THE FORTY DAYS OF AWE

Tomorrow August 29th is the new moon and signals the entering into the Hebrew month of Elul. This month goes on for thirty days, and then it's Hosh Hashana or the Jewish New Year. People think that the Jews only blow the ram's horn or shofar for those ten days in the seventh month. But actually the shoffar, as far as I've learned, is blown throughout the whole forty day period from the new moon of tomorrow, through to Yom Kippur. This period represents the period that Moses was on Mt Sanai - on his second trip, to bring the ten commandments - again. And since these would remain unbroken they represent Christ's keeping the full law. This forty day period is a preparation for the Day of Atonement or Yom Kippur. But as you know we have predicted some sort of supernatural "rapture" on the evening of September 28th - - just next month. So we are kind of claiming you should prepare for this by whatever means you deem expediant. We spoke of it suddenly "not being this Universe as we know it" a couple of postings back, and since I have been "cleaning up the text" and amplifying on it- - I recommend you go back and read it. However there is no physical danger of THAT happening any time soon, at least by normal physical processes. But perhaps the Almighty has other tricks up his sleeve.

August 24th is St. Barthalamew's Day. It also happens to be the second time the Beatles dropped acid, and this time at least they knew they were taking it. John, George and Ringo chose to set sail on an LSD trip this evening. Paul chose not to partake. But this holiday was a holiday in the Federation before the Beatles became "Enlightened" in August of 1965. As you may know from history on this date in 1572 was the St. Barthalamew's Day Massacre in France. It's kind of the Federation's version of Bastille Day. (and some people celebrate then, too) This was a "popular uprising" of the French people, who were Catholics, against the Calvinist Huganaut influence in their country. Some say there was trouble when John Calvin in a publication decided in a publication to advocate the violent overthrow of a King if that King were "in violation of God's word". Sound fermiliar? Well the French people loved their King but despized the Huganauts, so that there was a "popular uprising". It was perhaps the most effective "political cleansing" since Joan of Ark. (who is also a revered figure) It's kind of an ironic twist of fact that a similar "stepping up of the violence" did not work nearly so well on August 24th 1970 when four radicals blew up a building on the campus of the University of Wisconsin. They said it was important that the explosion didn't kill anybody but one person was killed and others were injured. Because of this "failure to take the high ground" left wing protest activity languished on the University of Wisconsin that fall. It's interesting to note how the left and the right deal with undesirable behavior. Ted Bundy is practically a patron saint among the James Dobson crowd. And he killed remorselessly. But the left makes one slip up and the whole movement is consumed with guilt forty years later. I guess the lesson here is that it's important that we all read up on our Ghandi, so that we don't make any other mistakes.

It's been pointed out that Homosexuals are in fact logically consistent in their demand that man be allowed to marry man and woman be allowed to marry woman. Because in the case of polygamy and bestiality laws, they state that anybody who violates these laws shall be guilty of an infraction, be they straight, gay, Black, Chicano or White. Whereas on the whole marriage of the person of your choice law- - this law applies only to homosexuals and not to straights. My feeling is that marriage is pretty much an obsolete institution to begin with and it is regularly made a mockery of by multiple marriage celebrety weddings. Nobody seems to be bothered by that. Some like Dennis Prager may say to me "Well some people have high morals that they don't always live up to, and so that makes it allright". That of course is a non-sequetor. It's a solemn vow to remain with your spouse "till death do you part". Any person with an even vaguely legal bone in their body would say, "I am not going to be the one who files for divorce". One can well make the argument that laws without penalties are not really laws. Some have, for instance, said that these "Wall Street reforms" are a little on the toothless side and won't really do anything to clean up corruption. The whole idea with Christians is to "keep it vague enough for my own moral piety not to come under scruteny". In no way am I condoning the gay life style. I still it is a form of mental disturbence. It may not be a treatable condition, but it is a condition nontheless just as lepracy is a condition. People think "because you can't do anything about it, that somehow that means it's no longer wrong". I disagree. "Wrong" and "disfunctional" are terms that can exist per se in a vacuum. (Selah)

It was Stewart Sutcliffe that said that Sirius "0" was the planet associated with early rock and roll history. The Federation doesn't talk about this but all the scenes they show of it are some sort of industrial, military setting, where they mine silicon dioxide - - Sand. Oh yes. Conservatives say that is Obama were in charge of the Sahara Desert, there would soon develop a shortage of Sand. On both Sirius O and A the star Sirius doesn't make that bright of a "sun" in the sky because of the distance from both planets from the star. The letters A and B are not really given in the standard manner either. There is something called a karmic "Reigellian immunity factor". Sirius A people have the "A" factor and Sirius "B" people have the "B" factor and those on Sirius "0" have neither factor. Obviously the parrellel to blood types can't be missed. There is an African tribe that claims they are originally from Sirius. They are called the "Dogon" tribe or "That dog gone tribe". This whole "dog" metaphor is carried over because the Cleveland Browns have Sirius "O" as their guiding spirits, not to mention that Stewart is a partisan of the team. But the Federation has stopped talking about Sirius "O".

JERRY LIEBER, SONGWRITER, PASSES AWAY

Jerry Lieber, of Lieber and Stower died last night. He was famous for main streaming “rhythm and blues” rock and roll. He had the vision of doing this in the early 1950’s back before it was fashionable. I associate him primarily for writing for Elvis Presley and the Coasters. However Lieber and Stower also wrote “Stand by Me”, which they say is the fourth most covered song in the world. Of course we all know they are Jewish. Jerry Lieber was born in Baltimore but got famous right here in Los Angeles. Though I have always thought of his lyrics as having an “east coast sound”. I was curious what the Federation makes of his death. Actually they were surprisingly apathetic about the whole thing. They don’t have the regard for “smart Blacks” as I do. Lieber said “Black people are smarter, you know”. The other song writer who died over the weekend was one part of that husband and wife songwriting team, famous for a whole lot of songs. Unfortunately I need a refresher course on “Black 101” because I’m not as familiar as I should be. Of course a black saxophone player for a lead singer who is White and hails from the Arktures star system gets the royal treatment from the Federation. It’s one o clock right now and Leo Le Port has been on since lunch. It’s pretty hot in here now. As I suspected closing the window tight doesn’t work.

Some would be tempted to talk about the “passing” of Steve Jobs even though he is still very much alive. But he issued a memo saying if a time ever came when he felt he could no longer do his C E O job he would be the first to note it. Of course my Mom’s sister (don’t’ worry I’ll change the wording after posting) contacted my Mom in early February of 1986 saying she would not be able to do my mom’s taxes for this year because of health reasons. When Mom reported this to me she broke down, because she realized that her sister, whom she’d known and loved all her life, was going to die. And she did die soon despite appearing pretty healthy, or so I thought, Christmas of 1985. It seems that Steve Jobs survived pancreatic cancer, which is no small feat in itself. Of course Bo Brady did it but soap opera people beat the odds all the time. Now Jobs has liver cancer, and I guess he’s not so confident of that. They said this morning that the greatest shortener of life expectancy is- - friction with co corkers. This comes as absolutely no surprise to me. In my life it’s been more phantom fear than reality. But I remember my Mom saying how this fellow Maloney, a supervisor in the Santa Ana office was obstructing her advancement. I talked to two others in two different cities and different years 1967 and 1969 and both of them, Bob Whiting and Al Kaders, seemed to give Maloney a thumbs up. So I don’t know. I’m just saying it’s been a continuing fear of mine. And it takes no imagination at all to see how uncooperative co workers could really spoil your day. And I know it all “adds up over time”. So co workers are more injurious than all those other things they lament about such as cigarettes, fried foods, and even alcohol. I think you need more attentive supervisors who are able to spot bad apples more quickly and move them out before they spoil the barrel. (Selah)

REDEFINING WHAT IS "MAIN-STREAM"

Dick Chaney has his book out. This is the book that nobody expected he’d have the cajones to write because he had held such a “Darth Vader” status. Of course he trashes so many other members of his working team in the Bush administration. Of course I kind of pull a “Dick Chaney”. As you may note I have “tightened up my claims” on the whole Einstein thing when I updated that long paragraph two postings back. I suggest those so inclined re read it. It takes balls not to just stand your ground but also to amplify on your claims. Many people still don’t see the massive right wing shift in politics for next year. They are still “fighting the last War”. They have polls out that say all four Republican candidates are in a virtual dead heat in a head to head contest with President Obama. That doesn’t bode at all well for the president. Not one bit. Because if Rick Perry can post even numbers with the President as an unknown a few months ago, just imagine what Perry will be able to do after he has refined his image a little. The order of placing was Romney and Perry, who just beat the President, and then Ron Paul and Michelle Bachman, who both trail by a percentage point or two. If they are all fighting each other and do this well, imagine what one standard barrer will be able to do with the endorsement of the other three? I really don’t think President Obama appreciates the gravity of the political trouble he is in. Just after dinner I had justice Elena Kagen being interviewed by a reporter on C-Span, who had trouble getting out a word because Kagan did a long stop monolog. The Dodger game was going on in the background. Kagen discussed Arizona’s public financing campaign law and I found the vote troubling to the max. Kagan voted the right way upholding this campaign regulation. But others argued that the rights of the rich campaigners were being abridged because they had to specifically opt out of government money. This was unfair because in their eyes the poor candidates had an “unfair advantage” by even Being Heard. As Rush Limbaugh points out, “You have a right to free speech but you don’t have a right to be Heard”. So the rights of the rich were abridged because in their eyes they deserved to have the air waves all to themselves with no opposition at all. Obviously political speech is one of the most vital in this nation. And it should be protected- - - even if it means the government has to step in and insure the rights of all parties to get their message out.

Well Hurricane Irene hasn’t exactly turned into a pussy cat, but Irene is much weaker than feared now that has advanced into the New Jersey and New York area. It had in fact been downgraded from a category one hurricane to a tropical storm. I guess the term is “Full Gale”. Actually we should all thank God in such cases in this that we were spared the damage of for instance, a hurricane Katrina. The New York subway system was not flooded with salt water. Their calendar dates for the new moon were off anyhow. The moon isn’t new until Tuesday, not yesterday. Anyhow the flood waters did not rise nearly as high as expected. Not to be an A-hole or anything but the biggest damage this hurricane may be blamed for is the loss of economic business.

One principle of commerce is that it’s pointless to make an advancement in one area if it’s only be negated by a slow down in another key area along the chain. This has been the case in computers now for some ten years. We have had 2.4 megahertz processing chips in computers for nigh on to ten years now. But it’s all for mockery because hard drive technology is still back in the ‘seventies what with access time and all. And there are moving parts that can wear out. I’m lucky. This computer is almost eight years old and Accronis is still giving me a thumbs up. But I know that I had better start looking around. Leo le Port says “if you can afford it” your next computer should be a solid state flash drive. Access time is zero. There are no moving parts. And there is no seek time. So read and write speed is much quicker. Also BUS speed on the mother board is important. Right now I’m thinking it will be at least one year but less than two years that I’ll upgrade my status with a whole new computer.

KEEPING FOOTBALL A MANLY SPORT FOR MANLY MEN

I would at this time like to restate some of my rules for again making Football, “A Manly Sport for Manly Men”. The first has to do with scoring. You don’t score till both feet are over the goal line regardless of where the ball is. Also you score by catching a ball in the end zone. Not beyond it or to the left or the right. Some of these “corner shots” don’t appear to be kosher to me and yet the referee ways they scored when they were challenged. The goal line does not “extend theoretically around the world”. This principle also applies to first downs. If any part of your body is not over the first down point then you don’t get a first down. There are a couple of whoos rules that HAVE been eliminated, thank God. One is the “I was pushed out of bounds” rule pertaining to a caught pass. The other is the “in the grasp” rule where a player need not be down for the play to end. I would move the kick off line back to the thirty yard line- - and from the 35 yard line where it was placed this year. Also I would change the field goal rule back to where if you don’t make it it’s from the point of scrimmage, and not from the point from where the ball was kicked. I would eliminate both the “roughing the kicker” rule and the “roughing the passer” rule. I would eliminate “pass interference” as a call, either defensive or offensive. The offensive rule is particularly assanine. Under my rules blocking from the back would be legal, and holding, either offensive or defensive, would be legal. As for out of bounds passes I would eliminate one problem entirely by instituting a “no feet in bounds” rule for caught passes. If when the player’s feet last left the ground both feet were entirely in fair ground and he established control of the ball before he came down out of bounds, the pass would count as a reception. All the rest of the rules I would keep, even the ones I don’t understand like “illegal formation” and “illegal man down field”. I would certainly enforce the intensional grounding rule. In fact I would toughen it- - to include grounding the ball to stop the clock. And I would enforce the passing beyond scrimmage rule vigerously. Under my rules you would still have prohibitions against such thing as the face mask grab, rabbit punches, horse collars, and hits to the groin. And just to be a nice guy I’d even keep the “fair catch” rule after kick-off, though that is a little wimpy. I would go back to the old “sudden death” rule for overtime. I would keep the two point ground conversion rule. No canning center. I would start the clock on kick-off when the kicker kicked the ball, and not when it was caught. Twelve men on the field is an offense, but too few man on one side is not grounds to have a play annulled. The ten yard onside kick rule would remain.

There is a substance, a specific protein produced by jellyfish, called Previgen, that works wonders on the human brain increasing cognition speed, memory, and a whole lot of other stuff. It even reverses dementia symptoms in old people. This substance has been molecularly synthesized or cloned or something. Jellyfish aren’t in danger. Some people protest against a certain surgical practice on male babies. I would like to organize a crusade against “de-milanization of the brain”. With every brain cell that gets washed away there goes a memory. “Brainwashing” may not be just a metaphor. I honestly think my Dad lost a lot of cognitive brain cells from alcohol. These people on the right want “low information voters” to demilenize all the common sense out of them they were born with. Remember the adage, “The Mind is a horrible thing to waste”.

Not to toot my horn or anything but have you noticed what the stock market has been doing lately? It’s gone up this week. If you had followed my “Buy” signal, you would be that much in the black now. Allow me to repeat that overnight market orders can be your quickest road to the poor house- - unless you are going against the tide. It would be like someone traveling from Big Bear on a Saturday morning down to a construction job in San Barnadino where you get time & a half overtime. Some people look at these gap openings in stock charts and ask “But what about all that money there?” and the answer there, I suspect, is “Well the insider traders on the exchange floor pocketed that. So if you want to partake in their greed and make to rules work for instead of against you, go against the tide on gap market openings. Also as you k know, my rule is that you bet favorites on football, and long shots on horse races. How many Simpson cartoons have you seen where Homer says “All my team has to do is lose by less than six points and I get my money”. - - - And he always loses. If the line is 21 points, the team will likely win by 24 points. Back when I was regularly studying the line, I found that winning teams routinely beat “the line” where technically the tally should be 50 – 50. Of course Uncle Bob did not take kindly to my remark about betting favorites when his team lost the game on a bad call. Well, they don’t ask you about bad calls when you go to the window to collect your money. Hey, folks, with age comes wisdom.

Hurricane Irene has made landfall in North Carolina but as a category one storm, so the damage is not as severe as feared. However of all the courses (paths) the hurricane might take, it appears to be following a “worst case scenario” path. Broadway Shows have been closed for the weekend. The Little League game may even be impacted. They say that lower Manhatton may be under as much as 13 feet of water, and the Subway system may become flooded with salt water. The Martin Luther King ceremony in Washington DC has been canceled today. This will be New York’s worst hurricane since 1938. In other news, now rebel troops are attacking the city of Qadafi’s birth, where he is most likely to have supporters. They of course have been combing all of these underground tunnels. Qadafi won’t go down without a fight. The Federation is neutral at best on this whole thing, if anything they are actually routing for Qadafi to prevail.

It's interesting how certain things can be kept secret a long time, like Johnson's comments to Senator Everett Dirkson about Nixon being guilty of "treason" in the area of sabotaging the Paris peace talks. It's interesting to wonder how much enlightenment we'd have if everybody's secrets came to light, even from long ago. There is a roomer that the Beatles song "All I Got To Do" was actually written in 1961 but Lennon kept it secret. My theory is that perhaps basist Stewart Sutcliffe actually wrote this song. Another "song holdover" that has been documented is "Hold Me Tight". It's been my impression that these two songs are bit "anachronistic" with respect to the other With the Beatles album songs. The trouble is that Christians and other charletons pride themselves on "Ancient Secrets" that were just concocted the day before yesterday. For people to know the bogus from the genuine they need discernment, and there are all too few people who have discernment, especially those most in need of possessing it.

I’ll be frank with you. Everybody comes to an intellectual problem with their own biases. I am no exception. But in the case of my Prophecy Book, it wasn’t de-milenized, it was de Mark Campbell-ized. A few of his ideas are retained in the book, such as the portraying of karma as a physical property. There is some sentiment tword preferring “the land” and rural existence to city life. And I do mention that it’s not a good idea to rat out your friends- - sell them down the river, all to impress “The Man”. However Mark Campbell would have had me emphasize these remarks much more strongly than I did. Originally there was going to be a lot of stuff about prison life, and the psychology of being a prisoner, and different kinds of "prisoners", and walls, and breaking out. There was a Dylan lyric "I believe the whole wide world is one big prison yard. Some of us are prisoners and some of us are guards". Mark was also a big fan of the lyrics to "All Along the Watchtower". After living three years with President Obama, I’m gaining a new appreciation of why Mark Campbell was so disillusioned with my book, and could not recommend that anybody buy it. I guess what I did was to do a Bennihana job on my intellect and sculpt it into a religiously acceptable phallic symbol. However certain concepts are missing entirely like Mark’s numerous “sailing” metaphors and lines like, “Prefer the feast of friends to the giant assembly”. Also a key part of the book was going to be an ode to the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighting to preserve their homeland and how all the American bastions of sin and degradation occur in places like Saigon. And also how we should all be more in touch with the earth and care for the planet, and to go for a more organic way of living, even pertaining to organic substances, such as marijuana. And just maybe the image of the G I’s and Viet Kong getting together for a pow-wow might become a reality. Also I did quote the Ezekiel 28 scripture of “Will you say you are a god in the presence of those who are doing you in?” I quoted it but I did not elaborate on it, and this scripture is literally pregnant on ways to elaborate.

In terms of Einstein’s theory on light speed verses Mine- - there are problems with us both. Einstein’s problem is one I mention in my Book, of, “A plan without a left AND a right wing won’t fly”. That’s sure to offend both sides. Einstein is like the seller of a table saw where there are ten equally important things to watch out for that could be dangerous and cause accidents. Unfortunately the instruction manuel only lists five, leaving you caught utterly unawares on the other five. His theory is like a man who build a jet plane with a right wing made of scientifically endineered titanium, whereas the left wing is made of shoddily crafted pig-iron. That plane won’t fly. The thing wrong with my theory is not that it won’t fly but that it won’t sail. I have a distinct “Horse Lattitude” problem- - No Ether Wind. It was this reality that was among the key reasons for Einstein even to come up with his theory in the first place. Einstein bases his world on certain assumptions. “Light never bends” and “Light has constant speed”. Ask any jeweler in town whether or not they believe light bends. So being true to his ideals “light doesn’t bend- - it’s the Space that bends”. That’s like Norma Desmond saying “I AM big; it’s the pictures that got small”. Actually back in the fall of 2009 I considered giving Einstein’s theory as is, a real plug. His theory is based on the “Different amounts but the same percentages” concept. It’s actually a variation on Mark Bove’s “Corinthian” doctrine. As adopted by Me, it goes “We all have things we are proud of in accomplishing. Some people have accomplished a lot more than others. But in the end we all lack that “certain percentage” of confidence, and all equally have a sense of having “falling short of the perfection of God”. However, some of us have bigger “vessels” than others of us. As such they need more of God’s glory to “top them off”. This admittedly is an Egotistical view of things, but there is a certain mad validity to it. Unfortunately in the fall of 2009 I didn’t like certain assumptions that went along with it and threw it out, literally AS I was writing my thesis. I had started off with the “Everything is Normal” doctrine I had just come up with. This is another of those philosophical questions each man has to ask himself. Would you rather live in a world where you see things as they actually are- - even if there is madness in the world all around you, but you knowing that you are Right with God?” Or would you rather take a Prozac like my Dad did, and no matter how messed up your life is in reality- - you think, “Everything’s fine”. Going on three years ago I had propounded a view where “Things actually look normal” when you are moving at a substantial speed and percentage of light speed. There is no indication at all of any optical distortion. So in a sense if a scientist can demonstrate that that there in fact IS no optical distortion- - then Einstein has been proved right. Because I broke it down and showed that there WAS optical distortion using “normal” Newtonian physics. Not to complicate my thesis but Wayne Dyre, the mentalist, or whatever he calls his teaching, plays into this a little. It is said by Evangelists, "God has blessings for all. But there is a principle that God's love can't get INTO you unless it can also get OUT of you. Like electricity. So it's not just in the light sender, but the presence of a Receiver alters the laws of physics. It's as though YOU exhibited some sort of "magnetic attraction" like the presence of the Queen in a swarm of bees. As such there is almost a "conductivity" issue when it comes to the Ether transmission of EM wave energy. Capish? OK I’m done with that. Let me add one thing here. What I said- -or may have ambiguously implied (like Romney) that somehow gravitational fields “near the edge of Ether” are not circular- - - well they ARE circular. I don’t want my ambiguity on the subject in the last outing to germinate into full blown error. So in the sense I WAS right when I said there will be no “Early Warning” of impending disaster. Spare your laments on that subject for when Rick Perry becomes President, and the boom is really lowered.

L O O K I N G - - L E F T W A R D

This is Thursday August 25, 2011. Tomorrow is women’s sufferage day, the day on which women were given the right to vote in 1920. It was pointed out yesterday that it was many feminists who worked behind the scenes to abolish slavery and to get the thirteenth amendment passed. But then they were betrayed in the fourteenth, which restricts the privileges of citizenship to males, or something like that. This issue over negro equality split the women’s movement. Throughout most of our history we have had segments of the population that were way ahead of their time. Of course in 1968 the book The Population Bomb came out that is still ahead of its time. But Thom Hartman points out that in areas of the world where women have rights comparable to men, that birth rates drop dramatically and the population crush is eased. Obviously as time goes by the overpopulation of the world will be that “elephant in the tent” that nobody has wanted to talk about lately. This David Seroda guy who was on the radio this afternoon claims that we are actually an under-regulated society and he’d like to see a bunch of new laws passed. My response is that we have enough on our plate now with no need to complicate things further. Our task is to keep either Mitt Romney or Michelle Bachman or Rick Perry from beginning President next year. Apparently there is some constitutional question as to what happens if the Vice President becomes incompacitated. Dick Chaney wrote about this in his book. I’d say that in his case it might not be a bad idea to just forget we even had a Vice President for the time being. Of course you all know these people are puppets of “someone”. Mitt Romney two months ago had admitted there in fact WAS global warming. Just yesterday he pretty much flip flopped on that position saying that there isn’t now. One caller on the radio this morning made the preposterous statement that “the carbon dioxide molecule does not absorb heat”. Of course ALL molecules on the earth absorb heat. The link between CO2 and the green house effect is pretty overwhelming. As in the case of a car with closed windows, the light gets polarized on the way in, and then it can’t get out for the very reason that is is polarized. The key figure is 350 parts per million CO2 as the danger point when we get global warming, and we are past that mark already and it is rising. Trying to reason with anybody on the far right is pointless these days. It looks like we’re just going to have to elect Rick Perry as President and watch the economy fall apart far unimaginally worse than it is now. Now these Republicans want to eliminate the 2% FICA discount on the payroll deduction, apparently because it’s mostly poor people that benefit here.

However there are certain things this country can do right now to make this a better place, and as a bi-product it also raises revenue. Thom Hartman states that other countries such as Germany get around the terriff question by imposing a value added tax on their own citizens, but then if the product is exported there is no VAT at all, so the product is sold as a deep dish discount. Dr. Levy said a few days ago that its useless to have zero percent interest rates- - if the value of our dollar is dropping on the international markets. Once again Dr. Levy betrays his complete ignorance on economic issues. A dropping dollar is a thing most to be coveted because it tends to make our goods more competitive on the international markets, and well as tending to keep foreign goods out. This is why countries like China endeavor to keep the value of their currency artificially low. But there are certain “health issues” that David Seroda pointed out that our government could help with. For instance the prices of pork and beef are artificially low because we subsidize the corn feed industry. And giving grain to an animal is energy intensive and wasteful. Another energy wasteful thing is this ethanol nonsense, and we give subsidies to farmers in Iowa for that, too. I would not at all mind a final tally on election where Iowa was in the ranks of the other side. And the other area where we subsidize the corn industry is this whole area of corn syrup which is less healthy and more addictive to us than is cane sugar. So if you want to get a decent bottle of Coke, go to Tijuana. Also they are planning to put virtual ads in our history books children learn in school. Now they are going to put in overt plugs for the oil and coal industries, saying how wonderful these products are. Of course another way to conserve energy, if we want to do that is just say that corporations who order these big private jets go back to, say a twenty year depreciation schedule rather than a five year schedule. A well maintained aircraft will easily last twenty years. Another thing we could do is say that churches have to pay taxes along with the rest of us. Jesus said to pay your taxes. Paul in Romans 13 essentially said to pay your taxes, as well as to obey all other government laws passed. I think we can at least be “religious neutral”. Christians tend to have large families and children are tax subsidized. But I’m amblvelent on this one. Because supporting a dependent is a much more responsible thing to do than abandoning him to society. I know that conservatives hate the idea that Anybody would have to go on food stamps. Someone on the radio, perhaps the Rush substitute guy, said that “If all these people on welfare went out and got a job we would cut the unemployment rate dramatically” or something, and how having a “safety net” is a conspiracy to drive the unemployment rate up. I think it was Hartman who said that now only 66% of the able bodied men out there are actually employed and this is the lowest percent this figure has ever been since it was instituted. We can address all of these areas after we are out of the current recession.

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I went down for one cup of regular and one cup of black coffee from Laura. The birds started making strange noises when I approached. It just occurred to me that one reason why my spirit is not higher is because some people’s idea of good news is not other people’s idea. Some people, shall we say, take bad news “too well”. I don’t know what kind of “compartmentalization” was going on in George Bush’s mind when he sat there in Sara Soda Florida reading “My Pet Goat” to those second graders. Aurie Fleisher comes to him and informs him there had been a second plane hit and “America is under attack” and President Bush just sits there continuing to read. After the first plane hit a building his response was something like “Well, that guy sure must have been a bad pilot”. It’s kind of like Uncle Bob’s letters that I read through in Dad’s bedroom one time. One October 1971 one said that Nana may well be confined to her bed for the rest of her life, and do you know of any good Funeral Homes? Just for a time frame, Nana’s “decline” didn’t take place till that Thanksgiving. It has always bothered me that our family responds so WELL - - - TOO well, to really bad news. I remember it was the previous month of September 1971 that [no name] shared Jesus with Nana, and she kept saying “God bless you” and I think they read passages from the Living Bible. On the other hand in the summer of 1978 you never saw Mark Bove so agitated and depressed as he was that summer. He was a popular youth director who had Bible Studies bulging with new people all the time. But he’s thinking ‘Hell, I didn’t drop out of Princeton theological seminary for this!” Not to play arm chair psychiatrist of anything but do you perhaps think there was a time when Adolph Hitler had not yet resolved to invade Poland. And I imagine from the moment he made that decision in his mind, his whole spirit lightened and he said “We’re going September first, crank up the propaganda films”. These are the ones they showed in theaters depicting Polish men as brutish with pig-like features. Do you know how these “Marcus Crises” occur? Are they long and protracted with plenty of "lead time". As though extensive time has passed - and finally family members make statements like “You should have solved this problem as of yesterday!” or something. Let’s take the alcoholism diagnosis. That was Thursday March 4^th 1999. And yet from the tone of the conversation that day you’d think it had been an ongoing topic for years. So don’t blame me when I say “I have no idea when the next “crisis” is coming from. It depends when they spring it on me. They will say something out of the blue- - some wild theory- - and suddenly the world stops until it is solved. Family members are “in their element” when there is bad news. Good news only bores them. And my saying with them now is “let sleeping dogs lie”.

HAVING NEITHER CAUSE NOR PROVABILITY

First of all I’d like to clarify how I use certain words. When I refer to “materiality” I refer to whether the subject has mass and material existence as we know it. When I use the word “physicality” the subject may not be material. It could be, for instance as the Pearly Gates or the Golden Streets of heaven. Well, you guessed it. I come against the special relativity theory because it’s primary propositions lack either cause or provability. We will concede the speed of light as a proven. But the rest of it, all the stretching and shrinkage stuff- - is hogwash. Also I fail to find reasons why objects other than light cannot exceed 186,000 miles per second. Picture the following example that’s simple enough for anybody to follow. Picture a planet like earth- - with a satellite going around it at a distance of 200 miles. Now picture another satellite going around the planet that’s always 180 degrees on the clear other side. Obviously the two satellites never see each other, but that’s not the point. Both of these satellites are neither accelerating nor decelerating and both are traveling at a constant speed with no immediate danger of orbital decay. Both are in what we would call a state of localized weightlessness. Any astronaut will attest to this. Now let’s just add one thing- - the Sun. The sun exerts almost no gravitation in comparison to the earth, which is but 200 miles below them. But somehow when a satellite comes over on the “evening” side of the earth, light from the sun is now traveling 18,000 miles faster and the satellite on the morning side of the earth light from the same sun is traveling 18,000 slower. It has to because those on board ship “measure” the speed and it has to be the same for both. One is traveling tword the son and the other traveling away from it. What is wrong with this picture? In terms of the train signal analogy- - last evening I decided to bone up on this example. Excuse me. To be politically correct it’s “Boehn up”. The example centers on some radio beacon device, like a remote control dev ice. And when it signals- - lights at the head of the train and back of the train flash. Given an odd number of cars, this device would probably be in the center of the middle car, being an equal distance from both flashing red beacons. Now if the signal goes off just as an observer standing at the station is there- - there would be a slight delay before the light began traveling from the red beacons. This is the time the radio signal would take to get to both ends of the train. Now according to Einstein- - people riding on the train would see both beacons flash simotaniously, but the person standing at the station would see the approaching beacon first. There is a simple explanation for this. Since the train has moved in the time it took for the radio signal to travel half the length of the train in each direction, the rear red beacon would now be closer than the front red beacon to the person on the platform. A better test would be if the train were crossing our viewer just as both lights flashed. In such a case- if the viewer saw both lights at the same time- - it would mean the speed of the light received by his eyes would be identical. However the “sending speed” would have to be different with each beacon. This whole idea of “light received” as the key rather than “light sent” is a strange one. But it's always the criteria used.

YES, THERE IS A "LIMIT" TO WHICH THINGS CAN BE 'PUSHED'

New and Improved with Clarifications and Amplifications

I make use of the Ether theory to explain all these apparent light irregularities. However I am not one hundred percent confident in my view. My problem with the Ether theory is the same one they had over a hundred years ago. “How come there is NEVER any ether wind”. My theory suggests the possability that it's there but somehow where YOU are for some metaphysical reason, it's never there. One might well say "Something is wrong with my TV, it's working perfectly". Perhaps it's supposed to be that way. Some subjectivists have suggested that "You can't prove ANYTHING exists and that it's all a perception of each individual mind and each mind is in its own "certain reality". Some claim some sort of metaphysical link between "The cosmos" and the deep recesses of the mind. One is almost forced into a Wayne Dyre world of “My Space” and “Your Space”. Einstein invariably talks about "the observer" as opposed to "this is how it really is". One might be tempted to laugh at this except Einstein has a doctrine of "You are always in the perfect viewing area at the stationary center of the universe". Hence Einstein's logic enables those so inclined to regress to a pre Copernican view of the Universe. (Selah) I have dabbled with this sort of thinking that each brain lives in its own metaphysical world and that “Your World” may be different. This is unscientific and non objective. But desperate times call for desperate measures. How does either the approach or recession of a receiving object- - able to determine the speed light is SENT at? Einstein says of course "being sent" is immiterial, but how you "receive" the signal. Also I said in a recent posting I thought that there would come a point in travel through Ether that one would encounter a non circular gravitational field that you were at the Center of and traveling with. I'll explain my view on this in a second. However in Einstein's model this would never happen, but you could go on accelerating till hell froze over. Such a continuous state of accelerating and getting nowhere seems strange to us. Take it up with Dr. Albert. But in my theory you “run out of Ether” at a certain point. One question is whether you get some early warning indications one is "running out of Ether" something that happens suddenly. I've thought about this since this afternoon and concluded that there would be no "warning" your localized gravitational mass field was no longer circular. The theory being that forward light is "slow light" and backward light is "fast light". I have used these terms to explain the machinations of the Ether which is indeed mysterious. The "motor boat" analogy deals with this wave compression and expansion but this analogy is not entirely without flaws. Since atomic particles are governed by a whole different set of forces than are EM waves propigating through Ether, if your vessel did NOT change its physical dimensions - there would come a point at which you would approach an absolute limit of light speed, alias the end of the ether. Because in my version energy applied to a material substance (mass) will always increase the speed by a proportional ammount, and that this relation of energy applied to speed never varies. Hence it's only a matter before the MPS crosses a certain number and your "out" or whatever. Just as in the case of earth's gravity - light has a fixed "escape velocity". And just as with rocket stages - - a fixed and certain ammount of propulsion is needed to achieve it. To use a rather simple analogy to explain this distinction between matter, which is substance, and light, which travels through space, think of a billiard game. You know the game is won by predicting all the geometry of the impact and the force required to hit the ball. The balls bounce off of other calls. Now let me ask you. Could this game of pool be played just as effectively in a vacuum? Yes, it could. Nothing would be altered. Sure you hear the sound of the balls clinking in the room, but the sound you hear is not "causal" on the primary forces acting on the balls. As such atoms and molicules have no relation to the "physics of light speed".

People approaching the "edge" of the Universe know it, of course, if they look out at the pattern of stars. In fact they know at the rate they are getting "closer to the edge" this process can't go on forever. A "stationary" observer would see an eliptical gravitational field developing, but not you who is aboard ship. You would continue to view your own gravitational field as perfectly spherical If you used light to measure light, you'd never pick up on your own field distortion even if it were to occur. In fact with local measurement things would "be as they always were" in keeping with Einstein's theory. However there would come a point when "everything would collapse". In your case if would be when there was "nothing in front of center". It would be like a center of gravity thing with a wood block leaning. Or a building that collapses. Or a tree that fell. Such things happen suddenly. Since there would no longer be any pretence you had a gravitational "radius point", is said point departed from your physical locality- - as I said a few days ago you would literally "lose your mass". Carrying out gravity in the same logic pattern of optics we've explored, in fact there may even be a period of, dare I say it "negative mass" you'd experiance. To understand this you must read what happens optically at this "thresshold point" for this to make sense to you. Then hopefully, it will. In the same way we referred to the optics of the thing as going through a translucent on which there is a projected picture - - so this "flip flop" phenominon goes with gravity. Like with light - - if you traveled faster than IT could - - - you would be running through it backwards - - - and hence a temporary reversal in Force. But for Einstein, he never has to face the question of “What comes after you leave the Ether?”

The Wickipedia article lays out a plan by which space travel to distant stars is still possible. Let's be modest and take a star that isn't all that distant in the over scheme of things, the star Reigel, 900 light years away. Betelguese is 600 light years away. To state it simply even if you planned to dialate time by a factor of one hundred, so you could survive the trip, you would STILL have to spend more than one hundred years, four times, or 400 years, in cycles of acceleration and deceleration as follows. This would have to be "real time" as YOU experiance it inside the ship, not "earth time", which would be much longer. You spend the first "one to ten" years accelerating your one G of acceleration to get you 9/10 the speed of light. You spend the second "ten to one hundred" years accelerating at one G to 99/100 the speed of light. But now since you haven't been traveling at mock 100 the whole time you have to accelerate a little more. Half way there you have to repeat this whole process in deceleration mode. Then on the return trip you again repeat this acceleration and deceleration twice more. So all in all your ship has to contain enough fuel to be able to accelerate to the speed of light four times over. You planned on a six year trip there and a six year trip back and a three year layover. But you find that "cost overruns" could even make this relatively simple trip much longer. But the Wickepedia pipe dream still poses a problem, which is "how could you even THINK you were traveling a hundred times faster than you in fact are- - since Einstein says that no subjective speed check can exceed light speed?

LIBYAN REBELS TAKE COMMAND OF QADAFI COMPOUND

The rebels have now taken command of the Qadafi compound in Tripoli. It would seem that freedom is at hand. Qadafi is in hiding and three of his sons have been put to death in the past few days. It seems only a matter of time before Qadafi is either killed himself, or brought to trial. Don’t expect the conservatives to be happy about that. On one hand it will rob them of “something to complain about” and on the other they can employ the Pat Buchannon argument that Qadafi was a “trusted ally” and us “trusted allies” have to stay together. Of course those on the right assume that behind every revolution lurks Al Qaeda out to further their world domination aims. The tea party says so many things on zero evidence, like the idea that is the Fed Chairman stimulates the money supply interest rates will explode. We know that the tea party lives pretty much in their own world. Stephanie Miller repeated many of the same stories she told yesterday about Michelle Bachman. One could make the argument she hangs out with more potential “terrorists” than the President ever did in his youth. I don’t recall the Rev. Jeremiah Wright making the overt advocations of violence that Sarah Palin has made, for instance. Some say that Rick Perry is not Presidential timber because “he’s an egomanic who relies on his own feelings too much”. People have said that about Mark Bove, too. I guess the question is whether they are right, and to quote the song “Rick Perry hasn’t been right yet”. I would trust Dr. Carlie Manning from Days of our Lives, who is drug re-hab now- - - with her hand on the nuclear button than I would trust either Chuck Smith - - or Governor Rick Perry. What was a mere accusation against Barry Goldwater is a literal truth about Rick Perry, knowing his mind set. So hypothetically if Syria falls now and Assad goes away, that will mean a swath of liberated Mideast countries ringing the Medeteranian. It sounds good, anyhow. But the tea party needs an enemy and if they can’t find one abroad, they will turn domestic and call the President of the United States the most dreaded enemy we have to face today. Of course when Assad took power people had hopes that ht would be more “liberal” than his father had been, since he was Western educated and all and is one of these swave, debonair types like Elvis Di Mira. He’s not your typical mad cartoon editorial drawing. Since the press world wide has not been kind to Islam in general, I hardly see how they can proselytize anybody with such “bad press” that would most certainly give any prospect convert second thoughts.

There was a 5.9 earthquake in northeast Virginia and was felt all over Washington DC and several other states. They shut down two nuclear Virginia reactors just as a safety precaution. Trains were delayed to inspect the tracks. Pinicles fell off the National Cathedral. Some are now saying that Washington DC wither was or is "one hundred years overdue for an earthquake". The quake was felt in Williamsport PA during a little league game, don't ask me how- - and as far south as Charleston, South Carolina. It’s too bad it really wasn’t the rapture- or maybe Rick Perry and Michelle Bachman would be gone now. Some say that the earthquake was caused by “fracking” or that practice of injecting water into unstable ground to increase the natural gas pressure. Apparently in the Bay Area they have mercury pollution in the estuaries that has been there for ninety years. It was at that time they banned the practice of hydro-mining in the Sierra Nevada where they employed mercury apparently to leech out various minerals. They are still blowing off mountain tops in West Virginia. Some say that the E P A is just some “conspiracy” to hobble industry instituted by the communists. That’s apparently that that one guy learned at the meeting he attended of the American Communist Party in 1992. I don’t know why on earth he would believe that organization, which supposedly he doesn’t trust.

Mal Evans came to me during that Lawerence of Arabia thing I was watching, and he said “He’s not one of ours, you know. We were on the side of the Turks”. There was talk after this about whoever “enabled the Saudis” to spawn all these terrorist groups and gauge us out of our money- - wouldn’t be that good. Mal said, “You know, if you were referring to us in the remark about Heaven on that page, you’re absolutely right, of course. Most Americans would be regarded as aliens in our culture. They would soon find we have little tolerance for their brand of reactionary thinking. We of course are more - - - proactive in our economic planning than you are, as to energy and resource allocation, and employment allocation”. I asked, not expecting an answer whether they’d ever had any tea party movements in the Federation. He said “Nothing of that sort would ever happen here. Why would it? It would be totally illogical”. I said “logical?” and he said “in general American’s high level of illogic would not be tolerated here, and they would have to learn quickly”. I brought up the subject of astral projections of the soul into a different body and ask “How do they do it? How do they transform themselves so instantaneously?” He said to me “Have you ever been in a situation where the tone of the conversation caught you totally unawares and off-guard”. I said “As a matter of fact, I have”. He said “Well that sort of thing wouldn’t happen because you’d have been enculturated by short prior exposures. And also there that sense memory thing that would kick in”. I didn’t ask him to define “sense memory”. I think I know what that is. I said “What about that guy a while back who had died that asked all the questions?” He said, “That case was a little unusual. But different people have different things in their dharma and in his case it happened that he had to be inculturated really quickly’. I asked, “How come most people don’t have that problem?” Mal said, “Well actually, most dead people are just not that aware of what they don’t know. This guy was”. I said “OK”.

"MORE POPULAR THAN GOD!"

Tell the truth. Those of you who saw the promo, how many of you were hoping I'd be talking on the Universe and the speed of light, raise your hands. Gosh- - well those of you who raised your hands I salute you, because that's just what we're going to talk about today. Well move over, Beatles. Einstein has taken your place. They say 94% of Americans believe in God. But when it comes to the special theory of relativity- - this theory had one hundred percent adherants, with no doubters. I Googled it for myself. There were only two- - - two entries under the category of doubters of the Theory and both of those sites was nonesensical. One was a Star Trek trivia site I didn't attempt to follow. I was going to title this paragraph "Is Everybody A Bunch Of Idiots?" Aren't there a few scientists out there with a few brain cells that still work. I plan to give you four reasons why Einstein's theory us unworkable in graffic terms that could be shown on a five minute TV info-mercial. Reason one. Black Holes. Einstein says that they not only don't exist cut CAN'T exist, no way no how. The math just won't allow for it. But according to most scientists today black holes DO exist. Reason number two. Ether. Einstein says Ether does not exist. However scientists also believe in the "soap bubble" view of the expanding Universe through time. This rests on what you might call the essential "static ether theory" that for the most part doesn't move. Except that it stretches. And there is the rub. Follow this. The Universe has spent Twelve Billion years- - - expanding. Just imagine how big it is now. What with all that ether stretching don't you think that a Universe at least thirty billion lightyears in diameter- - the stretching involved would exceed the speed of light. They used to give us "reports" on the farthest distances seen through telescopes and some were saying things were receding at one third the speed of light. Then it was "approaching the speed of light". Finally they said (at last report) "It doesn't matter that stars recede at greater than the speed of light because the "space" itself is also moving. Einstein didn't believe in Ether. But at Astronomy Cafe they say "space has substance". All sorts of substance. Here comes reason three. You've heard about all the LSD - Alice in Wonderland drug induced shrinkage and expansion of time and space and mass and energy. Einstein allows for all of that. The problem is that every BIT of it- - is explainable through ordenary Newtonian physics given the caviat that light itself is hindred and limited in its speed- - but nothing else is. Nothing changes shape and time doesn't "warp" with or without a warp drive. Here is a simple illustration. Picture two space ships going away from each other each going 1/3 the speed of light the other way. Now, rewind the film a little till before the two ships passed each other by and they were still approaching each other. Now as you measure relative time and space and mass and energy of the two ships- each examining the other- - -and also assume that both ships are neither accelerating nor decelerating but traveling at a steady speed- - - can you honestly sit there and tell me that each ship shrinks and expands or whatever in mass and shape- - merely by passing another ship? That's nonesense. Obviously nothing physically is happening to either ship either before or after passing each other. Now here is Reason Four. In Einstein's thinking there is the notion of the movable "stationary point". This is a valid thing to keep in mind. For instance, some will ask "Where is the center point of the expanding Universe?" The answer can ONLY be answered AFTER you have where and what "stationary" is. Vector geometry can play all sorts of optical tricks on the eyes. For instance- - I could speak a hypothetical planet with a skewed gravitional field. That is- - one side of the planet has a lot MORE gravity than the other, such that a sattelite of eliptical orbit would travel at Constant speed and a sattelite with a round orbit would travel at variable speed. However if we first don't define "stationary" - - we have that whole light and optics distortion illusion "pandoras box" to deal with. It could be (I said Could) that a planet may have a perfectly circular gravitational field with respect to itself, but the field is SEEN as skewed, by other moving on-lookers. (Selah) Now - come back. Einstein not only believes in a "moving zero" but also a "universal zero" principle. That is, the theory teaches that all of the factors of the special relitivity equation kick in only with factors Higher than one, and never Lower. This makes Every Person the SLOWEST person in the universe, and there can NEVER be anyone slower. To that's me, that's you, that's the guy on a flight to New York City, and it's the astronauts aboard the International space station. As Dylan put it once, "Not all people can be right all of the time". The bottom line of all this becomes apparent when you look at some recriprical qualities of the "addition of volocities equation". Classic physics deals in negative force vectors or "opposits" force vectors. It has to. Hence for Einstein's theory to be valid what is true with addition has to be true with subtraction, or negative numbers. You should see "so the proponets will tell you" a mirror imaging of the number readings in negative numbers for the theory to be valid. But you don't. I've run the numbers and the formula falls flat on its face. This is nothing less than conclusive proof that the theory is bogus. This concludes my argument on that. I have one more point to make. I was talking about circular gravitational fields a few moments ago. But in my "motor boat" analogy- - the gravitational field at a certain point traveling through a medium- - such as water - OR ether- would begin to turn eliptical in nature. Carried even further- - at some point- - at a precise point, actually- - you would leave your own gravitational field and do that coveted thing of "sshedding your own mass". This is based on the "what you see is what you get" or the Flip Wilson theory of gravity propagation that scientists believe in. Einstein never had to answer the question of "What happens when you reach the limits of space". But it's a question the rest of us struggle with.

"Now let me get this straight"

"Google searches how many sites in a fraction of a second?"

"Several hundred thousand, you say."

"All of the people can't be Right all of the time, huh?"

"Gosh- - I'm going to have to study on that one!"

"YOU LYING SACK OF CRAP!"

I wasn't even going to do a posting today, but I am reminded that ongoing reality exists, even if I would personally rather take a vacation from it. On Stephanie Miller they were saying that Francis Shaffer advocate a violent overthrow of the government if Roe verses Wade was not overturned. I found some foundation that this charge is true. Shaffer was influenced by a lot of Germans. He was also into dominionism. He believes United State laws should be based upon legal principles in the Old Testament. Shaffer taught that the big battle was between Christians and that made-up entity called “secular humanism” - - which I guess is probably related to the other entity “Islamo – Fascism”. Apparently Michelle Bachman is a Francis Shaffer fan, who is one of the most revered figure in the Christian circles I used to hang out in. A lot of these people are lying sacks xof crap. This morning Stewart Sutcliffe raised the issue with me “What makes you suddenly think you can base any judgement on Christianity on what some Catholic pope wanna be says on TV?” According to him, the whole child molestation problem with priests has been laid to rest and is no longer a problem. They cane on the TV and announced after the interview ran in February that fresh child molestation problems by priests had occurred. When you think about it, with clergy’s record of lying to me, it’s silly that I should believe anything that comes out of their mouth that I have not confirmed from some other source. Stewart was outraged by the notion that heterosexual married people molest just as many children as Catholic priests do. Rick Perry told that eight or nine year old boy that “The earth is very old, but in Texas we teach creationism along with evolution in the schools”. That apparently is false. Not even in Texas do they teach creationism in science classes. John Huntsman warned over the weekend that “any presidential candidate won’t be able to win if he is seen in the eyes of the world as an enemy of science”. Of course lies about our founding fathers “tirelessly working to end slavery” persist. It is argued that these are mid mistakes on Michelle Bachman’s part but deliberate lies. Now they are saying things like “We in America did Black people a big favor by giving them a free boat ride to America and taking them into a Christian country”. There is one thing I saw in a film a long time ago that quoted some history book as saying “- - But as for Sambo, it is now believed that the Black man suffered less than any other group of Americans in the pre civil war South from economic ups and downs”. Apparently people like Bachman are saying this was a happy period for Blacks and “The slave and master dwelt in mutual harmony and respect one for the other”. Speaking of myths - - you do know that Teddy Roosevelt had such bad vision he couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn. This is documented.

Just for a reality check concerning relations between Elvis and the Beatles. A lot of sugar coating has been going on lately. I’ve read that Elvis definitely resented the Beatles when they came on the scene. Elvis was suspicious of others doing “his songs”. And when Terry Stafford put out “Suspicion” a song Elvis had bombed with, Elvis said “Let the bastard have his hit”. We hear how dominant Elvis was with John Lennon. So remind me now, just how many Elvis songs did the Beatles release as a group- either on an album or “Past Masters Volumes One or Two” or the “Rock and Roll” album, or “Live at Hamburg” or the Decca tapes (fifteen songs) or the songs recorded with Tony Sheridon (eight songs). Well, you tally them all up and there is a grand total of one song - - - and believe me that was a really obscure song - that the Beatles completely reworked, “I’m Gona Sit Right Down and Cry Over You” on the Hamburg album. And actual Beatle interviews from the period indicate extreme awkwardness when the Beatles visited Elvis here in LA at home. They noted how fat he was and that he just sat there watching a color TV with the sound off. John Lennon mused incredulusly - "This is the guy who we have been idolizing all these years????" John Lennon asked if Elvis would do any real rocker songs again” and then added “Then we’ll buy it”. And apparently there wasn’t nearly as much “jamming” going on- - as has been portrayed to the press.

Well you’ve heard the adage “Whatever doesn’t kill you will make you stronger”. Well those thirty three Chilean miners who were trapped for 69 days would seem to be contradictory evidence of that. All of them are suffering from all manner of psychological “post traumatic stress” problem. Apparently this is one case where Dr. Gene Scott’s charishad adage doesn’t apply. Our prayers as always go out to these brave miners who had to learn survival skills and discipline quick and fight off their darkest thoughts. Of course now Christianity has done a John Kerry flip-flop on the whole issue as evidenced by things that Bill Halliday and Neil of KFI say, having introduced the “damaged goods” doctrine, by which a bad experience can actually disqualify you to even continue to be a Christian. Of course people like Chuck Smith used to say “I would respect anybody who gave Christianity a good try- - so they had some kind of moral basis on which to attack it”. But now they are saying “Obviously anybody who professes Atheism has psychological issues. And as I have formerly indicated “issues” if a code name for “mentally unbalanced”. Of course Rev. Halliday says that one of the things that qualified Jesus Christ to even “run for Messiah” in the first place is that he had a good upbringing of two parents and had a “happy childhood” free of trauma and all of that. Whereas in his rant against gays in January 1995 Halliday said “Virtually all homosexuals were sexually molested as a child”. And there is the line about seventeen of nineteen of the first Roman Emperors being homosexual and all. (Marcus Aurelius was one of the few who weren’t) In this vein I am not sympathetic to the idea that a way to insure Priests don’t molest children is that they be married, preferably with children. That priest on Sixty Minutes said that “Most people who molest children are married heterosexual men”. I hope I can take him at his word on that. I would not seek out a job ministering to children, but if I were to I doubt a protestant church would hire me because I am childless. I could point to the four-odd years I spent interacting with Nicholas at the earliest age. They would say “That is well and good. And the minute you can produce DNA evidence that Nicolas is your son, we’ll be glad to hire you”. As you know childlessness is “the gift that keeps on taking” because you will remain that way eternally in Heaven, whereas people with offspring will have a whole dynasty of prodgeny to revere them. Of course if you are an “Atheist with an agenda” like Neil of KFI talks about- - you should hope and pray that the church doesn’t ever change. Just stay as anachronistic as it is with its middle ages cathedrals and stone and stained glass and burning incense and those round communion wafers and priests who get drunk on the wine. The whole contrast between papal regalia and penniless Latino women groveling for a handout, is something an Atheist would almost grow naustalgic about were it taken away. Well, I hope you all enjoyed this little Sunday even homily. This evening’s program was not new. You’ve heard it through and through. But everyone can use a refresher course.

The first Sixty Minutes segment was a re-airing of a vital incident that betrays (among so many other vital issues) the moral hypocracy of the Bush Administration on the most cherished issue of national security. The story goes back to the ‘nineties when the Clinton administration was getting so much “Intelligence” on foreign activities that they could not possibly process the vast amount of data. A system had to be devised to sift through it all and make sense of it. One math genious came up with a computer program called Thin Thread. This is a program that cost thirty million dollars to perfect but it was ready to roll in January of 2001 just as the Clinton administration was leaving office. Unfortunately the Bush administration scrapped it. They said that they wanted an even more grandious program that would be carried out by private industry they named “Trail Blazer”. While Thin Threat cost millions, “Trail Blazer” would cost billions, and it would take years to institute. In fact the program has so many cost overruns that the whole thing was scrapped in 2005. But there were a number of concerned people in the National Security Administration and one of them was named Tom Drake. They wrote Bush a letter saying if Thin Thread had been in place those critical seven months, they most likely would have ample warning of the 9 – 11 attacks. But Bush would have none of it. They tried to go before congress and get a committee investigation going, but congress was not into that sort of investigation so soon after 9 – 11. So they filed other formal reports in channels. Finally they went to the Baltimore Sun, which began doing articles on this N S A blooper. Now the government filed charges against the men but prosecuted only Tom Drake. He was facing 35 years prison time because of espionage charges. Finally in the past few months a court threw out most of the case and the presiding judge had some harsh words to say to the Prosecution. Drake was let go with only community service for a time. Clearly this is a case like the Seigelman case in Alabama that should be investigated by congress. But President Obama has never had any appetite for anything that would cast a pall over the credibility of his immediate predecessor in that office. It’s as off the President and George Bush had some unspoken agreement. If there were just one major scaldal in the Bush Administration it would be worth pursuing. But there are such manifold scandals, and you know what they are, that the scope of the cover-ups of the Bush years is on a scale that defies imagination.

REPEAL THE OBAMA HEALTH CARE BILL NOW

As you know a recent Circuit Court ruled that the Obama Health Care bill was unconstitutional because it mandated that every American buy Health Coverage. As you may remember Obama campaigned on a plan where Insurance was not compulsory. 25 state Attorneys General were behind this court case. Now 54% of Americans would like to see Obama Care repealed. It will save us one trillion dollars right off the bat, and I think it will be more because you know what “cost overruns” are like. 62% of Americans believe there is too much government interference in their lives. In the court ruling it was pointed out that even in the depths of Depression in the ‘thirties, Americans were not compelled to buy wheat, for instance. And not even in World War II were people mandated to buy so many war bonds. Clearly these moves would have been seen as unconstitutional then. Personally I’d like an easy way to cut a trillion out of the national budget. That’s as much expenditure as a major war. Ron Paul doesn’t want these kinds of wars of choice, either. As you know Paul lost to Bachman by only a couple hundred votes but the media has treated him as though he had lost in a major way despite his winning two previous straw polls conducted earlier in the year. This may indeed be the year that his message gains tractions. Young people don’t want to be fodder for some war scheme, and neither do they want to be the “young blood” that an insurance company needs to keep going. This health care bill, by its very structure, will drive up medical costs. The reason for this is simple. The "demand curve" will be artificially jacked up so that doctors will see that insurance companies have more money to pay now, so they will raise their prices. This certainly happened under Medicare. From everything I’ve heard, everybody actually in the health care profession hates the bill. There is nothing in it to “bend the cost curve down”. The people on the Mc Laughlin group are convinced the libertarians will lose in their fight in the Supreme Court, and they may be right, if the Court is in the back pocket of insurance companies. The drug and insurance companies stand to lose a lot of money if this three legged stool of health care is toppled. Because without a mandate, the rest of the health care program falls apart. If Obama wants to be really decisive next month he’ll just announce next month that he’s found another trillion he can cut out of the federal budget – and now he can use SOME of that money for a new jobs program, and save the rest of it. At this point it’s far from a foregone conclusion that Obama will be reelected next year. I’m just trying to give him tips to improve his odds. One of Obama’s big shortcomings is that he’s made Black people in general look bad. Obama’s biggest liability is that he is a moral coward, and people don’t like that, and they’ll vote for almost Anybody Else.

If you ask me for my opinion, I’m out of ideas. I suggest you read just about all the recent postings on the last blog “Karmic Suicide”. But I know that’s not going to happen and if my opinion is going to be made known I better get on one of these smaller blog sites like oh Thom Hartman’s web site or something. I watched about an hour of Chris Matthews segments. Ads were kept to a minimum. What seems apparent is that both Perry and Bachman are peaking way too early in the campaign cycle. It can be said campaigning the summer before an election year is silly. Even at this date some new person who actually has something to add to the discourse could come in and blow all the current candidates out of the water. What’s clear is that Romney will end up being the Republican candidate if current trends continue because Bachman and Perry will knock each other off in the heated contest. Nobody wanted to answer the question as to what differences, politically, are there between the Republican Party and the tea party. Of course the tea party is a complete fraud and a front organization for corporate interests. Some have faulted for President Obama for going on vacation and taking ten days off. But George W Bush had taken three times the vacation days at this point in his presidency and Ronald Reagan had taken nearly double. Raising such a petty issue only shows the desperation of the right. Pastor Don while he was at my local church took a lot of time off. One time I said “It seems like every Sunday I show up, you’re not preaching”, to which he responded somewhat defensively, “Actually I have only not been in the pulpit eleven weeks in the past year”. I mean talk show hosts often take off a whole week for one holiday, just like congress does. It seems every radio hosts takes about two or three major vacations a year, summer, Christmas, and some other time. The only reason why Perry wants Obama on the job is so he can criticize each and everything he does ON that job. If I were Obama I would find vacation appealing myself.

We had Salisbury steak for dinner with the tomato based sauce. The soy sauce went well on the rice. There were mixed vegetables. I opted not to have seconds. We had vanilla pudding for desert. Basically I’m politically laying low and hoping not to get into discussions with others on the far right, because I know they’ll never listen to reason anyhow. I find it hard for Perry to believe he can sell this “job killer” notion on a person without a job, and that same person will buy into these giant corporate loopholes and somehow believe he is helped because those at the top earn a few more billion.

People wonder what a Ron Paul would do with the corporateocracy we have in America today. You have to know that - as Thom Hartman says, Corporations could not exist without the government in the same way that a fish cannot live without water, or you can't play any game without rules. Government has artificially prolonged, for example, the reign of the oil and coal companies in America. You know all of the Finance corporations that left to the "free market" would have died a natural death in September of 2008. I have spoken about Southern California Christianity, and I attacked it as sort of a "brand name" or "Kentucky Chicken franchize" kind of thing. You can't be a real Christian without an IXOYE fish on your car, for example. As you know it's a shepherd's JOB to fleece the sheep. Christians see their job as removing people from an environment where they live, to one where they can not. Polluting corporations want to transform the whole world into an environment where eventually none of us will be able to live. And they don't care. They have this sense of Entitlement to all the millions they derive from favorible tax laws. Ditto for religion. Places like India pride themselves on "protecting" obsolete industries, which may be fine as tourest attractions or something. Maybe we can preserve one of these oil refineries as one of the relics from a by-gone century. In previous times, nobody regarded a Corporation as anything but something with a specific charter, set up for a specific purpose, and it received the Death Penalty is that purpose was not lived up to. In other words in previous times, corporations had a sense of responsability. I would hope that Ron Paul would recognize this, and get back to a more "Classical" position on this modern corporatocracy.

Even as a rock group of “intermediate length” the Beatles weren’t around that long. It was only six years here in the US. This was a comparable period of time with other groups such as Blondie, Joe Jackson, Traffic, Steppinwolf, Deep Purple, Ten Years After, and the Police. When you place the Beatles in that company they don’t seem that impressive. Intermediate groups that were around longer include the Eagles, Steely Dan, Temptations, Ike and Tina Turner, the Moody Blues, Guess Who, Styx, Foreigner, Procol Herem, Electric Light Orchestra, Elvis Costello, Yes, Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Led Zeppelin, and Judas Priest. Groups that lasted much longer than this are The Kinks, The Beach Boys, Bruce Springsteen, George Thorogood, Metallica, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, The Who, the Rolling Stones, Jefferson Airplane-Star Ship. Jethro Tull, Rush, and Aerosmith. And remember that before Abbey Road was made, the Beatles already considered themselves pretty much broken up as a group.

Those two hikers who wandered into Iranian space today were sentenced to eight years for “espionage” by some high court in Iran, but they say their sentences may be commuted because this is the Holy month of Romadon and Allah commands they show mercy. A third hiker escaped this fate because they were allowed to leave last year for medical reasons. Pat Buchannon said that a President Hillary would have been more pro Israel and also would have gone to war with Iran. In that parrellel universe- - Mark’s and my predictions of 1982 would have been far more accurate. The people on the show concluded that whoever was elected at this juncture would have been vilified. Had that been Hillary, then Obama could come off as the “if only” hero. The trouble is the God knows what kind of a political coward Obama is rather he ran or not. But people were telling me when I asked “who is more electable?” they would say Hillary, because despite what they dislike about her, it doesn’t compare to the vitrial against Obama.

We are evolving too much into a "bread and circuses" culture. We live to be entertained, and real life and real people, and real issues bore us. This is a major danger that could end up undoing us as a country some day. While its true that people compartmentalize and accept that certain things are not real, the danger is that reality itself seems LESS real to people now than it otherwise would. It's just part of the media roar along with the Hollywood gossip info-tainment. I had Leo Le Port on and grew drowsy. The "pervue" of his show has become so broad now your odds of hearing something useful to you are vastly diminished as opposed to an equivelent show fifteen or twenty years ago. Leo gave a lot of time to this kid named Alec, who does his own stop-action Lego animations. That’s an extremely tedious way to accomplish something. Leo recommended a manual focus camera rather than the garden variety web cam. They’ve talked about chronic eye strain from looking at these smart phone devices. I wonder if there is going to be a push back, where companies will actually make “going big” the latest fashion statement. This push tword ultra miniaturization has always struck me as a bit of masochism.

Last night evening I had spike.com on as Terry recommended. They were showing a preview between a battle between Lawrence of Arabia and Teddy Roosevelt. Of course Teddy had to make due with the primitive gattling gun that had been around since the civil war. You’d call that the putt-putt of automatic weapons. Teddy felt he had to get out from under the shadow of shame of his Dad because he bought his way out of the Civil War draft. Nobody likes to think they have a coward for a father. Of course a lot of people are moral cowards before they are ever physical cowards. It's a credit to the son that he was not poisoned by what he perceived to be his father's cowardess. Unfortunately many households set a tone for their kids as to what "normal" is, and for a moral coward this "normal" is defined way down. And in the end it's not just the children, but society that ends up suffering for it.