Saturday, August 25, 2012
Dreams of "Opposite Land"
I saw the movie "2016" this afternoon at a Westminster theater complex. The film could be better titled "My Take on Dreams of my Father". Before we ever got there I knew troubles lay ahead. We were talking about rising gas prices and slated to go higher and so I said "They are just using the Wisconsin pipeline as an excuse for all of them to jack up prices immediately even though their own gas has not gone up in price" to which Judy said, "Well you know no corporation wants to raise their prices because it's a major disorganization and adjustment problem for them". She went on to say "It's all because President Obama has shut down the oil wells". In the movie there was talk about how President Obama had closed down all the wells in the Gulf and in other locals, all while subsidizing oil exploration around the world in totalitarian countries like Venezula. One of the queerest early scenes was this guy from India they interviewed who went to Dartmoth and joined a conservative club and later joined the Reagan administration. He responded in a hostile manner when some white hippy or something said what a groovy place India was with all it's spiritual liberation. The guy went off on a tyrade about arranged marriage and no economic oppertunity like in America. But his big thing, and a recurring theme of the movie was Colonialist - - GOOD - - exploited pesants who want to be liberated - - BAD. The Colonialists are the good guys throughout this movie. Obama's father met his mother while she was majoring in Russian in Hawaiiai, and there is another strange story there. Hawaiiai is a hotbed of political radicalism you know. Because there is this movement there that William Mc Kinley illegally acquired the Hawaiian islands in 1898 and many in Hawaiiai now say that Hawaiiai isn't really part of America. Remember that factoid for later. Of course Obama's father had five wives and all sorts of offspring. But the parents divorced and Obama's mother married Lolo or something- and went to Indonesia. Of course she steeped her young son in the values of Communism, and she also kept the vision of his biological father alive over and above his present step father. They said that single parent kids either villainize their biological fathers but sometimes the opposite happens for instance if they are killed in War, and then they make some kind of a Super Hero out of their fathers, which is what Barry Obama did. And then his step father comitted the ultimate act of betrayal by becomming a capitalist and then his radical mother divorced him. But first she sent little Barry off to Kansas to live with his grandparents to keep him away from his now bourshwah stepfather. Then Obama went to Hawaii and came under the mentorship of a Frank Davis, who was a radical and Obama was now in his teenage years and vulnerable to this kind of propaganda. Then he studied at Columbia where he met this other mentor named Seid- - who was another radical who hates America. Of course they had the brother in law of Obama on who still lives in a hut in Kenya. They go on to say that is Kenya had stayed under the British jack boot them would have "continued to prosper" because once upon a time Kenya was as well off as places like South Korea and Chile and Singapore but then after they won their freedom (all that anti coloniest fever) they slid into the economic toilet. But the brother in law holds no grudge against Obama for not supporting him because "Obama helps the whole world now". They interviewed another anti US old black radical in Kenya who defended Obama's mother. They report later in 1982 how Barock Obama wept at his father's grave and lingered at the grave "until the Circle was closed' and he "knew what he had to do". They then used an interesting phrase against Obama. They said that the image of "the easy going police Black man" plays well with Whites and "deceives them" because everybody knows "blacks aren't really like that". Then they talked of more recent developments and how this President is sinking the country in a sea of debt. On the way home Judy said 'You know everybody knows this economic recovery is completely bogus, and those who say it's a recovery are just plain lying to you". My response to this is that 29 consecutive rises in employment and job creation doesn't lie. Stock prices are up and profits are up. One time months ago I remarked about the high CEO salaries these people are getting now. Judy responds "They deserve every penny because I know how much pressure they are to do their jobs well". The Movie also said what a bad thing it was that we got rid of Quadafi because he was the good guy and those who replaced him were Moslem radicals so of course Obama supported them. Just now on the Mc Laughlin group Pat Buchannon echoed these sentaments by saying that Assad of Syria is really "a good guy" because he is 'protecting the Kurds and other minority groups from the Suni radicals". It takes all kinds. Pat lives in opposite land too, I guess. The whole tea party is so fucked up the butt they don't know which end is up.
Neil Armstrong died today at age 82. He was born in Ohio and did the usual build the model airplane in the basement routine. He got his pilot's license at age sixteen and became a combat Airman in the Korean War two years later. He's actually only a few years younger than Dad was. Of course you all know they had computer glitches just before landing on the moon. But unlike Rush Limbaugh they were professionals and kept their anxioties to themselves. Then Aldren or whatever had to fly the lunar craft away from a dangerous bolder field into a pile of lunar dust. Then when they landed here Armstrong announced "Tranquility base here, the Eagle has landed." That occurred on a late Sunday afternoon when the moon was not yet a first quarter moon on July 20, 1969. Neil Armstrong was a modest fellow who never tried to capitalize on his hero status and never charged for signing photographs, but quietly retired to a teaching carrier. And so today we say a final good-bye to one great American hero - - Neil Armstrong.
Hurricane Isac today plowed through Cuba and is crossing the Florida Keys. The storm only generated twenty foot waves around Cuba. We get eight to ten foot waves here when a storm is passing by a thousand miles away. Our geography is such that a half a mile in from the water you are in excess of a hundred feet above sea level in most cases because of our coastal bluffs. It's hare for we west coast people to envision the State of Florida, which has major cities only a few feet off the water. Some computer models have Hurricane Isac passing even closser to Tampa Bay than first thought. The gulf water in 87 degrees. The storm is expected to regain its speed and attain Hurricane status and reach a level two status when passing by convention town a few hundred miles to the right. The right punch of hurricanes is the strongest. Schools will be closed in the Tampa area in anticipation of the storm.
The Los Angeles Dodgers just concluded one of the most major player trades of all time- - with the Boston Red Sox. A total of nine players were traded one way or the other, and they say the Dodgers are getting the better end of the deal for it, and shelling out a lot of cold cash to do so. Of course the Dodgers were swept in their latest series here with the SF Giants. People from the Federation say they are not surprised. The LA Dodgers are now down three games to the Giants, but they've still got plenty of time. Auto racing is in ABC now instead of their usual game shows. We will be switching to another blog heading for our next several postings, and I'm thinking it will be "Cosmic Tides" but I'm not absolutely certain of that. I'll have to check, but it will be one of the dark blogs.
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