Bruins to face Blackhawks in the N H L Finals

The Chicago Blackhawks will be facing the Boston Bruins in the NHL Hockey finals when they open next Wednesday in Chicago, and I will be rooting for the Bruins, naturally.  The Blackhawks beat the Kings 4 to 3 in definitely one of the more exciting N H L games.  They said it was the longest game the LA Kings ever faced in an NHL play-off and they lost it over half way through the second overtime, and the game finished up at 9:03 last night PST.  The game began at five twenty after a very traditional rendition of our National Anthem.  The Chicago Blackhawks looked like they had the game won in the first few minutes because they scored one goal 3:40 into the first period and they scored again, six minutes into the first period so it was already two nothing.  But the Kings scored their first goal around six thirty our time, and looked like they had a chance.  The Kings scored again tying up the game two all, and then the Blackhawks scored late in the third period with little time left making it 3 to 2 Blackhawks.  But then with less than ten seconds left there was an “icing’ call against Chicago.  (They seemed to making that infraction a lot this game)  The LA Kings scored a fast goal tying the game up three all sending it into overtime.  The first overtime period remained scoreless.  This first overtime ended just past eighty thirty and I went out for a cigarette.  I think they said that this was the first match-up in the NHL finals beteen these two teams since the late ‘seventies.

Let’s talk about China.  I don’t know what the President and the Chinese leader did in their little Rancho Mirage hideway- - all we know is that it was really hot in the desert and the attire was a bit less formal than usual.  Maybe they smoked weed or something, because the issues at hand relating to China are too troubling to think about.  Of course there is all of the cyber espionage.  There is the fact that we dare not criticize them about anything - - a point driven home on last night’s Mc Laughlin group.  We say they debase the currency to gain undo economic advantage, but let’s look at this one a bit.  They are going to pay twenty percent more for the privilege of investing in this country.  US Citizens get a twenty percent discount on all money we spend in their country as tourists.  And every time we buy a Chinese made good, we pay them twenty percent less than it’s actually worth.  I hardly see how we are suffering.  We hear now that they are going for military surpremicy over us by2049 or the one hundredth anniversary of the Communist takeover.  We hear that the young people aren’t buying the communist line at all.  We also hear how the women in that country are suffering from “depression” due to the one child abortion policy, which that country has had for at least thirty years.  It doesn’t take a mathematical genious to figure out that with replacing only half the population that dies- - for a protracted period of decades- - and what with all the poverty and inferior medical care there- - and all the massive pollution we’ve heard about, that China should be suffering from a major population decline- -  much as Russia has before them.  None of China’s neighbors trust them now, and we shouldn’t trust them either.  But we will, because it seems that whoever is President- - kissing China’s ass is always high on the foreign agenda.

I guess this SA shooter is John Zuharo or is it Zurarre - - I can’t read my own notes.  This shooter had thirteen hundred rounds of ammunition with him, and there is no way any of our draconian anti-terrorist measures in place now could have stopped this guy.  He definitely had an “agenda”.  He is 23 years old and has that accomplish - - alive and in police custody.  No matter how many shooting incidences like this there are- - no republican congress is ever going to “vote to take away our guns”.   Now this government has a program called Prism, which is our people going after the Internet companies.  Each company in turn issued a disclaimer letter saying in the exact same wording, “Our company allows the government no direct access to our clients”.  It’s the words “direct access” that I guess we’re tap dancing around.  What about any kind of access?  It just seems to me that every day we are living in an increasing climate of fear and paranoia, and I’m thinking if you’re a psychologist - - you cannot be seeing this development as a good thing.

"Today in our Heavenly Circus gallary of freaks from a former life we have a splendid example of a certifiable Patholigical Liar.  Unlike most Pathological Liars this one is NOT a Born Again Christian.  All those are on loan to another circus right now.  But here is a young woman named Tyler and she was dating this guy named Steve, and they were having sex, and if there was a baby product I guess they would name him Aerosmith.   Anyhow Tyler lied to her Mother about letting the boy Steve live at their house claiming that Steve told her he was a homosexual.  But Tyler's mother learned the Truth of the manner and sought to accuse Steve of statutory rape.  Later the Mother ended up being stabbed to death and naturally the Authorities blamed the Man and charged him with First Degree Murder.  But there is a thing or two about Tyler's past we need to know.  She was born a "beautiful baby" who was loved and grew up pampered.  But then one time when she was five being driven home from Day Care her other got ticked off at her wining and beat her and it left marks, and the child custody people came and took her away for a while.  But later on as a teenager still living with her mother Joanne, more troubles occurred.  She claimed her mother was alcoholic and beat her regularly.  But the authorities found no evidence of this and did nothing.  Then Tyler called the police herself claiming to be her own mother and tried to get the cops to arrest her to get her out of the home.  But Joanne, the mother came on the line and intercepted this ploy.  Then one day Tyler was at a playground and she talked to another who described as "angry and sullen" and the woman claimed "Well- - when I said she should do something about her drunken mother she said to me that "There WILL be no NEXT time" and that she had a Final Solution to the problem".  The woman felt a sudden chill.  The next thing we know Tyler is at the police station faking that she was surprised that her mother had been stabbed.  The Police said "OK you can cut the Act, we KNOW that you already Knew your mother had been stabbed".   Of course even now this Circus Freak is protesting her innocence saying "Who would ever do such a thing?"

I define abberated thinking as some mental process which is inherently dysfunctional.  For instance while listening to the Jesus Christ show this morning and the Holy Host was going on and on about how he alone, and what comes out of him is the total embodiment of all Truth- - and a graphic image was given to me (perhaps by John Lennon)  This was of a mental patient in an isolated cell with tattered clothes and looking like a wild man and covered in his own extriment and he was looking at it and playing with it and smearing it on himself.  Now multiple people may happen on this isolated cell and each may see it a little differently.  One person like me might poke open the door and immediately be put off by the stench and get out of there before any of that “smell” gets on me.  But suppose this Facility is some cold climate in the winter time like Minnisota.  And some wino happens into the room.  He may see the scene rather differently.  He may think, “Gee it’s nice and warm in here so I finally have shelter”.  He may see the patient as “someone to talk to”.  And he in his drunken state may say to the patient, “Hey buddy- - it smells in here doesn’t it.  But I’m glad to be out of the cold.  But whoever crapped all over this room looks like he got some of that crap on you.  Perhaps you should clean up or something”.   Now an inspecter from the health department may some from a whole different take.  He sees the sight as “Well there are sanitary violations here.  We better scoop up some of the dung, and have it examined in our labs because it might be carrying pathogens”.   Still another- - an anthropologist or some kind of mental therapist may happen in the room.  And he may ignore the surroundings and engage the subject in what sort of cause may be responsible for his current mental condition and have his note pad out and jotting down notes.  Now what we have here is One truth- - but different “perceptions”.  Perceptions and not Truth itself- - is the thing that is ‘relative”.  Our Holy Host may go on and on about how “all of us in the real world’ see Truth as relative- - but I kept asking - - “relative to WHAT”.  The connotation of “relative” implies some other THING to which our perception is being compared.  So the question is “Was Jesus as portrayed to us – Percect”.   If our Holy Host refers to his true self in the third person all the time - - a therapist may accuse him of “disassociation”.  If he says “What I do is ratio theater” I would say to him, “The real Jesus hated hypocrites – and I strongly you look up the original definition of that word”.    If the Holy Host says, “I’m only putting on an act.  I’m not serious”, then I would refer him to  Bible verse that states that it’s wrong to insult someone up one side and down the other and then to say “I was only joking”.   Jesus stated that the Priests of Jerusalem were “Children of Satan”.  I guess I’m curious as to What Thing - - convinced Jesus to conclude they were in fact Children of Satan.  What Crime are you convicting these duly appointed Priests of?  Is it that they view God as one who believe in sacrificing the lives of the innocent to attone for sins of the guilty?  Personally I would consider this an evil.  Jesus said we were to forgive unconditionally - - yet he himself told the parable of the Two Debtors where forgiveness was later withdrawn from a person - - retroactively.  It’s a Truth that diseases can be healed with modern medicine.  Why did Jesus choose not to share this “Truth” with his audience, but chose rather to let them remain in the dark?  But more to the point our Holy Host alludes to this notion that these “bad liberals out there” embrace this dangerous thing called “relative Truth” but never quite comes to what specific SIN or act he is referring to.  It’s like he splats a can of red paint on the white wall - - and each “art critic” comes in and gives his “impression” of what this red splat represents artistically.  But more to the point in my very first letter to Bill Halliday in April of 1991 I spoke of how “Some pastors just throw everything against the wall, and then see what sticks”, and in the end – it’s this activity that our Holy Host seemed to be engaging in this morning.   By the word "Resurrect" or "resurrection" is a verb or noun that takes an object.  It isn't like saying "The bomb exploded", which is reflexive and refers back to itself.  They are playing "Beware of Darkness" right now.  At any rate- - our Holy Host needs to contemplate why this word "Resurrection" was used to describe the afterlife, in the vast array of Words that the Almighty God had at his disposal to describe the afterlife.  Our Holy Host says he believes in Bible truth, after all as "the only measuring stick".   Well on a Jethro Tull CD, Ian Anderson speaks of "Resurrecting' the song "Living in the Past" and made it trickier and more fun to play now.  This was after "fifteen long years".    We have the whole Frankenstein thing of "attempting to resurrect dead flesh".  We may for example resurrect a coffee table that had been the closet not being used.  People wonder whether the San Onofre reactor will ever be resurrected.   The word "resurrect" takes an object, so is there any way of gleaning WHAT the Bible means when they use this word.  Yes.  Because the Apostle's Creed states that we believe in "The resurrection of the Body".   The word resurrect means to re-animate or somehow restore somethings to its prior state of being alive- - or in use, or what have you.  I'd like to close this paragraph with a little story that's some fifty years old and you smart ones will know where I got the original version from.  One day I was getting a little fed up with the Calvary Chappel News - - and Chuck Smith comes to me and says "Maybe I could come down on the price a little.  So I'll tell you what.  I'll cut the price of the Sunday edition from a dollar fifty down to a flat dollar.  You save a fat fifty cents.  In exchange I will have to raise the week day Monday through Saturday rate-  a token ten cents from fifty cents to sixty cents.".   So I take that deal.  Then my buddy Stewart says to me "You realize you're now paying four dollars and sixty cents per week for the newspaper rather than the four fifty you were paying before".  I go back down to Chuck Smith- who is preaching to a big crowd just then- - and run up on stage and say "I have to talk to you now.  He escorts me to a secret room where we can haggle privately.  Chuck says "OK you're right.  OK, how would you like to go back to paying a buck fifty for the Sunday paper."  I decline and am about to stalk out.  Chuck says "Why in heaven's name NOT.  I'm offering you the reconciliation.  You realize I'm going to get right up there on stage and cite YOU as one of those "irreconcilable people" who is currently in the grip of Satan".  I said "I don't care".   I said to Chuck, "If you knew all things like God all cosmically plugged in - - you'd KNOW why".

Palace Mallice won the Belmont stakes on Saturday and Oxbow came in second and Orb came in third.  Imuendo came in fourth, and Revolution “who never has a bad race” came in fifth.  In New York they give the winner a carnation bouquet.  I tuned into the Belmont earlier than I had for the Preakness today - - perhaps at a quarter to three or something.  Friday they held a race there in the rain, but were pleased with the way the track had gotten dried off and was in good condition.  I like the Belmont because of the tree lined track- - a nice long track- - that’s kind of relaxing.  They say there have only been eleven triple crown winners for all time, which isn’t very many.  The mile and a half long track is the longest in this country, but they didn’t mention any other country.