Four Key Primary Contests Coming Up

A lot of important primaries will be taking place this Tuesday in several states, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Arizona. Mc Cain is fighting for his job in Arizona being challenged by a republican candidate to the right sponsored by tea baggers. Mc Cain has moved way to the right to accomodate this people on such issues as tightening up the border to prevent illegal immigration. Now he wants that "dang fence" built quickly. Bllanch Lincoln is defending her democratic senate seat in Arkansas. She as you know was one of the trouble makers when the democrats were trying to get health care passed. If she loses to her democratic rival it will be fine with me. Then we move on to Kentucky where Rand Paul, son of Ron Paul is the tea party candidate of choice, but Kentucky's other senator, Mitch Mc Conell, is supporting the other guy who is not as whacked out conservative. Finally we come to Pennsylvania where Arlen Spector is defending his seat against a democratic challenger who some say is a "real democrat". In this case I think Spector should win because he has built up a lot of seniority. As Spector has pointed out, "It could be that I will be losing my job because I voted to save YOUR job" referring to the stimulus plan of last year. Some say Spector is an opportunist for switching parties. I am not one of these. I believe his conversion to the democratic party was genuine, and am a little surprised that he is now polling ten points behind and shows every indication of losing tomorrow. My hope is that in the news tomorrow they devote at least as much time to the results of these elections as they have to the build-up and hype. It's strange but sometimes a really important news story will run for thirty seconds, while they make space for five minutes of fluff.

Well now they have had success at last with that oil leak after one month of one failure after another. British Petrolium's problems didn't begin with the day of the platform fire, but there were warning signals and problems a month earlier that they chose to ignore. Much of British Patrolium's problems have stemmed from a desire to either drill faster than can be safely done by the equipment or try and implement a solution after the explosion that was overly hasty, whereas if they had taken a little more time they might have had success a lot sooner. Now they have inserted a mile long four inch diameter tube and it will be syphoning oil up to a ship at a pretty slow rate that really isn't taking care of the problem. In addition to this, there are several large underwater plumes of oil and one of these plumes is nearly the size of Manhattan or about ten miles long and three miles wide, and it's eating up the oxygen from the water and killing the marine life. People think "There's got to be a better way". You know one lady on C-Span yesterday said that "Once a new invention is implemented and catches on, defenders of the old ways go out of business." I only wish this were true with energy. Some things catch on - like the steam engine. James Watt was watching a heavy lid being lifted from a steaming pot and got the idea for the steam engine. But how many others must have observed the same thing and did nothing? Some say invention is being at the right place and the right time. People make a lot of the fact that England industries were all by rivers that provided torque, for instance to mill stones and the like. Pythagarus could not have invented the automobile no matter how smart he was because all of the other factors wern't in place. But the thing is getting back to my main point, we have had "alternative energy" for forty years. We have had solar cells since the 'sixties and have had wind turbines at least that long. I remember reading about harnessing tidal power for electric generation in a Time-Life book four decades ago. So what's the hold up? We really haven't had any major break-throughs in our space program in twenty years. With energy it's as if we were in a forty year time warp. The very same issues advocated on the very first Earth Day to save the planet, still are the ones that have yet to catch on today. They somehow still seem just as alien and futuristic. It seems the "drill baby drill" crowd wants to milk the very last drop of oil from the earth and after that is exhausted, maybe then we can think about what other energy sources we might want to use. But I don't see why we have to wait till then.

Where Do Economies Go To Die?

Sometimes I don’t think I listen attentively enough to the “other side”. I’m not referring to the dead, but that could be the case too. But I meant the other end of the spectrum, politically. There was some call in show on line where people were being asked about what they thought about government spending. Many, if not a majority believe that cutting the deficit should be the underlying, driving force behind any future government budget proposals. And if a goal is important enough than it will be worth committing your resources to it, to the exclusion of other considerations. Many sincere people believe if we don’t get a handle on this deficit problem then our economy has no future. If Obama wanted to cut the deficit and the debt he could. First of all just install a minimum tax all corporations pay to insure the richest ones don’t get off with paying nothing. Then re-institute a saying of Ronald Reagan that “We are only going to help the truly needy”. By this I mean poor people and not rich corporations. We’re going to remove corporate loopholes. We are going to stop paying farmers not to plant. We are going to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan right now and declare the “peace dividend” Clinton talked so much about- - will be devoted entirely to deficit reduction. Couldn’t the President sign an order saying “All pork barrel projects will be canceled till further notice”. And also I could institute a “cafeteria rule” where for instance if you’re a kid going through a buffet line, if you take the item you have to eat that item in its entirety whether you like it or not. Just think of all the waste the military does by designing a project and then scrapping it. Look how much waste there was in Nixon scrapping the Apollo project. Now Obama wants to scrap the space shuttles. And I guess he wants to cancel the Aries rocket. How about “You put it on your plate and now you have to eat it”. This single policy alone could effect amazing savings in the military. Look at the savings in just interest payments alone! Really- - - look at it.

You don’t have to go far to see the effects of continued economic cutbacks. Governor Swatzenegger has announced the termination of a “Welfare to Work” program that had been successful and millions depended on it. Now due to a deficit of 19 billion and a continued tax revenue fall off- - many more cuts in health and welfare must be made. Now there is some anti gang “Home Boy” outfit that has been around for twenty years is now closing their doors due to a fall off in donation. Now people are writing letters to Oprah Winfrey to keep the thing going. No doubt if more rich people opened up their wallets a lot of things would be different. That whale off the coast of Dana Point that we have been following- - died today. People were worried about the whale because first she acted if she were swim out to sea to join the rest of the pod, but then yesterday she returned and people wondered what the matter was now. Like the economy- - a lot of things are terminal, or to put it another way “sometimes things are worse than they seem”. LA City has announced they are going to not fill any more pot holes in the road because they just can’t afford it. Where do old economies go to die? Is the whole US economy terminal? Do we have any industries left? Have you ever wondered what dead people think about our society today. Doesn't the author of "Future Shock" need to put out another sequel? And what would we think if we could be transported to the year 2020 right now? Talk about “Future Shock” when Jimi Hendrix met Noel Redding when he died he may have asked him if people today experienced any more Pleasure than they did in his day. (I didn't know till Jeopardy the other night that Mitch Mitchell is also dead, making it complete) He would probably be amazed, “You mean people aren’t going around absolutely stoned on acid all the time? If things are as bad as you say they are you people need it more than our generation needed it”. Somehow I don’t think when you died will have a significant impact on your adjustment to the Afterlife. If you died today or 150 years ago you will still make some sort of adjustment. Death is where everything ends up eventually, after it has run its course. People in the Afterlife will be unified by one thing- - that none of them was able to escape the ultimate grim reaper. I imagine it’s kind of like Viet Nam. They regard all people who haven’t experienced as utterly foolish and unqualified to speculate or talk on the subject

OK we’ll just pick up where we left off. Some of us like me had a ham sandwich for lunch, whereas others announced they got turkey. There was Fritos and Will gave me his also. We had watermelon. Nicole Sandler was in for Randy so the “boobies” song was not played. Later on after two they talked about the Val Dez oil spill in Prince William Sound in Alaska or wherever. A guest said that only five percent of the oil was ever removed. The rest was dispursed into the environment and genetic damage to the fish can be seen because the fish have strange growths on them. And they said that the “hering run” doesn’t occur any more after twenty years. The fishing industry is still devastated and the people of the Louisiana gulf know what to look forward to. By the way that 2-butyl ethanol stuff they talked about- - appears to be rug cleaner. Back on the third Saturday in May of 1966 I remember that we had our carpets cleaned and we had to eat out that night because the smell was driving us all crazy, since it was so lingering. (We ate at Wayne’s Steak and Lobster nearby) Fermin came by the next day and my Dad was remarking “the guy said it would be twenty minutes to dry out” and Fermin chimes in “- - and it turned out to be twenty hours”. From what they are saying, huge, and I mean large amounts of 2-butyl ethanol have been dumped into the Gulf. Which might be why the oil slick appears to be shrinking and not hitting the shore as dead on as people had thought it would. What President Obama needs to do is get on the television and make a speech showing real empathy, both for the people of Alaska, and for the current people of Louisiana, and announce that all parties involved will be made to pay in full. I am wondering (just wondering) whether in his zest to please the oil companies that the President might have made some deal to relax regulations so simple things like batteries didn’t need to be replaced. Corporations are like God. They live forever. But unfortunately the people they make promises to- - don’t. And so one third of the people in Alaska have died that were promised “to be made whole”. It would seem nobody is ever going to be made whole. Some have said that if the oil weren’t so deep (we said it was 18,000 feet when it’s actually only 5,000) that perhaps there wouldn’t be mishaps like this and the mere depth of the drilling lends itself to accidents.

Last night I checked out a calculus site- - and it divided all calculus into three divisions, Intrigal, Differential, and Multiple Variable calculus. And each heading had a long list of items of “using the so & so method”. And there were all these different “methods” you could use, kind of like my BASIC programs tailored to specific mathematical problems. Also yesterday I was reading in the “Karmic Suicide” blog. There is a lot of good stuff in there, where I make my feelings about President Obama’s shortcomings pretty clear. Pretty much it’s time to abandon all hope in him. In one posting I said “President Obama is going to make a massive move to the right” and he has pretty much done that becoming pro war and pro “security at any price” and appease the right at any price. But of course there is that utterly worthless health bill that was passed. Remember a few days ago I said that some recessions “have a tail wind” meaning circumstances accelerate the pull out from a deep recession, like the Reagan tax cuts of 1982 and 1983. But other recessions, like this one, have government “headwinds” that buffet the economy and hold it back. And this health care package is a monstrosity that can only serves as a jobs killer for reasons I’ve explained previously. We are now approaching a year into this “recovery” but people on main street that you talk to say “the recovery is bogus; business is not hiring. The economy is still contracting. People and governments are still in the process of cutting back”. So I don’t know what to do with this President except wait for all those liberals on KTLK radio to turn against him the way I have – and see the President for the pretender he is. I don’t want to hear any more stuff about “He’s playing chess while the rest of us are playing checkers”. That line gets really - - really Old after a while. I can only repeat that if everybody spent as little money as I have and made the cuts in spending I have over the past four years- - this economy would be tanking a whole lot worse than it is now. If these Republicans in congress on C-Span would perhaps explain themselves a little more clearly, perhaps I would listen to them. I guess I don’t have a real clear picture of just what these republicans want. And if you talk to people from KTLK all they will say is “the republicans want more special privileges for business so they can continue to pillage and loot this country”. I wouldn’t have been for health care at all except these people were on the hysterical band wagon about how we can’t survive one more year of these Health Insurance abuses. But we won’t even find out whether this whole thing works for another four years. If six months is an eternity in politics, what is four years? I look at everybody and they appear rich to me. They can go eat a nice meal out any time they want or go to a movie or buy a new car and- - someone from another country would be hard pressed to explain these cell phones everybody carries with them, knowing how astronomical cell phone charges are. For a foreigner if you were to say “recession” they would regard it as an absurd joke.

Thumbs Down on Elena Kagan

We all want President Obama to succeed but we also want a justice with a paper trail on the Supreme Court. Failing that we want a Justice with a "judicial temperment". Elena Kagan is all over the map politically, just like Steve Poizoner. She is big on women's issues such defending abortions, even partial birth abortions. She banned ROTC from recruiting on Campus merely because she herself was so pro homosexual as to be against "Don't ask; don't tell". She apparently has also written against "Hate speech" and seems to want laws regulating it. This is really a slippery slope. She in the ROTC case wants to impose her private views on those who don't subscribe to them. Apparently she wrote that paper on Socialism saying that the trouble with the left was that they fought each other and didn't direct their anger tword the Establishment. I was apalled at her lack of judicial experiance, but also her brevity of government experiance. She could not get congress to vote for her for a nomination to the appellate court by Clinton in 1999. Did they know something we should know? But she is all over the map politically. It has been pointed out that she is really pro guns and pro death penalty. Also there is one key fact people leave out on her positions taken as solicitor general and that is she was working for Obama at the time. So when she comes off defending Bush and Chaney and unlawful detention and taking away civil rights she can't claim that "Bush made her do it". I find this position the most troubling of all. Because she seems to represent an extreme pro Statist position. People on the Randy Rhodes show were saying "All of this war on terrorism makes me sick". I have had similar sentaments but have never voiced them quite that directly. And by the way she was on the right side of the Citizens United case, but she LOST the case, meaning perhaps better arguments could have been made that she didn't make. There are other reasons why she shouldn't be confirmed. Of course her politics are a pure crap shoot, and we don't need that. This is compounded by the fact that she is young, only fifty, so that should it turn out we made a wrong choice she will be on the High Court an awfully long time. I'm not really sure whether we need more Jews or Catholics on the Supreme Court. How about a Hindu or an Atheist? It was pointed out she is the fourth Justice from New York City. Clearly she will steer the Supreme Court to the Right, and I'm not sure whether that is a good idea, particularly on all important Civil liberties issues. I have heard nothing in her views of "settled law" and nothing about her views on such things as "the doctrine of original intent", which I subscribe to. If Obama persists in having her, no doubt a lot of these questions will be addressed in her confirmation hearings. It puzzles me why all the liberal talk show hosts appear to have embraced her. Their motto seems to be "give President Obama a victory at any price". I don't subscribe to that philosophy. If you're destined to go down, at least go down with a candidate with views you feel confident in, and if you're going down, at least go down swinging.

Which brings us to Jack Bower and the last couple of "24" episodes. It would seem that Jack is willing to risk it all- - perhaps even his mental soundness- - for a principle that if you are President you don't sign a contraversial Peace treaty under fraud and at the point of a gun. But he's gone on a killing rampage. There was his cold blooded execution of Dana Walsh, whose life admittedly wasn't of much use at that point. Clearly Jack could cop some "mental stress" plea for all he's been through lately including being betrayed multiple times and fired on by the decedant. But then Jack gets another blonde bimbo into his scheme. A female reporter found herself in the middle of al all out gun fight that Jack knew about but she didn't. Jack's bacon was saved when a trusted friend of his pulled a gun on his primary assailent. This was of course after Bower had wasted the rest of his hit squad. Then that guy is taken hostage along with that reporter, who feels pretty much like a hostage herself. Then the fun begins. Jack Bower devises every manner of torture including knives and even a blow torch used on the victims body, but he still wasn't forthcoming on the information Jack wanted. Meanwhile there is division in the ranks of Jack Bower's foes. The archetect of the whole scheme to save the Peace Treaty wants public recognition for what a great guy he is, but the acting head of CTU thinks he is nuts. At this point I can hardly see how Jack can emerge as anything but a scape goat for everything that went wrong. And like Ronnie baby, I don't think President Taylor is really that aware what her underlings are doing. But as John Lennon says, we know that in the last reel that the Hero always comes out on top, so I imagine there are yet unforeseen twists and turns in the plot.

Nicole Walker is back do doing what she does best, and that is to hatch insane schemes with zero odds of success, but somehow she puts it all together and makes it work- - at least for a while. Perhaps she can get that aid of President Taylor to help her plant evidence against Adriana. She was going to have Adriana mugged by Dr. Baker but she had a moment of relative sanity and decided something less obvious may be more advantageous. Her words do have a grain of truth. There is trouble in paradise between Adriana Hernandez and Brady Black. This isn't quite the marriage made in heaven we all thought. For his part he still can't get Nicole out of his system no matter how hard he tries. For Adriana's part she is letting the Green Eyed Monster get the best of her and her excessive suspicions are self defeating at this point. It will be interesting to see how this all plays itself out, and what ingenious evidence Nicole intends to plant against her.

We all remember that scene in the Patton movie in 1945 when the "de-Nazification" process was taking place in Germany. But Patton thought some Nazis could be put to use on our side. When confronted by this move Patton responded "But a man's got to have a little pride, and this employment will develop that", to which Omar Bradley (?) responded, "But they're Nazis, they're the enemy. We don't want them to have any pride. But the roomer persists that Nazis were originally recruited for the OSS later to become the CIA. I find this highly troubling. The explanation why is that "Germans have proven to have excellent techniques at gathering intelligence". I hope it's better than Jack Bower. You know back in the closing days of the Bush administration I thought Bush was trying to politicize the CIA and take away their independent intelligence gathering capabilities, and instead forcing them to subscribe to views they couldn't endorse or verify. But now it seems my rosy views of the CIA were a tad misplaced because they are just as secretive as ever. Perhaps it's as it should be. But in the 'seventies, Congress wanted a little oversight over intelligence gathering. And Bush, and now, Obama- - seem to want to blur the line of Civil liberties violations. If i were President I would order a total review of the CIA and inquire whether or not it's doing the job it's supposed to do and not venturing into "ultra virus" or areas that it's not supposed to be in.

(If you really are Superman) - - Just Do It!

We learned there is a theory Jewish people I have that I didn't realize. It would seem that many Jews believe in religious pluralism or "Many paths to God" This is a theory that I have always subscribed to. There are many ways up the mountain of Truth and Enlightenment. You know I have said (in a real early posting) that "I would rather trust a dog that was raised around moral people, than a human being - who wasn't. It says in the Bible that "The desciples stood out and when people saw them they knew they had been with the Messiah. And so it is when you explore real "Evidence that demands a verdict" that if you can see the positive change in an animal, you most certainly see it with human beings who have had a real "Experiance" with God. But instead the church people are described by Bob Dylan as follows, "Do you take me for such a fool to think that I would make contact with someone who tries to hide what they don't know to begin with". People say "Oh heaven is such a wonderful place I can't talk about it" but then how come the scent of brimstone circles around your very words radiating out through the ether waves? Dr. Levy announced that Judaism was an open religion that did not preclude also being in other Faith’s like Hinduism or something. OK. Dr. Levy also expressed sympathy when I told him that my church (neither one, actually) was not supportive, and he said “That is wrong”. The one o clock break was longer than usual and we broke up about twenty to two. I caught the last quarter hour of the soap opera after that cigarette from Richard Moore, who said he might let me have one tomorrow morning also. I was sure to hit afternoon coffee. I sat next to Elizabeth but didn’t exchange words. (I was in a contemplative mood) She got up and then Nancy sat down and she was more talkative. (parts of this Word file have been embellished here)

They have a saying on the stock exchange "The tape doesn't lie". What this means is that people like Jesus Christ should make a religion of status quo when progress is clearly taking place. (Selah) I caught the end of Randy Rhodes and then it was that autistic kid report on Bonnie Hunt and she was exploring this 1 in 150 epidemic of Autism. There were a long list of “He’ll never- - “ such as “He’ll never say I love you” or “He’ll never play on a sports team.” Of course now the kid was becoming verbal and making great strides. You know, that kid on the Jesus Christ show could have had that dopamine deficiency thing in his brain that the man on TV had- - who had had to live with a diagnosis of Cerebral Paulsey all his life. Untill one day he took a new pill and he found out that he was cured. Then I switched to Judge Piero for the remainder of the hour and then Eye Witness. The weather is about perfect.

Herald Brown will be stepping down as Prime Minister, as the labor party searches for another leader. The field seems wide open. David Cameron seems the logical candidate for Prime Minister now if the Queen OK’s that. We had peanut butter sandwiches for snacks. I’m temped to take that cigarette from Bill now.

That seven foot cross that honors the dead of World War I out in the Mojave desert for decades, has been stolen. I think we can be pretty sure who did it. It was one of these assholes that wants to purge every last vestage of religion from society. The cross had been covered over by mandate of our dictatorial court system. The cross is a southern California cultural icon and represents a lot of history to its adherents.

There is a wise saying, "After my death I would rather have the people asking why there wasn't a monument to me - - than visa versa - - and the people asking why there Was". I would like to talk a little about this “Superman” word people are using. When someone isn’t doing their job and they and everybody else knows it, they come back with the retort of “I’m not superman”. This goes for God Himself, by the way. I am getting so tired of people apologizing for Obama’s shortcomings in office, being elected as a liberal Democrat to the left of Hillary. I have said countless times that not voting for Hillary was the biggest mistake I made in the election. We know darned well that Roosevelt, Truman, and Johnson got a hell of a lot more done with congress because all of these men had a mission and they accomplished it. A list of Obama’s political falling down on the job would provide a list as long as my arm. People like Randy Rhodes say “Obama must have a rough time of it”. Why doesn’t Randy just cue up “How do you sleep at night” while she’s at it? He can’t do health care. He has to disown a pastor he knew and loved for twenty years. He has two wars to fight. “Boo – hoo!” He can get out of Iraq right now if he wants and this escalation in Afghanistan is an affair of his own choice. Nobody is blaiming him for the oil platform explosion. But he needs to make his position clear. He needs to say “Yes we are going to continue to drill for oil but we have to make it safe and drastically tighten up regulations so that they conform to other countries such as Norway”. I am not for “cap and trade” but if I were I would find Obama’s inaction on the issue very frustrating. We know what happened to the Health Care bill. And now we know what may be happening to financial reform. Nobody held a gun to the President’s head and made him hire Timothy Geitner and Larry Summers as part of his cabinet. We know he refused to prosecute the Bush administration but at the same time he wants to trash the fourth and fifth amendments in this country- - pandering to the right on this phony issue of terrorism. We keep hearing about “immigration reform”. We all know “something” needs to get done, but we also know that Nothing is Getting Done. Personally I’m wondering what happened to that second stimulus check we were promised late last year. “And where is that pony?”

David Cameron has been installed as Britain’s next Prime Minister. Congratulations. The government will now again be run by the conservative party and were I the President I would take heart from this knowing Britain will continue to be US friendly in foreign policy. I hope the people are satisfied with what they voted for.

This is Tuesday May 11, 2010 after dinner. We had Chinese stir fry with rice or some variation of that, and mixed vegetables. Dora has seconds only on rice so I took that. I went out for coffee in the pot that looked hot, but wasn’t hot when I got it home.

I like the Hartman-esque term of “dog whistle speech”. Again, when people use such phrases as “I’m not Superman” or they inject the word “Magic” or “Magical” into a sentence they are stonewalling. Christians have a similar word, “Esoteric” to defend their notion they try to hide, that they really don’t believe in any supernatural or any other kind of manifestations of God in this life. If they say “Esoteric experience” it makes them sound pious or something. It’s like when conservatives talk about “risky tax schemes” to mean paying a few extra bucks out of the millions they earn. Randy Rhodes was talking about how “You can’t expect things to Magically take place just because we elected a liberal democrat as President”. If you take out the word “Magically” the statement sounds silly and they know it. Of COURSE we expected things to change when we did an electoral 180. People aren’t stupid! We expected the democrats to go after Bush, Chaney, and Rumsfeld. It’s like if I win a big poker round at the gambling table I bet heavily on- - do I “Magically” expect to get paid if I cash in my chips?” “The computer says- - Yes!” Some of the decisions in life aren’t complicated; they just require a spine.

Speaking of Superman, you know Clark Kent as portrayed in “Smallville” has to be one of the most threatened, sexually-repressed, and un-free people on the planet, perpetually dogged, it seems, by these supernatural Titans he is powerless to control. Know this, if I were married to Samantha I’d be handing her divorce papers within six months. “Do you mean the one on Bewitched or the Soap Opera”. Either one!

And now we come to one of those stories that’s a real moral conundrum (to use one of those fancy Rush Limbaugh words) This story about a girl in Jr. High reading class giving a class mate a blow job right on the floor of the classroom with the teacher in the room. I do not know how such a thing could happen. What kind of s school is it? But can you blame several students for wanting to videotape such a rare event? It would be like photographing the mating ritual of a rare species of butterfly! To me it sounds like nothing short of comical that each and every student would be forced to have their cell phones inspected for recording an “on campus” event. Could these students be arrested for being purveyors of pornography, or worse yet guilty of a sex crime against a victim under eighteen and forever having to wear “sexual predator bracelets”?

Sydney J. Adler used the expression “I’m not Superman” when I asked the good doctor about the Ritilan I had been prescribed in the fall of 1965. He called them “smart pills” but my Algebra grades were clearly dropping and I wasn’t learning the material presented in class. And as you know I screwed up my music audition I took to get into Concert Band the following winter. I had Keith Moon’s syndrome- - I screwed up a piece with six-eight time. Someone even asked me “Just what are your grades in math?” I may be deciding to post more of “The Arimid Years” if the Spirit moves. (This is “Di Mira” backwards- - and was the title of a three-part computer file I did fourteen years ago that covers the period from mid summer of 1966 through about mid March of 1968) The last time I saw Sydney J Adler was December 24^th 1966 and in that sixteen months I had managed to build up a trust and rapport with him. The next appointment was scheduled in early February. I was supposed to be chronicling the action of this new drug, Triville, that I had been taking since mid summer “to see if it was making me act normal”. Adler called Triaville “confidence pills”. What they were was mind altering sedatives- - and I was doing things like participating in Chemistry lab experiments in class while being under the influence of the drug, which could have been dangerous. But that February appointment was canceled without reason. There was a whole “C Change” occurring between the relation between me and my Dad during the previous few months- - we’ll say since mid November of 1966, that was measurable. The evidence that my Dad was for whatever reason “tuning out on me” and emotionally withdrawing- - was unmistakable and this manifested itself in the actions of several other family members. I don’t have time to go into details here but in retrospect, where I to bring up this period to a therapist, with the reflection on this period now- - you can bet I would be making a lot of key points that really haven’t been made- - publicly, that is. The death of my Dad is shall we say, “An impediment” to ever finding out the whole truth about this period.

Elena Kagan Picked for High Court Justice

Elena Kagan has been nominated by President Obama this morning just after seven our time, for Justice of the Supreme Court to fill Stevens’ seat. The President praised Stevens and said his judicial experience would be hard to replace. It's the first time the Supreme Court would have three women on it. It took time but we'll finally have three lady Supremes. It is hoped that Kagan will be able to "reach out and sway Justice Kennedy" and bring him back to the liberal side. Elena Kagan is solicitor general and has always been on President Obama’s “short list” and we mentioned her at the time a month ago. I personally have wondered why it took the President a whole month to come up with her name since he obviously had been giving the matter a lot of preliminary thought. Kagan is rightward leaning in her positions on executive power and unlawful detention and torture. However it can be argued that she took these positions on government power because that was her job at the time. However Glen Beck points out that she wrote a paper on college defending socialists in New York in the early 1930’s and argued that they should spend less time attacking her fellow radicals but in unity should be taking down the establish. Kagan is Jewish, so that now the Supreme Court has no Protestants left on the bench. She is just fifty years old and at this time will be the youngest justice on the bench. Kagen is also very sympathetic on women’s and gay issues and wants to eliminate “Don’t ask –don’t tell” and some say that she herself is a lesbian because she introduced her brothers rather than her husband and family. But one and all agree that it would be disasterous for her to “come out” at this time – even if she is gay. It is hoped by many on the left that she will “mature” and “evolve” as she develops her own judicial philosophy, since she doesn’t have a paper record, and as such that she will move leftward much as Stevens and Sutor did.

It would seem that this is not your father’s justice. The fourth and fifth amendments of the constitution are in the process of being shredded. As you know from watching “Cops” the fifth amendment is a joke because if you lie to a cop they will just make it harder on you piling on more charges. It would seem that operationally that the right against self incrimination is non existent. Even though I personally would not lie to a cop I don’t see how it’s my job to help they get a conviction. Why should I make their job easier for them. Of course the fourth amendment is gone. They may say “can I search your car” but you know they’re going to search whether you agree or not. There is also the doctrine of “exigent circumstances” elucidated by Mark Fermin in the OJ case where for instance if a cop gets a phone call saying someone’s wife is being beaten, the cops have to be allowed enterence into the house on that roomer. And if you lock the door against them, they’re just going to bash down the door and come in. And the whole “public safety” exception to the Miranda rights had originally to do was if you came upon a shooter shooting down at people in a public square and you ask him “how many other shooters are there out there”. But Eric Holder got eight hours to grill Shazad before reading him his Meranda rights, and now Holder wants more time. I said on the last post that Miranda rights were something we always have. But functionally it appears that this is not the case now. You have no rights. The cops can bring out the rubber hoses and start pummeling you and they can read you your Miranda rights when they get good and ready and not a moment before. This appears to be today’s reality. The fourth and fifth amendments of the constitution are pretty much shredded. The right against self incrimination apparently is not in inherent right. You only have that right if a cop wants to extend it to you. That’s the brave new world in which we live today.

Ladies and Gentlemen, as your President I feel it important to come before the American people at this time to announce my four finalist candidates for Supreme Court Justice. So without further delay, from left to right I would like to announce Levi Laviator, Dick John, Latrell Spreewell, and Levi Johnson. I feel confident that whichever candidate I pick will get a healthy stream of judicial opinion going within the Court and will take dead aim at the problem and hit their target every time.

I watched some video on the Philippine election and also a rather lengthly expose on the Times Square terrorist. Of course the thing the media is bashing us over the head with now is that they have rediscovered this notion of "If we don't fight them over there, we will be fighting terrorists over here". There is zero evidence that there is going to be some new wave of violence in this country. All the people in the news have been rank amateurs. Even Sixty Minutes, bastion of the left, had the "news" that terrorism is headed here, last night. If the media repeats it enough, the people will come to firmly believe in it, whether it is true or not.

Then I watched three Al Yankivick videos, “Ring-tone”, and “Don’t Download this Song” and “White and Nerdy”, the best of the three. A man was found guilty of killing a stranger with a cross bow. I’d like to be in the news for a crime like that. It’s not that I’m too White and nerdy, I’m too Old and nerdy. I think like my generation and use different dialog. Besides I’m not all that nerdy anyhow, although I do exhibit thought processes that resemble a nerd sometimes. We had Ravioli for dinner. Can we sink lower than canned ravioli, a small green salad, phony garlic bread and fruit cocktail for desert? Yes we can. They switched to a cheaper brand of ravioli that isn’t nearly as good. If there was any question about whether to go out for coffee to wash it down, that answered it. I got a large coffee at the bakery.

Leo Le Port said he dealt with some web sites with the philosophy “Trust – but verify”. I suppose I would fall into that category. I haven’t talked about the economic crisis in Greece simply because I haven’t studied up enough on it. They say if it weren’t for the socialist governments Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain had (PIGS) that none of those nations would be having the problems they are having today. Now they are saying they've solved the problem.

Bob Bennet blamed a “toxic” political environment for his fall from grace and coming in third in a state caucus in Utah and won’t be on the ballot this year. What we see from the tea party crowd is a rigid millitency where even the slightest deviation from the party line will not be tolerated, and Bennet voted for the bail out and a few other “questionable” items. Bennet says that he does not regret his votes. The question is, "How will these extremist picks in the primaries affect the results in November elections?" It could be Democrats will ultimately get elections and in the end the tea party crowd will have the futility of their ways exposed.

In “the battle for Canadian oil” it was another confrontation between newsmen, environmentalists, and oil company executives who say the region of the “oil sands” in Alberta has suffered no permanent damage because they replant trees, “and as you can see they are nice and healthy”. Reporters were followed by executives for miles down the highway after they left. In breaking news right now - - - Animal abusers will have to register at a police public data base if a bill passes. I didn’t know that arsonists had to register. This whole idea of "being on some kind of black list" may be growing in popularity, and the list of crimes you commit to get on such a list will be broadened.

Just What Is A Religion?

"The thing is with You and Me, George,

is that during the Depression

we both kept our heads

while all around were losing theirs - -

I'll go further than that.

George, you have Defeated Me - -

and as any one around can attest,

that is no small feat"

-Mr Potter (to George Bailey)

I think I’ll blog this next paragraph rather than send it as a letter to Dr. Levy as I had first contemplated doing. In class today I happened to say that Exestential thought and feelings was the luxury of the idle rich and that ordinary Joes didn’t have the time for such things because they were too busy getting about the business of making a living. Dr. Levy responded “I’m not rich and I think about these things”. Then he talked about all the rich people who are chasing dollars and being King of the Hill in their own chosen realm. To which I responded that many celebrities who are very rich are bothered by the disparity between rich and poor and as such are motivated to think about such things as “Why am I here” and the meaning of life. And they may take up Taoism, or in the case of Madonna, Kabala, or some esoteric Zen religion. But somewhere along the way I said that these “manifestations of religion” really aren’t key to the Exestential Problem in that these people may take up a certain religion for a while as sort of a psychological opiate but then later on discard it as “no longer useful to them”. Dr. Levy said, “I can assure you I don’t feel that way about Judaism”. Someone mentioned Tom Cruise and his taking up of Scientology, to which Dr. Levy chimed in “Yeah, and Tom Cruise has said some really stupid things in interviews on TV”. Let’s establish a point right now. I am not condemning any of these celebrities of being false or duplicitus. Certainly not Tom Cruise. In fact I will go further. I believe Tom cruise is completely captive to his chosen religion. But Scientology can also be classed as a Cult. It happens to be a Cult that I agree with much of in terms of its metaphysics. You’ll remember I said earlier in the session “People seek religion for metaphysical awareness” and went on to say that “Many religions offer metaphysics as a come-on to get you into the movement, but then after you have joined, these same people couldn’t care less about it”. Scientology is one religion that is true to itself in that they actually teach what they believe and believe what they teach. But the difference between a Cult and a Religion, is that with a religion you can take it up for a while and then put it aside with no ill effects. This is not so with a Cult. A cult is like a virus that gets onto your computer hard drive burrowing itself in and depositing who knows how many files, and getting it out of your system is a real bear. It could be said that he who converts you to a Cult is perpetually Greater than you are because they changed and shaped your way of thinking. It could likewise be said that there is no Ego or entity behind a Religion but there IS some controlling, governing entity behind a Cult. May I at this time say that I am personally biased in favor of scientology because as a religion (as well as a cult) it answers questions nobody else wants to tackle. So as such I am a devotee but not so out of any durress but of my free will and not as a prisoner. I would further tell Dr. Levy that I do not make it my business to judge the actions and motives of others except in specific cases. Like if they are doing something to harm me personally, or if they are harming society like selling drugs from their house late at night and my kids might pick up a hypodermic needle in their yard one day, or for instance if they were cruel to animals- - such things would get me in their face. But as to personal issues like who they sleep with or what religion they choose to adopt or not adopt, this is none of my business. Chuck Smith is fond of saying that “It’s not just the action but the motive behind the action that is all important”. I do not make it my business to judge the motives of others. I have enough trouble with judging my own motives. Actions of others are between them and their Maker. They need to resolve moral questions in their own minds. I don’t care. In terms of the Exestential problem itself- - - I am not like Dr. Levy. Because the first question you have to ask yourself is “Do I have any personal control over God or how God interacts with me?” If the answer to that is no- -then asking further questions is irrelivent. I am inclined to tell people dealing with the Exestential Problem things like “Deal with it” and as Don Hendley would say “Just get over it!” I have by way of support of my position none other than Jesus Christ himself because he said “You must become as children- - “ and children don’t trouble themselves pondering such things as “the meaning of life”. Dr. Levy is looking for a God or religion or something to tell him what to think. I told Dr. Levy “It would really take a God to answer that question” meaning- - - that the question is not really mine to ask. God is an A-moral being and if He has reasons for what He does- - He surely keeps them to Himself. As it is written “God’s ways are not our ways”. One remark I didn’t get around to making was that our personal morality might go back to “how we are wired”. I don’t look to some ethereal entity out there to tell me what is valuable and what is nor or what is worth fighting for and what is not- - - I look within myself, because if I can’t live with myself I’ve got problems. As Shakesphere says “To thine own self be true”. Clearly my problems in life don’t stem from somehow not thinking long or hard enough about “The meaning of life” or if I only has the answer to that, all my problems would be solved.

I wanted to address one more issue with Dr. Levy that I don’t think he can accept right now. . I have problems with the Jews in several areas. Like Dennis Prager, Dr. Levy reviews religion the way a teenager would view his souped up car, comparing his vehicle with the souped up car of a friend or rival. They may not agree on specifics but they both are in the “fellowship” of liking souped up cars. Just as Dennis Prager sees himself and Christians as members of a common “Religion Club”. So it is with the Jew and religion. I have another issue with the Jews on the issue of blood atonement and Abraham’s sacrifice of his son Isac. I fail to lay my finger on the passage that says God gave up the doctrine of Blood Atonement for sin. In the millennial reign, the nations will be compelled to offer up blood sacrifices. If you can’t deal with this “Bloody God” my suggestion is to find another religion. How do the Jews deal with this? The next is that the Jew is like some old friend whom you haven’t seen in ten or fifteen years, and although you used to know your friend so well, you find that in the intervening years you have grown far apart - - and certain aspects of the way your friend is now is highly alien to you. So it is with the Jew who, if you want to find out what an Old Testament Jew was, don’t ask a Jew, ask a Christian. Ask a Mormon or a Jehovah’s Witness, but don’t ask a Jew. Dr. Levy says “God is so magnificent he can’t be reduced to an image” Does Dr. Levy even know how God got his name? And I assure you it isn’t “G – d”. I fail to find the scripture where God says “Don’t call me by name”. God’s name is Jehovah Rapha or Jehovah Jira or El Shaddai or any other of a number of names, since God means “The Becoming one”. As such for Jehovah the ultimate manifestation of his nature is to become an incarnate Human Being in the person of Jesus Christ. I don’t see why Dr. Levy has a problem with this. God can just as easily become your Redeemer as he can to become your Provider or your Healer or any of those other things. My final beef with the Jews is I don’t understand why each and every one of them doesn’t despize Christianity because I would. Being a Jew is like you’re invited as an honored guest by William Randolph Hurst to San Simian castle. But then a bunch of your henchmen break out of a Trojan horse you presented as a housewarming gift and armed troops bound and gagged Mr. Hurst and you took over and installed yourself as head of the house, and then you sought about to contact all of William Randolph Hursts’ sworn enemies to come over and rule the place with you, and throw Mr. Hurst out into the gutter.

Yesterday it seems a computer glitch on a Proctor and Gamble order may have been the cause of the sudden fifteen minute dip. The stock exchanges are now saying they are going to cancel the trades made during this period. Someone should tell Thom Hartman. It seems someone typed a B for Billion instead of an M for million on the order. The incident does point up the fragility of our system. It was like an economic seismic event that "puts the fear of God into you". It points up how easy it would be for an alien power to throw our entire society into chaos.

Unemployment is up, and that is the bottom line. Such news, as well as the growing economic and civil crisis in Greece - -has been pushing the stock market down. Unemployment has risen to 9.9% because despite the fact there are more jobs out there now, there are even more people now out looking for jobs. As such here is a case where a symptum of a problem getting better - is that it is actually getting worse. Discretion is the key to seeing such paradoxes in life.

The British had their parleamentry election yesterday, “with no TV advertizine”. How do they do that? The conservative party got forty percent of the vote but it seems Herald Brown will survive to form another coalition government with the left. The liberal wanted to cut a deal with whoever won to give them perportional representation for how they did in nation wide polls, rather than to go by, as we do, each election district results. In this way they would stand to gain. However I don't think he will be able to pull this off. Nobody likes to be held hostage. As much as people say that Europe has turned against the United States, clearly vast numbers of people must have an inward respect for what the United States stands for.

A co-founder of “Forus on the Family” was busted for hiring a male prostitute and taking him on a ten day tour to “minister” to him, and the gay prostitute says he did have sex with the co-founder. I'm not surprised that Focus on the Family has amased vast amounts of money to throw around as they will. This prostitute is on page two of a gay porn site. This is just one more thorn in Dobson’s side. And they say Dobson paid him fantastic amounts of money to keep gay couples from being able to adopt kids in Florida, which is the only state where this is the case. As much as I may despise what the aid did, I have to agree with the decision to keep gay couples from adopting children because I honestly believe gay role model parents is not a gamble I want to take with role modeling for the young and impressionable.

Out of Sight - Out of Mind

"I know my life will end the moment I

have completed everything God

put me on this earth to accomplish"

-Chuck Smith

"Pray that you be accounted worthy to escape these things"

Now British Petrolium has found a way in a colossal case of “Out of Sight – Out of Mind” to get rid of that Louisiana oil slick without actually getting rid of any oil from the eco system. They are administering massive ammounds of the chemical 2-butyl ethanol into the leak points. Keep in mind they are not plugging the leaks but only using this chemical dispursal agent. People can’t face the prospect of all this oil washing up on the beach and depositing as tar, from there to have to be cleaned up and put in toxic dump sites. But what ithis agent does is to keep the oil slick from being photographed because rather than come to the surface, the oil remains in the water to get into the eco system where it’s injested first by the bottom dwellers of the sea, and then on up the food chain. And the thing is tis substance, which they say smells like ether, is not exactly safe. It causes dangerous changes in the hemoglogin and genetic mutations in beneficial bacteria and also is associated with low blood pressure and reproductive problems in man and foul. This 2-butal ethanol is a patented secret formula that has never been adequately tested for toxisity. And since it’s a secret the government can’t get their hands on it. So now we sit back and wait for a bigger disaster to happen. The question arises where President Obama still wants to expand oil drilling into new sectors in light of these events. Sometimes you have to do something even when it hurts. If you have a resolution, do you stick to it, or let current prudence be your guide? Governor Swartzenegger has reversed his position on off shore oil in California. If we continue to import oil from the mideast - we wouldn't have prevented this problem - and we have all those new problems from using foreign oil. We all know from Norway regulations, that oil drilling could be a whole lot safer than it is here. As bad as this leak is, would you prefer perhaps a massive radiation leak from a nuclear reactor instead?

People are upset because Fisel Shahzad was read his Meranda rights. John Mc Cain, and Joe Lieberman are troubled by this. But such people are highly ignorant of the nature of the US constitution. These are not rights they are GIVEN at some point in time, these are rights every American citizen HAS from the moment they are arrested and it’s just a question of exercizing them. All Meranfizing a subject does is to insure that the evidence they give will stick in court and will thus insure a conviction. Many people on the right don’t even want Shazad to be convicted in a civil court and go to jail. Because prisoners have certain rights, and among these is the right not to be tortured. These people on the right would much prefer a Devil’s Island type situation living under the most adverse of conditions where neither his guilt nor innocence is ever established. But these people go further. They want to pass a law that says any American can be summarily stripped of citizenship if he’s suspected of certain terrorist activities. You know that Shazad was made an American citizen last year. The thing is Shazad is singing like a canary so much and providing such good propaganda material for the right wing, some might wonder whether this guy is some kind of a plant or something. After all they say that until recently Shazad has no terrorist inclinations but was the son of privilege born to an Aif Force officer in Pakistan and had a good education, and got mattied with kids and did the whole traditional “setteling down” type of thing there in a house in Bridgeport, Conn. That is – until his house was forclosed on.

Once upon a time there was a single mother who had a son with Cerebral Paulsey whom she sought to give a proper Catholic upbringing to attone for her own moral failings. But she was filled with apprehension when one day the son came home from Catholic school and said he would be taking holy communion for the first time the following Sunday. She knew not but it was the Devil that planted this apprehension in her mind, for she reasoned “What if my son accepts the body of Christ and has the faith to be healed from his Cerebral Paulsey?” And she did dial KFI radio station where there was a like minded “Holy Host” who called himself Jesus Christ. And he agreed with her. And he told her “What you need to do is the art of Managed expectations”. And he said to her “Why do you want to fix what God has declaired is not broken? For the reason why your son has Cerebral Paulsey is because God knows you can be trusted.” And so it is that Jesus, who never did believe in any manifestations of the supernatural, had to “kick it up a notch” like Hope Brady- - and come out and say that a disabeling condition like CP was part of God’s perfect plan for her son. And so it is that the whole God damned Catholic Church is “broken” in that there are gay, child molesting priests out there that were attracted to the Faith because they wouldn’t have to face marriage to a woman, and as such many other rationalizations of infallible and prohibitions against priestly procreation and descendancy- - and behold the whole system was broken, but the Pope did declare it all “Not Broken” and things were “Just fine” and anybody who thought other wise was like the anti semites in Nazi Germany or something. So with the Catholic Church and the Nazis the adage is proved true “He who seeks to preserve his life will lose it, and anybody who risks his life will Save it”. As it is also written “If a government cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich”. And lest the emperor be accused of having no clothes, the Pope forarms himself with an edict of personal infallibility. And he extends this gift of infallibility to any talk show host in Los Angeles will is willing to sell their soul.

It is a common belief in certain Spiritual circles that what I refer to as the hyper-space realm is the realm where anything really Important and Real happens and that earth is just some kind of a holding tank or something for souls doing time waiting to get on with their real lives. A common theme is that in the last days there will be a separation of Good and Evil so that both are clearly identifiable. Rather than a chemical that dispurses the oil further into the eco system what you need is a substance that congeals the oil and allows it to clump together all in one place. If Good and Evil were playing some cosmic chess game and Evil was clearly losing in a fair head to head contest, Evil might decide reality was too intrusive and seek to hid in some lower dimension- - like Earth, where his activities can be more earily cloaked. Another trait of evil is that they invariably take one mistake and compound it into other more serious misdeeds in an attempt to cover up the first briech of protocol. Picture the recent “24” scenario. To refresh you on the story line it was demonstrated that the Russian government was responsible for the attempt selling of nuclear rods to terrorists to sabotage the peace process. Now there is a Double Agent named Dana, she she was ready to sing after being slapped around a little by Jack Bower. People regarded it only as a matter of time before the whole truth came out - - and this sham of a Peace treaty involving a key mideast nation would be torpedoed. President Taylow didn’t want that to happen. She regarded this ready to be signed Peace treaty as the keystone of her Administration. Yet with consultation with her trusted aid, Ethan, they both agreed that a withdrawal speech should be drafter and that President Taylor needed to go before the cameras very soon to announce the Peace Tready was done with and would not happen. But then another aid of hers said “You have another choice. All you need to do is to take Dana (the double agent) out of the loup and “dispose of her” and turn her over to a private agency like Blackwater to be tortured or whatever- and never again see the light of day. And President Taylor made this decision for “expediency” and decided she didn’t mind adding torture and abuse of power to her list of misdeeds. Part of what Satan will tell you when you try and address a problem is “Why do you fix what God has declared isn’t broken. Things are just find the way they are. All you need to do is step up your duplicity and cover-up activities”. We don’t know whether this advisor of President Taylor is “walk in” and that he wasn’t really who she thought he was. In the last days- - souls will invade bodies and personalities will be transformed. It’s not that they were “turned to the dark side” a la Star Wars - - it is that their former souls attained Enlightenment and Bode Safa not withstanding- - -they fell to the final temptation of the Buddah by the Devil to just “take your enlightenment ans Vanish into Nirvana”. As such these souls are liberated. But the dark souls that replace them were only available because the Devil was losing so many pieces in a chess game with Good that these pieces rather than be hostages, sough a portal to a “lower dimension” like Earth where they would have the field all to themselves- - because the spiritual rules of the game there were not enforced. So it will be on September 25^th. 2010.

Pakistani National Arrested in Car Bomb Case

Let’s just jump right in here with my notes. Two pairs of white socks. Oopse. That’s the wrong side. Here we go. Fisel Shahad was arrested today for the attempted Times Square bombing of last Saturday night in New York. As you know for a while people didn’t know who the suspect was – only that an S U V pulled up and parked and it looked sort of suspicious and someone reported it. And they found a rather crudely made bomb consisting of firecrackers and canisters of propane gas. They say if the bomb had actually gone off the Right would have had their “Rallying point” with an incident on President Obama’s watch. The blast would have extended out several hundred yards and the height and narrow confines of the building would have amplified the blast effects, not to mention the high speed debris that would be flying around, injuring and killing still more people. They had been looking for a forty year old white guy who had shown up on a video and they say he changed his shirt. That could have been because it was a hot, muggy night. Fissel Shabad is a Pakistani national who was naturalized as a citizen into this country. He was arrested at the airport just before boarding a United Arab Emerits flight to Dubai - - and from thence go on to Pakistan. I suppose they will want to water board him to get the truth out of him. Now they are saying that he is cooperating and is providing valuable information. He says that he was trained by the Talliban. His residence here was in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Some people like me and Randy Rhodes chalk up this whole thing to “just another day in the Big City.” She remarks that things are exploding in New York all the time like a man hole that exploded the other day and according to her sent flames several stories high. I would like to have seen that. Perhaps there is a video. People like me just don’t have the “worry gene” - - like that officer in Appcralipse Now - - which many people said “You know he’s the sort that will come through this war without a scratch” and his solution to your worries was “Go surfing”. I guess I’m just confident enough in our government that they’ll protect us and keep anything really bad from befalling the population. If there is a God out there you might want to sent up a prayer of thanks. These people keep saying “We have all sorts of horrible things planned for the United States”. But my philosophy is that Al Qaeda is one of those organizations that will “wither on the vine” eventually, and as the years pass will be forgotten, except for a footnote in some history book. We’ll see.

Well, George Washington’s Blog featured a chart of all the currents in the Gulf of Mexico and demonstrated how this massive oil slick off Louisiana could eventually make its way around the Florida keys and into the Gulf Stream. How ironic that it’s the red states whom disaster seems to be befalling. They say the shrimp and fishing industry will be wiped out. Where is Forrest Gump when you need him? Nashville is under water. Some river along the Tennessee Valley flood plain is flooding out everything and the water in most places is eight to ten feet high, including the Grand Old Oprey building. Some on the right would like to blame things on Obama. There are your usual tornadoes and I saw the video of that one in Mississippi looking out the window. The wind wasn’t blowing THAT hard- - and I kept looking for funnel clouds to form. They say that particular series of tornadoes cut a swath over a hundred miles long, which is a little long. All I can say is spring is a season I want to be in - - with other parts of the country because you know spring has arrived when the weather starts getting more violent. In terms of that oil rig, the rig was owned by Trans Ocean Oil, but it was British Petroleum that operated the platform. Haliburten was in charge of the cement. They say that the oil was exceptionally deep, like eighteen hundred feet, where they could not possible send people un SCUBA suits. They have been saying that the rig will continue to leak oil for three months unless they dynamite the whole thing, assuming that would work. It seems their liability is limited to $75,000,000 or something, which won’t be nearly enough to cover the billions of dollars of damages. But some “reform” laws were passed in the Bush 41 administration in the early ‘nineties to protect corporations. Now the state of Hawaii has passed a resolution of their legislature to do what Tom Hartman says is imperative- - and that is to say Corporations do not have the right of human beings, and are not protected by the first, fourth, fifth, and fourteenth amendments. Hawaii admonishes the Federal Congress to get about the business of drafting a Constitutional amendment that would accomplish the goals of striping personhood from corporations. Of course they could invoke the corporate death penalty, unless Charles Manson has already gotten to the justices on that issue. In the nineteenth century, invocation of the corporate Death penalty used to be common place as corporations were found guilty of violating their charters and “No longer being in the public interest”. We can always hope. Like I say we need some sort of Green Party candidate. I think Ralph Nader is a good start, if he has the perniciousness to run again. Once we rally all of our forces, perhaps in the process, a better candidate will emerge. Thom Hartman is such a gifted individual at putting words together and the amount of research he has done is amazing. But we’ll need his voice on the radio to cheer on whoever the Green Party runs.

We’re now on page seven. Today is May 4, 2010, and we are reminded that it is the fortieth anniversary of Kent State shooting day where four unarmed students were gunned down by the National Guard. As the Beach Boys song says, “They say the students scared the guards, though the troops were battle dressed”. Now they are saying that a specific order was given at a point in time to fire on the unarmed students. For just thirteen seconds, 67 bullets rained down on the demonstrators, killing four. 27 guardsmen admit to firing their weapons. Being on the Left forty years ago was no walk in the park. You were putting your life on the line. Unfortunately people our age pushing sixty- - have long memories and we remember these things- - and as such our own generation is reluctant to demonstrate politically now. We would hope that the younger generation would take up the mantel. But the media is no longer on our side. Even Gandhi, if he hadn’t had good press, would not have been as successful as he was. If you want to know what I really am afraid of it’s the evolution and transmutation of our government into a repressive, fascist state, where citizens willingly surrender their rights and think they are being patriotic in the process. We are not yet at that “tipping point” but someone with their political finger to the wind is probably gauging the outlook of the American people, and when the time is right they’ll move to lock our society down.

And now we move on to what was going to be a Katie Curic type interview of myself where I say things about myself you never knew, such as my middle name. Well let's play the Wheel of Fortune game. Is there an S? - Yes. Is there an N? Yes. Is there an L? Yes. "Pat, I'd like to buy a vowel, an I" "You can do that". Is there a T? "No. You lose the floor, on to the next contestant". This would be easier with a visual. As people like Tony Edwards will tell you, my middle name is a comon brand name for various sports equipment. Also my middle name is English, although my last name is not English. I hope that helps. You know I guess I'm a little like Paul Mc Cartney. They say he had such a super abondance of creative ideas he didn't know which ones to hit first- - so he did Mc Cartney, which outraged the critics with its seemingly half-assed quality. My blogs are the same way. In the early days like in April of 2006 I immediately went off in a lot of different directions. I did E mailings to people and all sorts of stuff. You know in my prophecy book- - I ran my ideas past a "doctrinal filter" - so if the book seems a litter dryer than you'd normally expect from me, that's why. I got rid of most of Mark Campbell's ideas that I was going to use, and those ideas of Marks which do appear in the book are the parts of the book I am most proud of. Some of these pertain to ratting out your friends. Mark and I were watching this Prison movie in July of 1980 where you had to know who your friends were and who would sell you out for a carton of cigarettes. Also there are sentaments about rural life being better than city life- - people gathered together in small bands, as opposed ti a big City behind brick walls with battlements you constantly have to defend. As you know I wrote 29 or 30 original piano compositions as a child. The last one was when I was twelve - - - song number thirty was written in January of 1963 and I sometimes don't count it because it kind of lifted that tune of "Got four wheels and a running board- - I'm a Ford, a Ford, a Ford". But there is a Beatle connection with two of the songs, number 19 "Going up and down hills" in the key of A major written in the fall of 1959. The link here is to the harpsichord part in "Piggies" except that with them the left hand was sped up and the right hand slowed down. The other song is comonly just known as "Number 26" written in September of 1961 in the key of F sharp, and the link here is to the "Ballod of John and Yoco". My piano teacher commented on this composition saying "- - too many notes". But you know people said that Paul appeared to need a companion to bounce and play musical ideas off of. I noticed this quality on John's "Lennon" album, but the first album of Paul's I thought "could have been done better" was "Flaming Pie". I had a lot of ideas about how to improve this album. The other album where I thought compositions needed improving was "Chaos & Creation in the Back Yard". You know- - certain lead guitar parts added and a few key chords added to the progressions. Someone said that "Ram" was Mc Cartney's best post break-up album. Back in the 'seventies I myself regarded "Venus and Mars" as Paul's best album, because at the time I regarded it as the most Beatleish. I guess you have noticed the structural similarity of "Rock Show" to "Wheels of Confusion", by Black Sabbath.