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.