Tword a Third World War

It's kind of funny the phrases that go out of style with the passing years. It used to be that we constantly heard regarding Iraq that we were in "The last throws of the insergency". I guess you could liken it to disciplining a three year old and then the kid throws a tantrum trying to bend you to his will or "raising the price of poker", as Dr. Phill put it. We were to believe that Iraq was "throwing a tantrum" with all these insergency attacks, but that it wasn't a sign that what we were doing was wrong but rather a sign of weakness and desperation. Nobody has been using that "last throws" argument with over a hundred Iraqi civilians dying every week. Now they speak of it as a "low grade" civil war. Back in the fall of 1993 I complained of a "low grade" fever. I had contracted hepatitus and I didn't know it. "Low grade" is one of those euphamisums that means little. We are now in a Civil War in Iraq and not in the "last throws" of anything. Back in the 1970s there were those in the Christian community who were saying that what we were seeing in society thirty years ago were the "last throws of a Satanic attack". I've been talking about the year 1967. This week in 1967 things were rappidly getting worse in terms of relations with one, if not both of my brothers. Was I experiancing the "last throws" of problems with my brother? Then how come the following week was even worse? Now they are saying that we'll have to partition Iraq into Suni and Shiite segments, and maybe let the Kurds be independant, too. We were told it didn't matter that our whole US intervention had the effect of supporting the "minority" Shiites because they wern't Iranian shiites but deep down when push came to shove, they were Iraqi nationalists first and Shiites second and there was no danger of their forming a grand alliance with Iranian shiites. Well- - - that's another argument you are no longer hearing. You also used to hear "Basically Shiite and Suni are perfectly able to get along with each other in a new era of peace and democracy". There were those who said "When others see democracy in Iraq and how wonderful it is they will abandon all of their Arab hostility and work for peace and prosperity of their own country. This is of course before Hammas won the election in Palestine. We have learned that the Sunis who live in Syria are a minority type of Suni called "allowite" or something. We apparently now now that Al Quada was alligned with the old bathists Sunis in Iraq. According to O Riley, Sunis and Al Quada will war with Shiites and the Shiites will defeate Al Quada and Suni. Thence the Al Quada party will retire to Afghanastan or something "to attack the US another day" and the Sunis will form a grand alliance with Syria and Iran and from there Iran will be free to blackmail China for nuclear favors- - and in general the price of oil will skyrocket.

We haven't even talked about Lebanon yet. According to Randy Rhodes, the U S has been planning some grand world war since 1996. In that year the blueprint was hatched to take out Saddam Hussein and invade Iraq. This whole Lebanon incursion, if you believe Randy, is really a part of OUR overall strategy, as much as it is Isrial to cause war, famine, and hardship for as many people as possible. Jesus tought "Blessed are the peace makers". But Congalisa Rice is obviously working off another play book. She definitely wants "something" to happen before we intervene in anything. Randy has been saying that this Lebanon invasion thing is just a precurser to all out war between the United States and this alliance between Syria, Iran, and with Iraq "providing a place for the Shiites to flee to from Iran once the bombs start falling". In terms of the morality of what Isrial is doing the rationalization gets thinner every day. They have knocked out eighty percent of Lebonese highways and ninety percent of their bridges. Business men are not safe because Banks are being bombed because they are suspected of giving aid to Hez Ballah. Apparently all sorts of banks are giving aid to Hez Ballah. I suppose even if the scenario is as Randy Rhodes says, what is the hoped for outcome? I haven't a clue except it will boost war profits for people like Dick Chaney. 2007 has been a year long on my psychic radar screen. For over three decades I've been expecting "something major" to happen this year. Now it looks as it "something" will happen in 2007.

People may ask me, "Marcus, have you changed or has conservatisum changed?" and I would say without hesitation that conservatisum has changed. I was just rereading "The Way Things Out to Be" by Rush Limbaugh. Many of the sentaments in that book I can still agree with. We need to talk about abstenance as a viable alternative to indescriminent sexual intercourse in our schools. The trouble is now they have run scientific studies that show abstenance training doesn't work but ironically results in more abortions because the parties don't use birth control. The same goes for these abstenance pins people wear. In terms of the idea of Rush having free speech- - I'm all for that. Rush says there was a conspiracy against his successfully getting his book published. We all want "ballance" on the air waves. The thing is when Rush started out he was a lone wolf. Now it's hard to find on AM radio a talk show host that isn't a member of the hard right, and by that I mean those who attack George Bush from the Right. Bush's problem is he doesn't hate Mexicans and other minorities Enough to please these people. Now Rush is doing this "wah wah" thing saying that Americans suddenly trapped in a war zone in Lebanon are a bunch of whiners. As if anyone could have forseen this war. It may have been in planning for five years but Americans visiting their grand parents, or Leboneze businessmen and developers sure didn't know that. The ironic thing is that liberals are worried whether or not they will be able to take over even one house of congress. They point to the superior grass roots organization among Republicans. Bush uses things like faith based initiative to give to churches in Ohio and tells them to preach to the right- - and all this funding shows up in votes on election day. Also the vocabulary has been tainted by right wing thinking. "Liberal" is a bad word. People on the right "know how to speak in sound bites" whereas people on the left are more inclined to look at the whole problem and give a much longer-winded explanation of their views.

To shift gears now- - on Nova a week or so ago they had "The theory behind everything". There are those who promote the "string" theory of matter as a way of explaining the Universe on both a micro scale and a macro scale. On the BIG scale- - gravity and Einstein's general theory of relativity explains most of the phenomina we see. Gravity is really just "warped space" where "warped space" itself remains an undefined term. On the micro scale we see things like quirks and pions and mezzons and neutrinos dominating the scene. On this level space and time aren't necessarily a necessary comodity. You may pinpoint Where an election is but not When you see it, or you may pinpoint a When point, but as to the "where" that's a mystory. There are three forces in this micro realm. The "strong force" that holds atomic particles together, the electromagnetic fource, and finally the "weak" or radioactive force of half life decay. The string theory proposes to bind all fources together in a single theory. They finally came up with an equation that actially worked in 1984 and "4096" is some kind of a key number. These "strings" are very tiny, unlike what the Federation talks about where cosmically large strings are in vogue. These tiny strings vibrate in six New dimensions, so that in reality there are ten dimensions with Time as a dimension. Of course the whole problem with this "strings" theory is that there is apparently no way we'll be able to prove it. Just as there is no way of proving Christianity till we're all dead, and if it turns out (as I darkly suspect) that there IS no afterlife, then we will Never see Christianity validated. People say because this strings theory isn't either provable or disprovable, it isn't truely science, just as the declarations of the Bible aren't science because they can never be either proven or disproven. Apparently now there are five sub-varieties of this "strings" theory and all five are incompatable, and may allude to the contents of five different Universes, none of which may be the one we live in.

Now Gov. Swartzenegger has regained a lead over Phill Angeletes. That's good. I think Phill could use a fresh coat of Green paint, if you know what I mean. In terms of Joe Lieberman and Ned Le Mont- - - Le Mont used to be way behind but now has moved ahead and it's ex President Bill Clinton to the rescue to recessitate Joe's poll numbers. The whole Iraq war thing looks so bad though, the wheels are coming off the wagon. Even government leaders in Iraq are saying things that America doesn't like to hear. Conservatives have been saying for three months that we should set our sites on Iran. Unfortunately because of the fact that we HAVE intervened in Iraq, taking on Iran is much more difficult than it otherwise would have been, both because our troops are all tied up, or tied down, as the case may be, and also because of that vast resavuar of Shiites in Iraq ready to lend Iranians moral support.

An Act of Political Suicide

No doubt you all the biggest news of yesterday, July 19th. 2006, a date that will live in political infamy. It's the day George Bush vetoed the embryonic stem cell research bill. I am told that the override in the house failed by just four votes. This obviously will no longer be the situation after the November election. I find Bush's termonology annoying. He speaks of forty thousand embryos being "destroyed". No, congress wants to SAVE them from destruction by opening them up for use by research. The "lines" of cells in use now are growing more inadequate with each passing day. Bush surrounds himself with "snow flake" children. This is obviously a cheap political shot. Nobody is saying some of these 40,000 can't be used for people who want babies. I agree that the adoption market is tight. But that's not our fault that the rich would rather throw out an embryo than donate it to a needy couple. Bush is choosing to ignore the pain and suffering of all those suffering from various deseases from spinal injuries, to muscular dystrophy, to Alsheimers, and so many others. Of course we know how the Jesus of KFI is in love with pain and suffering as evidenced by so many of his comments. I guess you could summarize his position as "If I can't or won't heal a person, nobody can heal them". There are those who believe deseases are caused by God for a reason and if God had meant for them to be whole he would have made them whole. This is the same line of reasoning for everything from penicillon to the invention of the airplane. Granny often said "If the Lord had meant us to fly he would have given us wings". Why do we have a president with one foot in the Dark Ages? The church has consistently resisted and dragged its feet every time progress was about to be made. The botton line is Bush's vetoing of the stem cell research bill is an act of political suicide. He's going to lose in November even more seats than he was going to lose anyhow. The odds now are increased that the Democrats will regain both houses of Congress, and then President Bush is going to do some major league sweating when they start having all those long needed investigations. I guess you can admire someone who acts on "moral principles" even if the act is utterly stupid. The President has sent a message to all those suffering out there of just what he thinks of them. People like Rush Limbaugh say there's no future in stem cell research anyhow. He course there have already been major breakthroughs like with those paralyzed rats. Rush doesn't have all that high of a record for telling the truth. George Bush had a choice yesterday and he made the wrong one. He could have redeemed himself yesterday. Instead he threw it all away. What if Nixon had cut off funding for NASA in 1969 and we never landed on the moon? Nixon would not be associated with that feat whenever it did occur. Swartzenegger at least is thinking about the future. I'm going to vote for Swartzenegger in November. His democratic opponent is toast. I don't make electoral decisions based on party.

I've had time to think about this whole Lebanon invasion thing. It's like someone using bug spray to try and cure a cancer attack. What Isrial is doing is pointless. These terrorist organizations have a life of their own and no matter what you do they will survive. It was Isrial who started the conflict. Millions of Palistinians have suffered. Now they are evacuating Americans from Lebanon. Isrial has in less than two weeks destroyed Lebanon, after they have been in a rebuilding process for over a decade. Why punish Lebanon and its people for something an underground terrorist organization does? Isrial isn't winning friends and influencing people, except in a bad way. Who is going to feel sympathetic tword them now? If anything Isrial is tending to validate many of the things Moslems have been saying about them. To me that just isn't smart. George Bush is not intervening for a cease fire, and I agree it's not really our problem. I would just like to know what Isrial hopes to accomplish. There was a guy on the Al Frankin show with what seemed like an enlightened analisys of the problem and also a visionary peace plan. It seems we should work tword Peace. I think if Clinton were still President now more would be getting done. Some people have said, "The US has the power to Nuke both Domascus and Teharan". Is that what we should do? I don't think so. Hez Ballah will run out of rockets at some point and I guess the problem will be solved then. But the damage done to Isrial's P R will not go away in the hearts of many Palistinians.

1967 is a year with so many dates that stand out in my mind. On this day July 20th. my brother and some other people drove to Vennice and muscle beach and attended the TV broadcast of the show "Groovy". There's a scene when they're playing "Bluebird" and we were playing with a beach ball- - I'm pretty sure I'm in. My brother hung a white tassle making it look like he was a HS graduate even though he was only a Sophamore, and the tassle wasn't even from our school. In the year 1967 we were all getting our first taste of Ronald Reagan and his simotanious draconian cuts in govt. servaces and jobs, and also a doubling of the state income tax. For the next forty years we would be forever told that we had to "make cuts" and "less is more", and if we didn't the govt. would go bankrupt. I like Swartzenegger's speech last January because for the first time in decades the governor actually sounded like a democrat.

I guess I'll close with a little object lesson from Days of our Lives. Philip Kariacus illustrates the point that if you're going to give ultamatums you better make sure you can live with the answer. There is a strange scenarion where Philip's wife, Belle is carrying her ex boyfriend, Sean's sperm and having his baby, because of a lab mix-up. The marriage was always rather bogus and Philip didn't so much as win Belle's love but took advantage of a situation where Sean was temporarily out of comission- to steal Belle from Sean, and now he's paying the price if Belle calls his bluff and gives him a divorce, and I hope she does. The situation is a bit analigus to Christian preachers who try and make value judgements on your life when you yourself are quite content with your own decisions. The worst they can threaten you with- - besides Eternal Damnation- - - is that- - - I guess that's it. They can't threaten you. They are people who are fundamentally in a weak position trying to act strong. I have predicted that by the year 2061 the United States will have turned its back on Christianity. I think something will happen that year that will clinch the deal- if it wasn't already fate accomple before this. The more cosmically aware the people of the United States become, the more bogus Christianity will look.

CONSERVATIVES WITHOUT A CONTIENCE

John Dean's book is number two on the New York Times bestseller list, and he has already knocked off Anne Coulter. Nixon was a "green" compared to the Bush adminestration. Dick Chaney was in the Ford Adminestration and Dean says he was instramental in losing the 1976 for Ford. Chaney was a horrible manager for Haloburten and has actually been more productive for them as Vice President than he was as an employee. Chaney has his own "shaddow government" now. John Dean was originally inspired to write his latest book because of Barry Goldwater, who had a change of heart in his later days. John Dean is still friends with Barry's son. Goldwater says he was influence to vote against the 1964 Civil Rights law because of two people. One was a young Arizona law student named William Requist, and the other one was Robert Bork from Yale. Apparently Goldwater wasn't very studious in his younger days and was left to run the store in Phoenix while his brother went to College. Goldwater "didn't have a rascist bone in his body" according to John Dean and had integrated his store and done other local integration and had voted for other Civil Rights bills. I've heard that Michal Medved is still against the 1964 civil rights bill. Apparently he has adopted the Larry Elder line of "letting the market place dictate policy" and eventually the market place would dictate that Blacks should be allowed equal public accomidation in hotels in resturants. What is wrong with this theory is that Blacks would never be economically successful enough to DICTATE to the market place if they didn't have a college education or receive other govt. help to put them where they are today. We'd still be in a racest world where the Black man is being kept down. This sort of world is just fine for people like Michal Medved and Larry Elder. John Dean has pointed out that "Conservative" really isn't the right word for the Bush adminestration. He thinks perhaps the term "reactionary" is. "Authoritarian" is pretty close to it. This adminestration is certainly against the sort of libertarianism that Barry Goldwater stood for. I have not bought John Deans book yet or his prior book, "Worse than Watergate". It's a good idea to be learned and read because a lot of the people who run the country now don't read books and they aren't lawyers and don't have a philosophical foundation for their beliefs.

A Flury of Anniversaries

This is now the eleventh blog I have started. I know that's a lot. Today represents a flury of anniversaries to talk about. First of all there is today. Today is the last day of the D S L extreme offer of one month's free D S L. Everybody should order that. Seven years ago today was an infamous event. On this date in 1999 John Kennedy Jr's. plane crashed in the water off Capt Cod or thereabouts on the way to a wedding. There were Kennedy and Caroline Bisset and her sister on the plane. Now we learn there were outward signs of trouble within minutes of taken off because Kennedy flew into other planes' air space. My guess is he was on drugs. It was perhaps a day or two later on this date in 1969 when Ted "glug glug" Kennedy drove his car off a bridge while drunk killing Mary Jo Kopechmey. On July 18th. 1968 I recorded most of a reel to reel roll of tape in one day- - running two hours. I recorded mostly off a new FM station in Garden Grove, which was K T B T, which played songs which to this day are unique to that station. On this date, July 17th. 1988 I moved into my old apartment where I lived for thirteen years. That was on a Sunday. Also on a Sunday was the Disneyland opening on this date July 17th. 1955. Apparently they had a lot of complications building the park because the water of "the rivers of America" kept absorbing into the ground. Also they didn't have a lot of attractions that first year and they had a real problem with the restrooms. Photographic evidence suggests I myself did not attend Disneyland till the 2nd. year, 1956, when they completed a lot more rides, though I myself always thought I was there the first year.

Well Oliver Stone is doing his rendition of the collapse of the Twin Towers on 9 - 11. I wonder what twist, if any, he is going to put on the movie. Will he say that the government blew up the buildings? I've always wondered why the lower floors of both buildings collapsed. Of course if the lower floors of both buildings had been salvaged you wouldn't be able to get the publicity out of the thing that occurred because far fewer people would have been killed. Also you wouldn't have that big hole in the ground and wonder what memorial to put on the site.

You know sometimes outward signs aren't that bad. I think in some ways being a gang member shows signs of a social reaching out and belonging. In Judaisum the outward sign of the faith is circumcision. Some Black fraternities brand you as an outward sign of belonging. Christianity has baptisum as an outward sign. Though the true "elete" of the Faith hate this because it means that ANYBODY can join it. The "true believers" who run the faith believe only the Elect can be saved and therefore Baptisum as an outward protestation of your Faith is not sufficient. You know that Jesus on K F I was talking about "The spirit of the Law". Well the true Spirit of God's law is that the law is a joy and serving the Lord is a pleasure and brings benefits. Also the covenent is spoken of as an eternal covenent. The "elete" of the faith hate "The law" more than anybody else because THEY alone want to "make up the rules" not only as to who gets in but what standards are "acceptable" according to their word play and verbal accrobatics.

The last two paragraphs were typed just now. All in all it seems as if this month is July is fleeting by. It’s already half over. I’d like to see my bank statement. Leo Le Port talked of laptops overheating. Lap tops have been known to spontaniously burst into flame. I’ve had the name of my next Blog in mind for a month or so. Except I already have ten and everybody else has so much fewer than that.

In case you are wondering about global warming it was above one hundred about everywhere in the continental US yesterday except Chicago was 95. Today they are a hundred. Only Seattle and San Francisco are cool. The statistics are out now for the first six months temperatures in America and it was the hottest six months on record. Also around here we have been above normal every day in the month of July. They say this isn’t normal climate warming because the CO2 makes it warmer at night than it would ordinarily be. Also it’s actually colder in the upper atmosphere because at that level, carbon dioxide behaves differently.

Chris Matthews says that Iran was the big winner of Gulf War II. That ought to be an eye opener. Iran has used the War to step up recruiding region wide. Chris fawned all over Rudolph Juliani saying that the religious right loves him and that the right is no longer going to stand behind their anti gay and anti abortion stance. My response to that is, “When pigs fly”. It will have been seven years since 9 – 11 and as was pointed out, Juliani has done little but make speeches these past five years.

This fire in southern San Barnadino county has gone on for a whole week. A Jeopardy guy is saying the media has moved politics to the right. Many people have stated this recently, that is the left now that has to swim against the tide to be heard. Chris Matthews fell all over himself praising Rudy Juliani last Saturday, saying that he was now the darling of the right and had the nomination all but locked up. It's the old condition fire horse phenominum. They ring the fire bell at the station and the horses are ready to go to the fire. That's the New Right.

Ken Galliger was saying some insane stuff. At four he said he was going to present the case for the collapse of the twin towers in New York being a Bush conspiricy. He didn’t do that, of course. Instead he went on a diatribe about College academics. I turned the thing off about a quarter after. When next I turned the radio on at a quarter five he was talking about something else. Earlier he was talking about cell phones and why they should not be banned. He gave no good reasons for his own pro cell phone position but instead cut off any callers who did constructive examples that disagreed with his position. Dr. Dean Edell said the last castrato died in 1903 and his voice was recorded in 1902. The Catholic church apparently banned the practice long ago but then went and ignored their own ruling.

Fundamentals of Rock - Disc Three

Station to Station (David Bowie)

Jeroldine and John (Joe Jackson)

It’s Allright Ma, I’m Only Bleeding (Bob Dylan)

Dr. Luther’s Assistant (Elvis Costello)

The Golden Road (Grateful Dead)

Borris the Spider (The Who)

Perfect Strangers (Deep Purple)

Need Your Love (Cheap Trick)

Only One More Kiss (Paul Mc Cartney)

The Severed Garden (Jim Morrison) ("Amer. Prayer")

Cold Ethyl (Alice Cooper)

The Last Rose of Summer (Judas Priest)

Ballod of You and Me and Puneil (Jefferson Airplane)

Burned (Buffalo Springfield)

Fried Hockey Boogy (Canned Heat)