This is Friday March
21, 2014 after three and the Prime Minister of Turkey just shut down “Twitter”
he claims, is a “last resort” because Twitter failed to abide by some court
order and now the people are rioting in the streets or whatever. There is a scheduled election in Turkey in
ten days and there was a lot of action on Twitter by the Prime Minister’s
opponents, and even some supporters. But
there was also talk of some government corruption scandal, so how is this guy
any different from Governor Christie?
The Orion Federation (I just had to bring them into this) was immediate
in their condemning the Twitter shut-down, where the press has been consistently
pro Turkish in the past. Anyhow,
Turkey’s own President has comdemned the move, but since Fascism is on the rise
seemingly all over the world now, who knows? In late good news- it seems the Turkish citizens have some kind of a "fix" around the problem so that they can defeat whatever the government is doing. This is good news. They are now "tweeting' out these instructions to everyone they know.
Ed Schultz today said
he likes the start of spring. It’s the
season of course of “March Madness” and it used to be around the first of April
the playing of the Freeway Series between the Dodgers and the Angels and it
used - - to be the start of Daylight Savings Time. We used to get up in March exhilarated by the
early rising sun. No more. Ed Schultz used to go to his favorite fishing
lake where he caught all sorts of big salmon just before sunset and then caught
a bunch more at four thirty in the morning when it was just starting to get
light. That must be on the Wisconsin
side of Lake Michigan – not the Michigan sides.
We used to look for growth in our politicians “maturing into Statesmen”. It happened they say with people like John
Kennedy and Earl Warren – and Franklin Roosevelt according to Thom Hartman - -
and even Barry Goldwater grew and matured with time. I’ve never bought into this “make me” line of
Thom Hartman that somehow if we all bang the pots and pans with one Occupy Wall
Street protest after another – that eventually the politicians will
listen. Even George Bush “grew” just a
little because he knew enough not to listen to Dick Chaney any more. But not today. Indeed Barock Obama is the most profoundly “non
growing” President – a political midget- - this side of Tom Thumb. We need look no farther than Justice Clarence
Thomas to find a man who hasn’t “grown’ one cintilla since reaching the office
of Associate Justice. He’s like some
android was pre programmed by some ultra right wing secretive group - - and We
the People are the only ones who didn’t know that. People now wondered why the German people
were willing to go to war to fulfill the hopes and wild fantasies of One Mad
Man. How come they didn’t know
better? The first thing I noticed about
Calvary Chapel pastors is that all of them seemed to be emotionally immature in
a major way- - and I hoped in vain that they would “grow out of it” and just
maybe “grow into their job”. But they
don’t. Any more than President Obama has
grown, and the history books will definitely note that fact. He is a corporate lackie, and apparently
always has been. Unless he’s willing to
state what the rest us of already know- - that his chief goal now is to ram
through the Trans Pacific Trade Agreement- - I have absolutely no respect for
the man any more. In my opinion he’s
spineless and unfit for his high office.
They are going about the "devil in the details" of changing the infrastructure of a whole province from one country to another. Crimia used to have all of their oil and gas lines from the Ukraine mainland. Now these will be destroyed and a massive construction project- - - some bridge to Russia - - is under way. I imagine they'll change the official language by law. And they will all set their clocks to Moscow time. We mentioned in this morning's blog posting that they are doing military manovers just east of the border in Russia. Clearly they and we know what's coming. George Bush 41 didn't put 150,000 of our US troops in Kweit just for the desert climate. It's just a waiting game now- - and the world at large is too paralyzed to do anything. Here are some remarks I wrote about yesterday. It
was just some stuff on C-Span after this mainly on either President Obama and
his popularity (and who besides Me even listen when the President makes a speech any more?), or that speech he gave on the South Lawn, or else it was talk
about why Syria’s dictator didn’t fall as Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt did in the
“Arab Spring” of 2012 or whatever. I was
pretty bored and saw I had a half hour so did a blog posting on the
economy. I also did a blog posting
this morning, which was mainly on “Media Abuse” because the commercial TV news
networks are not giving us the hard news we used to get. It’s either fluff or propaganda. According to Mike Papentonio on the Ring of
Fire this morning- - “every news story nowadays has a propaganda angle to it
whether we realize it or not. Their job
is to get us to believe a certain thing, rather than just report the facts on
the case the way old fashioned newspaper reporters used to with on the spot
reporting.” It’s been kind of an
underlying theme of the talk shows today on both Ed Schultz this morning and
for Randy Rhodes this afternoon.
I was surprised tonight
because they actually had “chicken fried steak” when that is what they promised
us. They’ve never cooked it that way
before. For desert we had some sort of
chocolate pudding. It was kind of
strange. It was thicker than pudding yet
more liquid than a brownie. It was kind
of like the “pudding cake” George Carlin talked about in ‘Ice Box Man”. One of George Carlines was “Society is
circling the drain”. It’s a disturbing
metaphor but more true now than it was uttered however many years ago that
was. We need people like George Carlen
and Lenny Bruce today. I’m not sure if
today’s comics are that good - - not that I’ve been to any night clubs
lately. With it we had mashed potatoes
and gravy- - and waiting for seconds was something I didn’t have the patience
for today. Of course on Days of our
Lives, Eric says he loves Nicole “but I can’t say when - - we’ll ever get
married” and then got on the phone and intoned that- - marriage plans be out of
the picture entirely. But of course he
didn’t tell Nicole that. You know
protestors used to speak of “the urgency of Now”. But today’s nightly news is more like a slow
motion soap opera- - a slow motion tragedy occurring over the past fourteen
years or so. And you realize it’s only
getting inexorably worse with each passing day.
Don’t talk to me about “Hope”; talk to me about “Now” –and you just might
get my attention.
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