Strangling in an Entanglement of Hyperbola

I used to think that the other side of the political fence had at least some truth and some facts that were actually true. But lately it seems as if that nothing that comes out of their mouths makes any sense at all and all of it is just hysterical rantings, like you’d expect of a mental patient. Now Sean Hannity is saying that the Wall Street protest movement is populated by “aging sixties hippies who never had a job”. Obviously two thirds of this group is under age 35 and a lot of them are college graduates drowning in student loan debt or government workers let go from their jobs, and a few older retired people worried about their pensions. Today Jerry Brown announced he was raising the retirement age of state employees from 55 to 67 or some twelve years. This move is long overdue, even I would agree. I’m sure there are many with underwater mortgages among this group. We told you all the lies the conservative right is saying about Freddy Mac and Fanny Mae. We told you that they will blame the Federal Reserve for the real estate crisis. They will not blame these bad debt packages where good loans were chopped up with the bad and how the banks pawned off these bad debts on other, probably at a personal profit. I don’t need to tell you the element of sheer greed entering in. You know about derivatives or bets on whether a loan would succeed or not. But about the most outlandish thing of all if banks betting against their own clients whom they have lent money to - - that they will not repay those loans. You may remember when Pete Rose bet on his own team in baseball and how he was excoriated by people like Wally George as to how he’d let a lot of young kids down in setting such a bad example. Yet there is no shame in betting against your own clients. I guess Judy sees nothing wrong with it since she has imputed the moral purity of choir boys to the banks and Wall Streeters. And we hear things like the Fed is committing treason because it’s keeping interest rates too low. Of course were interest rates to rise suddenly it would instantly make the deficit much worse and harder to pay back, which is just what these tea party people want for some perverse reason, probably because they inwardly fear that Barock Obama will still be President in 2013. Of course Bush and Karl Rove set the whole crisis up to break when it did. Their only regret is that the storm didn’t hit until inoguration day of 2009 rather than while still on Bush’s watch in September 2008.

Of course now people on the right must truly be fuming. The economy was up 2.5% last quarter on an annualized basis. So things are picking up, which is the last thing the tea party wants to hear. Today the Dow Jones Industrial Averages broke 12,000 for the first time in years, I’d imagine. This can’t be good news for them. Now the President is working on the problem of student loan repayment and underwater mortgages. This will ruin Mitt Romney’s plans to disposess all those people and buy up their homes for pennies on the dollar. Of course Rick Perry is doing the President’s job for him by attacking Romney on such issues as abortion and gun control. “A person doesn’t get to be over fifty years of age and suddenly reverse positions on such key issues”. And he has a point. Meanwhile Romney is getting the name of “Reversible Mittens”. If that name catches on, he’s sunk. At this point it’s just fighting to have some candidate for President who isn’t off the deep end of the right wing. Some of the niceties of other issues Democrats may wish to discuss among themselves can wait. The Holliday Season is coming up and it will be interesting to see whether Retail outlets have their best year in the past four or five years or not. Another bit of news that’s actually good that’s invariably “spun” as bad news is the exchange value of the US dollar. Low priced dollars are good for the trade balance with the rest of the world. Our goods sell cheaper and imports are discouraged. I think people like Dr. Levy have this half ass backwards. But then again the general illiteracy on basic economics is so appaling that yahoos on the right can get away with saying virtually anything and it’s accepted as gospel. But the attack level on the right is so bad Rush Limbaugh can’t even mention Barock Obama’s name without lapsing into some racial epithet. And he’ll attack any republican who “gets inhis way”. Rush will attack Collin Powel, he’ll attack Mc Cain, he’ll attack whoever.

And now in our religion segment I would like to clarify this whole “Gnostic” thing. I said that Born Agains were essentially Gnostic. This word usually connotes having a sudden transforming revelation from out of the blue and from then on you see everything differently and are a different person. But I’ve also said that the Calvary Chapel people owe a lot to Marcionism. Marcionism is kind of a perversion of Gnosticism, if you will. While Gnosticism says that the gods have become corrupted and that enlightenment is kind of a “tea party moment’ for them, if I may be so bold- - Marcionism is a little different. Marcionism evolved into more of a strictly bi-polar kind of thing. There was this good god, who spawned a bad god known as Satan or Jehovah or whoever who judges people. And the whole Universe is not only “somewhat corrupted” as Gnostics teach- - it has become virtually the embodiment of pure evil, devoid of any redeeming thing, save for the redeeming knowledge of Jesus Christ. But basically you have that “apple moment” where you are struck suddenly by a bolt out of the blue or whatever and undergo some life transforming experience that of course you can’t explain or put into words. So you go around bragging that you have “experienced a mystery”. And of course since you are now “Enlightened” nobody else in the world can see what you see and if you are criticized by others- - it’s just a symptom of their own “old nature” being manifest. And in case we forgot to say, anything “natural” is evil. Which makes you wonder why more of them aren’t gay since gay sex is “unnatural” so in their eyes, good. Well, I hope this has clarified things a little for you.

I’ve used the tag line of my adversaries as being Cowards, Liars and Hypocrites. These adjitives would most surely apply to certain commentators on the far right such as Dick Chaney, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck, none of which has served a day in the military and most certainly never seen combat. Of course I haven’t “proved my manhood” in military combat either, so I’m not condemning them too harshly. Of course to the extent to which they “evaded” rather than merely “avoided” the draft, one might call them cowards. I went in but I didn’t measure up. I flunked my physical. We hear these newly coined fantastic terms such as “Islamo-fascism”. Now we are hearing that the Wall Street protestors are “How the Nazis began”. So now the Nazis began as a democratic movement where corporatism was being attacked? I don’t think so. I know in my own case with my own family- - people’s memories are appallingly poor, and I would suggest deliberately so often during around the realities of situations 180 degrees. And the worse thing people do is rewrite history. So now we are led to believe that the founding fathers got each and every one of their beliefs on human rights and self determination from reading the Bible. I don’t think so. The authors of Days of our Lives are getting ready to dump a real LOAD of bullshit revisionist history on us. They are having us believe that a surgeon named Daniel Jonas in his early forties, kind of with that “seasoned” look, is in fact the son of a woman perhaps fifteen years older than he is, named Maggie Horton. But it gets better. Maggie had fertility problems as she got into her thirties. She was enseminated with Sarah in the summer of 1981. She wanted to have other children but her fertility was too low. So she had her eggs harvested in an attempt at invetro furtelization. Years went by and she kind of forgot about the eggs. Finally some doctor asked her if she wanted her eggs destroyed because he was selling his practice or whatever. She apparently said no. Now fast forward to about 1990. This would about the age Melanie Kiriacus was born because she is about 21 right now. We are however asked that the product of that egg furtelization- - - perhaps in the mid eighties was able to perform the sex act no later than 1989. I’m not buying it. Of course we hear these wild distortions of American History by people like Michelle Bachman and Sarah Palin, and people think it’s funny. These are the same people who say that Obama’s stimulus program has lost two & a half million jobs over the past several years. These are the people who talk about “ever increasing taxes for the rich”. Dr. Levy was upset a few months ago at the possibility of people earning over $250,000 having to pay four percent more income taxes and says “I might have to cut donations to my synagogue if that happens”. Well guess what? According to latest government figures the top one, and I said one percent of income earners pulls down $350,000 per year. So just what percentage do you suppose earns more than $250,000? I highly doubt whether Dr. Levy is or is in danger of being in this elite percentile. Oh- and by the way- - when the President had a choice in the matter he opted NOT to make this income group pay more. People convieniently forget this. People might well get on my case for my late dating the New Testament. Well let’s just check a few indisputable facts. One revolution is referred to in Acts led by a guy named Theudaus, which has NOT occurred yet when the story is alledged to have been written. Paul talks about the “school of Tyamis” in his travels. The trouble is this “school” didn’t get going till after the death of its “founder” and worship idol Apalonius about AD 105. Jesus excoriates the cities where he preached notably Cauparuaum- - saying they would be “thrown down to Hell” for rejecting his ministry and it would be more tolerable for Sodom and Gamorah on the day of judgement than it would for that city. In the early second century this city was destroyed by the Romans. So much for “gentle Jesus miek and mild”. Jesus makes a big thing out of the coin people pay their taxes in reminding people that it’s Ceasar’s image on the coin. This might be a reflection as to how that Messiah figure of the Jews in AD 135 in the Second Jewish War for a time had their own government where they issued their own coinage. At the end of John the author gets really testy about the line that “many said Jesus would come before the last apostle died” and the last apostle died and he had to explain it- - so goes on a straining at gnats mission. Justin Martyr wrote in AD 150. No doubt, you say, he named all four gospels by name? He did not. He did not know the names of any of them, nor that there were four but merely said some phrase like “the memwires of the Apostles” or referred to “The Gospell” in the singular. And just by the way no where does St. Paul even refer to Jesus rising from a tomb. And guess what? This tomb was unknown at the time. Nobody had heard of it. Nobody even knew where the city of Nazareth was because it didn’t exist. It’s a translation error and in the 3^rd Century they had to name a city “Nazareth” so Christianity would look credible.