But What About Pakistan and their Nukes?

OK we’re back to lavender in our color background rotation, in honor of Gloria’s top today. I told you I would be starting a new file. You just didn’t think it would be so soon. It just a minute after three now. Bill isn’t here so Judge Pirro isn’t on. At two I went out on the patio for a cigarette and conversation was lively. I went down stairs a bit early and sat in one of those chairs in the shade where I thought they would have put in new cushions a months ago. As I was walking through the building there was that music class. All those percussion instruments and the lethargic singing reminded me of that “Larry” movie. It was about 1974 and Larry spent his youth in an Institution but then got cured of his mental retardation. And he came back for a visit and this lady singer was trying to whip up an outdoor group into singing along. He no doubt remembers when he was one of them. Then as he continues down the corridor this well dressed older man says “Sir I’m looking for such and such ward. I’m here to visit my grandson. He’s mentally retarded”. You may remember that paragraph of Dr. Levy in the publication about his experience as a lonely Jew on Christmas Eve, eating at a Denny’s in 1990 and he overheard the dialogue between a father and son. Although it soon became apparent that the son was retarded by his actions and that he said almost nothing, and the father kept trying to make awkward pleasantries. And he reasoned that later that evening the son would go back to where he lives, and then spend Christmas day alone.

At any rate through an open window with the shades drawn I heard Glen Beck on the television. And he was going on and on about the killing of Bin Laden. But it was clear he wasn’t a bit happy about it. It reminded me of the Sallenger – Murphy debate where George Murphy kept talking about Johnson’s foreign policy in doubtful terms - -but he really had nothing negative to say but this didn’t stop him from going on and on trying to find that illusive banana under someone’s foot. Well, Glen Beck made much of the idea that we should have filmed the actual shooting of Bin Laden, and in this manner we could have documentation that the Islamic community could actually believe. Because they weren’t going to believe the sight of a body covered in plastic being dumped over the bough of a ship. And Beck got “Osama” and “Obama’s” names mixed up. There seems to be an epidemic of that these days. Apparently there was an Al Qaeda memo saying that whenever Bin Laden was killed that there would be a major nuclear strike at some major country in the world. That won’t happen. But Beck kept saying how this killing of Bin Laden was almost a bad thing because it has made the world less safe. He reminded his audience that Obama took a big gamble by even pulling off this operation so deep into Pakistan because of the questionable terms we were on with that government. Also that just maybe since the Bin Laden compound was so “obvious” and hardly hidden with his towering walls with barbed wire on top- - that surely Pakistani officials must have known who lived there, since this compound was also a stone’s throw from a military base. Of course as someone said a year ago “Iran has zero nukes, but Pakistan has all sorts of nukes, and if we’re going to be afraid of someone, we should be afraid of Pakistan. After this coffee call came and I got iced tea from Dora, since it was such a hot day. Then Loretta asked me if I got my money and I said I did. She then said that she has “eight extra dollars” this week, and can afford to buy four packs of the cheap brand of cigarettes. She said “I can either smoke only in the day, or only during the night, but I can’t do both”. Four of the five birds were visible in the cage.

But of course the right wing won’t be convinced of anything. Now the birthers are at it again and reinstituting all their law suits. I told you 15% of the whacko right still doesn’t believe the President showed his real birth certificate. If you put a gun to their head they’ll admit the President exercised brave leadership, but they would really rather now. Now we are hearing that water-boarding was the thing that turned the tide. But the left says that the “break in the case” occurred long after the water-boarding had stopped and that “We’ve known since World War II that torture wasn’t the way to go to extract information”. We should have things like the Stockholm sidrone working for us. Beck said that even George Bush 41 had problems in the polls after a while. If a chimpanzee issued the order to kill Bin Laden the chimpanzee would get a ten point bump in the polls. Bush 41 was at 91% at one point and he still lost the election due to hard economic times which continued to befall the nation. I remembered I was going to R O P because I felt if I had a few more certificates to wave in the prospective employer’s face that I’d get re-employed. But you know something? People who are negative and are proven wrong are far less likely to be forgiven than someone who was positive and gets it wrong. I stand behind my statements made a couple postings back. You have to remember that the tea party is kind of in hiatus now. They must be in a process of re-grouping to come up with a new image, just like the “New Nixon” presented to us by the media in 1968.

Right now I’d like to play “Guess who I am talking about”. This man is a writer and has published many novels. But personally I find a biography of his life would be more interesting than the books he has written. I’ve tried some of them and couldn’t get more than a few pages because they seemed hopelessly wordy and just not “connecting” with me. One of his books was made into a Movie and I got that from Dad once. (I don’t have it now) Apparently the movie was given a big build up but it bombed when it came out. So they decided to go and re-edit the thing and tighten up the action scenes. The movie still bombed. This writer is a hero of Dr. Levy’s, and an article about him appeared in a publication he gave us a few weeks back. I don’t see what Dr. Levy sees in the guy. They seem so utterly dissimilar. However if you value Bob Dylan’s opinion- Bob Dylan has acknowledged a lot of people and writers over the years for inspiring him. But so far as I know, Bob Dylan has never mentioned this author. I guess the only reason why I care at all is that a person from the “other side of the Veil” (Mal Evans) has stated that this man was Howard Richards in a previous incarnation. Though since their life spans overlap, it would mean that Howard Richards is thus a “walk in”.