I
have the Chris Matthews show on and Chris was saying “Why can’t we arrest
someone who hasn’t committed a crime yet when we have ample evidence to suggest
that they will? Why wait till the damage
is done?” Donald Trump has talked about
closing down mosques and also having a national Islamic registry data base,
just like they registered Jews in Nazi Germany.
Matthews had a guest who reminded us of that boat with nine hundred Jews
that was rejected first in Havana and then by Miami because the US thought
Jewish people were inherently dangerous.
55% of the people then did not want Jewish refugees coming to this
country and now about that number or higher are against Syrian refugees coming
to this country. Chris points out that
nothing we do is unexpected by ISIS. I
think rather than do what ISIS wants as far as fulfilling their darkest
portraits of us- - we do something they DON’T want. They don’t want us to accept refugees because
in their narrative- - this would be Syrians escaping Islamic control and
finding a new way of liberated life in the United States. So why “escape” a Syrian ISIS paradise? Mayor Bloomberg had police surveillance of
Islamic masques in New York City and De Blazio took them out. And yet “Frontline” shows these videos of
young school aged boys being taught and propagandized how to use weapons of war
in Afghanistan by ISIS outlets there. So
“little kids grow up to be big kids” so therefore you have to watch out for
that three year old refugee. I don’t
know how we can live in this constant and ever elevating state of sheer fear
and national paranoia. But there is one
thing the NRA isn’t paranoid about and that’s selling weapons to suspected
terrorists or people on the no fly list.
The NRA states that if they haven’t been arrested for any crimes (yet)
then there is no bar to letting these people acquire firearms.
Donald
Trump had pulled back ahead of Ben Carson who had fallen off in recent polls
and some polls show Marco Rubio ahead of Carson. If Trump can stay around 23% he should have
no problem getting the nomination with this many in the race. All Trump had to do to get back on top was
increase his verbal bluster. All he has
to do is saying “Let’s bomb the crap out of ISIS” and that will do it. My fear about increased bombing, which so
many are for- - is the ammound of colleratical damage will be astronomical. If you
thought Barock Obama was the Drone King before, it’ll be even worse now. But from out point of view the liberal use of
drones will save American lives. There
is one word I used about ISIS that won’t work now. I said “We need to contain ISIS because we
can’t destroy them”. Hillary Clinton
and her council on foreign relations speech said we need to “defeat and destroy
ISIS”. But how do we pull the plug on
their powers. Cosmically where do they
get their power? Is it “Al Qaeda” or
“the base” star in the constellation of Scorpio? Whatever happened to the Federation’s
assertion that “We have the power to pull the plug on ISIS anytime we want”,
huh? On a humorous side note, there are
Syrian Christians in Allentown, PA, who say that they support President Assad.
I had a raucus dream last
night. There was this movie I was watching
on March of 1965 where they played all these radio songs that were popular then
but the only one I recognize (as a real song) was Cillauette by Harmon’s Hermits. It
seems there was a breakthrough in technology and there were all of these super
highway things suspended in the air with no support except some kind of strange
magnetic energy we haven’t yet discovered.
And people could move on these ramp things at blurring speed. But then they discovered that business wise
it didn’t pan out as profitable. Don’t
ask me why not. So after a few months (a
year at most) they gave it all up and we went back to the old system. I interjected myself into this movie and
became part of it. I remember I was in
some amusement park and I was just getting ready to ride their dinky roller
coaster. There was this bully guy was a
couple years older than me and constantly threatening to pound me into the
dust. Every time I saw him I was
afraid. I would try and tell people how
dangerous he was. Even Augustine when he
saw me and him together was egging me on and telling me to fight him. But after a while it turned out that the only
reason why he wanted to fight me is that I had told someone I could take him in
a fight. I was relieved he really wasn’t
out to kill me.
This
week Rhapsody in Black did November 1961.
There were only two hits by indisputably Black artists that I did not
hear. They played “Ya Ya” while I was
still out listening to Joe’s radio. They
played an early James Brown song- - and what I think was a BB King song. There were an impressive number of songs I
didn’t recognize at all. There were two “follow
up” hits, one by Earnie Kado “A Certain Girl”, which is that Yardbirds song,
and by the Marquets we had “The Morning After”. Three of the songs I did recognize weren’t
from November 1961. “If You Got to Make
a Fool of Somebody” was from sometime in 1963.
“Hit the Road, Jack” and “The Bristol Stomp” by the Dovels were from
late summer of 1961. Oh, and “Blue Moon”
was from late spring of 1961. Then there
was Gypsy Woman, which I’m not counting because the first version of that song
I heard was from mid 1970 by Tony Orlando or somebody. The other songs I recognized were “Mr Postman”,
“Look At My Heart” not by the Cherrels but by the Shantells, “Young Boy Blues”
and “Why Do I Love You Like I Do”, that classic foot stomping song. I turned it off before they got to their “Top
Turkey Songs”.
We
had enchiladas for dinner but the recipe was very different from last
time. They experiment. We had Spanish rice with that and refried
beans. We had cake that was dry and
doughy at the same time – something I didn’t think was possible. I’m generally not in a good mood these
days. “The Week” says “Heart of Darkness”
to describe ISIS. I feel like there’s a
dark cloud hanging over me- - perhaps because I’m not sure I can trust the
laundry service any more, partly because Bill isn’t here and Glenda will soon
be gone, and partially because of money concerns, which are less now but they
haven’t gone away entirely. I’m going
to be an old man before the progressives are ever in control of politics. Even the optimists among us have as a best
scenario hanging on to the Presidency and getting the Senate so we’re back to
where we were four years ago, which is nowhere because the Republicans still
call the shots and are controlling the media.
The important stories to progressives still aren’t being aired like the
TPP because the corporate structure exacts a price for their ownership of the
media and the public must pay in the form of ignorance on issues they need to
make a decision about.
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