Satan's Remaining Days Are Numbered

Chris Matthews initially was talking about Ted Cruz.   He wants to blow up the Republican party, and Rand Paul wants to turn the party libertarian, which offends others who really like big government as long as THEY hold the whip - - and things like pointless wars and an overbearing NSA is just fine with then.  Then the topic turned to Chris Christie and I almost hate to talk about this because it is so darn depressing, not to mention - - disturbing.  Christy is kind of one of those “fioux” good guys.  People see Democrats in his back pocket and they think he’s open minded and bi-partisan, and they see him as a ruthless prosecutor and call it “dedicated” and also he is prickly and abrasive with reporters and they call it “He’s a direct guy who wants to get things done and doesn’t take crap from anybody”.   But as Chris Matthews and friends probe further they see certain patterns from years ago that may not have seemed significant at the time but now form an all too disturbing pattern.  In his first race he libeled and slandered his opponent and actually LOST the court case- - but he WON the election.  It’s another case of how a lie is spread half way around the world before the truth even has its boots on.  There WAS no “investigation of the district attorney of his opponent”.  He made the thing up out of thin air, and got away with it.  Other times Christie believes in a divide and conquer strategy.  He does highly selective prosecutions.  If he sees a guy without moral scruples- - really crooked- - sell out your own grandmother kind of guy- - he will shield him, and then woo the guy and get him to come to work for him.  He won another campaign by first refusing to prosecute a guy who was clearly guilty.  Then after the guy gets off- - Christie attacks everybody else for a decision HE made and calls the rest of the staff incompetent.  Then after he got considerably more power he didn’t need to rely on such oblique methods but just hauls and fires the prosecutors- - for going after one of his “buddies”.  Everything he does is like an elaborate power game.  I kind of suspect that Jim is the same way.  He plays people and tries to turn people against other people.  It kind of is a dark glimmer of how the antichrist might come to power.  Because I’ve always wondered how the Prince of Darkness could get hordes of people on his side as his die hard fanatics- - and yet be the most completely evil man that ever lived.

 I watched Meet the Press and Mitt Romney was on, actually making sense.  He talked about how spending a couple Billion on the Olympics for a nation is normal, but spending fifty billion on the Olympics is just vanity, because that money could be better used to feed and serve the poor.   I’m glad Romney grew a conscience.  He also treaded gingerly around the topic of gay marriage saying that it’s possible that gay marriage could have an impact on society.  I don’t think there is any question our society has suffered a major moral downgrade due to all of these repent gay marriages.  Then they had a debate between Bill Nye and a conservative lady on the subject of global warming.  David Gregory appears to be back to his old self actually pressing and confronting people hard for answers.  This is refreshing to see. 

It was the ABC network news and later it was the Mc Laughlin Group.  They covered four topics.  It seems the leader of France and the President have a unifying bond because both are languishing in the polls.  France is one country who was behind our effort to attack Syria, to intervene to ease the violence and the human suffering.  Now things are worse in Syria the past two weeks.  That’s not good.  I still say the president should have gone ahead and attacked when he had said “the line was crossed”.  By failing to do so he appears like a pushover.  France also wants to be tough with Iran and their Nukes.  The idea that a country swimming in oil would just decide out of the blue they want nuclear power, is still a hard one to swallow.  Too hard to swallow.  There was talk about death row in Washington.  They have far fewer inmates on death row than we do, but their governor, as well as the governors of Oregon and Illinois – have all put a stay on all executions in their state.  John Mc Laughlin came out against capital punishment.  I can definitely understand that for the emotional welfare of the victim’s loved ones, now “closure” if much more effective when the perpetrator is no longer in this world.  President Obama has a lot of “Executive actions” up his sleeve involving some unbelievable business regulations including calories on all foods including vending machines, and mandentory cameras on the backs of cars so you don’t run people over, backing out.  Then there was that resolution or “Class action suit” against Obama and the National Security Administration.  I am not exactly opposed to that idea.  It’s a hell of a lot better than a lot of class action suits that clog up the courts.   “Burn Notice” is on now, and KCOP is the station getting testy with its antenna reception.  This morning I observed the full moon due west in the sky.

At last there is a little justice in this world.  That “music killer” in Florida with the convenience store shooting of Black teenagers in a van - - the jury found the defendant guilty of attempted second degree murder on three different counts and also enhanced by the discharge of a firearm into a vehicle.  The jury was hung on the charge of first degree murder and the prosecution says they will try that case again.  Well that’s more like it.  At least now we know that everybody in the entire state of Florida isn’t nuts.  The jury took something like four days in deliberation.

On KFI they had a thing on demonic activity I found enlightening.  You can’t carry on a conversation with a demon because you’ll only get sucked down into a black hole.  Scripture says to resist the devil and he’ll flee from you, but on this show they said that demons feed on anger and resistance, do I’m not sure what to do.  Demons in objects are one thing but of course demons can enter people.  I thought of catching the Jesus Christ show but then reconsidered at all the ads.  I turned on KNBC and had more of Glen’s tea.   I still have two tea bags left.  Glen has asked me numerous times for a cigarette today and each time I tell him I don’t have one.  I got my medication just before breakfast.   Given my moods these days- - the earlier, the better.   Last night it was “Burn Notice’ where you get these nuggets of wisdom about mistakes not to commit when you’re contemplating doing various risky acts connected with criminal activity.  I turned it off at twenty to ten.  I have no specific plan to do a blog post today but it’s a possibility.  Mitt Romney as of now doesn’t not to run again.   They did not have any “Love songs” feature on Breakfast with the Beatles.  They had a version of “I Am The Walrus” that was a dead ringer for “The Cult”.  This is one I was sure and told Bill “For once they have an easy one”.  It turned out to be Oingo Boingo.  Once again I was fooled. 

 I went and when it was clearly getting light in here I turned on the Stephanie Miller program.  This was an interesting program since Stephanie spoke of the anti gay forces as like a fish that’s been hooked and is now flailing around on the deck.  It may be intimidating but for the fish it’s basically all over.  The tide has turned against those opposed to gay marriage whether traditionalists like me like it or not.  It’s another case of “You’ll eat it – and like it”.   You have the Courts strongarming four states into accepting gay marriage even though nobody wants it.  These four states are Nevada, Utah, Kentucky, and Virginia.  With the addition of these four states, it would seem that the number of states by one means or another- - allow homosexual marriage- - has to be approaching fifty percent doesn’t it?  And in terms of population it would seem that clearly we now are over fifty percent of the country living in states that allow gay marriage.  (I was going to say “where gay marriage is mandentory)  There was talk about how Rand Paul may have really stepped in it bringing up this whole Monica and Bill thing one too many times.  People don’t want to hear a story that was dead fifteen years ago.  They would argue that Rand Paul may have irreparably hurt his chances of the Presidency by fixating on this story.   It’s important that when you have some pet issue- - and I have to beware of this in my blogs when I get off on weird cosmic subjects- - that people may tune me out of I continually “say stuff” they don’t want to hear.   But then they went to commercial.  In a Presidents Day appropriate message- - there was an ad about getting the money out of politics- - and how dollars have ucerped the rights of people on election day- as far as having the Vote is concerned.  They said that in 94% of the political races around the country- - the person who spends the most money wins.  We know the exceptions here in California.  The secret is getting this message out to the masses without having labels such as “liberal” or “progressive” affixed to it.

Let me start by addressing the relation with Jim some more.  I think it would violate almost anyone's sense of fairness this idea of "taking a gun to a knife fight".  I threatened to write Dr Levy about it and haven’t said a word.  I guess I’m just wondering how a situation can gradually build and escalate for sixteen and a half months- and then somebody rings a bell and declares the conflict over, and I’m wondering whether it’s just that simple.  One thing I slipped into the conversation yesterday morning in class was the situation with Israel and Iran.  Can we believe that Iran won’t develop Nukes just because they say so, and if you ask how we can believe them with their track record and history of threats and invectives they just say “Well we said so and therefore you have to believe us”.   I don’t have a good feeling about the way things are now.  Jim is in a continuous complaint mode- - - to the staff and what not.  Like I said before he’s had about ten times as much contact with the staff as I have.  The question I would raise with Dr Levy is “Should my meds be jacked up merely because you or some staff member says so- - based on the word of someone who lies ninety percent of the time.  For purely selfish motives I would love to take more medication to numb my brain so I don’t think about my problems, but most people would refer to this sort of behavior in anybody else as drug dependant or worse “addictive behavior”.   Is this the sort of behavior that Dr Messina wants to be associated with.  And what do you think Judy would say about all this if she knew - - - anything about it.   I think I mentioned before there is this false conception of “losing your natural fear of your enemies and predators”.   This was one of the reasons why marijuana was banned in the United States because it was said that when Blacks were on marijuana they were able to look White people in the face without fear and “stare them down” and not cower before them as they have been conditioned to do for centuries.  The thing is- - by my own sloth and procrastination- - like President Obama before me- - I have already ceded most of the football field to the other side already, and hence forth- - do to my own inaction- and now dealing from a decided disadvantage.  Personally I think my remaining days here are numbered.