Well some people are just plain stupid jackasses. This Florida pastor couldn't leave well enough alone but had to burn a copy of the Koran twelve days ago and word got out to Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and our people at the Embassy there were violently attacked. To this the Florida pastor says that none of it was his fault because if he didn't burn the Koran, the Moslems would just find some other excuse for their violence. The Federation has practically called the Moslems sainted martyrs in their editorials lately coming down on the desecration of a Holy Book. I think the US troops are spread too thin around the world. It's some incident like this that just could give the enemy new found strength to rally his troops. It's too bad the US can't say to the Afghan insergents, "Remember when we were on the same side of a conflict allied against the Soviets?" I just don't see why we don't engage in better "diplomacy". And by the way I think Wikkileaks.com was wrong to publish diplomatic communaques. Confidence here is important to national security. Mc. Laughlin is on now with their suddenly anti war mantra.
The media is making much of the "drop" in national unemployment to 8.8%. They point to all the places over the USA that are hiring now. However I heard unemployment among Blacks is up. The Mc Laughlin group sees a double dip recession, which by then will be a full scale depression. Many say a new mortgage is inching closser. Home sales are down and home prices are down 13% or whatever in February. Also consumer confidence is down 9%. As is pointed out this is all the more troubling because this economy is already the most enemic recovery in the face of such massive stinulus. You know, there is a logical possability that it may already be too late to salvage this economy, even if we were to have 20 / 20 foreknowledge of the future. It could be that all possabilities for salvaging this economy have passed. (Selah)
It seems as if the NATO crowd crapped out on the Libyan rebels. Last week beginning on Monday the rebels were halted and then retreated a hundred miles in a few days. Monica and others on Mc Laughlin say that these rebels are a mixed bag and we could well end up with some radical Islamic group in power like the Moslem Brotherhood. Pat Buchannon points out that the President may already have his feet in hardening cement because if we try to get out now, Kadaffy will seek vengeance on all those who opposed him with stern reprisals. We already know the President's poll numbers are down. This campaign hasn't played well in Peoria. Now there is talk of "doubling down" to insure that Kadaffy leaves office. People like Pat are saying there will be foreign "boots on the ground" and let's just hope and pray they aren't ours.
Well the LA Lakers have won 17 out of 18 games since the NBA Allstars. It gets to be monotanus covering the LA Lakers. The thought just occurred to me that once the play-offs arrive the Lakers will be able to slack off a bit since in the play-offs in this sport they have unusual latitude, and lose almost half their games from then on and still emerge as World Champions. As such perhaps maybe we can just dispense with the next two & a half month play-off schedule and declare the Lakers winners now. I guess since the team as a whole is getting a little long in the tooth, a lot of people will be retiring at the end of the season so next year's Lakers team won't be half the team this year's was.
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then chirp, like the birds in the cage this morning .
This is an overcast Saturday April 2nd. Right now on KTLK is this Purity product guy pitching “Astazantan” that name I couldn’t think of in my letter to Tim. If you give it to animals on an otherwise high fat diet, they won’t get fat. It works wonders on the complexion, and if given to race horses in
John Boehner was doing the same old song and dance about how government spending prevents jobs from being created because it “creates uncertainty”. All these tea party people get their talking points from the Koch brothers. One of these days the American people are going to figure this out, if they haven’t already.
The big news of the day is that Dana will again be selling coffee in a week or so as soon as he gets to Wall-Mart to buy supplies. Last evening just before six when it was baking out on the patio, Janet mentioned off hand, “Well, I guess I won’t be needing my heater tonight” and there was a pause and then she added “They were supposed to have taken all our appliances yesterday but they didn’t”. Now we hear people can keep their coffee makers and stuff but they can’t sell the coffee. So Dana says he’s going to “give it away” and the people will leave a “tip”. I see nothing wrong with that. Dana said he would like to recoup his losses from having to sell everything and make the coffee extra strong the last week or two. Morally, we his customers owe him that and should at least for a while pay him 75 cents for a sixteen ounce cup, which is up from fifty. That will still save us all kinds of money. Right now I have six dollars left and I can buy a pack of cigarettes and not get coffee till after I get to the bank on Monday, at least not much - - or I could borrow cigarettes when I run out and have coffee twice a day till then.
Last night was Bob Geyer’s memorial service. It was just about to start when I got there at a couple minutes to seven. They were very prompt. I was given a program and all the officiators were in suits. The service ran almost an hour. It contained both a Eulogy of his life- - centering on a hit and run auto accident that changed Bob’s life adversely - - causing long term kidney damage. I’ve heard conflicting reports about Bob’s being in
The Superman episode was a rerun but I hadn’t seen the end of it before. Judy called a little before 8:30 to talk about adding a new Accronis program to my computer to monitor my hard drive that runs all the time. My worry is that it would tax my limited RAM and slow my computer down more than the stuff already on it. And I know that stuff isn’t free and I sure don’t want to pay for it. She kept going on and on about it and I wanted to get back to the program because there was stuff now on the screen I hadn’t seen before. Judy said something about my giving them her credit card number over the internet or something. Judy still suggests I get a new terabyte hard drive, which is just way more than I would ever use. My feeling is “Yes I’ll have to replace my computer in a few years but up till then I’m good”. If you do the math - 29 Gigabytes is still quite a few 4 Gig camera chips, each holding over two thousand pictures. Then I got back to the TV programs. I went out to the patio and talked with Dana and Steve and others and Dana says he just saw a bunch of colored blue and red lights sweep across the sky really fast. We were a little puzzled. My back, for one, was to the sky. But then he said “I haven’t had any sleep for several days so that just might be it”. The conclusion of that Superman episode was that Lionell Luther is a genetic impostor who was artificially created and has the exact mirror image DNA of the real Lionell Luther. After this “Supernatural” was on where they talked about the archangel Gabrael. I sstayed up this night later than I have been for a while, and once in bet it took me a while to fall asleep.
In the morning I got up at 6:07 and got coffee from the bakery. I turned on KNX radio as usual for a Saturday. We had oatmeal for breakfast and a fried egg and toast and butter and jelly. Sarah filled the coffee cups half way decently. It was after breakfast that Dana told us the good news. I was worried that if I withdrew a lot of cash at the beginning of the month he’d be gone by the end. Now I don’t have that worry.
YOU KNOW YOU’RE LATE IN ARRIVAL
TO THE ROCK AND ROLL SCENE - IF (an amusing bit of self deprecation)
-If most of what you know about James Dean comes from books and encyclopedias
-If you hear the title “Mary Lou” and think of the Ricky Nelson song
-If you think “being square” has something to do with a well balanced diet
-If you think the letters D A stand for District Attorney
-If you associate “jive” with a well coordinated fashion ensambo
-If you never heard “Stranded ion the Jungle” as a new song on the radio
-If you never knew Clyde Mc Phatter was lead singer for the Drifters
-If you can not name the first four of Elizabeth Taylor’s husbands- in order.
-If you can’t remember the 1952 Earthquake
-If you can’t remember Columbus Day ever being a school holiday
-If you hear the title “
-If you hear the name Bobby Freeman and think of “The Swim”
-If you thought “Bo Didley” was a new song by the Animals
-If the first song you heard from Fats Domino was “Lady Madona”
-If you think Estes Keefofer was a Johnson croney who went to jail
-If you think Nixon’s “Checkers Speech” was something to do with Kruschev
-If you think “The Twist” first came out in January of 1962
-If you never watched “Milton Berle”, Edward R Murrow, or “I’ve Got a Secret”
-If you can’t remember Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Cecil B Di Mille and Arturo Toscanini all still being alive.
If the first time you heard “Maybeline” you thought it was a Canned Heat re-make of a Johnny Rivers song.
-If the whole concept of an “open campus” is alien to you
If you think the term “nerd” originated on the show “Happy Days”
-If you CAN name all five songs with the words “Little Bit” in the title. (Don’t count “Shout”, “A Quarter to Three” or any song by Donnie Osmond)
-If your school didn’t allow motorcycle gang jackets on campus
-If you never knew that Ronald Reagan used to be a democrat
-If you don’t associate Moroborugh cigarettes with being a “woman’s cigarette”
-If you DO know that few jets are supersonic
-If you never heard the Larry Williams originals to “Slow Down”, “Bad Boy” and “Dizzy Miss Lizzy”.
-If you think “There’s A Riot Going on” (Beach Boys) “Ruby Ruby” by Dion Dimucci, and “Such A Night” by Elvis Presley – are new, original songs.
-If you don’t remember a time when there were no liquor stores open on Sundays
-If making an office memo doesn’t consist of putting a new cylinder in the Dictaphone
-If the whole idea of prayer in the public schools is completely alien to you
-If you think Lonnie Donnigan only had one hit
-If half your high school football team doesn’t consist of nineteen year olds
-If you associate “colored laundry” with clothes that shouldn’t have bleach.
-If your local shoe store doesn’t have X ray things so you can see your foot bones
-If you didn’t have an older brother who fought in the Korean War
-If you don’t know on what “Day the Music Died”.
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