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.