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?

Exestential Blues

President Bush obviously lives in an "alternate reality". I missed the live press conference the other day but apparently Bush still does not want to admit the truth that his own intelligence, as of a year ago, had a report ready for release to the effect that Iran ceased trying to build a nuclear bomb as of 2003 and that now they just want to enrich uranium for peaceful Nuclear Power. The President is still being a chicken little about the whole thing, insisting that the sky is falling and that nothing has changed. The democrats should make it a major talking point that just as in 2003 this country was deceived into going to war with Iraq on the basis of a known lie, that Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction, so we almost went to war with Iran last spring on the basis of a known lie, when the truth was in an intelligence report sitting on a shelf. Saddam abandoned his development of "weapons of mass destruction" and U N inspectors were finding this out, as we have reported previously, and if they had been allowed to go on with their inspections, this truth would have become Public, and we would have spared ourselves the past four & a half years of War and occupation. It's the pressure that Democrats and others on the left exerted on the Bush adminestration, that prevented a war with Iran that would otherwise be going on right now. As such the democrats have something to be proud of, that they with their actions, actually prevented what would have been a disasterous war with Iran. People like Edwards and O Bama need to hit Hillary over the head with this.

They are now predicting that there could be massive food wars world wide, because of the ravages of global warming, that make deserts of certain areas that used to get enough rain. Of course they have had a virtual hurricane of 100 mph. plus winds in the Northwest. The Federation has been predicting a war in the 2030's but it could come sooner. There could well be energy wars if oil prices spike and all those people in China who don't have cars, should decide they want one. Ninety percent of the population still does not own a motor vehicle. But the Kyoto accords have to be fair, and include polluting nations such as India and China.

President Bush had a "Dukakis moment" (1988) in the Press Conference, apparently where he was informed about a young woman in Saudi Arabia who was raped by seven men. As a response the government sentenced the woman to two hundred lashes. That's a lot more than Michael Faye got. Apparently in answering the question the President stared up into space as if looking to some higher power for guidance in answering this difficult question. After answering the question the President was anxious to switch topic and did not care to comment or elaborate. It's said that Huckibee pardoned one rapist in response to the right wing because there were political ramifications because there were connections with the Clinton campaign. Huckibee is in trouble for raising taxes. I don't fault anyone for raising taxes when there is no other choice but to do so, just as Bush Sr. had no choice in 1990. He was up against the wall. I don't fault anybody for having a fatal attack of intelligent prudence. King Saul in the Bible had once pledged that anyone who ate honey before a key battle was concluded, would be put to death. But Johnathin disobeyed the edict and ate honey. But the pledge was so inherently stupid that carrying it out would be far more foolish and immoral than any "honor" of keeping it. I plan to vote for Huckibee at this time, being a registered Republican. What would make me happier would be if Huckibee took a "no torture" pledge, which is now rumored.

Apes are smarter than humans. Chimpanzees are smarter than college students when it comes to having a memory of numbers that have been whited out, but you must still put them in order. I was just thinking that chimpanzees may have an employable skill and perhaps could be employed in a warehouse operating a fork lift, if they have a tallent for "remembering where they put things". It's every man's dream to somehow employ a clone like Homer Simpson did, that's useful but still not smart enough to realize that he's actually being exploited. (selah)

Since Bones was a rerun I switched to that DNA thing on 28. Let’s talk about this a little. Really DNA is simpler than you might think. There are just the four letters that form each string of A, T, C, & G. But A’s are always paired with T’s in the exact perportions no matter what the substance is, and C’s are always paired with G’s. What this does is dramaticly reduce the number of possible chemical combinations and you are in essence down to a binary system that could be represented on a computer model. It took a while to discover the double helix pattern which was hinted it with the X formation you saw looking at it sideways. There are four files in Sketch where I experiment with a helix, double or not, and an additional one where I use a “screw” spiral staircase pattern. The double helix unzips itself to reproduce itself with other strands. All of this was discovered in the waning days of February of 1953. Not so long ago.

Some would argue that upon finding DNA we have found the key to life. Other people such as religionists and existentialists would argue that life is not a chemical formula but rather an existential awareness or having the attribute of a sensient Being, like StarTrek talks about. The Federation, like the Bhudists, teaches that Life as we know it is an Illusion. However the Federation quickly points out that there are true illusions, as well as false illusions, and that unless you are mentally ill or something, you are experiencing a fundamentally “sound” illusion. If you want to call this extential awareness of being “God” this is your own affair. However I must point out that after you become a Christian the first thing they tell you is “Everything you feel and perceive is wrong because unsaved people exist only on an “animal plane” and you have to mature in the Spirit out of this state. Hence the one “proof” that God ( - ) is actually real, is denied by these people. You might paraphraise last week’s remark to go, “Being Alive is but a curse to these people” because being alive, what they now seek is death. And “Die to Self” is something I heard more times than I care to relate, much of it by Al Satorius.

There are two schools of thought among the Federation. Of course publicly they will say that there is no dissent within the Federation and state that with Intelligence comes Unity of concencus. They volunteered last week that while they admire the Masons they don’t have the same secret ceremonies the Masons do such as making the sign of hammering a nail into something, or making some slashing motion across your body to spill your guts out. They say “If we have any secret ceremonies, we certainly aren’t going to tell someone like you”. The Mal Evans school of thought is the one held publicly. Mal talks about this “Fifth dimensional shit” meaning that since there is no way the Fifth Dimension can ever be proven, talking about it is pointless. The Federation officials have listened to Stewart Sutcliffe’s arguments that you can move into another aspect of the fifth dimension, primarily when you die, but also in astro projection and triggering certain acts that propel you there while you are still alive and like Warf in that StarTrek episode, you may at first not even be aware that you have made a dimensional shift. The Stewart Sutcliffe school of thought goes that since there is an equal mathematical probability in many cases of alternate realities emerging, therefore mathematical odds must be satisfied. Therefore if something Could happen or could have happened, then it DID happen in some alternate dimension. This is the ‘Hotel California” view of the universe where “Dark Reality must be achnoledged”. A physical demonstration of this is in the hexagram of chapter 14 of the I Ching. Stewart made the statement after the Detroit Pistons lost to San Antonio in the NBA playoff two years ago that, “If you have the faith to believe it, Detroit actually won that series”. The Federation argues that Predestination is hard and fast fact and there is no escaping it. Therefore, for instance, in that Simpson’s episode last night Flanders reasoned that if he shot Homer Simpson he could prevent a nuclear haulocost that Homer would cause. But as it worked out- shooting Homer actually CAUSED the nuclear haulocost when Homer fell bleeding on the button. The idea of Sylvia Brown about “Warnings from the other side” are nonsensical to this school of thought in the Federation. What the Federation will say is that there are such things as true allegories. Therefore the Federation (like the Bible?) justifies faboricated lies they tell to other cultures because they are “Pravda” or “Truths” other nations must recognize. The thing is DNA is not an allegory but a litteral truth. Bones, alias Stewart Sutcliffe seems to teach a doctrine where you can “beat” predestination if you use Death as a magic escape hole. The bulk of the Federation and Mal Evans say this is nonsense, because “How can you ascribe positive (or “constructive”) attributes to an essential “zero” or negative event? Stewart will counter that Darkness has its own reality and its own place. The idea that “anything that could exist DOES exist- - somewhere” kind of negates the necessity for God at all. This notion that this four-dimensional Universe is predestined but you can use an escape hole (the Four Thousand Holes of Lankishire) to switch dimensions with another destiny is intriguing but can’t be proven. The Federation Officials say that if something can’t be proven therefore it doesn’t exist. I think perhaps both sides of the debate have valid points. Both sides say that Drugs are Delusional, and a hinderance to enlightenment. I’m surprised that someone hasn’t come up with the sign, “Drugs are Satan” because in the book of Revelation if you check the translation, drugs are equivelant to witchcraft.

In personal news I've been getting these threatening letters from my bank, three of them so far in just eight days, alluding to ruining my credit and other horrible things. Their capacity of patience is surprisingly lacking. I have gotten brain surgery for my computer so now I have five times the memory I had before or one & a quarter gigabytes. Things operate much more smoothely. It's too bad people can't have the same surgery on their own brains.

The Republican Debate- Blow by Blow

Today is November 29, 2007 and tomorrow is the fortieth anniversary of the release of the album, “Magical Mystery Tour”. Last night the Republicans held another debate, the one sponsored by You-Tube. I tried to get it on You-Tube but apparently you have to subscribe, so I switched to CNN. Huckibee was speaking when I joined, and they soon had their first break. Apparently they had started before six. They ran till about ten after seven. I think at that time CNN separated from the You-Tube portion of the coverage. Let’s cover some of the issues. Giuliani accused Romney of hiring illegal aliens to work on his yard and Romney countered by saying that the individual workers were hired by the company and the detales of their employment were not his immediate concern, and in this I agree with Romney. Romney pointed out Giuliani’s statement about “If you’re an illegal alien we want you to come to New York”. Another issue was the death penalty and Huckibee was asked “What would Jesus say about this?” Huckibee countered that Jesus would be too smart to run for a political office. This quip struck a chord in me because back thirty years ago everybody in my social circle was expecting the Rapture to come and this world was “All going to burn” anyhow. They say that when you extend the political spectrum fringe enough, the extremes meet on the far side of the circle. Back when I was young, in my twenties, there wasn’t a lot of talk about the Moral Majority. They couldn’t be all that spiritual if they were concerned about the Here and Now, and when my Prophecy book came out endourcing Reagan, it was just Way too Political. I was one of the first Christians to come out against Jimmy Carter, in fact I voted for Ford. All Carter had to say was “Born Again” and he had instant followers. Jesus may have thought he was “smart” not running for office or being involved in worldly affairs but as a Jew did he also approve of the avalanche of anti-Semitism unleashed upon the nation of Israel by the Church at Rome? The next issue to come up was torture, and in this case the debate was a key deciding point for me. John Mc Cain is the only one other than perhaps Ron Paul, to come out firmly and resolutely against torture and water-boarding. If none of the other candidates had the gonads to take this stance then they aren’t getting my vote. Abortion came up. Fred Thompson in his video took a shot at Mit Romney for saying abortions should be safe, legal, and rare. I can’t go for Romney. He’s too much of a poser. What he’s doing is bordering on pandering to the political right saying in essence, “Whatever position you take, I’m to the right of you”. Huckibee is gaining on Romney and I believe the reason why is that he appears more human. Finally there was a question on homosexuals in the military. The guy turned out to be a plant from the Hillary Clinton campaign. If nothing else this is a reminder never to vote for Hillary. What irritated me was that every candidate up there answered the question in careful, detailed fashion, and Duncan Hunter was grilled about his belief “The military will change when the culture changes and they adjust with it”. That’s what I’d call a sensible answer. It may not be relivant twenty years from now whether a trooper is gay or not. But The questioner got more agitated and said “I have not heard a satisfactory answer from anybody up there- do you look forward to the day when gays are freely in the military”. The thing is, the guy wasn’t asking questions so much as he was preaching to us. He was irritating, and at one point is microphone was cut off, then turned back on.

STATE SECRETS

Randy Rhodes has made this kind of a crusade of hers, and I hope she keeps it up. As you know Valerie Wilson had a lot of stuff from her new book "redacted" by the CIA because it was classified information. She wants to show how she was screwed over by giving a blow by blow description, but the government won't allow her to do that. It seems kind of an oxy-moronism that they say she was NOT a covert agent, but in order for Valerie to prove that she was, she has to violate "state secrets". Of course Larry Elder doesn't like stories of torture of prisoners or abductees getting into the public press. But the question comes up just who they are keeping the torture secret from. The victim certainly knows he was tortured. Randi says that in addition to all of these "renderings" to secret locations, even the people in Guantanamo Bay were tortured and that is a "state secret" too. This is deemed the case even though reports of it are comon knowledge and reports of cases have appeared in the New York Times. Randi also has noted that of all the people who are "suspects" according to the government, including people on the No Fly list- - almost none of the people who have been charged with a crime have actually had their day in court. I guess only two of the people in Guantanamo Bay of the seven hundred prisoners once there and the three hundred eventually released- - of the four hundred odd left, only two have had their day in court, so that fifteen year old Iraqi terrorist can count himself lucky his case is at least coming up. What certainly turned me against considering Mit Romney to get my vote is his statement that none of these prisoners are entitled to any civil rights. And of course I guess we have rules that if we are "at war" then the prisoners have the right to be held as prisoners, if not tortur-ees, till at least the end of that war. Of course American Citizens have been targeted as "enemy combatents" by the Bush Adminestration. Whoever is running for President should address and stress these issues as things for the next president to deal with. Fred Thompson and others still speak of the war as something which is going to go on forever because WHENEVER we withdraw will be "too soon" and we will be "admitting defeat" and of course the Taliban will "follow us over here". People like Larry Elder want us to be "At War" all the time, as a pretext for violating the rights of American Citizens.

Sometimes you get a royal screwing by the government. This is one area where you'd think the libertarian argument would kick in about private enterptize being superior because at least THEY are accountable to their customers, and they don't want to lose a valued customer due to some unfortunate coincidence of event or misunderstanding. I've had problems with my ex internet provider in the past few days. We'll just call them the Neeto-Keno internet company. They conned me into paying a thirty dollar fee for duplicate E mail address. When I called a few days later on November 19th. saying I wanted to cancle the service that was to have started on November 24th. they agreed. They had reminded me, "Of course you know you are already paid up for full service till the 24th." So when I went to the A T M machine on the nineteenth to withdraw money and saw about $29.00 missing from my account, I naturally figured it was the phone bill I had sent off a few days earlier. It's a case of hearing hoof beats and assuming it's horses and not Zebras. In this case it turned out to be Zebras. The Neeto-Keno internet company had made an illegal withdrawal from my account, and they did not put it back. As a consequence I bounced a check and am not out sixty dollars, for a service I didn't want or need anyhow. In the case of the government this screwing-over took the form of people who had enlisted in the Armed Forces betting a reinlistment bonus check. But when they got in for another tour of duty in Iraq they were wounded and had to exit the Military sooner than they had planned, before their tour of duty was up. So they were billed for their enlistment bonus. This messing over of vetterans in hospital beds fighting for their lives in some cases, is heartless and inexcusable beyond belief. Of course you've heard of enlistees being billed for their own equipment. I think Randi Rhodes is right. The backbone of the Army is being broken and we're turning over the defense of our country to corporate stooges, at taxpayer's expense.

GUY OWENS VERSES MARK CAMPBELL

I don't know if you've ever had the feeling that someone was trying to assume your identity and take over your life. As you may know, Chuck Smith made the prediction a while back that the Rapture of the Church would absolutely come on or before May 10th. 1981. As this date approached Mark Campbell decided to write a song for the occasion, "How Late Thou Art" based upon the church hymn. This song talks about graves and some of the Abbey Road mythology. Oddly the song came out just a few days before the attempted assasenation of Pope John Paul II in May of 1981. The song is kind of image filled and was inspired in part by that "Death of John the Baptist" photo in some book about a TV movie, where the camera is looking up from a grave as four desciples are throwing handfulls of dirt into the grave. The shot has a vague resemblance to the Rubber Soul cover. There were also bits in the song intended as a jab at me because of my belief in astrology and "signs of the end that were coming", and the whole religious spell I was under. There was even a jab at Zachery and the ZAC in this song. By early 1984 things had changed completely. I was now no longer living in the Bosc house but was over on Pinewood. I was letting Mark Campbell take over the media mailings and he did it almost exclusively in 1982 and early 1983. He did a better job of it then I ever could. He had moved into my old bedroom at the Bosc house and I felt he was "becomming me". Whenever Dick and Robin and Zachery came over to the Bosc house they were always times when I wasn't there. So Bobby and Pike and Jim saw Zachery but I didn't after October of 1981. I was feeling Jealous of Mark and I kind of re-did the lyrics to "No Imagination" by Blondie. Two changes come right to mind. I wrote 'I don't want to stay with you, I don't want to play with you" and another change is "Eyes that Mimic innocence". I was kind of saying in early 1984, "screw you and screw the ZAC". Meanwhile in 1982 there were things in the letters like I had committed suicide in late November of 1981 by being run over by a railroad on the tracks at Lincoln Avenue by the Freeway. Those of you who've read my Word files from summer 2004 know that Martin Owens was my adoptive grandfather, my father's father, after his biological father flaked out in 1925 at the age of two. My grandmother was originally from- - somewhere around northern Mississippi, we'll leave it at that. She moved to Oklahoma (this was before the days of the dust bowl) along with the older half-sibblings and older brother. There she met Martin Owens who worked on an oil rig. Oddly enough the two boys did not take the last name of the new husband because my grandmother had this fixation that the biological father was really a rich man and had lots of money stashed away, and if the kids kept his last name one day they could claim it. That never happened. Martin Owens died of a heart attack while at work on an oil rig during World War II while pop (or should I say "sunny") was off in the Pacific.

The Political Circus

The big news is that Giuliani has sunk to fourth place among the Republicans. Even the mayor friendly media was saying if he cane in third in Iowa he'd win the nomination, and now he's not even doing that. Fred Thompson is beating him. Huckibee is second place. He was interviewed on CNN last week right after Romney. The deal breaker with him is his regressive 23% consumer sales tax that will impact the poor relitively the most. Huckibee went on Chris Matthews last week and stated that he doesn't like the idea that President Bush lied to Scott MeLellon about the outing of Valerie Wilson. How interesting it is how fast THAT story was buried by the media. You would think an admission like that by a Press Secretary would be front page news, but it wasn't. And neither was one of these stories that was repeated ad nausium like how the stores will be doing on Black Friday. At least Huckibee is an honist conservative. He has a continence. It's amazing how many "dirty conservatives" there are out there. Conservatives used to stand for clean government. In fact once upon a time the Republican party used to stand for clean government as opposed to the corrupt leadership of democratic big city political bosses with their political machines. Those days are long gone. What is equally overlooked is even if Bush were guilty of no other crime, this alone would stand as an impeachable offence. I'm getting tired of hearing things such as "We don't have the time" or "we hare other priorities". All the time you are hearing stuff in the news about how this or that permission to violate our rights was just granted by Congress. You know what they say. "Time is all you have". There is nothing else conceivable to congress that would be a better usage of their time than restoring respect for the US Constitution. I could reccomend that you read all three of John Dean's latest books, though I must confess I haven't read them myself, particularly the one about the three branches of government being broken.

I've been reading Jimmy Carter's book on the screwing over of the Palistinian people. Even the deals that look good when summarized in the US press really have negative implications for the Palistinians. Israel didn't really accelerate their settlements in Palistinian territory till the mid 'nineties. And they say there is a "foot print" around the settlements where Palistinians are not allowed. You have The Wall, that is built entirely on Palistinian territory by a foreign government with its security zones. You have things in treaties like how the electronic air waves belong to Israel. Also there are vast amounts of Palistian lands- - from the map it looked like half the territory, that the Isriali government as "appropriated". It's not enough that Palistinians have to go through all these checkpoints to get from point A to point B within their own nation because the land is so fragmented, often the check points are closed down and they aren't allowed to get through at all. Of course Carter's biggest complaint is that Palistianians are dealt with as a second class people in their own land much as Blacks were in South Africa. Carter points out that much of the press coverage of the Mideast situation, and certainly what I've heard from the Evangelical Right, has been inaccurate and unfair to the Palistinians.

On the democratic side the best they can say is that now Hillary is in a tight race, even though she's four points down to O Bama. But the other statistics are much worse for Hillary. She trails Obama even among women. It's only among single women that she leads. If Oprah Winfrey has anything to say about it she won't be winning even here. The better the people of Iowa get to know Hillary and Obama, the more they like Obama, and the more they dislike Hillary. This trend can only continue. Polls indicate that Hillary is lacking in the truth telling department and that people rate Honesty among the highest virtues they are looking for in a candidate. These polls also indicate that freshness and "a new beginning" trumps experiance every time. The same things Hillary is saying about O Bama about experiance, Nixon in 1960 said about Jack Kennedy, and we know how far it got him. Of course it's seldom now that John Edward's name ever comes up. If you're looking for a candidate with Experiance AND credibility, John Edwards is your logical choice, and indeed, Edwards consistently leads in polls that liberal call in stations conduct. Bill Richardson has the most credible position on the Iraq War. This notion needs to be refuted that the Democrats, as a party are for failure in Iraq. On the contrary they are saying that the best way to deal with the situation there now is to put pressure on the Meliki government to get their act together and also use diplomatic tools to coordenate with Syria and Iran. Also it's pointed out that when the British withdraw troops from Bosera, violence actually dropped in that area. Of course now the Austrailian government has changed hands and one less nation will be supporting our policies in Iraq. Richardson is the only major candidate who is truely committed to Ending his war. Republicans don't want the war to ever end. It will Always be the "wrong time to withdraw" our troops in their sight. It's pointed out that Mc Cain is actually to the right of Romney and Giuliani on both the abortion and immigration issues when you look at the stands Romney and Giuliani have taken in the past. Perhaps what should happen is that Mc Cain and Richardson should be the nominees. That way you will get an honist and frank discussion of the issues. Hillary is a polarizing candidate. She would be the worst choice those people who are enlightened agree. She would be the great unifier of Republican forces. She's had "experiance" like an old boxer that hears any bell and comes out punching on reflex alone. This political jousting is not always the best way to solve real problems. What appeals to me about Richardson is that he wants to talk about The Issues. Most liberals would like a dialog on The Issues and cut out this petty political bickering the media so likes to foster.

How does Jesus Christ stack up as a Christian when you look at the Bible? This sounds like a silly question but I'm talking about the Jesus on KFI. First of all Jesus said prayer is something you do in public to impress other people, both Christian and unbeliever alike. It is not something you do when you really Expect an answer. Indeed expecting "God" to do anything for you is kind of anathama to the modern Christian like at Calvary. Basically their idealized prayer is to thank God for things like how they aren't a sinner and how God has favored them over their rivals in the work place. Christians and Jesus, too believe that the chief appeal to "Witness" is NOT to quote from the Bible. In fact they have names for people who quote the Bible. They call them "Biblolitrists" (Gene Scott's term) or else "Letterists". I looked it up and there's no such word but Walter Martin uses it. A Christian is supposed to have an inner pride, such as that he doesn't need to pray to God for anything. This looking to God is to them a sign of "immaturety" in others. They don't need God's gifts, such as prophecy or tongues. They're really too "good" for that sort of thing and look at the noses of others who seek these gifts. They look upon the poor and see "Well, it would be wrong to interfear with the path God has them on". And "God has them on a path and knows what he's doing and if I were to give a hand-out I'd be interfearing with God's plan for their lives". (At other times, Jesus merely refers to the needy as "Swine") When you look at things, how different if what Jesus and Gene refer to as the ideal Christian, who sound the trumpet before they give an offering and size definitely takes precidence over sacrifice, how different is this "idealized Christian" who speaks of "Instilling a Godly jealousy in others" when they see your priveleged and bless life with your wife, your, kids, your money and your respectability- - how different is this from say the Priest and the Levite who would not help the injured sougerner on the road to Jerocho in the parable of the good Semaritan? How different is he from the Rich Man in the parable of the Rich Man and Lazerus. Remember that both these were "religious men". So they all are "religious men". Indeed two of my favorite new testiment sayings against "religious men" is the one about "You travel the sands of the desert to win One convert, and when you have won him you make him twice the child of Hell you yourselves are". (I think of children of Born Agains and the Jesus gene) The other saying is "You lock the kingdom of God in men's faces, yet you yourselves will not go in". I don't know whether this means the volitional WILL or the predictive WILL. It really doesn't make any difference. I believe either translation is correct. They refuse to enter into God's true Kingdom AND when they die they will discover that they then CANNOT go there. (Selah)

There are a few Beatle Anthology songs I think should have been used on official album releases rather than the ones that were. For instance, "All Things Must Pass". I much prefer the version on Anthology III with its lone guitar rather than the schmalts up version on the album. Another candidate is "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". I think the accoustic version is better. Also in the case of O-bla-dee-o-blad-dah, the Anthology version is a hundred percent better. In like matter versions of "I Me Mine" and "Good Night" are better on Anthology. A song like Sexy Sadie, you could go either way. (no that isn't a suggestion) It's almost as if tword the end the Beatles perhaps lost their touch about what a finished song would ideally sound like.

For What It's Worth

You may remember that scene in "Rosemary's Baby" where Mia Ferrow is on this boat and having all these other wild hillucenations from that tannis root she took, and she cries out "This isn't a dream, this is really happening". Have you ever had a dream where you woke and had the dreadful thought, "This dream really happened- - sometime". I had a dream like this the other night where I was in an insane assylum and about to be "punished" by the authorities. I had a lot of disturbing flashback type dreams in mid summer of 1985 that I was sure "Really happened" at sometime in the past. Do you remember what ELO's last hit was? Yes, it was "Hold on Tight to your dreams". Perhaps it's best to hold the reins a little loosely on some dreams. You've heard about the Four Thousand Holes of Lankishire. But which one of those holes represents the REAL universe- as opposed to all the others? You know there are parrellel universes and oblique universes and maybe even perpendicular universes. This is a Universe that exists in a flash of time and has no provable reality before the intersecting plane, or just after it, but only for that one moment. Some say death and heaven may be like this. In like manner our Universe would only have a momentary flash of reality to those people, but otherwise we would have no existance. Just what is "Sideways Time"? You can imagine it, but what is it? Maybe you know what it is but can you really imagine it.

A few days ago some Christian Right friends of mine came out and endourced Mit Romney for President. But when I tried to go to Mit Romney's web site yesterday it crashed my computer. I asked the Federation about what they thought of Mit Romney now. They told me their battle was no longer with the Centaurians, whom I deal with. Also the Federation has had a soft spot for Mormons. This dates back to the time when Zachery was seen as the annointed one and the owners of the ZAC house were Mormons in Las Vegas that gave us a good rental rate. After I moved out of the ZAC house about the first of November 1978 the rent I paid almost doubled. At the same time I was having an economic "crisis" I won't go into. But for the next eight or nine months I lived on my stored up savings, which became depleted. At about the same time I began having dental problems. In fact, looking back on it late October of 1978 would have been the perfect time for the Rapture of the Saints to take place, if it were going to. You can almost "Prove" the rapture had to take place then. ELO's latest album was called "Out of the Blue" and their next album in 1979 was called "Discovery" because those saints left were looking for a message from on high to guide them and "Discovered" ELO song lyrics. Besides this after "Out of the Blue" several members dropped out of the band so that "proves" the Rapture took place right there. Besides this there was a book out called The Crash of 1979. There was also a book out called Conclave, about picking a contraversial Pope. Just how was John Paul I really done in? Was he murdered? What if Pope John Paul II had turned out to be totally corrupt? In February of 1978 I wrote a story in snail mail predicting that the govt. of Iran would be overthrown, which it was in late 1978. Also the church I was in split about in half in late October of 1978. April 30th. 1978 was the last day my Dad ever took family movies of us. Of course if the rapture took place we wouldn't be on earth. Jonestown took place in November of 1978. Also in early December 1978 I wrote the germ of a story that later became the novel, "For What It's Worth" in March of 1979. The plot involves the Rapture taking place in late October 1978. Of course Russia invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Who's to say they wouldn't have kept on going like Chuck Smith and the Bible say, and taken over all of the Mideast, till God nukes them from heaven. You see, there's actually a lot of evidence the rapture took place in late October 1978. With all the evidence we've given you here, how can you come to any other conclusion?

CNN now has a raging conservative. I don't know how long he's been on the station but he is ravidly anti immigration- - and like Romney wants any state that shows compassion for immigrents to be severely punished by the government. Also he had John Boulton on, who wrote that book saying the thing wrong with Bush's foreign policy was that there were too many carrier liberals in the State Department. There's too much cultural infiltration. Our nation is not ego centric enough. Didn't you know, there is no finer leader than Mushariff, and he is the most qualified man in the land to crack down on Al Qaida. This comentator also is virelently anti Global Warming politics. He thinks Global Warming is a giant left wing conspiracy. None of the scientists have any cradibility and they are all Al Gore pooitical hacks. This is what the other side is saying. Randy Rhodes has pointed out that the crowd at the latest democratic debate in Las Vegas was stacked with Hillary people and they booed O Bama and Edwards when they said stuff that was too enlightened. I don't think RR likes the idea of CNN picking our next nominee. And today we learn that despite this, Hillary is slipping in the polls and it looks like O Bama may be the victor. But if the race is Romney and Hillary I think the lines will be drawn and liberalism can be put to a fair test. I honestly have not made up my mind for any hypothetical line-up, except I think I'll go for Romney in the primary because he best represents social conservativism. Giuliani is doing a melt-down in case you are wondering about him. My friends on the right wing don't like him either, and for a lot of the same reasons.

That Drew Peterson fellow has murdered two wives or something. He is an Illinois police officer who murdered his third wife it appears, even though they ruled it an accident. Now there is a question about his fourth wife, a sweet young thing. This could be the murder case of the year that we will be looking at in 2008.

Injustice abounds in government. The FBI for decades has been using this bogus lead analisis to acertain where bullets from crime scenes came from where normal bullistics cannot match the bullet with the gun. They first tried this "science" in the Kennedy Assasenation. Now this bogus science of chemical analisis of lead has convicted hundreds of people. There are at least a dozen cases where suspects were clearly wrongly convicted. They can't match the bullet with the gun that fired it from chemical analisis because often bullets in the same box are hetrogenious in make-up of their lead. Also there are "matches" to bullets far from the crime scene. Now the FBI is going to come clean on this issue. Let's hope they do. Also our government is in the business of convicting fifteen year old Moslem boys for "War Crimes". Some would say War itself is a crime. But this fifteen year old Afghan boy is a victim of his family and cultural morays and should not be blamed, or thrown in Guantanamo prison. But they say he's lucky he's even having his day in Court because most people in Guantanamo have yet to see a court date with a judge. By the way people in Iowa don't trust Hillary. We don't know if she's going to keep her word on anything. If you want change in the way our government opperates my advice is to vote for someone besides Hillary.

The fat police are after you now. They are demanding that certain large fast food chains post their calories, but that other fast food outlets don't have to say zip. Ones like Wendy's and Mc Donalds and Burger King are the ones who are subject to this government proctology exam. Many sites such as Subway have pointed to the inadvisability of listing calories because there are somany conbinations of foods people can order. I'm against the whole principle of the thing just like I am with smoking. Today they want to regulate it. Tomorrow they'll ban foods with a lot of calories. I wouldn't encourage the government in their "simple thing they want you to do" of listing calories on menus. People can find nutritional material if they want to exercise even a minimum amount of effort to look on internet sites and elsewhere. Now they're saying that younger women are dying of heart attacks more. Anything to scare us all.

We were going to close with some scary quotes from Hillary Clinton but we ran into technical difficulties when I tried to paste the stuff over. Hillary Clinton was compared to all the leading dictators of the twentieth century and the tag line is "I bet you can't tell the difference", just as Rush pointed out you couldn't tell the difference between Al Gore's writings and those of convicted murderer Ted Kazinski in his "manifesto". Ta ta!

The Moral Scurge of Materialism

We've all seen the Ten Commandments movie where Moses is talking to Zephera and she says, "Our lips may not be all painted up like the Egyptian women, but they speak the truth". Elsewhere in the movie it even says "Physical beauty is but a curse to our women". It's not just the notion of sexual defilement by an Egyptian overlord, but the whole lure of the materialistic culture that the women will get sucked up into. Back when this country was being formed we believed that work for work's sake was a good thing and that you should in the words of the Apostle Paul, serve your boss joyfully, working hard, and by doing so bringing honor to God. Certainly in my generation with its high unemployment during the seventies, if you got a job you were grateful to have one, and you did everything you could to hang on to it. How different it is with today's generation of "youngsters" with their blackberries, PDA's and I Pods, and taking time off work early to attend their Yoga classes. Did you see that episode of Sixty Minutes the other night. This younger generation is so full of themselves you can't believe it. But it's only an extremely pampered and watched over ("like fine china", as they have previously said) generation where losing is not in their vocabulary. They were taught in school that competetion was a bad thing and more than that - - anyone who criticized you was a BAD person. I ran into some of this with Nicholas myself. This is the Mr. Rogers generation where Mr. Rogers told you "You are special". This generation believes it and thinks any employer should be thrilled to hire them. Of course Christian young people are told they are "special", too, and Mr. Rogers is a Christian. Christians love to complain about their work- - all the time. They just pick, pick, pick no end about their jobs. And they love to gossip, too. I remember one time in early 1074 where I and a date went into a resturant after seeing the Exorcist. And the service was terrible because the waitresses were Christians. This younger generation has never experianced a real recession like we had in 1974 or in 1980 - 1982. They think the world owes them everything and aren't shy about asking for it. In some ways you can envy them. It's every man who has dreamed of saying to his boss, "Take this job and shove it". In 99% of the cases it's a very unwise thing to do. In some ways Thom Hartman and Randy Rhodes are full of it. Not to disparage their analisis of the economy or anything but our expectations are so high now we forget what the real world is like. We seem to regard having the fastest cable computer around and giant screen TV as well as every manner of exotic health foods as somehow normal and that everyone has the money to throw around on these things. Now they have these cars that talk back to you and to whom you can give oral directions to drive a certain place or to play a certain song and rescue with GPS if you get lost. Thom Hartman says we aren't even paying for gasoline what we ought to and prices were still relatively higher in 1979 than they are today despite the increase. In Bob Dylan's words, "If you're so hurt, why don't you show it". We keep on driving more and more, and our pocket books don't mind a bit, and we expect to spend even more this year. The negative savings rate in this country is alarming but that's for another day. People invest in mortgages and trade in houses like trading stamps. They regard these flexible mortgages as a big game and wonder why they get burned. They shouldn't bail people out for foolishness. I'm a big believer that actions should have consequences. Ironically this is one of my big beefs with Christianity in that they see "The World" as "Evil" so you can go out there and act like a total asshole and then wonder why everybody hates you and go back to your church and whine about it. I think the whole idea of self examination and introspection is a lost art.

Another danger of unfettered materialism is that it numbs us to the reality of news and political events. There is so much "entertainment" out there, this entertainment supplants the real world. Soap opera people become our "best friends" and the war in Troy or Pursia or some other far away place long ago supplants the war in Iraq going on today. Obviously people are too distracted while they are driving. I can't help think that all this distraction detracts from their work on the job performance. But my point is that we are not thinking about the big issues such as civil liberties. In China and to a lesser degree in Russia, they are trading their civil liberties for a new car or new pair of shoes. As long as they are well off with a lot of "things" to boast of, they feel "safe" and not threatened by their government, which denies even basic civil liberties. Now we are seeing the same thing starting to happen in this country. Randy Rhodes said on her show today (or was it Hartman?) how come Republicans hire these advertizing consultents to help word speeches so that bad concepts appeal to the American people, but the democrats struggle over their basic message of egalitarianism. I was going to call this article "Greed, the scurge of the right wing and the need for egalitarianism". Too many words. But it's true. Personally I'm not big on national health care as you know. I think if we try it it will end up in a major disaster where everybody pays double taxes and still doesn't get the kind of coverage they expect. Apparently health care isn't working at all well in Canada. But that said I DO admire the concept of government health care. I see the rationalle for it. And it almost seems like a good idea. I think Thom Hartman is being Biblical when he says the economy is to better society, and not the other way around. I believe their is a Biblical moral element to economic activity. I think it wouldn't hurt us for all of us to adopt more Spartan values, even if Pursia isn't knocking at the door. (And it just might be) I think Jerry Browns ideas are good ones. I think it's a good idea to live a more Spartan, "earth friendly" life. If we walk more or ride our bikes we will be healthier and may be better spiritually, too. As you know I think there is too much enphasis on alcohol consumption in soap operas. I think more of us need to get politically involved with organizations, and in some cases to grow a contience to begin with. I also believe in the Jeffersonian concept of the educated voter. I also encourage you to listen to that John Edwards speech given at that democratic dinner.

Finally there is the whole way in which privatization has ruined us as a society, and yes, Thom, I'm actually saying it. We can't use taxpayer money to fund private organizations. We can't have these No Big contracts we've been having. Harry Truman is right. War profiteering is an offence to everyone. It's an offence to God. Now we have these deals with the phone company where the governments puts in signal splitters so they can minotor our E mails and phone calls. Chelsea on Days of our Lives once redirected E mail from a certain person to her, where she could read it and change or rewrite it if she felt like it, and then send it on as though it came from the other person. Don't think our government isn't tempted to try this. This whole idea in the schools of "teaching to the Test" is one I finally "Get" now. It seems if you take these tests such as SAT they only ask you about reading, grammar and math. Apparently you could be a total ignoramus on such areas as history or geography and have no concept about how our government works. It seems there is a "perfect story" that everyone learns to write. I would imagine they don't grade on original abstract concepts. If this is the case that they are indeed "dumbing downour kids" we need to put a stop to No Child Left Behind immediately. I encourage everyone to listen to the Randy Rhodes show because she says things much more in depth than I can here. Our whole perception of ourselves as a people has been altered by the Republicans. We've been using words they brainwashed us with to describe and think of ourselves, and we wonder why we aren't effective. Christianity does the same thing to you. You use their words, as though somehow forgot your own. We need to "take the battle to the enemy" and we need a candidate (John Edwards) who can run an assirtive and persistent campaign. We need a candidate who won't back down or back-track in his words under pressure. I believe we also need a person who is morally grounded in "God" however you chose to define him. OK, I'll define it. I speak of "God" as a moral force I think we all at one time were alive to and it's a cause that's still stirring in many of us right now. We know what we need to do. To rephrase scripture "Perfect Morality Casteth out all Fear".

I hope O J Simpson gets the book thrown at him. I think we pretty much know what happened now and who said what to whom. O J's karma is finally catching up to him! Sianara!

Running Out Of Time

It seems that we are ready to move to another post. I would like to welcome all casual readers to this blog. Hopefully you will find something interesting here that will turn you into regular readers. In the news we have the Vetterans Day parade in Long Beach where certain veterans will not be allowed to march this year. Veterans Day parades are to honor all veterans who fought in a war defending America around the world and who gave up two or three years of their life volentarily to do so. But it would seem that this year politics has entered into the event. Apparently you are a veteran of lower status if you have since developed a distaste for War. In another news event George H W Bush has now come out and endourced the policies of his son, the President. As you know Bush Sr. has consistently had problems with "W's" Iraq policies, but now the Republicans are all apparently rallying the wagons around in a circle and closing ranks. Nobody is disputing that it's a good thing for Saddam Hussein to be removed. Bush Sr. had a chance to do that with troops over there and he passed on it. To my way of thinking he's really not in a position to talk. Now the media is treating is to this notion that violence in Iraq is way down so "the President was right after all". No, if things are improved over in Iraq we should thank the grace of God for that and rejoyce that this is one less issue to worry about. But in point of fact this year has had the highest casualty rate for troops of any since the initial War surge itself in 2003. I've seen the charts on the internet saying violence is down, but you know these days what sort of propaganda war is being raised by the media. The big news of the past few days is that Mukasey is now sworn in as Attorney General. They didn't waste any time about it. He was voted in by the Senate in a seemingly important night session, and the very next day he was sworn in. Of course the media is orchestrating Giuliani's campaign. The ex Mayor is in seemingly big trouble as one of his many scandals has come to light. His pet nominee for Homeland Security head now has "issues" such as ties to the Mob. I guess Karac (?) was Giuliani's police chief or something, and we know that like our President, Giuliani is very loyal. Loyal to a fault. Now Mc Cain has called the Mayor on this credibility issue and the media is saying "Well, Mc Cain is going to TRY and attack the Mayor on this issue even though nobody else has ever been successful attacking Giuliani on anything". "But if Mc Cain doesn't succeed than the other candidates will "get the message" and won't try it themselves.

It would seem that Born Again Christianity has done a moral melt-down and sell-out on the abortion issue. Pat Robertson had endourced Giuliani. It would seem that the Christian right no longer cares about abortion. The media is telling us all sorts of things this year. They say that "likability" usually trumps "experience", except in the case of Hillary. Apparently we want the Limbaugh-exque nightmare of some woman with PMS "having a bad hair day" like that program on ABC where someone insults the woman president in the hallway on the way to her office, and the next thing you know she's bombing some country. I guess the "Iron lady" is an image we don't mind here in America. I am really tired of the media personally telling us that our only two choices for President are Giuliani and Hillary. I have said that Christianity has only got about fifty years left. It would seem with this pro abortion decision of Pat Robertson, the tooth is already pretty much decayed to its core and it's now time for it to be extracted. Of course Jesus Christ on KFI made an indellible impression in my mind when he told a caller NOT to pressure his girlfriend into NOT HAVING an abortion but that "It has to be her own free decision". For me abortion is not a sexual issue but one of premeditated murder. Jesus told the caller that "You think by talking to me about the (illicit) sex you had that I'll let you off the hook, but that's not going to happen". Christianity has become a religion that minors on the majors and majors on the minors. Sex before your wedding night or "having an argument with your pastor" or even quitting church are not what I'd call moral sins that would send you to Hell. Other sins besides sex exist. Even if you are not personally corrupt like Giuliani or Bush, the Bible says "If you take pleasure in those who sin, you are guilty". So if you take pleasure in the power intoxicated President or ex Mayor of New York, you are vicatiously sinning. Dr. Dean Edell said the other to some reverand he was on a talk show with "You know, I can cut out a piece of your brain so that you are so sex crazed you start humping that St. Bernard over there". Sexual morality depends a lot on brain chemistry. Of course so do out of body experiances Sylvia Browne is so fond of talking about dependant on brain chemistry. You can stimulate surgically a portion of a person's brain and make him think he is floating three feet above his body. You can also simulate "after death" experiances with brain manipulation. A lot more than we would like to think is explainable with cell biology rather than "Will" or "Moral Character" or "Backbone" or all that other stuff Christians pride themselves on. Now babies are being placed in front of a TV computer screen at one year of age and being educational stuff to watch. I wonder if anybody has thought of propagandizing Jesus to them at this early age. This younger generation is growing up a lot smarter than we were at the same age. I am thinking that they will "outgrow" Christianity in their lifetimes. Dr. Edell talked about accu-puncture. He said it's OK to go to an accu-puncturist if you are otherwise healthy. But no healthy person with a good relation with his doctor is going to make a trip toTijuana to buy Laiatril. Nobody who is "whole" is going to be seduced into a guy selling Heroin in the alley. He'll say "Take your poison and get out of here". In like manner I wonder whether a whole, healthy person really needs Christianity. You see movies of me as a young toddler and one thing I find disturbing is that I seem alone and bored in a lot of these shots. I don't think I personally would have given Christianity a second thought if I didn't have a poor self image and problems in my life.

This year football started late, with 1991 as a reference point. The baseball play-offs ran really late this year. Daylight savings time ended late this year. Pay day was late for me this month. But now we will be greeted with a sea of things that are "early". Thanksgiving will be early. Mardi Gras will be going on while the super bowl is being played. I think Mardi Gras will start in January this year because I saw that Easter this year is on March 23rd. Personally I think they should move it up four weeks to April 20th. Daylight Savins time starts on March 9th. Never has that been that early. So basically everything is out of sync. If you go to a traditional sunrise Easter service at 5:30 by the time the service is over you will still be in almost total darkness. I really think the Church in Rome needs to be consulted about moving the date this year.

Once again I think this writers strike is silly. Go to your windows and shout for all to hear, "I don't need you people who are too full of yourselves, anyway". Life is for the living and not sitting in front of a TV tube. When Christianity dies, who will mourn for it? Some people say that life is in the reward at the end of it. I personally believe the essence of Life is in the Journey, or what is happening right now. If Christianity can fit into that, fine. If "Stories" can fit into my life and add to it, fine. I can make my own religion and I can make up my own Stories if I want to. We need to get to know our neighbors better. We need to stop "Letting other people get our kicks for us", as Bob Dylan says. Some people says "God wants to heal our marriages" or "God wants you to have success". My view is the word "want" doesn't appear in God's vocabulary like those tsunami people on Sixty Minutes. God is an Actualized Being. What God "wants" he gets. Words are things with God. I couldn't prevent God from giving me success if I wanted to, if God were of a mind to do it". Joel Olsteen said "The will of the King is in the hand of the Lord". He was talking about Esther in the Bible. If we need help with Pakistan or Iran or any other leader, or Hez-ballah or Al Qaida, the thing to do is to pray about it and get God's take on the whole thing. Because it's truly God's "script" on the matter that is the only one that counts. Olsteen said that if there is an obstical in your way God will either change the mind of the other person, or take him out of the picture entirely. Sometimes taking an obsticle to Faith in your walk with the Lord involves death, "the final solution". This happened in my life lately with an individual who was continually 24 - 7 a hinderance to my walk with the Lord. My hope and prayer is that God removes Rudolph Giuliani from the political landscape and the sooner that happens the better I'll feel. I don't trust him and don't think I ever will, despite whatever the media says about his being "friendly" and "outgoing" to the people me meets.

Sic Semper Tyrannis

This is the state motto of Virginia. It means "This always to tyrants" and it's the phraise attributed both to Brutus upon the daggering of Julius Caesar and also by John Wilkes Booth upon the assasination of Abraham Lincoln at Ford's theater. The phrase was recommended as the state motto of Virginia by George Mason. Virginia has always been a champion of civil liberties, and the Bill of Rights in our own Constitution was patterned after the Virginia Bill of Rights, which I have downloaded. Of course it was Patrick Henry on March 23rd. 1775 who delivered his "Give me liberty or give me death" speech. (We have New Hampshire to thank for the "Live Free or Die" motto on their liscense plates) One of the lines NOT in that actual speech was "Caesar had his Brutus and King Charles his Cromwell, and George the third- - - - George the Third has best learn from their example. If this be treason make the most of it!" Of course today is Thomas Jefferson's birthday and a date celebrated by the democratic party. Possibly they should make it a national holiday. It seems as if April 16th. is a holiday in Boston or some place, in a possible comemoration of the Battle of Lexington and Concord, which also occurred around this time of year in 1775. As to Patrick Henry's speech I've also downloaded that and would like to quote the last paragraph of it right now:

It is in vain, sir, to extentuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Patrick Henry was against the Constitution and also wrote against James Madison. However one source says that in his final years he was almost appointed by John Adams to a post but declined it due to failing health. Patrick Henry did not survive the century. Thomas Jefferson believed in an educated citizenry and promoted free education. He was one of those "Jack of all trades" kind of guy, and even played the violin. He liked to "fiddle around".

Some may wonder whether Abraham Lincoln was a tyrant. He did suspend the right of habious corpus before George Bush thought of it. If southern generals had gone up North I wonder whether they would burn down towns the way northern generals did? I looked up the Confederate Constitution and the wording in many places is almost identical to ours, except they had the intellectual honisty to include the word "Slaves" rather than "other persons". It is said that Robert E Lee was loyal both to America, which he loved, but also to his beloved state of Virginia, which he loved more. He would not turn the sword upon native soil. Personally I think South Carolina or any other state has the right to fly the Confederate flag over any public building they want. Of course I also believe the same thing about crosses. As far as I'm concerned we could use a little more "States rights" and "Popular sovreignty" as Stephen Douglas talked about. Apparently before the Civil War they used to use the phrase "The United States are- - - ect. ect." and after the war they reverted to the less gramiticly correct "The United States Is- - - ". The thing is government is getting too big and we are trying to micro manage too many issues, that would best be handled by popular will of each state.

I'd like to talk a little about Dennis Prager, now that I peal off my white mask and reveale my true identity. Dennis Prager is one of those people who makes less and less sense every time you hear him. Today he was talking about the Don Imus racial and sexual slurr against the female Rutkers NCAA team you've all been saturated with. It's one thing to say "The remark should be kept in perspective". After all Imus was fired by CBS and yet people like Howard Stern, Bill Handel and Rush Limbaugh are allowed to go their merry way and nobody will touch them. It's one thing to say "The remark doesn't bother me that much" but it's quite another to "go over to the Other Side" like Dennis Prager has done. He's taken to attacking Rev. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and everyone in the media who has been critizing these bigoted sexist words. It would seem that Prager seems to have some latent emotional need to defend Imas and criticize anyone would condemn him. Prager then went on a personal attack of Jesse Jackson calling him all sorts of names. But then Prager got screwyer. He began talking about the Jews and the Haulocost. He says that the difference is when Jesse talks about Black slavery, Prager takes it as a personal affront like he's being criticized personally. I'll say this by way of differentiation. I think anti semitisum is a thing of the past. We outgrew it fifty years ago and the Christian Church seems to finally be outgrowing it after thousands of years. Prager went on to note that the Christian Church is the Jew's best friend. That's like a Jew having Joseph Geobles as his best friend. Christianity is founded at its very core on an anti semetic proposition and Jews for two thousand years have pretty much gotten the message. The thing about slaver verses Vookenvald or other internment camps is that nobody stereotyped the Jew in this country as someone deserving of extermination. However there are people who would like to put the chains of slavery back on the Black man. There are basically four races we in this country are racist against. They are the African-American, the American Indian. the Chicano, and the Arab people. With these four the stereotypes are still in force. And this my friend is why Jesse Jackson makes the differentiation he does. But Dennis went on to talk about inter-racial marriage in his own strange manner. Dennis said that it would be better of you're a KKK style Christian to marry a black KKK member if you can find one, rather than marry a white exestentialist or something. For Prager it isn't race but "Values". The only problem is that different races have different values. So it's bigotry under a different name. Prager is a strange bird anyhow because at times he's for a generic "Brand X Religion" or "Religion for Religion's sake". At other times he seems to have definite ideas of what a proper religion should be even if he redefines them like he likes to redefine Christianity. The thing is say I'm white and I marry a Black woman with Larry Elder values. As such she's a woman who basically hates her own race. She's an Oreo. A KKK with dark skin. Just how are the children going to grow up if it isn't hating their own race because of their mother? Then they'll have to go into psycho therapy or something. Personally I have a bias against saying "Youre stripes and I'm pocadot and never the twain shall meet". Back in Patrick Henry's day people were actually MOVED to another point of view by hearing a speech. But today we have all these labels, labels, labels, which must not be disturbed, and Prager wants to be sure they're segragated.

Yesterday the Bush Adminestration was discovered to be withholding key White House E mails. But as they say "You can't erase things any more. They've gone through too many servers". Technical people can apparently retrieve all sorts of deleted items. It's a bit of a parrellel to the Nixon Adminestration and the eighteen minute gap caused when Rosemary Woods erased the tapes "accidently". People discussed it and it's anybody's guess whether Impeachment will gain traction. "Sic Semper Tyranus" is my motto. It was pointed out that Richard Nixon was not from a ruling oil barron dynesty. Nixon was a poor boy who made good, like Elvis. As such he was still in contact with what it's like to be poor. With Bush the words come to mind, "You sail the seas to win one convirt and when you've won him you make him twice the child of Satan you yourselves are". There is this "devolution" in the children of rich families the farther they get from any contact with the real world. I was reading O Bama's book today and his sentaments seem to echo closely those of Thom Hartman. Things are so biased in favor of business. I read that the Estate tax is now tax free for the first four million, and they are going to raise that to seven million! "oooohweeeh!" That's tall cotton. I don't think we have to worry about these people being thrown into the poor house anytime soon. Apparently the top 36% of the tax refund does to the top richest one percent of the population. (Selah)

April 13th. 1976 was the first time I actually met Zachery face to face. I guess some may ask where he got his blond hair and blue eyes from. On this date Pete Richards and I and Dick Llyle were moving Pete's furnature into the Palm St. house livingroom. This is a few days after the Llyles moved out and just before I moved in. I guess we have to ask ourselves who in the house that day had clossest to blue eyes and blond hair. "Not I, said the little red hen". This of course is just a historic footnote because nothing came of the whole Ziggy's Air Command thing.