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.