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.

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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.