IT'S THE GOLDEN RULE - HE WHO HAS THE GOLD - MAKES THE RULES

In one sense it's useless to even comment further about today's political climate.  To quote another Dylan song "I could go on but my words would soon turn into a meaningless rain".  And the truth is that one thing that's dawned on me more than once (I keep forgetting the lesson) is that as a person I have virtually no "social capital" or whatever.  Nobody is interested in my oppinions on either politics or religion, and only a select few for metaphysics.  I do have moral credibility.  People know me as a person as a word.  I am a lender as well as a borrower and people know that if I borrow something I'll pay up in a timely manner.  As such I have more "cradibility capital" and am able to borrow things in cases where others around here couldn't.  But I have no credibility or "pull" with any supernatural entity.   When push comes to shove, I'm not worth squat to them if they exist at all.  It dawned on me that perhaps I should pray to "an Unknown God" like Paul was telling the Athenians about.  Events of the last day or so have kind of hit me up sideways and threw me off my stride.  Looking to get a photo just now, someone has really messed around with the directories because I found myself in a super obscure tail of some directory structure with an obscure name.  In addition to those seven or so  events that qualify as official "Jinxes" many other events have occurred that could be called "concerns". For instance I'm expecting to have a Medical Appointment "sprung" on me in the next week or so and I'm not telling you by whom.  In addition to this my Doctor suggested I have new blood tests done and the blood guy most often shows up Friday mornings in the pre dawn hours getting you out of bed.  Any time that occurs- - you can't be sure what they are testing for.  But in terms of Mitt Romney the candidate to be of the Republican party, we know he has all the big moneyed interests squarely in his corner as well as the vast majority of the radio talk show media.  We know the climate of today is like no other, and could not even been foreseen as little as five years ago.  Romney has the Blair House and the Koch Brothers and Grover Norquist in his corner for sure - - and Karl Rove and the most of the Bush Family.  We know that like myself- - this economy is running day to day on a wing and a prayer and could falter at any time.  The economic base of this recovery is very thin and could go "just like that".  We know the economy is still contracting because we are forever looking for new programs to cut or to cut back further than the previous year.  We know the poisoned atnosphere of political prejudice and hate and bigotry that is rampant now.  Below are a bunch of paragraphs posted in no particular order- - I'll just hit them as I come accross them and am too lazy to arrange them in any logical order.

The night before last or Tuesday morning I had a dream I was at some ocean resort kind of like La Jolla with up style older buildings.  It was a west facing beach and kind of – not cold – kind of muggy and the sun was trying to come out behind some grayish clouds even though it was already 3:30 in the afternoon, or it was 4:30 I’m not sure.  Maybe it was a Daylight Saving Time thing.  I was looking at the rough seas and the big swells watching from a sidewalk some distance above the water.  The waves got higher and higher and then one big wave actually washed over the concrete wall and into the street.  I said ‘My God, the waves have breached the wall.  There was even bigger swells behind that and by now I was getting splashed and it was just sheer luck where I was standing it wasn’t worse than that.  Then one big wave to my north washed all the way across and was hitting the windows of the buildings across the street.  I was like telling chicken little going around to people telling them the sky was falling and thinking maybe I should run, but I didn’t know where.  They were completely unconcerned.  They said “Oh those big waves come by here every day at this time and everyone who lives here is used to it.  I remarked “Gee, I don’t know, these buildings around here look pretty old and weather beaten.  Are you sure they can withstand the onslaught of water?”  He said “Well, how do you think these buildings GOT that way?” and it made me thin.  That was logical.

Yesterday President Obama signed some “jobs bill” according to Bill Press this morning, which actually relaxes further- - Wall Street regulations that will employ more stock speculators.  The bill apparently makes Initial Public Offerings easier to do.  The President signed another key bill yesterday that got almost no news coverage in the “corporate media”.  This was the long awaited one where Congressmen cannot profit from stock purchases made based on inside information they have and legislation they are planning that affects them.  This need was so obvious I’m shocked that this law did not already exist long ago.  You’d think since it is “bar partisan” the Republicans would be happy at this sudden Presidential cooporation, but not on your life.  Of course then there are the three R’s, Republican, Ryan, and Romney and now they are one and the same because Romney is solidly behind the Paul Ryan budget which “doubles down” on last year’s end of the year negotiated budget cuts on the government “safety net” programs like student loans.  Last year the Ryan bill was not received well, but this year killing medicare as we know it has somehow become all right.  Romney has so much money behind him if this economy pauses between now and November, which I am convinced it will, Romney will profit.  I don’t see how any Mormon could possibly become president but this year - - ??

OK the masterbaters golf club out of Augusta is sticking to their all male member admission policy.  Some woman executive is sponsoring the Master’s Tournament from IBM and usually these people are given an honorary membership in the club.  But this year is problematical and all they can do is adopt that rather stiff tone of voice as they say that “Our membership is totally dictated by the vote of whom our members choose to admit.

It is now twenty after six or whatever and getting light.  Already we are on page three.  I feel so strange like I’ve lost my bearings or “off my game’ or “off my stride”.  It’s like suddenly all of the stars have changed.  Now they are talking about Rush Limbaugh calling the tune for the whole republican party.  Of course if the right says something about Obama it gets instant press in the corporate media.  But nobody on the left does squat to say anything to defend this President when he is unjustly attacked, and Randy’s callers were wondering why this is so.  You can't blame the "corporate media" as a blanket excuse for not even TRYING to defend our President.  Certainly in the old days under Johnson there were any number of Partisans whom Lyndon could call on to "get his word out".  The democrats had celebreties out and on stage all the time getting publicity for and defending the Democratic Party.

I just thought of an oddity.  In case blog readers are wondering the dreams about that other “San Bernardino life” - - the name Richard just came to me.  I was thinking “Maybe some people were calling me Ricky and I wasn’t used to a nickname or something”.  Then there is the Steely Dan song about “Ricky, don’t lose that number”, whose lyrics have always been a bit hard to decipher to me.  That song always reminds me of rainy weather because of when it was popular in late ’73 and early ’74.  Of course last night’s dream, speaking of strange, was like from some parrellel universe.  I didn’t post yesterday and I don’t plan on posting today.  The world as we know it is just too depressing.  They say “whatever will be will be”.  In my life it dawns on me how tenuous my “emotional support system” is; I’ll tell you that.  I have nobody who I can honestly say anything to and not fear some repercussions of one form or another.

Mitt Romney’s selection is considered such a fate accomple that the host was speculating on who he’d pick for Vice President.  “It might even come out today”, he said.  This extreme non productive non relivent to anything continuing attack against Obama is so tiresome and grating on the nerves I don’t know who can stand Romney.  And did I say - - he’s a Mormon.  One caller said “Cubans in Florida are the biggest racists of all.  They are racist against Blacks, and against non Cuban Latinos, and even other Black people from Cuba.  Religion wise the go to church every Sunday.  They talk the talk but they don’t walk the walk”.  That about says it all.  Anne Romney would have us believe that women of America are more worried about Obama socialism than they are their own reproductive rights.  Obviously the Republican is not a fan of women.  Are the tea party people on a husband's ability to "keep his woman in line" so they will not vote their own needs?  I really don't know the answer to this one.  I guess as I think about it, I can’t think of a single constituency out there that is really enthusiastic for the idea of a President Romney.

Perhaps this is a gag story but now there is a story between an interchange between Gloria Alred and Donald Trump.  Apparently Gloria was legally defending some winner of a beauty contest who was a trans sexual, post-op I imagine.  And someone got to remarking about genetailia and Gloria turned to Donald and said “Well, I wasn’t at the hospital when you came out of your mother’s womb; I don’t know what sort of genetalia you have”.  To which Donald Trump allegedly responded “Gloria, I believe you would really be impressed with the size of my penis”.  These kinds of stories would never, never make the air waves 25 years ago.