I guess people today don't exercise enough independant thinking, a quality people like Thomas Jefferson used to admire about America. The Tea Party loves to quote people but not Presidents all that often, if you have noticed. For instance did you know Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson. Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt, four very different men- - all did agree upon one thing and that was that the United States supreme court had too much power, pure and simple. So it's pointless for the tea party on one hand to say "The High Court has too much power" and at the same time say to people behind out backs "Just wait till WE are in power and start appointing Our people to the High Bench - - Then you'll start to see some real action". That's what's got us all shared shitless here on the left. These for presidents, each one of them, made really scathing observations about the High Court we've covered before and you might want to check Thom Hartman's web site out on this. I'm sure he has a lot more material on the matter and can make the argument for a Court of vastly reduced power better than I could ever make it. Someone else with too much power is probably this main stream "Corporate Media". For instance have you noticed that David Gregory is not the sort of hard hitting critic that Timothy Russert was when he was chief interviewer in chief on that program. First of all all of these mainstream media news shows have alltogether too many people on the Right on, as opposed to people on Out Side. Perhaps you noticed that. Then what they say is not even questioned. The host is willing to let them rattle off numbers without questioning them. Case in point is someone on Meet the Press saying yesterday that "Massachesutts used to be 51st state in job creation before Mitt Romney was governor but Mitt Romney brought Massachusetts all the way to thirtieth in job creation. In the first place "being number thirty" out of fifty states is nothing to brag about. This from the "smartest man in America". But in the second place it's just not true. Governor Mitten's predecessor in Massachusetts was number 35th in job creation in the state. When Mittens took over he dropped Massachusetts to number 47. So how is this an improvement over four years by Anybody's reckening? Then you have the case in Ohio where a republican was bragging the employment market was much better in that state now. But the obvious fact is there are a lot of car producers in Ohio and the President bailed out the auto industry, so a lot of varied industry such as steel and rubber and glass or whatever benefited from that. And now on the Ed Schultz show they are talking about Scott Walker is afraid maybe he'll lose tomorrow so he is recessitating charges of "Voter fraud" by the liberals and that's why they need to do these voter roll "purges". And yet nation wide maybe there are 85 cases in the whole country who were even charged, and fewer convicted. Many voters in this number were either "lost" or "confused' as to where to Vote. What's a sad comentary about this is that anybody watching can Google for the correct figures any time they want to now in the comfort of their own homes without driving to the local library and looking bleary eyed through countless card cataloges to isolate just the topic they want. Newt Gingrich in an old interview after the South Carolina debate, which he won, was saying 'I've discovered the important truth that hard work and a work ethic in the young is good for building character and good for America" as those in the left did not believe this. Nobody is a bit happy on our side about more people being on food stamps now than ever before.
This second topic we're discussing today is something I held over from yesterday that I had been thinking about doing - - but decided that it should be a topic unto itself. It has to do with Love and Friendship and Trust and "Learning more in the pool hall than you did in the classroom" to quote a song by Queen's drummer in 1976. For instance in sex education a lot of us didn't get it all in one place. We got a lot of it from personal physical experiance for sure. Where you get the answers to questions like "How to they Like it" and we get it from school mates, and from the media and books and parents. One place that's almost useless for "The facts of life" is your garden variety sex education class, at least the way they did it when I was in school. Often people stand in as surrogates for other people and things. No I'm not talking about private sex therapy sessions. I mean stuff like the claim of Jesus Christ when one desciple at the Last Supper said "Show us the Father" and Jesus responded "You mean you people have been with me all this time and you don't know? He who has seen me has seen the father". Unfortunately some people get quotes about as reliable as the tea party which is the Answer after about fifteen times removed after a game of "telephone" and ad-mixed with other information and some mutant hybred results kind of like the "Veeger" sattalite in that Star Trek movie where the Truth gets turned around almost a hundred and eighty degrees. You people may notice that when I refer to Mark Campbell there is at no time any divergence between Mark's views and those of Jim Morrison, and if there are, these are things an insider might come to know personally that aren't in any books. Many said of Jesus desciples they were so "changed" and "transformed" that they deduced that they had "been with someone great". A few people exhibit such a Positive energy when you're around them you want to soak it up like a sponge. For instance Wolfman Jack. He was interviewed by Mark Germain or something shortly before he died and I kept thinking 'Mark Germain doesn't deserve to be in the same room with Wolfman Jack even breathing the same oxygen". There was Mike Gerrero's old roommate Peter- - who was always fascenating to learn from and exhibited a lot of Positive energy any time he was around. Strangely a lot of the staff around here didn't like him and eventually barred him from visiting. Then we have Sandy, who was Mike's girlfriend. I wouldn't mind moving in with here. She was positively "stimulating' to be around. (Like KFI) It's a rare breed of person who comes here that actually has their head screwed on straight, who knows "stuff". But she was one of them. Dana was most certainly another one. I even learned new ways to criticize Christianity from listening to Dana talk. He's the guy who "got me into the coffee business" you know. He was a guy who overcame amazing odds and always makes the best of every situation. Marsha M is another such person. But there aren't many of them.
People talk about mystic connections with people. Of course sometimes the Hollywood community gets a little weirded out with these new terms such as "Man crush' and "man boobs" and "Metro-sexual". I'm still unclear what that is. Sometimes the sexual line can get a little blurred. Both Zachery as a little boy and Brian Jones were "pretty" with amazing blue eyes. Valerie Shoffner on the other hand was tall, and vary un feminine in build and her eyes are so un noteworthy I couldn't even tell you what color they were. She was obviously German with a last name Schnoffner. She wore long straight hair that she never styled. She wasn't that pretty in the face. She had kind of "spidery" hands and fingers. Sometimes the way she talked about sex I felt I was listening to a man. It's like that Bob Dylan song 'Jet Pilot" where "She keep all the bombideers on their toes- - - but you got to watch her because - - she's not a woman; she's a man. She has a rather un feminine figure reminding me of that crack Granny of the BH made about another woman once. This other woman said "I'll have you know I have the sort of figure any man would want' and Granny whispers under her breath "Too bad a man didn't get it". She and me spoke the same language though - - KOS rock and roll. One time she said if I ever came to Las Vegas and decided to get in a card game she would 'Show me a thing or two" and I got the definite impression she would show me "little things to know' you don't necessarily read in books". So there's your Brian Jones. We have Nicholas and the Dorian connection. Dorian is an obscure, almost fictional character from my youth - - the whole "Vancouver connection". Sometimes knowing about a person's proclivity from a previous life will help you "Understand where they are coming from". For instance me and a bunch of teenagers were horsing around in the pool (I"m still allowed to use that term aren't I?) and we were setting up some of energy swerl vortex as part of some physics experiment and the water got very turbulant and Nicholas went crying to his mother saying "All of them are trying to drown me". I didn't feel a bit good about hearing that. I thought Nicholas knew me better than that, and ditto for Clint, too. But then I remembered that Dorian as a six year old met his death by drowning in the ocean in a previous life- - and it made sense something just might have been triggered. Sometimes you and a friend may "not be as close as you used to be" because various things are driving you apart. In the case of Jim Cooper it was politics. And yet Jim and I had an unspoken Understanding that there were certain lines we would not cross. And if either of us were being wronged by a third party, the other would step in and come to their Aid. Unfortunately this simple principle of friendship is NOT true about my own family. Their actions could be better summed up by the Dylan lyrics, "When I was down you just stood their grinning". And then we have Clint and the whole "sexual tension thing". Again there are "lines" about values and judgements about the other we mutually won't cross. And in the case of Jim, since we at one time both shared the same body in a previous incarnation - - attacking the other person would be like attacking part of ourselves. I've read Percilla's book on Elvis- - and some things Pricilla and others say about Elvis may be - - puzzling to some people or "contradictory to other stuff they've heard" and yet I know Immediately JUST what they are referring to because "through Jim" I knew Elvis.
Tomorrow is the June Primary both in Wisconsin and in California. We find out whether my own cigarette "Tax-mageddon" will arrive after tomorrow. I will DEFINITELY have to cut back my cigarette consumption- - quite a bit because I WON"T be able to continue to guy cigarettes at the rate I have, on my current money allotment. As to Wisconsin- - I guess we can all pray to Someone - - if we want to. Because poll numbers indicate it's going go take some Supernatural Intervention to save our bacon on this one, because we all will never hear the end of it if Scott Walker remains in power. If such an Overt and blatent sleaze-bag such as Scott Walker remains in power, there is no hope for any of us, as far as the future of government and politics goes in this country.
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