The big news of this week is that I am endeavoring now to quit smoking. I am using Nicotine gum but it's only two mg. and apparently there are four mg. and seven mg. and even higher, so I'm screwing myself before I start. My brother paid for it Wednesday morning and I've almost entirely quit smoking. If you know my brother and his wife, "almost entirely" doesn't cut it. Anything less than zero cigarettes is chalked up in their mind as a failure. It was kind of the same way with grades in high school with my parents. In the second half of the eighth grade my grades had taken an alarming dip. This continued into the first semester of the nineth. There were definite signs of hope come parent teacher conference time in April and by June my grades were the best they had been since the first quarter of the eighth grade when I got four B's. And yet there was more complaining and roomanating about this report card than in a long time and parents were saying "What's wrong with [Marcus]?" And I was sent to Sydney J. Adler and put on Ritilan. That summer I'd gotten a B in a pre Algebra course. I had high hopes for the fall but once on Ritilan my grades again took a plumet. But parents stopped complaining.

Thom Hartman was taking a poll of which political candidate for President his callers preferred. By a narrow margin they favored Edwards, but with Dennis Kasinitch following very closely. Al Gore was mentioned as a first choice by some, if he'd run. Bill Richardson (?) that New Mexico guy got a number of votes and O Bama got a few. Hillary Clinton only got one. T H played some of the leading speeches of the major and minor candidates so we'd know what was important to them. In the news they've been talking about student loans and College Graduates movine back into their parents house. While some "boomeranging" is normal in my book it should only be a small bit of retro progress in an otherwise forward motion to emancipation. I have been self supporting since January of 1974 and only spent a very small time since then living with my parents. Some people move in and delay any decision to move out till they're thirty-five or something. Edwards and others want the government to pay all college educational expenses. As I recall any educational expense I had I paid myself. Dennis Kasinitch got as many straw votes as he did I believe because people see he is the one candidate who is really serious about getting out of this quagmire, which is the Iraq War. The other big obcession is health care for all. I've had it recommended that a young person just out of college who can't afford it spend seventy dollars a MONTH on a policy. During most of my life it was unlikely I'd spend seventy dollars a YEAR on seeing a doctor! It was not untill 1997 that I was turned into a doctor junky, and this is because high blood pressure was diagnosed on Halloween of 1997. I suppose you might have to see a doctor if you were walking along and slipped on a block of ice or something and broke a few bones. Actually one morning just before Christmas in 1998 I actually did slip on a sheet of ice just outside my apartment gate where the sun hadn't gotten to it yet. (I remember it being a cold day) I did sort of a pirowette and landed off in the grass but on my feet. This incident could have ended very differently.

I do have a bone to pick with Thom Hartman however. I presume I heard correctly. Didn't Thom Hartman say the other day that the free market system and Free Enterprize in general was a PRIVELEGE extended by government to its citizens? This is an outrage. The free market system, the freedom to buy and sell at market prices is an inherent right of every US citizen. It's one of those rights "retained" by the nineth and tenth amendments. And yet according to Thom, the free market system is an artificial system created by government and as such they can pass any laws they want, such as the forbidding of strike breakers. I've never gone for all this garbage about "Not crossing picket lines". I say cross them and give them the finger while doing so. Sometimes I wonder who Unions think they are. A business has the right to contract with anyone they wish. If a union breaks a contract and strikes, or there is no contract at all, then corporations are free to use the free market system to deal with it.

For our fourth Movement, I would like to discuss this whole plot line of the Soap Opera, "Passions". It seems it isn't all fiction after all. On this show a young woman is terrorized by a stalker spying on her through her computer and often through her cell phone. Often harrassing calls are made such as "I know what you just did" and "I'll get you" type of thing. It would seem that people have "hacked into" the computer opperating systems of cell phones. Now they can do things like spy on you and turn the phone off and on and do other things to your phone. I never totally understood the term "hack into". I don't even know how a person would go about "hacking into a system". You hear a lot about it. Leo Le Port speaks so glowingly of all the computer systems we have in electronic gadgets. The solution seems obvious. We have to dumb down our gadgets a little so they can't be hijacked and used by others. All you really need is something to remember phone numbers and perhaps a timer or something for your VCR. They just didn't have these sort of problems forty or fifty years ago. Those people would look on us and say "How stupid can those people get?" It would be like these cartoons where the machines take over the house. But now we have all these cell phones and the I phone is coming so we can have more of it, with people hacking into our phones and making life hell for us. It doesn't make sense to me. If you had "dumb" equipment things like copy protection would be meaningless because the machines would be too dumb to read it. Of course if we were smart we'd go back to all analog electronics. That's where we made our biggest mistake.

Last weekend two events apparently happened. The “Fatah” party took over the government in the West Bank and the US wants to cut a deal with them and give them support so Hammas doesn’t take over again. Some news blogs, ect. say that it’s the United State’s fault that Hammas won the Palistinian election last year, that Larry Elder was so proud of when it occurred because “any democracy is good”. Now Hammas is out in the cold there but in Gaza they have taken over militarily. I’m a little confused. Hugh Hewitt and his callers all seem to say there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between Fatah and Hammas anyway. Some of his callers don’t differenciate between any theater of conflict in the mideast from Pakistan to Iraq to the West Bank to Gaza. It’s somehow all our “responsibility” to straighten out. One of his callers pointed out that India is a large democracy in the area of an industrialized country, but Pakistan is still as hostile as they come with terrorists and nukes and everything. As Thom Hartman points out, “Why shouldn’t Iran want Nukes because Pakistan has Nukes and they get respect and Saddam didn’t have Nukes and we overthrew him.” Good point. But of course Hugh Hewitt had to rush to the defence of Pakistan saying what a great democracy it was and now they and Turkey are different from other Mideast countries. Hugh saw the Bush doctrine threatened and ran to it’s defence. George Bush believes any democracy is good and that it’s contagious and if people see Iraq with democracy, all the other mideast countries will want it, too. Larry Elder says the same thing. Neadless to say all these conservatives have their heads in the sand. A new report has stated that there is no less violence even in Iraq; it’s just spread to areas where it wasn’t a problem before. What they should really do is make public all of the secret alliances and “deals” we have with various countries around the world, and see if the American People approve of them.

I really don’t think Hillary would be any better. As I’ve said, Michael Benner says what they do with a new President is take him to a secret room and tell him who is really running the country and what foreign policies to follow. The reason why O Bama is sinking in the polls is that people perceive him as weak on “security” issues. Even if there is an overwhelming “Peace mandate” on Election Day 2008 that won’t stop someone like Hillary from doing whatever she believes will best sustain her power.

Last night I had a dream where you couldn't buy or sell without having these government cards like IBM cards and I knew the formatting code on them (it was somewhat reminicent of Fortran print codes) and I would punch them in for my family so they could shop or get an apartment or something. I remember seeing Michal Benner's face on TV and hearing some documentary about him and his background. I have no idea what he actually looks like.

This is the next day. As was pointed out the minimum wage is still $5.25 or something but if the minimum wage had the purchasing power that it had in 1968 the minimum wage would be $9.50. That rate at $1.65 would imply there has been about a five for one inflation rate. Try and buy a house for five times $35,000. That would take the price to $175,000 or something. You couldn’t buy decent fire wood for that. Try buying some gasoline for $1.50 a gallon. People like Larry Elder say the minimum wage is horrible because it depresses the economy or something by reducing profits. But in reality every bit of that money goes back into the economy. Thom Hartman has said these big chain stores, which they don’t even allow in India take money out of the local economy because the profits are all shipped off to some foreign account or some off shore oil rig investment or something. That’s an interesting thought. Of course there are certain people whom God could “bless” and get more of a “return” than blessing other people. Some people are like corporations. They absorb all the blessing and it all goes into inflating their ego and gives them bragging rights to lord it over others. Other people will take every bit of the blessing they get, and then some, and pass it on to other people. But of course as some Pastor reminds me, “God is not a utilitarian”. That is God doesn’t do what does the most good for the most people. I myself tend to be a utilitarian. In India they decided they didn’t want to allow these big chain stores in their country such as Wall Mart and Cosco. 97% of the businesses in India are Mom and Pop stores. And India has a thriving economy. In this country most of the stores you used to see in store Malls were independently owned small business outlets. It isn’t that way any more. Larry Elder loves to conjure up visions of the “family farm” when the topic of the estate tax comes up for discussion. But since when has there been a “family farm” in this country? I think most liberals agree that it’s time for a little “tough love” with corporations, who don’t deserve person hood. But the people who actually are people deserve compassion. Thom Hartman has done a good job of illustrating the fact that most of our Robber Barron friendly laws date only back to the 1880’s or so.

It is said we shouldn’t bomb Iran even if they have the Bomb. The theory goes that Iran has no interest in seeing turbulence in the world but instead wants Iraq to be a peaceful country and not have that nation overrun by Al Qaida. Iran does not want another Afghanistan at its door. I believe we’ll end up having to bomb Iran sooner or later so it might as well be sooner. Just as we were destined to fight the Japanese and the Nazis sooner or later so it might as well have been sooner. You know there is an old saying, “a stitch in time saves nine”. It’s like disciplining a kid. A swat at age four might save you having to send your kid off to a reform school at age fourteen. Think about it. The time to stick it to Iran is before they become a major player on the world scene.

Of course the US hasn’t been too fond of democracies in other countries. We overthrew a democracy in Chile and according to TH we overthrew a democracy in Iran in 1953 under Eisenhaur. Also Viet Nam was supposed to have an election in the mid 1950’s but we intervened to stop it because Ho Chi Min would have won.

You know the more I think about it the more I think that “post traumatic stress” drug they had on Sixty Minutes is dangerous. I call it “The Jesus drug” because when you’re on it you lose all consciousness of important turning points your life; it’s all “washed away by the blood”. Picture the following cartoon. There is a rat swimming around in a tank and in one small place in the tank there is a platform. Label the platform Scientology. When the rat lands on the Scientology platform he turns into a human being. Then the human being is taken to a laboratory and injected with that drug they talked about that makes you forget things. Then the human being turns back into a rat and again begins swimming around aimlessly. Christians would love it if there were a drug out where people never learn anything. By the sermons they preach on Sundays they act as though the general population is already taking this drug. Most preachers assume you literally “fell off the turn-up truck yesterday” and see your mind as a blank slate they can program. “Experience” is a four-letter word to preachers. Experience and learned behavior is the natural enemy of the Evangelist. If you talk with one they will move heaven and earth to change topics the minute they’re cornered on one topic and something will actually get “resolved”. To turn their own scripture “They spend their lives learning and learning and never come to a knowledge of the Truth”. One might only add that they learn and then the forgetfulness drug is injected and they forget again. If the American People were on this drug on December 8^th. 1941 not even Pearl Harbor could shock them into entering World War II. I’ll end with this saying: “Some people say that to mend your ways of a bad habbit you have to first hit bottom. But if someone removes the platform you’ll continuously keep falling into a Black Hole.

I’m wondering whether tonight is “Get grandpa” night on “Days”. Maybe they’ll all invite themselves over and demand that Sean tell them the truth about the Di Mira feud. Don’t you hate the line “If that information is uncovered it could destroy us all”. How can not knowing something protect you from whatever it is you’re dreading???

This is June 18, 2007 Paul Mc Cartney’s birthday. He is 65. They have been talking about the “baby boom” retiring now for some ten years, but as of today that event is still off in the future. I guess you’ve heard Hillary Clinton is leading O Bama by double digits, some thirteen points 39% to 26% or something. We did our “President Hillary” blog thirteen months ago. We’re just leading the curve. In the news we have some interesting events. An eleven year old boy was killed by a black bear in Utah. He and his sleeping bag were carried off and the next day they found his dead body. They blamed the hot, dry weather. Some drag racer in Tennessee was racing for a charity event and spun off the road killing a bunch of mostly teenagers. And in Fort Worth they have had major flooding and a lot of people were washed out of their homes and a four year old girl was killed. And did you know it’s ethylene glycol that gives your toothpaste that sweet, tingeling sensation? Apparently some was found with that product in it. Now you know it’s the bright green color that gives your toothpaste its “mnty freshness”.

This morning I bought a cigarette from Richard Moor for 23 pennies. When it came time to pay Glen I had to pay him fifty cents for the early morning coffee and also two cigarettes for the mid day coffee. Marcus wanted to play chess again, and I guess we should be doing that right now. I had Drive radio on this morning and they were doing 1970. Neither Thom Hartman nor Randy Rhodes had noteworthy programs.

Both soap operas were on today. I’m still waiting for them to discover that the baby they “rescue” has a penis when they go to change its diapers. “Gee honey, I guess that lady was right. This isn’t Claire after all”. A bomb went off in the Di Mira tunnel. So what else is new. Of course that doctor was killed by the blackmailer because it took Sheridan and Fancy the whole hour to get to his office. Spike deserves the psycho of the year award because he now had plans to burry Jessica alive after drugging her. Gee, I really don’t think that would play very well in front of a jury if you’re the defence.

Blockbuster video is announcing that soon they’ll be exclusively backing the Blue Ray disks and not even market the HDDVD disks when it begins selling them, which I am surprised it hasn’t done already. They say on Eye Witness that this move could help “resolve” whether Blue Ray or HDDVD is the one to go with. Blue Ray already had sixty percent of the sales. We’ll just have to see. Competetion is good, if it's fair. Superiority is good, if it's fair. Games are good in that they develop moral character and a sense of fair play. Football and basketball players are less sportsmen than they are freaks. They are tall or overweight or both freaks and their inherent physical perportions make any sense of true gainsmanship absurd. The fairest thing they could do in basketball is raise the hoop to fourteen feet, for starters. I also think a heght restriction of say, six ft. three inches, would not be at all out of place and a maximum weight for football players of 250 pounds. If they made all pro football touch football, we would see who's really good and who just had gerth. For my next government edict I'd like to ban all corn syrup sweetner from fruit juice and punch. Next I'd make all Congressmen agree to a 35% turnover in the house every two years. If more incumbants than that won, I'd do a lottery system of drawing straws or something and those who lost would arbitrarily lose their jobs and the elections in those districts would be held again with all non incumbant candidates.

The lead story of this day appears to be that people like Congress even less than they do our President. President Bush is at 29% in the polls, which is one point from his all time low. But Congress clocks in at 23%. There is little mystery about why the people think so little of Congress. In 2004 the American people elected congress to fix the Social Security impending time bomb when the baby boomers retire in about ten years. They didn’t get it done. Last November they elected a congress to end the War in Iraq and to fix the looming immigration problem. Now congress is under pressure to address both of these problems. But they live by an axiom: When in Doubt, Cowardice is the Way to Go. This whole idea of “Not making a mistake” is an ethic we have the Born Again Christians to thank for – particularly people like Chuck Smith. They believe if God doesn’t do it, then it wasn’t very important to begin with. But congress apparently is busy about screwing up any possible energy bill. Liquid coal conversion is an idea that I myself flirted with. We have all of this coal in Montana; why can’t we turn it into gasoline like the Nazis did during W W II? The answer is because the “carbon footprint” is double normal gasoline production, and it also turns mountains into moonscapes. In Alberta, Canada they tried it with their “oil sands”, and though it made a lot of money for investors, it devastated the land and resulted in the destruction of countless forests. And congress wants to fund this giant plane that’s supposed to take off vertically and fly at seven hundred miles per hour. But it doesn’t do either of these things. Congress is supposedly working on a gasoline mileage bill where all vehicles are required to get at least 35 m p g. But they are filling this bill with loopholes. Someone has pointed out that while people are buying SUV’s their roll over rate is more hazardous for small children than an ordinary sedan. Some like Thom Hartman say that Bush secretly enjoys the idea that the Iraq war has pushed up oil prices because we have incapacitated that country.

Now Congress is calling Harried Mayers and her female assistant to testify and they are making it mandatory and not voluntary spawning an executive privilege crisis. People still want to know about those eight E mails that disappeared. I still think they need to have more congressional hearings on regular TV or at least the digital sub stations and the people would watch them and know what our congress is doing.

But nobody can argue about the economy. The past three years we have had a fantastic upsurge in the economy, so perhaps Larry Elder was in part right after all. The average American is supposedly working 54 hours a week while in France they work 35, but that’s assuming you have a job to begin with. If they ever put out honist unemployment figures we could actually see how bad the jobless problem is. Is it ten percent or twenty? A big part of our problem is what Jerry Brown talked about thirty years with “lowered expectations”. We all expect too much from our job incomes now and leverage all of our debts up to the hilt, and that’s our fault; nobody else’s. I think a lot of us are just spending junkies. Spending money makes us feel good and as long as we can defer the responsibility, we say, “If it isn’t happening right now, who cares?” It would be a rare thing if a democrat got elected next year, with this roaring economy. The things we spend our money on are becoming increasingly frivolous, too.

I decided finally to look at what they had on the World Trade center collapse. The bottom line seems to be that important people like Giuliani seemed to be tipped off ahead of time that the buildings were going to collapse. If you will remember they were saying on the news that the buildings were going to collapse before they did, even though no high rise building like that has Ever collapsed, no matter how bad the fires it had. Of course the media consitioned us to think in War disaster terms with terms such as "ground zero". If Franklin Roosevelt right? Is it true that the only way the American people will get involved in a major war is to have major loss of American lives? There were other suspicious movements and actions and statements. Tom Brokov and NBC news cut off a reporter on the ground who was describing bits of artifacts from the offices such as form letters with charred edges but otherwise unburned. The question is why "interrupt" an Eye Witness? What could be more important?? The rhetorical question was ”What Inferno?” The bottom line is that the jet fuel didn’t feed most of the fire but much of it spilled on the ground. It was normal office items that were burning. They did floor stress tests. The big thing is that the fire simply did not get hot enough to soften steel, and at any rate the steel should have been red or orange hot at the time if it were. They showed the fire in Madrid and one in Venesuela and both of them burned for sixteen or twenty hours or something yet those buildings did not collapse. So the whole thing looks suspicious. But we the American citizens are not supposed to think about stuff like this. They accept steel that collapses when the fire isn't nearly hot enough or burned long enough just as they accept the "magic bullet" of the warren comission. As you know in the fall of 1993 I tagged the year in my writings as “The year of anti conspiracy” because in this year they pelted us on TV with all sorts of stuff that said the Warren Commission was right after all, and since then the very phrase “grassy knoll” is used as a term of mockery. Also in this year there seemed to be a campaign to dismiss a lot of psychic phenomina. I had this forty minute or so long tape that documented an actual alien UFO invasion. This whole family was being terrorized and nobody appeared to be acting. I wonder whether indeed the President gets on the phone to Tom Brokov or whoever and says "Don't use that footage you have. It's a matter of national security. I haven't seen any rebroadcasts of that tape on TV. I’d like to review it but it might be among the eight or so boxes of mine that are missing.

Yesterday ( ) there were two major items in the news. George Bush was slapped down by a three judge appealette court when they ruled that people legally residing in the US can be thrown in a prison hole somewhere and just left there without being charged. This happened to one guy and I hope he’s out today. The Bush administration said they wanted to appeal that result but I didn’t think appeals involving a defendant like that were legal. It seems a citizen can’t arbitrarily be tagged an “enemy combatant” and the Court said to either try the prisoner or let him go. The Bush administration’s fondest goal of course is to postpone ending this whole War of Terrorism till hell freezes over

Alberto Gonsolez did not get his no confidence vote from congress yesterday. The vote wasn’t even close to cut off debate. The vote was 53 to 38 in the Senate and they needed sixty. Of course that chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, or the “Chiefs of Joint” as that one UFO lady says, was fired last week. But Gonsolez’ job seems safe. Tony Snow was confident today saying that even the Imigration bill could come up for a vote again and this time it would have conservative amendments so it could pass.

Thom Hartman was talking about the draft. Let me state my position again. If you had the draft that would just allow the armed services to cast off all their inhibitions about escalating any war because they would know from now on they would never again have a manpower shortage, so tens of thousands more will end up getting killed. I don’t think they will suddenly “have more respect for human life” because they’re draftees. I don’t think they think that way. Supposidly three of four of Roosevelt’s sons were decorated in combat in WW II. FDR has a moral respectable posture. I don’t think you give a drug addict free dope and I don’t think you give a war hungry President free reign to take more lives. First deal with the man at the top; then we’ll talk about the draft.

Thom Hartman was talking about libertarians and trying desperately hard to twist the truth. He knows libertarians say government’s role is to protect property. Then a woman comes on and says that a burglar’s right to steal property and his “pursuit of happiness” will be infringed, if he is stopped by the police in his activities. Of course we all believe in the rule of “what’s good for society” and societal standards. That’s why I believe pornography standards ought to be left up to local municipalities because various communities have different standards as to what’s morally decent or not.

Today is Flag Day. I guess it's the first day Betsy Ross sewed the first flag. It would seem that many signers of the Declaration of Independence were serious when they pledged “Our Lives, Our Fortunes, and Our Sacred Honor”. Those people were willing to risk. In school they used to show these Profiles in Courage film documentaries. It would seem that today's politicians are "Profiles in Cowardice". Back then many rich people lost their money and their lands and houses and in many cases their wives and children. The British starved and beat military prisoners, unlike George Washington, who was humaine. There weren’t any “filthy rich” people, as we know the term today. That didn’t still till about the time of the Robber Barons around 1880. The signers of the Declaration of Independence were all various professions such as farmers and merchants and doctors, as well as bankers. T H just thought you should know. It's been said "Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed frequently, and for the same reasons". I would like to extend the same admonition to church pastors. When are we again going to make Christianity a people's religion? It's the laity who are called upon to witness to the world. Just as in 1789 it was a citizen House of Representatives which was invisioned. People would serve a couple of terms and then go back to their farms and shops. If there is any merit in compulsry government service it would be to dispell this notion that our government is Of the Elete, By the Elete, and For the Elete.

LLEPS ETH ESREVER Volume Two

All I Really Want to Do (Cher)

Set Me Free (Kinks)

Stranger In Town (Del Shannon)

Go to Pieces (Peter & Gordon)

Saturday Night at the Movies (Drifters)

Maybe I Know (Leslie Gore)

Maybeline (Johnny Rivers)

Viva, Las Vegas (Elvis Presley)

Little Old Lady From Pasadena (Jan & Dean)

When I Get Home (Beatles)

I Get Around (Beach Boys)

Yesterday’s Gone (Chad & Jeremy)

Abigail Beecher (Freddy Cannon)

Glad All Over (Dave Clark V)

Ramrod (Dwane Eddie)

Lonley Bull (Tijuana Brass)

Ring of Fire (Johnny Cash)

Love of the Loved (Beatle rarety)

Dedicated to the One I Love (Cherrels)

Sway With Me (Bobby Rydel)

Hully Gully (Olympics) (?)

Ko Ko Bop (Little Anthony & the Imperials)

Come On, Everybody (Eddie Cochrin)

Big Bopper’s Wedding (The Big Bopper)

Rave On (Buddy Holly)

Rock and Roll is Here to Stay (Danny & the Juniors)

26 is kind of the standard number for very short songs three minutes or just less in average running time. We're allowing up to 77 minutes per CD, which some CD's have. Many of these songs are here and have been kicked off of other compilations and sometimes more than once. This is the first "official" airing for groups such as Bobby Rydel or the Tijuana brass.

Late News: It appears that congress has recessitated the Immigration bill, thanks to President Bush's personal intervention. Both democrat and republican have pledged that they will not try to kill the bill again untill it is passed. Both parties are scheduled time to offer their proposed amendments. In terms of the rock compilation, it's changed from yesterday. We have made a direct song for song substitution. As to the somg we cut, yesterday there were two representations of this group on this album. Now there's only one. In terms of the song we added it's being used in a highly distasteful TV commercial, and if I were the group I'd sue.

Bush visited the Balkins the other day. Bush was in Albania and was warmly welcomed by these people even though they are largely Moslems in religion. The people in Kosovo, which is part of Serbia are ethnically Albanian, and President Bush wants Kosovo to be independant from Serbia, and in this I agree with the President. But Russia alias the Soviet Union of old, is against the idea of Kosovo independance from Serbia, as if it's any of their business. It would seem as if Russia us unilatterally bringing back the cold war, and if they're going to make themselves an enemy, perhaps we better start treating them like one.

Looking to Thom Hartman for a little news he's talking about stem call research and whether or not a blastisis, or a zygote, or an embryo is actually alive and calling it a religious debate, which it is not. There is not one verse in the Bible about when a cell structure is called life. This is a moral and a scientific issue but not a religious one. There is no question that science considers union of egg and sperm a life form. This is a zygote. A group of cells that are all still identical is called a blastisis. An embryo is what it is called after it has attatched to the womb. For a while every time I used to use the ' or apostraphe, the find thing would open up in Firefox but it appears to have gotten over that quirk now

You know there was one bit of off color humar I was going to use to slam a certain TV commercial, as well as slam fundamentalist stupidity all in one blow, but it involved sexual off color humor and in conformance to my higth E I B stands, good taste dicted that I not include an otherwise brilliant illustration. The whole thing centered around the idea that for every act of sex a Christian has a kid is produced. But this implies Christians are sexually uptight. The new proselites ARE. The way Christians use sex, or rather, sexual deprivation, is to Weed Out people whom they don't like and don't "Fit in" to their church or whatever. They believe in "Living by grace". So all these gay drug taking pastors you see are "living by grace". But like the Southern white as a regestrar of voter's office and a Black person comes in- - just think of "Grace" as the vehical he uses to descriminate. In the case of the Christian- - - everybody has sex. So "one of these days" you're going to be "caught" having sex. Then you can be kicked out.

I find myself in the position of actually agreeing with a statement that Lieberman made apparently on Face the Nation yesterday. He said that the US should bomb Iran. I agree that we should even though people are against Bush now doing anything provacative. Iran had flip flopped on their relation to Afghanistan. They were fighting the Afghans. Now Iran and the Talliban are alledgedly working together. Iran is supporting Al Qaida's attacks on US troops. They are doing this to send us a "signal" of Don't Mess with Iran. I'd call their bluff and start bombing in fifteen minutes. They are going to come up with a nuclear bomb at some time in the next few months anyhow, and we might as well bomb them now and solve the problem.

On Sixty Minutes they talked about the government "phone book", a list of 44,000 names on the "No Fly" list. There are a lot of dead people on the list. And there are a lot of heads of nations around the world on the "No Fly" list. On the other hand there are a lot of known terrorists that are not on the No Fly list. The intelligence in compiling this list is "worse than predicting 9 - 11", which was pretty bad. Of course Guiliani is talking about some giant government data base apparently of names of illegal aliens. We need according to Giuliani some tamper proof government national identification card. Guiliani was against the immigration bill congress sent up but apparently is in favor of an even more stringent one of his own. I am hostile to the whole idea of some gigantic government data base. I realize in the case of gun control it may be necessary. But there's always so many ways to abuse national computer data bases, such as selling them to private companies, or unintended uses, ect.

Hillary Clinton has made the statement that her Faith got her through all that stuff with Monica Luinsky and her husband. She says her Faith enabled her to stick with her marriage. If it were any other woman I'd believe her but Hillary is so proficient at lying I would not believe any word that comes out of her mouth. As far as I know she still hasn't apologised for the "Vast right wing conspiracy" statement yet, and it's been nearly ten years. If you believe Hillary is a woman of religious faith, there's a bridge in New York I want to sell you. If you've been a Christian as long as I have you can spote a "Me, too" person. I don't know how her "Christian Faith" would square with such issues as gay marriage, or her intrinsic hostility to the American Family being shielded from government meddeling. I am unconfortable with the notion of any National Health Care program because it will increase the size of government fundamentally. I am against any program that tends to increase the size of government. As Rush says if Hillary gets her way the national symbol ought to be a Pig, with all the little piglets sucking from her teats. You know, the other day I again encountered that woman who was unfair with me giving second portions on dinner. But I happened to think that this is how it is with man and God. Man is this greedy, grubby little kid going "feed me, serve me next, give me the next blessing". Because under Christianity like under a President Hillary, a man's merit is determined not by his skill or drive or inginuity, but rather whether God "blesses" him or not, kind of like Jacob in Genisis. This is fundamentally what's wrong with the Calvary Chappels is that one's worth is determined by the grace of God and not other things such as moral integrety or something.

There is some Witches Woodstock going on now. As you know we are comint up on the 40th. Anniversary of the Monterey Pop Festival. In 1971 I came up with the date June 16th. 2007 as the end of the world because it was forty years or a Biblical generation after Monterey Pop. But these pagens gathering for a festival have encountered zoning problems according to World Net Daily. World Net Daily is also against Yoga. It s seems yoga is anathama to Christianity. When you think about it the truth is that Christianity is anathama to controle over your own body. It's funny that physical relaxation or techniques to focus the body energy would be anathema to Christianity. But I guess if you're a Christian you're supposed to be tense and tied up in knots. That's the way they like it. Any reference to "chi" fource, is considered as of the Devil.

Of course the whole question now is whether Fred Thompson is really a Christian. James Dobson and other "experts" at WND believe Thompson's credentials are bogus, because Thompson's own denomination, the Church of Christ, considered him a lapsed member. Of course I renounced my faith in Christianity in June of 1996. I'm not sure whether that was a wise decision or not. The last what you could call romantic relation I had with a woman was in the late spring and early summer of 1996. There was a guy in the hospital named Jack, and he had a saying, "It's been so long since I've had sex even my fanticies are reruns". I relate to this saying. Dianne ( ) had a blond haired six year old son named Zack. He was a kid who once he got going would talk a blue streak. There is no reference to either Dianne or Zack on my computer in mid 1996 however there is a file called Moondawg. This is taken because Zack would often be in the swimming pool howeling like a dog.

Some people wonder what heaven is like. A lot of beliefs people have about heaven can't be supported in the Bible. One belief is that in heaven you will find supreme happiness. But the same God who promices happiness in the hereafter is even more explicit about happiness and blessings in this life right here on earth. Does God pass the Dr. Phill test? Dr. Phill has a saying, "The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior". Just what about death is it that is going to fundamentally alter the way God interracts with us? You know there are certain words that are not in the language of the "sea people" off the coast of Thailand. These are the people who know the ways of the sea better than any marine biologist. If you're an old man and haven't had breakfast just see a fish swimming by and speer it. I'd like to have that kind of physical coordenation. This must be what heaven is like. There are no words for "Want" or "wish" "hope" or "wait" or "worry" or whatever. God is said to be a fully actuallized being. These words aren't in god's vocabulary either. When a thought or impulse enters God's mind it becomes Reality. Not just reality here in our time frame here but a reality that transcends all time. (Selah) I wouldn't mind living in a world like that for a while.

Tabitha, the witch on Passions made an interesting remark today. She said that Kay better watch her step when she endeavors to cast a good spell to help people because every reaction has consequences. Every action has a reaction, and as a consequence some innocent people may suffer in the process of her friends being helped. What’s interesting about this is that I myself have wondered whether prayers of other Christians, like for a job or for a girlfriend, might in fact be hurting me. Christian’s utter apathy to some people’s misfortunes among the Calvary chapels is widely known. In fact Chuck Smith often brags that certain people have died as a consequence of teaching wrong doctrine. But the law of “limited good” is more widely spread than this. George Burnes alias God remarked that the reason for evil was “If you’re going to have a top, there has to be a bottom”. By this he states that good and evil are somehow symbiotically connected and that one is utterly dependent on the other, a teaching the Orion Federation utterly refutes. George Burnes stated the reason why miracles of good occur so seldomly is because mericals mess up the karmic ecology, or whatever. Jesus Christ in the Bible was appealed to by demons saying “Don’t judge us before our time” and it appears Jesus listened to them, at least in part. Jesus Christ on the radio has repeatedly stated that Satan has rights and that his purposes can't be interfeared with. He also has stated that “If the evil or misfortune you’re talking about has anything to do with human sin, I can’t help you”. Jesus has also stated obliquely that there are mysterious “reasons” why evil in this world is necessary and cannot be abolished by God, even through prayer. Sylvia Browne said something interesting the other day I had missed the first time around. There was a little girl who was warned by spirit demons or something about an impending house fire that would kill her and her whole family if they did not get out immediately. She says afterwards she didn’t trust those spirit demons any more and didn’t want them around her. I guess the question is whether the spirit demons CAUSED the fire. Then there is the question whather in all these “stories” you hear evangelists preach, whether it is really normal misfortune they are “delivered” from, from Jesus or whether the holy spirit and emissaries thereof are guilty of “setting fires”, metaphorically or actually, so that they might gain attention to themselves. Jesus never questioned whether Satan had power over this world. He never disputed with Satan over this. He did dispute it with Pilate saying “You only have your power because it was given to you by God” but he didn’t say any such thing to Satan. I find it curious that there are no “conversations with Satan” that are related the day Satan was supposedly defeated, that is, the day Jesus rose from the dead. There must have been an interesting confrontation that day. What sort of things did Satan say to Jesus or did Jesus say to Satan? I find it also interesting that Jesus never wrote anything down his entire life. Certainly the private memwires of God would bring a high price on the Roman book market. Not only did Jesus write nothing down but you never hear of Jesus making any reference to the past like something that happened in his life ten years earlier or when he was a child. And as we have said, Jesus never addressed Mary as “Mother”. It is said that when one commits a good or evil act “The universe” pays him back. But oddly, the trend now, particularly among the Calvaries, is not to talk about responsibility for one’s actions, past or present. It’s been my belief that what you do in the past is a part of you. “You are what you do”. There are any number of reasons why your “methodology” for happiness now may take a different course than it did when you were younger. If Ted Kazinski and the Zodiac Killer are really one and the same, the methodology changed as the man grew older, if not wiser. If was said on a soap opera today, “Sean just hasn’t found himself yet”. That is, he hasn’t settled into a rut he’ll be in for the rest of his life. You know what a rut is; it’s an open ended grave. People get lazy when they get older. Young people see plainly this mental laziness and intellectual dishonesty when they discuss a bone of contention with their parents. Sometimes I suspect, being a Christian is just “confortable” because you have become so mentally ossified that thinking is a real strain for you and you’d just rather take refuge in tired, if conforting clichés.

George Bush has apparently made peace with Vladamir Putin. But Stewart Mc Burnie said decades ago that it’s the methodology of the Soviets to take two or three steps foreward and then to take one step backwards, and everyone gasps a sigh or relief. Then when everyone’s guard is down they take another two or three steps foreward. Putin apparently didn’t mean all those threats he made to George Bush about what would happen if Bush put in a missile defence system for Europe. Now they may have some sort of a deal where they have a joint defence from Ajorbaijan or something, that mutually benefits both countries. We’ll have to wait.

Prince Bandar is a guy whom every American President seems bound to make some sort of a deal with. President Bush suspended the air traffic blackout after 9 – 11 so that Bandar could fly friends of Bin Laden back to Saudi Arabia. It’s said they ordered missiles they didn’t need all so Bandar and his cohorts could make a bigger profit. And there is talk of numerous talk of kickbacks in business dealings. Certainly these are things that any democratic president will have to deal with.

The immigration bill is now dead. The senate took a key vote to cut off debate and to vote on the bill, and it failed to get the sixty needed. There is just so much hysteria on both sides of the issue now. Unions fear the guest worker program thinking it will lower wages. I’d rather have them legal and to know where they are than how it is now. I’d rather have the border security tightened up. Some fear that amnesty will be the end result though the bill makes it clear the prospective citizens have to go to the back of the immigration line and jump through other hoops for citizenship.

Last night they had a thing on an internal coup by the Banano family where three members were gunned down in 1981. The Federation says Howard was indirectly associated with the Banano family. Of course he is known for his association with the Wrigley company. The FBI infiltrated the Banano family from about 1979 to 1985 and then considered them unimportant. But Messino, the guy who was making the power grab to begin with cemented his position and was high riding in the ninties when the family regained their status. It was said to be the first case where the FBI got all the mafia bigwigs to rat out each other. Very unusual.

In experiments done with mice they have artificially produced a mouse embryo clone that resembles normal embryonic stem cells even though they were obtained from the skin. These cells can now be made to become any needed organ. This scientific breakthrough seemingly solves any lingering ethical problem about using embryonic stem cells.

Paris Hilton was let out of jail today after serving only three days. She was released on the order of the Sheriff for health reasons and has to wear a monitoring device for the rest of her sentence. I wonder how this will relate to Scooder Libby who could probably fake some health problem to get out of serving his sentence in 45 days without having to be given a Presidential pardon, which would be desasterous for Republican candidates saying there is nothing about George Bush they aren’t proud of.

The Anaheim Ducks have become the first West Coast team to win the Stanley Cup. They won it at the Pond. The players took turns hoisting the big cup, following a prescribed pecking order. They won the game six to two. The Orion Federation took credit for the win even though they made no prediction in advance. As you may know Zachery was known to be an ice hockey fan. Of course the announcer saluted both teams.

There really isn't anything going on right now in the national politick. George Bush is out of the country so I guess he can't cause any mischief. Last week several sources reported Bush ranting about "I Am the President! Why don't people respect that?" and thumping his chest repeatedly. It seems as if Ezekiel chapter 39 may have struck pay dirt. This is the chapter that said that Russia would be destroyed in a blazing conflaguration. Well, it seems as if Russia hasn't stored their nuclear wastes properly and there is a liklihood that some sort of spontanious fission chain reaction could occur. Russia seems to just want to forget they ever had nuclear weapons without dealing with the reality of the problem. In other news city councils want to ban burning wood in your own fireplace. In fact they want to ban fireplaces from being built in any new houses. This sounds like creeping government if it ever existed. They want to regulate char broilers, and I imagine they'll go after private outdoor barbecues next. The thing is once we surrender our rights there is no way of getting them back. That's kind of how the system works. When our country first started out the people were "presumed" a priori, to have ALL the rights that specifically wern't accorded to government. My how this has changed!

They had the democratic Presidential candidates debate last night. The spin put on this by radio hosts from KTLK radio is that there are certain people you can count on to tell the truth such as Gravel, and Dennis Kasinich, and perhaps Joe Byden. But that the rest of them are a bunch of hypocrites and posers and that includes O Bama and Hillary Clinton. Edwards was criticizing how they waited to cast their votes on the war till they measured how it would work out politically. John Edwards is also being attacked by the media now, or is about to be, for telling it like it is. The media doesn't like that. The moderator, Wolf Blitzer, appearently tried to shut people down if candidates got a little "too far from the script" or actually came up with any original good ideas. The concencus among democrats now is that the single payer government health care plan is out. They'll only accept "deals" with private insurors. That way they get their campaign contributions. If we have to have government involved in health care at all the best way by far, to me, seems to be to bypass private insurance companies, who are obviously out for the money, and they are far less efficient than the government.

Apparently June 3rd. was the anniversary of men walking in space when White stepped out of the capsule and walked out in space for twenty minutes. But apparently the Russians had already done it. It was probably the last time the Russians were ahead of us. We need the equivelant of the Gemini and Apollo programs to try and put a man on Mars. That is easily doable, and to tell you the truth I've very surprised we don't have men on Mars already.

You know that religion has always gotten "a pass" in terms of rationality. Nobody asks the Dr. Phill questions such as "What are the possible negative consequences of doing this?" Religion is set up so that the mere act of testing its legatimicy is itself grounds for "unpardonable sin" or something. People often mean the exact oposit of what they say. If they say "I'm not intimidated by your questions" it's a pretty good chance that they are or they wouldn't be bringing it up. They will be far more willing to tell you what God is NOT, but only if you raise a specific question like "I have such and such problem. Can God help me here". John Lennon once said, "They hate you if you're cleaver but they dispize a fool". Well these people wag their finger at you if you show doubt. But if you show indications you might actually believe in the supernatural- - then they think you're weird or even dangerous, because at that moment you are beyond their control. If you listen to Dr. Phill enough you learn to look for the motive behind the action before you get sucked in. In the words of one of my brothers, it's all about "Telling a good story". Now when you tell your kids a "story" like that your motive is to get them to listen to you on some other issue, like Ward Cleaver used to do. The story is only a means to enhanced parental authority. (Selah)

And now I'd like to present the first rock compilation I've done since January. I don't know if it's as good as the others. It probably isn't. The next day we expanded the thing from five to six discs. That way you can do a box of three double dip holders. We moved "Danage" to the right place in the alphabet, with all the "The" songs, of which there are so many. Everything up to "Night Prowler" is identical to yesterday. Below this we went from two to three discs.

R A D I O - R E A D Y - A to Z

disc one

About a Girl (Live Nirvana)

African Night Flight (David Bowie)

After Forever (Black Sabbath)

Aladen Sane (David Bowie)

And She Was (Talking Heads)

Anthem (Rush)

Astronomy Donnie (Pink Floyd)

Blue Collar Man (Styx)

Baby Blue (Badfinger)

Born To Be Wild (Steppinwolf)

Can’t Find a Better Man (Pearl Jam)

Carmen (B L T)

City of New Orleans (Arlo Gutherie)

Cocaine Blues (George Thorogood)

Corporal Klinger (Pink Floyd)

Crawling King Snake (The Doors)

disc two

Crystal Ball (Styx)

Cylus Stingy (The Who)

Deep Blue (George Harrison)

Disguises (The Who)

Divine Wind (Blue Oyster Cult)

Double Vision (Foreigner)

Everybody Knows This is Nowhere (Neil Young)

Eyes Without a Face (Billy Idol)

For Your Eyes Only (Blondie)

Green Eyed Lady (Sugarloaf)

Going Out to the Country (Canned Heat)

Hard Hearted Hanna (George Harrison)

Heart Shaped Box (Nirvana)

High, High, High (Mc Cartney and Wings)

Hold Me (Fleetwood Mac)

Holy, Holy (David Bowie)

House on Puneil Corners (Jefferson Airplane)

disc three

I Can’t Wait for the Nights with You (Scorpions)

I’m Looking Through You (The Beatles) (Anthology version)

I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight (Bob Dylan)

It’s Too Late (B L T)

Journey to the Center of the Mind (Amboy Dukes)

Lady (Styx)

Lather (Jefferson Airplane)

Lazy Day (Moody Blues)

Leopardskin Pillbox Hat (Bob Dylan)

Let’s Go (The Cars)

Let’s Lynch the Landlord (Dead Kennedies)

Lost, Little Girl (The Doors)

Make Rock Not War (Blue Oyster Cult)

Man on the Moon (R E M)

Midnight Rendezvous (The Babies)

Night Prowler (AC CD)

disc four

No Quarter (Led Zeppelin)

One of Nature’s Children (John Lennon)

Parachute Woman (Rolling Stones)

Peter Rooter (Chich & Chong)

Pictures of Lilly (The Who)

Port of Amsterdam (David Bowie)

Problem Child (AC DC)

Pump It Up (Elvis Costello)

Radio Radio (Elvis Costello)

Ride the Tiger (Jefferson Starship)

Robert's Box (Procol Herem)

Second Time Around (Blue Cheer)

Ship of Fools (Robert Plant)

Southern Man (Neil Young)

St. Luis Blues (Instrumental) (Steely Dan)

disc five

Sundown on the Union (Bob Dylan)

Tainted Love (Soft Cell)

Tank (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)

Teddy Boy (The Beatles)

The Chain (Fleetwood Mac)

The Damage is Done (Foreigner)

The Music Must Change (The Who)

The Necromancer (Rush)

The Three Fates (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)

The Vidgil (Blue Oyster Cult)

The Wizzard (Black Sabbath)

disc six

This Year’s Girl (Elvis Costello)

Tombstone Blues (Bob Dylan)

Twelve Bar Origional (The Beatles)

Viscious (Lou Reed)

Waiting for the End of the World (Elvis Costello)

Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed)

We Could Be Together / Volunteers (Jefferson Airplane)

What’s the new Mary Jane (Beatles)

When You Get Drafted (Dead Kennedy’s)

Whiskey Train (Procol Herem)

Who Are You? (Black Sabbath)

With A Gun (Steely Dan)

Word on a Wing (David Bowie)

Wreck of the Hesperus (Procol Herem)

Would I Lie to You? (Eurithmics)

Young Boy Blues (Honeydrippers)