“I’m
a Looger - - I’m a Looger - - and I’m just what I appear to be - - “
“Of
all the meets I have won or have lost- - that course in Sochi is one I should
nevever have crossed. It was a place of
constant sunshine – without end - - I should have known I would get it- - when
I went around the bend” “Huh - - ?”
“Don’t
worry. I’m not going to break into your
room in the night and slit your throat while you sleep”
“No
paying jobs were harmed in the enactment of this legislation”
“You
seem uncommonly strident and assertive in the allegations you are making today”
“There
is a leak in the boat - - 34 -75 – 15 - Hike!”
We’re
doing a new lead paragraph because I don’t want people who come across this
file to think I’ve gone completely off my trolly. I’m going to not post that whole long
paragraph in the next blog or any foreseeable blog. Today is February 12, 2014 and Lincoln’s
birthday, which school kids used to get off, back in my day when kids wrote
their lessons on stone tablets. The tea
party republicans are upset anew because the President of the United States by
executive action, gave intermediate businesses another year to implement the
Affordable Care act, but large business will still have to be ready by 2015,
but smaller businesses now have 2016.
Also today President Obama by executive order made it official and
mandated that Federal workers henceforth be paid $10.20 on all Federal
projects. I don’t know how it’s
physically possible to “make the tea party happy” no matter what happens. Meanwhile the deep South is in for a major
snow storm and temperatures far below average.
It’s just too bad we can’t somehow export all of our snow back East, to
Sochi where they need it. The big news
is the weather at the winter Olympic site because they are having temperatures
in the mid sixties, pretty much like around here, and no sane person would hold
the Winter Olympics in southern California, though I’m told we still have some
snow resorts open in our local mountains despite the drought. Now there is an even broader concern
bordering on panic of State and City officials around here admonishing
everybody to conserve water, and it seems very likely that mandentory measures,
perhaps of a draconian nature, will be instituted in the next few months. One might almost call our water situation
“grave”. They predictred rain for a
couple of days ago but we didn’t get any- - and neither was I going around here
telling people it would rain in twenty minutes.
It’s so warm in Sochi that they are swimming in the Black Sea. Physical injuries are on the increase and
performance times have suffered due to adverse snow conditions like on the half
pipe. People in ski jumps find
themselves landing in puddles. But in
good news the House passed the “Clean” debt ceiling increase last night, with
28 republican House members voting with the Democrats. Now we learn that the US Senate has also passed the Clean Debt ceiling hike despite whatever hysterics from either Ted Cruz or Sean Hannity. When you really think about it, if the Feds are ripping off the middle class as much as Washington's blog claims, people like John Boehner and the whole crowd should love. Instead of replacing the House Speaker, they ought to give him a raise! But as I was telling James Fisher last night
- - someone should actually take a hard look at our debt situation and what the
Federal Reserve is really doing. I don’t
want to say that Judy was right, but boy was she right! She said that the banks were prevented from
lending out their vast funds. She also
said that the trade deficets with China were so adverse - -and we “owed our
souls to them” and more Fed borrowing will only make our situation worse with
China. So this whole Pacific Rim
agreement, like all these other “trade agreements” are really trade giveaways,
that only make our trade balance worse with all these Asian countries. It was
just Monday that I got around to changing the calendar page to February, so
disorganized I’ve been. I changed the
background Wallpaper from “Sunset” to “Rainier II”, which I use around this
time of year. In terms of that whole
“Magnet theory’ discussed in a recent post- - just allow me to say now ‘It
doesn’t work”. You know as I lay in bad
one night I was picking up the message from “somewhere” that perhaps I need to
improve my karma by “putting out more positive vibes”. I was thinking of that Barry Champlane thing
from the “Talk Radio” movie where they said of the host “Nobody can continually
put out that much bad karma out into the air waves without it coming back on
them”. So I thought I needed to think
positive thoughts- - particularly about people who don’t like me or I don’t
like, or Born Again Christians- - or even “God” himself. But it doesn’t work. Allright?
Then
it was Thom Hartman and I believe here - - that case of the shooting at the 7 –
11 what you might call “Quickie Mart rage” in Florida or “Flori-dah” as Nicole
Sandler says. That case about the Black
teenagers in the SUV listening to bassy music- - and this guy comes on the
scene and fires eleven shots into the vehicle, in two volleys of bullets. Then we learn that the shooter fled the scene
and didn’t call the cops but fancied in his mind that these “Black hoodlems
were coming after him” and he went to a Motel with his girlfriend and ordered
pizza. He didn’t call the cops but
learned on his cell phone (?) that this case was now all over the news. This case is like George Zimmerman II, and the
trial is just about as whacky with perhaps just as little a chance of a just
verdict. The defendant got on the stand
and says “He wither saw a lead pipe, or a stick, or the barrel of a gun
sticking out the windeow and I feared for my life”. He then says that Jordan fellow got out of
the van and came tword him in a threatening manner. The truth is that there was no gun and Jordan
was still seated in the van at the time of his death. But at least in this case not all the
witnesses to the crime were killed, and were around to give testimony.
John
Boehner has “stabbed the tea party in the back again” or at least that’s how I
would expect Rush Limbaugh to spin it.
John Boehner agreed to a “clean debt increase bill” oddly at a time when
I might vote FOR opposition merely to get the President to explain the screwey
set up with the Fed and the Banks - - and how according to some estamates the
Banks get three Trillion with a T in Free Money, serving almost as a Bribe not
to lent that money out for commerce, as one would normally expect. I told James Fisher the other evening that
“If the government WERE facing an immediate default crisis I would just get
some of that three trillion with a T from the banks. My guess is that’s a whole lot more than any
planet debt ceiling increase, knowing how they dole out the increase to last
not years, not months, but in some cases - -weeks. Apparently this bill will be a clean ticket
to get through 2014 without another confrontation. Nobody likes confrontations particularly with
someone “you can’t win” with. But Rush
Limbaugh was upset about something else when I tuned in today. He said that the liberals are “Out to destroy
traditional American values” and Rush cajoles the audience “Why would the left
want to destroy traditional American values?”
He’s upset because that Missouri U football player (he’s an End, but not
a Tight End) came out of the closet and
was well received by his team and by the media.
“Traditional American Values” if
you really break that down by Rush actually means by that term - - are NOT
“values” that Americans have “traditionally held” over the past fifty years or
so. As previously noted - - most tea
party positions have appallingly little “precident” in terms of any politics up
to then.
A
lot of time even if you can get at least some glimpse of the motives of people
who appear to be acting completely irrationally – such as the Tea Party - - when
confronted with their own motives - - or let me rephrase that - - their motives
are so “around the bend” that even THEY will not invoke them as justification
for what they do. So they will no longer
say “We hate queers therefore we are against gay marriage” but people like Rush
Limbaugh will say in response to Obama backing Gay Marriage “Well, the
President thinks by just his Word- - he can pronounce a problem (of Gay rights)
as Solved - - just at his pronounciation. “
And in like manner they will no longer say “We need to block any and all
legitimization of undocumented aliens”, but rather they will say “Well se need
to set guidelines and a course of action, but NOW is just the Wrong Time to
move on this immigration legislation”.
They won’t use the N word any more - - but use dog whistle speech like
‘Not our kind of people” or “President Obama is a - - you know - - not one of
us- - it’s strange, he alien- - he was born in Kenya - - he’s the stealth
candidate for President - - he has a secret agenda - - he’s declared war on
White people”. So often you will note
that the Tea Party will bring up Topics that haven’t even been broached by
liberals- - and a lot of cases such Topics would not even occur to them.
I
needed to at least get all of this stuff down, whether you like it or not. I am disappointed that Mary Jane would not
see me when I came down to the office.
She is constantly saying “Any time you have a problem feel free to come
in here and talk about it” but the one time I take her up on her invitation she
isn’t there for me. I don’t want the
office thinking that I waved my clinched fists at Jim in a menacing
manner. That would be utterly suicidal
and something I would never initiate, and I hope the people around here would
know me better than that. I think a lot
more is going through Jim’s mind than he’s admitting to me. But I have to take him at his word, just like
Chanberlin felt he had to take Hitler at his word and comes out with the “Peace
in our time” speech.
THIS WAS - Marcus Arelius
Today is Tuesday February 11,
2014 and Stu Baby reminds me that RISE is a numeroligic 51, and there was a
positive event with our family, and a decisive day for the Beatles. I got up at a quarter to six or so and got my
medication early. I turned on KNBC
news. I got a cigarette from Paul Evans
on the west patio and paid him back at dinner.
Now we get into the psycho stuff.
Well - - -. As you may know
Shirley Temple passed away this morning drying of “natural causes” at age
85. She was born in 1928. For a long time TV movie people had her
pegged as two years younger meaning movies she made in 1934 she’d have made
when she was four, when actually she was six.
I received a visitation from John Lennon and Stu Baby this morning. They didn’t see “what people saw on her”
saying she wasn’t that good of a dancer or and other little girls are
cuter. They say she always had 56 curls
in every movie. As you may remember 56
figures in the death of Steve Jobs and also is numeric for “Brrr” because it
was flookishly cold the early October day when Steve Joes passed on. John Lennon was outraged by the notion that
her favorite costar to work with was Bo Jangles doing tap dancing routines
together. I tried to explain to John
that those were different times. But
both John and I remember statements Shirley Temple Black made about the Viet
Nam war from August of 1967. She was
running against congressman Paul Mc Closky and she said “How can you say to
stop the bombing- - I don’t think we are dropping nearly enough bombs in Viet
Nam”. John Lennon also remembered the time “He
appeared to me at a Carl’s restaurant” and I was having a bacon BBQ
burger. This was around August 21st
or so of 1986 because the date is noted not for itself but what it precedes by
about a month. (Let him who has ears,
hear) Lennon was wearing a strange blue
and purple print loose fitting shirt. He
advised me to commit suicide in the near future, which may sound like strange
advice, and he even had an excellent method as to how that would be relatively
quick and painless. Not to b e cryptic
or anything but others- - some female Oriental student committed suicide the
same way, and they took precautions to prevent future incidents. (“Yeah, that’s cryptic) We had oatmeal for breakfast followed in due
course by two pancakes and a sausage.
Then Delores gave me her two pancakes, making four in total. That makes for a “bigger, better
breakfast”.
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