President Hillary

Yes, it was a dirty campaign, the campaign of 2008. The Republican candidate for president spared no expence is talking about Hillary's "female rants", which was her campaign style. He even made allusions to there being some foreign crisis and Hillary or any woman getting P M S and doing the wrong thing in a crisis. The pools showed her trailing significantly on election day but Mrs. Clinton said the Bush bragades controled the Polls. Yeah, it's Jeb Bush running. On election day voting was unusually heavy and when Hillary pulled ahead Jeb was scared. But when she actually won the election by one electoral vote he was horrified. There was talk about tying up the election in the courts asking for recounts in Ohio, but in the end Jeb Bush decided to letr Mrs. Clinton claim her long coveted prize that she had sold her soul and sold out on the issues for.

Before Mrs. Clinton could even be inogurated North Korea and Iran both settled Nuclear treaties with the current Bush adminestration. They were mad because if they'd had these before the elction perhaps Hillary would never have won. Nevertheless it completely liberated Hillary up to deal more with domestic issues. She really milked this fact, some say, to death during one of the longest Inogural speech any President has given in seventy years.

. Let’s talk about the accomplishments of Hillary’s two terms in office. Smoking was banned nation-wide just about everywhere including in your car and in your own house, if children have been known to be around. Junk foods such as breakfast cereals have been banned from the air waves. The deficit problem was solved and Hillary ran up the biggest surpluses ever seen, and once again the Republicans moaned about giving it back. Hillary’s first two years were under a democratic congress but she often had to contend with a republican congress. In her first two years she nominated and got passed the first out of the closet lesbian for the job of Supreme Court Justice. It was a short time after that that Justice Sutor admitted that he was gay. Throughout Hillary’s administration troops remained in Iraq, austensively as “peace keeping” but the violence never went away. Stem cell research was actively supported by the government and amazing new discoveries were realized. Gun sales were restricted but one of the most far-reaching bills was struck down by the Supreme Court in her first two years. In general crime levels dropped to a level not seen in seventy years. New Orleans got their levy to withstand a level five Hurricane. Cases were tried where parents were successfully prosecuted for child abuse for not utilizing their V chips. New internet restrictions were reinstated. The Supreme Court said once again that copy protection software was OK and there was an avalanche of companies putting intrusive copy protection software on their products. HDTV became the standard for the TV viewing public. TV as we know it became almost a thing of the past and in the later years there was a move by the FCC to take back TV broadcast frequencies for other uses and commercial TV was in danger of becoming a thing of the past. This brought forth a parade of angry poor people before congress saying that the new FCC moves were inherently racist. There was a rash of small churches being bulldozed due to liberalized Eminent Domain laws and utilization of property by cities. When Hillary Clinton nominated an avowed Atheist for the Supreme Court in her second term there was a howl of protest from the republican congress. Hearings dragged on for months and were a media spectacle, but in but in the end, it passed. In general there was all around praise for the Clinton administration from the talking heads at the round table.

Interestingly, just like her husband sixteen years earlier, Hillary was unable to transfar her carisma and popularity to the next democratic candidate and the republican tide was once again on the rise as the 1916 candidate promosed the ever popular "Less government interferance in the future".

And now we have a "Make-an album" for your dancing and dining pleasure. This will be the last of these compilations, in real time that is, that we put out as an internet suggestion. We had to make a song change in our Pink Floyd track because the running time was too long for one CD.

FUNDAMENTALS OF ROCK (Volume One)

Summer in the City (Lovin’ Spoonfulls)

Mellow Yellow (Donavin)

Heroin (Velvet Underground)

Itchycoo Park (Small Faces)

I Can See For Miles (The Who)

Chain Chain Chain (Aritha Franklin)

I Don’t Live Today (Jimi Hendrix Experience)

I Heard It Through the Grapevine (Gladys Night & the Pips)

Monterey (Eric Burden & the Animals)

Skinny Legs (Joe Tex)

Sunshine Of Your Love (Cream)

Iron Butterfly Theme (Iron Butterfly)

Mexico (Jefferson Airplane single)

Don’t Step On The Grass (Steppinwolf)

The Motorcycle Song (LIVE Arlo Guthrie)

- CD number two-

Wild Child (The Doors)

Folson Prison Blues (Live Johnny Cash)

The Fault Line (Runs Right Through Here) (Mama Cass)

Please Come To Chicago (Crosby Stills Nash & Young)

Darkness Darkness (Youngbloods)

Sugar Man (Grateful Dead)

Sinister Purpose (Credence Clearwater Revival)

Into The Void (Black Sabbath)

That Smell (Leonard Skynard)

Do Ya? (Electric Light Orchestra)

Smokin’ (Boston)

Welcome to the Machine (Pink Floyd)

Ain’t Talking About Love (Van Halen)

The Conscience of a Captive Youth

THE FOLLOWING WAS FROM MY PERSONAL NOTES IN APRIL OF 2005

Jane Fonda was on last Sunday as all the voices from the far right remind us. My initial response was to say nothing. Certain things just are what they are. Jane Fonda is on a life path and has to pursue her own course twords “God” or whatever. You know it’s a Catholic teaching that to be true to God is to follow your continence. I say that because it is notably not a teaching of churches I go to. It stands to reason if you’re logical about it that there are “many paths to God” because not everybody is in the same place. They’re coming from different locations. Sean Hannity said some things the other day I basically agree with. He said that we all have that God-consciousness inside us and we all inherently know what’s right. (You’ll get in trouble saying that in an academic class room) I agree with that. Once again were I asked to sacrifice my son, as Abraham was, I would decline as a conscientious objector. I, as it were, would be committing a “sin of conscience”. I think what we can call Jane Fonda’s sin is a sin of conscience. As you may or may not know, Tim came out and said at the time that what Jane Fonda was doing was wrong. I myself had no official position back then. I do believe there is a point where you’re doing something other than Protesting, that lapses into error. Let’s talk about Christianity for a bit. Christians after the crucifixion of Christ did not go out and attack the Roman government or burn down Pilate’s house or get lobbyists out to change the Roman laws and “protest this horrible injustice to insure that it never happens again.” The difference between a Conservative and a liberal is that conservatives think in terms of individuals. Liberals tend to think in terms of what is best for masses of people. No. Instead the Christians went on a Roman ass-kissing orgy in essence saying to the Romans, “We’re your friends. Trust us and we’ll help you oppress the Jews more effectively; we can be your propaganda ministers”. Let’s get one thing straight. Jane Fonda said she loved her country and cared about the troops, and said she committed a horrible lapse in judgement she will take to her grave. You could tell she meant it by the tone in her voice. But I find it necessary to remind people like Larry Elder just what the historic context of her going to Hanoi was. As she said, the war had been going on for eight years. The Gulf of Tomkin resolution was passed in August 1964. Congress had repeatedly passed resolutions against the War. One was for the complete withdrawal of troops as of June 30^th. 1971. This was changed to December 31^st. 1971. It’s funny that lately there’s been this conservative revisionist history. You might be able to sell it at the dorky military academy where your son goes, but not to me, who lived through it. The officer Larry had on says the problem began when we won the Tet Offensive and the media lied to us and Walter Cronkite lied and said we lost it and so because of CBS news, masses of people turned against the Viet Nam War. Let me give you reality. The war was a bone of contention as far back as the Republican Primary in 1964 when Rocke-feller people ran adds quoting Barry Goldwater saying he would expand the war and drop a “low yield atomic bomb” on Chinese supply lines in Laos and Viet Nam. The protest grew in 1965 when people like Donavin began putting out anti war songs. I myself turned against the War in early 1966. That spring I was in a Current Events class where the War was a hot topic of discussion. By September of 1967 the majority of people had turned against the War when it became clear we were only going to escalate. I need to also remind you that in 1972 when Jane Fonda went to Hanoi, as she said- nothing else was working. And to this day there are hosts on talk radio saying “If only we had pur-sued the war harder in 1972 we would have won the war”. We were being lied to. The Gulf of Tomkin resolution was based on a purely fabricated event. We were lied to about the extent of our involvement in Cambodia and this act became an article of impeachment with Nixon in 1974 that ended up not passing. Need I also remind Larry that John Kerry made the same statements against the war in 1971 and he was nominated for President.

. I myself would dread the notion of my own son saying to me or another that he thought his father is a Coward. Gene Scott has said that he wants his kids to trust him above all else. It’s not my son’s job to believe in Me, it’s My job to believe in him. If there arises a situation where my son cannot trust me I know we have a more serious on our hands. I will know that I have grievously failed my son. No son wants to think of his father as a coward. The trouble with the people of Harmony is few of them have the moral balls to stand up to Evil, even when they clearly know where it’s coming from. Again I say if I were Luis the time I had those CD’s on the Crane empire I’d ask my own mother whether she would be willing to make a noble sacrifice for a higher cause. Up until very recently and perhaps even now, I believed in moral karma. That if you did an extremely brave act you would get a better after-life.

I wanted to mention the Dr. Phil show. We hear a lot about the “divide and conquer” strategy of children against parents. I was morally opposed to it as a kid watching Divorce Court and I still think it’s wrong. You don’t know how morally outraged I was when Mrs. Valasquez back in March of 1970 said that my parents were divided on how to deal with me and it was affecting their marriage, and that it was somehow my fault. That goes against every thing [my name] stands for. Children need to learn at some age that this is a world of adults and not kids. Children don’t call the shots. You shouldn’t be able to blackmail parents in a divorce situation and Judges shouldn’t fall for it. In point of fact their marriage proved indestructible and believe me there’d be a lot bigger issues than me and the “Less filling- - tastes great!” argument. There is this fourteen year old daughter that has every vice in the book. She has failing grades, she parties all the time and behind her parents’ back and damages the house. She smokes, drinks, has sex, and uses drugs. The father is trying to discipline her but does not seem to be up to the task. The daughter is nursing some illusions about her original father getting back with her sympathetic mother and this is driving a wedge between the parents. Short of dropping an Atomic Bomb, I don’t know what else the father can do. Perhaps he could get Dr. Phil to ship her off to Happy Valley or whatever that place is in Texas. At this point a little “tough love” like an arrest or time in jail just might shock her back into reality. I wanted to talk about whether I view my own parents as “Cowards” in dealing with the varied domestic problems. I don’t even think what they did qualifies them as “Cowards”; they are several rungs down on the moral scale than that. You see it takes a certain amount of balls to send your son at age 17 and still in High School to Vocational “Re-Hab”. It’s the wrong solution and the wrong age. And then to say you want your son to be assigned a Counselor for the Mentally Ill makes the person saying it look a little suspect. As if they have some “problem” they can’t deal with and try and pawn it off on the state. Gladys Presley loathed the idea of turning to the State for anything. She had more character in her little finger than my parents have in their whole body. But this act isn’t “Cowardly”. Indeed she runs the risk of looking like a complete asshole, especially considering her profession. It could be argued that she subsequently paid a price, but I don’t want to get into that least I be accused of hitting below the belt.

Let’s talk a little about Richard Nixon. As you know the dates on that latest compilation, 1969 – 1974, are the same as the years of Nixon’s Presidency. Actually only two songs qualify for 1974, and early 1974 at that. Nixon in February of 1972 made an overture to Mao Tse Tung, who is responsible for the deaths of more people than just about any world leader who’s ever lived. And in the process we stabbed an old friend in the back who had been our ally since the days of World War II. Nixon is hardly one to talk about “national loyalty”. Nixon was not a real conservative. But he did have one thing going for him: image. He is the one who made hatred of liberals, protestors, and just about any other minority group fashionable with his “Great Silent Majority” speech in November 1969. At this point I became utterly opposed to him, if I wasn’t before. This legacy has lasted to the present day and is alive and well in places like the Rush Limbaugh show. People in the ‘30s, ‘40s, 50’s, and ‘60s didn’t feel this way. Indeed when someone like Joseph McCarthy came along, he cane off as a nut case. So I guess it’s fitting that someone of Larry’s views would find audience at the Nixon library. The crowd cheered wildly when Larry Elder said that the way to solve the immigration problem is to eliminate all government roads, schools, and other social services. Larry just doesn’t “get it” when faced with the reality of Latinos driving down the wage base. You know I hate to bring this up but our message to Mexico just maybe should be, “Thou shalt not covet”. The way to solve the “inequity” is not to drag your neighbor down to the same level of poverty you yourself has. But Larry doesn’t seem to get that. I have a suggestion for Larry. Using his own logic, perhaps we should privatize the military. If Larry is right they will do it more efficiently, with less beaurocratic overhead, and will pay the people a decent wage “as the market would demand”. You know, corporations have a board of directors they have to account to. If they screw up and pay $50,000 for a toilet seat the stock holders will be unhappy. “See you in the funny papers, Larry!”

Guess what? We are at that identical 50,176 or whatever byte count figure of two previous files. So we’ll bring up another topic. Let’s talk about Martin Luther King. I guess it escaped that Military Officer’s notice but the reason why there were so many riots is that one of the greatest Black leaders of all time had just been cut down, assen-ated. I think we should move Martin Luther King’s holiday to April 4^th. the date of his death. As it is it’s too close to the Superbowl, which will be a national holiday some time. Moving it to April 4^th. would put it close to Easter. Better yet I suggest we cele-brate Malcolm X’s life. As you know I call myself the “Malcolm X of Christianity”. He crusaded for racial equality on a world wide scale and amongst various religions, as well as crusading against religious hypocrisy in High Places, not to mention moral fidelity in marriage. Martin Luther King is not exactly spotless in this area, as J. Edger Hoover will attest. I think Malcolm’s message to Black people in having Black Pride, is a better one than King’s increasing insistence that minorities turn to the government for hand-outs.

I don’t know what tomorrow will bring. You know, if you do want to look to the Bible for what the after-life will be like, in my reading of it you’re promised a resurrect-ion from the dead in another 12 or 15 Billion years, or whenever the Universe comes to an end. So what survived death? Bob Howland stated in a sermon that on that Day that God would “remember” us. He’d remember our DNA or whatever else that causes us to be us. When Lennon wrote the last song on Revolver- - I imagine “Mark I” seemed a good initial title. But when he got to thinking about Death and all he had to come to the conclusion, “Tomorrow Never Knows”. That’s just a theory.

We have one more rock compilation we'll do at this time. There are songs from 1968 like "I Can See For Miles" by the Who ("Miles" is spoken 57 times?) we may get to sometime but I can't say when.

THE LAST ROUNDUP Released September 24^th. by the Federation

Last Dance With Mary Jane (Tom Petti)

You Give Love a Bad Name (Bon Jovi)

Bullet to Blue Sky (U 2)

Sowing the Seeds of Love (Tears for Fears)

Edie (The Cult)

Mirror in the Bathroom (English Beat)

Dancing in the Ruins (Blue Oyster Cult)

Big Log (Robert Plant)

Love in an Elevator (Aerosmith)

You Got It (Roy Orbeson)

Blood and Roses (Smitherines)

Smoking in the Boys’ Room (Motley Crue)

Part of the Machine (Jethro Tull)

Murder By Numbers (Police)

Disc Two

Welcome to the Jungle (Guns & Roses)

Poison (Alice Cooper)

Stand To Deliver (Adam & the Ants)

Eighteen and Life to Go (Skid Row)

Harvester of Sorrow (Metallica)

The Bug (Dire Straits)

Beer Nuts (Dr. Demtnto hit) (Kip Adatta)

You’re Bringing On the Heartaches (Def Leport)

Everything is Broken (Bob Dylan)

Cockamamie Business (George Harrison)

She Blinded Me With Science (Unknown Artist)

Bad Love (Eric Claptin)

Keep On Rocking in the Free World (Neil Young)

Pain Killer (Judas Priest)

Some Undeniable Truths

There are certain “undeniable truths”. It’s a fact that we have not elected a Democrat for president who lived outside the South in over 45 years. That’s close to two generations. We have not elected any president who lived neither outside the South or in the state of California during that same 45 year period. It’s a fact that the economy determines more than anything else who we will elect as president and all indications are now that we will elect another Republican in 2008 with our roaring economy.

It’s a fact that I’m not as infallible as I like to invision myself. Six months ago I p;redicted George Bush would never have another success with the Republican congress. I predicted Bush would feel the pressure and begin withdrawing US troops from Iraq. As things stand now everybody has forgotten about the war in Iraq.

There is every probability that the Da Vinci Code movie may not be nearly as successful as people think, due to the unfaltering activities of church groups. It’s a fact that even in this day and age people are brainwashed to assume certain things about Christianity and Jesus. We are “imprinted” when we are young, and as we mature we retain certain irrational beliefs that we learned almost subconsciously from our parents.

The fact is that when it comes to electing a president we are both gender prejudiced and racially prejudiced. No Black or woman has ever been the nominee of a major political party. Despite cries to the contrary, it’s people’s belief that “The Two Party System” in this country is sacrosanct, as if it were written into the constitution. No matter what steps are taken to break out of the mold, sheer prejudice keeps the two party system in tact. It’s a fact that the vote of the California electorate is completely immaterial.

World Net Daily has some stuff on dieting that said steak and eggs are OK every day and beer is OK to drink instead of water. The facts are that people are becoming couch potatoes and that if our diet doesn’t change we will die. But it’s also a fact that the life expectancy is about twenty years longer than it was fifty years ago.

In Europe they have done away with Fluoridated water. The fact is since we moved as a kid from an area with fluoridated water to an area without it- - cavities have increased. I never had so much as one cavity till age 9 ½. It’s a fact that the more a dentist fills your teeth the weaker your teeth become and the more likely you are to get yet more cavities. The vast majority of my own cavities are thanks to Dr. Budd who “found” more cavities in a visit in 1970 than I had gotten the whole previous ten years.

It’s a fact that I have committed more “sexual sin” since I’ve been a Born Again Christian than I did before I became one. It’s a fact that every single prediction of the “Second Coming” preachers have made over the past thirty years has been wrong. It’s also a fact that Jesus said you will be judged by “every idle word you say”. It’s a fact that if I need spiritual advice from a reliable person- - unquestionably the person with the best credentials for this is Myself. It’s a fact that the “lie index” of other Christians who have given me advice in the name of the Lord or whatever- - is off the scale. If there is a pastor whom you didn’t like 28 years ago because he’s too immature- - guess what? He still hasn’t changed. Personal weirdness is not something Christians grow out of, it’s a problem they grow into, just like the dogs on Uncle Mattie.

It’s a fact that I prayed regularly every morning to be over alcoholism the past year or so I had it, to no avail. After my “intervention” (some would say Divine Intervention) I never drank again after June 1^st. 2001. After I began getting proper blood pressure medication I should have had all along and was put on resperidol, thoughts of both alcohol and religion kind of flew out the window- and despite grim predictions from about everybody that I’d soon go back to alcohol, I never drank another drop. It’s also a fact that people, aka. Christians lie when they say “If you just didn’t have a lust for women problem, all your other problems with God would disappear”. Once again it didn’t happen that way- - - not even close.

It’s a fact that overpopulation is a grim fact that one day is going to manifest itself and bite us on the ass. In 1961 I remember reading a book that said if we did nothing about the population problem, by the turn of the century our world population would double to six billion. Guess what? The population doubled to six billion.

It’s a fact that “normal people” are poor judges of both whether they are psychic or whether they are psycho-kenetic or have the power to influence other objects. The people with the best proven track record of judging their own abilities are people who are labeled “Depressed”. Some have used the adage, “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change”. This is “magical thinking” if there ever was such a case. People who judge “mental illness” by “The way you look at your environment” are off the mark because everyone’s environment is different. There seems to be a lingering belief normally held only by toddlers and infants that if you look at something there is something going from your eye to the object that affects it. This same line of thinking says if you want to hide from another- - just close your eyes. To report that certain people are or are not a certain way- - first it’s necessary to look at the Facts, before you begin accuse people of distorting those facts. (Selah)

“You’re telling all those lies- -

about the good things we can have if we just close our eyes”

OK we had power cord problems and we lost our blog but fortunately it was already saved in various componets. Below are some vintage compilations done mostly Sept. 2004, Vol three is October 2004. We did two minor track substitutions and if you're psychic you know which they are- - otherwise you must not be psychic.

GOT MOLDY OLDIES -IF YOU WANT THEM

If you don’t remember the Cuban Missile crisis, you’re too young to buy this album.

First CD

Good Rocking Tonight (Wyrone Harris) (?)

Shake, Rattle and Roll (Joe Turner)

Laudy Miss Claudy (Lloyd Price)

It Ain’t The Meat It’s The Motion (Dominoes ?)

Honey Love (Clyde Mc.Phatter & the Drifters)

Sha-boom (The Chords)

Sincerely (The Moonglows) I think

Pledging My Love (Johnny Ace)

I Hear You Knocking (David Edmonds) (1970)

Great Day in the Morning (LaVerne Baker)

Bo Didley (Bo Didley)

Baby Don’t You Let Your Dog Bite Me (Fats Domino)

Blue Swade Shoes (Carl Perkins)

Bee Bop Beluah (Gene Vincent)

Let The Good Times Roll (Shirley & Lee)

Fever (Little Willy John)

Green Door (Jim Lowe)

Jim Dandy (Laverne Baker)

Little Bitty Pretty One (Thurston Harris)

Raunchy (Earnie Freedman)

School Days (Chuck Berry)

Tequila (The Champs)

Keep a Knocking But You Can’t Come In (Little Richard)

The Stroll (The Diamonds) (I think)

I Wonder Why I Love You Like I Do (Dion & the Bellmonts)

Topsy –Part 2 (Cozy Cole) (I think)

Second CD

It’s Late (Ricky Nelson)

Telehase Lassie (Freddy Cannon)

The Happy Organ (Dave Baby Cortez)

Stay (Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs)

Shout! (Isley Brothers) (I think)

Last Night (Markettes)

A Quarter To Three (U S Bonds)

Tossing & Turning (Bobby Lewis)

The Lion Sleeps Tonight (The Tokens)

Baby, It’s You (Cherells)

Peppermint Twist (Joey D. & the Starlighters)

Please Mr. Postman (Marvelettes)

Dear Lady Twist (U S Bonds)

Mashed Potatoes (Dee Dee Sharp)

Barbra Anne (Regents)

Lover Please Come Back (Clyde Mc. Phatter)

Slow Twister (Chubby Checker & Dee Dee Sharp)

Let There Be Drums (Sandy Nelson)

You Really Got A Hold On Me (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles)

The One Who Really Loves You (Mary Wells)

Denise (Randy & the Rainbows)

Surfer Joe (Safaris)

Suspicion (Terry Stafford)

Boom Boom Boom Boom (Animals)

Leader of the Pack (Shangralas)

Little Red Rooster (Rolling Stones)

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MORE OLDIES -IF YOU WANT THEM (Disc 3)

Come Go With Me (Del Vikings)

Searchin’ (Coasters)

One Night (Elvis Presley)

Bye Bye Love (Everly Brothers)

Bee Bop Baby (Ricky Nelson)

Peggy Sue (Buddy Holly)

Mr. Lee (Bobbets)

Cillauettes On The Shades (The Rays)

Great Balls of Fire (Jerry Lee Lewis)

Wake Up Little Susie (Everly Brothers)

He’s Got the Whole World In His Hands (Lorrie London)

Lollypop (Cordettes)

Witch Doctor (David Seville)

Purple People Eater (Cheb Wooly)

Yakkity-yak (The Coasters)

Let’s Go Little Darling (Richi Vallenz)

Who Wrote The Book Of Love (Monotones)

Tom Dooley (Kingston Trio)

Problems Problems (Everly Brothers)

Jenny Lee (Jan & Arnie)

Poison Ivey (Coasters)

Battle of New Orleans (Johnny Horton)

Forty Miles of Bad Road (Dwayne Eddie)

Dinner With Drac (John Zacherly ?)

Big uh Hunk of Lovin’ (Elvis Presley)

Sleep Walker (Santo and Johnny)

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SOMGS THEY NO LONGER PLAY ON THE RADIO

Reconsider Baby (Elvis Presley)

You Talk too Much (Joe Jones)

Cathy’s Clown (Everly Brothers)

Only the Lonely (Roy Orbeson)

Moody River (Pat Boone)

Ghost Riders in the Sky (Dwanne Eddy)

Runaway (Del Snannon)

Rama-lama Ding-dong (Edsels) (?)

Mother In Law (Earnie Kado)

Pretty Little Angel Eyes (Curtess Lee)

School’s Out (U S Bonds)

The Mountains High (Dick & Deedee)

Hit the Road, Jack (Ray Charles)

I Hope Her Reading Was Wrong (Ikets)

Night Train (James Brown)

Unchain My Heart (Ray Charles)

Another Saturday Night (Sam Cooke)

Twist and Shout (Isley Brothers)

Miserloo (Dick Dale)

Zippidy-doo-dah (Bobby Sox & the Blue Jeans)

Wild Weekend (Rocking Rebels)

Patty Baby (Freddy Cannon)

Pipeline (Chantees)

Walk Right In (Rooftop Singers)

Hot Pastrami with Mashed Potatoes (Dartells)

El Watuci (Artist) possibly Jamaican

Second CD

My Boyfriend’s Back (Angels)

Donna, the Prima Dona (Dion & the Del Satins)

Heat Wave (Martha & the Vandellas)

Cry Cry Baby) (Etta James)

Out Of Limits (Markees)

Drag City (Jan & Dean)

You Don’t Own Me (Leslie Gore)

Daddy Took the T Bird Away (Beach Boys)

Hippy Hippy Shake (Swinging Blue Jeans)

No Particular Place To Go (Chuck Berry)

Memphis (Johnny Rivers)

Can’t You See That She’s Mine (Dave Clark Five)

Stoned (Rolling Stones)

The Swim (Bobby Freeman)

Out Of Sight (James Brown)

Ride Ride Ride The Wild Surf (Jan & Dean)

Little GTO (Ronnie & the Daytonas)

You Really Got Me (Kinks)

Little Honda (Hondells)

She’s Not There (Zombies)

Ain’t That Lovin’ You Baby (Elvis Presley)

Promised Land (Chuck Berry)

Love Potion Number 9 (Searchers)

Words Of Love (Beatles)

The Name Game (Shirley Ellis)

Twine Time (Alvin Cash & the Crawlers)

Back to the 1920's

Well, you knew it was coming. The Republican congress has just passed another tax cut bill. This one eliminates the "minimum" tax for the richest of people. It als keeps capital gains tax rates at fifteen percent for investors. No doubt this is what is fueling the current bull market. Of course this tax cut isn't free; it's being "financed" by the higher interest rates all of us have to pay for every loan. The tax cuts are hiking the deficet and the deficet has to be financed somehow. It's what I call a "bad executive decision" to put all our eggs in the investments basked. On KTLK they said that the old addage about cutting tax rates to increase revenue isn't true. I'll take them at their word. In other words the government has themselves in a permanent state of not receiving the revenue they need for opperating budgets. While it would seem that "more money is in circulation" it's money that can be taken away at the drop of a hat if we have a democratic adminestration three years from now and the deficet is five or six hundred billion.

It’s back to the 1920’s now. The bull market has taken off. An expert on the Today show says we’re going to have a bull market all the way up to fifteen thousand. He used the term back to the 1920’s. Of course most investment people in the know say that when they begin talking about the markets in the broad media it’s getting close to time to get out. I suppose you could put it in Deal or No Deal terms. There’s four numbers left on the board and one of them is the million dollar figure. None of the other numbers are higher than ten thousand. You are offered two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for your case. Do you take the deal or hold out for more? Me- I take the deal and run. $250,000 is a lot of money. If you get in the market now you may make another twenty percent on your money. People like Larry Elder talked about “The Clinton bubble bursting”. I suppose now we’ll be hearing about “The Bush bubble”. Of course the Feds have raised interest rates eight times in the past few years and now they say mortgage rates are at 7.94% or just about eight percent? Do you buy a home at these rates? A lot of people will because like the 1920’s they think prosperity will last forever. This new Bull Market could be the one thing that bolsters Bush’s poll numbers for the fall elections. The liberals have been saying it’s going to be a tough race and if the Democrats win in 2008 it will be a squeaker. That’s what they’re saying. My advice is to buy gold.

NBC Dateline has been doing it again. That’s all they do now on that show is lure in middle aged men with the promise of sex with a fourteen year old girl. Only they are carrying it a little far now. Now if you pull up to the house this sexy voice from inside tells you to “come on in”. And if you decide to drive off anyhow the cops go after you and arrest you. I think NBC deserves to be commended for making a point. Don’t trust anybody you meet on an internet chat room. But let me ask you this: If you’re in a bar or a nightclub and a sexy girl is giving you the come-on and you pick her up and she turns out to be under age- - is saying “I didn’t know she was under age” a defense? No it isn’t. You still committed the crime; you’re going to jail. OK now here you are on the internet and this text appearing on a page says you’re talking to a fourteen year old. But are you in fact talking to a fourteen year old? No. If the law states “It’s not what you intend; it’s what you actually do that counts”, shouldn’t all these internet suckers bagged by Dateline be off the hook. Especially the ones who pace outside for a while and then take off. You know some may wonder what the Bible thinks of this. I’m glad you asked. There is a story in the Bible about Noah getting drunk and naked, and one brother blabbed about it to anyone who would listen. The other two brothers went in with a blanket and covered their father walking backwards- so as not to even look at him. (Selah) “Men are idiots”. We know this. The point has been made. But to a degree they are “suckered in” to the trap every step of the way by female actors –and other impersonatrers.

Some wonder whether it’s appropriate for teenage girls in particular to wear provocative T shirts with messages like “I am a virgin- (This is a very old shirt)” All I can say is in my day you’d never in the world be allowed to wear such shirts in school. Back in my day you could not wear a jacket or a shirt with any message or Brand name on it. So all these “fifties” shows showing teenagers with logos on their jackets- - are pretty much full of it. Of course Starr Parker has had five abortions and brags she used to lay out on the beach and collect welfare. Now she’s a born again conservative. The thing is if you have permissive parents, your odds of being a Born Again Christian go up because one thing Born Again Christians have in common is they’re used to getting their own way. Another thing they like to do is make others feel guilty for their own sins. (Selah) Playing the hypocrisy game is the thing they do best.

Back in High School I took a legal course that was basically for seniors, but they’d let juniors in if they could prove they were smart enough. One of the questions I asked was that if I, as a minor, had sex with girls of various ages- and I believe I went up the scale, 14, 15, 16, 17 would I be guilty of statitutory rape, and in each case I was told I would be. Of course when Fred Price was a teenager he admits with seeing how many girls he could “deflour”. This only shows me that a “Carismatic” preacher- - has “talents” not at all related to “gifts of the spirit”. Today parents use tools on their kids’ computer activities such as the “I Boss”, which logs all of their key strokes so the parent can tightly monitor them. Of course on a George Lopez episode one time Carmen, the daughter dressed in one of her mother’s “hooker dresses”. It’s OK for a married adult to wear something “sexually suggestive” but it’s not OK for a single teenager to do so.

Now the US Government- - notably the National Security Administration- to log and monitor all our phone calls. So, what else is new? They have been doing so since 9 – 11. I suppose you really shouldn’t complain about this. Gene Scott used to always say “I want to let the government know that I have the right to hide- - - nothing”. It’s an old argument of, “If you aren’t doing anything wrong, why should you mind the government monitoring your phone calls? Sometimes “monitoring” can have its down side. We hear now that employers are going into “My Space” and monitoring conversations of teenagers and making job assessments accordingly. I guess my worry is that you could end up being blacklisted by some credit or insurance company- and not know exactly why. A long time ago I heard someone say at a Republican Convention, “A government with the power to give you everything you need for life, has the power to take everything from you at the drop of a hat. I don’t think we all need to be such creatures of Big Brother.

My blog site is still asking for a password in order to comment. This is not what I wanted because I changed the “comments” section to allow “Anybody” to comment.

Hell Freezes Over

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Well, Hell just froze over. Bush’s approval ratings are now down to 31 percent. This is unbelievable. Lest than one third of the American people approve of President Bush’s performance as President. How they say he’s actually losing his hard core supporters. Now you have to look for a “harder core” supporter to find someone who still likes Bush. I would have to say that I do not approve of President Bush, if someone had asked me. A year ago if asked I would have said I approved of George Bush, after all I voted for him both times. Al Frankin was using the slide whistle once again to illustrate Bush’s decline in standings on the radio. Another Problem that George Bush has is this rewording of scientific govt. documents. It used to be that even if a President were conservative like Reagan was, the scientific reports would still be objective. No more. Now they have politicians rewording everything both in pollution reports, and also sexual sociological material such as “Do pledges of virginity cut STD’s?” Apparently they don’t because people who sign the virginity pledge are less likely to engage in “safe sex” once they do engage in sex. If you are wondering what my stance in impeachment is- - after the Clinton experience I don’t think that is a good idea. But I do think we need to go ahead with Russ Feingold’s move to censure the president for both the secret torture that was being carried out (see prev.) and also the illegal wiretapping going on that the current CIA chief, Michael Hayden personally approved of.

Dr. Phil McGraw is a wise man. I have learned a number of things from him. I learned you have to “own your own past actions”. Take responsibility for the decisions you make. I can’t say “My life would have been better if I had never been a Christian”. I think it would have been but I can’t say it. That’s because I became a Christian of my own Free Will. Nobody put a gun to my head. Indeed I actively chassed after Born Again Christianity, like a girl groupie chasing after a rock star. The second phrase I like of Dr. Phil is “How is that working for you”. My morality is of the type where I judge whether something is right or wrong and damn the consequences. But some religious writers say that Hell is a state of mind and it happens when you “sin”. Anything that’s in your life, whether it is an idea, a philosophy, or a marriage, or family relation or other personal friendship- - needs to “work”. If it doesn’t “work” we say it’s dysfunctional. That means it’s not functioning properly or at all like it’s supposed to. I look at all of my efforts to be a “good Christian” and the phrase “How’s that working for you” comes back to me. In my current environment I try and be generous by loaning people money or cigarettes and a lot of the time there is a lot of ingratitude. I sometimes even find myself saying to God, “God, why can’t you be more like me?” To me it looks as if God is a super tightwad. Then there is a third emotion. Sometimes I find myself longing for “the good old days” when I was a Christian. But in reality the Dr. Phil phrase is true “You don’t miss being a Christian- - you miss what you wish Christianity and Church life was, but it isn’t and never will be This is an important thing for me to remember. Also a lot of the time I find myself engaging on Marcionite thinking. Marcion was a theologian we discussed in our first blog. Larry Norman once said “This world is not my home; I’m only visiting this Planet; I’m just passing through”. A lot of times as Christians we are told to do such things as mortify the flesh and “Die to self”. I was told “Die to self” a lot particularly by one particular super spiritual person. Some people “In the World” would just say “Be yourself”. But in Christianity you’re supposed to hate yourself. It’s as though God made some horrible mistake by bringing you into the world. In fact some see the whole existence of the Universe is an act of sin. Some may say, “Do you believe that?” and my answer would have to be, “I don’t know." To judge whether it’s sin I would have to step outside the universe and observe what that standard of existence is, and how or if this world realm falls short of that. Part of what’s wrong with Christianity- and I think this is a Dr. Phil principle also- - is that I’m asked to change things that are completely beyond my control and for which I am not responsible. I could give you a long list if you wanted- - but just use your imagination. Humans get angry; humans get frustrated over things; humans have sexual desires and are led by them. If my flesh were really dead, this wouldn’t be a problem. I could die to myself- - but I would as a matter of logical deduction also be dead to God because I would be- - dead, just like the coffee table in my livingroom or a nick knack on my window sill.

OK here we go in our rainbow décor. Of course if I blog this you won’t be able to see it because the background doesn’t transfer over. Today is May 9, 2006. I had Rush on a little but he jumped so from topic to topic he was exasperating to follow. He promised us some new mathematical formula for why the media has such an influence on the American public even though they are declining in viewership.

It seems that right to life organizations cause abortions. From what they are saying Sweeden has the lowest abortion rates and teenage pregnancy rates and South America under the influence of Bush pro life policies, has the highest abortion rates. As you know the abortion rates dropped every year under the Clinton administration, as did the crime rates, by the way. Now abortion rates may be headed up and especially late term abortions. There are more late term abortions in states like Kansas and Mississippi because of their stringent pro life policies. What we need is realistic sex education in the schools. About the only message I got in sex education was “Don’t do it”. Somehow this myth got started that sex education causes promiscuity. Of course they have some new drug out now that’s less extreme than RU 486 and women need it “right away” but they aren’t selling it over the counter. My position on abortion is that if the embryo hasn’t implanted itself in the womb, it isn’t abortion. I do not view stored embryos in test tubes as really alive. I know the Born Again community disagrees with me here.

Last night I was reading that “Salvation for Everybody” book. The author seemed convinced that God disciplines sinners with a sort of “hell” right here in the here and now and this discipline will drive mankind to seeking the grace of God. It bears repeating that the reason why I am philosophically opposed to eternal suffering in Hell is the very nature of such an “eternal” sin is not something which mankind is even capable of committing. How many people would charge their dog with espionage, or their gold fish with bribery and political corruption? This is silly but certain animals lack the sheer intelligence necessary to commit these sins. “Jesus” has said that God spared man for sinning and not the Angels because Angels are “fully actualized beings”. They know now everything they will ever know. So much of my Christian experience has been bad and I would give the people around me, my ”mentors” if you will, approximately an F minus for a letter grade. Now they had this southern Evangelist on the Today show and I’ve heard him on Sunday morning. He believes in being positive and ministering to people’s needs. I can get behind a church like that. If a church is centered on the “ministry of the Gospel” that’s where it’s supposed to be. If it’s a club led by a pastor and his cronies and their greatest joy in the world is saying ‘I’m better than you” then I have a problem with it. I think the 35% who are Christian are so because something positive is preached.