"The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds,and the pessimist knows it." J.Robert Oppenheimer
aloha again,
got my C PAP machine with a softer nose plug attachment.Big Whoop, still can't sleep normally. at least my PCP warned me about this last week.saw a lot of white lab coats last week...still feel like crap.
R.I.P NEDA IRAN MARTYR
i have an odd reaction to CNN's wall to wall Iran saturation coverage over the weekend.NOSTALGIA...i remember when americans had a cause worth dying for. i was a 60s anti war radical in LA .my phone was tapped and the LAPD Red Squad had many of us targeted for whatever their febrile minds could imagine.one example,Donald Freed and Shirley Sutherland (the actor Donald's ex) lived in Venice and were the sweetest people you would ever want to meet. they were peaceniks & anti wars antivists who were framed and bankrupted defending themselves against trumped up GUNRUNNIG CHARGES.i knew them moderately well as i was shepherding the COALITION AGAINST REPRESSION at the time.
someone i didn't know,Geromino Pratt a decorated viertnam vet turned Black Panther, spent over twenty years in solitary over some FBI CONTELPRO Bullsh*t. the FBI and locals had agents everywhere, even our tiny non violent group has disruptive agitators would spouted violent rhetoric when not trying to cripple any positive action.SIGH.
lost my job and was run outta town for my efforts, all for naught? learned recently that Nixon had to scrub plans to NUKE SOUTHEAST ASIA because of numerous anti war protests. OH WOW! we saved american and asian lives by our febble protests.I AM SO PLEASED.
now elections are routinely stolen, neocon conspiracies steal billions in unmarked bills in Iraq and squander billions more doing God only knows what. OBAMA MESSIAH whom NPR this morning labelled 'A PRAGMATIC CENTRIST',like it was something to be proud of, as the Public Option is being slowly bled to death on the polished marble floors of DC (Direct Contributions!) IT IS TO WEEP. Big Phamra has pledged to extort $80 billions less over the next decade from poor seniors,even my colorful vocabulary cannot find an obscentity powerful enough to describe how i feel. we live in a kleptocracy, run by the craven and posturing fools we 'elect'.OMG was it HL Mencken who said 'people get the goverment they deserve'?
in other news,
the weather outside has a promise of being Clear Sunny and 82 degress. that's okay, i have my own dark clouds to blot out the sun.BTW H.A.ND. i have other plans.
namaste
semper grumpus
mega
I've felt that one of the reasons we can't seem to get health care - besides the whole thing of politicians being bought and paid for by the AMA and pharma lobbyists - is that we can't get Americans to react to anything these days. 72 percent supposedly want government health care but there isn't one person in the street protesting. And anyway we don't need one person, we need a few million. But I guess we don't do that anymore.
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