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.
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