded me that Andy won’t be around if my computer ever needs more major work like it did.  Judy also stated that you can’t buy Windows 7 in the stores anymore.  Windows 7 used to have an excellent file search system people liked, but for Windows 8 they got rid of it.  Judy also reminded me, in case I was thinking of trying to get Windows 7, that none of my stuff would work with it anyhow.  So I’m stuck in the dark ages for the foreseeable future.   She mentioned seeing that movie dramatization of the Star of Bethlehem, in sort of a “part two” of the material I saw there the last time.  But she said it would not be possible to visit Mom this week because both of them would be really busy, but it’s still something to think about.  It would be something if they could actually prove that prayer works.  Perhaps it does.  I have not seen any specific testing that it definitely doesn’t.  I’m just saying for me, I wish my own prayers (more like twenty or thirty years ago) had a better track record; that’s all.  

US Taking Back Territory from ISIS

I watched Face the Nation but the second part first, and then skipped around.  Apparently Kurdish forces have joined with us in taking back ground from ISIS, but fourteen different sites were bombed by our side today to protect that dam.  They say in spite of all the danger (Mc Cartney song) this was a good week for the Obama administration.  This rep from Michigan, Mike Rogers was speaking it seems for the Administration this morning.  I actually thought he was a PART of the administration.  Because the US is keeping up the bombing and we are making real inroads against ISIS.  Now we are taking steps to secure that dam near Mosel, because if that should be blown up “It could send a sixty foot high wall of water down on the people below”.   So in a way I was right when I hinted that the best thing the Obama administration could do at this point is keep the war going as long as possible.  Rogers was also asked about Ferguson, MO.   He says he used to be in law enforcement and he was taught about “the gradient of escalation of force” and says in this case ‘”The police seem to have escalated things too prematurely”.   There is an upside to this because despite all the flash of smoke and fury and weapons- - nobody else seems to have died at the hands of the police.  And no doubt a lot of the locals are grateful to the police for bringing back a sense of law and order.  And when it comes to the Mideast theater of battle - - maybe ISIS is rethinking their plans for world dominance or whatever.  Though Rogers said the amount of land area controlled by ISIS is only about the size of Indiana.  I thought it was considerably larger.  But Rogers warns that ISIS represents a greater threat now than Bin Laden did prior to nine – eleven, and that if we were really fair, we should be more paranoid and afraid now, than we were then.   I don’t know.

In “The Week” magazine there was a paragraph on the topic of “Not all right wingers are wing-nuts”.   When I first saw it my natural inclination was to think “Well I knew there some intelligent conservatives out there somewhere - - it’s be nice to hear from one of them”.  However my hopes proved short lived.  Because the guy just went into an all out attack against the character seemingly of all liberals in general.  He said they are frauds because they really aren’t compassionate and understand the way they claim to me.  He further claimed that liberals “were always bragging about having these traits”, which is just wrong.  Liberals ARE this way and you can OBSERVE their conduct as opposed to conservative conduct to observe this.  I remember in history class- - I was bored when they hit the parts about labor unions or reform in the mental illness sector or women’s sufferage.  Like all other kids, I was more “into” the good stuff like kicking the crap out of the Indians or the various wars we’ve fought or economic policies.  But you multiply me times X million pupils out there and you see the problem.  Liberals are the ones who portray things they way they REALLY WERE.  Conservatives won’t do that.  But then the author goes on to say that liberals never look at things from the other side, from their opponents point of view and try to understand THEM.  Again this is such a false statement it’s pathetic.  That’s all we do is try and look at things from the point of view of the right wing.  How many times has President Obama said “If I just go along with them and give them most of what they want without even negotiating- - then they’ll like me and I’ll be popular”.   How does John Boehner justify his “take no prisoners” approach to legislation?  Oppose everything!   These people even ADMIT that “We are like the Talliban insurgency”.   But it’s like this sign I saw on a church marquee titled “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life”.  I looked at that heading and thought “Well, I’m safe for today.  No way any pastor can mess that message up.  It’s right out of the Bible”.  But I was wrong.  It was the usual Bill Halliday ranting away with the usual vitriol against imagined enemies.

It was “Hollywood Bowl” day on Breakfast with the Beatles.  That’s where they held today’s show this morning.  I didn’t know that former DJ and MC Bob Eubanks was the one who bankrolled the project putting up $25,000.   But of course that August 1964 concert was only a half hour.  Why don’t the Beatles be like a normal rock group and play an hour and a half?  I don’t get it.  Eubanks wanted John Lennon NOT to announce “This is the last song” because that way the Beatles could sneak off and be halfway to Burbank before the crowd even knew they had left the arena.  But John had a little backbone and refused saying ‘I can’t do that”.   And in 1965 Eubanks again produced the Beatles and they were “less bubbly” or whatever.  And by the time of the 1966 concert at Dodger Stadium- - Eubanks states that John, George, and Ringo had gotten pretty negative.   Eubanks also made reference to Reb Foster, another DJ of the period, who he partnered with.  He also made passing reference to Dave Hull, the Hullibaluer - - who was on KRLA every afternoon from three to six for years.  Eubanks says the Hull stowed away on a plane the Beatles were on, or something.  KLOS also played these old KHJ concert promos where apparently they were letting concert tickets at the Hollywood Bowl go for just 93 cents, because it was 93 KHJ.  They had quite a number of these adds in 1966 and 1967 for all of the big acts of this period.  It was a real trip to hear them again.  Eubanks was a live studio guest.

There was this guy I don’t know his name- in a wheel chair saying he met Dr Levy once and got a negative impression.  He said he was “loud, rude and arrogant”.   The trouble with this “Creative Aging” thing Dr Levy can’t stop talking about is that it’s an oxy-moronism.  After all Bob Dylan said ‘He who is not busy being born is busy dying” and Creation or the creative process involves new life and birth.  Really they should call “Creative Aging by what it more closely is as “Perry-death”.  You’ve heard of Perry-menopause.  This is several years leading up to menopause and what to expect and how to deal with it.    Personally I’m not one of these people who believe “Death is beautiful”.  I’m all for whatever hormone therapy the doctors can come up with.  We hear that estrogen causes uterine and ovarian cancer,  and that testosterone therapy causes impotency and testicular cancer.  I don’t believe it.  It’s too counter intuitive.  When the gas company says you need to deal with a pilot light always going out by “turning it up” when it comes to male hormones you should likewise “turn it up”.  After all this think of all the things testosterone cures- - low self esteem, low energy, low sex drive- - a loss of muscle tone, and what have you.  Youth is the key to happiness.  People need to embrace life, and the young naturally know how to live it.  It’s something we forget once we reach middle age.

 Back thirty years ago in 1984 even the bad music had more character than most any of the "new" music today has.  Back then you had to go to shopping malls to play video games.  It didn't cost a hundred dollars to get into Disneyland.  The expression 'That and fifty cents will buy you a cup of coffee" actually made sense.  People didn't have their own computers.  Los Angeles had two NFL football teams.  Most people still played vinyl record albums.  Christians actually looked down on churches who were "into" politics.  Every other commercial on TV was not for some new medication for some new invented problem  Computers were specialized devices used for sensible things like accounting. You didn't have this sense of instant obsolecence every few years.  You could still smoke in restaurants.  And back then, perpetual War was not the norm for America.  And the best thing about 1984 was that we were all thirty years younger!  EWN talks about all of these “apps” you can get now, but the thing is- we all need to stop being squinty eyed introverts, tethered to our cell phones and I pads and get about the business of living and doing things with people in the real world.  There was some youth pastor who hit a guy he eventually died from brain damage, but he isn’t being charged.  The pastor’s only reaction is to praise God for “getting through this crisis”.  It’s only too bad that God didn’t get the brain damaged man through his crisis.  There was also one Latino pastor who molested six girls, and he was charged.  I read in Talmud quotes that if a man receives an act of mercy or grace, undeserved, from God, that God will take away from his reward in the afterlife.   Of course our own scripture states that people who “get their reward” here, won’t get it again in the afterlife because they’ve already gotten it.  (Selah)  I got “The Week” magazine from Federico in the office before dinner.  There is a report in there headlined “Not all right wingers are Wing-nuts.  I saw another report reaffirming that Democratic Presidents have better economies than Republicans.  That one was on line.  That was Yahoo news and in their studied “expert” opinion, they concluded that “sheer luck” counted for a consistent 65 year track record since the days of Truman, that democrats are better in all aspects of the US economy.  Now -there was one on how bogus a charge “voter fraud” is.  There have been 34 cases of voter fraud in every single election in the United States combined since the year 2000.   Just think how many collective vote that represents.  I got coffee from Glen just now.  I was really tired and neither of us said that much.  I got instant “espresso” coffee for three cigarettes in his room.

Today's sage saying.  It really hard to control people who have no sense of fear or risk of "losing anything"

DEMENTED AGAIN  Third Edition (almost the same as - )

My Ding-a-ling  (Live Chuck Berry)

Boobs a Lot (Oly Modal Rounders)

In the Mood (Ray Stevens & the Henhouse Five)

Dance This Mess Around (B ‘52’s)

Bounce Your Boobies (Rusty Warren)

The Bouncer At St Peter’s Gate (ELP)

Cheer Leaders on Drugs (Uncle Bonzai)

The Ripper  (Judas Priest)

I Owe A Lot to Iowa Pot (Nepolian XIV)

Kinko, The Clown  (unknown demento artist)

Be Prepared (Tom Lerrer)

Dr Bleishtaff  (First Family Rides Again)

When You Get Drafted (Dead Kennedies)

She’s Got Medals  (David Bowie)

UFO “Platters” montage song (1956)

I Smoke Two Joints  (Reggae group)

Ask Me No Questions (You Will Hear No Lies)

There’s A Hole in the Bucket (Harry Belefante)

Don’t Sit Down On the Plexiglass Toilet  (artist?)

Shrivel Up  (Devo)

Disk Two

Thin End of the Wedge  (Procol Herem)

Tatoo Vampire  (Blue Oyster Cult)

Mercedes Benz   (Janis Joplin)

The Motorcycle Song (Arlo Guthrie Live version)

Waiting for the End of the World (Elvis Costello)

Refrigerator Heaven  (Alice Cooper)

Nazi Punks, Fuck Off!  (Dead Kennedies)

Don't Wanna Be Your Slave (Rolling Stones)

Men, Men, Men - -   (Monty Python)

Pink Pussy Cat (Devo)

It Ain't The Meat; It's The Motion  (Bill Ward?)

My Boomerang Won't Come Back (artist?)

Happy Birthday To You (Weird Al Yankivic)

Disco Toilet (artist?)

Beer Nuts (Kip Adatta?)

The Ox  (The Who)

Problem Child (AC DC)

Texas Governor Rick Perry Indicted

Obviously this is not Rick Perry

Texas governor Rick Perry had been indicted by the state AG or something on two counts of violation of “ethics” charges.  If we were living in the milenial reign of Christ, these charges might make sense- - - in an ideal world.  But compared to what Governors Christie and Walker do on a routine basis as regular as eating and sleeping, these charges seem awfully trumped up, and I’m beginning to wonder whether Ted Cruise might be behind them, perhaps by paying the Attorney General to prosecute Perry to hobble him for the next political campaign.  Of course if Cruise did something like this it would be found out and they’d both be knocked out of contention and then we’d be left with Marco Rubio as the only one still standing. At this point in time (a heavy qualifier) it looks like Marco Rubio is the odds-on favorite to be the Republican Party nominee in 2016.

In the early days of the tea party back in 2009 and 2010, they were ardently against funding for these wars of choice which presidential administrations do.  But now it’s a different story.  But if Ron Paul actually wants to campaign against this defense or “war lobby” I’m right behind him.  If Ron Paul wants to come out against the Wall Street bail out of 2008, or now attack Bush for two wars and funding of Medicare part D “off the books”, again – I’m right behind him.  And now Rand Paul has come out against this heavy funding to militarize the police departments that don’t need all that high tech equipment.  Also Paul it seems is actually coming out in favor of the Black man by saying that this charging someone with a felony to get it on his record and ruining him for any jobs he might try for- - - this is also wrong.  Rand Paul it seems gets enthusiastic audiences among various young people like at Howard University.  The idea has hit that if Ran Paul could make alliance with liberals on certain issues, we might actually have something.  As you know years ago I suggest forming a “Reform libertarian party”.

I don’t like what is going on with Notre Dame, and I mean the NCAA organization wanting to retroactively take away games in the Win Colum from previous seasons.  This is not only “changing the rules during the game” but “changing the rules after the game is over”, which is even worse.  It’s dirty pool and I’m wonder if there is some legal way for Notre Dame to lodge some complaint against the NCAA for charges about certain players cheating on exams, that have yet to be proven.  I really wouldn’t look at the test scores of ANY college football player too closely- - because I think it’s generally accepted there are there for their athletic ability and not for their academic abilities.  OK maybe Notre Dame is one school that’s kosher in this area.

As to this whole Ferguson thing- -  the protesters were again active last night – after a certain period of deceptive calm.  I am a little surprised the protestors got riled up with the police revelation that this “promising Tech student” this ‘model citizen’ in fact had just committed a minor- - burglary stealing a box of cigars.  So is this a felony?   It’s like he was unarmed and didn’t threaten anybody, if you don’t count “lethal shoving”.   Clearly some “outside force” is whipping up these protestors.  I imagine people like Judy are probably saying that this whole “incident” is a campaign whipped up by the liberal Media.  I confess to being puzzled by this barrage of stories now on shootings and such of seemingly innocent people, and now we have this Autistic black man of limited mental capacity- - who was disoriented and got arrested yesterday.   We can agree that police officers lack adequate  training in confronting suspects.

When some people think of “Religion” speak of some sort of prayer or communion with God or other supernatural force.  But certain others think only of Church government.  So we hear that in Massachusetts before that state signed the Constitution- - they actually took row call in Church and if you weren’t in attendance you were prosecuted.  I am not a “Statist” period.  I don’t believe in bribing people to vote by entering them in a State Lottery- - or taxing them for not voting as they apparently do in Austrailia.   We are reminded that until the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, technically state governments had the right to have their officially approved “state Church”.   People speak of “freedom of religion” but if the Puritans had truly respected freedom, they wouldn’t be looking for their first chance to oppress other people as they once were oppressed.  The same goes for King Henry VIII.   Why don’t we give King Henry VIII’s split with the Catholic church equal standing as a holiday with Thanksgiving?  That would be the logical thing to do.  I spoke in the previous posting an inigmatic double negative.  I spoke of something “Whose non existence is irrelevant”.   I don’t know if you picked up on that or thought you’d misread it.  What I meant by this was - - in our present state of knowledge- - certain things appear “hypothetically impossible to prove”.  But this ALSO means they are hypothetically impossible to DIS-prove!  However religion takes it a step further than that.  They are not content to say ‘You can’t prove your revelation from God is real- - and since it came after ours, our church does not accept it” as per Joseph Smith.  No.  The Church goes further saying it KNOWS- - that God has not spoken to ANYBODY since the Nicene Creed in the fourth century or whatever.  Since then it’s as if God is deader than an extinct species.

The Great Invisible Recession

And Jesus came to the Devil and asked him.  I wanted to be incarnated as human but now I seem unable to act like one- - really.  What can I do to be accepted as just another human being?"
The Devil said "You need do only three things".   You need to go get laid.  You need to listen to who humans regard as an authority figure and do something stupid like join the military.  And you need to make it very clear that you do NOT want to be worshipped as a deity after you die, after all - that would be showing a gross lack of humility, wouldn't it?"

You’d really have to call these past six and a half years “The Great Invisable Recession” because I darkly suspect a lot of the “Average American” who are ABOVE the median level of income and not IN that “lazy 47% Mitt Romney talked about two years ago - - these people have never been in a recession.  But that doesn’t mean that the recession hasn’t been useful to them.  It’s a great excuse for them to cut back on their charitable organizations giving in the name of being “good Americans” being thrifty with their money.  When you boil the tea party’s prime message unquestionably it has to be “Despise the Poor”.   Most countries in Europe are in a worse recession than we are in America because all of their “austerity” stuff.   They buy the latest cell phone and complain because frequent flying isn’t as pleasant as it used to be.  When they pay for a meal in a restaurant they pull out a wad of bills of over a hundred dollars and dish it out as though it were play money.  Back in the thirties- - it would seem the people knew they were in an economic Depression, and the President knew it too and they trusted their President.  We are all tired of false hope, of Bill Clinton saying “You may not feel the effects of this recovery, but soon you will”.  We heard two years ago in the fall campaign “Well, it looks like the economy is picking up because people are having “recession weariness”.  It won’t be a hard matter to know when we are OUT of this endless recession.  When the unemployment rate falls below 5.5% in real terms, meaning counting ALL of the people without a job who want one.  It means when charity giving in inflation adjusted dollars exceeds what it was seven summers ago.  It will be when the renters’ tax credit is restored- and the governor next year takes the same point of view when Governor Arnold Swartzenegger was planning out the expenditures for the year 2007.  I would like to say “When I have the spending money I had in 2005”.

Conservatives are so full of it.  I’ve heard enough of these ‘success stories” while attending Bible Studies of people having virtual instant success beyond their wildest imagination piling surpelative upon superlative.  Now Ben Carson says he does not have any interest in going into government or politics because it’s too dirty and corrupt.  If you believe that I’ve got some lake front property I want to sell you in - - - Death Valley.  Today’s the perfect day for it.  It must be 95 out there.  This one guy at age sixteen revolutionizes the air traffic controller industry by inventing some piddeling little device nobody else thought of.  Then when he was “older’ at 19 or 20 he came up with another fabulous invention.  Then he founded his own company getting the capital from “somewhere’.  And now he’s mentoring nine different people who are former employees and each of them has now founded their own company.  And his nine year daughter won some award and the Mayor of the city declared a special day in her honor.  Now the guy from Out Back is on- - who was in the unemployment line in New Orleans in 1983 and suddenly said ‘I’m not doing this’ and got out of the line and never looked back starting “Out Back” in 1987 and now he’s famous with restaurants in 23 nations.   Give me a break!  Of course radio talk show host Michael Jackson’s son was manager of a restaurant at age seventeen.  Tell me how often that happens.  Even the liberal celebrities have conceal carry permits for firearms.  I guess if you’re stopped by a cop and you say “I have a conceal carry permit” the officer right away knows, “OK this guy is one of us good old boys and we’ll treat him with kid gloves”.  But for me- - if I were famous or someone like Hannity and I felt I wasn’t safe without packing heat whenever I went outside my gated community- - I’d say to whatever supernatural power was listening “Lord, I can’t take this.  Make all this fame un-happen;  I can’t live like this”.

It's hard to find a soap character more of a model or archetype for the Tea Party - - than Samantha on Days of our Lives.  The moral hypocrisy of both is cranked up into the stratusphere.  Samantha Brady continues on a roll.  When you have money and an unlimited supply of it you can do amazing thing.  You can bribe publishers to change your son’s script without his knowledge- - and put names in that weren’t in the original article.  Samantha has never had guilt or remorse a day or an hour or a minute at any time in her life.  Of course now if I’m Will I’m about to use the Nuclear option on my mom.  That means going to Roman Brady and reporting that my mother and Kate Roberts attempted to murder Nick Fallon by the river last year, and that Gabriel can confirm it.  And of course by the time I got done suing the publisher for damages, I’d about own that company.  Of course there is too much of a poisoned pen philosophy to society today.  It’s all about getting even and lashing out and saying things without thinking, with seemingly no consequences.  The bigger of an ass you make of yourself, the bigger a celebrity you’ll end up being.  But getting back to “Hatriot’ radio- - all their stuff isn’t about striking out on your own or independence or science and technology or inventiveness or any of that stuff.  Because eventually they get around to politics- - and his this year’s election is the most critical we’ve ever had in America.  It’s kind of like Bill Halliday’s Sunday sermons.  No matter what it says on the Marquee - - eventually he gets around to the same old stereotypes and spewing that vitriolic hatred and obsessive ranting he’s so famous for.  That’s how these people are.  They say “Olive Garden” has no true variety.  Well the tea party is the “Olive Garden” of intellectualism.  Whatever they are calling it today- - it’s all pretty darned similar.  But as I said a week or so ago - - really- - you CAN’T talk about ANYTHING without making it political, and so whatever issue it is- -gets pretty much ignored and therefore unsolved.  It’s like the abortion issue.  If that ever got solved and if abortions were declared illegal tomorrow, believe me it would be the worst day of the lives of these tea party people.  I talked about evolution of thought a minute ago (at least I was intending to) and you can almost tell what year it is by how degenerated the political rhetoric is.  What sounded insane for instance in 2010, might sound relatively rational in comparison to where the political discourse is going today.  (Selah)

I actually hope that Pope Francis has a good secret service protecting him.  I'm not suggesting the pontiff be packing heat- - but if anyone needs protection, he does.  I guess they do extensive security checking for any large crowd no matter how "spontanious' it appears to be.  It's kind of like candid shots of President Obama.  They aren't that candid because whoever took them was thoroughly screened.  A lot of tea party would be after him just because he's Catholic.  But more likely they'd be after him for his remarks on environmentalism, or his views on greed and profit driven economics, and they probably hate him because he cares for the poor.  People like Rush Limbaugh hate anyone who regards the poor as something other than subhuman.  

The Collosus roller coaster at Magic Mountain first opened in 1978 and this weekend is the last time anybody can ride it.  Nobody has told us the reason why they are closing it down, but it's not for any safety considerations.  Of course few things in this State seem to last more than thirty years anyhow, and no matter what kind of condition they are in after that, they are taken out, and sometimes but not always replaced.  In the Cosmic scheme (yes, I had to bring that stuff in - ) of things the album "Sell Out" (Reigelian version) features a white wooden roller coaster on the cover and this album came out in early August of 1983. 

Protest Is Treated As Terrorism In America Today

Washington Post writer Radley Balko is the leading expert on militarization of police in America.  Balko has testified to Congress and written books on the subject.

Balko said today that the real issue behind the Ferguson, Missouri police response wasn’t the militarized police response – or the minor incidences of looting, rock-throwing and possibly Molotov cocktails by a handful of protesters – but a crackdown by government on all protest:

What we’re seeing in Ferguson, this is not a local issue, really. I mean, this is something that’s been driven by national policies, by policies that Congress has approved of and has oversight of, and could end tomorrow, if they wanted to.

The idea that when we take domestic police officers and we train them like soldiers and we give them military gear and we dress them up like soldiers and we tell them they’re fighting a war—you know, war on crime or war on terror—they’re going to start to see themselves as soldiers. And that’s just a mindset that’s not—that really isn’t appropriate for domestic policing. And I think you saw that in the way that they responded to protests—not just in Ferguson, but also, you know, a lot of the crackdowns on the Occupy protesters, on the crackdowns at the political conventions over the years. I mean, this has become our default response to protest in the U.S., and it’s something that, you know, I think could be very antagonistic toward the very idea of free speech and the First Amendment.   

The FBI treated the peaceful protesters at the Occupy protests – who were protesting too big to fail banks, and who were predominately white -  as terrorists. More here, here and here.

Highly-militarized, federally-coordinated police used such brutal violence to break up the Occupy protests – see this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this – that the Egyptian military used the crack down on Occupy as justification for the murder of protesters in Tahir Square, Egypt.  (Despite media portrayals, the Occupy protesters were not violent.)

Violence was also been unleashed against peaceful protesters outside of Republican and and Democratic conventions. And reporter Amy Goodman was arrested at the Republican convention for documenting violence against protestors.

The real issues are that:

• Peaceful protest is considered terrorism in modern America

• Journalists are considered terrorists in modern America

• Americans have lost virtually all of our Constitutional rights