BECAUSE THE WORLD IS A SCARY PLACE
Darlene Love’s final performance on Letterman at Christmas.. and maybe the best. This song, and the Letterman show, has heralded in my Christmas spirit every year since I was a child.. It’s the end of an era.. I will need to find a new source in 2015
As Christmas Eve begins this early morning hour, there are still toils and troubles making news from the world and beyond.. A collection and smattering here now from the planet not nearly at peace like we’d wish..
There may not be a war directed at Christmas.. but there sure are wars ON Christmas..
News from Ohio this year.. A homeowner is making news after reporting to the world that his township is telling him to take down his zombie nativity scene.. The owner of the scene also has a haunted house called 13 ROOMS OF DOOM… And he believes his first amendment rights are being violated..
Woman arrested in attack on Satanic Temple display..
Another fatal shooting near Ferguson.. according to reports, an 18-year-old pointed a hand gun at a police officer.. he was shot. The protesters say that the brutality aspect entered when police failed to call for medical assistance for Antonio Martin after he was shot.. The St. Louis Police Department is handling the internal investigation, but we know that the inital AP report is this for the record: “One of the men pulled a handgun and pointed it at the officer, Schellman said. The officer fired several shots, striking and fatally wounding the man. The second man fled, and the dead man’s handgun has been recovered, according to Schellman” ..
Texas family says they see the Virgin Mary in a tree..
Western journalist given unprecedented access to ISIS for days.. he came back reporting that ISIS plans the largest religious cleansing of the planet in history.. Even more: The reporter says that the West has no concept of how dangerous ISIS is.. With that premise: ISIS sets its sights on ‘cleansing’ Europe next..
MEANWHILE..
SONY releasing INTERVIEW on Christmas after all.. I wrote last night that I felt a little queasy about agreeing with SONY’s position on this whole thing after what occurred.. I am not the only one who thinks a marketing scam may have just taken place..
Canadian cannibal porn star found guilty of murder..
2015 Predictions: Zombie Apocalypse Virus Becomes Possible Via An Artificial Virus Bioweapon..
The fundamental theory behind this new social idea:
Unconditional Basic Income.
The UBI is a monthly monetary income granted every month, unconditionally, by a political community to each of its members from birth. Depending on the nation, in Europe and the U.S. it would probably be $2,500 per adult and $1,500 per child. It must secure a minimum livelihood and enable a participation in society. It is unconditional because it constitutes a human, civil and legal right and shall be provided without proof of need and without obligation to work, search for work, or performing any services in return. Yes, you’re being paid to live, work and participate as you please.
Some may immediately decry this as a socialist experiment on crack.. But there’s something to be said for one point of this: I often wonder about the future, especially about jobs.. as they dry and whither, does this UBI become more possible?
Does time may it almost necessary to feed and clothe a population that has succumbed to the machine and lost out to the monotony that only robots can perform well?
Would this promote a new age of art and literature, perhaps people leaving jobs they hate and filling their newfound safety net with good things. Just very good things?
Or does all of this get wrecked with the lack of monetary value?
I have a suspicious mind about UBI .. but I also have a belief that if we do not address the reorganization taking place within our economy, the vast majority of people who are going to lose their jobs in the next ten due to technology and progress are going to be in a very bad spot.
But the 1% will still be fine..
After all that.. SONY will show THE INTERVIEW in ‘select theaters’ Christmas..
Call me a kooky conspiracy nut, but I offer up the following premise, only based on hunches and a windy tale of a spider web of oddities..
THE INTERVIEW was getting really bad press.. and awful reviews. Most who saw it said it was not funny. It looked disastrous..
The State Department helped write the ending. Along with someone from the RAND Corp, that was reported in the DAILY BEAST..
Sony got hacked—either an inside job or a group called the GOP. I don’t believe North Korea did it.. not that they wouldn’t want to. But SONY figured out a great PR way to make America hate North Korea, force headlines about racist and sordid emails OFF the front pages, and cancel a movie, only to create a demand to release it.
President Obama got in on the action.
And suddenly it seems to be a patriotic duty to go see THE INTERVIEW..
It reads like a spy novel.. or a badly written HOLLYWOOD film.
And really, isn’t all the world a stage?
Maybe we saw some players for who they are?
