Make America Think Again

The people on the right are truly in an information desert.  You’ve heard about a food desert in the ghetto but an information desert is where your only source is FOX news where you are not only misinformed but dis-informed on what is reality in the world.  Trump is feeding these fears at his campaign rallies he still insists on having even though he’s President now and campaign rallies should be a thing of the past.  But Trump is himself generating fake news first with this “Biggest electoral vote victory since Ronald Reagan” one, which is a lie, but now he’s talking about some terrorism in Sweden caused by immigrants into Sweden these days, and the Swedish government took strong exception and puzzlement to these remarks of Trump.  But they interview the groupies at these campaign rallies saying “It doesn’t matter whether Trump gets things wrong; he’s speaking directly to us without the filter of the media”.  He’s telling these nuts exactly what they have been programmed to want to “hear” and he’s feeding their itch and swaddling them in thy warm blanket-cocoon of delusion.  So in truth this is why when you endeavor to have a conversation with these people they cover their ears and say that they don’t want to hear it.  Indeed today’s slogan should be “Make America Think Again” because we have stopped thinking.  We have engaged in an orgy of wrong feelings at the expense of reason.  This is obviously a dangerous state for a country to be in.  For we know, as Mc Cain and others have pointed out that one of the first things a fascist government does is to shut down the media.  They don’t see the signs.  We are going on as people buying and selling and being entertained and attending our sporting events.  I’m sure even in communist China they have their little recreation where the people can “A-muse” themselves and distract themselves from the true political soup they live in.   So one might say it’s a situation of the media sniping at the Trump administration.  And the administration snipes back.  But this reason of “both sides do it” is a misguided one. 

On You Tube I watched a speech by Bernie Sanders at a rally in Madison, Wisconsin made July first of 2015.  The thing was edited down to 25:25 and this is taken from the first forty-nine minutes of the speech where the final topic of discussion of ecology and the welfare of Planet Earth.  The original speech ran to 1:03.   Thom Hartman was talking about how it doesn’t matter whether income taxes for the middle class go up because the income market determins what employers are willing to pay you.  Cutting taxes is of no avail to the working class because the employer realizes you’re willing to work for less.  In the speech there was nothing about two of the biggest protest items in the news now.  One is Standing Rock and the other is the issue of sanctuary cities.  It seems in Oriville they are trying to paint the State of California as politically divided between the coastal liberals and the inland conservatives, who grow the nation’s fruit, grains and nuts.  And these central valley people are all Trump lovers according to this article. 

We’ve had a little rain at predicted this morning but not much.  Just enough to get the benches wet.   Sixty Minutes featured an extended thing on North Korea followed by a thing on the Brownie bolt action rifle that fires when nobody has pulled the trigger.  There were two murder cases centering on this.  They actually played the entire ‘Presidents’ song right now.  I’ve never heard it in its entirety before.  Then there was that thing on fingers up the vagina’s of under-aged gymnists.   These young girls were so subjected to pressure to win in the Olympic camps that their doctor was the one person who gave them emotional support.  They had vaginal therapy for their backs.  So they submitted because they felt they had no choice, which is a horrible emotional state for a young woman to be in.

You know I think with certain astrological charms or jinxes, these are things from which there is no appeal.  As Days of our Lives shows us, once a decision is made in some cases like child custody in a case like they have, there’s usually no appeal.  Nicole should have won that case because in well over ninety percent of the time where DNA is the deciding factor, the judge goes with the biological mother.  But have you noticed that in politics for instance, polls are meaningless.  Polls had Bernie Sanders as far superior to Hillary in his ability to defeat opposing candidates.  Yet it didn’t matter because we are still under that Republican jinx that dates back to the seminal days of Ronald Reagan.  It doesn’t matter whether Bernie’s view on all of the issues is the one that wins in all the opinion polls they take- - because some FORCE is overriding all of the polls and common sense.  All the democrats can do now is the equivelant of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.  They have already ceded all of the important ground to the Republicans.  They say over and over again “We accept the election of Donald Trump and there is no constitutional way to redo an election”.   So we have William Comey deciding an election twelve days before it’s held.   Seldom has one man held so much sheer power.  He keeps mum on all the Russian stuff he uncovered about Trump.  We still don’t know about all of it, and it isn’t going to come to light either because some cosmic FORCE is moving heaven and earth to insure that stays buried.  We won’t even talk about all of the voter suppression.  This is the gift that keeps on taking.  Because every election from now till the foreseeable future is going to be “red shifted” on polling day.  People get provisional ballots and tell pollsters they voted for Hillary, and yet Trump still carries the day.  So now all Democrats can do is complain about all of the money Trump spends with Air Force One shuttling around the United States to Florida every weekend, with not the slightest thought in the name of conserving energy or the tax payers’ money that maybe one week he could just stay in Washington and do his “work” from there.  After all there is all the police protection that’s needed.  It’s like the Accadamy awards and closing off all those streets in Hollywood for a while week for just a few hours’ activity.  The appeal of an old Bernie Sanders speech from mid 2015 is that we have in essence rewound the clock to a point that none of this ever happened.  We weren’t filled with garbage from FOX news and the Trump administration, and we didn’t have all that negativity coursing through our blood stream like poison.  To continue to even listen to the media at this point almost seems pointless.  I think we’ve about got the plot down by now.  Trump screws up in a major way but the media and the public just has to accept it. 

This is after one on Sunday February 19, 2017.  The 75^th anniversary of the Japanese internment camp authorization signed by Roosevelt is somewhere around this time.  It has remained overcast out but no rain.  Some lady was just in to make Bill’s bed.  I have been out of cigarettes since noon.  I shaved about ten thirty this morning.  I had Breakfast with the Beatles on at nine and the only song of note is “Girl’s School”, which I guess I passed over for a best of compilation because it sounds a little too much like Cheap Trick or something.  We had watery tomato soup for lunch followed by a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and more generous potato chips than sometimes.  We had some mini orange things with whipped cream on them for dessert.  My smoker’s hack is in evidence.  I had Leo Le Port on after lunch and Chris Marquardt was on at 12:35.  This is his last week before spending an extended time in Siberia.  There is a warming trend in many areas of the country right now in the sixties including Chicago.  If you are curious “Thy Kingdom Come” can be found in For the Record in June of 2013 under the title heading of “The great lost revolution” or something.  Glenda only seems to have coffee for a few days and then she is out for an extended period of time, and this is one of those.

KEYS TO THE KINGDOM - released February 22nd. 2017


Prelude / Tyrant (Judas Priest)

Writing on the Wall (Ted Nugent) **

Victims of the Fury (Robin Trower)

When Friends Fall Out (Guess Who)

Electric Funeral Pyre (Black Sabbath)

The Four Horsemen (Metallica)

Night Rider (Electric Light Orchestra)

Sketches of China (Jefferson Airplane) *

All This and More (Procol Herum)

One of These Days (Ten Years After)

Revolution No 9 (The Beatles)

Bernie Sanders' Madison, Wisconsin Speech (July 1, 2015) edited 25:25

Title letters are metallic red done in two rows the upper 40% or so of the front cover. The rest of the front cover is sort of a surreal smoldery sky with streaks- - - There is a giant crack in the ground about the shape of the state of California. On the near side of the crack you can see cities in flames and flames are popping up everywhere. To the right (east?) is a river like the Colorado. On the back of the album there is a scene like from the lobby or perhaps hall of a movie theater where there are movie style postors on the walls with bizzare, tripped out imigry - -and a captain or two. And there are three heavy doors close to each other in sort of a concave circle. There is one bewildered guy and there are all these keys on the rug (a dark aqua) and the question is which key unlocks which door and where does each door lead? Then above or behind the wall we see a bunch of transformers and power generating equipment. At the very top are album production credits. On the inside open out flap are the song listings. There is also a folded sheet of paper and on the front are those sayings at the very top of 'Soap Opera of Life' from May of 2006. The inside two pages contain material about the Bernie Sanders campaign white print on black backdrop. Then the opposite outside is a "Meditation Square", which I first came up with in January of 1975. They are painted various "crude" DOS style colors. There is also a black border around all of this.  * It says Grace Slick and Paul Kantner on the record.  The 2525 refers to the song "In the year 2525".

 We are going to release another compilation and we’re dismantling the “Thy Kingdom Come” album bit by bit.  Here are the songs we took off that album because they are on other albums. The June 2013 version had 20 songs on it, if you're curious.

Three from “Metal Melitia”

Three from “Deepest Rock”

Two from “The Psychedelic Album”

Two from “Growing Up in the Seventies”

One from “Radio Ready”

One from “A Lover’s Question”

One from “Break on through”

One from “Don’t Take Me Alive”
One from "Souvenire of the Seventies"

If I’ve left anything out you can register it in the “Comments” selection, and if you do I’ll know you’re one of these real “savant” neurotics like me.  This sentence is February 22nd, the release date and as You can see we made two last minute substitutions Ted Nugent ** wise with "Motor City" running affoul of the overlap police.  Also we had to go for another Guess Who song.  "Growing up in the Seventies" has two songs we had to exclude.  I played chess with my father too, and I always beat him from the git go.  Kim Klein (code name) is the best person who fits the profile of a guy who used to be able to beat me in 1977 but after playing Bill T otherwise known as ‘the pawn master’ with his defense strategies, I got better and in 1978 I was able to beat Jim Klein at will.  Ironically Jim Klein was more of a “spiritual” Christian in 1978 than he was in 1977.  In terms of that 8:30 show on FOX that’s a weird one.