It's a Question of Values

Back in November of 1993 or so I bought “A Question of Character”, which was a profile on the Kennedy family and Jack Kennedy in particular. It said a lot of things about the family that weren’t very nice. My Dad saw the book in my apartment and I worried that he might know it was an anti rather than pro Kennedy book. Still there are things about our heroes we turn a blind eye to that maybe we should be just a little aware of. Everything isn’t all black and all white. Thom Hartman has probably praised the administration of Richard Nixon more than anybody in the media in the past twenty years. He points out that Nixon was happy with our progressive tax system. In fact there was talk Nixon was toying with the idea of a negative income tax to help the poor. According to Thom Hartman, Richard Nixon had a health care plan he rolled out in early 1974 but without Ted Kennedy’s support the idea was doomed. Teddy didn’t think the plan was radical enough. And we should not forget that Nixon was responsible for instituting the Environmental Protection Agency. Nixon got us off the gold standard. If we had stayed on the gold standard, Ft. Know would have long ago been depleted of gold. Now we are in this Libya campaign, and suddenly my Christian brother is anti war. Well you know that it’s true. We drop a few bombs- - -there go the millions for the school lunch program. We drop a few more bombs - - there go the millions we set aside for water plant safety inspectors. Some say it’s OK if we kill brown or “olive skinned” individuals. But if a Brown person institutes the killing, suddenly it’s wrong. Hopefully it’s dawning on them that the lives of olive skinned individuals are worth something too. Hey - - I’m one of those olive skinned individuals. Now we have one group of olive skinned people possibly emigrating across the pond to Italy, and invading another bunch of olive skinned people. I’m going to say something that may unnerve some readers, particularly those of you on the left. You know Bob Dylan had a saying “You take all the dust down Oklahoma way and all the smog in Californie - - and all the soot from the Minnesota mines, and it’s all much cleaner than the New York kind. Well, I have a saying, too. You take Bill O Riley and Glen Beck and Sean Hannity, and their conservatism is still saner than the Rush Limbaugh kind. Some people think Glen Beck is insane. But a lot of stuff he said at that rally last August in DC is rather similar to the stuff I wrote in my prophecy book thirty years ago. Perhaps the most controversial thing Glen Beck has said was that the Obama administration is deliberately trying to wreck this economy by “re-inflating the bubble” causing a far worse economic crash down the line. I guess if you want to set out to Disprove this then you would look for evidence that points to the contrary. The trouble is, you can’t. You have that 916 billion dollar tax give-away, and you have three simotanious wars in the Mideast, and you have the health care plan that won’t even kick in till 2014, and you have an utter unwillingness to do anything about the trade deficit. And most important, you have this gambling casino mentality in Wall Street we owe none other than President Clinton for- - and you have nothing less than some sort of economic suicide pact. I don’t know how much time we have. I think Obama should get through the election next year OK, but just how long after that we will be able to keep this illusion going- - I can’t say.

This next paragraph is about values too. You may think you’ve heard it before but the end has a twist that will surprise you. Once upon a time there was a very rich man, who had a son. And the son decided he didn’t want to hang around his father but strike out on his own. So his father gave him a bunch of money to invest with- - and he would hire people to come up with new products. The thing is the son had absolutely no business sense and everybody kept telling him this. But his father kept pumping him more money- - so that in time the son became an object of derision. When one time it looked like he’d be on skid row or something other people said, “Don’t worry, his father will just give hum another hundred billion or so”. And now I am here to say this. The Christian church worships such a man. All of us value life. It is the most precious of all gifts from God. And yet Jesus said of his life “Nobody takes my life- - I lay it down and pick it up again”. You know, if that businessman son were to be robbed, it would be no big thing. They may get his wallet and be satisfied and stop. But he’d still have his billions in his Swiss bank account. Sometimes Jesus Christ reminds me of Bonnie Lockhart. Do you remember her on Days of our Lives. It’s not that she was a crook, but that she was such a stupid crook that galled me. If you or I had only a small fraction of the resources Jesus Christ had at his disposal, just think what we could do with it. Dana once asked me “If Jesus was so in to curing disease, why didn’t he teach the people to make penicillin, and all the other wonders of modern science”. Jesus was never his whole life subject to the temptations and worries of life that commonly beset the human race. He never wondered “Why am I here?” or “What is the meaning of Life”. To him life was as worthless as a hog trough in a town square filled to overflowing with gold coins. And the town’s people would stuff their pockets with it. I have often used the quotation of Ron Hubbard on a tape that’s so good it’s hard to repeat it too much and that is, “If you’re going to put out a fire, and there are a pack of dogs nipping at the wheels of the fire truck, you don’t stop en rout to the fire to address the yelping dogs chasing you. To do so would be quite mad”. People talk about criminals committing “Suicide by cop” and yet it seems Jesus Christ was trying to “commit suicide by Pharisee”. You know, Jesus called them all “snakes”, and every parent tells their children not to provoke the snakes in the snake house in the zoo because you know what happens. (Selah) You know, in that thing I sent Dr. Levy last week the thing hinted all around the proposition but never saying it directly that "I believe if you are going to have a worship relationship with a God, that God should share your values". The line is not entirely original with me. Dennis Prager said that your spouse, whom ideally will be your life partner (pardon me is that sounds gay) that partner should share your values.

Barry Goldwater in his book attributed to Nixon the saying, "I'm a conservative with a heart". I wish we had them today. Nixon grew up poor and knew and appreciated the value of hard work. He spent a lot of time in the Pacific Theater gambling aboard ship, but then would send the winnings back to his mother. One of the crowning highlights of the Nixon presidency was the 1973 Yom Kippur war between Israel and Egypt. Egypt attacked on a holy day and Israel found herself fighting for her life. Golda Meir called and asked President Nixon for his best jet fighter planes". When you have a good and close friend you want to help them when you can and equip them with the best tools available to you to help them to fight their battles. You know that a comon saying among many is "I have compassion on those who deserve it". In the case of the Protigal Son story in the Bible, the younger son, who had squandered money that was prematurely given him to begin with and now it was gone. But instead of turning to his new friends for help he remembers what a soft touch his father had been and muses to himself "If I say to my father that I have sinned and no longer deserved to be called his son" he will take me back in some capacity". One can note a few things here. What was the older son doing all this time? He was working in the field. Note that he was not playing "Lord of the mannor" ordering the other servents around. When the elder son finished his day's work he approached the house and was puzzled by the merryment that appeared to be going on inside. Strangely he does not go inside the house. Perhaps he already was sensing this was something that would be inappropiate to do. Instead he sees a servant outside the house and calls him over and begins asking him questions. One thing we might glean here was that the party was not for the servents. What we also know is that the father on his own did not go out to the field to call the elder son in from work to party. Eventually when the father does come out, the younger brother does not come with him. Some Christians like to "blow off" a bunch of their friends on impulse. Some people are so in love with the "Now" that they ignore Dr. Phil's admonition of "The best predictor of future performance is past performance". But let me say this. Today "sheep" are in as abondant supply as the gold coins in the earlier paragraph. If you lose ten or a hundred or more, as the saying goes "there's a lot more fish in the sea". Indeed there is a seemingly endless supply.

The world is falling apart. Gas prices are making record highs. Now they are selling padded bikinis to seven year old girls, and dolls who breast feed. There was a twelve year old boy with Aspurger's sidrone who think he's come up with revised math that says light is not the fastest thing in the Universe, but the limit is higher by a factor of 1.9. Just between you and me his theories should be pretty easy to blow out of the water by people who know. Judy was mentioning there are still small kids who's parents say have autism because they were given a vaccine with primarisol in it that has mercury. But I don't think they have put primarisol in vaccines in ten years. Now they are worried about red, orange, yellow, green, and blue dyes in foods that little kids eat that gives them attention deficet hyperactivity disorder. This is far from being a new proposition but it's being trotted around the block again. Maybe they'll be like cigarette packages and start off with a mild warning "This dye might cause adverse symptums in sensitive children". But then they'll update that to "This dye is dangerous and will give your child hyperactivity". And that won't be enough so they'll get more graphic and say "This dye has been strongly linked to sociopathic behavior and suicide and complete mental breakdown resulting in internment for not less than one nor more than ten years".

A T & T wants to buy out T Mobil, so that the number of phone carriers will be reduced from an already low four, to three, and some are saying two, because they think Sprint will go out of business. The federal trade comission has to rule on this sale before it can go through and I strongly suggest they turn it down. Back in the day there were all these "Baby Bells" competing with each other. What ever happened to them all? I mean you know once they are convinced they have a virtual monopoly they will begin jacking up prices and reducing the quality of service, like the Airlines did when so many of those of years gone by bit the dust.

Mostly Chemistry Test Final

MOSTLY CHEMISTRY INTELLLIGENCE TEST

Name the three magnetic metallic elements

Name the most chemically reactive elemental gas

What color is “hydrous” copper sulfate

Xenon got its name because it reacted violently with just about every other element

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Aluminum’s closest chemical relative is what element (Aluminum used to be located in a different spot on the periodic table to be closer to it.

What color does barium nitrate burn?

A battery cam be fashioned by using copper and zinc, and the electric current is produced due to a difference in the WHAT of the two metals.

Electric generaters work most effectively when the maximum number of BLANK is transversed (I’m looking for a three word term)

Stromtium 90 and Cesium 137 are substances known to Chemists as WHAT

Ethyline gas functions as a WHAT in the process of the ripening of fruit.

Ethyline glycol is sweet to the taste (true or false)

Butane has a lower temperature of evaporation than Propane (true or false)

Methyl-Ethyl ketone is commonly known as WHAT cleaning substance?

Prophanol has the same chemical formula but different molecular arrangement, as a subatance commonly sold as WHAT

Arsenic and Thallium have in common usage as WHAT?

What color flame does magnesium have when burned?

What color flame does strontium have when burned?

Which metal is least like the others: Chromium, Titanium, Tungston, Palladium.

Sillicon, Germanium and Arsnic are known as metalloids or THIS other high tech term.

An isobar as known by meteriologists is having this definition.

Aside from metalloids, metals fall into four major categories. Name them.

Stanus Floride contain what common metal the body needs anyway (I think)

Name the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.

The dissecting of a cone by various planer lines- - helps illustrate this scientific phenomon that is very useful in a certain branch of modern science.

Name the heaviest metal, if you don’t count bismuth, which I know little about.

Name the heaviest naturally occurring chemical element going by the long standing number of elements in the late ‘fourties as 94 elements.

Eventually Uranium will continue to degrade in steps of two elements, until at last it ends up as THIS substance.

An energy (?) particle contained in cosmic rays that can change magnetic hard drives from zeros to ones and visa versa is known as a WHAT?

In a cyclotron, substances are “trans-muted” into other substance mainly by bombardment of THIS, which is also sent off in a chain reaction.

An isothermic chemical reaction is one where heat is lost in the process (true or false)

Name the lightest element on the left side of the periodic table that catches fire when exposed to water.

Hydrogen sulfate becomes a much more dangerous, volatile substance when exposed to water- - (true or false)

The axiom is “Acid into water; never water into acid” (true or false)

When salt desolves into the water the individual elements function as THESE (two different answers are acceptable here)

What metal has the highest melting point of any element?

Strontium 90 is mistaken for WHAT substance by the body?

Cesium 137 is mistaken for WHAT substance by the body?

Tri-methyl pentane is more commonly known as what substance?

A mole is a quantitative measurement that measures THIS

The reason why X rays are dangerous is because they contain photons (true or fralse)

How many hydrogen atoms make one helium atom in a thermonuclear reaction?

Cold-fusion of hydrogen is a demonstrated, certifiable fact. (true or false)

Methanol has a more volatile combustion power than does gasoline (true or false)

The element with the highest electrical conductivity is gold (true or false)

A tetrahedron is a three dimensional figure shaped like THIS.

An octahedron just might be a double one of THIS other geometric figure.

A symmetrical octahedron (as above) will touch a perfect sphere on THIS many points.

An “old star” like Betelguee will continue to produce heavier and heaver atoms within it’s thermonuclear reaction but will stop at THIS element (so I’m told)

Gasses on other stars and planets can be deduced by this time tested process. (I’m kind of looking for two words here)

Describe the process known as UV florecence. What is happening atomically?

Something becomes magnetized when all the electrons do THIS

Name the lightest metal (any hospital R N should know this)

Neon subjected to an electric current glows with WHAT colored light

Sodium subjected to an electric current glows with WHAT colored light.

What is the least efficient colored light for photosynthesis to take place in plants?

In the normal course of things people get most of their Vitamin D from sunlight ( T F)

In optics- - infinity is a fixed number with numbers above and below it (true or false)

The median current of a rectified AC electric current is .707 from the peak (T or F)

Short wave radio is possible because of this phenomenon of the atmosphere.

Atnospheric radioactive fall-out got that term because of THIS process.

The photochemical process happens because of exposure to THESE particles

Non cosmic radiation is successfully blocked by THIS substance

Name an element that evaporates at fifty-five degrees or so.

Krypton is a metal theorized to once be on earth but no longer (True or False)

Ozone is made up of atoms of this element.

Heavy water contains trintium, which is an isotope this elemental substance

Modern laboratories have been able to cool substances below absolute zero (T or F)

Acetate in its pure form is translucent (true or false)

Light received by any subatance is calculated by THIIS relation to distance

Intelligent information or “bandwidth” is calculated on a logarithmic scale (T or F)

Another word for “viscosity” is THIS

Groups of solid molecules held up by molecules in a liquid are known as THIS

Half life – as in Uranium, is calculated (or defined) by THIS

How is the root formula for circular trigonometry the opposite for hyperbolic trigonometry and in what way are the two formulas similar?

S T P are initials that stand for WHAT in chemistry

What is the formula for chloroform?

Among elements on the right side of the periodic table atoms bond by sharing electrons and this is called a WHAT?

When a photon is split in the laboratory it forms a WHAT and a WHAT that go off in opposite directions.

Rare Earths all have similar chemical properties (true or false?)

Atomic numbers are based on the number of BLANK in an element.

When light is refracted it generally increases its perpendicularity with the surface when it enters a denser medium. (true or false?)

Polyunsaturated fats are molecules with two more BLANKS missing

Dextrose is referred to as WHAT generally in hospitals?

Specific heat is a measurement of BLANK transference

Polymars are created by doing THIS to simpler compounds

An element can be said to be “inert” when THIS condition is met.

President Obama Addresses Nation on Libya

Today President Obama scheduled his speech a half hour early before the evening prime time shows commenced in the majority of the country. It was a well written speech with lots of appropiate flowery rhetoric at the end to get the patriotic spirit going. Some may argue it's a low blow to praise the service men for an action you personally order. The only thing about the speech was that there were times where the President hesitated, as if he were not sure what he was saying was true. If I picked up on that you can bet John Mc Cain did. Our President did a pretty good job of summarizing how we got to where we are now. He spoke of the sanctions that were imposed and the UN resolution, giving Kadaffy a choice, and of the iminent danger to the city of Bengazy, a city of some 700 thousand. He spoke of how the US initially took the lead but how we plan to turn the campaign over to our allies in a few days. He spoke of how effectively we have already halted Kadaffy's progress. What he neglected to say was that in the past two days the rebels have re-taken city after city along the coast, and now are prepared to do battle in Kadaffy's home town. Of course certain nay-sayers like John Mc Cain and Newt Gingrinch will never be satisfied. Either the President waited too long, or else he acted too soon. Many accuse the President of being unclear or unfocused. I think the President made himself quite clear tonight. Many nattering nebobs of negativism in the media keep on saying how "something unforeseen might come up to spoil the mission". What these talking heads never consider is not "what if it doesn't work?" but rather, "What if it does?" The prospect of a positive outcome doesn't seem to enter the minds of these people. Were they in charge at the time of the Civil War they would have surrendered after the battle of Bull Run. I think it's important also to not compare this mission to- - for instance- - sending the military in to stop genocide on the Ivery Coast. Certain tasks are inherently more "doable" than other tasks. But after this mission is accomplished, then maybe we can think about Sudan or the Ivery Coast. The key thing to remember is that this campaign is a UN Security Council mandate, and had we failed to act, and that would have reflected badly on the United States. He also spoke of the higher ideals of the United States.

In Japan those nuclear reactors are inching closer and closer to a melt-down. All the time they are discovering increased radiation in far-flung places of the world. We can pray for those people. Thom Hartman is wrong. The reason why they call them "fall-out" shelters is because the radioactive isotopes "fall out" of the sky and land on the populace. But it is of course true that food toxins tend to concentrate in the biological food chain and the higher up the chain goes the more deadly the toxin. I told people at last Friday's residents council meeting I wish they would bring back spinach, and Marcie seconded my notion. I guess they are considering any further remediation of the reactor as a "suicide mission" and few will volunteer fore it. I don't see why they haven't developed more advanced radio controlled robotics to handle the problem. A big criticism of the second Star Trek movie was that Spock was sent in to a radioactive area tantamount to a death sentence. I'm going to research this story more thoroughly before my next posting. I'm sure you people probably already know a lot more in the way of updates than I do at this time.

I went to bed actually before nine, which was a mistake. I had this dream and it’s one of these cases where I am beginning to theorize an “other life” that I keep dreaming about, like an alternate existence. I seem to have had a lot of dreams about this alternate existence lately. One a few weeks ago was about playing an old reel to reel tape that was made in the year 2000, which was quite a long time ago for this person. It was made in November when there was a dry Santa Ana wind, and I was making observations about certain trouble points with people in my life. In a lot of segments in these dreams I go to college- - which is “somewhere to the northeast” like CSUF. And I know this- - this area is not in a completely urbanized area because there are open fields and hills and stuff between where I live in the college even though it isn’t that far away. I think I picked up the vibe that I lived in Bishop or some city on the back side of the Sierra Nevada. Or maybe it’s some place like El Paso or Tucson where it doesn’t get that cold, and the air is dry. This character is a long time member of a church fellowship group, which he doesn’t particularly like even though he goes to a lot of activities with them. At times I have lived in various houses with male housemates. But there seemed to be some key traumatic event that occurred in April of 2008 that caused me to black out for three months and have no memory of that period. After this I think I went on some "vacation" with my parents that I did not want to go on. Also this life is punctuated by large, lavish family holiday gatherings with a lot of distant relatives. As I look back on this life- - things seemed good up to about ten years ago in these dreams. This would be the first “alternate existence” that wasn’t even at least hinted about in one book or another. Anyhow when I would wake up I would be restless. Finally when I did get up it was just after six, which means I got just over nine hours sleep last night, which is way too much. The following is an extra just for blogger.com. Back when I was in Green Harbor one day we had a substitute BINGO caller and he was doing B, N, and O, and you're a winner. Well, I flashed back to a dream I'd had or a vision or something. I was arriving in a parking lot just after dinner. It was pitch dark outside and by the shape and position of the moon in the sky (just short of full) I acertained that this was probably November. There was a not too cold "Santa Ana" wind blowing softly from the east, that was dry air. We walked southward to an amusement park area that was an east to west strip like Nu-Pike is, only there were no stairs you walked down. It was flat. We arrived in the middle of the east-west strip and went westward. There were all the usual amusement park rides lights and crowds and carnival style booths like Nu-Pike has, but over the PA you could hear the BINGO caller asking who had a B, N, or O. As you may know during my hospitalization in June of 2001 I often felt "trapped in another life" like I would never get back to who I was. I remember being at the front of some white concrete building with cement pillars out front, and I would grab a hold of the pillars and muse, "these are solid, all right. I'm really here".

Let's get in a short Beatle song quiz here. Of the following list of songs, list the two that were not released in the sixties, under another title, obviously. Scrambled Eggs, That Means A Lot, If You've Got Troubles, That's A Nice Hat, Auntie Gin's Song, One Way Ticket, Won't Be There With You, This Bird Has Flown, Granny Smith, Laxton's Superb, Mark I.

I hope that Dr. Levy was able to relate to that 3 ½ page treaties on “God” I sent him. He appeared to be praising me in class but like I say never made any reference to the letter. Perhaps I should go through the letter and see what parts of it haven’t yet been posted yet to Blogger.com. Like Obama's case for war, I make many appeals to established precedent. Of course the whole concept of the deity is a very personal one for people and each person sees God in his own way. Some are “free will” deists, who believe God leaves it entirely up to man’s ingenuity to solve his own problems. Some people are pantheists, who see every animal as a god. Others see nature as a whole as “God”. Yung and other psychologists see “God” as the “collective unconscious”. At one time I believe I made the case for collective Yung-ism, which says that perhaps the whole “mind” that did create the Universe is our own collective unconscious, so that if we have a problem with His or Its will, we have only to blame ourselves. Finally we come to what might be called the Eastern view which Gnostics also incorporate into their theology. This is the belief that some higher aspect of our own souls that has up till now been suppressed, has some pipeline to the “God” nature, and in this way we can achieve a form of Divinity- or at least some form of sinlessness or cosmic harmony with Him.

Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79

Actress Elizabeth Taylor succumbed last night to congestive heart failure and passed away at Cedars Sinai hospital at age 79. She is most famous for such signature movies as "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", "Cleopatra" and "The Taming of the Shrew". She made fifty motion pictures but got accadamy awards only for two, "Butterfield Eight" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf". In the latter movie she had to gain a lot of weight for the part and looked many years older than she actually was. Why she didn't get an Oscar for "Cleopatra" is beyond me. She was married eight times to seven husbands. But she wasn't one of these flakes like celebreties today. She was monogamus in nature. Her first five husbands were Nicky Hilton, Michael Wilding, Mike Todd, Eddie Fisher, and Richard Burton, whom she married twice. She matured early and got her first big role in "National Velvet" in 1945 because the director wanted a young girl with breasts. She played mature roles in the 'fifties when Marylin Monroe was still playing parts of ditzy blondes even though she was years older than Taylor. I liked her in "Suddenly Last Summer" in 1960 where she played the part of a woman who threatened to reveal the truth about certain things so others wanted her to have a pre-frontal lobotomy even though she was not vaguely insane. Of course in her later years she was known for her active role in Aids research. She was a close friend to Michael Jackson. She may be one of the few friends Jackson had who wasn't either a family member or a doctor. She also worked with Elton John on Aids. Actually she was about the same age of James Dean and costarred in "Giant" with him, even though most people think of James Dean as playing roles as teenagers. She was what you might call a woman of real substance in Hollywood. Now all we have left is Kate Roberts on "Days of our Lives". Like Taylor she liked being married to powerful men, and has many of Elizabeth's personality traits. She is one actress who will be sorely missed.

On the subject of Libya, the no fly zone imposed by the UN Security Council appears to be working. After just a few days of bombing RADAR instelations and other key sites, it seems that Kadafy has abandoned his air attack plans. There are none of his plains in the air, and his RADAR doesn't seem to be opperative. US, French, and British planes took part in this campaign, which began only last Friday but now they have gotten to the point where they can expand the No Fly Zone from the rebel stronghold in the east all the way to Tripoli, over six hundred miles away. There are people on the left and the right who are for this campaign, and there are people on the left and the right who are against this campaign. Hal Sparks and Randy Rhodes appear to be for this campaign and Thom Hartman appears to be against it. Many dislike the idea of "Starting a third war against a Moslem country in the middle east". Many on the other side speak of "Mission Creep" where the initial mission of just pressuring Kadafy to behave will be expanded to actively giving aid to the Rebels or even introducing ground troops to fight on Libyan soil. President Obama has already stated that he wants Kadafy gone, even though this mission is more of one of "leveling the playing field" so that the rebels have a decent shot at winning. Some of the people on the other side will complain either that this no fly campaign was adopted prematurely, or else that if we were going to do it we should have done it two weeks ago, when the Rebels were still winning and had not yet lost momentum. I don't see how both assesments can be simotaniously true. It might be as simple as the statement "We are all in favor of the killing of brown people; we just don't want a brown person doing it".

In terms of the Republican field of Presidential candidates, as far as I know, not one of them has openly declared for the Presidency. There is something wrong with almost every one. Ron Paul, who is led consistently in all the republican polls, is too libertarian, with a stance on foreign wars arguably "to the left of the President" as Hal Sparks says. Tim Pollente of Minnisota is "too green". In this case not inexperiance, but rather that he is too ecology minded and concerned about the environment. Newt Gingrinch has all this moral baggage from two failed marriage that might be an impediment to support from the Christian Right. Haley Barber is regarded as "coming off as racially insensive". I don't know anything about this Huntsman fellow, but somebody said he used to work for Obama. Then we have the governor of New Jersey. I haven't come up with anything wrong with him, yet. Mitt Romney is suspect because he's a Mormon and the Christian Right will never go for him. He's also vulnerable for being "too liberal" both on the Health Care issue, but also because John Mc Cain nailed him in a republican debate on the timetable withdrawal issue from the Iraq theater. That leaves Mike Huckibee, who off hand seems the nuttiest of the lot, and with some of the statements he's made lately, I think his own people would write him off as unelectable. I don't think Michelle Bachman really wants the job. Some have said that this could be the first "brokered national convention" since 1952 in this country. That might just worth be watching for its own sake. Clearly there are so many candidates and they all appear to be evenly matched, with no front runners, that the notion of having a candidate clearly leading the pack by next March appears very unlikely.

I would like to talk about former president Jimmy Carter a little. Hal Sparks was playing that July 1979 tape of Jimmy Carter talking about our impending energy crisis. He said that we had to phase out foreign oil now and adopt things like Solar power because for the rest of the century the energy crisis will only get worse. Some may say his observations were "premature". He was just a man who was ahead of his time. I didn't vote for him - - either time, and yet I have come to believe that Carter was one of our most moral, under-rated Presidents. Ted Kennedy actively undermined the President both on Health Care, and also on dealing with Moscow. Carter wanted to boycott the Moscow Olympics whereas according to the Heritage Foundation, Kennedy wanted to get really cozy with Brezhnev, and perhaps adopt some of Moscow's socialist policies here. Of course we hit "peak oil" in this country back around 1970. There was a chart on this on the internet. In early March of 1972 I wrote a fictional piece going into the future exactly two years to March of 1974 where I predicted we would have an energy crisis. Back in March of 1972 one thing that people were noticing was that stations were no longer having all these gas price wars like they used to. I picked up on this. Also ion the same writing I predicted my brother's divorce, who was not even married at the time. But had I actually been convinced to an intellectual certainty that the Divorce was coming- - - I would have actively done everything in my power to avert and prevent it. For a whole host of reasons. Jimmy Carter is a highly moral conscientious man. I think his book on Palestinian relations with Israel needs to be read by everybody. It's a real eye opener. Unfortunately Jimmy Carter remains the one living democratic president whom everyone on the right agrees was a bad president. Even Dr. Levy thinks Clinton was a good President. But everyone hates Jimmy Carter. You have to ask yourself- - - Why?