Obama Recovery Looking A Little Bogus

                

This whole economic recovery thing is looking increasingly bogus.  Of course we’ve had these antidotal stories since forever that “the recovery hasn’t gotten to the vast majority of Americans”.   And you know that since the dark days of last fall with all the optimism and hype we’ve had, Obama’s poll numbers haven’t budged.  Now we have fresh evidence.  Jerry Brown announced that the projected California deficit has ballooned from 9 billion to 15 billion in just six months due to falling revenues.  So Jerry Brown wants to put on a three percent tax on millionaires and also raise the statewide sales tax a quarter a percent, which is a hell of a lot better than raising it nine percent.  It sounds reasonable to me but others may not agree.  Gasoline prices have been sky-rocketing going up twelve cents in just the past week and are not at $4.37 a gallon.  Many places have hiked their prices a nickel in just the past couple days.  People are talking about “summer blends required in California”.  Perhaps it wouldn’t be a bad idea to temporarily scrap those regulations.  We told you the real inflation rate for "day to day items people buy" particularly in my age range, was closer to seven percent percent rather than the Fed Res estamate of two percent.  Of course Obama will forever be known as the American President who ended the Space program, the one that Eisenhaur started nearly sixty years ago.  Perhaps Newt Gingrich’ vision of colonies on the moon was a bit forward looking but it’s a hell of a lot better than no space program at all and all the long time workers nearly in tears now seeing their life’s work going down the drain.

Sometimes having a strong national resource can bail you out.  My current resource is coffee, and my roommate Bill knows he can get coffee any time he wants.  He just fronted me a fair amount of the green stuff and just now he’s fronted me a pack of cigarettes.  The thing is I know the situation with his wife and Bill’s money will run out soon, and I don’t know when.  But the money he’s committed will stay committed- - and I’ll have to work off whatever the bill is in coffee, so I have something to live up to.  People on the right keep saying the United States will sell off federal land to foreign governments.  I wouldn’t be a bit surprised at this point if a President Romney proposed this to congress- - and got it.  And the very people who were horrified at the prospect would then be saying what a brilliant economic tactician President Romney is.

So basically Los Angeles can for the first time be called “The city of Champions”.  The LA Dodgers are getting off to a rip-roaring start to the new season.  The LA Kings are in the Western conference play offs in ice hockey.  And the Clippers and Lakers are not both going into the second round of the NBA play-offs for possibly the first time.  Many are invisioning an all Los Angeles western conference final in round three.  That may be getting just a little bit ahead of ourselves.  They are going through with this football stadium at “Farmers field”, wherever that is, and apparently a new Convention Center to go with it or something.  We may finally be a city of some world status what with our high speed rail, snails pace in construction though it is, is finally evolving into - - something.

We have actually a considerable amount more information about the Beatles’ first Hamburg tour.  First of all they told the authorities they were students.  At the time Derry and the Seiors were playing at the Keiserkeller club.  At the Indra it used to be a stripper club.  But what I didn’t know is the reason why the Beatles switched clubs is because they closed down the Indra.  I believe this was in late September.  At the Keiserkeller of course were Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, who were more popular.  They said they were intimidated by drummer Ringo.  Klaus Voorman came in with his girlfriend Astrid and sat with the Beatles at the same table between sets.  My understanding is that the Beatles played a twelve hour on and off shift from about twelve noon to twelve midnight.  And Bruno gave them pills, probably bennies, to keep them awake and play better.  They would switch off hours every hour with Rory Storm and the Hurricanes.  Klaus says he was surprised when the guys he was talking to got up to perform.  Pete Best was the only one of the five Beatles who did not partake in the pills.  Astrid was taken with Stewart who didn’t jump around like the others and kept his back to the audience.  I wonder if that’s where Paul got the idea for Sgt Pepper.  Anyhow the Beatles and Klaus remained friends even though Stewart stole Astrid away from him.  Klaus, and another art student with some kind of French accent apparently were unfamiliar with that section of town.  It seems as early as November first there were frictions with Bruno Kunsler. (?)  He threatened to beat them up so the Beatles took on body guard Horst Fasher, who sings two songs on the “Live at Hamburg” album.  I knew Horst was a boxer, but I didn’t know he had served time for killing somebody in a fight, apparently.  Bruno decided, at least for a time it was better not to mess with him.  But then they would hear all these German announcements in the Keiserkeller around ten PM and it was the authorities announcing that if you weren’t eighteen you had to leave the club, not because of alcohol but because of the ten o clock curfew, and they would check people’s ID.  And fifteen or so minutes later the beer would again begin flowing.  Apparently Paul and Pete had really tight quarters.  The Beatles- - so I’ve heard elsewhere moved in with Tony Sheridon at the Top Ten club.  But Bruno was pissed at the Beatles because they suspected they were violating a contract not to perform in a club within 25 miles.  The Beatles were pissed with Bruno because they were promised better quarters very soon and never got them.  So Paul and Pete snuck back in there to get their stuff- - like Pete’s drum set in the dead of night with no lights fearing they would run into Bruno, which they didn’t.  But it was so dark that they lit a condom on fire just to see what they were doing and it scorched the wall.  I’d always heard it was smoldering cigarettes.  There was a scorch mark on the wall.  So it was that Paul and George and Pete were forced to leave, George because of his age, and Stewart of course moved in with Astrid.  It seemed that Astrid felt honored to photograph the Beatles because she regarded them as sexy.  And the Beatles were mutually honored to be photographed by her.  So it was just John by himself and you know the rest.  He figured he no longer had a purpose to even be there and so took a train for home.  They are sticking by the story that John Lennon just hung out at his Aunt Mimi’s for three weeks not even sure whether or not he wanted a music carrier.

Just a little bit more about that guy on KFI before the Jesus Christ show, before six.  I’ve only caught that program a few times.  I know there are regular programs on the radio dealing with space aliens and all that “whacko” stuff, that I don’t listen to because I haven’t fitted it into my schedule.  We are creatures of habbit.  Sometimes when our life is disrupted or “different things” often positive, occur in a given day, when we have the opportunity to revert back to our ‘usual pattern” it might even be getting engrossed in a computer project and “forgetting “ to take your usual cigarette break.  Or else you will “forget’ to turn on Days of our Lives at one.  And when you remember that you haven’t tuned in you might think, “I don’t feel like doing that today”.  I suspect John Lennon felt this way when three of his Beatle mates were given “das boot” from Hamburg.   [I’m doing a little self editing again right here]  Of course like I said back further - - these gray UFO space aliens- - -  we call them Pikes.  They aren’t evil but even other space aliens regard them as “strange”.   [I’m editing myself here and snipping out the next two sentences]  And that guy got his “Universe shells” straight out of El Paradiso from Dante.  I know because I’ve read it.  I once had a theory about progressive Black holes proposing that the entire Universe was a “perpetual falling machine”.  But as I told Paul I adandoned that theory several years ago as mathematically not kosher.  Also the bit with the Mayans- - - my theory always was - - actually somebody had told me that the Mayan calendar in fact ended around 2040 rather than 2012.  This would comport much better on both ends of the interval of time involved- - because the whole interval can and ought to be pushed about 25 years into the future from what people are saying.   But the thing is people “get religion” because they think it explores new things and expands their mind or they are told some glorious event is coming and that they now need to get in on it.  But it’s a classic case of “bait and switch” and they find out the whole thing is about money and selling Christian products or bragging to their fellow pastors they have a bigger congregation than THEY do.  OK - - - Now I’m done.

The Making of an Asshole

The problem with this software is that the 

"fish eye" setting is a little on the "unnatural" side

There is more of that "Vortex" thing happening

Many get sucked into intellectual Vorcexes

What gets me up this early on a Sunday morning to post is this show on KFI just now that is what I'd refer to as "Gateway Activity" of this KFI program.  People think of "Gateway Drugs" as like marijuana leading to cocaine and heroin and stuff like that.  Often though a "Gateway Activity" is something that actually appears at first blush the exact Opposite of what it really is.  Let's say you have two people.  One says "I'm a good person and strive every day to live a good life and be kind to my fellow man" and you have another who says "I don't need God or religion in my life or anybody to tell me what to do.  I am the master of my own Destiny".  Most people would say the first guy is the one who is the closest to "Turning Christian" or "Evolving' if you will.  I hate that word "Evolving" because Obama is misusing the term.  We know that Obama always favored gay marriage.  He came out with a statement favoring gay marriage in 1996, and must have been the only one in the country to do so.  Because when Howard Dean, that "loose cannon" that "reckless hot head" dared to propose even gay "civil unions" in his 2004 campaign most people considered it a radical position, right up with there with pulling all of our troops out of Iraq, which I was not for at that time.  (I was wrong)  So this "Evolving" business is a bunch of crap.  The more proper word is "reversion" or "returning too his roots" or that transvestite teacher he had at the Medrossa in Indonesia or something.  But excuse the side rabbit trail.  I'm doing this whole posting without notes.  Back to "gateway activities".  I hadn't intendet to mention it, but often a "gateway activity" of homosexuality is a super machoness or dressing up in leather all the time, or an utter obsession with the subject of homosexuality all the time and who is gay and who just looked at me funny - - and all of that.  Or carrying on endlessly you don't like how someone is dressed and obsessing over it.  You see these sort of activities and you know you have someone on the verge of turning Queer himself.  So back to our Christian thing- - it's the guy who keeps saying 'I am the master of my own Destiny" and how he doesn't need God - - - He is the Perfect Candidate for a Christian conversion because he's about "There" already if you know what Christians are all about.  These are the very sort of personalities who populate fundamentalist Churches.  If you talk to them they will tell you they despize so called "Good People".  In fact they are the ones who make most relivent the adage "Making the Good the enemy of the Perfect" because they aren't GOOD and they aren't Perfect either, by the way, but they think they are.  One evangelist was known for saying 'I hate know it alls".  I love a person who "Knows more than I do" because I can learn from him.  I have more knowledge about the Alien World that KFI guy was talking about this morning - - I have more knowledge in my little finger than he has in his whole inflated Ego and I'll prove it to you one of these days.  This evangelist who hates know it allls hates Women and Children to, with a passion.  And he has actually come out and said 'I have Women because they are really Smarter than me, and it's my job to make sure they never know it".  Later on and I might as well do it now, is suggest that everyone who was beguiled by this Tea Party "gateway" clap trap on KFI this morning before six- - - spend about Two Weeks listening to Randy Rhodes and Stephanie Miller, and they'll set you straight on a lot of things.  Honestly.  You say "Well they are two women and one of them is gay and the other has fanticies of turning gay- - and both have a flippant sense of humor.  Why would you want to pay attention to them".  I'll tell you.  First of all "Flippancy" is not such a bad thing. You've just been reading too many C S Lewis books and gotten mentally "Screw-taped".  C S Lewis is a world class liar and deceiver about a lot of stuff.  The other thing is just because you're gay doesn't mean that you aren't a good human being.  There's that word again - - - Good.  You don't check your brains at the door when you turn Gay.  You still have your intellectual capacities.  I just have a problem with Gay Marriage - - - not Gay People, and there is a world of difference.  I think if most people actually spent time with Gay people they'd see the whole Culture differently.  I've come accross more gay people I didn't KNOW were gay in the past ten years than the rest of my life combined.  And they aren't what you think.  Gay people have been pretty good at correcting old stereotypes.  How we have new stereotypes.  One tea party member said "You know that gay's all are are intellectual and have good income coming in."  They live well.  And of course they are good at things like French cooking, interior decoration, and hair grooming - - -  - stereotypes.  One guy at Green Harbor who used to call the Bingo games- - you'd take him to be some macho cigar chomping pit boss at a Las Vegas casino if you didn't know - - and not the least bit gay.  But he is.  New Paragraph.

I want now to at last move on to the Meat of that KFI show.  It's about Alien beings and demonic attacks.  There was stuff in there about the Bible and the Gold Standard, and Jesus advocated making friends with powerful foreign governments to better yourself- - and Jesus was into Making Money and that's why the Obama liberals hate him so much.  It was the same sort of clap trap I heard back in 1976 when The Omen first came out about demonic warfare and space aliens and "Close Encounters' and all of that.  Again, if you want to know about Space Aliens, ask me in private sometime.  I've got the straight skinny on that stuff.  Talk to someone with actual substantive information why don't you.  Do you remember when the Tea Party got started even people like Thom Hartman and Randy Rhodes were sucked into their deception if only a little.  I never was because I'd been through all that and know how they work.  They will talk about the Bible and the gold standard and staying out of debt.  But the biggest lie they are known to tell is that "Taxing the rich robs them of an incentive to create jobs and work hard to stimulate the economy.  People who say this know absolutely NOTHING about ANY economic statistics on the subject.  Talk to Thom Hartman sometime, why don't you.  You know back in March of 1992 one day I talked to Social Security wondering when I was going to be "Processed"  and they'd be convinced I was really impoverished to qualify and statify all of their petty little rules.  But one conversation I had was frustrating with them.  I decided to call my Pastor, whom I refer to now as The Asshole from El Paso.  He really was raised in some Texas City out on the western plains but I'm not certain it was actually El Paso.  I heard Dylan use the term once on the Howard Stern show in 1992 and that's where I got it - - from a Bob Dylan song, apparently (that I've never heard him actually sing)  Tea party people say a lot of stuff and most of it is lies.  They will talk about when the Jamestown colony experimented with Communisum they almost starved to death.  And they will say if you tax millionaires an extra four percent- - it will ruin the economy.  "Nobody makes anything here any more"  "High taxes are driving businesses out of California".  And there are lies about me.  They say "I've always had an Addictive personality".  This when I suffered from alcoholism for a few years in the late 'nineties.  They will say "I can't handle money or pay my bills" and yet I almost got kicked off of SSI because in June of 2001 I had saved up so much money that my bank account was actually over the limit.  And that money helped me out in the next few years after I moved into a board and care facility, let me tell you.  One tea bagger is fond of bashing poor people the way Rush does referring to them all Hippies and Communists.  One time I felt so defensive about being on SSI I said "I'd like to get a job actually". She then responded "Of course I'd never hire you because you can't ballance a check book", which is a Lie, of course.  But they wham-bam you with one thing and when you respond - - they hit you with the opposite thing so you can't win.  And then she hits me up with this "Why would you criticize people who have money on Wall Street.  Your mother has a lot of money from stocks and you're going to Inheret that money some day so it's not even in your own self interest".  This statement contains several lies.  First of all I have been Dis-Inhereted.  She did now that, didn't she.  Next I never criticized making money in the Stock Market and was an advid follower of KWHY channel 22 here in LA for years.  And it's because I do know so much about how economic works and the machinations of the money markets- - what she SAYS comes off as utter uninformed asshole ignorance.  You do know that cutting Capital Gains would be the WORST possible tax move we could make right now, don't you.  It would Sink all of our Markets and make international trade all the worse.  Many people are obsessed with Debt but it was a far more Dangerous situation under Ronald Reagan because of the 17% interest rates or whatever they were then.  Governor Rick Perry wants to bring back double digit interest rates as a way to FIX our money problems.  Nobody who actually LIVED through the era of 30 and 35 years ago would EVER say a thing like that because you knew what it was really LIKE.  Part of a lot of people's problems is that they haven't lived long enough to learn certain Lessons of life.  And by the way you do know that the current FED chairman was a President Bush appointee, don't you?  So can the "Treason" talk.  I've gone on long enough.  I was going to talk a lot more about Space Aliens than I in fact did in this posting but it seemed most prudent to go in a whole other direction today.

This Posting Is Just A Longer "Tweet"

This is Saturday afternoon May 12, 2012 just before two.  I still haven’t done any “tweets” since Wednesday.  I’m noted that blog readers seem to like their stuff really “fresh” as in hours old and one day to them is ancient history.  This is a different time frame from mine where postings done six months or a year ago are still very relevant.   Last night it was the usual Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune.  Then it was Nikita.  They have these charged plots like “24” or something where a President of the United States is pressured by some terrorist group to scuttle peace talks with a nation on their say so.  Then it was “Supernatural”.  There was a scene in there I told Gloria about on the patio this morning where this teenage nerd kid was offered a letter of recommendation to Princeton or some college that’s hard to get into- - and all he had to do was give them what they wanted.  Knowing they had the power to torture me or my loved ones or put me to death, I think I’d just grab the letter and go and give them what they want.  At a quarter to ten I was out on the patio under those new bright lights.  Pete had just bought a big pizza and Marsha and James and Richard Moore were buying pieces of it, and I thought about it but figured I needed every dollar.  I’m sure whoever sells these pizza pieces for a dollar makes a handsome profit.  I retired at five to ten.

In the morning I made the final batch of coffee and turned KNX 1070.  This is the anniversary of the Sunday that Ed Sullivan refused to let Bob Dylan perform “John Birth Society Blues” on his show.  I missed the President’s address.  We had oatmeal with cut up apples in it for a tasty treat.  We had a fried egg and toast and butter and jelly, and the Oriental lady gave me some of her coffee.  I then caught the Republican response, and then it was the CO Q 10 thing with Resveritril thing on KTLK.  Most of that.  I played the “B 52’s” CD tracks one, part of two, three, four, five, and nine.  Then I played Tony Sheridon and the Beatles tracks one through four and then 10, 13, and 14.  Then I had a smoke.  Then I called Judy and talked to her a while, and I’m going to dub in her remarks from another source later.  Bill lent me some money, which was partially so I can get coffee creamer at the store next door, where it's actually cheaper.  Judy told me that President Obama was raised by a transvestite at his Moslem school in Indonesia, and that being gay has always been one of Obama's "core values" and he was always intenting to "come out" or whatever sometime in the past four years.  She talked about businesses being driven from California due to high taxes.  (which we really can't help)  She talked about the whole missing bees problem I'll be posting a blog about today.  She and Paul said that - - Paul is up and around doing yard work and the main reason why we aren't going to Mom's tonight is because Mom had a special event at her place.  She didn't mention that when I talked to her yesterday.  Paul just sent me hiking videos I haven't looked at.  Dr. Levy returned for the first time in a while after missing two Mondays - - showing up on a Thursday, and promising us roast beef sandwiches, potato chips and Snapple next week.  Lunch just now was amazingly skimpy.  Paul wanted me to be more proactive about asking Dr. Saran about my blood test results and maybe E mail him personally because Paul said "he might forget to bring them on Tuesday when you see him".  Did I tell you I was back on the higher dose of Resperidol from Dr. Messina that I was on through 2010.  We both mutually agreed on that for various reasonsBut the reason why we aren’t going to Mom’s is not Paul’s health but because Mom had another event scheduled that evening she didn’t tell me about.  I went for another smoke and then wanted for the hall mopping to dry.  Then I got on computer and read a letter from each brother and then watched “My Week with Marilyn” and “Clash of the Titans” and many other movie trailers and after this the rest of the Bill Handel program where he says you have absolutely no case.


The whole bee shortage thing and bees abandoning hives was a short lived news story but the problem didn't go away, but the crisis is worse than ever now.  Farmers just aren't talking about it.  The toxins the bees live on are now neuro-toxic and do them in. We have to import bees from Europe, where they are no regulated in their pesticides and genetically engeneered foods than we are.  They lend us their bees but then the pollen or necter or something is contaminated so the Europeans don't want the bees back.  (?) the average live of a Queen is less than a fifth of what it was.  The big problem is genetically engineered foods where the vegetation itself is toxic to all insects and it doesn't select.  So bees will be all over a hive one day and they'll all be gone the next.  But the chemical companies donate to the big political campaign so that nobody dares write any laws against them.  Some growers have to manually polentate their produce, which takes time.  Part of the problem today is there is such a homogenious genetic pool that foods don't have the chance of resisting pests they normally would but one infestation can wipe out a crop like that.  

I went down at seven after eleven.  After the previous two days I wanted to be good and early and had to wait for them to open the dining room door.  We had vegetable and cabbage soup and a skimpy grilled cheese sandwich and a tiny portion of coleslaw.  There were no seconds on the soup as there usually are, and there was no fruit desert or anything.  It was a real disappointment.  I called Terry and he agreed to get the coffee for two dollars.  The trouble is that when Terry got here he bought the big honking three pound can of Master Chef that cost me six and the whole purpose of asking him to pick me up some was because the store next door would have broken me.  Terry was in a frazzled mood anyhow because he had to drive his mother all over the place, and now I was giving him almost none of the tip I promised him.  I also sent off more E mail photographs, not that people actually read my E mails.  They say things like ‘The computer isn’t working” or “I’ll do it when I find the time.”   The afternoon is slipping away. Do you ever have these dreams where you were out in the morning and you expected to return around noon and you thought it was maybe 12:30 but then you look at the sun angle and figure it has to be well after one, and then you look at your watch again and it’s now ten minutes to three and you say “Where the hell did the time go?”


"Oh I noticed two people you're calling by their real names now, huh?"

"Well yeah.  One of then I was going to allow anyhow because people were figuring out his identity anyhow, and besides you can't fight Beatle lyrics of John Lennon with his Cheese & Onion breath"

We have three dimensions left, the karmic dimensions.  One might almost use a trig analogy here to describe the relation between the words because they are similar.  As you know circular or "optical" trig and hyperbolic trig are alike in form is not substance.  The only differente in their root formulas basically is a plus sign being changed to a minus.  Also the relation between the terms.  You have one term that's kind of the inverse of another, and a third term that's a derivitive of the other two.  So you have Will as a dimension, and Sin or "karmic gravity" as a dimension - - and "karmic space" or you might almost call "feng chue" as the third dimension.   OK we're doing this live and that time we kept neither source formatting nor destination formating.  "Gravity" is important for things in nature to function.  Even Neil Savedra if we agree on nothing else we agree without the logical "possability" of sin life as we know it could not- - and does not exist.  The striving tword upward karma is the striving of Life itself and presupposes that "All Men at least Desire to be Good" a proposition with which Chuck Smith does not agree.  The whole bit about karmic space again can be likened to a chessboard and "controlling as much of the board as you can" as Marcus Blackwell put it.  Therefore you ensure that you have more "space" to opperate.  God's annointing on many Bible verse is not "I gave you Time to repent but rather, I gave you Space to repent".  I think the selection of this word, Space, -  is no accident.  How say you?

Greetings to New Blog Readers

I see that my numbers are up for the past two days, and I can take one guess why.  I don't want to let you new readers down.  However there are a lot of news items I haven't fully digested yet.  Not that I've "evolving" on anything.  I don't like that word.  It's just a matter of "sorting out the pros and cons of an issue in one's mind".  The liberal media such as the Chris Matthews show, "Hardball" seems to be putting the "spin" on Obama's little "coming out" yesterday in saying that it was a bold, political move that is akin to Lyndon Johnson's "getting out in front of American oppinion and leading it" on the Civil Right's issue for Blacks.  But to me it makes no political sense to trade off nearly thirty percent of the electorate for the splinter vote or two or three percent gay population, most of which live in West Hollywood or the Bowerys in New York or the Tenderloin district, or what have you.  Blacks and Chicanos and particularly Chicanos - - are much receptive to the whole gay thing than white people are.  You have either pentacostelist "full gospell' Black people or else Roman Catholics.  And they have a Pope that won't even allow divorce or birth control or sex for any reason other than procreation.  But the way some conservatives have responded to the news is just as puzzling.  Today Rush Limbaugh launched into his usual incoherent rant where you'd have to be either psychic or a long time listener (unfortunately I am the latter) to follow his colvoluted train of thought.  He seems to be saying that he has no personal hostility to gays but feels the President is pulling a "cheap political stunt that's all show and no substance' and stresses that no actual laws were changed with yesterday's proclamation.  No laws were changed after Mein Kemph either but that didn't stop it from being a contraversial book.  He says "even gay people think it's a cheap stunt" and reportedly the log cabin republicans are completely unimpressed.  Go figure.  Mitt Romney for his part seems completely reasonable to me in his response.  He says it's a sensitive issue where 'people's oppinions may differ" but I feel the way I do and I'm not going to change.  Personally I wouldn't have been so tactful.  Somehow the political bean counters said that it was a good idea to come out with the statement now, and maybe that Joe Byden "forced the President to make the statement now rather than to wait till just before the Democratic Convention, as he had been planning on".  OK.

Real Hunter did not testify in the John Edwards case.  I guess if they can fail to find the weapon in the OJ murder case then they can fail to have the key witness in the whole thing testifying, by either side.  It's a little silly though when the key player in the whole thing is considered so "unreliable" that neither side will touch her.  It is my furvent hope that John Edwards gets off.  He's a good man.  He just seems to have gotten a little over his head here, and needs some way to extracate himself.

Police beatings and bullying have been in the news a lot.  They have been showing that Fullerton PD of the cops beating a mental patient for a half hour without let-up by every means in the book including almost crushing his lungs and beating him senseless and frequent use of a taser on him.  As to the bullying thing there is another case of Romney bullying besides the so called "Surfer Joe" incident they've all been talking about.  Personally I don't like Fraternities and never have.  I think all their initiation rituals are silly and don't prove a thing and are often dangerous and on occasion, life threatening.  I'd never go to an Ivy League snob school like that anyhow.  But Romney is said to have played tricks on a blind teacher.  He'd do things like pretend to open a door for him and invite him to walk through and laugh himself silly when he bashed into the door.  Most sixth graders would find that prank a little sickening.  And for a Presidential candidate to engage in "that sort of thing" often, doesn't bode well for his character.  Mitt Romney strikes me as a personal coward in virtually every aspect of his life and strikes me as a shallower man than anybody dared believe.  He is not only "risk adverse' on economic issues, engaging only in roulette games that have been rigged in advance, but also by his numerous "flip flops" on virtually every issue conceivable.  The man has no experiance in any legislative body, and has absolutely no Foreign Policy experiance, but still has the chutzbah to attack this president as unfit because of his National Security policies.  Go figure.

Proposition 29 is assenine.  I'm tempted to vote for it even though I don't want to pay more in cigarette taxes.  The pamflet I received this afternoon points to the "new beaurocracy" and how the cancer research won't be useful and "It will only worsen the state budget crisis".  They fail to mention the one little detail that the measure is Entirely paid for with cigarette taxes not paid by non smokers.  How can anyone in the non smoking community fall for this kind of flim-flam clap trap?

If you new people are wondering who "Stu Baby" is- - it's one of my "poetic licenses" I grant myself with my readers.  It's one of those "dead rock star" people, and what I report him saying is perfectly consistent with his known personality.  You don't have to actually believe in the hereafter to quote dead people.  It's just a question of "tapping into their mental energy" kind of like what President Obama sought to do with his African father.  I'd like to read "Dreams of my Father" sometime.  Some may see what I call the "Federation" a little too much akin to the "Talosians" of the Star Trek pilot episode.  It's one of those eternal questions that if you hear or see "something you can't prove that seems to have no material basis" whether it's always errant brain chemistry or what.  Some say ALL of it is explainable by such physical causes.  Others say there is "something else actually there".  I'll let YOU decide.  I would just say that - - whatever is SPACE here- - - is completely incompatable with any SPACE that is perceived by "extraordenary means".  So it it all illusion in a brain electrode or a little blue pill or what?  How can a little blue pill produce vivid geometric patterns where you as it were "amaze yourself with your own creativity" not to mention write some of the best Popular music in recorded history.  An ex associate named Frank says "well, the people in the sixties got demonic help".  Personally I don't want to go there, either.  Let's just stick with errant brain chemistry for the time being, I guess.

Dr. Levy has returned for the first time in sixteen days.  To make up for all the roomers circulating around about him - - he's bringing sandwiches and potato chips and Snapple to class next week and stresses that the meat sandwiches actually will have substantial Meat in then.  (Not like the sandwiches we get around here)  I don't believe what he said about the barbecue that cost "hundreds of dollars' that he threw for Founders last week.  Personally were I a prospective employee I'd rather work here than at Founders.  Yet Founders seems to be getting the lions share of Dr. Levy's focus.  I know the people here and the staff here.  And I've seen videos of the "residents' ("inmates" for you people in Rio Linda, as Rush would say) and I'll tell you we have a much higher calabre of resident.  I think the song "Too Many People" would make a good Rush Limbaugh "update theme" for this place.  It has all those apt lines in it like "You took your lucky break and broke it in two - - now what can be done for you - - you ended up HERE".  OK I added the last part.  "Too many people going underground".  Too many going to the hospital or making that one way trip to the cemetary.  "To many hungry people losing weight".  We won't do a photo today.  I'm not inspired to post anything in particular for a photo today.

"This One Could Be A Game Changer" -ME

You've seen these sitcoms where people are in some local political race and one guy seems to have the race all sewed up - - but then does something to completely blow it, and on election day there is a landslide for the other guy.  Things couldn't be more adverse for President Obama now.  People believe Romney more than they do the President as to the matter of "The Unemployment figures are a disaster".  Nobody likes this President.  In the south- - nobody Democrats who couldn't have gotten elected dog catcher, are running against the President in primaries, and winning.  The people of certain states are that disgusted with Obama.  Dick Lugar was so popular six years ago Democrats scarcely bothered to run against him.  Now he's deemed "unacceptable" by a party who "thinks they hold the reins of power" - - and they appear to be Right.  I'm no longer even that confident Scott Walker will be recalled in Wisconsin next month.  If the recall fails it will be a disaster for the President of the first magnitude.  Now the President has taken to piling on political dirt upon himself.  And he couldn't have done it at a worse time!  The President has come out in favor of legalized Gay Marriage with NO distinction between homo and hetrosexual marriages.  This is just RIGHT AFTER the embarrassing loss yesterday in North Carolina.  The smartest thing he could do was stick his head in the sand for a while.  And the worst thing was that he did it because 'His wife and two daughters" convinced him to change his position.  Sasha says "Daddy how come gay people can't get married?"  As the head of the house, pardon my chovenism, is that it's HIS responsability to instruct his Kids on matters of sexuality, and NOT the other way around.  The tea party is going to have a hay day with this one!  They have been handed a Christmas gift.  I can see the fall adds right now.  The only final nail in the coffin to be driven is the Supreme Court ruling in June on his health care bill.  Given the recent proclivity of this court and the questions they asked- - I personally am having fresh doubts about whether the Obama bill will stand.  It is doesn't and the president handles it as badly as this gay setback in North Carolina, it could be all over for the President by June.  I have been forced to admit that the poll numbers have not budged for this President since the dark days of early last fall when this President was on the ropes.  I have LOOKED for ANY substantive change in these head to head polls and have not SEEN it.  (Selah)

You ask, "Does Stu Baby feel the same way".  No.  He's hanging with the President.  I just talked to him about this and his take is "Even in my world if homosexuality is frowned upon for the United States in that time and place it's different.  He quoted the whole Nazi poem about "First they came for the gays, and then they came for the straight unmarried people ect.".   So his view is like Seid, the Mormon who got in trouble I believe for saying "In your facility I'm saying that I have no objection to smoking cigarettes.  Yours is a unique case that people need to understand".  Well I darkly suspect they DIDN"T understand, and people won't "understand" this President on the gay issue, either.  With all the imagined problems the tea party brings up, as I found with Pastor Mark, that once he actually had something Real he could nab me for like alcoholism, I knew it was all she wrote for that church.

I don't want to be one to misuse or misapply metaphores.  For instance the term "hyperspace".  It is NOW my view that "hyperspace" so designated is a misleading term.  Perhaps a better term might be "Uberspace" in the German sense of being some - - - etherially superior space.  But the key here is that is NOT - - Space.  Period.  Hyper-space is NOT space.  We have spoken of "hyper-optics" and I still believe in this and have discussed this many times.  Ordenary matter is meant for ordenary Space and cannot Exist in hyper-space, no way no how.  So if you hope to attain hyper space in this lifetime, you can give it up right now, as far as this author is concerned.  However one trait retained from the Star Wars era is that there is "no telling" where you will "end up" once you return to ordenary space.  As I see it their is no way of controling or even KNOWING where you will end up or where your "re-entry point would be' assuming it were even Possible, which it isn't.  The only way it could be done even psychicly (or "in the mind") is that somehow you were able to completely disembody yourself, which everybody fantisys about but nobody has ever accomplished, so far as I can see.  Not and live to tell about it.  Since it's NOT SPACE - - whatever you "perceive" as space there is not really SPACE but in reality "something else", and I wouldn't speculate what that would be.  Now catch the last paragraph.

THE IRAQUOIS NATION has existed for over ten thousand years, according to Thom Hartman.  I know there was high civilization on planet earth Before 11,000 BC or thirteen thousand years ago or half of the zidialogical "grand cycle" of constelations.  This was just before the final Ice Age wave hit.  And so I would expect this last wave of the Ice Age would be prominent in the Iraquois Nation if they in truth have survived this long, which is pretty hard to believe.  Ben Franklin and other White are said to have envied the Iraquois Laws and their "stable culture" and said "If a group of savages can form a civilized, stable nation, then we white people should be able to do it".  This was twenty years before the American Revolution.  Hartman goes on to talk about how women run everything and own all the property.  I've heard that in some cultures the wife divorses the man merely by putting his saddle outside the tent, and he knows he's divorced.  Because the wife owns all the property.  Supposedly women govern better than men without all that testosterone in their system.  My only dispute to this theory of Thom Hartman is that the most avid war like politicians are crotchity old men who couldn't get it up if their lives depended on it.  It's the old men who compel the young men to fight.  Blame military indoctrination, not testosterone.  That's my take on this.  But still I have at times wondered myself just what kind of society we really would have if women ran everything.  You have heard this author say that in a lot of domestic disputes- - knowing none of the facts I would make an a priori bet that the woman is mostly right and the man is almost always wrong.  To everything is an exception however.  Paul Evans was known as one Mean Dude when he got here and has a past we won't talk about.  But lately Paul Evans has undergone an amazing transformation in his personality.  He's a whole lot more peaceful and tranquel and relates to people a lot better and many now speak well of him.  So what changed.  He broke up with Janet.  Janet and Paul really used to get into it.  I would observe their near physical brawls and not judge one way or the other. In THAT case knowing nothing once again - - I DID know Janet and I KNOW how she can really push a person's buttons and know just the Worst possible thing to say in any given situation.  Without Janet in his life, Paul is doing much better.

- - - But What is 'Intrinsically Impossible"?

This posting is not going to discuss anything really "New" in the way of broached topics.  There is one early Dylan song where he says "This song is just a little reminder".  Some of us need to be "reminded" of certain things now and then because for whatever reason it's in most human being's nature to "forget" certain things now and then.  Let me lay one on you right now.  If James Dobson or Neil Savedra of KFI were doing their own "Sermon on the Mount' a key phrase they would use if they were being honest would be the following.  "Ye have heard it said that God hath said that "With God all things are Possible".  But I say unto you that All things are Not Possible".  Because they have come out and said in response to scripture saying "All things are Possible" that  and I quote "Even God can't do the Intrinsically Impossible".  We have a bit of a conflict here, a contradiction, if you will.  - - Like a hundred and eighty degree contradiction.  We have a bit of a reconciliation problem trying to get the two statements to jive - - like a one hundred percent problem in reconciliation.  So like when the desciples day to Jesus "If these things you have said are so (just WHAT things are not important here) than how can Man be Saved".  Do you remember what Jesus said back?  He said "With man this is impossible".  You have heard psycho therapists and perhaps even Phil Mc Graw make the statement, "You have control over what you yourself choose to do, but you don't have control over what others do".  Now we come to the next question.  "Does GOD come under the heading of the "Other"?  I believe God would qualify as an "Other" than yourself in most people's thinking unless you are a Buddahists or a Gnostic or something, and most people today aren't that.  And it was in one of the St. Peter epistles where he says 'As far as it lies within you" or "as far as it is possible" - - - dwell at peace with all men, or something like that.  Are you tracking with me so far? Good.  So our problem is to decided or separate out the Possible from the Impossible, since the two things are as it were "Mutually exclusive SETS for you Lisa Simpson types who are into those Ven diagrams or whatever.

Now if something lies with Man to do - - and Jesus himself said it was not Possible for a man to do, then it is not Possible for a man to do.  Period.  Not hard.  Not time consuming.  But impossible.  It isn't happening.  Capish?  Good.  You people are bright and alert at this hour of two AM in the morning.  So now just what types of "Things" fall into the area of "Not Possible' and we ought then, to seek not to exhaust ourselves in endeavoring to do them.  Do you want to have a conversation with that which is posessed of one hundred percent "Patience".  That's no problem.  You can't have a conversation with that lamp that is shining or that end table over there any time you like.  You can speak as long as you like and you will never be interrupted or contradicted, if that's what you seek.  But the thing is that is something is Living it has Feelings and things that have Feelings - - change from minute to minute, and therefore living things "Exhaust their patience" now and then.  Nobody has even proposed that God has "Infinite patience" even though preacher after will chide his congragation for NOT having this quality.  So he's really chiding them for having a trait that is specific to that which is Alive.  Alive people have feelings and respond to things.  You have Agape love with a dead object.  And it is in the nature of Agape love for all the Love to originate with you and in the words of Kinko to Clown - - the reciprication factor is completely lacking, if this is what you wish.  You've heard the adage "You can talk any time you want to God - - but if you ever get any answers back it's a sign of mental illness".  How many of you have heard that.  In my esteemed oppinion God does not fall into the catigory of "Things that are alive".  One belief of Neil is that things are impossible.  Another big adage of Mr Jesus of KFI is that "People don't change".  This is a guiding moral principle of his.  Which is fine if you're a determinist deist like me.  There is no problem at all with this because God doesn't observe the passage of time.  Time doesn't exist.  Since it's an a prior necessity or "Ontological Necessity" if you're a Rush fan, for Life to be involved in "The passage of time" then to NOT observe Time is in fact to be Dead.  Not happening there.  So as such it would only be Logical for GOD to say that "People don't change" just as it would be for a color blind person to say "The position of the traffic light changes- - but it's always the same color".  Same thing.  It's a problem with the Observer and NOT with the thing being observed.  Capish?  Good.  Now tell it to Jesus of KFI.  People DO change. Of course one other "little thing" that presents itself as a problem here is that if with God ALL things are predestined- - - then prayer us useless.  If you've heard me say that once you've heard me say that a hundred times.  You can't pray to get God to change his Will.  And neither does God change his Will on his own of his own volition.  To quote James Dobson again "This thing lies outside the realm of logical possability for God to do".  Certain things are by definition impossible, such as a round square or a four sided triangle.  So back to the "desciples question" assuming for the moment that James Dobson is up there playing the role of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount- - "If these things be so - - how can man be saved?"  Or stated another way "How can God intervene in our lives with or without our petetioning?  If you know that With man - - such and such is Impossible - - then you needn't expend one more bit of effort or energy in endeavoring to do that particular thing.  Capish?  Good.  So to answer the question of "What is impossible" the answer is MOST things.  Anything that is NOT predestined to happen is by virtual definition"Impossible" for either God or Man to accomplish.  Let's pause and meditate on this Truth for a Moment.

Look at those Tulips at the top of the page.  They used to be yellow you know on the original wallpaper.  So how did I turn them red, and turn them red without making the sky purplish or anything like that?  Some may say "That is Impossible".  But I just did it.  You see it before your eyes.  How did I do it?  Only my hairdresser knows for sure.  But it constitutes a little object lesson that just perhaps we should not let Preachers such as either James Dobson or Neil of KFI to define WHAT is "Impossible" for us to accomplish.  Because indeed there is a logical possabilith they could be wrong.  I think we need to pause again and meditate on this Truth also - - - .

I am not one to fault Newt Gingrich's dream of colonolizing the moon.  I don't see any real problem with having that one as a goal myself.  We need goals and dreams.  We need long term things - - goals - - dreams - - purpouses to keep us going, to motivate us in the wagon ruts of life.  A rut is nothing but "an open ended grave".  You don't "fix a snag" in a vynal record by just letting it snag again and again and hope that one of these times the snag won't happen.  That falls under the heading of "Doing the exact same thing over and over and hoping for a different result".  But neither should you assume that if you go back to a previous Action that you were disappointed with Before that it is the "Same Action" because logically it is not.  Circumstances have Changed - -in ways even you yourself may not even fully realize.  May I suggest that those who would expect a repeat performance of the election year of 2012 with what they were treated to in 2010 are "giving up too soon".  Even if your record is stuck in a grove, there is no law that says you cant take some kind of proactive initiative to solve the problem.  Indeed many preacher's sermons rather than being "patient' and waiting for "things to change" demand some kind of proactive response, and the first one might just be to get Rid of that Preacher.  Sometimes you DO need to "shoot the messenger" and get him out of the way, because rather than be part of the Solution, he has become part of the Problem.  (Selah)

Giving "The Real Silent Majority" a Voice

First of all it's a double barreled loss for our side this evening Dick Lugar lost in his race to hold his Senate seat in the Indiana primary thanks to a tea party candidate.  The charge was leveled that Lugar last sold his house in Indiana in the 'seventies but nobody made it an issue till this election.  They say he was too concerned with foreign affairs and not interested in the concerns of the people of Indiana.  They say that President Obama could always "count him for his vote' on something the President wanted passed.  Normally that would be an asset for anybody, but not this year.  Some said it's because "He's getting too old" because he's been around an awfully long time and was a pet of Richard Nixon.  Mitch Daniels supported Lugar, which will now dash his chances for being picked by Mitt Romney for Vice President.  This is not good.  Also in North Carolina proposition one passed.  This makes it the 27th or whatever State to expressly define "marriage' as a union between one man and one woman.  We Stephanie Miller has been telling us, other rights by heterosexual unmarrieds may be jeopardized by this Constitutional Amendment.  In California even if you change the State Constitution - - a Court can still overrule the will of the people any time in a ruling.  In Al Qaeda news one official criticized the President for saying that "Because of all the security measures we've taken, Al Qaeda has been vastly weakened.  This displeased our speaker because 'We should not divulge any secrets, even ones of favorible propaganda value".

This whole Obeist thing is getting out of hand.  Now they are saying that your "butter ball" two year old toddler may be at risk and that "young mothers need to be reeducated".  Five year olds are having glucose tollerance problems.  Eight year olds are developing type II diabetes.  Unbelievable!  I can state with almost metaphysical certainty that twenty years or whatever from now 42% of the people of America will NOT be overweight as any normal person defines the term.  Of course "I never bet on a sure thing".  For instance I can now say with metaphysical certainty that Sarah was wrong when she announced just after dinner (as early as we eat) that Dr. Levy would be here at six thirty tonight.  By the way I think I can "Prove" that Gene Scott does NOT believe in God.  Gene Scott would not if he truely "only bets on a sure thing" then have endorsed the lady who prophisyed over him in 1967 with a five point prophecy he often repeated on his show.  Because points three, four, and five were no way even close to becoming fulfilled before he died.  If we thus assume Gene Scott is "risk averse' in the tradition of Mitt Romney, then he did NOT really believe her because if he did something he "bet on" would not prove to be a "sure thing".  But back to the overweight thing.  Now they are saying that school officials and state and local officials have to get together because they now say "This isn't a question of Will Power any more but rather a case of society being so pro food and high calorie that society as we know it needs to be transformed somehow.  Back in the 'seventies they used to say that we suffered from being a "Pro natalist society" and THIS was something we had to change because we were promoting "having babies" as being too appealing and brainwashing women that somehow they aren't really fulfilled or actualized unless they bore children.  Now others are worried about this so called "gluten free" diet and that ALL people should NOT be on gluten free diets because this diet in and of itself constitutes health and nutritional risks.  So next time you hear somebody just flapping their gums on the subject of nutrition - - don't argue with the TV just get up and - - change the channel.

An Author of Children's Books has passed away and his most famous work is "Where the Wild Things Are" that was out in 1963, which was after my time.  This author's Dad told him scarey stories when he himself was a child.  Now he says he doesn't really "like children" but enjoys them "few and far between".  These weren't any Disney type fairy tales but riddled with scarey monsters and the like- - as sort of a Stephen King for children, I would suppose.

Sometimes we need to RE-think certain things such as Lennon's song "The Dream is Over".  In the Alex Travek tradion we need to RE it, and change the message, as I did with this vintage image. By the way I also flip flopped the colors just to make it different.  Later on Lennon wrote "You may think that I'm a dreamer - - but I'm not the only one".  Bob Dylan once lamented "Now with passing time it seems everyone's been having them dreams.  Each person sees themselves walking around with nobody else".  I think it was Yoco Ono or somebody who uttered the immortal line 'I'll let you be in my dream if I can be in yours".  That's such a fascenating subject.  I once had a dream years back where me and my then roommate Mike Guereo were in some western style jail cell and we were sentensed to be hanged at sundown for a crime neither of us had comitted.  I never told this dream to Mike and inquired whether he ever had the same dream.  A lot of times we'll look at a foxy chick and she'll look at you and you'll look at her and you'll be thinking "Are you having the same thought I am?"  Of course what the tea party does is to want us to feel like we're all alone and worse "abnormal" for believing what we do.  This is a classic tool of Cult leaders for their "divide and conquer" strategy.  People like Chris Matthews are invaluable now in exposing Romney as the vain and money grubbing and shallow human being that he is.  The people of Salem are not the only people where "Ten thousand people are whispering and nobody is doing anything about it".  We know that the current governmental system as now corrupted by the tea party "is rapidly fading" and "get out of the new road if you can't lend your hand".  We on the left have to build that road, much as the Roman troops before they put the siege to the fortress of Messada in 73 had to First "build the road" TO it.  That takes work, and it also takes a lot of planning and patience.  But if we don't one day- - and it will come sooner than you think - - we will be strangling in traffic jams and over-populated and over polluted and unable to get anywhere or get anything passed in any Legislative Body.  We are lose to reaching that "tipping point" where the media and electoral and legal system will have become so corrupted that it is beyond remedy.  I don't know whether or not someone like Karl Marx had these thoughts in the formation of his philosophy.  It will give us on the left little solice at all that we were proved absolutely right and Mitt Romney's presidency indeed lead to the greatest National deboccle we've ever seen where the wage base is driven to near nothing, nobody has any individual legal rights- - and the economic distribution curve more resembles something out of the Middle Ages than anything in the Twetieth Century.  Because by then we will find that too much water has gone under the bridge and that it is truely just Too Late.