Well, Quazimoto is ascenting those belltower steps even as we speak - step - step -step, and pretty soon he'll be pulling the rope on the Bush adminestration. That long awaited laboriously produced bi-partizan report on the Iraq War was finally released. As they say, they labored and brought forth a mouse. What a big bunch of nothing. Maybe I should buy the book. It's just a way to extend the Iraq War two more years and get more people killed, and them we can admit it was a fiasco. Rush Limbaugh points out that these people don't have any real authority to decide anything as they make their "79 Commandments". It's what the generals on the theater of war think that really counts. I'd like to hear from them. How can you trust a report that says the Iraq War is a "grave and deteriorating situation". It sounds like a patient ready to be toe tagged if there ever was one. As I have said previously the smartest thing we can do is to get out as expiditiously as possible and don't look back. Rush has even said that "We sometimes need to let the natural forces take over". Rush has also said "Peace comes after a war after one side has clearly defeated the other". The odds favor the Shiites. If so we can claim victory over the insergent supporters of Saddam and Al Qaida, can't we? Isn't that what we were fighting for to begin with. To expunge Al Qaida? If our enemies are fighting each other that means they won't have time to fight us. We are obcessed with 9 - 11. To tell you the truth I bet a lot of the younger fighters have forgotten all about that. Since they are mostly young, as young people do they will change and evolve and mature as the years pass. For Bush to say it's some conspiricy against him personally that they're fighting for - seems more than a little paranoid. Of course we know now that George Bush was a candidate for fetal alcohol sidrone because Barbra like to down the Scotch while she was pregnent with him, and many see facial features of fetal alcohol sidrone looking at Bush. The one thing President Bush doesn't do is think. He's like an obcessed sea captain out of a Bogard movie seeimg himself as the center of his own universe. He's unable to step back and assass what needs to be done for this nation in the next two years. What are our own needs? In some ways these conservatives are like an old fire horse that charge every time they hear the bell - not that they've ever served in the Armed Forces to begin with, but they act as though they had. I guess I'm personally getting tired of all these conservatives re-living World War II over again. The only thing is they never lived it the first time around. Most of them wern't born yet. So many people are always fighting the last war, or in this case, several wars back, over again instead of looking at the War that's ongoing now. There are economic inequities in the world - - and trade imballances. There is lack of pay for workers and child exploitation in countries we trade with. Harry Truman described War profetiering as treasonous, and Lord knows there has been enough of that. I don't know if anything will come of talking with Iran or Syria but skilled negotiators have been known to accomplish amazing things. If you watch Star Trek you know that. A lot of time its a matter of steering people twords your objectives giving them the illusion it was their own idea. To paraphraise John Kennedy, "All this may not be accomplished in the first one hundred days or the next one thousand days, But Let Us Begin". I personally am not worried about all those terrorists coming over here and "following us home". I think privately we are a technological inspiration to them and a psychologist might say that voiced hostility tword us is like a petulant teenager lashing out against her parents. Part of the problem I believe is that Bush is ignorant of Islam, as he is about so many things. Perhaps if he understood Islam better he could speak their language and have a successful pow-wow. I don't see negotiations with our enemies as something we have to do because we're afraid of war. Rather it's something that can be done to increase the overall enlightenment in the world. All these Islamic hysterics will play itself out as the years pass, and they see how pointless it all is. The thing is, if there ARE dangers out there in the Future it will probably come from an entirely unexpected source. These perals, if they come, will come because we in our obcession with the past are ignoring the present. Anyhow, these are my thoughts on the subject of war. People act as if the United States no longer had enormous power. I think we are a much more well prepaired nation than we were before 9 - 11. I think as a natural course of events we will continue to increase securety as ports and airports and ware-houses. If nothing else this is where Party competition can be a good thing.
I would like to speak briefly about stuff I've been reading about Calvary Chapel. You can find anything on line. About a month ago I read that Lonnie Frisbee, a one time assistant pastor at Calvary, turned out to be a homosexual and died of AIDS in March of 1993. But since 1971 Chuck Smith hasn't totally trusted him. Pete Richards indicated to me he didn't entirely trust Lonnie Frisbee either, but I don't remember why. Something doctrinal. Of course Pete Richards (to those of you who know his real identity) is another person that left the Calvary Chappel system under circumstances that are mysterious even to this day. Now there is another success story for Satan to gloat over. Chuck Smith's son, Chuck Jr. has been de-frocked as a Calvary pastor and his link taken off Calvary publications. This is a truely sad development and a major victory for Satan, if Satan hates the Calvary Chappels as much as everybody thinks. It seems Chuck Jr. has had religious doubts and depression that would sometimes come upon him. The other thing is that he liked to maintain a dialog with the homosexuals in Laguna Beach. Chuck senior is spoken of as having an illusion of bubbling friendliness, but off camera he can be rather cold and distant, not to mention un-caring. For the LA Times to get a hold of this story and put it on the internet really blows the lid off this family solidarity all the Calvary pastors like to project, giving the illusion that their kids have some sort of "Jesus gene". When you see falability in others it makes you realize you're not the only one with problems.
Allright. I dug deep into the asteroid cravases of my mind and came up with these songs, before the Romulans could steal them. This is disk four because disc three is another add-on that started off life like this one as an independant. It was either that mystory track on STP's second album or Star Wars closing credits and decided either way was geeky so I picked the one that would most blow your mind. I'm letting Nick write this text. Actually we decided to drop the number because these are long songs. I have Chelsea on Days of our Lives to thank for "Passion" and Randy Rhodes to thank for Dr. Feel Good. I guess we'll come up with a good cover picture for the todal dour disc boxed set one of these days.
I respond to most links I read but a blog commenter sent one yesterday I didn't hit. I guess you could say my radar antenna was going off. Most of the blog comments I've gotten have been a little off the wall. So far there haven't been any with what I'd call in depth comprehension. In terms of my physical appearance, in case Chelsea wants to know, I physically resemble Dr. Phill roughly, except I look about ten years younger. "What you see is what you get", as you-know-who says. Actually I think I'm starting to grow back my hair on top. The barber was spending more time yesterday than I expected. A couple of months ago someone said I reminded them of the Rev. Chuck Smith. I wish I had his charisma.
PARTY MIXER ("American Night" disc four)
Time and Motion (Rush)
I Get a Thrill (The Honeydrippers)
Change -Nothing Stays the Same (Van Halen)
Rock and Roll Is My Religion (Ozzy Osborne)
Pencil-neck Geek (Fred Vlasee)
Rape Me (Nirvana)
1999 (Prince)
Super Freak (Rick James)
Passion (Rod Stewart)
Even Flow (Pearl Jam)
Don't Speak (No Doubt)
Dr. Feel Good (Motley Crue)
I Need Some Time On My Own (Guns and Roses)
One Burbin, One Scotch, One Beer (George Thorogood)
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