Ten Good Conservative Christian Principles

This blog is being posted late Monday night. You should still read the one posted earlier in the day (either before or after you read this one) because it contains thoughts I believe beneficial to reflect on.

God: Insure collective cultural expressions of religion in society. Glen Beck reminds us that Washington DC is full of monuments involving Christianity. I still stand by my assertion that the prospect of Christopher Columbus being an actual Born Again Christian should be a concept that would make any real Christian ill. Nevertheless there are monuments to our heritage all over. So of course we should allow things like posting the Ten Commandments and Manger Scenes in the town square at Christmas time. Personally I didn’t think the U S Supreme Court had the right to ban school prayer in 1962. To me this should be a decision made by State or local school districts. There is no reason for an Atheist to be intimidated by any of this. People who are afraid to let others know what they believe, probably don't feel comfortable believing it themselves. People are free to live their own convictions in America.

Guns: Preserve second amendment rights. I think this whole “mental whacko” problem is being worked on and solved as far as having data banks to weed out dangerous people who should not have guns. People are free to have guns and to do things with guns that people do with them such as sport hunting, target practice, or defending your home.

Gays: No gay marriages. They are very unhealthy for the institution of marriage and society at large Feel free to skip to the next one if you don’t want to hear how gays fare on other estra-terriestrial cultures. The Crestorians scarcely even have a word for homosexual it’s so rare. Just like that “tsunami” tribe in SE Asia had no words for such common emotions as hope or wait or want, or anxiousness, or expectation. The Pikes and the Arkturians have no problem with homosexuality. The Pikes are the people we most base our concept of space aliens on with the smaller bodies, light gray skin and big black eyes. The Arkturians by contrast are very human and perhaps the most like us. The Andromadans are the originally hippy “do your own thing” culture. Though gays are in the definite minority, they are accepted. This is true on stars D and E. F I’m not so sure about. As to the Bajorans, they are rather like we were in the fifties where nobody goes public, but homosexuality is even rarer there than it was here in the ‘fifties. The Romulans are perhaps the most like ourselves. Though the incidents of homosexuality are slightly higher than here, it is frowned upon by the majority of society more than it is here. As to the Federation - - they are completely accepting of gay culture to the degree that any sort of bigotry against gays is detected and steps are taken to snuff it out. Stewart, as a Romulan (at least now) is antagonistic to the whole idea of homosexuality. Stewart also tends to be, as the Federation charges, “Theocentric” in his view of the Big Bang theories and as the Federation says “If you are going to get into speculative theories, there are all sorts of congingencies of the Big Bang theory that Stewart hasn’t even considered, probably because of his Theocentric mind set”.

Abortion: No abortions except for rape and incest. As Dennis Prager says, certain acts in society are so hanious that society at large has to make a “statement” as to what abominations they really are. Such as the seducing of a fourteen year old daughter by her own father. Also I don't believe that cells in a test tube have a presumptive right to life but only an embryo growing in the womb. That's my oppinion.

Death Penalty: For it, based on the scripture "If man sheds another man's blood, then his own blood shall be shed by man" in Genisis 9:6 or something. Jesus Christ never extended forgiveness or salvation to a murderor. Jesus never personally “pardoned” Barrabus, who had committed murder in a riot. Taking a life is permanent.

Child Preditors and internet ID theft. We are doing fairly well in this area but need to continue to be vigelent. I think a lot of the Dateline and TV programs on this have been very helpful. Obviously it’s going to take time to deal with all forms of internet abuses. There should be some degree of confidence our children are safe on the internet.

No Fault divorce laws: Against them. I think they should be abolished and we ought to go back to the old system we had fifty years ago where we took the marriage contract more seriously. These actors who abandon families for no reason at all are flakes. They think that rules are made for other people and not for them. If you're going to condemn gay marriage- - making the marriage contract meaningless isn't a good thing either.

Euthanasia: Against it in principle. But I wouldn't condemn individual people who wanted to except life if they were in enough pain. But it's a bad precedent. Stewart differs a bit from me on this issue though he basically agrees in principle. Stewart agrees that society at large of over medicated and needs to have a more healthful diet. But Stewart regards it as an inailable right to plan an “early exit” should life become unbearable. But even Stewart respects people who don’t take this “golden parachute” option. Personally I’d be afraid that if I ever made an “early Exit” that God would personally take retribution against me on the Other Side. I wouldn’t want to risk it.

Cloning and Genetic Engineering: Against it for the most part. In terms of cloning organs I am not really sure but foresee an era where the rich might live 150 years with all new body parts and I'm not sure how good that would be for society. I must differentiate between genetic surgery to restore God’s creation to its original intent and between genetic engineering we have today where we create whole new life forms and patent things like substances found in the human body, and patent seeds that self destruct after one generation. It took billions of years for life to come to us in its present form under Divine guidance. For us to tinker with this reality is sheer folly. One might go so far as to call it a sin against God. Stewart’s view is a bit different in that he says that “If we could eliminate defects it would be a good thing in society”. I guess the danger as I see it is that at some point there is going to be some “arbiter” to determine what IS “defective” and what is not. Personally – when we go that far we have truly gone “too far”.

I believe in the principle of individual responsibility exercised by every adult citizen and that "A man ought to reap the consequences of his actions" as it says in Galations 5 or whatever. I disagree with Ron Paul when he says we should give the Moslem terrorists a pass "because they have reasons for doing what they do". Two wrongs don't make a right. And it's folly to suppose Al Qaeda goes through the same mental processes we westerners do in making moral decisions. I have applied this principle to both Einstein and Calvinism in the past. The whole idea that we have some “cosmic insurance policy” itself I find to be an insult against God as well as karmic moral principles. This one cuts both ways to conservative and liberal alike. Both at times have had a false sense of “entitlement” from government. Adam Smith will work most all of the time, if you let it. The trouble is that governments and churches alike create an artificial environment where people get distorted ideas of how the rest of the world actually lives. Patent laws give an improper sense of entitlement to drug companies, who think their product can be shielded from market forces forever. If Despots’ ideas were ever put to a vote where the people were given the real facts about them- - they would be toppled by force every time. But too many people, both despot and victim alike, worship at the altar of entitlement.

What I've Been Doing - Vol 3

In the latest Eye Witness poll 62% of the people think the tax policy announced today is fair whereas 34% think its unfair. While those numbers were OK, I wish they were better. I think if the ratio were more like four to one in favor, we could storm the phone lines.

It took some doing to locate the President’s this morning on the internet but I finally found it. Stephanie Miller had the end of it. Just listening on the radio I was critiquing it for style. It’s an improvement, but the speech could still stand to have a few sentences switched around. The President would pause at the wrong points and then not pause for effect, when it counted. At key points when he should have raised his voice, he lowered it. The President still has a tendency to speak too fast, especially at key points, and also he could throw in some common every day example, as to why he makes sense and the opposition is nuts. He also needs to vilify his opponet, just as the other side is so adept at. He need to portray and belittle them as being out of the American main stream. He needs to listen to more speeches by Roosevelt and Johnson. As to the substance of the speech it involves raising 1.5 trillion dollars by closing corporate loop-holes so that secretaries aren’t taxed at a higher rate than their boss. All in all it’s a very sensible program but of course it’s dead on arrival. All the usual liberal talk show hosts liked it. You know, if just 16.18034% pf the people of America were raptured out of the world next week, it would tip the balance on a lot of things and this bill might just stand a chance. I think most people hold the nut job factor at about 23%. Suppose that a larger figure was used such as 61.8% of the people were left after the rest were raptured, this would definitely go along way tword tipping the balance of all sorts of things, even members of the House. With that contingent gone, the President would be able to pass all sorts of legislation that’s been waiting in the wings. Perhaps Survivor could have a contest in the future of Religious vs Secular- and see who the better people really are.

I still don’t have my bank statement. I don’t think I’ve bounced any checks but I’m too lazy to go back and do the math for the past month and a half or whatever. The cough I had last winter, or was it the winter before, is returning with coughing spasms now and then. I hope that doesn’t get worse. I played Pac-Man and once again I hit “stop script” when the notice appeared, and it kept going. There was sticking early on but it improved. I was rushing games hitting enter when the players weren’t done being displayed, which might allow time to buffer. My scores were terrible like 4,700 or something. I used some rather dramatic divergence from my usual strategies.

We had corn dogs for lunch and potato chips and tomato soup and an apple for the teacher. I think they are trying to put us all on a diet and I don’t need to lose weight at this point. (This isn’t 2006) The other two “What I’ve been doing” postings were July of 2009 and August of 2009. If this were the old days forty years ago you would have people like Eric Severeid or David Brinkley doing extended commentary on how vital it is to pass the President’s jobs program and how people who oppose it are idiots.

Dr. Levy convened class and announced that by contract he only has to show up here once a week and he’s going to implement that since he finds himself busier on Saturdays (or whenever) these days. Today we at long last watched a video of Dr. Levy’s trip to India. A few observations can be made. The image was obviously “compressed down” with a real low video setting. It looked like a movie that had analog copied a few too many times. Also there was a bit of a pin-hole or tunnel effect. My camera lens is an F 2.7 - -which is unusually wide with the standard being F 3.5. However I can choose to use zoom to various degrees. But with Dr. Levy you got the sense of needing to pan out and do the whole image rather than jerk and zoon from target to target. As to what he filmed, sure there was poverty there but nothing unanticipated. All the children looked healthy and at least passably clothed. Of course Dr. Levy takes plastic silverware with him to restaurants because he doesn’t trust these establishment to wash their utensils after each use. As Dr. Levy had had all his shots, he never got sick. I was growing drowsy due to a coffee deficit and almost nodded off a couple of times. We had a break around one and then talked about what we had seen. Dr. Levy used more of that inappropriate humor of his. He spoke of seeing a movie next time which I’d rather not do. Since we are primarily a therapy group, we need to talk, particularly if we are only going to meet once a week. Me and Fred helped Dr. Levy take things to the car. Then Dr. Levy gave me a five dollar bill for coffee, as he had agreed to do. The Salem PD are acting like assholes if they are going to throw Taylor in jail merely because she has favorable things to say about the arrest suspect. They had the gall to accuse her of feeding Quinn information about the case which is so absurd on its face I won’t comment on it.

Today I got my flu shot from Dr. Saran after two. I didn't tell him the skin ointment I got from Marsha made the eruptions on my right wrist worse. I went down and got two cups of coffee from Laura, and I listened the rest of Randy Rhodes. It doesn't matter how logical and clear the people on our side are, all Rush Limbaugh has to do is emote and use words like "man-child" and have some sort of Gene Scott catharsis every show and his listeners eat it up.

Sunday we had good beef stroganoff for dinner. It had a nice oil glow to it and it wasn’t mushy and it had plenty of beef. There were peas and corn with bread cake that was still warm, which Yadera touted as a “pot pie”. I had the news on including ABC network news but never had NBC football on even for a minute. The Simpson’s didn’t air because they had the Emmy’s on FOX and so I switched to something else. I pretty much finished up my coffee supply last night. No phone calls in or out.

On impulse I went down to check on the Mormon gathering last night just a little before six thirty. They were all just waiting around and we continued to wait till past a quarter of seven. I had almost decided to get up and leave when Seid and Nicky made it. They brought chocolate and vanilla ice cream and I had two helpings, and one small piece of yellow cake. Someone said they thought they had “mahi-mahi”. Seid said he had “good news” for us and we all sat, including Nicky, waiting with baited breath. At Wally’s “request” Seid said he was going to give a “five minute talk on Creationism”. He added “if I talk longer than that I become boring. He began at twenty past seven, maybe sooner, and was still wound up with more to say at past ten to eight. I was getting concerned the store would close and I remembered I needed cigarettes. His topic was our lives in pre existence with the Heavenly Father, and how this earth experience is a “learning experience” for us that can’t be achieved any other way. He would talk of making minute by minute decisions such as “should I step out on my right foot - - or my left” and whether our decisions are pleasing to the Father. He also lit into people who spend their time watching TV rather than doing good deeds for others. I asked him “Will we remember all of this when we get to heaven?” and Seid said we would. Then Marcia asked Seid whether if we failed to learn our needed lessons here whether God would teach them to us in heaven. My mistake was in not letting Seid answer Marcia. Instead I began mentioning the Bible, thinking of all those “wood, hay and stubble vs gold, silver and precious things” messages I’ve heard from Mark Bove pertaining to the after life. But all Seid needed to hear was “Bible” and it kind of set him off. He never did answer Marcia’s question but instead took off on a rant against the Bible and says “This Bible I’m holding here is a piece of garbage” as he waves it around. Somehow I was offended by his low regard of the word of God. Seid appeared to be having some sort of emotional catharsis in progress. He made reference to the possability of a recurrence of the cancer he'd battled. He signaled out Richard Powers as someone who "Had made a profound statement to him a while back that may have saved his life", but I never found out what that was. Others began chiming in with questions. Rose was being a major asshole all night already telling Seid how to use his own resources. So I excused myself and hurried out of there and went to the liquor store and bought one pack of John Black cherry. It was pitch dark and about five to eight. But as I said it turned out that part two of that Flanders and Mrs. Carbopple episode wasn’t even going to air this week. To tell you the truth I remembered I had left the TV on and wasn’t even sure I had locked the door before I left. I had only planned on being gone a few minutes.

I thought Nora was coming back but maybe I mis-read the signals. I had some confused dream I found mentally taxing that I can’t even remember now. Some of these jinxes are like a thousand paper cuts. It’s not just one event but many of the jinxes have lasting effects like this crazy blister I have on my finger. I’m getting a little tired of the shower not getting hot enough. And of course the problems with FOX coming in is a recent thing. On my way to the bakery I noticed the half moon was about at the zenith of the sky. I bought a large coffee. I had the Stephanie Miller show on. We had Raison Bran for breakfast and flavored scrambled eggs and toast and butter and jelly. I see now it’s getting close for dinner and have to partake of that all important sacrament, smoking. We are on page six now.

They are listing the menu now on a weekly basis to make it a whole lot easier for those planning ahead. We had spaghetti tonight with garlic bread and a green salad. We had vanilla pudding with fruit in it and Loretta gave me a quarter of her peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Laura ran out of spaghetti. This is becoming a significant trend lately not to have seconds. It was true with that “half enchilada”, true with the stroganoff, and true with the corn dog. Eye Witness news is on now. All four of us were there.

Republican Victory in 2012 Grows More Certain

It became evident this evening that the President’s defeat at the polls next year is a virtual certainty. They say that people made their decision not to elect Jimmy Carter in 1979 when the Iranian hostage crisis occurred. May I suggest the same mental process is playing itself this time. We know that his jobs program is dead on arrival. All anybody has to hear is the 447 Billion figure and they just think “more government spending that won’t work”. We saw a poll this evening on the Mc Laughlin group that Obama’s approval number was 40% and that his disapproval number is 52%. We know that in the NY congressional race on Tuesday that former NY mayor, Ed Kotch, a Jew and a Democrat, refused to support the Jewish democrat running but instead supported the Republican candidate, who won. It was perceived that the President has abandoned Israel, and this will be underscored next week when the UN votes to make the Palestinian state an official “observer” at the General Assembly. The democratic candidate lost in Nevada by 22% pretty much dooming Nevada to going Republican next year despite being virtually even in 2008. We have that Solindra company that made Solar cells that the President floated a bit loan to in the spring of 2010 giving the company a big build-up as an example of the future. Now that company has gone bankrupt and that loan money is lost. This tends to neutralize charges of “Pay to Play” against Rick Perry taking money from various companies for political consideration. The worst blow of all to Democratic changes next year comes from the fact that he will not be “Primaried” by any Democrat next year, even Dennis Kasinich. They, too, all want to go down with the sinking ship. Obama is like an ineffective quarterback that the coach refuses to replace because he’s afraid the other team might think “we are divided”. Of course not every single Democrat is remaining silent. James Carville and Willy Brown have chimed in saying that the President ought to at least- - fire somebody or indict somebody or “show a little action”. Carville thinks it’s “time to panic” and I agree. Personally I will not vote for Obama next year and I don’t care what happens between now and then. I’m voting for the green party or something. At this point any generic Candidate X will do. Anybody but Obama. I think there are vast numbers of people who think exactly like I do. I don’t care how unified the other high ranking democrats are. The average person only feels disgust when they look at Obama. His first “character flaw” came when he disowned a church he’d been a member of for twenty years and he and his wife got married there and his children were baptized there. This was the first “shot across the bough” of a whole chain of disappointments and let-downs to follow. Essentially it’s going to be a one party contest between now and then, and that is the Republican primaries.

You know that it could be that President Obama will get a major schlacking in next year’s Presidential race against Rick Perry. First of all Perry probably will out-spend him. This was not the case with Mc Cain. Obama’s languishing in the polls will severely hamper his ability to raise donations. But more importantly, Rick Perry will be continually reminding us all of his “Texas Miracle” and all that he’s accomplished for his state in the terms of Jobs and financial prosperity. What will the President have to point to in the way of accomplishments? Usually Presidents seeking re-elections have something. He sure can’t talk about Health Care. He probably made a major mistake in waiting till 2014 before he implements it. And Rick Perry will be there to remind him that Republicans don’t plan to fund a penny for it. But that’s pretty much all he’s got and he doesn’t have that. Maybe he can talk about the credit card and banking reform legislation, but the banking part is so useless people won’t care. Just like the people don’t care about getting a fairer deal with the credit card agencies or that Obama has cut their taxes. In the mind of the republicans it didn’t happen. As you-know-who put it yesterday “Now Obama is getting desperate and he’s starting to use the language and terminology of the republicans”. That’s not good. But the thing that’s really going to kill Obama is one he doesn’t want to talk about. Perry fights dirty and will do anything to win. Obama will continue to be a “nice guy” and continue to let Perry pummel him. While the President will never use the term “Tea Bagger” or mention people like John Boehner by name, Perry and the rest use the word “Obama” in every other sentence as the object of all their loathing. Wall Street has gone up 30% since Obama took office and corporate profits have skyrocketed. They say 88% of the rise in GNP is from corporate profits. Yet Wall Street hates Obama. Romney and others are still calling him a Socialist. They want their own guy in there they can feel “confident” with. Since the death of Bin Laden the whole “Obama is a Muslem” charge has lost its punch. Now it’s suddenly no big thing we got Bin Laden. But these Republicans maintain that “Obama is fundamentally hostile to Wall Street despite the numbers. And they pummel him with these various charges and don’t let up and Obama just takes it. So that Obama will appear weak before the public, but Perry will appear strong. And you know, as Clinton said, that “Strong and wrong beats weak and right every time”. (Selah)

Sometimes it’s interesting to read books written by politicians a long time ago. As you know I’ve been reading Newt Gingrich’s book “To Renew America” that came out in 1995. One can immediately see a byfercation of style in the book. When he talks about science and technology, for example- - he’s way in the Future. First he does a review of this Future Shock Third Wave song and dance about how we are now in the age of information and presumably no longer in the industrial age. The immediate problem here is that our bridges and roads and water works are crumbling and we are in desperate need of putting these “obsolete workers” back to work to get the needed jobs done. Who would have guessed there would be a time, and I doubt Newt did in 1995 that a jobs speech like the President gave last week would be met with only scorn by the opposition party? But Newt speaks of the present era as being one of cell phones and notebook computers and big screen high definition TV, even though HDTV would not become a reality in America till 2006. While notebook computers are common now, they were far less so in 1995. There was this kiddy show about ten years ago on NBC that depicted this young girl moving to Africa in the remotest part of the jungle. But somehow out there they were wired for computer cable and she had an internet cam, and each saw the other in perfect lighting on the screen. Newt spoke of visits to the doctor being obsolete and you could take blood samples at home and wire them into a world wide medical data base. He spoke of the smog and traffic congestion problems solving themselves because people would no longer comute but do all of their business at home. Newt also spoke of D N A gene modification become common place, if not the normal method of treating diseases. Well, we aren’t exactly there yet. Newt also spoke of the wave of the future being that big corporations might even become obsolete, if I read him right, and also of increased employee participation in management decisions because this would be good for moral and increase overall employment efficiency. If only this were the case. The truth is that things have a hell of a way of taking a whole lot longer to become a reality than people suppose, as per the example of HTDV. I keep hearing that rotating disk drives on computers will be obsolete soon, yet I haven’t heard even a hint that this is becoming reality. It would sure save a lot of access time. And then there are those so called 3 D computer chips that are much faster. Where are those? Only now are “picture phones” becoming standard, and we’ve been hearing about those since the ‘sixties. You will remember that in “War Games” that came out in 1983 they had “The Internet” and the protagonist in the movie was used to playing lots of video games on-line, presumably using dial-up. The first time I heard the term Modem was late January of 1990 when I enrolled in a computer class I quickly dropped out of. They’ve had computer viruses since at least the fall of 1990 when I was at R O P, and ways to get rid of them. The people that bought my parents’ house had internet in July 1991, the one time when I was over there. Of course some people say “The Internet” didn’t exist till after 1992, which is of course rediculas. But Newt does a good job of portraying trends in science and technology, even if the reality takes a lot more time to arrive.

Unfortunately the same cannot be said about matters of Government and the economy in general. Newt announces “Keynseanism is dead”. He tended to be negative about the prospects of reducing the deficit in 1995. He kept invoking images such as the dollar losing its value, as though that were a new thing. Garner Ted Armstrong was talking about that on the radio in 1970. The pure fact is that the best way to insure that our balance of trade is restored is to keep the price of our currency down. But Newt seems far more concerned about rich people not being able to vacation in Europe as often with a reduced dollar, even if it would work wonders for our exports. Keep in mind our complaint is that China has been keeping their currency artificially to low, and not too high. Newt speaks of “liberals blaming society for things like crime and jouvenile delinquency”. This line is like something right out of fifty years ago when such talk was actually fashionable. So basically Newt is setting up straw men and knocking them down. He spoke of Ben Franklin calling for prayer during the Constitutional Convention so that the founding fathers had to wisdom to come up with their statemen-like decisions such that Blacks constituted three-fifths of a human being. At least back fifteen years ago the rage of the right was not as evolved as it is now. Newt in his fondest dream would not have envisioned anything like the Tea Party taking over the reins of national government. The problem is that many now in congress who are in their early forties, are not really old enough to actually remember what Ronald Reagan was like but they are told this fairy tale by their elders and they believed it. There is always talk about returning to some sort of “Spiritual” dimension in the land. Well you know what scripture says, don’t you, “He who has heard Neil Savedra’s program on the radio has experienced God first-hand”. With that as your guiding light, you’re in major trouble.

The Looming Horrors of a Rick Perry Presidency

Tuesday was not a good day at all for Democrats who are hoping to see some glimmer of hope about next year. In New York City’s ninth district Anthony Wiener was replaced by a tea party republican. This ninth district has been democratic in congress since 1922 and had sported such people as Jeroldine Ferarro and Chuck Schumer. It isn’t good. Also the democrats lost another congressional race the same day in Reno, Nevada. If Rick Perry gets elected president next year we are going to have to revive the old Barry Goldwater slogan used in 1964 only now it will go “Rick Perry in 2012, Hot Water in 2013 - - - Bread and Water 2014. Because everything we’ve seen in the way of recession till now will look like a walk in the park compared to what is coming when Perry gets elected and begins to put his massive government cuts and tax changes into play. So what is he going to do then? Blame Obama for four years of disaster? It just dawned on me today the extent of paranoia and fear and loathing they feel in certain Southern states that a Black man actually got elected president. It is something their parents told them as little kids as something that would never happen. And now that a Black man in President they think it’s the Apocralipse. So what do you do? I think that the American People have gone mad or something. Maybe it’s something in the drinking water.

You know I first used the term “Moral Melt-down” in my writings to describe the soap opera character Christine Di Mira in 1996. It’s a term that means that a person has become so depraved that they actually do things that are contrary own interests, as warped as they are. For instance there may be a project that would benefit both Mc Conell and John Boehner but they won't vote for it even though it would aleviate joblessness in their states, just because Obama is for it. L B J thought he could negotiate a deal with Ho Chi Min in 1965 to "make him an offer he couldn't refuse". But he did. I gotta say this: he has cajones. So you have the specter of republicans being staunchly against things now that they had previously been in favor of, and may even have sponsored. One man who wanted to be a Pastor one day actually turned down theological training when offered to him by his church. He didn't no learning contaminating his own innate perfection. Last year the Republicans voted for a payroll tax cut for the lower incomes. Now they want to abolish it, all because the President is still for it. And who can forget all ten candidates for the Republican nomination raising their hands saying they would turn down a ten to one budget cutting deal. Put a picture of any one of them under the definition of "Fool" in the dictionary. Now you are seeing things like Chuck Smith advising a radio caller to have an abortion and Pat Robertson saying that a husband who has a wife with Alsheimers should divorce her. Thom Hartman mentioned this today and contrasted it with his own Mom and Dad. When his father learned that his mother had Alsheimers he did everything he could to love and support her and stand by her. And when his father died his brother and his wife took her in. The marriage vow says “In sickness and in health; for better or for worse till death do us part”. On the other hand Pat Robertson is getting up there in years and maybe the wiring in his brain is getting a little frayed after all these years. Newt is certainly an expert on abandoning wives.

From a sheer moral standpoint, a President Rick Perry would be a disaster. Here is a man who describes Galileo’s work as “controversial science”. Would Perry take us back to the fifteenth century? The whole bit with the executive order and the papaloma virus vaccine seems a little strange. Apparently Perry even championed a form of the Dream act to give illegal aliens free college tuition, as the expense of citizens. But of course the event everybody is talking about is this death penalty case where Rick Perry signed off on the execution of a man he knew to be innocent of the crime. I just don’t see how America could elect a man as President who committed this act. The man was accused of burning his house down and killing his kids. But they came up with conclusive proof after investigation that he didn’t do it. But Rick Perry changed the composition of the prison board just before they were to issue a report exhonerating the prisoner. Did he do this to curry the favor of the tea party? Of course Perry likes to read the Bible. He read the passage where God declared that David was a man after his own heart though he was an adulterer and a murderer. Just between you and me, I’ll look for another God. One with better taste. Perry holds these evangelical rallies and believes you can “pray the gay away”, like washing the gray out of hour hair or something. The other Republicans are going after him now but he’s got such a juggernot going I don’t know if he can be stopped. I keep hearing people like Hartman and Randy expressing sentiments about how “we liberals have to get involved” but it’s becoming more than evident that isn’t happening. Hence I believe we’re just going to have to “learn our lesson the hard way” going through four years of Rick Perry hard economic times.

Even Dr. Levy can be fooled by someone like Rick Perry- - don’t even ask me how. I thought it was the Jewish people who asked all the hard questions. Texas is number one in percentage of minimum wage jobs. Texas is 44^th in health care, and this is just fine with Perry. Texas is obviously first in capital punishment executions. I have heard Texas was third in the amount of Obama stimulus money it received. States like Texas ten to run a plus 130% where states like California run a 78$ figure, as far as how much money the state gets back from the government. This government redistribution of funds has favored the red states for a long time. Red states have an inordenant representation in the US Senate as compared to their population. This is how the senate was able to block so many good House bills in the first two years of the Obama administration. I told you that before. And you know there was no “Texas miracle” that Dr Levy seems so impressed with. It is by no means a matter that cutting taxes equals more corporations relocating in your state producing more jobs. A lot of the jobs Texas added were government jobs. And Rick Perry balanced the state budget, as did many State governors, by taking the Obama stimulus money intended for infrastructure and enabling teachers to keep their jobs, and instead used that money to balance the state budget to make their accounting look good. It’s no secret that oil sells for a high price today and increased drilling produces jobs. And we won’t even talk about all of the military contracts Perry got from the Bush administration. So when you look at Rick Perry’s legacy it is a house of straw. There is nothing about the man Rick Perry that would recommend him for the office of President of the United States.

Randy Rhodes was criticizing the idea of one who views God as a man who is “Making a list and checking it twice”. Hey, don’t dis the Santa! We all know the lyrics to “Here Comes Santa Clause”. Santa is one of the good guys. Randy disparaged the idea of a god who insists on “personal accountability”. This is taking a step tword the light and not the darkness. The trouble with these Neo Cons is that they are devout worshipers at the altar of the Church of John Calvin, and we know that Calvin was in a sense a “classic determinist” in a bad sense, in that for him responsibility is not even “on the table” for him. He fancied a sort of utopian theocratic community where everybody is perfect, at least hypothetically. And heretics are burned at the stake “To teach them not to blaspheme” to paraphrase St. Paul. I have in certain postings lately reflected on shall we say “certain metaphysical implications of Calvinism”. Henry VIII may have come up with the “Divine right of Kings” but Calvinism is worse. As to the idea of God not being a “Santa Clause”, yes, I’ve heard that one before. I’m also heard the sentiment that God does not judge you on your deeds either for good or for bad. Some of the people who have said this to me are real assholes. My problem with the Christian community is that they are liars, cowards, and hypocrites. A true progressive has always believed in moral accountability. Indeed many of the people we saw films on in school were social crusaders who had a strong sense of personal moral drive and accountability. I am pretty sure Jim Morrison believed in some sort of Last Judgement. As to God himself either being a Liberal or a Conservative, I don’t believe you can “Pray the tea party away” any more than you can Pray the Gay away. Everything that happens to us is a natural result of scientific laws and causes that- - - oh yeah, God set in motion. Many people who say that “God is a giving god” you have to watch. Some of these religions despots, and whether Rick Perry is one I’ll leave to history- - but no matter what Blessings from on high are bestowed on these people it never seems to be enough. Gene Scott with all his blessings God gave him- - - still saw a deficit between God’s generosity and Gene’s avarice- - and that deficit had to be covered by his congregation- - and the slavish people who call into the show on command to donate money. Jesus of Nazareth said “Ye shall know them by their fruits”. Some like Jim Jones when they started out didn’t seem all that bad. For some people the seeds of evil within them seem to take a while to germinate. Like “Gus” the boy-toy servant of his “Madam” on “Days”. Like all of the people I have talked about in this file what they are destined to become in the end, is not always apparent in the beginning. But we Americans have the chance not to put an end to the political carrier of Rick Perry before he can do any real damage to the nation. I hope we are morally insightful enough to muster the fortitude to be up to the task.

Michelle Bachman Strikes Back

Last night they held the second of the "tea party debate" series in Tampa, Florida on CNN. They are calling it tea party now rather than Republican. That's how far things have gone. Of course the crowd is super nuts; you know that. People were saying last week that Michelle Bachman was "fading" in the debate. I never agreed with that to begin with. This week she came roaring back, and the biggest issue was the vaccination of 9 to 12 year old little girls for the papaloma virus in Texas. Supposedly even though this virus is associated with cervical cancer, it's sexually transmitted. Just how much sex does Rick Perry think nine to twelve year old girls are having. He said that he made a "mistake" and that next time he would let the state legislature decide. Personally I don't like the idea at all because of the implications. Michelle Bachman was clear and eloquent on this issue as she was on other issues such as immigration and social security. Bachman also profitted from the fact that Perry and Romney were sparring with one another. Perry attacked Romney on the health care issue in Massachusetts. And the others attacked Perry on the apparent approval of the "Dream act" in Texas where illegal aliens could get student funding. Also John Huntsman stumbled on a few issue including the notion of drivers licenses in Utah especially for illegal aliens. My position is that he they didn't have any form of ID they would be a lot easier to catch and be deported. Ron Paul stumbled in that he almost blamed US Foreign policy for the fact that Al Qaeda attacked us on 9 - 11. My position is that I don't care what made you a jerk, if you're going to be a jerk you can expect the consequences. He has a point to a small degree, but you can't reason with people like Al Qaeda. It's a mistake to think they have the same "reasonable" mindset we do. But I do agree with Ron Paul in his other contraversial statement that a thirty year old healthy man has a right NOT to buy health insurance, and to make his do so in unconstitutional. I did not have a medical plan till I began to remedy the situation in late October of 1997. The family was on my case about this on our drive over to see my brother's graduation from Fuller Theological College. Yes I had a few problems that needed dealing with. I had high blood pressure, I had Hepatisus B, and in the mid 'nineties I would have these headaches followed to nose bleeds and then I would expell this fiberous "worm" like thing from my nose like a Star Trek movie or something. But I didn't die. The world didn't come to an end because I didn't get coverage at eighteen. If someone gets sick they could die. Well as they say, "shit happens". Life is not risk free. The point was well made that in the old days your friends and relatives would endeavor to help you out. I think the way the people on stage talked about Social Security and the Federal reserve were silly. Oh they don't want to abolish them- - they just want to make them impotent. Some people say that the Wall Street crowd is aching to get their hands on that social security trust fund the minute social security is privatized. They are really showing their hand, though. They all think the 23% value added tax is wonderful, but when Romney or somebody proposed that taxes on credit cards and capital gains for people under $200,000 be done away with, the applause was decidedly lack-luster. You know what these people are really after, and that's tax redistribution from the rich to the poor. But once again the name of the game in these debates is to position yourself farther to the right than the other guy- and that can get strange.

There is some group passing out "talking points" to right wing radio stations like Rush Limbaugh telling them what points to stress about the President's jobs plan. Of course you know that the rich are always to be referred to as "job creators" rather than the idle rich. Let's go back to that cure all 23% value added tax on everything you buy no matter what you make, that some want to impose throughout the country on top of any state and local taxes. Apparently the thing is that this tax can be removed when goods are shipped to Germany or some place, so they are sold at a 23% "discount". The problem is the price was 23% higher to begin with. And there is nothing to stop the Germans from slapping on another fee. What this tax ammounts to is kind of a reverse terriff where it's US goods that you are penalized for buying. How the republicans can support this plan with a straight face is beyond me. Of course we are told Obama has raised all these taxes. But in reality - dollar for dollar - President Obama has CUT more taxes than George Bush did, and this is true even if you figure it as a percentage of the G N P. Of course President Obama has opened up MORE drilling in the Gulf and US oil production has never been higher. The problem with the left and the right is that both sides talk past each other and never mesh gears. There seems almost a mutual conspiracy on both sides not to "get to the heart of the matter" and work out their issues. Of course when people like Rick Perry says it is "Treason" for the Federal Reserve to keep the economy going- - we're all sunk.

Antony Summers has a book out now talking about the events of 9 - 11. I'm glad someone pointed out that after nine eleven that things weren't "wonderful" in this country. It was John Kerry that first broached this notion of a "spirit of unity" after 9 - 11. As I remember the period we were all pretty much scared to death. Not me personally but a lot of others were. There was a lot of patriotism, and Terry would point out all the people that were displaying U S flags on our way to church. But as I remember the period there was anthrax being sent through the mails to key congressmen. There was the shoe bomber, and there were all these Yellow and Orange "alerts". You know if George Bush SR were a police suspect he'd be in big trouble. The day of 9 - 11 he was having breakfast with a Saudi Arabian guy. And arrangements were made to quickly get the relatives of Bin Laden safely out of the country. And they did this without the F B I first asking them any questions. Of course we know now that Osama Bin Laden was never on the FBI most wanted list for the 9 - 11 attacks. A profile of the President is definitely emerging, and if you or I had that many "circumstances" surrounding us, the police would be all over us like white on rice until they had made their case. Some people say "You should be careful not to jump to conclusions". My response to that is, "How much more evidence do you need?"

I would like to talk about this idea of what I call the doctrine of Eternal Impossibility. This means that certain things are inherently without limit or breaking point no matter how far, and I mean really FAR you push them. Such a doctrine is counter intuitive to most of us. We can't conceive of a God who not only has great mercy, but that it is in fact Unlimited. It can never be exhausted. I have talked about the Einstein doctrine of "If something is chasing you, IT has the advantage, but if you are chasing someone in front of you THEY have the advantage". In a posting a month or so I discuss this "Everything is Fine" doctrine, and you can refer to that. But it can kind of be summer up this day. A person believes that if a little effort will produce what seems like a response- - then greatly increasing that effort in the same direction ought to produce a whole lot of response. Or you could put it simply "Are we responsible for our own actions and the consequences of them- - OR is it that what we do truely does not matter? In the area of ecology and global warming this issue comes to the fore. They say that we will be out of oil reserves in forty years. But my Dad told me that when he was in science class the teacher said we would be out of oil by 1960, and we know that's false. Rush Limbaugh believes species of trees that are endangered spontaniously evolve into other species that can survive, so there is no problem. It's really a question of- - not something being "far off in the future" but rather of being Eternally off in the future. It's like that sign "Free Gas Tomorrow". Tomorrow never arrives. Maybe Einstein is correct in his theory, but I don't see how. How does something that seems to be there and is getting closser all the time- - never arrive at all, were you to wait around ten lifetimes for it? I don't know. Some people have this "gift" of not worrying about anything. You might almost call it the "Gift" or iresponsability. For for the rest of us we are concerned about this planet and species extinctions and global warming are ongoing realities.

This final item I've been rolling around in my mind for a couple weeks. Suppose there really was an organization called the Baal Berith Confederation or BBC? Some would suggest the Sameritans which are shrunk in numbers now and hopelessly inbred, where they still conduct animal sacrifices to atone for sin. . Now also picture another scene entirely. Ramses the first (who was probably recalled due to product failure early on) was the Pharoah of Egypt and he drive out what they called the Hyksos or "Shepherd Kings". This was a band of war like beddowens in the desert. We know them as Midianites. These Midianites had a legond that they were descended from Abraham who came from Babylon seeking religious liberty, and that he had a wife named Keturah and she beget twelve sons that all became nations- - and the children of Dedan became the Arabs and eventually Islamic. Ramses the first had a brother of the same mother but the brother had a Midianite father so was half Midianite. The name of this man was Amoche. And Amiche was Guy Owens and Ramses I was Jim Morrison. They were close as brothers and Amoche was protective of his mother, Bithia's reputation. But the time came when they had a parting of the ways and Amoche wished to rejoin the people of his father. So Ramses I drove the Hyksos out of Egypt. As they were crossing the Sea of Reeds a wind came up and parted the waters for the Midianites, but there wagon wheels were getting stuck in the mud and most were on foot. And Ramses alias Jim Morrison said "This is a job for butchers not warriers, and I am not a butcher. I will not pursue. I will not turn the sword upon my brother. Let them go. Come on. We're heading back". But in the desert Amoche was stung by a scorpion and died, and the people mourned their leader. Meanwhile the Dardanians at an earlier date reigned from their Golden Temple in Salem on Mt Moriah. And they revered a King called Shem. At some point Solomon was their King and he had a son named Rehoboam who reigned after him. And the people of the north, the Perezites, were put in forced labor. Now Egypt attacked Rehoboam and looted the gold from the Temple such that Rehoboam was militarily weakened. And behold there was a traitor named Joseph in the ranks of the Perezites also know as Israelites. And Joseph tried to recruit many to serve in Egypt if they had to "Serve Somebody" at all, for the work was easier there. But a band of loyalists arose and slew Joseph and threw him into an abandoned pit where he died. And Jeroboam was victorious over the Dardanians and he set up alters to his god whom he called Jehovah. And so it is to this day. But as the nation of Msriam (Egypt) grew stronger they came and took slaves that were never heard from again. And a later King abandoned his throne and there was unsettlement in the land. At some point the race of the Iron men from Crete arrived from the sea, and many of them were giants. But a hero arose from among the Dardanians named Samson, who slew these Iron men. And soon after this many of the Dardanians took to the sea in boats, and they were followed in waves by others. Now the Perezites - that they originally were a desert nomad tribe with no memory of where they originated. But they had kept track of various clans. May I suggest that you not count Simion and Levi. They had this war god and were led by a hero named Joshua accross the Jordan. Since these people appeared in the land suddenly they were called Perezites, for they had "broken forth". But detractors said that they were the result of a quazi incestuous between a father and the whore betroth wife of his son. In the early days they had no sabbath. You will find there are vast portions of the Bible that make no reference to a sabbath. Now there arose a man named Gidian of the tribe of Manasseh. And they lived in the area known as Samaria. And the Lord blessed the house of Monasseh and they spread out over the land and became one people while their bretheren to the south engaged in various wars with the indigionous population. And in the city of Gilgal there arose a devout man named Samuel. And he heard the voice of the Lord. And he grew to a man of great stature and influence and was known as Priest, Prophet, and King. But behold a Dardanian Prophet appeared and prophesied against Samuel saying "Behold the time is coming when all you live for will be shown to be vanity". And at this time many warriers arose in the land, who are the patriots of old. At some point they did storm Mt. Moriah led by General Joab with David their king. Since much time had passed the city of Salem was now basically in ruins, compared to how it had once been known. But King David had many enemies and in our version they could not stay together but fell apart when David died, some preferring this heir, and another that one. And there was a time of upheaval and chaos. Eventually a King named Jehosaphat arose in the tradition of King David, and ruled from Mount Moriah. Now in Samaria too there was likewise no king at this time. And there arose various despot warriers who were of diverse mind from one another. But then there arose a deliverer, and he consolidated his leadership and made his position firm, and he set up the House of Omri or "Kumri". And so these Israelites are known as Bet Kumri to this day.

A Legacy of Lies and Deception

One woman on impulse went fron the 78th floor of the World Trade Center to the 77th floor and missed the second plane hitting the building. That was just one floor. How many people would have been saved had not both buildings come down so soon? You know that the media that day had been stating as a virtual certain that both buildings would fall, and I for one could not believe that. I figured "Where would be no possible way of telling this soon". We know how both buildings fell quickly and decisively. We were and are repeatedly being told by the media how on this day we lost both your "innocence" and our sense of security. In fact we are led to believe somehow that the Bush administration was somehow sleeping and that 9 - 11 was an Awakening for him. That's a bullshit lie and we'll prove it. If Al Gore had been President that day, as he would have been had the will of the majority of US voters who cast ballots that day- - the history of America could be very different. We would have had that "lock box" on Social Security funds. Also that "Thin Thread" computer security problem would have been in opporation before Bush cancled the program. We were told that Al Qaeda was the farthest thing from President Bush's mind before 9 - 11. George W told us in the debates that he did not favor wars involving "police actions" or "nation building". That was a lie. We know he planned to go to war in Iraq all along. We know Bush was lying when he said "You need a court order to wiretap" when he had recently a few weeks earlier before that remark issued an executive orders bypassing the court order. We know from the Sixty Minutes segment that he KNEW there were no "weapons of mass destruction". We know that when Valerie P tried to expose the lie that a political vendetta was carried out against her. We know the political vendetta carried out against Donald Siegelman in Alabama. Yet after all this we don't believe that Bush could be guilty of government mass murder of a most blatent kind by blowing up the Twin Towers, perhaps setting the detonation points a week in advance. We know there is even stronger evidence that the Solomon Brothers building was a planned take down, and how the government planned to fabricate a cover story for this, too. There seems now overwhelming evidence that Flight 93 was shot down by a circling F 16 jet by our government. Yet many are slow to abandon this folk tale of how the passengers stormed the cockpit and overpowered the hijackers to deliberately crash the plane to save innocent lives. From every transcript of that flight I've heard it was the passengers who were afraid of crashing and not the hijackers. There is another story of how the Flight 93 hijackers tried to rock the plane to keep the passengers from getting up out of their seats and "something went wrong". We have the story of people who said it was the smaller F 16 they saw but how the F B I in "men in black" fashion told them what the "truth" was. We have the landing in Cleveland story for Flight 93. There is yet another story that President Bush gave the orders to shoot down Flight 93 but that the military decided to ignore these orders. If you could prove that one the implications would really be serious. We know that debris from Flight 93 was spread over an eight mile area. But one sight did say that they found over six hundred points of bones over that eight mile area. That would indicate that a lot of people did perish. When they show the site in Pennsylvania there is usually a plume of smoke in the air, and white smoke at that, as if someone could just have set off a smoke bomb for effect. We know the hole in the site is not nearly big enough to account for a 767 commercial jet. To believe one of the lies the government tells us would be a stretch, but we are asked to believe ALL of them. They had the three M's, means, motive, and oppertunity. And I stress Motive. In court if a witness as lied one or more times in the past, his testimony may be taken as suspect now. Many of these facts you have read before. It's important to look at all of them in totality, all at once. We knew the Bush Administration - - Chaney, Rumsfeld and the rest of them- - profited imensely from the Iraq War. So we have mental mind set, we have the means, and the oppertunity, and we have the results. And the worst part of all this is that President Obama has bought into this whole charade. As I said in a previous posting, if it turns out President Obama knew about government misdeeds and covered them up, he himself is guilty of being an accessary after the fact, and of obstruction of justice. This is clearly an impeachable offence, and as far as I'm concerned today would not be a bit too soon to take Action on this.

As the M C said at the "Tommy" concert- - "Allright, here we go!" Saturday morning I had this idea in my pursuit of illustrating the President's shortcomings to bring back the old British Live at the BBC broadcasts with Brian Matthews. The Show was called Saturday Club. And he would start his show by having a group ready to play and he asks the leader "Eric, you say the name of your group is to Protozoa?" Eric says "That's right. But we're hoping that our music will evolve" and Brian says "Then maybe you could call your group - - the Jellyfish". Eric: "Well, we're thinking about names". Brian says "How about The Animals?" and Eric says, "You know that's a good suggestion. I'm going to write that down." Brian Matthews then says "But first we know in this modern age that mental health is becomming an increasing problem in society. So in that vain we're having a special guest this morning, Dr. Bleishtaff, who is a graduate of the Vienna school of psychiatry." Matthews and Bleishtaff exchange small talk and Brian quips, "By the way, to you have to have an accent like that to be admitted?" and a bit later he says "Were you born with that accent, or was it the result of a childhood incident?" And then Bleishtaff says "It's German. Of course my parents spoke Yiddish". Brian says, "Is that related to Flemish?" "I really don't know" Brian: "Well it sounds like you need to clear your throat. Why don't you take a good hack into this dust bin here". After a while they get around to talking about self image and Bleishtaff brings up the hypothetical idea of America someday having a Black president and Brian goes "Well, they never thought they'd have a Catholic President and they've got one right now". And Bleishtaff says that it's possible for a childhood event to scar a child and damage his ego that affects him throughout all life. There are some events that cause a person to lose his - - er - - uh - - impitus." Brian, "You mean his Mojo. Our next guest knows a thing or two about that." Bleishtaff: "For instance the child may have asked his mother if he could have a chocolate bar and his mother refuses him because it's right before dinner. Then the boy asks "Mommy, can I have an Imaginary chocolate bar", and his mother agrees to that. From then on this Black man lives in his own world of imaginary accomplishments, and may refer often to these imaginary accomplishments in his addresses to the people - and all the while needed bills never get passed". Brian says, "Of course right now in America they are debating whether or not to have a civil rights bill. But we'v'e spent enough time on that. Now our group of the say is going to perform a song for us. What are you going to play for us?" Eric: We'd like to perform our hit that just hit number one on the hit parade yesterday called "Hacienda of the Setting Moon". "All right - - take it away". You know - - I have asked myself a lot in the past few days whether I should re think my dire assessment of Obama's address before the Joint session of Congress. I mean even Bill Press thinks it was a good speech causing me to go "Et tu, Bill?" Chris Matthews thinks it was a good speech. Thom Hartman thinks it was a good speech. I'm sure we've all encountered people for whom it's clear they don't know what they are doing. It could be a dentist. It could be a barber. We draw on prior experiances with with these professions to formulate an idea what standard is. Clearly the president could have talked about recinding the regulations about medicare not negotiating for the best drug prices, like the VA does. There was no talk of accelerating the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. There was no overt statement saying flat out "Corporations pay too Little in taxes today". As to Sarah Palin saying we should abolish all corporate taxes, this would only ammount to about a 7% drop in all revenues. Others want a "revenue neutral" program of tax reform. A revenue Positive plan would be much better. Michelle Bachman even proposed a plan worth considering in Wednesday night's debate. She spoke of the "Repatriotion of corporate funds overseas". And she said we could reduce corporate taxes to 20% and close the loopholes to make up the difference. To me this was a positive idea nobody picked up on. The President said nothing about "bending the cost curve" in medicare by not running every conceivable test procedure for an elderly patient who is Already dying of some specific disease, like pancreatic cancer. There was nothing about "bending the cost curve" by adjusting our mal practice laws a bit to prevent frivelous law suits. To me the President was pretty much devoid of ideas and I stick by that. Of course you know many people when they hear the terms "government jobs program" think "congressional pork barrel projects". Perhaps the "no earmarks" provision really is NOT that good of an idea. I guess you could see "I failed to see the Grand Vision" in Obama's address.

Of course mental imaging is seen by many as a valuable thing. For instance they say if you are nervous before speaking in public to a large audience, to just picture them in their underwear. I don't think that would work. Of course Captain Piccard was once bullied by this Cardassian officer as a POW. And the officer told this story about being a six year old boy and some big kids stole his candy that he'd found somewhere. And Piccard said "That's IT- - from now on I'm going to picture as that little six year old boy. Of course I went Piccard one better in picturing Rev Bill Halliday as a naked eight year old girl. The impitus for that thought picture came from the book, "Elvis - We Love You Tender". Of course you know how every teenager wants a "Mojo filter" in his wallet for status even if he's never "seen any action" himself. Particularly if he's getting into his late teens, he might get a little worried. Well here is a thought picture for you about Dick Chaney. Just picture him as that teenager with a condom in his wallet, collecting dust. After all Dick Chaney is the grand daddy of all Powers because he's seen five deferments to military service. The next time Dick Chaney talks about having a pump installed, ask him "And on what part of the body is that?" Hey- I'm just trying to be helpful.

This is Monday September 12, 2011 and I was drowsing during the end of Stephanie Miller and the first 45 minutes of Thom Hartman. Then I kept hearing these noises from the coffee pot and looked to see that the thing had been on all this time with only a half cup of coffee remaining. I drank that and diluted it a bit and added creamer. Then with the money I’d managed to scrape together I went out and bought another pack of John Black cherries that will last me another day. I am still not “ready” to do the next blog. Of course when I do it it will contain material that was pretty much all planned out as of Saturday, when I wasn’t feeling well. Of course as you know both Stu and Keith Relf in their baby incarnations didn’t last too long. One wonders whether both has an “escape clause’ in them, or more likely they just “butted in line” ahead of whoever was supposed to be incarnated in them in the first place, so in a few years both just stepped aside.

This posting is getting so long we are going to skip another paragraph originally planned for this post, on a completely different subject. I am told that the Republicans are having another debate tonight, so I'll hunt for it in a few minutes. I guess we have two weeks and two days till the rapture, if you're in to that sort of thing. It has come to my attention that depreciation laws are kind of a rip-off for businesses because X percent of businesses fail within the first few years and never get to take all that depreciation of capital goods they spent. Also I have learned that if a piece of equipment fails that you need to conduct your business- - replacing it cannot be taken as an expense against income. This seems patently unfair to me, and is a matter that I would suggest to the republicans as a provision change we can work on.

Taking a Beatle Break from 9 - 11

When I found out all the TV stations were doing “That 9 – 11 Stuff” instead of the usual news interview shows, I found myself in need of a Beatle break. They kicked the morning’s program off with “Imagine”, the one song nobody wanted D J’s to play after 9 – 11 so let’s give it to them – “In Your Face!”. Another song it warmed the cockles of my heart to hear this morning was “I Dig Love” from All Things Must Pass, including my relationship with Valerie M. I am pretty sure I also knew her from a previous life when I was trying to get over an old flame and she helped me out, as evidenced by the song “You’re Right, I’m Left, She’s Gone”. And I was there when “Cry, Cry, Cry” first played on Memphis radio. In my state of mind then looking back a few weeks previous, I found these lyrics vary much to my liking. I have some evidence that Valerie M. the “You” referred to in the lyric “And now I’ve gone and fallen for You”, was in fact both a “walk-out” and a “walk in”. One would think that upon my departure (from the body) that life became unbearable for her so she did likewise.

And now I’d like to do a song I just penned this morning, and I don’t know who I was channeling when I wrote this. I wanted perhaps a different word than “mandentory” in the first verse. I rather liked “spray-on”. “Involentary” would also have been a good choice but the person I channeled told me “The word is Mandentory”. So it is.

UP YOUR ASS

There you are – with your mandentory tan

You’re telling everyone - - that you’re Superman

Up your ass - - up your ass - - up your ass - -

You say you’re going to hold that line

But you got yourself outsmarted- - by Allan Klein

Up your ass - - up your ass - - up your ass

You’re deep in debt- - now you can’t pay the bill

You forgot to include- - that Poison pill

Up your ass - - up your ass - - up your ass

You say you’re gona block that kick

But you changed your mind – and you gave it a lick

Up your ass - - up your ass - - up your ass

Your teeth are clean - - but your mind is capped

You know you would have 9 Lives

- - - if you was born a Cat

Up your ass - - up your ass - - up your ass

You say you want to do right

But the Bushmen got to you

And now you feel your own pain

With every turn of the Screw

Up your ass - - up your ass - - up your ass

Your father left you

When you was small

In fact I’ve got news for you

You wasn’t born at all

(sung chorus is omitted this one time)

Now you say you’re going to - -

Re-draw the line

As you sink into a pool, - - - of excrement subline

Up your ass - - up your ass - - up your ass

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There’s a fog upon LA

Now my friends have lost their way

“We’ll be over soon”, they said

Now they’ve lost themselves instead

Dediticated to my comrades in Northfield, Minnisota, especially the three fallen, including Charlie Pitts, who died with his boots on, in a good old fashioned gun fight.

Can’t you see what’s going down?

You know the Rain Man’s coming to town

He’ll change your weather - - change your luck

And he will teach you, how to - - - Find Yourself

La ‘Merica - - La ‘Meerica

Jim Morrison was never in Norfield. I never said he was and he never claimed to be. I just like the ambience of this song. It fits the mood I’m trying to convey.

Since we’re already on page six I’ll note not to extend this file after this writing session. KLOS played the strings version of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”. This was one of the final acts of George Martin to score the strings on this track for the Beatles LOVE soundtrack. As you know this is the middle song of the anti Bill Hallidy trilogy on the White album. I’ll tell you one place I did not want to be the Sunday after that first 9 – 11 was in Bill Halliday’s church. I cam imagine the sort of vennum and hate that spewed from the pulpit that day. Anybody who was NOT there that Sunday can count it as a Victory in their lives. So that makes two songs by Denise De Lovely and one song by George Harrison. Of course I like the Anthology person myself even though it’s a little stark. That’s the general idea.. Some of these lyrics like “Mother Superior jumped the gun” I don’t know what the hell they’re talking about, except that Denise was Catholic. There will be a lot more 9 – 11 stuff in the next posting maybe later today.

I look from the wings at the play you are staging

While my guitar gently weeps

While I’m sitting here doing nothing but aging

While my guitar gently weeps

I wanted to comment on the line “Poison Pill” in the song. This poison pill refers to a provision in a piece of legislation or business contract that either prevents the whole thing from happening, or else insures it by “grabbing the other person by the short hairs and making them do things they ordinarily would not do”. T Boone Pickens faced this when he tried to buy out the Union Oil Company a decade or two ago, and they slipped in a poison pill. Obama could do this now with certain legislation if he wanted to.

I had a follow up lengthly visit from Mal Evans a few days ago. He is one Beatle that actually was at Norfield. Mal Evans was Bill Chadwell. I regarded Bill Chadwell as a friend of mine. Mal regarded me as playing second fiddle and subordinate to Cole. It was Cole’s idea by his own admission to do the Norfield bank job. However I don’t recall myself putting up any resistence to the idea. I guess Cole and I have an unspoken agreement. He won’t complain about my abandoning him perhaps to die, and I won’t complain about the heist being his idea in the first place. According to brother Bob it was some sentimental thing about carrying out a grudge against a Northern general or something. What I did not know until researching it last night (like a dog in pursuit of a bone I keep digging until I find what I’m looking for) I still didn’t know after Mal’s visit exactly WHAT got him ticked off in the first place. First of all it was Cole and not Mal who “committed the unpardonable sin of becoming a Christian”. Cole was philosophical about paying for his crime. “We committed the deed and I will abide by the consequences”. What Cole would never do is to rat out me and Frank. Frank has never been reincarnated and Charlie Pitts has never been reincarnated. Apparently Cole did time in a prison in Fargo, North Dakota. Don’t ask me how he got there. However there is one incident where Cole “behaved stupidly” to use a Presidential phrase. But then again there are vast portions of Jesus of Nazareth’s minister where I thought he “behaved stupidly”. While in prison it caught fire and was in danger of burning down. The prisoners had a decent chance to escape, and Cole talked the prisoners all into not doing that. It was kind of a St. Paul at Philipi moment for him. Would Cole rather they all died in their cells from the fire? Bob Dylan might have put it at the time “Que es para usted? Esta todos loco?” Anyhow- - Cole might be the one of two people, the other being Frank, who managed to secure some sort of Victory in the end. Cole was reincarnated as Johnny Cash according to Mal Evans. And Johnny Cash never did prison time. This is just a carefully constructed image he has. There were just a few overnighters in the city jail for drug possession. Mal Evans now tells me he picked the name “Ziggy’s Air Command” as a tribute to Johnny Cash’s Air Force Carrier. When I protested this he told me, “Actually you had other names in mind such as “Ziggy and the inter-planetary Raiders”, or “Ziggy and the U F Ono Band” or “Ziggy Stardust and the Druid Dudes”. Personally, those are better ideas. Both Cash and I along with Bones are Sirius “0” factor of course. As are, by the way the Romulan race. In case you are wondering the “Factor” means you are vulnerable to bad karma from Alcyonne, but if you don’t have the Immunity factors you are more vulnerable than those with out this “blood factor” at all, if you can follow that. Mal did say that it was a conversation with Cole, alias Johnny Cash, that put him in the state of mind he was. I think we have seen the “Obamaiszation” of Johnny Cash, wanting to prove he is more kiss ass than the rest. Apparently he had some “project” he was working on that’s under wraps now- - where I think he tried to enlist Cole’s alias Johnny’s help, but it was not forthcoming. Mal also talked more about genetics and the Cremorians - -(half reversed genetics Rizzonians and half Dardanian A) and refreshed my memory of stuff he told me 25 years ago that would take too long now. (it's a French short e, not "Cream") He did have a theory of why the Romulans left me in early fall of 1989. He said it was because of Kathy’s yellow cats. She used to have three of them and they died one by one- - and they afforded spiritual cover from Alcyonne, and as you know both Kathy and Nicholas are highly influenced by Alcyonne. He also said there was a group referred to as “the yellows” (as in cats?) that are avid “disciples of the topaz” so to speak. As you know that very first Ziggy’s Air Command page in the fall of 1977 did have the slogan “wear topaz in battle” but we’ve said little about it since. He also said “The Federation is a big place. There are lots of stars”. He wasn’t going to tell me more than that except perhaps George Harrison was in the land of “the yellows”. Of course in Romulan culture yellow isn’t a good color, but this is the Federation.