NEWS OF THE WORLD

This is Monday June 19, 2006. There are a number of news items that should brighten George Bush’ day. We have that World Net Daily story about Al Kaida plans to gas the subways of New York during rush hour. According to one book this plot was 45 days away from execution in 2003. Plans were scutteled they say because the explosions wouldn’t kill enough people. It was sort of a basic crude device mixing sodium cyanide pellets with sulphuric acid, kind of like those old Superman episodes- - and hydrogen cyanide gas would result, and we know how that stings and burns. Of course we have not two Americans in Iraq being killed by insurgents working for Al Kaida. This means that Al Kaida’s influence in Iraq is alive and well, which is just what George Bush has been looking for. North Korea is ready to test a long range missile that can hit North America and the US now is trying to put diplomatic pressure not to do the test. I think whoever the next President is, he’s going to have his hands full of international terror problems.

A woman bishop has been elected head of the Episcipal church by a close vote of 95 to 93. The Anglican communion- - - England and the whole world- - doesn’t allow women in the church at all but this woman has ordained gay priests. There are those who say that all people are welcome to God’s table.

Signs of global warming continue. We have the rash of tornadoes in Kansas. Back a few weeks ago we had that severe flooding in New England. We had that freak storm Alfredo in Florida that was way early, and there is flooding in Houston. In tennis coverage they’ve been saying how hot it’s been in Paris lately.

Of course the whole thing about Paul Mc Cartney reaching 64 has been beaten to death. If I’d had a blank tape I should have recorded that Mc Cartney “live” special on KRTH yesterday morning. Of course back in 1967 the big news was receiving a school report card on June 20^th. after a beach outing. (for more on the era read the Arimid III file) The next day, Wednesday the 21^st. there was out of our famous “family meetings”. These meetings always seemed to be called when it was in the interest of parents and not the children, notably me. So I had to go to summer school to take American Literature. It just dawned on me why they wait to have summer school a week and a half after school gets out and that’s because they have time for the report cards to get out.

Now they are saying Macho men are back in style and the “metro-sexual” is out. This whole “getting in touch with your feminine side” bit is out now. There was a lot less sex on TV in 1967. You had “Exercise with Gloria” and you had those Eileen Feather commercials. Commercials were better back then. They had catchier jingles. I miss seeing cigarette commercials. Today you have all this health product crap on.

Well, Miami won last night by one point. Dallas screwed up in their time outs timing and then missed their final shot and so ended up losing by one point.

West Hollywood has passed my kind of ordinance, or “resolution” actually, that is non binding. They said if cops catch people casually smoking marijuana to look the other way if it’s an adult. Of course marijuana usage is a federal law.

Last night 60 Minutes talked about the A L F and the E L F, the animal liberation front and the earth liberation front. I think we need an S L F or shark liberation front. In a story that must give Kenny the shark nightmares they had that story about feeding “chum” to sharks off the tip of South Africa to lure them among humans. Only now certain people want to go on a shark killing rampage. There are perhaps fifteen shark attacks world wide per year. Your odds of being struck by lightning or being abducted by a terrorist are much higher than being eaten by a shark, but people have a primal fear of it. People know that a shark’s preferred food is seal. The seals lie on the rocks sunning themselves but then have to venture out into the water to eat fish but risk being eaten themselves. But in China they serve shark fin soup. The previous time they aired this clip Stewart Sutcliffe appeared to me and said that China had a curse placed on this because of what they do to sharks by cutting off their fins. Then they throw back the live shark in the water to drown. A shark needs to keep in constant motion or else it dies. Sharks never sleep. And without their fins they’re goners. So if China should get Nuked, accidently or on purpose, well they’ll know they’ve got it coming. God has been known to punish people even if it turned out to be an "accident", such as hitting the wrong combatant with an arrow. Of course James Dobson has told of some of the grizzly abortion stories in China. Their policy bias against female births is also notible, not to mentioning stealing all our electronic secrets and pirating them on the open market. "Thou shalt not steal".

Eighty percent of the Iraqi people want the US out of their country. They want a time-table. Al Frankin is talking about this now, how Rove and others have been putting out misinformation about how Iraq leaders feel about us. Certainly the Sunnis would like a time-table. I personally would like to see some sort of a time-table for the mere reason that it shows at least we’re thinking and planning ahead. Rove said we couldn’t have gotten Zarcowi if we had followed liberals’ advice. This is not true because we relied upon foreign intelligence to get Zarcowi and launched the attack from Qutar, or whatever. Like what’s-his-name says, we have done everything Militarily in Iraq that we can do.

Apparently we’ve got blogger site problems. Last night I kind of forgot about the “Agents of Fortune” album till the 2^nd. side. It’s good to hear those songs. I’ve missed playing my old records. I need to transcribe LP’s to MP 3 files or something. According to Leo Le Port and contrary to what I’ve heard, you can copy a file done in any format into a .WAV or music file and from then on it’s “safe” to transcribe it into whatever other file format, such as MP3 you want to copy the music in and get 600 songs on a disk.

The Seventh Day featured Sgt. Pepper’s. Later on it’s “So” by Peter Gabriel, “Dreamboat Annie” and the album that made Blue Oyster Cult a household word- - “Agents of Fortune”. Petty said Glen wasn’t at home. Just when you need a fix you don’t have one. I assume Mike is having a good time with his children. The Simpsons are on right now. I have a few comments to make about the latest blog listing. For one the biggest criticisum of it is that it’s rather emotionless. I guess John Lennon might say it wasn’t “from the spirit”. My hostility twords Christianity or their hostility twords me doesn’t show nearly enough. In terms of that “Wave” I think the figure might be 52 rather than 54 years, but I’m not positive. It would make more sense. Of course Bo’s death was in the early spring of 1985 and not 1983. I don’t remember the exact date, only that- - it was around April 11^th. or 12^th. I bought the album “Reconsider Baby” and two days later that Sunday afternoon I had that conversation with Tina, or “Tiner” as they say across the pond. This was at a baseball game at the old location of the church when they were still at the school on Orangewood. I expressed concern about Bo since she disappeared. And then we have the dating of that party. May 24^th. stands out in my mind, but I think that was the date Gene Scott went off the air- - or the date “Return of the Jedi” was released or something. “Jim Cooper” said the party was to celebrate those two things and a third thing I don’t remember, but perhaps it was importance to him. If you don’t know which Bosc Jim Cooper was you obviously haven’t been reading my blog posts.

Well, what do you know, the basketball game is on. “At the Movies” isn’t. I had Leo Le Port on from twelve to two. Dr. Dean Edell said he’d like to have a debate with Howard Stern on the subject of circumcision. Dr. Dean says now less than half the baby boys are circumcised in this country. The figure I heard was 80% in the east and sixty percent here in the west, no doubt because of all the Chicanos. But those figures are at least fifteen and perhaps twenty years old. In Brittain even if you have a problem in that area they deal with it by other means. Dean Edell vented some of his hostility twords abusive patients in hospitals- and put in a plug for how waiters and cashiers are routinely abused. After this it was Ken Galliger. What can you say? These people still think Jimmy Carter or worse yet, Lyndon Johnson is still president. There is this talk about how we aren’t pursuing the War with enough vigor and not enough killing is going on in order to win. And there was the same old song and dance about how Blacks deep down really resent the educational opportunities they are given today because we all know Blacks are really inferior and know it. I think that was the point of Ken’s rembling but one can’t be sure. These Blacks who come on conservative shows aren’t “Uncle Toms”. An Uncle Tom is a person who pretends to get along with Whites to further their own interests. These people like Larry Elder actually love Whites and despize their own race. So they talk about seventy percent illigatimicy rates and the like. Finally Ken talked about Al Gore. He had absolutely no arguments or any facts to refute anything Al Gore has said- - all Ken had was a lot of hot air. Then Captain Di was scheduled and his point is not enough rich people are in the Armed Forces. I think that’s a good thing. Just think if Bush had to decide to sacrifice a city like New Orleans “in the interest of national securety”. When it comes to “proving things” or just “assuming they exist” Christianity is the biggest offender of all in this area. But I don’t want to go there now.

----. Last night things were rather usual. It was Family Feud and then rather boring network news. The one story about teenagers being discouraged from loitering in shopping malls is something that struck me as a bit odd, considering what impulsive spenders teenagers are. The malls say they scare away the old folks. Of course you have those British “mosquito” things that generate a high shrill sound that only teenagers can here. Now teenagers have turned that around and use them for ring tones so the teacher doesn’t know they’re text messaging in class. Leo Le Port said it was only a ten thousand hertz sound. That’s not that high.

Stewart Sutcliffe, for you Federation fans is believed (aside from his Beatle connections) to be reincarnated from that French priest, Sonierre, who had the parish at Renes Le Chateau, who discovered some "treasure" and obtained all that money from the Catholic Church. If you're trying to decided whether Jesus in fact had a daughter named Sarah who was twelve when she came by boat to the south of France, keep in mind there is scanty evidence for this fact. How there is NO EVIDENCE that Jesus was NOT married. The only propigators of this belief are sexo-phibic priests with biased motives in the Catholic Church.