Thumbs Down on the Nuclear Deal with Iran

I have to give thumbs down on this upcoming nuclear treaty.  Sometimes it’s interesting to find out what you don’t know that you thought you did.  This “sunset clause” thing after ten years has always been troubling.  According to Rush Limbaugh we’re just saying “You can build your bomb.  All you have to do is wait for ten years when we’re not monitoring you”.   Of course Netenyahoo has gone further “This deal will not only fail to prevent Iran from building a Bomb, it will virtually facilitate (make easier) the building of the bomb”.   But we’re still snagged on the timing of the lifting of the economic sanctions on Iran.  I think we should make them sweat a while.  Couldn’t we keep them on another year or so till we’re a lot surer of them?  Iranians wish to be referred to as Persians.  Who would have guessed?  This guest on Washington Journal has a lot of in depth knowledge about the Mideast.  It’s the “devil in the detailes”.  He may be an admitted Republican but he’s not given to cheap political barbs - - - but he has a lot of background- - and seems to know a lot more than Secretary f State John Kerry, who’s supposed to be so smart.   It seems that the nuclear agency that inspects Iran won’t be allowed to “have a whole history of their attempts to go nuclear” like they got in South Africa when they gave up their Nukes 20 years ago.   Also it’s a mistake to infer that “Iran has never had an interest in Nukes” because ten years ago they WERE quite interested in building a bomb.  It’s just that in the past few years they haven’t continued with their plans, perhaps due to the sanctions.  But at the same time they won’t just destroy all their years of work in the past just because we want them to.  There is some neutral atomic agency that is troubled by Iran’s posture now.  It signals a potential danger.  Iran is trying to manipulate a minority race in Yemen, who weren’t particularly Shiite to begin with.  There could be a sudden regeime change in Iran and suddenly - - the whole deal could blog up – literally, if extremists take over.  Netenyahoo thinks the scope of the proposed deal is way too narrow and doesn’t even address the issues of either foreign aggression or terrorism.  So Iran doesn’t even have to validate Israel’s existence for the deal to pass.  Today Netenyahoo said “this deal is even worse than I imagined”.  I am highly troubled by these rallies where the crowd shouts “Death to America” at the identical moment we are on the verge of signing something.  The deal isn’t a done deal yet - - and there certainly has been nothing in the news about it.

Meet the Press announced that the prospects for this nuclear deal with Iran are far more pessimistic now, and it might not happen.  It’s funny that the cover of “The Week” magazine is captioned “Netenyahoo All Alone”.   But I would caution that it seems to be President Obama who wants this treaty as his “legacy” the same way he sees Health Care and the Immigration deal as “legacies”, when all three look like disasters.  There is such a thing as wanting something so much- - that you end up not getting it.  And politically the President would fare better- - and Hillary would look better- - of John Kerry just blew up this deal and we just forget it ever happened.  It wouldn’t be that Iran were suddenly our “enemy”; it’s just after the date we decided not to have any extracurricular activities afterward.   Marco Rubio and Rand Paul will definitely be declaring their candidicy for President in a couple of weeks.  And yet strangely they say that “This may be the year” that the most conservative candidate wins.  The logic is strange, and based on the timing of the primaries.  The Iowa primary is later this year and there are a lot of “fundamentalist” states that have primaries in rapid sucession, and even Texas is moving up the date of their primary to what they call a SEC super Tuesday.  Because it’s reasoned the reason why Huckibee or Santaurum never capitalized on their respective Iowa primary victories in 2008 and 2012 is because too much time elapsed and enthusiasum cooled.  But this year it’s reasoned that Ted Cruz has undisputed control of the most far right whacked out voters in the Republican Party of the sort that wins Primaries for them.  So Cruz may be like Obama not only in background but also in his ability to rack up a lot of states quickly where the political punsters are saying “Well now he’s unbeatable- might as well throw in the towel”.

THE BEST OF GREENIE (23 tracks)

Two Of Us (Fast Demo Version) Bonus Track

All I Gotta Do

You Really Got a Hold On Me

Money

Bad Boy

You Can’t Do That

I’ll Cry Instead  (US mono version)

I Call Your Name
Leave My Kitten Alone

When I Get Home
Slow Down  (US version)

Baby’s In Black

Dizzy Miss Lizzy

Ticket To Ride

You're Gona Lose That Girl

Rain (original mono)

She Said She Said (Greenie’s last vocal)

We Can Work It Out

Day Tripper

The Word (KLOS "end" version)

Wait

Run For Your Life
Tomorrow Never Knows (mono version)

Front Cover is the “Something New” cover in a circle shape surrounded by that greenish “lines patters” that a photo of a nearby street we’ve posted is done in.  Produced by Syd Barrett and due to be out Monday March 30^th.   You’re truly got the name “greenie” though Syd Barrett doesn’t like the name of “Pink”, which is a term I used for him.  As far as Syd is concerned, “Pink” is just a fictional character of Roger Waters’ mind which appears on a Pink Floyd album.  The tital is not on the front at all.  The back is a black backdrop with white text, except for the title letters which are in bright green.  Also in green (at my suggestion) is “If your favorite Beatle song isn’t on this album, then it’s likely Greenie isn’t taking credit for it.  That’s something to keep in mind.  As you know “Two of Us” was the “Out” song- (kind of like the cabinet member that stays away during a big Presidential speech) - never before included on a Sirius A Beatles recapitulation of albums.  Greenie of course had nothing to do at all with “Let It Be”.  "23" is the lowest possible prime number entirely made out of other prime numbers, we learn from Jeopardy.

The month of March may go on record is the hottest month we’ve ever had.  Already March has featured (“as with a neon sign?”) no less than five days where the temperature went over ninety degrees, which is an all time record.  The first three days of the month were below average and the rest of the month was above average.  One news dept had the days over ninety in purple, which was confusing.  In other Beatle news - - for the second week in a row I correctly named “Who’s singing that Beatle song”.  Last week it was the “Four Tops” and this week it was the “Bee Gees”.  Usually they make them so tricky it’s hard to guess them.  They played “If You’ve Got Troubles” on today’s “Breakfast with the Beatles” and on this date fifty years ago in Beatle history it was the mad Professor trying to get a ring off of Ring’s finger.  Ringo’s new album “Postcards from Paradise” is out on Tuesday March 31^st one day before I get to go to the ATM.  This is now my thirteenth day without money.  I figure now that I’ve “saved” close to forty dollars, which may be dreaming.  My allotment is so low these days.  Pink is a guy it’s hard to initiate a conversation with, but occasionally he himself initiates a lucid conversation.

I came to the conclusion yesterday afternoon that this Nuke thing with Iran deal - - should not happen.  I would have posted last night but Mal Evans urged me to hold off on my opinion and see what actually happens.  Mal Evans -  - because of his previous Federation post- - - likes to parse his words very carefully when he makes a public statement, because even at his old post he had riding shotgun over him making sure he didn’t slip up.  Bones has reaffirmed that he is still just as pro Ukrainian and anti Putin as he ever was.  We both agree that Washington’s blog appears to be in some parrellel universe of reality.  Bones also stated that Hillary Clinton should be absolutely the Democratic Party’s last choice for President and “Even the local dog catcher would be a better candidate, because with Ted Cruz doing so well - - if he wins no matter what democrat at the top is going to look good.”  Hillary Clinton now CAN’T turn over her server because her server has been “wiped clean of all information”.  Most people with E mail accounts don’t have their own server, so this afforded Hillary a unique type of independence.   She alone would decide what she wanted to get rid of and what she wanted to save.  And there is no way this lack of accountability can be counted as a good thing.  Hillary Clinton is cosmically a Lanian, in case you are wondering- - which is the same cosmic group as Yoco Ono.  In one more cosmic “reassignment”, Susie and the Banshees are Agegenian - - and not Berliner.