I was at breakfast on Sunday morning at the Sheraton National, in Arlington, Virginia. I was attending a conference elsewhere, but could only find space in Virginia. Also at my hotel were the members of the Iwo Jima Association.
California has had its recent share of stalking cases, child molesting cases and kidnappings of children. Although California has better anti-stalking laws than any other state in the nation, due to its huge population it also seems to have the most pedophiles and obviously because of Hollywood and the entertainment industry, we have our share of stalkers who will do anything to be near the object of their obsessions or garner their 15 minutes of fame.
Last week was "Presidents Day." We used to know it as George Washington's Birthday, but in the Nixon Administration it was changed to Presidents Day, to fold in Abraham Lincoln, save one federal holiday, and maybe to make a small number of Americans think better of Richard Nixon, because he was, after all, President of the United States.
Remember those features in Readers Digest, "Laughter is the Best Medicine"? Do they still have that? Does Readers Digest still exist? In its day it was perfect for leaving on the back of the toilet in the bathroom—it had short articles when you were in a hurry and long ones when you were going to stay a while.
This week the news was filled with a horrific story in Florida and a very scary update in California on the Jaycee Dugard case. In Florida a young woman who used to work for Hooters restaurant was denied an immediate protective order against a man almost 40 years her senior, by a judge who claimed there was not enough information and details in her report to make her order valid immediately.
Long live the queen and king in American politics. With Barack Obama on course to become as ineffectual as his predecessor George Walker Bush and Sarah Palin ascended to the throne as the queen of the Tea Party, the nation is solidly on the path to more destruction.
The origin of Laurel Canyon, where it meets Sunset, was a fertile alluvial fan, “a flat land area adjacent to a stream, composed of unconsolidated sedimentary deposits [alluvium] and subject to periodic inundation by the stream.” Remember your 8th grade geography class? We all know about the “inundation part.”
WASHINGTON D.C.—The President’s annual budget is a farce. Trillions of dollars in red ink and the White House continues with unnecessary spending. The American people are the only ones who face reality of debt and unemployment.
WASHINGTON D.C.—Last week, I wrote about 11 factually false statements in President Obama’s State of the Union address. Normally, one should not repeat the same subject next week, but did you see the appearance of Obama before the Republican meeting in Baltimore? I know that a few hundred of you are political junkies like me, and you saw that live.
One year after the Obama revolution, unemployment is still soaring, the healthcare bill thankfully seems dead and the public is ready to turn back the clock and put back in power the very people they blamed just a year ago for the nation’s downfall.
Whaddya think about when someone mentions Laurel Canyon? The legend that a famous horse was buried under the bowling alley in the basement of 2401 Laurel Canyon?
