Obama Shown the Reins

Randy Rhodes today expressed her oppinion on the current news situation rather liberally today and I must say I have a lot of reservations about the things she said. She never liked the idea of Bill Clinton being referred to as a lying, pot smoking, womanizing draft dodger when in fact he was all these things. Bill Clinton is also guilty of rape. It does no good to deny any of this. Now Obama has signed an executive order, or will, to the effect that the United States should support abortion groups around the world. Obama also is a believer in killing the fetus after it's born. This is a fact; there is no use in denying it. Obama has also shown by his appointment of Chief of Staff that he wants a no nonesense guy in charge kind of like his dark alter ego, in power. Randi Rhodes believes in bringing back the "fairness" doctrine, not believing that liberals can compete with Conservative talk radio in the open market. We don't know what Obama and Bush talked about today but I imagine there was a lot of ass kissing going on. It's a comon belief among liberals like Michael Benner that no liberal can be trusted to run Foreign Policy and National Security but there is some kabbal that is really behind the scenes in power. I don't like Randi Rhodes' hysterics about proposition eight here in California. It's rather silly for gays to protest that they feel cheated when they lost the vote fair and square. The people of California have said they don't want the hallowed institution of marriage equated with gayness. Indeed in the history of world civilization has such a thing even existed before even among the Greeks and Romans. Jesus on KFI defends being gay in various ways but one of them is touting how few references there are to homosexuality prohibitions. Like abortion, certain acts are so inherently hanious and perverse and depraved that little note needs to be made of them because no sane person would comit them. It's a continuing insult to Black people and Latinos and any other "straight" minority that their cause and the cause of homosexual marriage are of equal value. Obama did not hesitate in signing on to the Bush bail out plan of two months ago. If Randi Rhodes were really that bothered Obama was called a Socialist, the least she can do is achnoledge that a lot of people on the Right have just cause to be concerned. One might well wonder whether the American economy will ever be the same. Even now retail outlet after retail outlet is either slashing jobs and stores to a high extent, or else going out of business completely. For Mc Cain to say "The fundamentals of the American economy are sound" is one of the most misbegotten statements ever made. The fundamentals of our economy rate about an F minus at this point for a lot of reasons. I agree with conservatives that we need to re establish a "work ethic" in this country. We only disagree about how to do that. Indeed the American economy was less "ill" in the depths of the recession. As far as stem cell research is concerned- - I would not have signed that executive order either. Obama says he will sign. I think we need to put it to another vote to acertain just what the oppinion of the American People is about stem cell research before we massively shell out tax payer dollars to fund it. I strenuously disagree with the AM 1150 crowd on another issue and that is the invasion by Georgia by Russia. Now we want to put in missiles for defense in Poland, whereas Russia intends to put missiles just accross the border frum Poland. I didn't think any part of Russia bordered Russia now. If we can't defeat Russia now in their weakened condition, we will not be able to defeat them once they have recovered to their former strength. Pat Buchannen is touting the liberal line in this saying "Whatever Russia wants, we should give them- - and above all blame America for everything". If you want to cast blame for the war in Georgia, Randy Rhodes and Thom Hartman say, "Just blame the whole thing on Karl Rove and John Mc Cain". This makes absolutely no sense to me. Right now I have a few more remarks to make politically- - from yesterday's Word file.

I haven’t been blogging at near the speed I was blogging at a couple of months ago. I don’t like the idea that Obama thinks he has to appoint “Washington insiders” to cabinet posts just “to prove he coming from the center”. I’ve heard he’s going to get supply side conservative economists in posts, too. Obama has given no indication that he's serious about altering the basic fundamentals of our economy in terms of abolishing N A F T A or tightening immigration laws. This Ron Emmanuel guy is a hard-ass “take no prisoners” kind of guy who apparently plays rough. Obama is kidding himself and maybe some of you if he thinks he can say “well it wasn’t me- it was just Ron”. I can’t imagine that Thom Hartman and other liberals are happy about the first signs they have seen from the President Elect. It may be a case of us all hearing from Obama what we "wanted to hear" and that we essentially voted for an illusion. Tomorrow President Bush and Laura will be welcoming Obama to the White House. The little girls were not invited. That Black guy in the You Tube video says that everybody in his life from his family and many cousins and such were all liberal democrats. The believability of the thing was near zero, as if Blacks are too dumb to spot someone with all the Mc Cain - Palin talking points. I'm referring to the You Tube vidio "Here, sucker sucker sucker". People just don’t wake up one day as if they landed on their head or something spouting Mc Cain’s and Palin’s well-scripted talking points.

If I were a Jew like Dennis Prager I'd spend much of my time attacking Christians as vile liars and slanderers for saying the things they have about Jewish people over the centuries. If you believe the Bible by a couple decades after Jesus's death, there was a whole network of Churches founded by one person, Saul of Tarsis, and everyone from the Emperor (Nero) on down had heard of him, and there were Christians in Ceasar's household. St. James was some baffoon who ruled from the Temple in Jerusalem running the Christian Church world wide from there. At one point St. Paul said he wanted to visit Spain. I say all of this because for all these churches and all these pastoral epistles to be real, that means Jesus had to be widely known as a Historical figure. But in fact whether Jesus of Nazareth was even a historical figure is a subject for debate. A rather meaty substantive case can be made that Jesus didn't exist, and if Jesus never existed than St. Paul and I don't care how many churches- - didn't exist, but are are a carefully faboricated - - constructed myth. Think about it.

Let's talk about the Black guy in that video some more. He claims that conservatives are not brainwashed by anyone, yet all born again paritioners owe allegence to their pastors who in most cases are soverign. Also I didn't vote for Obama because I was some "livestock" being "fattened up" by liberal government subsedies. In fact many of the Christians on the right- - NOW - are among the ones who pushed me into getting on welfare in the first place. Getting on SSI was contrary to every instinct in my body. I don't have Obama to blame for that but rather people most of whom are professing Born Again Christians. For the first time with their hostile remarks I feel that "The Right Wing" is against me, personally, and when they talk about tax policies helping the poor, they are talking about Me. Let me venture into a "never previously mentioned" subject. Untill last night's Simpson's episode- - I never would have called Ned Flanders a JERK. But last night wiped out nineteen years of niceness as far as I'm concerned. In like matter- - people around me have tried to make this tax business personal by including me as the bums and the slothful and lazy and whatever- - that are supported by Obama. One person went so far as to say people receiving welfare should not even have the right to Vote? And there is a move to purge voters on the left, as you know. Since this hostility of the Right is personal now- - I'm not going back to ever support them again, because they themselves have slammed the gate shut.

Is the Will of the People Always Sovreign?

Some of you may be wondering why I didn't put out a blog yesterday along the lines of "It's a new Day in America", or something. Well I was intending to but I just never got around to it, the same way that Isac in the Bible never got around to giving Esau the birthright blessing. Well, white people will have to address Obama as "Mr. President" now. Bush has fallen into line and is giving Obama his first Security briefing tomorrow, and Obama is hurrying to fill the posts in his White House staff, including having John Kerry as Secretary of State. Apparently people argue that Bill Clinton waited too long to fill kep posts. Still, I almost didn't vote for Obama. It was a dark evening with no lights on in the patio when I had doubts wondering if Berock Obama would be the President presiding over a major economic disaster or worse and thinking I had to vote for Mc Cain to avert that. I had this clear feeling at the time, "You know what you have to do. You have to vote for Mc Cain". I didn't know where that voice was coming from. Then a voice inside me said that whatever I feared about an Obama presidency would be even worse under a President Mc Cain, and I came to my senses. Back when I was in grammar school there were all these roomers that Kennedy would make kids go to school six days a weeek because he was a Catholic. There seemed to be a lot of Catholics in my school in those days. Our class held a poll on November 8th. 1960 and Kennedy narrow defeated Nixon in our class vote. In 1976 there was a fear factor with Jimmy Carter because of this guy Brashinsky that Carter was associated with that he would somehow further the New World Order and the trilatteral comission.

You may (or may not) be curious of the Orion Federation's reaction to all the doings in this country over the past few days. Oddly enough the mood there was pensive, if not downcast. The buzz there is that Obama will never live to become President and that Obama's name will never make it into the history books because he won't live to see January 20th. but will be assasenated. In Obama's speech many have noted the similarity to Martin Luther King's eve of assasenation speech of April 3rd. where he said "I may not make it with you but I'm telling you that we as a people will get to the Promised Land". But there is another speech by JFK that is also parrelled where he talks about his hoped for accomplishments and says "All this will not happen within the first hundred days, or the first One Thousand, nor in the life of this Adminestration, but Let Us Begin!" Of course Kennedy only served one thousand days, though I have trouble getting the math to work. Still it's good to bubble and effervess for the time being. One reason why I voted for Obama is when it came to the negatives the Christians keep making reference to, I chose not to allow myself to be ruled by Fear. Even if Obama is destined to be gunned down soon, we still should not be ruled by fear in our actions.

But is the will of the people sovrign. In 1900 President Mc Kinley was very popular with his conservative economic policies, but an assasin's bullet changed history and Teddy Roosevelt got in and shook the corporate structure up big. In 1964 we had something called Proposition 14 that overturned another state law that said you had to sell your house to a Black man whether you wanted to or not. But the Supreme Court decided the people didn't vote right and overturned the will of the people. To me, even as a liberal, this just did not seem fair to me at all. To my way of thinking the people had a right to express themselves even if they happened to be wrong. Now with proposition 8 we have a similar instance. Bill Handel was on Fox News this morning bright and early and he was saying this situation with gay marriage could be tied up in the courts for a long time. People wonder whether an Obama court might legalize gay marriage as some inailable right we never knew was in the constitution.

I voted no on proposition 2 but it passed handily. Let's hope our poultry business isn't wiped out in this state. I voted no on 3 because I just got tired of hearing that "Imagine" song and those kids singing. I imagined a John Lennon spinning in his grave and saying "Oh- - shut the bloody hell up!" I voted yes on Six and no on Nine. But in this case "If the Six turns out to be Nine" turned out to be reality because Nine passed and Six didn't. Six had to do with gangs and Nine had to do with sexual predators. I don't think some fifty year old man who'se been in prison half his life is a guy you need to worry about. Much more to be feared is that young man in the proposition 4 adds who says he can empregnate your daughter and it has to be a secret. But now they have a trick or treat patrol to insure that no kids come to the house of a sexual predator, and they have to invest in all those GPS ankle things, which is going to cost major money.

As a footnote addendum, Esau did very well without father Isac's birthright blessing, thank you. In fact the nation of Edom became a major power while the "children of Isrial" were nowhere as nomads. The nation of Edom lasted six or seven centuries, thank you, which happens to be significantly longer than our own nation has lasted, even if you include our esteemed Pilgrem Fathers, who with nobody but their Creater, single handedly forged a settlement, as opposed to that "Socialist experiment" in Jamestown. (I hang out with a very conservative crowd) When it comes to King David- - - he had Moabite blood. So if you say Jesus was Jewish because of his mother, why isn't King David Moabite because of his great grandmother? It so happens that I spent a lot of time in my Prophecy Book "dissing" Edom. I called Edom a people of sell out and capitulation and in other words villified them. But Edom never "sold out". Edom is associated with Aldeberan VIII. It's bad to dis a group because you never know what bad karma will boomerang your way. David's great great great great- - - grandmother was a prostitute. Say what you want about Obama, at least he knows who his father is. I've never liked the term "African American". The continent of Africa is responsable for some hanious, dispicable acts throughout human history. Obama has every bit as much right to the claim of being a full blooded American as any of us do. Obama will be President of all of the people.

The Download.com music player no longer boots with Firefox, even though it still does with the Yahoo browser. I've tinkered with all the Firefox setting and none of them do any good. The only way to hear music from Firefox is to download it and play it on Music Match. I've heard that Firefox's recent update screwed up a lot of applications. But I don't know how to find out from anybody how any of these applications can continue to work now.

The Media Recessitation Job on Mc Cain

You would think that this close to the elections conservatives would be discouraged. But they have people like Meet the Press and Mc Laughlin group to encourage them. Obama has now lost Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio, and is in danger of losing Nevada and Florida. The Mc Laughlin group concluded that the Presidential race was "too close to call". Of course this is with Obama leading anywhere from three points to about twelve points in eight or ten different polls. But now the media is telling us all eight percent undecided will break for Mc Cain and that "All the Obama people have voted already". To listen to how little conservatives think of Obama you have to review the negatives in your own mind. There's Reverand Wright, that Chicago Real Estate guy, and then there is Ayres, who dedicated one of his books to Sirhan Sirhan. Then there is that Palistinian guy and the tape the LA Times doesn't want you to see. Other negatives are roomers that Obama's mother rejected her son in Indonesia and that's why he was raised by his grandmother in Kansas. But when you look at all these negatives they don't ammount to a hill of beans. But conservatives say there is a conspiracy by the media to slant all of the polls in favor of Obama. These conservatives seem oblivious to the fact that big corporations own all these TV networks. Basically Obama's whole plan to expand education and have universal medical care is seen as some sort of "socialist experimentation". They say Obama wants to vastly increase our UN spending. This idea of Obama raising taxes on the rich is portrayed as the most evil event in human history since Eve ate the apple. Conservatives believe there will be a major pro abortion propaganda push is Obama wins, as though Obama will slip abortion reference into his speeches. Also euthanasia is a concern for the conservatives from the other direction. Of course when you question these conservatives, they are against taxes alltogether, so quibbling over the ammount is silly. They will tell you that our esteemed founding fathers never expected citizens to have to pay incom taxes. I've heard more talk that help of the less well off is "stealing from the rich" and that a rich person can't survive in this country any more and that all the rich are moving to Jamaica or Costa Rica where a dollar is worth a dollar. It's also believed that there is a media conspiracy to surpress just how much reserve we have in oil and there is actually a huge ammount in Alaska the media isn't telling us about. One thing I will agree with the right on is that if we had oil ourselves, then the US dollar would actually be based on something of value. These conservatives are against any state proposition involving the spending of money. I happened to think if conservatives are as hard up for money as they claim- - they're obviously not giving to their churches. After all, what does a church "contribute" to the national economic faboric. These conservatives are so concerned with "paracites" among us. May I suggest Sunday mornings are a real good place to start. Actually if Mc Cain had run an uplifting and respectable campaign- - making the decision would be a lot harder. But when you look at the tightwad biggots who go to Mc Cain rallies, the decision on how to vote tomorrow is actually made easy.

Hopefully- Obama will win and will carry Pennsylvania as well as red states Ohio, Iowa, Virginia, Florida and Colorado. I'm holding out hopes for Nevada, which has grown a lot in population and is much more urban now, and hopefully less Mormon than it used to be.

OK - We Get It

You know, I'm going to pull a Johnny Wendell and talk about myself today. Last night was the Obama commercial, and my worst fears were realized that it would just be "more of the same old song and dance". The trouble is if you really are a rich person who hates poor people you wern't going to watch the thing anyhow. In the local Calvary Chapel, the way to deal with people you don't like or who make you feel unconfortable is to lable them hetrodox or "outside the circle" or better yet a "tool of Satan" that you don't want to be contaminated with. With such people you not only cut off all contact but you never speak of them again, except perhaps to slip in a disparaging remark about them in a sermon sometime, that probably isn't true to begin with. We know these people despize higher tax rates for themselves, and speak of a "distontented rabble" verses an "thrifty working class" who knows the value of a dollar. We know rich people regard the poor as having the sin of "coveting what is not theirs", real Biblical. So we are treated now to the saga of Cory the oil driller and his "hard luck" story. Here are some remarks typed yesterday. This is when I read the life of Cory the oil driller and his struggles to better himself twenty years ago, and how his many monitary gambles finally paid off.

This is after dinner and I just read the saga of Cory the oil driller. My conclusion at the end of that was that Obama is not responsible for either the current financial crisis or George Bush bailing it out to the tune of 700 Billion. He's upset with Obama for his high tax rates now. Also I happened to think there must be some way to pro rate the current profit back to the lean years, since you can do the opposite. There must be some tax loophole by which all those lean years will be rewarded. I might add that all of the financial risks the man took were of his own choosing. Nobody told him to do it. He could have “settled for less sooner” but now he’s getting more later. I might also add that after I finished writing my book I had a proud feeling and this same indignent Judy told me “The only reason why you have any success is because God allows you to have it”. What she seemed to be saying was, “You didn’t write the book of your own choice; God allowed it to be written”. I had the distinct feeling she was trying to hex the project. Unlike Cory the oil driller, will will probably have money to burn even after he's paid his taxes, because of a government decision of California I am now $300.00 poorer than otherwise. As a percentnge of my monitary intake this is a much bigger chunk out of my monitary funds then Cory having to pay six percent more on his taxes. Also the man may be a gambling business man but he’s also a talented ponthicator to others.

The thing with Cory the oil driller is that by now he's earning a hell of a lot more than $250.00 per year "you betcha!" with the price of oil as it is now having quintuppled or something over the past few years. I'm supposed to feel sorry for this guy who regards Obama as the quintecence of all evil. After you pass a certain age and a certain point in your wealth, what are you going to do with your money besides Melvern Drysdale's remark about "I'm going to go into the vault and fondle every bill". What do "old men" like John Mc Cain or Ted Stevens have to look foreward to? Who are they going to leave their money to? Perhaps some shart sheister Preacher could come along and relieve them of their money by promicing them 72 Virgins when they die, along with a lifetime supply of viagara. You know Judy referred to above could take a lesson from my mother, who brags that she pays more in income tax now than the totality of her salary while she was working. She sure isn't "wasting" anything on me. A lot of us have "family" stories. Cory the oil driller had family members who loved and supported him. The blessings of friends and family are worth more than money can buy. Tom Leykis used to relate a story about how his dad would always give money to his sister who squandered money, but never give him a cent. There was a period where I borrowed a small ammount of money to cover the cost of printing up Prophecy book in 1980. It was repayed very quickly and I'm not even sure why I found myself a little short because I thought I had enough. That was about the last loan I ever got from a family member. But people speak of returning to the Clintonian tax rates as somehow a vast new "Socialist experiment" or some new "redistribution of the wealth" program. OK I get it. Rich people despize poor people. That's why rich people like my Christian friends, and Cory the oil driller are voting for Mc Cain and I'm voting for Obama, and never the twane shall meet. But you know something, in East of Eden, do you remember what Cal's father Adam said to his son after he got money in the comodities exchange by investing in grain during WW I? He said, "When are you going to give that money back from the people you stole it from?" Well, why doesn't Judy go to Cory the oil driller and point to all the speculation in oil, some of which used to be illegal, and say "When are you going to give that back from the people you stole it from?" That's not going to happen. You know what I'm tired of is this ponthication of people like Joe the Plumber and Cory the oil driller. They have learned how to ponthicate well. Like I say both have a great future as church pastors, whose job it is to fleece the flock. Meanwhile the rest of us are voting for Obama. Clinton campaigning for Obama must surely be of a help to him. There are a lot more poor people than there are rich people in this country. Obama is for hard work. He's not exactly the freeloader those on the left would like to portray him as preaching. Obama has a strong worth ethic. And I'm glad that people on the right have discovered the value of the worth ethic, because traditionally this has not been a Calvary Chappel value. In fact the other day, Joel Olsteen used a four letter word in his sermon- - P L A N. The idea of Planning ANYTHING is traditionally anathema to the Calvary Chappel crowd. I ought to know. I tried to play my life for the better and was resisted by these people at every turn. This is before they all turned into 'Mr. Potter". It's wonderful they have discovered the value of a dollar. Dollars can be wonderful things in helping out your less fortunate neighbor. But they'll never see it that way. They say "Obama is stingy with charities". If this is so I guess it's the old addage "Black people don't tip". Black people know the value of a dollar and probably scraped together every cent they could to get out in a nice resturant. Tell the waitress if she wants tips there are plenty of strip clubs around, and those people will be glad to throw money at her. These people that Obama speaks of are good, hard working people trying to better themselves while making ends meet. Now I will agree that this didn't used to be the job of President of the United States to ballance your check book. But we are in different times today. But after November 4th. these Christians on the right won't be referring to Obama as either a black or a Moslem, or a Terrorist, or a Socialist. They will be addressing him as Mr. President, and those people in our armed forces will give allegence to him as Commander and Chief.

The Machinations of the Few

We are seeing signs of the final dissilution of the Mc Cain campaign. Experts say you know it's "close to the end" when president and vice presidential candidate turn on one another and one of the other of them gets "off message". Now Sarah Palin wants candidate Mc Cain to become more personal in his attacks on Obama bringing up people like Reverand Wright. And the Mc Cain people are calling Sarah Palin a "diva" and saying she shouldn't have gotten the gift of the clothes. Some are still waiting for that etherial "tightening of the race", which the media has told us all was coming. I can remember how Ford's loss was a foregone conclusion and as I remember it Carter's loss was a foregone conclusion. People are speaking of the race as though it were really close and one candidate or the other will only win by five or ten electoral votes. But experiance shows the truth is quite otherwise. Normally (before this decade) it's tended to be an electoral vote landslide one way or the other. If there is any "tide' or "turning point" it's in Obama's direction because people, particularly married women, are losing faith in Sarah Palin. There are of course all the newspaper endorsements and the endorsement of Collin Powell last week coming out for Obama. There is the "think about it" factor, and after people weigh it and think about it, they come out for Obama. But if Obama wants to drive the nail into the coffin he might bring up the possible prosecution of criminals in the Bush Adminestration. He can enphasize more than he has the fraudulant and dishonist reasons we had for going into the Iraq War. He can "beat the big oil issue like a drum". Not only Mc Cain but also Sarah Palin and Dick Chaney and Condeleza Rice are tools of "big oil". He can remind the people that it's not a matter of "winning the war" because you can't Win an occupation, and as George Bush himself about terrorism you can't "Win It". There will never come a day when "It" has been won. You can remind them that one more bad Supreme Court appointment and we don't have a democracy any more but a "banana republic with Nukes" because American government as we know it will cease to exist when that four to five ruling gets reversed. You can inform them voting for Mc Cain won't reduce the number of abortions that are performed, or reduce the number of children who turn out gay. People should contemplate anew what it would be like with Mc Cain's finger on the button should we have to go toe to toe with the present or any future leader of Iran.

People should also remember that this idea of "creating jobs" is a deception because the need to employ people is a market driven force and not a beneficent act by "a rich person". We are all tired of hearing "You never got a job from a poor person". We are tired of having the worth of labor develued. I remember that song played on KTLK radio about "I'm the man who built the bridges, I'm the man who laid the track, with my shoulders and my back". Teddy Roosevelt once said in a speech (and he gives credit to Abraham Lincoln) that when push comes to shove, labor is to be more valued than capitol and is ontologically what comes first because without labor the lord and slave master or economic despot or whoever- - ain't got jack! People hire others because they believe they can make more money in the long run and pay the workers less- - then the profits they'll end up accrewing to their business. The economy is a market driven force. I'm tired of hearing the notion "If we just throw in a few more tax cuts the economy will be stimulated". This is like saying to a man in failing health "You know you'd be healthier if you just jogged less". If you have a strong economy- - no taxes in the world can hold it down. If you have a weak enough market, even giving it away for free won't avail you. People forget that it's the job of government to raise money from wherever they can get it. It's kind of what governments do. The reason why rich people balk at taxes is not because they feel taxes are unfair but rather they are against the whole idea of any government in the first place, but would rather delude themselves they are self made men and that the government and the laws and the courts have nothing to do with insuring stability. We have all heard Ronald Reagan's words "I'm from the government and I'm hear to help". For some reason when I hear that I think of a green acres episode where the whole town are a bunch of loonies except for Eddie Albert. OK, on to other issues- - - .

Three million people were stricken from the voter records in Ohio in 2004 and provisional ballots were never even looked at. And you know it’s going to be the same way this time. If I copy this to a blog it’s going to end up being white on white. I just went out for coffee in the courtyard, and people are still doing for the soft chairs that are in the sun. I had seconds of those tiny cups. Thom Hartman was talking one time how with a cut in capital gains tax rates he decided to sell out of the business he was in and go on an extended vacation. Cutting capital gains won’t stimulate the economy but rather leech capital from the economy in the same way that minerals displace each other in the human body. Mom says she’s taking strontium for her bones, which seems odd in light of those strontium 90 commercials about Barry Goldwater in 1964. But as strontium goes up calcium goes down. Also I’ve heard that magnesium displaces calcium and is good for a calcium OD. In like manner the body prefers sodium to potassium, and one BP book likens it back to the days of evolution and we were all chimps eating nothing but bananas and green leafy vegetables, which were rich in potassium. At any rate anybody who sees a good money “pay off” and a way of “getting out” is going to sell, and whoever he sells his stock to is going to inheret a stock with that much less capital support. There is a saying that “if it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate. And if it stops moving- subsidize it.” The government has always “managed” resources in this say. Conservatives are all upset because of Obama’s commentary on the Plecy verses Ferguson supreme court decision of 1896. Because Obama said “The supreme court didn’t go that far (as I wanted them to) in re-allocating wealth in this country. So we have the new cry that Obama is a socialist. But others will brag that in France they have vastly superior medical care to this country for “only” two hundred a month, or almost twice my “discretionary spending” money I get now. But they say that in America you have to pay a ten dollar co pay to see the doctor and that this is somehow a bad thing. Someone should explain this to me. Tom Hartman also said that in 1971 he was advised by a friend when starting up his own business to “higher women rather than men. They’ll work for less”. Now there are women who are so deluded as to think women have ALWAYS had it as good as they have it at this moment. If you’re happy with your life now you should thank a liberal for it, because as Thom Hartman also points out, most of the economic things we take for granted come to you from liberalisum such as health plans at work and clean drinking water.

Last night I watched sixty minutes. They had some “bucket brigade” scandal of 1907 where gamblers used to inhabit Wall Street betting on whether a security would succeed or fail without actually buying into that stock. In 2000 the Clinton congress re-instituted all of these gambling allowances which were illegal during most of the twentieth century. State laws were enjoined from enforcing their OWN gambling laws against these Wall Streeters preempted by Federal regulation. Now you can buy and sell these default insurance policies. Once upon a time there was a court trial in England where they established that buying “insurance” was not gambling. But in this case you needn’t own one bit of these “reprocessed” mortgage securities in order to partake of the insurance policy. You can buy and sell these policies and make tens of millions, and many people have gotten rich in the past eight years buying and selling these “swaps”. But then they all defalted. Every writer of these “swaps” just decided they weren’t going to pony up when the people came to collect, and this is the chief thing that drove banks like Lehman Brothers over the edge. T Boone Pickens was also on talking about natural gas to run cars on. This is a very good idea and it would cut smog. And we can get electricity from wind power, and I hope this idea has caught on by now, because the wind blows a lot in some of these western plains states. In like matter we told you to cover your oil shorts because the price was bottoming out. And lo and behold we hear that OPEC is going to cut production next month. Now we can all embrace T Boone Pickens’ wind idea and tell OPEC to stick their oil where the sun doesn’t shine because we have moved beyond needing their oil.

There was one of those interactive US state maps but this one was different. Rather than being able to find out how many votes Dole got in 1996 with this map you could change the color of the state to either red or blue or inbetween and the electoral vote tally would change.

You saw in the news this morning passing billions of freshly minted money out to banks. I’d like to have some of that. But with this money the banks aren’t necessarily lending with that new money but are “sitting on this money” and using it for acquisitions, or buying out other institutions, or else paying their share holders. There are apparently no strings on how the banks are to spend their newly donated wealth from Uncle Sam. But somehow the Mc Cain people never will go and call this welfare for the rich.

There is a principle that conservatives embrace that liberals classicly didn’t about how your tax dollars you pay should actually be related to the services you get. But the Neo Cons believe in the axiom “From many a lot of money to pay to the few”. So you have pork projects for the few or else some financial scheme to benefit the few or the few screw up badly in an irresponsible act so the many have to pay. Thom Hartman believes the many should have to pay for the seeming perpetual poor health of the few. I still am not sold on this theory yet. I keep thinking in utilitarian terms of how much more bang the “many” could get for their tax dollars in things they really want- - were it not for the machinations of the few. (Selah)

I’ve decided perhaps I will vote for the animal rights proposition after wards and just “see how it works out”. It sure looks like it’s going to pass anyhow. I’m voting NO in propositions six and nine, which have to do with expanding law enforcement, because they will cost too much money. But I am voting for proposition five, which “reduces prison overcrowding” and provides drug rehabilitation and counseling for those not yet hooked on it, and in this way the crime rates are cut and expenditures are down.

The Simpson's - Diagnostic Quiz

Of the states Oregon, Illinois, Misouri and Massachusetts, the most probably location of Springfield of Simpson’s fame. (there are many clues)

Of Ned Flanders, Semour Skinner, Rev. Lovejoy or Homer Simpson, the individual whom Pastor Mark Bove most resembles in personality (I kid you not)

The character patterned voice wise after Edward G. Robinson

The nationality of Milhaus other than Holland

What is Marge Simpson’s maiden name?

The individual other than Lisa Simpson who is responsible for the poetry compelation “Howeling at a Concrete Moon”

The historic TV clown that Krusty the clown is patterned after

What is the single digit number of the local TV station?

The individual on the show who is an avowed homosexual.

What is the religion of the proprietor of the Quickie Mart?

True or false: Bart Simpson is consistently compassionate to various animals.

What character has “absolutely no personality at all”. The answer: “Snowball”

When Bart and Lisa were temporarily in the same grade, who scored better on tests?

Which year was Lisa Simpson conceived? 1983, 1987, 1991, 1995, 1999

What year did Homer graduate high school of 1974, 1978, 1982 or 1986?

True or False: Homer’s sexual impotency has been a major source of plot-lines

on the show.

What is grandpa Simpson’s first name?

Who uttered the line “Gee, I’m beginning to hate my own creation. Now I know how God feels!”

Which character on the show is a vegetarian?

What was Marge Simpson’s hobby in high school other than French and politics?

What was “Santa’s Little Helper’s” occupation before coming to live at the Simpson’s home?

What character became famous for crying “Vendetta! - - Vendetta”

What was Homer Simpson’s mother doing when she passed away?

Of Homer Simpson, Montgomary Simpson, or Marge Simpson, the one who is most mechanically inclined.

What happened to the roll of film that “proved” Itchy the mouse was plagurized from another author?

What is the price per barrel of oil that the War on Springfield said that it was the US’s responsibility to keep the price under?

In the episode about visiting the cave and falling through the hole, who’s fictional account did it turn out the whole incident was (told by)?

Who on the series has an allergy to peanuts?

What were Bart Simpson’s first words as a baby?

What color is the Simpson’s main family car?

What is the name of the school that Bart and Lisa attend?

How many spikes does Bart Simpson officially have on his head?

True or false: Ned Flanders has never had sex with a woman since his wife passed away.

What was Bart Simpson’s new “dictum” of what America would be called from now on?

Which character on the show is perniciously melancholy to the point of near suicide?

What religion on that show is routinely “trashed” by the way various characters are played other than fundamentalism?

True or False: Marge Simpson is responsible for over half the income of the Simpson household due to Homer being out of work so often.

Who is the liberal intellectual on the program?

Why would Homer Simpson make a lousy Christian? A. because he’s too stupid B. Because he’s too lazy. C. Because his family is too unstable D. Because he’s too honist

Of the five members of the Simpson family, who of the five has the most friends?

Where did Marge and Homer first have sex?

What child character on the show was once declared “emancipated” by the courts?

Who’s voice was fundamentally rather different in the very early episodes of the show?

Which character on the show has expressed sentiments of “Get married and settle down – no matter what the personal price?

Which character has engaged in sexual intercourse, Bart Simpson, Milhaus, Martin, Todd Flanders, Nelson, Jim Boy, none of the above.

What brand of beer does Homer Simpson drink?

What does the “secret message” in a song “Yvan eht Nioj” mean?

Number tug-of war. If the 3 has a certain enmity to the 6 than any number divisable by 3 has a certain enmity to any number that isn’t. If you multiply any non three number by another non three number you never get a three, namely 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 Of these you can split these into two groups of 1 ,4 and 7 in one group and 2, 5, and 8 in another. For the first group 1 4 or 7 if you times them by a 3 or a 6 number they stay the same. If you times a 3 or a 6 number by the second group, 2 5 or 8 the 3’s become sixes and the sixes become threes. This could have profound implications for world peace. (“What?”)

Audatiously Looking Death in the Face

Berock Obama’s book is titled “The audacity of Hope”. I suppose we could call this file “The case for survival of death”. Although nobody has proved we survive death and there is a total absence of scientific evidence to support it- - there are nonetheless a few indications that we do survive death. Perhaps the most powerful is this universal human delusion or belief that in fact we do survive death. People believe that when they are dying they “go to a better place” and few contemplate that this is well the moment of their own extinction henceforth and forever more. Going along with this belief is the societal belief since prehistoric times that we survive death. Could it be that the human race as a whole knows something intuitively that can’t be proved logically? It of course is a possibility that the entire human race is laboring over one huge delusion. But perhaps not. Next there is the leadership argument. We know that in societies once a senior leader is cut down, the new leader seems to almost magically “rise to the occasion” often despite a lack of previous indicators in his personality. Sometimes with young kids the father is killed and the oldest sibling rises to the occasion and suddenly acts much more responsibly than he ever did before. In apes I imagine there is a fight for dominance and the leadership ape somehow “inherets the power of the deceast relative”. This could well be an exercise in relative dominance and filling up a vaccume. But it might be something more. One argument against the notion of death being a permanent state of unconsciousness (or non existence) is that THIS is another of those things which man has never experienced. People come out of comas of course, but they were still as it were “trapped inside a body”. But most of us cannot “imagine being dead”. We have this entrenched belief that “we will go on” somehow, in our consciousness. Christians have harnessed this belief well in mankind. I believe to an errant degree because of their slogans were honist it would be “Death is our savior” “Death is our deliveror”. Death is the great justifier for all of the ills we have suffered. “Death is our future hope”. When you look at it this way Christianity seems rather silly as opposed to a more earthbound religion such as Judaisum, from which it sprang, which spoke of an ONGOING relationship with God in the here and now, enjoying his blessings- - and not FIRST MEETING him once you die in the afterlife. Furthermore- - Christians are all running from something in their past. There are people and we can use Frank as an example- -who I imagine before they were Christians were real creeps and there is nothing about him I would care to associate with as a friend. The Federation considers it a weakness of Christianity that “who you are” is pretty much known when you’re a young child as far as your inate personality is concerned. Yet Christians invariably deny who they are, that is, who they have been, and they run, from what and to what they know not where.

Some of you readers, and I hope you’re still with me, would ask “Just what is all this about Federations and Empires warring with each other in space? How do they possibly do that given the enormous distances between stars. Real life isn’t like Star Trek or Star Wars”. Point taken. The answer is I do not know. I know they do have earth style fighting ships and fight in that mode. But I also know they reach into the psychic realm. During this file I may be correcting things I’ve said in previous files. One of those is this thought. I have stated that when people “see the dead” it is left over energized particles and their life is frozen at the time of death. The Federation has always taught the opposite. That when you meet a “dead person” you’re meeting them as they are now in real time, and as such they may have grown and evolved and changed to a degree from when you last knew them, like anybody else would.

I would at this time like to talk about the three top dimensions of the six there are. First I’d like to do a little pure math for you people. A cube that’s ninety degrees on all corners in a four dimensional world would have 24 sides. A cube in a five dimensional world would have 120 sides and a cube in a six dimensional world would have 720 sides. That’s an awful lot and each of them is ninety degrees. When you are working with a one dimensional array you can have a two dimensional database, and your number of different table sets or “planes” is one. With a two dimensional array you can have dimensions (1) and (2) but there is also an added defacto zero dimensions so that you have a total of three dimensions or three different intersecting data planes, of what you’d call tables. In a three (3) dimensional array you have access to four dimensions again utilizing the zero dimension for a grand total of six planes or sets of data tables. Were you able to accomplish a four dimensional array (My computer balks at that) you could have five dimensions or ten sets of intersecting planes or sets of data. (tables)

The fourth dimension is one where we leave the three special ones and come into a dimension of illusory causality. Time is the causality. But the Federation teaches that is the ILLUSION of causality. It’s the dimension we live in as “Now”. When you “Are brought to NOW” you are brought to an awareness of Self and have dropped all of the en-grams that formerly blocked you. You are free to act. “Now” is, as it were, a gift from the Gods because it’s a time when you can exercise Free Will, (or at least the illusion thereof) Dimension five is one I’d like to explore a bit. We said that we didn’t know about death because there is no evidence. This is that there is no evidence that unconsiousness either exists or doesn’t exist. If you are a proponet of the Big Bang Theory you believe there was a time when all Creation was concentrated into one small point. But since space didn’t exist either you have no frame of reference to even be able to SAY what is a point and what isn’t. If space did exist, it, too would be so curved and compacted you wouldn’t even be aware of it. But as you know the Federation teaches that in the Big Bang (if THAT existed at all since nothing CAUSES anything) each aspect of the explosion exploded into its own dimension creating it. I have used the analogy of lines shooting out from a point or dot. Each line represents its own four dimensional reality or Universe. There aren’t quite parrellel Universes, but damn close to it. The Federation teaches that these universe never cross each other’s path and so we will never experience anything but our own Universe. At this point I’d like to put in another correction and we have Sylvia Browne to thank for this one. We said that you could pick up psychic vibes or warnings from other Universes on the fifth dimensional plane. This is false. We can have premonitions that might be LIKE those the others in a parrellel universes have, but they are our OWN premonitions generated from our OWN mind. We’ve all had superstitions. Either we believe if we do something, something else good will happen, or else if we ever do something- - something bad will happen. Sometimes these superstitions come to pass. This is a case of pre-cognitive knowledge awareness. (or simply, precognition) I believe it really happens since the Future is just as real as the past. This whole fifth dimension alludes to the “Fire in the heavens” Chinese hexagram where the fifth line is broken (and “dark”). It’s the “Hotel California” or “Twilight Zone” dimension discussed in previous writings. Youall clear?

Finally we come to the sixth dimension or psychic dimension. This is the dimension of consciousness. It’s almost dinner time so I’ll be back. OK I’m back from dinner and getting coffee at the bakery. I ran into a little sprinkles. So I’ll turn off my space monitor and we’ll continue. The Greeks said that Ideas were the most real things of all. In the sixth dimension Ideas are things. Here’s one more correction for you. We said in the Sea of Green the mind generates monsters and stuff. Actually if we come back to Professor Einstein and causality, it’s a chicken and egg thing. We can’t say for sure whether your mind generates the monsters, or they were already there. In like manner when you “get an idea” it isn’t something your mind conjured up but it was already there. Some speak of two people getting the Same Idea at the same time. You will note the singularity of object. For two people to have the same Idea means they have to be in the same psychic space. It’s hard to portray the psychic dimension and some of our previous illustrations of the Sixth dimension may not be right on. We have spoken of ideas and thoughts and indeed spiritual entities as waves on the ocean. They collide into one another and either strengthen or weaken one another when they intersect. But you will note if you painted the sand on the bottom in a black and white checkerboard pattern it would have absolutely no influence on the waves, because it’s only two dimensional and the waves are three dimensional. We speak of ideas “resonating” and speak of an idea having “the ring of truth”. This idea of resonance is heavily used in our speech. If we get back to life and the soul and the body we can think of water from a hose running down a driveway. The water will normally run a straight line but at times it may devide up and become separate rivers. These rivers may or may not rejoin. Normally we associate a soul occupying one body. But Stewart teaches that the soul and the body are not the same thing. Getting back to our Christian analogy- - I have often pondered the idea that a person could “become possessed by a new soul” and the old soul depart. We often say “In that period of my life I don’t know what I was doing”. People often speak of their past actions as if they were talking about another person. I never do this but others to. They don’t “own their actions”. (as if it were “under the blood of Christ” or something) We don’t know if the psychic dimension is purely like the famed “Sea of Green” or not. The other thing people wonder about is psychic travel. All of the rivers of water on the driveway are rivers of the same water from the same hose. Could there be a “You” living some other life in some other body? What keeps the “energy” in one soul together? I personally go for the rings of Saturn theory. There is some gravitational force that kicks in and causes concentric rings to form. Maybe only sporadic blurbs of your life are lived in another body and those same sporadic blurbs are holes left in your current life to be filled with another spirit. Can you disprove it? The question arises of astral projection and distances in the psychic realm. Here is another of those corrections. We have talked of “space folding” (thunder just now) but there is macro space folding where the three space dimensions are involved and there is micro space folding where it’s basically just psychic or astral travel. Other than describing a folded loop of pager, I can’t come up with another analogy. We do know that Ideas are Things, but there is also our ongoing thought cognitive process that is going on in this dimension.

Green represents “before change” or the future, and Pink represents “after change” or the past. Red is confidence. Orange is imaturety, Gold is materialism. Yellow of apprehension. Chartruce is paranoia. Green is either war or the future or “Go”. Terquoise is either psychic death or “spiritually sterile location. In Romulan, blue denotes “sell out”. Purple denotes preciousness and royalty. Marroon stands for a Lost Love, and hot pink or magenta symbolizes the past or “after the change”. White denotes objective truth. Silver is redemption. Tan, oddly enough means homosexual, whereas brown merely means “utility usage”. On Sirius and among the Romulans they use the absolutely identical semaphore symbols we do on earth, meaning that they probably imported them from earth. Romulans used to send a lot of messages with flags.

I hope you have enjoyed this little journey. We’ll get back to politics soon.

Five Dollar a Gallon Gasoline is Coming

We are in a worldwide oil crisis. The price of a barrel of oil this morning has risen to $135.00 per barrel. There is no indication, as with housing, that this "bubble" will burst and prices will collapse. Indeed world wide demand is continuing to rise all the time as China and India citizens continue to purchase automobiles for the first time. What's more, the reason why the Saudis and the Russians as well as other OPEC nations like Venesuela aren't increasing production to meet demand is that they don't have it. We have entered a C change in the world energy ballance where there is a world wide shortage situation all the time. People in this country say demand will not appreciably drop unless gasoline rises to six or seven dollars a gallon, and this is certainly foreseeable. Indeed some have predicted gasoline prices in excess of ten dollars a gallon in the US. $150.00 per barrel for crude is very forseeable and we may see that before summer's end. Of course our economy will be cripples as long as prices are this high. Our transportation system for goods and services will be squeezed as truckers struggle to stay in business. Airline travel may become a thing of the past except for the very rich. We should all be ready for a repeat of the 1970's and our old friend, Stag-flation. Some remedies are obvious. We need to open Anwar up for drilling in the Arctic. New oil has been discovered in the Gulf of Mexico and Chevron has six wells already and the find is expected to yield several hundred million barrels of oil. We will need every bit of that. As long as our US dollar continues to be devalued by our President's trade policies, the price of crude oil will continue to rise. Even now about half of the rise in price is explainable by a drop in the value of the US dollar abroad. Obviously we need to find alternative energy sources but knowing human psychology the price may have to rise past $150.00 per barrel for enough people to get off their asses and do something about it. The House yesterday passed a bill to make OPEC price gauging illegal and for the US to investigate and perhaps bring criminal charges. But even though the bill was passed in excess of a two-thirds majority, the bill will have tough sledding in the Senate, and the current president will probably never sign it. Randi Rhodes and others have proposed measures that could be instituted to get the price of oil down. Clearly we need some sort of windfall profits tax. If you make the tax on profits steep enough, corporations will lose their incentive to gauge for that last dollar because they'll only have to pay it to the government.

I was watching Goleft.tv yesterday and there was a guy on the stage dressed in a nice suit like a Christian evangelist with styled hair and everything, only he was a spokesman for Air America. He spoke of the "glimmer in the eye" that executives of G E had in 1966 had in launching Ronald Reagan into politics remaking the political landscape. They have accomplished all their goals. They have gotten rid of anti trust laws, they have re-made the Supreme Court, and they have abolished the Fairness doctrine in 1987 so that the people are only hearing one side of the news. It's pretty much right wing radio or nothing at all in too much of the country. People in the South may never even have heard of things like the US torturing prisoners. They're much more concerned about Brittany Speers or Paris Hilton's latest arrest. The US population is strangulating on an all sugar diet of info-tainment. We are in that George Orwell world where the media tells us what to think, and the comon people believe every word.

Hillary Clinton's candidicy is alive and well. Now she has surged ahead in the popular vote if you count Michigan and Florida. Hillary told the people yesterday, "You people in Florida did not break any party rules". It's hard to fight the cry of "count the votes". They say May 31st. is a key day when a decision will be made. We know that with Hillary as candidate we will have a fighter running, even though she is a dishonist, dirty fighter. If I had to guess right now I'd say that the Michigan and Florida deligates will be seated, as is. I think the political pressure will be too great to resist the "will of the people" even though Obama's name was not on the ballot in Michigan. The fact is that Hillary since the first of March has one most of the contests in the major states. She's won the popular vote in Texas, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky. That's an impressive block of states. Hillary easily won the agragate popular vote in last Tuesday's elections. Some of us "Obamakins" will just have to shut up and like it, or else vote Republican, which is what I have consitered doing though no decisions are set in concrete yet. I want to see how Mc Cain stacks up issue by issue that I really care about. I think Obama was the last hope of the liberals hoping to clean up the ethics of congress and diminish the power of lobbiests. Mc Cain's influence from the lobbiiest is of the utmost concern to me.

THE SECRET OF SKULL AND BONES

"The material for today's movie is not new. You've seen it through and through. You've seen your life, and your death. You may remember all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died?" These words of course are from Jim Morrison. Today as you may or may not know is the probable anniverary of us Bosc mates getting "Bones" as a kitten one Saturday night, either May 22nd. or 29th. and I'm leaning twords the former. Some people might say that Mark Campbell "became me" because he took my old bedroom at the Bosc house. Of course, all of the Boscs were Indiana Jones fans. That's almost a requirement to being a Bosc. Bosc, of course stands for Blue Oyster Secret Cult, and Jim Cooper came up with that achronym. Jim Cooper of course is an avid Indiana Jones fan. The secret to the Oyster is that if it contains a pearl, the pearl, representing the Christian Church, is really built upon a grain of sand that gets trapped in the Oyster. The sand represents something basically alien to what people think a Pearl is. As you may or not know- - Stewart Sutcliffe has had many incarnations. He was John the Baptist. Later he was that Priest in Renes Le Chateau named Soniere, who extorted money from the Roman Catholic Church threatening to expose some secret. And finally Stewart was a black and white cat. A black cat with seven white spots. You may also know by way of review that historically there is NO CONNECTION between the ministries of John the Baptist and Jesus. The deciples were separate, and in my oppinion unequal. John the Baptist lived about 30 AD. As you may also know the Knight's Templar worshipped a skull and crossbones, that were roomered to be the remains of John the Baptist. The Knights were an organization for a while used by the Church to try and take back the Holy Land from the infadels. But they were mistrusted because they were rich, and fell into disfavor. The Skull and Bones fraternaty is a continuation of this legasy. As to the Pirate flag, the black in Romulan symbology symbolizes "submission to God". Silver symbolizes redemption. Stewart is insensed to this day that the desciples of Jesus "ripped off his ministry". Stewart regards Jesus as a man who became a phoney. In truth there was a multiple "analog" or historicity of Jesus. Jesus is noted for his many meracles and yet in his last week on earth he didn't seem to do meracles while in Jerusalem. Is this for "unknown reasons" or could it be that this last week's activities was actually describing a different man? As you may also know, Judas of Galilee had many sons and several just coincidentally had the same names as Jesus alledged brothers, such as Simon and Judas. There was a revolutionary named Theudius, who lived in 44 AD. Our theory is that Theudius had a brother named John or Jonah, who was responsible for the "meracles" that are attributed to Jesus. There is also another man and the reference books note him, who came before Pilate and said the famous line "I will tear down this temple and in three days I will build it up again". Supposidely Pilate tagged him as insane and had him carted off somewhere. But you say "what about the Jesus we all worship?" OK, two desciples of (?) who lived in Egypt came up with the core Gospel. They were Matthew and Mark. They were desciples of Philo of Alexandria, who in our theory visited Palestine in the year AD 35, which in the Hebrew "Jubilee year" figuring it was the "favorible year of the lord". My guess is it was this Jesus who went around telling people "I'm the son of God but keep it a secret". This is also the Jesus who met up with James, a mysterious person who had some sort of influence in the Temple in Jerusalem in the middle of the first century. We know little about him. We also know that Jesus, or Philo of Alexandria, was known to be alive in Egypt after 33 AD or 35 AD. We know that he may have been called "Crestus" and that the Christians of Rome in Nero's time were followers of this Crestus. Now if you're fermiliar with StarTrek I, the movie you know that two different sattlites or probes were sent into space. One was an explorer probe and the other was some kind of agricultural sattalite, and these two "combined their forces" when they were both damaged, and what emerged was this killer Voyager of the movie. Well, I believe that these followers of "Crestus" met up with Paul about 95 AD and that Gnosticisum was infused into the other Jewish followers of Crestus. Paul mixed up these vials and out of it came the witch's brew today we know as the Church. "Strange brew - kill what's inside of you!"

It Isn't Over Yet

I don't have a lot to say you don't already know. Hillary won Kentucky and Obama now has a majority of the elected deligates and is only fifty away or so from the magic 2026 all out majority of all deligates. Hillary is not quitting. Randy Rhodes believes she's doing one of two things. Either she's trying to blackmail or otherwise pressure the super deligates in to making her Vice President, or else she's planning to pull a Lieberman and run as an independent like Lieberman did, with ideas of winning in the General without party sanction. Of course being Vice President would be the worst thing that could happen to Obama, since it would do nothing but generate friction, with she and Bill constantly undermining and second guessing his power at every turn. Obama gave a great speech in Iowa last night. It was way better than the speech Hillary gave. In terms of the demographics between white and black voters- - I think we can agree there are "good" Whites, and "bad" Whites, to turn the old addage on its head. The good Whites are the urban, enlightened ones who live in this century. Clearly Obama represents the future whereas Hillary has one foot always in the past. And now she's quoting Karl Rove statistics, as if that will earn her credibility. We don't believe Karl Rove saying Hillary is the stronger candidate.

It seems they have been rigging the economic statistics for a while. I know with food and everything skyrocketing how come my Social Security check went up an infinitessible amount last year. I guess Nixon aids wanted to throw out volitile price indicators such as food and gasoline and just measure "core inflation". Apparently in 1983 major revisions were done with the economic indicators, which may contribute to things looking so rosey all of a sudden. And George Herbert Walker Bush wanted other indicators changed and Clinton complied. Of course you've heard about "discouraged workers" not being counted among the unemployed. They used to not count military personnel at all, but now they count them as "employed". They say the unemployment rate should rightfully be about eight or ten percent. Apparently ten thousand blacks were taken off the rolls for one indicator indicating poverty, which is why poverty went down in the Clinton adminestration. And of course inflation is more like five or six percent and not what they are saying. And if growth statistics were adjusted for inflation we'd already be in negative growth right now. They figure things now like "Well, the same thousand dollar computer today is actually a better value because it does more stuff". So they use electronic items to counterballance the other causes of inflation. By the same logic I guess things like paint and light bulbs that last longer today than they used to- - are used as counter-ballances. You know what they say "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time but you can't fool all the people all of the time".

Ted Kennedy of course has a diagnosed inopperable brain tomer that's of an unusual make-up where it's hard to deliniate the tomer from normal tishue. Under worst case scenario, the senator could be dead within a year. We're going to keep him in prayer that he can beat this thing. The media is trying to be optimistic, and that's a good thing. There is a lot of Federation news I was going to dump on you now. Let me just say this: Ted Kennedy should get to Xavier college and have one of the people there pray for him. Xavier is a Romulan campus- - and the Romulans are posed to go to war with the Centaurians, the source of the senator's problem. Don't argue with me; just do it. This thing is definitely beatable.

Federation anthropology: The Ashberry Park group east is New Jersey. Ashberry Park west is Portland, and they are Arkturians. Taccomans are also Arkturians. The west coast Tacomans are Tacoma, and the east is the Atlantic seaboard area like New Jersey. Most of the Sirian Romulans are the "Torrando Romulans". The Vancouver Romulans used to rule in Regelus V before that planet was devistated by the Centaurians in spring 1989. The White Andromedans are a combo of Andromeda E's and the Atlanta Romulans. The North Romulans are a mixture of the Portland Reigellians (who live on Reigel VI, too) and Romulans. The "Seveners" are a mixture of Romulan and Rajoran and live on Reigel VII. The Ruins of Reigel VII are the ancient Orion race before they emigrated to Egypt but the Ruins don't look Egyptian but hold many math secrets. The Amazon women on Reigel V are dying out do to the "Bertell" rays or- - cosmic ray nutrinos killing them. There is little life on Reigel V above a small mammel or a birds. The Bajorans are one group who are advocates opposing Gay Marriage. The Federation as a whole has taken a "neutral" stance on California's proposed anti gay amendment( which in effect means they're for gay marriage) and regard it as a "local earth matter". The Rizzonans are from a star in Virgo. The Pikes are from a star in Pisces. The Pikes rule the Red Sox and the Patriots but not the Boston Celtics. There used to be Vancouver Romulan influence on Motown music, but the Detroit Romulans are not connected with Motown. "Lukicites" are HQ'd in Fresno. There are Lukicites in southwest Texas. The Centaurians earlier this week were "getting ready to celebrate something" now. The Centaurians do things for propaganda purposes.

Let's do numerology review. Two times three is always six. Two times six is always three. Three times either a three or a six is always nine. Nine times any number is nine. Four times any three is always three and four times any six is always six. Eights behaves like twos when it comes to threes and sixes. A seven behaves like a four when it comes to threes and sixes. The numerals stay the same. A difference of nine strongly indicates numerals have been transposed. The differences between progressions of squared numbers like 4 and 9 and 16 and 25 is always a progression of odd numbers. If you work with just numbers of factors two and seven, you will never encounter a "three" number, or any number divisable by three. I Ching signs are always synchronized with the election years. They run in grand cycles of sixty.
Here is the progression with sevens:

7 times 1 is 7
7 times 2 is 5- - - - 7 times 11 is 77 or 14 or 5
7 times 4 is one - - - 7 times 4 is 28 or 1
7 times 5 is 8- - - 7 times 14 is 98 or 8
7 times 7 is 4- - - 7 times 13 is 91 or 1
7 times 8 is two.- - -7 times 17 is 119 or 2

When Logic Fails

For me a title like that is as unlikely as Billy Graham posting a newspaper article headlined "God is Dead", but let me elaborate. You remember President Bush when he was talking to the Kinessent in Israel was saying "These liberals think if we just presented an argument so impressive in its logic to the terrorists that they would just roll over and capitulate". This isn't how life works in most cases. There was a Simpson's episode where these kids were stranded on an Island and there was this wile boar scaring the little ones, and then one day Lisa Simpson discovered that the boar was being kept alive by eating this green slime that grows on the rocks and she reasons, "If it's keeping the boar alive it will keep us alive, too". Unfortunately if you're dealing with a group of young boys (or any other normal human being) there is a much simpler solution to the problem and that is to kill and eat the wild boar. So the kids ate well that night dining on barbecued pork. Animals don't use logic in their relation with one another. Their relations are dictated by nature. Just as men and women don't relate to each other by logic but by the inherent differences of both sexes. The way anyone can know that homosexuality is wrong is that neither men NOR woman want to forsake their customary relation to the opposit sex. Sometimes relation is everything. For instance this morning I went out to see how our bird in a cage was doing. The first thing I noticed was that he was much more perky and alert looking out of the cage right at the edge. This is Atypical behavior for him. Then I noticed there was another bird now in the cage who was cowering in the back of the cage like the first bird used to do. Now the first bird had assumed a position of dominence. We had two cats when I was younger named Bo and Al, who were brother and sister born in February 1972. Before his time the male cat, Al died of one of these comon urinary aliments that causes blockage. One thing that was noticed after that was it was now the female cat, Bo, who was getting in all the fights in the neighborhood protecting her terroitory. She had now assumed the mail role of protector. A lot of times Rush Limbaugh is right when he says women want to be dominated. With all due respect to Johnny Wendell, sometimes the golden rule doesn't apply pertaining to relations between the sexes. If a man is about to have sex with a woman in the back seat of a car he doesn't sit down with her and say "Let's talk about our feelings and discuss the consequences of our having sex or the consequences of not having sex". No, he's going to tell her every lie in the book to get her to have sex, and he's even likely to throw something in about Destiny and how "this thing is bigger than both of us". Some fall into the "Reasonableness equals Rightness" trap the EST people talk about. Dr. Phil frames the question as "Would you rather be Happy, or be Right?" Sometimes even a person who seems "right" and "logical" can still be "off". I was just looking at old Malcolm X videos last night on You-Tube. Even though Malcolm's logic was impecable and he was right on- - in his analisis of relations between the races, he was still "wrong" in that he wasn't connecting with his White interviewer. In one case Malcolm X was explaining how Black people have lost their heritage so that they didn't even know their family last name in Africa but took on the identities of their White devil slave masters. It was like a comedy routine as the interviewer- - a good liberal, probably, but he was clearly bored and exasperated asking the same questions over and over of Malcolm, as if he hadn't heard. Of course Malcolm believed that this whole "Civil rights movement" was something Black people should not embrace. But he did say however that if a white policeman's dog attacks you, you have the right to kill the dog- - and that includes those "dogs" who walk on two legs. But in general as I looked on all this footage, most of which I'd seen before somewhere- - it all seemed rather "out of date" and "wouldn't sell" today because it wasn't "up with the times".

Today we need a message that will "sell". Christianity is one message that "sold" well when it war formed- as a way of justifying hatred tword the Jews. Yet as Ron Hubbard points out, and I have quoted before, "If you're in a fire engine streaming twords a fire to put it out- - you aren't going to pay any attention to the dogs nipping at and chassing the fire engine". And yet all Jesus seemed to do was "nip at the dogs" even though "Such action would be quite mad". Rather than "put out the fire" of abolishing human sin from the earth as Daniel 24 discussed, Jesus preferred getting in sparing matches with the pharisees where Jesus "I'm God; worship me or spend eternity in Hell". This wasn't part of his comission. Of course getting back to Bush's statement about "ingeniousness of argument" I was going to write one of my local pastors a letter Friday morning when I was inspired "Spelling it all out about how Christianity has affected my life, and why it wasn't working for me" but this other voice said "It will never work. His defences are too great and his rationalizations are too entrenched. You've had thoughts like this before and have written other letters. He knows the facts but is purpously ignoring them". Certain relationships just naturally form like the relation between Mallery and Skippy on "Family Fies" where Mallery says "Skippy, I thought our relation was pretty well established. You grovle for acceptance and I reject you". So it is with the relation between me and God. Don't fall into the "Reasonableness equals Rightness" trap. It could be that the Calvary Chapels are just "constitutionally incapable of accepting me". But here is something new in the way of evidence about the early formation period of Christianity. No, we're not going to talk about Mary Magdolane" but something else just as revealing. As you may or may not know a comon theme in Calvary Chapel sermons is this idea of attacking gnosticism and the accusation that the spirit and flesh are separate entities so if you cater to the Flesh in sin, then the Spirit is free to go its merry way. I've looked up Gnosticism and this isn't a part of it. What Gnosticism is, is something that came from Egypt about AD 90 to Rom and caught on there like wild fire. What gnosticism is, is the idea that God himself "degenerated" and fell into impurety generating other Gods of moral and litteral inferiority and finally Jesus emerged as the lowest God, according to one source, but he as it were "redeemed the notion of Godness" back to "The One", or first outraying of the Divine. What Christianity did was take this idea and rather than apply it to God, applied it to humans. How do we know this? If Gnosticism hit Rome about AD 90 then what about letters of Paul to the Corinthians where he talks about how "Knowledge" is what some people do to excuse sin. And he says "We all like to think we have Knowledge" referring to licentiousness. He goes on to say "All things are lawful to me, but not all things are expediant". He quotes the gnostic proverb, "Food is for the stomach and the stomach is made for food". By this Paul claims is how Gnostics excuse sin. But if Christianity came BEFORE gnosticism, how come Paul is writing to an infant Church he just founded- using Gnosticisum as a comparrison in a letter that claims to have been written about 50 AD or so over forty years before Gnosticism existed? Whoever promigated Christianity knew about the "Reasonableness equals Rightness" phallocy, and wasn't going to fall into it. Sheer "ingeniousness of arguments" just wasn't going to cut it.

Captain Piccard once said, "I am content to live with a mystery". Many people are concerned about trying to prove how evolution came about or IF it happened at all. This is not an immediate concern of mine. We have the rest of our existance to figure out the mysteries of evolution. The important thing is that life is HERE and how do we relate to it? The same is true with the "modas opperandi" or whatever the phrase is- - the driving force behind the people who thought we NEEDED Einstein's theory of relativity. The whole thing comes down to trying to figure out "Which way the ether wind was blowing" and how come we could NEVER detect ANY "ether wind" in the Universe no matter how many tests we ran? To me- - I am content to live with a mystery. How come we get the same reading on the speed of light all the time? I don't know, but it's not a pressing concern of me right now. Some people wonder what will happen to man's soul after he dies. I'm not bothered by that. Ask me again when I'm dead. Some wonder whether our governmental system is perfect or whether we need to radically change the Constitution to "make it more democratic" and not give Supreme Court justices so much power- - even on matters of WHEN they step down so as to exercise maximum political power. Some are concerned that we have too many rural senators who control congress with their right wing rural politics in congress. Sometimes you have to be a social darwinist and set logic and abstraction aside for the moment. Why do animals hunt, kill, and eat their prey, and can an animal ever be "taught" that "this isn't the best way"? Certain people dominate in certain situations. To rail about it as Malcolm X does is fine. But Malcolm X was an honist man and he ended up dead, killed by his own organization, who turned against Malcolm because he saw the truth and they couldn't handle that. It's not just a matter of KNOWING the truth; what you have to be able to do is SELL the truth. This is a lesson Berock Obama needs to learn. (Selah)

MY BACK PAGES

Last night it was At the Movies, and then it was Sixty Minutes. They had this segment where Chiquita bananas was paying “protection money” to this Columbian death squad army austensively out to fight Marxists. This was twenty years ago. Both sides were bloody and brutal. But now Chiquita is being faulted saying they should have let their many employees who work in the fields die. Should Chaquita have adopted the addage: "It's General Patton's guts- - but our blood"? Should the Chaquita people at the top have said "We're willing to sacrifice down to the life of our last employee" just to maintain that illusury "primciple" and "moral high ground"?But Dole and Del Monte are also being accused of paying protection money. Now they are trying to lay the responsibility for all the deaths from weapons purchases- - at Chiquita’s door. That is so patently unfair. They say they should have gone to the authorities, The US declares a group a terrorist outfit and that’s supposed to make everything all right. That's about as realistic as Jewish shop owners in Nazi Germany going to the equivelent of the Nazi "better business beauro" to redress grievences of vandalism. Then they had a thing on medical care for illegal aliens. One woman was given Resperidol for a mis-diagnosed condition but later she got her act together and went on to study computer. So "things worked out OK for her". I take Resperidol and it hasn't killed me yet. One man had a lesion on his penis and demanded treatment. Finally he got it on his own. He got a biopsy and soon thereafter had a John Bobbit job performed on him. Perhaps some Federal employee should have said “There’s the knife drawer; help yourself”.

An Idea Whose Time Has Come

They say that speculators have driven up the per barrel price of oil 40% over what it would be "naturally" be selling for following the natural market forces of supply and demand. I don't know how you can price $125.00 a barrel is too high but I suppose they've taken inventories and know these things. George Bush has supposedly just visited Saudi Arabia and was turned down when he asked the Saudis to increase production of oil. So here's what we should do. I think as President I could declare a "compelling state interest" in ceasing enough control over the oil companies to fix the price of gasoline at the pump to say $2.50 per gallon. This would insure that the necessities of the American people would be satisfied. If there are in fact still shortages I think the President could assume other "executive perogatives" as he has assumed in other areas such as terrorism, and control how much gasoline actually gets sent to stations. If it indeed turns out that gasoline has been over valued then the price will fall and the speculators will get wiped out, but nobody will be shedding a tear. If shortages remain, then people will just have to improvise. They say that necessity is the mother of invention and suddenly things like car pooling that just seemed to "inconvienient" before will, through governmental intervention, suddenly "make sense" after all. I don't know just how much any President can get away with but I say it's about high time that someone should try to push the envelope of executive power. The thing is- there is a "compelling state interest" because our economy is going into the tank and prices all over with food and such are being driven up and truckers are being squeezed and airlines are going out of business. Of course corporations that refused to comply would be sumarily "detained" just like those in Guantanamo Bay, untill they did.

The big joke now is "What does George Bush call a Nazi?" and the answer is "Grandpa". Prescott Bush apparently made his fortune laundering Nazi money and was later prosecuted but somehow all the charges got thrown out. As to Bush's statements in Israel, I wasn't bothered by them and I really think Obama overreacted to them. Had Obama said nothing the statement would have blown over and would now be forgotten. As it is now it's a republican debating point that Obama is soft on terrorists. I certainly think Bush's ties to Saudi Arabia should be talked about during this campaign. Obama should put HIM on the defencive rather than the other way around. I think Prescott Bush's life ought to be given a new airing- - and people including myself should be made plainly aware of the facts. Condemnation by imuendo and association works, we all know that. Joe Biden referred to the President's remarks in Israel as "Bullshit and malarky". But the fact that Obama is perceived as less than pro Jewish is not "malarky" but has been pretty well established. Rather than defend his own record, or lack of one, Obama should go on the attack by changing the subject and reminding the people that fifteen or the nineteen hijackers of 9 - 11 were from Saudi Arabia. Just think about it.

This supreme court ruling on gay marriage in California will never stand. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the edict were never allowed to go into effect but a "Stay" was put on the ruling untill after the November election. At that time there will be a proposed constitutional amendment stating that marriage shall consist of one man and one woman. Let's face it. Gay Marriage is one idea whose time has NOT come. Few people will complain is not one gay is allowed to be married. Apparently the polling on this issue is 61% of the people in California prefer a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. They say gays all over the nation are watching California to see what they do. If this pro gay ruling were allowed to standing it would be the most outragious ruling since Roe verses Wade. Nobody has overturned that one yet but this time we are ready for them, and over a million people are already to sign petitions.

WHY I DON'T THINK IT EVEN MATTERS

OK I'm going to talk about the theory of relativity a little more. One reason why the whole theory doesn't make sense is that for us to perceive time "speeding up" and "slowing down" and space expanding and shrinking, we would have to have some constant to measure it against. But if time slowed down one milisecond, then the speed of light would not be a constant. The theory of relativity says the one constant in the Universe is the speed of light. But if we could actually measure time speeding up and slowing down, we would also be measuring alterations in the speed of light. If you want to cheat a little with the math you could say in einstinian math that one half the speed of light, plus another half- - equals three fourths. Two thirds plus two thirds equals eight nineths, and three fourths plus three fourths equals 15/16. While it's true that from ONE VIEWING DIRECTION all the things Einstein says may appear to be true- - but viewed from any other direction such as laterally or approaching- - his bold thesis falls apart. The whole theory could be done away with and replaced by much explanations we do see for things we "can't explain". The theory is kind of an article of Faith, just like saying Jesus is God. But the trouble is then we start defining what we perceive about Jesus' life in terms of his being a God. If Jesus were ever presumptuous sounding or egotistical, we say "Well, it's because he's God and he knew it". But what about his suffering. Is it really worse than say some scientist shipwrecked on a tropical island and slowly dying of some horrible tropical disease? Is it worse than people like Joan of Ark, or for that matter, John Mc Cain suffered. For who else does suffering have a clear expiration date or the Exit sign so well lit? If Jesus was a 33 year old virgin, would not a forty year old virgin beat out his record? I noticed back in 1991 that one thing you don't see in reports of Jesus's life is Jesus ever being given or following a direct order? Who's really more humble? Jesus or the average working stiff working overtime he resents? And so it is with the theory of relitivity. We only believe in it because "It's there". And we assume it's holy writ. But bringing back the ether theory will explain most of the problems the theory perports to solve, and much more simply. That's my opinion; how about yours?