The Twilight of Liberalism

Yesterday morning the news was that they had changed the “Hollywood” sign to “Hollyweed”, in my opinion they should have left it that way for about a week or so before attempting to do anything about it.  People are so paranoid about security now.  They had trucks filled with gravel at the Times Square celebrations on New Years Eve.  Donald Trump today he has "Secret information" about who is actually behind the hacking of the democratic party headquarters.  To bad this isn't Watergate.  They bungled that job so bad it the culprets were found out in no time.  And Moriah Kerry had a performance malfunction live on TV.  I don’t see why you just can’t sing a song live.  Wasn’t that what the big crisis was about?   There are laws on the books now about child seat regulations and you have to be so heavy or over two years of age before you graduate to a front facing seat.  And there are mandentory prison sentences now about raping women who are unconscious.  I guess most of the laws that were passed here in California are good ones.  It seems that the minimum wage is going from ten dollars an hour to $10.50 but it was Moe Kelly or somebody who said that by 2022 when we finally make it to fifteen dollars an hour that inflation will have kicked in again and that fifteen won’t buy you as much as it will today so it’s kind of a muted victory.   Florida beat Iowa in the “Outback” bowl planed in Tampa and Iowans come down for some Florida sunshine and get sunburned because they don’t realize the strength of the sun at southern latitudes.  Now they have these electronic devices that actually talk to you like if you aren't checking your rear view mirror enough while driving you get a voice in your ear, or if you're out jogging your headphones give you coaching on running technique.  I've had the theory in the past that sometimes it's these events out of the blue that kill you.  Let's just try and get through 2017 without any SURPRISE news events worse than the political ones we are already anticipating, you know? Of course this is true even in fiction, which too many people think is reality anyhow, and that's another problem.  Let’s hope they can get through “Days of our Lives” on Newyears Eve without someone either being murdered or dying in a horrible accident.  It would be truly a surprise if things happened “normally” on that show.  But it never does.  There is always one thing or another to knock the whole plot into a cocked hat.  If the past is any guide to the future, political hopes and asperations by Democrats won’t happen.  Remember back in 2009 in the first few months of the Obama Administration?  We all had hopes and dreams and best wishes for our new President.  Then April of 2009 comes along and the tea party is unleashed upon America and suddenly things would never be the same again.  Somehow the tea party got the attention of the whole commercial media.  If you pile “Citizens United” in January of 2010 on top of that you know what happened after that.  The Republicans, who had been the dominant voice already in the media it seems, because a force that would drown out all opponents.  I mean that’s how it is.  You can predict anything you want for 2017 but from my vantage point things are and will continue to get worse and worse on the national political scene.  So who would have guessed that us baby boomers would live out the twilight of our years under right wing rule?  We all keep telling ourselves as if repeated it made it so that “These are the last few hours of ancient religion”, and by ancient religion we mean fundamentalist Christianity and Islam.  They now are the two dominant forces in the world as it were- - locked in some eternal conflict.

Clemson beat Ohio State in Saturday night’s game and will take on Alabama for the championship.  Right now USC and Penn State are playing and I don’t even think that game is on the radio.  These cable people will take over everything if we let them.  Last night Green Bay and Detroit were playing each other for the championship of the NFC north.  The winner takes on the New York Giants in a home game and the loser goes to Seattle to play the dreaded Sea Hawks.  Last night there was a long medication line with Federico, a major change from Saturday.  Having my own instant coffee has already saved me money.  Glenda’s coffee goes down so fast I don’t want to contribute to the problem there.  I guess that was NCIS we saw on CBS but I dozed off somewhere along the way.  I was up after nine but don’t remember what I did.  I had this dream I was taking a college class.  And the teacher assigned us a project to select a fellow student and give them a dangerous and defective product to use and record their reaction to it whether they use the product and record the extent of their injuries.  I remember Mr Yingst (a teacher I had twice in high school) was around and I complained to him about his project and he agreed with me it wasn’t a good idea.  And the thing is it was supposed to be college but I had a locker but then kept forgetting where my locker was and my books would be there and I couldn’t get them.  Also all of the students looked like they were in ninth grade or something. 

You can’t count on the search control in blogger to pull up a reference you are searching for.  I tried it from ten to eleven this morning for several references.  I was looking for the “Best of John Lennon” with seventeen tracks on it.  I found a reference to this album in late May of 2011, which was my only hint it was prior to that.  After lunch I got smart.  I remember the album being in January and I thought I’d try 2010.  This turned out to be the correct guess because this was a follow up to - - three albums already- - of best of John Lennon around his birthday in 2009.   The album makes sense as a conclusion to these three other albums.  The heading is “Chapter Eleven – the Last Hours of Ancient Religion’ as kind of a parody of Thom Hartman’s book title.  If we put this album out now the lead song is getting changed because the overlap police are on our case, at least a little.   “KAOS Radio A to Z – The Sixties” is a good compilation of songs.  If memory serves  “SHAVED FISH” an actual retrospective of John Lennon’s songs put out in 1975 by Apple or whoever- - has only an abbreviated version of “Give Peace a Chance”.  So where do you get to hear the entire song as it first came out on 45 rpm?  My take on "the eleven dimensions" was very different then and I forgot I had written this and even now am unsure where I got these particular notions.  

CHAPTER ELEVEN –

THE LAST HOURS OF ANCIENT RELIGION

Give Peace A Chance (original 45 rpm)

Isolation

Well, Well, Well

Working Class Hero

Sometimes I Feel Like Going Down

Sunday Bloody Sunday

You Know I Love You, Baby (Live Elephant’s Memory)

The Luck of the Irish

Attica State

Freeda People (Bring on the Lucie)

Kiss, Kiss, Kiss (Yoco Ono)

I’m Losing You (unreleased rocky version)

What’s Coming Down

Watching the Wheels Go Round

Meat City

Oh My Lover

New York City

This is an album some of you may have been looking for. The “going down” some is track four of the Imagine album. The title escapes me. The final two songs are a late, but long anticipated addition. As you know there are eleven dimensions. There are the four in the space-time continuum we observe in the here and now. The Fifth Dimension is the Dark dimension. This is the realm of the Moon in Dante’s writings and as you know “actually, it’s all dark”. But this is also known as the Twilight Zone dimension. This is where what is Real and what is Not is really not all that important. We have explained the physics behind this dimension several times. The last six realms respectively represent Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. They also reflect the “stable” electron shells of an atomic structure. We could regard these realms of heaven as the Helium, Neon, Argon, Krypton, Xenon, and Radon levels respectively. Because each inert no “Noble” gas, fills up another level of the electron shells. The last six dimensions exist in the hyper-space realm.