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”.