Nancy Palosi Rolls Out House Health Bill

Nancy Palosi made a big speech about introduction of a House health bill today that has gotten almost now news play. Talk shows may lead with her speech but in the end we know almost nothing about this House bill except that it’s over one thousand pages long. I’ll look for a summary of it. It contains an unqualified public option and also increases “Medic-aid”. It would cost 900 Billion dollars. But they say it is really revenue positive in that its effect in the long run will be to cut the deficit from what it would otherwise be. I don’t understand that. Hillary’s speech in Pakistan got more air play. We could spend a lot less money if we just help the people rather than bomb them. It’s really hard to bomb an impoverished people into submission. The house health bill was called forward and progressive. Lieberman campaigned on universal health care in the 2006 re-election campaign to bag liberal Democratic votes. But his wife, Hedassa has a membership in all sorts of lobbying groups. Lieberman and Mc Cain seem to be in a heated contests for biggest two-faced phony of all time.

The US economy is out of recession with better than three percent growth in the third quarter, which amazes me, since I had heard that we were narrowly down for that quarter. Instead we are up three percent on an annualized rate. If this rate should continue the recession would be a distant memory by next year 2010, when the congressional elections are held. One would hope the Republicans would sit up and take notice. Formerly they had said that we entered our current recession in December of 2007. This is October 29, 2009 the anniversary of the stock market crash, which would be eighty years ago. Europe has artificial low unemployment because the government fills in the gaps in hours which corporations agree to cut back so that everyone can keep their jobs. Unlike us, who cater to big corporations with massive tax cuts, people on the continent subscribe to the “trickle up” theory. Now Europe is out of their recession even though it was worse there. I don’t think history, and not too distant history, will be kind to this generation the way that we catered to every whim of the richest of corporate interests. They say even now there is an undercurrent to completely revamp all sorts of laws on corporation to make it a whole new ball game. Hartman is sticking to his claim of a double dip recession for the United States. He says that President Obama’s policies still resemble more those of Herbert Hoover rather than Franklin Roosevelt.

People may wonder at this connection between political right wingers and “religion”. Well the old Latin definition of religion is to restrain, to tie back – out of the way, or something you would do with a vine. Of course Jesus spoke of “abiding in the vine”. I say this because those who say religion is liberating are truly speaking in Orwellian terms. It’s just another of so many lies they tell. Some people speak of being bound by a “meme” or unsupported belief. George Bush operated on the “meme” that going to war would give him Political Capital and would save his administration. We still here this meme preached by people like Zell Miller at the 2004 republican convention, who see everything in terms war, and patriotism as being pro war, and infidels as being anti war. I suspect even Democrats such as President Obama have fallen into this meme that “war covereth a multitude of sins”. The “sins” in this case would be his domestic policies. Some say that we wanted war in Afghanistan because some outfit wants to construct an oil pipeline through that country. The only “solution” Joe Byden can come up with for our troop shortfall is to bomb the population of Afghanistan back to the stone age with unmanned drone rockets. Today I learned that the very invasion of Afghanistan by Russia that we all used as a patriotic rallying point in 1979 was in fact an effort by the USSR to restore civil rights in Afghanistan that hat recently been won but ucerped by the Muhajabeeb. (sp) Soon we will have been in Afghanistan longer than the Russians were there. President Obama trapped himself by saying that we were “neglecting” Afghanistan. Again he felt he had to offer the right wing a bone, as something to get their minds off the dreaded Iraq withdrawal. I had heard this notion of “tying up” being linked to the word Religion over 35 years ago but I dismissed the notion till I checked it out for myself today. The words “Religion” and “System of Beliefs” are thus NOT interchangeable expressions. A “belief” can be any meme or notion about anything. Beliefs can be both supportable by science and unsupportable by science. A metaphysical belief is a belief not directly supported by science. Many times the Christian right wing likes to substitute “esoteric” for “metaphysical” to make the practitioners appear more bizarre and “out of the main stream”. But in truth it’s the Christian Right’s own beliefs of “memes” that are out of the main stream. I have been more and more inclined to say that neo-conservatism is one big Religion. It dies together a whole set of discredited beliefs such as living in a constant state of war, and “having a powerful leader” and ANY law that infringes on a corporation is bad, and corruption and graft are OK as long as it’s our side that’s doing it. So they become obstructionist in the extreme and pray nightly for President Obama to fail, and are upset by good economic news, and downright terrified that this recession just might be over in a year or two.

I still sense rumblings of discontent out there about my rather weak follow up to the idea of a psychic dimension. Many will say, “But you didn’t say anything about how the psychic process works, or IF it even works”. Some may say “Why even bother with it. Aren’t there enough exciting things in the world to hold your interest?” Suffice it to say that mankind has always been intrigued by ideas that he can’t prove. It’s our nature. I have an intellectual problem myself with something that links the “other side” (hyperspace) to the here and now. However, ex talk show host Michael Benner says things can be real and exist but still be inherently scientifically unmeasurable. Of course let me say again that - - not to misuse any analogy but to give you some kind of comparison - - hyperbolic space is as different from this space as regular trig is from hyperbolic trigonometry. Of course those who invoke the ether as a medium of “transmission” of psychic impulses and information would be at odds with my metaphysical view of the Universe. Many even in the Christian realm such as Fredrick Price, speak of “being tuned in on the right frequency”. Well, this may sound really trite but we scientists haven’t got the vaguest idea of what Consciousness is, in terms of manifestation in the physical realm. It’s something physicians deduce the existence of. They say “this patient should be coming around soon”. They do mental tests of measure cognition. Psychologists tell us that personalities as they study them are really “sets of ideas” or notions, that as it were, are ruled by the same consciousness. It’s as if the individual ideas hold a vote and determine “who is going to own them”. To explain the physical process better, let us move to an internet analogy. Nothing can get through on the internet unless it gets past the fire wall and the “thought” or information has “permission” to enter through a certain port number. Certain people mentally “get” other people, and others they just “don’t get”. It could be that psychic communication is very much like this, keeping in mind that the computer represents the brains of physical people on earth and within those brains there is software which “connects you to the hyper-light (or hyperbolic as I referred to it) dimension that links physical substance to itself. If the computer is your physical brain, the software of the computer is the device- - that unlike actual computer software is completely stealth and undetectable and I doubt it’s even measurable by magnetism- - the software is the soul- - -that I must emphasize- - is stealth and completely unmeasurable by scientists. Having said all this the only other question is “How do you know an idea you may or may not even agree with is FROM some dead person, rather than your own “meme” or beliefs? Because the idea is tagged like an dog tag and the tag says “John Lennon is my owner” or whatever. This is how I think it just might work. If I come up with a clearer explanation I’ll pass it along.

Harry Reed Backs Compromised Public Option

Senator Harry Reed of Nevada yesterday finally got off the dime and decided which version of a health bill that he is going to get behind and push. Harry Reed is of course the abortionist Mormon and these contradictions always amuse me. Around here we have professing Mormons who regularly drink coffee and use tobacco. There was a girl named Leslie who was Mormon, who "compromised my morals" for the first time, and she had had an abortion. And then you have Tammy Bruce who is a drug hating, ghetto phobiac, pistol packing lesbian. As you may know Tammy Bruce became ardently pro war and began attacking the very people she had formerly "been in bed with" so to speak. She came out against extending the LA subway system to the San Fernando Valley because she feared that hordes of Black people would use the trains to migrate to the Valley and bring their ghettoized ways and crime with them. Anyhow when I first learned about it I wasn't exactly pleased. Because Harry Reed wants states to have the right to "opt out" of the public option plan. I'm sure red states all fantasize about doing things like that. It's all Sarah Palin could do to avoid announcing Alaska secession from the Union once she lost the election. To me this option out of states option was somehow "un American" and I thought unprecedented. The whole thing about states having "Monopoly rights" in regulating insurance companies is something I don't relate to. Today I was a bit more encourages in that people said that the free market (lets hear it for the Free Market!) forces would dictate that no state could opt out because they would look at their neighbors and the people would rise up and revolt against their leaders. (The way people in Iraq DIDN'T do in 1991) But Lyndon Johnson found out in dealing with Ho Chi Min that sometimes the carrot and the stick principle just doesn't work with alien cultures, in this case, the Red states. You've heard of this or that governor saying that they were going to "Stand on Principle" and refuse money from the stimulus program of the Obama administration - and the people be damned, even though they are the ones who suffer and not the governor. This is not unusual behavior for a Christian to impose their own personal anally fixated principles on others, who are adversely affected. Also Senator Reed was not optimistic about the bill's prospects even with this major compromise with the Devil. Today Joseph Lieberman came out and said he would vote to fillibuster this bill because he's afraid of how his beloved insurance companies would suffer. People keep saying that any public option is "a foot in the door" and eventually it's designed to drive all private health care providers out of business. Well, one can always hope- - - .

Tonight Michael Jackson’s movie premiers. Joe Jackson expressed reservations about the film saying it doesn’t represent Jackson at his best. It was Sunday night I watched a big chuck of the “ghost” video. The whole thing runs 37 minutes or something, or longer than I wanted to take. Of course the movie "Paranormal activity" only costs $15,000 to make and so far has earned 62 million or something. This tells me that people out there have a tremendous thirst for the supernatural. The previous such very low budget movie to make it really big was the Blair Witch Project ten years ago. The LA Lakers are also having their champion ring presentations tonight at Staples. They say the rings get bigger and gaudier every year. This is the fifteenth Lakers championship. This is sure starting the season off early, before the World Series has begun or Daylight Savings Time is ended.

I would like to bring you people up to speed on some personal matters now. Yesterday I had a tooth pulled. It's that 30 year old gold crown I was telling you about that was too badly decayed. Three dentists said so. But now my esteemed sister in law is calling up here about another matter and that is the fungus on my finger nails on my right hand and also on my toe nails. Guess what. They don't cover anti fungal products any more. I need to "save up" out of my mere weekly pittance, in order to be able to afford to see the foot doctor for $20.00. I would imagine the stimulus check would more than cover any costs. For this stimulus check I would actually like to be able to use it for "discretionary spending" like go out to a show, and perhaps even go out on a date, or perhaps to buy some impulse item that strikes my fancy.

Some of you are thinking I should clarify more about the Sixth Dimension. First of all, in my current six dimensional theory, just the three are true, descrete, spacial dimensions. Time is a dimension. "Unreality" is a dimension. This is the theory that goes "Anything that CAN happen will happen and HAS happened, somewhere in the fifth dimension as a result of the big bang. You've heard about the Analog loophole. Well some may point to a "fifth dimensional" psychic revelation loophole by which one could claim with metaphysical certitude that their specific psychic revelations will come to pass, if not in This universe then in SOME universe. But also you people are wondering about the idea of thoughts. Are thoughts "things" with a seeming perceived reality that can be witnessed by all in the sixth dimension? The Greeks taught that ideas about things were more REAL than the Thing itself. Their logic here seems flawed to me, but I'm not entirely discounting it. People have their theories about thoughts having "energy" and "manifesting" after a person dies. They say in areas of emotional trauma there are many "Lost Spirits". A much more obvious explanation for this is of course the PEOPLE observing these phenomina are the ones with unresolved problems. Just for laughs, lets assume such manifestations are possible, after all it is Halloween in a few days. Many times you see poulterguists that have all these fluxing wavy lines in a shape like some ectoplasum. Are these lines like energy forces flowing? Is this perhaps energy that exceeds the speed of light but lives in what I'd call the hyperbolic realm just beyond the speed of light? Hyperbolic of course means "over thrown" as in an asteroid that just missed being captured by a planet. First of all to clarify ANYTHING exceeding the speed of light can't be made of ANY of the corperial matter studied by scientists. Secondly one can think of "hyper space" as thus a "different kind of space" because it hosts a different kind of atomic structure. Hyperbolic trig functions have no seeming connection with hyperbolic space. One might ask, "How would you be able to see such hyperbolic energy?" Perhaps the reason why you don't see ghosts and such every day is because there have to be just the right weather conditions or some kind of metaphysical conditions for visability to manifest. Perhaps, as I said in the previous posting - - this "Localization" is not the normal state - - and perhaps people like Sylvia Browne are right when they refer to "earth bound spirits". We at the Federation call them "terrestrial spirits" meaning they occupy physical space. Those usual inhebitants of the Sixth Dimension are of course called "tellestial spirits" by the Federation.

A New Revealing Look at the Sixth Dimension

The Steelers are going to put an end to the Viking’s six and 0 sinning streak. You have to watch those interceptions. It’s the Viking’s first loss of the season.

Today I want to talk about how real, relivent events are dealt with in the main stream media. I continue to be distressed that shows like “Meet the Press” regard the cut in pay of executive salaries imposed by the Obama administration as “punishment” and worse yet “self defeating”. They are calling it a way to placate the populist sentiment. You know my position. Then there is the matter of these drone flights in Afghanistan that are killing civilians. Apparently in the past the US has criticized Isrial for doing the same thing. Our moral position is losing ground. Joseph Byden is just plain wrong on this issue. But worse yet, if the flights are in Pakistan, with whom we are austensively on friendly relations with this isn’t good. As it was pointed out as of now Iran has zero nuclear bombs, and Pakistan has sixty bombs and if the Talliban is making progress there this is a definite area for concern. There was a guy on the internet last night from the symposium of “Accuracy in the Media” where they said “Even the polling data the media puts out is deceptive. I talked about a 57% popular support for the Public Option. Now that figure is apparently 61%. But they word the question in saying “Do you support the public option if it increases competition?” These conservatives say “The question rather should be – Do you want the Public Option even if it puts your insurance company out of business?” Let’s look at these questions in another way so you can understand it better. Would it be wrong to ask a community “Do you want another supermarket in town if it will increase competition?” Obviously that’s a given. You don’t have to wonder about that. If you were to ask “Do you want a second supermarket in town even if it put the first market out of business?” Some markets make their living gauging ghetto residents for healthy fruits and vegetables thus forcing Black people to just by junk food and Ripple”. (Or do I sound like a do-gooder liberal now) My point is no matter how you phrase the question- - the answer is going to most likely be a pretty accurate portrayal of reality. The American people know what they want in the way of health care, and they know what they don’t want. And they don’t want the status quo.

Then there is the issue of President Obama verses Fox News. Some would say that since the President has “gone out on the attack” against Fox, Fox’s ratings have shot way up, as have Rush Limbaugh’s. Some might even cite me Martin Luther King or Ghandi in “Not responding in kind but by being non violent” metaphorically. Some may even quote that passage from the Ron Hubbard tape I have where he says “If you are headed in a fire engine to put out a fire, it would be absurd to stop and address the dogs who are nipping at your wheels”. Suppose we change that example a little? Suppose instead that it’s putting these spike strips in the roads like police use to stop felons. What do you think about it now? Huh? You know- in “Charriots of Fire” there was a line that Abrams spoke where he said to the Olympic officials, “You want us to do a job well, but you seem to envision it as a task done with the effortlessness of the Gods, and not as the result of a lot of blood, and toil, and sweat”. It’s no disgrace to respond to a problem when there IS a problem that needs to be handled. This is common sense. It makes no sense to let the enemy have a free shot at you without shooting back. If he sees you are shooting back, he might think twice about continuing the conflict. So it is with President Obama and the Fox network. That Tavis Smiley guy on Meet the Press was the only guy with his brain plugged into Reality. And he said that Obama like a lot of people is lazy and does only what he has to and the American People have to be persistent and make the President do the right thing on Health Care, and “I know the President is up to it”.

In a five or six period of listening one can witness Jesus of KFI screwing up multiple times. Today he answered a caller complaining "How come God stoops to petty wagering with Satan over the lives of Job and his children, and sacrifices the lives of Job's children to prove some theological point?" Jesus said "It isn't a matter of God in a petty bet with Satan" but then said nothing to support that statement. Jesus said much as he did about those heroic fire fighters who died in 9 - 11 that "Maybe they were child molesters or something and needed judgement. You don't know". Now Jesus is saying "How do you know Job's children were not evil?" If Jesus would read the book he would find out. Job said to himself, "Perhaps my children have sinned." So Job offered an atoning blood animal sacrifice for them. As to this notion that the story is about winning some "Faith battle" let's just review some of the things Job said in his torment. He cursed the day he was born and said may the date be blotted out from history". May I suggest that is a caller to Jesus' show had said something like this, he'd be criticized for undo gloominess. Furthermore, if a person has gone through some health crisis such as surviving cancer or a heart attack, he is the weaker for the experiance and not stronger. Finally we have this notion introduced where Jesus says "God wanted to show us that this present life - this present world is not important". I urge you Bible readers to come up with any verse that says either "This life is not important" or "this world is not relivant" or "Your life here is not relivent" or any such verse. I suggest if you think you know where such a passage is, you go take another look. In the parable of the sower, Jesus says that what transpires "in the field" so to speak, is very relivent.

It was August when Dr. Levy promised the class that he would have a “Hanza” or “Hantza” for anyone who wanted one. This is sort of a Mideast charm that’s a hand with an eye in the middle to – ward off the Evil Eye and other evil spirits. I said I wanted one of those. Of course on that Simpson’s episode when they were in Morocco, Homer bought one of these monkey’s paw charm things that granted unlimited wishes and which Flanders eventually used to free Springfield of space aliens. I really don’t know if there is any connection, or whether the Simpson’s thing was completely made up.

I want to talk to you today about a subject that I’ve alluded to many times but never explained, and that is the possible nature of the Sixth or Psychic dimension. First of all a “dimension” differs from an “aspect”. An aspect is merely another perspective or angle of the same event. A dimension such as a computer array dimension, is a whole other field or range of knowledge previously unavailable. First of all we perceive everything in three dimensions, just as color blind people perceive everything in black and white. But this is not to preclude that some material we regard as three dimensional may have other dimensions of existence also, that we can have no knowledge of, no matter how much we tinker with our electron microscopes. I would at this time like to clear up a popular confusion between “hyper-space” and negative space. Some say that in order to exceed the speed of Light you’d have to bring in “negative space”. The answer is “No, not the way I think you mean it”. First of all if there is negative space it has to be occupied by negative mass because the nature of mass determines the nature of the space around it. You’ve heard this writer say that many times. My point however is that if there is a “negative universe” out there- - it is bound by the same blanket prohibition of exceeding the speed of light that we are in our universe. All of the math would be the same. Some may have trouble believing that we cant EVER exceed the speed of light “no matter hard we try”. Well, get used to it. Not with our current caporial matter. Do you remember what happens if somehow that should happen? Let me remind you. Mass and time would go negative. Mass and time always work together as a unit and one can’t go negative without the other. One could if one likes, envision a tangent spike wave that shoots up and then reappears way down. Mass and time are linked- - and this is using ordinary Newtonian logic, or “The Smallville principle”. Space of course would also mathematically go negative. This means that an object would double right back on itself and appear where it has been, at the time it was there to begin with. As such any hyper-light activity would be both undetectable and impossible.

But suppose there was a world where “things were different” than they are in this universe. If you were to travel faster than light, it is logical to think you would travel a lot faster, about as close to Infinitely fast as you can get. In such a world, a psychic world, travel over great distances would be instantaneous, faster than the telephone for transporting messages, or people. Indeed travel at the speed of light would be the slowest conceivable thing in this Universe. But you may ask what this means. Well, “travel” as we know it would mean something rather “different” in this world. In that world it would mean that Time comes into existence as a strange kind of novelty. It would mean for the first time an object could NOT BE a certain place. This notion of NOT being- - would be a strange and novel one to these people. It would take TIME to get some place where formerly you were NOT and NOT be where you were. As such approaching the speed of light would be a Localization phenomenon. But some may say “Then everything is a single line of transverse time?” and they might say “It is a frozen instant, then”. Here is what I believe happens. I believes time “flattens out” and becomes Zero dimensional. What this means is that people in the psychic realm have no facility to perceive the passage of time as we think of it because they never have to WAIT for anything. If the notion of “time flattening out” seems peculiar, let’s go back to our green golf course grid model of the gravitational Universe. Just to remind you that horizontal represents actual space and the Surface of the green represents “perceived” space, and the vertical dimension represents both gravity and - - not Time- - but the Speed of Passage trough Time. In a deep hole you move more swiftly through time by an increasing factor. The factor where the surface is the flattest is “One”. But this number may be reduced further I believe. It’s the natural viscosity of the Ether that fills empty space that gives this gravitational factor of one. If you reduce the viscosity you reduce the gravity. One might almost envision a layer of green fog lying over our golf course “One” unit high. In the psychic world certain things naturally ARE and other things naturally AREN’T. It’s just that they Stay that way - - all the - time. This pattern of ARE verses AREN’T is dictated by the vector of the fifth dimensional vector of the explosion from the Big Bang. In a previous posting I speculated that the Soul may be capable of fifth dimensional travel, but that is not our topic today. If there is Change in the Federation, it’s due to Travel because Travel is something we do through space but it’s something They do- - so that they are physically able to perceive the passage of time. Otherwise the psychic realm contains Constants. Everything is a constant and it doesn’t matter whether it’s way in the past or way in the future, it’s all accessable and readable. This is what the Federation may be referring to as “The true psychic realm” where falsehood and temporal errors do not occur. (Selah)

Mc Cain Intruduces Troubling Internet Bill

A lot of us used to think that John Mc Cain was one of the good guys, in that he was for basic fairness. But yesterday Senator Mc Cain introduced the "Internet Freedom Act". What this bill does is to put a stop to the FCC mandating "Net Neutrality" on the internet. New neutrality is where everybody has equal access. What John Mc Cain wants to do is give conservatives or people willing to pay more, a distinct advantage in that their web pages load faster and don't crash as often as those who don't pay this special fee. So if you load a page from the right wing it loads a lot more quickly on your computer so you will be more likely to read it than you would a liberal page by a small outfit. Thom Hartman and others have complained that liberal talk programs are broadcast on small, weak stations where conservatives get the 50,000 watt power houses, so that more people hear them. And "being heard" is key to the ratings game. In other news Windows 7 came out Thursday and Apple already has their commercials accusing Microsoft of making empty promises about Windows 7 and how it won't have the problems of previous releases. Of course this add ignores the fact that people are using XP now and have been perfectly happy with that. They say Apple charges such high prices because they have good service follow-up. But you pay a high price for something you may never need.

President Obama is under fire by the main stream media dominated by Corporate sources for what he did Wednesday in mandating that ECO's and other high paid executives take a drastic cut to $200,000 a year in their salaries. The media protests that "If they are going to get the talent they need they are going to have to pay top dollar, or else these executives will just look elsewhere for a job. Well, there is such a thing as doing something because it's right and fair, and if these corporations are going to live on government subsidies, then the government has an inherent right to determine their salaries. Since obviously these executives now owe their very existance to the government. Back when Ronald Reagan was President he fired the air traffic controlers because they wanted to strike. Government workers should not have the right, and in this case, did not have the right to go on strike. As Ken Galliger of KFI puts it, "These people have such cushy jobs already in return they should agree not to strike". There is such a thing as standing on principles, and those who say "people will suffer" are just evading the issue. In the case of the air traffic controlers, the planes flew just fine with the free market determining who got employment. And these high paid CEO's are the farthest thing from "indespensable", as their track record proves. They did absolutely nothing to merit their high salaries.

. I was thinking of blogging on the subject of “mendacity” or lying, and thought of using the “Passage” file written in the summer of 1996 featuring Bill Gunderson, as an example of a file with a notable "mendacity" factor. This file covered a pariod of my life around 1986 This was going to be the opus magnum of this posting. But like the Doors with the "Waiting for the Sun" album when they axed "Celebration of the Lizzard", I'd decided to hold off on this "passage". There are are things I don't want put on the record even if I do a caviat that a lot of the narritive is bogus. Sometimes even lies contain hidden truths, which is better than Christian writings, which contain lies, packaged within other lies. For instance- - a lot of you might like to see a segment of my life from June of 1985 through to September 1986 because this is a period in my life I never talk about. Of course in the book of Luke there is a segment about when Jesus was twelve years old. Interestingly this segment ends with the words "And Jesus went home and was subject to his parents, and he continued to grow in favor with God and man". So that Luke would prefer that you believed Jesus grew up in a "Leave it to Beaver" existance, being raised in a nurturing and supportive family.

A flight from San Diego to Mianiapolis overshot its mark and the plane ended up in Wisconsin. Pilots were out of radio contact with any tower for an hour and twenty minutes. People accused them of both falling asleep but they say they just got in a heeded argument and weren’t watching the flashing warning signs. The flight recorder only got the last thirty minutes of the flight after they turned around. The passengers didn’t know what was going on but on the ground they were scanning passenger list for “Don’t Fly” warnings believing that the plane must have been hijacked, and they compelled the pilots to perform various maneuvers to show they were in control.

On George Washington’s blog they had a tape that said not to be in any cash instruments such as treasury bills or government bonds. However he says Ben Vernanke has announced that he’s going to crank up the printing presses such as to inflate the dollar into oblivion. This in my opinion is the last thing we citizens have to worry about. I think the major danger remains a deflationary cycle, and as you know the inflation rate for the year is still officially zero. I do not think you should be in energy comodities now including oil, because we aren't coming out of this recession in any major way any time soon. You should buy comon stocks because the prices of these ignores reality in the world the rest of us have to live in. You should always have some money in precious metals. I agree that the last thing you want to be in is T bills and bonds right now.

There is a limit of fifteen percent for credit card companies to charge customers that’s going into effect next February so they are trying to jack people’s rates up now, often by faborication reasons and violations to justify their actions. Of course with both credit card companies and health insurance, they are most certainly going to fabricate any sort of technical "violation" they can come up with and in both these instances, there comes a point where abuses become intollerable. With zero percent inflation- - paying eighteen percent is just criminal. And of course as more people abandon credit cards, the economy will grow just that much slower.

Karzai Agrees to Another Election

Well now Pakistan’s leader, Karzai, has agreed to a second election in Afghanistan to resolve the problem of one third of the votes being invalidated by election officials in that country. This is good news. He says he just wants to resolve any doubts. Even in Afghanistan they have a run-off rule where the guy in first place has to get 51% of the vote in order to avoid a run-off. Only in this country to we allow elections of Presidents where they get in office by winning just 43% of the vote. Yesterday apparently Karzai met with John Kerry of all people and Kerry was alledgedly the one who perswaded him to have another election, apparently after visiting a mosque together. It’s been said that Obama may be holding off the committal of 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan until he’s certain that the government there is legit, and that he is “someone whom we can work with”. Personally I think John Kerry gives better speeches when he’s not running for president, as opposed to when he was.

A lot of interesting poll results came out yesterday. They said only nineteen percent of the people supported what the Republicans are doing in congress. That ought to be a wake up call for the party. Also only twenty percent of the population actually called themselves Republicans, and they say this is the lowest figure in over 25 years. I guess that’s back when unemployment was last over ten percent. Also, the current Bauccus health bill only gets 48% support as opposed to 49% opposing this bill. But at the same time Americans favor a “public option” by 57%. That ought to be a clarion call to congress to change their strategy and include a public option in the final bill.

President Obama has been meeting with the big leaders on Wall Street. On the one hand he is soliciting buckets of money from them and on the other hand he is trying to perswade them into being more civic minded and to things that are in the interests of the American people. To me I don’t know what to make of this. Randy Rhodes says that Obama is refusing to speak to their hired lobbyists and this is why he wanted to speak to these Wall Street leaders directly. But most of this cabinet Obama has could well be an extension of the George Bush administration. Only Eric Holder could be called “one of us” alias liberals. And the Attorney General has now stated he will not pursue “medical marijuana” arrests. Apparently the number of dispensaries in the LA area has skyrocketed and they are now on nearly every block in some areas. Funny, but I haven’t run into one yet just walking around the neighborhood. Eric Holder remains the only real hope of liberals as far as prosecuting the things that need to be prosecuted like offences of the Bush Administration in regard to torture and violating civil liberties.

I guess a healthy intellectual stand is to “Doubt Everything”. Let me carry that a step further. Doubt everything- - including doubting the doubters. Thom Hartman has made dire predictions as of late in regards to the US economy saying the economy is going to fall apart in 2010. Rush Limbaugh made the same prediction about the Clinton economy in 1994 and both are equally wrong, because that’s not keeping very savory company. Why don’t you people have a little faith. Perhaps we are “re-inflating the bubble”. But the bust isn’t going to come tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. It may not come for years. All of the economic indicators are increasingly headed up. There are people I know who still do the poor boy routine saying their stocks have been wiped out or that their real estate equity is gone. Well, perk up. People with IRA’s and other financial instruments should begin seeing a rosier future. But this whole idea of doubting the doubters goes into other fields. Who would trust a used care salesman whose line went something like “Oh yeah, all those other guys are a bunch of crooks, but you’re lucky you found me because me you can trust”. I think I would say “Thou protesteth too much”. The same thing goes for Christian bashing. If may or may not come as a surprise that a lot of the bashing of Christians is done by other Christians. Geoe Scott, and Walter Martin were two such people, and Chuck Smith has had his moments, along with a guy named Hunt, who wrote a book. Jesus Christ on the radio has done a lot of preaching how anybody who trusts God for a healing is a fool, and anyone who witnesses their faith had better make sure his life is a walking advertisement for abundant living because lord knows you can’t put your trust in preaching the straight gospel. Also, how many times have you heard “You can’t trust the Bible. Don’t you know that Satan quotes scripture?” If you’re me you don’t even want to think about how many times you’ve heard that line. And then we come to ABC Sunday news. They started off the program talking about “balloon boy” and how the whole thing was a hoax. But to play on the same general theme they went on to attack the ministry of Benny Hinn, and his alledgedly fake healings. You know it is a funny thing about liars. They aren’t very trusting people at all but assume everything they encounter is a lie, because they are projecting their own personality failings on to others. Once I said to the Asshole from El Paso, “Well, even if some of the supernatural stuff about Christianity turns out not to be true, still living a Christian life is a good thing merely by natural reasoning, and in the end living as a Christian will be better in this life”. The Pastor shot back, “That’s a bunch of bull!” He himself doesn’t believe that adopting Christian virtues “in the natural” is a good thing.

I would like to talk about a topic that got buried at the very bottom of a long posting concerning some startling new revelations about Gravity. In the case of gravity the new rule is “What you see is what you get”. According to Astronomy Cafe the travel of light with respect to gravity is instantaneous. It used to be that if you saw a “displacement” of Mercury behind a total eclipse and it wasn’t where it was supposed to be I assumed it was because the light was being bent by gravity. The new rules are that gravity itself behaves as light and gravity itself gets bent and also has a delay effect. If you don’t see the object, it has no gravity. This of course is the most definitive thing yet in ruling out the existence of Black Holes. Not only can light never escape a black hole but gravity itself can never escape a black hole. This also means that for distant planets like Neptune, the planet really IS where you see it, at least gravitationally. This should make orbital calculations a whole lot easier because it means with respect to gravity, that the propagation of light is instantaneous. Like light, gravity propagates in waves. Don't even ask me what that means. This whole new reality takes some getting used to. Because it means if matter comes into existence, and you are a few light-hours away from the object, for you the gravity will not be “turned on” for those few hours. This is an alien way of thinking.