Sunday, February 03, 2013

The Domain of Nuts (A Squerelly Point of View)



There is still a lot of undo concern about how this whole "Sequestering' business - a scheduled cut in spending- - is going to impact the Military. Apparently it's really support to be serious according to the top Military Brass on Meet the Press.  As though national security would itself be irreperably compromised.  Somehow I don't think so.  We still spend more on defense, do we not, than all the other world's nations defense expenditures combined, don't we?  They say America is only number one in three things now.  We are number one on the percentage of the populations that believes in Angels, we are number one in per capita Incersations of its citizens, and we are number one in national defense outlays.  But they keep telling us that officers won't get paid two days a week and that "readiness' opporations will be the first thing that gets cut.  I guess the question is whether the national debt matters at all or it doesn't?  If it does then everybody has to make some sacrifice, from the poor to the military to those who want research funds.  And yes, we have to at least run the risk these budget cuts will throw us back into recession, though personally I don't believe that will happen.  Senate Majority leader Harry Reed said today that in order to ease off on the defense budget cuts in March, "new venues of revenue will have to be found" and he even mentioned on picking up on Mitt Romney's notion of "getting the low hanging fruit" meaning obvious tax deductions and allowances.

In terms of super bowl picks, as you know I have been quiet on the subject.  It seems the majority of these "Animal" picks go for the '49ers.  Randy Rhodes things the '49ers will win it.  More people than not who have expressed their oppinion in public go for the '49ers.  As to the Federation - - we have more of a connection with the Baltimore Ravens team than the '49ers.  Stewart Sutcliffe is going for the Ravens.  The '49ers is backed by the "Del Phi" group, and they are considered a little Dangerous by the Federation because they are allied or used to be with the Ionians, whom everyone is afraid of.  And of course- - - returning to the moment for once- - - people who still believe in Prayer for your favorite team influencing the outcome.  It seems that 28% of the population believes that Prayer to the Deity of choice can and does influence the outcome of an athletic contest.  Which means that 72% of the population thinks this is nonesense.  I have to side with those who say the outcome has been pre-determined by the Almighty in advance and can't be altered for anything because in a four-dimensional time frame, the Results are already set in concrete.  But I'll be watching the game- even if I'm a little divided.  After all being from California I feel some obligation to go with my state.  Jim Morrison was a '49ers fan, as you perhaps may know from our writings.  This is a Halftime update and it seems that the Baltimore Ravens came to Play because they are leading the '49ers 21 to 7.

The squerels still come out at night and are alive and well on "KFI coast to coast".  This pre dawn jock is still going strong on KFI.  The last caller of the night he fielded was a guy who re trodded this vintage story held by psychics for over forty years that the Antichrist was born on February 4th of 1962 and proof that the end of the World is upon us is that the Mayan Calendar has already expired and also the numbers 2/4 add up to six, and also 2013 adds up to six, and also the antichrist will be fifty one as of tomorrow and 5 and 1 makes Six, so you've got your three sixes.  But of course there was a lot of talk about FEMA or the Federal Emergency Management Association or what have you.  I first heard of the term FEMA as some "evil entitu" set up by Richard Nixon in 1972 whose purpose, so I was led to believe, was to round up all suspects and put them in an internment camp out in the wilderness in Wyoming or somewhere out in the middle of nowhere, with electric barbed wire fences and guard towers and the whole bit.  Doug Clark talked a lot about FEMA in the early Seventies, and also that World War III book by Charles Taylor that I happened to buy on Flag Day of 1972 talks about FEMA, and seemed to quote a lot from the Torranto Daily Breeze.  I don't know if the guy is from Canada or what?  Of course the Obama administration is "out to fool us all" by releasing a photograph of the President firing a gun - - skeet shooting at Camp David.  Because "Despite the evidence, we all know the President really despizes gun owners".  And also there was some grand conspiracy to get rid of General Petrayas even while pretending to want to promote him by "Scheduling the news on him to break when it did".  These people believe the government is capable of "scheduling" when news events will hit the headlines - - any time they like, at the most auspitious timing.  Of course this crowd also believes that the government wouldn't be compiling all of this information on all of us at great expense to itself unless they were planning to incorporate in in some One World Government where everything about us is stored in "the cloud' on some vast National Computer Data Base.  Judy is suspicious of storing any Information from her computer in "The Cloud" because of these Privacy issues.  Personally I'm not a bit worried.  As the old expression goes "I have nothing to hide".  Well this is just your morning wake up call before the News Interview shows come on later today, and there you have your whole crop of an entirely different kind of nut, a political, tea party nut.  These shows appear hell bent on making sore that when it comes to the Far Right fringe that "Every Dog has his day".  And now here is something completely rediculous...

THE NEW "RED ALBUM" THE BEATLES 1968 - 1971)
"Hey Jude" photograph framed with red border.
Here are thirty tracks in honor of Valentinian Gnosticism.  Ha!
John Lennon said he didn't want any 1994 songs included
One song on disk two is not in Alphabetical Order
Be sure and get RED, WHITE (our version) and BLUE (standard issue)

GET BACK (original album version)
ONE AFTER 909
THE LONG, WINDING ROAD (anthology version)
FOR YOU BLUE (original album version)
ROCK AND ROLL TRILOGY (anthology)
I DIG A PONY (original album version)
I GOT A FEELING (anthology)
TEDDY BOY (anthology)
LET IT BE (anthology version)
ALL THINGS MUST PASS  (GH demo version - Anthology)
OH, DARLING (anthology version)
DON'T LET ME DOWN (Let It Be - Naked)
MAILMAN, BRING ME NO BAD NEWS (anthology)
DIG IT (original album version)
COME AND GET IT (Paul Mc Cartney demo version)

BANGLE DESH
BECAUSE (ACAPELLA VERSION)
COLD TURKEY (KLAUS VOORMAN ON BASS)
DEEP BLUE
EARLY 1970
GIMME SOME TRUTH (ALAN WHITE ON DRUMS)
I DON’T WANT TO BE A SOLDIER, MAMA
I ME MINE (ANTHOLOGY VERSION WITH RECAPITULATION)
IT DON’T COME EASY
JUNK (INSTRUMENTAL)
KREEN AKRORE
MAYBE I’M AMAZED
MAGGIE MAE  (original album)
SOUR MILK SEA (WHITE ALBUM DEMO SONG)
THE END (ANTHOLOGY VERSION) including final note

Suggested photo front of "The Rest of the Beatles" (see previous) "disk 8 in that other boxed set- - Anthology Vol Two cover)

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