More Messages from the Other Side

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As we approach straight up six in the morning on this final dark day of Daylight Savings Time, let’s discuss Proposition 48.  The opponents of this measure have not been entirely honest with us (big surprise) here.  The way the opponents talk it’s like the Casinos will be built across the street from your local Junior High school and kids will be saving their lunch money to gamble with.  No.  This casino will be built outside of Barstow, which, for anybody who knows how to read a map means you’d have to travel farther to get to this casino than others that are already closer by.  The tribe does not own this land but have all the zoning and permits ready to go - - and if you still want to vote “No on 48” at least know what you’re doing.  You know, I’d be tempted (I said, “tempted”) to pull a William Reinquist on this one as per the Bush v Gore supreme court ruling.  I’d rule in favor of the Tribe on this one if it were a case, but I’d also stipulate that “This case cannot be used as a precedent for any subsequent case”.

This is Saturday morning “El Dia de los Muertos” or the day of the dead.  By the day that is also a Romulan holiday, and some of you wondered- including me- - whether Regelus V celebrates holidays based on earth years or of so why they would do it.  First of all you may remember that Romulans lived in Ireland for several centuries back when the years were just triple digits- - so absorbed a lot of Catholic culture in that period.  But I didn’t know a couple of days ago that Regelus V has less than a two degree axis tilt with reference to its home star- - and as such it really doesn’t lend itself to seasons as we know them here.  Other big holidays are Luprical on February 15^th and St Patrick’s Day, and also the death of the god Bauccus - - god of wine and song - - that’s celebrated on August 5^th.  Some are spreading the rumor that this date was picked because it’s the day Marilyn Monroe died.   At any rate it’s kind of a seasonal thing that has its roots in the Jewish ninth of Av, which was the day the Babylonians breeched the walls of Jerusalem six centuries before Christ.  Sirius A Romulans are less observant.

We have a new planetary civilization to tell you about, the Lockadians.   These people are from a star “nearby” to the Berliners- - which helps little because I don’t know where that star is either.  But the Lockadians have a “looser association” with the Federation than the Berliners from a legal standpoint.  (And I don’t know what that means, either)   But there are some really big groups, especially for you who were in high school during the early eighties.  The groups are Weird Al Yankivick, Julie Brown, Moon Zappa, Elvis Costello, Tommy 2-Tone,  The Waitresses, and songs like “Don’t You Want Me, Baby” and ‘Playing with the Queen of Hearts”. Elvis Costello would be considered the pilot group here, obviously, the first goer.  But don’t go adding groups on your own to these.  Some people have tagged this culture “The conjunction junction” because these songs were popular mostly around the planetary conjunction of early 1982 when way back Jeane Dixon was predicting the end of the world.

The political climate is getting pretty hysterical these days.  Governor La Page of Maine is unhappy that a court judge ruled that Casey Hickock could end her quarentine if she will follow a few compromise stipulations laid down.  She agreed.  The Iowa lady's remarks about castrating hogs is a misplaced analogy.  How about showing Obama in an Uncle Sam outfit and having a captian "Don't Castrate our governmental process by electing this woman.  Keep Uncle Sam's balls intact! Another private rocket blew up over the Mojave desert yesterday - - but the private interests are determined that these two disasters in one week won’ detur private space travel development, nor should it.  Apparently there was a solar flair twenty times the size of planet earth the other day, which should be a cause of major magnetic interference and “bit flipping”, which is about as bad as the vote flipping from blue to red that will be going on in a lot of voting machines on Tuesday.  I have gotten nothing from the Regestrar of Voters, however two different callers from the Republican party have commended me saying “I see you have a good voting record” and wanted me to support Young Kim, which of course I would not commit myself to doing, having heard about her.   Sean Hannity keeps carrying on about how this President “Is not Protecting Americans from the many dangers out there” be it pot smuggeling illegals crossing in from Mexico with calves the size of cantaloupes, or else maybe Al Qaeda crossing the Rio Grande and leaving their prayer clothes as a token that they’ve been here- - or else it’s ISIS, and you know the drill.  “If we don’t fight them over there, we’ll just have to fight them here”.  Well. I have a Rush Limbaugh expression to respond with,  - - “Don’t poke the bear”.   Apparently any Republican governor has the “inherent right” to quarantine anybody he feels he needs to.   I never studied “inherent rights’ in my study of Government in high school.  Apparently “Inherent rights” are just rights you have, or think you have, even though they aren’t spelled out in any constitutional document.  Now the anti proposition 45 people are going completely nuts calling the thing a “power and money grab”, when of course this proposition merely makes insurance companies JUSTIFY rate hikes.

Well, we’ve finally heard from Stewart Sutcliffe and John Lennon on different matters,  John Lennon stated that he actually LIKES our “blue transparent vinyl version” of the White album because “At least a favorite song I actually sing gets included, without all of George Martin’s playing around in the control room” substituting “Mary Jane” for “Revolution 9”.   John says “All four of the Beatles get a fairer shake on this compilation”.  And Stewart chimed in - - not about Jack Bruce (which never came up) but rather on this democratic senatorial candidate from Nebraska.  Stu supports this guy who was given time on the Sean Hannity show last week because he was accused of being a Ukranian Nazi sympathizer or something and went into all this legal mumbo jumbo about how technically “No court has ever said that I was a Nazi” or something.  I was ready to dismiss the guy as one wing nut democrat that SHOULD be voted down, but Stewart vouches for his character and supports his candidacy.  And we were talking about the demento song “Fat Irving”, which Stu says “Is a very un-funny song” and also mentioned that Richi Valenz calls it “The most retarded song I’ve heard in my life”.   It’s kind of one of these things of- - not nose blindness but continence blindness where like Sonny and Will kissing each other romantically the other day - - that Bill had to explain to Olivia about, that they were gay, if certain things no longer “bother you” it can be a bad thing.

 In other news there is this “Hello, Kitty” convention I thought was about a forty year old porn star.  Instead it’s a Japanese comic strip.  The man they’ve been looking for for two months who shot two Pennsylvania state troopers, was finally apprehended yesterday.  And that mean who disappeared from the Broncos game at halftime when the son visited the restroom, he returned.  He had just flipped out and said “I was tired of football so I left’.  He wasn’t kidnapped.  And that big lake by Mission Viejo and Lake Forest- - apparently doesn’t have sovereign rights even though it’s privately owned.  To me this is a clear case of state encroachment if they are going to mandate that the lake be drained because too much water evaporates from it.  It will drive real estate values down, and is the state ready to compensate all these lost property values?  The housing association has proposed a number of other possibilities.  Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple - - has “come out”.  Tim Cook is gay, which means people still are “in the closet in this day and age.   And finally the State Lottery is corrupt because Quickie Mart shop owners take all the winnings for themselves and substitute a losing ticket- - and grab the customers winning ticket.  But I say- just don’t play.

Allright cats and kittens - time for the bonus question.  We said "Don't go adding groups on your own" but there is I believe a "one hit wonder" song we deliberately left off that list.  Think of a famous name for something cats love to chase, and also Weird Al did an inferior "cover version" of this song in Spring 1983