Donald Trump Will Lose South Carolina

Meet the Press relegated last night’s Republican debate.  I tuned in KNX radio for it at 6:15 remembering the commercials last week.  After the first commercial break I realized the debate was also on television so I tuned in there. They were discussing the death of Anton Scelia and how Ted Cruz want’s a real crusader for the right wing, a real legal heavy-weight to replace him.  I thought that perhaps the Republicans would suspend all their discord and unite for a solid conservative front of unity.  That didn’t happen.   Mitch Mc Connell came out with the statement that no nominee of this President would even get a hearing before this current senate.  To me and others this seems stridently political and altogether premature considering Scelia’s body isn’t cold yet.  But then President Obama responded in kind with an otherwise lauditory commendation of Anton Scelia’s life- - but added that he would ‘fulfill his constitutional duty’ on hoping the Senate will perform their constitutional duty likewise.  The gamble is that if the President nominates a moderate and that candidate is rejected, the democrats could make a campaign issue out of it as an argument for a democratic senate that would “get on with the business of government”.  And either Hillary or Bernie could nominate a real flaming liberal leaving the republicans full of regrets they weren’t more reasonable about the whole thing.  It was a different kind of debate because Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush seemed unified on every issue.  Rubio defended President Bush about 9 – 11 when Donald Trump leveled the charge that the Twin Towers came down on George Bush’s watch.  Rubio blamed 9 – 11 on President Clinton for not killing Bin Laden in 1978 when he had the chance (but failed).   But if Clinton is guilty of sloth, how much more is President Bush guilty of sloth when the facts became a whole lot clearer in midsummer of 2001.  This crowd was very anti Donald Trump.  I can say without much contraversy that Donald Trump is going to lose South Carolina and either Mario or Ted will get a victory.  Every time Trump made a statement I agreed with he got booed by the crowd.  Trump weighed into President Bush on the whole “weapons of mass destruction” argument for going to war in Iraq.  Donald regards the Iraq War as a horrible mistake that destabilized the region.  On Meet the Press they had Trump, Rubio, Cruz, and Kasech on the program.  Kasech agrees with my dovish position that the Iraq War was wrong.  Kasech also agrees that we can’t fight two wars at once against Assad and ISIS at the same time.  Trump also agrees that first we have to deal with ISIS and try and work with Putin if at all possible.  There is some kind of a cease fire treaty going on now between the US and Russia that probably won’t hold.  In terms of immigration- - Rubio and Cruz are still lobbing charges at each other that the other one is soft on immigration and favors amnesty.  Kasech agrees with the Rubio position that we need to eventually think of offering a path of citizenship to those eleven million illegals.  The crowd didn’t mind this apparent mushiness on this position- - and didn’t seem that eager to embrace Donald Trump’s hard line position on aliens.  The program was filled with commercials every few minutes.  Closing positions were issued at a quarter to eight.  I liked Kasech’s speech and Trump’s speech and Cruz was OK.  I hated Rubio and Bush’s speeches.  Different strokes for different folks.  Then I watched Dateline on KNBC.  It was about this Baptist missionary couple with a seemingly perfect marriage.  They had three children and were planning on returning to Lithuania or whatever.  It seems that the husband was sexually involved with a twenty year old Lithuanian student.   Nate and Denise at the time lived in Denise’ parent’s house and the place was burgelerized but the cops sensed certain “irregularities’ about this burglary and eventually charged the husband with murder.  Unfortunately I hadn’t had my coffee for the evening.

I watched a thing on watches and clocks on KTLA.  Then it was the saga of this blind teenager who lived a horrible life of physical pain and his twin brother died.  He became a piano protégé at a young age picking up piano pieces by ear and playing them perfectly with little or no prior practice.  He’s a genious to learn them without studying music.  These kinds of stories are often told on Paul Harvey or Christian stations.  What stands out about them of course is that they are things that almost never happen.  Few people have this seemingly super human will and determination to rise against any and all disadvantages in life.  I couldn’t do it.  Then it was the teenage girl that got bullied.  I still can’t figure out why she got bullied.  They said “It’s because she was a nice person”.  Maybe it’s that the other girls were from an enemy planetary system originally from her.  Then it was dinner and that turkey casserole.  We’ve been having a lot of carrots lately.  We had chocolate pudding for dessert.  You know these Republican candidates will be sniping at each other in an hour or so- - and I bet none of them had to face bullying, so what’s their excuse?  KNX will carry the debate on radio.   

A Washington’s blog highlights the five stages of “Awakening” or some might say “Knowing” that parrellel the five stages of grief.  The first is denial.  There is the kind of ‘Ignorance is bliss” denial.  Then there is guilty denial where the party actively invents a cover story or alternate version of events to cover up the truth.  The second stage is anger.  Hopefully this will be a short stage that’s not too destructive that’s not harmful to property or to yourself.  The third stage is bargaining.  Here you can’t wait to “bargain with” or tell others to sell them on your new version of events, to tell them your new Truth.  The next sgage when this fails is depression.  Screw it; it’s useless!  And all that.  The fifth stage I find puzzling as acceptance because to me it canotes a retreat into the past you know can’t be any more.  Here’s a bit of news to brighten your day.  Antanon Scelia has just died.  He died in his sleep.  He was the longest serving justice nominated in the mid eighties by Ronald Reagan.  Well we don’t have to wait for November’s election.  President Obama can strut his stuff and put forth a nominee right now.  I can only be glad if a court justice died that it was him.  Does this reveal my dark side?  But I would like to return to the video.  Apparently people now see in you an “inner light” or something and what they formerly shunned, they now eagerly want to know.  I don’t get it.  Is this some sort of Gnostic enlightenment- - or sudden empowerment from On High?

This is he final paragraph to be typed but the first paragraph planned last week that I was going to write for this blog entry.  It's on the whole subject of Gnosticsm, which for you new readers you may not be familiar with.  I'd first like to mention what I refer to as the "Marcion wall of separation" of the material world and the karmic world.  St Paul subscribed to this view that "the Lord of this world" was bad but there was a different law in opperation that was separate and had nothing to do with the "Elemental principles (natural law) of the Universe.  George Harrison speaks of this in "Living in the Material world".  These two realms of nature and karma never interract.  Therefore when John Calvin says that the things of nature are predestined, this has no effect on the karmic world because your "Spirit" as St Paul says, is not subject to such natural law and things like determinism and predestination.  Do you follow me?  Now there is a passage in Acts where it's said that "Paul visited the school of Tyannus".   This "school" was of Pythagarian gnostics.  There was a messiah figure called Apollonius of Tyannus, where he among other things is said to have visited India, and also ascended into Heaven forty days after he died, which was around AD 110.  Maybe 105.  I believe either Paul was a person that lived decades after the Bible claims or that Marcion invented him alltogether as a vehicle of portraying his theology.  How strange it is that every word of the Marcion "cannon" became accepted as scripture.  Marcion is said to be a backslidden Christian.  But it's my contention that Gnosticsm pre-dated Christianity as we know it.  They say Gnosticsm  - - Marcion Gnosticsm or Pythagarean Gnosticsm existed from about 90 AD whereas Christianity as we know it didn't get off the ground, at least in Rome till after AD 135.  It's Gnosticsm that spoke of "Getting back to the One or The Point".  It subscribed to the law of "limited Good" to the extent that GOD was so "good" that this goodness could not be enlarged upon or expanded without diluting it.  As such even an act of Creation of matter by God- - is said to be "God's original sin".  Hence even the Angels of this Creator God or "Lord of this World" the Angels themselves may appear to be "angels of light' but are in fact Demonic and as such are not to be trusted or listened to.  All this is familiar to my readers but you new ones need to be made aware of it.  When it says in Thesselonians to praise God IN our distress- - it does not say to thank God FOR our "current distress" as St Paul refers to it.  Since creation is a sin for God, it's argued that sex and having offspring is a sin.  Hence sex is seen is seen as sin because it continues this sinful Creation process.  Just how one gets back to "The Point" or "The One" is a mystery but it is out goal.  It's said to be a supernatural process that defies any physical description.  But it's something that once it happens to you it's a "Born Again" experiance and you know that you are never the same.  It's an inner Knowing that passeth all understanding.  As you can see there is a lot of Gnosticsm in Christianity- - but there is a lot about Calvary Chapel Christianity that is NOT gnostic, and you need to beware of that also.  Though sex is sin- - and procreation is sin, the "Sin" is not some physical thing that can be passed on like "bad seeds".  Sin is karmic in nature.  It comes from not exercising the Will to rise above it.  This bit about not exercising the Will to rise above sin is also part of Federation theology.  It is said to have the Mind in you that is in Christ.  St Paul also teaches that "The Law" as in OT is a "covenant with death" and that no good thing can come from it.  It is the product of the evil creater god Jehovah.  It is part of the natural world therefore we as Born Again Christians are not subject to it.  (Selah).  

The Eleven Physical Dimensions

Eleven is the number years ago that some said were the number of dimensions that existed when the Universe was created, but that they collapsed down to three.  While there may in theory be more than three spacial dimensions, I don't know of them, and I think their existance may be all but unprovable.  It dawned on me that some of you people may now know that we've done different listings of dimensions in the past and I'm here to review one old one for you.  It was late summer one year, perhaps 2012 where we unleashed "opperation gemstone".  This was a jewel shaped figure with twelve large dots in it, standing for each of the twelve dimensions.  The twelfth dimension was the "God dimension" or "The Twelfth Man" or the fans in the seats watching TV screens.  Since this recitation of dimensions only had one dimension for Time with no allowance at all for linear varience, we came up with the whole "God" concept in that there had to be some overall Big Reality that encompassed everything- even parellel Universes, whose existence can't be proven.  Hence this TV watcher would have a choice of eleven TV screens at one time.  (Back in the old days there were only about a total of eleven TV channels to begin with)   Before we move on to what I now consider the correct picture let me say that that Mal Evans and the Federation are sticking by this twelve dot "Gemstone" symbol.  In addition to only one dimension of Time- - perfectly straight linear time- - the other thing of note is in the four dimensions of properties of "solid" matter.  These are Gravity- - aka - - Materiality and also encompassing force- - and a lot of that General Relitivity stuff Einstein talks about.  Apparently there are some new revelations or observations that prove Einstein that I haven't checked out.  Two more properties of matter are FORM and FUNCTION.  If you are a Deist, and believe in a Creator God, then you would say that Form comes after Function.  That is, a function is "thought of" by God, and then a Form is created to accomidate that function.  Another word for Form could be blueprint or instructions on how to build the thing.  Last of the four material properties is "Common perception".  Mal Evans reminds me today that the original Federation designation here is "The Way Things Really Are".  That's because they're all Objectivists in the Federation where human perception does not alter the nature of reality in any way.

There was one listing perhaps a year ago, perhaps more, where I had as many as Seventeen dimensions listed.  These included the three psychic dimensions ("Close encounters" of the first, second, and third kind, you might say) and also three karmic dimensions.  It is not necessary to understand these if you don't already.  We have discussed karmic dimensions at length in the past.  These account for six.  We then come to the title of this posting "The Eleven Physical Dimensions".   We have pretty much talked about the four aspects or properties or dimensions of Matter.  I would only modify that to say in a human subjective world the fourth dimension isn't just "The way things really are" or "commonly held perceptions" but that the fourth dimension is "Awareness".  You could call it physical awareness if you want.  It's human awareness and all that goes with it.  This accounts for dimensions one through four.  We then have dimensions five, six, and seven, the spacial dimensions of length, width, and height that we are all familiar with.  We have now covered seven out of the eleven.   Bones alias Stu-baby believes in two dimensions of Time, encompassing the fifth dimension encompassing oblique Universes.  We have done extensive writing on this topic.  We have said that under normal circumstances (however you define "normal") that these Universe boundaries or timelines never cross.  Each stays separate.  In case any of you are wondering, Bones is back.  He seems to have won in his battle to be reincarnated as someone else.  Hopefully he will stay "back".  We have now covered nine dimensions with two more to go.  Number ten is the Dynamic called- - Dynamic, and encompasses everything you think it does be it sight, sound, or in graphics.  Think in terms of decibles.  This aspect of reality is everywhere around us and yet we don't think about it, but without Dynamic our world would literally be flat-lining.  (Selah)   We now come to the final dimension of Feng Chue, and if you have a better spelling for that let me know.  Also known as Feng Chue strings.  As you know in our frame of reference strings are great big things that when they are transversed or crossed- - karmic energy is released.  Feng Chue says that the location of nothing is left to chance and everything IS where it is at that moment for an overriding reason.  (Some say for reasons known to God)   If we can change our Feng Chue we can change our destiny.  This is because Feng Chue unleashes "Events" in our lives.  One can say "Astrological" events, but if you prefer Fend Chue string events- - then be my guest.  These are events that are caused by themselves or some say the Feng Chue strings are the causal element.  They are events that could not have been known about or foreseen before they occurred.  These Events in other words don't appear to have prior causes.  Sometimes this is referred to as the Zero dimension.  Space is not a concern because these strings are standing waves of Ether.  It should also be noted that the "What you see is what you get" theory is in opperatio here.  That is- - it doesn't matter that some stars are shining with light released hundreds of years ago- - as far as the law of feng chue goes- - neither time nor distance means anything.  Because they are standing waves of ether, this means they aren't "traveling".  They are part of the psychic "accoustics" all around us all the time.  It's spent more time on this last dimension because I feel it's the most difficult for most people to pick up on because this topic so far as I know, isn't "taught"' by that many other people.

Can We Rewrite History, Please?

 Sometimes you wish history had been different.  I speak in the past tense because I think the fight to get Bernie nominated is over and Hillary has won.  Callers that try to speak up for Bernie now are shooshed if they suggest things such as the number of super deligates pledge to Hillary already make the race unfair.  A woman calling the Stephanie Miller show tried to make the point that the super deligates' votes aren't cast in concrete and never have super deligates determined the eventual candidate.  I guess 1968 was the last time.  If Robert Kennedy hadn't died, those super deligates would have had a choice.  Either go for Hubert Humphrey or shift their votres to Robert Kennedy, keeping in mind that Hubert Humphrey didn't win a single primary vote.  (Selah)  Stephanie is even harder core Hillary this morning.  It seems Bernie didn’t do well in last night’s debate on PBS or whatever.  Was it on free TV and I missed it?  My bad.  I was told the debate was too “wonky”.  One thing Bernie has never been labled in the past is "Boring".  It's difficult to pretend the elephant in the room isn't there with Republican distrust of Hillary because of her E mails and the Bengazi situation and all.  It's baggage, like weights worn by an Olympic runner in training to increase endurance.  But the Apostle Paul urges his readers to "Cast aside every wright and run the good race of Faith".  (Selah) But you don't lose a race with one bad debate.  Bernie still has all of his supporters out there.  It reminds a little of the Jesus Christ superstar song when Simon Zealotes says to Jesus "Christ what more do you need to convince you, that you've made it and you're easily as strong - - as the filth from Rome who rape our country and have terrorized our people for so long.  Keep them yelling their devotion, but add a touch of hate at Rome".   I'd like Bernie supporters to add a touch of hate at Hillary.  Now she's trying to play the race card bragging about her endorsement by the congressional Black caucus.  The charge is falsely made that Bernie never worked for the civil rights causes.  He was involved in SNCC from the early days, and also was a big proponent of gay rights when it wasn't fashionable.  Anyone can change positions when political experiancy forces them to do so.  (Selah) Bernie is a prime mover.  Hillary is not. Others say that Hillary has to go beyond just saying ‘Everything Bernie says I agree with- - and by the way don’t forget that I am a woman’.   From the bits gleaned this morning I would concur that Bernie was weak last night and Hillary took the offensive, even if her barbs were deceptive in nature.  The charge is also made that Bernie said "I am against immigration because all those illegals drive the wage base down".  Even if Bernie said this, I would be in agreement with it.  If Bernie works on one race at a time, such as the Blacks, he will be doing well.  But Bernie seems bound to a rule no other candidate, democratic or republican, has to abide by.  The Republicans have their knock down drag out debates and Shawn Hannity doesn’t object.  He says it’s good for the party and kind of a learning and character development experience for the candidates, and it’s necessary and eventually, down the line- - this summer they’ll arrive at a final nominee.   Hillary could lose out with minorities if they discover Bernie Sanders is just as dedicated, if not more, to their own interests as is Hillary.  Sanders also has it in his power to bring Hillary down on another issue.  And that’s the issue of Hillary attacking the women who had affairs with Bill tarnishing their character.  No woman is going to stand for that once they know.  I had Shawn Hannity on before this in the noon and two o clock hours. 

How about a "Fantasy Jesus Christ Superstar".   This is one with a Jesus, Jesus Barrabus, that actually wants to Fight for freedom to win his objectives- - more of a Nelson Mandella type.  As you will remember the opera opens with Judas Iscariot coming to the conclusion (much as Obama did) that Jesus was pushing too hard to advance his cause and the people were getting out of control and all of their support was going to his head.  So Judas makes a determination to betray Jesus at some point in the future.  The next seen in the opera is that "What's the buzz" skit where Jesus is accusing Judas of being too money grubbing.  The Apostle John adds the charge that Judas was a crook, stealing from the kitty, much as Hillary Clinton and Obama are allied with Wall Street and are stealing the American people blind.  There is also the whole interplay with Mary Magdolane and is she really Jesus' wife- - or is Judas write in calling her just another whore that Jesus shouldn't be seen with in Public.  Then we have the whole Hosanna theme.  Then there is the Simon Zealotes song we've referred to above.  The Bible speaks of "A riot that broke out- - and Jesus Barrabus comits a murder".   What if the whole "Temple cleansing" scene were actually something much more than that and a full scale insurrection broke out with Jesus (Barrabus) disciples taking up arms to attack the Romans.  Perhaps some were captured.   Per chance what is Jesus (Barrabus) slipped away and disappeared for a few days.  Perhaps Judas was captured and said he could arrange to have Jesus arrested if they'd just give him temporary freedom where he could ensnare Jesus?  From that point in Judas takes up the mantle of the now disappeared leader talking to the Pharicees about things as the resurrection of the dead (an afterlife) and the authority of John the Baptist, was it from God or from Man.  And of course the widdow's might.  Judas is always about milking every last penny.  So the whole passion play works out with Judas.  Judas leads the cohort of Roman troops against Jesus- - but once again Jesus makes his escape.  Roman troops pursue.  The Bible in a passage in Acts alludes to the fact that Jesus was really "An Egyyptian" and makes his escape southward into the Judean wilderness.  This leaves Judas confronting Pilate and everything.  But then Roman troops eventually track down Jesus.  But soneone suggests that Pilate set one of them free- - and naturally the people scream to let Jesus Barrabus free- - and send Judas to the cross.   - - - well, it's just a scenario.  I think if we translate it to Bernie Sanders winning the White House it means that Sanders needs to learn to Fight for what he believes as right- - not so polite and sedately as in the past.  (Selah)

Let's Declare R I P to the Reagan Revolution

Norman Goldman says the tally was 61% to 49% for Hillary.  That’s a lead of over twenty points and substantially more than I thought.  Trump won every demographic group in New Hampshire except evangelicals.  Bernie won in almost every demographic.  Hillary won with women over 45, and her best strength was with people over 65.  However according to Sean Hannity - - Hillary won fifteen deligates to Sanders’ thirteen.  Now they count the super deligates.  The networks never used to count them before.   Given this evidence, there seems to be no way that Senator Sanders can win with a quarter of the deligates pledged to Hillary at the git go.  This hardly seems fair.  Where I think the Hillary people are making a major mistake is that Blacks are an unknown commodity.  You can’t conclude from Iowa, with its few minorities, that Bernie can’t score with minorities.  This is because a major campaign has not been launched to reach minorities yet in South Carolina or anywhere else.  There is absolutely no reason to believe that Blacks in particular won’t go for Bernie the same way white people do.  They said Blacks were for Hillary in 2008 but they simply weren’t used to any other candidate, and when they heard a better candidate they voted.  We’ll have our next debate tomorrow night and the Republicans will have another one this weekend.  Five percent of the deligates are selected in February but sixty percent of the deligates are selected in March.  Nobody will wrap it all up on March first like happened in 2008.  They vote in South Carolina on February 20^th.   After Super Tuesday there will be elections coming hot and heavy for the next several weeks. 

This is Ash Wednesday and both Teresa and Hernando had the ash marks on their foreheads.   The results of the New Hampshire primary didn’t change from last night.  Trump still came in first with Kasech at about half as many points.  Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio were third, fourth, and fifth and the order never altered.  Governor Christie came in a weak sixth and he is getting out of the race.  Sean Hannity still holds against Christie for making nice with Obama during Hurricane Sandy right before Obama was reelected.  I still subscribe to the theory that some sort of a deal with the Devil was made with the democrats, so I am in agreement with Sean.  Carley Feurina is also withdrawing from the race.  I think she deserves a tribute for being a fearless campaigner with definite opinions about how things should be run.  It’s easier to listen to Hannity than Stephanie Miller because if they ever utter a pro Bernie Sanders thought on that show they all have to do major penance today for it.  If Stephanie doesn’t knock it off, I might have to stop watching her show for a while.

I had a five Messiah theory when it comes to who Jesus Christ was.  I would now like to reduce that number to four.  I am jetezening Luigi Cascioli's theory.  I’m eliminating Jonah of Galilee.  This is a brother in a Jewish novel about the revolutionary Macabees family and supposed brother of Theudas Macabees.  The fact that other brother names were the same as Jesus’ brothers I’m now chalking up to coincidence.  Therefore there is no problem in saying there is a body of historic tradition that Jesus appeared in Galilee at age thirty and got a band of twelve disciples.  This Jesus or Yeshua was a Nazarite and therefore was a “Pescaterian” who only ate fish and no other meats.  He wore long hair and a razor has never come near his head.  He didn’t drink wine and was never allowed to touch a dead person.   We told you that these Nazarites for the most part lived near Mt Carmel.  I think certain details in the text were added later such as the teaching on never marrying a divorced woman, or the bit about the brother who sins and you kick him out of the whole assembly.  Anything that alludes to a “Church” such as Jesus saying to Peter “On this rock I will build my church” and all that stuff about Keys to the Kingdom of Heaven, I believe were just added later. 

First I'd like to spell out ways of getting the economy going again.  We need to discourage states that pass "right to work" laws that weaken or eliminate labor unions.  We need a strong labor movement because it drives up wages even in non unionized businesses.  I think we need to raise the minimum wage to twelve dollars an hour.  I think fifteen is a little too visionary.  We need to scrap the NAFTA treaty and also vote down the trans pacific partnership- - because that will be a disaster in so many ways I can't enumerate them all here.  Next I would penalize employers who hire known illegal aliens because they do drive the wage base down.  I wouldn't do it in any racist manner but merely to have respect for the law.  And if there are any small business regulations that are too burdensome I'd ease up on the paper work.  Judy complains that all that reporting to the government for every little thing is burdonsome.  I would also institute income averaging over five years assuming we don't already have that so if your business has one good year you don't get socked all at once with a whole lot of taxes irregardless of the previous four years of losses.  If we do these common sense things we will get the economy going like it should.  I think the stock market is in trouble.  CEO's are getting paid too much and don't pay their fair share of taxes- - thanks to stuff done by Ronald Reagan.  Because of the actions of Ronald Reagan and later Obama's Federal Reserve- - stock prices are artficially high and don't represent the reality of enemic business.

Basically I'm for Bernie Sanders if I didn't say.  But I think some progressive ideas are a bit too visionary such as having paid medical leave for having a baby.  These things should be negotiated by your union at the time you are hired- - and not mandated by the government with tax dollars.  I also think free College for everybody is not realistic.  I think we need to scale back these endless wars we are fighting in the mideast and not try and start World War III with Putin.  This is an unnecessarily complicating matter.   I have problems with Hillary.  She's against restoring Glass Steigel- - and those FDR stock market regulations.  She voted for the Iraq war in 2003 and this shows bad judgement.  She voted for the bankruptsy "reform" bill that makes it harder for ordenary people to get out from under.  College debt can not be counted in figuring bankruptsy.   Hillary's position on abortion is extreme- - and I think she's for very late term abortions and partial birth abortions.  Now Hillary is even having a problem with younger women.  I guess Madalane Allbright or somebody said 'Younger women just want to hang out with their boyfriends, but women get more radical the older they get.  I think we have an image problem here.  Hillary at times gets too combattive and still doesn't answer the question.  There are all these ties with Goldman Sachs and Wall Street.  Hillary for a long time was for the Trans Pacific Partnership.   HIllary Clinton HAS been known to change her vote after a donation.  She does get that angry rant to her voice that- - - in this society a man can get away with but a woman cant.  I think Clinton is too extreme on the guns issue- - - and wants to sue gun manufactures and store owners.  In this case I agree with the adage "It isn't the gun but the person who fires it".  Then there's the whole judgement question about Libya and deciding to take down Qadafi in Libya setting up the whole Bengazi situation.  Then there are still lingering questions about her E mails.  All in all Hillary has just too much "baggage" making her an easy, attackable target for Republicans in the fall.

The Thing Sanders and Trump Have in Common

Shawn Hannity isn't the only one concerned about the future of the next generation.  It's our duty to insure that they actually have one. 

It's a fact that in this country every Presidential candidate is either a rat, a dragon, or a monkey.  This year?  Let's hear it for the monkey!  Do you think it would help Bernie Sanders' image if he were more energetic and leaped around the stage like Mick Jagger? 

Prelude:   At about ten to three I turned on the computer and I watched a Donald Trump rally in New Hampshire till 3:08 and Trump was talking about all of the Bush and Christie supporters at last Saturday’s Republican debate.  Trump calls them “Paid donors” and Trump stressed how he was free from all of these rich special interests and can “get things done, like they’ve never been done” because of that.   This naturally leads us to the main article which like Marco Rubio may be a bit repetetive, but we need to make sure you all actually "get it" so we need to drive the point home soundly.   

Why Americans Are Backing Trump and Sanders Over the Mainstream Candidates Backed By the Political Machines

We’ve previously noted that polls show that Americans are in a “pre-revolutionary” mood, that less than 1 in 5 Americans think that the government has the “consent of the governed”, that government corruption tops the list of Americans’ fears (gee, we wonder why), and that 3 times as many Americanssupported King George during the Revolutionary War than support our OWN Congress today.

You might assume that such statements are over-the-top … or that the results come from partisan pollsters.

But a  group of Republican and Democratic pollsters and political strategists reviewed polling data last week, and revealed some stunning results:

• 84% of all Americans believe political leaders are more interested in protecting their power and privilege than doing what is right

• 81% percent believe the power of ordinary people to control our country is getting weaker every day as politicians of both parties fight to protect their own power and privilege

• 80% believe the federal government is its own special interest primarily looking out for itself

• 79% of all voters believe we need to recruit and support more candidates for office, at all levels of government, who are ordinary citizens, rather than professional politicians and lawyers

• 78% believe that the Democratic and Republican Parties are essentially useless in changing anything, because both political parties are too beholden to special interests to create any meaningful change

• 76% of Americans agree with the statement that America cannot succeed unless we take on and defeat the corruption and crony capitalism in our government

• 75% believe that the US government is NOT working for the people’s best interest

• 75% believe that powerful interests have used campaign and lobbying money to rig the system for themselves

• 74% see the biased and slanted coverage of the media as part of the problem

• 72% of Americans believe the U.S. has a two-track economy, where most Americans struggle every day, where good jobs are hard to find, and where huge corporations get all the rewards

• 72% believe that the reason families in our middle class have not seen their economic condition improve for decades and economic growth is stalled is because of corruption and crony capitalism in Washington

• 71% believe our government is not only dysfunctional, it is collapsing right before our eyes

• 70% believe the government in Washington does not govern with the consent of the people

• The majority – 56% – say they wish there were a third party with a chance of success to fight for their interests

• Only 15% say the “values and principals of my political party are so important that I strongly prefer to vote for the candidates of my party…”

They concluded:

The country [is] in a pre-revolutionary moment.   If you knew that oily rags in your garage were in a "pre spontanious combustion moment" would you not, if you were the Government be wise in trying to stave off that dreadful moment?

This election could mark the beginning of the end of two-party duopoly in the United States.

The people believe the real struggle for America is not between Democrats and Republicans, but between mainstream America and the ruling political elites of incumbent politicians, lobbyists, big business, big unions, big banks, big special interests and the big media. [The people are correct.]

The power elite asks, “When will this be over?” Although this is seen as a chaotic and temporary situation by most of the political and media establishment, our research shows a strong, evolving tidal wave of discontent and growing pressure for real and dramatic change.

Real change is what that the establishment fears most and fights hardest against.  Since I believe this is true it means if the enemy values certain ground (to use a military metaphor) as a do or die hill that must be taken at all costs, then we the People need to invest all the more resources in this area to defeat the establishment, and I believe that means voting for Sanders and against Hillary.

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This, in fact, is a revolution.

The Killing Fields Come to New Hampshire

The Republican Debate got off to a strange start.  ABC front loaded the thing with commercials before one word.  It was ten after five and they did commentary and then we were in for another batch of commercials so I went out to smoke and when I returned they were just going over the rules.  This “referencing another candidate” rule got a little out of hand when Marco Rubio and Governor Christie were monopolizing the conversation with a tit for tat.  Donald Trump says he will without question bring back water-boarding and “worse than that”.  Trump kept talking about the ISIS beheadings and torture in the middle ages, and kind of hinted that "If they do it, then it's OK for me to do it" and said he would embrace waterboarding "and a lot worse" without a moment's second thought.  I find this kind of scarey.  Ted Cruz doesn’t want to take water-boarding off the table but he doesn’t think low level officers should be doing it. I would agree with Ted Cruz's position to the extent that I would never broadcast to the enemy what we will NOT do to elicit information.  This takes away the surprise factor.  However I also believe in the Golden Rule, and if we don't want our prisoners tortured by Moslems, then we shouldn't torture them.  Donald Trump wants to make deals with bankers to dry up the funds of ISIS and “bomb their oil” but also “take their oil” and within a year they will be very weakened.  Christie has his compassionate thing about drug addiction and no prisons.  Christie aiming his remarks at Rubio says that “Marco can’t face real crises on a day to day basis because he lacks the experience in an executive position”.   So many of the arguments advanced each of the candidates were ones that have been used in the past.  Trump believes Obama is incompetent but Marco Rubio believes that everything President Obama has done is a direct attempt to sabotage this country.  Rubio would lapse into this same stump speech repeatedly about Obama, and Governor Christie called him on it for repeating the exact same words over again.  None of the candidates was that good at answering a question directly.  John Kasech said very little but somehow billed him as the sunny, optimistic candidate. One area where Jeb Bush shined is when he took on Donald Trump on eminent domain.  Trump said that the XL Trans Canada pipeline would be a case of eminent domain.  I believe in treading carefully on private property rights.  Certainly you don't foreclose on an eighty year old lady's home to build a golf course.   One thing we hate for instance about Cuba is that they trod on private property rights of big land owners.  Two wrongs don't make a right.  The force of government should not be employed to destroy a middle class neighborhood because they have lake front property for instance- - that could better be used by a luxury development for the rich.  Often the term "blighted' is used t run people off their property.   People in South Pasadena have been fighting a freeway for over the past fifty years, which would cut their community in half.  If Trump ever wants my vote, don't feed my fears about crushing the little guy.   Of course I missed the Mc Laughlin group this night.  They had major commercials at six, and again at seven and again at seven thirty.  The candidates didn’t make opening statements but they did make brief closing statements and they were done at a quarter to eight.  That’s two and a half hours this debate ran on network television.

I’m glad I watched that Carley Feurina rally at ten or so.  Carley wants to institute zero based budgeting where every department every time had to justify every dollar they spend.  Otherwise they just spend it all on waste and come back for more next year.  I dialed away when Carley was asked a question about Putin and she acted like she wanted to start WW III.  I skipped the snack break because I’d gotten coffee and cigarettes at nine thirty at the store.  It was later in the hour I turned on the radio and listened to KLOS and some KRTH.  The lead singer of the Stone Temple Pilots died not too long ago and they are auditioning for a new lead singer.  It seems to me after nearly 25 years they could just declare R I P for the group. 

Marco Rubio claimed that Hillary Clinton supports abortions on the baby’s due date.  Hillary talked a good game but she never denied the claim of that, or that she supports partial birth abortions.  This is an excellent reason not to vote for Hillary.  I have “Face the Nation” on.  All of the Wall Street people have given Hillary 2.46 Billion dollars.   Dodd Frank was a very weak bill and even that has not been enforsed.  Only an insane person would claim that Wall Street regulations are tougher now than they were thirty or forty years ago.  Thom Hartman has a point.  We should restore the democratic party to what it was seventy years ago when FDR was president.  There are times when we need regulations to guard against the machinations of sheer human greed.  Certainly we don't want situations where lenders are betting against their own clients.  We don't want these investment swaps - - where defaulting on them is a near certainty.  We don't want the wild west on Wall Street.  Another broad reason for not liking Hillary is a variation of the Bengazi argument.  The bigger question is how the deaths at Bengazi came about in the first place.  Hillary and Obama and NATO voted to take down the Qadafi government, something the wiser among us were against.  

They had classic girl groups on Rhapsody in Black today.  They started out with all the familiar songs and groups.  They played “Mr. Lee” but then followed it up with “I Shot Mr. Lee” also by the Bobettes, which was just as hyper.  But it was pledge week and they spent an awful lot of time on that cutting down on the music.  They also had a guest with background stuff about the various groups in more detail than we usually get.  Darlene Love and the Blossoms is the group that made “He’s a Rebel” but the “Blossoms” also were featured in another song.  Unlike usually, the girl groups weren’t restricted to Black girls.  There are also two different groups named the “Cookies”.  One was mid 1955. 

The Denver people around here were proven right because Denver won the Super Bowl 24 to 10.   Denver kept scoring in bits and pieces.  I turned on the TV at 2:15 and that was way too early so I called Mom and talked to her for a while, though it was a shorter conversation than usual.  I asked her about her sleep and her showering.  Mom had the TV on and she was waiting to see the half time show and I told her it would probably be a little after five.  I turned on the TV at three and they had the Most Valuable Players from Super Bowl’s one through 48.  They repeated some numerals with the same player.  They had both teams taking the field and that took a while.  Then they sang America the Beautiful with a choir and then the National Anthem.  Then it was the coin toss- silver verses gold.  NC won and chose to defer.  North Carolina only scored one full touchdown the game and that came early.  The final score was 24 to 10.  Denver was clearly in control of the game.  The game didn’t start till about twenty to four or record lateness.  We had veal parmison for dinner minus the melted cheese and the tomato.  Glenda says she likes it that way, with just a slightly breaded patty.  We had herbal pasta and mixed vegetables with that and lemon pudding for dessert.  The first half didn’t end till nearly twenty after five.  Then Olivia came over here with two Mexican buddies of hers.  They were burly fellows.  Bill said Olivia had been drinking.  They spent a lot of time smooching.  The half time featured Bruno Mars, Biance, and Cold Play.  (in the opposite order)  Half time ended at seventeen to six.  I went outside and Tommy, Linda’s boyfriend was out there and said he was thinking about moving in here if the food was OK.  He had a sense of humor.  I watched the rest of the game and it got hot in here during the evening but I didn’t open the window.  The game ended at twenty after seven.  Then it was America’s Funniest Home Videos for nearly two hours.  I fell asleep.  I did get coffee at one point from Glen but it didn’t help.  I got some vanilla flavored coffee for four cigarettes. 

Unemployment Dips to 4.9%

The American economy’s jobs machine cooled in January but still performed well enough to push unemployment to an eight-year low of 4.9%, and deliver some much-needed wage gains for ordinary workers.  However we are only now getting back to employment levels of nine or ten years ago under Bush.  But of course we have the lowest labor participation since Jimmy Carter, so don't celebrate too soon.  It means there are still a lot of people getting some form of government aid.  If I had my choice I'd rather look at governor's budget statements from January of 2007 than today because the states as a whole were a lot more dinancially solvent then.  How say you?  The Labor Department said Friday that payrolls rose by 151,000 in January, a falloff from the year-end sprint that helped make 2015 the second-best year for job creation since the late 1990s.  Analysts said that the slowdown might push the Federal Reserve to postpone another interest rate increase when it meets next month, but signs of a tighter labor market suggested that policy makers would be looking closely at incoming data.  “We are likely to have to two rate hikes this year, probably in June and December,” said Diane Swonk, an independent economist in Chicago, “but the wage gains are important, so March can’t be ruled out.”  Given the big jump in payrolls late last year, as well as much colder weather last month after the warmest December on record, some payback in January was to be expected.

RINGO AND FRIENDS    updated version rel January 31st 2016

Choose Love   (Ringo)

It’s Going To Be A Great Day (Paul)

Snookeroo (Ringo)

I Don’t Want to Know (Julian Lennon)

Back Off, Boogaloo  (Ringo)

Early 1970  (Ringo)

Good Night Vienna (radio version) Ringo

Ooh-Wee!  (Ringo)

Postcards from Paradise (Ringo)

The No No Song (Ringo) 

Bye-Bye Love (George)

Night And Day (Ringo)

In Spite of all the Heartache (Paul – updated version)

Elizabeth Reigns Over Me (Ringo)

Bless You (John)

Instant Amnesia (Ringo)

Don’t Go Where the Road Don’t Go (Ringo)

Stripping this album down to one disk has been under consideration since at least November.  January 31st is "backwards day" and it's also that among the Romulans.  It began actually in the sixties among southern California Romulans as a confluence of two things.  January 31st was "Senior ditch day" in 1966, where things are "different".  Also at Glature Falls Ice Rink right after ice reconditioning at the beginning of the second half of public skate they would have "backward direction skate" or clockwise.  From the local Romulans around here the tradition of "backwards day" spread to the Romulans at large.  "Postcards" was used again as a tribute to David Bowie, and the track is reminicent of Bowie.  

One of the world’s biggest multinational trade deals, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, has been signed by 12 member nations in New Zealand and will now undergo a two-year ratification period in which at least six countries must approve the final text for the deal to be implemented. The Trans-Pacific Partnership encompasses 12 Pacific Rim nations, including the United States, and 40 percent of the world’s economy. Opponents say it will benefit corporations at the expense of health, the environment, free speech and labor rights. Activists have kicked off a worldwide series of protests around the signing of the trade pact, including a nonviolent blockade of the convention center in Auckland where the signing took place.

The founder and lead singer of Earth, Wind and Fire died yesterday in LA at age 74 yesterday.  This is the fifth rock group this year to suffer the loss of a key member, and four of them have been in the ZAC Tarot Card deck, though Earth, Wind, and Fire was just added a couple of weeks ago.   Motorhead was the group perhaps I didn’t mention that lost a member, along with the Jefferson Airplane, the Eagles, and David Bowie.   I watched a brief fairwell video.   So do deaths run in fives now?

It was Fridays with John Fugelsang.  They are still doing Bernie bashing on that show.  It seems rampant now among liberal talk show hosts.  There was a Democratic debate last night they haven’t talked about except there was a headline that Bernie Sanders messed up on Foreign policy.  There is a rumor that Hillary is on the board of Monsanto corp, which apparently is not the case.  But rather than simply defend Clinton they attack Bernie in the process.  This was the debate that initially Bernie did not want to attend.  Hillary said last night, “I have never changed a vote on account of any donation that I have received”, and I have a bridge in New Jersey I want to sell you.   Hillary Clinton last night was angry and defensive to the max.  She would not answer a specific policy issue raised by Bernie but invariably launched into a defensive personal attack against Bernie.  Actually she changed her vote on bankruptsy from what her position had been in the Clinton administration when her husband vetoed an almost identical bankruptsy bill.  But when Hillary got into the Senate where it was politics as usual and we know the results.  There is a poll now that shows that Hillary Clinton is only ahead two points nationally over Hillary.  This poll has revealed a steady gain of Bernie Sanders.  I think Hillary is going to get the shalacking of her life next Tuesday in New Hampshire.  

 Then at ten to three I turned on the Prescription Drug hearings and the majority and the “ranking member” Elijah Cummings spoke.  Both were pro consumer and anti drug company.  This smirking guy who was being interviewed was from the drug company who jacked up the price of a key drug four thousand percent.  What they do is buy up generic drug companies and jack up all the prices to boost profits.  It's the Gordon Gecko philosophy on full display.  It's called 'If there's money in it- - jump in and throw your Capitalist weight around and don't lose a chance to boost profits and screw the consumer.  I think this guy up on the stand was some kind of spaced out socopath or something  A pharmacist from Georgia also spoke up who was sympathetic to the consumer and our needs.  They jumped around so much on Days of our Lives today but it would seem that Kayla has been found.  I had two cups of iced tea in the afternoon outing.  I missed the morning outing entirely.  Bill went to the doctor at nine and had another E K G test.