Don't Mess With the 76 Percent

We'll explain this cryptic title heading in the last Paragraph

So if God "takes" a lot of people from the same band, does that mean that he likes them -or What??

"My allergies would not allow me to take your top down"

Karl Rove has had enough of the whole tea party scene.  He made them with his generous monetary support, and now he can break them if they don’t realize which side their bread is buttered on.  He says we’ve had enough of the nuts like the Rape nuts or the Immigation nuts or the gun nuts, and all of the racism that goes along with them.  Rush Limbaugh has now turned on Karl Rove, who was responsible for getting “W” elected, calling him a “soft, squooshy republican” and the idea that moderation is the way to go is something Rush Limbaugh disdains.  Rush is dead set against any form of immigration reform and Pat Buchannon echoes him talking about how immigration is dangerous to the fabric of American society for a whole host of reasons.  But Eric Cantor said this past week that “Our American system has always said that the children should not be made to suffer for the shortcomings of their parents”.  That sounds like Immigration reform to me.  But those goal posts continue to be moved to the right.  For instance Chris Matthews reported that 75% of the listeners to the Ed Schultz show are in favor of Obama’s new policy on Drone killings, which targets American citizen on his say so alone.  Now we know that Obama is a regular pussy cat, but some successor to him is not so amenable to civility such as a Mitt Romney or a Michelle Bachman.  The edict says that the President alone has the right to take out any American citizen in the entire world on his word alone.  But quoting Pat once again, the question is whether we aren’t causing more new Al Qaeda members to be recruited in the new countries Al Qaeda is spreading into, such as Yemen.  That Allaki guy was an American citizen and a propagandist in Yemen.  But he was not “an enemy combatant”.  But John Brenner said last week that American policy now has become “Once you sign on the dotted line and join Al Qaeda, you have as much signed our own death warrant, regardless of what you do or don’t do after that.  Of course last week it was revealed that we had a Drone launching site in Saudi Arabia, and a complaint of Bin Laden in1991 was that Bush had established a presence on the sacred land of Saudi Arabia.  And Leon Peneta single handedly reversed the defense policy the President campaigned and got elected on last year, which is a ten percent reduction in our defense spending making our military “leaner and smarter”.  So I guess Leon Peneta wants us to be flabbier and duller.  Because the President now made it official in his Saturday Morning radio address that these proposed cuts in Defense Spending cannot afford to be allowed to happen.  Pat Buchannon agrees with me that- - we need to cut this budget and everybody has to contribute.  To this John Mc Laughlin uttered this utter Bonkers line that “Well, if we don’t spend all that money then it will go into the private sector and stimulate the economy”.  What planet is HE living on???  But the bottom line is- - if the President is not going to stand firm- - and also if the President wants more action “elsewhere” to reduce the deficit, then what may well happen is what the Democrats, meaning us, dread the most, and that is massive cuts in Medicare and Social Security- - using an even more Inflation index to cut raises to absolutely nothing.  Once again the President will cave- and the Republicans in congress will win the day.

Channel two KNXT had this thing on brain health on at three thirty to four today.  They called their product  “Prosarah” some brain memory stimulant, which “enables the brain to talk to itself” and stimulate the neuro transmitters so that the brain is better at communicating information from one part of the brain to the other.  They say that while you sleep that short term memory is transferred to long term memory storage, kind of like downloading a computer file.  This product will give you twenty percent more energy and endurance during the day, and you’ll even sleep better at night.  They never said the name of the miracle substance but I’m strongly suspecting that it’s Astezanten, which we heard about this morning.  It’s a carrotenoid and a cousin of Vitamin A.  These come in three “colors”, red - - as in tomatoes and peppers, and also yellow - - as in carrots, squash, pumpkin, egg yolks and butter, and also green as in lutine, which is now recognized as beneficial to the eyes.  Astezanten is beneficial in increasing memory and also reaction time- - and enables your eyes to focus from distant to near more quickly.  It is a powerful anti oxidant, six hundred times more powerful than Vitamin C, we are told, and beefs up oxygen in the red blood cells.  And by the way it reduces wrinkles fifty percent, and turns back the clock on aging fifteen years, which for me wouldn’t be all that great since I was an alcoholic fifteen years ago.  I know from personal experience that taking Judy’s carrotenoid capsules alone- - - apart from anything else- - that you have increased energy.  And I gave some to Mike because it’s the only GNLD product I had left- - and he agreed that these capsules gave you more energy.  I guess they are kind of like “a computer hard disk clean up” for the brain.

America is going nuts with this gun culture and violence only seems to be increasing.  This Christopher Dornen guy has a fifty calabre weapon and “cop killer” bullets that can pierce a bullet proof vest that police officers wear.  This cop killer also has training in flying plains, and I imagine he flew a small plane right out of Big Bear to destinations unknown.  In his manifesto he’s as much as said that he’s not done killing but that he’ll be back again, and again, and again to kill people related to the “injustice committed against him”.  As you know Monica Quan was the daughter of a police Captain whom Dorner (?) says was responsible for getting him fired.  It seems the Titans held a little memorial moment for their assistant coach Monica Quan before the Titans took to the court, but they still lost.  I would infer it’s the CSUF Titans.  Hadia Penalton was that fifteen year old majorette who performed at President Obama’s Inaugural just days before she was gunned down by gang violence in Chicago.  Chicago had forty murders in the month of January alone.  At least the Black martyrs of yester year had the “luxury” of dying for a cause, and not just killed haphazardly.  LAPD police chief Charlie Beck says that he’s going to reopen the case that got Officer Dorner fired just to assure the public that the LAPD is operating in transparency and they want us to be assured that Dorner was fired with a fair process.  How interesting it is that between all the stories of violence, and also the weather, coast to coast, that violence in foreign nations has been driven completely off the headlines.  But I imagine there will come a time- - like waking up from a slumber- - that the media will again become conscious of the out of control violence all over the world, such as in the Mideast, and West Africa.

I told you that reading that tech and statistics book that there are a lot of “mystery numbers” in science.  There is that multi-syllable one they have in Chemistry, and thee are mysterious terms in Chemistry such as Moles, and I forget what that one is, but it’s very basic.  Then we have the Golden Mean.  I think that ideal Kurtosis in statistics should be the Golden Mean plus one or 2.628 I believe.  If you have too high of Kurtosis it means that your were “over-striding’ to use a Chariots of Fire word- - in your acquisition of data, and were striving too hard to “make the survey come out a certain way.  If Kurtosis is too low it means that you just “didn’t give enough thought of any sort” to any question you asked- - and there were contingencies of solutions or answers that you never even considered. Of course in the way I do kurtosis- - the “standard three” is pretty much the same reading, with a data drop-off at the standard deviation line equal to the square root of three.  If you have a kurtosis of one in my system you are a “flat liner’.  This line isn’t flat forever of course, any more than a “flat frequency response” from an audio amplifier is absolutely flat- - even as 200 thousand hertz or whatever.  Capish?  And then we come to Base E.  In addition to the stuff reported on that other page the most significant aspect of base E is that you can swap out the root figure with the exponential figure.  Or you have the choice that the two numbers, the base figure and the exponent, can be recripricals of each other and in this way average out to One.  But this will only work when the “natural logarithmic relation” is equal to One, neither more nor less.  And I have calculated this figure to be not the normal 2.718, but rather a bit lower figure of 2.665 and yes that figure is accurate to three decimal places.  I spent a lot of time checking and cross checking my numbers.  I wanted to talk just a little more about the cosmic “hour glass”.  As you know when you are born the sands of Time trickle downward.  But your brain is a blank slate and you have an experience as a baby and then don’t remember it.  But then comes the day when your brain learns to store a memory, first short term and then long term.  At this you become what you’d call “Aware” or possessing what Sacrates said “was the ability to reflect”.  So let’s say this is the start of your cosmic consciousness.   Now when you die the whole cone of sand is at the bottom of the glass.  Now turn the sand into some more solid substance such as cheese cake or something.  (I’m hungry now)  You bring out the big knife at the point at which the young life is ready to be “reborn into cosmic consciousness” or “self awareness”.   So then- - as you can see there is a curve at the top of this hyperbola.  This curve doesn’t really “shrink” but in perception appears to get smaller because there is more “Sand” accumulating through the years.  One side of the slice represents the past and the other represents the end of life.  We are now doing what is scientifically known as a “metaphore switheroo”.  OK?  Run a base line up at a 45 degree angle just outside the lower cone of sand.  Now consider the line produced by your little slice into the cheesecake- - and it’s a hyperbola.  Now- - I maintain the normal well lived life- - would start off with steadily growing achievements and the “normal course of living’ these achievements increase- - not really at a geometric rate, but the FASTER logarithmic rate, akin to that hyperbola they showed the Base E curve in the Wickipedia.  We had spoken of the 76% actualization rule and said this was the Maximum any single person could hope for.  If you think about it- - in no graph is the shaded area filling a hundred percent of the graph.  You need your “space”.  Now let’s do another inverse metaphor image for you.  You’ve heretofore thought of the area under the hyperbola as “the substance of your achievements.  But lets look at this area a different way.  Suppose we look at it as “events past”.  Suppose - - suddenly it’s only the area UNDER the line that allows for “free will”.  So the thing is - - “If you’re gona blow it- - it comes out of this FREE SPACE portion of the chart.  (the shaded area in our reverse imigry) and NOT the area on the “inside of the parabola” for lack of a scientific terms.  (Previously we have referred to Inside the Parabola area as “territory where you May Not Go” and this still holds)  So if you’re gona “Blow it” it comes out of the Remaining 76%.  Remember the 76%  This is all really pretty simple if you allow yourself to “go with the flow’ and the metaphor shifting I’m engaging in.

Melinda Lee's Cooking Tips

Melinda Lee had a lot of useful stuff on her program this morning.  We had our own version of Mc Nuggets for lunch with catsup, which was something new for us.  Of course chicken is one food that “Just isn’t brought to its full flavor potential” without the use of monosodium glutamate.  Of course Melinda Lee used to say that “a tomato actually tastes more like a tomato with added salt”.  This is one remark of hers I take exception to because I prefer my salad vegetables “au natural”.   Of course the Frugal Gourmet - - who got sent up the river for child molestation or something and is long off the air- - - anyhow, he used to say that he would not put any wine in his recipes he would not drink directly from the bottle.  So toss out that old bottle of cooking sherry.  Of course Melinda was talking about kosher salt.  I just might say that any food product will be of higher quality if it says “kosher” on or it has that circle K insignia they have, and this includes kosher salt.  The salt is apparently corser grained, which apprently chefs prefer working with. I used to as a kid suck on those salt tablets we used in our water softener and noticed the difference right off.  Of course after we moved from "The City" we had major water hardness problems.  Of course back in "The City" that neighborhood has changed a whole lot less over the years- - than any place around here, that's for damn sure.  Of course you know don’t you that Morton salt and Scotch tape are both Romulan companies.  But the thing is that salt straight from the shaker doesn’t take that good.  As Melinda Lee says it has a rather sharp, metallic taste.  This is because of all the Iodine and a host of other additives they dump in that stuff.  Kosher salt is much better and Melinda Lee likes the thicker grains.  I’ve had a slight varience of opinion with her when it comes to rice.  Melinda Lee says to use a cup and a half of water for every cup of rice you use.  My experience has always been that you use two cups of water for every cup of rice.  Perhaps Melinda uses fresher rice that hasn’t been dried, or something.  But also Melinda Lee says you have to stop at tripling your rice recipe.  That is- - you can prepare as much as six cups of fresh rice using four and a half cups of water.  But if you try to make a bigger batch you “will lose quality control” and have uneven cooking or what have you?   Of course this is the final weekend of Mardi Gras, and I’d like to attend that at least once before I die.  People will be making a lot of jumbeliah this weekend in the Bayou. Anyhow Melinda wants you to make sure and not to overcook the shrimp, or else it will just get tough.  Convection ovens are just a fancy term for “wind current”.  Melinda Lee said something I didn’t know.  She said that baked goods and rolls and stuff- - has a marvelous brown quality with a convection oven you can’t get otherwise.  And it will cook 20% faster.  You can use a convection oven on a small roast but not a large one.  Not only will the roast cook more evenly and twenty percent faster but you don’t have to turn it up and then lower the temperature after browning or whatever.  There is that Missan Plus thing I’ve mentioned before where you be sure to get all of your spices and other ingrediants out before hand- - so you don’t have to go hunting for them later.

Welcome to the year of the Snake, but in Peking (yeah, I'm "old school") they have scaled back their fireworks demonstration due to air pollution concerns.  This is the water snake, actually - in the cycle, which Becky Daniels was born under, which makes her officially a Sexagenarian   That was the word that had Granny Clampett all upset in that episode.  We have a potpuree of other news stories for you.  They use heat sensors to try and track people in the cold and snow, and that makes sense.  They could even track Christopher Dorner at night if they cared to with a chopper, but they don't work at night. This whole thing is looking like a case that could go on for a long time because from where I look - the case has gone cold.  Dr. Levy mentioned how people from California get depressed in winter when they move to Washington State.  Move to Oregon.  There are more Federation connections there. It raises an interesting question about those people with SAD or seasonal affected disorder.  Do Blind people get it?  How can they because they see no light ANY of the time, which has to be depressing in itself.  Of course I'm sure Blind people have evolved their own ways of perceiving.  Of course Arleen talked about flourecent lights but here you'd get the ultra violet light you'd need- - assuming even that the presence or absence of ultraviolet light on your skin is what counts.  But here is a real story from Leo Le Port.  There is now a new virus "product' out there that enables you external control over someone ELSE'S firewall without going on their computer.  So the firewall thinks that a security porthole is being opened up by the URL and it's externally controled so that bogus accounts can be set up FROM your computer.  This could be a problem is the Police are tracking you for your computer activities.  Apparently the corporations who put out this product have no inclination to want to correct it because it's too techy and "nerdy" or whatever, and it isn't worth it.  I guess it would just cost too much money to six and since some of these companies are in it for the money, they just don't care.  Today I've been getting these troubling messages from Blogger warning me of some code error and then I click Close and everything is all right.  But I have some dark suspicion they are a warning of - - something.

Of course KNX has their “rewind” and February 9^th is notable for two major events.  One is the Sylmar earthquake in the San Fernando Valley at 6:01 the morning of the Ninth.  Freeway interchanges collapsed.  The other is this is the Sunday in 1964 where the Beatles first played on the Ed Sullivin show.  Oddly I don’t have any definitive memories of watching the thing, or what songs the Beatles played, although I must have.  The night before was Saturday February 8^th and Nana was out for the weekend.  And we used direct recording off the TV and Dad recorded a lot of stuff from the Laurance Welk show- - as a sort of sound check.  I may or may not still have that roll.  That Wednesday it was ditto for the radio- - employing the first direct connection recording.  Of course Monday February 11^th that will be here before you know it- in 1963 comemorates two events.  One happy event for our family taking place on a drizzly Monday evening.  The other one involves a major event in the lives of the Beatles I’ve probably talked your head enough already.  It was Saturday the 15^th that Dee’s Wedding took place in 1964 in Santa Barbra.  It’s one of the few times I partook of an alcoholic beverage as a child.  Dennis Prager is always saying that celebrating Lincoln’s Birthday and Washington’s Birthday- - were occasions we don’t want to tamper with so that we “understand their historical context”.   Of course we don’t have the nasty trait now of having holidays fall on a Saturday like Washington’s did in 1964.  But Dad got off work that Friday and was over taking photographs of the construction of the Fellowship hall at our church.  On Sunday February 23red 1964 we have the case where we came the closest of actually having sound to go with movies.  That same day I recorded the sound of Alan’s power lawn mower he’d had for a few months- - the previous summer.  Of course here in California the grass grows all year around so you don’t have to worry about work.  There is both film and audio coverage of that event- - - in events that are only a few minutes apart.   I had more to say about reel to reel mic recordings from 1967 but this file is already running into the third page, and will make a fairly lengthly posting as it is. 

Kodac was not blind to the coming digital photo wave but did everything they could, making major adaptions and revisions as to how their country is run and their product and their clientel.  But despite doing everything right- - doing all the right measures - - Kodac still went belly up.  And the reason is that there was just not enough money in digital photography as opposed to the chemical processing of film and paper.  That’s where the money was.  I did everything I could to make Christianity work for me, and still I failed.  Of course some times it’s much less a case of imcompetence than old fashion sabotage- - or in the case of the Post Office, it’s Republican tea party sabotage.  This mantra that “the government never does anything as well as the private sector” is just that.  It’s a falsehood, as Randy Rhodes reminded us all yesterday devoting an awful lot of time to lauding the Post Office.  The government doesn’t need UPS and Fed-Ex, but Fed-Ex and UPS sure need the US Postal Service.  And the government is not allowed to open a lot of stores and sell other things the way private carriers are.  No siree.  It’s like rural electrification and the Tennessee Valley Authority back in the ‘thirties back under Franklin Roosevelt.  There are places that private carries will just refuse to serve because there is no profit in it.  It’s kind of like a Christian Pastor when he comes across what he regards as “a real problem case” will hand the problem off to a secular therapist.  Isn’t that the thing.  There are those who claim they have “The Answer” but in the end if they screw up or something they leave it to others to pick up the pieces.  The private carriers NEED the government, but the government itself was doing just fine without the private carriers, thank you.  Of course the US Postal Service offers free "Franking" preveleges to Congressmen, and these ungrateful bastards retaliate by forcing the Postal Service to fully fund their pension funds for 75 years in advance, which no other business could possibly do.  And they offer free postal service for those in the Armed Forces.

Dr. Levy now has a contract to train the Orange (?) police department on how to deal with mentally people they come across on the street, particularly scitzophrenics. He's committed to doing regular training courses till December of 2014.   He says you should “ask them how they’re doing’ and start off friendly.   But they even do that on the “Cops” show, just to verbally disarm the person.  Apparently you don’t want to say “I know you’re acting crazy because you’ve gone off your meds” but personally I don’t view this as an inappropriate opening line.  What a police officer never wants to do in any situation is to take personal offense from anything the person you’re encountering might say.  But this goes double for a mental patient.  This is the problem the Fullerton PD had with Kelly Thomas.  These people have little cognitive awareness of what they are either doing or saying.  Dr. Levy passed out a thing including “twelve things you can do to improve your life” and one of them is to be optimistic.  My view on optimism is that you should always keep your options open, because you never know which of your feelers will pan out fruitfully at a future date.  I would say the same thing about the US economy in that this economy is "adjusting' and adapting to the times and making inovations, and as such is now "better prepared to face the future" as even conservatives had alluded to.  Of course these people were all hoping this would all happen on Romney's watch and not Obama's.  And don’t make generalizations about yourself or others- - or think one bad event “ruins it for all time”.  And don’t take refuge in words like “Always” and “Never”.  I can testify from personal experience that the ego tires of hearing these limiting remarks from others, and everybody would be a lot better off neither hearing them nor using them.  Of course - - I know a lot of you were expecting “Something Else” for this blog posting.  Well never fear, that “Something else’ is on its way.  It’s not a question of whether but when.  But as William Holden once remarked about Gloria Swanson, “Some people will do it when they get good and ready”.

"We Survived Citizens' United"

OK on three everybody cheer.  President Obama has won Florida!  For a sequel to the Martin Luther King song - "We Have Overcome".  We survived all the lying and dirty tricks and dirty money - - and in the process saved America from a ghastly fate. Actually a good slogan for our side after last Tuesday would be “We Survived Citizens’ United”.  Randy Rhodes talked about people who read the truth in a main stream publication but then after a minute or two they will slam it down in disgust, unable to bear reading more.  We told you about that sign that Dr. Levy saw over the store exit in that dream.  Maybe he did or didn’t know what it said, but all he knew is it was something he wouldn’t like if he thought about it any length of time.  Here’s a good adage for Jews to ponder.  If an angel appears and tells them that God has visible manifestations- - saying it can’t imagine that any such thing is possible – is rather silly. You have all these douche bags like Karl Rove and Dick Morris - - who makes Rove appear almost cerebral in comparison.  The thing is when our side messes up, we admit it.  For instance - - USC is guilty of deliberately letting some air out of the footballs used in the game against Oregon, to make them easier to catch.  USC threw an unusual number of pass attempts in this game.  Randy Rhodes reports interesting things about the right wing.  Rush Limbaugh and others on the right KNOW what the truth is and read the Wall Street Journal and the NY Times.  But they choose to lie about it on their radio programs.  Rush Limbaugh admitted last May that Mitt Romney was destined to lose this election but never breathed a word of his suspicious on his program.  Demographics are doing a trifecta against the right wing.  There is the sexual orientation thing with gay marriages.  There is the fact that we are becoming a nation or racial minorities.  And also the sheer number of college educated intellectual young people under thirty is increasing all the time.  Also psychologically working against the tea party is that they “gave it their best shot and lost”.  As it were “they left everything on the field and held nothing back”.  These people double down on their mis-statements, like Rush did expanding Mitt Romney’s 47% to now claim that fifty percent of the people are takers and freeloaders.  But as Randy also points out- - talking to these people is like talking to a brick wall because they have their own set of facts.  And if you try and take a stand on an issue they’ll pull up some information from a secret internet source not credible.

The President's first test of leadership will come today as to whether he is going to grow a sping during his second term, as Bill Press and others would very much like.  The President will be making a speech at ten o clock our time on averting "Tax-Mageddon" when the Bush tax cuts are scheduled to expire.  But we are the ones holding the whip and the Republicans have to agree to whatever terms WE care to dictate to them.  Personally I would allow ALL income tax rates to increase that four percent, just so the Right won't feel as though we are being unfair.  But what I would do is give us all the tax loopholes that will go away if we revert to Clinton era taxes.  The thing is nobody ever died from paying too many taxes.  Neil of KFI will tell you that the Bible says that nineteen percent is the "proper ammount" to give as a percentage of our incomes to the church.  And "God informs us that the more we give the more we get", and an evangelist wouldn't lie, would they???  Judy talks about certain inspection fees and stuff that she has to pay before she earns a dime of profit on her business.  My answer to her is "I want to increases taxes on actual Incomes.  If you don't make it- - you don't pay it.  It's just that Simple".  I'm saying that when we have inflation - - there have been times in the past when it was way over four percent.  That's all the president is asking now - - four percent - - preferably from everybody.  We all as good Americans - - can afford that.

Remember we told you “the stars don’t lie”.  And they didn’t.  We said that the economy would continue to improve till at least late April, when even our own astrologers foresee trouble developing.  This is besides an independent prediction that’s out there on the Internet already predicting that an “economic misstep” will be made in April of 2013.  We’ll wade that creek when we come to it.  But the media doesn’t give you the real stories.  Both Judy and I agree on that.  For instance watching FOX news yesterday I didn’t know when the state of Ohio was called for the President, that Obama led by less than a thousand votes or something, in the entire state.  I didn’t know that the President waited four hours before rendering assistance to the Bengazi ambassador situation.  Why the delay?  FOX interviewed this military officer who was actually there, so he ought to know.  But also they predicted that this Bengazi “scandal” would get more air play once the Elections were over.  We’ll see.  I thought the whole bit with Mitt Romney and Delphi parts and the insider trading thing would get press but it hasn’t.  But they are perfectly willing to inform us that Staten drugs are able to cure cancer now- - despite the fact that they give you brain damage, and a host of other side effects including liver damage.

There was a joke about buying rare documents I forgot to use in that shtick thing last night.  It goes something like this.  John Boehner says to President Obama “Hell no - - I’m not going for a ten to one budget cutting deal”.  And so the President comes back and says “OK now it’s seven to one.  Seven dollars in cuts for ever dollar in new revenue raised.  John Boehner says, “You’re going the wrong way, silly.  You’re supposed to be raising the offer.  Then the President comes back with “OK now it’s four to one” and John Boehner comes back and consults with his colligues and says “OK Mr. President, you drive a hard bargain; we’ll take it”.  An exchange like this occurred like this last night in a scene of "The Middle".  The line "You better hurry 'cause it's going fast" comes trippingly to the tongue.  By the way- - a latteral incisor is not a surgical instrument used in circumcision.  At nine it was “Criminal Minds” and I watched till almost ten o clock then retired.

A word about this whole "Divine Revelation" thing.  Evangelists will be happy to inform you that THEY have seen God and had an "experiance with God" and talked to him.  But they won't afford you the same prevelege.  People like Neil Savedra will tell you it's a sign of "non belief" in near Orawllian logic to say that you should somehow "expect' something from God.  Some will count it as near blasphamy for any member of the laety to male the slightest allusion to God visiting them in their lives.  What they will say that "God will show you that everything I preach is right" when what they mean translated is "I hope to wear you down psychologically so that you have no Will at all- - and will bend to the need to conformity to how you see the other people in our church behaving themselves."  Just think about THAT the next time these preachers get so cocky with you and belittle you for your "doubts".  They aren't against "doubt" per se, but they you want you to doubt YOURSELF.  The best way they can get you to live in a state of doubting your own ability to "believe' is to NOT answer ANY of the questions you may have about your religious issues. (Selah)

OK there you have Elizabeth and Wally in the photograph.  I do have better photos of Elizabeth - but you're lucky I didn't decide to use the pixelated version of this photograph.  I also have a pixelated photograph of a sunrise taken at the beginning of 2010 but perhaps I've used before, and just might use again.  Elizabeth just might be an angel because she never ages.  She hasn't aged one bit since I got here over eleven years ago.  I don't know how long she's been here, but as you know Peter was Mike's "senior" roommate before me.  He did things like demand that the bedroom window be kept wide open when it was 45 degrees and windy out.  He was very warm blooded.  Peter was more warm blooded than Mike,  and Mike was in turn more warm blooded than I am.  I am, in turn, more warm blooded than the lizzard matabilism typed around here who wear jackets on warm, sunny days.  Elizabeth is kind of like Gladys Kravetz on that "Bewitched" episode when she was zapped with a "Niceness" gun.  She is an ardent fan of both John Paul II and Chuck Smith.  She has kind of a bias tword father figures. One thing that struck me is the first day I met Valerie Shoffner- - Elizabeth kind of latched on to her like they were old friends- - and the connection puzzled me.  Of course Valerie lived on Monroe avenue in that Presidents street name tract.  Of course the LA Rams old training facilities were off of Polk Avenue or something.  Those were those brick buildings you used to be able to see from Lincoln Avenue before they put in those apartments.  You know Polk, the Democratic President that "I never count" if you're Ronald Reagan talking with Lincoln.  That's because he was a Democratic President who actually conducted a Successful - - - Imperalist War of agression.  Valerie didn't even know what city she lived in because she tells everybody she lives in Buena Park, when it's Anaheim.  Since I am fermiliar with that neighborhood myself because I've lived near there- - I ought to know where the boundary line is.  But everybody likes Elizabeth.  Loretta Hill has a nickname, "Precious" for her.  Most of us know her by a different nickname first given to her by her old boyfriend, Peter.  But I was going to tell you that Elizabeth says the first day Peter arrived here- - she was already here- - - and commented what a "big" man Peter was - - because of his girth.

VICTORY IN OUR RE-AL  on the Octogon Label

Season of the Witch (Al Cooper and Mike Bloomfield)
Misfire (Queen)
Why Does Love Have to Hurt So Bad? (Derek & the Dominoes)
When the Beatles Hit America (rec. early 1990's)
Elizabeth Reigns Over Me (Ringo Starr)
Well, All Right (Blind Faith)
T.N.T. (AC - DC)
Flashing Lights (Jimmy Page)
President Obama Election Night Victory Speech 21:20 on 11/6/12

OK the first two minutes of the You Tube presentation was edited out making it 23:20 as the breaking point on the time counterA word about "Flashing Lights" and most of these songs courtessy I Heart Radio.  This track is that rare hybred of psychedelic and Bo Didley Blues.  "All Right" is a Blind Faith track NOT on "Crossroads" and ditto for "Hurt so Bad".  The President's addressing the crowds election night serves as the back cover, and some double-imaged neon lights montage is used as the front cover..

Can We Escape Congressional Gridlock?

So now that Barock Hussein Obama is reelected I suppose according to the 2016 people, the President is free to put "all of his revolutionary ideas into action".  Hey there is a silver lining for conservatives, you know?  Now the "uncertainty factor" is gone.  So what's to stop the banks from parting with their stash of cash now.  Rush Limbaugh had an interesting take, as far as "preventative speech" is concerned.  Rush Limbaugh is correctly anticipating a rise and improvement in economic statistics over the next several months.  But he will ascribe it to "the resolve and spirit of the American economy".  So let me get this straight.  When we were in the doldrems it was all Obama's fault.  Now that we are in clear recovery it's the "rebounding spirit of the American economy" or whatever and Rush adds, "But of course the President will take credit for all of it".  But of course many on our side might still fret.  For they will argue, "yes we did pick up a couple of US Senate seats but the House is unchanged".  The Reason why the House is unchanged, as Randi Rhodes points out, is because of redistricting based on the 2010 tea party elections.  So you have cases like Burman and Shermon being in the same district in the Valley.  California people must be apprised that nationally they still have no "committee" making these reapportionment decisions as we do here.  But in the US Senate the democrats picked up two seats.  The party breakdown for the US Senate is now 53 Democrats and 45 Republicans and two Independents.  So how is there a real hope?  For one thing we never again need to fear either that a liberal supreme court Justice won't get appointed, and secondly we need no longer have the slightest fear that the Affordable Care Act will be overturned, or that a President Romney will yank funding for it.  But you say "But we still have griclock".  But sometimes things that seem the same - really aren't.  Here's how.  When Senator Mc Conell said he was going to make President Obama a one term president he promised that the Republican senators would soon be in the Majority, with all the organizational perks that entails.  Now they will never be.  Those 45 Republican senators will scream that Senator Mc Conell let them down.  So they will be far less inclined to take anything he says now seriously or to go along with him in lock step voting, as they have these past four years.  Also another factor that is changed now is that - - the economy IS in fact on the rebound.  The tea party can no longer suck on the blood of negative thinking and dispair that has fed their "political capital" in the past.  People will listen to a despot like Hitler when times are bad, but make him the butt of jokes in nightclubs when times are good.  This is how it will be with the Tea Party.  The media will turn against them.  Of course people like Judy will say "Well the Media is liberal to begin with".  Of course so many Republicans are no longer on the scene.  Dick Lugar of Indiana was redistricted out of his seat.  And now the Republicans have paid the price.  And you know the other names of defectors or would be defectors, Christie Todd Whitman,  Olympia Snow, Governor Christy perhaps, Arlen Spector,  Arnold Swarzenegger, and Charlie Christ.  Sure, I would rather have had Obama winning in a land slide.  As such his "coat tails" per chance may have swept a Democratic House into being.  We didn't get that.  But what we've got now is a start, and we shouldn't despair.  You can know for a fact that Mitt Romney is utterly through in politics.  Anne Romney has made it explicitit that win, lose or draw, she would never again go through another political campaign like this.  For her it could be a blessing in desguise.  Now she can rest up and take her ease, and allow her body to recover from all the stress she is under- - least further tensions cause unforseen complication in her condition.  Pray for her.

I wanted to use "Cracker Box Palace" as our lead photo, the house I moved into in mid spring of 1976.  Burt said "do it" but Mal Evans advised against airing the Google photo.  I went along with Mal, in part because I wanted to show him I "hadn't completely gone off the plantation".  As so those quotations and all of "Sacred sayings" one of theological perception may detect discrepencies between this compilation and that God thing we did several months ago.  That one was Steward.  This one is Burt.  I don't recall pledging never to put out material that never had descrepencies of a theological nature.  The Burt one showed, if you will, a somewhat more "humanized" rendition of God, than the Stewart one did.  Of course Burt still believes that Zachery was in incarnation of Vishnu, which would make Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, also an incarnation of Vishnu.  I would also state that these sayings are of "Yeshuah" rather than "Crestus", which are two different people in my "five messiah theory".  And it's Crestus that Stewart regarded as divine, rather than Yeshuah.  There are people who wonder who I believe is God.  The other night I was worried about what "God" might think of me if it turned out I had somehow aided and abetted morally destructive policies instituted by this President, and I didn't want that guilt on my hands.  This was illogical thinking on my part.  Either I believe God is a moral being or he is NOT, and maybe I should be consistent.

I would tell you the sad story of Nicole Walker by means of a lesson parable.  I've actually had dreams were I was in Nicole's situation.  That is I was manipulating things and lying about them, and throwing up phantom walls to hide the truth.  And I am going through each day scared spitless that somehow I will be exposed.  Now Nicole Walker is living such a nightmare.  She lost her baby and then faked that fall down the stairs to make Jennifer look bad.  Jennifer, being a moral person, feels really guilt ridden over the incident not being sure in her own mind whether she is at all culpable or not.  May I assure you all she is not.  Not in the least.  Now Nicole doubles down on her lie.  Jennifer said something to her I'd like to say to God on his Great White Throne.  "You've been making all these allusions about how gracious you are and are letting me off the hook for all my crimes, but you still believe I am guilty.  I don't like that.  Nobody likes Guilt.  So why don't you just man up (or woman up, as the case may be) and come right out and Spill It.  Tell me Yourself just "what happened" that is so awful in your mind.  I want to hear you say it, step by step in your own words looking me in the face as you do it.  Of course Nicole coward at such a request.  She isn't Mitt Romney after all.  She isn't that good of a liar.  Then Dr. Jonas comes in.  He knows the truth and is now exposing Nicole's great lie.  If Nicole were not a person of disgrace and shame in this Town before, she sure will be now.  Now the whole town of Salem will be viewing Nicole through Victor's eyes.

Really the one Proposition I was genuinely disappointed with in not passing was Proposition 37, the food additive one.  George Washington's blog has a lot of great videos I suggest you watch.  There is one from a voting machine programmer.  There is no "magic bullet' that will protect you from all mal-ware before the fact and before it's even been written and installed on the machine.  There is no Paul Lynd top ornament of a floor lamp that you can clasp in your hands that will protect you from all harm, physical or witch's incantations.  So beware.  You have been warned.  Voting machine tampering can occur at any time.  And you have to wait until it's there before you can examine it.  It's like a doctor telling relatives of a patient, "Well we aren't sure what the patient is dying from but the good news is after he's dead we can go in and do an autopsey, and then we'll know for sure.  Even Whole Foods distributors is not an entirely Kosher outfit, that has fudged the truth on a number of occasions according to George Washington's blog.  Some 34% of their food- - something like that, is genetically engineered produce.  Of course it's true that farmers who are traditional farmers and not stooges of Monsanto or DuPont- - - WANTED proposition 37 to pass because these real farmers take pride in their produce and proudly want it to be labled for what it is.  (Selah)

Dr. Levy walks into a psychic reading center and there are a lot of cloistered doors in the room and Dr. Levy tells the attendant, "I'm having problems achieving psychic unity with my wife, and at this point I'm really not sure whether she's my true soul mate".  Attendant:  Oh - just step through that door over there.  Dr. Levy steps in the door where he is immediately set upon by a bunch of demons.  He says in protest - - "You're demons! What are you trying to do - Possess me?  "What do YOU think?" "But - why??? - - - demon:  "Well, you said you were looking for a Soul mate.  Well you know there are room mates, ship mates, table mates- - so - - using the same line of reasoning - - what you would suppose that a Soul Mate is???

Jesus was on the cross and Satan appears to him to torment him with words.  Jesus says "Satan, you have to be the most Despicable people - - not to mention utterly Stupid- - that I have ever met!  Satan responds:  "Oh?  Why don;'t you tell me to go to Hell?  Oh I forgot - - I'm already there! and begins laughing wickedly.

Dr. Levy one day ran into L' Angelo Mysteriso.  He said to him.  Dr. Levy I presume.  You're one of those people that believes that God can't POSSIBLY have any form of visible manifestation."  Dr. Levy responds.  "That's right".  L' Angelo Mysteroso says to him, "You know my mama always told me Seeing is Believing.  I won't believe THAT till I SEE it with my own eyes!  Dr. Levy:  "Wait a minute - - you won't believe what you can't  - - - untill you See - - - ?  You're vexing my mind!

Dr. Levy runs into Bill Clinton and says to him, "You know- - I bragged on you and you let me down!  My trusted sources (who are never wrong) plainly told me that you hated Obama and wanted Hillary to run against him in the primaries.  And there you go running your mouth and fawning all over President Obama at the democratic convention.  You know- - I'm a democrat, but I'm not one of those whacked out - - Liberal - - democrats.  I'm your regular Normal democrat.  Clinton:  "Oh really- - such as Who. Who in government agrees with your views.  Dr. Levy - - well, there is- - well - - there's - - OK no not him.  But you know what they say - - One person plus God equals a Majority.  Thomas Jefferson said that."  Clinton:  OK name me ONE person.  Dr. Levy:  (thinking hard) - - -  "OK now you're just verbally screwing me over.  That's not fair. It's mean".  Clinton:  My apologies for the fact you made an ass of yourself.

Dr Levy had a dream he in a Spanish library:  What's this book here "Cinquenta caminas para decir mendosas?  Wait a minute there is a diskette in here that says "The God interview".  He accessed a computer and slipped in the disk obsolete in America.  It was President Obama giving a speech where he says "Tear down this temple built with hands- - and in three days I will build one built one up not made with hands- - and among the people in the audience was De Forest Kelly- bowing to him in Islamic fashion.  Dr. Levy was so perplexed at this image he left the place.  He didn't know why but suddenly he felt really spooked.

In the next scene of the dream, Dr. Levy went next door to the comic book store where the "Comic Book guy" looked like a Spanish adaptation of the Simpson's character.  There was a Paul Conrad cartoon in display and he looked at the thing intently.  The proprietor came over and said "This is one never Published in the Times.  It's called "An encounter with God".  It featured Jesus Christ bleeding on the cross and Satan comes to him in a vision and he says to Jesus "Now remember Jesus - - after you have defeated me on the cross- - - afterwards- - No gloating!"

There was a sign on the Exit door he tried not to look at which read "Si ve algo di algo"

Marijuana Legalized in Colorado and Washington

The states of Washington and Colorado have legalized the recreational use of marijuana, and it's not just for medical use.  And its not just 'de-criminalization" but outright legalization.  So "Rocky Mountain High" has become a reality.  Also gay marriages have been legalized in Main and Maryland.  So never again can the right wing claim that "no state has ever voted to legalize gay marriage".  As such the American people, in a manner of speaking, have registered their views on social issues.

President Obama won re election last night when Ohio broke for President Obama at 8:13 last night and immediately cheers went up from the crowd.  However coverage of the elections was so bad this time it's the first time I can actually remember that I fell asleep during coverage.  ABC was particularly lacking in substance, "meat free" so to speak, in the early hours.  They just played their music and their graphs and kept saying what they were GOING to do, and introduced all of their staff- - over and over again.  Even when the numbers began coming in- - most coverage was filled with filler fluff.  I switched to NBC, which was better.  As you can see the President won ALL of the battleground states except for North Carolina, where nobody gave him a chance anyway.  Florida is undecided and they say the rest of the ballots won't be counted till November 17th.  But they are in Miami-Date county, where the President is leading.  I roused last night at ten to listen to Mitt Romney's basically civil concession speech, even if he doubted that he had really lost Ohio.  Actually the President has 305 electoral votes or some such thing.  I want to hear Rush Limbaugh's sputtering for words this morning trying to explain the loss, and John Mc Laughlin has some "splaining" to do.  Of course the President won despite efforts at voter supression and tampering in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida.

In California proposition 30 passed, after my thinking it had failed last night.  For a while the President trailed Romney in the popular vote before the West Coast results had come in.  So we won't have any Al Gore type situation this year.  And it wasn't tied 269 to 269 either.  Proposition 38, the other education amendment - - failed, which would have raised taxes even more.  Proposition 32 failed, which I am happy about.  Proposition 34 also failed.  The way this one gray haired guy was talking you'd have thought it passed.  This was the proposition to wipe out the death penalty.  The citizens of California are still too attached to that.  The sex and child trade amendment passed.  And voters voted to tweak the three strikes law, so it isnt so draconian on the third strike.  As it was you could go to prison for life for stealing a piece of pizza.  Proposition 37, the genetic engineering labeling food one, failed.  I am not happy about that.  Proposition 39 passed.  This is the one that returns to taxing out of state companies, and also supplies money for alternative energy research, which is something the tea party hates.  Judy has said she was against anything that raised taxes or revenues in the least.

Eric Cantor won out in Virginia.  I'm not happy about that.  But Clair Mc Haskle beat Todd Akin in Missouri, for making his remarks on rape.  Also in Indiana that Merdoch guy, who had said that rape was God's will - - also went down to defeat.  Good.  Tim Kane defeated George Alan in Virginia.  And Elizabeth Warren defeated Scott Brown.  With all these senate victories you'd think we'd be up more than two people in the senate collum.  But never the less the democrats will retain control of the US senate so that Supreme Court justice selection will not be in jeopardy.  Neither will the Affordable Care Act ever again be in jeopardy.  In fact "Never Again" is a watch word in this election.  Never again will we see the likes of Mitt Romney.  Never Again will Mitt Romney have credibility with anyone even in his own party.  Never again will the US have to worry about political and racial demographics, because these are now and will continue to be increasingly in our favor.  This was the tea party's last shot, and not to gloat or anything but "You took your lucky break - - and broke it in two - - now what can be done for you".  Too many people are going underground.  Too many people are in the closet or hiding their marijuana crop stash.  Now with this election these people can feel a little more free to come out in the open.  From the serious to the rediculas,  in that Valley congressional race, Shermon beat Burman in the run-off.  These are the two old men who almost got into a fist fight at a public meeting and the video went viral on the internet.  These two don't like each other one bit.

Meanwhile in the world of the Dead - - - It was Tuesday in the wee hours in the morning I was contacted by Burt Lombard.  I had already not bee sleeping,  I had woken up.  I had an "itching in the brain".  And I'd try t lie still and get back to sleep and I'd just "twitch".  Later I was plagued with restless bowels that kept me up a lot of the night but went away in the morning.  Burt Lombard said 'As long as you're up anyhow let me take this oppertunity to say that I think it would go better for you if you didn't vote for Obama.  So I did as I had threatened here- - and voted Green Party, putting my money where my mouth was.  I voted for Jill Stein.  We use one of these electronic ballots where you dial to highlight the candidate you vote for.  This system also has a paper trail.  Otherwise I voted a straight democratic ticket and for the first time did not vote for a single republican.  Burt wasn't concerned really about either abortion or gay marriage.  But he brought up Jeremiah Wright and "turning your back on an old friend- - which isn't good".  He also mentioned how Obama had led us on thinking he would take decisive action against Wall Street, which he didn't.  Also raised was the whole idea of these Drone killings of civilians "Which isn't what the American people were led to expect".  But the other thing was the whole bit about the trans-Canada pipeline.  "The President didn't have the guts to stick by his convictions but is content to pass on whatever the tea party recommends".  I had one more problem not raised by Burt, when it came to these "death panels' is Obama care goes into effect.  I was thinking I didn't want to have anybody's death on my hands should I "turn out to be wrong' and there actually WERE "death panels".  But Pete Richards - - WHO IS VERY MUCH ALIVE on the phone raised the idea of this government spying.  And he brought up the idea that if the government doesn't like your site they will put a red X by it as "politically suspect".  I told Pete that I am against any form of sensorship in this way.  But Pete doesn't like the idea of government snooping.  He and I both agreed that "If this kind of power fell into the wrong President's hands, we could all be in real trouble".  As such I made it clear (to God, if nobody else) that if President Obama was going to win, he'd do it without my vote

Other "Off the Public Record" Sacred Sayings

By Burt Lombard, who kicked off his five year run - - by casting a compass

Behold I say unto you that the Lord of this World has been laid low and held up to shame to be seen by all – in fulfillment of the Scripture which reads “You can’t pull strings – if your hands are tied”.

It has been said of old, “Do not blampheme the Holy Spirit”, but I say to you that if the Holy Spirit cannot stoop down to help the many who are heterodox, it cannot save the few who are orthodox”
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The Church General Assembly should be an instrument to bring about world peace, rather than an arena in which to fight their petty doctrinal wars.

Let us not practice nationalism for fear of the tea party.  But let us never fear to exercise nationalism as a natural fruit of who we are.

Only when logic and rational thinking is reverenced beyond doubt, can one be certain beyond doubt, that he will never slip into religious madness.

You dare not tempt your adversary with weakness.  Would you entice another into comitting a sin?  Would you put your loved ones at risk?  Would you aid abet the rape of your own soul?

Do not ask what your Fate will do for you, but rather, what you can do for yourself.

To live outside legalism one must be honest.  And few who would advocate it - are.  Driving on a path without markers can be done - - but not be he lacking either skill or wisdom.

If anyone knows the fate of a ship of church or state, it is not the owner of the boat, but rather he who has been piloting it.

People who are actually Doing something are more qualified for the task, than one who would wave a certificate in front of a prospective employer- - to hide his shifty eyes and inappropiate smirk.

Would you plunder a house without first binding the strong man of the house?  In like manner, he who cuts off the Head of the Beast, has rendered the whole body of the Beast dead.

If you die in a case of mistaken identity, ask yourself one thing. If it is of God, then rejoyce.  If it is of man than "bear the rag deep in your face, for now is the time for your crying.

One who would give birth also gives berth.  Neither should be a course set upon without prayerful consideration.

Pawns are like asteroids.  They are small but like asteroids even a small one can fell a mighty space vessel.

I say unto thee, kill not the marionette, but the one who is pulling the strings.  When he is dead, the marionette will never bother you again.

People do not create jobs and commerce by expending their business.  First they see commerce increase, then they expand their business. Many people who would build a Church to their own glory fail to grasp this simple concept.

When the ground in the park is littered with brown leaves, you know that the winter of evil's discontent is close at hand
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You may say of the dead "guide back his soul accross the Great Sea" but the Lord himself shall determine when or if this ever happens.  But if it should, you will know God has willed it.

In this world - that which is of true Beauty is fleeting - - but in the world to come what is fleeting now whall be as common as grass, and the banality which is this world - - will be no more.

Do not take the best seats at the assembly least another come and say "these seats have been reserved".  Rather one should "reserve" unto himself a chance for further advancement.

Do not fear one would be despot over you who says, “I am felled by nothing”, but rather say unto him when he says this, “If you are felled by that which you regard as nothing, then what will you do if you ever have to face an actual challenge in your protected, pathetic life.

If thow would be a true protester let him say, "If this be blasphamy than let's make the most of it".  I know one thing. I fear being called a heretic far less than I fear being false to my own soul.

If it is your soul you say you want to say, then when you die why do you say "Father, I yield up my spirit" and make no provision for your own soul?

For those who are spiritually poor to desire to be spiritually rich – is not a sin.  But if one bless in spirit desires to become poor in Spirit - - this indeed is a sin.

When you devour the carcus of your enemies in battle- - it is the dead substance being life by the living.  As such your enemies should feel honored.

When one tells you “Fear he who has the power to cast into Hell” I say rather that the wicked should fear one who is able to take that same depraved soul OUT of hell, so that he in conscious sanity may receive the just reward for his many despicable deeds.

He would tarry long at a tea party risks becoming mad as a hatter.

Behold the queens and the minorities are going into the Kingdom ahead of you.  For a minority is one whom you used to Lord over, but no more.  And the Queens shall swagger past you- - - for they have seen their husbands eat and bloat themselves and die and they assume his power- - and nobody doubts them any more.

Some may say “Kill the President”.  And I say unto you until he who “presides” over these Times is dead and you stand and stomp on his grave, thow canst never find Peace.

People who are enlightened don’t need “Support”.  They are ontologically worthy unto themselves.  The weak have many supports, the strong have few, the Almighty have None.

Behold do not fear what to eat or what to wear or what to say when confronted.  The Lord knows you need all these things he knows you need, and when you’ll need then you’ll get them.

The future has already taken place.  The past is like a mirage you see ahead of you in the road.  You can go tword it with all deliberate speed, but you will never get there.

He would go back to the past as a vindication of his pathetic life, would mortgage his soul for the purchase of yesterday’s lottery ticks, which have already been discarded.  People wish to go back to something they never knew, and indeed will never know.

If one strikes you - - will you not strike back?  He who does not strike back, aids and abets the Evil, and he who says “Resist not the Evil one” speaks from the depths of depravity.

If one says “I am a God but I need you to believe in me” is like a man who asks change for an eighteen dollar bill and the cashier asks “Do you want two nines or three sixes?”

Behold, Houdini would not tell another to believe what he had the good sense not to believe himself, while he was with them.  People who are opportunist would have others believe in something which vicariously they know they can’t do.  But if another were to Believe what they will admit to no one they are unable themselves, it will give these vain people a glimmer of hope that the impossible is achievable.  He would change his fate without first changing his deeds and his soul, is as one such person who would strive for the Impossible.

He who adds to the divine record will be as the five year old who desires to help his father mow the lawn.  He who subtracts from the divine record detracts from his own Hope of Salvation.  (Selah)

Common Meaty Sayings of Our Lord

"Daylight has a way of arriving at just the right time"  Marcus:  You know, I like being on standard time this week, because it means it warms up a lot more quickly in the mornings than it used to.

"Remember, He is divine, and you are "dee" branches" - Keith Green

"Where's the Beef?" -Walter Mondale 1984

"Ye shall know a tree by its fruit" - Said of Judas in "Jesus of Nazareth" NBC movie 1977

"As far as I'm concerned- - he was just the skinny kid who delivered the meat" - John Lennon

"He was a brave, strong boar" -in our "sheep" story for those of you who follow Jim Morrison.  For those who can believe in the teaching of the esteemed Dr. Malcom, secret brother of Marlena, he was first the wise one, who became known as James the Just.

"Having your throat slit is - up close and personal" - Chris Darden

Behold Dr. Malcom's many crimes.  Many say he should be barred from practicing medicine.  He is a treaty breaker in Risk, and he prays with his patients when he doesn't believe, his golf game is too good for a novice, and worst of all - sometimes he changes his diagnosis of something when he learns more facts.  Many people who come to him with a long term deadly virus or poison are actually worse off than the day they checked in, He can't be called a Christian because he doesn't hate the right minorities, and he believes that Astronauts should have the choice to abort when it becomes necessary. And worst of all he believes there are cases where Capitalism won't work.

"Labor Unions won't help you when you really need it"
-Pete Richards
"I'm glad you brought this matter to my attention"
-Guy Owens

"Behold the Thin White Duke is coming to a station near you.  Listen to his teaching, for he is the source of all Life" -Marcus Arelius

1. And he said, "Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death."
2. Jesus said, "Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all. [And after they have reigned they will rest.]"
3. Jesus said, "If your leaders say to you, 'Look, the (Father's) kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the (Father's) kingdom is within you and it is outside you.
When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you live in poverty, and you are the poverty."
4. Jesus said, "The person old in days won't hesitate to ask a little child seven days old about the place of life, and that person will live.
For many of the first will be last, and will become a single one."
5. Jesus said, "Know what is in front of your face, and what is hidden from you will be disclosed to you.
For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed. [And there is nothing buried that will not be raised.]"
6. His disciples asked him and said to him, "Do you want us to fast? How should we pray? Should we give to charity? What diet should we observe?"
Jesus said, "Don't lie, and don't do what you hate, because all things are disclosed before heaven. After all, there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, and there is nothing covered up that will remain undisclosed."
7. Jesus said, "Lucky is the lion that the human will eat, so that the lion becomes human. And foul is the human that the lion will eat, and the lion still will become human."
8. And he said, "The person is like a wise fisherman who cast his net into the sea and drew it up from the sea full of little fish. Among them the wise fisherman discovered a fine large fish. He threw all the little fish back into the sea, and easily chose the large fish. Anyone here with two good ears had better listen!"
9. Jesus said, "Look, the sower went out, took a handful (of seeds), and scattered (them). Some fell on the road, and the birds came and gathered them. Others fell on rock, and they didn't take root in the soil and didn't produce heads of grain. Others fell on thorns, and they choked the seeds and worms ate them. And others fell on good soil, and it produced a good crop: it yielded sixty per measure and one hundred twenty per measure."
10. Jesus said, "I have cast fire upon the world, and look, I'm guarding it until it blazes."
11. Jesus said, "This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass away.
The dead are not alive, and the living will not die. During the days when you ate what is dead, you made it come alive. When you are in the light, what will you do? On the day when you were one, you became two. But when you become two, what will you do?"
12. The disciples said to Jesus, "We know that you are going to leave us. Who will be our leader?"
Jesus said to them, "No matter where you are you are to go to James the Just, for whose sake heaven and earth came into being."
13. Jesus said to his disciples, "Compare me to something and tell me what I am like."
Simon Peter said to him, "You are like a just messenger."
Matthew said to him, "You are like a wise philosopher."
Thomas said to him, "Teacher, my mouth is utterly unable to say what you are like."
Jesus said, "I am not your teacher. Because you have drunk, you have become intoxicated from the bubbling spring that I have tended."
And he took him, and withdrew, and spoke three sayings to him. When Thomas came back to his friends they asked him, "What did Jesus say to you?"
Thomas said to them, "If I tell you one of the sayings he spoke to me, you will pick up rocks and stone me, and fire will come from the rocks and devour you."
14. Jesus said to them, "If you fast, you will bring sin upon yourselves, and if you pray, you will be condemned, and if you give to charity, you will harm your spirits.
When you go into any region and walk about in the countryside, when people take you in, eat what they serve you and heal the sick among them.
After all, what goes into your mouth will not defile you; rather, it's what comes out of your mouth that will defile you."
15. Jesus said, "When you see one who was not born of woman, fall on your faces and worship. That one is your Father."
16. Jesus said, "Perhaps people think that I have come to cast peace upon the world. They do not know that I have come to cast conflicts upon the earth: fire, sword, war.
For there will be five in a house: there'll be three against two and two against three, father against son and son against father, and they will stand alone."
17. Jesus said, "I will give you what no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, what no hand has touched, what has not arisen in the human heart."
18. The disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us, how will our end come?"
Jesus said, "Have you found the beginning, then, that you are looking for the end? You see, the end will be where the beginning is.
Congratulations to the one who stands at the beginning: that one will know the end and will not taste death."
19. Jesus said, "Congratulations to the one who came into being before coming into being.
If you become my disciples and pay attention to my sayings, these stones will serve you.
For there are five trees in Paradise for you; they do not change, summer or winter, and their leaves do not fall. Whoever knows them will not taste death."
20. The disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us what Heaven's kingdom is like."
He said to them, "It's like a mustard seed, the smallest of all seeds, but when it falls on prepared soil, it produces a large plant and becomes a shelter for birds of the sky."
21. Mary said to Jesus, "What are your disciples like?"
He said, "They are like little children living in a field that is not theirs. When the owners of the field come, they will say, 'Give us back our field.' They take off their clothes in front of them in order to give it back to them, and they return their field to them.
For this reason I say, if the owners of a house know that a thief is coming, they will be on guard before the thief arrives and will not let the thief break into their house (their domain) and steal their possessions.
As for you, then, be on guard against the world. Prepare yourselves with great strength, so the robbers can't find a way to get to you, for the trouble you expect will come.
Let there be among you a person who understands.
When the crop ripened, he came quickly carrying a sickle and harvested it. Anyone here with two good ears had better listen!"
22. Jesus saw some babies nursing. He said to his disciples, "These nursing babies are like those who enter the (Father's) kingdom."
They said to him, "Then shall we enter the (Father's) kingdom as babies?"
Jesus said to them, "When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom]."
23. Jesus said, "I shall choose you, one from a thousand and two from ten thousand, and they will stand as a single one."
24. His disciples said, "Show us the place where you are, for we must seek it."
He said to them, "Anyone here with two ears had better listen! There is light within a person of light, and it shines on the whole world. If it does not shine, it is dark."
25. Jesus said, "Love your friends like your own soul, protect them like the pupil of your eye."
26. Jesus said, "You see the sliver in your friend's eye, but you don't see the timber in your own eye. When you take the timber out of your own eye, then you will see well enough to remove the sliver from your friend's eye."
27. "If you do not fast from the world, you will not find the (Father's) kingdom. If you do not observe the sabbath as a sabbath you will not see the Father."
28. Jesus said, "I took my stand in the midst of the world, and in flesh I appeared to them. I found them all drunk, and I did not find any of them thirsty. My soul ached for the children of humanity, because they are blind in their hearts and do not see, for they came into the world empty, and they also seek to depart from the world empty.
But meanwhile they are drunk. When they shake off their wine, then they will change their ways."
29. Jesus said, "If the flesh came into being because of spirit, that is a marvel, but if spirit came into being because of the body, that is a marvel of marvels.
Yet I marvel at how this great wealth has come to dwell in this poverty."
30. Jesus said, "Where there are three deities, they are divine. Where there are two or one, I am with that one."
31. Jesus said, "No prophet is welcome on his home turf; doctors don't cure those who know them."
32. Jesus said, "A city built on a high hill and fortified cannot fall, nor can it be hidden."
33. Jesus said, "What you will hear in your ear, in the other ear proclaim from your rooftops.
After all, no one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket, nor does one put it in a hidden place. Rather, one puts it on a lampstand so that all who come and go will see its light."
34. Jesus said, "If a blind person leads a blind person, both of them will fall into a hole."
35. Jesus said, "One can't enter a strong person's house and take it by force without tying his hands. Then one can loot his house."
36. Jesus said, "Do not fret, from morning to evening and from evening to morning, [about your food--what you're going to eat, or about your clothing--] what you are going to wear. [You're much better than the lilies, which neither card nor spin.
As for you, when you have no garment, what will you put on? Who might add to your stature? That very one will give you your garment.]"
37. His disciples said, "When will you appear to us, and when will we see you?"
Jesus said, "When you strip without being ashamed, and you take your clothes and put them under your feet like little children and trample then, then [you] will see the son of the living one and you will not be afraid."
38. Jesus said, "Often you have desired to hear these sayings that I am speaking to you, and you have no one else from whom to hear them. There will be days when you will seek me and you will not find me."
39. Jesus said, "The Pharisees and the scholars have taken the keys of knowledge and have hidden them. They have not entered nor have they allowed those who want to enter to do so.
As for you, be as sly as snakes and as simple as doves."
40. Jesus said, "A grapevine has been planted apart from the Father. Since it is not strong, it will be pulled up by its root and will perish."
41. Jesus said, "Whoever has something in hand will be given more, and whoever has nothing will be deprived of even the little they have."
42. Jesus said, "Be passersby."
43. His disciples said to him, "Who are you to say these things to us?"
"You don't understand who I am from what I say to you.
Rather, you have become like the Judeans, for they love the tree but hate its fruit, or they love the fruit but hate the tree."
44. Jesus said, "Whoever blasphemes against the Father will be forgiven, and whoever blasphemes against the son will be forgiven, but whoever blasphemes against the holy spirit will not be forgiven, either on earth or in heaven."
45. Jesus said, "Grapes are not harvested from thorn trees, nor are figs gathered from thistles, for they yield no fruit.
Good persons produce good from what they've stored up; bad persons produce evil from the wickedness they've stored up in their hearts, and say evil things. For from the overflow of the heart they produce evil."
46. Jesus said, "From Adam to John the Baptist, among those born of women, no one is so much greater than John the Baptist that his eyes should not be averted.
But I have said that whoever among you becomes a child will recognize the (Father's) kingdom and will become greater than John."
47. Jesus said, "A person cannot mount two horses or bend two bows.
And a slave cannot serve two masters, otherwise that slave will honor the one and offend the other.
Nobody drinks aged wine and immediately wants to drink young wine. Young wine is not poured into old wineskins, or they might break, and aged wine is not poured into a new wineskin, or it might spoil.
An old patch is not sewn onto a new garment, since it would create a tear."
48. Jesus said, "If two make peace with each other in a single house, they will say to the mountain, 'Move from here!' and it will move."
49. Jesus said, "Congratulations to those who are alone and chosen, for you will find the kingdom. For you have come from it, and you will return there again."
50. Jesus said, "If they say to you, 'Where have you come from?' say to them, 'We have come from the light, from the place where the light came into being by itself, established [itself], and appeared in their image.'
If they say to you, 'Is it you?' say, 'We are its children, and we are the chosen of the living Father.'
If they ask you, 'What is the evidence of your Father in you?' say to them, 'It is motion and rest.'"
51. His disciples said to him, "When will the rest for the dead take place, and when will the new world come?"
He said to them, "What you are looking forward to has come, but you don't know it."
52. His disciples said to him, "Twenty-four prophets have spoken in Israel, and they all spoke of you."
He said to them, "You have disregarded the living one who is in your presence, and have spoken of the dead."
53. His disciples said to him, "Is circumcision useful or not?"
He said to them, "If it were useful, their father would produce children already circumcised from their mother. Rather, the true circumcision in spirit has become profitable in every respect."
54. Jesus said, "Congratulations to the poor, for to you belongs Heaven's kingdom."
55. Jesus said, "Whoever does not hate father and mother cannot be my disciple, and whoever does not hate brothers and sisters, and carry the cross as I do, will not be worthy of me."
56. Jesus said, "Whoever has come to know the world has discovered a carcass, and whoever has discovered a carcass, of that person the world is not worthy."
57 Jesus said, "The Father's kingdom is like a person who has [good] seed. His enemy came during the night and sowed weeds among the good seed. The person did not let the workers pull up the weeds, but said to them, 'No, otherwise you might go to pull up the weeds and pull up the wheat along with them.' For on the day of the harvest the weeds will be conspicuous, and will be pulled up and burned."
58. Jesus said, "Congratulations to the person who has toiled and has found life."
59. Jesus said, "Look to the living one as long as you live, otherwise you might die and then try to see the living one, and you will be unable to see."
60. He saw a Samaritan carrying a lamb and going to Judea. He said to his disciples, "that person ... around the lamb." They said to him, "So that he may kill it and eat it." He said to them, "He will not eat it while it is alive, but only after he has killed it and it has become a carcass."
They said, "Otherwise he can't do it."
He said to them, "So also with you, seek for yourselves a place for rest, or you might become a carcass and be eaten."
61. Jesus said, "Two will recline on a couch; one will die, one will live."
Salome said, "Who are you mister? You have climbed onto my couch and eaten from my table as if you are from someone."
Jesus said to her, "I am the one who comes from what is whole. I was granted from the things of my Father."
"I am your disciple."
"For this reason I say, if one is whole, one will be filled with light, but if one is divided, one will be filled with darkness."
62. Jesus said, "I disclose my mysteries to those [who are worthy] of [my] mysteries.
63 Jesus said, "There was a rich person who had a great deal of money. He said, 'I shall invest my money so that I may sow, reap, plant, and fill my storehouses with produce, that I may lack nothing.' These were the things he was thinking in his heart, but that very night he died. Anyone here with two ears had better listen!"
64. Jesus said, "A person was receiving guests. When he had prepared the dinner, he sent his slave to invite the guests.
The slave went to the first and said to that one, 'My master invites you.' That one said, 'Some merchants owe me money; they are coming to me tonight. I have to go and give them instructions. Please excuse me from dinner.'
The slave went to another and said to that one, 'My master has invited you.' That one said to the slave, 'I have bought a house, and I have been called away for a day. I shall have no time.'
The slave went to another and said to that one, 'My master invites you.' That one said to the slave, 'My friend is to be married, and I am to arrange the banquet. I shall not be able to come. Please excuse me from dinner.'
The slave went to another and said to that one, 'My master invites you.' That one said to the slave, 'I have bought an estate, and I am going to collect the rent. I shall not be able to come. Please excuse me.'
The slave returned and said to his master, 'Those whom you invited to dinner have asked to be excused.' The master said to his slave, 'Go out on the streets and bring back whomever you find to have dinner.'
Buyers and merchants [will] not enter the places of my Father."
65. He said, "A [...] person owned a vineyard and rented it to some farmers, so they could work it and he could collect its crop from them. He sent his slave so the farmers would give him the vineyard's crop. They grabbed him, beat him, and almost killed him, and the slave returned and told his master. His master said, 'Perhaps he didn't know them.' He sent another slave, and the farmers beat that one as well. Then the master sent his son and said, 'Perhaps they'll show my son some respect.' Because the farmers knew that he was the heir to the vineyard, they grabbed him and killed him. Anyone here with two ears had better listen!"
66. Jesus said, "Show me the stone that the builders rejected: that is the keystone."
67. Jesus said, "Those who know all, but are lacking in themselves, are utterly lacking."
68. Jesus said, "Congratulations to you when you are hated and persecuted; and no place will be found, wherever you have been persecuted."
69. Jesus said, "Congratulations to those who have been persecuted in their hearts: they are the ones who have truly come to know the Father.
Congratulations to those who go hungry, so the stomach of the one in want may be filled."
70. Jesus said, "If you bring forth what is within you, what you have will save you. If you do not have that within you, what you do not have within you [will] kill you."
71. Jesus said, "I will destroy [this] house, and no one will be able to build it [...]."
72. A [person said] to him, "Tell my brothers to divide my father's possessions with me."
He said to the person, "Mister, who made me a divider?"
He turned to his disciples and said to them, "I'm not a divider, am I?"
73. Jesus said, "The crop is huge but the workers are few, so beg the harvest boss to dispatch workers to the fields."
74. He said, "Lord, there are many around the drinking trough, but there is nothing in the well."
75. Jesus said, "There are many standing at the door, but those who are alone will enter the bridal suite."
76. Jesus said, "The Father's kingdom is like a merchant who had a supply of merchandise and found a pearl. That merchant was prudent; he sold the merchandise and bought the single pearl for himself.
So also with you, seek his treasure that is unfailing, that is enduring, where no moth comes to eat and no worm destroys."
77. Jesus said, "I am the light that is over all things. I am all: from me all came forth, and to me all attained.
Split a piece of wood; I am there.
Lift up the stone, and you will find me there."
78. Jesus said, "Why have you come out to the countryside? To see a reed shaken by the wind? And to see a person dressed in soft clothes, [like your] rulers and your powerful ones? They are dressed in soft clothes, and they cannot understand truth."
79. A woman in the crowd said to him, "Lucky are the womb that bore you and the breasts that fed you."
He said to [her], "Lucky are those who have heard the word of the Father and have truly kept it. For there will be days when you will say, 'Lucky are the womb that has not conceived and the breasts that have not given milk.'"
80. Jesus said, "Whoever has come to know the world has discovered the body, and whoever has discovered the body, of that one the world is not worthy."
81. Jesus said, "Let one who has become wealthy reign, and let one who has power renounce ."
82. Jesus said, "Whoever is near me is near the fire, and whoever is far from me is far from the (Father's) kingdom."
83. Jesus said, "Images are visible to people, but the light within them is hidden in the image of the Father's light. He will be disclosed, but his image is hidden by his light."
84. Jesus said, "When you see your likeness, you are happy. But when you see your images that came into being before you and that neither die nor become visible, how much you will have to bear!"
85. Jesus said, "Adam came from great power and great wealth, but he was not worthy of you. For had he been worthy, [he would] not [have tasted] death."
86. Jesus said, "[Foxes have] their dens and birds have their nests, but human beings have no place to lay down and rest."
87. Jesus said, "How miserable is the body that depends on a body, and how miserable is the soul that depends on these two."
88. Jesus said, "The messengers and the prophets will come to you and give you what belongs to you. You, in turn, give them what you have, and say to yourselves, 'When will they come and take what belongs to them?'"
89. Jesus said, "Why do you wash the outside of the cup? Don't you understand that the one who made the inside is also the one who made the outside?"
90. Jesus said, "Come to me, for my yoke is comfortable and my lordship is gentle, and you will find rest for yourselves."
91. They said to him, "Tell us who you are so that we may believe in you."
He said to them, "You examine the face of heaven and earth, but you have not come to know the one who is in your presence, and you do not know how to examine the present moment."
92. Jesus said, "Seek and you will find.
In the past, however, I did not tell you the things about which you asked me then. Now I am willing to tell them, but you are not seeking them."
93. "Don't give what is holy to dogs, for they might throw them upon the manure pile. Don't throw pearls [to] pigs, or they might ... it [...]."
94. Jesus [said], "One who seeks will find, and for [one who knocks] it will be opened."
95. [Jesus said], "If you have money, don't lend it at interest. Rather, give [it] to someone from whom you won't get it back."
96. Jesus [said], "The Father's kingdom is like [a] woman. She took a little leaven, [hid] it in dough, and made it into large loaves of bread. Anyone here with two ears had better listen!"
97. Jesus said, "The [Father's] kingdom is like a woman who was carrying a [jar] full of meal. While she was walking along [a] distant road, the handle of the jar broke and the meal spilled behind her [along] the road. She didn't know it; she hadn't noticed a problem. When she reached her house, she put the jar down and discovered that it was empty."
98. Jesus said, "The Father's kingdom is like a person who wanted to kill someone powerful. While still at home he drew his sword and thrust it into the wall to find out whether his hand would go in. Then he killed the powerful one."
99. The disciples said to him, "Your brothers and your mother are standing outside."
He said to them, "Those here who do what my Father wants are my brothers and my mother. They are the ones who will enter my Father's kingdom."
100. They showed Jesus a gold coin and said to him, "The Roman emperor's people demand taxes from us."
He said to them, "Give the emperor what belongs to the emperor, give God what belongs to God, and give me what is mine."
101. "Whoever does not hate [father] and mother as I do cannot be my [disciple], and whoever does [not] love [father and] mother as I do cannot be my [disciple]. For my mother [...], but my true [mother] gave me life."
102. Jesus said, "Damn the Pharisees! They are like a dog sleeping in the cattle manger: the dog neither eats nor [lets] the cattle eat."
103. Jesus said, "Congratulations to those who know where the rebels are going to attack. [They] can get going, collect their imperial resources, and be prepared before the rebels arrive."
104. They said to Jesus, "Come, let us pray today, and let us fast."
Jesus said, "What sin have I committed, or how have I been undone? Rather, when the groom leaves the bridal suite, then let people fast and pray."
105. Jesus said, "Whoever knows the father and the mother will be called the child of a whore."
106. Jesus said, "When you make the two into one, you will become children of Adam, and when you say, 'Mountain, move from here!' it will move."
107. Jesus said, "The (Father's) kingdom is like a shepherd who had a hundred sheep. One of them, the largest, went astray. He left the ninety-nine and looked for the one until he found it. After he had toiled, he said to the sheep, 'I love you more than the ninety-nine.'"
108. Jesus said, "Whoever drinks from my mouth will become like me; I myself shall become that person, and the hidden things will be revealed to him."
109. Jesus said, "The (Father's) kingdom is like a person who had a treasure hidden in his field but did not know it. And [when] he died he left it to his [son]. The son [did] not know about it either. He took over the field and sold it. The buyer went plowing, [discovered] the treasure, and began to lend money at interest to whomever he wished."
110. Jesus said, "Let one who has found the world, and has become wealthy, renounce the world."
111. Jesus said, "The heavens and the earth will roll up in your presence, and whoever is living from the living one will not see death."
Does not Jesus say, "Those who have found themselves, of them the world is not worthy"?
112. Jesus said, "Damn the flesh that depends on the soul. Damn the soul that depends on the flesh."
113. His disciples said to him, "When will the kingdom come?"
"It will not come by watching for it. It will not be said, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Rather, the Father's kingdom is spread out upon the earth, and people don't see it."