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.