I guess I should feel smug. My choice for democratic Vice Presidential nominee was picked. Obama got smart and picked Joe Biden even though he's a strong personality. He adds that sought after thing, "gravidas" to the ticket. George Bush knows something about that having picked Dick Chaney to give him some sorely needed respectability, not to mention direction in 2000. After listening to Joe Biden's speech today the only danger is that Biden will outshine Obama, because he gives a better speech. Joe Biden has been in the US Senate since 1973 and will be turning sixty-six soon. He of course ran in his ill fated 1988 campaign when candidates were dropping out right and left for the silliest of reasons. He is best known to TV viewers for his post on the Senate Judiciary committee doing hearings on Supreme Court nominees. They say never has a vice president come swinging at the opponet right out of the gate like this. He is apparently originally from Scranton, PA so this should put Pennsylvania in the Obama collum on election day. Biden beat our Governor Tim Caine and Senator Evan Bygh for the VP slot.
Since that's all the news there is today let's talk about whether one claim of Christianity is even logically possible. It's a part of Christian tradition that when you die you go into a realy "beyond time" into something called Eternity. This is apparently a realm that goes on literally forever but nothing ever changes. They don't refer to it as stretched out time, but as BEYOND time, after "Time" has come to an end. My question is whether it's even logically possible to be alive and yet not be moving through time. Your screen door "never gets tired or impatient, or bored" with life. Your desk doesn't experiance a "middle aged crisis". Inanimate objects don't experiance time or consciousness and don't have a will. Even in the hailed book of Revelation, one is acutely aware of the passage of time. To say there is "No time in Heaven" is contradicted from scriptures from Job to Isaiah 14. If you have a life process going on you have time. If you don't have passing time, you don't have a life process. Another misconception is the nature of the Will. Will is connected with intelligence and intelligence is connected with a life organisum. Even single cells have a will. This is something creationists convieniently forget with their "parts of a watch" analogy of life. The only question now is whether it's actual will or the mere illusion of will. A computer has no "Will" but rather can be programmed to interract in more and more complex ways. A sign of intelligence is a learning process. Computers don't learn or experiance things; they are programmed. Christians don't admit there is anything they don't know, and they claim "having an experiance" is a trick of the devil. This trait of ability to learn is a sign of intelligence, which is an outgrowth of being alive to begin with. Dead things never change. Christians never seem to change. But if you are alive like the rest of us are, you grow and change and adapt. Some may ask whether the whole Universe is not just one big program imprinted on a CD Rom in God's office somethere. I don't know. One thing that Christians, who are Calvinists ignore, and this is a logical flaw them commit, is that it's obsurd to put out these Christian pamflets saying that a Christian is like a CEO who has been hired to manage your life, whereas the unsaved person has chaos. If you're a Calvinist, the President of Pakistan, or a terrorist who has committed a dozen murders and reads the Koran every night- - is every bit as "In The Will" of God as these Christians are. This is a logical deduction of Calvinism. If you want to throw out Calvinistic and Einstinian determism, we can argue differently. In that case we really do have a Will; it isn't just the illusion of having a Will. But as far as I can see, living life in either a conscious or even completely unconscious state is not even possible without the passage of Time because it's part of the Definition of what Life is. In this world when you're up against a hard definition- - you have deductive logic where certain things are intrinsically impossible. They are not merely Physically Impossible, but Logical Impossibilities under ANY circumstances.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Friday, August 22, 2008
A New V P Candidate in the Mix
It could be that Texas congressman Chet Edwards has been picked to be Obama's Vice Presidential running mate. But other sources insist that it's still Joe Biden because of the "actions around the Biden camp". Sometimes, quite often in fact, you can tell what a person intends to do by what they are doing right now. If it's the Texas guy it will most definitely have surprised everybody.
In some ways I don't think either nominee to be at this point is totally plugged into reality. Obama keeps talking about these dreams he has of a new society, but the steps used in getting there are still often vague, and some of the specific things like Nationalized Medical Care I don't like. As to Mc Cain they say he is not "savy" with electronic gadgets. My guess is that he better learn fast. Of course there is a whole school of psychology and psycho-therapy that says reality itself is nothing more nor less than what is congured up in the human mind. Dennis Prager has stated that the great "duty" everybody owes Society is to "Be Happy". That's kind of like George Bush telling us all to go shopping after 9 - 11. Some like Michael Benner and many psychics believe that we somehow magnetically "attract good things to us" with our own minds, as if all we need is a strong enough mental will and we can will ourselves to be content. As President telling the American people to do this would save the President a lot of sleep at night. But there are those who say there IS no "objective reality" but that everyone has hiw own oppinions and perceptions. There is no corporate OR objective reality, but only individual subjective reality. One person I heard today said that Religion itself may have originated with the use of phylosiben or magic mushrooms. The visions are "God". Personally I think this sort of talk is symptomatic of the beginnings of decadence in society and it's core values.
In some ways I don't think either nominee to be at this point is totally plugged into reality. Obama keeps talking about these dreams he has of a new society, but the steps used in getting there are still often vague, and some of the specific things like Nationalized Medical Care I don't like. As to Mc Cain they say he is not "savy" with electronic gadgets. My guess is that he better learn fast. Of course there is a whole school of psychology and psycho-therapy that says reality itself is nothing more nor less than what is congured up in the human mind. Dennis Prager has stated that the great "duty" everybody owes Society is to "Be Happy". That's kind of like George Bush telling us all to go shopping after 9 - 11. Some like Michael Benner and many psychics believe that we somehow magnetically "attract good things to us" with our own minds, as if all we need is a strong enough mental will and we can will ourselves to be content. As President telling the American people to do this would save the President a lot of sleep at night. But there are those who say there IS no "objective reality" but that everyone has hiw own oppinions and perceptions. There is no corporate OR objective reality, but only individual subjective reality. One person I heard today said that Religion itself may have originated with the use of phylosiben or magic mushrooms. The visions are "God". Personally I think this sort of talk is symptomatic of the beginnings of decadence in society and it's core values.
Randy Rhodes is really up on proper usage and care of the American Flag because her father taught her when she was little. You are not permitted to use the Flag in any form of jewelry such as a lapel pin. Only patches can be sewed on, and the field of stars has to always be closest to your heart. Randy is jealous of Mc Cain for becoming a pilot because all we did was work on planes. I’ll mention again that Mc Cain placed 894th in his class which consisted of 899 cadets. His was the class of 1958, which also included Poindexter, who was near the top. It seems Mc Cain crashed four planes prior to the one he was shot down in. It would seem that Mc Cain isn’t a very good pilot. John Mc Cain owns so many houses he can’t remember them all but told a questioner “My staff will get back to you on that”. A new Obama campaign piece says he owns seven, but it might be eight or nine or even higher. There is another Obama commercial just out that states that Mc Cain refused to call a key witness, Ralph Reed (?) in the Abramoff case a few years back. It would seen Mc Cain’s propensity to pander favors is something that his political opponent could exploit more. Apparently when Mc Cain was reading his auto biography book he said (did say) that he got into the Presidential race not for any noble motive but it was sheer ambition at age 62. Mc Cain may want to be in
Randy Rhodes said that the definition of an Antichrist is any person who claims to be the Christ, but isn’t. Jesus Christ on KFI qualifies for that job. In fact if you are a Jew the real Jesus Christ qualifies for that job since that “deliverer” didn’t save
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The original paragraph occupying this space has been Disintermediated. You have Homer Simpson's new vocabulary to thank for my knowing that word.
The Chicago Bears are beating the SF ‘49ers in a game on FOX right now. But
Microsoft has a new program called Photo-smith, which stitches together a bunch of photos taken at the same location into a giant 306 degree panorama of a locale. This was one of the items featured on KCET several Wednesdays ago.
If ideas are really material objects in a higher dimension or dimensions as the Greeks like Plato claim they are- - they could exist as six dimensional objects and they would be eternal and unchanging. But if you only were able to perceive five (not 3 or 4 but 5) dimensions, the physical appearance of each and every physical idea-object would be considerably altered, much as shapes become altered even in a software programs like Sketch depending on the “field of view” or stated another way, which 3rd. dimensional reality was used to interpret the relative sizes of said objects. As such it needn’t be necessary for ideas to “war” against each other to achieve “success” or “hegemony”, but all you need to “see things your way” is selective blindness in the fifth dimension. To illustrate this simply, is a calendar a “circle” or a rectangle? Or is that a sliver of a rectangle or a big circle? You may know it as a Frisbee. It would be something if the “Warf” theory were actual reality. And I speak of the T N G episode where Warf visited all these parallel universes. If this theory were anything approaching true, we would have to go “back to the drawing board” on all our physics theories, but would also have to toss our very definition of legal sanity in the trash can. It would of course explain why eye witnesses to an accident have contradictory testimonies. It would explain why John and Paul can’t agree at all despite explicit memories on who wrote “In My Life”. Under this theory of course everyone would literally have their own reality, and it would be an unshakable and inalterable truth for them not just mentally but physically. (Selah) Federation teaching on this matter is that such dimension hopping is impossible for the same reason negative matter can’t exist. The dimensions of space around an object are determined by the physical nature of the object itself. How many times have I said that? And nobody has ever "found" the human soul in research. But others would argue man has a Will, and therefore this Will has to have a Cause and hence a Manifestation somewhere.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
The Waiting Game Continues
Obama won't announce his vice presidential pick till Saturday and Mc Cain won't announce his vice presidential pick till August 29th. Joe Biden has stated twice in the past couple of days that "He's not the one" referring to the pick that Obama has already made his VP pick but is waiting till he lets his text message fans know first. I don't have the service. Biden would be his best choice, but I don't think Obama is that smart to pick him. Mc Cain would be making a horrible mistake if he went for Lieberman. A grevious mistake I'm pretty sure he won't make because he would inalterably alienate his Republican base and the pro life fundamentalists. Were this to happen my reason for NOT voting for Obama would largely be removed. (Selah)
There really isn't much news except that we're already up to the F's in mid August for hurricanes. People are still into following the Olympics and other news has to take a back seat. Of course there are other things to keep in the back of our minds when we vote. One is the lobbyest question. Over the past forty years the ammount of money given to Congressmen and candidates by lobbyiests has skyrocketed. We go from exercising a first amendment right "the right to petetion the government for redress of grievences" to what we have now which is the old fashioned "buying" of politicians. The urgent need for ethics reform is a point in Obama's favor. Also we need to as Thom Hartman says, "Set an example for others to follow and emulate in this country of finding alternate energy sources. History has shown that whatever the United States does now will be emulated by other nations later. I still think leagelizing hemp would be a good idea and apparently in Canada they have legalized the male hemp plant so there is no concern of getting high off the produce. We could use hemp for a host of things, notibly paper, and save a bunch of trees that put back oxygen. I hope T Boone Pickens continues to have success with his wind power in west Texas and other west plains states where the wind blows so much of the time. That way we can use that to generate electricity to save propane, which we can use to drive our cars. Other areas to consider in picking a President would be how they will advance science, such as stem cell research, which will determine how healthy we all are in the future. And there's Thom Hartman's theory about "spreading out the risk" in medical insurance. By his way of thinking if we could get every healthy person to contribute to help out those in dire medical need, nobody would have to face catistrophic financial risk. But it's kind of like trying to put the Golden Rule, "do unto others - - " into practice. I'm not sure the human race is quite ready for that yet. We humans unlike God, have to live in this, the real world which "contains some people who aren't very nice" and also people who "Don't take good care of their health". And so all we healthy people aren't really sure whether we all want to subsidize the chain smokers and those who work in coal mines and who drink themselves into oblivian every night. In theory, ah yes, "in theory" it would seem a good idea to turn over medical insurance to some "non profit" outfit such as the government. And I'm also aware of another Hartman axiom that "what republicans want to do is sabotage government with bad employees getting plum jobs, and that way when it all falls apart these Republicans can say "You see, I told you government doesn't work". These are all just things to weigh in your minds.
Another "background issue" is the fact that George Bush has always have a "negitive voter ballance" in that he really didn't fairly "win" either of his Presidential elections. We have to watch what the media does and what the courts do and what bribable government and election officials do. It is said that Obama needs to have a landslide victory this fall, or else the Republicans will "flip" another election. Another thing to remember is that list of fourteen signs of creeping fascist government. You know them- - keeping some crisis going, keeping the fear and "national security" thing going, and jingoism and prejudice, and turning the military over to some elite and unaccountable private corporation or corporations. In some ways Obama is like Clark Kent on all those Smallville episodes. He alone has to decide "whether or not he wants to use his powers". Obama can have all sorts of "ethical" excuses for NOT using his powers of perswasion and "selling the democratic position to the voters". I guess Obama has to decide whether he'd rather win an election or struggle with "ethical phantoms" in his own mind.
Some of you may wonder about my answer to that Pastor's question about Evil. I guess me and Mc Cain think in one way and Obama thinks in another way. I took the question as a direct choice of a. b. c. and d. answers, and pick one and it's done. Instead Obama chose to give a whole treaties on every aspect of "Evil". Just as there are times when citric acid is good for the stomach as a cure for other types of acid attacks, there are times when in order to handle Evil you need to bring out a different kind of Evil to attack it. In the same say often you fight one insect pest with another insect that hopefully won't also turn into a pest. Sometimes you need Satan to drive out Satan because that which we call "Good" (the Federation) is off in its Ivery Tower somewhere with "ethical problems about getting involved". If you have one Satan you cannot reason or deal with or make headway against, and another Satan who is "willing to deal" you go with the one who is willing to deal and take your chances. Hopefully like as with George Burnes on "Oh God You Devil", you will come out on top. The fact is if the Federation wanted to really come after you, they could mess with your life in ways that would make Stephano Di Mira look like a novice in the area. You know, George Bush talked about "political capital" when he didn't have any, at least based on his votor margins of victory. But I'd be interested in their being some bank where you could cash in on your "moral capital". Remember it was Gene Scott (who like a stopped clock is right twice a day for a moment) who said "Being without sin doesn't make you Good; it just makes you a nothing. I'm not claiming to be without sin, but in an analog world things or people "without sin" are little more than a non existant abstraction. The whole concept of being "Sin-free" is about as bogus as a drink being "Sugar Free" and therefore it must be healthy to drink it by the 32 oz. bottle full. Being "without sin" isn't what qualifies you as Alive. The lamp on your nightstand is sin free, but I would hope to be more "alive" than it is. If nothing else modern fundamentalism is a white bread "bleached out" approach to life.
There really isn't much news except that we're already up to the F's in mid August for hurricanes. People are still into following the Olympics and other news has to take a back seat. Of course there are other things to keep in the back of our minds when we vote. One is the lobbyest question. Over the past forty years the ammount of money given to Congressmen and candidates by lobbyiests has skyrocketed. We go from exercising a first amendment right "the right to petetion the government for redress of grievences" to what we have now which is the old fashioned "buying" of politicians. The urgent need for ethics reform is a point in Obama's favor. Also we need to as Thom Hartman says, "Set an example for others to follow and emulate in this country of finding alternate energy sources. History has shown that whatever the United States does now will be emulated by other nations later. I still think leagelizing hemp would be a good idea and apparently in Canada they have legalized the male hemp plant so there is no concern of getting high off the produce. We could use hemp for a host of things, notibly paper, and save a bunch of trees that put back oxygen. I hope T Boone Pickens continues to have success with his wind power in west Texas and other west plains states where the wind blows so much of the time. That way we can use that to generate electricity to save propane, which we can use to drive our cars. Other areas to consider in picking a President would be how they will advance science, such as stem cell research, which will determine how healthy we all are in the future. And there's Thom Hartman's theory about "spreading out the risk" in medical insurance. By his way of thinking if we could get every healthy person to contribute to help out those in dire medical need, nobody would have to face catistrophic financial risk. But it's kind of like trying to put the Golden Rule, "do unto others - - " into practice. I'm not sure the human race is quite ready for that yet. We humans unlike God, have to live in this, the real world which "contains some people who aren't very nice" and also people who "Don't take good care of their health". And so all we healthy people aren't really sure whether we all want to subsidize the chain smokers and those who work in coal mines and who drink themselves into oblivian every night. In theory, ah yes, "in theory" it would seem a good idea to turn over medical insurance to some "non profit" outfit such as the government. And I'm also aware of another Hartman axiom that "what republicans want to do is sabotage government with bad employees getting plum jobs, and that way when it all falls apart these Republicans can say "You see, I told you government doesn't work". These are all just things to weigh in your minds.
Another "background issue" is the fact that George Bush has always have a "negitive voter ballance" in that he really didn't fairly "win" either of his Presidential elections. We have to watch what the media does and what the courts do and what bribable government and election officials do. It is said that Obama needs to have a landslide victory this fall, or else the Republicans will "flip" another election. Another thing to remember is that list of fourteen signs of creeping fascist government. You know them- - keeping some crisis going, keeping the fear and "national security" thing going, and jingoism and prejudice, and turning the military over to some elite and unaccountable private corporation or corporations. In some ways Obama is like Clark Kent on all those Smallville episodes. He alone has to decide "whether or not he wants to use his powers". Obama can have all sorts of "ethical" excuses for NOT using his powers of perswasion and "selling the democratic position to the voters". I guess Obama has to decide whether he'd rather win an election or struggle with "ethical phantoms" in his own mind.
Some of you may wonder about my answer to that Pastor's question about Evil. I guess me and Mc Cain think in one way and Obama thinks in another way. I took the question as a direct choice of a. b. c. and d. answers, and pick one and it's done. Instead Obama chose to give a whole treaties on every aspect of "Evil". Just as there are times when citric acid is good for the stomach as a cure for other types of acid attacks, there are times when in order to handle Evil you need to bring out a different kind of Evil to attack it. In the same say often you fight one insect pest with another insect that hopefully won't also turn into a pest. Sometimes you need Satan to drive out Satan because that which we call "Good" (the Federation) is off in its Ivery Tower somewhere with "ethical problems about getting involved". If you have one Satan you cannot reason or deal with or make headway against, and another Satan who is "willing to deal" you go with the one who is willing to deal and take your chances. Hopefully like as with George Burnes on "Oh God You Devil", you will come out on top. The fact is if the Federation wanted to really come after you, they could mess with your life in ways that would make Stephano Di Mira look like a novice in the area. You know, George Bush talked about "political capital" when he didn't have any, at least based on his votor margins of victory. But I'd be interested in their being some bank where you could cash in on your "moral capital". Remember it was Gene Scott (who like a stopped clock is right twice a day for a moment) who said "Being without sin doesn't make you Good; it just makes you a nothing. I'm not claiming to be without sin, but in an analog world things or people "without sin" are little more than a non existant abstraction. The whole concept of being "Sin-free" is about as bogus as a drink being "Sugar Free" and therefore it must be healthy to drink it by the 32 oz. bottle full. Being "without sin" isn't what qualifies you as Alive. The lamp on your nightstand is sin free, but I would hope to be more "alive" than it is. If nothing else modern fundamentalism is a white bread "bleached out" approach to life.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Marcus Arelius - The Third Wave
Allow me to do my review on tonight's forum at Saddleback church conducted by the Reverend Rick Warren. I thought Mc Cain won that debate and I'll tell you why. He didn't overreach. Obama's wheels were always spinning as he had to congure up an answer to the questions put forward to him, to somehow cover all the bases. Mc Cain on the other hand was willing to run the rick of perhaps over-stressing a topic or two while ignoring others. Mc Cain's great strength was that he was able to answer the same questions in a lot fewer words. I noticed this same trait in Hillary verses Obama where she was able to express more in fewer words. As such Mc Cain was given liberty to flush out some of his favorite positions. I thought the Revrend was very fair and thoughtful in the questions he asked and they were at times challenging. Many of them were more the questions you'd be asked on a therapist's couch rather than in a political campaign.
One question was what was the most gut wrenching decision you ever had to make. In my own case it was throwing out multiple hundreds of copies of my prophecy book "God's Winepress" because my brother refused to store them at his place when I had to move in July of 2001.
Answering what was my greatest moral failing in life I'd say it was an attempt to solicit the favor of and rely upon God and not do as Shakesphere suggested, "To thine own self be true and it follows as the day does the night that thow canst not be false to any man". I have fallen into the moral and pragmatic trap of allowing others to do my thinking for me.
Asked what I would tell the American people were I not afraid of the repurcussions it would be that Christianity is doomed, just like John Lennon said it was in February of 1966. I would say not to discount the extra-terrestrial or other dimensions we don't yet know about. That man is an egotistical and egocentric creature fashioning a God in our own image.
As to the one about school teachers I definitely agree with Mc Cain that we should have merit pay. I believe teachers are NOT under-paid as they have been complaining since I was in school but that they are the biggest whiners of just about any profession. Teachers aren't paid more because the market finds its own break-even levels. I believe we should have more and not less of the free market system and not only merit pay but also vouchers and give the people freedom of choice whether they want to go to a decaying public school or find something better.
As to which justice of the supreme court I would not have nominated, I have to give the nod to Obama on this one. Clarence Thomas. I don't know about some of the others but Thomas I don't believe was intellectually qualified for supreme court justice, and is too conservative even for this reporter.
I believe that life begins basically at conception but I'd modify that to say implantation. As to cells in a test tube used as stem calls, I don't believe we have the moral right to deny people who are beseiged with disabeling diseases the hope of finding cures some day. These are cells that are going to be thrown away anyhow and as such are already under a "death sentense" Thom Hartman says even in the animal kindgom among certain cells, some will sacrifice their own lives so that the remaining ones have a chance at life. So I believe it is here. In a Star Trek episode there were these robotic devices called exo-coms and one of them sacrificed itself so that the other two could live. It's immoral to deny those suffering a chance at happiness.
People should be aware that what Obama meant by "late turm abortion" is partial birth abortion, which is a grewsome process. Not only this but once a fetus is aborted and is still "visable" and struggling for life, Obama favors NOT giving this fetus any medical aid.
As to some of the most influencial quatations of people, let's start with Charles Manson's "Bringing to NOW". This means bringing a person to a psychological state where they are focused and know what their true values and priorities are in life. I would pick Ghandi who said "If we insist on an eye for an eye- - the whole world will eventually end up blind." I would quote Vladimir Lenin who said "We are all dead men on furlough". What he means can be applied to Christian faith that our lives are not ours any more but we deserved to be dead but are given life that we might further God's purpose. Such beliefs are invaluable when it comes to participating in some sort of Revolution. I'd quote Sol Allinsky who said "Always deal with the enemy in terms of the fermiliarity of your own group, but outside the fermiliarity of the Enemy with what you are doing and in this way you may move expiditiously and the enemy is put off guard. I would look to Malcolm X, who tought that the Whate Race is and was the enslaver of the black race, both physically and morally, and Black people should look to their own racial pride for their own advancement rather than the benevelent but illusive hand of government. I would quote John Kennedy who said that "Human rights come not from the generosity of the State, but from the hand of God. I'd quote Martin Luther who said "Here I stand, for I can do no other".
On the question of evil should we Ignore it, Negotiate with it, Contain it, or Defeate It? The answer is obviously "D" - - Defeate it. In the cosmic realm there is a group called the Sutterans who often have the ability to seemingly override good. But if one appeals to Alcyonne, this action of theirs can be deturred. But how much better it would be rather to defeat the source of Evil directly. Evil's desire is an undying one, and untill it is done away with, you can't really live.
As to which political issue I've change most on in the past ten years it must have something to do with ecology and global warming, and saving our planet. It is said "He who will not provide for his own household is worse than an infadel. This planet earth is our "household". It is the environment in which we live, and it's sheer suicide to think we can long neglect it.
Jesus said, "Why do you say to your brother 'let me take the speck out of your eye' and have a plank of wood in your own eye. First take the plank out of your own eye and you can see clearly to take the speck out of your brothers. In this way criticism of your local pastor can be more than justified. Sometimes it's essential. In like manner Jesus said that you should extend mercy you have received to others. If someone has forgiven you a great debt, you don't have the moral right to nit pick small matters owed you. In this way the new convert shows himself a hypocrite, forgetting his own iniquity- - as he casts stones at his brother struggling with his own faith.
And now we are done discussing tonight's forum. Let's talk about Johnny Wendell's topic today of picking a Vice President. Johnny suggested that Obama pick John Kerry. I thought about it a little and came to the conclusion that would be a pretty good idea. Kerry like Edwards has gotten "sharper" and more focused in his public statements over the past four years. Both have improved with the passage of time as they grow and put things in perspective. While I may end up voting Libertarian, I still say that John Kerry would be a definite plus for the Obama campaign and would ballance the ticket racially as well as religiously.
One question was what was the most gut wrenching decision you ever had to make. In my own case it was throwing out multiple hundreds of copies of my prophecy book "God's Winepress" because my brother refused to store them at his place when I had to move in July of 2001.
Answering what was my greatest moral failing in life I'd say it was an attempt to solicit the favor of and rely upon God and not do as Shakesphere suggested, "To thine own self be true and it follows as the day does the night that thow canst not be false to any man". I have fallen into the moral and pragmatic trap of allowing others to do my thinking for me.
Asked what I would tell the American people were I not afraid of the repurcussions it would be that Christianity is doomed, just like John Lennon said it was in February of 1966. I would say not to discount the extra-terrestrial or other dimensions we don't yet know about. That man is an egotistical and egocentric creature fashioning a God in our own image.
As to the one about school teachers I definitely agree with Mc Cain that we should have merit pay. I believe teachers are NOT under-paid as they have been complaining since I was in school but that they are the biggest whiners of just about any profession. Teachers aren't paid more because the market finds its own break-even levels. I believe we should have more and not less of the free market system and not only merit pay but also vouchers and give the people freedom of choice whether they want to go to a decaying public school or find something better.
As to which justice of the supreme court I would not have nominated, I have to give the nod to Obama on this one. Clarence Thomas. I don't know about some of the others but Thomas I don't believe was intellectually qualified for supreme court justice, and is too conservative even for this reporter.
I believe that life begins basically at conception but I'd modify that to say implantation. As to cells in a test tube used as stem calls, I don't believe we have the moral right to deny people who are beseiged with disabeling diseases the hope of finding cures some day. These are cells that are going to be thrown away anyhow and as such are already under a "death sentense" Thom Hartman says even in the animal kindgom among certain cells, some will sacrifice their own lives so that the remaining ones have a chance at life. So I believe it is here. In a Star Trek episode there were these robotic devices called exo-coms and one of them sacrificed itself so that the other two could live. It's immoral to deny those suffering a chance at happiness.
People should be aware that what Obama meant by "late turm abortion" is partial birth abortion, which is a grewsome process. Not only this but once a fetus is aborted and is still "visable" and struggling for life, Obama favors NOT giving this fetus any medical aid.
As to some of the most influencial quatations of people, let's start with Charles Manson's "Bringing to NOW". This means bringing a person to a psychological state where they are focused and know what their true values and priorities are in life. I would pick Ghandi who said "If we insist on an eye for an eye- - the whole world will eventually end up blind." I would quote Vladimir Lenin who said "We are all dead men on furlough". What he means can be applied to Christian faith that our lives are not ours any more but we deserved to be dead but are given life that we might further God's purpose. Such beliefs are invaluable when it comes to participating in some sort of Revolution. I'd quote Sol Allinsky who said "Always deal with the enemy in terms of the fermiliarity of your own group, but outside the fermiliarity of the Enemy with what you are doing and in this way you may move expiditiously and the enemy is put off guard. I would look to Malcolm X, who tought that the Whate Race is and was the enslaver of the black race, both physically and morally, and Black people should look to their own racial pride for their own advancement rather than the benevelent but illusive hand of government. I would quote John Kennedy who said that "Human rights come not from the generosity of the State, but from the hand of God. I'd quote Martin Luther who said "Here I stand, for I can do no other".
On the question of evil should we Ignore it, Negotiate with it, Contain it, or Defeate It? The answer is obviously "D" - - Defeate it. In the cosmic realm there is a group called the Sutterans who often have the ability to seemingly override good. But if one appeals to Alcyonne, this action of theirs can be deturred. But how much better it would be rather to defeat the source of Evil directly. Evil's desire is an undying one, and untill it is done away with, you can't really live.
As to which political issue I've change most on in the past ten years it must have something to do with ecology and global warming, and saving our planet. It is said "He who will not provide for his own household is worse than an infadel. This planet earth is our "household". It is the environment in which we live, and it's sheer suicide to think we can long neglect it.
Jesus said, "Why do you say to your brother 'let me take the speck out of your eye' and have a plank of wood in your own eye. First take the plank out of your own eye and you can see clearly to take the speck out of your brothers. In this way criticism of your local pastor can be more than justified. Sometimes it's essential. In like manner Jesus said that you should extend mercy you have received to others. If someone has forgiven you a great debt, you don't have the moral right to nit pick small matters owed you. In this way the new convert shows himself a hypocrite, forgetting his own iniquity- - as he casts stones at his brother struggling with his own faith.
And now we are done discussing tonight's forum. Let's talk about Johnny Wendell's topic today of picking a Vice President. Johnny suggested that Obama pick John Kerry. I thought about it a little and came to the conclusion that would be a pretty good idea. Kerry like Edwards has gotten "sharper" and more focused in his public statements over the past four years. Both have improved with the passage of time as they grow and put things in perspective. While I may end up voting Libertarian, I still say that John Kerry would be a definite plus for the Obama campaign and would ballance the ticket racially as well as religiously.
Friday, August 15, 2008
Obama Isn't Getting My Vote
I started out this afternoon to "debunk" all the so-called Obama-nation myths. However, although some such pages made effective cases the "Obama-nation" web site reminded us all of a powerful reason not to vote for Obama and that is his fanatical pro abortion stance. Margeret Sanger was the first abortionist and "disseminated" information on birth control when it was legal in most states. Sanger believed in eugenics and the site quotes many of her statements about race and population that can't be taken as anything other than fanatically racist. Obama was profuse in his praise of Planned Parenthood, the organization Margeret Sanger founded with about eight or ten "thank yous". The proposed democratic platform is more up front being pro abortion than any other platform and emphasizing that it should be government funded. To Sanger's credit she was against the gassing of children, and wasnt anti semetic, however she did believe in forced sterilization in some cases. The facts are that black people are three times more likely to have an abortion than the White race. Black abortions account for 36% of all abortions, and abortion has been the leading cause of death among black people for the past thirty years. John Kennedy didn't take kindly to Sanger and Kennedy believed the government should have no policy on birth control. I can't picture Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, or Michael Dukakis running on this democratic platform for other reasons too. I am against the vast expansion of government that would be involved in universal health care. If ever there was a time when we could NOT afford a whole vast new government program, this is it. The media is calling it a crisis when it just isn't a crisis. Also I think this pro gay ruling in California is an abomination. There, I said the word. It is a sacrelegious affront to the centuries old institution of marriage and in no other culture nor or in the past could anyone picture such a thing as a gay marriage. It diminishes the word and young people will get the idea that marriage is just "hanging out together" or something. If Obama tries to pass himself as a fundamentalist, he is a phoney because he isn't one. I hope he gets nailed on this issue too tomorrow. His father is a moslem turned athiest according to that pastor's sermon. His mother and maternal grandmother either one didn't appear to have a religious bone in their bodies. He deliberately picked out a church that didn't adhere to the Bible. But another reason for not going for Obama is that he simply doesn't care about the positive issues I do care about. And also he's too inclined to take a poll and see which way the wind is blowing before he takes a stance. I wish he would take a poll on how the US population feels about marriage. If you say "Yeah, but Mc Cain broke the Logan act by meeting with government authorities in Georgia". Well, the last I heard the nation of Georgia was one of the good guys and by the way - - Christian. John Kennedy said we would support any friend and oppose any foe to insure the survival and success of liberty.
I would like to address some remarks I made about the Jewish people a couple of posts back in that other blog. My intention, and I think you know this, was not to debase the intellectual capacities of the Jewish people. Indeed they are better and more truthful historians, and they tend to look at the world more objectively than non Jews. But the Jews didn't always worship "Jehovah" by name but called their god "El" in the early days and believed that "Elohem" or many Gods created the earth. It's also a fact that the Arabs and Palistinian peoples are Semites but that most of the white Jews that emigrated to Israel are not. It's also true that many cultures have a flood in their past mythology. I'm not anti Jewish but neither do I believe as Gene Scott believes that "Jews kept exacting geniology before the birth of Christ in order to insure that the racial line was kept pure of Satanic contamination". In point of fact it was a later kind that "Re-built the ruins of the temple and "found" the Ark of the Covenent". It's also a fact that there is no evidence of two & a half million people wandered around the Sinai wilderness for fourty years and managed to leave no artifacts of their presence, not to mention dead bodies. Neither is there any evidence of the Jews as such having been in Egypt. Having said all that I certainly believe the Jews of today have the right to self defense and to develope the most sophisticated Air Force money and their own ingenuity can produce. If the rest of the world had the ethics of the Jewish people this would be a far better place.
Tomorrow is the anniversary of Elvis Presley'd death. August 16th. is also Laura's birthday and that would make her 49 - - - and holding. Elvis never would have tollerated Pricilla having an abortion. In her book they discuss having one and Elvis says "absolutely not". If Elvis were still alive there is every reason to believe he would attend a church like Saddleback Church. Rick Warran has built an amazing ministry. Personally I'm glad that his church members got first dibs on the ticket sales. After all it's his church, and his people should get first crack at Obama and Mc Cain. You wouldn't want any gay protests to break out, would you?
I'd like to comment again on the processing of these "oil sands" in Alberta for oil. This is an ongoing ecological disaster of the first magnitude. The carbon footprint on the processing of this oil is horrendus. I think anyone who would purchase stock in any of these companies is morally compromizing themselves, and I hope Mc Cain and Obama speak out on this issue.
I would like to address some remarks I made about the Jewish people a couple of posts back in that other blog. My intention, and I think you know this, was not to debase the intellectual capacities of the Jewish people. Indeed they are better and more truthful historians, and they tend to look at the world more objectively than non Jews. But the Jews didn't always worship "Jehovah" by name but called their god "El" in the early days and believed that "Elohem" or many Gods created the earth. It's also a fact that the Arabs and Palistinian peoples are Semites but that most of the white Jews that emigrated to Israel are not. It's also true that many cultures have a flood in their past mythology. I'm not anti Jewish but neither do I believe as Gene Scott believes that "Jews kept exacting geniology before the birth of Christ in order to insure that the racial line was kept pure of Satanic contamination". In point of fact it was a later kind that "Re-built the ruins of the temple and "found" the Ark of the Covenent". It's also a fact that there is no evidence of two & a half million people wandered around the Sinai wilderness for fourty years and managed to leave no artifacts of their presence, not to mention dead bodies. Neither is there any evidence of the Jews as such having been in Egypt. Having said all that I certainly believe the Jews of today have the right to self defense and to develope the most sophisticated Air Force money and their own ingenuity can produce. If the rest of the world had the ethics of the Jewish people this would be a far better place.
Tomorrow is the anniversary of Elvis Presley'd death. August 16th. is also Laura's birthday and that would make her 49 - - - and holding. Elvis never would have tollerated Pricilla having an abortion. In her book they discuss having one and Elvis says "absolutely not". If Elvis were still alive there is every reason to believe he would attend a church like Saddleback Church. Rick Warran has built an amazing ministry. Personally I'm glad that his church members got first dibs on the ticket sales. After all it's his church, and his people should get first crack at Obama and Mc Cain. You wouldn't want any gay protests to break out, would you?
I'd like to comment again on the processing of these "oil sands" in Alberta for oil. This is an ongoing ecological disaster of the first magnitude. The carbon footprint on the processing of this oil is horrendus. I think anyone who would purchase stock in any of these companies is morally compromizing themselves, and I hope Mc Cain and Obama speak out on this issue.
Hillary to be Placed in Nomination
Hillary Clinton will get her wish and have her name officially placed in nomination at the Democratic convention a week and a half or so from now. As such she at least will have the status as an "official candidate for President", a status she obviously deserves. As such her supporters can have the "catharsis" they have been longing form. Some of her supporters would like the super-deligates to actually vote for her in the row call vote. I see nothing wrong at all with this since technically they are free to vote for whomever they choose and are officially permitted to do so. Now I would like Joe Biden, Dennis Kassinitch, Chris Dodd and all the other's names to be placed in nomination, too. We now learn that Obama's plane early last month was in real trouble and had to make an emergency landing in St. Louis. An air bag had inflated and the pilot controls of the plane were compromized and they ordered Crash equipment to be on stand-by on the runway. We would hope this "emergency" wasn't some sort of sabotage. Obama and Mc Cain are both speaking at Saddleback Church today and it will be aired on KTLA.com tomorrow at five PM. I will be watching that to hear what both Obama and Mc Cain have to say about abortion. Now it seems that both's of Mc Cain's choices, Tom Ridge and Mit Romney are to one degree or another pro Abortion, and Lieberman is pro abortion. Mc Cain will indeed have questions to answer. It seems Joe Boden's position is enhanced due to the recent crisis in Georgia, but at any rate Obama should announce his choice by Monday, "so we will have all next week to publicize the candidate pick prior to the convention".
Julia Child used to be an agent for the OSS, which she claims stood for "Oh so secret". At age thirty in 1942 Julia wasn't exactly a spring chicken even then. She started off as a typist at a salary of $29.00 and that is per month. She was later promoted and was entitled to deal with secret foreign documents. She lied and said she was six feet even because Julia had first applied for the Navy but she's six foot two, which apparently is too tall to join the Navy.
Now they say if a woman takes birth control pills it will throw off her molicule scent system where she weeds out men who have a similar fragrance, whom it is believed would make inferior mates. I guess all that brother sister studd they did in Egypt must have been because the women were on birth control pills. Does that mean if I went out with a Georgian or Armenian woman that we would have superior children? To me it seems body odor would be determined the most by the food you ate, and so eating communal meals might be a no-no.
Where do Ideas come from? The Greeks believed they came from some different "higher realm". A psychologist on the other hand would say the brain constructs ideas from the information and values it has learned in this lifetime. Certainly other animals get ideas as part of a social unit like a group of dogs surrounding a fox, or apes who conspire to murder an ape that doesn't fit into their social system. Apes seem to be full of ideas. We know that bears can think and come up with ingenious ways of breaking into food containers. But we also know that mankind as a whole's idea of their "history" or past- - seems to center on being descended from the sky or from heaven. People wonder whether we get ideas from "God", who would place them in our brains. In Ezekiel it says that Russia in the last days- - "An idea will come into your mind and you will attack nations to the south". People have speculated whether God places ideas into people's heads to manipulate them. If you ever played chess with a person of E T I it would be a slam dunk win for your opponet every time if he could places ideas in your head to always make the wrong move. It would not be necessary for some Extra Terriestrial Intelligence to do any voodu "Bewitched" tricks with the ball to win a football or baseball game. All this ETI power would have to do is to put the wrong ideas on where to position themselves in the opponet's teams minds and the right ideas that would work in your own team's heads. And if these sources are intelligent, they may not see the future but are so expert at projecting out various contingencies in the game far beyond those of mortal men- - that they know which ideas will work to win and which ideas will lose the game. Some may say like George Burnes in "Oh God", well if we all desired world Peace, we could have it tomorrow, along with perfect ecological ballance in the earth. I guess I'm humble enough to realize I don't have that kind of power to- -say - - start a new religion or to start a new political movement that will sweep world wide. Some people you see on TV like on Montell Williams come up with an idea for a new product that seems to catch on like wildfire and everybody wants what they are making. People make the mistake of thinking "We can insure something happening that is POSSIBLE". It's only "Possible" from a mathematical probability standpoint. From God's point of view he knows only those things that actually Happen are in deed things that in the end turned out to be "Possible".
Julia Child used to be an agent for the OSS, which she claims stood for "Oh so secret". At age thirty in 1942 Julia wasn't exactly a spring chicken even then. She started off as a typist at a salary of $29.00 and that is per month. She was later promoted and was entitled to deal with secret foreign documents. She lied and said she was six feet even because Julia had first applied for the Navy but she's six foot two, which apparently is too tall to join the Navy.
Now they say if a woman takes birth control pills it will throw off her molicule scent system where she weeds out men who have a similar fragrance, whom it is believed would make inferior mates. I guess all that brother sister studd they did in Egypt must have been because the women were on birth control pills. Does that mean if I went out with a Georgian or Armenian woman that we would have superior children? To me it seems body odor would be determined the most by the food you ate, and so eating communal meals might be a no-no.
Where do Ideas come from? The Greeks believed they came from some different "higher realm". A psychologist on the other hand would say the brain constructs ideas from the information and values it has learned in this lifetime. Certainly other animals get ideas as part of a social unit like a group of dogs surrounding a fox, or apes who conspire to murder an ape that doesn't fit into their social system. Apes seem to be full of ideas. We know that bears can think and come up with ingenious ways of breaking into food containers. But we also know that mankind as a whole's idea of their "history" or past- - seems to center on being descended from the sky or from heaven. People wonder whether we get ideas from "God", who would place them in our brains. In Ezekiel it says that Russia in the last days- - "An idea will come into your mind and you will attack nations to the south". People have speculated whether God places ideas into people's heads to manipulate them. If you ever played chess with a person of E T I it would be a slam dunk win for your opponet every time if he could places ideas in your head to always make the wrong move. It would not be necessary for some Extra Terriestrial Intelligence to do any voodu "Bewitched" tricks with the ball to win a football or baseball game. All this ETI power would have to do is to put the wrong ideas on where to position themselves in the opponet's teams minds and the right ideas that would work in your own team's heads. And if these sources are intelligent, they may not see the future but are so expert at projecting out various contingencies in the game far beyond those of mortal men- - that they know which ideas will work to win and which ideas will lose the game. Some may say like George Burnes in "Oh God", well if we all desired world Peace, we could have it tomorrow, along with perfect ecological ballance in the earth. I guess I'm humble enough to realize I don't have that kind of power to- -say - - start a new religion or to start a new political movement that will sweep world wide. Some people you see on TV like on Montell Williams come up with an idea for a new product that seems to catch on like wildfire and everybody wants what they are making. People make the mistake of thinking "We can insure something happening that is POSSIBLE". It's only "Possible" from a mathematical probability standpoint. From God's point of view he knows only those things that actually Happen are in deed things that in the end turned out to be "Possible".
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Mandentory Metallica
They are talking about that torture memo the White House sent out in 2002 or so saying that torture was now OK. This is when that guy from Sixty Minutes was at Guantanamo Bay and also when the tortures at Abo-grave occurred. Christie says this is more than coincidence. Of course a lot of problems are mis-perceived. For instance apparently Bin Laden's mentor, who was an even older man, has come out and said it would be a good thing is Iran would be destroyed. Apparently in that part of the world they still refer to Al Qaida as the Muhajadib, which fought the Russians in 1979. As to the drop of "sectarian violence" in Iraq urban areas this is because the various sects are all segregated and it's harder for death squads to get to various people, as well as there are fewer spontanious interactions between people of opposing sects that could flair up into violence.
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Christmas of 1993 was a strange one because David Stanley did not spend it with his family. This was a rare occurrance though it had occurred before a few times. It occurred in 1991 and in 1984. Bill, as with those times, celebrated Christmas with Bobby and Lilly Haden, as we refer to them in ZAC alias. Among the other guests were Henry, as well as "Pike" with his white-bread wife Carrie, and their two or three year old son. The menu was almost invariably the same, featuring turkey. The best thing about the Hayden dinners were the vast array of deserts people bring over such as pies and cakes and ice cream. But this day David had a headache hangover that would not go away. Lilly gave him some Advil and suggested he take two, "three, if it's a real bear." Apparently she's had experiance in this area. This was the Christmas that Bob Dornen on the radio said that it was the 2000th. anniversary of Jesus's birth. "Well, doesn't that just beat all!" Stanley mused. The two thousand line has come and gone.
On Newyears David Stanley went to some Christian night at Knott's Berry Farm to ring in the year 1994. But the next day David's storage area was broken into yet again. Somehow the lock was picked but fortunately the lock was still lying on the ground and nothing appeared to have been taken. The weather in January of 1994 was unusually sunny and warm. It was a good thing too because they were painting the wrought iron railings and also the front doors, and the paint smell would waft in the apartments. David called Henry about how he had a headache now. Yeah, blame the paint. On January 17th. at 4:31 in the morning a powerful earthquake struck. As with other quakes they'd had pool water was sloshing out of the pool. He was talking with Ken who said he'd seen a whole bank of transformers explode out his back window in a big blue flash(es). David had KROQ radio on of all stations for a bit of news.
Late January was punctuated by two events. The first was that the heater again went out. It had gone out in December and David had wondered if this was a trend. He'd had the screen door open on a cool day watching the final Dallas Cowboys game on CBS. The manager said call the gas company if there was a problem. The other event was a return to sender message on an envelope from his Pastor, whom he had written a letter to. I thought things were "Kopesetic" with the pastor now with no outstanding conflicts. In his letter he'd written that the Christian education program of his denomination sucked and that it ill prepared them for the world. Also there was this mystory holiday his denomination celebrated he couldn't find anything out about it. Finally he launched into his "Why don't you come clean and admit you knew my parents before you came to our church." There were lines almost hinting at the Police song about "Every claim you steak - - every vow you break- - every outrage you fake" kind of thing. But David assumed something had gotten screwed up in the mails. Either that or else someone like the secretary had croked suddenly and they didn't know what to do with the mail.
It was mid February or so when David's Dad took him to his own personal eye doctor to have his eyes examined and new glasses so he could see and read better. The following Sunday at the house, his Dad grilled him on his alcohol consumption, having smelled alcohol on his breath.
It was late February when David finally called Pastor Asshole back to find out what had happened with the letter. David was outraged to hear the Pastor admit the truth. He had returned the letter. The funny thing is that the glue on the letter was no weak and could be easily opened. He suspected the pastor had already read the letter. The pastor said "Your letters are abusive". David was put off by the word "abusive" as a really inflamitory word. Also within a day of that David got a phone call to the effect that Debby, a girl whom "The Lord" said he would marry way back in January 1988- - -that she had a boyfriend. Despite what her mother clearly told him David assumed that their union was iminent. David increased his drinking of white wine. During this weekend David also tape recorded a lot of music off the radio.
It was just the next week when David's apartment got yet another on site manager and David and Ken both got off to really bad starts by playing their TV's too loud. David said he was only competing with Ken- - but the land lady didn't take kindly to his excuse and her husband resorted to various types of mind game threats concerning this matter. It was just a few days later when Pete Richards suggested that David watch "What About Bob?" on TV. People had been telling David that he needed "therapy". If so this is the last movie you'd want to watch. Certain movies like this movie and "Anger Management" are just NOT funny for those people who have actually been in that situation. David had begun listening to the surf music station and one Saturday night was up drinking Meisterbrau (a weak beer) at twelve or one at night and the next day, a Sunday, his mother had smelled beer on his breath. This didn't go down well.
Re-enter Bill Gunderson in mid March. Bill Gunderson was a friend who seemed to show up in spurts and then disappear for months. He had been around from about late February of 1993 till the week before Mother's Day. They had sent the rock compilation "re-issue" of "Strawberry Fields Forever" (orig. out Feb. 1984) but now the CD version had new added songs plus a few that were taken off. Bill Gunderson was also around from about mid September to late October of the previous year. This time they worked on a remake of the Protigal Son story in the Bible and unlike June of 1991 this time at Bill's suggested they decided to side with the younger son. In early May they also put out that thing where Homer Simpson turned into an evangelist and moved to Arizona and his oldest son ( ) Bart decided to murder him out of pent-up rage and the younger son ( ) found out about it the following Saturday morning and was shocked.
In late April - - it was a Friday late afternoon and he thinks it was the same day he learned about Richard Nixon's death but before the funeral, that Angie, remember her, told David that she was moving to Carona and "staying with friends". To David this meant she had a secret boyfriend stashed away. About the same time the heater crapped out yet again and David called the gas company who showed him that his flame curled upward when it should be sticking out straight at a 45 degree angle so the thermostat wasn't closing. It was a good thing, too because the weather in late April just got colder. Richard Nixon's funeral made David physically ill. "All that fawning over a crook" he thought. It was Sunday May first early in the morning when Michal Benner on his radio program said that at seven he would list every law that Richard Nixon had violated. This day sticks out in David's mind because he got sicker and sicker as the day progressed and he didn't know if he had a hangover or what. He'd felt fine the night before. He recorded "Sea Quest" on his VCR and at nine finally decided he needed more alcohol and went out to get Mickey's. But walking down there this light headed-ness came over him and he had this "out of breath" feeling like he'd just run a marithon & thought he'd faint if the feeling got any worse. Fortunately he got his beer at the store and then he felt better.
One time at a Calvary Chappel, this pastor's son spoke whom David had known as a little kid. What struck him was the shallow, narrow-minded adult this kid had grown into and David wondered what happened. It may have been the same Sunday that David had chicken noodle soup and went out to Alpha Beta to shop and cash a check. His hand was shaking so bad he could hardly make out the check and he was sweating, and the clerk wanted to know if he were going into shock, or something. Often during this period David had this "worm in the brain" feeling like something was crawling around in his brain, irritating it. On May 10th. (backing up a week or two) there was a total but anular eclipse of the sun he coined as the "Rout 66 eclipse". It was kind of a bomb, but Rush Limbaugh spoke about it because it affected people in New York.
There were lots of good shows on in 1994 but David in retrospect regards the final smash boom ending of The Next Generation now in retrospect. David was learning Fortran now studying it on his own. Six months earlier in the fall he'd honed in on Prolog and studied that, and six months earlier in the spring of 1993 it had been P L / 1. But he had no computer.
There was no shortage of news entertainment. There was the Tanya Harding "hammer" affair with Nancy Kerrigan. There was Laurena Bobbit and her acquittal for you know what. And there was the Menendez brothers case getting off for killing their parents. Of course in the coming months there would be the ultimate justice misscarriage of the OJ Simpson murders.
In June on the day before Father's Day David on the way to the liquor store met a black prostitute named Marcie. She had a really hot, tight body that wouldn't quit. She was so attracted to him she said she wouldn't even charge him. David turned her down at this time but kept her in mind. This night was notible because it was the first time ever that David bought fortified wine, Thunderbird. And it would be the last for a long time, till ironically four years to the day - Fathers Day eve of 1998 when he now started buying the Cisco and Thunderbird on a regular ongoing basis. In late July or sometime and he's not totally sure- - he began having sex with her. Although it was usually a freebee, she would sometimes ask him for money for "expences". It was now about the first of August and David decided to write his other pastor, the Calvary one, a letter saying that he was "having a faith crisis of a magnitude that might jeopardize his Christian salvation". The pastor wrote back with the words, "I'm so sorry you are thinking about leaving the church". David was insulted. It's like if a guy is afraid of falling off a cliff this pastor will be the one to push him over. But that didn't stop David from writing another letter where he "called God" on a lie God had told him. The pastor responded by labeling David as a false prophet and also had these choice words, "If something doesn't happen it's only because that's how God willed it. Nothing happens that isn't in God's will" But David knew he had to get a handle on his drinking problem, and he did. He set rules for himself. He remembers one of them was there would be no drinking before nine PM. This happened to be the time that Metallica came on KNAC at nine PM. David remembers recording a lot of Metallica songs in early and mid August of 1994. One might say things were looking up a bit. David had one conversation with his father that may have been early fall of 1994. (David would continue sexual relations with Marcie till about the fall of 1995) David was talking to his Dad (early fall 1994) and saying he was thinking of writing him another letter about developments in his life and his Dad just said, "Some topics are better just to be left alone". David thought about that. "That actually makes sense", he mused.
I've Been to the Mountain
- - - or as John Lennon would say, "I've been the Mountain" because if you look at the cover of "Mind Games" John's face looks like a Martian landscape. I like 'Mind Games because of the love it shows between John and Yoco. Such lyrical references are notibly absent from "Walls and Bridges", which I never bought for a lot of reasons. I just "wasn't feeling the vibes". It would appear that John and Yoco were indeed soul mates. If you asked me whether I think me and Laura Hammil were or are soul mates I would say I sure thought so at one time. But sometimes the "cares of this world" get in the way of pursuing a relationship to the full that may have been in God's will (for you NON Calvinists out there) but just didn't pan out that way in the here and now. In indeed John is now in enforced isolation from Yoco on Sirius A, this is indeed a sad thing, especially is he has been enjoined from talking about it and revealing his true feelings. I like the Christian allusions on that album, and also the Christian or spiritual allusions on Harrison's album, "Living in the Material World", which I own.
New Evidence about Global Warming, or the Lack Thereof
Thom Hartman is holding a global warming debate right now. One thing Thom Hartman is good at that most talk show hosts aren't is that he's able to present his beliefs in an intelligent, systematic matter and gives you a clear bottom line. He's done a good job of summarizing the truely beneficial attributes of religion being reduced to "Love". John would like that. Thom speaks of love of nature and love of the Universe and love for our fellow man, and anthropoligists point to religion in times past as a unifying force for cultural unity and mutual advancement.
But there is new troubling evidence that perhaps Global Warming isn't what it's cracked up to be. This "alarming trend" may be coming to an end as people point to new polar ice in the north pole regions and also a cold winter in North America. Apparently this myth that polar bears can't swim and thus will drown is being debunked as there are now record numbers of polar bears in the Hudson's Bay region. Some facts and trends can't be explained. For instance we know that the Sahara Desert has been moving steadily south. It's been doing this for decades and thirty years ago I was reading how the desert has been encroaching on the jungle and how plants and animals find it hard to find water. But if global warming is true, shouldn't climate patterns be moving north rather than south? Hartman says that in the forties and fifties there was an increase in particulate matter in the air that has a cooling effect. When I was a kid all the rap was how the winters were getting colder and colder, and Bob Dylan even mentions this in "Talking New York Blues". Constantly I was regailed with talk of big blizzards in late March. By the mid 1970's this "cooling" trend had reached a crechendo. But now there began to take effect new polution regulations passed, oddly, during the Nixon Adminestration. This is what started global warming when more sunlight was allowed to get through. Now India and China are where we were back in the forties and fifties of the last century and these nations are industrializing and sending particulate matter out into the air thus generating a global cooling. Some will say that the sun itself is getting hotter because of "Martian warming". But nobody can explain the eight hundred degree weather on Venus. CO2 is clearly the culpret here along with the "carbon footprint". What if we blanketed the Mojave desert with solar pannels generating electricity and split oxygen and hydrogen apart and shipped the hydrogen for fuel around the world and released the oxygen back into the atnosphere? What if we found new ways to "sequester" carbon in coal production in places like Montana, where it is viable? There are solutions for most every problem once we know what questions to answer. Asking the right questions to begin with is the first step tword progress. It can be said that I stopped BASIC programming less because I ran out of answers, but more because I just ran out of questions. Any suggestions?
April Fourth - - - "Free At Last. Thank God I'm Free At Last!"
Tomorrow we salute the death of Martin Luther King. It's been my feeling that we should move Martin Luther King Day to the date of his death rather than the date of his birth, which to me and most people is more relivant, especially if you're Catholic. As you know King's final speech was relivant and prophetic where he says "Like others I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I want you know that I've been to the Mountain and I've seen the Promised Land. And I may not get there with you but I want to say that we as a People will get to the Promised Land". This speech has its scriptural antecedent in the book of Exodus where Moses was allowed by God to climb this high mountain in Jordan accross the river and gaze upon the promised land. It says "Moses' was 120 years of age and hisvision was not diminished nor had his moisture departed" The Lord would not let Moses enter the promised land because he had commited a minor "typology" error (as theologians refer to striking the Rock a 2nd. time) and as such this was a misdomeanor Jehovah could not pardon. There are certain times when the Lord gets fed up with an individual and starts balking at even minor sins. Certainly Martin Luther King was a visionary and a spiritual leader for people of his race. In 1968 certain cosmic forces seemed to be conspring from allowing liberalism to truely flower the way it should have. We need to "keep the vision alive" and not lose sight of the goal of Freedom within and without. When Bono of U2 sand the song it was actually early morning of April 5th. when he got the morning paper bearing the sad news. But sometimes song lyrics are more real than fact.
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
The Night Comes Down
First of all I'd like to thank everybody involved for bearing through with the last blog posting. We're going to keep the weird stuff to a minimum in this file, at least for a while. I would like to comment in it's being the fourth anniversary of Air America on April first. In these four years a lot has changed both in the American politic, and in my own political beliefs. Someone on a program today took a swipe at the "Determinism" of Albert Einstein today. My philosophy is when you grow a brain like Einstein's yourself, you can comment, otherwise keep your thoughts to yourself. The saying is true, "The dice of the Gods are loaded". We just need for it to unfold. Naturally, we need to retain "Plausible deniability". I hope you understand.
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It was a bleak, overcast day the first day of February of 1993. It was one of those days where it looked like it could rain any minute, but of course it didn't. On this day David Stanley decided to call up the pastor of his parent's former church, otherwise known as "The Asshole from El Paso" He had written him a letter a month and a half ago or so in which he referred to the pastor as a "finely honed tool of Satan". He just wanted to make sure he understood what he meant. Unfortunatly the Pastor was not at all talkative. He was brusk and gave David the bum's rush and the conversation couldn't have lasted longer than two minutes, if that. The next day, Saturday was by contrast bright and sunny all day. In this day Pete Richards, David Stanley, and a friend went to Disneyland for the day. One of the things that stands out was meeting two foxy girls in their early twenties or perhaps late teens, and David acertained from them that they were Rush Limbaugh fans. Unfortunately neither Pete Richards nor the other guy were inclined to want to expand the group to five. They were waiting in line in the dark to eat dinner at this place on Main Street, that David joked "reminded him of eating at the White House".It was about the first of March when a cat David owned named Garfield gave birth to kittens which were kept in the crawl space below the apartments. David discouraged Garfield's bringing the kittens into the apartment because he was uncertain whether any cats were leagel now because there were so many letters in the mail saying the place was under new ownership, and there was a veritable revolving door of managers since Joe and Kathy left. David for the most part hadn't gotten into any "serious " relationships with women in the four & a half years that he lived there. With the notible exception of a four month affair with a married woman from November of 1989 to March of 1990. You'd just die to know why the affair was ended.
In mid March things were going swell. David however was unemployed but he'd gotten used to doing nothing all day long in the past year or so since he'd been out of ROP. There was a St. Patrick's Day special on 22 oz. Mickey's beer and David decided to avail himself. He adopted the habbit of going out every night for the beer and he kidded himself into saying "Well, I want to observe the position of the sun when it sets". On the radio over this period was the twentieth anniversary of the release of the Pink Floyd album "Dark Side of the Moon".
It was about April first when David wrote a poem song lyric to "A Touch of Gray" which he sent through snail mail. The tag line was "If you see red - don't end up dead". The lyrics to a degree revolved around a picture of planitary orbs on a Traffic compilation he'd just bought. There was a Star Trek episode where Data had to lie on pain of his life to his captain and distort evidence to conceil the encounter with a highly Xenophobic culture, who'd love an excuse to kill you. The message is "Don't go looking for evil, because you just might find it". It was around Easter of 1993 that David and Pete Richards were at this park that occupied the top of a hill where his parents now lived. There was a concrete path way around the park, and there was this teenage female roller skater who kept skating by them and overtaking them as they walked along. She must have gone by several times. David thought about that Bible passage of "As far as the east is from the west so far will your sin be removed from you" and how if you keep going west you'll only end up going around in circles and accomplish nothing.
Around April 20th. there was more trouble with the storage area down below. One of the boxes full of books in his area were just stolen. David went down to the hardware store and got a lock for the door. From now on- - problems would occur with increasing frequency.
It was the first weekend in May and David had just finished playing a cassette tape. One of the things on the tape was Rush Limbaugh's coverage of the Gulf War in February of 1991. The cat wanted food so David went out to buy it some. When he got back the cat wasn't there. David would never see the cat again. It had plum vanished. Later he found out from an attractive blonde female he in later years nick named "Nicole" because of her resemblence to Nicole Simpson. She had told David that she took the cat to the pound and found homes for all the kittens. Rather than get mad David acted like he didn't know. He says he "didn't want to jeopardize the relationship with her" by showing his real feelings about what she had done.
David had only been on SSI a little more than a year. He went down to the Social Security place, who were in a new, smaller building this year at the Bank of America. The wait was interminable but he didn't want to jeopardize his housing. He got hassled by the people there. When he got done he vowed never to repeat that experiance and bought some burbin and enbibed and he was rolling tape and the playback clearly reveals that he was intoxicated.
Now roomers came from his neighbor Ken that housing may be trying to kick them both out. David's fears were strengthened when he got a letter saying his first housing inspection wasn't good enough but now there was to be another. There was something about getting new carpet involved. Ken said it didn't matter if he was getting new carpet, his status was still in jeopardy. The new black cat Chaquille loved to roll around on the brand new carpet.
David also had problems with his neighbors. There was a motley crew of wierdos who had moved in. There was an old lady, her grand daughter and her little girl, and also her grandson and his wife and a nerdy looking daughter, and a rather gay looking boyfriend of the grandmother. The grandmother named Barbra began making increasingly strident complaints about loud music and with each complaint there was less basis to complain than the time before and now it was becomming irrational, as well as annoying.
It was about June 7th. or so- - it was a Friday in early June of 1993 that David got a letter from his church saying he was to be kicked out. David had been a member there for 29 years and the letter seemed at best screwey. After getting the run around from earlier calls, David decided to talk to the Pastor, Mr. Asshole from El Paso. The pastor was anything but civil or coherent. In fact his remarks were so "Out to lunch" David turned on the tape machine and decided to record the conversation because nobody would believe it. The conversation lasted 7:40 and the Pastor made numerous references to "We decided you should get psychotherapy". That's a whole other story for another time but David was furious getting off the phone and headed right for the beer, although it was not yet noon. It was perhaps six weeks later that David decided if the church didn't want him he'd send in whatever form they wanted him to send in saying he was no longer a member. There WAS no option on the form for "I wish to remain a Church member".
Sometimes you think things are getting better when they are really getting worse. Now that blonde teenage grandson named "Bernie" began stairing at David. At other times when David wasn't paying attention to him, Bernie would say "Look, there's the peeping Tom" to his chums and came up with all these fantasic stories about how David was a peeping Tom. Not only this but sine Stephany the little girl was the only one of the group who was friendly to David, David would sometimes talk to her. Now Bernie accused him of being a child molester. All day long you would see Bernie strutting around in those hot pink shorts that he wore. He would spend all day around the pool with the kids, Stephany a brunette who was four, and Justin, who was two. These were the two children of his sister, whose name I believe was Denise. David's case wasn't helped when one night coming out of the pool having drunk three 22 oz. Mickeys and having taken a Contac besides, stumbled when he headed up the stairs. The shades of the darkened room down stairs were open and occasionally there would be this flicker like a disco light or something and David stared at it a bit. It was Barbra watching a war movie on TV but now she said she had proof he was a peeping Tom. Later he came back down to the pool and she shouted more accusations out the window at him as Ken and the "parents" of Chiquille (the black cat) were at the other end of the pool and Ken asked, "David, what's going on".
The ironic thing was during this same month of July of 1993 David had met two women who were promising. One, a blonde, was named Gail, who had a red haired son. The other's name was Marie and she was an almost brunette and probably more attractive, but the best thing is she had daughters, Brittany 5 (?) and Chelsea (?) 3 who looked like their mother so that if they ever got together they would be believable as his kids. But the future of this relation was pretty much "baked into the cake" because she was a Christian and hated any form of drugs. But he didn't know that at least right away and by the time he found out it was probably too late. You see she would routinely greet him at the gate when he went out every night for Mickey's.
The keepers of Chaquille moved out in mid August. In a last dash "good bye" move the cat ran into his apartment like there was no tomorrow and didn't want to leave. David remembers that it was the time the Pope was visiting. David tried to pursue his relationship with Marie and they would often meet in the Jacuzzi. But in early September the Jacuzzi went cold, and so, for all practical purposes, did their relationship. He learned she want to Knott Avenue Christian Church and he started going there too, hoping to score points with her, but it didn't work.
David had gotten Joe and Kathy's new number from Ken and even called them a couple of times during the summer even entertaining thoughts of moving. Mitigating against this were that about August first Barbra and Bernie and that whole psycho gang left, in mass, and they never darkened his door again. Also Joe and Kathy's new place didn't accept housing. Another big mitigating factor was now Angie had moved in downstairs where Barbra used to live. She had a blond haired little boy about two & a half or three. He would see David and ask who it was and Angie said, "That's the sand man". The two commenced a sexual affair that lasted till late April of 1994. She made it clear that she was "between relationships" and not to expect anything permanent in the way of a relation. That was music to his ears. Though the sex was generally pretty good (she was kind of on the plump side) there were a couple of occasions where he was impotent and unable to perform due to too much drinking. This was a "sobering" experiance, pardon the pun. Strangely enough now, with no cats at all in the house, David would often feel like "evil forces" were after him when he was alone in the apartment. Also his house plants all picked up on this malaise and began dying one by one in September and October of 1993. Also at this time he began spending an increasing amount of time with Joe and Kathy and Nicholas at their apartment. He still felt protective tword Nicholas and was surprised to learn that at age five he was allowed to watch Beavus and Butthead. Then in late October David learned from Joe and Kathy that they were moving- and soon- - out of there into a house. He later formed the "oppinion" that the house was in Glendora, when Joe had only said "a number of miles east of Los Angeles". He had his reasons for the "Glendora" theory.
David liked to do these "Federation" album anthologies. One in September was titled "Good Old Fashioned Male Chovinist Pig". The only songs he remembers that were on it are "The Night Comes Down" by Queen, "Colored Rain" by Traffic, and some Bob Dylan song about "Call girls in the doorway" from an album outtake. In late October he put out another one in snail mail called "Weird Scenes From Inside the Old Mine" with Morrisonesque thoughts clearly on his mind.
David had no reason to be depressed but strangely he was. Something about the rapidity of events had taken something out of him. As October edged its way into November he was now drinking Carlo Rossi white whine regularly. And he was also aware that he'd be drinking the stuff like at one thirty in the afternoon when he never used to drink. Also he would have bouts of illness in late October and these "bouts" continued into the next several months through spring of 1994. He didn't know what could be wrong. Was it his drinking? He later found out it was probably Hepatitus B. which he tested positive for in 1999. At this time he decided to write his parents a letter expressing the years when they had let him down the most. The most recent of these dates was mid 1991, not long ago at all. His father didn't take the letter well at all and says "Look, I'm an old man, I'm 69 years old. What can I do?" David was rather insulted by his Dad's response. He felt more isolated than he was especially with Joe and Kathy now gone, which he regarded as a link to the "good old days" of 1988 through 1992, not so long ago. Relations with his Dad were strained at the Thanksgiving gathering. On the drive home from Thanksgiving dinner, from which they departed early, David and Pete Richards saw a UFO on the freeway above them apparently stationary in the sky about a thousand feet up, he'd guess. He thought maybe it was a balloon. He had some strange lettering on it that appeared to be in another alphabet.
We'll give you part two when we get good and ready.
Predude and Whig-out
“All right boys, this is it. It’s over the hill to victory”
Nine – twenty one – zero – nine – HIKE!
This morning we are saluting the rainbow coalition by doing our famous rainbow sherbet background we haven’t done in a while. I was informed that there was a new download of Flash player so naturally I woke up Lieutenant Barkley and had him wire it into my brain. This blog could be called “Welcome to my break-down”. The first thing I’d like to do is salute Syd Barret. We’re all familiar with his unique vocals of the first Pink Floyd album but on that first album “Piper at the Gates of Dawn” (and it’s not even dawn yet) one will note though all the instruments sound different in those days, the organ is whiggier and the drumming is notably less professional, it’s the guitar playing that is really different. Syd Barret has achieved something a lot of people strive for and that is Internet Immortality. You can find “Piper” if you fish through for it looking in the website Download.com. Of course one wonders whether Syd after he died might be putting out solo L P’s or whether he’s still a part of the group. In our last blog we talked about the Beatles and I want to explain that. Many of you thought perhaps I was leaving the blog and going somewhere else entirely after that blog. No. I’m staying right where I am. It would be suicide that blog before I even get known. I dropped that hint about a key member leaving the Beatles. What happened as you know was that the fake John Lennon wanted to stay in the group and keep it together and nothing would have pleased him more than Paul’s suggestion that they go touring in disguise to small clubs. But not if he had to stay married to Yoco. His saying was “Et tu Yoco, then fall Beatles!” But in case you were wondering we weren’t even referring to the Beatles but another group that had lost its key member and then vanished from our consciousness, and that is when Jerry Garcia died the Grateful Dead died. It was the official long awaited death of the psychedelic movement ever since it has been hit by an oncoming Mac Truck in the wrong lane in the early seventies by the Nixon Adminestration and the Plumbers and Watergate machinations and all that. And then you’re supposed to start counting off time. (see Give Me Some Kind of Sign) Paul of course went on to put out a solo album or twenty and roomer has it he was going to assume another identity, Dirk Mc Quickly, in case the album bombed. (OK we just made that up)
Have you ever picked up a strong psychic vibe that turned out to be false? Back about ten years ago I was watching the financial program on KCET and Paul Kangis was hosting the program and I got the strong vibe that “That man died several years ago and he’s dead now and this is an old show” even though it was clearly a summary of that day’s market action. I wonder if Sylvia Brown ever gets vibes like that. Yesterday I picked up a certain vibe while watching a Jey Leno video about a 1975 Sazuki motorcycle he owned. This was a rather unusual Motorcycle in that it was the first mass marketed with a Wankle rotary engine. Of course Steve Hardy on the financial station which used to be channel 22 in those days, talked about Wankle engines a lot. Jay said that it was the only form of the internal combustion engine that was actually developed in the Twentieth Century! Anyhow it was the way that Jey described it ad a misfit and therefore something he wanted to own. You either loved it or you hated it and it either caused all sorts of problems, or else it ran perfectly. And it tended to run a little hot, like Syd Barret’s brain. But it was smooth. I happened to think that motorcycle reminds me a lot of Zachery. It was only marketed in the year 1975 and then dropped. We tried to market Zachery for years and finally dropped him. By the way if anybody tries to say I’m responsible for this blog I’ll deny it, Mark Felt “deepthroat” style. I’ll be like the Apostle Peter whose actions should be emulated after all he was both the first Pope and founder of the Faith, and also aspired to hold the position of Janis at the Gates of Heaven determining who makes it in, and who doesn’t.
Do you people remember that story we did in July 2004 originally. Yes, Sylvia the letters “
Of course there are those in the Federation who say that Zachery was reincarnated as a woman. As you know, Dick and Robin gradually cut people out of the loop and by January of 1984 everybody I knew was “out of the loop” and Zachery was in essence no more. Not everyone in the Federation thought that Valerie S from
Monday, March 31, 2008
Hail to the World's Crusaders
Today is Caesar Chavez' state holiday here in California. Here we were again just as in olden times behind the ol' stainless steel working class microphone. People who crusade for social and economic justice should be saluted more than they are in society today. In the news we have four number ones making it to the final four in NCAA basketball. As the Beatles say, "You know me number one and you know me number two and you know me number three and you know me number four". Those of you who are looking to "Give some kind of Sign" just might find one here. First the Beatles are talking about "threes" and then they're talking about "fours" in a song released later but recorded before. You may remember anthology where the Beatles on their final recording together were lamenting the absence of one of their members, the "Sun King". On Anthology they snipped that key line out of "Name and Number" so that it is now "Secret".
Now we have these grandiose and yet vague plans to vastly expand the powers of the Federal Reserve and to eliminate the securety & exchange comission and combine it with other groups and somehow exert new governmental powers over the financial system. I can't say these expanded powers are entirely unexpected in light of some of my prior predictions. I have predicted that the government would perceive an "economic crisis" and apparently they are more worried about the course of this economy than they are letting on. Having said this I am not confident they are willing to "fix" our economic woes by their planned machinations. We have a system already that would never occur in "nature". You know in nature they say that anything that tastes sweet is not poisonous. If this is so what do they do about etheline glycol, which they put in Mouth Wash in China? The Feds have allowed a system to exist now where we have negative interest rates, even if not for the ordenary person. What this means is that some banks are charged LESS in interest rates to borrow money than the pervailing inflation rates and so they can "sit" on money they borrow and take out of circulation, and they will become richer just for holding on to this money lent to them by the Feds. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to see how this could easily lead to speculative and irresponsible borrowing.
Apparently, according to Sixty Minutes, the Red Sox baseball team has hired a "numbers wonk". I first heard the word "wonk" on a Ron Hubbard recording. The new position that opened up was apparently is for some baseball number statistics freak, who comes up with new ways for the Red Sox to win games based on statistics, such as how batters who get a lot of base on balls should be rewarded because they wear out the pitcher. Perhaps the two World Series victories by the Red Sox in recent years are because of this new Manager, who has had this number statistics hobby for some thirty years. But according to the Federation, the Red Sox were able to shake their 86 year "Curse of the Bambino", Babe Ruth, because Nicholas is the reincarnation of Babe Ruth and "The Bambino" is one of the nick names for Nicholas among the Federation. There characterization of him is like an outtake from a Simpsons cartoon, where this little kid bambino (son of Sideshow Bob) goes around with a knife crying "Vendetta- - Vendetta" The rap in 2004 was that Nicholas' father was originally from Boston and that he convinced Nicholas to lift the curse on the Red Sox. Of course it's an Alcyonne or Plides curse. This is where the concept of the circle comes in. Normally curses and bad karma just goes off into space and is dissapated. But when cosmic space becomes curved it forms a circle. Therefore the transgression just comes around and comes around again in a recursive circle. It's running off a computer program with a recursion loop in it. The Pliades also controle other things such as the Mafia (notibly in Chicago) as well as many psychic revelations and theology such as Gene Dixon and Ruth Montgomary, and also regulates much Demonic activity, and also is the guardian force behind Scientology. So now you know. I can't help but think we need some sort of a numbers "wonk" in Christianity. Someone should look at the statistics of sermons and prayers and repentance and all and come up with some "system" to make Christianity work better.
Al Gore is a celebrity, there is no doubt about that. He's won the Nobel Peace Prize, and he won an Oscar for his movie "An inconvenient truth" based on his book "Earth in the Balance". Now Gore has to defend against charges his home that he bought wasn't "ecological" but they explained that he was retrofitting the house with insilation and solar pannels and stuff. Now we have a whole other gigantic section of "the western ice sheet" falling into the sea on the continent of Antarctica. At least President Mc Cain will be on board with all of this Save the Planet stuff. Gore let it slip that he still has unresolved feelings about those Five Justices on the Supreme Court who stole the election from in 2000. Gores lips are sealed on his presidential pick.
You've heard how the mafia has talked about "Making people Disappear". Of course Drive radio had 1975 on the show today and Jimmy Hoffa's name came up. Sixty Minutes last night had one of the most disturbing episodes I've ever seen. It's about this German guy who about ten years ago decided to take a Turkish wife, whose religion was Islam, and so that he did not feel completely isolated decided he better learn to pray and do other Islanic things properly. And she said the best way to learn these things was to go in a pilgramage to Pakistan. Unfortunately this was right after 9 - 11 and if the German guy had it to do over again he might have chosen differently. A bunch of Islamic pilgrims were on a train or whatever and they were stopped at a government inspection post. The guys were paid thugs by the US government who hired them to finger terrorist suspects. The man was singled out because of his light skin. He was flown to Afghanistan to be tortured with a form of water-boarding where his head is stuck under water while being punched in the stomach so he has to inhale water. He was also strung up from an airplane hanger roof for periods of six hours in freezing weather. Occasionally a doctor would examine him to see if his body could stand the strain, then they'd hoist him back up. Then he was moved to Guantanamo prison. Here he was subject to isolation cells for a month and extremes of heat and cold, where they had powerful air conditioning systems used. Finally in 2004 or something he was allowed to see an attorney and present his case publicly to the populace. There were reports by the FBI and the CIA saying they believed he was innocent, but here was a man who fell into the cracks into the netherworld of the US prison system. Of course Rush Limbaugh probably hates the fact that he got an attorney, or else he'd still be in prison today. The man was freed as part of a deal a German leader made with George Bush, but the man is still considered an dangerous enemy combatent and cannot travel to the United States, not that he would want to. No wonder Michelle Obama says she is ashamed of America. This man isn't the only one, but his story is part of a vast pattern about how the United States government deals with people they don't like and want them "Disappeared" never to be seen again. Rush Limbaugh should know how his government operates.
Now we have these grandiose and yet vague plans to vastly expand the powers of the Federal Reserve and to eliminate the securety & exchange comission and combine it with other groups and somehow exert new governmental powers over the financial system. I can't say these expanded powers are entirely unexpected in light of some of my prior predictions. I have predicted that the government would perceive an "economic crisis" and apparently they are more worried about the course of this economy than they are letting on. Having said this I am not confident they are willing to "fix" our economic woes by their planned machinations. We have a system already that would never occur in "nature". You know in nature they say that anything that tastes sweet is not poisonous. If this is so what do they do about etheline glycol, which they put in Mouth Wash in China? The Feds have allowed a system to exist now where we have negative interest rates, even if not for the ordenary person. What this means is that some banks are charged LESS in interest rates to borrow money than the pervailing inflation rates and so they can "sit" on money they borrow and take out of circulation, and they will become richer just for holding on to this money lent to them by the Feds. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to see how this could easily lead to speculative and irresponsible borrowing.
Apparently, according to Sixty Minutes, the Red Sox baseball team has hired a "numbers wonk". I first heard the word "wonk" on a Ron Hubbard recording. The new position that opened up was apparently is for some baseball number statistics freak, who comes up with new ways for the Red Sox to win games based on statistics, such as how batters who get a lot of base on balls should be rewarded because they wear out the pitcher. Perhaps the two World Series victories by the Red Sox in recent years are because of this new Manager, who has had this number statistics hobby for some thirty years. But according to the Federation, the Red Sox were able to shake their 86 year "Curse of the Bambino", Babe Ruth, because Nicholas is the reincarnation of Babe Ruth and "The Bambino" is one of the nick names for Nicholas among the Federation. There characterization of him is like an outtake from a Simpsons cartoon, where this little kid bambino (son of Sideshow Bob) goes around with a knife crying "Vendetta- - Vendetta" The rap in 2004 was that Nicholas' father was originally from Boston and that he convinced Nicholas to lift the curse on the Red Sox. Of course it's an Alcyonne or Plides curse. This is where the concept of the circle comes in. Normally curses and bad karma just goes off into space and is dissapated. But when cosmic space becomes curved it forms a circle. Therefore the transgression just comes around and comes around again in a recursive circle. It's running off a computer program with a recursion loop in it. The Pliades also controle other things such as the Mafia (notibly in Chicago) as well as many psychic revelations and theology such as Gene Dixon and Ruth Montgomary, and also regulates much Demonic activity, and also is the guardian force behind Scientology. So now you know. I can't help but think we need some sort of a numbers "wonk" in Christianity. Someone should look at the statistics of sermons and prayers and repentance and all and come up with some "system" to make Christianity work better.
Al Gore is a celebrity, there is no doubt about that. He's won the Nobel Peace Prize, and he won an Oscar for his movie "An inconvenient truth" based on his book "Earth in the Balance". Now Gore has to defend against charges his home that he bought wasn't "ecological" but they explained that he was retrofitting the house with insilation and solar pannels and stuff. Now we have a whole other gigantic section of "the western ice sheet" falling into the sea on the continent of Antarctica. At least President Mc Cain will be on board with all of this Save the Planet stuff. Gore let it slip that he still has unresolved feelings about those Five Justices on the Supreme Court who stole the election from in 2000. Gores lips are sealed on his presidential pick.
You've heard how the mafia has talked about "Making people Disappear". Of course Drive radio had 1975 on the show today and Jimmy Hoffa's name came up. Sixty Minutes last night had one of the most disturbing episodes I've ever seen. It's about this German guy who about ten years ago decided to take a Turkish wife, whose religion was Islam, and so that he did not feel completely isolated decided he better learn to pray and do other Islanic things properly. And she said the best way to learn these things was to go in a pilgramage to Pakistan. Unfortunately this was right after 9 - 11 and if the German guy had it to do over again he might have chosen differently. A bunch of Islamic pilgrims were on a train or whatever and they were stopped at a government inspection post. The guys were paid thugs by the US government who hired them to finger terrorist suspects. The man was singled out because of his light skin. He was flown to Afghanistan to be tortured with a form of water-boarding where his head is stuck under water while being punched in the stomach so he has to inhale water. He was also strung up from an airplane hanger roof for periods of six hours in freezing weather. Occasionally a doctor would examine him to see if his body could stand the strain, then they'd hoist him back up. Then he was moved to Guantanamo prison. Here he was subject to isolation cells for a month and extremes of heat and cold, where they had powerful air conditioning systems used. Finally in 2004 or something he was allowed to see an attorney and present his case publicly to the populace. There were reports by the FBI and the CIA saying they believed he was innocent, but here was a man who fell into the cracks into the netherworld of the US prison system. Of course Rush Limbaugh probably hates the fact that he got an attorney, or else he'd still be in prison today. The man was freed as part of a deal a German leader made with George Bush, but the man is still considered an dangerous enemy combatent and cannot travel to the United States, not that he would want to. No wonder Michelle Obama says she is ashamed of America. This man isn't the only one, but his story is part of a vast pattern about how the United States government deals with people they don't like and want them "Disappeared" never to be seen again. Rush Limbaugh should know how his government operates.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
The Second TV Season
The second TV season is now under day. These days they try and bring back shows that have been buried or gone off the air mysteriously. Some good shows go off the air forever like “Alley Mc Beale”, where people were commenting that they were right in the middle of a major plot and the show just was dropped with no reruns or anything. There are shows like ‘Jesse” with Christina Applegate, or that comedy with Brook Shields in it, that didn’t last long. Now they say there will be new episodes of “Bones”, and “Hell’s Kitchen” is coming back. What we need now is some new spring time fad like streaking was. Something to take our mind off of the elections for the next five months. May I suggest some new shows they haven’t thought of. Leo Le Port should go back on prime time TV doing a computer show. Television would greately help out a computer show because you could actually view the screen. What they need is a teaching show to teach people tricks and tips on the most popular software. Most importantly they should tell you how to operate things when they DON’T go wrong. You shouldn’t assume every case is a one in a million thing where nothing works. Personally I could go for iconoclastic shows, shows that attack cherished beliefs and institutions and provide that all important “Political Balance”. They could do a show on gay people called “What they’re really like” where the two leading characters are nerdy geeks with bad hygene and do all the stereotypical things you associate with gays. They constantly engage in crude suggestive conversation about everybody. They are constantly propositioning people, and when people call them names you’re rooting for their taunters. And they have flashbacks on how they became by and how they blew perfect opportunities to go out with the prettiest girl on campus all because of their gayness, and how they constantly day dream pedophiliac fantasies. You could have a show called “Salem PD”, which is a take off on how the Salem PD on the soap opera never seems to catch the bad guy. Every sting is foiled by an inside mole in the department, and the criminals are constantly getting the better of them and even so Abe always says “You need to go by the book” even if “the book” is an ass. You could have a new version of “Prison Break” where the bad guys don’t get caught or fight among themselves. You could make it political like have a cause like de-criminalize all drugs and you could have the first escapees organizing break-outs in prisons all around the country. You could always have another “President” series. What ever happened to that show with a woman president? How about a Jehovah’s Witness president, who refused to salute the flag? That would be a fascinating campaign to show. How about a show about a person like myself who winds up in a board and care facility? The question is what to name it. There are euphamisums such as “Happy Haven” or “Golden Twilight” or something really pretentious such as “Gothen Manner”. Or perhaps a Spanish theme such as “New Barcelona” or “Casa Del Sol” or something generic like “
I would like once again to attack this Dennis Prager belief that genetics don’t mean a thing. More and more children who were conceived in a test tube or what not want to know their origins to know if they have any diseases they or their children need to be concerned about inheriting. I really think we need to work on offspring’s rights laws and how jacking off into a test tube doesn’t give you infallibility or anonymity. Of course you could have two people who want to get married who are really half sister and brother or something. This plea for “privacy” is a bogus one. If you put a trash baggie out on the street and someone looks in it and sees a computer or other substance you aren’t supposed to be throwing out, you are accountable. And yet these people see their own egg and sperm as trash receptacles where they don’t have to face consequences.
George Will says that he doesn’t like his children using the term “fairness”. I’ll tell you who loves that ruling; the one of his kids who is a natural bully. He loves it that he gets a “pass”. Meanwhile the other kids learn that raw power is everything and that laws and justice don’t mean squat. Oh well, they’re his kids. The "bottom line" on this whole "fairness" rap of George Will is that he wants Hillary to be the Democratic nominee, and for her to lose in November.
There is talk about raising the driving age to eighteen, since none of the high schools apparently offer Drivers Education any more. There is this trend to delay the maturation of our teenagers. It starts when kids are taught “self esteem” rather than academic performance. These echo boomers Demand a good paying job and not to have to work for it. Apparently you don’t dare slight or criticize them or else dire things will happen like you’ll be sued or something for violating their self esteem. There are those who say you shouldn’t marry till ate 25 and shouldn’t have sex till you’re married. The parents buy their kids cell phones that are expensive to use, and them keep their kids on a really short tether. And when I was a kid I don’t think we were as obsessed with these kiddy shows like sponge Bob square pants or whoever. I can’t think of any age I was at the past where I would have been comfortable watching a show like “Mr. Rogers Neighborhood”. I know Dennis Prager is one of these people who wants to delay the maturation of kids for as long as possible. In the job market I’m sure they regard people over fifty as Yesterday’s News and they are the “beautiful people” of the future. Often they use religion as an updated version of Disney for a hope of fulfillment of all their fantasies. Pretty soon it’s going to be rough for teenagers when we take their internet out of their lives, and deny them the junk food they crave, and tell them sex is for marriage. Tomorrow’s teenagers will long to be able to commit the sins of their parents.
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