Running Out Of Time

It seems that we are ready to move to another post. I would like to welcome all casual readers to this blog. Hopefully you will find something interesting here that will turn you into regular readers. In the news we have the Vetterans Day parade in Long Beach where certain veterans will not be allowed to march this year. Veterans Day parades are to honor all veterans who fought in a war defending America around the world and who gave up two or three years of their life volentarily to do so. But it would seem that this year politics has entered into the event. Apparently you are a veteran of lower status if you have since developed a distaste for War. In another news event George H W Bush has now come out and endourced the policies of his son, the President. As you know Bush Sr. has consistently had problems with "W's" Iraq policies, but now the Republicans are all apparently rallying the wagons around in a circle and closing ranks. Nobody is disputing that it's a good thing for Saddam Hussein to be removed. Bush Sr. had a chance to do that with troops over there and he passed on it. To my way of thinking he's really not in a position to talk. Now the media is treating is to this notion that violence in Iraq is way down so "the President was right after all". No, if things are improved over in Iraq we should thank the grace of God for that and rejoyce that this is one less issue to worry about. But in point of fact this year has had the highest casualty rate for troops of any since the initial War surge itself in 2003. I've seen the charts on the internet saying violence is down, but you know these days what sort of propaganda war is being raised by the media. The big news of the past few days is that Mukasey is now sworn in as Attorney General. They didn't waste any time about it. He was voted in by the Senate in a seemingly important night session, and the very next day he was sworn in. Of course the media is orchestrating Giuliani's campaign. The ex Mayor is in seemingly big trouble as one of his many scandals has come to light. His pet nominee for Homeland Security head now has "issues" such as ties to the Mob. I guess Karac (?) was Giuliani's police chief or something, and we know that like our President, Giuliani is very loyal. Loyal to a fault. Now Mc Cain has called the Mayor on this credibility issue and the media is saying "Well, Mc Cain is going to TRY and attack the Mayor on this issue even though nobody else has ever been successful attacking Giuliani on anything". "But if Mc Cain doesn't succeed than the other candidates will "get the message" and won't try it themselves.

It would seem that Born Again Christianity has done a moral melt-down and sell-out on the abortion issue. Pat Robertson had endourced Giuliani. It would seem that the Christian right no longer cares about abortion. The media is telling us all sorts of things this year. They say that "likability" usually trumps "experience", except in the case of Hillary. Apparently we want the Limbaugh-exque nightmare of some woman with PMS "having a bad hair day" like that program on ABC where someone insults the woman president in the hallway on the way to her office, and the next thing you know she's bombing some country. I guess the "Iron lady" is an image we don't mind here in America. I am really tired of the media personally telling us that our only two choices for President are Giuliani and Hillary. I have said that Christianity has only got about fifty years left. It would seem with this pro abortion decision of Pat Robertson, the tooth is already pretty much decayed to its core and it's now time for it to be extracted. Of course Jesus Christ on KFI made an indellible impression in my mind when he told a caller NOT to pressure his girlfriend into NOT HAVING an abortion but that "It has to be her own free decision". For me abortion is not a sexual issue but one of premeditated murder. Jesus told the caller that "You think by talking to me about the (illicit) sex you had that I'll let you off the hook, but that's not going to happen". Christianity has become a religion that minors on the majors and majors on the minors. Sex before your wedding night or "having an argument with your pastor" or even quitting church are not what I'd call moral sins that would send you to Hell. Other sins besides sex exist. Even if you are not personally corrupt like Giuliani or Bush, the Bible says "If you take pleasure in those who sin, you are guilty". So if you take pleasure in the power intoxicated President or ex Mayor of New York, you are vicatiously sinning. Dr. Dean Edell said the other to some reverand he was on a talk show with "You know, I can cut out a piece of your brain so that you are so sex crazed you start humping that St. Bernard over there". Sexual morality depends a lot on brain chemistry. Of course so do out of body experiances Sylvia Browne is so fond of talking about dependant on brain chemistry. You can stimulate surgically a portion of a person's brain and make him think he is floating three feet above his body. You can also simulate "after death" experiances with brain manipulation. A lot more than we would like to think is explainable with cell biology rather than "Will" or "Moral Character" or "Backbone" or all that other stuff Christians pride themselves on. Now babies are being placed in front of a TV computer screen at one year of age and being educational stuff to watch. I wonder if anybody has thought of propagandizing Jesus to them at this early age. This younger generation is growing up a lot smarter than we were at the same age. I am thinking that they will "outgrow" Christianity in their lifetimes. Dr. Edell talked about accu-puncture. He said it's OK to go to an accu-puncturist if you are otherwise healthy. But no healthy person with a good relation with his doctor is going to make a trip toTijuana to buy Laiatril. Nobody who is "whole" is going to be seduced into a guy selling Heroin in the alley. He'll say "Take your poison and get out of here". In like manner I wonder whether a whole, healthy person really needs Christianity. You see movies of me as a young toddler and one thing I find disturbing is that I seem alone and bored in a lot of these shots. I don't think I personally would have given Christianity a second thought if I didn't have a poor self image and problems in my life.

This year football started late, with 1991 as a reference point. The baseball play-offs ran really late this year. Daylight savings time ended late this year. Pay day was late for me this month. But now we will be greeted with a sea of things that are "early". Thanksgiving will be early. Mardi Gras will be going on while the super bowl is being played. I think Mardi Gras will start in January this year because I saw that Easter this year is on March 23rd. Personally I think they should move it up four weeks to April 20th. Daylight Savins time starts on March 9th. Never has that been that early. So basically everything is out of sync. If you go to a traditional sunrise Easter service at 5:30 by the time the service is over you will still be in almost total darkness. I really think the Church in Rome needs to be consulted about moving the date this year.

Once again I think this writers strike is silly. Go to your windows and shout for all to hear, "I don't need you people who are too full of yourselves, anyway". Life is for the living and not sitting in front of a TV tube. When Christianity dies, who will mourn for it? Some people say that life is in the reward at the end of it. I personally believe the essence of Life is in the Journey, or what is happening right now. If Christianity can fit into that, fine. If "Stories" can fit into my life and add to it, fine. I can make my own religion and I can make up my own Stories if I want to. We need to get to know our neighbors better. We need to stop "Letting other people get our kicks for us", as Bob Dylan says. Some people says "God wants to heal our marriages" or "God wants you to have success". My view is the word "want" doesn't appear in God's vocabulary like those tsunami people on Sixty Minutes. God is an Actualized Being. What God "wants" he gets. Words are things with God. I couldn't prevent God from giving me success if I wanted to, if God were of a mind to do it". Joel Olsteen said "The will of the King is in the hand of the Lord". He was talking about Esther in the Bible. If we need help with Pakistan or Iran or any other leader, or Hez-ballah or Al Qaida, the thing to do is to pray about it and get God's take on the whole thing. Because it's truly God's "script" on the matter that is the only one that counts. Olsteen said that if there is an obstical in your way God will either change the mind of the other person, or take him out of the picture entirely. Sometimes taking an obsticle to Faith in your walk with the Lord involves death, "the final solution". This happened in my life lately with an individual who was continually 24 - 7 a hinderance to my walk with the Lord. My hope and prayer is that God removes Rudolph Giuliani from the political landscape and the sooner that happens the better I'll feel. I don't trust him and don't think I ever will, despite whatever the media says about his being "friendly" and "outgoing" to the people me meets.