The Jury Is Still Out- On a Lot of Things

“A fool never learns – and I’m going to do a very foolish thing”

-ANDY WILLIAMS

Gene Kelly: “Tom, I didn’t think you’d have the guts to show up to this victory party”

Fred MacMurry: “To tell you the truth, I didn’t have the guts not to”

“Let me tell you about my third wife. Do you know a famous singer with the initials of A. W? - - His Wife! My third wife turned out to be a dyke”

-WALTER MATHAU

“Show me a good loser and I’ll show you a loser”

-GENERAL PATTON

“Let me ask you one question-

Is your money that good?

Could it buy you forgiveness-

Do you think that it could?

“The workers of middle class America were sold out by both political parties but primarily the internationalists in the Republican Party”

-PAT BUCHANNON

“Just Count all the freaking Votes”

-AL GORE

"Look- it's Marcus Arelius - - he's pealing off his face" "Yeah- - I knew he wasn't really black"

Marcus: Hi, God, how's it hanging? God: - - "You're really that Dowd guy from that TNG startrek episode. I knew it! You're the one who can commit genocide on an entire race just by thinking bad thoughts. Roomer is you even have the power to even kill - - er - - uh - - ME. But hey, before you make any decisions we can split everything - - all of Creation - - we'll split it 50 - 50 just you and me. OK? Is that cool?"

Marcus: You know something. You remind me exactly of Edger G Robinson at the end of the movie Key Largo.

You know there are issues where intelligent people of good conscience can differ in opinion. But for instance - - two doctors may differ in their opinion as to whether it’s safe for a recovering heart attack patient to have sex with his wife. One may say no and the other may say yes. But if it turns out the guy who says it is Unsafe is also having sex with his wife himself- then things aren’t kosher. This is how it is with Rush Limbaugh. In 2000 he could not say enough bad things about Pat Buchannon saying he was too conservative or divisive or something. It turns out Pat has at least some economic sense. At least he’ll stand up for the interests of American Industry, which most of the politicians will not. You can’t have third world nations competing against the American worker and thinking it’s a fair fight considering what they pay their workers. We told you in a recent posting just how destructive republican tax ideas are. Apparently in 1996 that Mitt Romney ran on a platform stating the flat tax was inherently unfair to the poor if by that you meant that the rich paid no dividend or capital gains taxes. It is said that you are entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts. Pete Richards was going on and on about the “Government taking over General Motors” and how unreasonably high property taxes are in the state of California. Yes- - as if Proposition 13 had never been passed, which cut them by two-thirds or something. And we all know real estate owners are not going to give you a rent cut based on the goodness of their hearts because their profit margin is suddenly bigger. We know that prices in commerce are determined by the market place, and not by the expenses business incurs. Anybody who tells you otherwise is a liar. There are just certain facts on which the jury is still out. For instance some like to talk about something being true “to a metaphysical certainty”. Einstein says this both about Black Holes- - but by inference- the expanding Universe also. According to Einstein there is an “automatic speed limit’ of the rate at which the Universe may expand- - implying that there is some industrial safeguard measure built into the Universe. It would be if you were pumping up a balloon and someone told you that if the pressure inside the balloon reaches 36 pounds per square inch the balloon will burst. But Einstein is standing there telling you that that contingency happening is a “metaphysical impossability”, who are you going to believe. It was liberal Pete Stark who was a proponet of the mantra “Deficets don’t matter”. John Mc Laughlin was talking about whether we could ever have an Atheist as President, and Mc Laughlin was insensed by the notion that Atheists don’t have ethics or metaphysical values, too.

So what’s this bit about the jury still being out? Well in last night’s football game as you know the Trojans were trying to get within field goal range in the last few seconds of the game, and it looks like they had succeeded. But this guy runs out the clock. All he had to do was allow himself to get tackled or to just go down- - and time out would be called. In fact they did say Time was called a d someone else said “stop the clock” but the referees wanted to go to overtime, so that’s what they did. But in reality the game is scored as an “imcomplete” because everything that occurred from that point on was bogus. The game should have been stopped and time put on the clock. A lot of people like to “spin” things. Some “spin” success out of failure and others spin failure out of what is basically success. Romney and Sautaurum have both declared that Obama has left us worse off in foreign policy and we are less secure and that the Iraq war was a failure because we left before we could conclude it. What do you think of people like that? At the same time, of course Romney was a “success story of private industry”. Of course do you remember in the Bible where Jesus on the cross said “It is finished”? Well just between you and me the jury is still out on that one. In a scenario everybody seems to agree on just after 3:00 PM on the cross Jesus said he was thirsty and was given some mysterious substance to drink, he drank it and said “It is finished’ and then went into a “swoon” presumably leading to death. Earlier on John we read the words “God sent his son not into the world to condemn the world but that the world might be saved through him”. Suppose the word “Jews” was substituted for the world “World” in that sentence. Suddenly the statement sounds highly problematical, doesn’t it. The Azteks had a myth I was talking to Wally with this morning about white men appearing from the sea. Well, that myth didn’t work out so good for the White man did it. Because those white people, representatives of Jesus, who said “He came to bring salvation to the world- - “ what if you substituted the word Aztek in there for “world”. Suddenly, again, the sentence wouldn’t work out too good. Some people believe there is no god at all. But others say it’s OK to believe that but the minute you Preach that message- - this “personal belief” of yours has now become a “Religion”. Of course people on the tea party right are convinced to a “metaphysical certainty” of all sorts of things that aren’t true.

Michelle Bachman merits individual notice here. The world according to Michelle is something else. She has now fallen to fourth in the polls and I’m surprised she is not actually lower than that. She now says that 59,000 terrorists from Yemen and other mideast countries are crossing our borders. She wants to build that electrified barbed wire fence. And she wants to go to war with Iran. Bachman says that President Obama was wrong to go into Libya in the interest of “regeime change”. She sounds like the Federation who put the story on one paragraph on page 26 or something. She says that Obama wasn’t thinking of national security when he went into Libya but only of “regeime change” and we don’t know what we’ve got now. “The story is not over yet”. And Michelle wants a flat-ter tax but not a flat tax. She wants to redistribute more taxes from the rich to the poor much as Ronald Reagan did in his 1986 tax hike, and Bachman specifically refers to what Reagan did. I told Jim Cooper “Reagan just cut taxes” and Jim came back and said “No he didn’t, I have to pay more taxes now”. But they had Bill Gates on after this. I wonder if the millionaires are going to form a 68%-er club where they point out that two thirds of rich people are perfectly willing to pay higher taxes.

Stu Sutcliffe says last night’s game should be scored as an “Incomplete” because of the time out call not being honored. Of course because of the flookish way in which the game ended people who bet on USC were out their investment. I don’t know who ever just had a seven point margin. Those weren’t fair odds right there. You have an undefeated team playing a has been “John Mc Cain” team with no chance at all. Of course my classic rule held, which is “In football bet favorites, in horse racing, bet on long shots”. I’ve found that a consistently useful strategy. Stewart says his beef against the Four Seasons consists of the fact that they are Neir Reigelians posing as “Jersey Boys” and there is a group that calls themselves the “Jersey group” that I refer to as “Brian Burne music” or what you call late east coast Du-op. They are from a star in the Cainus constellation that is one other than Sirius but they are friends with the Sirius 0 people. But they don’t have that gene. The word “Jersey” actually translates as something in this group’s native language. But Stewart was influenced by their music in the time he spent in Toronto in 1962. Also of course were it not for the Four Seasons being so popular the Beatles would have even gotten MORE radio air play. Of course it was a Mary Wells song that bumped Beatles from number one. That’s kipacetic. She was a Romulan. Not a Detroit Romulan, not a Toronto Romulan, but a Vancouver Romulan. But you knew that, didn’t you. Or you haven’t been reading carefully.

Like Michelle Bachman, this paragraph has been demoted from first to last. Before we get into the grim political stuff let’s do something on a lighter note, like the Ringo song that was popular when I was in lock up after my suicide attempt. They are playing it right now, Back Off, Boogaloo, in early May of 1972. Of course KLOS knows how to wave a red flag in front of a bull by mentioning that Stewart Sutcliffe news story about his sister Polly Sutcliffe saying that the “Love Me Tender” recording they played was actually Stu singing. “Snookeroo” was the Beatle song with “Halloween” in it. I should have known that because I have the album. They’re going to play it right now so we’ll listen. Frank Henshaw and Cabrillo Capeta on drums did a recording of that album with Frank singing the lead. This is a Romulan CMK song, of course, and they patterned the song after “Under My Wheels” by Alice Cooper. I thought of three other songs with Halloween in them, “Spooky”, “Aching to Get Me” again by Alice Cooper, and “Diamond Dogs” by David Bowie. They played a lot of Halloween songs such as “Beware of Darkness”, “I’m Looking Through You” “Savory Truffle”, which we all know John didn’t play on. Gloria says she was inside the Beach Boy’s house in Hawthorne when she was a kid. She’s one up on me. I lived near Hawthorne but can’t say I have ever been within the city limits in my whole life. Gloria was curious whether there were racial tensions when I was a kid and I said there wasn’t. I bragged to her that I was born in Centenila hospital, where all the athletes go. But you’re all waiting to hear my take on the Stu Sutcliffe thing. I’m only getting cosmic radio silence as far as any confirmation of the authenticity of that recording of Stu they played singing “Love Me Tender”. Yes I remember Stewart used to sing that song and I knew he had a high, sweet voice when he sang it- - but personally I don’t remember the vocal being that weird and if the deciding vote were up to me I’d give thumbs down on this recording. Let me pull a Captain Queeg on you all right now. “Did any of you notice anything unusual about that Helter Skelter recording?” Think real hard. There was no fade-out. Of course I like the mono mix of that song because the back up choros is brought up higher in the mix. You know there are a couple of Elvis songs with a real good steel guitar part- - - “Return to Sender” and “That’s Someone You Never Forget” and in both cases I’d bring the steel guitar up higher. And they played what might qualify as the first Heavy Metal song of all time- - not Summertime Blues and not Born to be Wild, but the very first Beatle song that I know of that used a tambourine. The lead guitar part kind of reminds me of a Big Brother and the H C song. It’s the ONLY song by the Beatles I sought to include in a list of “Soul songs” from spring of 1997. Here’s a good one for you psychics to go to work. It’s a song I’ve always regarded as a song about Stewart Sutcliffe- - and they definitely “set a new standard for themselves” on this one.