The six degrees of separation: "Yes we're all cousins. That's what I believe. "Cause we're all children - of Adam and Eve". Elvis said that. The experts are telling us now that we are all more connected than we thought. We're all 30th. Cousins or closser. I don't know but I imagine if a person has nothing but, say, Scotch - Irish ancestry, his clan might even be closser than that. I imagine he'd be a little closser to anyone in his race than the Blackest pigmy in central Africa. Some may wonder that a White from good Aryan stock is ninety percent related to a Black. That is false. In fact, human beings are 96% related by comon DNA genes to a champansee! That's quite a lot to fathom. Jesus Christ was called the "Son of David". Everyone expected the Jewish Messiah would be a Son of David. But you've got thirty generations between the time of King David and the first century BC Jews. That's spreading your seed over an awful lot of territory. Easily over half the people in Isrial could qualify as Messiah under those conditions. The other condition of qualification for Messiah is that you come into your own 490 years after a certain proclamation given back in 425 BC in the book of Daniel. Of course the book of Daniel wasn't written till mid second century BC and if you look at a "list" of false Messiahs on the internet, Jesus is the fourth in the list that extends to the seventeenth century. The concept of even having a Messiah didn't exist that long before Jesus. Still the concept of all of humanity being brothers under the fatherhood of God is a nice one to believe in. They say that we know anybody if you extend out our circle of aquaintences six links out on the chain. That if if you extend a list of people that I've met and cover all the people THEY have ever met, that will be one degree. If you do that five more times you have the "six degrees of separation". People are basically alike in their hopes and dreams, as evidenced by the song "We're all water" by Yoco Ono. "There may not be much difference". As such the Golden Rule usually makes sense. I suppose an area where the Golden Rule runs into problems is when it comes to "whitnessing" my religion, if I myself am unconfortable with my own religion. By the term "witnessing" one would assume that I would give an honist "testimony" of my life. If our goal is to make other people happy, what may "get them off" may not necessarily be the same things that gets Me off. Democracy rests in the belief that there is safty in numbers. If a million people have one oppinion about a certain subject it's a sounder idea than if just ten or fewer people have that oppinion. I think we are going to see a "wave" of oppinion on election day as the huddled masses yearning to be free come out from under their shells to express their oppinion in the voting booth. In 1975 there was a spirit of unity in this country we haven't seen since. We all just came out from under the comon trauma of Watergate and we were yearning to be free and make the nation's bi-centenial a meaningful one. We should recapture that spirit.

You know, the odds of a bunch of any given song lyrics pointing to the same incident get slimmer the more examples you draw from. "Look to the summer of '75; all the world is going to come alive" by the Jefferson Starship is one. "With your long blonde hair and your eyes a blue" by the Beatles is another. "You know my name - look up the number" alludes to Zachery's first address adding up to fourteen, as the date of his birth add up to fourteen as to the letters Z A C H E R Y reduce to fourteen. (8 plus 6) There is what sounds like a train whispering "Brian Jones - Brian Jones" on the fifth track of the ninth studio Rolling Stones album in the US. Here are cases where with each quote you reduce the odds of the quote pointing to a comon event. In the next posting we will go into this "Zachery" stuff more if you're interested. My point is that Chuck Smith doesn't have any monopoly of prophetic "odds".

We still have political news. It seems that there is a Christian pastor of a mega church in Colorado Springs or some place that is on the verge of being outed. This pastor has the ear of President Bush and speaks to him frequently. Now a guy has come foreward and he claims to be armed with letters and taped conversations that prove a homosexual relation between this man and the Colorado Pastor. It may not be true but if it really occurred it will be another nail in the Republican's coffin. One more nail in the Republican's coffin is President Bush yesterday saying that he thinks Dolnald Rumsfeld is doing a "Fantastic Job". That's a pretty strong adjitive. What it has the effect of doing is to undercut the claims of every other Republican running trying to distance themselves from Donald Rumsfeld. Now they're stuck with him. This is just another area where in my oppinion the President goofed. The way things are going there may yet be other political surprises between now and Election day.

I wrote a line in a book I wrote in 1980 that a bird cannot fly without a left wing AND a right wing. Ballance is the key. The American public, like the PH in a human's blood stream, is constantly regulating itself to keep its ballance. I believe most people are basically good. Some people are temporarily misguided. There are a few people who appear to be evil with a heart of blackness. I really don't know what God will do with them. In the movie Twelve Angry Men, the more you whittled the jury down to those voting guilty- - the more irrational their reasons became. I believe this is the case with the conservatives in the United States. I believe there are still essentially reasonable people out there in "Jesus Land" in the red states. I have to confess that lately I'm come to look at them as sort of an alien race, but I know it isn't so. All they need to do is see the "heart" of President Bush for what it is. It isn't that Bush is a bad man. He just lacked the social maturety required of a man who is to be elected President of the United States, and we are all paying the price.

The Last Lap of the Track: We're going to get to all the political stuff in a minute but first I'd like to talk about my own "secret world" while a born again Christian. I'm going to raise a topic I didn't have the huevos to raise a few postings back and talk some more about the Orion Federation and Ziggy Stardust. I'm inspired to raise this topic because of something Randy Rhodes said today. By the way, she's a real person who's on the radio. In fact I strongly advise all the loyal liberals out there to get a pod case of her three o clock hour today. She can squeeze so much knowledge and wisdom into one hour she really ought to be someone's attorney making a final argument in court. Actually running for congress wouldn't be at all a bad idea for her, that is if she could stand the political stench. She said something today that made me think. She was speculating just what the judgement of God will be for people like Bush and Rumsfeld and Key Lay and Dick Chaney. We all know by now they are morally bankrupt on so many different levels. We've spent countless posts talking about it and yet for everything I bring up about the Bush adminestration I find my remarks dwarfed by Randy Rhodes and Al Franken. They should be doing this blog instead of me. On second thought perhaps if I spent more time at their web sites my blogs would improve. But I got to thinking about "God". Is there a God? That's an age old question. Some may say to me, "You're always talking about the Orion Federation and this kid (now an adult in the Jewish sense) named Zachery. Just how did all that stuff come about? What's real about any of it? Well, Zachery is a real life kid. At the age of five he did look like Brian Jones. There was a Rolling Stones song released about then "When I was a boy at the age of five". Zachery is also associated with the color blue because both of his blue eyes and his parents tell me he was actually blue at birth. "Boy Blue" is an ELO song that talks about man learning War no more. "Fire on High" is a song both about the Creation of the World and of the cosmos being in perfect harmony astrologically and metaphysically on September 5th. 1975, Zachery's birthday. If you ask here "All this stuff came from" you can start with the achronym of ZAC for Ziggy's Air Command. This is of course from a David Bowie song about a guitarist for a band that ended up being mobbed to death. You have "Dark Side of the Moon" and September 6th. 1975 was a new moon and the earliest possible date for Rosh Hashana, or Jewish New Year. "Shine on you crazy diamond" is more proof Zachery is really Brian Jones. As to the spelling of Zachery with an E, well if John Lennon can have Beatles with an A I can have Zachery with an E that adds up to 86, which reduces to 14, just like the numbers nine and five reduce to fourteen. There are a number of "Hints" about Zachery on side two of "Sheer Heart Attack" as well as that "Sammy" song by Queen where the emerald bar represents the Sea of Green, alias Death alias Limbo. But if you're looking for a human face on all of this- - obviously I cane up with a lot of this "stuff" along with Mark Campbell, who died in March of 1986 of AIDS. (His bi-sexuality was a closely guarded secret for a long time. There is also Bill Gunderson, who is Larry Gunderson's younger brother. Both of these "druggies" were friends of Dick Llyle in his old neighborhood. Dick Llyle's identity is a well guarded secret, at least for you people. Only me and Dale from King of the Hill know the whole truth. Not quite. That raises an interesting question. We know that Dale has an inquisitive mind, but is he a secret drug user. That could be one of those "secrets" he's not even letting on to his best so called friends. I guess you could call me the Roger Waters of the group because I am "the decider". The difference between the ideas Mark Campbell came up and the ideas of Bill Gunderson are that many of Mark's ideas I would accept whole and sort of incorporate them as my own, at least for a while. With Bill Gunderson he would spout off this idea or that idea and I would cease on to one and go "I like that; I'm using that one". The last time I think I ever saw Bill was a time he came over one Sunday morning in July of 1998 at my apartment when he had this story about Bill Clinton really having an evil twin brother who kept trying to steal Bill's identity. Actually twords the end Bill began to get on my nerves (kind of like Roger Waters) He had this habbit of showing up in the mornings when I had a hangover, or "hang under" as I call it, because my symptums were from "under medicating". In terms of what the Orion Federation stood for politically let us say they were a liberal bullwark against Reagan at a time when all my Christian friends were conservative. Of course I still get "visatations" from Stu as in Sutcliffe as in Beatles. I consider Stu a friend, even if that statement makes me ellagable for comittal. It was Stu who was instramental in convincing me that Ohio held the key to why John Kerry didn't win the Presidential Election last time. The Orion Federation teaches that God will judge the world in a "Last Judgement" about the year 2112 (courtessy Rush) but that in the year 2061 about the time we isolate the formerly mythical particle galled the graviton that exists in subatomic matter (yes, this StarTrek fiction became a scientific ongoing reality some time in the past forty years) and hence earth discovered the "warp" drive. Mark teaches that after a nuclear confligration in the late 2030's in the early 'forties, there would be a new kind of Religious revival. A new awareness of the Power of God. And that in the year 2061 there would be a star fleet captain (for lack of a better term) named Tiberius, who is the incarnation of Ernest Hemingway, who would be a combat hero even though he was into his fifties at the time, and that his birth occured somewhere around NOW. Or he may be a one or two year old already born, or about to be.

There. Don't you people feel a whole lot smarter now? Now let's get onto politics. You know how dirty this campaign has gotten. The latest news is that George "Macacca" Allan used to beat up his brother and dangle his sister over Niagara Falls threatening to drop her. Just yesterday his goons smashed a young student's head into a plate glass window because he asked an embarrassing question at a campaign rally. Maybe we need a Proposition "58" for abusive political candidates. "He is the nasty one - Christ, you're infernal" There is a lot of "nasty" stuff going down. You have Rush Limbaugh still standing by his statement that he will not apologise to Michael J Fox for his remarks about him the other day on his show. When you mock the handicapped you're sinking to a new low level. Rush Limbaugh is a person now who totally disgusts me. Sometimes it's hard to believe I listened to him all those years. He's just a sex starved viagara popping drug taking blowhard, who can't get a fact right and forever is making wrong predictions. Of course you have that Black senatorial candidate in Tennessee accused of hanging around Playboy girls, appealing to the most primal racist fears of a southern state like Tennessee. You have this otterly obsurd attack on John Kerry. Appearently Kerry forgot to put in the word "Us" in a joke written by someone else and it change its meaning and Kerry knew right away he had stepped in it. I just thought Kerry was living in a time warp when they still had a draft and student deferments. Kerry is coming out swinging now and I salute that. We need more democrats willing to go on the offencive. We need "God on our side" for a change. I'm tired of God working only for the right. If Chuck Smith ran the world things would be a whole lot worse than it even is under George Bush. After all Chuck Smith is a more grandious person than the current President, not to mention a bigger imagination. You know that joke, "I intend to prosecute you to the fullest extent of my imagination" and no, Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald wasn't the one that said that - Michael Kelso was. Chuck Smith's credo is "It's all going to burn!". Chuck Smith is a nehilist in the tradition of Jim Jones, and having him as President would truely be going from the frying pan into the fire.

My best prediction about the election is that democrats will pick up a lot of governorships. But they'll also win 35 to 40 house seats - way more than enough to take control. I predict they will win five seats in the senate. The Republicans will have to keep Dick Chaney in Washington to cast all of those tie breaker votes. Even if the Democrats miss control right now- - there is still hope. Two things could happen. Either a Republican could switch to the Democratic Party. You know, in the tradition of that Jeffers fellow, to give democrats control of the Senate. Either that or there could be a sudden unexpected death and the democrats will win the now vacant seat. There are still people who don't listen to Air America. When they finally see the light, they too will be filled with revulsion against the conservatives. Who would guess that Lynne Chaney writes pornography. She wrote a lezbian western love story with stuff like menstral blood mentioned. Many conservatives have taken to writing pornography- even John Erlichman. Others who write it are Bill O Riley and Scudder Libby. There is this whole "closet world" conservatives don't talk about. You wonder what fundamentalist pastors think of all this smut. The way I see it they can take one of two positions. Either they say it's OUR people doing it so that makes it all right- - OR what they'll do is call all this pornographic stuff sick, but then Transfer The Guilt onto their own hen pecked congragation kind of in the tradition of Carrie's mother in the Carrie novel by Stephen King. That's what they do. They give sermons about all the depraved "Holy men and women of the Bible" and transfer the guilt for those sins onto their own congragations. (Selah)

John Lennon praised Jesus Christ as an admerable fellow, but then said that his followers were rather "thick" and "didn't get it". The words of Jesus are tollerated in the Bible but nobody listens to them. In like matter, the words of St. Paul are often cast in a certain scarlet light to make them appear more damning then they are. I have been in search of a God who isn't just an extension of the Pastor's own Ego. I can't say I've found that. Not unless we trot the Orion Federation around the track one more time. People are looking for Devine virtues and not finding them.

SIX MONTH ANNIVERSARY AS A BLOGGER

There are numerous events of moral perpitude the Bush adminestration and the Republicans are guilty of. Knowing this I was disappointed to hear that future House speaker Nancy Palosi has made a "No Impeachment" promise. We shouldn't let the other side know what we will or will not do. It's silly to make such a pledge because violating it will only further extra criticisum. It would seem with the first lady Speaker of the House, we really don't need a woman president as well. Senator OBama is a logical choice to channel our energies to. He's a guy who everyone seems to like and he doesn't have Hillary Clinton's extensive political baggage. It is pointed out that by the time 2008 rolls around, OBama will be older than either Clinton or John Kennedy were.

There are still problems with the economy. I clearly do not understand the stock market's breaking of all time records. It seems the problem with the Real Estate "bubble" is that many people were suckered into these gosh awful flexible rate Mortgages and so as intrest rates climb, as they will continue to as deficets get worse, more and more people will fine that can't afford to live in the home they just bought a few years ago and so many of these are putting their homes in the market and panicking when they don't sell right away. According to Randy Rhodes, real incomes have dropped another two percent just since 2004. Unlike what Dennis Haster says, people earning forty thousand dollars a year don't pay "No taxes". Apparently the number of people without health insurance is continuing to rise, too, and for those who have it it isn't cheap. In general, prices now are about ten times what they were fifty years ago on a number of key items, though the government won't admit this.

You still have these scandals floating around like John Dulittle running against Charles Brown, and Brown has charge Dulittle and Tom Delay of blocking bills to stop the sweat shop conditions in the Marianas (?) Islands. Apparently there are still big corporations that want to have that Made in America tag on their product, which was actually produced under sweatshop comditions. Worker's pensions are in jeopardy as companies increasingly renig on their promises to their employees. It is said that the local news is even being outsourced. The LA Times is now hiring advertizing artists from India. The National News has an increasing fluff content. Hard news is wrapped up in the first fifteen minutes and the rest is filler. The celebrety news easily has to be five times what it was three decades ago.

The big news of the day is that George Bush is now no longer going to use the phrase "Stay the Course". Bush now claims that he has never used the phrase in the past. "It's never been about Stay the Course", he insists. I have to wonder what someone like Larry Elder thinks of his president actually making plans to get out of the Iraq War. It hardly fits in with the oft repeated cliche that we could be in Iraq for ten or more years. Clearly President Bush is only making promises to pressure the Iraq government and make provisions for our leaving, because he is so politically desperate and is running around like a chicken with its head cut off. All of that "Cut and run" rhetoric we've heard from people like Larry Elder is fast turning into a bad joke. We can't believe Bush any more about Iraq than we can about anything else.

Of course there is a scandal of graft and corruption by Iraqi officials wasting Billions of our dollars we have sent them. There seems to be no accountability and nobody seems to care. Of course we're giving the drug companies billions because of that drug bill that was passed a couple of years ago that was basically welfare as much or more for the drug companies than it is for the recipiants. Of course there is legondary waste and squandering of funds by local officials who received Homeland Securety money. But politics being what they are it's all these back-woods cities that are receiving the money where threats to the national securety is minimal. Still- if we give them money they'll find SOME way to spend it. Larry Elder says the deficet doesn't really matter now and "It's not as bad as it was under Reagan". I guess that's supposed to make us feel better. One "libertarian" on KTLK advises in favor of divided government like we had under Clinton and Eisenhaur because Bill Clinton and Dwight Eisenhaur has the most frugal spending habbits of any Presidents in the past seventy years. In my writings I have often tagged President Clinton as "The Eisenhaur of the ninties".

Perhaps the biggest instance of "Moral Perpitude" is this whole situation in Darfore, or however you spell it. In the western Sudan near the Chad boarder, racial genocide is worse than it's ever been and over two hundred thousand are dead with no sign of stopping. But what I didn't know till last Sunday on Sixty Minutes is that our government is turning a blind eye to the genocide in exchange for "valuable information on Bil Laden and other Al Qaida members". Last I heard Bn Laden is still at large. I can't believe we have sold our moral soul as a nation in exchange for something that isn't even real. So much of our foreign policy seems to consist of "Sleeping with the devil". We cozy up to the Saudis but why? As the adds here say, "We spend money for their oil and they burn our flag". Larry Elder of course doesn't think genocide is really that big of a thing, because our national securety isn't at stake. Larry is against wars fought for humanitarian purposes. I have to strenuously disagree. A lot of "real conservatives" are getting fed up with George Bush because he seems to be a man without a moral compus.

People say "We get the government we deserve". I was just wondering. Do we get the God we deserve. The thought hit me on the street a couple nights back "What is the mind of God is really our collective Unconscious" like Carl Jung say? This is to say that even though our life on earth is predestined, perhaps the Collective Unconscious predestined it. It's clear that when we die we will not go to some new Disneyland of bliss. Instead we will return to whatever state we were in before we were born. Since there is no time as we know it there it's hard to imagine what existance is like there because "there" isn't anywhere- - because Space as we know it doesn't exist there, either. If you think about it- - among the things that cease to exist when this Universe destroys itself twelve billion years out are Matter- - Life- - - but also Death. Not even Death as we know it will exist in that Eternal age. Because in order to be Dead, it's implied you once had to live. Either that or there is some Thing that is no longer capable of metablizing and relating to other Things, as Time itself passes. But if there is no time and no "Things" to exist or nor exist- - then it can be said that what awaits us is something other than "Death as we know it". Many scientists have hinted that the collective consciousness is what created the Universe. Personally, I don't know how you'd go about proving it. They say that man was made in the Image of God. I have never completely understood that scripture. How do we, is it possible, to tap into this Eternal God timeless existance nature being in order to solve our problems here on planet earth. We need some sort of new Divine revelation. But I don't think we're going to get it. Some say "It's up to us to make up our Own Divine Revelations". Hummm. I'd take that notion and study it further.

I guess all us loyal democrats (that leaves me out) right now are waiting for the other shoe to drop. George Bush had a few political tricks last month but the well now appears to be running dry at this crutial point nineteen days out before the election. Things look so bad for the republicans all of us are assuming they have something up their sleves to spring on us at the last moment to turn the elections to the Republicans. They want to tilt the playing field in their favor and the only question is how? The North Korea nuclear bomb testing won't help them because KTLK today said that while Clinton was President there were cameras constantly fixed on their Plutonium supply as part of an agreement. Bush blew off all prior agreements in 2002 leaving North Korea free to do as it wills. We know from tests that their latest nuclear bomb used Plutonium, so Clinton can't be at fault for their setting it off. There is bad news from Iraq today (as if there wern't enough) Generals and others are saying that violence is up, even if we haven't yet lost the seven thousand American lives lost on Iwo Jima. I guess all their worst fears are coming to pass and insergency, etcetra, is escalating in Bhagdad despite our heavier occupation of that city. The whole republican party is so scandal ridden you lose track. You have the whole Indian tribe gambling deal in Texas. You have the oriental whore house and failure of Ton Delay and Jack Abramoff to bring a key bill to the floor. You still have fundamentalist Christians appearing to defend Ken Ley and Enron. This whole sex with a page scandal gets worse every day, but at least the offending priest forty years ago has come forward and confessed. Of course we're assuming the Born Again community won't want to turn out in great numbers. On KKLA they were saying just yesterday that the numbers look worse for the Republicans now than they did for the Democrats in 1994. The people who want a ballanced budget and an overturn of Roe vs Wade, and Social Securety privitization were disappointed long ago. Al Franken says that as of now the Democrats will gain seven senate seats, which is one more than they need to take both houses, and that a swing of fifty - five O - house members is likely. People keep saying "I wish the election were held today". You know something propagandistic is going to happen. Perhaps this football stadium scare was a test balloon. Perhaps there will be a Bin Laden vidio tape like just before the election of 2004 to throw the election. There are roomers of democrats being removed from voter regestration rolls in Ohio just like last time. And the thing is- - if the Democrats and people of comon sense don't take over soon, we're going to have some sort of a quazi fasciest state in America where nobody will have any rights. As the people from KTLK point out, Wednesday October 17th. was a dark day in American history because that's the day President Bush signed a bill that strips all of us of our civil rights. You never know who is going to be declared a "security risk" now. Perhaps George Bush will be so dispondant at both houses going democratic that he'll just resign. I don't think he's a man who likes to lose - - not with all that cocaine coarsing through his system. We have to keep our fingers crossed.

Randy Rhodes the other day has a Christian pastor on. We know Bush hasn't been straight with members of the Born Again community. He made promises to them he didn't keep concerning eight billion dollars to the poor and other "faith" causes. Nobody should be surprised about Bush turning out to be a liar. They say that Karl Rove is a non-believer anyhow. It is said that we don't have to keep the ten commandments today because the book of Galations in the Bible gives us a pass and that "The Law" was "nailed to the cross". That book got included in the Bible the same reason "turn the other cheek" and "Prince of peace" got in the Bible. Both the Paul and Jesus remarks had anti-semitisum as their modas opperandi. There was so much of the New Testament that seems to have been included merely because it was a way of sticking it to the Jews. I'm not against morality; I'm in favor of morality. My beef against the Christian religion has little to do with morality per se, but a lot of other stuff I don't care to dealve into. Randy Rhodes says she is a Christian. If that is so maybe she can write a treaties on the subject, just like Marcion did. And then the Catholic Church can burn it. I think the whole "Christian Right" has about as much good karma as Samantha Brady and Lexi Carver, at this point.

News Flash: I just heard that Wierd Al Yankivich commited suicide by blowing his brains out. I never heard that before and I hope it isn't true.

What we need in this country is some tranquility in government. But we won't get that untill Carrie Brady gets her revenge. No, that's not right. Untill we fully investigate president Bush and he is made to account for all his crimes one way or the other. Impeachment seems out of the question with Dick Chaney waiting in the wings. But there would seem a lot of ways to make the last two years for President Bush mighty unpleasent. You know, a year ago Arnold Swartzenegger was in big trouble after his ballot measures failed - all four of them. But the Governater took a hint and got his act together and in his next January message gave perhaps the most liberal State of the State message since Pat Brown. It was refreshing to hear. I don't see what would prevent George Bush from "getting religion". It's contrary to his nature as an invetterate liar and stubbornness to the point of irrationality, but perhaps if he prays to whatever God he worships, he'll get some answers.

PATTERNS AND TEXTURES

You know there are micro things and there are macro things. Some people become obcessed with the micro at the expense of the macro. Have you noticed that some things look very irregular when blown up into the micro but look symmetrical and artistic in the macro? The crop circles of the early 1990’s were like this. You can only appreciate them from the air. I suppose some things are the other way around. You can take some weird organic compound - - poly-glycol something, and when you blow it up it reduces to these tinker toy things you do in chemistry class. Not quite. Dennis Prager, strangely has said that certain values in the micro that are seen as admirable, are downright dangerous in the macro, or big scale. Turning the other cheek is one. Often Sue and Johnny are arguing or hitting each other in the back seat- - and the parent turns around and one of the kids says “He started it” and the parent says, “It doesn’t matter who started it- - I want the commotion to cease right now” Often in institutions with kids, the people in charge engage in corporate punishment. They punish the whole group because of the actions of one kid. Prisons and military bases are known to use this method, and it’s supposed to stimulate group pier pressure to conform. I wouldn’t guarantee it works out that way every time. Often Christians are told- - a la that Devo song that “It’s a God-given law, that you can’t get pissed”. It’s seen as a holy, beautiful thing never to get annoyed by anybody or anything. And if you offend someone and it’s really their fault to begin with, the Christian thing to do is assume all the blame yourself. And if you see a pan handeler on the street and pass him by without giving, it’s seen as a sin. Yet as we have said in the “Ditikee” or Christian handbook- - you are commanded there to be tight with a buck, and suspicious of the motives of all. And at the same time you are told that Trust is the highest attribute you can have tword God, which we all really know is trusting your pastor. I wonder how Jesus Christ would stack up against the standards “expected” of Christians today? Are you going to tell me that Jesus was never impatient with somebody or ever tired or cross with people?

I’d like to make a big plug to save Air America and keep it on the air. Often sticking up for the under-dog is a good thing. World Net Daily points out that Air America has been ignored by such big-wigs as Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton. Air America has never been about them anyhow. Air America has always been about common sense in politics. I am for the underdog. Also in W N D I read about how Georgetown University expelled various Christian evangelical groups such as Campus Crusade from Christ. These groups which are “too evangelical” were not only expelled but Georgetown forbade them from making reference in any matter to their University as a place where their members go to college. I’m not going to pretend to get inside the head of the University’s management. They must have their reasons, and it’s their right because it’s a private institution. Where I draw the line is someone like Gene Scott in mid 1979 saying “Don’t send your money to Faith Center – send it to me”. Gene Scott was an instrument in saving Faith Center from financial ruin- - but he wasn’t happy being the instrument; he wanted to be the focus of attention. If Al Frankin stood up and did that I’d be mad at him, too. “Give all your money to me and trust me to do the right thing with it, and if I don’t it’s none of your business anyhow”.

You see trends in music. For instance there is an “Alice’s Resturant” riff, that is replicated in a lot of songs. First there was “Jadda-jadda-jing-jing” whatever, sung on the Mickey Mouse club. Later it was adopted by the guitar player from Jefferson Airplane and turned into “Keep on Truckin’, Mama”. It’s also the demento tune of “Please let me play with your little yo yo” and also (the quintessential tune) “Walk Right In” by the Rooftop singers in 1963. Another common riff is “The Working Song” by the TJ brass. But it’s also used as the tune of the spiritual “This Train”, and also “You Know I Love You Baby” by the Plastic Ono Band, as well as “Locomotion Breath” by Jethro Tull, and also track four on the “Crown of Creation” album. The riff to “I Am The Walrus” is not unique. Many songs use that progression. “Tales of Great Ulysses” by Cream was recorded before “Walrus” in May of 1967 whereas “Walrus” wasn’t recorded till September of 1967. There are all sorts of Christian songs that are rip-offs from such classics as “Devil Woman” by Marty Robins, “Save the Last Dance for Me”, “Itsey-bitsey Spider” and “I’m A Little White Duck” (by Berle Ives) Rock stars have plagurized each other’s riffs and songs. “Have Mercy” by the Rolling Stones was ripped off by Three Dog Night. Neil Young had two of his songs stolen “Helpless Helpless” (by Bob Dylan) and also “Down By the River” (by Pink Floyd).

There are so many surveys out now. Now they’re telling us that people who drink earn more money than people who don’t. Of course there those who say statistics say- - a family that prays at the dinner table is a more stable one. Now they are claiming that people who chew gum are more intelligent. A lot of people use statistics that are not scientific. The other day I read an excellent treaties on why Creationism should not be taught in the schools. You should read it. Just go to ffrf.org and enter “Creationism in the classroom” and you’ll get it. People forget that science is a discipline.

They had a man substitute for Randy Rhodes. They have been replete with roomers that “Air America” as we know it is going off the air. Ed Schultz talked about this. It seems that Bush and Karl Rove secretly snicker behind the back of James Dobson and other born again Christians. But they’ll take their money. Republicans take the money from closet gays too but want them to stay in the closet. It’s predicted that the Fundamentalist right will turn against Bush in this election, especially after the segment that will air on Sixty Minutes this Sunday. It’s predicted that after the Democratic landslide next months that many Republican congressmen will just retire and become paid lobbyists. It’s predicted that many others will switch from Republican to Democrat just to keep ahead of the avalanche. It is even said that Republicans just don’t care any more what happens. There is no question that many unforeseen things will occur after the election. There is still not enough material for a blog. This morning Dennis Prager was on and he had his famous “Happiness Hour” and again claims that one has a moral duty to “be happy”. Prager says that depriving a kid of failure will deprive him of happiness because he won’t learn that failure is “normal”. I would have preferred not to have been secretly declared scitzofrenic by S E Abott back in March of 1969. That was a major “failure” of sorts and no sane person can argue it didn’t have an adverse affect on my life. Of course you can summarize Christianity with the following argument. Rich people can afford to light their cigar with hundred dollar bills if they want to. Therefore if you light your cigar with a hundred dollar bill you will be as rich as they are.

They apparently have passed a prohibition against all overseas gambling. This was a “rider” to a ports security bill that the President has signed. The F A A has banned most planes from flying above the East River. I guess that solve that problem.

Some people say that Beauty is Truth. Of course Google lets you know in rectangles when you have arrived at a golden section. Some say that beauty is actually the average of say sixteen women’s faces melded into one. There is some statistical figure that when you hit about the number sixteen, that’s it. Here’s a question. Would you rather cash a check where yours is the only name on the back or would you rather cash a check with ten endourcements? You really are claiming to stand behind a check when you endource it. If there are ten names those are ten people you can pass the hot potato to trying to come up with someone who will back the check.

Al Frankin was talking about Bob Woodward saying “ra-porter”. I don’t think he ever said that. Al just has a hyper-sensitive ear. He does kind of hesitate in syllables.

Proposition ninety ads have come out and they’re all against the proposition with the heaviest dirty tricks and deception you’ve seen. A lot of propositions in the past have been advertised with deception but this goes the limit. They point to all these groups that are against the proposition including homeowners groups and small businesses and environmental groups. I simply don’t believe it. I’ve reread the facts and all the proposition is out for is to give the little fellow a fair shake, and that’s what’s got them all upset. We can vote ourselves equity and they can’t stand it.

Cory Lyttle may have committed suicide. He was a Yankee pitcher and they just lost the series with Detroit and the guy may have been depressed. A call-in show was bashing his reputation and he called in to defend himself. A person with a secure ego would not do that. He was doing acrobatics- - and flying too low. When he had trouble over the river and lost more altitude he did not find a place to land. He had some sort of automatic parachute and did not use it to save his life. The Federation stated days ago that there was a link between the Tigers victory and this plane crash. Could well be.

They say the El Nino is strengthening and that could mean a lot of rain this year. I still don’t believe the figures from two years ago. They had to be inflated.

The New York Mets were rained out last night when their L C S was supposed to have started. They’re playing tonight. It will probably be a Mets – Tigers series.

The Detroit Tigers beat the Oakland A’s in Oakland five to one. The Tigers are one Detroit team the Federation definitely does not like and they take the win as bad news. Last night I had on “Nova” and this night they discussed what proved to be a fake Viking document of Greenland, Iceland, and North America that was obtained in 1957. The map had ink that had to have been made after 1917 because it had a Titanium product in it. It turns out the map was done in the thirties as Nazi propaganda. But there is still the mystery of the worm holes going through multiple documents. They used a proton beam and later used a laser on it. I turned off the TV a bit before nine because I was having strange antenna problems. I slept generally well and woke at 6:15.

A plane crashed into a building in New York. First I heard it was the tenth floor of a twenty story building but later I heard it was the 40^th. floor of a luxury high-rise apartment on the upper East Side. NORAD was alerted and everything.

George Bush gave a press conference this morning from eight to nine. I had just turned on the computer and was checking out both radio stations WGN and WLS. Both stations worked and actually both were carrying the President’s speech. Bush opened with a lengthly statement that seemed to go on and on, about both Korea and Iraq. I guess he was taking questions but each answer was so rambling and long winded you couldn’t tell. Nobody asked him how come more troops weren’t sent to Iraq if everyone agrees we needed them? I had Rush Limbaugh on WLS on a while after nine. I was looking for a weather report because they just said Arctic air had just moved in.

654,000 are now dead in Iraq because of the Iraq War, an new survey just came out with. The old figure was a hundred and thirty thousand, which was bad enough. Sixty thousand US troops are either wounded or mentally disabled now. About three thousand are dead. Randy Rhodes didn’t like the President putting down the survey the way he did, and I admit it puzzled me, too. I guess the President “Isn’t big on learning”. Of course I think Tony Show has come off as an idiot since he had this job.

The pilot who died in that plane crash was with an instructor and they both died in the crash. There were few deaths in the forty floor complex. The plane crashed on the 30^th. and 31^st. floors. Deaths in the building were few. The pilot was a pitcher for the New York Yankees, Cory Lyttle, and he left behind a six year old son.

Owning the Image: The parents of Ron Goldman are seeking to "own" the image of OJ Simpson and everything assotiated with him. I say, "More power to them". Once you commit murder and then are not exicuted for the crime, the least that can be done is to let the victims decide what happens to your life, including your image and signature. I don't know what sort of karma OJ Simpson has that has enabled him to get by all these years with out paying for his bloody crime.

Some people's "life stories" seem to be bought out. The god Mithras was "the son of God" and born in a cave (as all the "experts" on the Christmas story insist Jesus was) and that he was born of a virgin. (Though some he say he was born out of a rock) His birth was attended by shepherds. There was a Roman Emperor named Aurelian who in 70 AD who made the cult of Sol Invictus or "Unconqured Son" into a nationally sanctioned religion to boost his and the national image. From this point on the elements of Mithras were adopted into this new religion. Even though this is true, the "secret" or germ of Christianity lies elsewhere, as we said in our previous posting. The Catholic Church has secrets it "guards with its life".

Mithra is not present in the Gathas of Zarathustra (Zoroaster) but appears in the younger Yashts of the Avesta (Campbell p 257). There, Mithra comes to the fore among the created beings. "I created him" Ahura Mazda declares to Zoroaster, "to be as worthy of sacrifice and as worthy of prayer as myself" (Campbell, loc. cit.). In the Yashts, Mithra gains the title of "Judge of Souls" and is assigned the domain of human welfare (which he shares with the Creator). Mithra occupies an intermediate position in the Zoroastrian hierarchy as the greatest of the yazata, created by Ahura Mazda (Ormuzd in later Persian) to aid in the destruction of evil and the administration of the world. He is then the divine representative of the Creator on earth, and is directed to protect the righteous from the demonic forces of Angra Mainyu (Ahriman in later Persian).

I was going to do a comparrison called Ziggy Stardust vs. Jesus of Nazareth. But I guess you could say that "God" told me that would be ill advised. The thing is, we aren't even sure Jesus of Nazareth ever existed. That Italian guy Luigee Cascioli or whoever probably still has his website up. He makes a pretty fair case that Jesus never existed and if you want more amo you can read "The Jesus myth" in the Wickipedia. In contrast the person we call Zachery (Ziggy Stardust) is a real person, or at least was. Since nobody has heard from or about him in excess of twenty years - not even a roomer - we can't say for sure that he is alive now. But is Ziggy Stardust holding some dark secret? We have stated in the past that Zachery was previously incarnated as the Roman emperor Dometian, who reigned from 81 to 96 AD. That's a pretty good reign as emperors go, fifteen years. So what I'd like to do is just look at the history of the Christian church walking through the history step by step the way a trial lawyer might do it in court and see if the evidence is credible.

We all know that the ZAC says there are prophecies related to time of birth but no prophecies related to the place of birth. With Christianity it's the opposit. There are no prophecies related to the TIME of birth but ONLY to the PLACE of birth. After the first thing any "Superstar" has to do is establish himself as uniquely qualified to be what he is, the Messiah. We have the one source of Matthew to determine that Jesus was born just before the slaughter of the innocents by King Herod. Historians deny that such a slaughter ever occurred. (Count how many things DIDN'T occur) But in this way we are to believe that the messiah was to be born in Bethlehem but all of the rest were slaughtered by King Herod's order so Jesus being the only survivor, has to be the Messiah. Next we are told that Jesus was born during a Cencus of Rome ordered by Ceasar Agustus. There's one thing wrong with this. Historians say that the cencus did not involve pedigree or place of family oregen. So this is another of those things which NEVER OCCURRED. Next of course the Cencus that did occur was in six AD or about nine years after all that stuff with the stars discussed in Matthew. Next we are told the skies were ablaze with angels singing the glory of God and that the "near by" shepherds saw it. Well, if THEY saw it how come the thousands of people crouding into Bethlehem for the cencus didn't see it? Another thing that doesn't quite jive is Luke gives the Mother's liniage. The only thing is historians tell us the mother's liniage was NEVER considered at that time in genialogies. I was also told in Sunday school that if EITHER side of the family was from Bethlehem that that's where you went- - so this was a preferential site where EITHER decent from mother or father counted. Next we are told that Jesus lived the next thirty years in Nazareth growing in favor with man and God. The problem with this is that there is SLIGHT evidence that Jesus went to other places during this period but there is NO EVIDENCE from any non Biblical source that Jesus spent this time in Nazareth or that Jesus even EXISTED at all.

Next we are told that Jesus's ministry was connected with John the Baptist. There is NO historical evidence of this. On the contrary John the Baptist is always mentioned as a separate entity from Jesus by secular historians, if Jesus is mentioned at all. We are told that Judas offered the Sanhedren help in capturing Jesus and only with his help could they make an arrest. It's kind of an insult to law enfourcement to say they didn't know Jesus motions well since Jesus has been to Jerusalem many times. In fact the one thing they said was "We can't arrest him during Passover or any feast, because there will be a riot". We are told that the Jews "lost the power to carry out a death sentence" and that there was weeping in the streets when this occurred because it was believed the Messiah would come "before this happened". Historians now say that the Jews always had the power to carry out a death sentense and in no way was it necessary to involve Rome Next we are told that Pilate offered the people a choice between Jesus and Barrabus. Once again our game show buzzer sounds. There was NO SUCH historically recorded incident that Pontious Pilate ever did this, allowing his decisions to be put up to a vote. The funny thing is- - we are told here quite the opposit of what we read a few verses ago. NOW we are told the people were ready to riot because they WANTED to crusify Jesus and the people were resting Pilate. So in a very few days the crouds went from highly in favor of Jesus to strongly against him. We are told Pilate took a basen and washed his hands in sort of a Jewish ritual of blog innocence. Historians say it's dubious Pilate did this act.

We are to believe that after Jesus's resurrection the twelve apostles along with 120 others formed the first Christian Church. We are told the 120 were people "who had been in Jesus' ministry from the very beginning"? If that's so, where were they during the trial and crusifiction? We are told Jesus appeared to his brother, James and convirted him, as well as Jesus's other brothers such as Jude. None of the Gospells mention Jesus's appearences to his brothers. We are told by some "historians" that James was a High Priest and entered into the Holy of Holies in the Jewish Temple. Why would Jews pick a Christian to be High Priest? We are told that from the moment of his convirsion that St. Paul had instant access to the highest pillars of the Christian Church, such as James and Peter. We have Paul repeatedly confronting both these people and "telling them off" that they were just wrong about a lot of things. We have "The book of Acts" revolving around St. Paul, who apparently is never wrong. We have St. Paul writing the church at Rome, which he had never visited and there doesn't seem to be a way any Saints could BE in Rome yet, let alone form a Church. We are told of "Christians in Ceasar's household" and that St. Paul trusted Roman Justice over Jewish Justice any day of the week and so made repeated appeals to Ceasar. And who was "Ceasar" in those days? None other than mad man Nero himself! Finally we are to believe the fire in Rome or the persecution of Christians that occurred a very few years after the book of Acts concluds was- - - apparently just "not important enough to mention".

As we said in another blog, I don't even think the ministry of the Apostle Paul occurred this early. We are told that the Book of Revelation was written during the reign of the mad emperor Dometian from 81 to 96 AD. If this is true and if Dometian was "The Beast" then how come after he was conspired against and slain and shown to be mortal, that the author and readers of Revelation didn't say, "Well, back to the drawing board". How come the more you look for evidence of persecution during the time of Dometian the less you find- - of Christians. Dometian was a flake. There is no doubt about that. He was "completely balmy" as they say. No doubt about that. Dometian persecuted Jews with tax laws. That's a fact. But had Dometian ever even heard of Christianity? You really can't show from the evidence that he did. Emperor Trajan was two emperors later and Pliny the Younger wrote him a letter (or visa versa) suggesting that Christianity be persecuted for its own sake. If this was a new concept under Trajan, what was Christianity's status under Dometian? And why does the Catholic encyclopedia say that Dometian repented of his persecution of Christians, but refuse to give detales? What of that mystory early 2nd. century historian who says that Dometian made special provisions for the relatives of Jesus? Could it be that Paul lived in the time of Dometian and not in the time of Nero, and that Dometian became a closet Christian? Why has Christianity been so "Roman-centric" almost from the beginning?

Did Jesus have a daughter named Sarah, who was born after his death and at age twelve moved with relatives to the south of France? Was there a group of 'Illuminati" who were in Egypt who knew the secret identity of Jesus? Is this secret group of Illuminatti a group that almost from day one has been calling the tune with Christian doctrine? Was the ministry of the Apostle Paul much later than we've all supposed. If not, how come all his letters didn't become general knowledge till about 110 or 120 AD? Why did people like Marcion want to cannonize them almost immediately? How did St. Paul "Prove his apostleship" to begin with? These are questions that may never be answered. On the other hand, there may be a "smoking gun" out there, just waiting for historians to discover and put the pieces together.

Song lyrics from the Ziggy Stardust file

“If you’re standing on my toes I have the right to shout you down”

“A cop nelt and kissed the feet of a priest, and a queer threw up at the sight of that”

“A plague seems quite reasonable- - or maybe a war- - or I may kill you all”

“God knows I’m good. God may look the other way today”

“The sun machine is coming down and we’re gona have a party”

“I would rather be with All The Mad Men – then perish with the sane men roaming free”

“And these children that you spit on –are quite aware of what they’re going through”

“The only survivor of the National Peoples’ Gang”

“I’ve Got things inside myself that even I can’t face”

“Let the children use it; let the children loose it; let all the children boogy!”

“Someone to rule us, someone to fool us, someone like You”

“I’ve Prepaired a document leagelizing mass abortions.
We will turn a blind eye to infanticide”

“I thought you died alone- - a long, long, time ago”

“When the kids had killed the man I had to break up the band”

“You’ve got your mother in a whirl; she doesn’t know if you’re a boy or a girl”

“I think I saw you in an ice cream parlor, drinking milk shakes cool and long. Smiling and waving and looking so fine- bet you didn’t know you were in this song”

“Our love comes from above”

On the subject of meanness Anne Coulter’s name came up today. What she does with the widows of the Iraq War is about ninety percent mean. I wouldn’t do it. What Jesus Christ did referring to possible child molesters among the heroic firemen of 9 – 11 is one hundred percent mean. It is beyond the pale. I know of a man who used to like to compare himself to General Patton. General Patton used to use salty language and make remarks like “Hell, I don’t want my men to die for my country- - their job is to make the other son of a bitch die for his”. That’s coarse language with a purpose. But there used to be a man who got his rocks off seeing how obscene he could be in word and in deed, before the Christian community. And you can rest assured he never thought twice about the sort of “Witness” he was providing. There are times I’ve thought that some of my words weren’t “The sort of words a Focus Group would advise me to use”. My thing is to look not at the style of the words but what’s in the heart. Some pastors can use words very stealthfully and cleaverly- - yet in their hearts is utter blackness. (Selah) It’s a fact that some people can “get away with” saying and doing just about anything- - be it corporate fraud or plannine a war- - or making an illegal real estate deal resulting in major pollution. It just dawned on me that Evil has its own momentum and forward karma just as good does. If it didn’t Adolph Hitler would never have prospered. There is one thing about Evil and that is you can’t count on it spending itself and being arrested spontaneously. How long did the Christian church plunge the world into the Dark Ages? People like Chelsea are literally being “taught” to be Evil because certain people think that evil should be rewarded and they call it “Grace”. A person who says “We’re all sinners” is a man who doesn’t believe in accountability for anyone. When Charles Manson says “Society as a whole committed the murders”, we must step up and say “No- -YOU committed the murders”. When Jesus Christ says we all crucified him- - it’s our job to shut Jesus up till he starts speaking rationally. Evil people have an unusual amount of faith in Themselves. He who says that Faith is “The substance of those things we hope for” is a liar. No. That isn’t faith. Faith is loving the people who deserve love, and putting a stop to Evil whenever and wherever we find it- - - and I quote “Abstain from every form of evil”. People who don’t Judge the evil one are his accomplices. It has been said “Whatever isn’t of Faith is sin” but I say unto you, “If a person isn’t sinning, it’s probably because he’s doing nothing at all”. Sin is not evil in itself. Sin is not evil and Evil is not sin. Evil is deliberate and volitional and focused. I don’t know if Anne Coulter is “Evil” but after I read her book I just might have the answer. (Selah)

Today is June 7th. On this date, June 7th. 1971, it was on a dreary Monday afternoon, in a taped speech for the first time I used the term "Jesus Freaks" in a commentary of mine. I had resisted using the term up till then. I think I had just about "had enough" from my fundamentelest Christian friends. I remember my brother was boating with some richer people from Huntington Harbor the previous weekend and I was mad because I didn't get to go. It was about this time that my other brother played for me the album "Broken Baracades" by Procol Herem, and the title song was supposidly "about the Rapture", which at that time I had never heard of. This whole idea of a "rapture" of carrying off the "Elect" into Heaven while the rest of the planet went through some sort of great tribulation- - only dates to the latter part of the ninteenth century. It has no part of Classic Christian teaching. If I have it right the doctrine of the rapture was concocted by a guy named Darvey, and he was an offshoot of the Millerites. The Millerites were the group who predicted the world would come to an end in 1844. When it didn't they had to come up with another doctrine, hence the rapture was born.

NEWS DIGEST

Well, there are more deaths occurring in Iraq all the time and evidence of an all out Civil War is more than obvious now. We just have to decide what date we're going to pull out. * Now Bush is negotiating with the government of Iran. He didn't want to do that with Iraq, but now with Iran I guess President Bush doesn't want to engage in two major Wars at once. According to Ken Galliger, negotiating with Iran is the worst thing we could do because we're "Just giving them time to finish constructing their nucliar bomb". That is a thought. * Some terrorists were arrested in Canada with plans to blow up a lot of stuff. * Steve Wessley lost to Phill Angeletes in the California governor's race. I guess they want a candidate who's less than "green" and suddenly a little pollution isn't so bad. Swartzenegger will demolish Angeletes in November. * We've all heard the news that Brittany Speers has given up her Kabbala. Now she says, "My baby is my religion". That's kind of a scarey thought if it's true. There are some people who teach that the antichrist "Will not regard the desire of women". I always thought this meant the antichrist would be a homosexual, but the "experts" say what this means is that every woman in Israel desired to be the mother of the Messiah, and so every mother with a new born son was thinking in her mind, "This child could be the Messiah".

PORNOGRAPHIC PRIESTESS

I don't know if anyone has put forth the proposition that the antichrist could be a woman but I have a candidate for the job. Yesterday I was doing research and used a hitherto unused search method and got results I never got before. Did you know that Christianity has suffered the equivelent of a Nucliar Attack in the spirit realm and nobody has reported it. If the Da Vinci Code secret is equivelent to a 3.1 on the rictor scale- - the thing I'm talking about is equivelent to a 9.9 on the rictor scale. I'm talking about a "Christian" who is so evil and depraved I had to make sure he was actually dead now. Since this mystery individual of mine is and has been routinely ignored by the media I only heard about his death (prior to yesterday) from once source, Paul Harvey, one fleeting time. I had to "stand over his grave and make sure he's dead". So you're wondering where the whole Pornographic Priestess thing comes in. Prior to yesterday my knowledge of this individual kind of faded out about 1999 or 2000. In the late 1990's I had three candidates for Antichrist. Willy Brown, Bill Handel, and this mystory individual. I say Christianity has suffered a Nuclear Attack of the spirit because the entire Christian Church is covering up for this "greatest teacher of our time" and not saying word one about his evil deeds. Never let it be said Christians don't protect their own, even if it ammounts to spiritual suicide. I'd like to think he's dead rotting in his grave now. First of all "Teresa Crane" is still "In the World" but she ain't giving no interviews to nobody. You know, if you're evil enough your evil can influence people even beyond the grave, and that is the case with this individual, like I say with the Pornographic Pristess, whom we code name "Teresa Crane" at the helm. We're going to say more about this but first I'd like to do a little song lyric written vaguely to the tune of "Who's Driving Your Plane" by the Rolling Stones.

Well you know you do your Preaching -

- With your pornographic teaching

And the go go girls are driving me Insane

And your perevacated Gospell - - Just as riddled as a waffel

Just like spikes boring into my brain

And your mis applicated constructs

And your Reverential con sucks!

And you do it just for monitary Gain!

But who's feeding your brain

Is Satan feeding your brain

Is there anything in your brain

I wanna know - who's feeding your brain

Is it some Hollywood bimbo lover

Or the ghost of your Mother

Or is it all just Completely Insane!

Well you're singing your songs - and enthralling the throngs

with things of which there'll never be Proof!

Well you talk about trust –

- while grinding our bodies into the dust

Just once- - can't you ever speak the Truth - !

Is your "Holy Seed dispersion" - - - from an actual living Person

Or just a "confederated" myth of John Wilkes booth?

Well who's feeding your brain

Who's feeding your brain

Who's jiving your brain

Who's - draining your brain

Well, is it something from reality

or just some Holy "Ghost"

Like something just uh creeping Under-Ground!

Well somewhere back on the Istmas - - [He] is thinking about Christmas

To him it always reminds him of of Elvis

You know he really'd like to nail her

Like Private Elvis is back in the trailer

With a shrine dedicated to his mother's pelvis

On Saturday Night he goes to town - - and the passes are painted brown

But I'm wondering - - - yes I'm really wondering

Who's feeding your brain

I said- - Who's feeding your brain

Who's pickeling your brain

Who's drugging your brain

Well I saw your girlfriend, Anita

while she was eating a Peta

And she says you have really gone In-Sane!

Today is Tuesday 06-06-06. They say it's the date of a melinium. The thing is they're always coming up with dates we won't see in a long time. I remember how they were saying that the date November 29th. 1999 was a unique date because it's the last time in over a thousand years we would see all odd digits. And then there was 9-8-76, which was the last time we would see all declining single digits in a long time. Of course The Omen remake is being released today but Lord knows why they did a re-make since the original was such a masterpiece. I remember when me and one of my brothers saw it in a theater in July of 1976. He felt so "oppressed" he had to leave, and waited in the car. A roommate of ours Larry Lawsen had recommended it. He said it contained Christian witness because the priest said the line "You must partake of the flesh of Christ and drink his blood". The Omen is kind of a movie "meant" for those superstitious seventies. Both religion and psychic stuff as well as "After Death" experiances were held in a lot higher regard thirty years ago than they are now. I remember our church minister commenting on how depraved "The Omen" was. You see back then people thought the rapture or "Second Coming of Christ" or whatever would occur in 1982 when there was a con-junction of all the planets. (Astrology was also held in a lot higher regard back then) Nobody doubted it would happen. Of course on Sept 1st. 1977 Chuck Smith made the prediction at Calvary Chapel that "The Tribulation" would begin on September 24th. 1977 or just a couple of weeks from then. But releasing a movie like The Omen now makes no sence because the public hasn't been "primed" to listen to the propaganda. That's my oppinion.

A lot has changed in thirty years. The Anaheim Mall was just newly completed in 1976. That is, it was an all covered-over mall. But as you know after 1992 they tore it down and put up those garish looking "amusement park ride" color buildings in its place. The rate at which they put up buildings and almost as quickly blow them up never ceases to amaze me. Oddly, Cypress College was "not finished" in 1976 and so they put up temporary railings on their massive concrete upper walk ways- - to be completed at a later date. Guess what? They have not put up a single new building since 1976. Back in the fall of 1976 I was attending some socialogy class or something and they showed a VCR tape on TV (relatively new in those days) and on that tape they made the starteling announcement that the median price of a home in Orange County was now eighty thousand dollars. The median line was the Newport Freeway. Everything to one side was cheaper and everything on the other side was more expensive. Of course now you know what people mean when they say "South County". "South" was alltogether different in those days. Back then places such as Tustin, Huntington Beach, or Costa Mesa qualified as "South County". One time we were with a friend of ours named John, who put up houses for a living. And we were touring one of the new tracts in Laguna Niguel. Back then it was out in the middle of nowhere- - but that Zigarat building thing was still there, in the valley. Back in 1976 they had the Susan B Anthony dollar nobody used. I don't know why. There was a roomer prior to 1976 that the coin was a gigantic conspiricy to raise the price of a sandwich in a vending machine to one dollar. Of course they ran KFC adds ("Fried" wasn't a dirty word then) that said "Corn and cluck for under a buck" and Mac Donalds had one "Get a Big Mack, fries and Coke and get change back from your dollar". Actually the Susan B Anthony "dollar" would be worth about four of the Sacaguia (?) dollars of today. Today's coin dollar would only have been worth about a quarter in 1976. I never voted for Jimmy Carter. I didn't vote for him in June 8th. (?) primary, and I voted for Ford in the general election. Something to me seemed a little fake or wishy-washy about Jimmy Carter.

It was a day or two after that June primary election that Charlie L. died of a drug overdose. I remember Larry Lawsen making light of it saying "Cheer up. The sun is shining, the corn is high and the birds are singing". (We were actually growing corn in the back yard then) Back then all the "Marinotha" or "Christian" music sounded like the Eagles or Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Back then disco was the devil's music. Back then it was shiek to be for Jimmy Carter because he was a "Christian" who was running for office. But in general it wasn't "shiek" to be political much at all. Christians were "above petty politics". How different things are today where George Bush, clinging to a political life preserver, is reaching out for the Christian right vote on areas such as gay marriage and flag burning.

Of course back in the mid seventies like 1974, 1075, or 1976 I was still using almost entirely reel to reel tape. One of my brothers had an expensive sound system in his trailer and I thought it silly that you would treat a cassette as a high fadelity tape because it clearly didn't sound as good. Back in the mid seventies of course they had "Quad" or quadraphonic. They had two types. They had descrete, and something called "SQ" that Columbia put out. One time my brother was playing "Third Degree" by West Bruce & Lang in quad- - - and I remember it was a longer fade-out on the end part than on the regular version. I remember Mike Mc Kinnon one of these times saying how much greated "Yes" was than "Emerson Lake and Palmer". Hey- - do you want an old myth demolished? Remember how the Beatles have "Revolution One" and supposidly the "slow version" was the first version they recorded and then George Martin or somebody convinced them to speed it up and put out a faster version. Well, that's a myth. Because one of the very earliest demos of the song recorded in George Harrison's livingroom back in the spring of 1968 and it was a recording of the song- played fast- where they were just then coming up with the lyrics to the song. My uncle used to have a joke saying "I never let the Truth get in the way of a good story". Next we'll learn that Marcion had the "origional" version of the gospell of Luke and it's the Church that changed it - not visa versa.

Just think how old anyone who was alive in 1976 has to be now. For a woman to even admit to being alive then is admitting a lot. I think life was better back then. There were no cell phones to constantly interrupt you. They had no personal computers. The only computer you could even posess in 1976 was an Apple I that you built yourself from a kit. Back then you could actually watch basketball playoffs in free TV, unlike today. Back then Monday Night Football was actually on free TV. In fact it wasn't all that long ago that Cable was considered some kind of a commie conspiracy- - and Free TV was as American as Apple Pie. Back then you didn't have to go broke in order to buy a home. Since 1973 the wage earning power of the US worker has steadily dropped. 1976 was indeed "The good old days". The rich wern't as rich then but there was more for the rest of us. Tax rates for the rich were 70%. Sports figures and CEO's wern't paid nearly as much but people had more of a heart. Service was more personal and people were definitely more polite. It's something to think about on this six-six-six day.

As the song says, "The Times They Are A Changing". Back in the fall of 1969 the Jefferson Airplane was singing about the young generation in the song "Volenteers" when in fact Grace Slick herself was already close to turning that dread age of thirty. Now we have another generational situation arising over this proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. This one to me would seem like a slam dunk. Why is in favor of gay marriage? If you listen to FOX news, it turns out anyone under forty seems to favor gay marriage and would vote against this constitutional amendment. It's hard to believe but gay marriage is seen in the same light as interracial marriage was forty years ago. It's something that conservatives were against but "enlightened" Americans were all for. It could be that forty years from now gay marriage, between two women or two men, will be as accepted as interracial marriage is today. The times they are a changing. It would seem that the era of conservative republicans in the White House, an era which began in 1969 is now coming to an end. I think George Bush has slipped to 29% approval rating in the nation-wide polls and is now 28% in the field poll in California. I think the only other president to sink that low was Richard Nixon the week before he resigned. It seems that no matter what George Bush does to bolster his ratings, it backfires. He wants a flag burning amandment. Congress will be debating both flag burning and the gay marriage thing in the next few weeks. Many liberals consider both of these pursuits a waste of time. If the majority of Americans come to believe it's a waste of time it could bode badly for the Republicans in November.

Immigration may be another area where conservatives on the right are fighting a losing battle. They used to have about five hundred aliens storm the gates near San Diego all at once knowing they couldn't catch all of them. This was an embarrasment to the Clinton adminestration and so now they have all the major cities fences off and the aliens have to trek through the desert and about 540 have died out there in the past year. And when they tried to round up illegal aliens in Iowa at a meat packing plant they drove the plant out of business and neighboring state Nebraska said to the feds, "Don't impose your rules in our state". This illegal aliens problem may have advanced to the state where nothing can be done about it.

Of course now Bush is doing these "signing statement" adendums to bills. That means he won't veto a bill; he'll sign it but he'll also write out a provision as to what he think the bill actually means. So when torture of POW's is banned, Bush will simply exempt himself. Just recently the pentagon deleted some language from an army manual having to do with humane treatment of POW's. Now I guess you're free to torture. Bush has done more of these signing addendums to bills- - twice as many as all other presidents of the US combined. I guess the trend began under Ronald Reagan but has gotten worse and worse over the years. Now the Bush adminestration is refusing to prosecute doctors who illegally give out information about their patients violating the doctor-patient confidence. I think what the next Democrat needs to do is just point to the constitution and say "These are our guidelines and they won't be violated". Just say "We won't have secret torture. We won't hold people illegally without charging them, and we won't wiretap without a warrent". Let's just keep our fingers crossed.

The Iraq War is coming along miserably now. Clearly we are in an escalating Civil War and are unable to stop it- - even if we had twice as many troops. Clearly the government is not as stable as I, for one, thought it was. Things are not "stabelizing" but constantly getting worse. The violence is escalating and spreading to other areas. Basically the Iraq War has been the centerpiece of the eight year Bush adminestration. As John Kerry says, "It's not a record to run on; it's a record to run from". You can "think good thoughts" but reporters are still getting killed. I would personally like to say to the leader of Iran, "The President's popularity in this country has nothing to do with the morality of what you're doing over there". It would be really nice if we got more moral support from Europe, but of course we won't.

I still haven't seen "An Inconvienient Truth" but two of the most shocking scenes are that "The snows of Mt. Killemonjero" are all but disappeared now. Also there is a glature in southern Argentina that has all but melted now, like a Simpson's cartoon. When the ten hottest years of all time are within the last fourteen years, it's hard to argue that Global Warming is not taking place. But of course Conservatives do. They won't admit they're wrong because this is too much of a sacred issue with them. It's one of the corner stones of their Belief system. "Industry is good; Government regulation is bad". My only complaint is that I looked up the movie schedule in this area on the internet and I didn't see the Gore movie listed anywhere.

Christianity too is changing with the times. Billy Graham is likely to kick the bucket any day now and Franklin Graham doesn't have the carisma of his father to attract new people. These Billy Graham crusades have turned into news magazines talking about world events. You have to water the gospell down to make it pallitable to today's pallette. Religion should be, I suppose like fine wine. It contains alcohol, yes, but it also contains the juice of the grape. I am like a person who has drunk of the straight distilled religion and it's not palletable. Religion was never meant to be drunk straight. I suppose pure distilled religion would be the Jesus Christ show on KFI. Religion being drudgery, tedious, boring, and without inspiration. I look at role models and I would not care to model my actions after any Born Again pastor. Some may say "Well, you can both fellowship in the idea you both hate gays". That's not true. First of all I don't hate gays- - it's just that gayness profanes the whole concept of marriage. Although in my case it might as well have been "Adam and Steve" and not "Adam and Eve" because my experiance is "dating the opposit sex" is kind of a "gateway sin" that leads to worse sins, in the same way that marijuana is a gateway drug. Just a few months ago I expressed intrest in a Christian female and her response was "I don't date". Unless God told you she's the one you're destined to marry, about all romantic contact with the opposit sex is outside their law. The only way to make a Christian pastor happy if you're single is to be utterly asexual. But like I say I would not even want to pattern my life after these shallow, frightened, neurotic, pathetic people. I have seen no role model for myself in the church.

It is said the reason why we need blood atonement for our sins is because we have all sinned ans "come short of the glory of God" I don't know anyone on the planet who remained a Christian for as long as I did with so little in return. If I don't have the "faith" to believe- - nobody does. Faith in the first place is "The substance of things hoped for". I don't have this. Some say "No, faith is being trustworthy and faithful to a relationship you have with someone". The trouble is there is no "evidence" that God and I have ever had a "relationship" Shockingly I could not model myself after Jesus Christ, either. Jesus did not become God because he was perfect, he was ruled perfect because he was already declaired God. I believe in the golden rule. If Jesus believed in it too he would physically heal everyone in the world of their deseases and malodies. This hasn't happened. Jesus felt free to openly criticize religious people in high places in a way you or I would never dream of doing making all sorts of accusations against them. If you or I were today to engage in the same behavior as Jesus did we'd be locked up, perhaps in a psycho ward. Jesus lived thirty years in an ordenary life minding his own business. I didn't do that because I became a Christian at age twenty-five. Jesus didn't have to worry about whether or not to "become a Christian". Think about that. But significantly, and I picked up on this about fifteen years ago- there's one thing we humans do that Jesus never did in the Bible, and that is to follow orders or directions. Many of us are told "shut up" "get in line" "stand over there" "show respect" or whatever. Jesus being God had the unique life of being the center of his own world and didn't have to "humble" himself to anybody. But just think- - for the first thirty years Jesus had an ideal life and he had one without having to become a Christian. I find that fact just totally trippy.

Not only on the subject of gay marriage but also on religion in general- - I suspect there is a great devide between those over and those under forty. I'll reming you that in no "future scenario" in any movie that I am aware of does Christianity even exist. Either everybody is wrong, or everyone is "seeing the obvious". (Selah)