Thursday, January 30, 2014

Eric Holder Seeks Death Penalty for Surviving Zarniaf Brother



 Attorney General Eric Holder is asking for the death penalty in the Boston Marathon case for the surviving Zarniaf brother.  It’s what he wants, of course, but I guess, with all respect to the Rolling Stones “Sometimes, you DO get what you want”.   Still this request puts the lie to the notion that President Obama is somehow a closet Moslem sympathizer.  Again just today on that new 1150 station here in LA, KEIB, they stated that because the President’s half brother chose to wear a particular shirt when the president visited Kenya many years ago. Then this proved that the President also “wants to drive Israel into the sea”.  I have heard it repeated countless times, over and over that “Obama is the most hostile President of the United States that Israel has ever faced.  I hardly think a one of these tea baggers would be happy living in Israel though.  They’d find their government nightmarishly liberal.  Besides, every citizen has compulsory military service there.  There was this Jerk-off on one of these TV drama shows- - I guess it was “Burn Notice” where the father kind of kidnapped his sun into this military outpost, set up along the lines of the “Apocralipse Now” movie.  The trouble is of course is that he was referring to the Star of the show as “not patriotic” when the Star of the show was in the military, but this joker who ran this military compound with all his guns and fences and listening equipment, hadn’t spent a day in the military.  Hypocracy is always hot and heavy on the right.  But the funny thing is this little diatribe was only launched into by – Glen Beck - - because of something in Rand Paul’s father’s background that could prove politically embarrassing - - and so Glen Beck fell back on that time tested adage of “The best defense is a good offense”.

I knew the Queen was many things but I never thought she was cheap, but apparently she is.  Buckingham Palace is running out of money and the government is telling them they have to cut expenses.  They plan to offer more tours of Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle or whatever to raise needed funds.  But there was a job for the Queen’s personal buttler, or whatever the female term counterpart of a Buttler is.  This personal aid is in charge of guarding and organizing the royal jewelry, and drawing the Queen’s bath, and even assist her in dressing and grooming.  It sounds like a highly elite position, but at $25,000 per year in the monetary equivalent- - this Buttler or Aid won’t be earning that much more per year than some teenage burger flipper here in California once the rates go up, earning a little pocket money.

This medical story is totally bogus.  It seems that some HDL or high density lipid can “go Rogue” just like Sarah Palin.  There is this old man they say has “severe artery blockage” but one thing is for sure.  It wasn’t caused by his diet.  His LDL cholesterol is under a hundred and his HDL is a mere 57 or something.  The total figure is well under two hundred - - and in the old days this man would have been considered the picture of health.  But not to worry, now they have an expensive new blood test you can take to see if YOU are one of those in danger of harboring one of these Rogue HDL Cholesterol attacks.

People probably think our California snow readings in the Sierra are bogus.  It seems they got their first major snows up there in a long time.  From what I’ve heard, we’ve had more skiing here in southern California then they have had.  School kids got a snow day - - probably more because they figure “You better go now; it’ll be gone by the weekend”.  What they really need is another good two or three feet more.  Then they can half way relax.  They say that the Sierra snow pack is only ten percent of normal.  The last big crisis they had like this was the winter of 1977 and at that time none other than Jerry Brown was also governor then.

Amanda Knox was found guilty of murder back in Italy.  Fortunately Amanda got out of the country.  She was tried and acquitted for this murder once, because the evidence just wasn’t there.  But then - - unlike in this country where “no fact found by a jury may be questioned” in that country you can appeal acquittals.  The appellate courts found some glitch in the case and so tried her again, and you kind of new that they weren’t going to waste another whole expensive trial unless they made damn sure she got convicted this time.  And she was.

We had beef Stroganoff for dinner tonight and it was pretty good.  We had corn with it.  We had tapioca pudding for desert.  Dora trekked a highly erratic pattern around the room and she got to our table last but there was still plenty of food in the tray, and I had pretty decent seconds.  Then I smoked my last cigarette.  Right now I have enough change in my pocket to buy one cigarette.  Tomorrow I get paid and all my money problems will be over- for a while.  This idea of reorganizing Queen albums hit me at the dinner table, and I know how I’m going to do it.  It’s basically a way of just getting rid of some of the chaff and giving you a better album.  Unlike the bit with Who albums a couple months ago- - this is a vinyl oriented reorganization.  I’m not the least worried about the stock market collapsing, regardless of what either Glen Beck or Thom Hartman says.  The bad weather most certainly will drag this quarter’s economic numbers down.

My super-bowl prediction still votes the Hannity ticket.  I'm sticking with Denver and Payton Manning.  The temperature should actually warm to forty degrees.

A DAY AT THE RACES

Tie Your Mother Down
Take My Breath Away
Sheer Heart Attack
Charge of the Light Bragade
Walking In the Moonlight
side 2
Somebody To Love
White Man
Dead On Time
Drowse
Let Me Entertain You

NEWS OF THE WORLD

We Will Rock You
We Are the Champions
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
All Dead, All Dead
Spread Your Wings
Fight from the Inside
side 2
Get Down - Make Love
I Sure Don't Want To Go Home
Who Needs You?
It's Late (I think)
Melencholy Blues
Save Me

JAZZ

Mustafa
Fat Bottom Girls
Jealousy
If You Can't Beat 'em Join Them
Coming Soon
Bicycle
side 2
Play The Game
Seven Day Romance
The Dreamer's Ball
Dragon Attack
Another One Bites the Dust
All of that Jazz

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