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)