Massive Solar Flair Erupts Yesterday

Apparently we just today experienced the most massive solar flair ever experiaqnced by solar observers, and it was in a whole separate category unto itself involving massive portions of the sun’s carona that covered up a lot of the face of the sun. But the path of the solar flair won’t cause that much magnetic disturbance on the earth because of the trajectory of it and we will only experience a glancing blow. They say that a solar flair in 1851 caused telegraph lines to burst into flames. Somehow I doubt that. But if we had a direct hit from this one it would have caused all sorts of disruption. There was a solar flair in February of this year, and right now we are in the middle of an eleven year peak in solar activity that is expected to last until 2013, which sounds like a long time to me. Someone saw a TV documentary last night where they moved the date of the predicted end of the world from Christmas 2012 to Christmas 2011, or in just a few months. Of course I was just talking on the phone about all these tornadoes and floods and record melting snow packs and massive sudden swings in temperature across the midsection of the United States. We’ll just have to stay tuned.

The latest new unemployment claims are not good. They remain high at over 400,000 and economists say this can’t continue if the economy is to be in recovery. Of course if you liked Paul Ryan you’ll love Tim Pawlenty because his plan is even worse than Ryan’s taking the axe to social security also. Pawlendy wants to lower the maximum income tax rate for anybody to 25% no matter how much money you make. There are certain basic questions Republicans will never answer. One is when they are confronted that business showed its best increases under Bill Clinton when the rate was 39%. They will stop in their tracks, change the subject, knock over the chess board, or whatever metaphor you care to use. The other really big question I have is the oft repeated assertion that “government spending kills jobs. Government spending crowds out private business investment”. How does government spending to this? They now say for Pawlenty’s reform scheme to work at all, business would have to rise five percent per year, every year for the next ten years. And economists say this has never happened. Of course the new charge is that the republicans want to crash the economy prior to next year when everyone stands for election, so that with the U S economy a basket case, they can waltz into the White House with a standard bearer such as Michelle Bachman or a Tim Pawlenty. Now there is a legal battle between the retailers and the banks, as to who pays the credit card charges. It’s been pointed out that while thirty years ago it actually used to cost money for processing credit cards, this cost has shrunk to near nothing now, so that the fees that have crept in everywhere are all gravy to the banks, driving many retailers to deal on a cash only basis. If they want to slap on a charge- - a transaction fee for stocks would work numbers. Because as Sixty Minutes points out, these days the big wigs carry out numerous large stock transactions in fractions of a second. These can only hurt the little guy and commerce in general as all that capital is sucked out of the US economy. All these problems are solvable is a leader has the will to do it. But it’s not all bed news. Stocks are up today June 9, 2011 on news that the trade deficit has narrowed due to increased US exports. This only strengthens my assertion, made for weeks, that the U S dollar will strengthen and that gold prices will fall.

Apparently the argument the pro Health Care people are putting forth to the Court to say that compulsory purchase of Health Insurance is constitutional, is the old “interstate commerce” chestnut that Bobby Kennedy used on business owners in the South to compel them to serve Black people. I find no comfort in this because “interstate commerce” is a clause that used to drive the preverbal mac truck through.. Of course (a) I don’t know what is “interstate” about visiting your doctor and (b) where in the Constitution does it give congress the power to mandate what sort of commerce the people must be compelled to engage in, whether they want to or not. Clearly – even if such a law were to be passed, it would be within the jurisdiction of each state.

It’s notable how many people seek to assume power by constructing “narratives”. So you have the narrative of blacks taking your jobs, illegal immigrants taking your jobs. That Obama is a Moslem sympathizer and that at some crucial development in foreign policy he’s going to “show his true colors”. People in my family have constructed the narrative that I am financially irresponsible. There is the Dr. Levy narrative that energy prices are so high because the President has ordered a halt to all oil drilling when we have tons of reserves waiting to be tapped. Now we are told that Paul Revere rode firing off guns and ringing bells to warn the British that the Americans were coming and they will not tolerate violations of their 2^nd amendment rights. They tried to edit the Wickepedia with their nonsense. What these Republicans really want to do is to transform America into a massive corporatocracy, which we have never had before- - and where individual rights, “the rights of the little guy” gradually wither away till they don’t exist at all.

Let’s talk about types of occupations. I divide occupations into five basic classes, depending less on the type of work but more on the position each class holds in society. First there is WHITE COLLAR jobs. These include C E O’s, Accountants, Secretaries, Brokers, Salesmen, Doctors, Lawyers, Engineers, Teachers, Clergymen, Psychologists, and Politicians. Then we have PINK COLLAR workers that tend to be service related and tend to be dominated by women although this field includes a lot of men, too. These include – Waitresses, Nurses, Cooks, Orderlies, Lab Technicians, Housekeepers, Beauticians, Bartenders, Tailors, tattoo artists, Bellhops, supermarket checkers, and switchboard operators. Then we have BLUE COLLAR workers. These include electricians, plumbers, repairmen, factory workers, auto mechanics, delivery truck drivers, maintenance workers, janitors, foremen, shipping clerks, bus drivers, law enforcement, military, fire fighters, park rangers. Then we have NO COLLAR workers. These include ditch diggers, construction workers, gardeners, roofers, asphalt pavers, house painters, dock workers, agriculture, and animal husbandry. Finally there is INTEDERMINATE Here no dress code is specifically implied. In this class we have Artists, Entertainers, Actors, Authors, Musicians, and Athletes, or anybody doing business out of their home.

NCAA Strips U S C of 2005 Bowl Championship

The University of Southern California has officially been stripped of the championship Bowl victory against Oklahoma in January 2005. They say they did so because one of their players, Reggie Bush, took illegal funds while on the team. To me this is an absurd injustice. How long has the NCAA been holding some penalty over USC’s head anyhow, three years? It’s seemingly endless and I’ve lost track. But reaching back six years into history and say that the major victory over Oklahoma doesn’t count- - is silly, because we all watched them do it. They aren’t awarding the championship to Oklahoma or any other team. They will just say “there will be no championship for the 2004 season”. I was thinking what if the US Supreme Court reasoned this way. As you know when the Bush v Gore decision was handed down. One where the Court illegally treaded on state’s rights. When this happened they said “This decision cannot be used for a precedent in any court case”. So what’s to stop the US Supreme Court from saying, “Since the case was illegally decided we are going to re-hear the case and if we rule in favor of the State of Florida, and Al Gore, will strip the Presidency of George Bush from him. This will mean that none of the laws Bush signed into law during his terms has any legal binding effect because they are illegal. Or what if Republicans getting into power decided to retroactively refigues the unemployment rate during Ronald Reagan’s first term and decreed that RR was actually reelected when unemployment was at 3.6% and not 7.2% I think a lot of these sports rulings now are over-bearing. Who cares how Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France? If the idea is to push the limits of human endurance, well didn’t Lance prove he could do that? What about these “Purity” nutritional products they advertise on the radio Saturday mornings? They claim these have wonder working powers. Sometimes they even say to give the product to Fido and watch him run around in the park. I get suspicious when they issue these “revised” economic figures on stuff, because they almost invariably show a better figure than the original one to make the current administration look good.. Neither do I like this game they play in court where if some “illegal evidence” slips through on the most minute of technicality- - like the D A raised an illegal point in an argument or something was brought out that “shouldn’t” have been because it revealed too much - - and if left to stand would - - unduly clarify the issues the jury was arguing about.

I am not happy about today’s U S Supreme Court ruling which let a California court ruling stand saying that illegal aliens can get the same reduced tuition for state colleges that legal Californians get. But if you are a legal foreigner from another state, you have to pay more. I don’t get it. Illegal aliens shouldn’t have driver’s licenses and shouldn’t have a social security number, and shouldn’t be hired by employers. But we know all these take place. And they come here to our emergency rooms, and get free medical services on our tax dollar. It’s not as though California government is rolling in money right now. If the Supreme Court at least heard the case they might see that leaving the status quo intact is itself a grave Injustice.

Weiner-gate has about played itself out as far as it can go. And I hope that’s not another pun. Today Anthony Weiner had to admit he lied when he said his Twitter site was hacked and the photo was not his. Nobody likes someone being caught in a lie, especially when its someone on our side. One could hardly imagine a worse fate were Cosmic Hand writing the script Himself. It’s the fondest dream and hope of any republican that the most strident, fearless spokesman for the common man be put out of commission. But one has to just wonder whether Bill Clinton “played it right” in his own sex scandal of 1998. In retrospect it would have been much more crafty and wise to just resign and let Al Gore take over. Then Al Gore would most assuredly have won the election of 2000 and he would have four years to groom any potential vice president he picked, who would have won in 2004. And then after eight years of “candidate X”, perhaps by then Berack Obama would actually be mature enough to run for President in 2012. One can imagine a rosy scenario all the way around. All of those wall street laws most likely would not have been signed into law by a President Gore. That computer system that was in place at the beginning of 2001 that Bush took out (Sixty Minutes talked about this) that system would have added to the warnings the US was about to be attacked by Al Qaeda on 9 – 11. So since that never would have happened there might not have been the business slow down there was that the right wing said was an outgrowth of 9 – 11. And there would be no Iraq War in 2003 and no war in Afghanistan. And the prescription drug give-away Medicare part D bill would never have been signed (to curry needed favor with senior citizens) and as such our deficit would be a lot lower, if there was one at all. Because of course the Bush tax cuts never would have happened. In short almost everyone in America would be a lot happier.

"The simple things you see are all complicated"

"I look bloody young but I'm just back-dated"

Good morning this Wednesday June 8th 2011. I'm typing this nice and early so you people in Chicago can be reading this while on your way to work. There was some pop up saying "Make your blog part of a mobile device. I was just listening to Bill Press. Maybe you were too. He says how come nobody sticks up for Anthony Wiener. That's because we're all afraid of what "they" alias the Media will think of us if we do. But I have SOMETHING NEW for you right now on the whole mystery of when St. Paul actually lived. To solve this we need a Roman Emperor who was actually sympathetic to is not protective of Christians. And we found one in Antionius Pious. The "Pious" part of it was always a hint. Paul kept saying "I want to appeal to Caesar". Pious began his reign in 138 AD. Which means St. Paul and his vast network of Churches spanning the Medeteranian was just wrapping up his ministry by then. Though St. Paul's letters clearly precede the Gospels, they don't precede it by all that much because Justin Martyr, in his Apology of 150 AD quotes from both indescriminately. No Bible source is named by Justin, and he won't even use the phrase "it is written" but just quote the line as if it were his own, often making reference to "the memwires of the Apostles". I've been told that Ignatius, who lived earlier if he lived at all, never heard of Paul. We may infer also that some of the late letters of Paul were unknown to Marcion, or he would have quoted from them. Likewise Acts hadn't been written yet or Marcion would have gladly quoted from that since it so expertly suited his purposes. According to Luke we may infer "all kingdoms of this world are ruled by Satan, and Jesus never disputed this". However in Romans 13 by Paul, we are told "Governments are instituted by God". There two separate roomers about John Knox. That he believes Acts has inaccurate chronology, and also that Marcion didn't know about the Christmas Story in Luke so didn't include it. We also know John Calvin did not think ANY of the epistles of Ignatius were genuine. There are so many of them and it seemed if you wanted to write a fake epistle it was shiek to put Ignatius' name on it. Prior to Antonius Pious who began reigning in AD 138 we have Hadrian. No mention of Christians is made at all during his reign however we know that in AD 135 his troops destroyed the City of Jerusalem and all the Jews were expelled. My guess is that there was a "piling on" instinct here, where being Jewish became an easy target to pick on now. But keep in mind if Gnosticisum began in 90 AD it had been going on for decades already, and Christians already had a big boot up on forulating a lot of their Theology.

I want to talk just a little about the last posting. I am a reasonable man. If you thought that was undo extrapolation of dialog, what about the Screwtape Letters by C S Lewis? How strange that in that story Satan practices perfect Christian theology, or should I say perfect C S Lewis Christian theology. Keep in mind the story is to have taken place about AD 35 or 36 shortly after “Yeshuah” the Jewish name for Jesus, died in AD 34 during what’s known as the Hebrew jubilee year. As such things like crosses and Sunday worship and the words “Church” and “Cathedral” would have been unknown. And not only that but the whole anti-Semitic tone of Christian theology hadn’t been thought of yet. Does this clarify things? It’s hard to dig down and find the truth. Many will just accept whatever the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar tells them. There is a line in there “Always hoped to be an apostle. Knew that I would make it if I tried. Then when we retire we can all write the Gospels so they’ll all talk about us when we died.” As I have said however the first real evidence for the existence of any gospel comes about AD 135 or some hundred years after Jesus died. People will say “Christianity can’t be a myth because there isn’t enough TIME for a myth to get going. Myths generally take a hundred years to get going”. OK, how do you want to tell the story? So Jesus dies when the apostles are about thirty and they live another 25 years and retire from the ministry and write the gospels at age 55, which is way past the normal life expectancy of that era, especially for those who live in backward areas. No authority says the gospels were written as early as AD 55 or some 15 years before the Jewish War. And besides they also tell us that all the apostles were martyred, which means they couldn’t “retire” because they were “killed on the job”. It’s funny that with each passing century - the more certitude exists in documents, as well as the more details, and subtle motives you read. By 300 a guy named Eusebius was writing a lot of Church history. And I maintain if you see his name referenced, pretty much ignore anything he ways. The Coptic Church says St. Mark founded their church. But even the Bible itself makes no mention of Mark being in Egypt but numerous references to his being in Rome. The first reference to St. Mark’s founding of the Coptic church occurs centuries later. I gotta admit when I first heard the St. Mark - Egypt connection I was excited. They said Egypt had the Gospel of Mark in 50 AD. Well, it ‘taint so. In fact the Apostle Paul knew virtually nothing about the life of Jesus, and by the way there is no historic proof that either the Apostle, nor any of the web of churches founded in his name- existed in the first century AD. There is a Wickepedia article on Historical inaccuracies in the Book of Acts. You see many area where chronologies of events is altered, or reference is made to things either that no longer exist or haven't yet come into existance. Also the Bible would have us that James, brother of Jesus writes and reads Greek. If Peter's pentacost speech was delivered outdoors and 3,000 got saved right then and they were only some portion of the people present, how did he do this without a good P A system? And I still can't wrap my head around the idea that Nero is referred to numerous times in the Book of Acts, in a positive manner but he is never mentioned by Name, nor is the fire in Rome or the Christians being thrown to the lions, or the deaths of Peter and Paul mentioned.

Just Tell Them Jim Didn't Say, "Hello"

[Editor's note. I screwed up badly on one place in this on the first draft. If you caught the blog in the first half hour maybe you downloaded it. It's kind of one of those things like owning an early Mono pressing of the Revolver album, which I own.]

KNOW IN THIS STORY - - QUITE A LOT

OF ASSUMPTIONS ARE MADE AHEAD OF TIME

Neil walks languidly into some throne room where Stewart Sutcliffe is seated behind a massive guilded executive's desk. "You again!" he exclaims, in an excited, almost panicked voice. "I thought I'd seen the last of you". Stewart speaks. "You mean you thought you had used me to suit your purpose and advance your carrier and then forgot about me and my desciples and go strike out on your own". Neil. "You know- - - I had my own following". Stewart. "I know about you and your five desciples. Demons seemed to follow you all around wherever you went". Neil: "I had a Deliverance ministry. " Stewart. "You mean people suffering from the Falling Sickness would have a fit in front of you and then you would say that the demon had come out". Neil. "I did other things. I taught about love and peace" Stewart. "You know the first time I looked into your freak blue eyes I knew you were trouble". Neil. "Oh I know you. You followed that Egyptian who said "Tear down this temple made with hands and in three days I will raise one up not made with hands". Stewart. "I don't believe the Temple of Herod is of God. That's why my ministry was accross the Jordan River. Neil. "Some day scripture will record that I was the greatest Messiah of them all and tabernacles will be built in my honor and hold worship every Sabbath". Stewart. "Today isn't that day" Neil. "I don't believe in End Times scripture. I believe "last things" should be studied "last" and preferably not at all. Stewart. "The prophet Daniel predicts that the end is coming soon and the doctors of the law have mathematically calculated the number of days - which are almost upon us". Neil. "Oh yeah. You and your Persecution shit. You tell your desciples "If you are persecuted in one town then flee to another. And you say that Egyptian guy you worship will come again and he is just on a long trip. Hell. How do you know he isn't dead? Has he written to you recently". Stewart. "Daniel teaches that the antichrist himself will walk into the temple and profane it". Neil. "Your beliefs are stranger than that. You believe valcanoes will erupt in distant lands and darken the skies and turn the moon to blood. I believe in the gospel of peace. I believe that every man can partake of the kingdom of heaven right on earth". Stewart. "Why are you here?" Neil. I'm here because obviously I died. Stewart. "how does that fit into your plans when you claim to offer eternal life? My ministry is alive and well on earth but you fell victim of the law, whereas I died honorably preaching the law to a King". Neil. "I had a great following. People all over idolized me." Stewart. "You were accused of scorcery by the saducees and put on trial and convicted. Then heralds were sent out to proclaim your crime and that if there be any man who thought you were innocent to them come forward. And nobody came forward and you were put to death by stoning as prescribed by the law". Neil. "Some day that won't matter. People won't care if I died. People have Faith. I always tell people faith is the most important thing and that if they had the faith of a grain of mustard seed they could do greater works than I." Stewart. "Sentamental hogwash". Neil. "One thing bothers me and that is now that I'm dead, why am I being judged here in this elaborate executive office by you and not by God?" Stewart. "Because God has allowed it to be so and I never question something God directly tells me". Neil. "You speak of your own vanity". Stewart: "Behold there are religious people who believe an Angel gave me my ministry" Neil. "I lay no claims such as that - BUT Some day great religious edifaces will be constructed in my name. They will see me as the most perfect being who ever lived who brought mankind into the light." Stewart: "Well then tell me "all knowing one". Have you ever heard of anti-biotics, penisslin, streptomiacin- - - for healing of infections? Neil. "infections of demons?" Stewart. "No. Infections of germ. Neil. "What is a germ". Stewart. "You are the great physician and you don't know what germs are. Oh - - that's rich!" Neil. "Nobody catches me in my words". Stewart. "If that were really true you wouldn't have been convicted and sentensed for sorcery - and be despized by the very people you claim to be the savior of". Neil. "I give people a meaning to their lives they never had before. People don't want knowledge which will pass away. People want to be assured their sins are forgiven." Stewart. "Then why don't you have a ministry of baptism like mine". Neil. "Don't be stupid. Who can compete with you". Stewart. "Do you believe you are smarter than me?" Neil. "Yes, I do. And I'm prepared to- - "Die?" Stewart interjected. Neil. "Perhaps I made an unwise choice of words. But yes. By faith I am smarter than you". Stewart. "By faith, huh. Tell me what Achems Razor is. What is the second law of Thermal Dynamics? Do you know what Pi is?" Neil. "I don't speak Greek". Stewart. "Define the term kilowatt hour. Do you know what a prime number is? What is the shape of this world we live on?" Neil. "I can answer that last one. The Bible plainly teaches the world is square and hangs upon nothing". Stewart. "What if you get to the edge of the square?" Neil. "Then you fall off the edge, I suppose". Stewart. "What is an algorithm? Sumarize for me the Pythagorean theorem. Define what a control test group is. What does the Greek word "Logos" refer to? What causes the wind to blow? Neil. "The wind is a manifestation of the Spirit of the Lord moving upon the earth". Stewart. "My analysis of you is that you display an Apalling Lack of Knowledge- - - About Everything". Neil. "Not all truths are true, but only those Truths which give glory to God the Father". Stewart. "I never heard that one before". Neil. "Is the Temple not still standing in Jerusalem?" Stewart. "Last time I checked". Neil. "How come it hasn't been thrown down as your great hero, the Egyptian predicted it would be? You know of course that Scripture predicts that the Second Temple will be greater than the first, because the Lord himself will inhabit it". Stewart. "I'm spent enough time fooling with you. I'm going to send you where I sent all the others". Neil. "Where is that?" Stewart: - - "To a big underground holding area where you will be given a white robe and a palm branch waiting for your Messiah to come to you". Neil. "I am the Messiah". Stewart. "Sure you are. Not when you've been waiting around for hundreds of years or longer for God to give you some sign, and there is none. Not when you're just one of a few million just waiting in a virtual grave- - - Till Hell Freezes Over".

AND NOW SOMETHING JUST ABOUT AS STRANGE

If you think I'm making book on tonight's NBA play-off, hell no. Some of you may be wondering why I didn't just borrow Sgt. Pepper from a friend and hear the whole thing. The answer is a big "I don't Know". I listened to Rolling Stones albums I didn't own, or the Byrds or "Rubber Soul". Why did I do a lot of things I did back then? I remember a few times I got reefer from somebody and then complained they were ripping me off, like it was oregano or something. Later on when I had tons of the weed at my disposal it cam down to my body chemistry. It just took tons of the stuff to get me off. I'll tell you one way I'd be different now if I were to go back to the High School era and that I'd be a lot MORE and not less paranoid about people's intentions, particularly members of my own family. Of course I played this little game with myself like there were two of us, and one of ME was a lot more paranoid than the other. The paranoid part of me wondered how the other half always managed to get more girls than I did. The other part or "impostor" part was much more of a "go along to get along" type and was a lot more into church youth groups and such. Perhaps you have observed strangely scitzoid or "inconsistent" reactions to certain events. Back prior to 1968 if there were any references for instance to Jesus Christ in my doodelings or drawings or whatever I did - - - it was positive. This would turn around completely in 1968. The "impostor" half of me was much more inclined to sit through a boring movie on TV is those around me seemed interested in it. One thing we know about "Jim" or "the impostor" half- - not from my life from that "Other" like millions knew about, was that he was into the blues in a major way. However this is somewhat of an exagurated myth is you look at it. He could have recorded anything he wanted to but seldom chose a blues number. And what few there were became increasingly sparse as he grew older. So it should be no surprise that in his next "walk in" life, he actually disliked the blues and didn't like "long jamming sessions", but was into progressive rock like Yes, Genisis, Kansas, and Styx. Of course later on he listened only to Christian rock. The trouble with Christian rock is that it's always X number of years behind the times. So if disco is in, they're still doing country rock. When punk was in they were doing disco, and in the 'eighties they were still doing punk when it had long since become out of fashion. One of Jim's sayings was on the subject of marriage. He would say, "Someone told me that if you got married and had an empty jar and every time you had sex you put a penny in the jar and did that for the first year. And then from then on for the rest of your life every time you had sex you'd take a penny out of the jar, that there would never come a time when you had taken all the pennies out of the jar". So what is Jim doing now? He gave up life as a utility pole climber long ago to become an attorney. But this was maybe fifteen years ago. All we know is that he and his wife have no biological children.

US Drones Kill Number Two Al Qaeda Leader

Allright, I'm coming out of thirty years of retirement

to walk a tightrope between the Twin Towers

without any prior rehersal, with or without a net.

I'm attempting to type this entire blog without notes.

Yesterday our Drone campaign paid off. Instead of killing innocent civilians damaging our credability with the locals, we actually got the Al Qaeda leader, Ilius Kashmiri, who was scheduled to be the next leader of Al Qaeda. This means that the overall thread of Al Qaeda is further diminished, we we have something to be proud of. Joe Byden has been a long time fan of Drone attacks on opperatives rather than risk the lives of more U S troops. However this doesn't seem to affect the administration's reluctance for any troop reductions in Afghanistan as promised last year when he announced an increased "surge" of thirty thousand or so additional troops. Of that "surge" the most we can expect to see in reductions of troops if five thousand, and I'm kind of wondering whether we'll even get that. Nancy Palosi says that five thousand is not a sufficient number, and I would agree. Because clearly the overall trend in troops in Afghanistan is upward and now down. Obama is likely to find his worse enemies on this issue in his own party. But there not a small number of Republicans who would also join in some House resolution, for instance, to reduce troop numbers in Afghanistan. I think basically the same war mongers who ran the Bush administration still rule in the Obama administration.

The civil war has reached some sort of a climax in Yemen where there has been turmoil for months to the consternation of US authorities because Yemen is seen as a key to controling Al Qaeda terrorism. Yesterday the Presidential compound was rocketed, and the President was injured and has left the reins of government to another, and people are saying he won't be back. Twelve security guards were killed in the explosion. Meanwhile things are even worse in Syria. Assad has really become agressive against killing insergents, and I guess the key event now is the castration and then killing of a thirteen year old boy. As Dr. Levy says, Syria has been the place of origen of all sorts of terrorist groups and initiatives for forty years. They indeed are the hub of the spokes in the "axis of evil". Thirty years ago there was an uprising in Syria and ten thousand people were killed. Someone said this leader, Assad, has only been around for twelve years but he was around during the first Gulf War, wasn't he? Compared to Assad, Qadafi is a pussy cat in comparrison. This guy doesn't mess around. I have trouble envisioning any other organization that could be worse for liberties or more oppressive than this current Assad administration. For some reason NATO is more reluctant to get involved in Syria than they were in Libya. People were saying a week ago that Qadafi would be gone by July 4th. I doubted this assasment, but apparently since then other key heads of government posts have deserted.

Well, economically the rain clouds have come and are now dropping their percipitation, and the waters are rising past your waist, and someone is coming by in a canoe advising you to leave your home for the zillionth time. Do you heed his words? Besides unemployment resuming an upward trend, now they say new factory orders are down. This means trouble, and it isn't going to get any better. Ironically I think the US dollar will rise in value because interest rates in "real terms" will be going up and dollars will be a more precious comodity, which means for the first time in ages, our dollar may be appealing to invest in. Unfortunately there are a lot of idiots in the Media and that includes Chris Matthews. The other day on his show, he gave a big, wet, sloppy kiss to Sarah Palin virtually calling her the hero of the day for "putting Mitt Romney in his place". So if Romney's speech was as bad as Matthews says it is, did he cover any of it on his show. Maybe about ten seconds worth. I don't get the local news papers putting Palin in page one and Romney on page eight. What's that all about? Only on the Mc Laughlin report was there even a little bit of sanity. Personally I think Pat Buchannon should run. After all every other republican seems to be considering it. It least Buchannon still has a few brain cells in his head that actually work. You know in the "Oh God" movie there is that line about "You display an apalling lack of knowledge about anything Theological". People like Bachman or Palin or that black pizza guy know absolutely nothing about either American History or economics. Next to them the President actually looks smart, and that's not saying much. They say no President can get reelected with unemployment numbers this high. I don't know how Ronald Reagan got re elected in 1984 with a 7.2 unemployment rate. This was the con of the century and why Mondale didn't hit him harder on this is beyond me. The American people are fickle without a brain in their head and all republicans have to do is to go down a laundry list of gas and food prices and long term unemployment rates, and everybody assumes that somehow they care. But as Thom Hartman says - - these Republicans may actually "get off" on high unemployment rates because (a) it keeps the wage base down and (b) because it "starves the Beast" because government will have a smaller tax base to spend money that could actually help people.

I wanted to mention this whole space travel thing again, and you people with the butterfly nets can put them away. You won't be needing them. Many agree that "2000 Light years from Home" by RS is a prophetic song about the "Planet of the Apes" movie that came out the following year. People make the "Columbus error" in saying the Universe is only two thousand light years in a gigantic circle and if you go straight you end up back where you came from, two thousand years later. The Universe is a LOT bigger than this. But you still have the problem that the acceleration to reach light speed would kill you if you're going to go fast enough for general relativity to do its thing and stretch time and all- - so you think you were gone only a year but you were really gone two thousand years. It sounds good in theory but it would require at LEAST 2,000 G's of continuous acceleration, and no human can endure that. But suppose you admitted an invention to make the space ship "think" it had 2000 years to accelerate and did it all in thirty minutes or even instantaniously like in the Star Trek episodes. Well, OK, fine. you then are virtually going to "stop time". Now you've got another problem. Because for a human being- - - he would age thousands of times more quickly under this system, so even if the ship got to a distant destination within a few days, you would have some nicely preserved human skeletons inside the ship. But as I was starting to tell Michael this morning - - in fact he said it himself- - "The nature of the space surrounding an object depends on the type of mass of the object". This is one of Four Correct Statements Michael made this morning. The others in the group said "Michael doesn't know anything about physics". Yes he does. The other Correct statements he made were the two dates of Einstein's two main theories of 1905 and 1915, for special and general relativity, but also the fact that Einstein didn't invent the formula for special relavity himself but borrowed it from another, and named the source. Let me now return to my point. If you could find a way to take the MASS out of matter- - - you would also be altering the SPACE around that matter. So you indeed may be going into hyper-space from just that. Some make statements like "gravity IS time". That's "Bulsh". Gravity can be a factor of anything, including zero. But time in General Relativity terms never goes below a factor of ONE. That's the Ether factor. Taking the Ether out of space is like trying to take the WET out of Water.

I was going to do a whole music paragraph but in honor of Sgt. Pepper I'll just give you a few "Marcus trivia". The last song off of Sgt. Petter that I heard was "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" and that was in October of 1967, which is also the same night I heard "And your bird can Sing" in its entirety. Before this I had never heard that song all the way through. The first time I heard "Fixing a Hole" was from that house next to the library where this teenage kid would play interesting music in his bedroom. When the next song to come on was "She's Leaving Home" I knew he was playing the Sgt. Pepper album, which I hadn't bought yet. Some songs arrest your attention. There was this Paul Mc Cartney song KOLA was playing about ten o clock called "She gave me the flame of Love" or something, which a strong Badfinger, "Peter Ham" quality to it. I'd like to know which album it's on. You know this one commercial with the line in it "My daughter is part fish" there is some music in that that gave me the idea for a "prequel" introduction to "It's Only Love". Why not add an organ to the song, and start off the track with an instrumental portion with a lead guitar bit- kind of a jam thing - and then go into the rest of the song. You know John Kovel is going to have a big come-down even if he starts going to church, because he might wind up in Heaven and discover HE"S the only one whose perfect.

[Saturday, June 4th 2011] It’s now 2:30. The Dodgers on KTTV are leading the Reds one to nothing. The Dodger pitcher is doing a good job but he’s working with a slim margin. I had Leo Le Port on till about 1:15. I went out for John Black grape at the liquor store. Nancy likes to lie about her finances. She is perpetually out of cigarettes and money even though Janet and others say it isn’t so. I went for coffee when they announced it and got one cup.

I want to check my blog rating right now. Judy sent me another warning letter about the high suicide and violence incidents with Chantex. Maybe I won’t take that. My blogger rating is crawling up but it’s still far from impressive. I’ve been getting away from the topics I’ve been discussing lately. I thought maybe by “expanding the envelope” I’d improve my ratings but that doesn’t seem to have worked. I need to perhaps get back to regular national news and the economy, and energy production and the ecology, and world trade and international relations. Sometimes waiting for some big event to break on the news is like watching paint dry. I haven’t listened to nearly as much music on computer lately, from any of the many, many sources. I haven’t done a Google sketch file in some months. Perhaps I should get back into that. I keep saying I ought to get back into doing BASIC programming like I was in 2005, or at least to improve the programs I know should be improved. I haven’t even downloaded any pictures from my camera since mid March I don’t think. I could get back into photo art and Word Art. I think my favorite talk radio shows are in a rut, and I’m not learning new things from them like I used to. Of course I keep thinking Dr. Levy is going to introduce some exciting new topic - - the Reds just scored a run - - . Of course is Dr. Levy is going to skip two sessions in a row it’s hard to get any rhythm going. I feel I should start going to church somewhere- - but I’m not sure why. I need to master that SUDOKO game. Certainly if other people can, I can. Now it’s four to one – Reds.

I just looked at two Sketch videos, the second being in a more complicated software than I have. Apparently you can now view 3 D renderings stereoscopically with glasses. My last update of Sketch was in March, and now they said there was another available so I did that, but they didn’t note any new features. Of course contrary to what they say, walls are no problem for interior 3 D viewing and never have been. The trouble comes when you “back into a wall”. Then it becomes a little weird. There were some interesting cloud ripple effects in the sky like ocean waves, (you'd have to see them to see why they were unusual) but the effect was fading. And when I got my camera they would probably be gone. The Dodgers have pulled ahead of the Reds in a game still doing at five with a score of Dodgers 11 and Reds 7. I was just listening to Rachael Maddau and before that going back to before dinner, a lot of Chris Matthews episodes.

The State of My Own "Knowledge" - 5 yrs After

When all is said and done -

whether the world advances in knowledge

at a slow rate or a faster rate

is entirely up to the providence of God

-ME

This is Friday June 3, 2011 and I’ve been planning to write out the rent check all day but keep finding reasons to put it off. Otherwise known as Billy Jo day or “stranded on a trail in San Diego County” day. (1982) Before dinner I read the entire April link of the Rocca Rolla blog with four entries. I’d generally give myself an A for my overview of everything connected with the Orion Federation. However I apparently made one misstatement of fact when I said “there are no humans or any animal forms on Reigel V”. Both are untrue. The radiation killed off all the small life such as insects and birds, but there are large lizard like creatures living there. Also although the government declared the radiation on Reigel V unsafe years ago they did nothing about it, and the amazons still live there. This is most closely likened to “the turquoise people of Orion” on that pilot Startrek episode. Not to be sexist but there are men there, too. A couple things I noted about my overview then which cause me to question “was I right then, or am I right now?” is this whole notion of “Time” being a near meaningless concept. Clearly there are “events” that occur in these places. They have history and progression. The whole idea of speaking of living people on earth living “in the present” on another planet is a puzzling concept. I won’t try to explain that. And I also seemed hung up on this idea of “portals” on earth. I had the conception of a psychic “plain” where time existed simotaniously all at once in one “dimension” and the line between the earth portal and the distant planet being the “other” dimension. I am unable to support this notion.

There is a basic difference between “knowledge” and “science”. Knowledge in the Greek sense or “conosco” has to do with becoming experienced with or acquainted with. How your brain interprets this input data depends on whether you pursue the rout of “Faith” or “Science”. However “Faith” need not be based on any actual first hand knowledge, in fact a theologian would prefer that yours not be. “Don’t let the facts get in the way of Doctrine” is one of their adages. Science on the other hand is “the study of” or “logos”. This connotes some intellectual rigor or discipline. You have to employ inductive and deductive logic, and also, as our new friend Michael reminds, an algorithm or two wouldn’t hurt. But as I was complaining about Michael this morning, the trouble with a mind that tends twords the scitzophrenic is that he tends to get so wrapped up in his own thoughts and mental conclusions and/or unreasoned prejudices, that this takes him out of the “here and now” so that he is rendered incapable of interacting with other people. I don’t want this to happen with me. But so many Christians refuse to dialog with you. They want to shoot their wad and when you think they are done and about to say something, they wind up for another verbal volley. As such conversation with these people becomes a monolog. Christians seem strangely disinterested in the “here and now” or “what does that sermon have to do with the price of tea in China?” The only time they want you in the “here and now” is in your Submission to them - - NOW.

The people who did the Dune movie had the ingenious idea of “space folding”. We have almost alluded to this in our “green golf course grid” view of the Universe where one could imagine some unseen dimension wherein you can “fold” your two dimensional matter. But the problem, as I have noted, is that in doing so you’d cause utter chaos half way across the galaxy. How do the Dune people logically get around this problem? On the original StarTrek pilot they used the term “Time-warp factor” implying that Time alteration was a key factor in achieving Warp speed. But wouldn’t distorting “time” as we know it- - -not only affect the space ship but also kill any human life inside? This is why our friends from “Asteroids” and their “jump to hyperspace” makes much more sense, because in doing so you deal with the special separation problem without the necessity of modifying Time. Some of you may remember that Missing Time incident I’ve brought up several times. You may say “You seem to remember at least some things about the planet where you landed. Do you remember anything at all about the Space Ship?” And I say “You have a point. No, I don’t”. The way they “play” these things on Star Trek, like with Warf and his “sliders” experiences- - is that you have all of Time at your disposal and you can “do the best you can to try and pinpoint the right landing spot” the way US astronauts do when they land. But there is another very obvious explanation for that near hour or so that “elapsed” and this is simply- - this is the length of time I was actually on the planet. The time in the space was just shrunk down to nothing- - or maybe two or three minutes or something, each way. Just think of it. If all of human kind had the same disregard for “actual historical fact” as the Church Fathers did, then all of human history would be useless. But thank God most humans are not like churchmen, or at least if they were, in some primal past, then they grew out of it. (Selah)

John Edwards used illegal use of campaign funds to cover up his affair and out of wedlock child. Now he pleads guilty. I’m not inclined to point the finger at this one because like Swartzenegger - - it’s mainly his political opponents who “get off” on this sort of thing. Dr. Levy is famous for attacking Swartzenegger from the right.

Allright, stop everything – James Arness, star of “Gunsmoke” has passed away. Ted Armstrong used to quote someone as saying “If it must be, then let the world come to an end while I’m watching Gunsmoke”. I just went down to the office, first to get my mail, and they I came back a few minutes later with a check for the rent.

Jack “the dripper” Kavorcian, alias “Dr. Death” has died at age 83 and he died a natural death. No one took his life. Bill Handel applauds what he did. I guess I’m not that ready to throw out centuries of religious admonition into the trash can. I can’t endourse someone who aids in a suicide no matter what kind of pain or anguish the patient is in. I won’t condemn it either. I’ll just leave it to God. Jack died of pneumonia and other complications. Now his supporters are saying “He would have done something about it - -if he had the strength to move”. As Bon Scott says, “Take a chance, while you still have the choice”. (Selah) The doctor’s one regret was that he did not press harder to get legislation passed legalizing suicide. You can try.

Last night the Dallas Mavericks tied the series up one and one by “stealing a game” in Miami beating the Heat in a late 20 to 3 run or something. I was doing stuff on computer earlier in the evening and missed most of the first part of the game.

I slept well last night. I haven’t been having any disturbing dreams lately. I got coffee from Dana in the morning. I had Stephanie Miller on. Later on the patio, Michael was reverting back to the way he was when he first got here, being abusive and ordering the staff about and getting in arguments with everyone. Anyone who uses “Jesus Christ” every other word, especially when they pepper their speech with the F word, they really don’t have any credibility, religions or otherwise. What’s weird with these people is even when you want to agree with them on something - - they will still cut you off.

We had Rice Krispies and scrambled eggs and toast without condiment. I mentioned to Loretta about Michael, who was still raging about something in the dining room his use of the Lord’s name in vain and she said “He’s headed for serious trouble with God”. Rose is still deluded into thinking you-know-who is in love with her. She thinks she has a good figure. Yeah- - - for a giant bowling ball.

Now there is a new, dangerous strain of E coli in Germany and Spain, as the cause of this major outbreak is being investigated. Now there is worry in America. Now they say anti-biotics won’t work. Hospitals are put on alert but I’m wondering why- - because we know hospitals themselves have the most dangerous bacteria on premises.

Today is gay, lesbian, trans-gender and bi-sexual heritage month. I guess my views on homosexuality are the same as many Southerners about blacks in the sixties. I know the society transformation is coming- - just don’t remind me about it.

Randy Rhodes and Thom Hartman both are concerned about an overall lack of plans to refurbish the infra-structure of America. This isn’t the ‘fifties. We have to find a way to place the finger of guilt squarely on John Boehner and Paul Ryan.

I went for coffee at ten and at two. I had two cups of regular coffee in the morning and two cups of black coffee in the afternoon. That light golden retriever dog, “Colby” was out and about both times. He is eleven, which makes him 77 in dog years. Rose and I thought he needed more water. Glen was in the office having a conversation about coffee makers and I was worried. It seems they want to buy HIM a new coffee maker and not to prohibit the use of them. There were only the three white birds in the cage both times. I have had a lot of drowsiness lately, and I guess that’s not too bad. Maybe it shows I’m anxiety free.

"I'm a lot less concerned about Jewish influence on right wing republicans

than I am on right wing republicans' influence on the Jews"

Boehner Stiffens Resolve On Debt Ceiling Raise

Don't worry, we aren't going to talk about Wiener Gate today. I have not viewed the photographs on line myself (I may be the only one who hasn't) so would appear stupid discussing them. Of course now they say it's spelled "Weiner", which of course is German for wine maker. It's funny the media hasn't picked up on that, if true. Of course a "wiener" is a Vienna sausage in German, and a Frankfurter is of course a citizen of Frankfort. Perhaps the poor man could get some judge to issue a gag order or (I guess that's a bad pun) - - or issue an injunction against the media discussing this twitter deboccle. John Boehner has if anything stiffened his resolve on not supporting a raise in the debt ceiling. They have to make a decision before August first. I imagine even before then the investment market will tighten in anxiety of things to come. Boehner says that now the cuts in the budget must Exceed the rise in the debt ceiling. This will be a tough thing to accomplish. On George Washington's blog, the headline is that the Federal Government has been issuing interest free money to the banks, who then turn around and lend it back to the federal government at a sizable profit. This is not news to any listeners to the Thom Hartman program. He's been saying the same thing for at least a year. It does point out the ineptness of Timothy Geitner and why this man hasn't been "shaken out" yet in the shake up of the cabinet a few months ago is a mystery beyond my comprehension. Now unemployment has notched up to 9.1% and that is the second consecutive rise in two months.

Mitt Romney announced today his intent to run for President. Again this is something everybody already new. He's about the sane Republican running and I voted for him in the primary three years ago. Judy favored him, despite the fact that the reason he lost the nomination is because Mc Cain nailed him in one of the republican debates on Iraq. Romney had stated that he said there should be some sort of a timetable for withdrawal, for for any Republican this is a bit No No. Of course all these other Republicans have to pray about it first. Tom Hartman seemed surprised that any Christian would make it 'All about them". He doesn't get to Calvary Chapel very much obviously. If there is two things Christians like to publicly flaunt it's how much time they spend in prayer, and the second is their "Humility". I guess they don't read what their LORD said on the subject of prayer in the Sermon on the Mount. So if Michelle Bachman decides to run for President it's because "God told her to". And for Huckibee God told him not to run. I wonder if God also told them to rewrite tax laws to favor the rich and shaft the poor from taking their support net away from them.

Disneyland has two new rides, one new and one familiar. The Little Murmaid ride is opening up in California Adventure. I guess I'll be invited to go on that on an outing sometime. And Star Tours has been refurbished. He was already a pretty realistic ride, giving you the sensation of actually flying through space in a shuttle craft. But now they have made it razor sharp digital, and also have made it 3 D. People like me and Leo Le Port don't particularly "get off" on most 3 D because in my case I have ambliopia. Other people just get a headache from it because it's an unrealistic "over-stimulation of the brain".

It was the night of April 15 - 16 of 1975 that I had one of my classic nightmare dreams. When you look back on it 35 years later it doesn't seem nearly so scarey. The timing of this dream just after the income tax deadline is not a coincidence lost on me. It begins in a department store when I am watching the color TV's. It was Days of our Lives and the family had made a trip to India- - or at least Tom and Alice and Mickey and Laura and Mikael. And Michael had become sick with a rare disease and Alice was giving him some special Indian tea for it. In another scene I was watching a TV documentary on various people of the Bible. They had just finished up Jacob and had started in on Joseph. And then "First Indian On the Moon" by Wings begins playing. I start to get a creepy feeling. Then some voice like God tells me personally "YOU - - are Joseph". I didn't want to be Joseph. The first part of his life was horrible. In the next scene I was like in some Jungle Cruise boat headed south down the Nile river. It was your typical Disneyland style guided tour. It was about 2:30 in the afternoon and the sun was shining brightly as we moved along. Then we turned to the right to the White Nile, and we were informed we were going to some secret destination. Again I felt anxious. In the next scene, again the Mc Cartney theme starts in again- - it's kind of your usual African safari scene by a river. Suddenly all the animals decide to stampede all at once as if in sheer terror. There were geraffs and zebras and rhinosserous, and elephants- - the whole bit making these screachy panic sounds. Some powerful - - force - - was obviously approaching. In another scene I was out on some large courtyard with stone tiles. I was walking around. I went up to a higher floor- - and this part of it looked kind of like the top of Griffith Park observatory - with lots of domed buildings with telescopes in them. And I was being chased around by these strange demon creatures and I was scurrying all over the place. Finally I climbed up into this secret passage in the roof of one of the domes and waited as they searched below. I thought I was safe but I wasn't entirely sure. - - - That's all the dream I remember. Perhaps I've forgotten something in 35 years. I did not dare even write this dream down for three weeks, till early May.

OK the NBA game is under way now and of course I'm routing for Miami. Unfortunately Dallas had an amazing run near the end and won the game. To continue with our little saga - - it was May of 1975 I was living in the house I grew up in. (once again) I remember that the neighbors would have regular fires in the fireplace, and there would be this bizzare incense smell to the smoke. It's something I've never smelled before or since. At the local library I took an interest in the book "Arachne Rising". This is the notion that in secret or "lunar astrology" there are thirteen signs and the 13th was Arachne, which as I recall we were just coming up on. They spoke of the 12 x 13 x 5 triangle. And there were five vertical letters that spelled out DARDA, which is kind of at the heart of Federation loore. And there was some dotted line in-between the two long triangle lines representing the true number of lunar cycles in one solar year. The motto is "we exist between the dark and the light". In late May I purchassed three record albums, "Spirit of America", "Dragonfly" (by the Jefferson Starship) and "Welcome to My Nightmare" by A C. (spiders free of charge) Parents invited me to go with Hawaii with them, which was out of character for them because these past years they had been taking vacations by themselves. Also out of character for them was not asking where I got the money for the trip, and to be able to order anything I liked to eat or drink, with never a worry I'd have to rely on them. Basically I spent the vacation apart from them doing my own thing, if you know what I mean. I went shopping at what was then Fed Mart for proper attire. Oddly enough two of the Hawaiian shirts purchassed that day mysteriously were found ripped to shreds when I took the clothes out of the washer one day in February of 1978. We left around June 8th or 10th or something like that for about twelve days on four islands. I might as well plug the airline. It was Western Airlines, and I was quite happy with the service. I remember getting off the plane and thinking how hot and muggy it was there- - like Miami or something. (not that I've ever been there) Going up the stairway to our Hotel room there were these wood carvings on the walls or something unusual. I had a flashback to - - I don't know - - I was with Pricilla Presley and Pricilla was remarking how unique these carvings were. I just installed a Real Player update. It's "Real" and not "reel". Of course in the Who song it's Real for "Rayall". The planet "Real" is one of the most Distant in the Federation from earth being beyond Reigel. Of course I had that late September UFO abduction "missing time" experiance where I think I went to Real. (The big question is why I didn't just STAY there) I remember the dry, clay like soil. I think there were a lot of Neon lights like Las Vegas or something. And I think there was an air strip (for regular jets) In October of 1967 I heard "Magical Mystery Tour" in a dream about six weeks in advance. I remember there were these Las Vegas lights and even churches were done up in gaudy, flashing signs, like that Simpson's episode. It's just my guess but I had a feeling these UFO people had "something else in mind for me" like send me into another life here on earth- - - and I wasn't buying, so they sent me back and attempted to erase my memory. There is more on this in late April of 2006 in a blog.

In terms of the news around here, Dr Saran picked out a good attorney for Dana to sue this place because they are under staffed and the staff did not insure the safety of the residents Tuesday morning. One of the staffers was attacked himself, and apparently just cut and run. Dana says it will be at least six months and probably longer before the case goes to court. He says his lawyer would decide on how much to sue for but it would probably be twenty thousand dollars. I have no animosity tword this place but I'm certainly going to testify to what I witnessed, since I was in the middle of it. I was interviewed by one of the major staff members around here and she seemed to be bending over backwards to try and get Luan off the hook for his actions. She used that age old chestnut "He's never exhibited this sort of violence before". How many serial killers have they said that of? As far as I know the police chose to do nothing. They were called but I don't ever remember hearing police sirens or seeing any cops around asking questions. I'm a little concerned that an awful lot of people have died suddenly in this place. It's thinking ten or fifteen years from now I might not be in secure hands should I have some medical crisis. But you know, you get what you pay for. You pays your money and you takes your chances.

Real Estate Still In Really Bad Shape

As you know the latest figures on the economy and unemployment applications took a turn for the adverse. Government programs are still being cut. Florida is in really bad shape. Their republican governor, who one by a one percent margin, is really screwing up that state. The governor of Florida turned down 1.2 Billion dollars for a high speed railroad that would have employed a lot of people needing a job, and worked wonders to bail the state out of its financial trouble. But apparently they don't have a recall law in Florida, so impeachment is the only rout to go, and I wish the protagonists there God's speed. The real estate situation seems not to have improved zippidy-doo-dah in the past two years. The percentage of people who own their own homes has continued to fall from the peak reached in 2004, with no prospects of a turnaround. Housing prices continue to drop and people continue to find it difficult to get the financing necessary to own their own home. I guess if you're a speculator now might be a time to buy depressed property. They said however that there are so many homes on the market sitting idle and going to seed, that it will take several years to clear up the backlog. This isn't good. They appear to be making absolutely no progress on raising the debt ceiling. This means however grim the economic picture now, it will only get much worse in the coming year or so as a while new financing crisis presents itself.

They now are saying that cell phones cause cancer. Does this extend to regular land line cordless phones like I have. Them also emit a 5.8 gigahertz signal that's probably in the range of sufficiently short waves to be injurious to health. They say that cell phones are as hazardous as working at a dry cleaning place, or being a carpenter, or working around asbestos. But they also say that they can't exactly put their finger on any direct cause and effect relation when you look directly at the numbers. They continue to say that texting while driving is a much more hazzardous pursuit. Eliminating all 5.8 gigahertz transmissions from our lives would cause too much chaos in our culture. Of course as you know these radar guns that cops use show a much more direct relation to incidents of cancer and the part of the body attacked depends on the way the cop holds the thing as he cruises along.

I was undecided what to write about for my Opus Magnum paragraph. There is no other breaking news. I was going to talk a little about 1998 up through about October, but I don't want to do that. I was going to do a skit involving Neil Savedra coming to Stewart Sutcliffe in 30 AD seeking advice on "what do you do if you want to become a Messiah?" Stewart told me if I choose to do that one I'll get no help from him, because he would never dignify Neil Savedra with an audience because the guy is a worthless nothing. Last night the Miami Heat defeated the Dallas Mavorics in the first NBA final game 92 to 84 if I recall. I decided to sleep on it and figured I would "know what to do in the morning". What I would like to do is talk a little more about the Federation and all that stuff, and try not to make it sound like a Grandpa Simpson rant. First of all I was wondering about the racial content of "Lucasites". In medicine of course lucasites are white blood cells or something and the word "Lucas" means "white" or something. In Dardanian the word "Lucasites" refers to "The pure ones". However they are a quite mongralized group, racially. Let's do a little racial review. And if you find other material of mine to cross check with, be my guest. White Andromadans are half Crestorian and half Andromadan and they have pure white skin and are mistrusted by the other Andromadans. I've been told that the Atlanta Romulans are one eighth Crestorian, one fourth Andromadan, and 5/8 Romulan. But I forget the transition group. That would mean there is some intermediate race that is a quarter Romulan, a quarter Crestorian and half Andromodan, which is bred with a pure Romulan to make up the Atlanta Romulan. Someone is telling me in my headphones now that BOTH groups have been referred to as "White Andromadan". Atlanta Romulans are guardian angels of both Blue Oyster Cult and the Almon Brothers. The Detroit Romulans are 3/4 Romulan and one fourth Andromada, but in this case it's Andromada D, where all the previous references were for Andromada E. There is a minority known as "half breeds" (they hold it as a term of honor) that are half Andromada D and half Romulan. Now there is also the Del Rio group, and I think that's the right name (it's a city in southwest Texas anyhow) that is half the Houston group, and half of that intermediate group we told you about. (White Andromadans, 2nd version) This the group Wolfman Jack is associated with. We now move on to the Lucasites, which are half the "Wolfman Jack" Del Rio group, and half Dardanian. So they would be 1/4 Houston group, and smaller fractions of the others. (the Houston group is associated with Sam and Dave, Joe Tex, Shorty Long, and Archie Bell & the Drells and others) There is a group called the Skyway Group, assiciated with Bowing Aircraft, that are half East Romulan and half the Houston group. (East Romulans technically aren't Romulan at all, but they share a comon culture) These exist in Westchester in the LA area, and also in the southwestern outskirts of Seattle. Then there the Cortessians, which for a while we called the "Scorsaisians", but like Cape Canavaral, reverted back to their original name) The Cortessians are half East Romulan and half Reigellian. (I am pretty sure it's Reigel "sixers") This group has their own Strawberry Festival, celebrated at about the same time. This group is a "terrestrial group" that covers the western half of the Anaheim School Distrtrict and a smidgion of the "eastern half" of that District, and in general Western Orange County bounded on the north by the Riverside Freeway if you draw a straight line. The south and east borders are a little jagged - but generally skirts northern Garden Grove (just south of Chapman), and there is a southeast finger that extends to about the border of Orange. This paragraph ran long and I haven't even gotten to the "main point" believe it or not.

This is Tuesday May 31, 2011 and this day ten years ago was my last day of buying and consuming alcohol. I decided I wasn’t up to go to the housing appointment that day. I had white wine in the morning and finished up the bottle. After the soap opera I went out and walked around a while at two, a bit undecided and finally went to the liquor store on Knott and bought two 22 oz bottles of Mickey’s. I drank these throughout the afternoon while listened to Dennis Prager on the radio (probably) and the Larry Elder. As it got after six I still hadn’t turned on the TV but was still listening to the radio. I wasn’t hungry. I finished the Mickey’s after six and as it drew twords 6:30 I made the decision I would not go out for more. I turned on the TV and watched the Jim Lerr news hour and/or regular news. I was not inclined to want to get up from the sofa. I began watching Friends at eight (I think) but ten minutes into the thing realized how tired I was and decided to go to bed that early, while it was still light. As I recall I went right to sleep and woke the next morning. I was aware that I felt funny in the legs walking around the room but thought it was my imagination or something. Bill Handel was finishing up at nine so I decided to go to the liquor store in the other direction. I decided to leave the door unlocked unless I suddenly developed the shakes or something and couldn’t get the key in the lock. Sometimes the shakes can come out of nowhere and tend to be brought on by physical exertion. I went down the stairs and out to the street and down the sidewalk. But a ways from the corner I fell rightward into the grass by those apartments next door. I was a little freaked but glad I had fallen on grass. I decided to keep going and rounded the last corner and now the liquor store was but a few dozen yards away. I crossed the street but collapsed on the far side gutter and just lay there. There was this whooshing sound in my head like my brain disconnecting from my body. It was like “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up”. Someone called the cops, and you know the rest of the story. That was June first.

Last night it was ABC news and Jeopardy and the Simpson’s. Then I went outside being a bit starved for nicotine and I lucked out because Dana was there and agreed to lent me two more dollars. I went out to the liquor store and bought a pack of John Black grape. It kind of looked as if the store had been planning on closing although it usually wasn’t this soon. I came back and smoked one and watched “House” till nine and smoked another one and then went to bed.

In the morning I learned that Luan had gone brazerk and attacked Dana and then Oscar. Dana was clutching his nose on the way to his room and I thought he had a nose bleed. He didn’t. I got my coffee. I turned on first the Bill Press substitute and then Stephanie Miller. I went outside and Luan was in a strange zombied out state, motionless. Dana and Steve had moved to the table on the other side of the patio. Then Luan got up and began to attack Dana again, chasing him around the table and at times attempting to tip the table on him. Dana has a bad back (among his many medical conditions) and fell back and couldn’t get up. But Luan kept coming at him, seemingly tryint to stomp him to death. For a while Dana even refused help “I can’t move – just leave me”. Steve restrained Luan and finally I helped Dana to a chair. Though he was a lot heavier than I thought, or I’m getting weaker or something, and as Dana lurched around I was afraid I was going to fall down myself. Later on Luan attacked Janet by the elevator. And I don’t know if anything was ever done with Luan. Dana thought perhaps he was having a Viet Nam flashback. Although he’s an immigrant and probably saw the war live. The fire department was called to take Dana to the hospital and have his back X rayed. I imagine he was in pain and he hadn’t taken his pain medication. He was gone only a few hours. I guess everything checked out.

I went to breakfast and filled in Loretta about it. She had heard the commotion from downstairs. We had oatmeal with pink sugar. Then we got a fried egg, hashed browns with catsup, and toast with butter and jelly. I have no knowledge that the police ever put in an appearance. Right now it’s dinner time.

Yesterday morning when I first got up and before the incident with Dana, I was receiving a direct communacation from "Burt Lombard". He was talking about our ZAC tarot card cannon with the 22 rock groups, and had some clarification of his "original intent". [see August 2007 "Give Me Some Kind of Sign" in "Soap Opera of Life" blob] Thus dates from the "Assylum Earth" era from late spring of 1978. For "The Devil" we now use Pink Floyd. Van Halen was the original group. Burt thought of using "Kiss" in that slot, and now wishes that he had. Also in the position of the Death card, Black Sabbath was the original group. Burt says "Judas Priest was really after me time". Mal Evans likes Judas Priest because of their cosmic credentials as a Bele Tagis (Sacred Topaz) B group (fifth planet), along with Alice Cooper and Ted Nugent. Neither group contributes zippidy-doo-dah to the Zachery narritive, but have good credentials. Bela Tagis V was destroyed by the Antarians over four thousand years ago. (they are among several groups known as "fivers")(for different reasons) Burt also had the Tubes in for "Temperance" at number ll instead of Devo. Burt was confused as to whether Wings was in the line-up or not. The distinction here is Wings rather than Mc Cartney at large. "Beware My Love" is a song directed to Me and it's a warning to be careful now that Howard is dead and won't be there to guide me. "No Words for my Love" is a song we have substituted for "Blue Bird" on that Paul Mc Cartney compilation album of a year or two ago. Mal Evans says "the lyrics are over a hundred percent better". Also "Oh My Love" and New York City, were officially added to that Lennon album line up. "Tomorrow" is about Pete Richards' first wife. "The Broadcast" is about Zachery. Also "Letting Go" is supposedly about Sandra Good, manson family member "She sings it so - I want to put her on the radio" and "like a Lucifer she'll always shine". We've talked about other Wings songs. I think it's number 17 or the Magition but I'll get back to you. But the most starteling news from the grapevine (so we saved it to last) is that "other life" I had dreams about- - - the individual in that dream is about 25 now. Maybe 24. (I'm wondering whether his birth date might be late September 1986) Now Burt Lombard is going to step in and be a "Walk In" in that life- - and Mal Evans plans to give him personal visitations, and he may be taking over my job. Trippy. Prior to yesterday my contact with "Burt Lombard" had been pretty much zero. I was beginning to think he was a myth. As to where this unfortunate guy lives- - - it's a place of N S E W streets laid out in a regular grid. It's a city that has a college, and an area that's sunny with dryer climate than here. I'm kind of leaning twords Bishop, among my candidate cities now. However he could be as close by as San Barnadino. In that one dream I think he was just visiting Bishop. I'm definitely not getting an El Paso vibe. Strangely I've spent more time riding around the streets of El Paso than San Barnadino. Other areas - Redlands - - Ontereo - Covina - Banning - Riverside - - much more familiar with than San Barnadino. ("Glendora" is off the table today) OK I'm done.