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.