MAKING YOUR WILL THE LAW OF THE LAND

You all remember the conversation George W Bush had back in Texas in 1999 before he ran for President. He said "My father invaded Iraq and had all this political capital and squandered it. If I ever get elected President, I'm going to use my political capital and have a successful outcome", referring to invading Iraq. One wonders what Obama is going to do with his political capital. Suppose God appeared to you and handed you a book of blank checks issued by the Bank of Heaven and each page had God's personal signature on it, and all you had to do was fill in the ammount and make it so- - - wouldn't you take advantage of it? It's interesting that both Christianity and Judaism ran into similar historic crossroads but handled their respective situations very differently. Do you remember the scene where Nefritiri told Moses "After you become Pharoah, your will will become law". This was in response to Moses saying that God did not hear the cries of his people. Let me tell you if a beautiful woman with all kinds of money and power fishes me out of a mud pit and asks me to row her barge for her and in exchange I get to be made Pharoah of Egypt, that's a deal I'm not turning down. Christianity was "wiser in the ways of the world" than their Jewish bretheren on this issue. When Christianity had the chance to take over the world and rule for a thousand years in 312 AD, that's a deal they did not turn down. Constantine had it all. He had all worldly power plus the blessings of his God and instituted the rule of the son of God - whether you call Him - Mithras - Sol Invictus - Issu - or Yeshuah - - for over a thousand years, which is something Adolph Hitler only dreamed of. Christian hegemony over the world did not end until in the 1400's when the Moslems brought gunpowder from China with them and destroyed Constantenople with cannon balls. There is one difference that bears noting however. While my recounting of Christian history is proven historic fact, the view that Jews were ever in Egypt or that two and a half million of them were in the Sinai wilderness wandering for forty years- - there is not one historic shread of proof of these incidents, so we can conclude that this is a Choice that the Jews never had, to have one of their own ruling the most powerful empire in the world like the Christians had.

Suppose I told you that this morning, as I lay in bed, God appeared to me and he told me a number of things. He said that it was His will that Obama's economic stimulus package get passed- - all of it. And that the Bush Adminestration criminals be prosecuted right now- - to the fullest extent of the law because it mattered what this nation stood for in the ways of Justice and Purety and that we had to set an example for the World, and that any uncaring religious denomination out there who robs the poor and calls it donations- - that such a religious organization by wiped from the face of the earth" you would probably think I'd been watching Howard Beale in Network too much. OK I'll tell you how I can make such a claim. Yesterday morning I was looking at some old files from just over ten years ago. Among the incidents covered were related how I and Kurt Cobain and Dennis Wilson and Richi Vallenz were all having Christmas dinner together. Shades of last night's "secret" Simpson's episode. But also one line that came up twice in the text was Dennis Prager's assirtion that "We know God is a caring God because he made caring people. Why would an uncaring God make caring people?" This is a beguiling argument, with all sorts of philosophical ramifications. So I could infer that since God made me- - than according to Preger's logic any concern or desire that I have, then God also has. Thus we must conclude that God is a liberal. What Dennis Prager is doing is using what's known as the Ontological Argument for God's existance. Stated simply, it goes "If you can think of it, then it must exist". The thing is most of Dennis Prager's ideas could be philosophically ripped to shreads either by conservative Christians or by liberal secularists, leaving Dennis "between the Devil and the deep blue sea". The thing is- - if Dennis isn't annointed by God then he shouldn't even be on the radio because his ideas lack the philosophical foundation to stand on their own.

I guess I find it frustrating to watch a Chris Matthews video yesterday where he's on with two guests- - and neither guest seems particularly confident that the Bush Adminestration will ever be successfully prosecuted for its war crimes and crimes of abuse of power. To paraphrase an obscure Elvis Costello song, "They talk and talk and talk- - - untill they talk themselves right out of it". How can we as a People have the Prise literally in our grasp, and yet allow it to slip away like so much sand? It would seem that Eric Holder is seen as a threat to the Bush Adminestration because he wants to prosecute old offences. But Arlen Specter is trying to actively block his nomination. Eric Holder is one man the Republicans are deathly afraid of. How odd that we have the White House and a majority in both houses of congress, but we are still running in fear of the Republicans and trying somehow to appease them. You need to write your US Senator and tell him you want Eric Holder confirmed as Attorney General. Also I would like to talk a little about Rod Blagoiavitch. They have an eighteen minute video of him defending against charges made against him- - and I watched it. It would seem that like Jesus before him, Blagoiavitch is not entitled to call witnesses on his behalf to the trial. But even if he were able to call all the witnesses he wanted there is some law that says that the grand jury's decisions are to be regarded as legal FACT and cannot be countermanded. So like Jesus before him, since a decree has been issued that he is in fact Guilty- - no other evidence is admissable. Personally I'd be interested in who Blagoiavitch would call as a defence.

I was watching an old Dateline show yesterday, and new legal precident has been set in that you can convict them of premeditated murder and send them away for life merely because "You just don't Like them". They're a little creapy. This one husband who supposedly forced his wife to drink anti freeze and kill herself- - is kind of a creap. He has a good motive for wanting to kill his wife. He'd gain monitarily. But there is no evidence connecting him with the actual murder. Even though he's a liar and a jerk and a con man and all of that- - I didn't think in this country you could convict a man merely because "You don't Like them". But now, maybe you can.