MC CAIN MAKES HIS WAY TWORD PARTY VICTORY

Well, if I were a timely writer I would have written this when all the other blogs appeared last night. John Mc Cain is the apparent victor for the Republican nomination. Florida was the "tipping point" and that's just how it works, like a scale. It's like the contest between Blue Ray and HTDVD, one corporation like Warners can make an executive decision that will tip the ballance of the whole thing favoring Blue Ray for years and decades to come. The analogy is like walking tword a bunch of pidgions. All of the birds fly away within a second or so of each other, as if they one and all received the same signal. The fact that politicians quit fifty feet before the finish line of a marathon seems a little silly to me but that's just how it works. Giuliani quit after Florida because he came in a distant third in a race where he had been camping out in the state for weeks. Giuliani placed all his eggs in the Florida basket. All the conservatives are nuts with the notion of Mc Cain as the Republican nominee, but they can't do anything about it. Rush Limbaugh was bloviating about this today and did a near hysterical little satire production of what if he were running for President himself. But Rush should leave political satire to Randi Rhodes and the experts, who know what they are doing. All of Romney's money doesn't appear to be doing him any good. You'd think it would but this herd instinct thing is a powerful, like all the pidgions flying away at once. You can't fight it. So now Giuliani is endoursing Mc Cain. He's at the rear of the line and turning around the other way and pretending to lead it.

Randi Rhodes is upset that John Edwards dropped out of the Presidential race today. All of the people who voted in advance in Florida are having their vote disenfranchized. Of course all of the people who voted for Hillary in Florida and Michigan have their votes disenfranchized, because a convention, which has no jourisdiction over state laws, says they held their primaries too early. Edwards said he'd never drop out but promised to take his fight all the way to the convention. Randi Rhodes and I both had dreams of a brokered convention so people of my generation and younger could witness what a real party convention was all about. But that was not to be. Of course Ted and Caroline Kennedy endorsed Obama. But other members of the Kennedy family have endorsed Hillary Clinton. I don't know if anybody can stop the Hillary juggernaut. I know this: Once again California's vote will have little relivance in picking anybody. Because everybody is already pre programmed to vote for Hillary and Mc Cain, respectivly. Randi was hoping the victorious democrat could run against Giuliani, because he has screwed up so badly. The thing wrong with this dream is that Giuliani might win the generally and boy would Randi look stupid them! I've been watching all the MSNBC articles of relivance from either the 29th. or a few on the 28th. Giuliani gave a good quazi concession speech last night. One person I have heard almost nothing out of is Mitt Romney. Rush Limbaugh says there is something wrong with each and every Republican running. I supposed Rush never stopped to think that maybe HE is the person who there is something wrong with.

Bush gave his State of the Union message last night. In terms of the Iraq War I'm not going to doubt Bush's words. It's the future I'm concerned about rather than the past. If he can get us out of the war so we can finally put the whole thing out of our minds I'll be happy with that. I disagree with Bush calling for more illegal aliens to come to this country because our economy needs their labor. This is an insult to each and every US worker, and a bigger insult to the labor unions. I also strongly contest Bush's statement that we have to absolve the Communications Corporations of all liability so if they slander the names of citizens, that citizen no longer has resourse to the court system, which is a sacred right of every US citizen. I also dispute Bush's desire to make the tax cuts permanent. The thing is if we're going to be spending all this new money for bail outs, the government is going to need every cent it can get. Comon sense dictates that now is not the time to cut taxes and force the government to float yet more bonds. I would note that the President appears to have turned his Texas twang up a knotch. Also he did not introduce people in the military and such during the speech. Randi Rhodes claims the President spent a minute each on six or seven vital topics and the other forty-odd minutes talking about the Iraq War and terrorism, and the need to cut taxes. But I think as his speeches go it was a better, well laid out speech than other speeches the President has given.

On Days of our Lives of course they have this Campus rape and suspected murder case of several co-eds. If Dexter Ford's father is as powerful as he claims to be he can get a judge to place an injunction gag order on the girls so they are not even allowed to talk to the newspapers about the rape. That way Dexter Ford's father can poison the jury pool with lies of his own in the newspaper, and of course with a judge in his back pocket, any change of venue requests will be denied. The ace in the hole the girls have is to not tell them where the body is burried. You can get a conviction of murder without a body present, but it's a whole lot harder. If nothing else it will push back the trial date. The thing that screws people in soap operas if that they have a three day trial a couple of weeks or so after the murder. Real life is nothing like that. Trial delay almost invariably helps the defense. I would go them one better and say that they made the whole thing up about burrying the body to begin with just to taunt Dexter's father. If all the girls deny everything, I'd make the cops earn their pay and try and come up with evidence. I'd go back to the cover story about how a man wearing Dexter's clothes was seen leaving the building. I'd also tone down the emotion and not even talk about the rapes to the cops. I'd only bring it up again if it looked like I was cornered. Lots of corrupt people keep all sorts of secrets we'd be amazed about if we knew them all, as in the lyrics, "Look out, kid, they keep it all hid". Were they to find Dexter Ford's DNA on the premises I'd just say "We've already admitted he was here, what's the big deal. He'd a sneaky guy and he probably sneaked around places where he shouldn't be". I think telling the cops was a big mistake but I think if you hire a good "plumber" you can plug the leaks in time. If I were screwed over by someone and I knew justice would never be done and I had a chance to get even with them somehow, and I did it, I'd reason to myself "OK I'm a liar but if the truth came out it wouldn't make me look any worse, but it'd just be messy and why not save everybody a lot of muss and fuss and keep things the way they are?"

A L R E A D Y - G O N E

The big news of this morning January 28, 2008 is that Ted Kennedy has endorsed the Obama campaign and the reason he is doing so is because of the under handed and over-bearing tacticts used by the Billery team. Ted Kennedy has asked Bill Clinton to styfle his remarks but was un-heeded. This is a type of deliverance for Obama. He doesn’t like the Jesse Jackson comparison as a “localized Black candidate”.

Mit Romney may just outlast all his competition in terms of money. One wonders whether in the after-life people earn moral credits or capital that they are free to “spend” when the situation presents itself, in order to prevail over their enemies.

Last night I had a dream which “turned me around” on this whole God thing. I was asking myself questions like how do we live up to the perfection of Jesus Christ, and how do we separate what the real Jesus did as opposed to those things that have become mythologized over the centuries and melinia. All those bets are off. Last night I had a dream which even while it was going on morally disgusted and sickened me. But it was after the dream was over that I heard a conversation with Oscar talking in the halls with someone. I’m not going to share this conversation but let’s call it a real eye opener if true, if this too wasn’t part of the dream. Let’s just say it’s a case of God hitting me below the belt and I’m not going to play in his ball park any more. As far as I am concerned God has forfeited the game. My state of mind could be likened to five or so events that occurred in late July of 1991 and early August. One on July 14^th. 1991 and three in late July and one on August 9^th. 1991. At that time I mind was so messed around with I considered suicide on Sunday night August 11^th. 1991 right after a movie about the early Beatles. There is a key line where I stopped rolling tape. It was something like “That group is going nowhere, but at least we are going- - Somewhere”. This is when Stewart Sutcliffe was in the group and they spent a lot of time hanging around graveyards posing. - - - You know how people say “It’s gone” referring to an object no longer there, or “He’s gone” when a person has just died. We tend to use the IS construction rather than the HAS construction. In Shakespherian times people did the same thing with the cord “Come”. So you have lines like “The idea of March are come”, to which the Sooth Sayer says to Julius Caesar, “Aye Caesar, but not gone”. (Selah)

THE MARCUS ARELIUS GUIDE
TO SHAPSPHERIAN ENGLISH

Mark take note of, recall, observe

Barb to cut

Repose rest

Arowse awaken

Roust To flush out (?)

Suffer allow, put up with

Shod shoed (past tense)

Trod treaded (past tense)

Wrought worked (past tense)

Be If [noun] is

Extremity extenuating circumstances

Whilst while

Whence from where

Thence from there

Hence from here

Hither to here

Thither to there

Yon over there (adjitive)

Yonder over there (noun)

Wither where to (to where)

Thee you (object)

Thou you (subject)

Thy your

Thine your, yours

Mine my, mine

Right quite, exactly

Naught zero

Cipher number, computation

Communicate give

Cumly appealing

Idling wasting time

Bye and bye immediately

Mock make light of, joke

Check to keep within set bounds

[verb] + eth 3^rd. person (indicative)

[verb] + est 2^nd. person (indicative)

Wouldst 2^nd. person (would)

[3^rd. person] shall (imposing your will on another)

[2^nd. person] shall (imposing your will on another)

I shall I will

Shant will not, won’t

Wont accustomed

Want, wanting need, lacking

I will [expression not used by mortal man]

Stank stunk

Crew crowed

Rank low, low-down

Bold inappropriate, presumptuous

Languid lazy, weak, mal nourished

‘tis it’s

‘twas it was

Thrice three times

Twane two, (halves0

Carefully prompt, promptly

Ill poorly

Muster process (in or out of)

Mistress lady of the house

Vex stress out

Try test, examine

Commend place into care of

Ye you (plural), yourselves

Unto to

Haveth have (3^rd. personproper verb)

Havest have (2^nd. person proper verb)

Art are (2^nd. person)

Mayest may (2^nd. person)

Slew slayed (past tense)

Who so ever whoever

On this wise in this way

Wench prostitute, slut

Hath has (3^rd. person)

Hast has (2^nd. person)

Wilt will (2^nd. person)

Shouldst should (2^nd. person)

Wouldst would (2^nd. person)

Pole cat skunk

Quick alive

Vessel ship

Aye yes

Let prevent

Avarice greed

Jagger surgeon

Huberus wrathful pride

Gird tie up, fasten

Consummation eventuality

Taken at the full opportunistic moment

Physician undertaker

Crag cliff

Sloth laziness

Maid young unmarried woman

Hewn cut down, cut out of

Bridal sometime done to a horse

Husband steward, care-taker

Quick silver mercury

Flout mock, disparage, belittle

Orb moon, planet

Missile catapulted object

Wax to become, to increase

Wane to lessen, get smaller

Faculty sense organ, mind

Stylus pen, quill

Visage face

Vesture clothing

Don put on

Loins thies, genitals

Bowels emotions, feelings, heart

Cock rooster

Rooster one who perches or roosts

Dexterity ease, swiftness

Seemly natural, appropriate

Azure blue

Circumnavigate go around

Similitude likeness

Sanguine pertaining to blood

Ebullience high spirited, enthusiastic

Condescend to humble oneself

Strumpet prostitute

Prostrate lie down, lying down

Lain laid (bad grammar)

Supplicant petitioner of royalty

Pray ask, request

AFTER ME - THE DELUGE

Testing one, two, three. The concencus now in politics is that George Bush isn't making the mistake his father made in 1992 by letting the recession run its cource, but is going to jump start the recovery. The theory is that he'll leave it to Hillary to suffer the full brunt of the economic recession when the bubble finally bursts. Well, Hillary can consider herself warned. Hillary is talking so big now like winning the election is going to be a snap. She says it's a good thing that all the republicans are united against her. She somehow thinks she's going to shine through as the guiding light everyone looks to for economic salvation. I don't think this bounce in the stock market we are seeing now means much, and in a week or two we will be plunging headlong into new lows not seen in a decade. You can't solve our economic problems by throwing money at them either by cutting taxes for corporations, or by these rebates they are giving people who already have money. I'd like to know what we poor people aren't being given any rebates. A few hundred would go a long ways to someone like me. People who have money will be getting either six or twelve hundred. I would not be a bit surprised to see the Dow Jones Industrials dip below ten thousand in the next few months. The democratic congress is going to rubber stamp this bill but they are also going to rubber stamp further assaults on our civil liberties, and further cutbacks in the power of FISA courts. I haven't heard Hillary complain about the growing Imperial Presidency we have now. Hillary is going to assume all that expanded power that George Bush procured for the office of the Presidency. Bill Clinton is going to have more power than Dick Chaney because he is an EX-President and those people for some reason get all these CIA and national security briefings. Hillary will indeed be the post polarizing President we have ever had, present company included. Her whole time in office will be one massive power grab after another, and you know the Republicans will win big in congress in the 2010 election.

Last night's debate in Florida was one that I watched and it ran till about 7:38. It consisted of Rudolph Giuliani, Mike Huckibee, Mit Romney, Ron Paul, and John Mc Cain. Mc Cain is the person Thom Hartman believes the republicans will nominate this summer. Mc Cain is like Lazerus come back from the dead. But his message is kind of a "Bush light". He disagrees with his party on several issues as he pointed out last night but basically most of the candidates gave a big thumbs up to the way the Iraq War is going. The Iraq War should not even be an issue if we're making as many gains as they claim we are. They say this summer fighting on the front will be turned over to the Iraqi army and the United States will then take on an advisary role. I'll believe it when I see it. Mike Huckibee talked about his "Pre-bate" and they say he touts it it almost sounds appealing about being given a whole bunch of money if you're poor. I could go for that. I'm being bled dry by these people here and if there was in increase in SSI this month I never saw it. If inflation is as bad as they say it is with food and fuel prices skyrocketing, certainly there should have been a substantial rise, like six or seven percent, in the SSI payments. Ron Paul wants to dismantle Social Security, and I have to agree that the Social Security system is like a ticking time-bomb that needs to be defused and the sooner, the better, and it's fine with me to let the younger generation invest their own money and save that. I only wish that I were young again so I could take my own advice. Romney gave a great speech on the constitution and religious tollerance. It would be the ultimate "coup" of Satan if he could pull off electing a Mormon as President, running against an Evangelist. The Constitution casts no aspirsions on any man by reason of his lack of faith in the Almighty. Giuliani is falling in the polls and I don't recall any brilliant things the ex mayor said last night other than his usual quips about turning the New York City economy around. Romney and other candidates spoke of the need to insure people who live in hurricane areas. After all, they were in Florida.

There is a debate tonight among the Republicans for the Florida primary. I am hoping not to miss it. Sometimes good news can be bad news. The Population Bomb is a reality and as people live longer and don’t have heart attacks or die from smoking or even cancer, their “carbon footprint” lengthens. There will be a major ecological energy crisis as billions of people around the world get “up to speed” and into the twentieth century. All those people in China who ride bikes now will be wanting to drive automobiles, which are domestically produced in China. The standard of living is rising rapidly in India, as it is in many Moslem country in the mideast. Places like Dubai are the new Babylon, and oppulant. There were people on KWHY at the beginning of the seventies who mocked "The Population Bomb" saying if anything the earth is under populated. This same author spoke how "In the 1800's the rivers and streams of the US ran crystal clear, but they were teaming with typhoid and cholera". Rush Limbaugh believes in evolution and so doesn't mind the idea of thousands of rare, irreplacable species of plant and animal being driven to extinction. Someone said that Rush Limbaugh actually attacked Pat Buchannon as a "phoney conservative". If so Rush has really gone off the trolly. Many of the candidates last night spoke of the need for ecology and finding alternative energy sources. Of course Sixty Minutes is re airing all those frightful footages of ice sheets tumbling into the Atlantic. Some say that polar ice in the north could be gone in fifty years. We know that the "tipping point" is very near in the future because of the delayed reaction to anything we do now. Certain things have a momentum all their own. Like in the HTDV wars the equation "tipped" in favor of Blue Ray, and once it "tips", the momentum keeps going that way in a self-sustaining viscious cycle. Population and birth control is "One of those problems we're going to have to start noticing again". Rather than eugenics, we need "Eu-morality" rather than "Dis-morality". Instead of rewarding people for bad behavior and punishing people for good, we need to again reward good behavior and punish people for those acts that don't further ecology.

JUST A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO

Today we’re in the lavender. It’s three o clock and “Cops” is just coming on. I was thinking of recording Sylvia Browne on my VCR but I haven’t switched the cords or gotten any tapes out. I went to the bakery for a second cup of coffee. Just now it has started to rain as clouds thicken. I was just reading up on Oliver Cromwell. Stewart Sutcliffe says “The Federation says that Cromwell is a big thumbs down”. They are among his detractors. Opinion seems divided. He was a Pureton and he seems to have rode the wave of the Comonwealth movement to overthrow Royal sovereignty, but he wanted a despotism of his own. His body was dug up and he was posthumously ceremonially executed on January 30^th. 1661. I them looked at opensecrets.org. That didn’t make a link. Chelsea and Stephanie and the others took a vote today on “Days” and decided to lay down their cards in favor of not coming clean with the cops. I would have voted with the majority were I among them. They have nothing to gain and everything to lose from confessing to the murder. “The system” is against them.

We now have hot cereal for every two days we have one day of cold cereal. We had pancakes and bacon. I played Drive radio and they were doing 1868. The playing time was over 46 minutes and they were already playing “Ride My Sea Saw” when I logged on. That’s over four & a half minutes per song. I then went to the bakery for my first cup of coffee. I intended to check out the sound of the jazz station in headphones, but they were in a news break. I had Thom Hartman on. I listened to Randy Rhodes at noon and for one segment after two. We had corn dogs for lunch and I had seconds.

This morning when I got up the scripture was “quickened to my heart” about the father in the Protigal Son parable saying “Everything I own is at your disposal” or “All that I have is yours” or something. I was “waiting for a message from God” after yesterday morning when I found the rebate thing saving myself fifty bucks. I told God then “I owe you big time. All that I ask is if you want me to do something give me a heads up and let me know in advance, so I can prepare myself for what it is”.

Life Goes Forward

Hillary won out over the favored Obama in the Nevada primary 51% to 45% or something, but Hillary got 13 delegates to Hillary’s twelve. We’ve been waiting two hours for the AFC championship to start and it hasn’t yet and it’s noon on Sunday January 20, 2008. Mit Romney won the Republican primary in Nevada but Ron Paul came in 2^nd. with 15% or so to Mc Cain’s 14%. There were these prostitutes with slightly out of shape boobs and their slogan “Pimping for Paul”. Libertarians are conservatives who want to smoke pot and get laid. In South Carolina Mc Cain won with 33%. Huckibee came in second and third was Fred Thompson with Romney coming in at a close fourth. They talked the campaign on “Meet the Press” and on “This Week” where they had Giuliani interviewed. The media is starting to get in Bill Clinton’s case as kind of a loose cannon. They say he manufactured a story about Casino owners not letting a pro Clinton caucus take place. Clinton attacked Obama for saying Ronald Reagan is where all the good ideas have come from in the past 25 years. That has to be one of the stupidest statements any democratic politician has made. Of course Bill Clinton as an ex president will get all the security and foreign briefings, and won’t have to depend on Hillary. He will also be blessed with all those foreign contacts. In general Bill will indeed be a co-president and outrank the Vice President in status. It will indeed be a third term of the Clinton administration. We will continue to have this Bush-Clinton double helix dynasty. Hillary Clinton will be the greatest of unifiers of Republicans that party could ask for. They may all be fragmented now going off in all directions, but Hillary will give them unity and resolve to all unite and attack her.

This morning I had Joel Olsteen on briefly. He talked about expecting things from God. I used to pray with an idea of expectancy. But people say “You should not pray for God to change but for God to change you”. This sounds good until you analyze the statement. What they are saying is “God is a jerk and treats you like crap. You wouldn’t expect anything else of God would you?” My theory used to be “Since we know God is good, then all God has to do is to “Be Himself”. Jesus Christ on the radio said that there is so much bashing of religion on college campuses. He then said something he must have thought was profound. “These people criticize Faith, but I fell you they exercise just as much Faith when they sit down in a chair and hope it will hold them as you do”. I’d like to ask Jesus, “Just what is it that Ted Bundy and Charles Tex Watson have that appeals to God that I lack?” The same thing could be said of Chuck Smith or the head of the local Calvary Chapel. “Just what is it that God sees in them that I lack?” If you say, “A propensity to believe”, then God comes off looking like a jackass because if you look at my life I’ve always “Looked for God under a bush” or in any little piece of evidence you may find. The whole Sylvia Browne controversy is because she believes that human beings have a spirit body that survives death, aside from our physical body and that we survive death. The reason why Pastors and such hate her is because they themselves don’t believe there is anything real or actual about the supernatural. Jesus this morning said “Don’t make an assertion without offering proof”. If you “vetted” Christianity it wouldn’t stand the test because I myself have experienced that every time an unknown is finally Known, it makes God look like a fool. Think about it. Rather than answer that question about where I Don’t measure up that these other pastors do, God himself would have to resign his post rather than to face the Truth, just like candidate Kennedy said he’d resign if ever confronted with a religious conundrum where he had to decide one way or the other. But the thing is that Faith is not a propensity or willingness to believe. Faith is getting God to act, as Pastor Asshole from El Paso quotes Hebrews himself saying “Faith is the substance of things hoped for”. You could say it thusly: Faith is the Reality of things hoped for”. If you know the alcoholic’s prayer this is an area where you need the resignation to “accept things you cannot change”. Whether Faith is imputed to me is pretty much wholly dependant on God.

They played four songs on the Beatles show that were written while the Beatles were together and became hits in the early seventies. They were “Let It Down” from All Things Must Pass, “Give Me Some Truth” from Imagine, “Another Day”, and “Jealous Guy” a re-worked song from a gathering at George Harrison’s mansion in the spring of 1968. One of these days I’ll have to dip into the vault and fish out old stories from the “eighties to re-submit them here in this blog. Perhaps some of them could be re-worked to make them more up to date. To some extent we have dipped into the vault a little to embellish our blogs. “All Things Must Pass” may refer to old and obscure compositions passing before the public to get a public airing and hearing and evaluation.

If the race comes down to Hillary and Romney in November, and months ago we predicted a Romney victory in the Republican Party, well then I’ll just have to vote Republican because he will be the guy best equipped to get this country out of its many economic problems. I also predicted months ago that the Iraq War would not be an issue in the 2008 fall campaign and it doesn’t look like it will be. We’ve gotten rid of those candidates who favored an early end to the Iraq War. Rush Limbaugh has attacked Huckibee for being “a liberal in preacher’s clothing”. I don’t think Rush likes any of the candidates besides Giuliani. We have serious economic debt problems and China and other foreign nations could pull the plug on us at any time. According to Thom Hartman - - our tax laws actually give tax incentives for corporations locating outside the US. We need to abolish NAFTA and this drive tword globalization of the economy. We need to put Social Security on a voluntary investment driven basis. We need to do something about HMO’s stranglehold over the health industry. We need to break the American people of this dependency “gimme, gimme” thinking where if they make bad investments or get themselves in economic trouble that the government will always be there to bail him out. The stock market is dropping this whole month, and there is no indication it will change direction any time soon. We need to stem the tide of liberal fascism with the fat police and the nutrition police and the OTC drug police and the smoking police. I think we should end the prohibition against advertising cigarettes on television, and we need to let restaurants decide for themselves whether they’ll allow smoking. We also need to overturn Roe vs. Wade “with all deliberate speed” and we need a constitutional amendment saying that just because your kid is born here it doesn’t make him a citizen, if you’re an illegal alien. We need to go after employers who hire illegals. We need to free up funding for stem cell research. And most importantly we must roll back all these encroachments on our civil liberties that have been passed over the past eight years. A president who does this will have accomplished a good thing.

The big news is Romney's Michigan primary win last night on January 15th. 2008. At least we have proven that a Mormon can gain some acceptance and credibility as a political candidate. The quote of last week goes to Huckibee who said, "A candidate for President ought to remind you more of a fellow worker rather than the guy who laid you off". It was Mc Cain who didn't do so well with his "tough love" message of, "These lost jobs in the auto industry are not coming back". Romney got 39% of the vote to Mc Cain's 30% to Huckibee's 16%. There was that political add that suggested that Democrats vote for Romney to "keep the republican primary contest going". Whether they did cross party lines to vote Republican or whether Romney's message just "regestered" with his own party, is really not material. We have three primaries and three different winners and that just has the media establishment all upset. The only thing that would complete this pattern would be if Fred Thompson won in South Carolina this Saturday.

They now aren't going to tell us if we're being served meat from cloned animals. Of course in an old StarTrek episode there is a thing called "replicative fade", where each clone copy is less "viable" than the previous one. They say Dolly the sheep had to be euthanized, and that other cloned animals tend to be more sickly than than their "original" counterparts. This suggests that clones really aren't clones in the sense of a computer digital copy of a document, but rather something else is going on. It would seem to me to be a wise thing to research this a little more. What I do not like is this irradiated food they sell us that kills all the needed enzymes that are important nutritional building blocks. But selling irradiated vegetables are standard policy now.

I don't know what Thom Hartman is going to say about the Democratic debate in Las Vegas last night. It would have been more interesting were Dennis Kassinitch were allowed to participate. They appealed the case all the way to the Nevada supreme court, with time running out. We it was it was perhaps the most boring two hour debate I've ever watched where the sort of issues Thom Hartman talks about wern't touched. We didn't hear about Blackwater or corporate corruption in Iraq, or all of the wasted and misspent money there. The question of an all volenteer army verses the draft wasn't gone into satisfactorally. They started off the debate with sort of a kiss and make up love fest. Let's remind you what the conflict was. Hillary Clinton said that it was LBJ who signed the civil rights act of 1964. This was an act of political courage and also continuing the dream of Civil Rights reform that had been on both party agendas for a long time. It was finally an idea whose time had come. Whether you want to credit Rosa Parks, or the Freedom Riders, or Bob Dylan's music, or Martin Luther King, or Vernon Johns, the pastor that preceeded Martin Luther King in his church- - take your pick. To me it was "zeitguist" or "spirit of the times". Call it astrology- - call it whatever. Lyndon Johnson crusaded for passage of the 1964 Civil Rights bill. The civil rights movement did not just revolve around one man. Other issues not gone into was the whole idea of bringing back auto jobs and other manufacturing jobs or raising terrifs or undoing the damage caused by NAFTA. All they talked about was who was going to spend more money than whom. Hillary wants to raise unemployment payments and take a no intrest rate hike pledge for the next five years. She wants to bail out all those investors who made foolish choices. The whole tone of the debate was enough to make me want to vote republican, or some third party. I didn't hear talk about civil liberties abuses by George Bush. Indeed George Bush's name was scarcely ever mentioned. You'd almost forget that his is the guy's job you people are after.

I would like to welcome all new readers to this blog. The way we do it is we put in several posts on a blog, usually six or seven, and then we move on to the next blog. There is usually about a six or seven month break between sequences of postings. I of course welcome your comments. This is a rapidly changing world. Something that just struck me yesterday was that Walt Disney could be one of the people keeping organized Christianity alive. They fan this idea of a fairy tale life. Annie Hering on one of her albums talked about how she can't be Sleeping Beauty, because you have to have royal blood, and only Jesus imputes to you "Royal blood". It's thinking like this that keeps childhood illusions alive, and as the twig is bent, so grows the tree. These childish fairy tale myths don't die a natural death but grow into an adult mutant, and from there get passed on to the next generation. Selah.