Killers of Sandra Bland Failed To Get Indicted

You remember Sandra Bland, who was arrested for failure to put out her cigarette, or was it making unsafe lane changes?  Didn’t they give her marijuana laced food and the she was found hanged in her cell and they ruled it a suicide, although she was a very active and purposeful woman.  They failed to indict any workers in the jail.  Clearly if there is any major indicting it would have been the treatement she got in the jail, rather than her so called “arrest”.  I would remind you as with Ferguson, the Grand Jury process is secret from start to finish.  Originally this whole secrecy thing by “members of the community” were a reform to protect the would be accused from the capricious power of the King.  But now capricious power is all you see.  There is a pending civil wrongful death lawsuit.  You can’t shut those things down that easily.   

In the news there was a shooting of a fifteen year old sophomore football star because a gunman threatened three female students and the football player threw himself in the path of the bullets and he was killed but all three of the girls escaped uninjured. 

This morning after I turned off Hartman I had Rush Limbaugh on and he was talking about these terms he coined such as “gorbasum” and “feminazi”.   Well this lady in for Shawn today could be called a feminazi in her own right.  I guess she was in the military.  She claims to have been in radio for twenty years.  She’s constantly talking about people who get out of the military out of disgust for the lack of leadership either with Clinton or Obama.  I think these people who have been a long time and finally get out should feel proud of themselves for having served their country and not ashamed.  They should also thank their lucky stars they are uninjured or not coming out in a body bag.  It’s all a matter of perspective.  She’s constantly saying, and her callers echo it, that the democrats have betrayed us, government has betrayed us and the republican party has betrayed us.  I haven’t heard so much talk about “betrayal” since the last time I read Mein Kamp. Of course there is a certain "Fasciest appeal" to Trump.  You have down and out poor southern white workers and it takes a demogog to come along and say "You are being screwed by the blacks, the Latinos, the gays, women, Moslems" or anybody else they can think of.  So the very power structure that screwed over these poor, underpaid workers, is the same Source they turn to for the "Final Solution".  (Selah)    Shawn Hannity has been talking about this party game called “Whits and Wagers”.  Is it anything like “Truth or Dare”?  I’m a little intrigued.  In terms of the soap opera I didn’t know they matched the bullet that killed the guy in the snow, to Hope’s gun.  Justin is saying she should make up a cover story about self defense or being under pressure, and his office would do everything it could to cover up the whole scandal.  But Hope doesn’t swing that way.  She doesn’t confess to a crime she didn’t do.

Then it was Breakfast with the Beatles and I listened to the first three years of Beatles Christmas records, ’63, ’64, and ’65.  I also heard the out-take portions of the 1965 Christmas record.  They played other Christmas novelty records including “All I Want For Christmas Is a Beatle”, and “I Want to be Santa Clause” and “Little Drummer Boy” by Ringo Starr.   They played “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” arranged like Here, There, and Everywhere, and they did “Blue Christmas” played in the style of “Revolution No 1”.   And they played “Wonderful Christmas Time” in what I’d call the Hal Blane (drummer) style, more energetic.

The news often has the speed of molasis trickling down.  We didn't get the whole liberal talk radio response to the Democratic Debate till Monday.  Of course you already know what happened.  Bernie apoligized and Clinton accepted.  O Mally attacked both Clinton and Bernie's stance on gun regulation saying that the other two candidates were either soft on guns or in the case of Hillary she's a flip flopper.  Of course O Mally is correct in these assertions but the other two kind of gang tackled him on this issue saying stuff like "tell the truth".  Hillary lodged the charge that Bernie Sanders voted for the NATO Libya invasion.  She fillibustered and kept on talking and Bernie never was given a chance to respond to this allegation.  But the commentaters call it "good debating skills".  I call it "unfair".  There was a lot of talk by Hillary about trading off Civil Liberties for that etherial thing called Security.  Hillary wants to go after Assad and ISIS at the same time whereas Bernie says to go after ISIS first and then when that problem is dealt with, then we can set our sights on Assad of Syria.  But in general I learned very little from this debate Saturday night.

We've been having rain today.  In Chicago they are having sporadic rain with a high of 64, which is not too terribly different from the weather we are having today in Southern California.  It's still a whole lot warmer than it was a week ago Monday and a week ago Friday when it was cold and windy all day and I don't think the temperature made it out of the fifties.  Perhaps El Nino is finally taking hold around here and we are going to get the first sustained rain around here we've had in quite some time.  The last really heavy rain I remember around here was late December and early January of 2010 and 2011.  If we really do get sustained rain in Southern California then we will put a real dent in the drought.

This is the first blog entry I've done since Friday if you will notice.  That makes three whole days that I didn't do a blog entry at all.  I would like to get back into some ethics and metaphysical stuff sometime.  I like to keep things varied so it's not a continual Johnny one-not of just politics.