This
is a fine first day of fall September 22nd and where is our auto
date? Fall officially began at 1:44 in
the afternoon, which was less than an hour ago.
The air is invigorating on this sunny day and even at 1:15 there was a
cool breeze blowing on the patio. I am
over my malaise of yesterday, which was only incidentally responsible for my
not posting anything on blogger, because I didn’t have anything to say anyhow,
and am still not sure I do now. I
noticed a spike in readership about that article mentioning Insanity, so I
guess I’ll have to be on my best behavior and try not to say anything insane
today, or at least keep the insanity within bounds. Of course this is Season Premier week on
TV. It’s one of those long awaited weeks
when at last we get new night programming, that you never think will
arrive. I got up relatively late at 6:20
when it was already starting to get light.
I smoked up my last two cigarettes before breakfast. We had oatmeal for breakfast and I had two
white sugars. Finally we got our piece
and a half of French toast and a piece of bacon. Then I borrowed a cigarette from Bill. We had both been given our Pyramids at the
same time but I’ve learned that Bill smokes at a slower rate than I do.
I
watched Meet the Press and the usual nut job gallery were on including Wayne La
Pierre of the NRA - - and all these right wing congressmen like Chris Matthews
had that refuse to answer a direct question but can only verge into irrelevant material. But when push comes to shove it appears as if
President Obama has no way out, and this will be another loss to add to his
long string of losses lately. If we can
get through the next few weeks and avoid both an government shutdown and not
have problems with the debt ceiling, the President will chalk it up as a
win. These Republicans know of course
that raising the debt ceiling of the United States will only insure that our
bills get paid - - and won’t add a penny of new expenditure or raise the deficit. As I suspected, no matter how horrific the
gun violence is - - these people don’t have a shred of conscience. Travis Smiley is the only one in the whole
roundtable that has a moral compass and dares to suggest things such as- - we
should act- - according to what is Right and not just what is the “easiest
thing to do politically”. If I were
President Obama, which I am not, I would propose as a compromise to this impasse
an indefinite delay in the individual insurance mandate- - so that the overall
shell of the Affordable Care Act remains intact. But the way these republicans are thinking
these days, I’m not sure they’d go for even that. This President is devoid of sharp political
instance- - which is why Romney and company were able to take the whole Bengazi
issue and wrap it around his throat and strangle him with it. That’s something they aren’t letting go of -
- and they intend to use it against Hillary.
They are now starting to train their guns on her, because there are “these
telltale signs” that Hillary is coming according to Chris Matthews and Meet the
Press- - but Hillary won’t come out and admit it. Clearly the Republicans know she’s the best
candidate for the job. But the dirty
little secret is that she was also the best candidate for the job Four Years
Ago. Hillary won all of the big state
primaries- - and in the old days the Party bosses would look at these electoral
results and conclude that they just better go with her- - despite what the
deligate math says. Unfortunately the
politicians of 2008 weren’t that smart.
So the people got a candidate they didn’t have total confidence in. All through his history- - Barock Obama has
always been a man “who had to be sold to us” with endless hype with little
substance to it, as his track record has subsequently borne out.
Naturally
there are a few things of a Cosmic nature “on the other side of the void’ so to
speak, that I could mention from the backlog files of my brain. So I have to ask myself, “What is the least
Insane topic I could bring up?” Well,
Mal Evans greeted me this morning and went on a political rant about those who
distort the sort of organization Al Qaeda really is. Of course the name means “The Base” in
Arabec. So it’s like “the foundation” or
Vox Populi, so to speak, of the Sunni Islamic peoples. Mal resents the notion that it is seen as
sort of a “Death Incorporated” type of Organization, which has no other
function than blowing up bombs in crowds of people in crowded square,
preferably non Islamic. Mal Evans says
that neither all the Bengazi hysteria, nor this event in a shopping mall in
Kenya or whatever - - was Al Qaeda. It’s
kind of like “Al Qaeda” is one of those universal buzz words kind of like “Obama”
has become the generic word now for “liberal democrat”. We know that the so called “liberal democrat”
is a pretty much extinct species. But
their “market research” tells that them that attaching the word “Obama” to
anything- - is kind of those universal catch-all hate words. If I can help it I hate referring to the
Affordable Care act as “Obama Care”. It’s
a pajoritive term coined by our enemies.
But the masters of psychology on the Right have told us we need
something to Hate, because it seems that Hate is a stronger, more effective
emotion to getting people to do what they want- - than motivating out of more
traditional things such as love of country, or duty, or morality, or “seeking
justice”. Clearly the race issue is at
play in both the anti Arab and anti Islamic hysteria, just it is with
exploiting the President’s ethnicity as Rush Limbaugh does every chance he
gets. People on our side some way
somehow, need to “Take back the political language”. We need to re-frame the debate in terms of
actual reality, with an eye to solving problems.
On
Breakfast with the Beatles it was “no Paul until he calls” day. And apparently Chris Carter never got a call
from Paul, but played Mc Cartney songs in the last part of the program
including “That Was Me”, which was a song I was going to add to some “Best Of”
compilation I had done that I was planning to re-vamp, but never did. “Back Seat of my Car” was written “While Paul
was still a Beatle”. So it was pretty
much “Songs by dead Beatles- - or all George and John songs for the majority of
the program. They played “Mama, You’ve
Been On My Mind”, which has an interesting guitar style kited from another
Dylan song, “Don’t think twice, it’s all right”. This was one of several Dylan influences
songs played today. “You Can Lead a
Horse to Water” was the last song George Harrison recorded. They said that this is the final year the ‘49ers
are playing in Candlestick Park. I heard
the area was named after a certain “Candlestick” water fowl, and not on the
shape of some land formation, as I had supposed. There were rumors of some Beatle-fest being
held at the Stadium just before they tear it down, in honor of the Beatles
final US concert. I’ve heard that each
of the Beatles took a lot of personal photographs of each other- - often
photographing other Beatles taking pictures of them. Of course I guess they could have an actual
Beatle reunion concert if they got Danny Harrison to fill in for George, and
Julian to fill in for John. Of course -
- I’ve made it no secret that “Wah Wah” and “The Art of Dying” would both sound
a hell of a lot better if they got rid of most of the mind numbing acoustic resonance. These both are such good songs it’d be nice
to actually hear the songs au natural.
Beatles at the BBC volume two will be out soon. Jackie Lomax died. Cosmically speaking, he was from the “59th
Street Gang” along with others such as Thunderclap Newman - - Yes - - and the
Youngbloods. I’ve always liked those
lyrics of “Get back to the way you should be- - find out what’s going down”. Apparently Ringo, and Paul and George all play
on this Apple Record production. In “Who’s Playing that Beatle song” I was
going to play it safe and say that that developed version of “For You Blue” was
by “Tom Petti”.
They
say that eleven o clock on Sunday morning is the most segregated hour of the week One can only imagine the vast gulf of
difference between the typical Sunday message preached in a White church as
opposed to that preached in a Black church.
You know the Catholic alias “Universal” church (as Ireneus first coined
the term) has always been obsessed with money - - not because generosity is an
inherent human virtue we should all practice - - but rather they want to “Own
it all”. They want our minds, our
bodies, and our minds. It just struck me
this morning that the whole story about “Christians sharing all things in
common’ was only put in the Bible as a “set up” for the Ananaius and Saphirah
story about the perils of lying- - even over matters that are not touched in
the Torah. And by the way if Jesus
regarded the Torah as “perfect” and that not a job of a tiddle would pass till
he fulfilled it all - - then Jesus is validating things like women with their
periods not touching any one - - or mixing wool with cotton - - or selling your
children into slavery. And it makes me
wonder. (There’s no Escaping It) But the thing is - - the Church was so money
grubbing- - that in one of the rare times where God does really “strike
somebody dead” it has to do with shortchanging “The Church” on your money by
not giving them ALL of it, when it’s demanded.
Think about it. Also - - Simon
Magnus- - he was a 2nd Century Gnostic that people came to
hate. In fact the church fathers hated
him so much- - they introduced this “Simon” guy in Acts- - who was guilty of
the crime of “Simony” or selling of the gifts of God. And of course they are so eager on hunting
down heriticks, that St Paul makes reference to ‘Visiting the Tyannus school”. This was a school of desciples that worshiped
this Apolonius guy who was a quazi messiah figure who died in 110 AD who was
said to have risen from the dead and spent forty days on the earth before
ascending into Heaven. Of course nobody
will admit that the book of Acts was written AFTER the year 110 AD. We also told you in the bit about the coins
that- - they gave Jesus a - - Roman coin - - with Ceasar’s image on it - - and
Jesus said to use THIS coin - - and not one that Bar Kopalah guy had minted
when he temporarily had governance of Israel around 132 AD - - - which again –
is in the second century.
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