Opposite Land

In last night's Simpson's episode aside from the lack of hints about Massachusetts being the locale of Springfield, Homer thought a trip to Brazil was a trip to"opposite land". A place where it is cold in July and hot in February, where snow is warm and falls up, where the crooks chase the cops, where girls chase boys, and where all the Foster Farm chickens are really from Arkansas. But you can pick up your newspaper these last four days since my last posting, and feel as though you are in actuality in "opposite land". Because the stock market has gone up four days in a row. Indeed from the first day of the current rise, we were bombarded with the news "the consensus is that everyone thinks we've hit bottom". Now we are told the economy is really up. The consumer confidence index is up, housing sales are showing helpful signs, and Citi Bank and all the other banks are showing good earnings reports and Citi bank's rise in stock price has caused all the other bank stocks to rise. There is seemingly no end to the good news. Does this mean that the republicans are going to throw in the sponge and say "all resistance to the Obama budget recovery plan is futile?" Well, not yet. You'd think if this sudden optimisum were real that it would continue longer than four days. Sixty Minutes bombarded us with stories about how it may take years for us to get out of this recession and how there were other rounds of economic crises yet to appear on the horizon. I think this four day period might be just a case of a little too much "irrational exhuberance" about this economy.

In other news, Lamar Alexander is meeting with other republican big whigs to lay out their own ideas before the press. Hillary Clinton is in China but notibly defensive about the subject of human rights, which one gets the feeling that Obama, like Bush before him, wants to put on the back burner, for the sake of other economic concessions. Of course every morning they do a White House press briefing and you can see it any time on C-Span, but mostly it isn't really much to see. There is the employee free choice act. I read all about it in Wickipedia and I still don't have the vaguest understanding as to what it's really all about except it will be easier to start up new labor unions. To a lot of people labor unions have been a part of the problem. They propped up wages in earlier decades and now that economic forces have equalized, it's time to get back to reality and what the labor market will really support. And then there all these teenage sex stories in the news and talk about teenage "Sexting" over cell phones. Of course if they're caught they say they can be liable for violation of under age pornography laws. For a teenager it's illegal to involve anyone of your same age in any sex act or pornography, or else you're a criminal. One wonders whether the internet as we know it is going to be slapped down hard by the government soon and that secretly, the President wishes that we really were more like Communist China where everything is so regulated. And then there is a new proposed usury law where banks are outright forbidden to charge any more than fifteen percent on loans, and I guess that goes for credit cards, too. This would mean an end to charging 24% and 27% on credit card fees. I guess my feelings about loan interest rates are that eventually, market forces should drive these rates back down to normal levels, although why this hasn't happened yet is a mystery to me. The fact is that we're all, one way or another, going to be living on borrowed money for a long time to come. Thom Hartman says our economic problems stems from the fact that too many people at the Top want to loot corporate wealth for themselves rather than plow the money they make back into the business. Clearly from a tax law point of view we need to make reinvestment more desirable, and salaries and expence accounts less desirable.

You know they were running those adds about "The Messiah" and how he's going to run for President in 2012 and how he has his own plan for prosperity and universal brotherhood and whatever. It got me to thinking. I don't know who this Messiah is. Maybe he doesn't exist. Maybe it's all some internet hype. But you know, Zachery will be ellagable to run for President for the first time in 2012. That's when the Mayan callendar runs out. We know how the Mayans are obsessed with Venus. The other night they had Superman telling Lois Laine his true identity but it was OK because soon the "reset button" would be pressed on Society so that again nobody would know Superman's identity. That sounds trippy to me. The ZAC has always said that Burt Lombard was the founder of the ZAC. But isn't Burt Lonbard just a made up person himself?? What if there is some real life person who masterminded the ZAC and just left "clues" for the rest of us to find? There is a guitarist and otherwise multi-tallented musician that Mal Evans said a few days ago "He's everything that Brian Jones fantasized that he was". He's also a Mormon. There's that connection again. He also played in a band with a famous Rock Artist for five albums and did three solo albums, plus more session work with other musicians than you can shake a stick at. I'll give you another hint. He's dead now. He died in late April of 1993. But the key here is that it's while he was alive that he did all of this "ground laying" and "clue planting" for the ZAC, so forget about our usual "dead musician" stuff. Here are just a few of the clues about Zachery that have everyone intrigued. On "Manish Boy" on the Rolling Stones best of album from early 1981 there was a line "When I was a young boy at the age of five". Zachery was five at the time. The letters on the cover spell out "King Event" at least twice. On the Jefferson Starship's first album there is a line "Look to the summer of 1975, all the world is going to come alive". On the Elton John song "Levon" there is a line "Jesus wants to go to Venus", which means Jesus is a Zachery worshipper, because Venus is associated with all that Rizzonian stuff and Friday as the day of the week and Zachery was born on a Friday. He was born on the Jewish Newyear, the Feast of Trumpets, when it was a New Moon. So throw in "Dark Side of the Moon" into the mix. There is the chugging train at the end of side one of "Satanic Magesties Request" saying "Brian Jones - - Brian Jones". Of course there's "Slow Train Coming". There is also the Beatles line from "It's all too much" that goes "With your long blonde hair and your eyes a blue" referring to Brian Jones. And don't get me started on Queen songs, that would take too long. The question is all this and more- - just whisteling in the dark, or is there some cosmic plan to it? It's funny how all the gurus have said "Well there's a Messiah coming but there are also a lot of false messiahs out there you have to watch". We're about due for some mystery demogog out there to show up. People are fed up with the mundane and the ordenary. Personally, I think there is going to be a lot of really Weird news to come both concerning the economy and also concerning wars and roomers of wars, that is still not on the horizon yet, but will be soon.