Allowing the American Dream to Slip Away

You know, Joel Olsteen is always talking about reviving your dreams and not losing your hope in their fulfillment. Joel, like many preachers, reminds that most things we are going through we think are "bad" really aren't as bad as we think and they don't last as long as we think. But I have to say that in my life this has not proved true. That one "fall on a sidewalk" one Friday morning in June 1st. 2001 ended up in my being here, and the last I checked I'm still here. The first time I threatened suicide was August 2nd. of 1967 because I basically "just didn't like the way my life was going". I can look back at things I did and say "But I don't blame myself". If you try and Monday morning quarterback yourself, you are engaging in self delusion. I remember when I was in fifth grade just thinking about the future and how I'd be a teenager with a car dating a lot in high school and getting married in my early twenties and having kids. The scenario didn't exactly work out that way. Some people as Christians get married because they think "It's the thing to do". And when the marriage goes bad they say "thank God there wern't any children". But it isn't the fault of the people who get married. After all you have to consider what the alternatives are. One of course could be to walk away from the Church. Another would be to lie to yourself and say "the conflict doesn't bother me". Of course continuing to lead a double life is always an option, but that has its drawbacks. Sometimes bad things can be forseen. I forsaw this downturn back in 2006. There was some book out that tackled the twin topics of excess religiosity in the United State, and the other topic was the mounting of all forms of economic debt. I predicted the Shaw of Iran would fall in the summer of 1976. Perhaps it was a lucky guess. I did not forsee the current economic problems in my own life because of not getting the three hundred dollar renters rebate. The family at the same time decided I shouldn't get money at Christmas or any other time. And I didn't qualify for the Bush rebate of last spring. But unlike as Joel Olsteen might think, these adverse developments had nothing to do with "negative thoughts". Indeed these developments blind-sided me, coming out of the blue. Our economic problems now in this country seem to be worstening with each passing day. Now Citibank will be bailed out because we should have bailed out Lehman Brothers but didn't. Banks are thumbs up; Auto makers get thumbs down. We get it. Bush is selective in that only the most massive squanders and misappropiaters of funds get bailed out. If a bail out means helping out the comon people Bush says "Forget it".

We were all waitning for Obama's Big Revitalization Plan today. If he had actually given us a plan for anything I'd have made these words the blog heading. But it didn't happen. We just have to trust him. Obama has a press conference but isn't answering any questions people actually want to know. He announced four appointments this morning. Timothy Geitner is secretary of Treasury. Also coming on board are Larry Summers, Christine Rictor or Roper or something and Melanie- - ? Anyhow people are just tickled pink by the appointments. The stock market likes the names. I am thinking right now if you want to be optimistic you would say that perhaps this bear market will bottom out about the first of February, but I shudder to think where that will be. I'd be planning the stocks I'd buy right now. But we should actually see us rounding the corner economically about June of 2009. That's my optimistic scenario. I am famous for being too optimistic about family vacations and "when we will get there" because my Dad ended up driving a lot slower than I imagined. But basically the "light at the end of the tunnel" is nowhere in sight and the future only looks continuously bleaker than the present and bleaker than the future looked a few weeks back. Welcome to reality. Just remember when it comes to owning stocks- - you still own just what you owned a year ago. If you learned that your CD collection was worth only half of what it was worth a year ago would you run out and sell it? That would be rediculas. It's your property. You paid for it. it's yours. You haven't lost anything because the price someone else wants to pay for it had dropped.

If some of you wonder about Romulan football let me just say that it's a little narrower, but just one yard shorter, 99 yards or 90 Romulan meters of 39.6 inches. They really don't have that many flag violations involving "unnecessary roughness". Things like pass interference, offencive or defencive are unheard of with Romulans. Also things like holding of grabbing face masks, blatent or otherwise - are perfectly legal. The only thing they call a violation is going for the private parts. That's still illegal. The Romulans have a "no feet inbounds" rule for passes where you don't have to have any feet touching the ground, only that you are in control of the ball. Also in Romulan rules is you don't "down it" after you score it really doesn't count till you do- - none of this crap about crossing the plane of the goal line. If you lose the ball and another player gets it even crossing the goal line- - a fumble is a fumble and the other team can down it and get it on the twenty. They never had an "in the grasp" rule. Intentional grounding to stop the clock is NOT allowed in Romulan rules. There are no two point conversions and no overtime.

In soap land Nicole is in the process of losing her baby that she's having with Elvis Dimira. You see Elvis never did place either Nicole or her baby that high on his list of priorities. It's much more important to cancle a romantic weekend getaway with Nicole at the last minute- - to go off with Stephano to South America so he can get involved in criminal obstruction of justice. Elvis regards that as a much better use of his time. Meanwhile the other girl who is having Elvis's baby, Samantha, is still waiting in the wings. She had the good sense not to tell Elvis she was pregnent, and if Elvis knew she were pregnent he'd drop Nicole in a second and run to Samantha. Now we can pretty well surmize that Elvis' relation with Nicole is over. There are times where you just have to put your wife first and forget the multitude of excuses. Elvis is more afraid of displeasing his father than he is of losing everything with Nicole.

Obama's Cabinet Takes Shape

Hillary Clinton can't be secretary of State till she has been properly "vetted". They have to determine whether any of husband Bill's many financial contact will compromise her job performance. Tom Dashel has been made Secretary of Health and Human Services. On the Rachael Maddau show there was talk about trying to finally go for the single payer health insurance plan. This would solve a lot of problems, and it might just be an idea whose time has come, at least on a trial basis for three or four years or so to see how the American people like it. Meanwhile someone from Al Qaeda called Obama a "House Negro" today. Obviously someone in Al Qaeda believes Obama has been co-opted by the Republicans. Tom Dashel is a hated figure by the Republicans. We know this because of the numerous references on the Rush Limbaugh show. Many are starting to wonder why Obama is picking Washington insiders when he ran as an outsider. Obama picked Eric Holder at Attorney General. This guy is contraversial because of his involvement in the Ilian Gonsolez abduction case where the FBI broke in to a residence in the dead of night the Saturday morning before Easter of 2000 and shipped little Gonsolez back to his communist father in Cuba. It was not a good day for liberty. Also there is the matter of involvement in the pardoning of Mark Rich just before Clinton left office. Holder is Black.

Many people are discussing the possible bail out of General Mortors and the other US Auto manufacturers. I've thought about it a while and determined that it seems like a prudent move to make at this time. We can't afford more massive job losses and surrendering the last vestages of our Auto industry to Japan and Germany. In addition to just the loss of employment, the government would lose its tax base as well as support for any health plans and Social Security. But there are others who say if General Motors declared Chapter eleven bankruptsy that the company could tear up all their Union contracts. Auto workers get paid $71.00 an hour, if you can believe that. That's mighty high cotton. It's easy to see how Auto Companies could feel that the unions were squeezing them dry. There is talk that GM stock might be selling for zero by the end of the year. If that's the case put me down for ten shares. But now we hear that because of these republicans still in congress the auto bail out provision of any bill won't be passed at all. This congress has worked too hard. It's time to take a powder.

Now three legal suits have been approved to be heard by the California Supreme Court when it comes to getting rid of proposition eight and reinstituting gay marriage. Jerry Brown is sympathetic to the cause of these prostesters, and from here it looks like they've got a better than even chance of overturning the will of the people last November 4th. I know of no legal precident where people previously married could now be declared to be living in sin.

They are making progress with stem cell research all the time. Now they are combining organs from dead people with a person's own stem cells to grow new vital organs. If this becomes wide spread many ailments, use your imagination, could well become a thing of the past. I can tell you this. A lot of ADHD could be eliminated in kids if they'd just cut out sugar. Also many people could benefit from these sublingual B 12, folic acid and B6 tablets they're selling on the radio. I have remarked that I believe as a teenager I suffered from a B 12 deficiency and my school work was compromized. Many people in the mental health system, and I ought to know, are in kind of a self perpetuating revolving door with either apathetic or incompetent doctors. It's much easyer to just warehouse people. On the radio today I heard that any manager's worst nightmare is an employee that not only spots a vital flaw in "the system" but has a ready made solution. Many people in authority prefer not to rock the boat at any cost.

You've heard me talk about "The Four Jesuses". Let's review the first of these four figures. There is a story that keeps cropping up in either Egyptian or Roman history about a figure who somehow outsmarted Pilate and escaped crusifiction. There is a story Tassitus tells of an Egyptian who declared that the Jewish Temple would be destroyed. One version of this story has Pilate examining him and letting him go because he was insane. Other versions of this story tell how he led a night raid on Jerusalem but escaped in battle. Jesus is recorded as welling the Jewish authorities "I am going away and where I go you can't follow". Dylan has the lyric "When your rooster crows at the break of dawn, look out your window and I'll be gone". There is the matter of "comming after me with lanterns and torches". If there was a full passover moon this would be unnecessary. But one more thing all four Gospells mention is this mystery man who bore the cross of Jesus. Interestingly nowhere is there any relating of any conversation between Jesus and this man. There is an indication this man was called "Crestus" and not "Kristos". Three independant sources place him in Rome and very much alive in fifty AD, long after 33 AD. The date when he "would have" been crusified would be November 24th. of 29 AD. There are few indicators of the time of year. We can take a cue from the reference to building fires to keep warm that it at least was cold at night. We know that it was not the season for figs. We also know that fig trees lose their leaves, and that a logical time to do this would be in the fall. And scripture says "and the next day the tree was withered". We know that this group was anarchistic. According to the movie "Barrabus" (another mystery charactor) there were people in the fire of 64 AD in Rome who went about lighting fires. Tassitus refers to Christians as "the most hated and detestable of groups". This group was anarchistic. It was not friendly to Rome. Both Acts and Tassitus make the same reference to this "Egyptian". We know Bible writers threw in the text "I called my son out of Egypt". Well, this is something to think about. You'll have to look for all the other references to "the Egyptian" in my past blogs.

Getting Screwed in Transit

You know, in the old days before the digital camera, there was always the danger of a photograph getting screwed, or ruined, before the photograph could be developed or "fixed". In religion this process still goes on and the blame is an occurance of etheline gas at an inoppertune moment. No I'm not referring to farting in a crowded elevator. I have a parable Jesus must have told but it got left out of all versions of the gospells. Suppose there was a bulb with your name on it. This bulb was your life. Normally (I say advisadly) the bulb would be planted and mature and bloom into a beautiful gladiola or some other pretty flower, and then the workers in the vinyard would come at the end of days and transfer you to his hot house where I'd have you bronzed or something for all posterity. But one day the Father got lax because he had a heavy day at work and he told his son, "be sure these bulbs get planted today" and the soil was all marked off and ready to plant. But the son decided before he did this he would "have a smoke" and so put the bulbs in the refrigerator believing that the bulbs would "soak up knowledge and inspiration" from the other produce and ripening fruit around it. But there is a little thing called ethyline gas- - and what ethyline gas serves as is a catylist that speeds up growth. So all of the bulbs germinated and because they lacked the proper soil, they all died. This can happen with a Christian if you try and "help God out" and go up to the alter to confess your sins and get saved before it is your proper time. This sort of thing goes on every day. In Mark Campbell's lizzard analogy, the eggs are abandoned by the mother and burried in the sand, and they hatch, and the new hatchling lizzards make a mad dash to the river before they can be caught and eaten by predators. The lucky ones make it to the water where they are safe. When the Apostle Paul speaks of death and what kind of life will we have- - perhaps he isn't speaking of physical death so much as a "place of safety" where your destiny can't suffer harm, like a photograph dipped in the hypo. The soil in this analogy if you believe in "expositional constancy" is your environment, which you have little to no control over. If you doubt this consider the parable of the tares and the wheat. After the tares and the wheat are harvested the soil remains just as "Tara" remains in Gone with the Wind, after every other colamnity has come and gone. (Selah)

Our world is at risk. If you've been watching the Today show this week you realize that the earth is vulnerable and is at risk for every and all disaster. Perhaps Killemonjaro will lose all of it's snow. Glatures are melting in iceland. Coral Wreths are getting bleached all over the world, which is a sign of distress. Ocean waters are too warm, adversely affecting the life of fish and cutting down their breathable oxygen. The forests of the Rocky Mountains are withering away being eaten by a beetle, which only attacks trees undergoing an extended drought. Temperatures in the Rockys and elsewhere in the West are way above normal. We in Southern California have had one of our worst fire seasons ever with over a thousand houses consumed, and untold heartache. Fire season is virtually year round beginning in February, and it isn't over yet. Polar Bears are drowning because the ice is melting and they can't troll for fish. And even in all this those on the Political Right are telling you that man is not to blame in any way- - either this or it's all in our minds to begin with. There is a gigantic conspiracy to muzzle all of the "true" scientists out there with political pressure from telling us the Truth. This is if you believe those on the right. Now in the transition of governments Obama has been working with Mc Cain to solve these problems. Clearly there are other things biologists look for too from whether or not penguins are losing weight to the reproduction rates of various plant species.

It's important to know the escape volocity of any Religious Cult. What you do know is that the closser you get to it, like approaching a newtron star, the escape volocity gets higher and higher and the question when is that threshhold when you no longer posess within yourself the escape volicity to escape it. Take Melody and Nick Fallen. You remember Nick Fallen, he's the inturn that did all of Einstein's greatest calculations which proved fear of Black Holes is unwarrented because Black Holes don't exist, therefore anyone who sees or says they've discovered a Black Hole must be delusional. Anyhow Nick had an object of his affections named Melanie. Gradually Nicks world got smaller and smaller and his life got colder and colder. And with every new cold snap he'd throw a bunch of new mathmatical calculations into the fire to keep warm. Finally there was nothing to stablize Nick's life other than the obsessive object of his affection Melanie. We all remember how Nick's mother Jessica was a psycho and a scitzophrenic who alternately called herself "Angelique". Now the seeds of the mother were germanating in the son. Up to the moment when they left the Horton house Melanie had a choice. She could go to the police department and confess to the murder of her father, which she can't even remember. Or she could "run away and be safe" with Nick Fallen. Well, you know what happened. They were stranded in a Motel without a phone, and I think the Bates Motel sign hadn't been turned on yet. They were in a room without a phone in one of those places they used to mention on Superman episodes where you could scream your lungs out and nobody would hear you or bother to come to your rescue. You tried all the manuvers you learned from the Misory movie including drugging your captor- - but nothing seems to work. "He's got you where he wants you - - - so you better face reality".

The question is whether Obama is going to roll over with his paws in the air like Joel Olsteen's pet German Shepherd. You know the buzz is that Obama isn't going to relinquish any of the Presidential Powers that Bush obtained for himself during the last eight years. The Imperial Presidency is that much more entranched. There are all sorts of laws about who can be arrested and on what grounds. None of the secret government spying stuff will at all be diminished under an Obama presidency. Like I've said before, I am a little uneasy with news of the "smoothness" of the transition. You know, General Patton fought the de-Nasification of Germany after the war and his rationalization was "We want them to have a sense of pride", to which a normal person would say "They are the vanquished foe. They're not supposed to have pride! Even if Patton's idea might make "the transition go smoother" it still isn't a good idea. We know the President has the power to declare a State of Emergency for any reason or for no reason at all. It would seem that signing an executive order is some remnent of a quazi dictatorship we now have in this country. It was stated by Hank Poulson or somebody that "If congress hadn't passed that 700 Billion bail out bill, we would have had Marshal Law here in this country within the month. That is a scarey proposition. We know now that the whole mortgage bail out bill was a Lie, but the bigger question is did congress even have a Choice any more, or has this nation moved into the real of a prohibitive Escape Volocity, that would preclude any other decision? I wonder if Obama is staying up at night thinking of Pope John Paul the First, and how he had proposed sweeping changes in the Catholic Church but one day he wound up dead. Or how Jack Kennedy was roomered to be planning a complete pull out of troops in Viet Nam just before he was assasenated? I find another fact downright scarey. 47% of the people voted for the Mc Cain - Palin ticket, as badly as that campaign was run. Rush Limbaugh himself today said that "Mc Cain is not the sort of person to put out a position paper on where he stands on anything". I agree with Rush on one thing. Sarah Palin came off as silly talking about how she and John Mc Cain were "Mavoricks". That word is now so tainted for all time. 47% of you people actually agree with the precepts set in that campaign. That is scarey because it's the most conservative campaign by any party since Barry Goldwater's in 1964 and Goldy got clobbered and embarrassed in that one. I think we are mo sheep like than we want to admit and were we in the early days of Nazi Germany I'm not all that certain we could resist the bait.

They say there isn't really anything new in math. But there is one formula I've never seen written down on paper. We know that a ninety degree cube had six sides. Question: How many sides does a four dimensional cube have? I have wrestled with that number. You can make an argument by using the N! figure in Windows calculator that the number is 24. But I have another set of numbers in mind. First of all in one dimension there are no sides to a cube because a cube can't exist. In two dimensions a cubs had one side. Not two, but one. The argument about "any pancake no matter how thin has two sides" is invalid because you still first have to have a three dimensional pancake. So the number is one for a two dimensional universe. This brings us to four dimensions. There are six sets of planes- - or six possible conbinations of "grids" you might say. But there are three such ninety degree planes in a three dimensional universe but a cube has six sides! Well, add the two for the next dimension down. Using this logic a two dimensional cube has one and not two sides. A four dimensional cube would have eighteen sides and a five dimensional cubs would have forty sides because there are ten possible intersecting (90 deg) planes here and you times it by four, which is one down from five. Given this logic a six dimensional cube would have 75 sides. The Federation has spoken of the number forty pertaining to "nature". Might this be the "nature" of a cube?

He Who Would Be Obstructionist

Conservatives love to tell the story of a guy with a big pot full of live crabs and the kid asks "What is to prevent the crabs from escaping" and the dad says, "Oh, that won't happen. If one crab looks like he's going to manage to escape, the other crabs will pull him back down into the pot". I've experanced my share of "crabs" at Calvary Chapel, Anaheim. There are a lot of crabs there, ready to pull you back down into the hole that they're in. My mother once wanted this one job (she's in some kind of social work. I'll leave it at that) But for years this one guy named Maloney obstructed her from getting the job she wanted, until one day he retired. Before this I myself inquired about this guy Maloney, and was only told that everybody regarded him as a great guy. In the movie "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner", Sidney Portier says some horrible things to his father, who was a mail man. He said "Till the dead weight of you is off of us, our generation will never get ahead". In the Bible there was a guy named Tobias, who obstructed the building of the "Walls of Jerusalem" in Neiamiah's day, first by mocker, then by appealing to the government to stop them, and finally by armed conflict. I think you get the point. Now the Bush Adminestrarion is trying to ramrod through a bunch of de-regulation measures in a lot of areas, such as banks and finance, and a lot of stuff on the environment, and stuff on abortion. For a de-regulation to stick it has to be in force sixty days before the new President takes office, which means that Bush has to get passed by executive order or whatever- - everything he wants done by November 22nd. which is just a couple of weeks away. I heard about all this on Pacific Radio pod casts. It's an issue that's very relavant to our times, because if the new rules take effect before January 20th. 2009, it will be a whole lot harder for President Obama to undo them. This is why I'm not exactly conforted by the notion of a "smoothe transition".

Obama has been meeting with Hillary Clinton in Chicago with the idea of appointing her to the Office of Secretary of State. Hillary would make a good Secretary of State because she could use all her tallents of outspokenness and stridency advocating the best interests of the United States. We need a strong leader in that office. Meanwhile Jesse Jackson Jr. may be picked to fill Obama's old senate seat, because Obama will officially be resigning his seat this Sunday. If Hillary turns down the Cabinet post, Obama may offer the position to John Kerry.

We've been saying for a while now that Christianity with the course of time, will wither on the vine as the public gradually begins to assimilate all the information about the "hostorical Jesus (if there was one) on the internet. Just two days ago I was reviewing "The God who Wasn't There" and there's a whole DVD movie you can buy and show to your friends. As you know in my own writings I have talked about "The Four Jesuses" who lived during the first century, and each contributes a bit to the overall portrate we have of Jesus. Back in the "Age of Reason" three centuries ago man decided it would only conclude something was true if it was in accord with Reason. But the religious fundamentalists and others have made Reason a dirty word. One must keep in mind the old axiom "Once the impossible has been ruled out, whatever remains, however improbable, is the truth". I say this because people say Evolution is "unlikely". When it comes to reason I'll take "unlikely" over Impossible any day of the week. Some would say to just "try Christianity". This is like a little kid telling his father, "Why don't we paint the house lavender. We don't have to keep it lavender forever, let's just try it that way for one week".

I checked in on Rachael Maddau and she had Naomi Klein on as a guest, who wrote the book, “The Shock Doctrine and Disaster Capitalism”. The topic of discussion was the 700 Billion dollar bail out rammed through congress. Now they are renigging on their deal to buy out bad mortgages and renegotiate them with the customers as Obama wanted. Never have a “verbal understanding”; put it in writing. It’s all bank guys on the government payroll these days and they know that, but congress let itself be conned by these ex bankers. Of course what’s going on is the Bush Adminestration is going to loot all they can from the American taxpayer and then they’ll all go get jobs from the very banks they are bailing out now. I told you that these banks with the money they’ve already received are NOT extending the courtesy of extending a nice low interest loan to the customers. No, no! These people bet their 22% and higher on credit card costs, which of loan shark perportions. Even student loans are 14% now. Now government officials are saying that bailing out the Mortgage instruments, for which the money from congress was approved and I initially rationalized- - will in fact not happen now. The banks weren’t doing this anyhow but with that money were thinking up other shady investment schemes and buy outs rather than use it for loans. So since we need to “get money in circulation” now other corporations such as the auto companies will receive some of that 700 Billion. There is an article about it in this week’s Rolling Stone I intend to look at if it’s available on line. Obama says he wants a smoothe transition with Bush but were I the President elect I would be up front in calling the President out on this massive financial deception. Judy is wrong. Obama is the farthest thing from being a tool of the “socialists”. This 700 Billion bail out isn’t socialism but rather the opposite. It’s the government turning over massive amounts of money without strings to private, corporate CEO’s. Obama hasn’t even chosen members of his cabinet yet, and we have no idea what kind of administration he’ll have. I only pray that it’s distinguishable from the current one. So far I have seen no indication of any sort that Obama intends to “clean house” economically speaking. I just hope he hasn’t somehow been bought off.

Obama Shown the Reins

Randy Rhodes today expressed her oppinion on the current news situation rather liberally today and I must say I have a lot of reservations about the things she said. She never liked the idea of Bill Clinton being referred to as a lying, pot smoking, womanizing draft dodger when in fact he was all these things. Bill Clinton is also guilty of rape. It does no good to deny any of this. Now Obama has signed an executive order, or will, to the effect that the United States should support abortion groups around the world. Obama also is a believer in killing the fetus after it's born. This is a fact; there is no use in denying it. Obama has also shown by his appointment of Chief of Staff that he wants a no nonesense guy in charge kind of like his dark alter ego, in power. Randi Rhodes believes in bringing back the "fairness" doctrine, not believing that liberals can compete with Conservative talk radio in the open market. We don't know what Obama and Bush talked about today but I imagine there was a lot of ass kissing going on. It's a comon belief among liberals like Michael Benner that no liberal can be trusted to run Foreign Policy and National Security but there is some kabbal that is really behind the scenes in power. I don't like Randi Rhodes' hysterics about proposition eight here in California. It's rather silly for gays to protest that they feel cheated when they lost the vote fair and square. The people of California have said they don't want the hallowed institution of marriage equated with gayness. Indeed in the history of world civilization has such a thing even existed before even among the Greeks and Romans. Jesus on KFI defends being gay in various ways but one of them is touting how few references there are to homosexuality prohibitions. Like abortion, certain acts are so inherently hanious and perverse and depraved that little note needs to be made of them because no sane person would comit them. It's a continuing insult to Black people and Latinos and any other "straight" minority that their cause and the cause of homosexual marriage are of equal value. Obama did not hesitate in signing on to the Bush bail out plan of two months ago. If Randi Rhodes were really that bothered Obama was called a Socialist, the least she can do is achnoledge that a lot of people on the Right have just cause to be concerned. One might well wonder whether the American economy will ever be the same. Even now retail outlet after retail outlet is either slashing jobs and stores to a high extent, or else going out of business completely. For Mc Cain to say "The fundamentals of the American economy are sound" is one of the most misbegotten statements ever made. The fundamentals of our economy rate about an F minus at this point for a lot of reasons. I agree with conservatives that we need to re establish a "work ethic" in this country. We only disagree about how to do that. Indeed the American economy was less "ill" in the depths of the recession. As far as stem cell research is concerned- - I would not have signed that executive order either. Obama says he will sign. I think we need to put it to another vote to acertain just what the oppinion of the American People is about stem cell research before we massively shell out tax payer dollars to fund it. I strenuously disagree with the AM 1150 crowd on another issue and that is the invasion by Georgia by Russia. Now we want to put in missiles for defense in Poland, whereas Russia intends to put missiles just accross the border frum Poland. I didn't think any part of Russia bordered Russia now. If we can't defeat Russia now in their weakened condition, we will not be able to defeat them once they have recovered to their former strength. Pat Buchannen is touting the liberal line in this saying "Whatever Russia wants, we should give them- - and above all blame America for everything". If you want to cast blame for the war in Georgia, Randy Rhodes and Thom Hartman say, "Just blame the whole thing on Karl Rove and John Mc Cain". This makes absolutely no sense to me. Right now I have a few more remarks to make politically- - from yesterday's Word file.

I haven’t been blogging at near the speed I was blogging at a couple of months ago. I don’t like the idea that Obama thinks he has to appoint “Washington insiders” to cabinet posts just “to prove he coming from the center”. I’ve heard he’s going to get supply side conservative economists in posts, too. Obama has given no indication that he's serious about altering the basic fundamentals of our economy in terms of abolishing N A F T A or tightening immigration laws. This Ron Emmanuel guy is a hard-ass “take no prisoners” kind of guy who apparently plays rough. Obama is kidding himself and maybe some of you if he thinks he can say “well it wasn’t me- it was just Ron”. I can’t imagine that Thom Hartman and other liberals are happy about the first signs they have seen from the President Elect. It may be a case of us all hearing from Obama what we "wanted to hear" and that we essentially voted for an illusion. Tomorrow President Bush and Laura will be welcoming Obama to the White House. The little girls were not invited. That Black guy in the You Tube video says that everybody in his life from his family and many cousins and such were all liberal democrats. The believability of the thing was near zero, as if Blacks are too dumb to spot someone with all the Mc Cain - Palin talking points. I'm referring to the You Tube vidio "Here, sucker sucker sucker". People just don’t wake up one day as if they landed on their head or something spouting Mc Cain’s and Palin’s well-scripted talking points.

If I were a Jew like Dennis Prager I'd spend much of my time attacking Christians as vile liars and slanderers for saying the things they have about Jewish people over the centuries. If you believe the Bible by a couple decades after Jesus's death, there was a whole network of Churches founded by one person, Saul of Tarsis, and everyone from the Emperor (Nero) on down had heard of him, and there were Christians in Ceasar's household. St. James was some baffoon who ruled from the Temple in Jerusalem running the Christian Church world wide from there. At one point St. Paul said he wanted to visit Spain. I say all of this because for all these churches and all these pastoral epistles to be real, that means Jesus had to be widely known as a Historical figure. But in fact whether Jesus of Nazareth was even a historical figure is a subject for debate. A rather meaty substantive case can be made that Jesus didn't exist, and if Jesus never existed than St. Paul and I don't care how many churches- - didn't exist, but are are a carefully faboricated - - constructed myth. Think about it.

Let's talk about the Black guy in that video some more. He claims that conservatives are not brainwashed by anyone, yet all born again paritioners owe allegence to their pastors who in most cases are soverign. Also I didn't vote for Obama because I was some "livestock" being "fattened up" by liberal government subsedies. In fact many of the Christians on the right- - NOW - are among the ones who pushed me into getting on welfare in the first place. Getting on SSI was contrary to every instinct in my body. I don't have Obama to blame for that but rather people most of whom are professing Born Again Christians. For the first time with their hostile remarks I feel that "The Right Wing" is against me, personally, and when they talk about tax policies helping the poor, they are talking about Me. Let me venture into a "never previously mentioned" subject. Untill last night's Simpson's episode- - I never would have called Ned Flanders a JERK. But last night wiped out nineteen years of niceness as far as I'm concerned. In like matter- - people around me have tried to make this tax business personal by including me as the bums and the slothful and lazy and whatever- - that are supported by Obama. One person went so far as to say people receiving welfare should not even have the right to Vote? And there is a move to purge voters on the left, as you know. Since this hostility of the Right is personal now- - I'm not going back to ever support them again, because they themselves have slammed the gate shut.

Is the Will of the People Always Sovreign?

Some of you may be wondering why I didn't put out a blog yesterday along the lines of "It's a new Day in America", or something. Well I was intending to but I just never got around to it, the same way that Isac in the Bible never got around to giving Esau the birthright blessing. Well, white people will have to address Obama as "Mr. President" now. Bush has fallen into line and is giving Obama his first Security briefing tomorrow, and Obama is hurrying to fill the posts in his White House staff, including having John Kerry as Secretary of State. Apparently people argue that Bill Clinton waited too long to fill kep posts. Still, I almost didn't vote for Obama. It was a dark evening with no lights on in the patio when I had doubts wondering if Berock Obama would be the President presiding over a major economic disaster or worse and thinking I had to vote for Mc Cain to avert that. I had this clear feeling at the time, "You know what you have to do. You have to vote for Mc Cain". I didn't know where that voice was coming from. Then a voice inside me said that whatever I feared about an Obama presidency would be even worse under a President Mc Cain, and I came to my senses. Back when I was in grammar school there were all these roomers that Kennedy would make kids go to school six days a weeek because he was a Catholic. There seemed to be a lot of Catholics in my school in those days. Our class held a poll on November 8th. 1960 and Kennedy narrow defeated Nixon in our class vote. In 1976 there was a fear factor with Jimmy Carter because of this guy Brashinsky that Carter was associated with that he would somehow further the New World Order and the trilatteral comission.

You may (or may not) be curious of the Orion Federation's reaction to all the doings in this country over the past few days. Oddly enough the mood there was pensive, if not downcast. The buzz there is that Obama will never live to become President and that Obama's name will never make it into the history books because he won't live to see January 20th. but will be assasenated. In Obama's speech many have noted the similarity to Martin Luther King's eve of assasenation speech of April 3rd. where he said "I may not make it with you but I'm telling you that we as a people will get to the Promised Land". But there is another speech by JFK that is also parrelled where he talks about his hoped for accomplishments and says "All this will not happen within the first hundred days, or the first One Thousand, nor in the life of this Adminestration, but Let Us Begin!" Of course Kennedy only served one thousand days, though I have trouble getting the math to work. Still it's good to bubble and effervess for the time being. One reason why I voted for Obama is when it came to the negatives the Christians keep making reference to, I chose not to allow myself to be ruled by Fear. Even if Obama is destined to be gunned down soon, we still should not be ruled by fear in our actions.

But is the will of the people sovrign. In 1900 President Mc Kinley was very popular with his conservative economic policies, but an assasin's bullet changed history and Teddy Roosevelt got in and shook the corporate structure up big. In 1964 we had something called Proposition 14 that overturned another state law that said you had to sell your house to a Black man whether you wanted to or not. But the Supreme Court decided the people didn't vote right and overturned the will of the people. To me, even as a liberal, this just did not seem fair to me at all. To my way of thinking the people had a right to express themselves even if they happened to be wrong. Now with proposition 8 we have a similar instance. Bill Handel was on Fox News this morning bright and early and he was saying this situation with gay marriage could be tied up in the courts for a long time. People wonder whether an Obama court might legalize gay marriage as some inailable right we never knew was in the constitution.

I voted no on proposition 2 but it passed handily. Let's hope our poultry business isn't wiped out in this state. I voted no on 3 because I just got tired of hearing that "Imagine" song and those kids singing. I imagined a John Lennon spinning in his grave and saying "Oh- - shut the bloody hell up!" I voted yes on Six and no on Nine. But in this case "If the Six turns out to be Nine" turned out to be reality because Nine passed and Six didn't. Six had to do with gangs and Nine had to do with sexual predators. I don't think some fifty year old man who'se been in prison half his life is a guy you need to worry about. Much more to be feared is that young man in the proposition 4 adds who says he can empregnate your daughter and it has to be a secret. But now they have a trick or treat patrol to insure that no kids come to the house of a sexual predator, and they have to invest in all those GPS ankle things, which is going to cost major money.

As a footnote addendum, Esau did very well without father Isac's birthright blessing, thank you. In fact the nation of Edom became a major power while the "children of Isrial" were nowhere as nomads. The nation of Edom lasted six or seven centuries, thank you, which happens to be significantly longer than our own nation has lasted, even if you include our esteemed Pilgrem Fathers, who with nobody but their Creater, single handedly forged a settlement, as opposed to that "Socialist experiment" in Jamestown. (I hang out with a very conservative crowd) When it comes to King David- - - he had Moabite blood. So if you say Jesus was Jewish because of his mother, why isn't King David Moabite because of his great grandmother? It so happens that I spent a lot of time in my Prophecy Book "dissing" Edom. I called Edom a people of sell out and capitulation and in other words villified them. But Edom never "sold out". Edom is associated with Aldeberan VIII. It's bad to dis a group because you never know what bad karma will boomerang your way. David's great great great great- - - grandmother was a prostitute. Say what you want about Obama, at least he knows who his father is. I've never liked the term "African American". The continent of Africa is responsable for some hanious, dispicable acts throughout human history. Obama has every bit as much right to the claim of being a full blooded American as any of us do. Obama will be President of all of the people.

The Download.com music player no longer boots with Firefox, even though it still does with the Yahoo browser. I've tinkered with all the Firefox setting and none of them do any good. The only way to hear music from Firefox is to download it and play it on Music Match. I've heard that Firefox's recent update screwed up a lot of applications. But I don't know how to find out from anybody how any of these applications can continue to work now.

The Media Recessitation Job on Mc Cain

You would think that this close to the elections conservatives would be discouraged. But they have people like Meet the Press and Mc Laughlin group to encourage them. Obama has now lost Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio, and is in danger of losing Nevada and Florida. The Mc Laughlin group concluded that the Presidential race was "too close to call". Of course this is with Obama leading anywhere from three points to about twelve points in eight or ten different polls. But now the media is telling us all eight percent undecided will break for Mc Cain and that "All the Obama people have voted already". To listen to how little conservatives think of Obama you have to review the negatives in your own mind. There's Reverand Wright, that Chicago Real Estate guy, and then there is Ayres, who dedicated one of his books to Sirhan Sirhan. Then there is that Palistinian guy and the tape the LA Times doesn't want you to see. Other negatives are roomers that Obama's mother rejected her son in Indonesia and that's why he was raised by his grandmother in Kansas. But when you look at all these negatives they don't ammount to a hill of beans. But conservatives say there is a conspiracy by the media to slant all of the polls in favor of Obama. These conservatives seem oblivious to the fact that big corporations own all these TV networks. Basically Obama's whole plan to expand education and have universal medical care is seen as some sort of "socialist experimentation". They say Obama wants to vastly increase our UN spending. This idea of Obama raising taxes on the rich is portrayed as the most evil event in human history since Eve ate the apple. Conservatives believe there will be a major pro abortion propaganda push is Obama wins, as though Obama will slip abortion reference into his speeches. Also euthanasia is a concern for the conservatives from the other direction. Of course when you question these conservatives, they are against taxes alltogether, so quibbling over the ammount is silly. They will tell you that our esteemed founding fathers never expected citizens to have to pay incom taxes. I've heard more talk that help of the less well off is "stealing from the rich" and that a rich person can't survive in this country any more and that all the rich are moving to Jamaica or Costa Rica where a dollar is worth a dollar. It's also believed that there is a media conspiracy to surpress just how much reserve we have in oil and there is actually a huge ammount in Alaska the media isn't telling us about. One thing I will agree with the right on is that if we had oil ourselves, then the US dollar would actually be based on something of value. These conservatives are against any state proposition involving the spending of money. I happened to think if conservatives are as hard up for money as they claim- - they're obviously not giving to their churches. After all, what does a church "contribute" to the national economic faboric. These conservatives are so concerned with "paracites" among us. May I suggest Sunday mornings are a real good place to start. Actually if Mc Cain had run an uplifting and respectable campaign- - making the decision would be a lot harder. But when you look at the tightwad biggots who go to Mc Cain rallies, the decision on how to vote tomorrow is actually made easy.

Hopefully- Obama will win and will carry Pennsylvania as well as red states Ohio, Iowa, Virginia, Florida and Colorado. I'm holding out hopes for Nevada, which has grown a lot in population and is much more urban now, and hopefully less Mormon than it used to be.

OK - We Get It

You know, I'm going to pull a Johnny Wendell and talk about myself today. Last night was the Obama commercial, and my worst fears were realized that it would just be "more of the same old song and dance". The trouble is if you really are a rich person who hates poor people you wern't going to watch the thing anyhow. In the local Calvary Chapel, the way to deal with people you don't like or who make you feel unconfortable is to lable them hetrodox or "outside the circle" or better yet a "tool of Satan" that you don't want to be contaminated with. With such people you not only cut off all contact but you never speak of them again, except perhaps to slip in a disparaging remark about them in a sermon sometime, that probably isn't true to begin with. We know these people despize higher tax rates for themselves, and speak of a "distontented rabble" verses an "thrifty working class" who knows the value of a dollar. We know rich people regard the poor as having the sin of "coveting what is not theirs", real Biblical. So we are treated now to the saga of Cory the oil driller and his "hard luck" story. Here are some remarks typed yesterday. This is when I read the life of Cory the oil driller and his struggles to better himself twenty years ago, and how his many monitary gambles finally paid off.

This is after dinner and I just read the saga of Cory the oil driller. My conclusion at the end of that was that Obama is not responsible for either the current financial crisis or George Bush bailing it out to the tune of 700 Billion. He's upset with Obama for his high tax rates now. Also I happened to think there must be some way to pro rate the current profit back to the lean years, since you can do the opposite. There must be some tax loophole by which all those lean years will be rewarded. I might add that all of the financial risks the man took were of his own choosing. Nobody told him to do it. He could have “settled for less sooner” but now he’s getting more later. I might also add that after I finished writing my book I had a proud feeling and this same indignent Judy told me “The only reason why you have any success is because God allows you to have it”. What she seemed to be saying was, “You didn’t write the book of your own choice; God allowed it to be written”. I had the distinct feeling she was trying to hex the project. Unlike Cory the oil driller, will will probably have money to burn even after he's paid his taxes, because of a government decision of California I am now $300.00 poorer than otherwise. As a percentnge of my monitary intake this is a much bigger chunk out of my monitary funds then Cory having to pay six percent more on his taxes. Also the man may be a gambling business man but he’s also a talented ponthicator to others.

The thing with Cory the oil driller is that by now he's earning a hell of a lot more than $250.00 per year "you betcha!" with the price of oil as it is now having quintuppled or something over the past few years. I'm supposed to feel sorry for this guy who regards Obama as the quintecence of all evil. After you pass a certain age and a certain point in your wealth, what are you going to do with your money besides Melvern Drysdale's remark about "I'm going to go into the vault and fondle every bill". What do "old men" like John Mc Cain or Ted Stevens have to look foreward to? Who are they going to leave their money to? Perhaps some shart sheister Preacher could come along and relieve them of their money by promicing them 72 Virgins when they die, along with a lifetime supply of viagara. You know Judy referred to above could take a lesson from my mother, who brags that she pays more in income tax now than the totality of her salary while she was working. She sure isn't "wasting" anything on me. A lot of us have "family" stories. Cory the oil driller had family members who loved and supported him. The blessings of friends and family are worth more than money can buy. Tom Leykis used to relate a story about how his dad would always give money to his sister who squandered money, but never give him a cent. There was a period where I borrowed a small ammount of money to cover the cost of printing up Prophecy book in 1980. It was repayed very quickly and I'm not even sure why I found myself a little short because I thought I had enough. That was about the last loan I ever got from a family member. But people speak of returning to the Clintonian tax rates as somehow a vast new "Socialist experiment" or some new "redistribution of the wealth" program. OK I get it. Rich people despize poor people. That's why rich people like my Christian friends, and Cory the oil driller are voting for Mc Cain and I'm voting for Obama, and never the twane shall meet. But you know something, in East of Eden, do you remember what Cal's father Adam said to his son after he got money in the comodities exchange by investing in grain during WW I? He said, "When are you going to give that money back from the people you stole it from?" Well, why doesn't Judy go to Cory the oil driller and point to all the speculation in oil, some of which used to be illegal, and say "When are you going to give that back from the people you stole it from?" That's not going to happen. You know what I'm tired of is this ponthication of people like Joe the Plumber and Cory the oil driller. They have learned how to ponthicate well. Like I say both have a great future as church pastors, whose job it is to fleece the flock. Meanwhile the rest of us are voting for Obama. Clinton campaigning for Obama must surely be of a help to him. There are a lot more poor people than there are rich people in this country. Obama is for hard work. He's not exactly the freeloader those on the left would like to portray him as preaching. Obama has a strong worth ethic. And I'm glad that people on the right have discovered the value of the worth ethic, because traditionally this has not been a Calvary Chappel value. In fact the other day, Joel Olsteen used a four letter word in his sermon- - P L A N. The idea of Planning ANYTHING is traditionally anathema to the Calvary Chappel crowd. I ought to know. I tried to play my life for the better and was resisted by these people at every turn. This is before they all turned into 'Mr. Potter". It's wonderful they have discovered the value of a dollar. Dollars can be wonderful things in helping out your less fortunate neighbor. But they'll never see it that way. They say "Obama is stingy with charities". If this is so I guess it's the old addage "Black people don't tip". Black people know the value of a dollar and probably scraped together every cent they could to get out in a nice resturant. Tell the waitress if she wants tips there are plenty of strip clubs around, and those people will be glad to throw money at her. These people that Obama speaks of are good, hard working people trying to better themselves while making ends meet. Now I will agree that this didn't used to be the job of President of the United States to ballance your check book. But we are in different times today. But after November 4th. these Christians on the right won't be referring to Obama as either a black or a Moslem, or a Terrorist, or a Socialist. They will be addressing him as Mr. President, and those people in our armed forces will give allegence to him as Commander and Chief.

The Machinations of the Few

We are seeing signs of the final dissilution of the Mc Cain campaign. Experts say you know it's "close to the end" when president and vice presidential candidate turn on one another and one of the other of them gets "off message". Now Sarah Palin wants candidate Mc Cain to become more personal in his attacks on Obama bringing up people like Reverand Wright. And the Mc Cain people are calling Sarah Palin a "diva" and saying she shouldn't have gotten the gift of the clothes. Some are still waiting for that etherial "tightening of the race", which the media has told us all was coming. I can remember how Ford's loss was a foregone conclusion and as I remember it Carter's loss was a foregone conclusion. People are speaking of the race as though it were really close and one candidate or the other will only win by five or ten electoral votes. But experiance shows the truth is quite otherwise. Normally (before this decade) it's tended to be an electoral vote landslide one way or the other. If there is any "tide' or "turning point" it's in Obama's direction because people, particularly married women, are losing faith in Sarah Palin. There are of course all the newspaper endorsements and the endorsement of Collin Powell last week coming out for Obama. There is the "think about it" factor, and after people weigh it and think about it, they come out for Obama. But if Obama wants to drive the nail into the coffin he might bring up the possible prosecution of criminals in the Bush Adminestration. He can enphasize more than he has the fraudulant and dishonist reasons we had for going into the Iraq War. He can "beat the big oil issue like a drum". Not only Mc Cain but also Sarah Palin and Dick Chaney and Condeleza Rice are tools of "big oil". He can remind the people that it's not a matter of "winning the war" because you can't Win an occupation, and as George Bush himself about terrorism you can't "Win It". There will never come a day when "It" has been won. You can remind them that one more bad Supreme Court appointment and we don't have a democracy any more but a "banana republic with Nukes" because American government as we know it will cease to exist when that four to five ruling gets reversed. You can inform them voting for Mc Cain won't reduce the number of abortions that are performed, or reduce the number of children who turn out gay. People should contemplate anew what it would be like with Mc Cain's finger on the button should we have to go toe to toe with the present or any future leader of Iran.

People should also remember that this idea of "creating jobs" is a deception because the need to employ people is a market driven force and not a beneficent act by "a rich person". We are all tired of hearing "You never got a job from a poor person". We are tired of having the worth of labor develued. I remember that song played on KTLK radio about "I'm the man who built the bridges, I'm the man who laid the track, with my shoulders and my back". Teddy Roosevelt once said in a speech (and he gives credit to Abraham Lincoln) that when push comes to shove, labor is to be more valued than capitol and is ontologically what comes first because without labor the lord and slave master or economic despot or whoever- - ain't got jack! People hire others because they believe they can make more money in the long run and pay the workers less- - then the profits they'll end up accrewing to their business. The economy is a market driven force. I'm tired of hearing the notion "If we just throw in a few more tax cuts the economy will be stimulated". This is like saying to a man in failing health "You know you'd be healthier if you just jogged less". If you have a strong economy- - no taxes in the world can hold it down. If you have a weak enough market, even giving it away for free won't avail you. People forget that it's the job of government to raise money from wherever they can get it. It's kind of what governments do. The reason why rich people balk at taxes is not because they feel taxes are unfair but rather they are against the whole idea of any government in the first place, but would rather delude themselves they are self made men and that the government and the laws and the courts have nothing to do with insuring stability. We have all heard Ronald Reagan's words "I'm from the government and I'm hear to help". For some reason when I hear that I think of a green acres episode where the whole town are a bunch of loonies except for Eddie Albert. OK, on to other issues- - - .

Three million people were stricken from the voter records in Ohio in 2004 and provisional ballots were never even looked at. And you know it’s going to be the same way this time. If I copy this to a blog it’s going to end up being white on white. I just went out for coffee in the courtyard, and people are still doing for the soft chairs that are in the sun. I had seconds of those tiny cups. Thom Hartman was talking one time how with a cut in capital gains tax rates he decided to sell out of the business he was in and go on an extended vacation. Cutting capital gains won’t stimulate the economy but rather leech capital from the economy in the same way that minerals displace each other in the human body. Mom says she’s taking strontium for her bones, which seems odd in light of those strontium 90 commercials about Barry Goldwater in 1964. But as strontium goes up calcium goes down. Also I’ve heard that magnesium displaces calcium and is good for a calcium OD. In like manner the body prefers sodium to potassium, and one BP book likens it back to the days of evolution and we were all chimps eating nothing but bananas and green leafy vegetables, which were rich in potassium. At any rate anybody who sees a good money “pay off” and a way of “getting out” is going to sell, and whoever he sells his stock to is going to inheret a stock with that much less capital support. There is a saying that “if it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate. And if it stops moving- subsidize it.” The government has always “managed” resources in this say. Conservatives are all upset because of Obama’s commentary on the Plecy verses Ferguson supreme court decision of 1896. Because Obama said “The supreme court didn’t go that far (as I wanted them to) in re-allocating wealth in this country. So we have the new cry that Obama is a socialist. But others will brag that in France they have vastly superior medical care to this country for “only” two hundred a month, or almost twice my “discretionary spending” money I get now. But they say that in America you have to pay a ten dollar co pay to see the doctor and that this is somehow a bad thing. Someone should explain this to me. Tom Hartman also said that in 1971 he was advised by a friend when starting up his own business to “higher women rather than men. They’ll work for less”. Now there are women who are so deluded as to think women have ALWAYS had it as good as they have it at this moment. If you’re happy with your life now you should thank a liberal for it, because as Thom Hartman also points out, most of the economic things we take for granted come to you from liberalisum such as health plans at work and clean drinking water.

Last night I watched sixty minutes. They had some “bucket brigade” scandal of 1907 where gamblers used to inhabit Wall Street betting on whether a security would succeed or fail without actually buying into that stock. In 2000 the Clinton congress re-instituted all of these gambling allowances which were illegal during most of the twentieth century. State laws were enjoined from enforcing their OWN gambling laws against these Wall Streeters preempted by Federal regulation. Now you can buy and sell these default insurance policies. Once upon a time there was a court trial in England where they established that buying “insurance” was not gambling. But in this case you needn’t own one bit of these “reprocessed” mortgage securities in order to partake of the insurance policy. You can buy and sell these policies and make tens of millions, and many people have gotten rich in the past eight years buying and selling these “swaps”. But then they all defalted. Every writer of these “swaps” just decided they weren’t going to pony up when the people came to collect, and this is the chief thing that drove banks like Lehman Brothers over the edge. T Boone Pickens was also on talking about natural gas to run cars on. This is a very good idea and it would cut smog. And we can get electricity from wind power, and I hope this idea has caught on by now, because the wind blows a lot in some of these western plains states. In like matter we told you to cover your oil shorts because the price was bottoming out. And lo and behold we hear that OPEC is going to cut production next month. Now we can all embrace T Boone Pickens’ wind idea and tell OPEC to stick their oil where the sun doesn’t shine because we have moved beyond needing their oil.

There was one of those interactive US state maps but this one was different. Rather than being able to find out how many votes Dole got in 1996 with this map you could change the color of the state to either red or blue or inbetween and the electoral vote tally would change.

You saw in the news this morning passing billions of freshly minted money out to banks. I’d like to have some of that. But with this money the banks aren’t necessarily lending with that new money but are “sitting on this money” and using it for acquisitions, or buying out other institutions, or else paying their share holders. There are apparently no strings on how the banks are to spend their newly donated wealth from Uncle Sam. But somehow the Mc Cain people never will go and call this welfare for the rich.

There is a principle that conservatives embrace that liberals classicly didn’t about how your tax dollars you pay should actually be related to the services you get. But the Neo Cons believe in the axiom “From many a lot of money to pay to the few”. So you have pork projects for the few or else some financial scheme to benefit the few or the few screw up badly in an irresponsible act so the many have to pay. Thom Hartman believes the many should have to pay for the seeming perpetual poor health of the few. I still am not sold on this theory yet. I keep thinking in utilitarian terms of how much more bang the “many” could get for their tax dollars in things they really want- - were it not for the machinations of the few. (Selah)

I’ve decided perhaps I will vote for the animal rights proposition after wards and just “see how it works out”. It sure looks like it’s going to pass anyhow. I’m voting NO in propositions six and nine, which have to do with expanding law enforcement, because they will cost too much money. But I am voting for proposition five, which “reduces prison overcrowding” and provides drug rehabilitation and counseling for those not yet hooked on it, and in this way the crime rates are cut and expenditures are down.

The Simpson's - Diagnostic Quiz

Of the states Oregon, Illinois, Misouri and Massachusetts, the most probably location of Springfield of Simpson’s fame. (there are many clues)

Of Ned Flanders, Semour Skinner, Rev. Lovejoy or Homer Simpson, the individual whom Pastor Mark Bove most resembles in personality (I kid you not)

The character patterned voice wise after Edward G. Robinson

The nationality of Milhaus other than Holland

What is Marge Simpson’s maiden name?

The individual other than Lisa Simpson who is responsible for the poetry compelation “Howeling at a Concrete Moon”

The historic TV clown that Krusty the clown is patterned after

What is the single digit number of the local TV station?

The individual on the show who is an avowed homosexual.

What is the religion of the proprietor of the Quickie Mart?

True or false: Bart Simpson is consistently compassionate to various animals.

What character has “absolutely no personality at all”. The answer: “Snowball”

When Bart and Lisa were temporarily in the same grade, who scored better on tests?

Which year was Lisa Simpson conceived? 1983, 1987, 1991, 1995, 1999

What year did Homer graduate high school of 1974, 1978, 1982 or 1986?

True or False: Homer’s sexual impotency has been a major source of plot-lines

on the show.

What is grandpa Simpson’s first name?

Who uttered the line “Gee, I’m beginning to hate my own creation. Now I know how God feels!”

Which character on the show is a vegetarian?

What was Marge Simpson’s hobby in high school other than French and politics?

What was “Santa’s Little Helper’s” occupation before coming to live at the Simpson’s home?

What character became famous for crying “Vendetta! - - Vendetta”

What was Homer Simpson’s mother doing when she passed away?

Of Homer Simpson, Montgomary Simpson, or Marge Simpson, the one who is most mechanically inclined.

What happened to the roll of film that “proved” Itchy the mouse was plagurized from another author?

What is the price per barrel of oil that the War on Springfield said that it was the US’s responsibility to keep the price under?

In the episode about visiting the cave and falling through the hole, who’s fictional account did it turn out the whole incident was (told by)?

Who on the series has an allergy to peanuts?

What were Bart Simpson’s first words as a baby?

What color is the Simpson’s main family car?

What is the name of the school that Bart and Lisa attend?

How many spikes does Bart Simpson officially have on his head?

True or false: Ned Flanders has never had sex with a woman since his wife passed away.

What was Bart Simpson’s new “dictum” of what America would be called from now on?

Which character on the show is perniciously melancholy to the point of near suicide?

What religion on that show is routinely “trashed” by the way various characters are played other than fundamentalism?

True or False: Marge Simpson is responsible for over half the income of the Simpson household due to Homer being out of work so often.

Who is the liberal intellectual on the program?

Why would Homer Simpson make a lousy Christian? A. because he’s too stupid B. Because he’s too lazy. C. Because his family is too unstable D. Because he’s too honist

Of the five members of the Simpson family, who of the five has the most friends?

Where did Marge and Homer first have sex?

What child character on the show was once declared “emancipated” by the courts?

Who’s voice was fundamentally rather different in the very early episodes of the show?

Which character on the show has expressed sentiments of “Get married and settle down – no matter what the personal price?

Which character has engaged in sexual intercourse, Bart Simpson, Milhaus, Martin, Todd Flanders, Nelson, Jim Boy, none of the above.

What brand of beer does Homer Simpson drink?

What does the “secret message” in a song “Yvan eht Nioj” mean?

Number tug-of war. If the 3 has a certain enmity to the 6 than any number divisable by 3 has a certain enmity to any number that isn’t. If you multiply any non three number by another non three number you never get a three, namely 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 Of these you can split these into two groups of 1 ,4 and 7 in one group and 2, 5, and 8 in another. For the first group 1 4 or 7 if you times them by a 3 or a 6 number they stay the same. If you times a 3 or a 6 number by the second group, 2 5 or 8 the 3’s become sixes and the sixes become threes. This could have profound implications for world peace. (“What?”)

Audatiously Looking Death in the Face

Berock Obama’s book is titled “The audacity of Hope”. I suppose we could call this file “The case for survival of death”. Although nobody has proved we survive death and there is a total absence of scientific evidence to support it- - there are nonetheless a few indications that we do survive death. Perhaps the most powerful is this universal human delusion or belief that in fact we do survive death. People believe that when they are dying they “go to a better place” and few contemplate that this is well the moment of their own extinction henceforth and forever more. Going along with this belief is the societal belief since prehistoric times that we survive death. Could it be that the human race as a whole knows something intuitively that can’t be proved logically? It of course is a possibility that the entire human race is laboring over one huge delusion. But perhaps not. Next there is the leadership argument. We know that in societies once a senior leader is cut down, the new leader seems to almost magically “rise to the occasion” often despite a lack of previous indicators in his personality. Sometimes with young kids the father is killed and the oldest sibling rises to the occasion and suddenly acts much more responsibly than he ever did before. In apes I imagine there is a fight for dominance and the leadership ape somehow “inherets the power of the deceast relative”. This could well be an exercise in relative dominance and filling up a vaccume. But it might be something more. One argument against the notion of death being a permanent state of unconsciousness (or non existence) is that THIS is another of those things which man has never experienced. People come out of comas of course, but they were still as it were “trapped inside a body”. But most of us cannot “imagine being dead”. We have this entrenched belief that “we will go on” somehow, in our consciousness. Christians have harnessed this belief well in mankind. I believe to an errant degree because of their slogans were honist it would be “Death is our savior” “Death is our deliveror”. Death is the great justifier for all of the ills we have suffered. “Death is our future hope”. When you look at it this way Christianity seems rather silly as opposed to a more earthbound religion such as Judaisum, from which it sprang, which spoke of an ONGOING relationship with God in the here and now, enjoying his blessings- - and not FIRST MEETING him once you die in the afterlife. Furthermore- - Christians are all running from something in their past. There are people and we can use Frank as an example- -who I imagine before they were Christians were real creeps and there is nothing about him I would care to associate with as a friend. The Federation considers it a weakness of Christianity that “who you are” is pretty much known when you’re a young child as far as your inate personality is concerned. Yet Christians invariably deny who they are, that is, who they have been, and they run, from what and to what they know not where.

Some of you readers, and I hope you’re still with me, would ask “Just what is all this about Federations and Empires warring with each other in space? How do they possibly do that given the enormous distances between stars. Real life isn’t like Star Trek or Star Wars”. Point taken. The answer is I do not know. I know they do have earth style fighting ships and fight in that mode. But I also know they reach into the psychic realm. During this file I may be correcting things I’ve said in previous files. One of those is this thought. I have stated that when people “see the dead” it is left over energized particles and their life is frozen at the time of death. The Federation has always taught the opposite. That when you meet a “dead person” you’re meeting them as they are now in real time, and as such they may have grown and evolved and changed to a degree from when you last knew them, like anybody else would.

I would at this time like to talk about the three top dimensions of the six there are. First I’d like to do a little pure math for you people. A cube that’s ninety degrees on all corners in a four dimensional world would have 24 sides. A cube in a five dimensional world would have 120 sides and a cube in a six dimensional world would have 720 sides. That’s an awful lot and each of them is ninety degrees. When you are working with a one dimensional array you can have a two dimensional database, and your number of different table sets or “planes” is one. With a two dimensional array you can have dimensions (1) and (2) but there is also an added defacto zero dimensions so that you have a total of three dimensions or three different intersecting data planes, of what you’d call tables. In a three (3) dimensional array you have access to four dimensions again utilizing the zero dimension for a grand total of six planes or sets of data tables. Were you able to accomplish a four dimensional array (My computer balks at that) you could have five dimensions or ten sets of intersecting planes or sets of data. (tables)

The fourth dimension is one where we leave the three special ones and come into a dimension of illusory causality. Time is the causality. But the Federation teaches that is the ILLUSION of causality. It’s the dimension we live in as “Now”. When you “Are brought to NOW” you are brought to an awareness of Self and have dropped all of the en-grams that formerly blocked you. You are free to act. “Now” is, as it were, a gift from the Gods because it’s a time when you can exercise Free Will, (or at least the illusion thereof) Dimension five is one I’d like to explore a bit. We said that we didn’t know about death because there is no evidence. This is that there is no evidence that unconsiousness either exists or doesn’t exist. If you are a proponet of the Big Bang Theory you believe there was a time when all Creation was concentrated into one small point. But since space didn’t exist either you have no frame of reference to even be able to SAY what is a point and what isn’t. If space did exist, it, too would be so curved and compacted you wouldn’t even be aware of it. But as you know the Federation teaches that in the Big Bang (if THAT existed at all since nothing CAUSES anything) each aspect of the explosion exploded into its own dimension creating it. I have used the analogy of lines shooting out from a point or dot. Each line represents its own four dimensional reality or Universe. There aren’t quite parrellel Universes, but damn close to it. The Federation teaches that these universe never cross each other’s path and so we will never experience anything but our own Universe. At this point I’d like to put in another correction and we have Sylvia Browne to thank for this one. We said that you could pick up psychic vibes or warnings from other Universes on the fifth dimensional plane. This is false. We can have premonitions that might be LIKE those the others in a parrellel universes have, but they are our OWN premonitions generated from our OWN mind. We’ve all had superstitions. Either we believe if we do something, something else good will happen, or else if we ever do something- - something bad will happen. Sometimes these superstitions come to pass. This is a case of pre-cognitive knowledge awareness. (or simply, precognition) I believe it really happens since the Future is just as real as the past. This whole fifth dimension alludes to the “Fire in the heavens” Chinese hexagram where the fifth line is broken (and “dark”). It’s the “Hotel California” or “Twilight Zone” dimension discussed in previous writings. Youall clear?

Finally we come to the sixth dimension or psychic dimension. This is the dimension of consciousness. It’s almost dinner time so I’ll be back. OK I’m back from dinner and getting coffee at the bakery. I ran into a little sprinkles. So I’ll turn off my space monitor and we’ll continue. The Greeks said that Ideas were the most real things of all. In the sixth dimension Ideas are things. Here’s one more correction for you. We said in the Sea of Green the mind generates monsters and stuff. Actually if we come back to Professor Einstein and causality, it’s a chicken and egg thing. We can’t say for sure whether your mind generates the monsters, or they were already there. In like manner when you “get an idea” it isn’t something your mind conjured up but it was already there. Some speak of two people getting the Same Idea at the same time. You will note the singularity of object. For two people to have the same Idea means they have to be in the same psychic space. It’s hard to portray the psychic dimension and some of our previous illustrations of the Sixth dimension may not be right on. We have spoken of ideas and thoughts and indeed spiritual entities as waves on the ocean. They collide into one another and either strengthen or weaken one another when they intersect. But you will note if you painted the sand on the bottom in a black and white checkerboard pattern it would have absolutely no influence on the waves, because it’s only two dimensional and the waves are three dimensional. We speak of ideas “resonating” and speak of an idea having “the ring of truth”. This idea of resonance is heavily used in our speech. If we get back to life and the soul and the body we can think of water from a hose running down a driveway. The water will normally run a straight line but at times it may devide up and become separate rivers. These rivers may or may not rejoin. Normally we associate a soul occupying one body. But Stewart teaches that the soul and the body are not the same thing. Getting back to our Christian analogy- - I have often pondered the idea that a person could “become possessed by a new soul” and the old soul depart. We often say “In that period of my life I don’t know what I was doing”. People often speak of their past actions as if they were talking about another person. I never do this but others to. They don’t “own their actions”. (as if it were “under the blood of Christ” or something) We don’t know if the psychic dimension is purely like the famed “Sea of Green” or not. The other thing people wonder about is psychic travel. All of the rivers of water on the driveway are rivers of the same water from the same hose. Could there be a “You” living some other life in some other body? What keeps the “energy” in one soul together? I personally go for the rings of Saturn theory. There is some gravitational force that kicks in and causes concentric rings to form. Maybe only sporadic blurbs of your life are lived in another body and those same sporadic blurbs are holes left in your current life to be filled with another spirit. Can you disprove it? The question arises of astral projection and distances in the psychic realm. Here is another of those corrections. We have talked of “space folding” (thunder just now) but there is macro space folding where the three space dimensions are involved and there is micro space folding where it’s basically just psychic or astral travel. Other than describing a folded loop of pager, I can’t come up with another analogy. We do know that Ideas are Things, but there is also our ongoing thought cognitive process that is going on in this dimension.

Green represents “before change” or the future, and Pink represents “after change” or the past. Red is confidence. Orange is imaturety, Gold is materialism. Yellow of apprehension. Chartruce is paranoia. Green is either war or the future or “Go”. Terquoise is either psychic death or “spiritually sterile location. In Romulan, blue denotes “sell out”. Purple denotes preciousness and royalty. Marroon stands for a Lost Love, and hot pink or magenta symbolizes the past or “after the change”. White denotes objective truth. Silver is redemption. Tan, oddly enough means homosexual, whereas brown merely means “utility usage”. On Sirius and among the Romulans they use the absolutely identical semaphore symbols we do on earth, meaning that they probably imported them from earth. Romulans used to send a lot of messages with flags.

I hope you have enjoyed this little journey. We’ll get back to politics soon.