This
morning I went out at ten to nine to finally buy more cigarettes. I had become a little disgusted with
Stephanie Miller and her laugh a minute show in the light of the political
disaster we find ourselves in after the political Armageddon that took place
Tuesday in Wisconsin. Blame the transit
of the sun by Venus or something for it.
You know I’m as optimistic as the next fellow and indeed between both my
parents andx one brother, I am by far the most optimistic of those four. Yet there is absolutely nothing to be
optimistic about. Maybe Rush Limbaugh is
right. Obama is retreating into his own
world of celebrities and the gay community, who seem to know little about the
lives of actual Americans. As I was
leaving the building I noticed something was very different outside. All that greenery out in the front around the
building enterance is gone. That as you
know is the very first photo taken with my current camera that I posted. It’s
like a woman concerned about her attractiveness going in for a little fat
reduction surgery here and there. And
when she recovers from the anesthetic she now finds she has a body like Twiggy
with absolutely no shape in her hips or other vital parts. And she is informed she is now without a
bunch of internal organs such as her gallbladder, her spleen, her appendix, her
uteris and her overies. Not only are the
democrats without hope but the means by which we could ever GET hope are
gone. Now they say the league of women
voters has stopped registering voters in Florida and other states because the
environment is just too hostile. And of
course organizations such as acorns no longer exist. It seems as if voter registration across the
board is languishing and nobody is doing it.
Even people who aren’t that political have every right to be upset at
Scott Walker. This is a man who bragged
to that woman on the phone what great plans he was about to unveil for the
labor unions that he totally didn’t campaign on. It wasn’t part of the bargain in electing
him. And then there is that put up call
with the Koch brothers, or at least Scott Walker was kissing his ass because he
thought he was the real Mc Coy braging about what a great working relationship
they have. And yesterday you have Mitt
Romney doing all this political mugging, OJ style, gloating about what a great
victory is is in Wisconsin and sticking it to the workers, and how he is so
looking forward to taking this show on the road nationally when he becomes
President. Bills that used to be routine
to pass such as equal pay for equal work, and the violence against women act
and the President’s jobs program of last September building roads and bridges
and money for police and fire and teachers and all- - - suddenly not passing
such common sense legislation is OK.
This is in the face of the fact that these are EXACTLY the areas where
the economy is the weakest and how passage of these measures, a bill which pays
for everything it proposes, is something
the Republicans have talked the American people into believing that it’s
something they do not want, when common sense dictates that they should. Now I hear it’s illegal in the work place for
women to even Discuss how much they make with other workers because they don’t
want various workers comparing notes and learning that women only make 77% of
what men do. And I’m really not sure why
the Republicans regard violence against women as such a wonderful thing. It doesn’t take a radical to glean that
something radical is going to happen political somewhere down the line,
including a vast overhaul of the Democratic party or more likely the rise of a
third party as in the days of Lincoln when the other two parties were not
compentent to handle the job. One might
even think of 1920’s Germany when that nation was kind of screwed over by the
Versilles Treaty they had no choice but to sign. It was “just something they could not get
used to” as many Americans wont EVER get used to all this austerity crap that’s
been shoved down our throats and hasn’t worked where it was tried- - in
Europe. Is it any wonder then that the
German people were desperate to try anything even turning to the Nazi party,
which supposedly was “national socialism”, which it turned out in the end to be
anything but. How many those who still
have brain cells that work - - - and human nature being what it is (as John
Lennon said once, “I can’t stop my brain”) are going to affix blame for all
their problems- - and maybe not on the right people- - like the Germans did
with the Jewish businessmen. It may be a
case of throwing the baby out with he bathwater. We cant give up capitalism, but it’s got to
be overhauled so that it again “works”.
The solution for wrong use of something is not non use, but Right use of
it. But I see no time in the future when
anything will be “fixed”.
The
LA Kings failed to sweep the series losing game four tonight dispiriting a lot
of fans and sapping everyone of their psychic energy. The Kings never led in this game. The Devils led one to nothing and the Kings
tied it. Then the Devils scored again
making it two to one, and then they scored again with a minute to go making it
three to one, the final score. Game four
will be in New Jersey and hopefully since it’s a road game will have television
coverage, so there is some kind of silver lining. The Kings played Montreal in 1993 and the
Kings went down four games to one, and the one Kings win was in Montreal. The game concluded at about five to
eight. Sometimes radio coverage can be
frustrating.
We
have been predicting the Supreme Court would in favor of mandentory insurance
for all Americans. We mentioned higher
up that this would be no problem for Mitt Romney and his supporters be
damned. After all Scott Walker sure
never ran on a platform of wiping out pensions and government unions. But the people interviewed say they only vote
for recall for mal feasence. The fact he
may be indicted in a couple weeks doesn’t seem to enter their minds. Randy Rhodes is saying that Romney will do
nothing to interfere with Obama Care going ahead as scheduled without
delay. That should give the tea party
conniption fits but saying “We told you so” will be of no avail. I imagine on this issue Mitt Romney knows how
to read a poll and the American people are for some form of massive health
care. I’m not but they are. I think the Democratic party and all of the
President’s fans have conducted an “excessively leisurely” campaign and I’ll
tell you right now President Obama is no Harry Truman if he has hopes of
repeating 1948.
Ray
Bradbury said he was less interested in predicting the future than Preventing
it. Let’s hope. He said the internet is a scam and men
playing video games is a gigantic waste of time. He’s been writing science fiction since 1950
when the whole craze kind of began, but Bradbury was already thirty they
say. They say as a child he “lived at
the library”. He came to Los Angeles in
1934. Bradbury graduated from LA high school and apparently lacked a college
education. Ray Bradbury was born August
22nd of 1920 which makes him older than Dad. I have no problem with “political
alligories”. But I do have problems, and
I’m not saying Bradbury is guilty of it, with someone trying to cram some
message down our throats that’s really not germain to the story but that’s just
thinly disguised political advocacy.
Commentators get off on this kind of writing where something is
obviously “out of place” with the times but it’s thrown in anyhow.
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