Those Sabotaging and Dictatorial Neo Cons

There was an ethics bill that congressed was about to pass to change the name of the ethics committee to the “complaints” committee, but Donald Trump played the good guy for once and got congress to pull back on this controversial plan.  Trump says he’s going to step in like this in the future if congress does something he doesn’t like.  There is no word yet on the all important filibuster rule.  If the Senate scraps that one we’re all toast anyhow because everything under the sun will get passed and signed by President Trump.  Mc Connell has said he’ll keep the filibuster rule.  We democrats better hope and pray that’s true.  It’s smart to make my blog posts shorter because Google only searched through so many words before it stops counting and if you have some golden gems further down in the text they won’t count for anything so won’t go to boost your ratings.

There apparently is an article in the New York Times which states that H R Halderman in October of 1968 had in his personal notes to Nixon an urging to put a monkey wrench into the Paris Peace talks to end the Viet Nam War.  This is the “smoking gun” and the most explicit evidence I’ve heard of.  As you know Thom Hartman has played that tape between Lyndon Johnson and Everett Dirkson where Johnson calls this deal sabotage as “treason” and Dirkson says, “I know”.   But I remember way back when that Dad told me that Humphrey was thinking of lodging this charge of Peace talk sabotage.  So Thom’s whole theory now is that basically in the last sixty years- - there has only been one legitimately elected President of the United States and that would be George Bush Sr. in 1988 over Dukakis.  Of course you don’t need to go very far to find a case of sabotaging an election.  There were some 65,000 or whatever Black people in Wayne County, Michigan whose ballots were invalidated.  But the people never knew their ballots were invalidated till the day they went to vote.  Thom says “The Republicans certainly going to contact you by mail and warn you that your voter registration is in question”.  No.  They want you to go down there and it’s too late and you can’t do anything about it.  Of course Trump only carried Michigan by ten thousand votes so you can clearly see this area is another where those electoral votes were flipped from blue to red.   Michigan and Governor Snyder of course are famous for dictating to the cities how to conduct their government.  Now there is the whole plastic bags contraversy.  Localities vote to ban plastic bags and Governor Snyder steps in and says “We’re not going to allow you to do that”.  And of course Thom talks about how President Boni Sadir in Iran ran and was elected on a platform of freeing the 52 American hostages but according to President Sadir,  The Ayatola and William Casey and the Reagan campaign scuttled that.   This was the initial phase of the Iran Contra scandal. 

Thom Hartman says that the asteroid that hit earth and killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago isn’t even the biggest disaster to hit earth in terms of extinctions.  He said there was a perma-frost disaster caused by an underground volcano and lava that melted the perma-frost 250 million years ago killed off 95% of all life forms on the planet.  Of course some disasters were caused by cold.  There was a flash freeze disaster that occurred about 11,000 BC that Ted Armstrong has referred to that killed off wildlife in Syberia and Alaska.  Some people say the Bible itself makes reference to this pre Noah disaster in one of the epistles of Peter.  Some people believe the Great Pyramid may be as old at 13,000 BC or whenever the vernal equinox occurred when the sun was in-between Leo and Virgo.  What’s important to remember about today is that we have to ask ourselves two fundamental questions.  Is this global warming we are experience we are having now real, or only in our minds.  Some Republicans say it’s all in our heads.  It isn’t really happening.  The other big question to answer is “Is this global warming man made or just a part of the natural climactic rhythms.   We can’t save the dinosaurs but the question now to answer that even if there is some cyclic pattern to our climate patterns, we as stewards of the planet need to do everything we can not to make the problem worse.

Bill and Hillary Clinton have been invited to Donald Trump’s inauguration.  This seems like a really strange thing to me.  It’s almost like he’s saying “Let’s forget about all that stuff that was said during the campaign, we all know we’re still friends.  Of course George W and Laura Bush will be attending the inauguration.  My guess is that Jimmy Carter won’t be attending.  In other news they have discovered a new organ of the body that Leonardo Di Vinci discovered but later scientists dismissed.  But now they have looked at the research further and it’s some body of tissue that connects the stomach with the small intestine.  And of course Megan Kelly is leaving FOX news for a show on NBC that they want to make sure doesn’t conflict with Sunday Night football.  (?)  Megan Kelly’s leaving FOX is no secret and it’s been common knowledge for weeks now.  It would be funny is Kelly turned into a liberal after all.  The question was raised on the Gary and Shannon show as to who was the last person to leave KFI.  It seems as if they hang on to their hosts forever.  They hung on to Rush Limbaugh for an awful long time.  And Bill Handel and John and Ken are turning into antique relics they’ve been around for so long.

President-elect Donald Trump took aim at the U.S. auto industry Tuesday as he continued an intervention into corporate America that aims to bolster job growth but is also vulnerable to exaggerations and oversimplifications.  On Twitter on Tuesday morning, Trump singled out General Motors for assembling some of its Chevrolet Cruze models in Mexico and selling them in the United States, reiterating his threat to impose punitive tariffs on imports. Shortly afterward, Trump celebrated an announcement by Ford that it was cancelling a $1.6 billion factory in Mexico and using some of the money to expand production in Michigan.  “Instead of driving jobs and wealth away, AMERICA will become the world's great magnet for INNOVATION & JOB CREATION,” Trump tweeted.  "The automotive industry has always been a symbol for the status and health of manufacturing as a whole in the U.S.,” said Jeremy Acevedo, a senior analyst for Edmunds.com. “If Trump can demonstrate that he influenced a company like Ford or GM to make a business decision in support of his 'pro-growth' strategy, his likely hope is that it could have a domino effect to pressure other companies and industries to follow suit.”  But the business decisions that Trump has criticized and the deals he has trumpeted are not so straightforward. After his election win, Trump celebrated a deal to save jobs at a furnace factory in Indiana but inflated the number of jobs preserved. He later claimed credit for a big Japanese investment in the U.S. economy that was in the offing well before his election.

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.

Toward a Separation of the Good and the Bad

“Truth (satya) implies love, and firmness (agraha) engenders and therefore serves as a synonym for force. I thus began to call the Indian movement Satyagraha, that is to say, the Force which is born of Truth and Love or non-violence, and gave up the use of the phrase “passive resistance”, in connection with it, so much so that even in English writing we often avoided it and used instead the word “satyagraha” itself or some other equivalent English phrase… I have also called it love-force or soul-force. In the application of satyagraha, I discovered in the earliest stages that pursuit of truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one’s opponent but that he must be weaned from error by patience and compassion.” ~ Gandhi

“Like most people, I had heard of Gandhi, but I had never studied him seriously. As I read I became deeply fascinated by his campaigns of nonviolent resistance. I was particularly moved by his Salt March to the Sea and his numerous fasts. The whole concept ofSatyagraha (Satya is truth which equals love, and agraha is force; Satyagraha, therefore, means truth force or love force) was profoundly significant to me. As I delved deeper into the philosophy of Gandhi, my skepticism concerning the power of love gradually diminished, and I came to see for the first time its potency in the area of social reform. … It was in this Gandhian emphasis on love and nonviolence that I discovered the method for social reform that I had been seeking.” ~ Martin King

The US is a literal rogue state empire led by neocolonial looting liars. The history is uncontested and taught to anyone taking comprehensive courses. If anyone has any refutations of this professional academic factual claim for any of this easy-to-read and documented content, please provide it.
US ongoing lie-started and Orwellian-illegal Wars of Aggression require all US military and government to refuse all war orders because there are no lawful orders for obviously unlawful wars. Officers are required to arrest those who issue obviously unlawful orders. And again, those of us working for this area of justice are aware of zero attempts to refute this with, “War law states (a, b, c), so the wars are legal because (d, e, f).” All we receive is easy-to-reveal bullshit.
When Americans are told an election is defined by touching a computer screen without a countable receipt that can be verified, they are being told a criminal lie to allow election fraud. This is self-evident, but Princeton, Stanford, and the President of the American Statistical Association are among the leaders pointing to the obvious (and here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here). Again, no professional would/can argue an election is legitimate when there is nothing for anyone to count.
The destruction of nearly all rights lawfully guaranteed in the US Bill of Rights within the US Constitution, and in Orwellian inversion of limited government.
And, duh, corporate media are criminally complicit through constant lies of omission and commission to “cover” all these crimes. Historic tragic-comic empire is only possible through such straight-face lying, making our Emperor’s New Clothes analogy perfectly chosen.
The top three benefits each of monetary reform and public banking total ~$1,000,000 for the average American household, and would be received nearly instantly. Please read that twice. Now look to verify for yourself.

Many people including myself fantasize some sort of a SEPARATION of the good and the bad souls out there.  After all, it is argued, "How can good co exist with evil".   There was one TV station back in the late szeventies that touted the benefits of Transcendental Meditation.  This helps organize your mind but also shows a clear beacon of your particular Truth or message to the world.  All the color cards in the football stadium spell out a message if you see enough people with the Cards with messages on them.  Thus the World is blessed when the number of practicioners of TM reaches a critical mass.  One would hope and pray we come to that point.  In terms of this "separation" or "election" or rapture to a higher level of dimension or however you want to portray it- - - the last time I seriously contemplated such a thing happening was around the fall equinox or just afterward of 2014, which is over two years ago.   But it needen't be the good people who depart the planet.  If the bad people want to depart the planet as many of them actually claim to WANT then we should pray that they GET what they want and leave the rest of us the hell alone so we are free to practice our goodness and "liberality" that George Washington talked about in a speech.   It sure would have been nice if the slow grind of history had been Aborted somehow in late September of 2014.  We never would have had either the results of the disasterous 2014 election or the more disasterous results of the 2016 election.   I tell you this.  We who are left of center need to find a way of thinking and acting "Out of the Box" because I think so far the right has been pretty good at knowing our game plan and defeating it ahead of time.  (Selah)  I had the computer on to look for the “Beat of George Harrison” album compilation we did.  I found it on November 13^th 2014 which is about two months after I expected to find it.  If you’re wondering there was the expected Beatle material I expected to find in September.  As you know there are two George Harrison tracks from our compilation of yesterday, which slipped through the cracks and are not on this Nov 2014 compilation.  We’re famous for our bias against overlaps but it does happen.   There is only one Beatle I’m not sure where you can find a comprehensive “Best of” album of ours and that is John.  Paul would be late June of 2014 and Rinco would be the end of January 2016.  Those are the sources to go for the best compilation.

I listened to Rhapsody in black almost the entire thing when I wasn’t taking smoke breaks.  The songs they played were from the entire year of 1956.  They started with “Pretty Little Woman Comes a Knock, Knock, Knocking” and “White Port & Lemon Juice” and also “Eddy, My Love”.  They moved on to March and “Why Do Fools Fall in Love”.  There were two Little Richard songs from April, “Slipping and a Sliding” and “Long, Tell Sally” in that order.  They played “Fever” by Little Willy John, and “Little Girl of Mine”.  There was that “Ding, Dong, Church Bells Will Ring” but not the version I remember.  At some point in mid year they lost their stride and began playing songs that weren’t hits.  Then in August it was “Rip It Up” by Little Richard and “My Prayer” by the Platters.  And they played “Honkey Tonk” by Bill Doggit, which as you know was a big XERB hit.  It was “Com On Baby Let the Good Times Roll” in September.  Then it was “In the Still of the Night” and “Blueberry Hill” and “Jim Dandy” and Clarence Frog Man Henry.   There was another “Ding, dong” song, and “Since I Met You Baby, I’m a Happy Man” and “Good Night Sweet Heart” but not the Spaniels song but the other one.   But thankfully there was not one solicitation for money. 

Do Bees and Don't Bees

This is December 31, 2016 and tomorrow is the New Year and a lot of “agregious” laws go into effect in the state of California.  There are new regulations on Uber drivers.  The statewide minimum wage goes up which for a lot of people is seemingly a bad thing because they argue small businesses will be impacted.  They’ll sure as hell be affected with the two dollar tobacco tax goes into effect whenever it does.  A lot of Quickie Marts do a lot of their business in cigarettes.  And of course there are new regulations for gun owners.  It seems that magazines will be harder to reload so if you are a crazed homicidal shooter it will take you longer to reload to kill even more people.  Gun owners can only think of that sniper in your bedroom.   We’re getting more rain tonight so it could be said that the weather man is already fulfilling his Newyears resolution to end the drought.   Cory Gardener gives the Republican response address on KNX.  He’s talking about the accomplishments of this Republican congress.  We all agree we want cancer research fast-tract.  “Republicans have led the way on mental health reform and opiate addiction”.   New sanctions on North Korea were levied.  So apparently the President isn’t as intransigent as the Republicans have been claiming.  Chris was telling me this morning that the law is a funny thing.  Some people say “The law is an ass”.   Chris can’t give people rides in his car around here because is the liability award is greater than Chris’ insurance, then the people have the right to come after the owners of this place and sue them.  Of course you know what FDR says about a lot of Republican ideas.  He says mockingly “We Republicans are not opposed to all of these social and monetary reforms of the Democrats.  It’s just that we can do it better and more efficiently and most importantly- - it won’t cost Anybody Anything!” said to laughter.  So the new year brings a lot of new Do Bees and Don’t Bees, to harken back to the Romper Room days.  So I thought of comenting on the beatitudes, we’ll just call the Bee Attitudes.  After all the Sermon n the Mount is filled with a lot of Do Bees and Don’t Bees.

From "having the liberty to do anything we want" as St Paul intones, there are sure a lot of Do's and Don't in the Sermon on the Mount.  We are told that blessed are those who are peace makers for God will call them his sons.  We are told "Blessed are the poor, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven".  I'm sure Donald Trump must chafe every time he hears that one.  We are told blessed are those who morn.  They will be comforted.  We are told "Blessed are those who are persecuted for My sake".   We all like to think of people will put their lives and reputation on the line for a good cause.  Unfortunately protestors these days get scared off pretty easily.  And the ones who hang in there during bad weather, Norman Goldman refers to as fools.  We were told when the weather got cold that this is the reason why the "Occupy Wall Street" movement withered away.  This is where we originally heard about the 99 percent and the one percent back in the fall of 2011.  Rather than be praised for their tenacity by the media- - - they were either ignored or portrayed as a rag tag bunch of nothings.  Jesus said "Don't fear him who has the power to kill the body but do nothing to the soul.  Rather fear Him who has the power to kill both the body and the soul".  I don't know if Jesus is revering to the Devil this point or who.  We are told a lot of things.  We are told to turn the other cheek.  Foreign policy could never be conducted that way.  We are told if a man sues you and takes your coat, give him your cloak also.  This assumes people wore suit and coats all the time but only put their outer overcoat on during the dead of winter.  We are told that if someone compels you to walk one mile with him and carry his pack, then go with him two miles.  Presunably this is said because you'll have more of an oppertunity to witness to him.  We are told not to pray in public.  We are to pray in our secret chamber where we will not be seen.  We are told not to use flowery language when we pray to be a show-off but rather to pray directly and humbly for the things we need.  And we are told "Whatever you ask for in my name- - I will grant it".  We all would dearly love for that one to be true.  We are told "Ask, seek, knock" because to every man who asks he will get an answer.  However if there is a three AM knock on the door and the guy says "Go away" and you keep knocking you are taking an awful risk with your friendship.  As Dr Phil would say, "You just raised the price of poker".  Either there will be a pay-off at the end and you will be given the things you need- - or else your friendship is very much at risk.  I do not suggest that we put Jesus to the test on this one.  I think there are a lot of areas where literally following Jesus' example is risky.  

We have yet another rock compilation for you.  I’m not talking about a collection of igneous rocks.  There are so many of these rock compilations you love track of them after a while but this one, an expanded Two CD version of “Trail Mix” is out today.   CD one is identical to the version out on April 20^th of 2015.   Many at the Federation have been wanting to do “Celebration of the Lizard” by the Doors for a long time.  Both of these CD’s are kind of a tribute to the year 1970.   The front photo is sort of cut out letters of “Trail” and “Mix” cocked slightly to the left and the letters are made up of granola.   They are on an olive green backdrop.  On the back is a photo of Planet Earth and some technical production credits in small print.  On the inside are the song listings for both CD’s.   It’s actually mostly a picture booklet of various photos mainly of either rock festivals or else protests occurring from the years 1970 and 1971 but Woodstock is not included.    Many of the tracks on Disc Two were originally on “In Vetro Disasters” released on May 13^th of 2015, which is a secret Romulan holiday, if you’re curious.  We kicked off four Mc Cartney songs.  The first two songs we kicked off now kick off the revised “Best of Mc Cartney”, which I am inform this compilation with the new song line-up has existed since January of 2016 about the time as our “Ringo” album.   There is still a lot of Paul Mc Cartney on this album, but not as much as there was.   There is also kind of a thematic slap at Alcyonne for all of the curses they have caused over the years.  Jimi Hendrix is a Lanian, which in a way is kind of “Getting along with the dark side of the Force”.   This track appeared as the first track on side two of “War Heroes” an album which is probably out of print now.  Yoco Ono is also a Lanian.  So is the University of Oregon.   When I heard “Vanilla Sky” I thought of one of these Fancy Feast catfood commercials where the cat eats cat food out of a crystal glass bowl.  Actually Disc Two has thirteen songs.  We gave two Mother’s Day songs the axe because I’m told “We didn’t know about the deaths of Carrie Fisher and Debby Reynolds when we were putting this album together”.   I don’t think it’d have made any difference.  The two that run together are “The One You Wanted to Be” and “Dress Me Up As a Robber” were originally listed as different tracks on “Tug of War”.   * This track can be found on the Bob Dylan Bootleg CD series near the end of Disk two.  

TRAIL MIX (rel. Dec 31^st 2016)

Disc One

Shining Star (Earth Wind and Fire)

Going Out to the Country (Canned Heat) **

Rain Clouds Hide the Sun (Paul Mc Cartney)

I Live For You (George Harrison ATMP bonus track)

Attica State (John Lennon)

Valentine’s Day (Paul Mc Cartney)

Tribute to Elmore (History of Eric Claptin)

Victoria (The Kinks)

Postcards From Paradise (Ringo Starr)

Out In The Country (Three Dog Night)

One of Nature’s Children (John Lennon)

If Not For You (Bob Dylan with George Harrison) *

Tell The Truth – Slow Jam (History of Eric Claptin)

Cloud Nine (Temptations) ***

Little Queenie  (Rolling Stones LIVE)
What's Going On?  (Marvyn Gaye)
The Tortoise and the Hare  (Moody Blues)

Disk Two

The Celebration of the Lizard  (Absolutely Live)  18 min app.

In the Vanilla Sky  (Mc Cartney) **

Stardust Memories  (Ringo Starr)

Peggy Sue (Live John Lennon) (?)

South California Purples (Jimi Hendrix)

The Mark is Rising  (from “Tug of War”)

Don’t Let Me Wait Too Long  (Material World)

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised  (1968 Artist)

T O Y A W T B / Dress Me Up as a Robber  (“Tug of War”)

I’m Losing You  (Rare Earth)

Religion and Politics (Dr Demento hit)

We’re All Water  (Yoco Ono)

***This track is a last minute addition.  This track and 'What's Going On" are both included on that Soul parade thing in May of 2006 in the 'Opera" blog.  This track was added by popular request, and it also eliminates one more Mc Cartney song.  The theory here is "Why buy the whole cow when all you want is a glass of milk".  So you get two "tastes" from this May 2006 compilation.  It's a 1970 track.  

So What Is The Truth About "Meeting God"?

I guess the only really “good” so called scientific evidence one needs to determine the truth about an encounter with God, is whether or not it will make a good movie plot.  For instance we “learn” from the “Oh God” movies that God makes mistakes.  He made man and woman sexually ashamed about their own nudity.  And he also made the avocado pit too big.  Then we have the movie about a steam bath with men and women wrapped only in towels and God is a Latino dressed in a towel also.  And this one woman was saying “Why did I have to die just after I had my first orgasm?”  And this is a god who arbitrarily metes out both blessings and penalties on sort of a quota basis and then he goes “That’s enough for right now”.   So I should explain what it’s like to be dead in terms that would spark a movie producer’s imagination.  I have said that when you are on the “other side” (of the engram wall) that you become pure CAUSE and you are transported out of this present world of EFFECT.  But then I asked myself what makes this a world of EFFECTS and not causes?   Well part of it is that everybody responds to events that just seem to “happen” often without adequate explanation, things like Donald Trump’s election.  But then I got to thinking the one power dead people may have is one we attribute to angels and demons.  That is “putting thoughts in people’s minds”.   Sometimes they’re nice about and identify themselves.  And they don’t compel you but merely make definite suggestions.   But sometimes I imagine if they don’t want to be so “nice” then they won’t identify themselves and they won’t make it a matter of discretionary moral choice either.  They won’t merely plant a strong notion or idea in your mind.  They will go right to the subconscious like a post hypnotic suggestion and you will find yourself doing things and you have no actual idea or explanation why you are doing them.  I happened to think of last Sunday’s program and surely the greatest divide between CAUSE and EFFECT would be the computer programmer and the computer program.  The program has no will of its own.  No matter how intelligent it appears to be when run on the computer- - the program lacks an original thought of its own.  How many of you creative types feel there days when “I haven’t got an original thought in my mind”.    Every conclusion or decision a program comes to is programmed into it ahead of time.  But wouldn’t you like to be the guy who is, for instance, programming Donald Trump’s brain.  I have had fleeting ideas of praying for Trump or some might say “preying for Trump” that God would put only responsible thoughts into his mind so that he didn’t screw up the country.  You have no doubt this would make a good movie plot and even a better series.  I could easily imagine coming up with thirty hour long episodes.  Perhaps this notion of programming people’s mind all in advance so that you have your “menu for today” of what you would like the people around you to be doing - - - would get tiresome after say six or seven months of seeing nothing but TV plots on the subject.  But it opens up the question of power point earning like if you have five blue merit cards you can trade them in for one red cards, and red cards give you more power over more people.  And people would buy and sell and exchange these merit cards to have the right or “sell the right” to get power over people.  Some may ask “Why would you voluntarily give up the right to control the minds of your enemies?  Oh, I don’t know- - perhaps sex with seventy-two virgins or something.  There are all sorts of possibilities here in the land of CAUSE - - but don’t put your chessboard away yet.   I believe there are a lot of psychic chess matches.  

In 1980 President Jimmy Carter put sanctions on wheat to Russia because they invaded Afghanistan.  The Republicans were against both this and the boycotting of the Moscow Olympics.  So in this current day and age we find President Obama getting tough with Russia yesterday and it isn’t going over very well in the Trump administration.  President Trump is just going to undo whatever sanctions President Obama slapped on Russia yesterday.  The President also kicked out three dozen diplomats and other people.  Now there is talk that Putin will take reprisals on the Americans for what the President did yesterday.  He can’t win for losing.  The latest news is that Putin won’t deport US diplomats from Russia.  He is doing this to cultivate good relations with President elect Trump.  It’s as though Trump’s already president.  He makes these deals with companies to keep jobs and is taking credit because the stock market is up ten percent since his election.  And as we have said before- - every glimmer of hope gets crushed by reality.  I don’t know about this three hour window the democrats have to confirm Justice Meric Garland to the High Court.  Thom Hartman says “If it were the Republicans they wouldn’t think twice about doing it, but the democrats aren’t that smart.  It’s legal to do but the democrats won’t do it”.   The next “ray of hope” will be that is Trump’s ascension to office will be marred by scads of protests all over the country and that somehow “this time” the media will cover it, when we know from experience they don’t cover protests except to give them bad press.  We are going to hear the media saying nothing but nice things about President Trump when he is inaugurated. 

I’m going to check Washington’s blog right now.  Here it goes.  After coming under attack, the alternative media successfully appropriated and reassigned the now ubiquitous term “fake news” to a variety of disingenuous mainstream media outlets. The corporate media is not too happy about this, and it’s doing what it does best (aside from cheerleading for war); it’s whining about it to its readers.  Nothing more perfectly highlights the mainstream media’s instinctual response to complain than an article published on Christmas Day in The New York Times, which reinvents history by claiming alternative media is to blame for turning “fake news” into an overly expansive and thus meaningless term.   Once again the ones telling the truth are the ones criticized.  Don't dare accuse so called left wing news outlets of being the perveyors of "fake news".  Don't call the concencus of seven intelligence agencies about Russia and the CIA as being "fake news".  Don't accuse 97% of the world's scientists who believe Global Warming is a reality-- don't accuse them of fake news.  And I still say that Trump's mental state is at least questionable.  And others on the right used to agree with me.  But Trump has cast a spell over them all now so that people that formerly said horrible things about him now march in lock step behind him.   

“Trail Mix” is another of our albums that have been hyped by the Federation these past few days.  This is unchanged on content from the original of April 20^th 2015.  There are only about two overlaps.  These are “One of Nature’s Children” overlapping with that Marcus’s Picks album just released, and also “What’s Going On” by Marvyn Gaye from “Soul Train” of whatever it’s called from May of 2006.   In terms of “The Best of the Middle” this one has been dropped everywhere except as a Romulan import, and the title has been changed to “He Didn’t Notice that the Lights had Changed”.   The album is selling well on Regelus V.  Today is December 30, 2016 and we have rain.  Stephanie Miller was once again in reruns, and so was in reruns the entire week.  Thom Hartman is just coming on.  The Republicans are now touting the “Replace” portion of “Repeal and Replace” as “Universal Access”.  It’s like you have the right to buy a Mazeratti but don’t hang around the dealership too long without being prepared to talk seriously about forking over a little mullah and buying a car.  The Republicans have a two part adage of “Number one: Don’t get sick.”  And number two is. “And if you do get sick die quickly”.   There is a persistent rumor that once Trump becomes president the government is going to destroy the vast amount of work they’d done in global warming research.  Now they are scrambling to preserve as much of that data as they can.  Of course they already have a statute that the government can’t keep information on the physical and mental damage done by the polifferation of firearms.  Their adage seems to be “See no evil, hear no evil, say no evil’ like the three not-so-wise monkeys.  Thom Hartman speaks of danger signals the economy has been sending out as of late that we are about to enter another recession.  Mortgage rates have already begun to climb significantly.  We have rain this morning.  We’ve had four inches before this latest storm in the month of December and it’s the most sustained rain period we’d have since 2010 – 2011 turn of the year.  And this comports with my memories.  One good thing is that this lame duck congress never got around to passing the Trans Pacific Partnership.  Good.

One idea definitely presents itself.  The first two pieces on the Best of Mc Cartney 2 CD album of late June of 2014 has two songs that aren’t from the solo record era.  The obvious solution is to put MUMBO and I CAN SEE THE WORLD TONIGHT by way of substitution for the first two tracks.  So far the powers that be haven’t given thumbs up on it.  

Things We Should Already Know

Powerful Entities Really DO Know, but Like to think We're Stupid

We’ve known for 5,000 years that mass spying on one’s own people is usually aimed at grabbing power and crushing dissent, not protecting us from bad guys.

We’ve known for 4,000 years that debts need to be periodically written down, or the entire economy will collapse. And see this.

We’ve known for 2,500 years that prolonged war bankrupts an economy.

We’ve known for 2,000 years that wars are based on lies.

We’ve known for 1,900 years that runaway inequality destroys societies. … and leads to revolution.

We’ve known for 1,700 years that torture is a form of terrorism.

We’ve known for thousands of years that debasing currencies leads to economic collapse.

We’ve known for millenia that – when criminals are not punished – crime spreads.

We’ve known for thousands of years that the rich and powerful try to censor their critics under the guise of heresy.

We’ve known for hundreds of years that the failure to punish financial fraud destroys economies, as it destroys all trust in the financial system.

We’ve known for centuries that monopolies and the political influence which accompanies too much power in too few hands are dangerous for free markets.

We’ve known for hundreds of years that companies will try to pawn their debts off on governments, and that it is a huge mistake for governments to allow corporate debt to be backstopped by government.


We’ve known for centuries that powerful people – unless held to account – will get together and steal from everyone else.

We’ve known for hundreds of years that standing armies and warmongering harm Western civilization.

We’ve known for over 300 years that going into debt to pay for war ruins any nation.

We’ve known for 200 years that allowing private banks to control credit creation eventually destroys the nation’s prosperity.

We’ve known for two centuries that a fiat money system – where the money supply is not pegged to anything real – is harmful in the long-run.

We’ve known for 200 years that a two-party system quickly becomes corrupted.

We’ve known for over a century that torture produces false and useless information.

We’ve known since the 1930s Great Depression that separating depository banking from speculative investment banking is key to economic stability. See this, this, this and this.

We’ve known for 80 years that inflation is a hidden tax.

We’ve known for 79 years that war is a racket that benefits the elites but harms everyone else.

We’ve known since 1988 that quantitative easing doesn’t work to rescue an ailing economy.

We’ve known since 1993 that derivatives such as credit default swaps – if not reined in – could take down the economy. And see this.

We’ve known since 1998 that crony capitalism destroys even the strongest economies, and that economies that are capitalist in name only need major reforms to create accountability and competitive markets.

We’ve known since 2007 or earlier that lax oversight of hedge funds could blow up the economy.

And we knew before the 2008 financial crash and subsequent bailouts that:
The easy credit policy of the Fed and other central banks, the failure to regulate the shadow banking system, and “the use of gimmicks and palliatives” by central banks hurt the economy
Anything other than (1) letting asset prices fall to their true market value, (2) increasing savings rates, and (3) forcing companies to write off bad debts “will only make things worse”
Bailouts of big banks harm the economy
The Fed and other central banks were simply transferring risk from private banks to governments, which could lead to a sovereign debt crisis

Postscript: Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it … and we’ve known that for a long time.

Is Donald Trump Mentally Incompetent To Be President?

Norman Goldman was musing about whether the 25^th Amendment of the Constitution would ever come into play with President Trump.  So many people say he’s a classic sociopath, which is maybe a “condition” if not an actual psychiatric illness.  He is driven by the guiding principle of “When I want something I go out and take it with total disregard to either the rights or the wants of his neighbors.  Of course this is what so many of the very wealthy are like.  The say it would work is the 25^th Amendment provides a body to be legislated into existence by congress and this body could send a letter to the leaders of the House and Senate saying that the President is incompetent to exercise his duties of the office of President and must by law step down.  Presumably this would be “until such time as the President is again able to assume the duties of the office”.   We’ve all heard of this deal struck where Vice President Mike Pence would actually be running the day to day affairs of the country anyhow.  If this sounds like some desperate ploy of us liberals perhaps it is.  We’re desperate all right.  We had thoughts of somehow influencing the Electoral College and those plans fell flat on their face.  

When one watches Donald Trump's convention speech one sees the fascist appeal of it continually speaking of public danger and how he will be our protector.  He says "That's government's job to protect the public from all of these dark threats looming everywhere.  Next is the promise of a fantastic future.  Trump thinks he's already president the way he announces the saving of all these US jobs.  But we neglect to see the downside of Trump's message at our peril.  We all know what the Republican rich want is a cleptocracy.  They want to steal from the poor and give to the rich.  Ronald Reagan's "great tax reform bill" of 1986, the one they are most proud of, takes from the working class and gives to the rich.  The substitute for Thom Hartman today was mentioning medicare.  And we know the Republicans didn't really "choose" Donald Trump.  They chose Paul Ryan and they did that in the fall of 2015.  And they liked and chose Paul Ryan because Ryan wants to dismantle not just Obamacare but even more importantly Medicare.  That's a pool of potential insurance money they can't wait to get their hands on.  Many of these Republicans are so indebted and loyal to corporations they forget who they are working for and who voted them- - technically into office.  Their tenure of government service is merely an apprenticeship to what they really want to do and that is to be lobbyists.  They want to abolish Social Security because all that money could be better invested with stock brokers and Wall Street insiders and manipulators.  Charles Linburgh in an interview once said the Federal Reserve wields more power than any set of human beings should ever be trusted with in our constitutional form of government.  They have the power to make the economy crash at will and they could do it right now if they wanted to.  The talk show host said that Social Security is 99% efficient in handling our FICA payments and 99% of that money comes back to the people who paid into it.  (and often much more than that)  No private insurance company is thatr efficient with their funds and the same goes for Wall Street banksters.  They want to weaken medicare by stripping out the upcoming base of the young which will be coming up.  If you get rid of future payers then even if the payments are preserved for those over 55 or whatever, then the system is doomed.  Liberals want to do just the opposite.  They want to expand medicare to move the age younger and younger so that we eventually have single payer, which is the most efficient system.

Now we hear that Debby Reynolds, mother of Carrie Fisher- - passed away today one day after her daughter passed away.  When has such a mother-daughter double death occurred like this?  But I don't agree that Carrie Fisher "needed to lose weight" to play the part of Princess Leah.  I've seen photos of Princess Leah where she appears almost anerexic.  Apparently the part of Princess Leah was a pioneer role for aspiring young females.  Of course Captain Kathryn Janeway was a macho woman who was fully in control of the ship she captained on Deep Space 9.  

ONE TACO SHORT OF A COMBO PLATE revised & released December 29th 2016

The Red and the Black (Tyranies and Mutations)
Behind the Locked Door (All Things Must Pass)
Scared (Walls and Bridges) John Lennon
Poor Little Girl (The Best of Dark Horse 1976 – 1989)
Cooking In the Kitchen of Love (“Ringo” album out-take)
- - - - - Side 2 - - - - -

Michael Moore Movie Excerpt (edited) less than 5 min This interview was aired on a - - -  - - - - - recent issue of the -“Democracy Now” program.
Love You Till Tuesday (David Bowie)
Protests All Over the World (audio excerpts) 2:22
Ain’t It So Like Candy (Elvis Costello and Paul Mc Cartney)
Fridays with John Fugelsang (telephone call on SM show) Nov 11th 2016 4:27
FX (Black Sabbath) demonic rappings
One Taco Short of a Combo (Trump’s Convention Speech excerpt) 10:10 edited

The front photo of the latest Sirius A album- - out in vinyl and CD- - is of a “Tacoria” taco place and there is one line (to the left) with the lead customer being handed a combo plate and there is a line to the right where the customer still hasn’t been served. Hillary is standing between these two lines eating a taco. The title “One Taco Short of a Combo” refers not to Donald Trump’s mental state but rather that Hillary was “Eating” Sander’s votes- - votes which Bernie Sanders would have gotten for President on Tuesday. On the bottom of the back of the album are the popular vote tallies from 2016 and 2012. It so happens that Romney got more votes than did Trump. Romney got sixty million votes and Trump got not quite sixty thousand votes being high in the 59’s. The rest of the back is kind of an off white background with the album contents listed in fairly big letters.

The preceding was transcribed from November.  If anyone on this planet at least is going to listen to the “One Taco Short” album of ours from November we’re going to have to change the last track. And so we have settled on something and it happens to work out exactly right time-wise. This is a portion of Donald Trump’s convention speech. It’s the portion from 4:00 to 14:30. Here are the topics he covers. First there is an extended bit on “safety in the streets” and then Trump goes on to talk about Immigration. Then he speaks of the economy and minority unemployment. Then he covers the horrible treaty he says we made with Iran on nuclear diarmlement. Finally he speaks of the “red line in the sand” drew in Syria and Trumps “And we know that meant absolutely nothing”. It’s amazing how close the time is.  We had twenty seconds of cheering by the partisan crowd to work with.  To edit out.

In other items, Elizabeth doesn’t me wearing my red jacket into the dining room because she and Federico say it’s too dirty.  Are they saying that I’m dirtier than anyone else here?  It also happens to be my warmest jacket.   My readership numbers in my blogs still aren’t what they ought to be.  I have Norman Goldman on right now.  Ron has really been generous with the cigarettes and just now I got one from Paul.   I went for refreshments from Rico in the courtyard and had two cups of lemonade.

I guess I have a resolution or two I want to make this year.  I would like to be more spontaneous and generous both materially but emotionally than I have tended to be.  It is also my goal to quit smoking as of January first.  Of course if rumor has it right, the hike in tobacco taxes won’t take place till April first.  That would give me three months but I don’t need that much time to stall in my resolve.  The sooner I quit the better.  I have only one day to go before I get paid and people have been generous with their white cigarettes.  This includes Ron, Glenda, and Bill.  I appreciate that.  But I would also like to be more organized.  I really should clean out the dresser because it’s too stuffed with clothes I don’t wear.  I’ll probably be getting more clothes to put in it.  But I’d also like to provide a better organized front to my blog readers.  I guess if I always spelled names correctly and spoke in perfect grammar maybe I would gain a little more respectability, even if it’s self respectability.  I also desperately need to organize topics into an appropriate blog.  This is a hell of a lot easier said than done.  The least I could do is to provide links like Washington’s blog does to ease the learning curve for my readers, if they happen not to be familiar with the background on something.  I’ll give an example.  This spiral staircase thing.  The conception was that they were twelve by thirteen by five triangles and each succeeding one was about 22 degrees to the right of the previous one and it would be 13/12^th larger than the previous one.  I came up with those numbers a long time ago.  If people have a problem with the words I use I realize they need certain terms defined better and links would help here.  

We Need a Democratic Congress Now

Democratic congressmen and women are holding an old fashioned  “sit in” demonstration on the House floor demanding a vote on the latest gun bill.    If they would do an up or down bill of the entire House - - often a bill under consideration will pass but the speaker of the House won’t allow it in some invocation of the ‘Haster doctrine’.  The other day in the Senate all four gun proposals went down to defeat.  But on Tuesday Senator Susan Collins assembled an eight person bi-partisan committee to support a compromise bill.   If no gun legislation is this session I believe it will bode dire consequences for the Republicans in congress this November.   At least 85% of the American public want action on gun regulation now.  In other news Donald Trump gave his long awaited speech against Hillary Clinton.  To me the thing was a dud because we’ve heard it all before.  The two candidates are talking past each other always pointing out the other’s weakness, and both sides cheer for their own man or woman as the case may be.   Donald Trump still hasn’t made his taxes available to the public.  This “audit” he’s been talking about has been going on for months and months and Trump is almost opening the door to saying it will still be going on election day so we’ll never see his taxes.  We don’t know how rich Donald Trump is.  Maybe he’s broke.  We don’t know.  

In terms of ISIS verses gun legislation I see no reason why we can't have concerns about both.  That should make Shawn Hannity happy. But Democrats have concerns too, even about ISIS.  We also wish ISIS didn’t exist.  But if we topple Assad of Syria then ISIS troops will overrun the whole country with no one to stop them and there will be hell to pay then.  People will be slaughtered in the streets.  Christians, women, Jews, and other minorities won’t stand a chance.  Ancient historic cultural sites won’t stand a chance and will be sacked and destroyed.  There was a caller on the Thom Hartman show the other day who mentioned all of this.  But as soon as he mentioned Hillary’s name, Hartmann cut him off and began yelling at him as being some kind of an anti Hillary plant.  Of course Hillary takes millions from Saudi Arabia where women and gays and Christian and Jews have no rights and they use the death penalty for everything under the sun.   Let’s make no mistake about it.  We need a candidate who is serious about eliminating ISIS as a first priority.  If it requires “boots on the ground” then so be it.   In terms of strategy I’ll have to agree with Donald Trump.  I’ve often found that my chance of winning in a chess game, particularly a good player, is when the unpredictability factor is higher.  I believe we need s leader who is perceived as unpredictable because unpredictability makes a lot of people insecure.  

Yesterday Hillary really made a major speech attacking Trump and Trump today gave his major speech against Hillary that he was planning to give before Orlando happened.  People want to know whether Trump is serious about bringing back jobs.  If he really wants to help the poor, that’s the way to do it.  The populists are the nationalists when it comes to the economy and it’s the elite on both sides who are the internationalists.  Thom Hartman reminds us that the one way that Trump might defeat Hillary is on the area of this international trade and trade deals.  Hillary had better get her act together on this issue.  The Obama administration has been leaning hard on England to vote to stay in the European Economic Community.  It’s a little unusual to interfere in a foreign election like that.  Rush Limbaugh even agrees that getting OUT of the European Community would be a good thing because Britain’s culture is being lost due to all of this immigration which is suddenly legal.  Rush says the elite don’t want any international borders of any kind, and that’s a bad thing.  I think a dose of cultural nationalism is a good thing as well as economic nationalism.   But the other issue to come to the foreground now is Trump saying “Debt is a good thing, if you know how to use it, and I do”.  Trump has declared bankruptsy four times.  The average American no matter economically strapped they are- - don’t get to declare bankruptsy even once.  A lot of people in thousands of dollars of college debt would love to be able to be given a fresh start by the government.  How come a rich person like Trump gets to do that four times.   Trump like Judy is perfectly willing to suspend logic.  If the law allows you to do that then you’re “smart” to be able to use the law.  So Trump is smart at manipulating the laws to his own advantage, and therefore would not work to see any changes in these laws.  How many people were thrown out of work because Trump had his golden parachute leaving employees to fend for themselves.  Trump speaks of jobs coming back to the USA but Trummp, like Judy,  says that it’s “necessary” or expedient that goods be made overseas because it’s the law of the jungle or survival of the fittest or whatever “Christian” explanation you care to employ (he said laughing).   Certainly this behavior is anything but Christian but republicans just want to be CALLED Christians and identify with this “Christian voting bloc” but they don’t want to adopt Christian morals.   Trump has spoken of the government defaulting on the national debt and giving bond holders fifty cents on the dollar.  If that ever happened the world would be thrown into an international depression.   Those of you who think that Trump is an economic whiz had better think again.   The world may be a much less safe place.   I haven’t even listened to Trump’s speech this morning.  I may add to these remarks when I do.  

Wally was out there talking about the yard, and Scagg’s drugstore and other stuff and mentioned Ronald Reagan and “Death Valley days”.   I’ve never been to Death Valley but one time when we were in southern Nevada we started down the road to Death Valley and after a few minutes we turned around.   “Days” was brought to you by 20 Mule Team Borax.  Of course in the “Carrssel of Progress” in Disneyland they featured a color TV showing shoot em up Westerns.  But Westerns would be on their way out soon.  Ronald Reagan was known as a good speech maker in those days and parents said he was a far right conservative propagandist.   He ran against George Christopher for governor and on June 7^th I recorded the election results kicking off 3^rd Mastro and it was still light when Christopher made the announcement that “The voter profile analyses indicators do not augur well for my candidacy.   1966 was a year of uncertainty.  The stock market peaked out in early February.  You wonder whether the anxiety caused people to want to turn to some other kind of drug.  They were interviewing William Auld for pastor in the summer of 1966 and Auld had the magazine “God is Dead” out and people asked him about that and he assured them that wasn’t his belief.  I’ve always wondered what the statement behind the statement really was that “God is Dead”.  Maybe it was a drug induced LSD revelation some person got that “God is Dead” or something.  Of course people were reading lyrics into songs in those days.  The most obvious of which is “Along Comes Mary” about marijuana.  You had “Strangers in the Night” being about homosexuals, and “Day Tripper was about a prostitute and “Norwegian Wood” was about a lesbian, and “Puff, the Magic Drag On” was about toking marijuana.   And people came to say that “Yellow Submarine” referred to another name for yellow jackets.

According to Norman Goldman just now - - California is now nuclear free.  They are closing down both the San Onofre and the Diablo Canyon nuclear plants, and they aren't coming back.   I'm assuming that carbon tax is in effect.  Judy said a couple of years ago that when the carbon tax takes effect in California the whole economy is going to fall apart and that hasn't happened.  The right wing loves to engage in scare tacticts.  The best minds have now concluded that damage to the economy from minimum wage hike is - - minimal.  Strangely if we pass immigration reform and 'bring in aliens out of the shadows" then these people will be reporting their income and we'll have more tax revenue.  Not only will a corporate tax hike not harm business but it will help the employment picture because people will use hiring employees and the like as an "expense" write off to balance against their higher corporate income that they would otherwise just horde.  That's what they do, they horde it and don't put that earned income in circulation to help the economy.  The golden rule in taxes is that you penalize the behavior you want to discourage, and you provide financial incentives for the type of behavior you want to encourage.  How else can you explain the explosion of the Clinton economy in late 1994.  And remember if you try and cut capital gains taxes too much at one time it will start a securities selling stampede.  Donald Trump doesn't want that does he, a few months after he takes office.

The Longest Day of the Year

Today is the longest day of the year, and the hottest.  They predicted this heatwave a whole week in advance and rightly predicted yesterday and today would set records. The summer solistis point and the exact moment of the full moon are hours from each other.  They call this the “Strawberry Moon” but it’s also called the ‘Honey Moon’ and the “Rose Moon”.   Great day for an arson at the old mental asylum.  Shawn is interviewing Abigail about what she remembers about the cause of the fire but only to realize she is non compus mentus and remembers her dead husband trying to rescue her.  Meanwhile Parker hasn’t suddenly turned eighteen like all the other kids they’ve had on the show.  He’s still a little boy.  Clowie hasn’t yet informed Nicole that Demas is alive and in her apartment.  In the news there was a rumor that Bernie Sanders owes the DNC a lot of money but I can’t find out for what.  Trump fired his campaign manager, Cory Luendauski, or whatever.  Hopefully the replacement will be better.  Frangela this morning said that Donald Trump is a perfect specimine of the composite worst humanity has to offer.  Apple has announced that he won’t sponsor the Republican convention in Cleveland no doubt because of their LGBT stance being likely.  They decided to delete Omar Metin’s pledge to ISIS, which was spoken in Arabic in the phone call transcript.  The justification for it is they don’t want to give Islam any more praise.  The US Senate rejects gun control bids but “new compromises are sought”.  Meanwhile the Supreme Court says that banning some semi-automatic rifles are OK.  Fifty years ago this month “Dark Shadows” began as a long running soap opera right before "Where the Action Is".  I only watched it occasionally.  This summer fifty years ago was when Grandma bought her red Dodge Charger, and Tim only sold it a few weeks ago and says that he doesn’t miss it.  It’s a family icon.  And it was fifty years ago this summer that “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf” came out, which plumed new horizons in sintilating dialog.  Music was just becoming drug oriented.  “We’ve Been Running Around” by the Jefferson Airplane was banned because it has the line “The nights I’ve spent with you have been fantastic trips”, with the LSD allusion.  We had “Psychotic Reaction” later in the summer.  “Sunshine Superman” was another pioneer album by Donavin, a classic, with “Mellow Yellow” kicking off the smoking banana craze later in the year.  “The Spirit of 67” was an album title that jumped the gun by Paul Revere and the Raiders”.  And there was "Eight Miles High" a pioneer album by the Byrds. “Paint It Black” and “Over, Under, Sideways Down” were two more psychedelic songs making the charts.  The photo is of the Beatles fifty years ago doing their last live TV show ever. The Beatles ran into trouble with the butcher block cover of “Yesterday and Today” and got in trouble with Marcos touring the Philipines.  Meanwhile I was struggling with quadratic equations in summer school at Kennedy. You could buy a sixteen ounce bottle of Royal Crown cola for sixteen cents including the returnable glass bottle.  Now the news is that shopping malls are pase and it’s no longer a good place to pick up girls.  That was true with the Anaheim Mall in 1992 just before they closed down the place entirely.  Now that’s happening all over the country even in ‘Classic malls”.  I went out and smoked these fat, stubby white rollie butts that burn quickly and irregularly and are hard to smoke because they weren’t rolled well.  Any breeze you feel is like the hot blast of a dryer.  We were limited to one glass of iced tea from Rico in the courtyard because he had to take the cart to the Senior Topics class.  Fifty years ago your dollar went a lot further.  You could buy a restaurant dinner out for a buck fifty and cigarettes cost only 35 cents, or even less.  You don’t see either cigarette machines or phone booths any more.  And now many mail boxes have you seen on the street lately.  Much fewer than just twenty years ago.  I guess this is important if you have your young grandchildren asking “Gramps, tell us what it was like in the old days”.  This was the first year 1966 – 1967 when for the first time the entire evening’s line-up featured shows in color.  Maybe the Beatles went bye-bye for months on end (too many people burning their albums in the south) but now you had the Monkees to take their place in television.  The Beatles stopped touring and stopped appearing on TV variety shows. 

The Cleveland Cavileers defeated the GS Warriors in game seven 93 to 89 to win the NBA championship.  I missed the award presentation because I was out looking for cigarettes.  Bill seemed to be boycotting the game or something.  It was still hot outside at a quarter to eight, which was the last time I was outside because the AC worked so well in here and the AC actually was still going on after I went to bed which was admittedly early.  I came back in and Lebran James was holding his MVP award.   It was a see-saw score and they said the score was tied eleven times and perhaps more during the game.  I turned on the game right at six and they were getting ready to perform the National Anthem.  The Golden State crowd was loud and in evidence the entire game.  I haven’t heard from anybody from the Federation, where I presume at least Bones was all gung ho that the Cavileers had won.  It was the first national championship in any sport for Cleveland since the Browns won the NFL championship in 1964.  The game ended perhaps twenty to eight.  After this I had some program on KNXT but I dozed off before nine and went to bed.  The covers seem to come off the bare mattress.  The mattress has needed replacing since I got it because it’s always been rock hard, and now it has holes in it.

I got medication from Tom and the line was about half way to the front door.  I woke before five thirty and was restless.  I took a cooler shower than usual but it wasn’t straight cold.  I had problems trying to get a cigarette but there were some of those white rollie butts at the other table to smoke.  I turned on Francis and Angela and they are holding down the fort for Stephanie this week while Stephanie was out bike riding at a hundred miles a stretch.  I’m on too much medication to trust myself riding a bike, certainly any distance.  I am out of money, of course.  Thom Hartman doesn’t speak French and worries whether the French people hold it against him for that.  We had oatmeal for breakfast followed by an omelet and half an English muffin with the jelly already on it.  I got two cups of black coffee from Rico, which I needed because at times I’m restless and tired at the same time.  I got my medication from Ida and that was a short line.  Glen was wearing a jacket of all things, and Phyllis Green was wearing a sweatshirt.  Already at a quarter to eight it showed signs of getting really hot.

I called Mom after breakfast.  I was worried I didn’t remember her phone number.  I need to write it down just in case I have a mental lapse.  Judy had a stroke on Saturday and is in St Jude’s hospital in Fullerton.  This is where Dad was when he had his ulcer.  I remember it was fifty years ago yesterday on a Sunday (Father’s Day) when Dad was out after four weeks in the hospital.  As I recall it was a hot day and we went to the beach and Dad picked us up or something. Judy was also diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease as of a few weeks ago but Paul was keeping that news from us.  This would impact her GNLD business because Judy never tires of informing us of all the government forms she has to fill out by law.  Paul took off work to be with Judy, which makes the whole thing sound pretty serious.  I assume he didn’t want to give out any tentative or incorrect information.  I’m hoping of course to speak with Paul directly.  I was curious how Mom is faring under this extreme heat.  I looked in Google News and they said it was predicted to be 107 degrees but that was in La Canada.  Tomorrow they are predicting 91 for La Canada, which should make it a lot cooler here.  Now they are talking about all of the inbreeding of European Royalty.  So there is a lot of hemophilia and insanity rampant.  Thom Hartman wants us to think about white, rich, male privilege and how out of touch the rich are with the rest of us.  Mom still gets ice water delivered more than once a day and I keep reminding Mom to drink water.  I told her about Bill’s doctor problems.