A Fundamental Miscarriage of Justice

We do not get news coverage in the media any more about stories people really care about or things I’d consider significant news.  Like Adam Lanza or whoever this Aurora Colorado shooter guy is who injured 57 theater patrons last July.  He planned the whole thing out carefully and even boobytrapped his apartment.  And yesterday the District Attorney said that the shooter was insane and unfit to stand trial or whatever.  So he’s getting a pass and apparently will never have to stand trial for this crime.  And the second any shrink regards him as “not dangerous to society” and pronounces him “cured”, then he’s a free man.  The DA was obviously stupid because he knows as well as I do that juries almost never let any defendant off on an insanity defense.  If justice was what the DA was after his choice was clear.  But now none of those twelve lives will ever be avenged.  But there is a new murder case where a jury is guilty of a miscarriage of justice according to David Cruise.  This woman Kelly Sue Park or whoever, strangled this foxy model- - seemingly in cold blood.  There was blood and actual DNA on the victim’s neck and the tank top - - and on the knob to the stove that was turned in the “on” position without a flame (?) and on a door knob and on a cell phone.  But this Jury apparently doesn’t believe in DNA evidence any more than that idiot OJ jury did, and they voted for an acquittal.  This is despite the fact that the foreman of the jury complained to the judge, that the other jurors weren’t following the judge’s explicit deliberation instructions.  I would have called a mistrial right there.  It would be costly- - but justice at least would be served.  There was also news about how the California medical board- - is a poor place to try and get justice.  Because the number of drug overdoses from medical prescriptions has skyrocketed in the past few years, as well as other complaints.  But this California medical board is deemed nearly useless.  And as for all these 26,000 rapes of women in the military, rotsa ruck trying to avenge those.  They can move their lips and say all the right words- - but according to Randy Rhodes, who knows about these things- - virtually all rapists get a few pass.  There are those who are AGAINST taking the superior officer out of the loop, but believe contrarily, that the commanding officer ought to have the right to overturn any verdict a court marshal should render- and let the defendant walk.

There is just an extrodenary amount of “Mendacity” (to use a Berle Eyves word) in the right wing media today.  For instance there are those who still insist “If the United States were just producing its own oil, that “gasoline would again be selling for a buck fifty a gallon, like it was during the majority of the Bush Administration”.  That’s another lie right there.  I say again these people know nothing about how oil “bullion” price work in world wide commodities trading or the vast influence of OPEC, which pretty much has the power to set the oil price at anything they want.  And we hear that “Head Start’ and similar pre school programs are near useless because as Dennis Prager once said “By the third grade or so, all advantage of such pre school programs is lost”.  This assertion violates common sense, and if it were true, so many educators would not be pushing so hard for Head Start.  And then we have the lie of Mario from KTLK.  It isn’t nice to dis another KTLK talk host- - but here Mario has clearly just misstated the facts.  He expressly stated that the 501-C4 tax category was expressly FOR political groups and was not a “social community services category” but that category lay elsewhere.  This is just a plain lie.  The IRS code expressly states that a 501-C4 group must use their funds exclusively for community and social services- and the like.  There is the lie that this immigration bill congress is struggling with is an “Amnesty bill”.  And Rush Limbaugh said “Obama unleashed the catch - - release – Vote” policy for illegal aliens.  This one is so far from the truth- - it isn’t worth dignifying it with a response.   Of course we are told about the menace of a “National gun owner registry”, which will not exist.  But even if it did, would it be a bad thing?    These right wingers in congress have more tricks up their sleeve than Felix the cat.  Now they want to just eliminate three Judicial positions on the eleven justice “DC court of appeals’ or whatever, because there are now three vacant seats which President Obama announced in the rose garden the nominee replacements for.  Bu the way we did not see that Rose Garden announcement.  That’ just another thing the media didn’t think we needed to know.  Mario was too busy telling lies to bring it up.  The Republicans want to eliminate these three seats bringing the number of justices down to eight, which even Justice Roberts states is not enough to handle the fantastic judicial backlog of cases.  We always hear the same old song and dance about how “No republican wants to be the least bit moderate because they are in fear of being primaried from the right”.  I’m not sure I believe that any more.  Maybe Ted Cruise got in that way- - but I have to think he’s some kind of a horrible aberration in the electoral process, and not a reflection of any typical sane member of the voting public.  We’ll know all when 2014 rolls around.

In the latest entry of "Karmic Suicide" I gave an update on the whole Justin Martyr "Apology Tour", OK I'm getting mixed up with Rush Limbaugh.  Justin Martyr is known as the first systematic Christian theologian.  He wrote all his stuff between the years 138 AD and 161 AD.  This is in excess of a hundred years after Jesus of Nazareth is said to be crucified.  Some things are worth noting.  I word search names like "Peter", "James" and "John" from the Apology and they weren't there.  The terns "Nazareth" or "Jesus of Nazareth" were not there.  I didn't even see "Baptist" or "Baptized" there.  So what does all this tell us.  We must assume that in Justin's time - - he did not even know the NAMES of Jesus' desciples.  Instead he speaks of the "memuires of the Apostles' without naming them.  He does not claim that John wrote the gospell of John for instance.  This claim wasn't first made till Irenius about AD 180 in his writings.  We have heard for decade after decade "They are pretty good at finding fragments of Christian writings- - as little as fifty years after we believe they were first penned".  Yeah, but that last fifty has been a killer, huh?  And indeed in the passage I pasted over from Justin's writings, which took no small effort to even locate- - it never says that Jesus Christ physically resurrected from the tomb.  Indeed the word "tomb" is another word that never appears.  You never here "Jesus physically rose from the dead".  You won't find the terms "three days" or "third day" there.  Apparently Justin was not fermiliar with the Apostle's Creed.   So OK what DID Justin say.  He said that "Jesus appeared to his desciples and taught them all these things".   Two questions come to mind.  What desciples (unnamed) and also what are "These things" referred to?  Personally even if you take the book of Mattew half seriously- - I believe - as in the case made plain with Mark - -that everything after verse Eight in the final chapter is an add-on..  And I can demonstrate why I think so.  Because Matthew ends his book talking about Angels and earthquakes and "Jesus is not here. He is risen and go tell his brothers in Galilee' and all of that.  I think the 'He is not here' verse is telling, because in verse nine Jesus IS there with the women.  But the biggest impediment to the ending of Matthew as we have it in our Bibles is the story about the Guards saying "The desciples stole the body of Jesus in the night".  I guess there is a question of - - are Romans going around violating Jewish tombs to "make sure the bodies burried in them are still there?"  It makes no sense.  But also if there WAS not one but two horrendus Earthquakes as described- - and graves opening and bodies coming to life and walking through the City of Jerusalem - - - whatever those original Roman Guards say (assuming anyone ever asked them, which they'd have no occasion to do anyhow) - - would at that point be quite immiterial.  It seems Justin did believe in some "General Resurrection" and I don't mean a resurrection for military officers.  Justin took the prophecy in the Book of Daniel seriously - that we were "in the end of days".  The whole point of the end of Matthew up to chapter eight- - was a "climactic blow out" where- - suddenly God comes back with a big tumalt- - - and the graves are opened - - and bodies are resurrected an d the like and Death is conquered.

This is Wednesday morning June 5, 2013 and I’m typing this early just to check everything out because yesterday was strange.  It was kind of a jinxy day all the way round and a day I would not care to repeat.  Stephanie Miller is saying she’s not a cunnalinguist.  I pride myself as a cunnilinguist - - - I’ve very good with words.  (funny)  Last’s start with last evening.  We had Chinese stir fry.  I’d been telling people for hours I had this “premonition” we were going to have Polish sausage, which was completely wrong.  That new Tom guy is still sitting with us.  I don’t know if that Plum guy died or what, but the chair is vacant.  How many of you people have a wife who thinks she knows how to cook, but you’re a better cook than she is, and you have to think ‘If you want something done right, do it yourself”.  Just like Chuck Smith says if you get your six year old to mow the lawn for you you know you’re just going to have to do it over anyhow.  As you know I have a famous saying “When all else fails, follow the directions”.  Maybe you can have your wife do a more fittingly feminine activity like repair the loose shingles on the roof or reach her hand down in the dishwasher and try and figure out why the heating element isn’t coming on.  (OK that was mean)  I could tell you all the ways that they screw up any given meal around here but in Bob Dylan’s words, “My words would soon turn into a meaningless rain”.  Anyhow after dinner (we had chocolate pudding for desert)  Larry wanted a second cup of coffee in a real short period, but at 75 cents a cup you’re not going to turn down good money because you do need it.  Due to various distractions I forgot to turn on the computer in time for the five o clock Accronis file back-up, but fortunately accronis kicked right in when I did boot up the computer late.  But it was like Emit Till “slipping through his Southern door” because everything began going wrong.  You couldn’t type.  And the mouse wouldn’t highlight anything.  But strangely if you typed scale numbers in Sketch then it would work.  But Sketch itself was behaving strangely.  You have to watch the “offset’ lines because is there is a short corner they flip the lines around the other way and screw the whole thing up.  But I kept having trouble with a reference point for a took “locking’ and wouldn’t move to the new thing, and I had no idea what causes that, but eventually I found hitting escape would fix the problem.  Then I tried Last.fm and there none of my custom radio stations would work, but I kept getting one of these pop-up blocked type notices - - for any custom station - - though single song links would play - - usually in You Tube.  I even logged off and logged on again thinking that might fix the problem but it didn’t.   I was thinking maybe Nora did something to sabotage the computer when she was alone in here.  And then you look at CPU usage in Task Manager and the computer is flat lining at zero- - and somehow you don’t think that’s normal.  Then you’d see an occasional flurry of spikes - - like an epilectic ceasure or something.  Then Larry came and wanted a third cup of coffee and I was already so nervous I was ready to jump out of my skin.   Then I had a paranoid attack - - because I got “mentally confused” while sorting through the mail, but it turned out to be my disorganization rather than anyone elses’ fault.  There have been times lately when I’ll put three cups of water in a dry coffee thing- - and I’ll get over six cups of water in the pot, which of course is weak, because I only put in a small amount.  It’s like phantom water occurs out of nowhere.   I guess Bill had the TV like NCIS and the follow up NCIS show on at nine- - but I was mentally distracted a lot of the time.  OK it’s seven o clock right now.