A political blast from the past
I
understated the severity of the Syrian refugee problem in a recent
posting. In general it’s a wave of
people from the Mideast and Africa to Europe.
We’ve discussed the boat people in the past. But now there is just as big a wave of people
by land coming from as far away as Afghanistan- - and Iraq and Syria. They say Assad is killing his own people but
one has to wonder about ISIS. Pope
Francis is calling us all to pray for peace in the area. So there is more than one dreaded force the
people are fleeing from. They go first
to Turkey and then cross over into Greece and work their way up southeastern
Europe into Hungary. But Hungary is not
sure they want them. But they won’t let
them on the train to go to the Austrian border and some refugees are being
taken away to “camps”. Protests are rampant. So the refugees begin walking down the road
toward the Austrian border. There they
are welcomed by the people with food and stuff.
But they sent a bunch of busses to pick up these hikers so they don’t
have to walk a hundred and twenty miles or whatever carrying everything they
own. But now there are more refugees at
the border of Hungary wanting to come in and Hungary is not sure if they want
them. Their eventual destination is
Germany. But of course now there are
racists in Germany who don’t want these Mideasterners, because the whole thing
feels like more of an invasion. Of
course the Saudis won’t take them.
Everybody knows the Saudis are a bunch of jerks anyhow.
They
are predicting another heat wave starting with yesterday when it got over
ninety and today when it’s expected to be even hotter. They say if it gets over ninety degrees for
another six days it will break the all time SC record for number of days out of
a calendar year when the mercury gets over ninety degrees. The previous record was in the summer of
1983. Of course there is rough surf
today and tomorrow and one shark attack after another off our shores.
This
is Labor Day and none of your favorite radio talk shows are live today. But Labor day is a traditional day for
political campaigning. Hillary Clinton
continues to be in trouble in the polls.
Despite croakings of doom all summer Hillary is still around, but more
and worse numbers come out all the time.
Bernie Sanders is closing in on Hillary in Iowa and beating her
decisively in New Hampshire. But now
Clinton has fresh reason for alarm.
Donald Trump is now beating Hillary in a head to head contest. So now it’s not only her own party that she
has to worry about but the general election outlook as well. And worse for Hillary, Joe Biden is able to
beat Donald Trump but she isn’t. But it
doesn’t seem as if Biden wants to enter the race. He’s been stalling and stalling and that
October debate deadline is approaching.
September
4th was the opening of the LA County Fair. Rocky says they not only charge a lot of
money just to get in the door but they charge more money for rides. But you can buy a separate all day ride pass
AFTER you pay your admittance fee. Of
course Friday was also “The Force Awakens Day” with all that Star Wars
merchandizing going on. It’s been ten
years since the last Star Wars movie and this is the first movie since Disney
bought out Lucas Productions. This is
why the Federation has been quite silent on all this Star Wars hype this time
around because ever since that dreadful day in 2012 the Federation has been
under a pall- - since cosmically a bunch of “dark force” stuff has been going
on. Here are a couple of things my
readers don’t know yet. Those KPPC
songs from September 1960 have a Reigel VI or notably “Sixer” influence. Reigel VI was into soul before they were into
surf. The other tidbit is that the buzz last
November was that “When the Taccomans take over communacations in the
Federation they will have as a “sign” of warm weather in this SC area. As you know the same week the Taccomans
officially took over- - the first week of March- - we here in Southern
California has a month long heat wave.
Also the buzz in November was “They would send us a special guardian
agent to watch over this area”. It was
about that time that the cat showed up, and I didn’t connect the two things at
all. It’s what you’d call “deep cover”. Anyhow I became aware of the Taccoman
connection Sunday morning August 2nd but I didn’t say anything to my
blogger readers. Of course some could
argue that maybe Phyllis knew.
RINGO
AND FRIENDS (released September 8th
2015)
-
- - - - Disk One - - -
Choose
Love (Ringo)
It’s
Going To Be A Great Day (Paul)
Snookeroo
(Ringo)
I
Don’t Want to Know (Julian Lennon)
Back
Off, Boogaloo (Ringo)
Early
1970 (Ringo)
Asemisen
(I See My Sin) (John)
Ooh-Wee! (Ringo)
My
Sweet Lord (George) *
The
No No Song (Ringo)
Bye-Bye
Love (George)
Night
And Day (Ringo)
In
Spite of all the Heartache (Paul – updated version)
Elizabeth
Reigns Over Me (Ringo)
Bless
You (John)
Instant
Amnesia (Ringo)
Don’t
Go Where the Road Don’t Go (Ringo)
-
- - - - Disk Two - - - - -
The
Iranian Nuclear Treaty (round table debate)
rec last week 30 min
The
9 – 11 Conspiracy (round table debate)
sometime in July 30 min
*first
time used in one of Our compilations.
All Title letters are yellow italics.
On disc two in the same font is “the name of the two debate tracks on
disk two. The July one has Stewart
Suitcliffe and that friend of his- - - a political comedian who died in 1994
and was in a blog posting a few months back.
(I don’t know his name) The one
last week doesn’t have either of these two.
But there is one additional person in the 2nd debate. There are five people in the first round
table and four on the second track. Mal
Evans was allowed to review the Beatle tracks, but took little part in this
compilation. I haven’t heard from
Stu-baby in a while, either.
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