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.