summer patriot, winter soldier

reflections on the "death panel," and who will pass, and who will pass ...

friends:

driving home this afternoon some learned soul on national public radio rhapsodizing about efficiency and costs and rationing in medical care.  a medical ethicist, in other words, harvard law and yale medical, or some such.

in short, in favor of the death panels.

bear with me for a second.  it seems as though i digress & wander, but, i do not.

i just finished 25 years of law practice not so long ago, which practice was of course, preceded by three years of law school.  in law school i learned several things, one courtesy of either "peter torts," or john jacobson, professor of "contracts," and that was, "widows never loose and rail roads never win."   it was funny, and not entirely true, but it does hint that the law is not entirely free of intellectual bias.

i also learned that in labor law, during democratic administration workers always got pop machines in the lounge while during republican administrations it was deemed o.k. if management withdrew the pop machines, upon one ground or another.   likewise, i learned that in social security administration rulings on disability & pension issues, during democratic administrations the administrative law judge always went to the applicant on close cases, that while during republican administration your client had best be really sick, and then some, were he or she to get a permanent disability status ruling.

life is like that.

and, so is death.

the "death panels," those review boards which will decide whether people who cannot provide for their own very costly medical procedures & regimens are worthy of receiving such medical services at public expense.  the factors which will determine the receipt or the rejection of public funds will consider the utility of pumping public money into a person in order to prolong life, with regard to the future benefit of the entire society, and whether it is worth it to extend life in consideration of age and other general factors of health.

you may anticipate that "elites" will sit on these boards, persons learned by education, professional experience and activism's of one sort or another, to likely include medical ethicists, doctors, lawyers, sociologists, counselors and others similar.  in attitudes, disposition, and life experience.  (o.k., it is a sentence fragment, this i know.  but, it gets the point across, doesn't it.)

anyone care to take a very wild stab at guessing to whom they will favor dispensing public funds in order to keep alive?   well, yes, quite likely they will see the wisdom in prolonging the life of others such as themselves, who have contributed to society by long lives in academia, the professions, the arts and letters, and other such professionals and avocations that have contributed to the well being of others.

and, most likely, they will not turn a blind eye to such matters as social class and political orientation, because these are not matters removed from community values and community contributions still to be made during a period of prolonged longevity.

in the eyes of democrats during democratic administrations, it probably won't hurt to be an aged old duffer who was a democratic activists, and who will speak the "lingo" of the death panel, and the death panelists.

in short, the death panelists are quite likely to choose in favor of prolonging lives much like theirs, and in seeing to it that attitudes and dispositions much like theirs are preserved.  in the immortal words of former governor albert d. rosellini of washington state, accused of nepotism in the hiring of many relatives and friends, "what, you don't expect me to hire my enemies, do you?"

why should, and why will, the "death panels" operate any differently than any other form of political patronage in the history of mankind?  if you do not think that the "death panels" will operate this way, you are a very kind and gentle person, quite naive, and almost totally blind to the way the world works.

if you are old, & ugly, & garrulous, & quarrelsome, and you haven't done very much for others, or not have done very much at all, and you forthrightly announce your intention not to do so, but just to stay at home and watch the ball games, it won't be too difficult to handicap the likelihood of you getting a "scholarship" for the next ten years, will it?

you figure it out, who gets the additional franchise.

john jay @ 03.16.2011 (my birthday, this day 63 years ago.)(some of these issues are quite fresh, eh?)

do you see any aid from islam flowing into japan? from any source? is this islam?

friends:

as many others, i try to stay up with events as they unfold in japan.  i suppose it is three parts concern, one part "train wreck" fascination at the scope of the disaster.

i have noticed that japan is the grateful recipient of aid from many countries in the world, primarily the western democracies.  the united states and many other democracies, including mexico, have sent crews to search for the living, and the dead.

i have yet to see any evidence of any nature that the muslim countries of the middle east have contributed to this in the slightest.  which, truth be told, i find hardly surprising.  and, truth be told, i expected none.  even though these countries have fantastic wealth in money and currency stores, they are poverty striken otherwise.

what has surprised me, however, is that i see no evidence that any of the muslim countries of the pacific basin have contributed in the slightest to the japanese plight.  perhaps it is lingering animosity from the japanese atrocity of wwii, i don't know.

but, i expected better from such places as indonesia, malaysia and some other areas which have the wealth and resource to come to the aid of other countries.  

is this islam?  it would seem so.

john jay @ 03.16.2011

the killing of a family of five in israel was not a random act of violence ... it was terrorism, and "state instigated" terrorism by the palestinian authority ...

bbc described the deaths of five persons in their home as they slept in israel the act of an "intruder."  i do not particularly care whether the bbc mentioned, or not, that the "intruder" slipped back into a nearby "palestinian" village where israeli security forces lost the trail.

what i want understood, and understood clearly that the savage murder of these five people, including the throat slitting of a 3 month old child as he lay sleeping in his father's arms, was an act of state sponsored terrorism.

it was no random act.  it was not the act of a "deranged" person acting outside the context of the values and intent of his community.  it was a cold blooded murder done by a person encouraged to murder by the actions of his "government," and under its sponsorship.

update & link to "jewish odysseus:"   my dear friends, grievously, this is not the first time this sort of thing has been inflicted upon the people of israel.  in a post entitled, "more great moments for the 'palestinian' national cause," our good friend  jewish odysseus has reminded us of many other times in which families have been brutally slain under like circumstances, and other occasions when children and infants have died with their parents.  those who died, died because they were jewish.  those who killed, killed because they were arab muslims, and they know naught but slaughter and rapine.

as far as i am concerned, they are the most heinous of cowards, craven and bestial to the core.  only the most brutal of reprisals will ever curb their atrocious behavior.  i say that taking no particular joy, as they drag us to the sewer them: but, if that is where we must go to end this, that is where we shall go.   end update. 

go here, to "palestinian media watch," for a chilling article about the "precursor events" to these heinous & depraved murders, this slaughter of innocents.  

the article, "palestinian authority incitement to terror prior to the murders in itamar", by itamar marcus and nan jacques zilberdik, begins by describing the financial incentive offered "palestinian citizens" in return for the murder of israelis:

in the period prior to the murders of ruth and udi fogel and their three children in the israeli town itamar, the palestinian authority continued to encourage terror by glorifying terrorists as heroes and role models and through calls for violence. in addition, in an act that sent a clear message of support for terror, [p.a.] chairman mahmoud abbas awarded $2000 to the family of a terrorist who attacked and tried to kill israeli soldiers - just 2 months ago.

if that doesn't make the situation clear enough, the rest of the article details repeated instances in which abbas has incited violence directed towards innocents in israel, and then has offered financial inducement and reward for such conduct.

the bbc are idiots, and biased and cowardly idiots to boot.  this was not the act of an "intruder."  this was the act of a callous and brutal savage bent on murder, and induced and incited to do so by islamic society and jihadist government.

if you cannot see this, ... , well, i despair.  it is not something you have to figure out by inference, it is something that is put to you by the statements and actual events put into motion by the palestinian authority & islam jihad, and all recorded for posterity by a people who are oblivious to ethical and moral sentiment, and blind to historical judgment.

they shall also bear the wrath of g_d, if there is any justice in the order of things.

john jay @ 03.12.2011

"driving miss daisy" ... i just watched a wonderfully funny & uplifting movie, and i am so sad ...

the movie "driving miss daisy" won multiple academy award nominations in 1989, for the three principle actors, and the movie for best picture.  jessica tandy would win the award for best actress, and the movie for best picture.

it was a lovely portrayal of an unlikely friendship that blossomed between an elderly woman and her chauffeur.  

it was also a poignant reminder of the partnership between black america and the jewish political & intellectual community in the advancement of the civil rights movement at the making of the movie, ... , what it was then, ... , and what it is not, now.

and, it was a very potent lesson in real politic.  as it illustrated the fall from grace that the jewish community has suffered in the progressive circles in this country, as leftism and liberal democrats have turned upon their former friends and benefactors with a savagery that is overtly anti semitic, and hostile to jews and the state of israel.

they aren't making movies like "driving miss daisy" anymore, as jews, their ethos, and the judeo-christian ethos & ethic are no longer held in much esteem by either the liberal/leftist intelligentsia or the people who make movies.

i believe that morgan freeman, nominated in this movie for an oscar, is one of the leaders of radical hollywood, right along with sean penn and some others.  there is no small irony in this, and no small sadness.

the movie was a testament to the times before it was made.  and, it has become a testament to the times which have followed, and a testament to the passage of a better and more faithful age.  it was deeply saddening to ponder such matters for me, and very disturbing to consider what it all means about the deviation into savagery this portends for "liberalism."

in effect, "liberalism" is as dead as a concrete post.  the change in the temper of the times since this movie confirms its death knells, and its passage into a materialistic faithless, & cynical marxism.

john jay @ 03.12.2011

 

from the "as-it-turns-out, we-really-didn't-know-what-the-fuck-we-were-talking-about" department, the obama administration ...

item no. 1.  from the portland (state of oregon) oregonian, tuesday, march 8, 2011 page a3, the nation.  the article by richard a. serrano, maclatchy-tribune news service, dateline washington.

"the obama administration is resuming military trials for terrorist detainees at the u.s. naval base at guantanamo bay, cuba--a clear sign that the white house feels it cannot fulfill a key campaign promise to close the island prison."  so reads the first sentence to the article in the oregonian.

the article also notes that "... in january 2009, following up on one of his top campaign pledges, obama placed a ban on the filing of any new military tribunal charges against guntanamo bay prisoners, a move roundly embraced by his liberal base."

but reality apparently intrudes upon even the more rarefied of leftist/liberal thinking, and obama and his minions have reversed field, and eschewed one of the big talking points of the 2008 presidential election campaigns.  in what must have been a bitter pill to swallow, obama and minions had to admit, "as it turns out, we really didn't know what the fuck we were talking about" when it came to prosecution of these terrorist prisoners.

the reversal of field apparently is by presidential executive order, though neither the order nor its date of execution is noted in the article.  the write does note, "administration sources said that eh executive order will provide guantanamo detainees with more periodic reviews and other provisions to evaluate their cases, determine how resolved they remain in fighting the united states, and helping to safeguard their rights while in military custody."

what this means, of course, is that even these hare brained nitwits have been stung by the stories of prisoners released from gitmo only to go back home, and take up arms against american troops again upon their release.  and, the furor &fiasco that ensued after the trial of khalid sheikh mohammed was removed from the military tribunal system and brought into the federal courts for trial also has badly stung the administration.

the author of the article observes that attorney general holder blamed the resumption of trial at guantanamo upon obstacles put in place by congressional republicans to trial in the federal criminal courts, and then notes as follows (as perhaps a more accurate "source" for the executive order returning the trials to military tribunals at gitmo):

but it was his [att. gen. eric holder] decision in 2009 to move high-ranking al qaida operative khalid sheikh mohammed and four others alleged sept. 11, 2001, plotters from guantanamo bay to new york city that provoked wide-spread outrage among both republicans and democrats.  it damaged momentum for closing the prison and forced the administration to reconsider where prosecutors would try the high-value terror detainees."

in short, the obama administration and obama & holder stepped on their dicks and insulted the american public when they insisted upon returning mohammed and his accomplices to lower manhattan for trial, to the place of their "triumph" in a trial that would allow them to parade their grievances one more time before the american public.

this executive order admits the political blunder.  and, even more fundamentally, this executive order admits the institutional and administrative blunder inherent in trying these terrorist bastards in a civilian criminal court, when they have in fact not violate criminal law so much as having waged aggressive war against the united states, its citizens, and its legitimate global interests.

in short, this is a "we was wrong" message, loud and clear to everybody who attends to it, said fact lost upon the arrogant pups who issued it.  they are oblivious to reality, even as it forced them to back away from the civilian criminal trial policy, even though they feel the sting of being beaten over the head and shoulders by the public for the stupidity of holder's decision to try the matters in federal district court.

the end of no. 1, stupid is as stupid does.

p.s.  well, not quite.  you will not notice in any of this, i suppose, any admission that george bush or dick cheney were correct in the policies they pursued, even as obama, holder and the various minions involved adopt & follow the very same policy advanced by the bush administration.

item no. 2.  from the walla walla (state of washington) union bulletin, monday, march 7, 2011 page a5, the nation/world.  from the associated press, no byline attribution, associated press wire service, dateline washington.

i am simply going to repeat the first paragraphs of this news article as i can do nothing that will illustrate the cupidity & stupidity of the obama administration any more, than as follows:

washington (ap) --  the u.s. government quietly green-lighted a $77 million deal to provide at least 50 refurbished armored troop carriers to moammar gadhafi's army, approving a licesne that signaled growing american business contacts with his regime n the months before libya imploded in civil war.

congress balked, concerned the deal would improve ibyan army mobility and questioning the obama administration's support for the agreement, which would have benefited british defense company bae.  the congressional concerns effectively stalled the deal until the turmoil in libya scuttled the sale.

as all military exports to the regime were suspended last week and president barack obama told gadhafi he should step down, the state department's directorate of defense trade controls informed congress that he troop transport deal had been returned without action --  effectively off the table, according to u.s. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the deal's sensitive details.

.......

the gadhafi regime's desire to upgrade its troop carriers was so intense that a libyan official told u.s. diplomats in tripoli in 2009 that the dictator's sons, khamis and saif, both were demanding swift action.  khamis, a commander whose army brigade attacked the opposition-held town of zawiya with armored units and pickup trucks, expressed a "personal interest" in modernizing the armored transports, according to a december 2009 diplomatic message disclosed by wikileaks, the whistleblower website.

.......

the old m-113 troop transports are typically outfitted with a single machine gun.  u.s. officials said the now-scuttled deal would not have added new cannons or other guns because of strict rules that all defense sales tolibya had to be "non-lethal" defense products.  [oxymoron alert, oxymoron alert, oxymoron alert: jjjay.]  

item no. 3.  perhaps the obama administration might want to consider "changing course" with regard to islam and the middle east, yet again, in light of recent events there.  those events would entail outright civil war in libya, rebellion quashed by gunfire and thugs in iran, and riots and gunfire by repressive regimes in egypt, syria, saudia arabia, tunis and who knows where else.

in “changing course: a new direction for u.s. relations with the muslim world,”  published by the u.s.—muslim engagement project, wash. d.c. & cambridge, ma., february 2009, the voice of the american left announced a strategy for revising american diplomacy to better accommodate the reality of 1.3 billion muslims in the world.   it may be read in pdf format at this link:http://www.usmuslimengagement.org/storage/usme/documents/Changing_Course_Second_Printing.pdf, and it is reported upon with readership comment at the inestimable blog,atlasshrugs2000 , http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com in the articles “blueprint for surrender to islam: the u.s. muslim engagement” and “wake up! wake up!” with comment by pamela geller, and links to very authoritative voices analyzing the paper, at the following links:http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/03/blueprint-for-us-surrender-to-islam-the-us-muslim-engagement.html andhttp://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/03/wake-up-wake-up.html 

in the grandiose vision of true leftist zealots the u.s.--muslim engagement group, a soros organization fronted by madeline albright and a whole host of worthies who should have known the hell better, the american left set forth a way to bring the muslim middle east into america's fold.  we were to do so by "engaging" islam and muslims into our very bosoms, culturally, intellectually, politically and even down to the point of integrating our news dissemination institutions, entertainment industries and sports apparatuses with their counterparts in muslim nations, and islamic societies.

in all of this, israel and our traditional jewish friends were to get decidedly short shrift, presumably based upon the observation that at that time they possessed precious few oil reserves in comparison to those found in the arab middle east.  i have written about obama's vision of "a muslim compatible america," offering a very complete analysis of the lengthy and turgid "changing course" document. 

the long and the short of it turns out to be, with regard to the obama administration, another instance in which they have to be acknowledging, "as it turns out, we really didn't know what the fuck we were talking about," as all the assumptions in the analysis of the diplomatic course to be followed by the u.s. in the middle east were based upon the very fragile and very false assumption that the regimes we were to engage in were stable, and largely progressive.

this has been proved, by the nature of the protest and rebellions being waged right now in the middle east hardly an assumption shared by the very populations of those countries.  "engagement" with such regimes was then, and is now as revealed by the political unrest and instability of that regime, a fool's errand and the height of folly.

the "vision of the world" announced by the pamphlet changing course, and a vision slavishly followed by the obama administration, has turned out to be an illusion, a chimera pursued by an intellectually vapid and self indulgent left, more motivated by the strains of "kumbaya" than by the flinty eyed skepticism of the prudent diplomat.

we are trying to make our way in a rough and tumble world here, and not trying to get along well with others in the play pen at the "romper room" day care.

conclusion.  barack obama does not deserve to be president of this country for a number of reasons, and just being ignorant of the ways of the world is prime amongst the arguments that are posed against him.

as it turns out, his "hope and change" ends up, increasingly, following the form of the policies adopted and followed by the bush administration, even if obama has no intention to adopt the scope and substance of them.  but, he has shown increasingly that he has no vision which he will follow, no conviction that he steadfastly will adhere to, in the face of public opposition.

i have suggested before that the proper metaphor to comprehend obama is not the tried and true "emperor with no clothes" image, but that the clearer vision of obama is that of "an empty suit."  even an emperor with no clothes other than pretension is an emperor, with some substance about him, even if not much.  but, with obama, there is no substance other than formidable ambition, as there is no one inside the suit.   it is simply empty.

so, obama, the leftist demagogue, trucks with dictators and tyrants, and support murderous mullahs propping up a tired and bankrupt theocracy.  he abandons his chief campaign promise to close guantanamo.  and, eventually, he will abandon his grandiose leftist scheme of "engagement" with the repressive regimes of the islamic middle east, because in all likely all that shall be there in the not too distant future is a pan arabic fundamentalist theocracy.

as it turns out, he really didn't know what the fuck he was talking about.  now, did he?

john jay @ 03.12.2011

the wisconson fracus ... perhaps some thought should be given to the realities of collective bargaining ...

salaries and benefits gained by collective bargaining are not entitlements: what the lord giveth, the lord can take away.

rather, they reflect economic reality and the reality of perceived power.

the public employees in wisconsin in gaining the wage and benefit packages they now enjoy did several things: 1.)they convinced those who pay the wages & benefits that they conferred commensurate value for the same, 2.)they convinced those who pay the wages & benefits that no other like group could provide the services that they provide, and 3.)they convinced those those wages and benefits that they could in fact afford to pay wages at that rage in return for the services rendered by their employees.

in short, the union employees took advantage of a number of circumstances favorable to them to wrest the wage & benefits package from the state of wisconsin.  these favorable circumstances worked to their advantage.

what were the circumstances that the public employees exploited in this most fundamental exercise of economic & political power?

well, times were flush.  and, tax revenues were plentiful.

and, democrats ruled the land.

leftists/socialists/democrats & communists have conceived a game plan which they think will allow them to institutionalize and perpetuate their control of government.  it is a simple design, and therefore a good plan.  they have determined that they will buy those votes necessary to keep them in office by paying generous welfare benefits, and that they will perpetuate this loyalty of benefit receivers by making sure that an underclass of "underprivileged" will always exist.  and, they have determined that they will buy the loyalty of governmental workers by paying them outrageous salaries and benefits, and that they will perpetuate this loyalty by allying themselves with this class politically and professionally.

let's look at the factors enumerated above.  as to the public employees, the value delivered to democratic politicians and administrations at the federal, state and municipal levels was eternal loyalty at the voting booths.  now, as far as i am aware, the only branch of the federal government that actually makes anything of any value was/has been n.a.s.a., which probably goes a long way towards explaining why obama wants to shut down the space mission.

but, public employees also make democrats into holders in perpetuity for offices at all levels of urban population densities.  that has been pretty good value.

as to item no. 3, the public employees have always been able to convince democrats simply to tax at levels necessary to meet their salaries and benefits.   no problem there for the democrats, they enjoying taxing things and people, as to them it is the raw sexual expression of political power.

and, as to item no. 2, the public employees convinced governments that, ... , well, ... , republicans would never vote for them as they do, and so it is best to support your democratic friends.  a great democrat governor of washington state, al rossilini, was once asked why he appointed so may political cronies, e.g., political hacks, to post of political prestige, the suggesting being that their talents did not merit such esteem.  rossilini, incredulous, was said to reply, what, you expect me to appoint my enemies?

let us look at those circumstances as they may have altered, and why they no longer work to the advantage of collective bargaining by public employees.

well times are tough, and not any of the western democracies can be said to be experiencing flush economies.  as a matter of fact, economies seem to be contracting, and i will leave it to other times and other places as to why this may be so, but the reality of that contention seems pretty firm.

and, the biggest factor is that with a resurgence of the republican party, the assumption that governments may endlessly tax and tax some more in order to pay ever increasing budgets, the largest part of which is expressed in wages & benefits seems as ever more questionable and dubious assumption.  now, i am not saying that republicans are saints, but they do seem entirely more reticent and less enthusiastic to tax at the same levels as their democratic predecessors.  (i cannot bring myself to type "colleagues" as i might have done in a more halcyon & innocent time, because, quite frankly, i view all democrats as my enemies, right down to the last ditch.)

and, finally, and at long last, the general public no longer holds to the view that public employees provide much of value at all, and an ever increasing number of us see no value whatsoever with regard to this voting block perpetuating the stay in office of such people as the pedophile and pederast barney frank.

in short, the public employees find themselves friendless in this fight, except for their democratic office holder patrons.  and, it is rather ominous to their democratic office holder patrons that they can neither engender nor engender any public support for their efforts to protect their little golden vote layer gooses.  (hey, i know "geese" is proper, but, i like "gooses."  go figure.)

the public employees were not in the least apologetic about exploiting the economic & political times and tenor when they rested their compensation packages.

they took the benefits of the situation as they found it, much the same as any athlete in his prime does in negotiating his labor contracts.

but, times change.

what the public employees seem quite hesitant to accept, to the point of threatening the lives of republican office holders who voted against them, is that even as it is economic and political reality that one exploits the times as one can, so it is that one suffers the economic and political realities as they develop and become.

they figured that because they were public employees, and because they voted for democrats in droves, that they were immune to economic entitlement, and that their wage & benefits packages were likewise immune to diminution.  in short, they wanted to share big time in the good times, but they are surly as hell about the prospect of suffering the bad times with the rest of us.

well, in wisconsin at least, and hopefully in other states confronting the issue of budgetary reality, ... , they were wrong.  and, in wisconsin, they have been spanked.  big time.

and, they have no friends.  for you see, the rest of us are/were the ones paying the taxes that supported their wages & benefits packages for doing little else except voting for democratic politicians.  you know, when you see the "magnificent seven" forever, eli wallach's line to yul brenner regarding the right of bandits to pillage, to the effect of, "if god hadn't meant the sheep to be shorn he would not have given them wool" becomes less funny when you begin to apply it to your own reality.

as for the pig-fat idiot michael moore, ... , and the right of people to have their money, ... , well, he can go fuck himself.  who in the hell else would want to touch that hideous monstrosity?

and, as to janet napolitano, ... , well, who are the domestic terrorists now?  she was all upset over the prospect of the grannies and granpa's who are the back bone of the tea party running riot in the streets, what does she think of her leftist colleagues sending death threats to public officials in the state of wisconsin?   they gonna go into the profiles?

maybe she can kick this around with colleague and presidential friends bill ayers and bernie dohrn, and see what they think about these developments.  bring back the weather underground, perhaps.

john jay @  03.11.2011 

hint: obama and the state department will back the wahibbi's and the muslim brotherhood in saudi arabia ... no doubt about it ...

obama backed the mullahs in iran as they slaughtered protest to liberalize that region.  obama backed a militant theocracy of fundamentalist islam, rather than back voices for reform and normalizing relations with the united states.

obama backed quacked-daffy in libya until it got a bit hot for him to do so.  wanted to give him armored personnel carriers.  you can look it up.

in saudia arabia, he will back the muslim brotherhood and the radical wahibbi's.  anyone want to put a moderate wager on the issue, so a fiver?

john jay @ 03.10.2011

p.s.  obama cozies with tyrants and repressive regimes.  witness the above, witness his fondness for chavez in venezuela.  he does not back the secularizing movements in the middle east.  you getting the picture?

dyspepsia in saudi, dyspepsia in the financial markets here at home ...

this link, http://www.moneynews.com/Headline/us-economy-dow-industrials/2011/03/10/id/389065 ,at newsmax.

upon reports that saudia authorities may have fired on demonstrators, the dow jones indexes has taken a nose dive.

by all means, let us not drill offshore, and let us not drill in anwar in alaska, and let us not develop the bakken fields in montana and north dakato, where some of the world's largest oil reserves lie.  oh, yes, right here in the united states and canada.

in the immortal words of alfred e. neuman, "what, me worry?"

john jay @ 03.10.2011

leftover rice and leftover soup for lunch ...

well, it seemed like a good idea to mix a little rice with a little leftover soup and heat them for a spot of lunch, a little break from painting a wall.

you know.  a little of this.  a little of that.  the sum greater than the parts.

only it didn't come out so well.  the disparate parts didn't mix, didn't blend, didn't work together to make a taste better than the rice and soup.

and, again, i thought of england, and france, and the rest of the european experiment in multi-culturalism.  seemed a good idea.  who knew?

well, lot's of us actually, but, more precisely, who listened?

i suppose i've no one to blame for the broccoli, now, do i?

john jay @ 03.07.2011

it's amazing how much rice left unattended on a hot burner smells just like popcorn popping, the instant before the burn sets in ...

...  and the char starts sticking to the pan.  (rhymes w/ the shit hits the fan, oddly enough.)

just sayin'.

in short, impending disaster sometimes gives little portent of its fruition.  and, may even disguise its arrival, just for a bit.

i don't know, are there metaphors hidden in there?  beats me, i was just heating some leftover rice, and smelled popcorn.  i don't know why i write these things. do you?  i just smelled popcorn and thought of england.  curious, that.

well, back to lunch.

john jay @ 03.