ISIS Wouldn't Exist of the US didn't Will It Into Existence

You know if we learn nothing from US foreign policy is that we are so militarily strong we’re bored by our own strength.  So we make nations and powers, only to “break” then later on.  We did this with Bin Laden.  We did this with Saddam Hussein and as late as the spring of 1989 I hear we were sending aid to Hussein.   Now we have done it again with ISIS.  That paragraph I copied from above is conceise in that it pretty much hits the nail on the head.  The Israelis and the Saudi Arabians are on the same side, which sounds insane, considering the fact that the Saudis routinely have beheadings every week there on Fridays- - and not just for shock, propaganda value either.  Neither Israel nor the United States say a word about that.  And it was news to me that Israel doesn’t even have a constitution, and they don’t respect ours, either.  If they did they would not try to interfere with our process of government and negotiating treaties, which haven’t even been concluded yet.  Feinstein was thoroughly pissed at Netenyahoo for his speech last week.   Of course Lindsey Graham was having the vapors over this whole thing with Iran.  Are John Mc Cain and Lindsey Graham really gay lovers?  I didn’t know Lindsey Graham was really going to run for President.   The fact is we could have had Bin Laden and put him on trial in the fall of 2001 but Bush didn’t want him.  It is well within our power now to put an end to ISIS if we really want to.  Whoever left all of those weapons there just waiting for ISIS to use them, was guilty of the most gross incompetence.  Obama kept talking about “being careful in getting out of Iraq” but leaving all of our military tanks and hardware there is suggestive of a cut and run.  But now we have Assad and Iran as well as what’s left of the Iraqi army going after ISIS, as well as the Kurds doing a good job.   One of the Mc Laughlin questions was “Who has shown themselves to be a survivor?”   Assad wins that one hands down.  Despite all the things said about him and all the people who hate him, he’s still around, and almost being portrayed as a good guy.  When you think about it, allowing ISIS to get to be as powerful of a land force as they were in June of 2014, was some kind of a massive intelligence failure nobody is addressing.   And don’t assume that the republicans are going to be quick about giving the President military authorization.  They’ll drag their feet on that just like they drag them with everything else.   Of course one of those magazines I’ve gotten lately is more than suggestive that Vladimir Putin is a world wide menace and needs to be dealt with.   I would have thought so.  But nobody else thinks so and so maybe I need to reassess my own feelings about Putin.   I have never liked Putin or trusted him, but I again am in the minority.  The European Economic Union seems to have no problem with him.  They had a problem with Quadafi but not Putin.    But not even Putin is bulldozing ancient cities thousands of years old, or taking a sledge hammer to rare and valuable statuary, before we can put it on display in some museum.

I find the following passage rather conceise and descriptive.  When he plays the good cop in the good-cop bad-cop routine on Russia, it’s [an act designed to fool the public]   (restored disappearing text)an act, which is designed to fool the public. Obama bombed Libya because Muammar Gaddafi was friendly to Russia; he bombs Syria because Bashar al-Assad is friendly to Russia; he overthrew Ukraine’s Government because Viktor Yanukovych was friendly to Russia; and he has been and is squeezing Iran because Iran is friendly to Russia. Israel is no different than the U.S.: it’s rabidly anti-Russian (and most of the large political donations to there come from American billioinaires; Israel is America’s 51st state, which has lots more than one-fifty-first of the power over the American Government — it’s the most powerful of the 51 actual states, even though it has no fealty to the U.S. Constitution and no constitution of its own); and both the U.S. and Israel are allied with Saudi and other Arab royals because they’re all anti-Russian. America’s ally is Saudi Wahhabist jihadist Islam, not the EU. America created Al Qaeda, and ISIS. Everything else than the obsession to isolate and destroy Russia is just an act, for the American aristocracy (including the ones who own Israel) — and especially for all Republican politicians and for the top Democratic ones.   Maybe the EU will finally decide that they’ve had enough of it, and invite Russia to join with them, and will tell Ukraine that they’re a bit too American for European tastes, after all: Europe has had enough experience with fascism and nazism, so that they don’t want to invite it back in again. 

On C-Span I watched several people speak at the Edmond Petis bridge.   The thing has an arch in the middle of it that’s too small to cover the entire bridge.  The bridge was named after a (confederate?) Alabama general.   Then I watched about half of Lyndon Johnson’s voting rights speech which was delivered on March 15^th 1965.   The black and white footage is courtesy the Johnson Presidential library, a place I’d like to visit- for a lot of reasons.  Then it was John L Lewis.  He thought he was going to die from the beatings he received that day but was only in the hospital for two days, which is bad enough.  One man didn’t survive.  Lewis was “carried” to the church where all of the protestors were headquartered with two thousand waiting outside to get in.  Lewis was fifteen when Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus.  Lewis’ family was too poor to get their own newspaper but Lewis read his grandfather’s subscription.   Lewis has been imprisoned on forty (!) occasions.

This is Saturday March 7, 2015.   There is a truth in life that problems ignored- - whether you hav the power to control them or not - - only get worse.  Empires have fallen because a particular "problem" got too bad.  There is that Monkey God civilization that people just abandoned suddenly six hundred years ago.  Maybe the climate just got too hot.  Ideas die.  Institutions die.  Civilizations die.  I'll be returning to this theme later on in the paragraph.  Purity products has their blueberry & cranberry “smoothie” powder protein mixture with a French vanilla flavor that’s Veegan approved, of all things.   I for one am not turned on by the frequent use of the word “lean”.  Back in the old days “lean years” did not denote a good thing.   It's funny how "addiction" did not used to be a common word in our vocabulary.  We scarcely had a concept of it.   Even narcotics were not a problem- - when they were legal.  Now we're almost trying to make foods illegal because They are addictive.  Senator Grassley of Iowa wants to warn us against child worker and sex trafficking for both boys and girls.  President Obama wants to commemorate “girls day” where girls “should be admired for their minds and not just their bodies”.   That’s an edifying thing to keep in mind.  I haven’t used this color scheme of blue and chartreuse in an awfully long time.   We are told that “El Nino” conditions have at last arrived on the West Coast but that it’s “too late” to have any impact on our rainfall for this year.  I can think of any number of years where we got a lot of rainfall in the month of March.  There is not the vaguest hint though that the High pressure that has been looming out in the Pacific is going anywhere, for anybody.   Let me just say this is the worst drought I can remember in my lifetime.   You keep hearing them say "This is the third year of the drought".  Actually it's going on five years.  Because they've been saying "It's the third year" since 2013.   I remember when the drought started.  In late 2010 and in January 2011 we got rain.  Then the rain storms completely stopped- - and we got no more rain the rest of that winter.  Then it was 2011 - 2012 winter, and every winter after that it's been dry.  We now have only nineteen percent of the Sierra Nevada snow pack as normal.   Is it God's way of saying "You have too many people living there in California.  And people think "Well if it gets bad enough - - God will look down and see our plight and have pity on us and send us rain.   I can think of a lot of issues where "things have really gotten bad", and that doesn't stop them from getting worse.  This isn't just a dry spell.  When it goes on this long, it's climate change!

“Breakfast with the Beatles” featured all solo artists today.  They played a split “I’m the Greatest” with Lennon and Ringo.  They played the final song on the “Ringo” album, co written by George Harrison and Mal Evans.  The song was patterned a little bit after “Something Happened to me Yesterday”.   I missed “I Don’t Treat You Like I Should” and according to Federation lore that hasn’t been modified all these years, this track was written in mid 1967 just after Sgt Pepper was finished, by the fabled Howard Richards.   They played “Yvon”, which was a favorite of Dietre O Donahue who used to play it all the time.  They played an acoustic version of “Let It Down”.   They had some DJ stuff of John Lennon from 1974 doing a plug for Tower Records.

Judy called about Mom’s moving.  Mom will be moving in on March 30^th.  Last night they got lost on the Newport Freeway because of a GPS device that wasn’t working right or got them on a toll road (?) where they weren’t allowed to be, because they didn’t have a transponder.  Mom had a choice of a “western exposure” out by the parking lot by the street, which puzzles me, because that puts them back on the east side of the street again and not the west side, where I was looking for them in Google Street View.  Judy said that I would be getting no monetary help for my dire financial straits.    There is no such thing as “too little discretionary spending money” to her.  The fact that it’s been a straight line downward for the past nine or ten years means absolutely nothing to her.  I foolishly thought “well if it’s really, really bad- - maybe they’ll help”.  I was wrong.