Sic Semper Tyrannis

This is the state motto of Virginia. It means "This always to tyrants" and it's the phraise attributed both to Brutus upon the daggering of Julius Caesar and also by John Wilkes Booth upon the assasination of Abraham Lincoln at Ford's theater. The phrase was recommended as the state motto of Virginia by George Mason. Virginia has always been a champion of civil liberties, and the Bill of Rights in our own Constitution was patterned after the Virginia Bill of Rights, which I have downloaded. Of course it was Patrick Henry on March 23rd. 1775 who delivered his "Give me liberty or give me death" speech. (We have New Hampshire to thank for the "Live Free or Die" motto on their liscense plates) One of the lines NOT in that actual speech was "Caesar had his Brutus and King Charles his Cromwell, and George the third- - - - George the Third has best learn from their example. If this be treason make the most of it!" Of course today is Thomas Jefferson's birthday and a date celebrated by the democratic party. Possibly they should make it a national holiday. It seems as if April 16th. is a holiday in Boston or some place, in a possible comemoration of the Battle of Lexington and Concord, which also occurred around this time of year in 1775. As to Patrick Henry's speech I've also downloaded that and would like to quote the last paragraph of it right now:

It is in vain, sir, to extentuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Patrick Henry was against the Constitution and also wrote against James Madison. However one source says that in his final years he was almost appointed by John Adams to a post but declined it due to failing health. Patrick Henry did not survive the century. Thomas Jefferson believed in an educated citizenry and promoted free education. He was one of those "Jack of all trades" kind of guy, and even played the violin. He liked to "fiddle around".

Some may wonder whether Abraham Lincoln was a tyrant. He did suspend the right of habious corpus before George Bush thought of it. If southern generals had gone up North I wonder whether they would burn down towns the way northern generals did? I looked up the Confederate Constitution and the wording in many places is almost identical to ours, except they had the intellectual honisty to include the word "Slaves" rather than "other persons". It is said that Robert E Lee was loyal both to America, which he loved, but also to his beloved state of Virginia, which he loved more. He would not turn the sword upon native soil. Personally I think South Carolina or any other state has the right to fly the Confederate flag over any public building they want. Of course I also believe the same thing about crosses. As far as I'm concerned we could use a little more "States rights" and "Popular sovreignty" as Stephen Douglas talked about. Apparently before the Civil War they used to use the phrase "The United States are- - - ect. ect." and after the war they reverted to the less gramiticly correct "The United States Is- - - ". The thing is government is getting too big and we are trying to micro manage too many issues, that would best be handled by popular will of each state.

I'd like to talk a little about Dennis Prager, now that I peal off my white mask and reveale my true identity. Dennis Prager is one of those people who makes less and less sense every time you hear him. Today he was talking about the Don Imus racial and sexual slurr against the female Rutkers NCAA team you've all been saturated with. It's one thing to say "The remark should be kept in perspective". After all Imus was fired by CBS and yet people like Howard Stern, Bill Handel and Rush Limbaugh are allowed to go their merry way and nobody will touch them. It's one thing to say "The remark doesn't bother me that much" but it's quite another to "go over to the Other Side" like Dennis Prager has done. He's taken to attacking Rev. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and everyone in the media who has been critizing these bigoted sexist words. It would seem that Prager seems to have some latent emotional need to defend Imas and criticize anyone would condemn him. Prager then went on a personal attack of Jesse Jackson calling him all sorts of names. But then Prager got screwyer. He began talking about the Jews and the Haulocost. He says that the difference is when Jesse talks about Black slavery, Prager takes it as a personal affront like he's being criticized personally. I'll say this by way of differentiation. I think anti semitisum is a thing of the past. We outgrew it fifty years ago and the Christian Church seems to finally be outgrowing it after thousands of years. Prager went on to note that the Christian Church is the Jew's best friend. That's like a Jew having Joseph Geobles as his best friend. Christianity is founded at its very core on an anti semetic proposition and Jews for two thousand years have pretty much gotten the message. The thing about slaver verses Vookenvald or other internment camps is that nobody stereotyped the Jew in this country as someone deserving of extermination. However there are people who would like to put the chains of slavery back on the Black man. There are basically four races we in this country are racist against. They are the African-American, the American Indian. the Chicano, and the Arab people. With these four the stereotypes are still in force. And this my friend is why Jesse Jackson makes the differentiation he does. But Dennis went on to talk about inter-racial marriage in his own strange manner. Dennis said that it would be better of you're a KKK style Christian to marry a black KKK member if you can find one, rather than marry a white exestentialist or something. For Prager it isn't race but "Values". The only problem is that different races have different values. So it's bigotry under a different name. Prager is a strange bird anyhow because at times he's for a generic "Brand X Religion" or "Religion for Religion's sake". At other times he seems to have definite ideas of what a proper religion should be even if he redefines them like he likes to redefine Christianity. The thing is say I'm white and I marry a Black woman with Larry Elder values. As such she's a woman who basically hates her own race. She's an Oreo. A KKK with dark skin. Just how are the children going to grow up if it isn't hating their own race because of their mother? Then they'll have to go into psycho therapy or something. Personally I have a bias against saying "Youre stripes and I'm pocadot and never the twain shall meet". Back in Patrick Henry's day people were actually MOVED to another point of view by hearing a speech. But today we have all these labels, labels, labels, which must not be disturbed, and Prager wants to be sure they're segragated.

Yesterday the Bush Adminestration was discovered to be withholding key White House E mails. But as they say "You can't erase things any more. They've gone through too many servers". Technical people can apparently retrieve all sorts of deleted items. It's a bit of a parrellel to the Nixon Adminestration and the eighteen minute gap caused when Rosemary Woods erased the tapes "accidently". People discussed it and it's anybody's guess whether Impeachment will gain traction. "Sic Semper Tyranus" is my motto. It was pointed out that Richard Nixon was not from a ruling oil barron dynesty. Nixon was a poor boy who made good, like Elvis. As such he was still in contact with what it's like to be poor. With Bush the words come to mind, "You sail the seas to win one convirt and when you've won him you make him twice the child of Satan you yourselves are". There is this "devolution" in the children of rich families the farther they get from any contact with the real world. I was reading O Bama's book today and his sentaments seem to echo closely those of Thom Hartman. Things are so biased in favor of business. I read that the Estate tax is now tax free for the first four million, and they are going to raise that to seven million! "oooohweeeh!" That's tall cotton. I don't think we have to worry about these people being thrown into the poor house anytime soon. Apparently the top 36% of the tax refund does to the top richest one percent of the population. (Selah)

April 13th. 1976 was the first time I actually met Zachery face to face. I guess some may ask where he got his blond hair and blue eyes from. On this date Pete Richards and I and Dick Llyle were moving Pete's furnature into the Palm St. house livingroom. This is a few days after the Llyles moved out and just before I moved in. I guess we have to ask ourselves who in the house that day had clossest to blue eyes and blond hair. "Not I, said the little red hen". This of course is just a historic footnote because nothing came of the whole Ziggy's Air Command thing.

"This Is a Lighthouse"

Perhaps it's a comon story circulated in the navy but there was this ship sailing in the night and the first liutennant or whoever said there was another ship headed straight for us. So the Admeral gets on the radio and says to the other ship. "We are on a mission of extreme military importance, change course". The response he got was "Your ship is now in grave danger. Change course". And the Admeral responds, "This is a three star admeral. Change course". And the other guy responds, "this is a 2nd. liutennant. Change course". And the Admeral responds, "This is a battleship, change course". The other guy responds "This is a lighthouse. Change course. We have heard that the era of the battleship, metaphorically or otherwise is over. According to Mark Campbell, "ships" on a sea represent organized religion on terra ferma. They said that in World War II the battleship became obsolete during the War. The Japanese tought us a valuable lesson at Pearl Harbor how much damage aircraft could do. It would seem that in the following months the allies continued to lose ground in the Pacific. Then at the battle of Midway in June of 1942, we outsmarted the Japanese by luring them into a trap. Apparently we wern't sure that "A F" meant Midway but we lured them into some conversation where they confirmed that themselves. Apparently we wiped out their whole air fource in that battle. Dozens of planes were lost and from then on there was a steady but certain tide of victory. But tword the end of the war they brought in their "secreat weapon" the battleship Yamato, which promptly got sunk in its first battle engagements. Apparently guns, no matter how massive they are, are no match for aircraft, so the aircraft carrier became the coming thing. I think there is a metaphysical application here. Marcus and I are always doing "philosophical combat". I think perhaps we declared a truce this morning. Yesterday Marcus left the chess game we were playing afraid that I had some secret plan to wipe him out. I think whether it be a war of words or of weapons, we are always "fighting the last war". Marcus said this morning that all politics is really irrelivant when you think about it. Many of the struggles mankind is going through on planet earth such as global warming, are issues that transcend mere democratic or republican politics. Religion has this fantassy of this ultimate "Battle" that's fought with heavenly horsemen and heavenly swords on a conventional battle ground. And yet it was the Apostle Paul himself who said "We battle not against flesh and blood but spiritual principalities and authorities". Like World War II the key to the battle is "in the air" rather than in the physical battle of human beings here on the ground. We we alluded to a month or so back there are three realms we have to be cognizant of. The first is that "Egyptian pallace" we alluded to on the last file where God "lives" and is secure from all evil. The next realm is what the Apostle Paul alternatly calls "The powers of the air" or "the heavenlies". This is the area where angels and demons to battle and some say the outcome of the battles here determans the fats of us humans on terra ferma, just as the inferioritity of Japan's air fource determined the fate of their losing battle ship battles on the ground. Edwin was talking about three dimensional chess and how they actually have tripple decker chess games just like Star Trek. I'd be curious to play such a game. Obviously certain factors such as players being "bottled up" would be less relivent but other factors would be more relivant. I guess what Political pundants have to ask themselves now is not "Who has raised the most money" but "Who is winning the Battle of the Air" and I refer to that psychic dimension. Even Marcus will admit Mc Cain has his good points. But Mc Cain, no matter what the outcome of the Iraq War, seems to be the loser already in the "War of the psyches". Ordenary battleship to battleship combat became obsolete sometime during the course of World War II. It's the "Battle of the air" or "The battle of the heavenlys" or battle in the psychic dimension that counts. Like three dimensional chess you have to learn to think in an added dimension you've never thought in before. If we may reverse Jesus' words to St. Peter, "Whatever goes on in heaven will dictate what happens on earth".

I just heard this is the coldest April in 113 years. Actually there isn't much going on right now. Some may say this blog is "filler material". I guess it's one of those "canned sermons" that preachers use where is nothing in the Newspaper headlines to draw from. I don't know the future. There may be an exciting story just around the corner and if there is I'll write on that subject. But today is not that day. We're stuck with the same recycled stories as follows:

The father of Anna Nicole’s baby girl has been determined at last. It’s that blonde haired Larry guy and not Howard K. Stern. But these two are going to team together to work to insure that Anna Nicole’s mother doesn’t get custody of the daughter in Texas.

The rape charges of the lacross team at Duke have finally been dismissed. The D A pronounced all three defendants completely innocent and legal action may be taken against him but no legal action is contemplated against the woman bringing charges.

The tours of duty of US troops going to Iraq had been universally extended fron one year to fifteen months for everybody except Marines and the National Guard. This is a sure sign of desperation of the Bush team. They expect the surge to last well over a year. They are predicting cooler weather here but it’s been quite temperate here.

The State legislature is contemplating a law to require the universal spaying and neutering of all dogs and cats who aren’t either police or guard dogs or professional breeders to pay a hundred dollar fee. The fine will be five hundred. I think this law is an absurd intrusion into the rights of private citizens what they can do with their own property. Of course they want those police dogs in primed biting mode.

Police chief Parker was really a died in the wool bigot according to Randy Rhodes. He went so far as to import cops from the most bigoted police departments to insure that those Negroes who moved out here got the “proper treatement”.

I had psychic Sylvia Brown on again on Montell Williams. This week she predicted that US troops in Iraq would be coming home this year rather than in 2008 or 2009. That’s good news. The only question is how. Whoever puts on the show wants to show her as always right and there were indications today’s show was a rerun so they could easily have done a little snip snip if they had wanted to expunge any flaw on her otherwise perfect readings. She seems to be a regular Wednesday fixture. She said that the “veil” between the living and the dead has gotten thinner over the decades.

In soap land the death of E J Wells appears to be a long way off. Patch had every chance to kill him and chose not to. Talk about temptation. If you’re already in a psycho ward what better chance to cop a plea of insanity? I don’t know HOW Sammy can possibly succeed with her set the cabin on fire plan tomorrow but we know THAT the plan will be a success because she’s marrying Lucas. We know that and this could not possibly happen now with E J still around. Passions is getting sillier by the day from that drop the weight on Whitney’s head ploy of Vince to this farce of a trial which has begun that breaks so many legal precedents it would take a hundred pounds of legal papers to chronicle them all Of course Jessica is pregnant and I don’t understand that, with all the John’s she’s had sex with, she’ll really keep Maurie Povitch busy.

Another coyote has ventured into an urban area but this one’s life will be spared. The humane society stepped in to relocate the animal. I think coyote's are kind of cute.

President Bush wants to create the position of “War Tsar” now. This position is some level higher than cabinet that reports directly to the President and it’s yet to be determined just how this proposed official will be chosen. Will it bypass a senate vote? The job will be to oversee both the Iraq war and the war in Afghanistan.

I watched Jim Lerr tonight. They had the genocide in Darfore. Now the violence of that terrorist group has spread westward into Chad where the slaughter and the burning of villages goes on. There is talk of sending in a UN force but they keep putting off making any decision. Sen. Joe Byden wants to send in the military. People think the Bush administration is dragging its feet. There was a segment on the John Mc Cain campaign. Then they talked about the danger of cell phone GPS which they have now and they’re selling to ordinary customers. Some want to make it available for just their delivery employees and they promise that information will be deleted from its records as soon as it’s been specifically used. But others fear they could sell the information to either police or tax authorities or else sell the information to other businesses to use for their own natharious purposes. A jealous stalker could even get hold of it and a divorced wife might be stalked by an estranged husband. Finally they had a segment on the cardon “offset” tax. If you do things like buy a share of a tree forest you get positive credits for saving the CO2 but if you burn too much fossil fuel you get taxed. They say the tax is calibrated to be revenue neutral. It sounds like an interesting idea.

Four Years of Iraq Occupation

Today is April 9th. and the 42nd. anniversary of the Beatles' release of the "Ticket to Ride" single in April 1965, and the first single of the year to use new material. Today is the fourth anniversary of the pulling down of the statue of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Today there are demonstrations in Iraq and the US is calling that a good thing since "Saddam would never have allowed any demonstrations". Of course it's the first time the citizens of the US and Iraq actually agree on something. They both want the US to pull out of Iraq. Today's Shiite demonstration was organized by Al Sadir, or whatever his name is. John Mc Cain of course was made a fool of on Sixty Minutes with his foray into an Iraqi market place to buy some throw rugs. The trip was made with extreme military securety on Mc Cain's part complete with hilocopters overhead. It seems that the Republicans are not satisfied with any of their candidates running for President but to be frank, I think the odds of anyone else getting over at this point and taking over the lead are pretty slim at this point. If this were thirty or forty years ago it would be a different story but things are already at this date becomming rather fixed and inflexable. If there were any conservatives who actually had a brain they would have gotten into the race by now. Of course they are taxing our military further by more frequent tours of duty by the national guard and reservists, decreasing the "down time". These troops don't even have the time to get adequate training in desert warfare. Bush doesn't care. As Randy Rhodes says Bush is probably the kind of guy who as a kid left his GI Joes out in the sand box for other kids to steal. And his mother Barbera would make remarks "Well it worked out well for those toys. At least they're still not back at the department store". Basically we all in America are pretty "used" to the whole status quo in Iraq and the overtaxing of our military. The ammount of sacrifice outsiders are expected to bear is minimal to zero. We are all primed into the mindset of "If there is the slightest little glimmer of hope in Iraq we'll call it a victory". Indeed American's have forgotten what it's even like NOT to have a war going on all the time. They say the casualty figures for US troops are actually up over the past few weeks.

There's kind of a whole "elephant in the room" we didn't even talk about in the last file when we were making predictions about the economy. The whole giant variable I left out was the coming world wide energy resource crisis. It would seem virtually ALL of the oil producers are in declining production - not because they want to be but because their wells are running dry. All the major countries are averaging a drop of ten percent per year. This is one of the reasons why Iran wants to go nuclear in the first place. Mexico will soon turn from being a net exporter of oil to a net importer of oil. Of course there is also talk of wiping out all economic borders between Canada, Mexico, and the US but that topic is for another day. Because of the world wide drop in oil reserves EVERY nation will be scrambling for other energy resources. It seems the reason why the drop is so steep is because we use such advanced technology to suck the oil out of all surrounding ground that once it begins to go it goes quickly. There is no slow twenty or thirty year decline like we had with oil wells in this country many long decades ago. It would appear that nuclear is the only viable option on a mass scale with our current technology. Every other form of energy from ethanol to solar to wind just doesn't seem to work on a mass scale. If it did some bright person would have put it into place before now. As far as nuclear is concerned it is clean with no green house gas emmisions, so it won't contribute to global warming. There is just so much hysteria in this country because of Three Mile Island. Alice Cooper sang "I want to live on Three Mile Island, where things are clean and neat. And we don't have no health freaks - cluttering up our street". It would seem France has solved the spent fuel rods problem by building a plant to actually reuse nuclear waste. But the danger of this plant is that it produces dangerous ammounts of Plutonium that some terrorist could get a hold of. We in America have to actually sit down and ask ourselves the hard questions of what we really want? Do we want continued global warming or some "Jerry Brown" style massice economic depression, or do we want to continue our life styles reasonally uninterrupted from what they were before? I think there will be some alarming downturns in economic indicators as the world "transitions" to an alternate energy resource. In terms of my prediction about the firings of Rove, Gonsolez and even Chaney's resignation- - - I played what I call the astrological probabilities, and lost.

I want to talk about that Smallville episode a bit. Lex Luther was shot and it was feared he would be paralyzed, and his doctors announced this as a foregone conclusion. But his father wouldn’t hear of it and took him to a Metropolis specialist to have the needed expert surgery. While under the knife Lex imagined he was happily married to the wife of his dreams and a young son and a daughter on the way. They were going to pick out a Christmas tree. But the day turns to tradgity when the wife dies while giving birth because she was hemeraging. Embittered Lex when he awakes makes a key decision to insure that what he just witnessed didn’t happen, and who can blame him? The moral is you have to watch out for the hidden serpent in Christian revelations. I would like to add that certain things are more crutial when you LOSE them than other things. If you're Newt Gingrich or Rudolpi Guiliani the loss of a wife is no big thing. But if you've made an emotional investment in a person and particularly of this person is an "inspiration" to you and you center and mold your whole life around them, then their loss can be devistating. What if people at a Billy Grahm rally in 1959 all had a massive revelation that God was going to die of a terminal desease in seven years? How many of them would chose to walk down that path? Seven years is nice, but it isn't your whole life. Sometimes you decide to make a key decision in your life with the information you have - - and you're glad you made it even if others are forever playing the "if only" game with you. I was going to elaborate, but I've decided I won't.

AND NOW - - A RANDY RHODES STYLE NEWS BLURB

Picture the Throne Room of Heaven. The heavenly "Pallace" where the Great White Throne is located from when the Last Judgement is issued on all mankind. Now it is the final victory of Jesus Christ, the Son of God over Satan and Jesus is leading Satan in before God (Seti) to announce Judgement. Of course Jesus is dressed like Moses in this sketch and Satan is the same black actor who played Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar. And all the while going through the pallace and up to the throne some announcer is decreeing the Sins of Satan and the Victories that were accomplished over him by Jesus Christ. Meanwhile God (Seti) whispers to Pope Benedict XVI (Nefritiri) "The old wind bag" and the Pope responds, "He's a man after my own heart. They get to the front of the Pallace and Marcus Arelius (Ramses) dressed in a Roman Uniform says "This man should have been brought in chains. Command that he be put in chains". Jesus (Moses) says, "If that the way you would deal with it, my brother?" Marcus Arelius: "Whjy do you call me Brother now. You've never called me brother before Jesus: "Ramses, why are you in that uniform?" Marcus Arelius: "Because I'm not a hypocrite like you pretending to be the deliveror of a race but in reality doing nothing for your own people, whom you seem to have completely abandoned out of some excuse of human weakness". Jesus: "Take that Uniform off. You are not worthy of it. Romans I know, but I don't know You". Marcus Arelius: "But behold here I am wearing this Uniform". Jesus: "Romans are good people. You can trust Romans. Romans are friends of mine, and my friend Marcus, You are no Roman". Marcus Arelius: "That remark will come back to haunt you some day. The glory you accuse me of lacking will in the end be denied to you". God (alias "Seti") Will you two quick bickering? We have to remember why we are gathered together today. (turns to Satan) We welcome you in friendship to help guard our southern flank". Satan (alias Judas) "I have but one thing to ask of our new Friendship and that is that I offer your son Jesus the gift of this green stone (an emerald for those of you in Rio Linda) to be worn by your son as a token of our friendship, for he is wise and he is kind." Jesus looks at the stone and at its greenness and goes into some kind of a Trance. He's obcessed that the stone is talking to him and starts saying "No, you want me to be reincarnated again as a man, I will not. You say I was not really touched by the slavery of my race before? Behold I am God and servitude is unknown to me, as is sin unknown to me. No female vagina has ever defiled me. I'm used to coming on the scene when I'm thirty and leaving when I turn thirty three. I have never known fallible DNA". Others are now saying "Give him herbs, he's in a hysterical state. Jesus collapses with a dazed look on his face and he's wandering around in his mind in the Sea of Green and sees Ned Flanders passing the other waving out of a yellow submarine "Why, Howdy neighbor!". Jesus starts swimming frantically as if to escape that which is all around him. He sees a light and swims tword it. He pokes his head out through the hole and sees a giant curved surface with four thousand black holes and he becomes afraid and ducks his head back under water and sayd to this Force talking to him from the sea of green and says, "Allright, I'll do it".

For the record it's the Federation's belief that Jesus has never been reincarnated on earth. Some of you are wondering about our last file. That rapture seems to occur on a two or three day old crescent moon not unlike the Agents of Fortune album cover. The event occurs in the year of the metal Tiger. The city of Portland has another significance other than just a city at random. That "house" in Glendora also reenters the story later as a certain married couple with two kids takes out one of these "low interest balloon payment" mortgages offered by the wife of Gianni Versachi, who'se name just happens to be beauty contest sinner in 1996Jean Benet with Ramsey as her maiden name, you know, one of those "trophey wives". The name Hancock is a tribute to a friend and neighbor of mine who died of a heart attack in July of 1997 in the apartment I lived at.

The DeFalco Papers

The following uses the fictional format to put forth a few ideas that would sound insane were I to state them outright. Another title for this production might be "Bob Dylans 120th. Dream"

It all started on Wednesday October 4th. 2007 when Robert J DeFalco put in his blog that there was going to be an extraterriestrial rapture of souls over the earth by the Orion Federation. Robert got a message from the Federation that he wasn't being fair to that Hobbs philosopher guy in yesterday's blog and that Hobbs was a real straight shooter who was able to integrate mathematical principles with human philosophy and wrote on such subjects as "the oregon of all human thought". In his later years he was accused of being an athiest and Hobbs felt so pressured he actually burned some of his own unpublished works. He believed competetion in its most unfettered raw form was something we inhereted from the animals. Only that he believed that superior human beings (whom the Federation lables ubermann, of course) needed to rule mankind because society was the thing that civilized man. His beliefs about earthlings fell right into the Federation's own beliefs about earthlings, that they needed to be guided.

The rapture was supposed to take place at a quarter to seven in the evening central standard time, or about sunset in the nation's mid section on a Saturday night October 9th. 2010. The number 2010 is frought with cosmic significance being the continuation of a 28 year cycle and also the bottom of any economy. The number printed out in binary code is 10-10-10, or rather that is the numberf 42, which was 42 months from the time of writing the blog and therefore he got "early warning". It was also stated that on October 1st. which is a Friday of 2010 that the Elect (some might say "targets") would be "notified" that they would be among the ones to go and to put their affairs in order to lessen their loved one's sense of chaos. This number again on the binary scheme of things is 10-01-10. this is the number 38, which stands for secrets, as does the number 19 which in the ZAC tarrot deck is the Hermet or philosopher, an old man climbing a mountain with a lantern and a sheep at his feet. The numbers 19, 38, and 42 have in comon three ones when written in binary code. In the song "Come Together" there is the line "One, and one and one is three - - got to be good looking 'cause he's so hard to see". In other words this line refers to someone disappearing. The rapture will occurr at twelve midnight in London (where Abbey Road was produced) because any reaming numbers have to be zeroes and zero hour is midnight. However due to sun irregularities the moment will occur when the sun crosses its nadir at about a quarter to one. So that will be a quarter to five in California. No doubt a baseball play-off game will be getting ready to come on national TV.

[parenthetically back in 1994 I did a skit which mocked the Forrest Gump movie that had "the end" come this same weekend, Columbus Day weekend. In this skit Forrest Gump is mocked from the left as being too right wing. In the Bob Dylan song "115th. Dream" there is a reference to it being Columbus Day because Columbus shows up. This is taken as a sign]

That psychic on the Montell Williams was wrong on two counts in my oppinion today. She was wrong about calling that Black guy from the audience and saying that his grandmother was concerned about his cholesterol intake. She didn't have a clue about his grandmother. The other area where she was wrong is in saying the economy would start to really improve this coming fall. My advice to you is if you see ANY improvement AT ALL this fall, take the oppertunity to get out of any stocks you are in and if you have a business intrest you're not sure about Sell It, because never again will the ecnonmy be so healthy. The economy will be looking just a little green around the gills next year during election time. But it's something that nobody will talk about that much because nobody wants to admit the problem. This is government spending and the trade deficet with China and all the over-spending and bad credit on a personal level. These will only get worse. They will be worse in 2009 than 2008 and in the year 2010 the economy will fall apart and the stock market will collapse. You know if you extend a "base line from the bottom of the D J I in 1962 and the bottom in 1982 and you extend a line to 2010 you have got a pretty good idea where the "bottom" will be.

Yes, Mit Romney did better than people expected, but we anticipated it. The whole Iran - Brittain thing didn't ammount to anything. We anticipated that. Next year "Omar Assad" as we are renaming him, made an impressive run for the presidency pulling in lots of money. But Omar Assad was attacked by whites because he was too Black and by Blacks because he wasn't "black enough". There was also a mafia figure who was funding the Hillary campaign but in this movie she is known as "Jamie Clanton" or "J C" for short. This mafia boss's name was Gianni Versace, who contrary to belief didn't die on July 15th. 1997. All of his friends knew that he wasn't dead. He had nine lives. As such he took on the nickname "Morris". (everyone had nicknames in this story) Versace had children all over the world. A lot of his children ended up dead. He had a daughter and grandson who died in a train explosion in Italy. He had a son, Antonio who died in a plane explosion as an enemy had set a bomb in it ready to go off. He had one daughter he called "Golden Girl" (I can't imagine why) who was electrocuted in a jacuzzi, in an incident she was rigging up for a rival but got caught in it herself. And he had two adopted children but one of them was sold into female slave trade ten years ago. He also had a son named Benji or "son of my right hand" who was in good standing. He also fathered a child about sixty years ago or about 1950 named Roberto. For various reasons he allowed him to be adopted out to the De Falco family in California and decided to leave him as a mole or "sleeper" to be trained later. But the training didn't go so well. In the limited exposure Roberto had to mafia life from January 1974 for a couple years, Gianni wasn't pleased when he read the written report. "He's too ethical. I'm not sure he has the mafia gene". Of course the guy he was working for was named Richard Howard. Actually his real name was Howard Richards. But he was a relative of sorts being the adopted son of his older half-sister's daughter. Howard also displeased Gianni with his performance so Gianni had him killed. Shortly after this Roberto (everyone called him Bobby in california) became a Born Again Christian in California on March 24th. 1976. This enraged Gianni and he tried many times to put to death the guy who had led him to the Lord, Pete Richards, Howard's "younger brother". But each time his vengance failed. "He's like some holy man, protected by Amasing Grace" Gianni sighs. He and his brother lived in a house at 1202 Banyon St. several blocks south of where the train tracks ran down the boulivard. Gianni was successful in funding the "Jamie Clanton" campaign. Gianni said he did what John Kennedy did in the West Virginia primary on May 10th. 1060. He took people who were naturally inclined to vote for Humphrey and drowned their will in money. With "Jamie" now the democratic standard and Donald Roselli the republican standard the campaign was set to begin. Donald Roselli was police comissioner of New York city. He was known for being bold and a little biggotted and had a definitely "liberal" policy with the police baton. He was roomered to have Mafia ties but the Democrats were never able to prove anything. In terms of his political platform Gianni Versace dictated that. He was now to be pro stem cell research of a most extreme kind. Gianni wanted to implant Frankish genes in the Italian race to make them smarter. He also wanted liberalized Euthanisia laws or Dr. assisted suicide, perhaps for obvious reasons. (it makes his job easier) And he wanted an avid pro abortionist policy. Gianni laid down the law and Donald Roselli followed it. Donald had the nickname of "Duck", which attracted a lot of mockery. "Duck" was really cocky about his name and if you snickered or mocked it he would punch you out. "Duck" was known for his outbursts of temper he was told by his handelers to keep under raps untill the fall campaign was done.

On January 20th. 2009 "Duck" Roselli took office as President with Fred Thompson as his vice president. You don't need a crystal ball to see what happens. The economy is obviously in trouble and the Federal Reserve people were scared because they knew they didn't have the power to "Fix" it this time. Smoking bans grew. The crackdown on child molesters continued with more GPS bracelets than ever and perimiters around schools and playgrounds. Of course due to the Patriot law more child preditors would be victims of sting opperations by police, and laws were changed to make mere leud conversation with a minor a serious offence. Right now I'm going to take a hiatus because this computer wants to download something.

The man that Donald "Duck" Roselli replaced was republican John Paul Plant. Plant had sort of a mini popularity surge in the last year of his Presidency after sagging badly throughout most of his second term. He had finally "gotten the word" and started arranging peace deals between Isrial and their enemy Syria and his "surge" policy in Iraq actually seemed to be making some progress. Many Americans still despized President John Paul, however. Plant retired to plan his presidential library known tenatively as the Plant Plant. But danger signs were cropping up in Iran as they announced they had the Bomb. Many people, such as radio comentator Randy Rhodes had said mockingly during the campaign that Iran would have an Atom Bomb before Roselli took office in January. Now that threat was a reality.

Natale Valichi of Portland, democratic speaker of the house was doing investigation into the possible likelyhood that Gianni Versace was alive. What she uncovered was stuff that was vague and shaddowy. She investigated this town named Arimid where adopted children Peter and Kristine spent their child hoods. She also looked into an California alliance with a local church pastor who had recently left a church he had pastored for nineteen boring years. This man's real name was Calvin A. Swan but only his inner circle knew that. If you wanted to unnerve him just call him "Cal" in public. Blogger Robert J De Falco referred to him in his posts as "The asshole from El Paso". This was a mean spirited man who appeared to owe his new found status in the shaddow mafia to Gianni Vercace. Gianni wanted to torment his blood related son in California by letting hin know he was really his father. His adopted parents had never let on his true parentage. Pastor Swan arranged for De Falco to "accidently" find out his true parentage in 1991. In May in a cryptic phone call Swan had told De Falco "I'm one person who will never lie to you". De Falco needed someone to talk to so chose to call up Pastor Swan for pastoral counseling. Swan used these and other phonecalls to torment Swan with knowledge he had that De Falco didn't about his early roots. Parenthetically a social worker in May of 1954 had made the pronouncement that the De Falco household was "mentally unhealthful" to Roberto. Several months later he arranged for De Falco to move to another family. Just after the first of september of 1954 Roberto moved from LA to Glendora into a big new house with four other children. Two girls and two boys and he remembers one of the girls was named Gloria. The parents were named Archie and Edith Hancock. Archie was a sarcastic cuss who chomped on a cigar and was an older man with graying hair and attacked Eisenhaur from the right. His wife Edith was a taller and much younger woman who was very athletic. Just before moving to the new house his old rather De Falco took family movies of him and his brother, Allan at Beverly Park. The last scene on the movie roll with him in it was riding the roller coaster. The next scene was around Christmas with 2 1/2 year old Allan with Christmas presents with a big grin on his face now that he'd eliminated his older brother for attention. There is an odd scene taken from the top of the ice plant hill above their house looking down at his mother, over dressed for the occasion, and son Allan apparently "planting something" in the yard. One thinks of the lyrics "one and one and one is three" But on March 24th. 1955 Gianni Versace arranged for his son to have a DNA test that he had an exclusive monopolo of the technology of and would have for decades. It showed that Gianni was Roberto's father and so Gianni arranged on April 3rd. 1955 to move back to the De Falco household. According to the Federation, April 4th. a monday was the first time Roberto went to the beach, in the morning, and the beach at that time was relatively empty. For more, buy a movie ticket.

Laviathin of the Right

I don't think it's any secret that this President Bush has strayed far from what we used to refer to Conservativum, of the Barry Goldwater variety. Both he and Ronald Reagan initially at least used to talk about "The government that governs least governs best". We have strayed far from this. In the words of Steppinwolf describing government, "Now it's a monster and will not obey". Yet the sort of mutant conservatisum the Bush Adminestration practices actually predates the American Revolution itself. Indeed the philosophy behind it was propounded prior to what we call "Classical music" or "Classical art". There is nothing "Classical" about Bush conservatisum any more than the Andrew Sisters is "Classic Rock". It all goes back to a guy named Hobbs who saw fit to come up with a doctrine defending "The divine right of Kings" which, even in the sixteen hundreds was starting to feel threatened as Brittain got their first "Civil liberties" laws. This is how far back you have to go. This Hobbs doctrine as I understand it was that "Most" men are created equal, but they are created totally base and depraved as John Calvin says. In fact John Calvin was one guy who put Hobbs into social practice a century before the fact in Geniva, Switzzerland. There is the belief that man is born depraved and base and animalistic, as Chuck Smith preaches, and that it's the role of divinely sanctioned or "elected" government to save mankind from itself with sterm rule. I guess is kind of that line a father tells his son or daughter "Some day you'll thank me for this, son". The Rulers have a divine right because they are "elected" or "pre-elected" by none other than God. They are "Called" to "Rule and reign with a rod of iron". In this form of philosophy the way to prove whether you're "elect" or not is are you among the rich and priveledged class? If you are born into wealth and status this is proof of God's favor or "pre-election". It was Gene Scott who says "I know what the Bible says about God not being a respecter of persons but this is nonesence. OF COURSE God is a respecter of persons! Keep in mind according to Thom Hartman the traditional view and structure of society as a whole is a small Royal Ruling class, and an almost as small merchant class such as the pawn shop owner, the baker, and the candlestick maker. Then there is the vast unwashed working class. The only "negotiation" here is who can get what worker for the cheapest price, which isn't much. The idea of the worker having rights at all is anathama to these "Pre-classic" conservatives. In Calvary Chapel Anaheim you see this same philosophy working itself out with the fortunate and the privelege exalting in how blessed by God and hence "pre-elect" they are, giving thanks to God in prayer each night they aren't among the unsaved, unwashed masses, or that they aren't like Me. Of course today I was hearing a guy talking about bee colonies. There seems to be some indication that being a Queen bee isn't just genetic, but nurture, because from a young age she is given "royal jelly" and other pharimones to make her into a queen, much as the "elect" Christian ruler from a young age is given special treatment to "turn him into" the sort of Christian snob he is now.

Of course today we don't have kings and royalty. So the Bush adminestration has made some substitutions. The multinational corporation now fills in for the "landed gentry" of old. These corporations are considered pre elect by God to run the world. As Thom Hartman goes on to say this supreme court decision of today is definitely regbarded as a hostile ruling by the Supreme Court. Keep in mind today's environmental ruling was a five -four decision. One more conservative on the bench and the ruling would have gone the other way. So join me in a chorus of "Hang on, Stevens, Stevens hang on!" If we elect congress and congress sets up the environmental protection agency and they want to rule about CO2 in the air, they should have the right, because We the People GAVE them the right. It's funny that the current EPA is hostile to the environment and thoughts about Global Warming. The other philosopher I'd like to mention is John Locke, who I guess lived in the early 1700's. He believed also that all men are created equal but are entitled to Democracy as well as "Life, liberty, and property". When you think about it saying the majority of the population was entitled to "Property" is kind of a revolutionary thought. Personally I liked it when Jefferson changed the line to "The persuit of Happiness". Locke is called a "classic liberal". Actually I'd call him a "Classic" conservative, keeping in mind the definition I have for "Classic" as opposed to "pre historic". In the Animal kingdom you have a case much as Hobbs talks about where the strongest animals set up a ruling dynesty and exert their rule on the rest. But I would hope we are better than animals.

I have some conservative tendencies. Among these are my feelings about Social Securety and Medicare. I think medicare was a mistake from the git-go. It never should have happened. I remember in May of 1966 right after Medicare was passed my dad got sick with an ulcer and had to be hospitalized. I remember how prices for hospital rooms had gone through the roof in the past two years because of medicare. I thought then "If prices do this in such a short time with medicare it has to be some horrible mistake". Back in the old days, like in the 'fifties the average american family could easily afford a doctor, and pay the bill and not give it a second thought. This is back in the era before anti-biotics became verbotten. I think it would be nice to go back to an era like this, where everyone pays their own way. But then again Doctors would have to compete for a limited amount of money so prices would drop drastically. As a conservative I'm against this boondoggle drug bill Bush signed four years ago that is a sweatheart deal for the drug companies. Sixty Minutes had a real eye opener of a segment on the amount of vote manipulation and arm twisting that went on that night. They were only supposed to keep the vote open for fifteen minutes but the vote wasn't "officially" closed for hours till enough arms could be twisted. All of the people involved in the promotion and passage of the drug bill are now working for Drug Companies. I imagine this doesn't bother George Bush one bit since he's the one behind it all. Indeed the democrats want to repeal this drug bill but Bush says if they try to repeal it he will Veto that bill. President Bush has done everything but put a neon sign around his neck saying that he's a tool of the Big Corporations. The other area where I'd like to turn back the clock is social securety. You bet I think it should be Privitized, and the sooner and more radically the better. Why are the liberal democrats so opposed to people doing what they want to with their own life savings? Why should the government be trusted to save and invest it? There is more than proof that you can't trust people like Ronald Reagan and George Bush with the social securety trust fund. If the people invested their Own Money themselves it would go a long way tword defusing this ticking time bomb we're all aware of. Everyone is saying that government is going to be bankrupt in countless ways by 2040 or so. Why not prevent it now? Just as we would defuse an ecological disaster, why not defuse an economic disaster we see coming and shrink the size of government at the same time?

Of course we see daily the ravages of global warming. I don't know what's with the vanishing bee colony population but I bet it has something to do with global warming somehow. Of course there is a whole island nation in the Pacific that is slowly sinking and will be GONE in fifty years according to leaders living there. Many islands are only half the size they were ten years ago, due to the rising oceans. Of course there is that Glature that turned into a lake in Chile or some place. Many whole civilizations get their water supply from mountain shows. Of course in this country you have the record drought in California and in Texas, and probably every place inbetween, bringing about water rationing. And of course Antarctica is melting before our eyes. But of course any Bush government agency doesn't think it has the power to curb the output of CO2 in the air. Even if we stop all emitions now it will take fifty years for the global warming trend to abait. Hopefully we will elect more democrats to congress the next time so whoever the President is- even if it's Guiliani- - won't be able to Veto progress.

In terms of this whole Iran - Brittain standoff- - my guess is that it will resolve itself with no real problem. I don't see any military invasion of Iran on our part despite the growing rumblings in the media that the invasion is going to take place in the next few days. President Bush is against Nancy Palosi's trip to talk to Syria even if Isrial wants to negotiate with Syria. I am still predicting that President Bush will have some last minute sanity and start to negotiate with our enemies rather than bomb them. In the long run this will help his republican successor the best. Some say that we will be invading Iran around April 17th. or the same time Alberto Gonsolez is testifying before congress. My prediction is still that Gonsolez won't testify before congress because he'll be gone by then, perhaps under terms that he NOT testify before congress. People want revelations to come but our President is the master of the Cover-up.

OK you can stop reasing if you're not into religious analisys. Some ways in which the Calvary Chapels separate themselves from main stream Christianity is the way they interperet the Bible. For instance classicly the "river Jordan" is seen as symbolic of death. This is true because after death there is a "casting off of the flesh" and the Isrialites had never "cast off their flesh" (circumcision) in their lifetimes. Also the daily "manna" or "Word of God" (Daily bread) ceased to come after crossing Jordan. Of course Jordan means "spreading judgement" and traditionally this is when you're expected to be judged. But if the Calvaries are right, after you cross the Jordan it doesn't mean death but morfing into some sort of Super Saint. Where you learn to "flow in the spirit" and cash in on all that Divine Election Capital. If the Calvaries are right there is some final "casting off of the flesh" you have to do to achieve thie new heightened spiritual plane that Chuck Smith claims he lives on. Most alarmingly without the manna, it would seem that these people "outgrow" the Word of God itself. Jesus Christ made an interesting remark concerning Bible commentaries I'd like to close with. He said "Thank Goodness there is the Bible to shed Light on all of the Religious Commentaries". ("huh?")

Mercy is for People who Deserve It

Most of this posting will be taken up with a Blast to the Past of two years ago. However there are a few items in the news today, though not many. Congradulations to Florida for beating UCLA despite all the local media hype about a "Revenge Match". Alberto Gonsolez will not be testifying before the US congress till April 17th. and that may not even happen if he's resigned by them. They say yesterday was like the "first primary" because that's the date they use to tally all of the money raising done in the first quarter and Hillary Clinton is expected to have pulled in over fifty million as opposed to the nine million Gore had pulled in by 1999. Money is king. They say now that John Mc Cain tried to become a Democrat in 2001 and if this comes out now it may hurt his campaign for president irrevicably. And there is a bill introduced by a congressman for the US to pull out of NAFTA. This is one area where I amd "World Net Daily" actually agree on something, and for the same reasons. Leo Le Port was saying something, if I heard correctly, about an experimental program by Microsoft to turn any photograph into a 3 D experiance. I know they are doing amazing things with software all the time. This would be something. We now take you back to just over two years ago.

The death watch is now in force. Behold sixty-three NCAA teams will die and one will survive to carry the championship another year. The Pope is in failing health. Our prayers are with him. Let’s hope the Spirit is alive in those who will choose the next pope. Terry Shibo is now in her seventh day without either food or water. Death awaits her soon. May the guilt of all those who contributed to her death remain on them. Con-demnation is for the guilty; mercy is for the innocent. Behold on this night Our Lord celebrated the Last Supper. He who would betray the innocent gives the seeds of evil new life in those who would not otherwise fancy themselves as sinners.

This is Good Friday, March 25, 2005. Perhaps some of you question my saying, “Mercy is for the innocent”. You may say, “The innocent don’t need mercy”. I disagree. Jesus on KFI talked about the royal “slap in the face” offence God holds people to, which damns them for eternity. [This is in reference to "Accepting Jesus's salvation] May I suggest here is a case where a little mercy is called for? If this is a sin, people committed it Innocently. They didn’t know about some rule that was just laid down by a KFI jock from six to nine AM Sunday mornings. You’ve heard of an “innocent kiss”. Usually it’s some damsel who’s lived a sheltered life gets swept off her feet by some Prince from a distant foreign land. What of the case of a young teenage girl perhaps from a dysfunctional family who is told she can have an “acting carreer” and is led by a seductive manipulator into a life of pornography, or who may even have been forced into it like Nicole Walker was. As you know as far as Jesus of KFI is concerned that the Jew who bares resentment tword his Nazi captors in WW II is more guilty than the Nazi who committed the atrocities. As far as Jesus is concerned the sin doesn’t exist. And you likewise should “make that positive confession” that the sin never existed and “release it”. If these Judges in the Terry Shibo case should “find God” and show up at a Jesus rally they may most likely be promoted to the head of the rally giving speeches about their former sin. And if they become Pharisees and nit pick in the tradition of their Master over premarital sex and “rebellion” against the local pastor, well that’s something we just have to live with. Here’s a case for you: As you know I have often said that were I in Palestine in 30 AD I would have protested the trial and crucifixion of Jesus Christ in any way possible. But suppose Jesus died anyway and I never saw him again? Would I now go to Hell for being an Unbeliever? As devoted I was to justice and truth I couldn’t swallow the whole rising from the dead bit. Would not my sin truly be a sin of “innocence”? Wouldn’t it be a sin of conscience?

One thing we didn’t mention in the Terry Shivo “consent” bit is that there were two different occasions where people reported that Michael Shivo was beside himself wondering aloud what Terry would have wanted in terms of her being kept alive. And in a third case Terry reacted in a hostile manner when someone made a Karen Ann Quinlin joke saying it just wasn’t funny. Again I say that every judge involved in the events of the past week ought to be impeached. But I would not put a curse on their descendants for the next two thousand years. That is a case where my justice and Jesus’ justice differs. As of now Terry Shibo is in the “death process”. She’s beginning to look like one of those Jewish victims from a Nazi death camp. I have never heard of a person who could even be alive without water for a week. Jesus said “I am thirsty” from the cross after only three hours. And the O T says he was given gall. Terry Shibo, unlike Jesus, is not undergoing all this pain voluntarily; it is being forced upon her. (Selah)

This morning I was praying to God for a whole host of things, for myself and for others. But again that other voice (courtesy KFI) was whispering to me that I was wasting my time. Would you reward a child molester who turned your son gay for a lifetime with going to heaven and giving you advice on how to conduct your own affairs? Obviously the notion is ludicrous. And yet if it’s Satan this is just what happened. After he played upon the Innocence of Adam and Eve damning them and all their descendants to an eternity in Hell (if we believe Jesus on KFI) or at the very least eternal death, we find Lucifer in Heaven giving God advice. (See previous reference in last file) “All of creation was subjected to futility not of its own will but of Him who subjected it”. That’s in Romans. Remember in the 1980s we decided as a society that the AIDS virus was a virus that had “civil rights” that were not to be interfered with. (Selah)

Some may say that were I to relate the scenario of a couple of a few paragraphs back that I would evoke the response of Jesus “Why are you trying to vex me with hard questions?” And I might that that further retort of, “God isn’t going to fall off of his throne merely because you ask a question”. Nobody is suggesting this, but the fact that an evangelist or whoever would have this response indicates that the evangelist’s own faith is in question. You know just today there is yet more evidence that the T-Rex and other dinosaurs are related to birds. Birdlike DNA has just been found in some fossil. Some may say “Well your seeing that on TV is just another way in which you have left the door open for Satan to tempt you”. For the longest time I held fast to the belief that all this dinosaur stuff and evolution could not have happened. But little by little, reality has crept in on this belief of mine. John Calvin has the doctrine of Irrestable Grace”. May I propose a doctrine of “Irrestible Damnation”? Those who were meant (predestined) to be damned, will be damned. In other words, God will allow Satan to be “on his case” for as long as it takes to accomplish the goal. Think about it.

One thing we already said about the Terry Shivo case is that a part of her brain is said to have liquefied, or at least had so much fluid around it so it couldn’t function. It is said without this portion of the brain operative she is unable to feel pain. There seems to be contradictions over whether she had a cat scan or a pet scan. Conservative groups say she has had neither. I guess we referred to her medical condition in “technology”.

George Bush has fallen in the polls badly in recent weeks. He’s 45% in one poll and 43% in another. He couldn’t have gotten elected with those numbers. It seems that on the issues of both Social Security and the events of six days ago with Congress, he is on the losing side of public approval. Those who say Republicans are playing events for political advantage don’t know what they are talking about.

They had Meet the Press on. Adali Stevenson says there is absolutely no place for religious considerations in politics what with the threats of starvation and nuclear anil-ation and all. They introduced all the people who were going to be on the show. They were famous authors and such and I thought the show might take two or three hours to cover all of the topics raised by them. In a sense it was kind of a nose-holding festival because so many speakers talked about the right to gay marriage and abortion and “Keep-ing the government our of personal life decisions”. Lieberman talked sensibly about the Terry Shobo case. Lieberman also said that the Right to life, liberty, and the rest was a right extended to everybody. It wasn’t just a Christian phenomenon. That’s an important point to remember. I wouldn’t want to be a “minority” in Geneva, Switzerland when John Calvin was ruling the roost, burning at the stake whom he willed. One guy said there was less Islamic religious influence today in Iran than there is Christian influence here in America. That’s a crock. One person said that God should be personal, but not private. This is the Orion Federation’s belief. Everyone in their realm waves their relig-ious banner and religion is pretty much associated with nationhood. Of course they’re continually at war there. Moslems are worried we’re trying to Christianize them because of their history under colonial rule. The Federation is cognizant of this and that’s a big reason why the Federation is against “Bush being at War” with the whole society.

- - - - -One Beatle station had the Beatles in India. KRTH had the history of the “Yester-day and Today” butcher block album cover. The “trunk” cover was actually done first, and was the one the record company had planned. Then when Brian submitted it, John told Brian, “No we want the butcher-block cover”. It was supposed to be a message on the horrors of War.

I tuned in the Jesus Christ show, and right from the git go I was “put off”. First it was twenty to seven and they were still having commercials. Then their opening theme was a reworking of KISS’s “I want to rock and roll, and party every night”. Jesus apolo-gised for that. He attacked his very first caller. She wanted to know what he meant by “Thou shall not kill” and right away Jesus got on the offensive saying she had asked a different question from what she told the screener. My response is, “If you’re talking to God, isn’t it possible the Spirit could redirect what questions you ask?” Jesus thought she was some seminar caller or something and hung up. Then he got a call on whether a Catholic was a Christian. Jesus side-stepped that question. Was it OK to witness about Jesus in bars?” Jesus said “Don’t whitness anywhere you shouldn’t be yourself”. He then said if you’re a woman talking to a man about setting up a date to go to church, don’t give him your phone number. There is no reason to be “put in harm’s way” because you’re witnessing. I happened to think of the line from an old movie, “I’m willing to die for the woman I love. What’s your bid- a bloody nose?” (Selah) Jesus then got a call about won’t there be sadness in heaven if we look around in heaven and don’t see certain loved ones?” Jesus then defended his not talking about heaven, either on earth, or now, saying that we can’t fully understand the things of this world, how can we understand the things of heaven?”. My response is, “We’re a lot smarter now about the things of this world. When will we be qualified to hear about heaven”? Jesus then said he’d heard an analogy from a preacher he’d always found helpful. My response was, “He’s Jesus, he’s the LORD; he can come up with his own unique examples”. He then launched into that story about the four your old kid being told about sex between a man and a woman. At this point I switched off the radio. I’d heard the line about when you’re in heaven you’re in such a state of orgiastic exticy that you will no longer care about people here living on the earth. In fact you’ll be in a whole different “time frame”. Of course none of this is supported by the Bible. Some Bob Dylan songs ought to be accorded the status of scripture. “Do you take me for such a fool to think that I’d make contact, with someone who hides what they don’t know to begin with?” When I came back after seven Jesus took a call on why it’s called Good Friday. He told of a man who inherited several mil-lion dollars and decided to give a million of it to an Orphanage, and how this would be a good day for him. I agree. Unlike the democrats’ beliefs, you get your reward from God for giving by doing it yourself voluntarily, and not having it taken from you in advance. I would also say that if I get money from my parents when they die and give a few hundred thousand to charity, it goes to my heavenly account. If they give the money straight to the orphanage and by-pass me altogether, I lose out on the heavenly reward. Jesus was finally asked a question about Terry Shibo. He said that it was “asse-nine” to think that her dying was a “beautiful thing”. I agree. It’s horrible.