OK, so it wasn't in four straight.  But as the Heir predicted, Chowdah still won.  Even though John Sterling claims that you can't predict baseball, every time Chowdah makes post-season and there are no other formidable teams in post-season, they both make and win the World Series.  The Heir will skip any trips to Boston the next several days to avoid any chance he might run in with the parade.  He's hoping that New York sports will make a real comeback, now that the Giants are 2 and 6, and the Nets lost their season opener.

Ed Snowden got hired at a web site company in Russia.  Heir believes it's only a matter of time until he undercuts that company, possibly by leaking its trade secrets to a competitor, and travelling all the way back to Hong Kong to seek asylum there, to avoid the consequences of his actions.  He's going to push his luck, and in the meantime come up with even more defamations about America.

Heir lamented over the weekend that last week was a bad week to be an American, because of the defamations made by Ed Snowden.  He's hoping we'd get a break this week, but then he heard on audio this morning about Spain making complaints that their citizens also had their phone calls hacked.  Heir counts roughly 30 European countries total.  Three of those thus far have lodged complaints against the U.S. regarding spying by the NSA, so there are 27 countries left.  Last week it was two out of the three countries that did so, so that boils it down to an average of 2 European countries per week.  So you divide 27 by 2, and get 13.5.  Round that up to 14, so it'll be 14 more weeks America has to endure all the Ed Snowden B.S.  There are roughly 4 weeks a month, so that's 3.5 more months of Ed Snowden.  That's an extraordinarily long time for people to think Ed Snowden is right about everything, and his critics are wrong about everything.  No human being who enjoys that much attention in the media can go uncorrupt and not overreach.  Eventually, he will come out as a fraud.  Trust the Heir on this one, people.  It's going to happen.

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In the upcoming Bachelor episode, in November and hopefully not December, the Heir expresses his misgivings about Ed Snowden.  He's sure that Ed Snowden and his Russian house host were doing high fives when they heard that Cell Phone Gate had happened.  The Heir believes that the scandal may have emboldened Ed Snowden to eventually swift boat America at large.  The Heir believes it's going to happen.  Regardless of legal and privacy issues, make no mistake.  The Bachelor absolutely does not believe that Ed Snowden is a hero in any way, shape or form, and has no intention of ever changing that view.

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So now it's going to be Boston and St. Louis.  It appears obvious to the Heir that Boston will win in four straight.  St. Louis doesn't have a chance.  By this time next week or so you'll see the Boston parade.  The reason why the Heir believes this is because when Main Team One fails to make postseason and Chowdah does make postseason, the postseason games are mostly a formality for Chowdah.  World Series will definitely be a formality, a four straight game formality.  It'll be interesting whether the Heir will be proven wrong, and St Louis wins it in seven.  Because there's no way Boston will give up anything to St. Louis.

Okay, sure, we avoided Default this time, but now there's the problem where Al Shabaab is threatening British muslims who speak out against extremism, as per the CIS. Those who still believe the Golden Rule also applies to extremist groups should see this as proof that the Golden Rule is the furthest thing from the extremists' minds.

The Eschatological Perspective On The Worst That Can Happen. On audio: http://home.comcast.net/~aadams134/thehappybachelor.m3u

Transcript of latest adventure available at: http://home.comcast.net/~aadams134/

We think we might be able to get the recording done tonight, and then put online tomorrow.  With any luck.  Thing is, Marco's grandmother has had a cold this past week, and may need help.  For some reason, the Heir and Marco have to go in together, and for some reason it cuts into Bachelor production time.  But like I as the Mentor say, we might luck out.  But not with the default though.  That's still on schedule.

It's been a while, but we're shooting for a new episode this upcoming week.  We'll see if we get to do it.  If we do, pretty auspicious having it happen during Default Week.  Imagine that!  Heir's still amazed at most people on audio (except Bloomberg) whistling past the graveyard, like it's not going to happen.  Oh yeah!?  You people actually think so!!??

Okay, so as a followup to the Heir's insistence that we're still heading for an inevitable default on government debts, he also said that even with this one proposal he was hearing about earlier today, it ain't over till it's over.

The Heir noticed that a new guy on Bloomberg Radio who was supposed to tell you the market totals every fifteen minutes only gives you the percentages changed.  The Heir had to go back to CBS 880 to get the Dow total.  Maybe the new guy on Bloomberg thinks that people should only use iPhones to get the market totals, and it not being skin off his nose if they bump into sensationalistic imagery in doing so, and making them spend more of their retirement on purely discretionary spending when they need to save.  The guy's wasting his time if he thinks that, because what's he doing there since people can also get the percentages on their sensationalistic iPhones.  The Heir's not sure that the woman presenter who was there before him will ever come back, though hopefully she's only on vacation this upcoming week.

Bloomberg Radio at about quarter after ten seems convinced we're heading for default.  Heir was saying that he believed that at least an hour previous to that.  It'll be the first ever default, and the Heir will have survived to see it, his generation.  I the Mentor pointed out to him about an article or section in the U.S. Constitution that is paraphrased or interpreted as saying, the ability of the U.S. to pay back its debts and obligations shall not be questioned.  When he heard that, he said that once default happens, we should impeach all 435 give or take members of Congress, both chambers, and then have them shot via firing squad.  I'm sure he was using hyperbole of course.  He doesn't want to see them get hurt, and also at this time public opinion seems to start to run against capital punishment.  I asked him how he would hope to achieve summary execution of Congress anyway, like maybe it'll be a U.N. firing squad, and Germany and China will help fund it and stuff.  We had the window open ajar in the Swank Lounge talking about it, and we heard the whistling of an airliner go by, possibly a sound you won't hear in 9 days time if we can't or won't pay our air traffic controllers.  And forget about Amtrak as a backup option.  And a lot of other stuff.  So here's what we suggest you google, people.  Google, "the ability of the U.S. to pay back its debts and obligations shall not be questioned," and also google, "government default countdown clock."

2013 was Main Team One's worst season ever.  When the Heir dials on over to sports talk after tonight's loss, he'll hear them say things like, well x was their worst year, y was their worst year.  Nuh-uh.  It's 2013.  It was even worse than 2008, because at least they had an excuse that Fitness Coaching Manager was learning the ropes then.  Can't say that this year!  So even though Quiet Beatle Closing Pitcher retires after this year, the Bachelor looks forward to next March to see who's up and coming, to help Main Team One make up for lost time.  In the time Main Team One has left, they might end up winning the last four games now that in elimination they won't have anything to play for.  Preseason exhibition baseball comes six months early this year.  But at this rate, Chowdah Challenging Team will end up with one more pennant than Main Team One since the start of both franchises.

The Bachelor admires John McCain for his rebuttal to Vladimir Putin's editorial in the New York Times.  We didn't read the rebuttal yet, but the CIS portrays it as an ad hominem attack on Russian politics in general.  One suggestion the Bachelor has for John McCain is when that Russian citizen commented to the CIS that John McCain should spend more time in Russia before criticizing it, John McCain should respond with, well that guy never explicitly said that what I said was necessarily wrong, or what was wrong with it.  In a way, John McCain's weak rebuttal is sign of a hidden strength in that you don't always have to have a polished showing in order to stand up for principle and conviction.

Main Team One was selling Charlie Brown Bobbleheads at one of their games.  If they didn't suck so bad right now, they probably would have sold Excited Shortstop Bobbleheads or something.  Charlie Brown was the born loser for whom nothing ever went right in his game, like dropping easy flies, or getting hit with a line drive on the mound that took his shirt off.  Is Main Team One making an implied admission about their performance this year with Charlie Brown?

We saw what are currently available in terms of retro style Bluetooth headsets, but here's what they need to do, in spirit of the second pillar, classiness.  The headset would be about as small as the plain ones, but it would be able to fit securely in your ear with a rounded flared ear piece similar to ones you see on piezo electric earphones.  It would still be a two inch ma bell receiver style, available in light blue and tan beige.  The crystal radio set pages linked from our site shows pictures of the kind of piezo phones we're talking about.  It's better than a conventional set of ear buds, because it stays in your ear instead of dropping out like ear buds do.  Ear buds rely on that cartilage gap being small enough to accommodate a thin audio wire, but that's only true of true believers of The Responsibility Age, because being such causes their ears to be exactly shaped the right way for the ear buds.  If Microsoft were an automaker, new car seats will force everyone to have the same size butt.