The Boy Who Cried Don't Sound The Alarm

A few interesting things that may or may not be earthshaking.

I Only Hope That Someday People Who Ask Us To Research Things Will Be Banned From Our Country Club
On 6/7/10, 12:54am I posted a comment to a Huffington Post article, "It's Always a Bad Year to Get Out of Afghanistan," as follows:

However you feel about war, or a specific war, can you really ignore the chess game/tactical dilemma aspect? As such, the stakes connected with Afghanistan are not necessarily something that extend no further than Afghanistan's physical boundaries. And I personally apologize for making war sound cold to the point where it involves the people of one country with matters taking place beyond their national borders. And on this subject of seeing entities (national or otherwise) differently than those entities may wish to see themselves: Steven Spielberg is among the most prominent living Jewish people; The "concerns" of Arabic terrorists is not outside the sphere of world opinion of Jewish people; Two days before that empty vehicle was found on that busy New York City street (Times Square) and immediately became the focus of investigation, I posted something on YouTube referencing the origin of the "3rd Rock" ending - an empty vehicle found on a busy New York City street that become the focus of investigation. My description with that posting touched on Arabic terrorism. I am secretly super-important in relation to Spielberg. The YouTube posting is a matter of record, as is what I've said here about what it was in relation to. Now accept that these things happen in a chess game type context, and research it instead of taking refuge in non-creative approaches to cause and effect:

http://jonathands2u.blogspot.com/2010/05/knowing-where-to-look.html

Thank you.

And here's a fun after-thought, which regards something else terrorists may have "left on my doorstep" as an additional phase of the Times Square Bomber episode (just in case you actually do the research with real follow-through).

You may eventually have actually gotten around to a video of mine, "In Orders We Trust" (posted both at YouTube and Archive.Org). It is part of the story - it is referred to in the above-referenced "Come On, French Stewart, You Owe Me!", my YouTube posting of two days before the Times Square Bomber incident. The ending of the "Orders" video focuses on the question of whether or not a specific individual's actions should be looked upon as having been instigated by one of the conflicting parties, or: if that individual was acting alone.

The Pakistani Taliban initially claimed credit for the Times Square incident. They then denied that they deserved responsibility. Wouldn't you have to say they kind of did something "special" with regard to the question of whether or not a person acted alone?

The Pakistani Taliban are most scary if one considers how they are aimed at taking over Pakistan, which has a nuclear weapons arsenal. They once were within distance of this, it appeared, taking over stuff and being thirty miles from the capitol of Pakistan, etc. The territory they are in is not as opposed to them as one might wish. I believe our military involvement in bordering Afghanistan is connected to this. If they move on a nuclear arsenal and enough Pakistani people are resistant to accommodating US efforts to stop them, a base of operation such as Afghanistan could be the difference between whether or not the Taliban gains nuclear weapons. And for those who have completely avoided doing any research of any kind regarding this inconsequential stuff, the Taliban are very close with al Queda. If I'm spelling it wrong, perhaps someday you will find it in your heart to overlook my not being inclined at this moment to research the correct spelling. I'm busy.

Boom! (Goes The Drum)
So my new used car was left with one flaw after all the fixing up - the hubcaps rattled most percussively. Once resolved, as far as I can tell, it would be as perfect as one might expect a used car to be. Rattling hubcaps. You couldn't just tighten them, they needed to be replaced, because the things wouldn't tighten in the old hubcaps, the hole, the diameter had, well, I'm not going into that much detail. But I did not want to go around rattling all over the place. So finally I got around to getting new hubcaps, and then went for a test drive. I had to experience no longer being a rhythm section, now that this experience was available to me.

Apparently word had spread like a stone in a pond sending out ripples, or like soundwaves rippling out from a single.... well anyway, who do I suddenly see driving towards me, but a Ringo Starr look-a-like, in this really old English car from the '50s I think, wearing about forty coats of paint (the car), beige the latest one. Unless it was the real Ringo, I cannot say. Whoever it was, I knew why that person was there: the non-rattling.

And I am pleased to say, he clearly did not seem to feel himself to be in the presence of excessive percussive rhythm (nobody did). And as someone who has been a super-major influence on Ringo at various important times, I would like to state, here and now, that rattling hubcaps was never something I wished to include among my tools for generating influence.

Four! (or Fore, Whatever)
A comment I posted in response to a Huffington Post article written by Elayne Boosler of "Seinfeld" fame won a comment in response from Elayne Boosler of "Seinfeld" fame. I'll blow my own horn here (who else will?) and take this opportunity to again point out (as I have in an earlier blog or two) that I was an influence on the last season of "Seinfeld", and also on the "Seinfeld" reunion on "Curb Your Enthusiasm". So perhaps I should feel that I deserved that response from Elayne Boosler of "Seinfeld" fame.

My comment regarded, first, the "Seinfeld" episode about a golf ball being landed inside a whale's hole, and then, relating this to the idea of Tiger Woods doing the same thing, only as PR for BP.

The very next day Huffington Post had an article conjecturing on Helen Thomas doing PR for BP. People shamed in the eyes of the public doing PR for BP. Perhaps this is where I should take the opportunity to deny rumors that I'm the one who coined the well known comment about Nixon: "Would you buy a used car from this man?"

And Honorable Mention! (To Some)
Without going into detail, I should also mention that I was also a big influence on Sunday's MTV Movie Awards. Also, on some recent Daily Shows, perhaps Colberts as well.