"You Broke the Rules!"

"My problem with church congregations is that there are too many thesbians there who still haven't come out of the Closet"

People "get away with stuff" precisely as long as they remain "protected" by their own delusions of correctness.

Next essay question:  Explain the adage "The Devil is in the details" as viewed as gospel by people like Stewart Sutcliffe

How does a pure Empericist view the "reality" of light and gravity differently from someone like me, who prefers to call himself an "Objectivist".    Reference my little "dissertation" with Dr Levy riding in his car on the way home from the bank a few years back.  

What's the "problem" with what the following symbol represents?

There is an old adage (that I just made up this minute) that you have to know what the rules are – in order to break them.  So when Dylan sings in a song “I’ve got nothing Ma, to live up to” he was breaking the time cherished rules of verse rhyming.  But when Dr Levy’s poetry doesn’t rhyme or anything or have any cadence to it – he’s not impressing anybody.  In the Anthology track on “Let it be” Lennon said “OK, let’s track it” and Paul says “You bounder- you cheat!”   Around here two different people have this strange habit of frequently calling me Richard.  I’ve wondered about that.  (They are referring to Richard Powers and Richard Moore respectively, both of which are years older than me and look nothing like me, which makes it all the stranger)   Jim Spencer thought he had a sure fire system that President Obama would be defeated in November of 2012 based on a longstanding theory about the calendar.  He was proven wrong.  I guess even the famed “Washington Redskins” theory fell flat after decades of being proved.  First there are no lady Secretaries of State.  Then after we have three of them in a row, one wonders whether John Kerry was going to get surgery to qualify for the post now.  Now there is another adage piece of wisdom, “You have to have great taste - - to engage in bad taste”

Today’s big development on Days of our Lives, is the hired thug who murdered Nick, isn’t playing by the rules.  He was supposed to disappear and not to be seen again.  Those were the terms.  I thought there was some code these people lived by.  Now he reappears in the park and is perhaps threatening Samantha.  Kate is about to have a nasty surprise- - - now that she discovered her gun has been stolen and the case left unlocked just to be obvious.  So we now know Stephano’s fingerprints are all over this case and Stephano wants Kate framed for this murder in Stephano’s continuing revenge against her.  Eric and Jennifer know that something is up with Nicole and that Dr Daniel is angry with her, but we don’t know the outcome.  Then I went down for coffee in the courtyard after a smoke break.  I just barely made it and had about a cup and a half from that guy.  Then I turned on Dr Oz and it was “shark tank” day.  There were three proposed home remedies.  One was an organic deocorant or skin cream you can eat.  Another is some spicy perker-upper.  And the other is a facial cream made out of cat litter!  There is something detoxifying about the kind of clay used in cat litter!

This is after six.  Let’s start with the important news.  The LA Kings are still alive because the Kings and Ducks play the big game seven tonight, and I sure as hell wish it were carried on NBC.  I just got a call from some solar panel place and when I said this was a bored and care place and I was just a renter he said, “Oh, sure” sarcastically, like he didn’t believe me.  I was sitting out on the patio and Glen pointed out this com trail that had faded some that looked like it was made by a pilot who was drunk.  But it ran across the grain of other natural clouds.  But it looked like the rounded edge of some horrible skin legion like ringworm or something, and it also reminded me of the pattern receding waves make on beach sand.  Just then Glen starts singing an ELO song and then alerts my attention to a propeller plane in the sky that was behind the roof and I was too lazy to get up and look.   After Lisha and I had a conversation about catsup, Sarah said Lisha was assigned to another table and Gary was back eating with us.  Of course Kurt Cobain just said “Well, if you want to jump in bed with her, why don’t you just go to her room?”  For dinner we had “chicken fried steak” that was better than sometimes but fell far short of the previous couple of times.  We had mashed potatoes and gravy and the usual overcooked broccoli.  We had chocolate cake for deserts.  They I got a little more meat and potatoes without the gravy.  I drowsed through a lot of EWN.  There was no line in the med room and we got an egg sandwich.  Glen came over with a cup of coffee already made for me- so I gave him two more cigarettes making five.   Now they are legalizing wine tasting for people enrolled in a college program of wine making.  Now they have expanded these computer interaction programs where you can control the screen just by a wave of the hand.  That’s taking it a little far.  Now a promoter has settled on putting a “Live” holographic Michael Jackson concert even though some say he’s using “stolen” technology, but he says his is different.  I tried to watch something on U Verse and they didn’t believe I was over eighteen, and would not accept my name and password, so screw them!  I’ve had this premonition all day that “someone important just committed suicide, or was about to”.  It was the strangest cloud premonition.  Now that celebrity cat that rescued that four year old boy from the neighbor’s aggressive dog, he actually suffered a dog bite from, is now the mascot of some baseball team.  The cat and the boy had been really close virtually since the cat appeared- and would sleep with the lad while he was almost still a baby himself.   These fires in San Diego County are still raging.  Donald Sterling says he not going to pay the one and a half million dollar fine.   I’m officially neutral on that.  But personally, he has absolutely nothing to lose by dragging it out.  Because I don’t like my girlfriend with certain people - - I’m fined all that?  Barbra Walters had a surprise all-star women line-up on her show today starting with Hillary Clinton and Oprah Winfrey.  There were also Dianne Sawyer and Katie Kuric and a host of all of the many women who made it big in broadcasting who have seen themselves as standing on Barbra Walters’ shoulders.  

You’d think we’d have news.  You know – congress only has a couple more months left before their endless summer recess to get the Bengazi hearings going.  I just don’t think comgress with its reptilian metabolism – is capable of moving that quickly to get something in place.  And even if they managed to, it would take valuable time from what they really should be doing.  And you’d have thought we’d have heard something about how the fast food boycott came out yesterday.  Before the event I thought it was going to receive major media coverage, and yet there was nothing.  Now of course due to technical difficulties- - I’m unable to catch Randy Rhodes on her very last day.  I was thinking of checking in on Norman Goldman.  Just to continue the thought - - Rush Limbaugh has now tanked this station in Los Angeles to 39th out of 45 radio stations, which is worse than I had stated.   There was this one caller on Thom Hartman who still believes in what ammounts to a perpetual motion machine he refers to as a "pulse generater", which he claims is "Very - very efficient".   Thom Hartman tried to be nice about it- but I would just have told the guy he was full of it, as Scottie says in "Star Trekking" - "you cannot change the laws of physics - - laws of physics - - laws of physics!"

Moving right along- - as you know cosmically the Agagenians are referred to as "The first wave" of punk rock.  However people like Brian Ferry even predate them.  The Berliners call themselves the "Second Wave".    And then that leaves "The Third Wave" which only consists of two groups, but they are big ones - - U2 and the Police.  They are what we used to call "undifferentiated Des Rho.  Actually we've pinned that down (or at least I found out) this group hangs out in Pittsburgh of all places.  This Des Rho group - - is known for causing unexplained interference or malfunctioning in electronic equipment.  Gene Scott used to comfort himself when equipment acted up saying "When Satan is reduced into getting inside a piece of equipment - - he must be getting Desperate".   Of course The Cars are Arkturian - - so I guess they're just oddballs or something.

 The idea that the theologian Tatian - - would be deemed "acceptable" breaks the rules because we told you he has been identified as a communist - - no - - a Gnostic Valintinian by two sources.  Mal Evans regards the idea of the idea that Words Mean Things - - and every word has a numeric meaning- - is an adoption of the teachings of Marcus - - who was a product of Valentinism.  And we told you about the whole idea of "hexophobia".  Mal Evans has carried this over - - as sixty degrees being particularly adverse.  There is this notion that pure summitry is bad because "dangerous resonances build up in things" and as such - - even I tend to be drawn to prime numbers - as very stable.  And now here's more from two days ago.  (eventually)  We had a choice of sherbet or vanilla ice cream for desert and curiosity got the better of me with the vanilla.  It turned out to be the sugar free kind, I think, because it had that under-taste.  Eye Witness news is on now.  I posted four long paragraphs and the above paragraph was the final one I conceived, though I had thought of including a topic I call “harmony-phobia” in it, and talking about gold having no inherent worth because you can’t eat it, or build something with it, or use it to fuel your car.  But I esteemed that to be too much elabboration. 

This morning I got up a little late because I was lethargic and a little tired- - and plagued with negative thoughts.  I desperately was looking forward to that first cup of coffee from the store.  But on my way there I met Mike Deletore who offered me a dollar for just four cigarettes.  Glen just now came in and I told him I’m fresh out and need to buy some.  I turned around in the parking lot and headed back here- minus the four cigarettes but plus a dollar.  That transaction just “bought me” another pack of cigarettes.  Ricardo said I was shaking when he gave me my pills with milk.  I headed into breakfast still feeling down.   Lisha perked up my spirits.  She offered me two Time lights right out of the blue to try.  Maybe she misunderstood me and thought I was saying I was out.   We had oatmeal - - and I don’t like surrendering your bowl or whatever to Owen because it’s like forfeiting all hope of getting seconds.  We had two waffles and bacon and were served early for once.  Then Lisha gave me an extra waffle and Paul Evans gave me two more waffles, so I had five waffles for breakfast.   Nothing lifts your spirits like raising your blood sugar to something resembling normal.  The coffee was good.   It’s kind of funny how there is no time when Mario definitely has cigarettes.  He’s likely to ask you for one at any time- including ten thirty in the morning- when he should be awash with them.

The Coming Sad Fate of Rush Limbaugh

People are too eager to give away their power.  We all had "the power" to prevent the tea party from coming to power.  All we collectively as Americans had to do was to NOT vote for them.  People give away their power to a religious cult.  I think their mindset is like an insure teenage girl in the back seat of this horney guy's car.  She figures she "owes it to him" or some such thing, just as people some way some how feel they "owe it to their cultist conversationalists" to say Yes to them.  You know I just figured out something about the way police departments work that I guess I always darkly suspect but one incident today brought it to light.  Hope interviewed EJ Di Mira on two surveillance photographs that were taken just outside Nick’s office at Kate Robert’s company.  One showed EJ with an angry expression on his face and then Nick comes out with an equally angry expression on his face.  I would have said to Hope, “I really have no idea what prompted the expressions behind these photos.  I don’t see why you care, but you’ve obviously got some fanciful theory behind your questions, so why don’t you just produce some kind of foundation for what you’re alluding to, if anything.”  But you can’t get away with responding that way to the Police.  What they see their job as is pummeling a suspect with questions until they are sure thee subject had provided an air tight chain of evidence they can take to the DA and get a sure conviction.  After that it doesn’t matter what you say.  In terms of Daniel and Nicole, Nicole has to remember “Just because Daniel forgave you for the horrible act you committed, he did NOT commit himself to forgive you for NOT telling Eric”.  Capish?   After this it was time to head for the courtyard where I got two cups of iced tea from Dora.  Then it was Sean Hannity.  I imagine this Linda girl with the husky voice- - probably has an Adam’s apple like Anne Coulter.  She strikes me as kind of a hard-ass whose cure for any personal problem is just to drown yourself in work.  Of course hearing that Hannity is friends with Howard Stern- - is indictment enough against his morals.  I guess Sean has had more than one wife.  And Howard is so completely filthy, disgusting in every one of his sexual metaphors.  Nothing about his bantor is even tiddelating.  It’s like coming across two gay men doing each other in a toilet stall.  Howard’s topics range from incest, pediphelia, fecal matter - - need I go on?   And I’ll tell you right now that no better fan of police brutality exists than Howard Stern.  Still why do I even listen to that station knowing they are so low in the ratings among LA stations they hardly register at all in the ratings.   Of course I’m not blaming the I Heart Radio sponsor because they are just a loose affiliation of twelve hundred radio stations, regardless of content.

I have now familiarized myself with more Edward Snowden stuff.  OK I didn’t mention but I’m re-thinking my coming down rather hard on Snowden viewing him personally as a traitor and worse – a Putin stooge.  Glen Greenwald was interviewing him today and I watched the last part of the interview before the first part of the program.  It blew Snowden’s mind that in far flung towns and villages our drones with cameras were watching everything they did, perhaps in preparation for bombing them.  And of course it was stated flat out that President Obama told flat out lies on numerous occasions, just as George Bush did, on our use of certain security measures.  Just as Chelsea Brady was able to intercept Hope’s E mails before they got to Bo and redirect them to her,  so packages from companies are redirected to some national security building.  They rip open these computer boxes and implant these devices in them such as keystroke loggers, or some virus to turn them into zombie computers, and then seal them back up carefully and send them on their way.  Even if the company were to find out about it, they would be so scared spitless of the government they wouldn’t dare say anything.  And apparently they flat out admitted that “We have as our goal to have access to overhearing virtually every phone conversation in The World!”   They stressed that this was not an exaguration.  Glen Greenwald’s new book is “No Place to Hide”.  I’d like to get a copy of it.  Sometimes you think you know how bad things are, and then they turn out to be worse.  I recommend that people get the pod-cast of yesterday’s Democracy Now show.  Now they are talking about the 9 – 11 Museum.  Oddly enough, neither Bush nor Chaney were in attendance.  I guess they would consider it just too hypocritical to show up - - any more than EJ Di Mira would care to show up at Nick Fallon’s funeral.  It’s a good thing to remember our heroic deeds and to cherish the people who survived the perils of that day.   

People assume things like the outcome of this year’s national off year elections where a lot of Republican governors will be up for reelection, which could lend a hand in determining how their state will be reapportioned in 2020, and a whole lot of other things.  You hear these things like “Everybody in America’s heartland is tuned in to FOX news, and that’s where they get all of their information about the outside world”.  But is that true, or just media hype they want you to believe?  What is the truth?   Apparently Rush Limbaugh, according to this guest on the Ed Schultz show this morning, says that Rush Limbaugh negotiated an eight year contract for fifty million year with a gigantic “signing bonus”.  This means that Rush’s job is safe for three more years.  Even in 2009 it was a strange contract, and it would seem that Rush’s ratings have plummeted so steeply that Clear Channel or Priemere Broadcasting or whoever- - would be tempted to sue Rush Limbaugh for a massive loss of revenues being tied to a loser for so many years into the future.  They said that now when Rush Limbaugh LEAVES a station, nobody notices his departure in the daily program line-up.  But KEIB, specifically named after Rush, has tanked in the ratings.  They said among Los Angeles radio sttations KEIB was nineteenth or something, and is in fact trailing many foreign language stations, and even a few College based radio stations.  So now you can see why Clear Channel could think they were "had".  In that case Rush will lose even what friends he has, besides the many sponsors that have stopped advertising on his program.   Apparently there is this Sandra Fluke case that was the turning point.  That’s where Rush kept calling this one government employee a slut for three whole days, attacking her character, her morality.  This was because she favored the wider spread use of birth control pills and that “These women can’t control their libido and have to take birth control pills” and all of that.  THAT may be the actual moment that Rush’s carrier and reputation as a talk show host was doomed.  Of course now in the Daily Beast or whatever they are doing articles telling Anne Coulter and Rush Limbaugh and even George Will getting into the act- - to stop mocking the “save our African girls” campaign.  This whole “counter campaign” makes absolutely no sense.  They are so hell bent (and hell is the operative word here) on destroying the President’s reputation that anything even remotely connected with President Obama they’re going to attack.   One thing that got mentioned was the Occupy Wall Street protests of two and a half years ago.  You may remember back then people were saying “The protests will be revived in the spring when the weather turns warmer”.  Instead the whole thing was completely dropped, which at the time seemed the smart thing to do.  After all (so goes the reasoning of my brain at the time)  we MUST do everything to PROTECT the image of President Obama and not have a whisper of doubt that Obama somehow is sympathetic with left wing causes.  Of course the dirty little secret was the President was NOT in sympathy with these protestors, and by the way – Never Said that he Was.   So much of the time the political left spends running away from phantoms, boogy men.  Anything that would somehow “taint the cause”.  After all these young, idealistic voters, many young college students- - had to “stand by their man” just like the Tammy Wynette song.   Now we have Hillary.  I’m trying to take comfort from Ed Schultz words of the other day saying “Candidate Hillary Clinton of 2016 will be a very different candidate than the Hillary of the 2008 campaign was”.   But you see, I’m not sure whether that’s “all we’ve got left”.   You mean there is NOBODY worthy of competing someone we are coronating over two years ahead of the political conventions?  There is a meme going around that “conflict and argument is bad”.   Personally I’m not at ALL sure of that premise.  And conclusions made from an unsound premise are by nature Faulty.   Not to quote John Boehner but “I think it’s time to have a real Conversation” on this matter. 

It was pointed out to me that man, among the creatures of God, is the one who runs the risk of “over efficiency” or getting too good at something.  Indeed the Neanderthols were expect at stampeding a herd of bison over a cliff and then gorging themselves.  Of course this behavior couldn’t keep up for long.  But originally the guy who could kill two bison in a day was considered a good hunter.  But if you wipe out a whole herd you have just hunted yourself into extinction.  Hopefully we no longer think like Neanderthols, because after all, they became extinct themselves.  You know how Rush Limbaugh loves the buzz of a chain saw.  Let’s see him out in the woods wielding an axe and see how well he does!  How many of you have come across some hot shot sixteen year old who brags about how “Good at sex” she is, or how many men she’s gone through?  To me that’s kind of a turn-off.  “Over-effriciency”.     There is ONE type of gambler I would NOT allow in my house of gambling now that I sit and think about it.  This is some milti-billionaire who in order to clean me out, all he has to do is to “double down” with every bet and eventually he’ll win, at almost mathematically predictable intervals.  Ordenary people can’t do that.  Hillary Clinton they inform us in 1980 made a profit of a thousand percent playing the commodities exchange.  You can do that with a roomered unlimited supply of cash reserve.  It’s no wonder then that the tea party people when anyone questions their word or there is an issue or conflict on something always “double down” on the wrong behavior.  This is because it works for them because they have an unlimited supply of both money and media exposure, so that whatever they say turns out to be “the Truth”.   Some Christian out witnessing on the street couldn’t hope to do that.   It’s a nasty fact that the Children of the tea party have a much more faithful “backstop” of their actions than do the Children of God.  (Selah)   Of course today we have hydrolic fracturing to extract the maximum amount of natural gas from the ground.   And now we come to the “efficiency” of modern corporations.  You know automation is not always our friend.  In former times the CEO of a company would think, what is good for my customers, what is good for my workers, what is good for the community, and what is good for my stockholders.   Today the smart thing to do if you fret about rising prices of bread or coffee or sugar is just to buy futures in these commodities, that way with every greenback that leaves your wallet at the grocery store, that’s money in your pocket.   So now a fast food corporation makes so much in sheer profit it doesn’t know what to do with the money so it buys stock in its own company.  That’s good news for you if you are a holder of that stock.  That’s what in the trade is known as “Money in strong hands”.  It’s like loss insurance.  It’s like they have become so efficient at “managing their worker expense” on a starvation salary they could not hope to live on.  But of course- - they also miss the point that a happy worker is a loyal worker and a more efficient worker, because you don’t have to keep retraining new workers for the productive and efficient ones who leave, because those employees are still there.

You know - - certain beliefs are probably extinct already and it’s time to give them a fitting burial if one even finds it necessary to do even that.  After all, some people don’t have a proper sense of Closure until there is a proper Funeral.   I could like t talk about “Theolotry”.  Not theology but Theolotry.   This is the idea of “science” (if we must call it that) of this “school of Biblical hermeneutics” or the belief that the Bible was a perfect code for living that was handed down from on high and is infallible “in faith and practice’ as the saying usually goes.   Theology is the putting down of ideas- - inspirations - - even revelations - - experiences- - you have gotten from something Supernatural - - down on paper and making sense of it.  Theology then might be described as “Describing God by the actions you witness about him from an encounter with him”.  That’s not what Theolotry is.  Theolotry is putting God in a box, like you would a caged animal.  Instead of letting YOU know what He is like- - now the shoe is on the other foot and You are telling Him - - instructing God- - on what HE is like as you define it, and dag nabbit, he better conform to your expectations, but if not it doesn’t matter because when push comes to shove- - Theolotry reigns over all.  There aren’t many of these “specimens’ left any more.  There used to be Walter Martin of the Christian research institute.  There is John Mac Arthur and Chuck Swendoll, and of course Neil of the Jesus Christ show.  There is Josh Mc Dowell and probably Hal Lindsey.   But the vast majority of local yocos you see on TV are not in this camp.  You have your Pat Robertson, James Dobson, Joel Olsteen, Rex Humbard, Arthur Blesset, Paul and Jan Crouch, and all of the other former fixtures on that show such as Mario Merillo, Greg Laurie, Joe Megliato, or people like O L Jaggers or Jimmy Swaggart.  These people are showmen more than anything else.  They are doing what they do because they “love Jesus” and not as some Pharisiac legalists- - who view religion per see is like some iron clad contract.   People “men of the cloth” love to say that if you wash and wax your car on a Saturday morning you are guilty of having your car as an “Idol”.   Let me clarify this longstanding mis-understanding.   The sin - - is NOT having some valued possession that you like to maintain and keep shiny and clean.  The sin- - as I read the Biblical tea leaves- - is calling God a “possession” in the first place!  How many old ladies have you heard talking about “My Jesus”.   As I’ve said before many a pastor almost views God as some kind of a trained show dog, who is paraded out and does tricks for people every Sunday.   OK, I guess I’ve gross you all out enough today.

Flook Events Don't Just Occur by Accident

  You know it isn’t any fun to be “dressed down” by your moral Superior the way Nicole Walker was in today’s Days of our Lives” episode, and have all those dark, dirty secrets- - all of your biggest moral flaws you thought were dead and buried (literally) - exposed to soon be seen by all.  And yet strangely those with much larger flaws than hers- - such as the Koch Brothers and Sheldon Addelson and the Tea Party right- - are utterly fearless and confident that they can continue to go on winning election after election, and all the liberals are inclined to agree with them that “basically – nothing can be done; its going to happen” so to speak.  We know that on Friday that Randy Rhodes, for one- - in the tradition of Jordan Ridgeway – will just drop off the face of the earth.  I always used to hear that “The Hollywood Left” had all of this power and influence.   The last time anything approaching liberal propaganda happened at the Academy Awards was when Al Gore accept a reward and the orchestra "cued him off the stage" in a move more prophetic than funny.   But now that they are needed the most - - “Where is it?”  Where is all of that prestige and influence to sway the minds of the Average American?   There are very few people who even speak up and as we have seen their numbers are declining all the time, often death.   I had “Ring of Fire” from April 20^th on, when I think the internet was on the fritz and I couldn’t watch.  Justice Roberts knew what he was doing when he approved Obama Care as Constitutional.  The biggest thing he did was to make it an issue during the fall 2012 campaign- - one that had never been popular in any poll.  What if – President Obama could have remedied the loss of 2010 BEFORE it Happened?  What if the President had just urged congress to lay low and not to pass this thing because it was just too unpopular with the American People and there would be too much blow-back.   You see President Obama was either very stupid or very keniving if not evil.  That is – to engineer the deboccle of 2010 when it was within his power to prevent it.   Another issue tackled during this hour was this Japanese high blood pressure drug that causes symptums with Chrone’s disease with massive weight loss, diaria, and a digestive system that won’t work.  And apparently doctors kept each and every one of these patients ON this drug for ten years and the FDA did nothing.  If nothing else, it’s another reason not to touch the FDA.  But also touched on – was Dodd Frank.  According to Mike P - - there was no INTENSION of EVER USING this Bill the way we thought intended when our representatives passed this bill- - to stave off another October of 2008 crash and also to protect consumers.  But instead- -  those “Powers that Be”, (which we are to believe the President has absolutely no sway over) decided to give the Big Banks a pass and continue to do nothing- - whereas those few small banks that have this sill idea that Banks are actually for the purpose of making loans to investors- - These banks are gone after with a vengeance by the authorities.  This is beyond insane.  But most of the topics tackled on the “Ring of Fire” program are beyond insane.    Justice Roberts knows that Big Business actually WANTS Obama Care to come about because it’s windfall profits for them.  Obviously Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity would never admit this.  Instead Hannity on his TV show is too busy cozying up to Cliven Bundy who is nothing more than “a deadbeat who doesn’t pay his bills”.   The good news concerning Bundy is that the Feds can and will strip this man of everything- - all of his cattle and put tax leans on everything he owns.  It was also stated that many of the people who came to his little “gun rally” had no background in cattle ranching at all but came from places far flung just for the opportunity to take a few pot shuts with an AK 47 at Federal officials.

This is Wednesday afternoon approaching three and Randy Rhodes only has two days left on the radio.  She hasn’t dropped the vaguest hint about what she’s going to be doing- - the day or the week after she signs off for the last time.  She says she’s keeping her house in Florida, so she isn’t relocating to Costa Rica.  I didn’t know till just today that Howard was disabled.  And she made a remark about ‘I’m tired of sitting around and watching the country go to hell in a hand basket”.    I had Sean Hannity on around two thirty.  This Christian singer is not a new sensation he had on his show today.  In fact just after 9 – 11, which would be nearly thirteen years ago, this singer had a personal conversation with President Bush and the President asked him to write a song.  I don’t know how Rush Limbaugh ever knew President HW Bush so well that he was granted the privilege of spending the night in the Lincoln Bedroom.  Keep in mind this had to be 1992 or earlier, when Rush was less well known, or so we thought.  How many people who’ve been on national radio three years get asked by the President of the United States to spend a night in the Lincoln bedroom?   Of course- - Randy Rhodes knows both Al and wife Tipper Gore personally.  Sometimes people are more “well connected” than you think they are.  The Rev Gene Scott said “Not to name drop of anything but you’d be astounded at the number of Hollywood celebreties that attend my church”.   I’m going somewhere with this line of thought.  Believe it or not some people who work really hard all their lives never become famous.   We are told that the early Christians were poor and met in these underground caticombs- - and dared not even being seen in public.   And yet if you probe only slightly into their lives a whole different picture emerges.  Take Justin Martyr.   First of all he had a Roman father and a Greek mother, and he was born in Palestine as some “army brat” ambassador’s offspring, where he is privileged to travel a lot.  There is reference to all these early Christians traveling all over the known world as if it were the easiest thing to do.  We’ll get to President Obama’s strange life at a later date, but I still have question marks about “just who is this guy?”   According to Mike Papentonio and it’s pretty obvious- - Barock Obama is the “Wall Street’ candidate for President, and shares in common with a lot of Christian preachers putting on this poor boy humble act of “If I ever got elected I’d really change the world” and such.  Now about those “Catacombs”.   Isn’t it funny that they said that Marcion was excommunicated by “The Pope” in 145 AD, or that Valentinus only became a heretic because some high official in the Catholic Church wouldn’t hire him.  Someone is trying awfully hard to get you to believe that the Papicy began in the first century and this whole “underground bit’ is just PR.  So - - which is it?   Was there a Pope Lynus or Pope Clement of Rome in the first century?   Why in virtually no Christian writings is their any animosity tword Rome?   Isn’t Rome “The Enemy?”   There is ONE exception though, and that is saying that “Jesus suffered under Governor Pilate”.   If you read Justin’s writings he makes it clear that- - Pilate (a man who shortly after committed suicide) was to blame.  Isn’t it funny that the group that actually Sentenced Jesus to death – the Sanhedran, made up of Saducees- - these people are given a pass both by Justin- - and also- - Jesus much prefers to pick on the Pharisees than the Saducees.  Well in the same way that the Monica Luinsky situation was somewhat engendered by the government shutdown of late 2005 - - nobody has said what - - happened to this Sanhedren, otherwise known as Saducees.  We are told temple worship after 70 AD just - - vanished, kind of like Randy Rhodes after Friday.  I find the situation all too queer.  So you have this guy who is a “rich Jew” kind of like Donald Sterling- - - who is exposed to this “prophetic tradition” or whatever of a “Monotheist religion”, which is “The only kind he likes or finds credible”  (if he were raised in Israel this might almost make sense)  and he lives to see his homeland fight valliently for its Freedom - - and for a year or two briefly attained it- - only to see them completely crushed.  All this is going on whole he is conducting his “philosophical quest” from one school of philosophy to another.  That’s another thing.  I think a lot of these “schools” as he calls them - - are highly elite- -and people just don’t wander in off the street to join them any more they would just wander in off the street to enroll in Harvard or Princeton.

 This is Wednesday May 14, 2014 and tomorrow of May 15^th which is “Fast Food boycott day”.  It’s been a long anticipated day.  When you think about it’s putting ‘free market pressure” into action.  And the likelyhood of success appears decent.   Meanwhile in Vermont- - they are raising the minimum wage from $8.50 or something to $10.50 in a few years.  Vermont needs the increased wages to bolster their tax base, and it would seem that if it works for Vermont- - why wouldn’t it work everywhere else?    We had a pork roast for dinner with horrible mashed up rice, and peas and carrots.  Lisha was still sitting with us.  We had chocolate pudding for desert.   Yesterday on the news they said it only got up to 94 yesterday with a record of 98.  But I say it got up to definitely over a hun-dred.  Today someone said that the TV said it was 99 degrees and that it will be 101 tomorrow.  This blog just "ate" the second half of this paragraph and I had to re-paste it.  The other thing I said was that Janet said "If it's this hot and it's only May, what will things be like in August?"  They told us that we'd get rain on January 20th in a few weeks.  Now they are trying to tell us El Nino is on the way.  Maybe the climate change is so marked they're trying not to panic us.  The sky above is completely cloudless, as they made reference to this High over the Pacific that “just seems to have hovered there for months, and scientists have varied theories that make little sense to explain it”.  This is very curious.

Today’s posting was executed before dinner and the tone of the thing is rather bitter, because that’s how I feel about the state of affairs in America today.  I think I’d feel the same way regardless of my own personal comfort because these are issues of “moral outrage”.  There are just too many injustices in the country in the name of Koch Brother expitdiciousness.   This morning I watched “Democracy Now” when I wasn’t watching Ed Schultz or “Ring of Fire” and they talked about Internet Neutrality and what the few communications companies left are doing or want to do to us.   There is what I call the carrot and the stick principle that “saves us” a lot of the time and gives the illusion of the free market when it really isn’t.  Larry Elder has tried to invoke this saying that businesses who didn’t admit Blacks would be shunned by the general population after a while.  He’s viewing the conflict from this side of the sixties, safely tucked away in the seventies or later.  People argue that you need not join a labor union because “Other wages are rising too so you see, the free market actually works”.  But that “free market” is being “helped out” by the carrot and stick presence of the labor unions.  It’s kind of like a disease in the presence of a vaccinated population.  It’s almost as if the viruses “know” and there seems to be some “critical mass” of unvaccinated people when they know they can attack.  This same argument is made about Time-Warner and Comcast and the Internet.  They say “Why, you have only shown me four cases of internet abuse where material was surpressed and sites blocked.  Apparently one pastor was trying to download the King James Bible, but pornography went right through.  As such we have an unexpected allay in our quest by these Christian group, who shun these seemingly innocent requests to forward a little of the green stuff to “grease the skids” and insure that your message gets through quickly, kind of like mafia “insurance”.  But what is so seemingly spotty and innocent looking now, we know from history can evolve into something far more menacing and dangerous.  And we who have the foresight to see this slippery slope just starting – are sounding the alarm for Internet Neutrality. 

Hey Politicians! - Read Em And Weep! Them's The Facts

Americans Becoming Increasingly Resentful of Skewed Government Policies

Polls show that – despite President Obama’s rhetorical skills – Americans don’t like his core policies.
This is not a partisan statement … Americans have come to despise both mainstream Democratic and mainstream Republican party policies.
Specifically, Americans:

• Believe by a 70-30% margin that big banks and corporations – rather than average Americans – have benefited most from Obama’s economic policies.  2 years ago, 74% thought that the bailouts helped Wall Street more than the people

• Want to break up the big banks

• Overwhelmingly want the government to get tougher on prosecuting Wall Street fraud

• Want to end or substantially rein in the Federal Reserve

• Oppose war against Syria (and see this). This is not as new or surprising as many believe: Americans have been sick and tired of war in the Middle East for years

• Oppose arming the Syrian rebels

• Hate the broad program of spying currently being conducted by the NSA and other government agencies

• Think that the government has gone way too far in the name of terrorism, and want our liberties restored

•  Don’t believe the NSA

• Consider NSA leaker Edward Snowden to be a hero

• Don’t trust Obama to actually do anything to rein in spying

• Want the director of intelligence – James Clapper – prosecuted for perjury

• Are more afraid of the government than terrorists

• Overwhelmingly support labeling genetically modified food

• Want poisons kept out of our food and water

• Want elections to be made more fair

• Oppose Obamacare by a 45 percent to 23 percent margin. Liberals now realize that it’s turned into a feeding frenzy for big healthcare companies … which creates two classes of citizens

Democrats are realizing that Obama is as bad as Bush. And Republicans are waking up to the fact that the GOP leadership lied to them.  Peoples’ hatred of Congress is so passionate that it’s comical.  And Obama’s patina of wanting to help the American people has worn very thin for everyone other than his most diehard fans.  Indeed, poll after poll shows that both mainstream parties – Democrat and Republican – are deeply unpopular with the American people.  Both conservatives and liberals want to cut the corporate welfare queens off from the public dole.  Americans of all political stripes have awoken to the fact that most  politicians are corrupt, and that big government and big business have become intertwined in a malignant relationship which hurts us little people.

JUST one friendly financial tip here.  DO NOT be spooked by people telling you the stock market is going to crash.  There have been FEW TIMES in history where it as SAFE to enter the stock market as right now, and frankly it's a good way to beat inflation.  However I would stay from Gold and Silver.  These conservatives are only out to fleece you.  You know that, don't you.  No matter WHO tells you the market is going to crash either on July 1, 2014 or in 2016 DO NOT BELIEVE THEM.  Give them the royal bird and grab your newspaper and get out the darts.  My only caviat is to stay away from stocks that are single digit dollar prices.  Actually I'd prefer it were a reasonably established stock.  Buy it and hold it till you need it- - and then- if you ever need a loan you already have the cash reserve profit without touching your principle dollar investment.

THE MOST INTELLIGENT, EDUCATED, AND INFORMED PEOPLE Are Almost Never Republican.  Think that headline is a little too strong?  Well consider this: Only 6% of scientists are registered republicans.  Or this: Only 7% of journalists are registered republicans.  We can agree, can’t we, that becoming a scientist requires a remarkable dedication to scholarship, education, and to the truth?  We can agree, can’t we, that nobody knows more about the working of our “democracy” than journalists?  So, why have well over 90% of those who have followed a scientific or journalistic path rejected the Republican party?  Could the answer be more obvious?  The Republican war on science fought on behalf of the wealthiest and most powerful and the utter contempt which Congressional Republicans hold for the democratic process have completely alienated our brightest, most informed, and most curious. I copied that paragraph above from the Monterey station.  Even if you are a conservative this should be a sobering reminder that if you are on the far right you almost by inference, intellectually tainted and the “credibility odds’ are against you.   But not only don’t these people qualify as “Conservatives”, which to my understanding is “take forward steps cautiously”; these people don’t even qualify as “reactionaries” since there is NO period within the memory of anyone still alive, at least, in which these people on the “right’ would feel comfortable today.  Most certainly they would not feel the least bit comfortable in late spring of 1964 when the Civil Rights bill was on the verge of becoming law, or when the test ban treaty with the Soviet Union has just been ratified.  Indeed their reputation that doomed them in the 1964 fall campaign was that they were “trigger happy”.   The only place where you’ll find a real journalist today is in the internet liberal press.  Clearly the others are just empty heads before the camera reading a teleprompter with a text scripted by Charles and David Koch.  There is a poll out that says people are far more apathetic about the upcoming off-year election than they were in 2010.  For a progressive this is about the most disturbing news you could receive.  That’s because the Republican right is staking their reputations on a light voter turn-out this fall.  That’s the only way they can win.  I haven’t sounded like a Malcolm X saying “The chickens have come home to roost” as far as this theory I have about “The children of the Jesus generation”.   I’m speaking of the ones who were the early movers and shakers in the Jesus movement and among the early icons and teachers.  In general- - a lot of these movers and shakers were just a few years older than I was - - am.  And you’d see all these new babies springing up- fearing not they would grow up and vote Conservative.  These children were indoctrinated from the cradle to basically "fear anything or anyone that doesn't see things exactly the way Mommy and Daddy see things".

Of course the poll numbers on the supporting of Syrian rebels are bogus, because if you look at the date the survey was taken it was nearly a year ago on "Wednesday June 12th" before we found out about the toxic mass weapons and before Obama drew his disappearing red line in the sand.   I don't think a responsible person can stand by and think nothing of 150,000 civilians being killed by a power hungry despotic ruler like Al Assad.  Also I don't regard Edward Snowden as "a hero".   The analogy here is that evidence is uncovered that is instrumental in convicting a person for a serious crime.  My doctrine has always been "the evidence speaks for itself' and "never deny Truth".  However you should most certainly go after the cop of department that illegally ceased the evidence.  So it is with Snowden.  I still suspect there is some shady "deal" with Putin who is using him - or wants to- use Edward Snowden as a propaganda tool.  I also agree with Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh that it's unconscionable that any woman would be barred from making a College comencement address because "she planned to say something anti Moslem".  Indeed, if women's group ARE systematically ignoring this issue of broad scale abuse and denial of women's rights, they need to wake up and smell the coffee.  I believe it's still the job of any nation that his risen to primacy of leadership in the world as the United States has, to set the right moral tone.

They have also taken a poll recently which shows that by in large, most people are in favor of the progressive agenda rather than the Tea Party agenda.  If these polls were more widely known, the democrats would stand a lit better chance in debates and campaigns.  But the more apathetic progressives are thinking perhaps either they have "no choice' or it "isn't worth the effort" or maybe they'll just sit this one out and "lie low for a while" all of these show flawed reasoning because the more the tea party wins, the More resources they have to then go on and win the Next election, and so it becomes that much Harder to ever dethrone them.  We'll never have a better shot of throwing them out of office than we do right now in this year of 2014.

Is the Christian Church Suffering from "Dementia"?

Since I have a small cache of cigarettes now my brain works and I can do a posting today.  (No day is complete without one)  Let’s talk about dementia.  Contrary to what I and many have believed, dementia is not the same as Alzheimers or memory loss.  Although this can certainly be an eventual symptom.   But basically dementia is a deterioration of the synapses in the frontal lobe of the brain.  As per the analogy, the “connections get a little frayed”.  As such the personality just completely breaks down.  It’s not, as some would imagine, that certain suppressed elements of one’s personally now come out that had been dormant.  But rather a whole new, different personality emerges that were never part of one’s nature before.  There was a rather surly lady here the first few months I lived here named Mary Jane, who used to work as a pit boss in Las Vegas, and I was thinking ‘I’d sure hate to get caught in a card game with her”.  Then we have Jin Spencer, and it would ease my mind to know that “He wasn’t always like the way he was when he was living here, particularly the past two months when it got rediculas.  But how, you ask, is the Catholic Church showing signs of “dementia”.  Well, let’s take an obvious example of memory loss.  There was a guy named Sebelius who lived around AD 200 (fifty years later than I had been told by other Christians)  And he came up with this “Hericy” that the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, were all of One Nature and only showed various “masks” that “appeared” to be other persons, but they really weren’t.  He was condemned by “The Church” as a Heritec, but then this other guy in Egypt named Athenasius, whom Pastor Mark praised in a sermon, at the end of the century revived this doctrine of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost being of “one essential nature”.  But times had changed and the only difference between him and Sebelius- - could be likened to a mental patient with three different personalities.  One guy really is a psycho and the other guy is just faking it to get out of jury duty.  That would be Sebelius.  Then we come to the Pope’s proclamation that nations ought to enforce “equality of income”.  Sean Hannity was horrified by this pronouncement naturally claiming it was contrary to everything Christianity stood for, and to buttress his argument quoted Pope Pious XI, who was Pope when Hitler was in power- - who made remarks that appeared to be a condemnation of Bolshivism.  Clearly the tea party of today seems to have no memory of the actual person of Jesus who walked on this earth.  Then for our final case we have this whole St Thomas church in India.  I’ll say more about them in a minute, but they were an Ancient “Syrian Christian” Church that migrated to India and settled in this one city and kept their Syrian language and liturgy.  But then Catholics from Portugal came there in the fifteenth century and were astounded at the hericy of this Church and began gathering up and burning suspect texts right and left, and gave the clergy of this Church other texts, “the corrected ones”, which naturally were written in Latin.  I think it’s Judy’s belief that my Dad’s brain was just slightly fried taking all of these Seretonin “re-uptake” inhibitors – and are impossible to bet off if because “getting back in touch with the way things really are” is too painful.  And many have claimed these drugs basically alter an individual’s personality, and personally if I thought I had problems relating to Dad before- - it was worse now in the years before his death.

Stephanie made some remarks about FOX news and how when it started out in the nineties it wasn't as demented as it is today.  Back then it really was just "a conservative version of the news" and not its own self contained Propaganda machine.  But it has escaped few people's notice that FOX and Rush also spent a lot of time bashing Hillary Clinton, and almost no time either condemning terrorists in either Libya or Nigeria- - or - heaven forbid- - actually trying to find and put on trial those responsible for the Bengazi attacks.  In the latest news the "western" ice sheet of Antarctica is cracking off and melting so fast that it has become an "unstoppable" process, and it's almost a fact now that oceans all around the world will rise three feet affecting Florida cities like Miami and Tampa.  They have disgnosed the second case of the MERS virus.  But Health Care workers are the most vulnerable.

In terms of this Donald Sterling guy and his wife Shelly Sterling- - both of them are lying in their respective interviews.  Shelly did one of the final interviews of Barbra Walters, who is 82 and Friday will be her last show.  The wife claims that her husband had no memory of the things he said on that tape made by the girlfriend, or mistress, or “care taker” or whatever she’s calling herself these days.  Many have accused Shelly herself of being a racist.  But when Donald Sterling was asked about that major legal suit filed by tenants of various minority races in 2004, the man had no comment.  People were called horrible names, and they had to live in sub standard apartments where toilets and other basic essentials didn’t work.  He’s really heart wrenching to hear their stories.  But now Donald Sterling has “No comment”.  I’m sorry, that’s not good enough.  And so Shelly says “Maybe he has dementia”.  Or maybe she when she said that was just “thinking out loud” and didn’t intend to say it.  Or maybe she DID intend to say it as some sort of cover-up of her husband’s misdeeds.   If you know me I’m not at all sympathetic to the insanity defense whenever its used.  I believe people are accountable for their actions, because if people are NOT accountable for their own actions, we’ll live in a world of chaos.

The Washington Monument will again be having tourists starting today.  The said that the stones in the monument are so perfectly put together they didn’t even need morter.  That sounds a little frightening considering the prospect of a 5.8 earthquake.  I could picture big stones being hurled downward.  This flook 5.8 earthquake occurred in August of 2011.  I didn’t think it was that long ago.  As such the monument was closed for 994 days or just shy of a thousand.  When it was finished in 1884 it was the tallest building in the world.  It held that status for a mere five years till the Eifel Tower was opened in France.  They claim that the Eifel Tower was only meant to be an exhibition for the World’s Fair, but fortunately they kept it up.

The big news in soap land is of course that Nick Fallon is dead.  He didn’t survive his two gunshot wounds right through the heart.  But what’s really odd about today’s episode is that there was close to zero questioning of anyone by the police.  Normally in cases like this they take everyone’s name and address, and then haul them into the station one by one (so they can’t compare notes) and are asked, usually many times, what they can remember about the event, and don’t spare even the most minor of details.  They could be important.  But the Salam PD, kind of in the tradition of OJ Simpson - - decides to give the whole crowd strangely congregated together in one place- - give them a pass, and each and every one of the suspects is allowed to return to their respective homes and destroy evidence or whatever.  Clearly even a disinterested observer of these people would see this particular cloister of people continually huddled together, as if organizing a football play, and then you find out that all of them have a motive to commit the murder.  And still you don’t think anything of it, or think to question ANY of them.

We told you that we had “Solved the mystery” of how the Christian Church, also known as the Holy Catholic Church - - came to Be.  But now there is a complicating factor with new players introduced and perhaps at an earlier date.  You see when Justin, who was martyred- - got saved- - as you know he met this “old man walking along the shore” and he “was probably a Syrian Christian”.   You can’t look up “Syrian Christian” though, because they refer you to that Church in India.  Justin claims that only a belief in Monotheism would do, because “That’s the only kind of belief that isn’t pagan” and Justin “didn’t like pagens”.  OK.  And there is an extensive quote of the words of this “old man” speaking of fulfilled prophecy, which Justin appeared facenated by.  He was also impressed with his the people of this Church loved each other and their high sense of morality.   So then I had to know about this “Syrian Church” or maybe the church never existed to begin with but everybody postulated that it did.  I don’t know.  But I did ask Bones about this and maybe he cleared up some of the muck.  You see in what I call “Luigi Cascagali” Christianity- -  -there were these sons of Judas of Galilee, who lived at the turn of the century.  (Yeah, he remembers when “Main Street” was not just a place in an amusement park)  I knew four of the five sons - - there was Thaddius (varied spelling) and Simon and Joseph, and Jonah.  Thaddius was the ring leader of 400 men who attempted a Revolution in 46 AD or so in Galilee.  All except Jonah were also the names of brothers of Jesus.  But there is a fifth son, Stu-baby points out.  Because the people who wrote the Gospels got Jude and Thaddius mixed up occasionally - - but they were two different people.  Jude, or “Judas” if you must- - was actually a Twin of Thaddius.  And it was this twin brother who went to India and so that Thomas’ real name was not Thomas, but actually Jude.   Justin had a protogee named Tatian, who actually showed signs of lapsing into signs of Valentinian Gnosticism.  I learned this from two independent sources.  Both Justin and Tatian were from Palestine.  Tatian identified with this Syrian church- - - and in his later years moved to what we now call Iraq.   There was also a “Theudas” where Valentinian got his “spiritual instructions”.   But detractors say that Valentinus was just some nobody looking for a job as a Priest, but was turned down by some Bishop.