We have fresher news about this Donald Sterling
guy. The head of the NBA had been
wanting to take action against this guy for years. He’d had his eye on him for a long time. But he had to wait until he did some move
against the National Basketball Association itself. They he “dropped the hammer on him”, a phrase
which seems to be repeated a lot in the past 24 hours. But Rush has strange ideas of
consistency. For instance when John
Kerry made the statement in private to a meeting where reporters were expressly
not allowed, to the “Trilatteral Commission”
- - this so called ultra secret organization - - a reporter from the
Daily Beast or something - - Rush thinks this is fine. But Rush doesn’t think it’s fair that the
American People came to be aware that Romney regards fully half of Americans -
- 47% as somehow “the takers” and will never change and never vote other than
Democrat, and will never amount to anything.
To me the public has the right to know since campaign donation is
austensively a Public act, just as trial by jury is a public act, and
prospective Jurors have no expectation of privacy, in my opinion. No less than Dennis Prager stated that all
campaign donations are fine, as long as they are fully disclosed and made
public. So Mitt Romney had “no expectation
of privacy” here. But as to John Kerry
there are subtle but distinct distortions in his words. Rush quoted Kerry as stating that Israel has “Plans
to institute apartheid”. Kerry didn’t
say that. Neither did John Kerry deny
that there were in fact Arabs in government in Israel. But the premise of the Two State solution is-
- is analogus to for instance Mexicans and the like here becoming “too numerous”. People like Ronald Reagan and Marco Rubio
perhaps, would like to see a permanent underclass of wage subsistence Latinos
working as gardeners and housekeepers constantly in the shadows and afraid at
any time they could be deported and grateful to have any job at all. So it is in Israel according to Jimmy Carter
that the Palestinians - - are an “occupied territory” just like in “War Baby”
that Blondie song. And the people in
occupied territories don’t have the rights of citizens, just as Maurie Head, to
use another song example, stated in the opening song of Jesus Christ
Superstar. “We are occupied. Have you forgotten how put down we are?” And again- - John Kerry said that this was a
situation that could happen, not will, if current trends are allowed
to continue.
OK this is Wednesday
April 30, 2014 and it’s a double “Watergate” day. 1973 is when Nixon fired Halderman,
Erlichman, Mitchell and Dean, and in 1974 the following year we are celebrating
the fortieth anniversary of today, if when Nixon appeared on television with
all of those “props” behind him of folders or albums - - of all the Watergate
tapes. Of course as you know the early
tape transcripts had a lot of deleted dialog in them, and many of these were
filled in as the months passed. This was
an “interesting’ period for me because I had absolutely no idea what lay ahead
in my own future, and Mal Evans says not to say anything more about this period
in my personal life. This is phone
company day- and I hope they arrive sooner rather than later. This morning I got up a little before six and
Janet mentioned an apple fritter for me.
Steve got castaways from Yum Yum Donuts- and all too often I have
arrived after they were all eaten. Such
trips to the donut shop were much more common about a year and a half ago and
this is the first occasion I can remember in - - months. Then Mario gave me an almost full
cigarette. I decided to “bank a
cigarette” and put it out and save it for later, a practice I wish I had done
more of this past week. Channel seven
was once again having rather touchy reception.
The NBA leadership,
this Silverman fellow- - exacted the greatest retribution the rules permitted
for Donald Sterling’s remarks, made in private to his girlfriend where he was obviously
being set-up. No doubt she was paid off
because somebody thought they could get the team on the cheap surrounded by a
cloud of controversy. Donald Sterling is
barred from attending any Clippers game, of attending any Clipper’s practice or
conversing with any of the players, or having any say in any business decision
the team makes. So like- what else can
they do to him if he violates any of these decrees? By a vote of three fourths of the team
owners, Sterling can be forced to sell the team altogether. The NBA didn’t have the power to strip
ownership of the team from Silverman, so he still gets the money the players
earn for him. But the man has a lifetime
suspension from anything associated with the NBA and has to pay a fine of two
and a half million dollars, which is fully ten times worse than the worst fine
possible in California for a botched medical operation where the surgeon was
stoned or something. To me this isn’t
fair for a “speech crime’ made in private made to someone setting you up. I had Sean Hannity on this morning and this
guy has a lot of skeletons ratteling around in his closet. He’s a “slum lord” and a tightwad. He doesn’t want to fork out the money for the
good players to field a decent team. He
has openly discriminated against racial minorities in his rentals referring
disparagingly to Latinos and saying Blacks were unwashed. He’s a guy whose made a lot of enemies along
the way. And yet all of this was
completely ignored till this latest incident of the past few days. So the Duck Dynesty guy is a hero, George
Zimmerman is a hero, and Cliven Bundy and Ted Nugent are heroes to some. But this guy is a goat, even to someone as
far right as Sean Hannity. In Federation
news- - Mal Evans has gone public complaining of the unjustness and
vindictiveness and “political game playing” of this penalty today.
The Clippers beat the Warriors last night 113 to 103 and lead the series 3 games to 2. The Kings are still alive, believe it or not. The phone lines are fixed and I again get a dial tone and am able to dial. I didn't know this at the initial posting of this blog before dinner. In terms of the last few postings on this blog before this one- - you could see they seem more than a little paranoid- - and even "breaking with reality". Perhaps I should have left some of that stuff unsaid. I don't know. Things were becoming particularly oppressive and paranoid in my personal life at that time, so you'll pardon me if some of that was reflected in blog postings.
