Bastille Day

What do you red blooded Americans out there think of all the dissing of the French that's going on. We hear they are leftists, that they are cowards, ungrateful, smell bad, and along with their new good buddies, the Germans, never vote our way in the UN. Actually the French are kind of like America's twin sister, born the same year we were, in 1789. The French are responsible for a lot of great literature and art, and they are the ones who presented the Statue of Liberty to us as a gift. For some reasons American's haven't trusted them for a long time, since the days of Charles De Gall. When General Patton made that speech about the Americans and Brittish being destined to rule the world, he should have included the French. When it came to the planning of World War II, the Americans were consulted, the Brittish were consulted, the Russians were consulted, but what about the French? It was only fought on their land. Of course now French cooking is getting a bad rap for containing too much cholesterol. And what do people remember now? That soccer team captain who head butted his Italian opponet on the soccer field. But we don't know what the Italian said to him first. I'm tired of people saying that yeah they were all for the French untill the head butt and then they were rooting for Italy. People speak of German ingenuity and science but they forget about the French.

I guess the question is has President Bush gone insane? According to Randy Rhodes at a German news conference and gathering all George Bush could say in response to questions about a possible World War III is "But what about the Pig. I want to know about the pig". It seems Bush took the baton out of the orchestra conductor's hand and began leading the orchestra himself. Then he tapped a flute player on the shoulder and starteled her and mentioned that Congelisa Rice wants to play their organ. I have been wondering today- - it's actually a revelation that hit me right after a missile blue up that train on Passions- - I was thinking what if Bush "lost it" completely and Dick Chaney had to take over as President? People say that Dick Chaney and Donald Rumsfeld have been running the country for years anyhow. What would be the best way to do it? I was thinking that to save Presidential face they would fake George Bush's death and take over and Bush would turn up January 21st. 2009 after Hillary took office. According to Randy Rhodes it seems "Hes Ballah" are only the "flying monkeys" sent as a little distraction to take peoples' minds off of Iran. It seems Bush and Chaney want a war with Iran after and they're thinking of the best excuse they can come up with for having one. It seems now that Syria and Iran are working together and are the ones behind the current Hes Ballah conflict with Isrial. Of course I would agree with the French and the Germans that Isrial should show a little tact and not bomb civilians. After all they don't want to swell the ranks of Hez Ballah. Of course I'm sure Isrial thinks of it more as a roach infestation that needs to be "Cleaned out" and then everything will be just fine. Just from what I've seen Isrial has a decided advantage. They're doing more damage to Lebanon than Lebanon is doing to Isrial. I guess we should let Isrial fight all of our wars since they enjoy it so much.

Oil has now gone up to 78 dollars a barrel. They were predicting it might reach ninety, which seems very likely now. They are predicting gasoline here at four dollars a gallon. The stock markets won't like that. Some say we should put all of that empty land in Wyoming, the Dekodas and Nebraska to good use since the wind blows so much of the time there and put in those giant wind thingies to generate power. I don't know. We in the US are so bull headed it may take even something more caticlismic to get us off of our oil addiction. It seems to me they have yet to prove that automobiles can be run more efficiently on either ethanol, or vegetable oil. And of course we can always make methane out of manure. They have a lot of that in America's heartland. Not only is Bush not slapping a windfall profits tax on the oil companies, but they are still actually giving them millions (or billions) in subsedies. I suppose a war might look attractive as a way of securing more oil fields at "market prices" as Rush used to say was our reason for Gulf War I. However the US is like a hog at the troff and pulling away a hungry wild boar might prove challenging. But if we don't change, or even if we do, the economy is going to take a nose dive and Bush better pray it doesn't happen before November.

Now we hear the reason why Antarctica and Greenland have more snow in their interiors is because there is more moisture in the air and moisture produces snow. But we also hear the reason why there is no longer snow in Killemanjaro is because we chopped down all the forrests and there is LESS moisture in the air there to produce snow. I think we pretty much have to go with the scientists on this one. I guess the World Net Daily people say there is a vast conspiracy to silence any scientists who disagree with Global Warming because all their funding dries up. Well, let's not forget who is in power now. If those scientists can't get funding now from Bush, I don't think they will ever get it. I still haven't seen Al Gore's film. Of course it's like someone with blood pressure of two hundred and cholesterol of three hundred. You can tell them they are in danger of having a heart attack any minute but you don't know whether it's six weeks, six months, or six hours. We're not tea leaf readers. This January I think we're going to have the most thorough house cleaning in Washing that we've had in a long time.

This may be the last blog post I'll do from this location. We did an edit and expanded the list from one CD to two of thirteen songs each. These songs have never been listed on blog postings and they aren't even in my somewhat larger collection in my Word files. Actually I guess some of these songs were rejected before because they were TOO good or too dramatic. I can't believe we've never used "Let There Be Rock" before but I can't locate it.

OUT OF OUR HEADS 2006

Go Down (AC DC)

Mad Man Across the Water (Elton John)

The Prophet’s Song (Queen) (ends on long note after fade-out)

Vampire Tatoo (Blye Oyster Cult)

I Am The Walrus (The Beatles)

Down by the River (Neil Young) (song Pink Floyd ripped off)

Frightened of the Real World (Alice Cooper)

Sweet Sally (Ted Neugent)

Blue Morning (Foreigner)

Not Guilty (The Beatles) Anthology version

Seven Furry Creatures Gathered (Pink Floyd)

Dead Line (Blue Oyster Cult)

Dear Mr. Fantassy (Traffic)

---Disc Two

Instant Amnesia (Ringo Starr)

Hole in my Shoe (Traffic)

Sad But True (Metallica)

Sweet Soul Sister (The Cult)

Black Hole Sun (Sound Garden)

In Bloom (Nirvana)

Black (Pearl Jam)

Walk Like Me (Blondie)

Suicide Solution (Ozzy Osborne)

Let There Be Rock (AC DC)

Fight The Good Fight (Triumph)

A Little Less Conversation (Elvis Presley)

Columbia Shuttle Launch (Rush)

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I guess if you want to be famous as a kid, first be a mouseketeer because so many from that show in the early nineties went on to be famous. It seems you have to be born a star almost from infancy. I get kind of tired about hearing about all that stuff. The Media acts as if that’s all we want to hear about.

Isrial has found its Huevos these days. Now they’re back to bombing Lebanon like they did in the old days. I guess Hamas and Hez Balah get the message. They have renued reasons why Isrial should be wiped off the map. Isrial is decimating Gaza. They bombed their power station two weeks ago and have benerally made life hell for the people who live there, all on the fig leaf of belief that all this devastation will get back one Israeli who was taken hostage. I’m sure a lot of us like to see Isrial confident. We’ll have to see how it all plays out.

Randy Rhodes is upset because they compared Ken Lay to Jesus Christ at his funeral eulogy today. Like John Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Lay will be “vindicated” after death. Bush 41 and Barbra Bush were there in attendance in the second row. Perhaps Barbra could say something like, “Since he’s going to jail anyhow I guess you could say things worked out rather well for him”.

Ed Schultz is worried about Isrial and Hez Balah starting a major war, and some say the U S may get sucked in. I guess we’ll do what we always do. We’ll give Israel all the weapons they need and they’ll kick ass on their enemies. Then at the Negotiation table they’ll give back all the land and rights they won.

The Federation announced today they have completely dropped war on the Centaurians and letting them pretty much have what they want. I don’t get it. It’s as if the last year and a half never happened. To make matters worse they are supporting Hez Ballah against Isrial in the current conflict. I would go with the Federation, but why, if I’m going to be on the losing side? What has the Orion Federation done for me? (Is that an unfair question?)

And now, a little something from a couple weeks ago for time perspective.

The Seventh Day featured “Smash Hits” and “In the Dark” by the Grateful Dead, missed. I also missed side one of “Out of our Heads” but I did catch side two, as well of some of the puzzling bonus tracks they played. The Simpson’s weren’t on. Instead I watched the intro of that Navy frog man thing they had on and commented on it on my blog. Sixty Minutes had Illian Gonsolez on again. Stu had indicated he supports Illian but I do not. There was talk by the Federation a day or two ago that the Centaurians had attacked this one Centaurian unit again, but elsewhere the White Andromadans had made significant progress against the Centaurians on another front. I did a lot of dial twereling