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.