Osama Bin Laden Is Dead

Last night at about a quarter to eight CBS interrupted a piece on Zinyatta to inform us that Osama Bin Laden was killed by an elete regiment of US Navy Seals, apparently working in coordenation with the CIA and then stormed a fortress deep in Pakistan where they had good intelligence that Bin Laden was. [Apparently they landed a helocopter on the roof with an amazingly small team. Bin Laden was in this huge Mansion with eighteen foot high walls, almost in an urban area. He used no cell phones or internet or anything tracable. So he used curriers and these were followed around for months, till we knew it was him. Apparently Bin Laden used his wife as a human shield, that didn't work.] Apparently the President received the first usefull intelligence in a long time on the subject but obviously kept quiet about it and last week the President was confident enough to go ahead with the plans. Bin Laden was killed and Americans took posession of his body which subsequently was burried at sea, where no Islamic pilgrim could make a shrine out of his grave for the people to come and worship at. As Henry Morgan said in a Western once, "What I'll do over your grave when you're gone won't pass for flowers". I think they should have had a ceremony where Bin Laden's naked body was covered in pig blood and blasphemed against, and the whole thing photographed and distributed on the internet. That would be nice. This morning on Stephanie Miller they referred to President Obama as the "Anti Carter" because his spring surprise, as opposed to the failed attempt of Carter to rescue the Iran hostages in April of 1980, this one turned out successful. All parties concerned were true to their word. The Bush policy was to pursue Bin Laden contrary to what President Bush said once by joking about it. And President Obama wanted Leon Peneta to know when he took office that killing or capturing Bin Laden was a top priority in his administration. So we kept sending those drone rockets into Pakistan. Not all of them were for killing but some were reconisence taking high resolution photographs. Apparently the buzz in the Arab newspapers is stunned silence. The whole Islamic community is in a state of shock. (I have heard nothing from the Federation) Clearly this is a turning point in the battle against Islamic terrorism. As Jesus once said, "Once the strong man is bound and gagged, you are free to plunder his house. This act yesterday morning oviously proves that Obama does have balls after all. This "stunned silence" is likely to pervaid the Republican community in congress, who can't make with any wise cracks on this one. About all they'll be able to say is "Sir, yes sir!" It indeed is the close of a- - very long chapter in US history. President Clinton sought to capture Bin Laden. I remember the bombing in Sudan in August of 1998 and how Rush Limbaugh continually mocked the action saying "Why do we want to bomb an asperine factory?" Rush and other anti Clinton people kept talking about "wag the dog" and how all this anti Islamic terrorist stuff was just a distraction from the Monica Luinsky scandal. And then Hartman tells us that George Bush had an offer from Iran or something to capture Bin Laden or someone was going to turn him over or something, and the President turned him down. We all believed that Bin Laden died in a cave in Tora Bora of some terminal disease in late 2001 (about the same time as George Harrison - - not that there is any connection) We kept hearing all these reports of "capturing the number two in Al Qaeda, with number one continually eluding us. Now all Americans can stand with pride knowing that the dastardly deeds of 9 - 11 will be avenged at long last.

I should call this one 'Houston - We still have a problem". If you saw that Sixty Minutes segment last night you realize that the battle in Egypt didn't end when President Mubarek stepped down from power. Because you still have the stubborn reality that Islamic men are pigs and beasts. An ebulliant crowd saw a blonde reporter with her camera crew there to cover the jubelation and someone said to another in Arabec, "Lets take her pants off" and they tried to get out of the crowd but the female reporter was surrounded by beastly men and a nightmarish scenario unfolded itself. First they ripped off all her clothes, article by article, and then they pulled at her hair and clawed at her skin, perhaps trying to yank her arms off, and threw her to the ground, with fellow Arabs photographing the entire thing on their cell phones. Then she was raped repeatedly for about 25 minutes. Finally some Egyptian veiled women showed up, who helped her and finally the Egyptian army arrived to escort the camera crew to safety. I may want to rethink my position about "The US shouldn't be at war with Islam itself". Perhaps we should be because Sheria law is a beastly code where women and "Infidels" have no rights, and aren't even required to swear to an oath. You cannot cross examine them or confront the witness with their lies and hypocracy. I wish the President would mention the rape of this TV reporter in one of his addresses on the subject. So when you look at Libya, maybe Quadafi isn't that bad, compared to his possible replacements. Maybe the people of the tea party right were correct all along. That this war against Quadafy just might not be a good thing. (Selah)

You know there are different kinds of rape. The Gulf coast has known repeated instances of ecological rape. Sixty Minutes pointed out that New Orleans hasn't recovered from Hurricane Katrina yet. People like to talk about certain bad events that just "go away" on their own. Dr. Phil would just love that. One of his lines is "Don't you EVER bring that up again". It isn't that simple. Katrina was caused in part because the temperature of the Gulf of Mexico was around ninety degrees about seven or eight degrees above a normal temperature of 82 or 83, for that time of year. And I was going to report on the anniversary of the British Petroleum oil spill of last April 20th. 2010. This was a continuously unfolding horror scenario that lasted three months and every day the situation seemed to appear more hopeless. Then we were told that the problem was solved and the media could forget about it. But last month there were reports anew that little has been fixed. The sea food is still contaminated and there is still extensive oil damage all over the place. And we still don't know the full consequences of administering that 2 butal alcohol or whatever into the ecological system. Neither do we know the damage that will be done to bio-organisms from ingesting major ammounts of these compounds. We don't know what might crop up in the way of elevated cancer rates, in either ourselves or our children. Now of course part is the Republican plan is to "drill, baby, drill" once again. I think we should think long and hard about this one. Republicans say that eliminating the oil depletion allowance would be a bad thing because it would drive up oil prices. Of course Hartman and I believe that oil prices, or the price of anything, is determined by what the Market will bear, and such extranious things as corporate taxes have little bearing on price paid at the pump. Neither by the way, just to be consistent, do I believe that "profits" made by a corporation should be rebated to the purchasser of a product, as some have advocated. Because corporate profits in themselves don't affect the price paid for a product either, and from a Smithsonian point of view, it's none of the consumer's business what a particular corporation makes in profits. If the price is deemed too high than the Market will make adjustments. This whole energy and global warming crisis is not something that will be solved in the next one hundred weeks, nor in the next one thousand weeks, but in the words of John F. Kennedy, "Let us begin". (Selah)

I was going to talk about my own troubled household as a teenager under the heading of "A different kind of rape". There were periods when I was on rotten terms with all four other family members. There were problems with one brother in particular, Al, who engaged in things from theft and destruction of property to erasing of recording tapes to threats and insults and various harrasments- - - and there are things like medications I was taking that made a lot of my problems worse, and I suggest, accademically. Not too many people knew just how bad things really were. Howard Richards did. He would have been a half second cousin, were he not himself adopted. Roger Shepherd knew. But few others did. When Pastor Bill Halliday mentioned to me in that July '91 phone call of "Your childhood was really messed up and that's why you turned out the way you did" of course I was insulted. I wasn't even thinking of my teenage years when he said this but I thought he was trying to lay some Freudian trip on me like "bad potty training as a toddler" or some such rot. Of course at the time I hadn't said word one to him about any of this stuff, so apparently (if he wasn't just talking out of his ass to begin with) had "knowledge" on the subject, either supernaturally from Satan, or much more probably by some human agency, which he wasn't confiding with me about. When you look at the "Glass Onion" of my past, which I have come to call the "Arimid" period- - you see problems that one could argue "went away" after a while. But they really didn't go away, and lingering attitudes poisoned the air- - if nothing else by all the energy people spend lying about this period and acting as if it never happened. "So how come you didn't go to a four year University right out of high school?" "Gee, I haven't the vaguest idea". Yes, - perticularly with my Dad - who seemed to throw up a "wall" and there was a C change in our relationship the first definitive signs of which took place on November 23rd 1966. Whether I recovered from those bad relations back then- - one can say "OK, it's not relivent today" but I know this. My Dad never "recovered" from the bad relations, the seeds of which were laid back then. I was going to speak on this topic in consiterably more detail but this is a long posting already.

John Lennon's oppinion of me according to the Federation (not Lennon himself) was of some spaced out guru wanna-be like Timothy Leary or something who advocated the use of LSD but didn't take it himself, who was also obsessed with revolution and "death" and alltogether a little "dark". He saw me more than himself as someone "who liked to slip secret messages into the music". According to the Federation the phrase "Turn me on - dead man" was a jab at me and not Paul. It may be a counter reference to "I'd love to turn you on". The Federation people also noted that I got along a whole lot better with Paul than Lennon did. "Those freaks was right when they said you was dead" was also a reference to me, rather than Paul. Stewart Sutcliffe told me himself once "Actually, I feel a whole lot more comfortable talking to you than to John".