A Brotherhood of Incompetency

Most people have some fear of losing their jobs if they fail to measure up.  Certainly crop pickers get paid for piece work.  In the old days your salary depended on what you produced.  If you’re a secretary and are slow or make mistakes you are fired.  Athletics is a highly competitive persuit as are dancers (they’d done murder dramas on that) and actors constantly try to outshine each other.  If you’re a musician your band will kick you out if you don’t measure up.  But there are certain “brotherhood” professions where the adage goes “Once you’re in you have job security for life.  You practically have to burn the place down in order to get fired.  You know the professions.  They are law enforcement- - - school teachers - - attorneys - - doctors - - and for the most part congressmen.  These professions close ranks when one of them gets into trouble and protects him.  St Paul would say of them that “The best of them partakes of the sin and incompetency of the worst of them because he basically identifies with him”.  And then there is a thing called White privilege.  This may sound strange but White people don’t go around all day thinking about the fact that they’re White and have White Privilege.  They know if they get pulled over by an officer he’ll be polite and deferential to him, and call you “Sir”.   What struck me today was when someone pointed out that there is never a day when transsexuals don’t think about the fact that they’re transsexuals.  There is an obvious remedy for this condition, but it is BEFORE you go and have the surgery.  So transsexuals are like Blacks.  Not a day goes by that a Black doesn’t think about the fact he’s black.  At least according to some people.  He carries this blackness with him all day long and he can’t wash it off to get rid of it.  They say that if you’re a White you can carry guns and show them off- - to a Presidential campaign stop.  I’ve heard this so much there must be merit to it.  How does the secret service reconciled to that?   That is, if they know that at any moment any one of these gun nuts could haul off and shoot the President and they have to trust and “take it on faith” that they won’t.  If you’re White you can carry and brandish your guns around and the Feds won’t do a thing, almost as if they are afraid you’ll vote them out in the next election or something.  But if you’re Black and protesting the death of one of your own (seemingly a more solid basis of protesting) then even if you are not armed, you have to fear getting beaten up and maces and tazed and whatever.  You and I don’t think about this because to us it’s “perfectly normal”.  But a foreigner or a space alien would see things entirely differently.  This is not a new topic but I thought you people just needed reminding.

I keep hearing from various sources that President Obama will not serve out his full term.  For some reason I believe that.  If he’s the coward I think he is- - if he had a chance to bail out and resign when the pressure (of the economic crash or whatever) got really bad, I think that Obama would take it, and offer some complete bullshit justification for it.  There was a blog last night and a video that says that the Statue of Liberty represents the Whore of Babylon, and is actually the Roman goddess “Libertus”.  This goddess is the equivalent to Isis in Egypt or else Ishtar of Babylon.  The guy that designed the statue of liberty was a Mason and what he really was into designing were pagan statues.  Of course all the usual scriptures were quoted revealing the “detail of scriptural prophecy” that the United States really is named in the Bible.  I would look for something trippy to happen- - in early June, or at least to begin happening.  It’s so strange that we are now running the Presidential campaign of 2016 this month (April 2015) rather than fall a year and a half from now.  I would be inclined to dismiss such videos completely except for one thing.  Back in 2007 we progressives were confident that there would be a major change of rulership in 2008.  We were looking for a democratic White House to go with the democratic congress we already had.  We all believed our darkest days were behind us never to come again.   Even in 2009 we were calling the past decade nearly from 2000 to 2008 as “the lost decade” as something that would never come again.  Little did we know that FATE had other plans for us, darling.   The tea party had its genesis at the end of August of 2008 the day Sarah Palin was picked as Vice President.  Things politically have never been the same since.  So how were the seeds of the worst, most virulent form of conservatism ever- - hatched right on top of Obama’s acceptance speech?   It’s our greatest victory eclipsed by our greatest FEAR.  The irony of that is a little much.  I only say this because it's an indicator the 2016 Presidential elections may be completely irrelevant to any of the desires we progressives may have.

Shawn Hannity was going into one of his rants about these police civil rights violations of suspects and how nobody knows “the truth” but him.  (As soon as he can make it up)  So I switched to Bill Carol on KFI who spent the majority of the hour talking about Kurt Cobain.  Despite the endless number of documentaries about Kurt nobody knows the real Kurt.  So this guy decides to start fresh and go into Kurt’s own words and song lyrics and “his art” and I don’t know if that’s sketches or what?  It’s almost like that movie ‘Boyhood” where his growing up was well documented.   It would seem there are more movies of him as a kid growing up than there are of me.  Of course we tended to “put on an act” and be humorous and act like happy go lucky clowns- - even when the relation off camera was anything but that.  It was kind of a mutual conspiracy.  Some people’s “Art” is changed by death.  Stewart used to have really dark hued art when he was on this side of the veil- - but after death his hues brightened and he got more into geometric mind bending art.  Of course with Kurt I had my own “Domascus road” enlightenment back in 1994.  I knew that Kurt was no longer “dark” and “moody” and that in fact he had his lighter moments and a sense of humor.  Comitting suicide was the best karmic move he ever made because he left all that darkness behind.  His daughter was only twenty months old when he died, and she said she shook hands and “already knew the producer of this project better than she knew her own father” and that the daughter (Francis?) didn’t dealve into her own father’s works all that much.  There was a line on Days of our Lives today I was just thinking about as regards to John Lennon.  And that is Lennon’s slogan has always been “It’s what I am right now that counts”.  I have always honored that.  In fact I think there is an almost mutual conspiracy here- - to portray Lennon as even tempered and calm.  That’s the “face” he shows me.  However in one thing I never put in print was a few weeks ago when he was reunited with Cynthia, his first wife.  I was privy to that interaction and it was pretty stormy, emotionally.  But I decided (perhaps due to my Will Horton experience on DL) not to go down that road, perhaps because at that moment I feared I was losing my own sanity.  I sent an interrogative out as to what Jim Morrison thinks of the use of a song of his in a Charles Manson promotion.  Actually Jim doesn’t mind; in fact he thinks it’s “cool”.   Unfortunately I can’t agree.  People who knew Manson personally were mystified and terrified by him and think was a first rate psycho, if they even survived the experience.  Anyhow this Kurt Cobain movie is out in the big screen theaters right now.  I’d like to scratch together my last two gold dabloons and go and see the thing myself.  Will Horton made a mistake in telling Clyde Weston that not only would he interview him but “I’m going to do it with or without your consent”.  To a guy like Weston this is clearly a threat.  Will is like a Boy Wonder Jimmy Olsen who gets himself into a jam and needs to be bailed out.  Kristin has removed all pretence and revealed herself to Teresa.  Meanwhile Brady and Melanie are tied up together in the same room.  I think they are still expecting Superman to bust in and rescue them.  

If Chas Bono had a penis she’d still be a girl, but she’d make lots more money and conquer the world.   Just to quote a song lyric.  Now Bruce Jenner is doing the trans-sexual thing and of course I think this is the ultimate manifestation of a sever mental issue.  There are people who cut themselves out of some neurosis.  Jenner’s is the ultimate manifestation of that.  So is Jenner going to try and get on the Wheaties box as a woman?  I checked Drive radio again.  Last Friday they referred me to some white page with some code that didn’t work.  They are referring their audio to I Tunes.  They were playing “Crystal” by Fleetwood Mac off their 1975 album, followed by “Crystal Ball” by Styx because they were doing rock A to Z.  This morning they were in the L’s with LA Woman.  On Breakfast with the Beatles, there was a dearth of Paul Mc Cartney songs and a surplus of John Lennon songs.  They played “Night and Day” that old Sinatra song that Ringo does, on the “Sentimental Journey” album from 1970.   Supposedly “The Beatles” were mad at Paul for putting out an album in April of 1970 but Ringo’s album came out at the same time.  I remember.   The last two songs were by Badfinger, supposedly because it was Pete Ham’s birthday, or maybe death day.  They aren’t having the Rude Pundit on this morning.  I wonder what the deal is.  Last night it was America’s Funniest Home Videos and then “Once Upon a Time” I guess, or something.  I was out of the building a lot.  But I was feeling tired and went to bed early.  This morning I got a long short from Rocky and then a butt from Richard Moore.  I don’t think Chris Christie is going to run.  That’s too much of an uphill battle to get all of that blubber over the hump.   This is Monday April 27, 2015.