First a brief religious blurb.  If Rush Limbaugh were doing Marcus Christian updates

he should toggle between two songs, "Not a Second Time" by the Beatles, and

"Little By Little" by the Rolling Stones.  If I were to write  the kindest song to "God"

I could come up with it would have that Dylan in it, "I hope you don't think this is strange

But I love you not for what you are, but for what you are Not".  (Selah)

This is Sunday March 4, 2012 and of course there are other things going on in the world besides Politics.  There’s a lot of basketball to be played today.  Who would have guess the weather would turn so torrid today.  Leo Le Port is coming on now just after noon.  I continue to be amazed that so many people of the liberal perswasion are dawning all over Andres Britebart, or however he spells it.  From everything I’ve heard he was a very bitter, vile man, who cultivated and made his fame and money off of hate.  I don’t think such a person is entitled to any respect after death.  He never showed the same deference to others when they died as people are showing tword him.  Apparently Britebart said some horrible things after Ted Kennedy died.  Of course I’m hoping that since there is a volume of recent stuff I’ve posted lately that people will go back and read that.  Nowadays no matter which blog they choose to read they can count on getting pretty recent stuff.  As for the photograph it was a choice between this photo and one of Grover Norquist, and you wouldn’t want to look at Norquist’s kisser for two days.  We assume that Apple isn't jerking us around with their "Big announcement' on Tuesday but that the I PAD III will be announced, that will have double the optical screen resolution, which would be four times the pixels of the I PAD II, or something over two thousand horizontal pixels on the screen.  It’s funny that no matter how advanced the I Phone IV and the I-Pad III are now, they will seem like merely quaint anachronisms in another ten or fifteen years from now.  All these commercials we see on TV about the wonders of modern technology breakthrough, will seem to future readers as “Gee, why did those people get all excited about that?”

The big news of the last day or so on the Political front is that George Will apparently wrote a piece where he advised the Republican Party establishment just to concentrate on taking back the Senate and bolstering House membership.  George Will says that the electoral Math just isn’t working out for them as far as it comes to a probability that Mitt Romney will defeat Barock Obama for President.  George Will says that “95% of Good Government, is the blocking of things that shouldn’t be done”.  If that were really true then Rick Perry’s suggestion of a part time Congress would make sense.  But some people labor year in and year out in the trenches nurturing the illusion that some broader “Plan” can be arrived at.  Olympia Snow announced last week that she is getting out of the Senate and will not run again, because she says the day to day working environment has become unacceptably hostile for getting anything done.  And I don’t blame her one bit.  Mitt Romney can chalk u another political State in his collum for his victory in the Washington State caucus yesterday.  Apparently he won it handily with Ron Paul in at a weak second, and the others further behind.  This seems to be bolstering the Romney inevitability factor.  Now ten states will be voting on Tuesday and these include Georgia, which if Newt doesn’t win he might as well hang it up.  There is Virginia where Mitt Romney and Ron Paul are the only ones on the ballot and you can’t even vote for Santorum or Gingrich.  There is Ohio where right now Rick Santorum is leading by four points, but apparently is losing ground there.  And I guess there are Massachusetts and Tennessee and several smaller states.  Oddly there has been less “political” stuff in the past week, probably because we are all tired of the stuff and have other things to do with our lives.   Newt Gingrich was on Meet the Press and continued to make his usual outrageous statements detatched from Reality.  When asked whether the Republicans should condemn Rush Limbaugh for his sexist comments, Newt said “Why should we talk about that when Obama will apologise to the Talliban for burning the Koran but won’t apologise to the Catholic Church, and he’s ignoring gas price rises”.    Of course now the Republicans are saying that the rise in US oil production is immaterial to the President’s hopes because “The President is actively blocking oil leases where he has the power to control them on federal lands”.  Santorum has said “The reason why we have going on five dollar prices for gasoline now is because the President refused to build the Canadian to Port Arthur Texas pipeline.  As though if the president had made a different decision a couple weeks ago we’d have more gasoline now.  Stupid!  Now they are saying that even though we don’t get this Canadian oil the fact that they are shipping it to China will mean an increase in the world wide supply and this will lower oil prices”.  Now who’s dreaming.  The oil companies are artificially holding up oil prices now because we are exporting any excess.  The US supply from foreign oil has fallen fro sixty percent to 45% in just the past couple of years.  Of course the big spoken secret about this whole Republican Primary race is that Republican voting in EVERY primary election is way down from four years ago.  This would indicate a lack of conviction and that their vote isn’t really heart-felt.   So again look for a shift in strategy and the diversion of rich donor’s funds to the Republican Party from the Presidential to congressional races.

The whole situation between Israel and Iran is completely different now from the “dead issue” I regarded the whole thing as a couple of weeks ago.  When I last spoke on this issue Obama said the sanctions were working and taking a big bite, and that the Iranian government now wanted to talk turkey and resolve this whole nuclear Bomb thing.  Now we hear that Israel has not only reconsidered and may go through with the Air Strike after all, but if they are unable to do it because they don’t have big enough “bunker busting” bombs, then the US will have to back-stop them and take up the slack and to do it ourselves.  Now President Obama is saying “I’m not the kind of guy who bluffs”.  If others say this of you it means something, but if you say it of Yourself, it doesn’t mean anything.  As to the whole science aspect of this, and I hope you don’t get bored by this but I’d like to do a little “Mark Felt” style “Deep Background” on this for you.  You want to know if Iran is working on a Bomb or peaceful nuclear power.  Well in both cases you need to enrich Uranium.  Now some of the time you can make something radioactive by bombarding it with newtrons.  For instance if you bombard Hydrogen you get heavy hydrogen and heavy water.   Then you have Trintium, or Hydrogen with two extra neutrons, and this stuff is radioactive.  What is commonly as “heavy water” (as Ray Stevens would put it) is actually “heavy, heavy water”.  In the case of Carbon 14 it’s ditto.  Normally Carbon is 12, and Carbon 14 only happens rarely.  But in the case of Uranium they cannot "enrich" it merely by combarding it wit Newtrons because relatively stable Uranium 238 with a half life of over 200 years is heavier than the Uranium 235 needed for atomic reactions.  As such you need some sort of giant centrafuge to separate out the lighter and hence more radioactive Uraniumn 235. You need Uranium 235 whether you are planning to build a fission bomb or a peaceful nuclear power generator.  Now there are things called “Neutrinos’ that Chuck Smith talks about, which are particles of energy-matter in Cosmic Rays.  Cosmic Rays cannot be blocked by even the whole thickness of planet earth and occur just as much during the night as during the day.  Neutrinos are not charged particles as Solar Particles are, which are affected by a magnetic field and are bent in their course, which is why you see the Northern Lights at the north and south poles only.  But neutrinos can “flip” computer bytes, as Thom Hartman says, from zeros to ones.  In fact in the old days ASCII characters only went up to 128 and not 256 because they needed the eighth bit as a "validity bit" to check for errors.  According to Thom Hartman modern computers automatically "correct" this (don't ask me how) much as the human body routinely kills potential cancer cells all the time.  In terms of advancing technology,  one step forward is an intermediate step called a Breeder Reactor, which makes use of having a chain reaction going all the time, where new radioactive material is always being created.  This is after reaching “critical mass”, which is just what it sounds like.  In terms of the actual manufacture of an Atomic Bomb, I’m told this involves a simotatious hexagonal “implosion” to collapse the fissionable material all together and make it explode.  I’m not worried myself.  My gut is telling me at the moment that this whole issue is going to blow over now.  People have been crying “Wolf” on this issue for so long now that people have stopped listening.

Breakfast with the Beatles had two songs I hadn’t heard before.  There was a George Harrison demo tape of “My Sweet Lord” and I’d just have assumed they used that tape instead of the version they use.  Then there is that “She’s no good for you” song by the Monkees, that I never heard before.  The Monkees really didn’t have that many songs worth listening to considering the dump truck load of stuff they released to the public.  In the spring of 1967 the Monkees were out-selling the Beatles.  I still don’t have a digital radio.  However I am free to listen over the internet with head phones any time I want.  They played that mash-up of “here comes the Sun” and “Ticket to Ride”.  I think, from their late start of 25 years ago, the Beatles have been “Repackaged” and Marketed amazingly well.  I’d like to get that now out of print album of “Beat of Dark Horse 1976 to 1979”.  Another album I’d really like to get is the Debut album by the Grateful Dead released way back in February of 1967 if I’m not mistaken, famous fur it’s rock blues, and was so “underground” no radio station dared play it for over a year.  My appreciation to Yahoo Music for making a lot of these tracks available on line.  Now they say that A T & T has a wireless Internet package for $14.95 a month.  I find that really hard to believe consider what I’m paying.  Despite all the phone calls and mailings from A T & T they never told me about this package.  But it wouldn’t be in their interest to publicize it.