The San Francisco Giants won the World Series winning game seven 3 to 2. Of course they had to play it out to the end of the ninth because they were in Kansas City. It was the third time the Giants won in five years, and the other two times were 2010 and 2012. The past couple of evenings they’d had the game in the back TV room. But for Tuesday’s game six- - I grew discouraged when the Giants had the bases loaded with one out- and then the next guy hits into a double play. You should never plan on “small ball” with a situation like that. I was so discouraged I turned the station- - and it was seven or eight to nothing already. Last night the hero of the game was Madison Bumgardener. He cane in at the bottom of the fifth inning and stayed in the rest of the game. They were saying “We’re going to ride that horse to victory- and nobody ever had any inclination to take him out”. Bumgardener threw a lot of pitches in the game and it was a battle of wits until the Royals blinked and the final out was a pop up - - and they interviewed the guy who caught the ball. They interviewed all the principals. I watched the World Series trophy presentation- - and also the MVP awards. The game ended about 8:30. I’m not sure why this black band suddenly appears on a page. Saving gets rid of it. We are on page four right now. Then it was the end of “Arrow” for 15 or 20 minutes- - and then it was “The 100” and I watched the first long segment of the program before going to bed.
There are rivers of fire of two thousand degree molten lava- - from Kilauah volcano, which apparently began erupting way back last June, and just now it’s reached a major town, and of course anything in its path is insinerated, and there is really no way to divert the lava, and even if there were, there are cultural things about the lava being sacred. In the mews the last couple nights- - they recycle stories. A couple nights back this Antares rocket - - with Soviet engines from 45 years ago- - blue up about eleven seconds off the launch pad. And when it starts to blow up- - they have an additional self distruct button they use. They have been reminding us there has been an increase in sunspot activity - - and more magnetic storms - - which are things that go along with “global warming” - of course of a natural origen.
Of course- - quarantine is nothing for Stephanie because she “self quarantines in her basement all the time. We come to Casey Hitchcock - - who is self quarantined in a house in Maine and state troopers are out guarding her house. Hitchcock said she was going to break her quarantine in Thursday, which is today- and she went out bike riding with her boyfriend, so Stephanie had to play “Bicycle”. Governor Christie got in a shouting match with a heckler yesterday saying he hasn’t well served storm victims in New Jersey. President Obama is rattled because all of these states are now adopting quarantine laws- apparently including California. But of the mini epidemic of “six people” the only person currently still sick is this Doctor Spencer of New York. Apparently the word “Spencer” is Yiddish for “grocer”, just in case you were wondering. You hear a lot of talk today about “not fighting the science” and “giving the people who went to Africa their due respect”. However Chuck Hagal and the Defense Dept does have a 21 day quarantine period for the US military who have been sent to Liberia. You have this governor Le Page in Maine, who is kind of a wing nut but running for reelection. We hear on Mike Papentonio about all of these Republican governors who want to privatize everything and end up serving prisoners maggot laden food from dealing with corrupt companies.
Thom Hartman just now broached this idea with upside potential but about which I have a number of ethical questions. There is a list they keep of who voted and who didn't and the Republicans are trying to shame people into voting by fingering them to their friends. And Thom Hartman wonders whether democrats might be able to make use of a tool like this. I can see right now how this would be a bonanza for ad companies targeting computer ads to just you- - among other possible corporate invasions of your privacy. And who's to say that some employer out there might suddenly begin profiling employees on whom they voted for, assuming THAT information is also available, and there is no reason why it wouldn't be. But to use a Rush Limbaugh argument in a different topic- - they can profile by WHAT was a big issue in any given election and profile now people who didn't vote all the time but voted in THIS election MIGHT probably have voted. I hope I am still registered even though I haven't received any ballot stuff in the mail this election season. If I have to reregister it will be too late for this time- but then I"ll definitely make my move to the democratic party, when I seem to alternate between parties every time I reregister.
Thom Hartman just now broached this idea with upside potential but about which I have a number of ethical questions. There is a list they keep of who voted and who didn't and the Republicans are trying to shame people into voting by fingering them to their friends. And Thom Hartman wonders whether democrats might be able to make use of a tool like this. I can see right now how this would be a bonanza for ad companies targeting computer ads to just you- - among other possible corporate invasions of your privacy. And who's to say that some employer out there might suddenly begin profiling employees on whom they voted for, assuming THAT information is also available, and there is no reason why it wouldn't be. But to use a Rush Limbaugh argument in a different topic- - they can profile by WHAT was a big issue in any given election and profile now people who didn't vote all the time but voted in THIS election MIGHT probably have voted. I hope I am still registered even though I haven't received any ballot stuff in the mail this election season. If I have to reregister it will be too late for this time- but then I"ll definitely make my move to the democratic party, when I seem to alternate between parties every time I reregister.
Tuesday I was listening to Norman Goldman’s rant on how “The Republican party is the party of default” because they are viewed b y the American people as “the party of safety”. This is strange to me. People want a party of strength, of police power, and war, and security and not to put too fine a point on it- - safety. I wasn't sure they'd be able to keep this Ebola hype thing going right up through the election but that has been no problem. Of course the Media frames the debate even on measures people might not have actually READ themselves like Propositions 45 and 46 here in California where the obvious move is to vote Yes on both. But if all the people hear are the ads on TV I fear that the public has become so simple minded that even the most childlike ploy to regression to a previous imature mental state- is all people need to trigger that "default" response that Norman Goldman talked about. Of course the Media will never talk about lobbyists or the actions of the drug companies and their influence on doctors - - or Wall Street and the fact that 'Too Big to Jail" is not just rhetorical hyperbola, but actual fact, and ongoing reality with the FTC. It's a virtual certainty that you can commit whatever High Crime you want in the financial world today with near zero probability of ever being fingered for it. And of course if there ARE any fines levied- - the Guilty party doesn't pay because it's "The corporation" so the innocent share holders are the one footing the bill. As things currently stand- - from what I hear from the media (whether you can trust them is another matter) that most of these Republican governors will be reelected. They may be as corrupt as hell and pure phoney bologna as far as their "economy measures" and such- - - and most of all it's a pure power grab by them- - seemingly not caring about either local city sogreignty or anybody elses' rights or any sense of historic precedent. You know the states - Kansas, Wisconsin, Michigan, Florida, Texas - and perhaps Ohio, though that guy isn't as bad. And then we have the US senate and the question seems to be at this point "How many EXTRA seats will the republicans capture in the Senate? I haven't posted since Monday partially because the news is so bad, it's too depressing to think about, and I've been sick - - and also busy at the same time - never a good combination. It's going to be a crappy world when even more of President Obama's judicial and cabinet appoints go begging for months or even years on end- - and even the "Nuclear option" or whatever law Harry Reid enacted, won't save us any more.
Then I read two painful bits of text. The first was witnesses favorable to officer Wilson’s account of events. Most all of these refer to some rather sketchy account in the Washington Post and often use identical wording and generalities. They all stressed that “Seven or eight Black citizens support officer Wilson’s account of events”. But then the thing said that “unfortunately we don’t have the testimonies of any of these witnesses because they are all afraid to go on the record publicly.” This is a major crock, because all of the news in this Ferguson case has been so staged managed that if any testimony favorable to the police had been admitted- - they would have quoted it word for word. But they don’t have the goods and they know it. Then I checked out the number “sixty” curious as to whether Mom had ever written out a check for paying the phone bill in August of 2008. I remember hearing her say the words that she would do it. But there seems to be no record of it in my files. Instead there is that rather painful string of conversations with Paul and Judy over the week of September first, which was Labor Day in 2008. Strangely there is a third incident here of Mom telling me that even if I got off cigarettes, it’s a fact I’d never say off of them but would go right back, even after over the physical addiction. One such conversation I might think I imagine or misunderstood or something. But three conversations all with the same plot line of their going out of their way to throw cold water on my no smoking efforts, this is really strange. In terms of the Republican convention, reports on this are almost an afterthought for this week.
