I wanna say right now - I Am Not A Bully - - and I'll beat the Crap out of anybody who even Looks at me with a note of suspicion as though they don't Believe me on this".
Here's a news flash. At the George Bush "libary" they filed "Where's Waldo?" under mystery and suspense. Did George Bush really do a painting of himself sitting on the toilet- or is that just a roomer? Stephanie Miller has been hyping this "Rolling on a River" remake with "John and Pam" from "Oh-Hi"-O". I'm uncertain whether certain portions of the Stephanie Miller show are replays this morning, at least on the Chicago station I'm listening to. But they've been talking about this "Jo-har" terrorist guy being put on trial in Boston and people are saying that "Prhaps Johar" should be tried as an Enemy Combatant". They hare some interractive program at the George Bush library of "What decision would You make in this particular crisis?" Probably better ones than Bush made. But the whole Furtelizer plant explosion in Oklahoma was brought up again - - and the plant was near a school and probably violated a whole lot of common sense environmental considerations. Apparently the gun lobby nixed the idea of a program to track Explosives, which would be instrumental in tracking down a lot of terrorists. Is it true that "The only remedy for a bad man with a pressure cooker is a Good man with a pressure cooker". Or should we have just armed the whole onlooking crowd at the Boston Marathon with guns- and that way we'd have a half dozen people firing randomly as any suspicious person with a back pack. In terms of meranda rights, it was right that Johar should not have been granted these rights right off because of the public safty issue, and we know how Jack Bower in terms of great extremity of public safety - - will engage in the most severe form of torture to extract the answers he wants. Some have wondered if the whole city of Boston could be "shut down" to capture two people - - could the President "shut the whole country down" to go through and conthiscate weapons? Well it got me to thinking, anyhow.
Ed Schultz was saying "If a trusted associate of yours- - comes under suspicion of telling a Lie or concealing an act done in Your name which could cause you great Harm- - would you Fire them without even Hearing their side of the story- - and say to them "Why the Hell would you Do something horrible like that, that was so damaging to my future carrier?" Wouldn't you even give this trusted Friend of yours at least an Oppertunity to Defend themseves in all of this before you Termanated them? It seems the E mails that revealed this- - were released just before some statute of limitations ran out. Many of these E mails were heavily redacted. It seems virtually impossible to me that this lady won't "turn" and become State's Evidence knowing the potential seriousness of the crime she'll be charged with, which could be considered "economic terrorism" and I'm sure there are laws covering this.
Then the whole bit about elephants was brought up. This whole segment appears to be a replay of a show aired around the first of this year (ten or so days ago as of this writing) and I tracked down my remarks in Word, but I can't find any record of it in any blogger posting, but it's one of those segments I certainly intended to publish. Circus elephants of course undergo a who lot of mental torture. When I think of the training of elephants I think of that guy on Star Trek Next Generation who kidnapped Mr Data, and he knew how Data's moral programming went and he knew just how to manipulate someone more powerful than him who could kill him in an instant- - by using key phrases and commands to inflict a lot of lot of mental torture in Commander Data till he did what the kidnapper wanted him to do. Of course if it's true that these elephants are confined to a quarter acre, this is absurd. It seems the earth is to tamped down after a while it becomes like concrete and it hurts the elephant's feet. But what is really cruel is the electrification of the foliage around the place so the elephants cant engage in"unauthorized eating" (The Torah has a thing or two about depriving animals of grazing rights) There are a few remarks I'll past in here, but not in the initial posting. OK I guess it will be in the initial posting. Here it is. I did a blog post
yesterday but am unsure whether I want to do one today on open space for
elephants. Really they would need at
least two and a half acres, and preferably ten acres, or the dimensions of your
typical elementary school. That would
give the elephants space to roam, yet in a confined enough space that people
could still see them. The idea of
confining an elephant to a quarter of an acre is ludicris. At the very minimum 10 acres divided up into
quarters. The idea of circus elephants
doing their tricks voluntarily- - is false.
Circus people have discovered that elephants being judicious animals can
be subjected to a form of mental torture.
Elephants grieve for their fallen comrades and often go back to mourn
their loved ones’ bones & check them out.
You know I'm titling this posting in tribute to a statement that Ted Kennedy did at his brother Bobby's funeral in June of 1986. He said "Some people see things as they are and say - WHY - - but I imagine things as they could be and say WHO NOT?" We'll be talking more about "Imagining" as the posting unfolds. But right now I'd like to relate a story I just came up with. It's kind of like one of those Rorshock ink blot tests, that you can interperet any way you want. (That's the way Lennon would have wanted it) Picture a very rich man- - such as Mitt Romney with his vast world wide wealth and off shore accounts. And he meets this guy who is someone different, almost like an Angelic personage. And this is a man who is friendly tword him and has always liked him and has been wanting to meet him. I say that, because it's not like some cigar chomping crime boss in a smoke filled room in a plush chair in some darkened expensive wood panneled room with venician blinds. And this guy says "I can guarentee you a good after life. I will give you a Free Pass to where you want to be. All you have to do is give me- - not a tenth, but a hundredth of all your wealth. And you know for a Fact that this guy has the power to do all of this. If you give him but one percent of all your wealth - - he will Guarentee that you successfully Cross the Goal in Pitfall and win the prize. Now if you fail to give this man the Money- - this does NOT mean that you won't have a good after-life, but now the outcome of that is at least in Doubt. So would you do it? Would you be a fool is you did not do it? You tell me.
Unemployment numbers are down to 6.7% and once again these January figures are way down on the percentage number, but only 74,000 jobs were added, which as you know in the Real World, means a net job loss, as droves of people continue to Exit the jobs market. I'm wondering now if massive numbers of individuals will become street bums, since they won't be getting unemployment coverage. But I'm doing a reversal of my position on Minimum Wage. As you know I tend to -except in extreme cases previously outlined - - do not believe Minimum Wage should be used to influence the wage market. However two things have compelled me to change my position on this. The first thing is that- - minimum wage is no longer teenagers flipping burgers after school for a few extra bucks to take a girl out on a date. It's bread winners with kids they have to support and this job is their only employment. That means vasst numbers of wage earners are not AT or only very slightly above getting minimum wages. The other thing pertains to the rising unemployment that is said to come after a minimum wage hike. I've checked the figures and most often the minimum wage is passed near the top of an economic cycle, which means rising unemployment would have occurred anyhow as the economy cycles down. Someone's eleven year old son said to his father, "What's the use of getting good grades when graduates of MIT with a high degree aren't assured employment, but some doofice on TV can screw up in life and make an ass of himself and get big media notoriety and funding. This eleven year old kid is one smart cookie.
OK folks here come the dead rock stars once more. Last night I was planning out a whole interview I was going to do with myself- - around Halloween of 1980 in Cincinatti, where Jim Cooper and I were for quite a number of weeks in the fall of 1980 because Jim was visiting old friends and relatives and I just needed to get away. But John Lennon became aware of the content of this interview and said "That interview has so many good ideas in it, you should save it and dedicate it to a whole posting to itself". I got to thinking about that and decided that would be a pretty good idea. In terms of 'Imagine" we're giving you a PARTIAL answer to our longstanding question perhaps going back five, or six, or seven years. We said that the song "Imagine" was a musical rip-off of a song out several months earlier in March of 1971. We'll give you a little clue to help you out. The song has the line in it "Into my room he creeps - - with his BLEEP all long and hanging down" and the correct word for BLEEP is 'hair" but people "imagine" something else. Of course I've left the answer to this question "just hanging out there" for a long time. What I want is the song lyric tag line at the end of the chorus". (refrain) "It's all you need do, and I'll know it's all True" to quote King Herod from Jesus Christ Superstar. We have another ANSWER for you. The Bryan Berne song about "What song would I bring with me on oldies request night?" The answer is "Tell me you love me for a Million years" by the Cassinos, I believe. Actually this song first began to get popular in January of 1967 and on the last Saturday that month our church group went on a snow trip to Wrightwood. And I imagined a situation where you and your girlfriend would spend a fun day in the snow and- - would stop into some coffee shop nearby- - and you'd sit around drinking coffee and eating a piece of pie all warm and cozy in the building. That's what I see as the "geshtaldt" of the song. Of course the previous Sunday night, our fellowship was meeting at the usual room and it was pouring down rain outside and someone in the group said of the trip, "Hopefully it's snowing there right now". That afternoon something is "indellibly etched into my mind" that is in question it really happened. The radio that afternoon was debuing two new Beatles songs, "Penny Lane' and 'Strawberry Fields Forever". But you didn't imagine the final trumpet riff. Once "Rareties' came out- - you got to hear that final trumpet riff once more. "I tot I taw a puddy tat - - I did! I did saw a puddy tat!" And now I'd like you to name the most under rated and under played Paul Mc Cartney song in his entire carrier. This song was running through my mind this morning. This song reminds me of Stewart Sutcliffe. His "spirit' to me is running through this song. I'll give you a few hints. If you're a Breakfast with the Beatles fan your odds of guessing the song are enhanced. The song is not "Ivan", which used to be played a lot- - but if you guess "Ivan" you're thinking along the proper channels. Kurt Cobain tweeted "It's not a track on Red Rose Speedway, is it?" No. It is not on Red Rose Speedway. On a final note- - Stewart Sutcliffe while he was alive and was a member of the Beatles, used to sing "Love Me Tender" in Hamburg. This would be the Beatle Find of the Century if someone could locate a recording of this track. They just released Beatle Recordings of 1963 but Apple gave away the farm because I got to preview all of these tracks I cared to hear. Some are interesting - but you don't buy a whole cow when all you want is a glass of milk. Of course in January of 1967 I learned that "Love Me Tender" used to be called "Auralee" during the Civil War. Of course speaking of coincidence - - this was the very time when "Rock and Roll Star" was rising fast on the charts by the Byrds. Now they are doing the nine o clock news, which is really the 11:00 news. They have all these statesman freeways there like the Eisenhower, the Stevenson, and the Kennedy.
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