People wonder whether it can be done. Can we get government to respond to "We the People". If so we've got a better shot at it at a local level than we do on a national level. Talk show host David Cruise say perhaps it would be wise to dial down the violent response. There has been a lot of vandalism against property in Anaheim, and retaliation of throwing rocks at law enforcement officers. We will have more moral credibility if our side is squaky clean. Manuel's mother made an empassioned plea for order and civility. However the City is not exactly diffusing the situation - - when they first cancel a City counsel meeting last evening, but then they hold the meeting in chambers in in secret. But as Dylan advised long ago "Don't stand in the doorway, don't lock up the hall". Certain details need a lot of "splaining" as Ricky might say. "Por Dios, Contestame" (well, I tried) For instance it still hasn't been established that Manuel was the member of any Gang. His mother said he was not, and I certainly have no knowledge - from anywhere - that he was. This is beginning to look like just another lie of the police. People who double down on their lying are asking for trouble. Obviously we don't even know what issues were discussed in that counsel meeting, or whether they said or did one thing at that meeting that will actually help. Certainly the people should have been given a bigger "venue" to hold the meeting where all the chickens get a chance to cackle. David Cruise says one big problem with Anaheim is that they don't have elections by District by City Counsel in Anaheim, but all elected seats are "at large". This is not good when you have a population with sizable oppressed minorities.
One male caller called Randy Rhodes today who might have been mistaken for me, since the topics he raised were so similar to our last posting. I said that "It appears hopeless". Also I said that the President appears to be deliberately not responding or fighting back against his adversaries. The caller then went on to list all of the things this President has had to rise above. "You'll never know the hurt I suffered, or the pain I rise above", as Dylan says. First he starts off three trillion dollars in the hole going out the gate because of the Wall Street bank bail out. Then he has to face a Senate minus the needed sixty seat majority that Johnson was blessed with in 1965 and well made use of it. Obama didn't have that. He had 55 days between the time Al Franken took his seat and Ted Kennedy died. Then you had that earthquake and nuclear melt-down in Japan, and all of the flooky weather reaping havoc with our Crops. You have Arab Spring and the termoil in Europe and the nuclear threat of Iran, which has not been diffused. You had Republicans desperately trying to shut down the government or drag it into default, which would have made Romney's day. In the face of all this the economy has been on a steady up trend these past three years and unemployment has been on a continued down trend. Inflation for the most part has been kept low. The caller wants to know why President Obama reminded the people of all these things? It was pointed out by Randy Rhodes (I think) that under this President the national debt has risen 45% and personally I don't think it's that high with fair accounting and putting all the Bush dalliances on the Books. Ronald Reagan in contrast ballooned the deficet 185% and just for you math challenged people - - that means nearly trippeling the deficet. The National debt increased only 34% under Clinton. President Bush may well have almost doubled the national debt in his eight years. It is pointed out that the Affordable Care act will save 100 Billion dollars in the first year. As to the burden of small businesses - - they only suffer the brunt of these if they maintain over fifty employees. My guess is there are a LOT of small businesses that do not have fifty, or even 25 employees. Examples may be a barbershop, or a Quickie Mart, or a Bar, or a pet groomer, or an appliance rebairman, or a carpet cleaner, or a landscaper, or an independant contracter who does small scale remodeling. Last week Stewart presented me his theory about his latest thoughts on what actually would happen in November, but I decided to, and am, keeping that to myself.
People kind of view the Orange County Fair as the demarcation point between "early summer" and "late summer". Early summer is the "Dog days of summer" where nothing happens. Later on in August things get a lot busier, particularly this year. We have the Olympics and the Conventions. We have exhibition NFL season starting up. We have the "Back to School" push for you school aged families out there. And we are treated with increasing previews of TV programs to look forward to in the fall.
It was a few days ago that Mike Bloomfield convinced me that I needed to do some "Mental House Cleaning". In case you are wondering even I, too, can be so captivated with stories and myths I start that I start to come to believe that they really are real and as I report them. Mike Bloomfield reminded me of what I was doing, mentally. I asked Mal Evans about it and asked him "Should I get on the internet and post everything I have come to have a "change of heart" on, and do a mia copa all over the place?" Mal Evans said "I'd advise against that. It isn't important that THEY know the truth; it's only important that YOU know the truth". So I say, "OK, I'll try and hold that thought".
I dedicate this blog posting to Osiris, Lord and Judge of the Living and the Dead, and to Raphael of the West, who art The Great Healer, and to Gabrael, of the South, who endows man with riches including the riches of his law, by which we gain those riches. And to Uriel of the East, the bringer of Light, and to Michael of the north, who wages War on our Behalf in the hour of Temptation. Amen.
SHOW YOUR SOLIDARITY. IF YOU'RE GOING TO CHICAGO THIS SUMMER - - - SHOW YOUR SOLIDARITY
Chick Filet needs your support. I hate these political boycotts from either side, actually. But it's utter insanity when an unknown franchize place now gets National Media Coverage on this pesky gay issue, on which, by the way I am in full agreement with them. Stewart says he'll show up, so maybe he'll adopt an Avatar and make an appearence. Let's give Chick Fillet a big Chicago welcome and show Chick Fillet that Chicago really IS our kind of toddeling town! Stewart Sutcliffe was telling me just now, "You know if you were with Pete Richards visiting Chicago this summer, it would be Pete's insistance on going there for lunch before you had the words out of your mouth. And knowing him he'd spend a half hour talking with a pretty waitress on "Christian values" and what a blessing it was to see Godly Christian businesses. Of course you know my theory. If you can't count on a Southern Church group go make good fried chicken, where can you turn to? Of course don't expect that either Mark Campbell or Valerie Shoffner going there. Neither claims to even like chicken.
If you're looking for the Myth we are shattering that's long standing I'll give you a few hints to help you work out this mental SUDOKU puzzle. One thing that didn't make our posts was the idea that Burt Lombard didn't join a certain Artist's band till the third band. This album is my favorite all time album by this group. Like "Blind Faith" and "Beggar's Banquet" this album had a different front cover in America than it did in England because all three covers were judge a little too "edgy" for American audiences, and I happen to think with all three albums the American front covers are more esthetically appealing. This is certainly true of Beggar's Banquet. I might say that this album in question - - the first album Burt Lombard played on - - there were new liner notes just for American audiences, and they said something about "This album inogurates a new darker era in the music" or something like that. My favorite track on this album is track four, which strangely has similar vibes for me as "Cry, Baby, Cry". Also Kurt Cobain is partial to one of the tracks on this album best know to American audiences as being the famous B Side of a 45 Single. In terms of the MYTH - - it doesn't involve Valerie Shoffner - - - and Burt Lombard was initially into this myth but then later "had no use for it and never involved with propigating this myth per se after a certain point in time (but he hasn't blown the lid, either). It's just "something he was never into". Stu Baby was not into this particular MYTH one bit. It has nothing to do with the Pharaohs of Egypt. If Mike Bloomfield were in charge of the ZAC Tarrot Card deck - - I'll rephrase that- - if a LOT of people were in charge of this Tarrot Deck - - - the Eagles would be defrocked and some group- - perhaps the Almon Brothers would be stuck in to take their place. Being Atlanta Romulan to a degree they have a little Crestorian genetics. BOC has a dash of Crestorian in them. But LED ZEPPELIN was deliberately NOT EVEN CONSIDERED for this Card Deck because of their own Crestorian influence in their music. And also on Robert Plant in particular. OK that's - - - QUITE enough clues. If you "GET IT" then satisfy yourself you suddenly know a whole lot more of the "real skinny" about me before you read this. Just eliminate all the things it Ain't.
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