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.