- - - Just Venting A Few Frustrations

Today you're getting the whole enchalada

This is Monday June 3, 2013 and I did not type yesterday.  It’s Billy Joe day, and the anniversary of a slightly dubious day in 1982.  Bill told me that that “Plum” Oriental guy that sits at my table- died this morning.  John and Paul both told me that he died, but Larry Cramer said it was only a roomer and he’s just in the hospital.  I sure hope so.  Last night he was fine and he ate his dinner.  Last night we had roast beef - - and this other little piggy had none - - never mind.  We had applesauce for desert.  We had the usual mashed potatoes and gravy and mixed vegetables with that.  I have a few notes scrawled on the back of a laundry list.  Actually it’s a grocery list- - four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves, and a Partrage in a pear tree.   Donnie had medication - - and I had to fix myself another cup of coffee to get the tuna breath out of my mouth.  It was the ABC network news and later “On the Red Carpet”.   I had AFV on for just a bit but switched to Sixty Minutes where reporter Bill Ward and his camera crew the Dominos were in charge - - - wait a minute.  No- - it was the Six Million Dollar man come to life.  Now we have the technology.  They actually perform brain surgery where they take a prosthetic (robotic) arm and hand- - and wire it directly into the brain motor cortex, and you can literally will the arm and hand to function just by your thoughts.  Now there’s a fantasy come to life.  You see I’ve be worried about maybe it had super human strength.  They say you can actually lift weights with this thing.  It seems you’d go to shake someone’s hand and crush their hand.  Or maybe you’d catch yourself making some dumb mistake- - and in reflex slap your forehead but it would be heavy iron and you’d knock yourself out and wake with a splitting headache.    Apparently (from what they were saying) amputations are simpler because they don’t have to do the brain surgery but have merely to hook up with the nerves with the brain impulses going to the phantom limbs with brain signals still intact.  But now they are working on feeding impulses from said hand back to the brain thus restoring the sense of touch.   Some of the videos on AFV are tricky.  For instance the one with the cat doing the jump.  It’s actually a longer jump than we were led to believe because of the camera angle, so the cat fell short.  Then there is that substitute teacher from hell that Lisa Simpson had to contend with. I’ve seen that episode before and it was too depressing to watch.  I know how Lisa feels.  Who would believe the teacher didn’t like her because she had her pegged as a “pretty party girl”.  Then it was Bob’s Burgers- - where I guess that little kid with the rabbit ears is actually a girl named Louise.   It’s the episode with them crawling around a sewer or something.  Then it was “Family Guy”.   It turns out I smoked seven cigarettes since dinner which flabberghasted me.  I guess I must have been bored or restless.

I had more strange dreams last night as I did the night before.  There are so many dreams where I’m with some group traveling around from social gathering to social gathering- - but decide to leave and try and take the bus home or something.  Or else I’ve got some kind of problem - - and my Black councilman agreed he’d take up my problem and discuss it in a press conference.  But he didn’t have the time for that so I wrote him, “At least discuss that one topic YOU wanted to talk about - - do Something”, but he didn’t want to do that either.   I got up at twenty to six and had loose bowels.  I have no idea what causes that.  I see no diet trend at all.    Stephanie Miller was on.   Certain words don’t fly well in Romulan.  The word “Stephan” means “cripple’ in Romulan.  And oddly it’s a word without a verb derivative- - kind of like the word “buggar” is in England.  In both cases it’s a derisive word that isn’t used in polite conversation.    Of course other names of interest like Geraldo Rivera.   The word “rivera” means “to settle” and the word “Riviera” means “settlement”.   And then we have viragosa.   The word “Vira” means “to break forth” literally like the hatching of an egg.  It also means to bloom like a flower, and it’s also used in reference to ariel fireworks bursting.  The word “goso” with an “o” means “Conceit” or “full of himself” or “puffed up”.    We continue.  I was thinking about that Antonius Pious fellow.    Christian writings allude to “Christians in Ceasar’s household”.  Actually - - since this guy had no official biography- - I think they just exhumed the grave of Tony Di Mira and Neil Savedra used him as a sock puppet.  And we all know- - that God is the ultimate sock puppet- - and when you take your hand out of his ass he reverts to just a lifeless piece of cloth.   I wish someone would pull the hospital room plug on the tea party.  Because basically they’re surviving on fumes as it is.  Their fuel tank is empty.   Apparently I’ve having lapses of memory.  I watched Meet the Press yesterday morning but I don’t remember any woman on that show who said “You know- - we women actually LIKE it when we get paid only 78% the salary of a Man for the Same Work”.   And this led to talk of fifties commercial.  I think it was Chesterfield that advertized that it’s the brand endorsed by doctors.  And now I hear doctors used to encourage pregment woman to smoke “to relax them”.  Uh huh.    You know there is some internet site I used to go to that referred to me as “Chesterfield2”.   I don’t remember ever giving myself that Handle but maybe it was when John Lennon was possessing my body.   Stephanie says that medical costs are dropping in the blue states like California but “she feels sorry for people in the Red states, where medical costs are continuing to rise”.  OK.   We are still one of the countries where both infant and maternal mortality is on the rise.  Is it now?   It seems that 49 other countries in the word have better figures than ours.    The controversy has arisen again - - about Mitch Mc Conell’s possibly not running because he has sunk so badly in the polls.  Mc Conell is still upset because someone bugged him with a cell phone recording him as outlining the smear campaign against Ashley Judd saying that he planned to exploit the fact that she has a history of bi polar disorder.  But I heard the woman who is replacing Ashley in the campaign- - is running ahead of Mitch Mc Conell in the polls.

Anyhow that Plum guy was not at breakfast.  Brenda misses him because she liked him for some reason- paying special attention to him.   He would be at least the third guy to have died at that table of four.  John Darling, the Black guy died.  And of course Rose died just before I transferred over to that table.  Of course Manfred left, and the buzz on him is that he’s happier than he’s been in a while because his health is improving.  We had corn flakes and then a fried egg and toast and butter and jelly.  This is page five and I have a lot of typing to do.   It would sure be nice if the tea party would just “go away”.  But it’s going to hang on desperately cursing President Obama with its dying breath.   Racism is what drives the whole reactionary syndrome right now.

Saturday evening we covered the early part of.  It was the ABC game shows and then I switched to a CBS drama when Bill was out of the room.  I got hungry and went out for an eight pack of chocolate iced donuts and smokes at the liquor store just before nine.  I checked FOX at nine but “Fringe” or any other decent show wasn’t on.  I had a bunch of confused dreams.  I think someone was stealing my stuff or moving it around or something.  There was one tall dishwater blond Pete Richard had been interested in- - but when Pete wasn’t around I made a play for her and she liked me- - and we were playfully grabbing at each other and wrestling around and laughing.  The question is why when I dream about either of my brothers they are never married to their current wives.  But there was a scene in the [classified into] house where there was this imaginary person I kept talking to or telling others about called “Fugenpox”.    It’s not bad enough the imaginary people already in my repituire I have to invent more.   Being in this house means I had to be at least seven or so.  It’s not like that time when I was four- - I remember I was in my bed and looking at this strange flashing lightning on the wall- - and there was this spirit being called Dax I was a little afraid of.  And I told my parents about it- - and they only said “Dax?  Dax isn’t any kind of a name”.    OK.  Only on Deep Space Nine.

John Powel just reminded me we had French toast yesterday.  I hadn’t remembered till he volunteered the information, as if reading my mental mind quary.  We had oatmeal and Delores gave me a second whole bowl.  Then it was Meet the Press- - which I don’t remember being consequential.  Breakfast with the Beatles did the Sgt Pepper album in mono.   Most mono tracks I remember from the radio - - - but they dinked around with tracks 7 in 8 in unorthodox ways.   Mono “Fixing a Hole” was always better because the guitar part is louder on the mono- - and in the Stereo version the song sounds “shushy” because the cymbals are too loud.  It was the “Brian Wilson” version of She’s Leaving Home.  And just for the record for the millionth time- - the album actually came out on May 29^th 1967.   Brian Ray - - Mc Cartney’s latest guitarist was on - - and he’s got his own rock group that actually puts out good stuff.  They’ve got a good sound.  Then it was John Dunsemor or the Doors.  He has a book out “Doors Unhinged”.  Thumbs down on the title.    He’s absolutely right about Jim Morrison.  To a much greater degree than with myself- - Jim Morrison was a guy who liked to be “in a group - - but not OF it” but was in an information gathering mode later to incorporate in his own ways.  As to that quote from the Tibetan Book of the Dead- - about “The dead cannot find happiness and peace without us sending them good thoughts” - - I had never had that before, and it doesn’t fit in with Federation “theology” but it does comport well with Mahayana Bhuddism, which I have studied.   Just for the record “Another Girl” is Jim Morrison’s all time favorite Beatle piece.  I have not heard from Jim Morrison in quite some time.

The Chicago Blackhawks are up two games to zip over the Kings.  We just had cold cuts for lunch.  I had Leo Le Port on.  I was talking with James Fisher in the morning and we were both trying to remember the full cast of the movie “Easy Rider”.   Yes and I did write Dr. Levy two letters.  Allan says Marie is riding her motorcycle for the first time in almost eight years since her accident.  I had no idea she hadn’t attempted to ride a bike till now.  She’s always seemed fine to me.   I watched “Face the Nation” on computer, at least the majority of it.  And I also caught a pretty sizable chuck of the Detroit Grand Prix.  That supply of instant “espresso” is going down fast.   I think we’re done here.

Never Learn Not To Reason for Yourself

The United States ranks seventeenth in Science among the world's developed nations, and eighteenth if you can't China, which comes in first in both Science and Math.  But people say, "That doesn't count because the Chinese do everything by rote".  We have sunk to 26th in Math skills and only 16% of today's High School student care to pursue a higher education in any of the STEM courses, which is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.   But of course the Mc Laughlin group is never going to say the President is correct in wanting to spend money on making sure our young people are properly schooled in these courses.  Pat claims that "In Washington DC we spend more money per student than anybody else and our students do horribly on achievement tests".  Pat says "It's all a race thing anyhow.  We have these "feeder nations" such as Mexico bringing down our score and the Whites as a group score significantly higher."  I kept waiting for Pat Buchannon to laps into his native German.  He and others say "We are doing poorly now, but it's only going to get worse".   Perhaps the worst thing about the Tea Party, and you also see it in people like Judy, is their extreme negativity, bordering on the pathological need to see America fail if Obama is President of it.

The Suicide rate on troops in Afghanistan are stunning.  We have lost more troopers from Suicide in the past year in Afghanistan than we have from enemy fire.  And in the course of the war in Afghanistan we have lost 2,862 men and women to Suicide.  This is positively scandelous, and they really ought to have better psychiatric diagnosis in the military to head this sort of thing off before it goes that far.  I think we should withdraw all of our troops in Afghanistan right now.  I see no earthly purpose for remaining there one more day.  Our mission there is over.  Pat Buchannon agrees with me that our country never should have gone to war with Afghanistan or Iraq to begin with.  I also agree with Pat that we don't want to turn America into another London with a million cameras and spending 200 million pounds of tax payers money to do it.  That's an obscene expense, in any denomination.   Pat also thinks we ought to ignore Syria also, and on that issue we part company.  Pat believes "Syria will probably be destroyed as a nation before all of this is over".   My point- - and maybe I state the obvious too much - - is that if we didn't squander our military manpower on two pointless Wars - - then when the time came where we really DID need our military to defend a vital issue- - they would be fresh and primed and ready to go.

If one but opens his eyes - he sees the utter absurdity of "The Christian proposition" at virtually every turn of the page.  What people have to do is to "Unlearn" this habit of NOT asking the obvious questions that naturally occur to you.  It's like if you're George Bernes in the shower with John Denver you're thinking "All sorts of questions are popping into this man's brain right now.  Maybe if I just sit tight and don't say anything - - eventually I can change the topic to something else".    (Selah)  I read up on Antonius Pious.  He was Roman Emperor from 138 AD to 161 or so.  He is unique in that there is no official history or biography of his life.  What we know from him seems to be obtained from “public records”.   He is one Emperor who actually “sheltered’ the Christians, and also in general worked for rights of the accused against torture and other things.  But he’s almost singularly different in that he fought no military campaigns during his tenure in office.  He was content to rest on Hadrian’s laurals.  They say he was enamored of a certain Rabi known as Juda the Prince, which I find - "interesting".  I then reviewed Hadrian a little.  He passed a law forbidding Jews to circumcise their young- - and of course built a Roman shrine over the old Jewish temple.  As you know that Jewish Messiah Bar Kopplah or whatever- - achieved brief Independance in a respite in the fighting and even minted their own Jewish coins.  How interesting then that among the sayings of Christ Justin quotes is the one about 'Show me the coin in which the tax is paid" and it's Ceasar's image.  Justin, contrary to Ghandi taught 'Civil Obediance" (Selah)  

Then we come to Ireneus.  This guy is strange.  He never married, and seems to have no childhood, and nothing is known what education he received.  He taught that Adam kept Eve a virgin while in the Garden.  in the same way that the mother of Christ was kept a virgin by Joseph.  So in Ireneus’ view – sexual intercourse was the Original Sin.  Irenius also says that Christ was around 45 at the time of his death and that Pontious Pilate knew and consulted with each other about Jesus’ crucifixion.   This means that Pilate wasn’t dethroned in 36 as history teaches but sometime after AD 41 or so.   Irenius also taught that the Apostle John “and other apostles” lived into the time of Emperor Trajan, early in the 2^nd century.  It seems most likely that Ireneus never heard of the Biblical books of Hebrews, 2^nd Peter, Jude, 3^rd John, or James.   This makes the heavy weight books Hebrews and James third century documents.  They are as it were “commentary” on an earlier century.  Iranius’ didn’t leave that many books, but “Against Hericies” was his major literary contribution.  But the Dead Sea Scrols reveal that Irene often distorted what various Gnostic sects believed befause his goal was to discredit them and not to “describe’ them.  The Valentinians (?) were the greatest threat, and hat the eight fold list of 'venerable attributes" and four were of Heaven and four were of the Earth, and they also venerated the number "30", which I have pointed out using geometric logic that if you do a "3D" cross- - you can count thirty wood surfaces.  As you know this sect also believes that "6" was a Satanic Greek letter and "not normally used", which is why Aries Mu in our ETI stuff- - is reckoned as the 13th brightest star in Aries, and not the 12th as most Greek schollars say it is.  The "59th St. Gang" is from a star around the Aries constelation, though I'm not sure what 'stars" Aries emcompasses since though the Star was highlighted on what I saw, there were no connecting constelation lines drawn.  Ireneus seems to have died of a heart attack around 202.   Ireneus was the first Church Father to attribute the Gospel of John to the Apostle John, and the first to use the term of “Catholic”.   It seems as if the Hugonauts destroyed his buriel site in the fifteen hundreds.

President Obama and the Democrats in the Senate need to be alltogether more proactive and assertive as to their program for America.  Perhaps there will come a tripping point where Americans come to realize "the federal deficet has almost been cut in half, so maybe we can renew the Eisenhower dream of revitalizing America's infrastructure.  As to Chris Matthews there were a lot of similarities in raised topics between Thursday’s and Friday’s program.  In both he talks about how Am-Trak is like living in the old west on a jingly train where you get jostled that limps along at fifty mph, when - - when I was a kid trains regularly traveled between 80 and 90 miles per hour.   Chris Matthews says our country has become amazingly backward.  “In France they have trains that take you 350 miles per hour and you feel like you’re standing still.  They have the Chunnel, where you can get to England in 23 minutes.  In Germany they have a brand new subway.  And Kennedy Airport is no match for the new Johanasberg Airport.  Why is Europe so far ahead of us in all these things?” despite their economy as of late?   Mitt Romney is trying to get back into the public mainstream and wants to “contribute to the political discourse” or whatever.  Anne Romney was shooting her mouth off about the President the other day.  To me this behavior from both of them is just “nuts”.   Now some say that Scott Walker, Governor of Wisconsin, would make a suitable candidate for President by the Republicans in 2016.  Walker has so many enemies he wouldn’t last one month.  But Chris Matthews  wants to know why this Administration doesn’t have a visionary infra-structure jobs bill complete with shiny , glittery goals that would appeal to many.  This is Saturday June first and I’m not going to depress or bore either you or me by recapitulating the events of twelve years ago yesterday and today.  This afternoon I was preparing today’s earlier blog posting, and another is in sight.  I went down for coffee in the courtyard just after two and got two cups from Laura.  Also we received an English muffin with strawberry jam already on it.  I saw the four birds in the cage.  It got no where near the ninety degrees they had been predicting.  It was pleasant up on the patio around one or so.  Janet mentioned she had cheese cake and I talked with Joe and John and others for a while then went twords her room.  She saw me and invited me in for a slice I took on a plate back to my room.  I had the Chris Matthews show on from about a quarter to three on for the next hour.  I watched the first long segment of Thursday’s show as well as all of Friday’s show except for the next to the last segment.

At 9:30 I listened to that Rodiola-Rosatia thing from Purity on KTLK.   This product called “Vital Balance” has the Rotiola and also Allutro, which is Syberian ginseng, and also something called Shezandra.   There is another bottled product they are throwing in with the same offer called Maca, which is an Inca afrodesiac, praised by Spaniard and Native alike.  Then it was Melinda Lee after ten.  Today there was a lot of talk about dips, and also grilling.  At some point I grew drowsy and lethargic.   Just after Levy’s class at 9:15 I talked to Glen and finally baught that jar of Expresso that he’d talked about earlier, and was only charging a dollar fifty for it.  Then I proceded to brew up the last of the French Vanilla.   I guess we’ll call this file twelfth.  And so I did.  Around this date in 2002 I inventoried my VHF video tape collection, and was unable to locate any tape box after January of 1997.  But it’s possible I just didn’t see them.