I watched the news today, oh boy...

[BO]

Interesting news day today. Here's a summary:

1. The US plans to shoot down a [supposedly] dying satellite before it spins out of orbit and kills millions. The real news: The US wants to test a new anti-ballistic missile. I'm sure the Russians and Chinese are thrilled.

2. Another college shooting. Hardly news-worthy anymore now that they've become so common. Question is: Has it become too risky to send your kid off to college?

3. The housing market is still fucked. And getting fucked-ter. People walking away from their homes in droves. Prices expected to come down another 25%.

4. The fed was all over the teevee today telling people the economy wasn't doing so well and bond insurers might start to default soon. The real news: Depression on the way. Fasten your seat belts, folks. Oh wait, I forgot about the rebate. Yeah right, that'll save us.

5. And my favorite: All misplaced Katrina folk have to move out of their FEMA trailers due to formaldehyde poisoning--all 35,000 of 'em. How ironic. Gee, I wonder what effect this might have on the mobil home/RV industry? And of course, the lawyers are all over it.

Did I miss anything?

[pan]

an Oklahoma politician talking about the "gay agenda"

[pan]

What does one get with a $5,500 hooker?

Ferraro resigns so she can say what she thinks in spite of the "racist attacks" by the Obama campaign.

Meanwhile the dollar is down to .64 Euro. Wheat is up $7.

On the home front: phone interview with hippie college was disappointingly like every other standard interview. Haven't heard back. Think that it is a no-go. Back on the application mill as the Studio income dropped by 50% from January to February. Finished choreographing Waldo's poem "Tacoma". Moving onto my words and the cast members' journals. Performances in May.

[curt]

I hope this Train breaks all records....and I would pay dearly to see it run its course. Mr. Waldo would have to be there to accept the prize, of course.

Local News: fucking oil price jumps again, weather permitting...me and a bud are gonna ride out this saturday....totally senseless usage of very expensive fuel...but it's our personal injected freedom lie....and we need it so bad.

More local news: the SPD loses face over their refusal to deal with Die Linke in Hesse. I'm one of Die Linke btw. The recent elections turn out to be a farce. Nobody wins.....except the left / Die Linke.

Idiot Bastard Sons are preparing to turn our clocks back again.....sunshine well into the evening. Can't have that! Idiots. Why can't they let nature be and quit screwing with our alarm clocks!?

Eldest son had his final exam today : Chemistry, his best subject, Looks like he'll make it. The German word for it is "Abitur". Prep for College. Not that a degree will help any....it's worth a try.

European NEWS is trying to keep the US (S)elections in the news and interesting......people are yawning. A good sign.

More and more strikes occurring here lately. People are almost fed up. Not enough, imho.

9/11 as seen from your common European's vantagepoint : clearly an inside job. Iraq? A crime. Den Haag? Too slow and rigged by the USA and Israel. Well, okay, lots of my personal opine in that. But hey, don't I count as a European? Okay, don't answer.

Storms battered England and Europe. Isn't England part of Europe? No news is sometimes old news.

I forgot the rest. Some newscaster. LOL

nJoy

[waldopaper]

...a humbling and wonderful experience to be called a "poet" by such an august company!
That will have to do... as waves of melancholy roll over... given to quiet weeping for no apparent reason... other than everything. Ashley Alexandra Dupre gets to be a high-dollar hooker... and then there are thousands of girls like Maryam Haley get to be dead. As little Stephanie sings... Que Sera Sera. I wish it could be better.

[BO]

Well then. We might as well start another war.

We can't get loose without that juice.

Take care my friends. I wish I could cheer you all up.

Should we all become blind optimists?

[Mouse]

Yes, let's.

Today my four year old granddaughter told me to sit down and listen carefully because she had a lot to tell me. That I shout at her to much and she knows my secret, that she also knows everything, and is a much better painter than me because I just scribble. She showed me her favourite brush, and how she uses it to paint superior pictures. Then she told me that she is something particular and has known a long time that she is an artist. She gave me another of those fantastic long looks, with a thoughtful smile and dotted my wet face with red.

[BO]

Too cute. Give her a big hug from Uncle BO.

[Mouse]

Many hugs later....

Just heard on the BBC tonight that the police have been firing into the crowds of Tibetan protestors in Tibet, and many more than ten have been killed. It is thought that the situation is pretty bad right now, and a thorough clampdown is in progress with a news blackout.

This is a significant change after 50 years of peaceful and patient waiting the Olympic games are providing the opportunity Tibetans have needed, to give them some leverage. If the rest of the world doesn't take up their case and make it so China will lose face if it fails to grant Tibet meaningful autonomy within the Chinese state, which is all they're asking for, then ...........

The Tibetan people are convinced that China will be reasonable if the world piles enough pressure on. It isn't looking good right now.

http://tibetanuprising.org/2008/03/14/nepal-12-monks-injured-at-tib... The Tibetan People's Uprising Movement

[pan]

Obama's speech was good. I did take exception to his rah-rah Israel sentence but, other than that, he came up with a good speech.

But Wright was right Even the AIDs conspiracy theory, which most commentators are distancing themselves from, isn't an unbelievable speculation. Seeing as the "gay cancer" was highly prevalent amongst "highly-rhythmic individj'lls an' sissy-boys."

[pan]

Took too long finding link to AIDS as man-made virus site so I have to add it as a reply.

None other than white America's favorite negro, the sweater wearing Dr. Huxtable himself, was public in his belief that AIDs was targeted at certain less-desireable population sectors:

Bill Cosby stated his belief that AIDS was man-made on CNN, Thanksgiving 1991, the same year he told the National Enquirer, "A real-life Frankenstein started the disease. I believe AIDS has been man-made. AIDS was started by human beings - maybe even one person - in a Frankenstein sort of way to get certain people they didn't like."

[curt]

...people who love.

[Mouse]

Excuse me interrupting here, this is very urgent and needs to be done right away:

"Stand with Tibet - support the Dalai Lama

http://www.avaaz.org/en/tibet_end_the_violence/22.php/?cl=64353459

Pass it on....