NTL UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS AT 8.2%

Some of this is being typed the next morning.  On the seven o clock news on Stephanie Miller they said that the unemployment rate was now 8.2%. Today’s unemployment figures were a disappointment in my opinion.  But it's worse.  According to Rush Limbaugh, whose credibility about the economy is as close to Zero as you can get, he says that it's because there are so many fewer jobs out there that the figure is even at 8.2% because if the figure were based on the employment economy of when Obama first got into office, in terms of the numbers of people actually employed, the figure would be 10.9% which is higher than anything known.  And only a hundred thousand new jobs were added which is the lowest figure since October.  Again as I said since we had out "employment spring" in the winter - we are now paying the price.  We are coming off that temporary High.  People are once again Leaving the employment market Faster than they are entering it- - even at this late date of 2012.  As you can plainly see the figure has kind of stalled out.  It went down from nine ti 8 ½ % really quickly at the beginning of the year.  But trying to get through that other half percent down to eight has proved a real bear.  The employment situation still doesn’t look that rosy.  They said unemployment claims had dropped to 365,000 per week or something.  (?)  Wait that sounds high.  Anyhow the figure where the economy remains absolutely static is 375 so we are just barely below that.  But jobs are opening up for older men in particular, and that’s fine with me.  The jobs ratio has “improved” to a state of 3.7 people applying for every one job that’s available.  Keep in mind the seasonal “spring serge” has already come- in the winter.  So there’s less to look forward to.


Frankly I am confused about Rush's next story.  It's about this famous black star, who is so rich she can do anything she wants to in ways of product endorsement.  She did an ad for Burger King promoting some new fried chicken strips wrapped in double tortillas.  Supposedly this is racially offensive for Black people.  What a minute.  Don't Black people love Popeye's chicken?  In fact I thought Popeye's chicken was a Black run business.  We don't need to waste time on minutia.  Now they have 'enhanced" that 9 - 11 tape of Zimmerman and concluded that the word in question is not "Koon" as I'm convinced it is every time I hear it, but rather "Punks".  I don't think so but it makes Rush feel safer- - even though Zimmerman's defenders were saying the word was "Goons" to begin with.  So now Rush can say "I just proved that one of Zimmerman's avid defenders is a flat out liar".


This whole thing with the New Orleans Saints and deliberate head injuries and "taking out" players- - seems to be a situation where even Rush Limbaugh sees a problem.  They are told to "end the carriers" of certain players often by specifically targeting an old injury of specific players. Of course just as an aside - most of the people you know who've been to New Orleans regard it as "A place I wouldn't want to spend much Time in" - - kind of like Calcutta India or some place.  Of course we know those other kinds of "Saints" also fight dirty.  You know the line "Never give the Devil an even break".  The code phrase here is "If you don't like the cut of the guy's suit- - you have permission to fight just as Dirty as you fancy".  (Selah)

They said something in this morning's news about Google having "magic glasses" out or something where you could - - see things and get special messages from their computer screen that were meant just for them?  Was I dreaming this?  As to the photograph, yes that really is green dye in the water providing a clue as to where this picture was taken, as well as three others in that row.  Of course back in the 'seventies, Boston, Chicago, and Kansas were known as entities other than just places on a map.

They say that more autistic children are born to older fathers because it seems that men themselves have “biological clocks” as their sperm mutate with age.  As the fathers get over fifty for example the risk is so high that chances of having an autistic child are twice as high.  I guess given today’s reality that means every man age fifty has a one in 44 chance of fathering an autistic child.  Of course we’ve known for five decades that women over 35 are more likely to give birth to mongolid children.  Yet the women choose to wait anyhow.   They may defer the risk but they also defer their chance of having their children grow up with a normal IQ.  It seems that in general the parents of mental patients is older than the average population and in the cases we’ve heard about of they’ve shown on TV, this seems to be the case.  Older parents.

Robberies of Pharmacies are up 88% since 2007 and this doesn’t surprise me a bit.  Of course they aren’t after the money but the actual drugs, such as pain medication.  And this makes all the sense in the world.  They want to legalize internet gambling here in California so that these outlets can be licensed and the state get needed revenue.  It’s funny how I’ve never heard one case of new gambling solving a budget crisis.  Sports betting is more problematical to legalize, the experts say because technically you need “permission” from the federal government to legalize that.  In my opinion the federal government should keep hands off of any regulation of either gambling, or for that matter, most drugs.  We’ll see.

This is Holy Thursday April 5, 2012.  It’s opening day for baseball.  The Dodgers are opening at Petco Stadium tonight in San Diego playing the Padres.  The incoming and outgoing Dodger owners were sitting next to each other talking.  One guy said when heard that Magic Johnson was now the owner of the Dodgers he went out and bought season tickets.  It’s always a time when even the lowliest team can fantasize that they will win all 162 of their games.

Franklin Roosevelt is one of these people who “had all the gold” because he used eminent domain to take it from the American people.  According to Judy he got it from then for twenty and then revalued it immediately at $35.00 an ounce.  The Supreme Court in a five to four upheld his conthiscatory action but Roosevelt attacked the Court in speeches anyhow.  But now of course we have no gold and no industry to bail us out.  So what do we do?  Oh, we have a lot of people who are so rich they don’t know what to do with their money - - but we have no labor unions and no industry and no regular, good paychecks going out providing steady income for people to invest and spend to stimulate the economy. 

On the soap opera Melanie was vindictive against whoever posted one remark out of dozens that she was a slut and a gold digger and a manipulator.  She used to be all of these things for a long time.  If it’s Gabriel who posted the remark- - she’s not going to take this “declaration of war” by Melanie lying down.  Personally, I am a thousand percent behind whatever retaliatory action Gabriel would choose to take against Melanie.  You know what they say - those who are always moralizing the most are the ones that turn out to be the biggest sluts and hypocrites.  Now Will is once again saying he’s gay but “not ready to date yet” whatever that means. 

I wanted to talk about the notion of - - "is there any way that's scientifically demonstrable where we can actually gain access to the Future - - events that haven't happened yet.  Some people would say a flat out "NO, simply because we have Free Will and the events Have Not Happened yet and therefore can't be known".  My metaphysics is different, as you know.  I have spoken of "The Super Self" that already "knows" the future, for the simple reason that "we've already lived it".  It's an intriguing concept based on a really STRICT interperation of Einstein's special theory of relativity.  As you know in fall of 2009 I "proved" the theory to be completely unworkable, yet this one intriguing deducable sidelight conclusion remains out there.  I use "super self" rather than Ubermann, simply because of its Nazi conotations.  Of all the prognostication methods for gleaning the future - - Neil of KFI states that "astrology is the worst predictor of the future".  No.  The WORSE predicter of future events are Dreams.  Of course as you know many classic Novels "resonate' with readers as saying truisms because they are so "believable" or intriguing or whatever.  John Lennon spoke of certain songs being "from the Spirit" - - rather than others which are "make-a-songs".  One man's gourmet cassarole is another man's Alpo.  That's the problem here.  What do you do with a song like "Woman", not the Peter and Gordon one, which is a good song - - but the Double Fantasy one?  One might argue that inspiration and imagination comes from "psychic impressions" but don't infer anything Supernatural here.  I'm using the word "psychic" in the strict Freudian sense referring to the Mind and how it works.  But returning to my first point, I think we've all had experiances where we just "knew" that a certain lucky event was about to occur- - - and also those times when they knew they were fresh out of "get out of jail free" cards.  Most times when you have a "bad dream" you're glad it's over when you wake up because you instantly know none of it was real.  Other less frequent times a dream will "stay with you' and kind of hang over you like a cloud.

Not So Sweet Dreams - 

Thursday morning April 5th.

But then I had a really uncomfortable dream.  I dreamed there was this one high school that was laid out like Magnolia – on the west side of Gilbert only it was further South in Garden Grove or something - - and the front of all those “quad” class rooms faces east rather than north.  These quads have the same distinct window pattern, of course, as at Savanna.  I was attending some morning adult classes here.  But then I was in this other College that was “way to the West” deep in Cypress.  Maybe it was Cerritos but most likely Katella and the College had to be as far as Valley View or something.  People from here attended the college but I only specifically remember talking to Glen there.  But the vibes of this campus were strange.  Everybody made these sexually crude remarks and often sexually inappropriate things like come up from behind you and grab you in the groin, and it didn’t make any difference whether it was a male or a female.  There were young elementary kids around there and even they were a little screwy in their interactions.  Conversation with authority figures like teachers was awkward because I’d try and say something intelligent and they would respond with some kind of a personal put down.  I had no complaints about the food, though.  I had a BBQ chicken and French Fries and a Carl’s style coke, all for under five dollars.  There was some literature class where we were doing Novels.  One Novel involved in passing a reference to some six phase radio transmitter or receiver or something.  There was reference to a “skip wave’ receiver.  But they also made reference to a “skip string” electric guitar.  And the teacher on one test asked us to explain how all these devices worked.  I felt the questions were entirely unfair.  Then we was some film clip from another novel excerpt.  There was one scene with two plump females engaging in catty conversation with each other.  In another scene a seminary student was dressed in a white suit and would quote the Bible or something - - but people would respond with a flippant put down and I felt bad for the guy.  Then the teacher asked “How is all of this psychological interplay relivent in terms of the underlying spirit of this novel”.  I went and told the teacher afterwards “I’ve taken a lot of challenging classes in college in my day, but none of them have been as impossibly taxing as yours”.  Going home I had to take the bus.  I think it was Katella.  It was about 11:30 and I wanted to get home by one for the soap opera.  It dawned on me that I had forgotten to check with Denise about the boxer shorts before I left.  But all of the students were headed west rather than tword the traffic light to the east.  And then they turned right, to the north.  I decided maybe I shouldn’t follow them.  I was walking absent mindedly down the street and suddenly it dawned on me that the sun was behind me and slightly to my left of the “seven o clock” position, and not all that high in the sky for mid day.  I was told that I was on Charlotte Street when I asked, and I remembered that there were some cockeyed angle streets in Cypress at one spot, at least in this dream.  Then when I got back to Katella or whatever I walked down the incline from the sidewalk to the street.  A whole lot of students were crossing in mid block, such as the cops had blocked off the street to allow the students to pass.  I knew that there were all sorts of shopping malls along this street as I made my way Eastward.