VIDEO ALERTS
I WATCHED A FINE VERSION OF Shakespear’s RICHARD II, HENRY
VII 7 HENRY V, all on several discs together, called THE HOLLOW CROWN. showing the rise & fall of a dynasty, and
the battle for survival . Falstaff is featured in the middle one. Wonderful
guy! Universal Pictures put it out and what’s amazing, one can easily
understand what they are saying. Has
Jeremy Irons and others but you will like them, . .I got mine at the library.
“LIFE OF CRIME”
This
is really an entertaining movie of a
kidnapping gone wrong. Don’t snatch a women (Jennifer Anston) when her husband
(Tim Robbins) is divorcing her. He could save thousands a year if she was
killed. But you’ll love the surprise
ending. This may be the last Elmor Leonard did before he died. I’m still trying
to discover his original ending to “3:10 to Yuma” as the last two movies of
it don’t seem right.
PORGY & BESS
It seems there is some minor conspiracy going around ,
resulting in the fact that I can’t rent or buy the old standard about the Crip
who ran around on a flat board but was in love with a gorgeous woman. I just
wanted to see Sammy Davis, Jr. As “Sportin’ Life’ again, he was such a jerk.
Was there something about the plot that isn’t politically correct?
LET’S TALK ABOUT THE MYSTERIOUS PUERTO RICO
It seems we have a couple of areas around the world we have
claimed and probably will eventually become legitimate states, just like Hawaii
& Alaska. I can understand Alaska as it’s almost contiguous and has (Had)
lots of oil. But Puerto Rico? Let’s look
at a little history here first. Columbus discovered it in 1493 and it was
Spanish until we beat the pants off them in 1898, when we took it from them as
war loot. What the hell are they, anyway? Unincorporated US territory, with no
vote in congress, but are all born US citizens. We have to dump tons of money
into them just to keep them afloat, a near neighbor to Cuba, our arch enemy. One good thing , they have a swell flag that
we should abscond with , as it’s so much better than that monstrosity we have
been using ever since the Revolution.
There is only 3.5 million people in the whole island, most of them
Spanish, with very few blacks. Hey, why not import a bunch of those Immigrants
from Syria? They could all get citizenship in ten or twenty years? It’s a problem as about half of the citizens
want to be a State, but the rest want to keep the welfare coming in. I guess we’ll leave it to the Polititian’s,
they’ll take care of it, like they have for the past hundred years.
QUESTION?
Why were the
Confederates called “Confederates” in the South? I thought a confederate as
your pal?
ANSWER; From a
confederacy, a loose league of persons,
united in a league of sorts. Not
exactly a friend to their cohorts to the North.
Just imagine, we were about the
last country in the World to outlaw slavery.
If we could have waited a few years, Slavery would be illegal in the
South , ergo, no Civil war that killed how many of our youth?
Don’t despair, but I just added “ Dying” to my “Bucket “ list. In fact, that’s the
only item on it.
VIDEO
ALERT
If you want to be disturbed, see “KILL THE MESSENGER”,
based on Prize-winning Journalist Gary Webb’s involvement of the CIA’s secret
funding for the Nicaraguan Contra rebels during the 1980’s. The CIA ran him out
of a job, he died a few years later from multible gunshots to the head.
Suicide! Uh-hu,
END GAME
Americans have a hard time even talking about death, but
other cultures really get into it. For
instance, when Shri Ukteshwar died, (Yogananda’s guru) his body was stripped,
he was kind of sat up, and people hung
around for a bit to bid him goodbye., with his mouth hanging open, at
least someone closed his eyes .
One way to look at this is when a baby is ready to be
born, does it hollar “No, no, I won’t go” , so is birth a form of death? Or
vice versa.
IRAQ/Afganistan
I see we finally found “Weapons of Mass Destruction”; The United States Military !
QUOTES
When two people are under the influence of the most insane, most
transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that
excited, abnormal and exhausting condition until death do them part. George B. Shaw
Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be. Holbrook Jackson (Who's he?)
WANT TO BORROW MY PET?
Have you ever wondered where our disease comes from? The major killers of humanity throughout our
recent history ___ smallpox,
tuberculosis, malaria, plague , measles and cholera ,
infectious diseases that evolved from disease of animals, even though
most of the microbes responsible for our own epidemic illnesses are now almost
confined to humans. Until WW2 more
victims of war died of war-borne microbes than wounds.
Microbes have a well developed system of propagation. From our point of view, genital sores,
diarrhea, and coughing are "symptoms of disease. From a germ's point
of view, they're clever strategies to
broadcast the germ. By raising our body temperature, we try to bake the germs,
before we get baked ourselves. this sometimes works, it can only e temporary,
like flu & colds, to which our resistance is only temporary,, Against some
diseases, though, including measles, mumps, rubella, pertussis and the ow
defeated smallpox, our antibodies have given us life-long immunity. Go back
about 10,000 years, and see that the hunter-gatherers didn't have these
diseases, which only occurred after we domesticated animals. Some infectious
diseases are surprisingly recent; around 1600 BC for smallpox, 400 BC for
mumps, 200 BC for leprosy, 1840 AD for polio 1959 for AIDS.
What happened here? Sedentary farmers became surrounded by their
feces and also diseases transmitting rodents, attracted by the farmer’s stored
food. The forest clearings made by African farmers provided ideal breeding
habitats for maleria-transmitting mosquitos.
When we domesticated
social animals (cows, pigs,, etc.) they were already afflicted by epidemic
virus just waiting to be transferred to us.
Where did it all come
from? Deadly gifts from our animal
friends.
Measles
Cattle
Tuberculosis
cattle
Smallpox
cattle (cowpox)
Pertussis pigs
& ducks
Malaria birds,
chickens & ducks?
AIDs monkeys 1959
Lyme disease
ticks 1962?
Typhus
squirrels ?
Syphilis
Maybe the only one that came from the New World?
An example; Measles virus is closely related to virus causing
rinderpest, but not humans. Measles in turn doesn't affect cattle. It seems the
virus transferred from cattle to humans and then evolved into the measles virus
by changing its properties to adapt to us.
Our intimacy with animals
has been going on for 9,000 years, and farmers have been living close to them
and their feces, urine, sores, and blood. (they like to drink the blood)..
Next time you want to get
a cute little cuddly dog, cat or rabbit, think about what horrible disease it
will bear upon you.
HOW MANY WAYS?
Ever since I was a young
man , except my stint in college, where I didm't eat meat only because I
couldn't afford it except for a foray into hamburger made from horse-meat ( I
got it from a veterinarian). I've kept
track and there seem to be several reasons why we take up the onerous task of
same.
1. DISCIPLINE; In
order to follow D. Guirdjieff, one has to get control of one's self. Ergo, what
is the hardest thing to give up (except sex) for you? It turned out the giving up meat was a big
problem for me, therefore that is what I had to do.
2. .SPIRITUALITY;
My first marriage was at the Self
Realization Sanctuary in Santa Monica but Yogananda specified we must be
vegetarians (this was way before Vegans appeared ).
3. HEALTH - There's always this nagging concept
that eliminating meat is better for your health. Our family doctor,Dr. Beiler,
who I helped birth all my kids at home in Laguna Beach, had even written the
book 'FOOD IS YOUR BEST MEDICINE' , no meat, but aucchini was his wonder food. .
4. PHYSICAL-SCIENTIFIC; Check out your
intestine length. According to Sri Yukteswar (Yoganandas’ guru) the body itself
tell you what you should eat. The length of your intestine, the design of your
teeth, all are related to what we should eat.
LETS’ LOOK AT
THE RELATIVE LENGTH OF DIGESTIVE
CANALS AND TEETH;
CARNIVOROUS - The Digestive canal , ( measured from the stomach
to the anus) is 3 to 5 lengths long, the stomach is spherical. (Sabre tooth
Tigers !)
HARBIVOROUS - 20 TO 28 lengths long. The stomach is more extended
& of compound structure. (Cow)
FRUGIVOROUS - 10 to 12 times length of body. Stomach is
broader in duodenum, serves purpose of a 2nd stomach, Th first 12 inches of the
small intestine to the Jejunum. (Only
bats?)
CONSIDERATION; Are we
considered Frugivorous animal?
WE MAY ALSO LOOK AT
OUR TEETH TO SEE WHERE WE
BELONG IN THE FOOD CHAIN.;
CARNIVEROUS; Incisors lightly developed, the canines are
very long, small & pointed. Molars are also pointed for tearing flesh
.
HARBIVEROUS - Incisors are well developed, Canines are
sometimes developed as weapons (Elephants),
Molars are broad tipped & furnished with enamel on sides only.
FRUGIVOROUS - All teeth
nearly the same height, canines are little projected, conical and blunt (Not
intended for seizing prey). Molars are broad -topped & furnished with
enamel folds to prevent waste caused by their side motion.
Well, if this hasn't convinced you to turn onto a bat, I can't help you anymore.
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