Crossing A Diamond with a Pearl

Even after the birth of the new Royal Prince, they seemed reluctant to let us personally see the newborn, as if it were kind of a state secret or a new I Phone before the official release date.  It seems that “All of the TV stations” had news of the Royal birth on at noon but I missed it because KTLK didn’t breathe word one of this story.  Kate Middleton gave birth to a boy, the third prince in line for the throne of England.  Finally I saw some television coverage at four with the Town Cryer and all that.  It was a baby boy born at 4:24 Grenwich Daylight Time.  That would be after eight here when all we were being told was that Kate had gone into labor and was eight centameters dialated.  The mood was spoiled because David Cruise made a total ass of himself on his show today.  At one point he was going to interview a lady who was to give us details about the birth.  But he’d let her talk for maybe ten or fifteen seconds and talk the whole rest of the hour saying the same thing over and over, how he just doesn’t care.  In case David hasn’t noticed we need a little good news.  Certainly David Cruise reads the gloom and doom headlines.  Doesn't he think the people are entitled to a little hope- - or at least some kind of Escape, if only for a moment?  This prince will be the chief of State for fourteen commonwealth nations and also the titular head of the British armed forces.  If David thinks the birth of a baby is stupid to celebrate, than I assume he has no love of Christmas.  The difference is that this child is real and his whole future lies ahead of him.  It’s funny how come people get the real and the imaginary mixed up. This is after dinner of Monday July 22, 2013 and I guess if you’re a proper GMT zone person you would say that the astrological sign of Leo officially begins at four o clock this afternoon.  I have nine and a half  days to go before I get paid and frankly have no idea how I’m going to do it.  It’s just been a case of “one day at a time” so far - - and I’ve survived on few cigarettes today.  Just before lunch I went into the computer room to wait for the doors to open and Lisha was on computer and once again trying to access her E mail address.  People in this building hold the world’s record for routinely forgetting their E mail address or failure to access.  That Safari is a really mess up program to begin with.  I entered John Boehner and got “No results” and one time I got a picture screen but it had a notice window of “failure to connect with camera” where there was no closing X

I guess if we have to we’ll do all of these downer stories on race.  It would seem that the arrest and charging rate of Black drug offenders is six times the rate as for Whites per capita.  And the incarseration rates for Blacks are ten times as high as for whites.  The United States has the highest per capita incarseration rates in the world by far.  Some 25% of the world’s total prisoners are in the United States.   Sixty percent of these are Blacks.  Blacks get the same sentences for non violent drug offences as Whites get for violent crimes.  One in three Black men will at some time in their life be incarserated.  That woman in Florida may have gotten twenty years for firing a gun into the ceiling.  But there were these BART transit police that arrested eight Blacks on Newyears Eve they thought were roudy- - and one of them didn’t “assume the position” quick enough and was shot dead in the back, and his name is Oscar Grant.  (?)  The cop who killed him got only two years and that sentence almost amounts to time served.  As you can see justice is very different for Whites and Blacks.  Now we have these Black teenagers who were playing their car stereo too loud and this White guy fires eight bullets into the car killing a black named Jordan.  I did not know this incident was also in Florida.  At this point I wouldn’t bet two cents on a just outcome stemming from this case.  Basically the “stand your ground” law amounts to “Kill yourself a Nigger any time you feel like it”.  Because it’s clear that Blacks don’t have the same priveleges under this law.  There was something totally sick about Rush Limbaugh defending the slaughter of the Indians by the United States.  He rationalizes it because “These various tribes made war with each other and engaged in slave trade”.  I think this whole bit about slave trade Rush pulled out of his ass, just like Rev Peacock made up the story about Jewish Priests sacrificing newborn babies to the god Baal, in the time of Christ’s birth.  Rush thinks America is wonderful because “We are the only people to wage a war to end slavery”.  Of course knowing Rush’s contempt for the National government- and upholding of - (wait for it)  State’s Rights- - it’s absurd to think that Rush Limbaugh would have been a supporter of Lincoln.  I can imagine a draftee saying “If I have to fight a war they say is to free the niggers than I guess I have to.  Just dome make me have to fight along side one”.   

This is later and “Jeopardy” is just coming on.  Kate Middleton is one of the few commoners to contribute to the royal blood line.  Dianne set new precedents as far as how her sons were reared exposing them to the unseemly side of life.  Last week the Federation was already referring to the new Prince as “Kid Charlemagne”, after the Steely Dan song, because they claim that Princess Kate had tipped off a reporter months ago that it was going to be a boy.  I wish they had told me.  This is probably the most hyped baby since Zachery, and the Federation was in fact hyping the birth before Mal Evans got there.  And it wasn’t until late summer that Mal Evans was even apprised of the significance of Zachery.  Of course there was thunder & lightning on his first birthday, Sunday September 5^th 1976.   Zachery was both conceived and born on a new moon (and a partial eclipse of the sun) as Pink Floyd fans everywhere are well apprised of.  This Prince is born on a full moon.  Of course on a strictly local sphere- - Pete Richards was constantly giving Zachery updates so to speak - or how this pregnency was progressing.  He seemed a whole lot more interested in the pregnency of another woman, than what his own wife was doing, whom he rarely talked about during this period, except she was a grocery cashier at Gemco.  These "updates" came frequently up through April of 1976.  But for some inexplicable reason after I moved in with Jesus People, these little updates were way scaled back.  And after the first weekend of the next July (1977) all contact ended for a period of nearly two years.  I don't know if you knew that, and there is no reason why you would.  There are strange anomalies (kind of like the Samantha Brady officer shooting case) that- - if nobody else cares to investigate, then I guess I don't either.  I just thought I'd reenter edit and add these remarks the next day.

 In other news- - that Six Flags roller coaster in Arlington, Texas had a weight limit of 180 pounds and this fat woman who fell to her death was 250 pounds.  But neither federal nor state authorities will investigate the death but leave it to Six Flags to investigate themselves.  They say that Roller Coasters are very safe and that the odds of being killed on a modern roller coaster are one in 750 million.  I feel safe.  There was some kind of landing mishap at Laguardia Airport and this time it was the front landing wheel that collapsed upon impact.  Some people want national laws on virtually everything including the safety of Roller Coasters.  I don't.  Because the federal system of government we have was never meant to micro-manage every aspect of our lives.  Sometimes people assume risks.  If a 250 pound woman really wants to tempt the odds of being seventy pounds above the safety recomendations, then I hardly see what can be done for her.  Not to put it too coldly but as conservatives sometimes put it, "Actions have consequences".

In the soap opera Samantha was arrested during one of her high moments of glory.  Don’t mess with mama bear.  Adrian wasn’t pleased at either Samantha’s apathy tword her warning nor to Sonny’s overt hostility, and not letting his mother speak for a moment.  Contrary to what he thinks, sometimes if you don’t heed the barking, then dog bites follow, and this is the case with him.  Adrian went to Abe Carrver, and a zealous lady distorict attorney, who wanted to make the arrest right then and brought along another cop friend of the slain officer, just in case Abe proved to be not up to the task.  Christine learned that Brady knew she was telling the truth and offered to start over with Christine.  But this didn’t stop her from turning away and going ahead with her plans, that will only hurt her, much more than any intended target.  I think the moral of the story is that if someone offers you the olive breach- - it’s best to take it because refusal could be hazardous.   In all three cases of Christine, and Samantha and Sonny, it’s a case of naked pride that causes the downfall of these three.  Adrian negotiated immunity for her son from prosecution, but I don’t think the offer was extended to Will.  Chuck Smith says the reason why King Saul was told to commit utter Genocide on the race of the Alamikites killing every man, woman, and child is "because the Amalikite is a type of Sin that we are supposed to utterly eridicate from our lives".  I guess the question then is "Well is Chuck Smith perfect?"  A wise man once said "whatever standard you hold out for others to attain to, you yourself will be judged by it". Here's something funny.  We have never seen Will and Father Eric in the same scene in the soap opera and I don't believe there is one documented word spoken in exchange between these two.  Gee I wonder why.  I guess it's something called plot continuity.  Father Eric is so pure it's incinceivable even to the authors that Father Eric could bless Will and Sonny's "marriage" or whatever they're calling it these days.  

Kicking the Can Down the Road

America has always been a trigger happy nation.  We slaughtered off the Indians and never gave it a second thought.  My old Spanish teacher from my sophomore year, Mr. Landry, said that “America has broken every single treaty we made with the Indian tribes”.  Bob Dylan wrote about this mode of conduct in the song “With God on our Side”.  We killed a hundred thousand innocent Iraquis in the war of the last decade under George W and nobody gives it a second thought.  And we wonder what possible resentments the Islamic community might have against us. So my motive in having wanted Obama to intervene in Syria was not to take lives per se, but to save lives.  A lot of people don’t get this.  Thus President Obama has never had the knack of making a decision in “a timely manner” to quote legaleze.  Now it’s too late.  He should have stepped up to the plate two years ago when the prospects for peace in the Syrian region were much better.  Now on Face the Nation they say that Syria might not even exist as a nation in another six months, and that Al Qaeda is alarmingly entrenched in the whole northeast sector of the country.  Do you remember what Harry Truman said when Castro first took power in Cuba.  He said “I would sit Mr. Castro down and tell him he can either get military aid from us or from the Soviets” and lay out reasons why he’d be much better off going with us.  The tea party feeds on hate.  They would like to resurrect the sort of blind hatred we exhibited twords the Northern Plains tribes post Civil War.  They apparently have been successful in bringing back gunslinger laws of the Old West.  You know.  Where you have the right to gun somebody down if they so much as look at you cross-eyed.  But it dawned on me while watching “Face the Nation” this afternoon, that John Boehner and President Obama are a lot more alike than either of them would care to admit.  Neither one wants to say what their goals are or what they are actually for because, “If I came out for something it would only polarize the nation and create opposition”.  Like I say, I was raised on those “Profiles in Courage” films of the 1960’s where great politicians were the ones who stepped up to the plate when their hour came.  This is not the case today.  Everyone is a coward.  Cowardess is very fashionable now in America.  John Boehner says his job is not to take a stand but to be “a facilitator of dialog”.  The thing is- - most people want to know what your real agenda is.  In most cases you know damn well what you intent to do.  Just as Justice Suitor knew how he intended to vote on the Abortion question is it ever came up, but he wouldn’t tell us.  Of course it will become obvious what Mr Boehner’s “intents” are.  All we have to do is see what actually happens in the House of Representatives on the Immigration Bill.  And I think we all know the answer to that.  But even Jesus Christ is guilty of this.  When asked by what authority he did his “mighty works” Jesus turned it around and said “Tell me then, by what authority did John the Baptist do the things he did?”  They would not answer the question and neither would Jesus answer them.  So Jesus and President Obama are more alike than either would admit.  Both are talkers and not doers.  Now, Oscar Schindler in that movie- - was a Doer.  Laura is a “doer” because she has been giving me really generous second portions these past few days.   If Jesus had really been a “doer” and not just a talker, he would have fulfilled the Hebrew prophecies of what the Messiah would do when he came to Earth.  But even in the halls of the Supreme Court, they are going with this agenda of “kick the can down the road”.  So they kick back the voting rights laws to local governments, or refuse to rule whether for instance a gay couple married in New York could travel to another state such as Virginia without being arrested or something.  You know they used to say “It’s not that Cults get members from brilliant recruitment.  It’s not a decision to Join the cult;  it’s just that people keep Postponing their decisions to Leave the cult once they’re there for a Visit.”  So it was with the Viet Nam war.  Nobody sat down and actually said, “I think we ought to get involved in a nine year long war”.  If you fail to plan then you are planning to fail.  Or to quote a Rush song, “If you refuse to decide, you still have made a choice”.  We know that resentment tword the United States will only grow among minorities if we don’t legislate some sort of a “pathway to citizenship”.  In like manner - - the refugees in Syria may cry out in pain and desperation now.  But in time they will grow bitter and when Al Qaeda comes along and says “The United States isn’t listening to your pleas for assistance, but we’ll help you”.   And yes there is even a story in the Bible about THIS too.  (There’s a story about everything)  People need to get off the Throne of their own Pride and begin really dealing with their problems.

I think one major failing of President Obama on a personal level is that he has no “instincts” of things he either should or should not do.  You should not have gone on that “apology tour” to the Mideast.  You should not have made it a priority to get Health care passed, because its failure in the eyes before the fact, of the American people, foredoomed your administration.  Advice does not necessarily have to “sound rational” or “make sense” for it to still be timely.  One Black on Meet the Press said that Obama’s problem is that he needs more “Kairoy” or “Kairos” moments rather than “Chronos” moments.  In other words, for the Ward Cleaver cliff notes on this is- - the Actual -  will trump the theoretical every time.  It’s pointless to ask what the “odds of something occurring” are good or bad after the fact.  I’ve even fallen into this trap from time to time.  Some soap opera plots are bizarre and defy all odds, but people wouldn’t watch them if somehow they “weren’t part of peoples’ own experiences”.  Like say you are a Loner.  And in your time of greatest need, your wife abandons you, and your own mother, who you thought you were close to, is nowhere around.  The “law” is on your side, but that doesn’t matter, does it?  People see you as the “Goat” in the story.  Sometimes in life people will say they want to help you, but nine tenths of their motives in offering help is not helping you per se, but how they think it will make themselves look in the eyes of people they really want to Impress.  Take problems Israel was having last year with neighbors.  All the flame throwers of the tea party were heaping gasoline on the smoldering embers- - and Israel is saying “Please don’t help me anymore”.  These people may think Obama is a closet Moslem in disguise.  But President Obama was not the one who barred them from nightclubs, or organized the Spanish Inquisition, or put them back on boats to Germany when they tried to flee to freedom.  It was not the President who said “I persecute you in the name of Jesus Christ”.  That was Martin Luther.  But now all you have to do is sing a few Jewish sounding hymns in church- - and people fall for the big con job.  Or getting back to the President for a moment.  He can emote about Black culture till the cows come home.  But what is he going to actually DO about it, where he puts his own butt on the line?  Nothing.  He could have pointed out for example, that the case was built around unsworn testimony of one highly suspect invidual an d a known liar, and sociopath.  The President didn’t care.  As someone on “Face the Nation” just said, juries are 12 people for a reason because they might hang up on ten to two or something.  “It’s easier to manipulate six people than it is twelve”. (Selah)  He as much as announced ahead of time (as he is wont to) I am not going to do anything about these issues.   (Selah)  He’ll go to the mat for the gays; he’ll go to the mat for “socialized medicine”, but he’ll say just enough on race to insure that the other side has “something to complain about’ thus fanning the flames of hatred even more- - but won’t lift a finger to do one step twords actually solving the problem.  I said in my last posting- - that my contempt for George Zimmerman and “accusation” against him- - is not his race - - that is “being White”.   On the other hand it’s not us but the Other Side who condemns Black people a priori as guilty before the fact, and if you let them talk on they’ll actually say it.  They will condemn Black people because of not your experiences but their OWN warped perceptions, and in the spirit of Norman Bates, who assumed his Mother was as possessive of him as he was of her, so these racist Whites, assume wrongly that you condemn people for merely being White.  (Selah) 

Last night on the Mc Laughlin group they talked at length about “stand your ground” laws and of course Pat was for them.  Pat spoke of “all those nifty karate moves that Martin lad learned” forgetting it was Zimmerman who’d worked out with an instructor for eight months. The four others all ganged up on Pat for his response to the immigration bill.  It has been stated that tax revenue would go up and business would end up being stimulated.  Hence revenues would go up and the deficit would go down.  But Pat kept talking about these “eleven million new people being dumped on the job market”.  Well, in case Pat hasn’t noticed, those eleven million people are already here.  (Selah)  They say that “It’s only human nature given a choice to screw the national interests of your own party, and fight the inevitable tide of history - - or else elect yourself for another term, most people will go with the immediate satisfaction.  There was talk about Detroit going bankrupt and Pat Buchannon said that “Detroit reached its peak in 1945 and after that the government began canceling defense contracts”.  OK.  They said that Detroit peaked out at 1.8 million people and now has just over 700 million people.  People thought the Superbowl would revive the town and it didn’t and the auto bail out couldn’t.  This is because the number of workers actually in the auto industry has dropped ninety percent, believe it or not.  Who would guess that a “liberal” democratic President would turn a deaf ear and a blind eye to Detroit’s ongoing problems?  I guess the bigger question is - - “When has this President ever put his own butt on the line for a right cause?  The Fed Reserve chairman is not going to institute any crack-down till the unemployment rate falls below seven percent. 

 I’m going to put up “Face the Nation” in a few minutes.  It’s two o clock now.  (elapsed period of time here)  I just went down to the courtyard for two cups of coffee from Laura.  I had the feeling “July 21, 2013” would be a jinx day and it was too close of a near miss.  You know there are some strange realities to life.  That which you say you don’t believe in, could well be the thing that does you in.  It’s a fact of life that if you learn a secret you shouldn’t know and you say “I promise not to tell anyone” your word may be deemed worthless, and the other party says “I have no incentive to trust you when I can kill you and remove all doubt whether you tell”.  Of course it all isn’t “omens and tea leaves” in my case.  I experienced a near theft - - - but there was twice recently when I left my door closed or locked- - and I came back and the room was wide open.  Yet I never did any follow up.  And it’s a fact that if somebody did steal something- - they have every incentive to lie about it and keep what they stole and leave you uncertain- - rather to admit it and in their eyes it would put them under condemnation from you because it “removed all doubt”.  Also it’s s strange fact of like if that Merissa woman had taken dead aim at her husband in that confrontation and shot him dead on the spot, she’d have a better chance with the police because He would not have been able to say “She was trying to kill me” and said whatever untruths he told about her.  People should be more aware of omens and jinxes and premonitions.  The other day, perhaps yesterday, I got the preminission, “If you go up this particular stairway with that cup of coffee, you will jinx yourself”.  That voice was enough for me to turn around and not do it.