The Fifth Anniversary Episode

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This is the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War. I had a dream just before getting up at a quarter to seven. The punch line is that there is always a movie out during one war which almost exactly predicts the nature of the next war, if the people will just pay attention. In January of 1985 there was a movie out about a four day campaign of US troops to invade Iraq. At the same time there were real life war games going on in an Arizona desert, or perhaps it was Mexico. And they made the remark that the shadows were about the same length as will occur when the US is involved in a future war with Europe in the summer time. Introduced this time was an electric guitar with an odd looking plug that accepted some secret government computer software. Again as I said with each new war there would be a movie out. The whole idea was that the people of America would come to view War as entertainment and when a new war began they would all be sitting in front of their big screen TV sets to watch it avidly. But that “computer software” thing grew into bio-technic genetic research, and soon they were growing a real live crop of “Bush babies” that would be used to fight future wars. At various points in the dream I would be thrown back in time to warn people about what the government was doing, but of course every time I tried I was ignored.

People such as Randy Rhodes were saying what an epic masterpiece Obama’s speech was. I don’t know. It’s hard to imagine a grandmother who used racial epithets. I was raised in a household steeped in a liberal tradition where epithets of any nature were looked down upon. About the closest anyone came to it was sometimes grandma would talk about “Meeting a woman whom I swear was as black as the ace of spades”. Of course people talk about tension between the races and would you rather run into a group of Blacks on a dark street late at night or a group of Orientals going to a Bible Study. In my old apartment of course if you went out the back gate you were instantly in all Chicano territory and were aware of that. Out on the street in front were a mixture of blacks, whites, and Orientals. There would be a mixture of prostitutes, pan-handlers, and psychos. I’ll tell you my least favorite race to run into and that is Whites. It’s whites who are the psychos. Charles Manson and Ted Bundy were murdering psychopaths, and they were White. Obama talked about the frustrations of Whites who have failed to participate fully in the American Dream, because of our economic system which screws the working class. It’s kind of like the recessitation of Bo Brady in soap land. Can Obama recessitate his Presidential campaign with one epic making speech?

I think I’ve figured out why a potential President Mc Cain doesn’t want to be forced to withdraw troops earlier than he wants to. It’s like when I’m smoking a cigarette and Gary wants a few puffs off of the cigarette. So all the while I’m smoking I have to think in terms of “Gary is going to be wanting this”. So it isn’t really my time or my cigarette but I’m being watched the whole time. It could be that President Mc Cain has every intention of pulling our troops out of Iraq, but he just wasn’t want a gun pushed to his head while he’s doing it. Of course Mc Cain had that senate vote where he refused to condemn torture, and if we judge by that vote Mc Cain now thinks torture is OK.

Let’s discuss my new money proposition some more. My “economic aid to the poor will consist on “windfall” profits poor people can use. I plan to keep the Kennedy half dollar, which will be worth $2.50 in old dollars. Two old Kennedy’s may be brought to a redemption center for one new one or a 150% profit. The steepness of the pay-off on some coins is so that the old coins will be driven out of circulation. I'd also put limits on how many new half dollars you could receive at one time. But the old ones technically will only be worth ten cents in new currency because the “new” minted half dollars will be back ( ) to 75% silver and 25% nickel and store managers have to look for the sandwich copper. Old quarters won’t be used but may be turned in for a “new” dime worth fifty cents in old currency for a 100% profit. The new dimes will be the same size of the old dimes only golden color and thicker. The “new” quarters will be the old Sakaguia dollar piece, which may now be cashed in at what amounts to a 25% premium. Or they may be just spent and worth $1.25 (old currency) for the same 25% mark-up. Two old dimes may be turned in for a nickel, in a perverse form of justice, for a 25% premium since otherwise they’d only be worth four cents. Old dimes may also be legally spent as two cent pieces. Old currency can be turned in for premiums to encourage the public not hoarding these coins. That leaves pennies and nickels. Here you get a free ride. These coins will both rise to five times their value since neither will be recalled but both as legal tender.

This is Wednesday March 19, 2008 and I did not type yesterday. Yesterday morning I was wide awake when it was really early. There was so much commotion and voices in the hall I finally “gave up” and decided to get up. The clock said ten to six. Oddly during Obama’s speech on the radio I dozed off before the end. I had looked for it on TV and didn’t find it but it was on KTLK. Last night I caught the eight & a half minute edit of the speech in CNN, aware I was missing key elements. I downloaded a complete text of the speech from NPR, where I was inform you’d find it. But from here it gets strange. It was about a month ago I was at a web site done in red and white I thought was called “People for the American Way” but this was all conservative, and had stuff by authors such as Dennis Miller, Hugh Hewitt and Michael Medvid. I thought I could find this site again last night but to make a long story short I was unsuccessful, though there is a place where all conservative websites are listed, and also a “topics” page where web sites of multiple political stripes can be found. But it’s just strange to be at a web site that’s the opposite of what you thought and then the next time you visit it, the whole thing flip-flops politically, and you think you’re losing your mind. I think I've come up with a new meaning for "Sliding in and called Safe". If you're a fifth-dimensional slider and you run into danger in one dimension, you can always "slide" into another dimension and be Safe.

Many Problems - One Cure

First of all I'd like to wish everybody a happy St. Patrick's Day. They do celebrate St. Patrick's Day on all the traditional Romulan planets. But they don't do it in an Irish way but a Romulan way. They do celebrate the green, and the clover leaf symbol. In fact Romulans have written out a certain calculus formula that is the "proper" way to draw a clover leaf. The Romulans have always celebrated it on this day, which is interesting because they still use the Julian Calendar. The Romulans on Sirius A are bothered because those people don't celebrate it. The thing is the Romulans are anti Gailiac as well as anti Druid. They see St. Patrick as a source of light driving out the "shadow religions", which Romulans used to be paranoid about.

The first of the big "cure alls" is Garlic. Apparently Egyptians fed garlic to their slaves because it kept insects away. Garlic is said to be a cure for scabies, which, thankfully, I have never had. Of course we know garlic keeps away vampires. But also garlic gets rid of the bad bacteria in your small intestine, that can be the source of problems. Finally, garlic lowers blood pressure and as such is good for your heart. It's something to think about, anyhow.

They speak of certain drugs having an illegal "off label" use. I found that an anti fungal product I took in pill form for my toenails actually cured two other problems. It cured my arthritus I'd been suffering from since late 2001. I was developing severe restrictions of movement of my arms not to mention shooting pain if I got in certain positions. This was cured in the fall of 2004 when I took that toe nail stuff, don't ask me how. Also cured was this Vitalaigo condition I had on my arms, like Michael Jackson. I had these white blotches on my arms that would not go away and they were photosensitive to sunlight, and would turn pink and sunburned if I spent a lot of time in the sun. This condition was cured in the fall of 2004.

Raise your hands if you saw Sixty Minutes last night. Most of the program was about sleep deprivation and the ill effects it can have. First of all your body produces "leptin", which has nothing to do about the number of leptons in your body, but rather how full you feel. If you don't get enough sleep your leptin levels are low and you eat more and as such gain weight. Also people sleep deprived for as little as five or six days can have pre-diabetic symptums. Of course these two conditions often go together- - being fat and having diabetus. You could go so far as to say sleep is a cure for old age. Because after sleep deprivation your thought process are way slowed down, but you don't realize it. You find it much harder to make simple decisions and answer simple questions. Also if you lack deep sleep, for instance if you're woken up with these horrible buzzing or beeping sounds, you will suffer ill effects. And also I wouldn't want to be that male fruit fly that hadn't gotten enough sleep because lack of sleep definitely infringes upon your sexual performance. Of course many people think it's macho not to get enough sleep and they have these 30 hour shifts of residents in hospitals as sort of an "initiation". May I suggest that this is a bad idea because we know from that heprin drug thing they showed first, that hospitals make medication mistakes all the time. Often it's necessary for three consecutive people to make the same mistake. Sleep deprived people often get giddy and have exagurated or inappropiate emotion. The emotion centers of the brain disconnect from the frontal lobe, the seat of reason and judgement. There could be an epidemic of sleeplessness. We are such a hyped up culture we want to be "stimulated" all the time. Leo Le Port said that man is by nature a "new information" junky. Normally this proclivity gets little "stimulation" because new information was hard to come by but now teenagers today are on a sugar overload. Their brains need this constant buzz to feel normal as dopamine is fed by the brain into their systems.

YESTERDAY'S ROOMANATIONS ABOUT "STUFF"

I watched “Meet the Press” and later “This Week” on station 7.2. Both stations understandably talked about this Obama mess. Once a candidate steps into something like Obama stepped into last week with the release of those Pastoral statements, a candidate is pretty much toast. It kind of goes down with other epic events such as Mondale saying he’s going to raise taxes, or Mc Govern saying he’s going to give every American a thousand dollars, or Dukakis’s “What if your wife was raped and murdered?” question. The latter stopped me from voting for Dukakis that year. I stayed home.

Jesus Christ was still on. He was saying that what you need to do is grab a hold of some faith and pursue it and “Make it real” for you in your life. He also said “You’ll never find out the answers to all the questions you are looking for”. I guess that’s another way of saying “Jesus is the Answer” is just another evangelist’s lie. Also if you explore the “operative” verb in that one sentence- - You become the “First Cause” in “Making it Real for you”. It doesn’t depend on any objective outside force; it all depends on you. Apparently he was getting calls from lonely women or something looking for men, and he said “First you have to build yourself and your life up, and then others will be attracted to you”. The trouble is the churches I’ve been to, the laity is portrayed as a supplicant, who asks God for things “He knows he doesn’t deserve because he knows in the light of God’s glory he looks like a piece of crap”. It’s hard to come on to women when inwardly you’re made to feel like a piece of crap. Sometimes I think, “Well I need to pray more for Obama and people” but then I ask myself “Who am I praying TO?”

Now Hillary Clinton is mad at Nancy Palosi for siding with Obama against Clinton. But Nancy Palosi is saying this whole Obama for VP idea is a pointless one. Obama picked up ten deligates from Iowa today. Obama has gained with super-delegates and Clinton has lost super-delegates. One female Black reporter suggested we take the firey remarks of that Chicago pastor in perspective, realizing the deep cultural frustrations of Black people. The trouble is most people don’t think- - at all. They feel, and they have a knee jerk response and fan their own latent feelings of bigotry.

I had Leo Le Port on at eleven and for some time after lunch. Today he talked a lot about “the past” and went down memory row as far as the internet is concerned. If you were an internet freak in those days, your nerdiness became fashionable with the passing of time. If you were, however a kook for Jesus, you’re still just a Freak. [added] You know on that superman episode last Thursday it was the Black man who wanted to be a super hero but he didn't have "real" super powers. He had to chew his kryptomite chewing gum. It's the black guy who wants superman to "come out of the closet" and reveal himself to the world. Sometimes I look at the Calvary Christians and think they're from another planet and they have this "code of secrecy" they keep. But if Blacks had their way there's be a lot fewer secrets in the world.

I have a simple solution for the use of the penny. I’d issue a five for one issue of the dollar under the belief that American currency ought to be worth at least several times European currency is worth. I’d strive for a four to one parody with the Euro meaning four Euros to one Dollar. As such things would be multiples of fives. Pennies would now be worth nickels, and so forth. Ones would be worth fives. Of course I’d have to issue all new currency and make it as different as possible from the old currency, and the best way to do that would be to print it in red, white and blue. I have other ideas. I’d raise the minimum wage to $1.85 an hour or $9.25 in old dollars. If Huckibee wants a national sales tax, I’d say there’d be no sales tax on cash, but if you paid by credit card there would be a 25% surtax, to discourage use. I would exempt food items. However, I’d also institute a 100% surtax on all alcoholic beverages of 50 proof or higher. (25% alcohol) I’d have the tax also for debit cards since these encourage spending, too. I’d eliminate the tax deduction or exemption of churches from paying taxes, and in exchange, there would be no political restraint or pressure on what was said from the pulpit. I’d also institute a 45% minimum tax for anybody earning over $100,000 [$500,000 old] and this tax would kick in all at once; it would not be graduated. (Some may such a sudden tax is not “fair” but it’s just as “fair” as the three strikes law. We passed the three strikes law to show we were “serious” about wanting to prevent violent crime. Capish?) But this would be in new dollars. I would also issue steep tariffs calculated by half of the ratio of minimum wage in the country produced verse our minimum wage here. This could amount to over a thousand percent. I would do this as a very steep incentive for other countries to pay their workers. Problems are solvable if you just want to take the necessary steps. In exchange I’d reduce the income tax for everybody else based on the amount we were saving that year.

The Most Dangerous of "What If" Questions

This is Saturday and it’s the Ides of March. Some times we have to draw a distinction between the real and the fictional. For instance, Julius Ceasar was real, even though some of his most famous lines come from a Shakesphere play. Last night I was reading Terry’s novel, “The Orion Mutiny” in Word. He used Word Art letters for the title. I was going to excerpt some of the writings in a blog but I’ll just describe the novel as extremely detailed with well constructed, descriptive sentences, apparently lacking in any spelling or grammatical errors since nothing was red or green-lined. It reminds me of one of Ron Hubbard’s Sci-Fi novels. The material is extremely fast moving, and as I say detailed. Of course there is no connection between Terry’s novel and any of my own writings, which I don’t imagine he knows anything about, since I haven’t told him, and it’s unlikely he found out from any one else. Of course sometimes dreams are like novels. Last night I had this dream where us three kids all got married and had kids and our grand children were on competition for colonizing various planets. In this dream I married Valerie M. whom [Pete Richards] had wanted to marry but I beat him out. In this dream Tiffany was my daughter and not Scott Styles’s. In the dream people dug and found out that Valerie was my 2^nd. Cousin and for this reason I shouldn’t have married but wince Pete isn’t blood related it would have been OK. Valerie in turn was first cousin to Howard Richards but not related to me. The whole dream has a rather Spanish flavor and all of us were Spanish. One of us founded the town of Midway, which is approximately around Lincoln and Walker (which used to be known as “Moody”) The whole thing about found civilizations on other planets is a little hazy right now.

Of course a novel needn’t be just descriptive prose or dialog. It can be in the form of an exchange of letters like “Dracula” is. It got me to thinking the most “dangerous” of asked questions. What if the entire first century of Christianity started off as someone’s novel. As you know the “Epistles of Paul” and the “Acts of the Apostles” are spoken as chief sources for first century history. I of course have come to the belief that Christianity did not exist in the first century as we know it. What we do know is that the Catholic Church has “Secrets” which, as roomered, if discovered and found out, would be the undoing of the Christian faith as we know it. You may be fermiliar with the “Solomon Spaulding” theory of the authorship of the Book of Mormon. This book perports to be a history of the Jewish people who separated at the time of Jeremiah and came to this country and did various things here. Walter Martin was a big proponet of the “Solomon Spaulding” theory of the authorship of the book of Mormon. But what if the saying is true that Justin Martyr was one day walking along a beach and an “Old Man” met him and “sold him a fable” as the Queen song alludes to? Justin was so impressed with this “Old Man” whom we know almost nothing else about, that he became a Christian. I would like to suggest that this “Old Man” is the author of the original ten letters of Paul plus the book of Acts. People make much of contradictions between the Book of Acts and portions in the letters of Paul. But what they both agree on are a “set of characters” such as Silus and Timothy and Luke. These “characters” who are entirely made up- - and investigating their history will as well prove fruitless- - but these characters are mixed with REAL people such as the apostle Peter, and James, as well as Mark and Barnabus. However if you investigate these REAL people in an objective manner, they will tell you nothing about St. Paul or St. Luke. In no document I’ve read have I found HOW the “letters of Paul” were found. Some say they were found in Ephesus. We don’t know. There is no HISTORY in any of the towns or churches Paul visited of anyone there having either known of Paul or having received or read his letters, and there is no history of the letters prior to them being discovered by “The Church”. Nobody ever seems to have questioned either how we got the letters or whether not they were authentic, or for that matter if St. Paul existed or where or if he died. (I say “IF” because we are talking about Christians) There is no record, even an imaginary one, of how Paul might have died. That part of the story never seems to have gotten written. All we know “officially” is that the letters were supposedly “lost to history” for several decades and then “found” about AD 110 or 120 or so. Even in these letters where St. Paul is the Johnny Appleseed of planting churches, not even they can tell us how the “The Church at Rome” was founded. Apparently it Already Existed when St. Paul wrote them his epistle. Of course we have already stated that Ron Hubbard was a novelist and that Solomon Spaulding was a novelist. This mysterious “Old Man” may be just another novelist. We know that prior to Marcion’s suggestion, nobody proposed the gathering of the epistles of Paul into a “Cannon of Scripture” to be reverenced. We do know that whoever the author or perhaps authors of the Book of Acts and Paul’s letters were, they certainly inspired the imagination of the head haunchos of the Church at Rome. About the earliest known Historic Event we know about in Church History was when Trajan was persecuting the Christians that Pliny the Younger suggested that no action should be taken unless the subject clearly would fail to renounce the Faith when pressured. What we also know is that Gnosticisum seem to come to Rome about AD 90 and a Jewish encyclopedia says there is lots of Gnostic influence in Paul’s letters. Also it was stated that Paul knew Greek translation well, but seemed ignorant of any Hebrew, and that there is a fundamental void of any genuine Jewish background in Paul’s teachings.

Of course when it comes to questions you dare not ask we could turn the cameras on ourselves and ask, “Where did all this Z A C mythology come from?” Someone could come up with the theory that Robin Llyle, Dick Llyle’s wife came up with all of the romance between Howard and Robin stuff. In “The Early Days”, Howard Richard had several aliases such as “Mama”, which Paul Mc Cartney referred to him as, because Howard was the mysterious Paul stand-in on the Pepper album. Other terms used are “The Old Man”, referencing both the Queen song and “Bitter Creek”. Also “Desperado” and “The New Kid in Town”. There also appear to be about threw Howards. There is “Roger Shepherd”. Then there is the Howard that Guy Owens interacted with, mainly from late 1973 to his death on December 30^th. 1975 on Chicago's north side not far from where he lived. And then there is the Howard that Robin knew. Guy Owens’ Howard never gave any allusion to romantic involvement with Robin. Howard Richards told Guy Owens on Dec. 18^th. 1975 that he has been shot at by someone. Guy Owens says he isn’t positive how Howard died. Only that Howard’s one time choffer-body guard-butler told him he’d been shot and killed in the first few days of January 1976, and that his then fiancée living in Madison, WI hired a mafia style hit man to shoot him down. - - - - But let’s suppose I don’t exist. I’m just some character in someone else’s story. What if the “Real Story” goes something like this? Howard Richards met Robin at a 4^th. of July party held at an associate of Pete Richard’s house and it was mutual love at first sight. During the evening Dick Llyle needed someone to light his sparkler and turned to Howard, who lit it. But Dick’s sparkler glowed with a purplish-lavender color and Dick says “How did that happen” and Howard says “I don’t know”. Howard was a seventeen year old Virgin at the time. (much younger than the Howard portrayed by Guy Owens) Howard was just headed into his senior year of high school. But sex with Robin seemed to age him a lot overnight. In 1975 Howard went off into the desert by himself where he was “the old man” existing on rattlesnake meat and drinking worm wood. (presumably wood alcohol) and getting mystic religious revelations. Howard and Robin were about to make some big announcement like Robin was getting a divorce from Dick and marrying Howard when Howard was mysteriously gunned down in the town of Chicago. Howard was always a nobody. He was a Midwestern boy all alone in LA and lost his virginity there. He was a mere 17. He was gunned down in some sting operation where Howard was mistaken for somebody else, some major criminal they were after, but he just ‘got in the way”. He died never living to his nineteenth birthday on February 20^th. 1957. (1976) Of course as the spiritual “Defender of the Faith” I’m supposed to steer you away from any such “alternate histories” as this one, but I offer it here for your perusal.

Some Unnoticed Trends

There's a famous line delivered by Captain Queeg when he first boarded the Caine and looked over the sloppily run ship and started enumerating problems and saaid, "These are things we are going to start noticing again". There are things any Democrat giving the Inogural Address next January will "start noticing again" such as moral hypocracy and biased judgements. Last night Bill Moyers was on KCET and they had the thing "The Selling of the Iraq War". They enumerated the many lies which were told about Iraq and Al Qaida connections and all those "aluminum tubes" and the notion that Saddam was keeping the inspectors from doing their job. It's interesting to see the wave of patriotism after 9 - 11 fanned into near Mc Carthy-esque hysteria on the part of the media. Donnahew was kicked off the air but even when he was on the air he had to have two conservatives for every one liberal he had, and he could never have a liberal alone. The media said if ever they said anything contrary to the Bush Adminestration line, they had to do it in an almost tongue and cheek fashion, and if any newspaper had an anti-Iraq story they could never run it on the front page. It almost reminded me of something out of Nazi Germany. It's no wonder then that the only two anti war speeches they showed from senators were from two old giesers who won't be around that much longer anyhow, Byrd and Kennedy. The most fanciful and manufactured roomers were repeated ad-nausium as fact. The farther you got from "The belt-way" the more different a picture of reality you got. The governments star witness was dropped by the CIA in the mid 1990's after they had been paying him money to talk, because they thought him unreliable. Comon sense would dictate that a control freak wouldn't want some "loose cannon" group like Al Qaida calling the shots or upstaging him. I guess you've heard that the military now has that "Ray Gun" which stuns you with a siering heat sensation, kind of like the contraption in "Dune" and yet the military has shown no interest in non lethal military weapons, even if there are many uses for them. They were not allowed to show civilian casualties in the Afghan war in the fall of 2001. It's no wonder then that all the leading democratic politicians of the day repeated the same propaganda lines.

One trend I've noticed looking at the music of yesterday. Have you noticed that the number of strongly or mildly Revolution themed pop songs on the radio markedly dropped between 1971 and 1973? In 1971 you have "Sign Sign" "One Toke Over the Line" "Bongla-desh" "Power to the People" "They Cut George Jackson Down" "Won't Get Fooled Again" and you have Led Zeppelin singing about girls from California with flowers in their hair. John Lennon was singing about those "Sons of tricky-Dicky". What happened to all those songs? The demarcation line seems to be approximately the Republican Convention in 1971. They had planned to hold the convention in San Diego but they were afraid of demonstrators and so moved the convention to Miami, which they could seal off because it was on an island. Mr. Buchannon, my history teacher of fall of 1972 said, "The era of Revolution is over. After the election, you won't be seeing the "new" reformed Nixon any more but he'll be back to the old Nixon of the 1950's taking bold new repressive steps against dissenters. The dark secret of Watergate is that it worked. All of the stuff we mentioned in the last paragraph was around in one form or another back then, as repressive steps were planned to thwart dissent. Like I say, as a liberal and I'm taking the oath of office as President, I'm going to proclaim, "These are things we are going to start noticing again". It's time for the journalistic community to wake up from their long slumber. I'd start by attempting ex post facto charges of impeachment against George Bush and Dick Chaney.

The most disturbing story by far in the news right now is the statement by Jeroldine Ferarro saying that Berock Obama would not be where he was were he not black. She also said if Obama were a woman of any race he'd never be where he was. This is the most transparently racist we've heard from the Clinton campaign. Hillary never fired her. She resigned of her own choice. Neither would Ferraro apologize in the slightest for any of the many remarks she has repeatedly made to various people on the subject. Instead she only amplifies on her remarks saying that her statements are somehow all Obama's fault. It's been noted that she herself was probably picked because she was a woman, with fewer qualifications at that time than Obama has now. I didn't like her then and wish Mondale had picked someone else. Now we hear that Jeroldine Ferarro is employed by FOX news. When Rush heard the news one thing became apparent. Rush is more reluctant to attack Hillary than he is to attack his own man, Mc Cain. He attacked Mc Cain for being too restrictive about what his campaign aids were allowed to say. Rush points with pride that he has no restrictions and say any under-handed thing about Obama that he wants to. Once again I refer you to the Randi Rhodes program for more gory details about Ferraro and Hillary. Rush Limbaugh says basically "Well, Obama had the remarks coming because now he knows what the Republicans went through for eight years in the ninties." I guess my advice to those super-deligates is, to quote the Ruttles, is "You'd better think twice, at least once more. We all need to mobelize and phone our super-deligates such as Feinstein and Boxer in California and give them a piece of our minds on this subject. Even Hillary supporters who were willing to give her a "pass" previously, will balk at this latest incident. You don't want people making comparrisons to Anne Coulter. My feeling now is that the forces of darkness will pervail and that Hillary will be awarded the nomination. I sure hope I'm wrong.

Political bias is manifest in our next story about this Spitzer guy who resigned today. Apparently it was some kind of set up with IRS agents infiltration the prostitution ring. Of course you know from watching Cops how agressive these cops posing as hookers can be. They're more agressive than used car salesmen. I don't know if it's worth exploring the motives that toppled this guy from his throne. We know he was vigilant in his enforcement of the law as AG and was known as the Sheriff of Wall Street. We don't want good democrats getting the axe. Why is it that when a good person gets fingered for something he resigns immediately, but when one of these right wing bozos get nabbed they seem to hang around forever. Now the new Lt. Governor is a Black guy who is legally blind. Maybe we could raise Ray Charles from the dead to play his part in the movie. Randy Rhodes wonders why the wives of these men show such loyalty. I, too, would like to comment on Laura Sleshenger's remarks. If she says "It's a wife's job to cater to her man and to acto like a hooker and feed his ego and stroke him so he won't stray" I can tell you as a man that isn't how it works. Men get restless and there are any number of reasons why. Many times I have had relations (not sexual) with Christians of the same sex, and they have flaked out on me for no reason at all. They seem to be driven by forces you can't see and exist only in their minds. I don't like the idea of a husband and wife always having to be "On" for each other. Sometimes a man comes home tired and doesn't want to engage in flattering strokes about how lovely his wife looks. I don't like the idea that a wife has to think of herself as a "legal" hooker and may say flattering things to her man she doesn't even mean just to get a new piece of jewelry or something, and he gets sex. One time Luis Faracon was on the radio and I recorded this message Faracon preached on the subject of a wife relating to her husband like a hooker. Laura's attitude is demeaning to men as well as to women. But then Laura's whole show is so down on women- - if they aren't putting on an act for their man, they are perpetual baby sitters with no sex life at all. I don't see how a woman could have self esteem listening to her show.

I see two deaths in the next year. I see Rush Limbaugh dying, probably of something heart related before January 20, 2010 if a democrat is in the White House. As I see it I don't think Rush will have anything to live for if a democrat gets into the White House and has decisive control of congress. There will be nothing to mock, and everything the democrats want will be getting passed. All Rush will be able to say is "Well I didn't like Mc Cain anyhow". Rush will become like a gorilla who's had his balls removed but is still posing for his Ape friends, who mock him. The other victim of death's hand is Chuck Smith. It's kind of ditto for him. From my latest information on Chuck Smith, he has really become down on this present world and sees the only future for mankind as death and deliverance into the hereafter. Then all the things Chuck claims to dread will take place. A lot of buildings will be named after him. While younger Christians will grow up never knowing who he was to begin with.

The Long Wait

Today is the final primary contest for a long time, six weeks. All indications are that Obama will easily win today's contest in Mississippi. The next "phase" of primaries kicks in late April and the month of May. But meanwhile the convention is not for another five and a half months on the calendar. The Democratic Convention starts on August 25th. This is after the Olympics in Peking and also pre season NFL football will have begun to kick in. It's an understatement but all sorts of things that are totally unexpected could happen between now and then. It's very likely that the things we consider such pressing issues now between Clinton and Obama will by them seem almost laughable and irrelivant. Of course I guess one of one of the most important things to happen while people were just "waiting" was the Rise of the Christian religion. This was invented to ease the boredom of people waiting around for Jesus to return because they needed to give their lives meaning, so the profession of theologian was invented, and the Catholic Church began acquiring all the gold it could get and forbad priests to marry so they couldn't pass wealth on to their kids. There is a book out now called "Bad Moon Rising" about the Reverand Moon and his ownership of the Washington Times. It seems that the conservative movement is "hostage" to Reverand Moon, even people like Jerry Folwell. You learn something new every day. Of course putting any rational news outlet at all is a real achievement for these people.

In keeping with "waiting" is the notion of reruns and reprocessed material, and we're going to make use of re-worked previous written material in this blog. Fair warning. Oil has now gone to $108.00 a barrel, which is a new record. The Dow Jones Industrials are now in the 11,000 range or the lowest in a long time. Gasoline in LA has now topped an average of $3.50 per gallon, and there have been incidents of four dollar a gallon gas. Also they are talking about the "baby boomers" in a general selling mode for their larger houses, so there will be a glut of larger homes for the next twenty years that will tend to depress prices. In food there trends where a permanent inflation of some items will be on progress for the next five years hence.

. I also watched Sixty Minutes in its entirety. The first segment was on John Mc Cain. Apparently the North Vietnamese wanted to let him go because he was the son of an Admiral or something but Mc Cain stayed with his comrades. There is no question John Mc Cain is a man of moral principle. The question is "Will is better nature be the one to come through in the campaign?" I think a lot of people will need reassurance that a President Mc Cain will be able to handle economic matters. The next segment was on a Black man who was in prison for 26 years for a murder he didn’t commit in Illinois, and he still isn’t free. It’s two attorney’s fault. It’s an ethical requirement in some code for attorneys to withhold the truth of another person’s innocence even if it means they get executed. They claimed they were “morally tormented” or something over the event, but apparently not troubled enough to do anything about it. As you know at least three times I have been betrayed by authority figures whom I thought I was speaking in confidence with, and I turned out to be betrayed. The whole issue is kind of a sort point with me. There are certainly topics, such as sexual matters, that I would never in a million years share with any Christian authority figure. Finally there was that corporate raider guy who has had to modify his activities just a little after laws were passed. Now stocks have a lift called the Icon effect. The man passionately dislikes C E O’s. I'd have to mull over each case in my mind to morally dissern whether the man did right or wrong. I guess some would say "You always have a choice". If you don't want to make an economic decision you'll later regret, then don't make it in the first place. Some people make their money because "They are able to keep their heads while others are losing theirs", as per the words of "Run for Your Life".

This is Monday March 10, 2008 and I am unsure whether I’ll do a blog today or tomorrow. My guess is not too many blogs are dated on a Monday. Last night I did go out for that cigarette and then watched “Family Guy”. I had dreams I don’t remember and woke to awareness when the announcement was coming over the P A at 6:47. the shower was cold so that went quick. We had Raison Bran for breakfast and Manfred gave me extra eggs and toast from others’ plates. I appreciated that.

I had Stephanie Miller on from 8:30 and Thom Hartman on at nine, but I fought drowsiness that first hour. At ten I switched to Judge Joe Brown, and continued to drowse a bit through that. I shaved during Craig Mathass. Manfred gave me extra coffee at lunch so I ended up getting the coveted three cups. In terms of smoking I got the two back from Gary at 8:15 and smoked the next one at a quarter to ten. At times I would go out to the patio even when I didn’t smoke. I got a cigarette from Marsha after lunch and purchased a cigarette for 25 cents in change from Richard Moore at 1:30. Oh by the way "Yvan Eth Nioj", youall!

Hugh Rodham and Tony Rodham have both entered into shadowy agreements with President Clinton about Presidential pardons. Also rich people have “cut deals” such as Arab sheiks in donating to the Clinton library. It had been announced that donor’s names would be confidential. Randy Rhodes says she “sitting on a whole stack of stuff” on Hillary, and as the time passes she has become ever more down on Hillary. Time does bring clarification. I don't think "the past" is somewhere Hillary wants to go.

It’s after five and we had a good dinner consisting of pork chops, baked potato half, and green beans. The only thing that would have made it perfect would be if we’d had something besides orange Jell-O for desert or if there had been official seconds. Unofficial seconds were courtesy of Thu Thai. I couldn't go for the usual coffee because I was out of money.

Drugs are coming out of our faucets according to the news. Our water is not safe. You’ve heard of commercials in movie theaters, but now they have stop lights on Freeways. The first freeway to freeway metering system has been done in the San Gabriel Valley. There was a shooting in a bar in Tenecula in a bar. The guy who shot a lady’s boyfriend dead right through the chest was an off duty Costa Mesa cop who was drunk. An hour earlier he had inappropriately groaped one of the women. I guess Cops are always “On” with their trusty gun at their side ready to fire at a moment’s notice.

A seven year old mature looking little girl is dead tonight after a trip to the dentist for a tooth extraction. She was complaining of a toothache. Apparently the dentist dropped the tooth down her wind pipe and she suffocated. Apparently in incidents like this they call it an inadvertent “accident”. You can’t sue for that like you can sue Mc. Donalds for coffee that’s too hot. Too bad she isn’t a popular soap opera character like Bo Brady. Then “they” wouldn’t dare kill her off.

The governor of New York was nabbed by the Feds for seeing a prostitute, a high price thousand dollar call girl. This guy had formerly been known as “Mr. Clean”. This whole idea of kiss and tell has become so fashionable I'm wondering whether anybody cares any more. I myself don't talk about my past sexual involvements as you know. That's just the way I was raised. Sex is something you did; not something you talked about. Of course some cases of adultry are more grevious than others. For instance if the offending party is a guy you already don't like and are also suspicious of, and believe your wife may already be adversely affected by him, and worse of all the guy out-ranks you on the religious pecking order. Then when the deed occurs it makes it so much worse because you told yourself "Well, he's so pious he'd Never do anything like that". So your whole "faith" structure falls apart.

A Return to "That Old Time Religion"

Before you dial away in a mad rush, I'm not talking about what you think. I'm not talking about turning the clock back a hundred years to 1908 on our social morays. What I'd like to talk about a little in this paragraph, though is the drugging of America by the FDA and America's doctors. If you are in LA and saw the thing on channel eleven this morning, the speaker said that "they" want all of America to be increasingly dependant on more and more drugs all of the time. I, with my Scientologist leanings find this most disturbing. For instance it was stated that Prozac and other seratonin blockers only work thirty percent of the time. The other 70% of the people who take this medication such as Prozac remain depressed. If you sold an herb that did not work seventy percent of the time they'd have it banned by the FDA. Apparently the FDA has proclaimed that if a substance isn't a drug, it cannot be used to cure a disease. Therefore an orange would be illegal to sell if you're searching for a cure from scurvy. Not only that but it was said that flax seed oil in a bran muffin can be used instead of chemotherapy for a woman recovering from breast cancer surgery. Now others are echoing Dr. Dean Edell's dictum that "vitamines give you cancer" or at least vitamine E does. A hundred years ago opium was legal and there were few addicts. If you leave it to private citizens, they have enough sense to know which drugs to take and not to take. In one book on Jesse James I read, it said while Jesse didn't drink, he often took medical potions with opium and other elixers in them. Of course this was also back in the era before bigoted immigration policies, but that's another issue.

Johnny Wendell was questioning whether Bill Cosby has the right to tell "the Black community" either how to raise their kids or what values to have. All I can say is being a TV Dad on a basically a "white" comedy with an all Black cast doesn't qualify Bill Cosby as a socialogist. The thing is seeing it as a "Black community" seems to imply that Black people are somehow fundamentally different from a "white" or any other color "comunity" and not just ordinary people wanting the best for their kids and neighborhood just like everyone else.

Of course in politics we are returning to that "Old Time Religion" of smoke filled back rooms and people making deals. Clinton has a hammer lock on the party structure and it's clear without some "organization" that Clinton can't beat Obama in a fair caucus or primary fight. Of course some "Karl-Rove-esque" tacticts used by Hillary are alarming to even sympathetic democrats. I needn't enumerate these. Just catch Randy Rhodes' show yesterday afternoon, March 7th. When she says "Mc Cain and I bring experiance to the job and all Obama brings is a speech" she really is hitting desperately below the belt. Obama could hit back if he wanted to but the thinking is "the party is going to have to field at least one Undamaged candidate in the fall, and it can't be me". Some might say this is how Jesus Christ got to be messiah. By avoiding the political realities of Palestine in the first century. Of course I was going to vote for John Mc Cain because he spent five years being tortured in a North Vietnamese prison camp. The last time I checked, even Jesus Christ can't claim that. Considering the things Jesus said about the Jewish people when he WASN"T being tortured, I'd hate to think what he'd say about them if he was. That's another topic for another day. Some say Mc Cain went crazy in the prison camp. Of course with the morays of either Jesus Christ on KFI or the Rev. Bill Halliday, the sin gets transferred from perpetrater to victim. It's no longer the Viet Kong's fault for torturing Mc Cain, but rather Mc Cain's fault for BEING tortured. Some have said that Mc Cain is now mentally unstable and that when faced with a crisis with Russia where he might be tempted to press the red button and drop the Bomb, Mc Cain would "snap" and fall to temptation more easily than most. In Christianity it's a sin to be "tested past your breaking point" and just "Snap" and either say or do things you may or may NOT regret in later years. I haven't decided yet whether I'll vote for Mc Cain or perhaps Ralph Nader. Mc Cain is an honorable man despite his lobby connections. He has a humane immigration policy appealing to Latinos. He has a contience when it comes to turturing prison and abusing the Geneva conventions. And Mc Cain has a foreward looking energy policy, which should be appealing even to some "aware" fundamentalists, who believe that God charged us with stewardship of the earth. Also, at least in his more lucid moments, Mc Cain is for a fiscally responsible tax code. Even with all this going for him, it's difficult to see how Hillary Clinton won't end up snapping him like a twig before November.

Another way in which I'd like to return to "That Old Time Religion" is a return to traditional views, expressed for over 25 years, about the Orion Federation. All this time we have said that they didn't travel in space ships using "Warp Power" and in reality not all that much "traveling" was described at all in the writings of me and Mark Campbell and Bill Gunderson. We talked about a sixth dimension. This can be best described as "events have substance". Another mantra is "actions have consequences". In this case, manifestations you can physically see as waves upon a sea of ether. I was just reading up on Einstein today and he said the reason why the Universe at its "edges" expands faster than the speed of light is because "space itself is expanding". Another way of looking at it is the ether is moving out so the sign posts are moved and the maximum speed limit is increased. We have spoken of hyper-space and space folding. Hiperspace can be best defined as leaving the "flat" three dimensional plane of ether's mean level and looking first at the waves and the patterns they form on the ether- - and how there is a whole "image" out there, which is actually composed of Karmic actions. To go Greek on you you might say that the hypo-stasis of events is sixth dimensional reality or substance. As such let me now go on to confirm Jesus Christ's "anti-compernican" and Romanesque statement made a few months back that says "It's impossible to travel faster than the speed of light and man will never accomplish it". I say this in mockery of what the Church said about scientists of the past. Usually if you make such an absolute statement like an "absolute speed limit" you'll be caught with your pants down one of these centuries. Yet such an absolute speed limit can be deduced from Einsteins own work. What this of course means is that Black Holes don't exist, because they CAN'T exist. The Wickipedia refutes the ether theory but that does a lot better job of "Splaining Things" then relativity. Let me illustrate this in a simple example a bright eight year old can get. Suppose you have two dots or points. These are moving away from each other at 3/4ths. the speet of light. According to Newtonian physics it should be IMMITEREAL which dot is moving and which is stationary, or whether both are moving either in the same or in opposit directions. Relativity is obsessed with WHICH spot is standing still. Now if dot A emits a beam of light to B and B emits a beam of light to A at the same time, both beams should arrive at the identical time and travel identical speeds. Not so fast. That's too logical. In fact according to Relativity there is no such thing as a "simotanious" event. In fact the theory says "Well, A could preceed B or in another observation B could preceed A. Not only that but in some arenas A could CAUSE B and in another view B could CAUSE A. Even Timothy Leary would be confused by this statement. But if we play along if B is the one moving 3/4 the speed of light and A is standing still then time on B is slowed down to 1/4 the speed. What this means is the light from A will have to be traveling only 1/4 the speed of the beam going the opposit direction. But the thing is even though B must send the faster beam in order to be "perceived" as simotanious on A, which has faster time, B's time is slower. This means that B has to send its light beam sixteen times faster than the guy on A has to send it for presumably the beans to be "simotanious". Now many now want to go back to the ether in space theory. It makes a lot more sense, huh?

Be Careful What You Wish For

What we saw in the election results last night was nothing more nor less than the political death of Berock Obama. He is pretty much washed up as a candidate for President this year. Part of it is his own fault. This whole wishy-washy thing has come back to bite him. Hillary Clinton has positioned herself as the strong, decisive leaders with this "Suppose the red phone rang at 3 AM" adds. Berock's come-back to this add was limp wristed at best. The important thing to remember about a mistake in judgement is less that you made it, but more how decisive you are about correcting it once you realize it. One time growing up they were putting a side brick fence in our yard and they were cheating us out of six inches or so of our property. We made the contractors go back and do the thing over and put the line back where it was supposed to be after the first row of bricks was already up. How many of you as kids have been criticized for doing a job badly where some important first task in the overall job was not done properly. You may be well be asked to go back and do the whole job from the start and do it right. We have said that if you buy a weak stock that goes down, your first sign of "admitting you made a mistake" is your willingness to now "man up" as they say on Cops, and take your loss and get rid of the stock. This translates in Iraq to pulling all of our troops out of Iraq immediately if you really believe getting in in the first place was an unsound decision. Where Obama was also beaten is this notion of lying or being mealy-mouthed about NAFTA. As Tom Hartman points out it's not just NAFTA but GATT, the global trade agreement, that's even more important. Are you willing to take on China in trade wars? If not, you're a whoos. Obama was telling the Canadian government that after he was President that he'd ignore all the campaign promises he made to our people because "That's just politics". I bet the good people of Ohio didn't like hearing these words knowing the issue it was. Hartman points out nobody is using the "T" word, meaning terrifs. Any economic policy with bold, decisive leadership will have to involve the imposition of terrifs. Then there's the whole African slash Moslem issue that was thrown up in Obama's face. Obama was shown in Tanzenian native garb. This is only a reminder to people that Obama is of an alien race and an alien religion from theirs. Hillary's denial of this charge was limp wristed at best. She says "Well he says he's not a Moslem so I have no choice but to believe him". She was almost sending a code to her own people "It's OK to be bigoted".

But there is a more serious sign in yesterday's election. As you know the polls had shown Hillary losing ground in Ohio rappidly being only a few points ahead of Obama, and that in Texas Obama had actually pulled ahead. In the final results Obama lost both Ohio and Texas. One reason why is that Rush Limbaugh ordered his people, his bigoted republicans, to vote for Hillary in Texas and Ohio to "bloody Obama up". This is no idle speculation. Rush has admitted this tactic at length on his show today. We already knew that Hillary wins by playing dirty and Hillary is not above telling outright lies to win. No doubt Rush Limbaugh finds these qualities secretly endearing. What Rush Limbaugh has done is to weed out the weaker of the two candidates, Obama, and insured that Hillary would be the standard bearer and would go on to win big in November, now that she has been tested and "vetted" and all that stuff. Obama might have fallen apart anyhow against Mc Cain were he the nominee. His lack of substance in his words may have come back to bite him. Now the democrats don't have this problem because Obama won't be running. Rush Limbaugh defends his meddeling in the political process by saying "Well it's dirty and rotton and under-handed, but the democrats do it so it's OK". I wonder if that's what Rush's mother told him growing up. Do you conquer your enemy by becomming like him? But they aren't the same thing anyhow. Conservative democrats who vote for Mc Cain did so because they felt alienated from the two liberal candidates in their own party. This appealing to the center will help Mc Cain in the fall and Rush should be grateful to these democrats. Is Rush like Anne Coulter? Is he so mad at Mc Cain for getting the nomination that he is now going to turn around and vote for Hillary in the fall? I'm not sure what those super-deligates will make of Rush Limbaugh's political medelling. As you know I am against the open primary. I wish we didn't have them because they muddle the process. We know Hillary's love of getting down and dirty to win a presidential race and thanks to Rush she'll be doing this in November. George Bush has already screwed up the economy so bad, I'm voting for Mc Cain this fall because I don't want to be a part of the deboccle when it happens next year with Hillary as President. I did a President Hillary skit on an early blog of mine in May of 2006. I did an even earlier skit in the late fall of 2005 involving President Hillary. So this result of Hillary as President is not a new one to me. I think candidate Obama needs several more years to mature anyhow.

Of course one thing candidates do is invoke Christianity. No candidate has dared run on anything other than a Christian platform. But in 1980 when I was trying to pitch my prophecy book where I endorsed Ronald Reagan for President- - - I ran into problems because nobody in the Calvary Chappels would help me. Back in those days people at the Calvary Chappels, which involve Chuck Smith as head king pin and all his minions, nobody there thought it was worth risking your "prayer batting average with God" to come out for Ronald Reagen. In those days the Calvaries still maintained they were non political. In reality Calvaries have as their Prime Directive, "Look out for number one". In their view if you have a gift or annointing from God, it's almost a sin to share it or convey it on another. You are to use it only for yourself. In this line of reasoning people don't have enough "energy" to spend their power in the risky business of supporting a Presidential candidate who might not win. In 1996 one Calvary Chapel, and I believe several, had prayer sessions over the presidential race and their slogan was "Thy will be done" meaning whoever wins is God's will and they support God's will. "You just want to be on the side that's winning" as Dylan might say. One Pastor wrote to me in a letter expressly that "If it doesn't happen, then it isn't God's will". These people are Calvinistic to a fault and Calvinism might be summarized as "If you are among the Chosen, you can do no wrong; if you are not among the Chosen; you can do no right". Of course, to quote Rosemary's Baby, "It's important to get those big key breaks early in your carreer". It's amazing how Calvary people and some soap opera characters and Hillary Clinton have one thing in comon: Losing is an alien concept to these people. A lot of these people seem "annointed" from the word Go, and I do not use that word in a flattering sense. Hillary thussly is one of these "annointed". It's like if you're a Calvary Pastor in the sixties and saw all the lynchings and abuses of justice against Blacks down South you'd say something like 'Lord, we lift up this situation to you". And that pretty much "solves" the problem. Words, words, words. If someone is going into business and you're Chuck Smith and someone says "God told me to do thus and so", Chuck will sit back and say "I"d like to see you try. You'll fall flat on your face. Nobody can compete with me". The problem with Hillary is that she's all out for "Number one" but to such an extent that she's divisive. The Calvary Right will have a major problem on their hands this November it being virtually "Agains their religion" to pray for or support someone's who's "only going to end up losing" and therefore lacking the annointing of God. The whole idea of doing something merely because it's right and moral is alien to the Calvaries. Basically if there is genocide going on in your African village and you're Chuck Smith you don't try and stop the genocide you say "Well. I'm sure the Lord is working it out. Let's just sit back and see what happens". One "primal sin" among the Calvaries is acting "without the leadership of God". It's better according to Chuck Smith to do nothing your entire life rather than risk action and have it not work out. To squander energy on a losing proposition is something alien to the Calvaries. Guy Woodhouse in "Rosemary's Baby" never had to worry about whether "things would work out in his carreer". There is a keyboard player of a famous Rock Group who lied about the hits he was part of the group in. He joined the group after the group had had most all of their hits. Like Hillary you tell lies to win and we know now that "winning is everything". When this keyboardest became a Christian his carreer took off and he had numerous solo albums and then owned his own record company. The Wickipedia seems to not be surprised by this. They report it as normal, as if it's something to everybody who becomes a Christian and formerly been a nobody. Of course Chuck Smith talked about people who end up mysteriously dead from "crossing" the leadership. Can anybody say "Vince Foster"? I don't know if we'll ever find out what really happened with Vince Foster. My issue is trust and I don't trust the Calvary Christians, and I don't trust the Clintons. (Selah)