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.