Former Presidential Candidate George Mc Govern Dies

George Mc Govern died last night quietly in his home surriouded by loved ones at age ninety.  Mc Govern first announced for President in 1968 when he looked younger and he said he was running “because we democrats need to aknoledge that there are differences within our party and we need to air those differences”.  Lyndon Johnson according to one source (now forgotten) apparently wanted George Mc Govern to win in 1972 but thought that he should tout his military war hero record more as a bomber pilot, but that wasn’t Mc Govern’s thing.  It could be that Mc Govern lost because he was for abortion, still a controversial subject, and also there were roomers that he was for the legalization of marijuana.  In terms of the Viet Nam War he was pretty much in step with the American people.  The Democratic party was against Wage and Price controls we were then under, and I always thought these were a bad idea, even back then.  Of course Mc Govern’s record is more steller than Richard Nixon who had an unremarkable record in the Navy and spent his spare time gambling and sending the money home to his mother.  This contrasts with Dad who ASKED his mother for money- - and there was all this murkiness about was he or was he not entitled to a medical discharge for his “disability”.  I think George Mc Govern was one of the most honest, upstanding men to ever run for President, and I feel that a lot of heartache could have been avoided if he’d won that year.

We were talking about Dad’s photos yesterday and Paul still has all of those that ever were up on the walls- - with the ones on the walls when he died in a special envelope.  We all agree that Dad had real talent as a photographer.  Judy suggested I might want to take a course in photography (among other suggestions) and I’m half tempted to do so.  Paul again spoke of that “trash can full of Dad’s cassettes” that he almost threw out but “something stopped him”.  I said "Trash Can!  I still can't believe that.  Cassettes are pretty small and trash cans are pretty big".  Harry Green’s name came up.  Paul (in a memory lapse?) said he thought the only Harry Green tapes were on reel to reel, but I corrected him because I've heard them.  Others didn’t know what Green did after he left the ministry and I said I’d heard he’d gotten into some sort of hospital work.  That Harry Green was an excellent preacher of the word was something Paul and I still agree on, if we agree on nothing else.

Chris Carter talked about the origens of “Badfinger”.  I thought that was a Beatle in the Yellow Submarine cartoon carrying a big blue “bad finger” wasn’t it?  Of course there was that B H series of episodes where the English people “pointed the finger of shame” at them because of their cousin Marcus, in some fashion.  I used to employ the “finger” in some of my very early writings but unlike Larry Norman, my finger was always pointing forward.  They say that “if you don’t know where you’re going any road will take you there”.  In reality a god who is Everywhere is really Nowhere, and some would argue visa versa.  It’s like sin.  If everything is a sin than nothing is a sin.  George Harrison does not appear on the song “Rocky Racoon”.

Yesterday afternoon I changed into these jeans from the sweat pants and noticed that Nora had thrown out the “Close up” which was almost empty- but I had a new tube of “Aim”.  Right now I’m charging up all four camera batteries so I’ll have spares.  The Giants are beating the Washington Redskins 20 to 13 now.   I got a phone call saying Paul would be picking me up after all.  He was “at the corner of Ball and Anaheim”.  I was picked up by them at a quarter to four and opted against even bringing a jacket.  Traffic was good except for very minor congestion right by the El Toro turn-off.  I noticed that talk of politics came to an end as we approached Mom’s place.  Mom wanted to go straight to the dining room, since I guess we were later than planned and she eats so early.  But first Paul and Judy were dancing together because this entertainment band was playing in the lobby.  I asked Mom what changed her mind so suddenly about having us over and she seem to deny that she even talked to me on Thursday and said the things to me she did, saying "I first heard about the idea from Paul on Friday".  I chose not to pursue the matter even though it was strange.  I was looking for something of a beefy nature to have for dinner, like a New York steak.  But they don’t even have much in the way of beef of any sort on their “usual menu” so I opted to have one of their two specials, chicken parmazhon, which was a big breast filet of chicken- - like maybe ten ounces- - covered in a rich tomato sauce topped with parmazhon cheese.  I also had spinach and a baked potato, and there was some kind of vegetable soup and the usual orange slices.  At the salad bar I got their “Waldorf salad”, which was pretty much just apple pieces, and a potato salad, and crap salad, that was mostly actual crab, believe it or not.  I had a cherry cheesecake for desert.  The coffee tasted like the guy gave me de-caf.  I didn’t complain.  It was my idea to take the stairs up this time.  Mom was charged for a rate for a room “without a view” even though her room has a view.  She hasn’t made any furniture changes in a long time.  I was pleased that I was the center of attention much of this night - - in a favorable manner.  They talked about my many academic talents and how come I never got a college degree, and would I like one.  The chronology of events leading up to Dad’s death is always a good thing to review now and then.  It’s like the Jew’s cry of “Never again”.  I didn’t know that Mom actually caught the same bacteria that Dad died from but Judy intervened to perhaps save her life.  Mom is currently taking three different blood pressure medications but when she tested herself this evening on the machine it was nearly 160 over 85, which isn’t too good.  There was talk of “polly pharmacy” of mixing drugs and not knowing which side effect goes with which drug.  Both Judy and I agreed that’s not the way to go.  I asked Mom whether or not they thought that CNN moderator was biased in Obama’s favor, but that’s as far as talk of politics ever got.  I weighed myself and I’ve gained about two & a half pounds in a few days.  We departed about 7:20 because Mom had hinted she had other things planned for the rest of the evening.  We took the elevator down.  It wasn't long in the car before - - in fact we were just getting in, when I mentioned that whole Libyan ambassador bit and Judy suddenly had amnesia or "Romnesia" forgetting she'd been insisting for the past month the reason why Obama wanted to connect the Ambassador's death with that anti Islamic video is because Obama is a secret Moslem, and supposedly he sent individual letters of "apology" to each of the "offended" Islamic nations.  Judy now denies ever saying this.

This paragraph is an "add back".  It's something I had intended to include here all along.  Last night after getting home from Mom’s first of all I did a blog posting where I do a new expanded tale of the Parable of the Ten Virgins.  That is the first in the run of Psychic Balance this outing and I have not yet changed the format.  The South Carolina Game Cocks fell to the Florida Gators in the afternoon game on CBS.  Two Texas teams played on ABC making it the second week in a row where ABC hasn’t been relevant in the afternoon game.  In the evening game it was the Florida State Seminals, like my shirt, beating the Miami Hurricanes, whom I was going to rout for but once they lost 33 to 13 it was a little late.  Bill had “Cops” on when I returned but it ended at 8:30 and they tried to pawn an episode of “The Office” on us.  There were about six minutes left in the game on ABC that took a while to play out.  I was telling anybody who would listen about how last evening went in an event with an on again / off again nature and those diagonals are too damn thin.   It was some crime show on CBS and by ten I still was not the least tired so made another cup of instant and went outside.  We watched the KTLA news till about ten thirty.  I went right to sleep but woke up before two and went out to smoke and talk to James.  Later I checked and it was 2:15 and still I lay there restless but finally was able to get back to sleep and I got up around five thirty.

Chris Matthews and company believe "the momentum is still with Mitt Romney and now they are saying that nation-wide the race is all tied up and Romney may even be leading by a point.  Obama has indeed suffered reverses of fortune in several battleground states, such as Florida where the President is trailing seriously after having been ahead there.  It was suggested that President Obama "talk big, with grand visions of the future with job programs and all".  I'm puzzled why the President is not already doing this in his speeches.  After all Herbert Hoover sure put on the rose colored classes in his election campaign of 1928 saying 'I have no doubts about America's future.  It is bright with hope".  Rush Limbaugh has even wondered why the President hasn't talked more about the future.  Now there is a roomer that whoever is president in 2013 in April of next year the United States will make a "major financial misstep" fomenting a financial crisis of such magnitude that the President will declare a "Bank Holiday" blaming "Our economic enemies such as China" and that you will not even be able to get to the ATM to withdraw cash.  That Chris Matthews should turn so pessamistic as he did on his show on Friday indicates that there IS no "Obama rebound" after last Tuesday's debate performance, but that the major "Romney cross-over of the numbers" on the graph is a permanent state of affairs.  Once again one must keep in mind that few if any people are now predicting that the Democrats will take back the House and some are even saying with reverses in Wisconsin and other states that the Democrats won't even be able to hold the Senate.  I hate to be the bearer of bad news but sometimes it's inevitable.  Gasoline prices should be falling at a rate ten times the rate they are in reality, and they should have been doing it weeks ago for them to favoribly impact the Presidential campaign in any way.  My one sliver of hope is that all of these women don't want to admit publicly that they fear loss of "rights to their own bodies" by Romney's ideas about fetuses having legal rights that the elderly, Black, and poor sometimes don't have.  Black preachers of the tea party perswasion remind us all that the Black genocide of aborted Black babies far exceeds anything the Klan or any other hate group has EVER inflicted, and we all did it to ourselves.  We comitted "liberal genocide" allowing the super stud conservatives to rule the roost as far as this crop of "Ryan babies" is concerned.  Rather than hold Romney's Mormonism as prejudical AGAINST him, Romney's Mormonism on the contrary has prompted me to give him every break, every benefit of the doubt.  Again if Romney wins, both Orthodox Christianity AND Mormonism will suffer.  Mormonism will forever have to live with "The Faith that produced the WORST President of the United States we ever had.  And Protestant Christianity is forever stripped of the line "We are particular about who we accept as a Christian, and they must conform to our high theological standards".

I got a letter on a lonely day
Saying the Chrystal Ship had Sailed
Jesus said "I can't say when I'll be back
It all depends on how I am Feeling
I'm sure your thoughts are not with me
But with the place wherein now you are living
Take care, take care, my one time saint
You know the Devil is still in charge of stormy weather
But yes my one time pilgrim there is something you can do for me
Just Sing me a final chorus of "Hell Bent for Leather"