"Going On" in the Face of Setbacks

To preach of peace and brotherhood

Oh what might be the cost

One man tried to do it

And the his credibility was lost

Grandpa died from too much sex

and being on the run

Junior died of a broken heart to see

The Presidency of his Son.

"Huh, Zimmy?"

I had the Today show on Sunday and the topic of the day was the death of Whitney Houston at age 48.  Actually the first I heard of it was on Eye Witness news Saturday at 5 PM.  She apparently died of heart failure in the bathtub of a hotel room in Beverly Hills.  She had been mixing Xeanas with alcohol.  Some said she seemed fine when she showed up at a celebrity event Thursday night.  Other people claimed that they saw her Thursday during the day disoriented in expression and doing strange things.  Drug addiction is a demon not easily gotten rid of, that's for sure.  So many people end up coming back to it because it's like a magnet where you only think you achieve "escape" velocity from it, but don't.  Of course the Police are withholding autopsy results from the public because they like to do their own investigations on celebreties, aka high profile cases of this kind like with Michael Jackson.  The most Googled song of yesterday was “I will always love you”. I was never all that "into" Whitney Houston's music.  Cosmically she's a total blank.  Unlike Etta James, who was a Reigel Sixer and clearly aknoledged as such,  there are a few big names, and U2 is another- - that draws a total cosmic blank.  They said Dion Warwick was her cousin but some female "guardian angels" of Warwick said "Whitney is no relation to ours".  Not to put a downer on this but apparently of the right wing FOX ilk like to bring up the whole racial thing as to connections with drugs.


I wasn't sure whether I posted on Saturday.  I had been thinking I didn't but clearly I did.  Sunday was a productive day.  The Beatles on KLOS had songs with “Love” in the title.  They also played “Something” and “In My Life”, “Here, There, and Everywhere” and “If I Fell”.  As you know in the US we got one of those famous sandwiched in Capital singles and one of them was "And I Love Her" backed with "If I Fell".   The one side has the single track vocal of Mc Cartney and the other side features the Lennon introduction just single tracked, making them collectors items.  They stuck in “The Word” as the song ringer that violated the “Love” rule later on.  You were supposed to call into the station and win a prize.  There were some genuinely rarities that they played they usually don’t.  They played “So this is Love” off “Cloud Nine”, and “Love Comes to Everyone” and  "I Dig Love", a personal favorite of mine from ATMP, and “Oh, My Love” from "Imagine" and “Love of the Loved” from the Decca Tapes.  That is one of the most "perfect" compositions I've ever heard.  It's brilliant.  They also played “Lovely Rita” and “You Got to Hide Your Love Away” and “It’s Only Love” and “Words of Love”, “Can’t Buy Me Love”, “All My Loving” and “Love me Do”.  They also played "I'm in love with You" by Billy J Cramer, and "I Think I'm in Love" by the Ruttles.  A good way to weed out perspective girlfriends who claim to have been Beatle fans, if they prefer the Ruttles to Billy J Cramer you can drop them.  Because the BJC drummer has that "Ringo" touch.  Also if they prefer the version with the flutes overdub of HYGTHYLA from "Help" I'd weed them out, too.  They also played "Choose Love" by Ringo, "Little Woman Love" by Wings, and "All You Need Is Love".  I did not go out for coffee in the courtyard either in the morning or in the afternoon.  We had tuna melt sandwiches for lunch.  I had Leo Le Port on till about one or so.  In the afternoon I finally downloaded Google photo and also updated several months worth of camera downloads.  This blog will be continued.  The CIA phone call is one I have to take right now.


We all know perseverence is a virtue.  I have it as one of my seven cardinal virtues.  However if you've got a lot of money like Mitt Romney, perseverence in the face of setbacks becomes a lot easier, just as it is for a capitally endowed gambler.  Romney got some of his mojo back winning in Maine.  And he also won that bogus "straw poll" of the CPAC convention or whatever, after Romney personally bussing in College students to vote for him.  Romney is now stressing that he is a "severe conservative".  That would be like me saying I have a record as a real Bible thumping holy roller.  No Christian would ever describe themselves using those words, just as no Conservative would ever refer to himself as somehow "excessive".  The word "severe" takes on the conotations of a concussion or some other medical injury.  Some hosts are saying that the Republican party may swing back to the center is Romney gets elected and tells the tea party "You know, you guys are right.  I am really not one of you.  Congradulation!"  I don't know why Mitt Romney would want to take the additional step and say that he "Lied" when he ever claimed to be anything but pro life.  He apparently told some Conservative magazine in June of 2005 that he was now a Born Again conservative and pro life.  It's one thing to posture yourself in a hostile state to appear as a "good guy" by bending some of your principles a bit.  You know the difference between a really carismatic person like Greg Laurie being a Christian and a mental patient being a Christian is that the Holy Spirit does less "damage" to a strong personality, just as alcohol does less damage to someone with a strong liver.  But the Holy Spirit "damages" every personality, and I'm no exception.  You see it in mental patients who are quoting the Bible and singing Christian songs one minute and then going into screaming hysterical fits over some imagined delusional belief the next.  In one moment they are nitt picking others and the next they'll lash out "Don't judge me.  I'm a child of God".  I for one would not be at all unhappy to see all these people "indefinitely suspend all activities" in public- - - and just keep it that way.


Mal Evans has a strong oppinion about that Sixty Minutes thing on Sunday about the Cancer research by that guy in India who said he had cracked the DNA code to match just the right chemo therapy drug to the individual Cancer patient.  Now they are saying that entire study was a fraud.  However they never once interviewed the original guy from India or those with him who made the discovery.  Also apparently only one of the "victims" of this man has died from their illness these past five years.  Every one of the volenteers knew they were taking part in an experimental procedure but they chose it - I believe - because it was the end of the line for them otherwise and they knew it.  And now they are alive five years later, and in response to that, they have decided to sue.  Mal Evans described this as a "trash piece" and alluded that Federation people knew his research was definitely on the right track.


A woman's dowery is guaranteed alimony in advance in a traditional marriage.  It's economic insurance.  It's property that the woman can have title to that will never be disputed.  And if the husband throws her out because she burns the toast one morning and she ends up back in the street- - now she has recourse.  The Indian people are buying gold.  However they are only responsible for 35% of the precious metal's rise in the past ten years or so.  Every woman who invests in it has prospered.  So it's wise both in economic terms as well as social terms where it can give the woman a sense of economic independance that she would have never enjoyed before.  I would say that if you owned gold last night, perhaps there would be a spike in price on which you could sell today.  As I always say, with gap openings, make sure you're going with the gap and not fighting it.  Make the greed of the stock floor price setters work for instead of against you.  After all, let all those newbys be the suckers this time.  What the Sixty Minutes article convieniently omitted was that- - this means that nearly two thirds (potentially so) of the price in Gold is determined by price speculators and not by the metal's scarcity.  Of course this story is ditto with the price of oil where the figure is at least 40% price speculation.