Jesus Was Not A Liberal

Today on the Stephanie Miller program they showed a rerun of a segment where this book author comes on and says that Christians aren't being true to their Founder. Well I hate to break the news to you but the Jesus portrayed in the Bible was far from being a liberal. In the first place he said that divorce was wrong in any case except adultry. Also if you married a divorced woman you both were comitting adultry. The idea of his being sympathetic to homosexual marriage is out of the question. He likened marriage back to Genisis and Adam and Eve - not Adam and Steve. On the matter of abortion we have more hope for you liberals out there because Jesus does imply that life begins at birth. And all through the New Testament you have the implication that Life is like a Seed coming to full germanation in Heaven, and that a better Greek translation according to some is that you are "being Born Again" like Dylan says "He who is not busy being Born is busy Dying" Capish? As such I have charged people like Bill Halliday of being a "Spiritual Abortionist" because he aborts would be Christians from their set paths. We could go back to Rush Limbaugh's "Phone call abortion" thing if we want to. Certainly scripture is replete with scriptures like "Hold fast and let no man take thy Crown". Jesus referred to Baptisum as birth with such lines as "You must be Born Again by Water and the Spirit", alluding to baptism. However Jesus when given every oppertunity, like Obama, comes down on the side of the Status Quo every time he has the choice. He honors the Romans in saying that you owe Ceasar your money. Paul says that laws (of Rome) are not for "good people" to fear and adds "They do not carry the sword in vain". Jesus goes further to say that not one jot or tiddle will pass from the Law till "all is accomplished", which I like Chuck Smith infer to be the Second Coming. But this is the Jesus portrayed in the Bible.

However you can clearly "sort out" the Four Messiahs of the Bible and trace the order in which they were added or layered on. Luke was the last to "layer on" the assencion into heaven forty days after death, like Apolonius. These late layerings can bee seen in, for instance, the sole seeming reference to the Trinity in the whole Bible (at the end of Matthew), and references to Jesus having natural brothers and naming them, and also the city of Nazareth itself. But stripping these away, as one should the Christmas Story, which is the story of Mithras, you are left what portrates of two distinct people, and I'll explain. One was of a healing messiah who lived in the north. This messiah was very adept at dealing with demons and had a strong belief in them, and believed that demons came in a whole variety of forms, such as demons of deafness or blindness, or other things. There is another tradition you might call the southern tradition. Here is where you see a Jesus who was combative with pharicees and in John when Jesus refers to the pharicees as Satan, he does not seek to "exorcise" them, as the northern Jesus would have. It says in JC Superstar "A trick or two with leppers and the whole town's on its feet". I don't see healings during "Passion Week". As James Madison would put it "I fail to lay my finger on that portion of scripture". Did you ever wonder what happened to Jesus powers that final week? They even died and worked at different times. The northern Jesus had one year around 35 AD or the year of jubilee. The southern Jesus escaped crusifiction on November 24th of AD 29 during a solar eclipse. The upside down cross like the upside flag is used as a sign of distress. The upside down cross is the cross of Rome, where beliefs of the southern Jesus centered. This southern Jesus was more of a teaching messiah rather than a healing messiah. The "sayings of Jesus" document has no meracles in it, someone pointed out. It was probably an early date when the northern and southern Jesuses merged into one. But like Strawberry Fields Forever, if you read the book of Mark, the "bifercation" can be fairly readily picked up.

Rush Limbaugh had chest pains while on vacation in Hawaii. Someone said he was vacationing close to where President Obama is. Rush is said to be "resting comfortably" now. I would not definitely count this is the last "incident" Rush will have. Like earthquakes, sometimes minor attacks are preludes to major, fatal attacks, often in people like Rush who have this cavilier attitudes about their health and thinks they are "too important" to get sick.

By now you've heard of how a trusted Al Qaeda opperative got past CIA check points and walked into their inner sanctum, and detonated a suicide bomb killing many. I find it ironic that I invoked "God's speed" on President Obama and talked about "infiltration of the enemy" in my last posting, and now this happens. This only goes to show that Satan is several steps ahead of me, and why taking him on isn't smart. I really thought sending up a little prayer for our President might be a good thing. We all will have to get used to these full body nude scanners at airports, it seems. Thom Hartman says that personally he doesn't want to be exposed to the radiation. For frequent business travelers, this to me seems a potential problem. It's a temptation, honestly, to relent and say "perhaps racial profiling isn't really such a bad thing if it saves the rest of us inconvenience". Of course if the explosives were in a body cavity, even these scanners would be useless. Sometimes I think Al Qaeda is really stupid, like those tapes they used to send us indicating profound ignorance of American culture. Then they go and pull off something like happened today, causing me to re-think. Thom Hartman and others say the best recruiting of Al Qaeda is facilitated by us and our often rabidly anti Islamic positions and this idea that we are in some kind of Holy Crusade against these people. If you believe that a whole religion is filled with "killing machines" just waiting for orders, this doesn't make for very healthy relations, and one longs for the days of "Detante".

2009 - A Major Disappointment for Progressives

This year of 2009 has been a personally dismal year for yours truly. Money for me continues in short supply and for the first time this Christmas I got absolutely no money from anybody. There have been more “proactive” house cleaning sessions, and at least three times now the TV has screwed up because the ground wire was messed up on KTTV or FOX. Of course in June through the first half of July I was off the internet entirely from June 16^th through July 13^th. More items have been either lost or stolen in the laundry than since I have lived here. My Dad’s possessions have been generally treated as those of an undesirable roommate you didn’t like and were trying to get rid of all traves of. My Mom sold her house at the stratigicly worse time possible last July. I have suffered the loss of a lot of personal items that were stored there. But as I’ve said before,. 2009 has been a nightmare year for progressive, with a President we all believed was one of our own, and voted for him on that basis. And not only that voted for him because of his Promises to us, over and above a candidate, Hillary, who said with her experience she would be able to get more done in congress. We should have listened to her. If a lot of us had that vote to do over, a lot of us would have voted differently. But you had people like Randy Rhodes saying “the race is over” from late February on, when the race was Anything but over. I am getting a little sick of being accused by people like Hal Sparks of “saying I’m not going to vote any more or I’ll vote for the Republicans. I’d like to know WHO is saying this?? Nobody. He’s just making it up! In fact what it means is that progressives have to fight harder and use at the same time more drastic tactics and more innovative or unusual tactics. There is no reason why we have to ask ourselves how many people in congress we’ll lose next year. Rather we should be thinking of gaining new members in congress next year. That we should shoot for. If you plan to lose, your dreams will be realized. This idea of setting ridiculously small goals is becoming a regular sickness in the media. Why do we let either either Sarah Palin or Joe Lieberman define who we are? Why can’t we see ourselves in the image of John Kennedy. You know “Yes we can” should be more than a slogan to win campaigns. If that’s all Obama was shooting for was “getting in” then Rush Limbaugh was right. Berock Obama is a small man. Well now substitute jock Hal Sparks has joined this circular firing squad that liberals seem intent on participating in. If your football team is screwing up and the coach knows which players are screwing up and does not remedy the situation, somewhere down the line you fire the coach. What if one of those players said something like “Why should I try to win the game. My goal was just to make the team. I never knew I’d have to work after that”. Or what if another player said “Hell coach, this is such a crappy team, you’re lucky to have me to begin with. I’ve got options you know”. Two women callers in a row expressed dismay that Obama appeared to be shutting out the left and not caring what they even think, and instead directing all his personal effort twords conferences with people on the right. Hal Sparks accused one or both of them of being shills for the right wing because they were stating the obvious. Not only is Obama screwing up, but he doesn’t seem to care. He’s not even trying to advance the agenda of the left. Some have said that an executive order ending “Don’t ask don’t tell” would “offend” the Republicans in congress. Others such as on the “Frangela” show, are bothered by the anti abortion provisions in both health bills while others are concerned about women’s health issues such as paying for mammograms.

Well, we all want to assume our President knows best. I hope he’s employing the CIA productively in recruiting counter terrorists to infiltrate Al Qaeda and learning all of their inside information. Obviously this would all have to be kept top secret, to be made known, if ever, only upon success and the toppeling of Al Qaeda. One would hope that day would be soon, so that we don’t have to leave in a state of building real or manufactured fear. God’s speed to our President.

Moslems aren’t the only people with death fancicies. C S Lewis in “The Screwtape letters” romanticized death in the story of a guy who was killed, suddenly of coursee, in World War II and subsequently made it to heaven, which he describes as “refreshing, like a shower in the morning”. Nobody ever asks themselves that question “But what if I don’t die”. This Islamic terrorist known as the underwear terrorist with PDTM explosive in them- enough for a fairly substantial detonation, like the shoe bomber - - failed to die and hence succeed in his mission because the powder failed to explode, but only catch on fire. So the skin was burned off his legs. Not to be indelicate but I wonder if this man has anything between his legs any more or is That part of his life- - over? What I would really like is for someone who has really BEEN to the Other Side and wants to come back and talk about it without violating some “prime directive” or whatever. That would be the block buster Oprah Winfewy interview of all time. The possibilities of what happens after death are endless, and heading the list is the strong possibility that you just might cease to exist. If you plan your death and fail to weigh this possibility you’re working with bad input. People employ the adage “To conquer death you only have to die”, or as Bill Cosby might say “That’s about the Stupidest thing I’ve heard anybody say”. Religious fundamentalism is stupid. People who reach our age and don’t realize that truth are psychologically retarded in their development.

You know you have the Wickipedia for collected knowledge on the internet. Why couldn’t we have a sort of wickipedia-legleslation forum on the internet where everyone proposes legislation contributing little bits and pieces of it, and some editor picks out the best stuff to post. After everyone reads it we can all vote on it – bypassing congress entirely as long as they aren’t going to act. President Obama has shown zero leadership in business and finance reform. People are proposing legislation to bring back Glass-Steagall, that reform package passed by Franklin Roosevelt that kept banks from speculating with our money in risky investments. Why isn’t President Obama leading this fight? Where is the President on this issue? He’s too busy listening to Larry Summers and Timothy Geitner. With Obama what we have is a man who fundamentally lied to us in the campaign, saying that he is a man of change, when he is very much the man of the status quo. You’d never know by the things Obama says about the economy that he’s basically one with the people responsible for it being this way. These state initiatives are disasters because most of them are penned by one lobbyist or the other. If we got the “people”, bright, informed people who use the internet- - involved in the legislative process we would see whether the adage is true, “There is wisdom in numbers”.

President Obama took a break from his Hawaiian vacation today to comment on the bombing attack, that was alledgedly a retaliation for US air strikes in Yemen. Al Qaeda has officially taken credit for the attempted attack. Of course that guy on Sixty Minutes says “They are still planning a bigger attack”. The President promised today that new security steps would be taken. That’s just what every paranoid is hoping to hear. The suspect was on a terror watch list, but not the “No Fly” list. Joe Lieberman wants more liberal use of the whole body image scanners. There was a female substitute on the Ron Reagan program, so that station is four for four as far as having substitutes for their day line-up. Like I say, they must be paid well. She wanted to discuss the topic of racial profiling. She’s all for it saying that the population in general will suffer all these oppressive security precautions but that only those of Arab descent or Moslems need undergo the full rigors of whatever measures we impose. Of course this is just what the government WANTS us to think. They want us as obsessed with terrorism and as angry at Islamists as possible. One lady called and said she was troubled by the whole tone of today’s conversation and she was against racial profiling. Oh, and she said she was African American. She was cut off without explanation except when the host is losing the argument, they just “do what comes natural”. I turned the program off after this because it had ceased to be intellectually respectable.

Christmas With Stu

Stewart Suctliffe has renewed the practice of "overseeing" some key outing events. This is after years and years of not doing this. I went to Knott's Berry Farm last Saturday a week ago and Stewart only saw our group as we were about to leave the park. It was the trio of myself, Pete Richards and Bill Gunderson. In years past like say nearly thirty years ago the trio might consist of me, Pete Richards and David Snow. David Snow must resembles that Bu-bu Higgins guy on "Mama's Family" if you're looking for a simily. Pete Richards made the statement "I'm glad the Snoop Ice Show" made explicit reference to the Biblical basis for Christmas". Stewart wanted to endourse the remark saying that it's time Christmas got a lot little more back to its roots. Stewart made the remark to me one day that he preferred the Rare Earth version of "I'm Losing You" as opposed to the Rod Stewart version, which I had regarded as "definitive version" of this song. I expressed puzzlement at Stewart because I thought it was a Rod Stewart fan and he said "No, I'm a fan of any artist who was ever in the Yardbirds, such as Jeff Beck. But I'm not into Rod Stewart". Stewart remarked that the Rare Earth version of "Losing You" just seemed to have a little more funky soul than the Rod Stewart version.

Yesterday Stewart was waiting already at the house when I am you know who were off getting the Chinese food for our dinner. You can throw out the "in an hour you'll be hungry again" rule with this meal. This is a meal that definitely sat heavy in the stomach. The whole food menu was very protien intensive, and I stuffed myself on almonds, and these cheese log things where I applied thick slices to triscuits. That makes for a heavy orderve. The rice was heavy and not fluffy as Chinese rice usually is. The chow mein was NOT primarily bean sprouts, and the Chicken almond- - very different from the vegetable intensive way it's normally prepared. There was chicken mushroom, and there was brocolli beef, and also sweet and sour pork - - boneless. There were also fried wontons and an egg roll for each of us. The soup was about the worst I've had from any Chinese place. My fortune cookie promised long life. There were numerous conversation "anomalies" that Stewart noted that I won't go into. I had missed his insightful perceptions. In terms of gifts it was a bumper crop, except that I got no money - from anybody, out of a desire to prevent me from having money for cigarettes. There were some nice greeting cards. I got a kaki long sleeved shirt from a brother, and a nice one. I received a digital camera from the other brother, although it's an economy job, if you look at the specifications. There is no zoom. I received two insightful books from my Mom, and this Japanese number calendar game from a cousin who was there. I also got the usual fruit cake, and some dried fruit and nuts in a baggie that I've already eaten.

There was a debate as to whether marijuana can give you brain damage. Well if not that it does seem that marijuana usage when you are young can lead to decreased seretonin output in the brain as an adult, which decreases the ability of an individual to deal with stress in his life. As such those who didn't smoke pot would be at a decided advantage in competetive or stressful situations that come along in life.

Now they are telling us there is a flood of terrorists coming from Nigeria to Detroit to set off explosive devices on US planes. The buzz is now that no electronic devices will be allowed on US flights during the last hour, because this attempt occurred in the last hour of the flight. You know my feeling that most of these measures are 90% terror hysteria and 10% substance.

We finally have George Harrison checking in here on our Beatle album series. I want the listener to have a certain "experiance" and I weighed out which songs to include and omit. Stewart expressly told me it was up to me to select these songs and he would have no input. Except that in the fall of 1962 Stewart claimed (over a decade ago) that he recorded "Hold Me Tight" with that band he was in in Toronto when he played bass. Here is more stuff to read.

Here are two “collectors’ items”. What I tried to do was to get bits that you either don’t hear all that much, or in the case of the British EP that came out in the spring of 1964 in Britain, I wanted all four of this songs featured because none of these songs are included on The Beatles “Red Album”, which seems to me a glairing omission. As to the “six minute jam” version of “She’s A Woman”, Jim Ladd played this track in June of 1992 and I fully expected to hear this track on Anthology but it wasn’t there. This has spaces now but it might not later on.

THE BEATLES – EARLY NUGGETS

Three Cool Cats (Decca Tapes)

Love of the Loved (Decca Tapes)

Bessame Mucho (Decca tapes version)

Sure to Fall (Decca tapes version)

Crying, Waiting, Hoping (BBC version)

Love Me Do (audition version with Pete Best)

I Saw Her Standing There (unreleased version played on KLOS

that’s a little faster and the lead guitar part is less evolved

Hold Me Tight (from With the Beatles) a favorite of Stu Sutcliffe)

The Honeymoon Song (Beatles at the BBC)

Clara Bella (Beatles at the BBC)

Sweet Little Sixteen (Beatles at the BBC version)

Lonesome Tears in my Eyes (Beatles at the BBC)

Leaves On The Trees (Beatles at the BBC version)

Money (official “With the Beatles” version)

Long, Tall Sally (Past Masters Vol 1)

I Call Your Name (Past Masters Vol 1)

You Know What to Do (Anthology) George: lead vocal

Matchbox (Past Masters Vol 1)

Can’t Buy Me Love (Anthology version)

Slow Down (Past Masters Vol 1)

And I Love Her (Single US version)

She’s A Woman (unreleased six minute version heard in 1992)

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Some Harrison albums have NO selections off them on this collection. I tried to go for Harrison songs that “made a statement” or were somehow historical music landmarks.

THE MOSTLY GEORGE HARRISON ALBUM

Disk One

Taxman (US mono version)

Piggies (from White Album)

Think for Yourself (Rubber Soul)

Love You To (from Revolver)

Beatles 1967 Christmas Message

Inner Light (from single B side)

Only A Northern Song (Yellow Submarine)

Blue Jay Way (US radio version with fewer overdubs)

It’s All Too Much (from Yellow Submarine)

While My Guitar Gently Weeps (original acoustic version)

Savory Truffle (White Album)

Long, Long, Long (White Album)

Not Guilty (Anthology version)

Sour Milk Sea (unreleased George demo version)

Rip It Up/Shake, Rattle - / Blue Suede Shoes (Anthology)

Disc Two

Come And Get It (Anthology version)

Oh Darling (from “Let It Be” sessions) (Anthology)

All Things Must Pass (Anthology version)

It Don’t Come Easy (George Harrison demo version)

Blow Away (from "George Harrison")

Devil’s Radio (from 1987 album)

Isn’t It a Pity (single version)

When We Was Fab (from 1987 album)

Cocameme Business (from 1989 album)

Deep Blue (1971 single B Side)

Bangle Desh (1971 single A Side)

Ring Out The Old Ring In The New (from “Dark Horse”)

Cracker box Palace (from 33 & 1/3)

This Guitar Can’t Keep From Crying (from “Extra Texture”)

The Art of Dying (from “All Things Must Pass”)

Festivus for the Rest of Us

This is an expression that has been circulating around this year. People have their own ways and traditions in celebrating Christmas and far be it from me to interfere with them. "Viva la differance" is what I say. Some people go to basketball games on Christmas. Others head off to Lake Tahoe. Of course much of our Romanesque tradition comes from the Cult of Sol Invictus or "Unconquered Sun" which kind of merged with the cult of Mithras. In two different web sites lately I have come across a reference to the mass torching of ancient scriptures by the Romans in the late 4th century after the Nicene Creed was established. One of these writings was a Jehovah's Witness publication. You could tell from the frequent references to Jehovah. I am not inclined to give credence to either article. The Emperor was Theodosius I. I don't dispute that there was a move at this time to re-make classic Christian into the Trinitarian formulas we know today. However a bit problem with "mystery cults" is that they didn't write things down because they obviously wanted to be secretive. I have stated, and for you new people this is an eye opener, that classic Gnosticism goes back to a group called the Pythagoreans. This is a group that believes everything traces back to the original "Point" or "The One". From here gods and creation polliferated and became more complex and also underwent a devolution. Original sin is a concept that refers originally to the gods rather than to man. Because it's the sin of the gods that caused them to create this evil Universe. But many refer to the early Christians as Essines even though what the Essines believed was sort of a platonist dualism rather than a belief in a savior messiah. Some say St. Paul was an Essine. We know that "scripture was tampered with" because Paul was described as a "Young man" at the stoning of Stephan, a few years before he got saved. Yet to be a Pharicee, which he claims to be, you had to attain to the age of thirty and many say you could not be a Pharicee unless you were married. We don't know what happened to Mrs. Paul. Many have pointed out similarities on Paul's letters to the apocraphal book of Enoch. I bring out all these factoids to say that Christianity came from a primorial soup of varied and often disperate ideas. We learn much of what we know about St. Paul from the Book of Acts, which is an anti-semetic rant, and Marcion would have no doubt included the book in his cannon had the book existed in 140 AD or whenever Marcion formed his cannon. We know that in one letter Paul refers to Judas betraying Jesus, yet in another letter of Paul we have Judas being among the twelve who saw the risen Jesus. We know in one letter St. Paul refers to the Mosiac law as "Dead" and "Void". But he says in another letter not recognized by Marcion the following "We know that the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully". In one letter Paul says on the subject of eating meat "Let each man not judge the other", and yet in another refers to teachers who advocate this as "doctrines of demons". He says both "in these troubled times it is better not to marry" yet in another book (again not recognized by Marcion) he says "An Elder should be the husband of one wife and know how to rule his household". One author years ago said that we owe Christianity itself to St. Paul. So I regard him as a key figure who blended all of these items in the primorial soup of doctrine. This is a man whom many point out "Seemed to know almost no detail about anything in the four gospels". He was a man who even regarded historical reality as a wrong notion referring to it as "Knowing Jesus after the flesh". He believed Christ would return in his lifetime, we know from the line "We who are alive will be caught up together and so shall we ever be with the Lord". We're still waiting.

AND NOW FOR THE LOCAL NEWS

(RECORDED EARLIER TODAY)

This morning I went for coffee at ten after six. For the fourth day in a row there was no hot water in the shower only today it didn’t even tease for a few seconds of hot. Today it was cold all along so I didn’t even get in. I don’t know if the bakery will even be open tomorrow. We had Raison Bran with toast and butter and jelly and a fried egg and a second on coffee. I had KTLK on till eight and then I switched to a rather different Bill Handel program on KFI. Trying to find something that isn’t a rerun is difficult. Thom Hartman’s program was a rerun. In the news the Senate passed the health bill before the sun was even up in Washington. Someone said that Senator Byrd was the Senate pro temp guy who is fourth in secession to the Presidency. If so this adds a key note on those Republicans who are praying that one senator would die before the vote.

I thought I’d see what Rush Limbaugh had to say. He was foaming at the mouth at all sorts of issue and that show, too, was a rerun. In the first segment he was saying how President Obama is indecisive in not ordering more troops to Afghanistan, and even brought out a Dick Chaney quote. But later on Rush criticized his sending in of 34,000 vaguely implying he dislikes White House leaks. He then said taxes ought to be raised on everyone earning over thirty thousand, to pay for it. He seemed to also dislike the idea of Obama’s explaining his decision to the American Public by TV. He kept calling the President a “small man”. He then attacked this notion of a White House state dinner saying he was “hijacking Thanksgiving”. There’s no pleasing him. Then it was on to global warming and these E mail leaks. We now know that these leaks are ten years old and so utterly irrelevant to the current debate. Tomorrow on KFI will be Jesus Christ and the whole pro war gang celebrating the birthday of the Prince of Peace. On Bill Handel they launched into an attack of the movie “Avatar” because it seemed to put a negative spin on the US playing God with aboriginal peoples of a region, and of course anything that’s anti war is suspect. John and Ken say no matter who gets elected just throw them out of office the next time around. This of course will only insure that lobbyists are the ones running the government because they will be the only ones with experience.

The Health Care bill passed 60 votes in favor and 39 against. People continue to suggest that a public option might be slipped in by the conference committee but if this bill is altered by so much as a hair, it won’t pass the vote in the Senate. Some have even suggested that failing this, a “reconciliation resolution” could be made in the Senate where it would only need 51 votes. Some say “President Obama would never allow this bill to fail on his watch” and also say “the left has to pressure the President into getting things their way”. My response is the oft repeated Dr. Phil quote “Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior” and since when has “the left” ever pressured Obama into anything. It reminds me of Jesus Christ and how some said “If he were arrested he would be forced to take decisive action on behalf of the nation of Israel”. Well, contrary to what George Burnes says in that movie – God doesn’t work best under pressure. He folds like a dried leaf. I don’t know what drives Obama with certitude but it’s got an awful lot to do with not offending any of the drug and insurance companies he’s made deals with to get their support. On the contrary, the bill will only, if anything, be further watered down in the conference committee version and probably have more key provisions stripped from it, perhaps the one that says insurance companies can’t over-charge customers no matter if they’re high risk. The insurance companies don’t like that one. To quote from Dr. Phil again – all the democrats are Enablers of undesirable behavior by the president when they pass such a hopelessly compromised bill

Sour Milk Sea

As this recession heads into its third year it's understandable that some people's tempers may be getting a little short, as mine did yesterday in my remarks in Word. I am deleting but one sentence from that in this reposting because it was an over the top remark I have formerly reserved exclusively for Evangelists. But I will be honest in that I have a bias against bloated government, and this Health Care bill before congress vastly expands the size of government and will increase the deficet by literally trillions of dollars. What I find most offensive about this bill, which I didn't even touch upon yesterday, was its dishonest accounting. You get taxed right away for services, but those services are not forthcoming till the year 2014. No wonder that Obama can claim that in the short term it reduces the deficit. Formerly Republicans were the only ones guilty of this practice. But also I don't like all of this "whistling in the dark" stuff of just hoping against hope that whatever is wrong with this bill will get "fixed" down the road. You pro gay advocates out there who have been waiting for "Don't Ask Don't Tell" to be "fixed" have been waiting a long time. Some people who didn't like the Clinton 1996 welfare bill have been waiting for a long time for that to be "fixed". How long did it take for Plecy verses Ferguson to be "fixed"? Hillary Clinton did well to point out that Martin Luther King would not have been such a potent force were there not a Lyndon Johnson to enact his dreams into law. If I were Senator Lloyd Benson I might say "I knew Lyndon Johnson. Lyndon Johnson was a friend of mine. And Mr. President, you're no Lyndon Johnson." When Johnson passed Medi-Care in 1965 he did a bold thing. But this current Health bill is anything but bold. About the closest parrellel I cam come up with is the Impeachment of President Clinton by the Republicans. They did it just to prove they could do it, but other than that the whole thing just wasted an awful lot of Congress' time. And now here are the remarks from yesterday

This is after dinner on Tuesday December 22, 2009, the second day of winter. We had some strange casserole and pasta concoction tonight for which there were no seconds with refried beans and green beans. I had two helpings of bread pudding with chocolate icing on it. I went to the bakery for coffee that was actually hot from the pot. Today I would like to talk about a few general principles. At three o clock Ron Reagan dedicated most of the hour (after his right wing idiots gallery of horrors) to discussing the Obama Health Care bill. How many out there are ready for “Obama Care”? I’m not. And were I a California senator I would vote an emphatic “No” on the final bill. Everybody appreciates a strait shooter. But today our host was jerking his audience around with a misleading promo. He said he was going to run down the ten reasons for voting Against the Obama bill that some lady had written in an editorial. That is not what happened. Instead he had a “guest” who like an over-zealous evangelist, did most of the talking throughout the hour. He appealed to highly infantile logic in saying why Obama Care is something every American should embrace. I was taken back to the time when I myself got on welfare, that is Social Security. It’s kind of a period in my life, like Homer Simpson’s grunge period that I haven’t talked about much, as though by ignoring it I could deny that it even happened. I had a lot of fierce arguments with parents, who were the chief protagonists in seeking this government hand-out. All you had to do was to see a couple of doctors who rubber stamped documents and said that you were unemployable. What Obama Care does is require young healthy Americans to take a “leap in Faith” only in this case a leap downward. It’s like a guy who was afraid to dive off a thirty foot spring board into a pool, blindfolded. But one day the protagonist sees old Charlie ascending the ladder to the diving board. And then he sees him jump, and he turns to his friend, “I hope he knows there’s no water in the pool. He said he was afraid into diving in a pool filled with water so I thought "If he's afraid of water, I'll take the water out - - taking the water out might allay his fears.” You remember that story about the little girl who was going to do acrobatics on a high bar at school wearing a dress. And an adult says “I don’t know if you want to do that, people might see your underwear” and the girl responds, “Oh, that’s OK, I’m not wearing any”. People are afraid of shelling out eight percent of their annual income on health insurance they will probably never use. But it’s OK. Just to up the ante, it’s not really a government program. You are doing it with a private insurance company with all of its inefficiencies and CEO salaries. Nobody has figured in the human cost of psychological devaluation. I am reminded of that example from Star Trek in an episode where Scottie was in it, and he was talking with Captain Piccard, who relates the time when a paracitic organism latched on to the Ship and was sucking on the fuel system to gain nutrients. And Captain Piccard tells him “We got shed of that creature by the old trick of souring the milk”. They made it so undesirable and counter productive to engage in that activity he finally gave it up. Healthy Americans who are young and healthy now by virtue of just being alive and breathing air that Al Gore isn’t charging them for yet, now has to take that leap in faith saying “Well I just might get lucky. I might come down with a horrible illness worth eight percent of my income”. For those who extol the virtues of "sharing the risk among the many" I say that the drug and insurance companies have a great little gaming operation going and to quote from "War Games" the 1983 movie, "The only way to win is - Not To Play". Of course there are taxes laid on the middle class including taxes on Union dues used for health care, so I understand. And of course they have to pay top dollar for any medications they get. And if their insurance isn’t adequate, in order to get what is called a Cadillac plan, they are taxed more money. One reason why I always admired Malcolm X more than Martin Luther King, is because the former never denigrated the Black man saying he should see himself as poor and needy. King, especially in his later years, alas, did this more and more. No wonder that if the assasenation of Malcolm X was a comspiracy between J Edger Hoover and Elijah Mohamed, it is Elijah Mohamed who is guilty of the greater betrayal. Hoover knew that if King’s teachings tended to make the Black man dependant and the teachings of Malcolm made the Black man strong, that Malcolm was the greater of the two men to be feared. The radio program promised that they would examine all ten reasons why the Obama Care health bill is such a bad idea, and I would like to have heard that. Unfortunately so much time was expended in making excuses for President Obama’s blanket sell-out, that completion of the roster of reasons was impossible. This whole argument about “getting your foot in the door” is nonsense.

It was only the last two callers to the show at the end of the hour that spoke the truth. It’s the Republicans who are desperate to get this bill passed, because it will give their buddies in the drug and insurance companies everything they’ve wanted. Stocks in drug and insurance companies have skyrocketed in the past few days in anticipation of this bill’s passage. This bill is their Christmas present. You know there is an adage of “Friends don’t stick it to friends”. I had who I thought was a friend “stick it” to me today, economically in a fast talking, slippery and patently unfair deal that he wasn’t going to budge from. Friends don’t deal with friends the way they deal with outsiders. You’ve heard the term of “Jewing you out of something”. Jews don’t stick it to Jews and Black people shouldn’t stick it to Black people. Too bad President Obama hasn’t learned this lesson. Of course I would add that US workers don’t “stick it” to other US workers. And frankly I think trade unionists have more loyalty to their own kind than certain Black people do. It isn’t a Unionist’s idea to give Red China these sweetheart deals that they’ve procured. Nobody is going to stick in any “buy American” clauses in any Obama deal. And nobody is going to allow the importation of Drugs on Obama’s watch. Thom Hartman pretty much put his finger on it when he said that Obama obviously sold out to the drug and insurance companies to insure their continued donations to Democratic Party politicians. In other words it was the Judas instinct. In order to preserve what you think you have to, you end up losing everything that is truly of value to you, like your integrity and the ability to look yourself in the mirror each morning. But one of these days a third party candidate is going to make it in this country. We will overcome our Third Party phobia in order to overcome a more intolerable situation, which is our two party system now where people can vote for a black progressive and get an Oreo Bush clone. Thom Hartman says much of this Afghan war escalation is because Obama has sold out to that dreaded “military industrial complex”. The president is thinking that if he can just act White enough he will somehow be able to achieve some transcendent state of White Nirvana. Is this what the President was really thinking when he wrote “The Audacity of Hope”? Hartman pointed out that those who are looking ahead to Cap and Trade, may see a similar sell-out to the establishment, and this move may be just another boomdoggle for Wall Street traders, trading these Carbon credits like securities. And I'm positively going to strangle the next person who says, "The President is playing chess while everybody else is playing checkers". My response to that one is, "The trouble is this is a Checkers championship!"

Millions Welcome Back Marcus Arelius

As of Monday July 13th. 2009 a little after three in the afternoon I am back on the internet and we already have four blogs lined up for you. I guess that makes me a four-flusher. Of course we all know when Nixon played at a White House poker game he had five aces! Not me. There is a lot of news that has happened the past ten days or so that we won't touch upon till we get to the next blog, which right now looks to be "Cosmic Tides" or one of those "black" ones. There are other things happening in my personal life also that comprise a drama of their own. I await your comments, assuming I don't need to readjust any settings.

The Following was Typed the Last Full Week in June

Michael Jackson is dead. He died at about 2:26 PM this afternoon at UCLA medical center of a massive coronary. He was brought in to the center not breathing and with no pulse two hours earlier. He was said to have lapsed into a deep coma just before the end. Fans are gathering at all his homes. He was fifty. He was apparently born in August of 1958, which continues to puzzle me because I remember he was eight when I was nineteen, so the math doesn’t add up. I guess “History” out in 1995 was the last big album to make a dent in the pop charts. People are now saying that the “Thriller” release revived all of record sales in the early to mid ‘eighties. They saying that Jackson was planning a come-back tour very soon, that would include being in London.

Ed Mc Mahn died a day or two ago, who was Johnny Carson’s side-kick for all these years. Apparently he was just a little older than Dad.

Farrah Faucet died also today, so I guess what they say is true about deaths coming in three’s. Apparently “Charlie’s Angels” in 1976 was her first big commercial success. I wonder about that because I don’t think she was on the show more than that first year, and she always had the aura of vastly out-ranking her competition.

Last night I did extensive dial twereling and never really settled on anything. Dr. Phil has this sixteen year old guy who has other people punch him in the face claiming it builds up his “resistance” and will prepare him for a profession in boxing. Dr. Phil pointed out the utter absurdity of this boy’s reasoning. Brain damage. I made it an early evening and was in bed by a quarter to nine. I hope not to go to bed near that early tonight. I spent the most time watching a thing on sandwich shops throughout America, actually. I slept well and actually got a little extra sleep not getting up till twenty after six, which allowed me a whole lot less time than usual before breakfast. I went to the bakery for a large coffee. We had cream of wheat that was thick, and I used the two sugar packets in my pocket. We had a fried egg and an English muffin.

Last night out of sheer boredom I had turned the radio to KRLA and this morning I listened to a new talk show host on KRLA but he pulled a fast one playing a tape of himself last week that he admitted was pure fakery. I don’t see what’s funny. He was endeavoring to show how acute his perception was saying that Mark Sanford was really in Buenos Aries and “they should investigate that”. There is also John Enson (?) who just a week or so ago was caught in the same sort of adultery thing. Both Enson and Sanford were prospective republican presidential candidates with a bright future. Mark Sanford has not yet decided whether or not he will resign as Governor.

Now someone is blaring Michael Jackson music full blast on a small radio. We had stuffed cabbage for dinner and I and the new guy were the very last two to be served. There was also cabbage and carrots with that. I had seconds from Dora. I went to the bakery for a large coffee with no cream in it because it wasn’t that hot to begin with.

It was Elizabeth Taylor to coin the phrase “King of Pop”. This death is the biggest media circus since Princess Dianna died in late August 1997. One can’t also help but get déjà vu of Elvis Presley’s death. Like Michael, Elvis was “planning a tour” and hoping for a come-back of sorts as his album “Moody Blue” rose in the charts. Like Michael, Elvis’ carreer had long been in a slump, though not as long as Michael’s slump, which has run nearly fourteen years. Like Elvis, Michael died of a heart condition that may have been worsened by drug usage. Both Elvis and Michael had to inwardly be scared to death of facing the public knowing the horrible physical shape both were in, and also the numerous scandals that surrounded both celebrities.

Many today have commented on how many of Michael Jackson’s most devoted fans are people who weren’t even born yet when albums like “Bad” and “Thriller” were popular. Jackson remains an icon among kids of grammar school age. Black rappers have come and said that they got either inspiration or draw something of their own style from Michael. Everyone talks about the enormous energy of his performances.

When I get details of this “energy bill” that the President wants passed, I’ll let you know. In terms of the health care bills, clearly there has to be some form of “public health insurance” to compete with private insurers so that people have a choice. Of course the insurance companies are such crooks they aren’t going to like anyone cutting in on their territory. The Michael Jackson news coverage has not let up.

This is late Friday morning June 26, 2009. Thom Hartman says that right now the average American citizen is paying seven thousand and change for their health care per year, but that in Europe and other places they are paying three thousand and change for health care. No nation that has ever had single payer health care has ever rescinded it. Of course you can have your health coverage summarily dropped here for cancer for instance if they discover that you used acme medication when you were sixteen and didn’t report it. They can now call your cancer a “pre existing condition”. Of course as we said a couple days ago, the opponents of health care seem to be following two contra-dictory lines of attack. First of all they will tell you how horrible health care is in Canada for instance, and to get back the results of a pregnancy test you have to wait sixteen months or something. On the other hand they say we can’t have public health care because it will provide unfair competition and drive all the private medical insurers out of business, which wouldn’t be a bad thing as I see it if you believe in a “free market” and all. This is one of the issues where President Obama did not make himself at all clear in that news conference he had a couple days ago. The whole thing seemed to be a big punch of nothing. The President appears not to be all that upset about what’s going on in Iran now. Of course Michael Jackson and Ferrah Faucet have pushed Iran right off the front page, so I guess nobody cares about liberty over there any more. Some may say “Well maybe President Obama has a plan up his sleeve but he wants to keep it secret so as not to tip his hand”. I don’t know. Pat Buckhannon seems adamant on the whole notion that we can’t do anything to “upset” their government, and that if we roll over and play dead that they will somehow be placated and leave us and Israel alone. Another issue nobody is talking about right now is the ongoing threat of a universal tax on carbon – and the whole “cap and trade” thing, or whatever it’s called, where you can buy and sell carbon “indulgences” like the church did in the middle ages. If the “right to pollute” is a “privilege” that you earn, like cigarettes used to be in prison, then somehow it will be acceptable in this capitalist world. Anything that increases consumer taxes and therefore discourages “consumption” on the face of it seems to me bad for business. And people remain concern that this recession is going to take a renewed downward path soon.

This paragraph is inserted here a bit out of order. It’s 3:30. Let’s talk about stuff people from the Federation have been telling me. They said I jinxed myself and also jinxed Howard in his new incarnation by offending the Des Rho “demons” as they are referred to. I have denied this several times to the Federation. But of course the “offending paragraph” is in a file from about sixteen days ago, and I can’t even name the file here because that will give the whole game away. The Federation has been saying to be very careful how I criticize Obama on you-know-what subject, and I have been rather light footed on the subject. I guess the question is how to “undo the deed”. Since the material is in a blog and I can’t get to my blogs even to read what I wrote- - the Des Rho has kind of a Catch 22 situation on their hands. Even if I were to delete the offending material this would only “red flag” the material so it could be identified.

Al Franken Gives Demos Sixty Senators

Several boxes of drugs and bio-hazards such as needles have been taken from the Jackson mansion. Apparently only Jackson’s mother, Kathryn and the three kids are left any money while Joe is out in the cold. One might question the wisdom of leaving the kids in the charge of a 79 year old woman, and a husband who was known to have regularly beaten his own kids. The correct Jackson will has been “officiated” and is pretty well established. The doctor still denies that he ever gave Jackson Demerol. Now there is a newer story about how Jackson pled for an even more powerful sleeping medication just four days before his death, but was turned down Meanwhile the general consensus is that grandmother Kathryn Jackson will be taking care of Jackson’s three kids (who now get to be seen in public without masks over their heads) at the Encino compound because this was decreed in Jackson’s will. Al Sharpton gives thumbs up But Gloria Alred has been hinting that Debbie Rho should be restored to her rights as biological mother of Jackson’s two older kids, and these two kids don’t look the least bit black, and now there are roomers the dermatologist is really the sperm doner. They are making preparations for a big public funeral at “Never Land” in Santa Barbra and are bringing in 30 porta-potties. But they suggest that the people attending bring their own water supply. The roads to it are narrow and hard for heavy traffic to traverse. So because of all this now they are 86’ing the funeral there altogether.

Al Franken has finally made it to the US Senate. The Minnesota supreme court at long last declared him the winner of last Novembers election after two hundred and some odd days. The only election that took longer was an Illinois senate race back in the twenties and one can only imagine that one. Better late than never. You can count on his having the support of comedians everywhere, and all of us who are fans. Now the Democrats will have a filibuster proof sixty democrats in the US Senate if they want to use it, and if the democrats can all get united. This is easier said than done.

The consumer spending index took a down-turn in the month of June. This can’t be good news for the economy, and the stock markets didn’t like it. They have leaked tomorrow’s job loss figures of 485,000 or something not good. You can’t have any lasting recovery without job creation. Meanwhile over in China they spent about as much money on stimulus as we have but have a lot more to show for it, such as a seven percent growth. Of course they have a “buy China” policy that helps immensely. Now Obama is talking about a second stimulus economic package, which would be just fine with me. I’m still in the process of spending my first stimulus check

Governor Sanford held another press conference and admitted that he has “crossed the line” with numerous women. But he says that only with Maria from Argentina has he found his true soul mate. The senator keeps intermingling talk of his “faith” with his obsession for Maria, and even asked his wife permission to visit his Argentina lover. Satan is more than happy to make propaganda use of a phony like this. If you’ve read the E mail exchanges, he seems more obsessed with her than she is with him. She keeps reminding him of her other boyfriend, and also brings up his wife and kids and the upcoming China trip the senator’s family is taking. This transcript covers a two or so week period in July of 2008. Meanwhile in South Carolina there are increasing calls for investigation of Sanford’s having broken the law, and desires for his resignation. Last week Sanford promised full financial disclosure proving that he didn’t misuse state funds for his scandalous travels. But now the governor is stonewalling. Others just want the senator to “Shut the Hell Up”. Even the cleric who swore him in has become disgusted with the governor’s excuses and ramblings.

Now they are going to detonate a two megaton bomb on the moon to create a crater five miles in diameter. They are going this because when the pieces of the moon “blow up in the air’ (?) they will be able to retrieve the particles and analyze them. Of course this detonation violates multiple world space treaties with multiple nations signing. Others are reporting that Buz Aldren reported spacecraft of aliens located at the edge of a crater. Others have said there is a whole alien civilization on the dark side of the moon- - - and the machinations of these theories takes on even weirder aspects.

Sean Hannity interviewed a government scientist on FOX TV today and made some challenging accusations. According to Randy Rhodes, who aired it, there was a planned release of a “Global Warming” report but at the last minute they pulled the report because it didn’t support the liberal Obama platform. They are saying now we have been in a general cooling trend since a peak in 1998. Today the government released another of their famous surveys on obesity, and Mississippi leads the pack with a 44% childhood obesity. 23 states showed increases in obesity and no state showed a decline. Here in California new laws went into effect regulating the distribution of trans-fat foods and sodas to school kids. All these alarmists say that “these people” are increasing the insurance costs of all of us. I don’t buy that. Because who’s to say “those people” see a doctor as regularly as the rest of us hypochondriacs anyhow? On this July first, 48 of the fifty states are having or have had a budget crisis, except for North Dakota and Montana.

This paragraph is being written by an author who does not want his identity revealed. Some of you who don’t want to walk down memory lane one more time into a 24 year time-warp may wish to skip this paragraph and get on to other stuff, but “Enquiring Minds want to Know”. Have you noticed that certain hit songs actually “pre-figure” rock groups that haven’t come into existence yet? The most famous case of this is “Earache, My Eye” by Chich and Chong, which comes off as a parody of Van Halen. Then we have “Tobacco Road” by the Nashville Teens sounding like the Yardbirds, and “All I Got to Do” by the Beatles sounding like the Zombies. Elvis on the album “Elvis is Back” has a song “Reconsider Baby” that sounds amazingly like Roy Orbeson even though he didn’t have his first big hit out for another several months. One other piece on that same album is “Make Me Know It” and I want to know what sort of cosmic causes caused me to not be on the internet the past two & a half weeks, and counting. I wondered whether it was somehow astrological, like the sun passing through the Pliades, or perhaps the sun passing Aldeberan, which means “The Follower” and Alcion is said to have blown up one of Aldeberan’s planets in June 1967 though the Federation and the Romulans use a different Roman numeral to designate it, because of the five inner planets of Aldeberan being unimportant, not to mention, uninhabitable. And of course I wondered about offending the “Des Rho” demons, alluded to perhaps further on in this posting, if I remember to include it. But a representative of theirs told me a few days ago “You aren’t in any trouble with us”. Stewart Sutcliffe told me a few days ago that I should not obsess on the personal karma of others but just worry about my own. The term “Des Rho” actually goes back to when I suspected my TV of being inhabited by demons in November of 1981 when the picture did a lot of screwy things- - because every time I’d take it to the shop nothing would be wrong with it but when I would take it home it would act up. One of the features was a vertical line right across the screen so you saw the top of a frame at the bottom of the screen and the bottom frame at the top. Mark and I coined the term Des Rho as a scrambling of the last name of Rhodes, which some say alludes to these demons causing the death of Ozzy Osborne guitarist Randy Rhodes. But actually the term is from the last name of another guy named Rhodes. The Romulans associate the “R” with 18 and hence “666”. Some may protest “But the Romulans don’t use the letters K and W. They only have 24 letters in their alphabet”. While people on Regelus V say “Real Romulans don’t use K and W” the Sirius A Romulans do use these two letters in their “Germanic dialect”. Bones, alias Stewart told me something you people may have suspected, that the Torranto Romulans and the Romulans on Sirius A- - - this group of Romulans have been living in Hamburg (Germany) for the past several hundred years. Romulans in their semaphore signals have always learned the letters K and W, as well as the backward “T” numeric sign. As you may also know, Zachery made one of several appearances at the Bosc house when I was not there in 1982, but Mark Campbell was there, and he coined the term “Boneskat”, which caught on with Sirius A people. I’ve heard Jim Cooper use the term. It is said that Mark Campbell “assumed my karma” and lived the life I might have had, had I not chosen to get married when I did. Of course the “Crusader insignia” of Chi Rho has raised questions. (X P in Greek) I pronounce it Chi- - with a long I, when this letter appears, for instance, in my name. The Chinese have a word called “Chee” referred to as energy. Fraternities pronounce the letter “KI” with a long I. But on Alcion, they pronounce it “Shy” and it has a similar meaning apparently to “fung chue” or “energy” in the Chinese. The following material was typed approximately a week ago- - .

HIGH COURT OVERTURNS SOTOMAYOR

This posting was typed around June 30th 2009

This whole cap and trade bill is becoming a bad joke. Of course if you didn’t think jobs were going to China fast enough this bill will only accelerate that out flow of jobs overseas. Some Republican pointed out that for this thing to work at all, China and India have to be in on it, since they are the major polluters. I’ve said all along I thought this was premature given the delicate state of our economy now, and that a broad round of regressive tax hikes would kill the recovery off completely. I had Rush Limbaugh on a while- -and he and Thom Hartman both agree that the cap and trade bill is bogus saying it’s a give-away and sell-out to Wall Street. For two such diverse minds to come to this same conclusion ought to give anyone pause. It seems that polluters are given just as many if not more carbon credits than an outfit using windmill energy. So it would seem that the primary purpose of the measure has been completely abandoned, and it’s just amounts to more money for the big boys to play with that isn’t their own. The Republicans watered down and watered down this bill till it ended up useless. They had to do this to appease the growing “blue dog” democratic constituency, who nowdays outnumber true progressives in congress. Even with the gutting of the bill it only narrowly passed the House, and experts say that it has even less of a chance in the senate.

The Supreme Court has struck down that Justice Sotomayer ruling today on those white firemen who claim they were discriminated against in Connecticut. It was a 5 to 4 decision, which I approve of. But it may adversely affect Justice Sotomayer’s chances at confirmation. The Ruling stated that chapter 7 of the Civil Rights bill of 1964 had been misapplied. The justices “tried to keep this ruling as narrow as possible”. Both Hartman and Rush would have liked more generalized constitutional issues to be addressed, such as the fourteenth amendment. Justice Ginsburg in her dissent sounded like she was almost agreeing with the majority saying the case for the City was really screwey.

Thom Hartman says there are only about four banks that rule the roost in this area. First of all the banks are just sitting on all the low intrest money they’ve received. They are not lending it out (at a handsome profit, I might add) but just hording it. In this say inflation fears are now out the window but Judy’s prediction of a renewed downward direction in the economy may be a reality. It’s all in the power of the banks but for some reason they are just choosing to hord all the money they’ve been given, and not using it for its intended purpose. These four banks if I’m right are Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, and Chase-Manhatton.and let us not forget Goldman Sachs, who will benefit most from cap & trade. Certainly this is a time to bring in the Shermon Anti-Trust Act into play, which was originally passed in 1881. (I thought it was 1890) Thom Hartman says he is more optimistic than ever. Geoblesr said that on Hitler’s birthday in 1945 right before the end came. For Hartman’s words to have any validation at all the democrats have to win big in the election of 2012. Because the revolution is still incomplete because the republicans still feel way too secure about being able to call the shots. We need another repeat of 1934. And hopefully President Obama will get on the stump himself and attack these Goliath corporate interests the way Roosevelt did. He needs to really go after them and put them on the defensive. I’ve said all this before in my blogs. This time I hope it sinks in.

As you know a second autopsy of Michael Jackson’s body was conducted by a private firm hired by the family last Saturday. (there is no news two weeks later) They are hoping for both “a second oppinion” and also to get quicker toxicology results than were promised by the County. But there have already been leaks. There are needle marks all over Jackson’s body. There are also pin pricks near the heart indicating that adrenaline has been injected to jump start Jackson’s heart on previous occasions. They said the scalp only had peach fuzz growing on it, and that Jackson has been wearing wigs. Of course you know about the oxy-conten and the Demerol and whatever other drugs these mixed with. The family does not trust this attending physician. I don’t want to make allegations of mal-practice, but it seems that the facts are pointing in that direction. By the time I ever get this into a blog it will probably be all over the media, plus a bunch of new leaks I haven’t yet heard.

Bernie Madoff today was sentenced to 150 years in prison for running the world’s biggest Ponzie scheme. The only unhappiness the victims would have about this is that the man is already 71 and will die and “get off paying the rest of his sentence”. Of course if they ever perfected reincarnated soul tracing you could nab him and place him behind bars for another whole life-time, and a good part of another. If only- - .

Getting back to that Sixty Minutes thing about computers reading your mind. There would be limitation. First of course is the fact that a simple term like “screwdriver” is stored in scattered sections of the brain. There is the word, there is the visual image, and the tactile information, and then there is the associative aspect of what a screwdriver does. If you are a fuzz-brain to begin with all of those “artist renderings” of various rooms might confuse you and one may start to look like another so that you could not be sure whether you’d seen this exact room or not. Still the software would be good at finding out what mischief your teenager was up to while you were gone. And it would also work for terrorists in deciding whether to “cut a deal” with them or their intent was to break it at first chance. Instead of climbing into one of those big magnetic resonance tubes (a major hassle) what if they could just shine a red laser dot on your frontal lobe and find out the same information? They said that it’s an open question whether the fifth amendment right against self intimidation would apply. The logic would be used that if you were in the South and raped a young girl you could come back and tell the Sheriff “You specifically told me that all voluntary sex with an under-aged girl was rape. Well this sex wasn’t colentary”. So if being tortured to get oral information is a violation of rights, what would a wholesale “raping of the mind” amount to?

They say that most pedophilias are actually heterosexual. Some people have said that Michael Jackson was gay and yet there is no flood of men coming forth to say “I have had sex with Michael” as one would expect of a gay man. Certainly if Michael is gay he has certainly never “come out” and nobody around him (in the family) has alluded to anything but his being a perfectly “normal” heterosexual.

Leo Le Port has the same problem I do with stereo-scopic vision that I do. The condition is called ambliopia- - and I remember when I was around six still living in LA the eye doctor tried having me wear an eye patch on my better eye to correct the situation, but it didn’t work. The funny thing is that HD TV actually heightens the “flat look” of a TV image. The only thing where 3 D actually “worked” for me was that Michael Jackson thing at Disneyland. With everything else the effect has been lost on me. They have three methods of 3 D. There is the red green bit. There is polarized lenses along different planes, and there is actually some plug in device that lights up the screen for you before your eyes. This last technique seems needlessly cumbersome. It would seem many people have the same condition I do and 3 D never did catch on. Sometimes wearing glasses, for instance in gym class when playing baseball actually messes up what depth perception I had not wearing glasses, when you’re used to doing that.

The US has apparently completed a long anticipated phase of the Iraq War by withdrawing combat troops from the cities of Iraq. So the Obama administration was able to keep at least one campaign promise completing this phase of the withdrawal.

Last night’s Law and Order is a glairing case in point as to what is wrong with certain “anti terrorism” laws passed right after 9 – 11. There is a case where a man was killed in an organized fighting contest. The other guy kept pummeling him after he had officially “tapped out” to end it. Later a plea to a lesser charge involving no jail time was accepted by the DA on the misguided belief that the guy was not a professional fighter, which violated the rules of these “matches”. In revenge for this miscarriage of justice there was a spontaneous “gang rumble” which was a free-for-all of violence and some killing. They tried to prosecute for this incident using a video but once again the prosecution failed because they could not identify the video to be used in evidence, and without it it was impossible to know which individual committed which act of violence to pin a specific charge on them. They “solved” the problem by invoking this “anti terrorism” act, which was never intended for street brawls. In this act you could indict and convict a whole group giving them all life sentences without connecting one individual to a specific act. Such is the rather sick state of “Bush justice” in the U S A today.

I would like to just say in conclusion of this entry that I hope tonight is the night I am back on the internet. This and the last two paragraphs is being typed Tuesday June 30, 2009. Each time I think my internet problem has been solved, some new previously unknown wrinkle inserts itself. If so I plan to make three new postings of the current blog and then switch to “Cosmic Tides” or the next “black” blog that’s due up now.

President Obama Struggles to Find Himself

AS JACK NICKELSON WOULD SAY - - "I'M BACK !
Typed June 19, 2009

I might as well put something here down on paper so to speak on the subjects I would be blogging about were I not cut off from the internet now. President Obama is basically “trying to find himself” these days. He seems reluctant to want to overturn the “Defense of Marriage” act, and had his people at justice file a suit in court to defend this provision. This to me seems odd for a man who had loudly and often proclaimed his desire to advance gay rights. This is because this law itself is probably unconstitutional because it denies the “Full Faith and Credit” clause in the Constitution. This is the provision that says acts done in one state have to be recognized as legal in the other 49 states and why people can legally fly to Las Vegas to get married or get a divorce. As such I’m a little surprised the bill has not been challenged before now. Obama says he wants to advance the rights of gay people on matters of health coverage, but seems miserly in actually doing it. Also, and most importantly, this President promised to overturn the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” law in the military. Both President’s Clinton and Obama campaigned and were elected on this issue, and yet both backed away from their commitment. For President Obama a simple executive order would be all that is necessary to overturn the regulation and keep long standing gays from being booted out of the military after years of fruitful and loyal service. This is really a case where this writer has changed his position over the years. Gays have proven time and again that they are able to keep their “impulses” under control and that they are more than capable of carrying out their duties without being injurious to the entire group.

Also this President has trouble “finding himself” when it comes to figuring out who voted for him in the past election on economic issues. It wasn’t the corporatists who voted for him. Larry Summers and Timothy Geitner would never have been put into their posts were the choice put up before his constituency. These two believe in Big Money and are in that spirit holders from policies of the Bush Administration. And now Obama is slipping in the public opinion polls and people are wondering why. They are worried about these big Bush-Obama deficits. They don’t think GM and Chrysler should have been rescued, but believe more in the sink or swim mentality. Were this economy left to the market balancing mechanism Adam Smith talked about, things would in time come to reach a new state of equilibrium where the economy would be again functioning and in balance. But when the government steps in and throws the delicate Adam Smith model out of kilter and suddenly rich people are outright encouraged to make bad investments, then obviously you’re going to have big problems. People like Thom Hartman want new sweeping laws in all sorts of areas such as campaign finance. My philosophy is that full disclosure is all that is needed as a remedy here. “Sunshine is the best disinfectant” as they say, and people should be encouraged to read up. Now President Obama wants some whole new department of Finance or something with new powers given to the Federal Reserve they don’t even have now. The solution in my opinion is not the imposition of new regulations but a restoration of the old regulations that were done away with by Presidents Reagan and Clinton, many bills being passed in the waning years while Clinton was still in office that overturned long-standing regulations about Banks being gambling institutions given to investment speculation. In your grand dad’s day, banking was a rather dull, if not stifling occupation carried out by drab old men in gray suits, whereas today banking affairs are more in the style of Gordon Gecko, from the “Wall Street” movie, with lots of spine tingling roller coaster action. There are laws meant to curb the abuses exposed in the crash of 1907 that the neo cons of today have seen the abolition of. The worst thing President Obama could do is let the financial community write the new regulations. Almost anybody else- -would do a better job.

In the case of the election in Iran it’s a case of “I told you so”. Now the highest ruler in Iran has decreed that the election was fair and the results won’t be overturned. They will not hold a second election. The Republicans and others today passed a bill supporting the spirit of protest of the Iranian people in saying the election was not fair and that they should not cut off communication to the outside world. As you know since the internet has been cut off in that country, it’s hard to get images out to the outside world, even though that is being done. Some may hope that like thirty years ago that there will be a revolution and unlike in 1979, a better and not worse government will then be instituted. I told you in previous postings I did not think this would happen because the lock on government was too secure. Eastern Europe suffered for several decades under Communist rule despite glimmers of hope in Hungary in 1956 and the “Prague Spring” of 1968, only to have the iron lid of security come clamping down harder.

In this area of southern California we are finally getting some warmer, sunnier weather. But we aren’t the only people to have below average temperatures this spring. I hear that in places such as Boston and New York and Chicago they have had below average temperatures this past month, as we have. I know they released that global warming report a week or so ago but I haven’t seen that become a reality yet. Illinois doesn’t have the climate of Texas, New Hampshire doesn’t have the climate of the Carolinas, and Florida and Louisiana are not underwater. However I sill agree that the West has been abnormally low in rainfall, and it’s been that way for quite a number of years leaving forests open to diseases by agents such as pine beetles. We have to believe the experts who tell us that often symptoms of “global warming” is actually cooler weather in some places. But only hindsight is twenty / twenty.

Meanwhile the climate in Washington DC and in Congress has become downright stiffeling and unhealthful. President Obama wants “clean coal” and others say that this is a nonsensical term. I don’t know who is right. I do believe we need to proceed full throttle with sequestration of carbon technology. I wish I knew to what extend that “new technology” of all kinds is or isn’t being bought up by big corporations, only to take the technology off the market and insure that the public never knows about it. To me this might just be an area where we could have new legislation passed specifically to deal with this current ongoing reality. If you watched Days of our Lives today you know how the Di Mira family has the Courts in its back pocket, and they will issue any ruling that you choose. I don’t know if this is true for corporations. We hear that Thom Dashel’s wife is on the boards of various health insurance companies, and this is why Dashel came out against Obama’s health plan. People should read up on their congressmen and find out which team their man is pitching for. It’s rather strange to think of the sort of bills that would be getting passed now if George Bush were still in office and he had 59 going on 60 members of his party in the US Senate. But somehow the rules seemed different for them. Which raises the question as to exactly why is Al Franken not Minisota’s junior senator yet? I don’t know. I’ve never heard of an election recount taking this long. Democrats have been waiting nearly six months for their “New Day” but somehow things just haven’t played out the way everybody envisioned. (Selah)