"May the Fourth Be With You"

First of all I’ve always said that if you can come up with a jobs bill I’ll vote for it.  There is talk about “stacks and stacks of bills” piled up in the Senate needing action, and if passed will help pay off your “stacks and stacks of bills”.  Steny Hoyer of Maryland and Eric Cantor were in a debate in a nearly empty chanber- - and Hoyer was touting the virtues of fiscal responsibility.  Normally I’d be for that, but Eric Cantor trumped him- - because once I found out what the tax deduction was FOR I was immediately for the bill.  It was a 150 Billion tax credit on research and development.  This increases product safety and efficiency, and also stimulates jobs- - and would tend to encourage hiring.  This is money well spent as an economic investment.

I was just watching the end of a “Ring of Fire” episode I started last week.  President Obama lived a charmed life and never learned apparently that “life is not as easy for everyone else as it apparently has been for him”.  Because all he thought he had to do was not be loyal to anybody or have any actually principles, but just lie to everybody and then secure endorsements from Goldman Sachs and Wall Street- - and become an instant Campaign success having made a “deal with the devil” he deluded himself didn’t matter and somehow he could work both sides of the aisle and “have it all” - - with both financial security for himself and “The American people would learn that Wall Street wasn’t all that bad” or something.  Life seldom works like that.  And if the president hadn’t lived such an unusual- - many would say – Priveleged life- - he’d know that.  Some say it’s all the private school education the President had all his life, and now his kids are in private schools.  So he has this “charter school” solution to education, according to one detracter.  Just last night in “The Week” magazine, there was an article of “How this President lost the support of the Milenials”, which were so idealistically behind him in 2008.  Of course - - contrary to what Mal Evans and his fellow Romulan travelers might say,  I think at this point more people’s health has been directly threatened by British Petroleum than by Monansanto, as bad as they are.  Clearly nobody has been sent up the river for the acts of April of 2010.  And this phrase about “I’m not looking back- I’m only looking forward” was a dog whistle to the corporate world as understood “They are going to look the other way and we can get away with murder under Obama and Holder”.    I’ll tell you- - when Andrew Johnson tried this same “approach” after the Civil War of- -   “Well, I tell you what.  Lets just pretend that whole thing called the Civil War never occurred, and now all you slaves can go back to your chains”.  How well do you think that played?  He got impeached over it; that’s what!

Here are a couple of translation extras.  The word “Carnita” is a Romulan word, but there is no such thing as a word meaning “little meat”.  “Carnita” actually is a past participle, and is to be translated “to have become carnal” and refers to just what it does in Christian circles of someone from a stoic Romulan cult spiritually backsliding from former lofty moral scruples.  And the word “Burrito” means “Package” or “Delivery’ and if often used in reference to dock shipments or the delivery of an appliance such as a refrigerator or a washing machine.  The word “Burro” means ‘I carry”.  The word “traect” means “he, she, or it brings”.   Oh- - as to the Al Qaeda thing- - usually the Romulans spell it “Al Qaida” and also they pronounce it with a ling I and not a long “A”.  As such- - I don’t know if there is an English translation for that pronounciation.

Just a little tweak on our two “Revived Original Beatle Album Releases” of a few weeks ago.  On “Strawberry Fields Forever” don’t rush the fade on “Strawberry Fields” but let it fade naturally and the usual five seconds of silence before the next song begins.  To do other wise might be cleaver if done once, but to hear this “rush” over and over could prove annoying.  The other more fundamental change is with the Sgt Pepper’s Represe.  As you know the radio version of this track always faded at a certain point- - and nobody even head the last two bars of the song that were included on the album.  I now decree that these two concluding bars are extraneous to the song- - which if it had been done properly would already have completely faded out.  Then you can have your five second break and then “A Day in the Life” begins.   In “Famous Lasts” for you- - the last “new” Denelus II group is the Easy Beats and “Friday on my Mind” from mid spring of 1967.  The last “new” Neir Reigelian artist is ‘Lulu” with two songs from later 1967.

This is Sunday May 4, 2014 at a quarter after two and the saying of today is “May the Fourth Be With You”.   It seems Harrison Ford and Josh Hammel will be back at Star Wars along with R2D2 and the voice actor of CP03 also.   We should savor our victories while we have them.  The Clippers won last night in game seven in a game we didn’t see.  Now they face the Oklahoma City Thunder in round two.  The SA Spurs are beating the Dallas Mavorics by 22 points at the half in a game I just turned off.  Mal Evans is back tracking on his view that he can “No Longer support the Star Wars franchise due to the purchase by Disney Corp.  He now says “If the Star Wars Episode Seven has the support of the Lucacites, that’s what counts, and I’ll concur with their opinion”.    First part of quiz.  What major city in California are the Lucacites associated with?    Now for the long quiz question.  Which of the following ethnic groups is NOT in the direct blood line of the Lucacites.   It’s a little tricky because some groups are included within other groups.  Here are your choices.  The Del Rio Group.  The Skyway Group.  The Atlanta Romulans.  Crestorians.   White Andromadans type II, the Houston Group, the Dardanians.  Think you know the answer?   We’ll have it for you at the conclusion of this posting. 

California Chrome won the Kentucky Derby and this Philly was the odds on favorite, breaking with my long established rule about favorites.  But she was a California bred and trained horse.  The horse looked strong at third but easily moved out front five lengths to win.  The rider was wearing purple.  Commanding Curve was 2^nd and Danza came in third.   Wicked Strong, they say is an aggressive horse and was named in honor of the Boston Marathon.  Candy Boy and Intense Holiday were another horses.  I was out on the patio and saw through the open door the singing of “My Old Kentucky Home” and got to the room for the procession of the riders.  There were nineteen horses and one horse was scratched.  This was the 140^th running of the Kentucky Derby and it was the second largest crowd attendance at 164,000. 

We had roast beef and mashed potatoes and gravy for dinner with carrots and green beans, with applesauce for desert.  It’s downright chilly in here with the AC on and I’m tempted to grab a sweater or something.  It’s after six and I haven’t gotten my medication yet.  I got a cup of coffee from Glen in his room for another cigarette perhaps making four.  I brought my ceramic mug because I threw away all my styrophoam cups.  I just watched the ABC network news.  They had that celebrity who was barred from the blackjack tables for counting cards.  What that does is cue you in is to make small bets on bets where the odds are against you and larger bets where the odds are in your favor.  If you do that consistently, you’ll win, and that’s what scares them.  It’s like picking a fight with somebody you think you can pummel and they are getting the better of you in the fight and so you pull out a gun and waste them.  It isn’t sporting in that context, and it isn’t one bit more sporting in the Gambling Casino business.

ANSWER:  The Skyway group is half Houston group and half Perseus.  Perseus is not in the bloodline of the Lucacites so this is the answer.  The word Lucacite is Dardanian for "White ones".   You could say that the Atlanta Romulans and the Detroit Romulans have in common in that they are both 25 percenters, meaning that each group is 25 percent non-Romulan.  White Andromadans type II are half Atlanta Romulan - - and the Del Rio group is half White Andromadan type II and half the Houston group.  Of course Lucacites are fifty percent Dardanian right off the bat.  There is some Crestorian blood involved.  If anybody asks you what type of Andromadan that is Andromada E and not D..