Information Trickles In About Boston Bombings

Now everyone is looking for “anything or anyone suspicious in a photo”.  There is one area where I am inclined to take the nuts just a little seriously.  Coverage of this Boston Marathon bombing event has been so poor and propagandistic that it’s inclined to raise suspicion.  The goal of the media seems much less to inform us than to gin up fear in the public.  They seem to be scouring the place for the very worse videos they can find that reveal the least.  Considering the quality of the videos they have shown, the Abraham Zupruder movie film is a photographic masterpiece in comparison.  You get these jerk edits and- - even in the coverage they would cut away from one station to the other in mid sentence or show the video of one station and the sound on another.    But finally the information is trickling out ever so slowly.  We know or believe that it was some kind of a “pressure cooker” bomb filled with nails and ball barrings to cause maximum shrapnel.  But we still don’t know what ignited it and we still don’t have any clue whatsoever as to what group or individual is behind it.  There aren’t even any real working theories or the sort of time-line scenarios Police do with their diagrams.  So as Randy Rhodes said when there is a total vacuum – a person who knows nothing is just as qualified as the people receiving his message, who likewise know nothing.  In this sense it’s kind of like God and Religion.  But you have the nuts out there like Alex Jones who claims that the government staged this entire event like Sandy Hook and Aurora, Colorado.  And you have people like Rush Limbaugh who claims that either Al Qaeda did it or else Bill Ayres.   Of course it’s kind of hard to escape the stream of anniversaries this week.  Today is the anniversary I’m told, of the Virginia Tech shooting on April 16^th.  Then we have the birth of the Tea Party movement exactly four years ago on April 18^th 2009 on the anniversary of Lexington and Concord.  Then on April nineteenth you have the Waco take-down of David Koresh and the Branch Davidians, and also Timothy Mc Vey and Terry Nichols and the Oklahoma City bombing.  And finally to cap it all off you have April 20^th which is the Columbine shooting anniversary, and just also it’s Hitler’s birthday.  (There’s our first Hitler reference)   If you are wondering about my friends from the Federation - - this story was a total flat-liner there.  But the Romulans in Regelus V did take note of it.  But when you think about it even some traveler from Europe or other parts of the world where these bombings are commonplace, they are probably wondering what the big, hairy deal is since they spend no less than seven and a half hours almost continuous TV coverage on this topic before programming finally got back to normal last night with “Wheel of Fortune”.  When I post this I will probably past in a few observations made last night.  But as Randy Rhodes says, if I do a blog my goal is to inform, even if it’s stuff you already know.  So it’s been a day and a half almost since the bombings, and the last blog post I did was about eighteen hours ago, as of the minute of this typing at 5:08 PM.   I’m going to make a possible prediction right now.  The Long Beach Grand Prix will be canceled and not held this weekend.  You ask why I should suspect that and I just say “a little bird told me”.  If I’m wrong nobody will be happier than I.

Last night this computer freaked out as I was getting a Mc Affee security OK update.  I went to click to close it- and the computer went off and then rebooted and I got a notice that Windows had to close down to protect my computer and files from damage.  Naturally I did a quick scan right there and nothing came up.  But last December I was getting all these clean bills of health that meant nothing- considering what sad shape my computer was actually in.  It was Wheel of Fortune and then “Bones”.  There was some movie involving people singing “My Way” playing in the Big Room.  I watched till the next commercial and then I approached Pete and Marsha about floating me a two dollar loan.  Pete was forthcoming with the money to go out and buy a pack of John Black grape.  But I’ve been spending money like water lately- and things being as they are- - anyone who actually still has cigarettes in these tough times is under a lot of social pressure to share them- and give them away.  I’m wondering whether like December- - some neutrino from high Solar activity hit my hard drive and flipped a few bytes.  Leo Le Port says this sort of stuff happens all the time.  After this it was “The Following’ or something that I watched till almost ten.  I slept well till I woke at 3:25 and went out for a cigarette.

Yesterday I had the Bill Press show on before six, but not today.  I’m wearing this heavy tan shirt.  I had Stephanie Miller on before and after breakfast.  For breakfast we had corn flakes and orange juice ect and finally got eggs and toast and a whole lot of bacon.  They gave me two big slices, and then I got two more really big meaty slices from Paul.  I apologized to Jay for being so testy yesterday.  And I did listen to the first 25 minutes of Rush Limbaugh mainly because I thought “There was no way that Rush Limbaugh could twist or mess up this story”.  I was sadly mistaken.  That’s like seeing a Bible verse posted on a church sign and thinking “There’s no way Pastor Halliday could miss the point of these verses”, but once again I would be wrong.  They cleared out the room across the hall for a strip down cleaning.  But in this case they moved the furniture completely out of the room since it seems Both residents of that room have moved out.  Nora came to our room to change the linens about a quarter to ten.  I eventually went down for coffee in the courtyard and stood behind Leeshia.  The four birds were active and climbing the cage walls and chirping.  I ended up getting two cups from Dora.  I returned to the room and the cart was already two doors down.  Everything in the room was copasetic.

This is Monday April 15, 2013 and Tax Day.  However they have had none of the usual last minute Income Tax stories.  That’s because today is Patriot’s Day in Boston and they ran the Boston Marathon.  But we don’t know who won, or even who came in second or third.  We don’t know the course of that Marathon either.  What we do know is that there were two explosions near the finish line on Boyelston St that killed three people so far including an eight year old child and has sent at least 115 people to the hospital.  The trouble is they have had news coverage on all of this for seven hours running preempting all else, and it has grown exceedingly tiresome.  Randy Rhodes didn’t quite dismiss the story entirely but at least her show put it in perspective, and everything else didn’t stop for it.  We don’t know what happened, or the lack of it in North Korea and the testing of that missile.  I didn’t even know that the LA Lakers were still on that mandentory winning streak until minutes ago.  We haven’t heard any news on the Mideast or for that matter anything that may or may not have been discussed in Congress today.  We have heard nothing about the LA mayor’s race today.  We do know that today is Jackie Robinson day because security will be tight in Dodger Stadium.  In fact the full force of this thing has been obsessing on security and how afraid everybody is again.  And we hear a lot about how “We’re going to be more vigilant from now on” and how hard security at a marathon is- - and they regale us with shaky videos edited down to incoherency.  Many besides being jerky and obviously highly edited are also of low picture quality and taken from a quarter mile away.  It all gets a little much.  We did get rain this morning and there were puffy clouds in the sky and we got sporadic sunshine.  It has gotten much cooler in the past two hours since dinner. [splice] In the morning it was Stephanie Miller.  We had oatmeal for breakfast and there was another horrendous waiting period until the rest of our meal.  But there was a pay-off with generous scrambled eggs and I ended up getting three English muffins, each of them already with generous grape jelly.  That Mexican lady on KTLK picked up the mantel of complaint about Biance and JZ taking a trip to Cuba, as if anybody cares.  Mario Rubio had the audacity to say “How can he wear a Che Guivara shirt because you know Che Guivara was a racist”.  Yeah, and Robert Byrd used to be in the K K K.   Conservatives have a knack for the irrelivent, even if it happens to be true, and with these people – don’t count on it.  I did some math stuff- and another paragraph from Saturday morning – and my latest theory about how a Romulan cloaking device might work.  In general it was a mentally stimulating posting.  For lunch we had a chicken salad sandwich with beets.  It was warm on toasted bread, which was a nice touch.  We had lentil soup with rich turkey broth.  We had grapes for desert. 

Just a little capper here on Cosmic Origins of dead dog rock groups.  There is a group of early seventies cheezy hits that since at least September of 1981 has been referred to as "The Bubble Gum group" - - groups cosmically tied to each other.  For of these are Donnie Osmond, "The Rapper" by the Jaggers, "My Belle Me" "Sweet Mary I'm Coming Home" and 'Chick-a boom" by Daddy Dew Drops.  But there are some others generally in a similar style.   We then have John Lennon's visit today and we learn of a new outfit called the "Renwah" group - - or that French artist.  There are five groups of note here, "Badfinger", "Neilson", "Bread", "The Partrage Family" and "Vanity Fair.  We have one more one for you I don't know the name of.  Remember we said that the Grass Roots did what you're not supposed to do in mid stream- - they "changed horses" as it were from "Midnight Confession" through the rest of their carrier.  Gladys Night also jumped ship from the Del Phi group to this outfit to record "Midnight Train to Georgia".   Also in this group are the O J"s, The Undisputed Truth, The Occasions (?) Al Wilson, Al Green, Vicki Laurence  the "Stories", and once again someone jumping ship from the Del Phi group "The Temptations" starting with Just my Imagination - - - and the Grass Roots - - and some of these other "fake disco" groups.  and strangely enough Hellen Reddy.  OK I knew I got off too easily.  We have one more sub-stratum for you- - -"The Alpine Group" as they are referred to by their brothers - - those Bela Tagis "B" groups that did not "assimilate" into the Dardanian culture or planet but instead moved to the jagged rock country of Aldeberan VIII.  These groups are Santana, Robin Trower's solo group, Free, and Bad Company, and Focus and also the one time Stones guitar player Mick Taylor..