T H E - D R E A M - I S - O V E R

Disillusionment is a powerful emotion. John Lennon was so disillusioned with being in the Beatles at the end of the sixties he wrote a song about it with the line "The Dream is Over". This is how it is for people who voted for Obama in the primaries. Obama has backed off of so many issues I actually care about I am deeming him not worth voting for. Which means I will be voting for one of the remaining three candidates, either Mc Cain, or the Libertarian guy or Ralph Nader. The latest blow for me came this morning when I heard that Obama voted to reaffirm the Patriot Act. This is just one of a long chain of insults to the people who elected him. Of course he flaked on his pledge to opt for Public Funding. But now it's easy to see why he opted out of public funding. He's obviously gotten so many pledges from private lobbiests he loves their money more than he loves his ideals. There is the FISA bill. He's against tax relief for gasoline buyers. And he is against the single payer health plan. I bring this up because the ONLY good I see in nationalized health care is if it should bipass the private H M O's. Nobody can stand them. Ralph Nader was on "This Week" reminding the viewers of the many high ideals Obama has backed out on. The whole idea that we are wedded to just two political parties in this country- - tweedle dumb and tweedle dumber- - is such a silly one. Isn't the whole idea of a political parties is for like minded people to coaless around issues on which they agree? I have no idea what Obama's stance on Iran is, for instance. We know that he was for opting out of the North American Free Trade Agreement, but now he's changed his mind. Apparently he's changed his mind about how long he'll continue the War in Iraq. This was a MAJOR appeal of this candidate and now that issue is gone. What about pork barrel spending by congress? Where stands Obama? Getting rid of the electoral college might be a good idea, but I haven't heard Obama weigh in on that. The only areas where he is still true to his liberal roots are areas where I disagree with him. He still seems for blanket amnesty for illegal aliens. That seems to be the whole "thing" behind attackint Mc Cain. He's an advocate of "gay rights" as they are called, and he's pro abortion. He's still for raising taxes on the very rich, but give him a little time and he'll back off of this issue too. He doesn't think Bush should be impeached.

You know Joel Olsteen said this morning that a person needs to filter out all of the negative thoughts in his mind and zone in on the positive ones. He used the example of his little dog in the kitchen listening to the specific sound of the unwrapping of cheese because he loves cheese. He said that bad thoughts were like bad tennants in an apartment. If an area is 70% bad tennants, the bad tennants, the hookers and drug dealers, will drive out the good, respectable tennants. In the same way bad thoughts, perhaps of others, will drive out your OWN good thoughts. He used the example of a bat hunting for frogs and he can tell the poisonous from the safe kind to eat by the way that they croke. Sometimes you have to be like Superman, with your hearing cranked way up to hear the one good thought. About the only good thing about Obama is that he's black. And that isn't enough reason to vote for him. I would love to have the Audacity of Hope. People hope for a lot of things. But it takes more than "positive thoughts" in order to enable them to happen. Whoever gets elected in November is going to have to spend a lot of time cleaning the septic tank, because a lot of crap has accumulated the past seven years. Economically this country is in a lot bigger mess than either candidate would like to admit. We've avoided a recession so far but we musn't kid ourselves. By the way I'm one of the few people in this country who did not get a rebate so excuse my ingratitude. Life for most people is not just one big Joel Olsteen sermon. Happy endings of the few he preaches are few and far between. Berock Obama is like someone with ADHD. He's easily distracted from his ideals when someone waves new poll numbers his way or lures him with money. I have heard his absentee record in votes is high. I've also said most of this before but I'm repeating it to remind you why I am no longer for Obama. There are a lot of things I will tollerate, but I won't tollerate a flake in the white house. I'd rather have someone who disagrees with me if he's well grounded and consistent and stable. I don't like the way the media has been bashing Ralph Nader. It's time we gave him another hearing. I don't see how he could score any worse on my issues than Obama.

Today is June 29th. and 44 years ago I recorded "Hard Day's Night" off the radio onto a tape I called "2nd. Acetate" because it came in a generic white box and it was acetate and 1200 feet. Sometimes it has been "A Hard Day's Night". Ringo of course came up with that term when they were coming out of the studio in February when it got dark early, and it was night. Sometimes "things getting dark" can catch you unawares. This country has a lot of darkness right now. Unfortunately Obama is not the man to lead us out of our muck. I know my personal life is screwed. I don't see any way out or any "un thought of" positive thoughts. But I don't think the country is in as bad a shape as I am in. There's still hope, if we pursue it.

Oil has now risen to $142.00 a barrel. Can five dollar a gallon gas be far behind? The Dow Jones Industrial dropped another hundred points today on top of the 360 points dropped yesterday. But in spite of this we still are not in a recession, which definitely puzzles me. It would almost seem as if some of the hysterics we're been hearing about are just that - hysterics. In general people are not worse off. They are not even "cutting back" or spending any less. It's all just some sort of illusion. They say there is a whole two percent point drop in the number of autos on the road. If you're looking out over a traffic that two percent will seem like nothing. There are none of the "major shifts" people keep talking about- - in either moving in mass to rappid transit or in seeking alternative energy sources. There is every indication that the American people will tollerate six or even seven dollars a gallon for gasoline. They are saying this was the worst June in the stock market since the great depression. But it seems as if they say things like that every other month nowadays. If we're all really poor I guess there will be no lines when the I Phones go on sale next month. There shouldn't be, because the product isn't that great. If we are in a recession, have blockbuster movies stopped setting new first week gross records? It is said that ghetto residents in this country live better than middle class people in France. I've heard that in Brittain you get charged fifteen US dollars for a slice of bacon and a bowl of beans for breakfast, and to get any kind of "decent" hotel room by US standards it will cost you five hundred. And of course Europeans still pay a whole lot more for gasoline than we do. To envy them seems a little pointless. None of us would want to live in the average apartment square footage of Tokyo. The people I feel sorry for aren't the jerks that took out all those low interest loans, but rather the people whom the mortgage companies sold these loans to- - all those investment banks or whoever that are all going broke. It's those share holders who are taking a bath. I'll tell you whose been in a recession for two years. Me. I have. I have indeed "cut back" and am spending decidedly less money for things like cigarettes and coffee and snacks and clothes, not to mention movies. But I am the exception. All of this isn't to say that I am voting Republican in November but that this idea of the President being a latter day Santa Clause figure might be more than a little unrealistic. Remember the "National Government" isn't some bottomless font of wealth. As Rush Limbaugh points out, the national government doesn't "produce" anything. That's all done by the private sector. And I agree that personally I'd rather have a democrat steering the economy along rather than a Republican. Since I am a fatalist I believe our economic future is "already baked into the cake" and there isn't much we can do not to insure that things are peachy keen come January. I've heard that no matter who is President that troops are still going to be in Iraq getting killed and maimed for a long time to come. And no matter who is President there will still be a lot of "free" economic handouts for the needy and no so needy.

Johnny Wendell raised the notion that the LA Lakers lost the championships because their fans at the Staples Center really sucked, and didn't get behind their team. I think we as a whole underestamate the power of group energy and group psyche. I think the reason why I was such a failure as a Christian is because the "group psyche" was against me and I was constantly swimming upstream. I think if Obama wants to win in November he better not, for his own sake. do any more things to disillusion his followers. He's disowned his own church, he's attacked absent Black fathers, he's come out for Telcom immunity, he's gone out in favor of guns, he's emphasized how "carefully" he will withdraw troops from Iraq, he's declined to support Impeachment, and he wont even support gas tax relief for motorists. And this is only June. Just imagine the scale of retreat on his policies by November! What other "undesirable" groups will be eased out of publicity photographs? And while we're talking about Iraq, what if we had "pray ins" for success of our troops in Iraq. (as soon as we can define what that consists of) In Star Wars they had the saying "May the Force be with you". Some define God as "The Force". I know "The Force" isn't with me. Let's hope, however, that it remains with our country no matter who is President in January. The last thing I would want would be for Rush Limbaugh's accusations to be true about "The democrats want this country's policies to fail". I hope we aren't so sick that we view every event not for its rightness or wrongness, or for that matter its success or failure, but rather for "how will this play politically in the next election". We know "The Force" was not with the Jews at the end of the first century AD. We know "The Force" was not with Rome at the end of the fifth century. The Bible says that those who gloat over the misfortunes of others, against whom they have no beef, will not go unpunished.

Hello, test, one two three. Will This Pass Go? Blogger has decided to stop accepting my blogs copied from the Word medium and I am pretty darn mad about that. I even tried saving the document in a straight text format and Blogger didn't even accept that. Something is very wrong. They don't offer help and won't give me even a hint of what the illegal text might me.

If I have to copy the proposed posting word by word I guess I will if I have to.

ON BEING A MARKETABLE COMMODITY

This is Friday June 27, 2008, Lottery Day. Sometimes it’s interesting to read novels about things that have never happened like a US city populated by white people instituting human sacrifice. Today is also “decided to get married day”. I’m sure there is a tie in somewhere. Of course a lot of novels are stories about things that have never happened, such as the Cain Mutiny, when there has never been a mutiny in the US Navy. Of course a lot of life in a search for truth is asking the right questions. This is best done when you answer a lot of questions and hope that some of the questions you ask will be the right ones. One question that ranks high on my list is determining when a certain name or entity became a common part of our culture. For instance the word Klingon can be directly traced back to the Star Trek series. There has never so far as I know been a man like Stephano Di Mira in the world who’s one obsession in life seemed to be to torment and terrorize a certain family called the Brady’s. I slept pretty well last night. I didn’t have the troubling dreams I had the previous night. Last night I watched that musical Simpson’s episode and then the Superman rerun, although I honestly don’t know why I bothered. I’m going to have to scratch that show from my regular TV rotation series. Of course in general the next six weeks or so are going to be a crashing bore, when all I’ll be doing is getting economically poorer. The latest economic statistics say that we are still not in a recession, but I have been in my own private recession for the past two years. Last evening I was reading all this stuff on the Apostle Paul and it just gave me a headache. It was one of these “sick headaches” like Mrs. Stephens used to get, where smoking a cigarette only makes it worse. I’m reading all this stuff so hopefully I can digest it for my blog readers so they don’t have to do any lake dredging themselves to see what comes up. There are a few nuggets I have gleaned. I read the Jewish Encyclopedia, who believes Paul was real but that he is a fraud who is a lot less Jewish and more Hellenistic than he’s letting on. Many authors use the term “Paul never - - - “ and there is a whole list of things Paul never did. But the common denominator is that if Paul never existed he never did anything. People will admit that perhaps the Epistles were added to and stuff added to existing Epistles. Some of the sources I read thought that Paul was the antichrist. What I have learned is that people who quote scripture a lot or resort to numerology have a package that “Won’t sell well”. And this is the key to success in the modern world. Charles Colson said “Once you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow”. One source sited the notion that “One should never use deception to preach God to others”. With the Church you’re dealing with an entity whose number one, if not sole obsession in life is to Propagate Itself.

They have found life on Mars or close to it. They’ve found ice, and hence water, and now they say that the soil on Mars can be used to grow things like asparagus. This will be important information if we ever colonize the planet. There will also be gravity to creating that won’t be a problem. But these discoveries about Mars by the Phoenix lander- - gnaw at the very vitals of Christianity. Their whole theology has been based on one of ignorance. First it was the flat earth with heaven above and hell below. By the time of Dante people has gotten used to the idea that the world might be round. But by God the earth was still the center of the Universe! When this was aptly disproven by Galileo in the early 1600’s, the devout said “Yeah but one unshakable truth is that there is no life on other planets”. This is a key belief for the Christian because of the whole story about Adam and Eve and original sin and the redemption on the cross by Jesus “once and for all time” to redeem mankind. Any life on another planet is something Christian theologians just don’t have any room for because it just poses too many questions which they can’t answer. Galileo once said “All truths are easy to understand, once they are discovered”. I would say that these are words to live by.

This morning it’s overcast. We had Cheerios and pancakes for breakfast, and ham. I went out to the bakery for a large coffee. I had an extra orange juice.

One of the things that has “Never happened before” is having an African-American President. Seeing “Obama” in a list of US Presidents will be a trippy experience. Of course in order for Obama to properly sell himself to the public, he has to make sure he’s “White” enough. Ralph Nader criticized him for copping out in this respect the other day. But what surprised me was the reactions of Thom Hartman and Randy Rhodes, who went after Ralph Nader for making the remarks. If truth cannot survive in today’s political market place then something is dreadfully wrong. Obama could go down in history as the first white president with an unusual name. He’s shown he’s not hesitant to throw other people or ideas “under the bus”, which make him feel uncomfortable, including this new guns ruling. Jesus taught “Once salt loses its saltiness it is good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden under foot by men.” We have never even had a Jewish president, perhaps a Black president is too much to ask for.

Marlena still wants that operation on John Black’s brain using the computer disk that Ralph had before it was stolen. There are a few language holes in John’s current vocabulary. The other day Roman introduced John saying “I’d like you to meet a world champion pugilist”. After some brief words Roman said “He has to be going” and John turned to the pugilist and said, “Oh, and good luck with your pugeling”.

We have a heads up on the Days of our Lives show. They are going to Flush the Plot for summer. As you know John has been in this altered “state” for months now living in Stephano’s mansion while Stephano exists as a mental vegetable thanks to that drug Marlena gave him. Now Marlena has that disk that Philip stole before he mysteriously decided to give it back to her. I predict John is going to have that operation tomorrow and by the end of Monday’s show he’ll be back to his old self. It took months to reprogram his mind the first time around but everything is speeded up for the summer. And just after this the body of Morgan’s father will be discovered and John Black will confess to killing him but he’ll get off on an insanity or mental technicality and Roman won’t even press charges. But Philip’s actions at framing John will be found out and he’ll go to prison. Meanwhile Lucas will be found out because Clowie will slip up and have to finger Lucas. But with Philip in prison Clowie will leave the series and go back to Austria to try and patch things up with Brady. Meanwhile Lucas and Sammy will get back together and Elvis Jr. will be given the boot and possibly pay Stephano a visit in the hospital telling him everything that’s happened, though he can’t hear. Meanwhile all charges against Lucas will be dropped paving the way for a summer of romance between Lucas and Sammy and also John and Marlena. Remember I told you ahead of time.

The Supreme Court has announced its two final decisions for the year. Yesterdays was that the mandated death penalty for the rape of a child that one state had was deemed excessive punishment. My question is who the hell are those judges who would put a price or limit on the life long suffering of a child? This ruling is a grevious violation of state’s rights, as is today’s ruling. Today the court issued their “long awaited” decision on the D C hand guns ban. They struck down the Washington DC gun ban saying it violated the second amendment. They might as well just poll Justice Kennedy for all these “swing” rulings, because the rest of them are set in concrete, voting predictably. I watched Rush Limbaugh, Thom Hartman and Randy Rhodes. Randy is against the guns decision as am I. I think a city should have the right to rule itself a “non violence” area. Also I think the spirit of the 2nd. Amendment was to further states rights and to say what the national government could not do. Rush Limbaugh has reversed himself on the idea of divine rights. Now he is for them. Remember that when it came to animal rights Rush was against them because “Rights are things that are contracted out between two parties”. Nowhere in the Bible does it state where or how God negotiated with man to determine which rights he would or would not have. Rush says self defense is a right. We also know that the courts have recently said that if you think you are in danger or feel threatened, you can start shooting, regardless as to whether the objective facts support the reality of the threat. I got to thinking about this one and I suppose under this ruling if a dog (or other wild beast) attacks a man for seemingly “no reason” if “in the animal’s mind” it felt threatened then the attack is ruled as justified.

This and the previous two paragraphs is typed June 26, 2008. I had two dreams last night. The first was another of these hospital dreams where I was scheduled to have some sort of brain surgery but was drugged so that I couldn’t talk coherently. In the second I was walking through my old apartment courtyard just looking at which tenants lived where – and none, of course that I knew. The south end was arranged just a little differently. I took the bus that started off as Western headed south bound. But somewhere along the line Gilbert was the name of the street. But we rounded a corner and turned right and went down to the ocean. It was where the San Gabriel River empties into the ocean and it was all built up with boardwalk and fish and chips and fish bait places. I had met one woman resembling Gail, who originally liked me but then got chummy with another man, who stopped off in this lockers area. I remember something about “I know the man is deficient in calcium and Omega 3 fish oil”.

Otherwise in the news it’s been the same old flapping of gums talking about stuff that’s days old news. But I’ll take one more look. Yesterday I was looking at a lot of anti Obama videos narrated by Sean Hannity. There is no word on the FISA bill senate vote yet. They said it would be soon and that the bill would sale through.

CIRCLING THE DRAIN

Well, another of the great ones has fallen. George Carlen died of a heart attack today at age 71. He was known for a number of stock likes like things in your refrigerator, and the Seven Deadly Words and his line about "Country clubs will sell you red meat and booze, both of which will kill you". And of course there's the line FOX has been repeating about "Parson's Pest Control" where they will get rid of the ants and water bugs for you and help you smoke the roaches. There is another line about "Today's weather map is dominated by a large Canadian low, which is not to be confused with a Mexican high. In the book "Brain Droppings" Carlen said society was "Circling the drain". This is supposedly what nurses in hospitals say of a patient who's death is iminent. Me being me I'd like to elaborate on this statement a little. As you know we introduced in 1981 the concept of a Black Hole of the Spirit. And we know how Black Holes are supposedly formed from extreme concentrations of matter. So when you-know-who looks at a bright star he thinks in terms of its gravitational field and how it's destined one day to die and shrink down to a neutron star and themce fo a Black Hole by which it exits this universe. The analogy to the Church is notible as we discussed in "A Dangerous Event Horizon". Your soul "circles the drain" as you edge slowly but surely into a state of Psychic Death" where you at last sink down into an infinite Black Hole. There's a lot of stuff originally slated for my Book in 1980 that being a coward I decided not to use. We've heard about "cornering the market". This is where one person is so heavily invested in a comodity that he has absolute control over the price, that's imune to input from anybody else. Once you've cornered the market you own the soul of every comodity holder, if there are any left. The Catholic Church has so concentrated power that space warps around it, and reality must "adjust" to this new, and shall we say "unnatural" force. (actually the term "unnatural" is but a flattering one to the Church) Scientists would watch a soul "circling the drain" eventually to be sucked down into an infinite Black hole- - and they call that psychic death. Of course Mark Campbell and I both were channeling Mal Evans I suspect in that Black Holes allude to "The curse of the "O" you Beatle fanatics. The "O" is associated with impending death. But also there is the notion of living in the country side is good whereas living in the Cities is bad. This analogy goes back to the Viet Nam war where the Viet Kong ruled the country side and the US and President Thiew ruled the cities with their dope and prostitution and decadence. But I wouldn't want to put anything that "subversive" in my book.

Of course hemp has its place. It's a way to solve this ethanol crisis we're in so that we don't have to use corn. We could put hemp plants into production to solve a lot of problems, such as safe, organic varnishes and oils, or to produce better paper at a lower price, and for medicinal applications, but also to provide ethanol or methanol (better yet) for our energy needs. Rush Limbaugh wants to drill for oil. I say that's fine, but let the companies drill where they are already allowed to drill if they but desire to. But Rush Limbaugh may have a point that perhaps olil prices are being bidded up because the speculators fear that when Obama becomes President that it will be even harder to get the oil we need. Rush believes that energy supplies will be diminished rather than enhancef from an Obama presidency. Perhaps.

My political platform is simple. I'm thinking of going Libertarian in November. Johnny Wendell is thinking, he says, of also going libertarian in November. There are times when we need radical solutions to our problem, and the word radical means "root", as you math freaks know. Sometimes I feel like I'm beating the same dead horse. But we all know Obama came out in facor of the FISA bill that gives the Bush Adminestration new powers of invasion of our privacy by listening into our phone calls and E mails if there is a "reasonable assumption" by one government beaurocrat that one of the callers is out of the US. It's pointed out that while one cannot sue Civally now, that criminal charges can still be filed. Vince Bugliosi was another KTLK guest last Saturday and he wants to file criminal murder charges against ex President George Bush once he's out of power. Supposedly he won't be able to pardon himself. If it were me I'd impeach him first just to make sure but Bugliosi states that next year we'll have a new Attorney General hired by Obama, who unlike Clinton, has decided as of now that he'll press criminal charges against the prior adminestration. There are fifty state Attorney's General not to mention all the county D A's out there. And any US trooper who died in Iraq would come under local and state jourisdiction. Vince said that Iraqis who got killed- - 100,000 of those- - would not be prosecutable but that our four thousand losses would be. Vincent is a hard nosed kind of fellow who only goes with something after examining the facts. Bugliosi said that if his book, "The prosecution of George Bush for Murder" were written by some dingbat, then TV stations would gladly have him on. But since he has credibility and his message is a real threat, none of the mainstream media will have Vince on to plug his book. But I guess we are all wondering just how firm Obama's resolve on these civil liberties are since he rolled over so easily on the FISA bill. Obama risks a man who will abandon principle at the drop of a dime. Democrats are moving to the right. But Mc Cain, too is moving to the right to placate that right wing core constituency in the Republican party. I'm looking and spell check seems to be turned off. There it is.

One site I visited said that Christianity will die when our society dies, just as the Roman Gods died when the Roman Empire fell. I hope it won't come to that. This site is convinced that Jesus Christ is not a historical person. Not only are there no Eye Witness accounts in the gospells other than a few of "the desciple who Jesus loved", which one book attributed to Lazarus. But to be frank these writers, who didn't know Jesus themselves, didn't even KNOW anybody else who knew Jesus personally. Remember one of the first herecies was that Jesus never existed. Historians in the third century say Josephus made no mention of Jesus. But by the fourth century these "mentionings" had sprouted up in the text. Geographically the Gospels are riddled with errors. When you read the Apostle Paul in Romans in the first chapter he makes a reference about himself of how it's his job to tell the whole world, small and great, educated and otherwise about Jesus, and how he expects the whole of Rome, where he had never visited, to read and absorb his letter as though it came dowm from God himself. I don't want to defeat God. God has already defeated himself. But remember that when it comes to whether people will believe something- - like the stance of a political candidate- - they base their decisions much more on irrational feelings and sentament, rather than in cold, hard facts and rational reasoning.

THIS AIN 'T THE - S U M M E R OF L O V E

This ain’t the summer of love. That was a summer of expanding psychic awareness and cultural evolution and growth. This could be the summer of Mc Cain because so far everything is breaking his way. Obama has pretty much slipped into the wood work like camouflage wallpaper or something. Mc Cain is winning the Oil Wars convincing the American people that Obama wants to keep the price of gasoline high by not allowing drilling. We know that the oil companies are just sitting on their leases waiting for their assets to appreciate further and may let us have some when the price climbs to two hundred dollars a barrel. But Obama is not explaining this to the people. People are wondering whether Obama is for or against this FISA bill. I guess Obama has a long track record for not being present on key political issues and people were afraid this would be one of those. But Obama just released a statement saying he was against the provisions of this bill, which gives the phone company immunity from law suits from people who have had their privacy violated. Many democrats voted for the bill and it passed the house making Bush happy. It’s generally agreed that the bill will have an even easier time in the Senate. Scot McLellon testified today before congress. The word is he back peddled on some key issues a la Fred Mc Murry in “The Caine Mutiny”. He is playing it safe hoping not to anger the administration further. Of course Obama is catering to the Christian right making that Father’s Day speech a la Bill Cosby about Black people being responsible fathers. The speech was so transparently self serving. Now Obama is in trouble for back-peddeling on this Public Funding of Campaigns issue. He was for it before he was against it. Mc Cain isn’t going to let Obama hear the end of this one, and he knows the American People have no patience for the “finer detales of the issue”. People don’t think in shades of gray like the Monkee’s song, but in stark black and white. Now it’s roomered that Obama hustled Islamic women out of the picture in a photo opportunity, but of course the media reported that, so Mc Cain comes out the big winner for exposing Obama as a phony. Obama and Bush and Mc Cain all three visited the flood area of the Mississippi valley. But the thing is cops and security have to be pulled from more important jobs to provide security for the political candidates. Remember that time that Al Gore had the flood gates of a dam opened during a drought so that he could be photographed canoeing down the rapids of a river. Michelle Obama’s “Not proud of America” remark is repeated in an endless loop on some TV outlets and nobody bothers to take that remark in context. In terms of documenting a recession, the democrats aren’t even successful in doing that. Apparently coming up with statistical proof we are actually in a recession is more difficult than meets the eye.

I was reading older posts in Rocca-Rolla this morning and Iran was predicted by me to be a continuing problem that wouldn’t go away. Now Israel admits that earlier this month (when I astrologically predicted it) they were doing military drills - - exercises in preparation for a pre-emptive bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities. When this happens it will be a feather in Bush’s cap. By having all this bad oil news now, any positive news that comes down the pike between now and November will only help Bush. China is raising oil prices 18% that will cut demand in that country and lower the overall price, we hope. And the Saudis may be “persuaded” to hike oil output a bit. Stewart Mc Burnie used to talk about the two steps forward – one step back - - approach the Russians used to have with Communist aggression. We are so “relieved” they took that one step back, and we forget about all the steps they’ve already taken forward. As President, Bush has a lot of executive prerogatives to help out Mc Cain, that Obama doesn’t have.

Yesterday I was looking at all this stuff on You Tube saying that Global Warming was bogus. That British speaker they had on was pretty eloquent on the subject. He says that true science is being thrown out the window and any contrary facts on the other side are just being ignored. Like the flat earth- - in the past scientists have had a “concencus” about certain things. But when more evidence comes in and/or the political climate changes, then the concencus changes. He says nobody will even debate him, and that Al Gore doesn’t want to discuss the issue intelligently; he just wants to preach. Apparently China has stated that they won’t let up on their own carbon footprint until their “per capita” pollution equals that of the United States, and that China and India are behind a lot of these UN resolutions because they benefit the economic interests of China and India. “Well, how do your friends at the Federation feel about it?” Since at least early 1982 they have been on the band wagon citing the dangers of Global Warming. We do know that something is wrong with the weather. We’ve had two “hundred year floods” within fifteen years. And in the West we’ve had conditions beyond drought. Now all the evergreen trees are dying off, in some cases being attacked by a beetle that is supposed to get killed off in the winter, but now that the winters are warmer, the balance has shifted. And of course earlier snow run off has heightened fire danger, and we all know about the epidemic of fires. I guess it’s this nickel and dime – fractions of a percentage point that gets to most people. We seem to be straining at gnats while we pay $4.50 a gallon for gasoline. I guess Rush Limbaugh has said that if we gave the environmentalists everything they asked for, it would devastate our economy but only be a drop in the bucket for the alleged global warming problem. The American People are an impatient lot and they want to see a pay-off for their actions, and the more immediate, the better.

One thing that keeps me from entirely jumping into the liberal bed is that one thing liberals do is they look for problems and they red flag them and they whine and complain and worry about them. In my own life my problems stem not so much from people not helping me when I need it, although there’s been that too, but it’s fighting labels other people have placed on me and once the label has been decreed, like a Papel utterance of infallibity, nobody dares question it. In that mythical “liberal world” that Thom Hartman talks about there is a flip side. The flip side of it is you don’t see as many cigarette machines as you used to. And health problems of old people dominate the commercial scene on the air waves. We are reminded of this or that malody such as autism your kid may be plagued with. In the old days people just “snapped out of problems”. Now black lists are compiled and you may get fired from your job, or profiled and kept from getting a job. People don’t share opinions with one another because they “don’t want to violate someone elses’ beliefs”. You may not be able to have a barbecue in your own yard. You can’t run your power tools because someone has labled them noise pollution. If you want to hire people for a small job you have to jump through government hoops. You can’t buy the arthritis medication you need because some 86 year old man in New Hampshire had a heart attack. If you try and use cash in some places they look at you funny. Our kids are regarded as some rare China property with no life of their own without being overseen by every kind of electronic checking up. People can’t tell a casual racial joke any more. People have lost their sense of humor. All of this may not make me vote Republican, but they may well make a lot of other people in America vote Republican. If you compare this race to 1996 with Dole, the parrellel isn’t the same because Obama is no Bill Clinton. Today nobody has to even mention building a “bridge to the past”. Because we as Americans have our own ideas of “Normalcy”. We don’t like politicians rocking the boat. Perhaps 1928 is a better comparison to today. Al Smith had to overcome being a Catholic, and an advocate of alcohol. The American people were just not ready for anyone that “different”. People in the South when Ronald Reagan was elected were the most elated they’ve been since the election of Zachary Taylor. For all Hartman’s list of offences and bad precedents of Ronald Reagan, ask the average Joe Q Citizen out they and they still hair Ronald Reagan as a saint, such that nobody has ever done a “film noir” on Ronald Reagan.

FALSE ASSUMPTIONS I MADE WHEN I BECAME A CHRISTIAN

If God made the Universe and created me, he must love me.

If I become a Christian I’ll never in my life again be alone.

If worse comes to worse – the Rapture will be coming soon to end it all.

The moral divide between Good and Evil will become sharper and clearer all the time as Christians in the church grow into perfection and the world slips into depravity.

Historical proof of the validity of Christianity is just around the corner.

God is a utilitarian. He always seeks the best for the greatest number of people.

God will always answer any prayer that is “Really important to me”.

If you see things you don’t like about other Christians, they will grow out of it.

God will have me on a distinctly different “path” from the doomed one I’ve been on my whole life.

The Bible can be reconciled into one coherent message if you try hard enough.

Christian teachers are most interested in the intellectual and emotional growth of their students rather than their own presteige and position.

The mere fact I’m becoming a Christian is “proof” that I’ve been called by God.

Staying away from women sexually makes you a holier person closer to God.

If you see a “problem” in the Church, God saw it before you did, and he is already working on a solution more ingenious than anything you could come up with.

God will intervene in the world if “the world” becomes intolerable for Christians.

If you “Give God the benefit of the doubt” he will repay you many-fold.

God has the perfect bride for me & would never lead me into a bad marriage.

If someone appears to “shine you on” after you witness to them, God will continue to work on their spirit after you’ve gone and will eventually accept the Gospel.

Nobody would dare call themselves “Jesus Christ” and claim to be a Christian.

If you see event “A” occur- - - (such as an earthquake or something) then events B through Z are sure to follow.

Nobody ever regretted at the end of their life the fact that they Accepted Jesus.

Medical science is stuck where it is and the day is significant medical breakthrough is over and done, but Jesus will always heal.

Soon, all the really smart scientists and inventers will be Born Again Christians.

If a problem develops in your life, ignoring it is a sign of true Faith.

People who turn to insurance companies for their security- are cowards. (No, wait a minute! - - I still believe this one!)

Neither good things nor bad things occur by mere chance. (another one I still believe today)

If you “Place your bets on Jesus” it isn’t really gambling.

Some day they will find the original manuscripts of what the apostles wrote down.

If you should die an untimely death, you’ll get to Heaven sooner than you planned.

The reason why cults imitate Christianity, is because they know it’s real and they aren’t.

I will look back on past negative events in my life and see God’s guiding hand in them.

FALSE ASSUMPTIONS JOHN Q CITIZEN MAKES
ABOUT THIS POLITICAL CAMPAIGN

People are making false assumptions about this Presidential campaign, too. For instance people assume that the more right wing your position is on Iraq, the greater "insurance policy" of our national security will be. People assume that Blacks still have some of that "nigger blood" from Africa, which we all know is the most depraved of continents. People assume if a democrat takes over the white house the Supreme Court will legalize all homosexual marriages and in the process destroy the American family as we know it. People associate hating various races such as North Vietnamese, or Arab, as being a sign of burning patriotisum that will light our way as a nation in the murky days ahead. People assume if we have socialized medicine, we will become like Europe, whose manliness can always be questioned since we had to bail them out of two wars and besides they can't be real men because they don't carry guns. Housewives and mothers assume that conservative Justices will insure that our laws are enforced and they won't be raped or their children kidnapped by bad people. People assume that ANY democrat will always run up a higher defricet than ANY republican. People believe democrats want to raise their taxes and raise corporate taxes that will raise the price of everything they buy. People believe stem call research might lead to cloning humans and other "mad scientist" experiments. People believe that religion is like circumcision. "We've always done it that way" and horrible things would happen if we changed now. People believe that all the signers of the Declaration of Independance were Bible thumping fundamentalists. People believe that everything about the Jimmy Carter adminestration was America's darkest hour. People believe that the more restrictive our immigration laws, the more insurance against the rising crime rate we have. People believe the more American Flag lapel pins you have the more patriotic you are. People believe that off shore oil drilling is something the democrats will do anything to prevent but our President wants to allow it to solve our energy price crisis, but the democrats are keeping us from using that oil for false lestist pinko ecological reasons. People are just waiting for the next Republican President to free us from gasoline milage worries so that we can go back to our god given patriotic right to drive big gas guzzeling cars. People believe that strange changes in the weather are signs Jesus is coming back, rather than any sign of global warming or in any way impugning mankind for not respecting the ecology of the planet. People believe that Free Trade is good because it's "Progressive" and besides John F Kennedy favored it.

ACCIDENTAL TRUTHS OF SCRIPTURE

Scripture says that near the beginning of Jesus’ ministry he was tempted by Satan for forty days. Perhaps this is a dumb observation but what about the other thirty years Jesus lived? Didn’t Satan realize before this Jesus couldn’t be tempted?

Jesus told his disciples days before his death “Remember if you see anybody claiming to be me after I’m crucified, it isn’t me but a false impostor.

Jesus looked in vain for figs on a fig tree, but it was not the season for figs. We know it wasn’t in April because April is the season for “first fruits” in figs.

Scripture days the whole land grew dark for three hours the day Christ died. This is about the same length of a total or near total solar eclipse.

The City of Nazereth was falsely reported to be overlooking a cliff. This scene was lifted according to Luigi Cascioli from the life of John son of Judas of Galilee.

Jesus said when you pray, actually be asking for something for God and ask expecting to be given to. Do not put on a “spiritual sounding” prayer just for show or ritual.

Jesus said blessed are the poor for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Jesus said blessed are those crusaders who seek to see good and right prevail. In other words- in today’s language- - blessed is the political left.

Jesus said, “Why do you call me good?” “There is none good but God alone”

Jesus said for his followers to sell their coats and buy a sword if they didn’t already have one.

Jesus refers to himself in the PAST tense in a resurrection speech to his disciples.

God knows our thoughts before we even consciously have them. As such it’s rather silly to say what “decisions” we will be making “on our own”.

All the gold in Solomon’s Temple was stolen by the Egyptians in an invasion of the land.

A Holy Man ruled in Jerusalem in Abraham’s day 700 years before David.

There is no record of Jesus ever making animal sacrifice at the Jerusalem Temple.

Lazarus went to Paradise without ever having had the Born Again experience.

Jesus’ own recorded reaction to his own “sin atonement” crucifixion is “My God My God why has thou forsaken me?

If Jesus received a huge amount of gold upon his birth from an Eastern King- - guess what? Jesus wasn’t poor! If he was too poor to pay a half sheckle tax he had to find in a fish’s mouth on the other hand- - I guess he didn’t know about the gold.

Why did Pilate ask Jesus where he was from? I thought he knew.

Jesus never refers to a period in his life before he turned thirty

Jesus never failed in anything in his whole life he wanted to do.

Jesus never questioned his own judgement about anything

The devil never tempted Jesus with sexual lust.

Jesus ascribed any weakness against evil as a Faith problem

Jesus never showed respect to any authority other than himself

Jesus never rationalized away failings in himself or others

ANOTHER WATERGATE ANNIVERSARY

Some people today say they'll believe the President should be impeached if there is ever a "smoking gun". Unlike with Watergate where they began holding hearings and then people like John Dean came forward to spill the beans and get the ball rolling. But this year it seems as if people want someone to just wave their hand and make it all magically happen. On a soap opera one person hired goons from an Italian mob to "Make a certain witness come clean". But it isn't necessary for us to go this far. Now it seems the key witness to bringing down Karl Rove is one Bill Cannery. And when this Cannery sings before congress he will bring down Karl Rove. Don Siegelman, that Alabama who was a political target of the Bush administration, says that Rove invoked Executive Privelege, so that is why he is not testifying before congress, but in invoking this, he is pretty much admitting that George Bush is involved with not only the Valerie Wilson thing but also the political smear job and malicious prosecution of Don Siegelman. But no democrat seems to want to even hold impeachment hearings. But inaction itself is a decision and if this congress opts for inaction it is being craven and will be shown so in the history books.

From now on, June 17, 2008 will be remembered for not just an anniversary of the Watergate break-in but for all the gay marriages in California. This could go down in history as the day the thousands years-old institution of marriage was destroyed. It’s kind of like a virgin being rape. After the act occurs there is no way to “un-rape” her. So it is with marriage. No matter what ballot measures are passed by the voters now, the damage is done. Thousands of gay couples will be flocking here to California to get married. “Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it’s impossible to get it back”.

Gasoline prices in Southern California are now at $4.61. We now know that forty percent of that is directly linked to the fall of the dollar since 2000 in relation to the Euro. With the dollar so cheap it’s a wonder Americans can afford any goods that are tied to the Euro. Lies are being told in the Presidential campaign and I don’t know who’s correcting them. Mc Cain is repeating the lie that the democrats won’t let the oil companies drill off shore in California or in most other places. Didn’t Mc Cain himself used to be against off shore drilling? It would seem the Republicans are against that Supreme Court decision saying that criminals held by the U S have the right to Habius Corpus, no matter who they are. Mc Cain will now do anything to get along with these far right republicans. And all the while we’re hearing that Obama is only four points higher in the polls than Mc Cain is at the moment. I find this polling result disturbing in that it is by no means a settle fact that the Democrats are going to win in the fall. And the Republicans are going to bring all the old charges out of the closet like that guy claiming to have had gay sex with Obama. Randy Rhodes just said that “A vote FOR Mc Cain is not really FOR Mc Cain but just AGAINST Berock Obama. That’s because the Republicans are getting out their hate campaign of prejudice and ignorance. There are so many lies told by Republicans about our energy needs, our security priorities, and the economy. It’s like a religion with them, preserving these lies. They are rehearsed and passed down as it were from generation to generation. One democratic keynote speaker referred to the whole atmosphere the republicans have cultivated around them as “moral darkness”.

According to Randy Rhodes, Michael Reagan suggested on his radio program recently that if he had a Moslem one year old baby, an appropriate gift for his one year birthday would be to stick a grenade up his butt and say “bye bye baby”. Also, if those taped excerpts are genuine, Michael kept saying “Kill the mother and the baby” over and over again. There is a Mc Cain campaign panflet that quotes Obama’s book out of context saying “If the political winds blow ill- - I’ll side with the Moslems”. The context is that of racial profiling and other government abuses. These Republicans are like a dog with a bone and they aren’t letting go. Mc Cain says he’s concerned about genocide occurring in Iraq if we should depart now. What he’s just told us (if true) is that after five years of US presence, the situation there is more dangerous than ever. Least you think these conservative Christians really love the Jews, there is an anti-Christian site on the internet that quotes Martin Luther on the subject of Jews saying very unflattering things about them like they are unredeemable and should be shunned, and I believe there is stuff about burning down their Synagogues. This site ends with the following assertions:

It was Christians who were responsible for slavery.
It was Christians who were responsible for the Inquisition.
It was Christians who were responsible for the Crusades.
It was Christians who were responsible for the extermination of
millions of American Indians.
It was Christians who were responsibe for the Holocaust.
It was Christians who were responsible for the deaths of millions.
It was Christians who block science in the name of their God,
and the pure undiluted power behind their God is ignorance.

The enemy to freedom in the world is religious fanaticism.
Intolerance of intolerance is not intolerance.
Hating hate is not hatred.
Open your hearts and minds and not your Bibles.

EVA VITALLI FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL
RALLY AT 3:30 TOMORROW AFTERNOON

YOU WILL BE TESTED ON
THE FOLLOWING MATERIAL
AT 9:00 THURSDAY MORNING SO STUDY UP!

I’d like to call this segment “Blinded by the Light”. That seems to be a chief title for a lot of anti religious cult books. Light is often seen as an intractable metaphor when it comes to morality, rather than just a simily to morality. Morality is like light in some ways but not all ways, and I’ll demonstrate. Back in April of 2005 as I was just alluding to in the previous paragraph, I was attempting to “channel” Jim Morrison. And I’d like to extract one of the many allusions from that paragraph. When an actress puts her makeup on where does she go? To a mirror surrounded by lights. And when she is on stage she has lights trained her to “reflect her in the best possible light”. Often it’s a rose tinted light to help cover skin blemishes. And there are a lot of low lights aimed so to fill in and “conceil” any wrinkles she has so that the audience is “in the dark” about more than one thing. It isn’t they, who are observers, in the dark, who are trying to conceil anything but the actress up on stage- - in the light. It is this “light” that religion perports to and often literally portrays themselves in. But the funny thing it’s the people in the dark who can see better. The person up on stage, after all can barely if at all see the people she is performing in front of. One may remember the line “Nowhere man, can you see me at all?” One wonders despite how much he is seen- - does a pastor delivering a sermon actually see the people in his audience, whom he is perporting to be relating to? The whole thing with morality is that one wants to fight obscurity, such as a flaw in a fine gemstone. If there are no flaws in either the cut or the clarity of the stone, then it can be said to be a flawless stone, just as when there are no flaws in an IDEA it can be said to have the “ring of truth”. But these “Ideas” of Christians are not even true to themselves. Jesus on KFI has made some fantastic statements regarding good and evil. In his world God is a person who makes a perfect lemon meringue pie but then goes off and leaves it and then someone comes back and tells God “That lemon meringue pie you made is now all covered with mud and stuff”. Allow me to argue from the lesser to the greater to make a point, though it’s a methodology of argument apparently completely alien to Jesus. Were I to actually produce the “perfect lemon meringue pie” and I wanted to preserve it, I would set up securety guards and police hilocopters overhead and employ all sorts of security software and electronic infrared beans. The whole nine yards. Now if I were God and I created Good- - would I not take greater steps, being God with more resources at my disposal, to preserve the Good that I had created? Jesus on KFI seems to have the notion of “Limited Good - - - Unlimited Evil”. For you or I if you’re in a dark room you can light a single candle to dispel the darkness. Yet if you’re a Christian, you can shine a fifty million watt LED lamp and yet somehow the room isn’t getting any lighter; it’s still dark. In like manner in The Lion King, the son is told never to go to the shadow areas. In the gospels you’re supposed to BE A LIGHT to dark places, but this concept is lost on Jesus. In the notion of sound and “High Fadelity” a vocal sounds like a vocal and a clarinet sounds like a clarinet. The notes are true to themselves. There is a classic anti Christian web site says “To hate hatred is not hate. And to be intolerant of intolerance is not intolerant” (Selah) In other words if Good is “true to itself” it will have an unquenchable drive to eliminate evil. But Jesus of KFI teaches that God not only WILL not interfere with the mashenations of evil mankind, but that he CAN NOT. Oddly scripture addresses just this issue in the book of Esther where the King was tricked into giving a royal edict ordering the extermination of all the Jews, which he could not retract even if he wanted to. Do you really think God is that stupid to so limit himself and yet to give all others, including Satan, free will? Jesus will tell you that for a top there has to be a bottom and to have light you have to also have darkness. This to me is a false metaphore when it comes to describing morality. Of course it cannot be over stated or over repeated (though some of you may get tired of hearing it) is that God in Jesus’s mind appears to be a guy who came in on a universe someone else created and had tried to take it over but somehow despite his best planning- - it wasn’t enough. This George Burnes-esque god “makes mistakes” and so often seems overwhelmed by forces beyond his control. He may want to do good but that “might upset the ecology” or something. This is a God mortally afraid of upsetting some pre existing Rule, as though somehow his claim is “I didn’t make the universe; I just run it”. The lie is repeated that “Man was given Free Will”. Haven’t you heard that since you were a little baby? For all of Jesus’ claimed knowledge of the “underlying themes of the Bible” he seems ignorant of the basic fact from cover to cover that “God is in control of events”. “God is the author AND finisher of our Faith”. In other words, God initiates things- - and God completes them. “Faith” isn’t some magical decision that a person just makes one day. This may come as a shock but my “decisions” are not infallible. Jesus on the other hand when he spots what he calls evil, like a shadow will say “draw a line around this shadow and never cross it”. And later he comes along and sees the shadow outside the line and says “We need to draw another line”. Jesus has this highly fixed and stylized notion of “Good” and “Bad” people, and Jesus believes “people don’t change” I’ve heard Jesus say this many times. Joel Olsteen by contrast said that you should “speak blessings to those around you”. Certain people have positive energy they put out into the Universe and others seem to have negative energy that sucks energy out of anything they come in contact with. At least in that Jewish lesbian wedding there were certain positive sentiments being expressed. But falsehood oozes out of every pore of that show including the music they play about “Your own personal Jesus”. Again there is nothing “personal” about that Jesus. He doesn’t have a clue about me. If he did he wouldn’t play the annoying music they play on that show, which - - I don’t know what kind of music you like- - but I bet you’ll find this music annoying, whoever you are.