MAKING DEMOGRAPHICS WORK FOR US

Well now there is a new book out called “The American Talliban” saying that the clerics in this country are no better than the extremist clerics in the Islamic nations. I don’t see how it takes a whole book to say that. I said it in one sentence. To me it doesn’t seem as if there are nearly the number of progressive minded books coming out as there were, say, four or five years ago. Am I right? If you look at the democraphics of America you see more young people coming of age to vote Democratic. You see more people coming out of the closet. You see increased representation of minorities. These tea party people are mostly old, white, protestant, and not real urban. Catholics tend to be more liberal than your average denomination. Still with all these fact there does seem to be cause to fear “The American Talliban”. Because those people are the “them” that we’re all afraid of and cower from. Baroch Obama is afraid of them. When Bill Clinton didn’t see enough money coming in from the dwindeling Unions in 1992, he formed this American Democratic Council thing to raise corporate money without unions. These were people like Larry Summers and Ron Emanuel. These are the people whom the President surrounds himself with. On the radio they said that President Obama never wanted any sort of “public option” in health care. Apparently the idea was never even on the table, so Obama lied to everyone who supported him to whom he said it was. Now we are hearing that the original intent of the medi-care bill of 1965 was to lower the age requirement every few years until everyone was covered. If the democrats are going to win, they can still do so. All they do is pretend it’s 2008 and go out on a massive voter registration drive, and also be willing to drive shut-ins to the polls on election day. As Jim Morrison said, “They have the guns, but we have the numbers”. They have their “second amendment remedy” they talk about so fondly. We have so many cold, hard facts on our side is we used all of our potential we could easily be victorious.

One hundred years ago yesterday ex President Teddy Roosevelt gave a message in Kansas to a bunch of Civil War veterans from someone’s kitchen table. I think he held the rally out on some farm and they were worried about people having to travel on muddy roads. The ex president made the key statement, as I say above, that labor is the prime, moving force in America. All capitol would not be possible without labor. Capital derives from labor. In the Civil it was forced labor of other men that we fought that war over. And yet the victors failed to carry on that worth ethic. Teddy spoke much of the American work ethic and how every man deserves an equal shot at the brass ring. But now the system had become corrupt. He said he had hopes for President Taft but now he clearly sees that Taft was not up to the job. I had heard that in a head to head contest, Teddy Roosevelt won every Primary that was held. Unfortunately they were not considered important in that age. If the American people were willing to vote for a progressive, crusader administration then, why not now? Huh?

Well now they have discovered that the last reason to allow for the existence of God has been taken away. Stephen Hawking has a new book out in which he states that God is a redundancy as far as the Big Bang and the creation of the Universe is concerned. Some like Bill Handel say “Oh he’s still around- - he should have been deat twenty years ago”. I remember nearly 25 years ago in early 1987 that Chuck Smith was cutting back the hours of his Sunday night service and now he was ended by 8:30 when he used to go to 9:30. And the talk was “Oh, he’s getting old. He’ll be retiring soon”. For the past thirty years, at least, I’ve heard Chuck Smith complain about getting old and wanting to move out of “this tent, which is my body”. Stephen Hawking may not be much on body but he’s sure keeping his mind active, and we need to keep geniouses like him around as we can. I hope his writings are thoroughly studied after he’s gone. On the Simpson’s they had one episode where a professor had mathematically proved that God didn’t exist. According to Hawking “we would still have all the scientific laws” even if there were no Universe. Some like at Astronomy Café may take issue with that, however, saying that without matter we would have chaos. I have one question I would like to address to Stephen Hawking. If it’s true we can see ancient galaxies ten billion years ago through our telescope I’d like to ask “Where do you look to find the center of where the Big Bang came from”. No astronomer seems to be able to answer that question in a way that doesn’t make me think they’ve been smoking something they shouldn’t. Here’s another case where you don’t seem to need to read the whole book to get the gist of it. You can say that “God has been ruled unnecessary to the creation of the Universe” in just a sentence or two. I doubt I’d understand any of the complex math anyway.

Steve Jobs yesterday announced that 4.1 would begin shipping soon. He says bugs in the latest I phone will be fixed and it will have a proximity sensor to handle signal cut-outs. He also announced Apple TV you can hold in your hand. All this news didn't make much of a splash yesterday when it was announced. He's big on fanfare but sometimes short on substance when the actual announcement comes along. People have these grandiose expectation of some bold new leap forward by Apple by which their competetion will be crushed.

In soap opera news Samantha Brady has done about as professional "hit" on Elvis Di Mira as you could ask for. She came upon him passed out drunk, with the gun, already out anticipating suicide, was already convieniently in his hand. All she had to do was to pick it up and fire at his head. The gun had a silencer on it. She then stood there a minute. Then she left, unseen by anybody and rather methodically tosses the gun into the Salem River as if she were used to this sort of thing all the time. She then tip toes back into her lover's bed and crawls up next to him as if nothing had happen. When he gets woken up by a phone call he is none the wiser. At the present time her deed of convienience remains undiscovered.

Now another oil platform rig has exploded, and as far as we know it is still on fire. It is some eighty miles southwest of the Lost Horizons one or whatever it’s called. Thirteen people were aboard the platform and they all survived though one man was injured. They were all picked up safely by a boat. I imagine they will have a lot more to tell us. We don’t know if oil leaked. They said possibly this was not even an active platform. We just need to pray that nothing worse happens to the people of the Gulf.

Hurricane Earl is on its way up the Atlantic coastline. They say it will hit Capt Cod and might hit the cape of North Carolina. They come out with wavering reports saying the storm has drifted this way or that. Right now Early is a category three storm and has hurricane force winds one hundred miles out from the wall of the eye, and I’m told this radius is expanding. Of course you know about the big surf in the Atlantic now. We Californians are familiar with that sort of thing with the off shore storms we get here but these east coast people have more of a propensity to drown in unfamiliar waters.