Getting New Internet

The media really has turned against Donald Trump now in this sense that they are no longer portraying the campaign as a horse race but rather are heralding Trump’s persistent lagging Hillary by twelve points- and falling, and are claiming that the Trump campaign itself is giving up and that Trump seems “Tired” and emotionally spent with no energy.  This is quite a victory if we actually pulled that off because now people won’t vote for him.  In like manner, Donald Trump’s insistence that the election is rigged is actually a self defeating move.  Because he’s only convincing his own supporters not to vote for him.  The democrats don’t listen to anything Trump says anyhow so they will continue to vote for him.  Hillary is sprinting to the finish line because there are no more televised debates to prepare for.  But Trump’s supporters are just digging their own grave.  They are not only hurting the man at the top of the ticket but are also putting in jeopardy all of the down ballot races, and if Trump continues to slide at the rate he has the past few weeks, even the House of Representatives is up for grabs. 

AT&T wants to merge with Time-Warner, or rather to buy them out.  To me this is a bad idea and should be opposed stridently by the courts because it will cut down on competetion in an already shrinking communacations field, and in the end, service will suffer, too.

The Chicago Cubs won game six despite the Dodgers’ ace pitcher in the game.  They shut the Dodgers out five to nothing.  This is the first time the Cubs will have gone to the World Series since 1945, which is 71 years.  I don’t know how to react.  I typed that Saturday.  The Federation's official position is that they were anticipating a repeat of the Dodgers 1988 season because both entities are now controled by Taccomans.  Bones understandably is against the Dodgers particularly the Dodgers in 1988 for reasons we have gone into in the past.  Norman Goldman was never a Dodgers fan because he was born in 1959 two years after the Dodgers left Brooklyn.  Goldman went his wife in Cleveland in 1990 and has been a Cleveland teams fan ever since, but he also has best wishes for the Chicago Cubs breaking their billy goat curse.  

This is Monday October 24, 2016 and it’s new internet day.  Let’s take it from the top.  This morning I woke up at 5:05 and was restless and got up at five thirty.  The rain was still with us and it was joined by very bright lightning in the pre dawn sky.  I was talking with James as I fish through the ash tray for butts.  I went for medication from Ida and like yesterday met Ron at the foot of the stairs and borrowed rollie number five.  I asked Glenda for coffee because Chris and her were talking about it and she said ‘after breakfast”.  I had first KNXT and then the “Today” show on.  We had Cheerios this morning.  Service was otherwise very slow, as we have had perhaps a majority of “very slow” days lately and I’m going to bring it up at the resident’s council meeting again.  Finally we got our scrambled eggs and toast with butter but no jelly.  The coffee was served in one of their small clear plastic cups because apparently they ran out of the normal ones.  (Not that those would be filled up all the way)  Now I was able to get coffee from Glenda in her room and I went in while she was in the bathroom and got a spoon full.  Breakfast was not served till about eight after eight and this ties a lot of lateness records.  I had to dash up from the table for a phone call from AT&T.  Judy had given them the number here and it’s a good thing she did.  I tried to clear away some stuff.  I had the “Today” show on till about nine.

The guy arrived a few minutes after nine.  He presented me with a great big modem that handles a lot of other tasks such as WY FI and other things he pointed out.  There are a lot of headings on the front that don’t now have lights showing.  The guy wanted to be sure I gave him a good report when AT&T called.  Apparently my phone lifeline is not in jeopardy, because this is entirely separate.  He “ran” one program that looked like a DOS screen but it had a different heading.  He checked out You Tube.  I knew there would be no buffering problems there because in nine years of having DSL I don’t think I have one time had a buffering problem with You Tube.  I’m getting six megabytes he informs me.  I wanted to test out Hardball, which had been a problem.  There didn’t seem to be any problems there.  But I kept getting bounced to some registration form site I was expected to till out.  The guy took over and did some stuff.  He said I might have problems for the next couple of hours because he was still working on the outside line but I didn’t have any problems.  I watched that silly Black Keys kiddy video.  I had radio favorites from I Heart Radio.  After this I made a phone call to Judy to inform her everything went well.  Later I got a call from AT&T concerning the October 22^nd conversation with that very patient sales lady considering how many bone-head thing I said and did that day.

Rico had snacks in the front room.  I had Thom Hartman on briefly.  They are continuing to have dinner for lunch and lunch for dinner.  That makes being full later in the evening a real problem.  We had cut up pieces of lemon pepper chicken but the pasta had no sauce and was over-cooked as well as stone cold.  We had carrots and orange slices for dessert.  On the Gary and Shannon show they covered Proposition 59 which apparently is the one about overturning Citizen’s United.  There was one proposition in 1892 about direct electors of California Senators, which passed as well as two other such propositions.  I watched Days of our Lives and Andre did a successful performance of playing the “Judas” of the family in that little ruse they used to capture Clyde Weston in an episode I partially missed.  I went out for afternoon snacks and they had iced tea and graham crackers, nice and fresh.  So many of their crackers are stale.  Bill is out of the room.  I will close with a question for the readers.  What radio program on the internet was I preparing to catch when the internet went out last Thursday?  Those of you who know my habits should be able to figure this out.  I was listening to the top of the hour station break.  

Hillary Wins All Three Debates- Even with Chris Wallace Moderating

As far as the debate is concerned people say Trump did better for the first 45 minutes from the completely out of control demeanor he’s usually shown.  There were six topics that Chris Wallace held up for discussion.  Wallace by far has been the best moderator both in maintaining discipline (not perfect but much better) and also boring down and asking just the right questions at the right time.  The six broad topics were the Supreme Court,  Immigration, the Economy, Fitness to be President, Foreign Hot Spots, and Debts and Entitlements.  The only place where Hillary screwed up badly was on the topics of abortion and gay marriage where I disagree with her.  Hillary steadily defended partial birth abortions, and Trump rather boldly “ripped” her assertions apart.  Trump of course had twelve candidates ready to go for the job.  Hillary broadly outlined what sort of Supreme Court she’d like to see.  They aren’t the things I would say but she was OK.  I would tend toward more of an originalist view of the constitution myself in seeking what the Founding Fathers actually intended.  This is also the Thom Hartman view.  Of seeming equal importance to Trump was the preservation of the Second Amendment where Trump apparently wants no gun regulations.  Hillary raised the specter of little toddlers being accidently shot by their slightly older brothers and sisters.  I had coffee about 5:15 and smoked a cigarette at ten to six shortly before the sun went down.  The debate lasted from six to just past 7:35 when I went and got my medication from Tom.  When Tom heard I had been watching the debate he asked which candidate I was for and I said ‘Hillary’ and he agreed with me.  Sometimes you have to tread gingerly around certain topics with certain people because you don’t know.  Hillary was very composed and well modulated when she discussed Trump’s women.  She chose her words carefully in reaction to this scandal.  Trump brought up the E mails but I don’t remember Hillary’s response but the topic didn’t gain traction.  Trump raised the accusation that there were hired rabble rousers at Trump rallies starting fights.  Hillary never denied this.  Trump also said there has been and will be massive voter fraud of millions of voters.  Trump really fell down when he said he would not abide by the results of the election.  Trump also never flatly said he would be pleased if Roe vs Wade were overturned.  All he said was “With the judges I appoint to the High Court it’s going to happen”.  Trump stuck to the contention that all of this sexual harassment stuff with women never happened.  Trump was cleaver at fear mongering and slipped in a lot of remarks under Hillary’s radar.  He said drug runners and terrorists were crossing the border.  But he also said that President Obama himself had sent a lot of criminals back to Mexico.  Hillary hammered Trump on the Russian sabotage angle of the President’s campaign and hit him hard on the subject of our NATO and other allies.  She accused Trump of being a mere puppet of Putin and that Putin is working hard to get Trump elected.  Trump responded with some cleaver fear mongering saying “Putin knows that Hillary and Obama are really stupid, and telegraphing our intent ahead of time to attack Mozul was stupid because all of the high ISIS leaders have long sense left the field of battle.  Trump kind of hinted he was just all around ‘smarter’ than Hillary because Hillary has had 25 years to fix the economy and to make good economic or other deals with foreign country and she hasn’t accomplished it.  Trump said he was going to renegotiate NAFTA and get rid of the Iranian nuclear agreement- - one of the dumbest things we’ve done.  However Hillary nailed Trump on the use of Chinese steel and other metals in his high rise buildings.  Here is a case where Hillary is talk and Trump is deeds, but we don't like his 'Deeds".  Finally Chris Wallace gave them each one minute to summarize their campaigns. 

In the news hundreds of scrotum frogs are endangered around Lake Titticaca.  Also, two new moons have been discovered around Uranus.  I guess you getter increase your use of Preparation H.  Meanwhile one remark arrested my attention during a commercial break.  It’s when this Black guy in prison says “You didn’t dig your own grave; you were born into it”.  That’s just how I feel.  Earlier this morning I happened to think of how when I would fail badly at a job interview or something else I really wanted- - Paul would never be surprised at this or show the least bit of empathy.  He’d just say “Well, you’ve always been a failure so what’s so unusual?”  That’s how he sees me and has always seen me.  It got me to thinking that when Paul was trying to get me to be a Born Again Christian on March 24^th 1976 that I should have played the “What if” game with him, which would be no game.  I would recite my own future with twenty twenty forsight and throw it right in his face.  Others might say to me “Well now you’re just being negative about the future” but Paul couldn’t use this line himself because deep down he knows (way before I knew) that he would always see me as a failure because deep down he knew God didn’t exist the way he was trying to convince me he did exist.  So getting back to that Black guy in prison- - he got there because the police always lie in their documents.  They lie about what suspects are doing before they get shot or tazed- - and these lies travel with the suspects as they make their way through the justice system.  So the media says “You only got what you deserved”.   Neil Savedra, Jesus Christ Himself would put it “You dug your own grave”.  According to Jesus of KFI all man’s problems stems from a lack of mental will.  If they only had the Mental Will, they could dig themselves out of any problem and with sheer force of their own resolve and will overcome anything that has beset them for so long.  So when people say that “Jesus Saves” I would respond, “We need to come up with a new religion that will Save us from Christianity.  We need something that will keep us from being born into a grave, or doomed before we begin.  This is my opinion.  Now I’ll open the floor for discussion.  

Psssst- - It's All Rigged

The 2016 Republican presidential primary was rigged. It wasn’t rigged by the Republicans, the Democrats, Russians, space aliens, or voters. It was rigged by the owners of television networks who believed that giving one candidate far more coverage than others was good for their ratings. The CEO of CBS Leslie Moonves said of this decision: “It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.” Justifying that choice based on polling gets the chronology backwards, ignores Moonves’ actual motivation, and avoids the problem, which is that there ought to be fair coverage for all qualified candidates (and a democratic way to determine who is qualified).

The 2016 Democratic presidential primary was rigged. It wasn’t rigged by bankers, misogynists, Russians, Republicans, or computer hackers. It was rigged by the Democratic National Committee and its co-conspirators in the media, many of whom have helpfully confessed (in case it wasn’t obvious) in emails leaked from the DNC and from John Podesta. The DNC chose Hillary Clinton and worked hard to make sure that she “won.” Nobody has produced a hint of evidence as to who leaked the emails that added unnecessary confirmation of this rigging, but they should be thanked for informing us, whoever they are.

The FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton’s misuse of email was as rigged as the non-prosecution of the CEO of Wells Fargo. The U.S. political system is bought and paid for. Without millions of dollars to funnel to television networks for advertising, any candidate is rigged right out of participating. This rigging of the system is not fixed by someone like Donald Trump pretending for a while that he won’t take bribes, that he’ll spend only his own money, because most people don’t have that kind of money to spend. This rigging is not fixed by making someone like Hillary Clinton take her bribes through her family foundation or requiring that her political action committees remain theoretically separate from the campaign they are collaborating hand-in-glove with, because money buys power.

The debates are rigged by a private entity with no official status that calls itself the Commission on Presidential Debates and transforms open debates among multiple candidates into exclusively bipartisan joint appearances with many large and fine points negotiated beforehand.

Actual governance of the United States is rigged. Congress plans to attempt to ram through a number of intensely unpopular measures just after the election, including a supplemental spending bill for more wars and including the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The hope is that most people will have tuned out after the election circus, and that most of them will forget what happened 2 or 4 years later.

The demonization of Vladimir Putin is rigged. Nobody has seen evidence that he or his government did us the favor of informing us of the DNC’s corruption. He proposed a ban on cyber “war” that was rejected by the United States, for goodness sake. There’s no evidence that Russia shot down an airplane in Ukraine or invaded Ukraine or seized Crimea or plotted attacks on the United States. The United States pulled out of the ABM treaty, expanded NATO to Russia’s border, built missile bases, arranged military “exercises,” facilitated a Ukrainian coup, and pushed a string of hostile lies. Russia has shown even more restraint than your typical U.S. voter (who usually sits home and does not vote, especially in primaries).

Military spending is rigged. Nobody knows it amounts to over half of U.S. discretionary spending.  Nobody knows it’s as much in the U.S. as in the rest of the world (allies and otherwise) combined. Nobody pays attention to the bribes from war profiteers, or to the threats held over Congress members to pull weapons jobs out of districts or states. Supporters of both big candidates claim their candidate plans to cut military spending. Both candidates have said the exact opposite. The debates and interviews steer clear of the whole topic.

The shapes of the districts are blatantly rigged by gerrymandering. The existence of the Senate, in which Rhode Island and Wyoming each have as much say as California is rigged against the popular will. The electoral college is rigged against the popular will and in favor of concentrating national campaigns in a handful of “swing states.”

Voter registration is rigged. A handful of states have now made it automatic, as most states have long-since done for military draft registration. In the rest of the country, thousands of young people run around registering voters, imagining they are engaged in “activism.” Meanwhile, the right to vote can be denied to anyone by claiming they aren’t registered.

People’s names are stripped from voting rolls through a so-called justice system that brands them as felons, and through the careful rigging of those rolls by corrupt and partisan state governments that intentionally strip out people likely to vote for a particular party. This includes racial profiling. Bob Fitrakis, Harvey Wasserman, Greg Palast and others have reported extensively on these practices.

Election day is rigged as well. It’s not a holiday. Most people have to work. Poor districts and racial minority districts tend to have fewer machines and longer lines. ID requirements are used to deny people the right to vote. Intimidation and racial profiling by partisan activists serve the same function of rigging the election. The myths and lies about the virtually nonexistent phenomenon of “voter fraud” also serve to rig the election.

The election machines are also rigged. That is to say: instead of verifiable paper ballots publicly hand-counted in front of observers from all interested parties in each polling place, we have a faith-based system of voting on black-box machines that can never, even in theory, be checked for accuracy. These machines have been very easily hacked in demonstrations. These machines have visibly flipped votes before the eyes (and cameras) of countless voters. These machines have almost certainly played a key role in flipping the results of numerous elections.

Now, the wider the margin of victory, the less likely an electronic flipping. And the fact that machines can easily be used to steal an election does not mean that they always will be. But it was very odd during the late summer of 2016 to watch the U.S. media announce that these machines were totally unreliable — just what many of us had been saying for years. But the media said this in order to accuse Russia of planning to sabotage the coming U.S. election, or in order to accuse Russia of exactly what these media reports themselves did: plant seeds of doubt in U.S. minds.

Those doubts should be there. People should watch for visible problems with machines and with partisan and racist intimidators, and report all such to 1-866-OUR-VOTE, to county clerks, to secretaries of state, and to corporate and independent media. Then we should work for necessary reforms, including a respectful cessation of the U.S. government’s routine practice of interfering in elections and overthrowing governments in other people’s countries — a practice that has clearly resulted in the U.S. media projecting such behavior on others.  

Mozul Battle Rages On and Set to Fall into Allied Hands

US forces and her allies including Turkey and Iraq are in a battle for Mozul right now.  As you know Shawn Hannity made a big thing over the fact that ISIS retook Mozul, Takrit, Ramadi and Feligia two years ago.  Now ISIS forces are much weaker than they were then.  Mozul will fall into allied hands and ISIS will be even more reduced in their geographical footing in the Mideast.  This is a good thing.  I predict there will be only a fraction of terrorist attacks around the world.  After all there are no elections to sway and for some perverse reason, ISIS in the past seems to be working hand in hand with the Republicans to get more of them elected.  The latest rumor is that Turkey will leave NATO and ally itself with Russia.  I read this in a Washington's blog but now that I think about it it doesn't make much sense because in the past Turkey has been more inclined to attack the Kurds or the Russians than it has to attack ISIS.  Perhaps this has changed now and if Turkey is really solidly on board then ISIS will fall all the more quickly.  We can hope.  I think ISIS has had a run of a few years but the novelty is off now and people in the mideast know what they're all about.  

 There was stuff in Washington’s blog about the United States’ not-so-new ways of war.  They highlighted our war in Somolia and how we used mercenaries who are well paid to do our fighting for us and it spoke of a lot of involvement with the CIA.  Our goal seems to be to keep governments unstable that would otherwise be stable.  I thought of pasting excerpts of the article on to a blog but the thing seemed hopelessly wordy.  Donald Trump is still talking about a rigged election in three weeks.  The National News will obsess on a topic as long as they can milk it for.  Trump is trailing in an NBC poll by twelve points and trailing in an ABC by just four points.  Norman says that even Trump’s supporters have given up on the election.  They are starting to word their local commercials for Republican congressmen so that they say “You need a congressman who can stand up to Hillary”.  That’s code for keeping the Obama gridlock going another four years.  On an ABC interview in late news, Donald Trump claims he has never "crossed the line" in dealing sexually women.  That is hard to believe.  Trump explains, "I've always had great respect for women".  I guess that's why he's constantly referring to them as pigs and dogs.

The Dodgers and Cubs are all tied up after the outing in Wrigley field.  It looks to me like the Dodgers are going to be the World Series champions because they’re going to beat the Cubs and they’ll go on to beat either the Blue Jays or the Indians.  In late news a pitcher for the Indians was hit by a drone (?) and he cut his hands and was removed from the game after only throwing four pitches.  The American public at large appears to favor the Indians over the Blue Jays, which is understandable.  In other news Proposition 61 only affects eight percent of the California population mainly state employees and prisoners.  I don’t fall into either of those two categories so I would guess I would not profit myself.

I would like to review the "What you see is what you get" doctrine as it pertains to Astronomy.  Some of my new viewers may not know what this refers to.  It means when you are looking at a star through a telescope or other calculating instruments, you can base your gravitational calculations of the star just as you see it through the telescope.  You don't have to adjust your reading to compensate for the speed of light because "gravity" travels at the same speed.  This means that there is not only an optical illusion with Einstein but also a gravitational illusion.  One of our eleven dimensions of space pertains to "materiality" as the term is re-defined by me in a more narrow sense to refer to things like mass and gravity and kinetic force of gravity and weight and such.  This goes to illustrate in a relevant way the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle that "You don't see things the way they really are".   This is because - in other words - - space isn't as distorted as it appears in this "aether realm" we are limited to in viewing it - in the realm of photons and nutrinos and such.  Gravity travels in waves just like light, and at the same speed.  For most of my life I didn't realize this fact, but it's a fact astronomers well know because, again, they don't have to adjust their calculus for things like orbits and such to compensate for the speed of light and such.  We discuss the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle a few postings back.  We have discussed the ten other dimensions of matter and space dating back years.  

The Fourth "Christian" Messiah

Apolonius of Tyanna is the fourth messiah that is on our list.  One of the biggest miracles that he puled off was the bodily ascension into Heaven forty days after his death.  This paragraph in the article was labeled ‘Historical facts”.  With the exception of the Adana Inscription,^{[clarification needed]} little can be derived from sources other than Philostratus. As James Francis put it, "the most that can be said ... is that Apollonius appears to have been a wandering ascetic / philosopher / wonderworker of a type common to the eastern part of the early empire."^[24] What we can safely assume is that he was indeed a Pythagorean and as such, in conformity with the Pythagorean tradition, opposed animal sacrifice, and lived on a frugal, strictly vegetarian diet.^[25] A minimalist view is that he spent his entire life in the cities of his native Asia Minor (Turkey) and of northern Syria, in particular his home town of Tyana, Ephesus, Aegae, and Antioch,^[26] though the letters suggest wider travels, and there seems no reason to deny that, like many wandering philosophers, he at least visited Rome. As for his philosophical convictions, we have an interesting, probably authentic fragment of one of his writings (On sacrifices) where he expresses his view that God, who is the most beautiful being, cannot be influenced by prayers or sacrifices and has no wish to be worshipped by humans, but can be reached by a spiritual procedure involving nous (intellect), because he himself is pure nous and nous is also the greatest faculty of humankind.^[27]   Pythagarianism has “returning to the Point” or “The One” as its highest goal, or what Star Trek people might call the great Borg Heracy.  A feature of Gnosticism is that reproduction is inherently evil and that God, a perfect being, cannot even reproduce himself because it will inherently dilute his pure goodness.  All that stuff I said about all angels being demonic in the last blog still holds.  Also still true is that “The World” is ruled by Satan.  Man can be saved by a gnosis or “knowing” of this divine quality and once saved, his morality and purity transcends all earthly sense of morality and purity and he is governed by a higher law that no one can take away from him.  Indeed he is Born Again.  Evil cannot be compromised with.  My cosmic sources insist that Apolonius met his end in AD 110 and not AD 100 or AD 97.  He apparently lived into nid nineties, which is almost a miracle in itself in those days.  He lived in the geographical area of “The Seven Churches” of Revelation and also the area where the Apostle Paul had his main ministry and write most of his letters from or to.  To me this geographical proximity is too coincidental not to be significant, though I haven't put all the pieces together.   St Paul spoke of a "Gospel" that was delivered unto him personally, and he danced to his own drumbeat not influenced by his contemporaries.  We know he visited the "school of Tyanna".  I'm convinced that he and Apolonius must have met and been taught by him.  Many say Apolonius traveled to India for five years.  It’s said he met his end while visiting Rome and running afoul of the authorities, much as Jesus and Socrates met their ends in a similar way.  The fact that he sees God is a being who cannot be petitioned by prayers or sacrifice offerings, makes him strangely similar to my own view.  In Philosophy the term "Apolonian" is held as the opposite of Dianician, or cold logic verses hot passion. 

I was on computer looking up Marcion once again.  It seems my portrait of Marcion doesn’t fit with anyone’s facts.  They claim Marcion really wasn’t into Gnosticism at all.  However I disagree because this “demi-urge” thing to create stems straight from Gnosticism.  Jehovah is the demiurge.   In Pauline theology he labels the “Ruler of this World” as Satan and the same words are put in Satan’s own mouth by the Gospels and Jesus doesn’t dispute them.  St Paul also sees angels as demonic and the “Rulers of the Air” as a demonic realm.  Paul doesn’t even trust angels.  Marcion was born into wealth and they said he was either a ship builder or a shipping magnate.  But everything else about Marcion’s life points to him being a major loser.  He gets picked on by everybody.  His own father who was a bishop –disowns him either because he seduced a young maiden or else he had bad theology because he couldn’t accept the fact that Jehovah God had a mean streak.  He wanted a god of pure love.  But beyond this- - a lot of sources have him as not wanting to rock the boat that much.  He went to Rome in AD 140 and was there employed four years and then the bishop of Rome excommuinacated them.  I guess he’s lucky not to get the death penalty or maybe they didn’t have the power to do that yet.  He wanted to repent toward the end of his life but he died unexpectedly before he could be baptized back into the mother church.  It seems all of the people who describe Marcion or write about him- - describe him in the same way as being some kind of misfit nobody wanted to hang out with.  What I’m puzzled about is how such an apparent loser and misfit could found a sect that lasted three hundred years.  History is being written victors, and in this case, all the people whose opinions ‘count’ are Catholic.

Rhapsody in black started with song 67 which was ‘Higher and Higher” by Jackie Wilson popular in the late summer of 1967.  Two other 1967 songs were “I’ll Be There” by the Four Tops and “Cold Sweat” by James Brown.  They had “The Thrill is Gone” by BB King.  There were two songs from 1965 - - “Yes, I’m Ready” by Barbra Mason, and “Shot Gun” by Jr. Walker and the All-Stars.  There was “Don’t Let Go” by Roy Hamilton and “Maybe” that was out in 1962.  There were three songs from 1961, “Mother In Law”, “Daddy’s Home”, and “My True Story”.   They also played "Stand By Me" by Ben E King. In the fifties there were only two decent songs “In the Still of the Night” and “Crazy Little Mama Come a Knock, Knock, Knocking”.   Other also rans in my book were “One Summer Night”, “You Cheated; You Lied”, “The Treasure of Love”, “Eddie, My Love”, and a bunch of slow songs.  Ever present, of course are the incessant pleas for Money.

Last night it was Wisconsin and Ohio playing to a 23 to 23 tie and they were in overtime but I was too dog tired to watch the rest of the game so I turned it to other sports news and then went to bed.  I didn’t attempt to get coffee from Glen or anyone else this night.  I got my medication from Tom at the usual time.  I woke up and then got loose bowels this morning and so got up a little earlier than I intended to.  I got to the medication line with Ida before six and we had to wait a full fifteen minutes before she served her first client, which was Joe.  Mario offered me a quarter for one cigarette, and after some pause, I accepted his deal.  After Glenda and Bill now fifteen more minutes had elapsed and it was twenty after six.  I had the “Today” show on.  I went to the liquor store a few minutes before seven.  Fortunately the wife was open and the coffee was already brewed and I got a $1.25 cup of coffee.  I was in the dining room by five after seven.  They’ve been opening the doors earlier.  For a third day in a row we had oatmeal.  There was a protracted wait to receive our main plate.  They didn’t even start serving plates on the other side of the room till ten to eight and we weren’t served till eight or ten after eight.  We had scrambled eggs and dry toast.  I didn’t begin watching “Meet the Press” till past twenty after eight.  Mike Pence was on telling Chuck Todd there are no differences between his position on foreign policy from Trump, when we all know Trump is much more willing to “deal” with Putin than is Pence.  At nine it was Breakfast with the Beatles.  Today was both commercial free and all of the songs were re-mastered and sometimes re-mixed.  There seemed to be a lot of tracks from the “Number 1” album.  I’m assuming that was Cheap Trick playing the rocky version of “I’m Losing You” since two members of Cheap Trick played on an unreleased version of this Lennon track and the guitar playing is the same style. 

The True Origins of the Christian Church

Wednesday October 12^th was the opening day of Ice Hockey season and Thursday the Ducks played their first game.  Thursday night the Dodgers beat the Washington Nationals in game five of their series and now will be facing the Cubs, who beat San Francisco.  Most of the nation is behind the Cubs, who think they have something special this year.  I assume this NL game is being televised.  So is this a game of nation-wide viewership for said Cubs fans?  However the Dodgers and their fans think the same thing and they haven’t won the World Series since 1988 and Dodgers see similarities between this year’s team and the 1988 team.  Meanwhile the Cleveland Indians beat the Torranto Blue Jays in their first LCS game played last night.  It’s only a guess but I’d say whoever wins the World Series it will most likely be a National League team.

The newly renovated Richard Nixon library was reopened yesterday.  Now they have a replica of the Oval Office where you can sit behind the actual desk Nixon used and pretend that you are President.  They have other interactional stuff that’s new.  Meanwhile people are saying that people are suffering from stress in this Presidential campaign and the more time you spend on Facebook and Twitter the more stressed out you are, and it doesn’t make any difference whether you are a Republican or a Democrat.  Meanwhile NFL viewership is down.  The television media is languishing down fifteen percent due to “all the people watching Thursday games on line” even though they’ve been showing them on CBS.  It would seem to me that just having another night of NFL football would dilute the football watching audience.  We learn on “rewind” on KNX radio that on this date, October fifteenth, in 1995 Paul Mc Cartney did a cameo role on the Siompson’s because of the fact that Lisa Simpson is a vegetarian.

Some people want to throw out theology entirely in their “Churchy” activities.  The Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago has Sunday church services where they open by singing a little song and then the children depart for Sunday School and the adults remain for an enspiring lecture on Humanist values.  Some of you may wonder whether I would go to such a Service.  I do believe in a Creator God but I am both a deist in the sense I don’t believe God personally interacts with his creation.  But this would also make me an agnostic because I don’t know this god personally.  I don’t “have a personal relationship with Him”.  Therefore were I to meet him I would logically expect to be as bewildered at the “new experience” as I would meeting Abraham Lincoln or George Washington for the first time.  I’ve only seen actors on TV playing these men and I wouldn’t know the first thing about what they are like as a one on one experience.  So really I don’t honestly know what “God” would think of any of my religious writings over the decades and my defense would be that what I wrote I wrote out of sheer ignorance.

Let's get right to my theory about the identity of this Jesus person.  I'm the guy who believes that originally there was not one messiah but four messiahs who went into the creation of the persona we call Jesus Christ.  But in addition to all this there is what I believe is the Judaizing influence of the "Syrian Church" which was actually begun by out of work Saducees, who believed in animal sacrifice at the temple in Jerusalem before it was destroyed.  There are certain legalist overlays of the Gospel to assume its final form, particularly in Matthew to cover such things as "Peter is the rock and on this rock I will build my church" or "Peter has the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven" or "Whoever marries a divorced woman is guilty of comitting adultry with her" or verses on steps you take to kick an unrepentant sinner out of the Church assembly.  There is another famous textural overlay about "Go ye into all the world and baptize in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit".  I think these verses can be pretty easily identified even by the layman.  The first (and perhaps greatest) persona we'll discuss is the individual referred to in the Bible as "Jesus Barrabus", the man who was freed by Pilate in the Gospels, but whom Tassitus, Roman historian who wrote around 100 AD referrs to as "Crestus" rather than "Kristos".  The difference is that Kristos is the designation of a Messiah where Crestus is a Roman proper name, and is in fact referred to as still being alive even after fifty AD when it says Claudius kicked all the Christians out of Rome.  In the early days when they spoke of Christians they identified with this Crestus and not with Yeshua.   Joseplhus tells us that this individual died under Pontious Pilate in 29 AD.  Further research reveals that it was on November 24th of that year during a partial ecclipse of the sun, which explains the three hours of seeming darkness.  Identifying the crucifixion date with Passover is a later Judaizing influence.  These original Christians had some arnachistic tendencies.  They favored a grand purging, both with the Temple in Jerusalem, and later in Rome some claim they didn't start the fire in Rome (which was an accident in a paper plant) but rather of later spreading of the fire.  Though I'm not averse to saying Nero himself had a hand in this.  This Crestus or Jesus Barrabus- - came out of Egypt.  "Out of Egypt I called my son" thus could be a scripture about this man.  All of the gospels refer to Barrabus but none have anything particularly favorable to say about him, only that he comitted a murder in a riot (on Palm's Sunday?)  What happened was that Judas was one of his desciples that turned against him and turned him in.  But the authorities distrusted his motives and he himself became a suspect and they kept egging him on to give more and more information about Barrabus.  When he and the Romans led the cohort to capture Barrabus- - you now had two suspects.  Who was the ring leader- Judas or Barrabus.  I believe this move toward Vox Populai- -of Pilate letting the people decide was a rare if not unique move for the Roman governor.  They people understandably wanted Barrabus.  He was their revolutionary leader.  Judas was crucified on the cross and Barrabus was let go.  There is nothing else to be said nice or otherwise about Barrabus in the Bible.  He disappears from scripture.   I believe he went first to Egypt and then after some decades he moved to Rome itself.   Tassitus, the Roman historian, says that "Christianity moved to Rome and even now is not extinct".  The phrase "not yet extinct" implies to me it was dying out.  He also says that Christianity has a reputation as the most hated religion.  It's worth noting that later Theologians much preferred the word "Catholic" for Universal, rather than the term "Christian".  

We now come to John the Baptist, who had his ministry between that of Barrabus and Yeshua.  Keep in mind scripture tells us that "Actually Yeshua didn't baptize anyone; only his desciples did".   John was devoted to the memory of Barrabus who had moved back to Egypt with his followers.  John the Baptist saw it as his ministry to purge the country of evil influence to pave the way for the second coming of Barrabus.  Now the parables and sayings in the Gospel- - all that escatology or "last things" stuff or the "Coming of the Kingdom of Heaven" are I believe parables of John the Baptist and not Yeshua.  The emphasis here was on judgement rather than regeneration.  The point here was about a man, a King, a ruler, who went away on an extended trip.  Not dying but just going away- - literally.  John says the we were in charge of "keeping the faith" and being responsible.  And when he comes back some parables pointing to a King killing those "Who did not want him to be King".   There is a lot of talk about winnowing forks and watching and waiting and being good stewards of the property or servants entrusted to you.  John the Baptist of course was executed by King Herod because he pointed out the king's adultry with Salome.  (This is the vamp whom Gloria Swanson had fantasies of playing the role of in the movie Sunset Boulivard)   Yeshua's ministry was in a slightly later time.   Yeshua was a Nazarite, which has nothing to do with any town named Nazereth, which didn't exist in the first century AD on Roman maps.  He came from the area of Mt Carmel by the coast and moved quickly to the Sea of Galilee, and the rest you know about the calling of his desciples and all.  The Gospel of Thomas contains many sayings of Yeshua.  Yeshua was a pescatarian in that he only ate fish and did not believe in killing red meat.  To him, sheep were to be treated like human beings.  Being a Nazarite he also had long hair, did not drink wine, and didn't touch dead people.  There were also areas of sex where Yeshua had some eccentric views.  He viewed male and female as distinctions which would fall by the wayside.  Yeshua met his death because he had a ministry of casting out demons and was picked up as a sorceror.  He was given forty days for anyone to offer evidence that he was NOT a sorceror, and after the forty days, when no one stood in his defense, he was stoned, as is the usual Jewish custom.  This would be around 35 AD, which goes along with the "Favorable year of the Lord" because AD 35 was a Jubilee year, which came every fifty years.  It was a year when many people did not work and gave the land rest and also had all of their debts forgiven.  If there's anything I left out here you can go to previous blog postings (if you can find them) where I dispense more information.  

No Early Exit For Trump Candidacy

Clearly the sheer number of women and the level of factual detail the women go into in describing Donald Trump’s groping leaves little to no doubt that these women are all telling the truth.  They go step by step in what Trump did to them saying it was “At this hotel room” and ‘on this couch” ect.  If the tapes from the Howard Stern show ever get released we’ll have even more of a field day.  I’m not sure how many tapes from the Howard Stern show have been made public.  Norman Goldman says given a choice for President between Howard Stern and Donald Trump then Norman would vote for Howard.  Trump describes his own daughter as a real piece of ass.  He spoke to a fourteen year old saying “In a couple of years I’m going to be dating you” or something.   Other reports have it as Trump addressing a ten year old.  And yet for all of this we can’t forget the actions of Bill Clinton which are every bit as bad.  Then we have James Carville saying “ You drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer court and you get all of the bimbos following”.  We’ve heard tales about “The bimbo eruptions”.   President Obama have a good speech lately tying the Republican party to all of Trump’s extreme views on the issues.  Trump is the culmination of all the extremism the Republican party has shown in the past eight years.  Trump and the Republican Party are inexorably wedded together.  It’s the tea party movement and people like Paul Ryan and Mitch Mc Connell who ‘made’ Donald Trump.  President Obama doesn’t have to worry about his own rating in the polls now.  He’s at 55% and some say Obama will be at sixty percent by the time he leaves office.  Yet for all of Trump’s liabilities there is not the slightest indication of an Early Exit for Trump.  Any normal person would have long since stepped down from the nomination.  But it’s too late for the Republicans to act now even if they wanted to because early voting had commenced this week meaning that all these votes for Hillary due to her surge in the polls this week are being “banked”.   They are already registered, which means Hillary’s victory may well be locked in even before November 8^th.  Of course the media after 1980 won’t announce the winner of the Presidential election even if they’re all but certain of it- - before eight PM California time.  But Hillary needs to follow Obama’s lead by going after the “down ticket” offices and tying Trump in to the candidate for Senate and the House.   Yet there are women even now who will happily vote for Trump.  On the Gary and Shannon show they were talking about Hillary’s E mails.  Hillary still has no sense of having done anything wrong and has no concept she endangered National Security.

I haven’t heard much from the Federation in months.  The last time they checked in was around the first of October.  There was a big thing about how Sunday October 2^nd would be the end of the world and everyone on Sirius A was talking about it.  It was the big rumor.  I didn’t say anything about it because I have apocralypictic fatigue.  The other topic the Federation has talked about of course is the long standing potential war with Russia and Syria and Iran.  Now we’ve attacked Yemen because that rebel tribe attacked one of our ships in the Red Sea.  And Washington’s blog made a big thing out of it yesterday with several blog entries.

This is Friday October 14, 2016 and this morning Thom Hartman was talking about the Heisenberg Compensators.  Not really.  But he did bring up the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.  When he first started talking about Cause and Effect and the distinctions between the Living and the Dead and all I thought he might be alluding to the stuff I’ve written about Cause being on one side of “the engram wall” Effect being on the other and how Cause has negative mass, which isn’t really negative mass but it’s like absolute zero.  Because zero is not the coldest possible temperature so zero weight, so the theory goes, is not the lowest possible weight, but all the same we’re not talking about anti-mass, which is a whole other thing.  Thom explained the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle so that even the layman could understand it.  It says something else that’s appeared in my writings numerous times that electrons and photons are imperfect ways of measuring or otherwise perceiving matter.  Because by the time the photon from a microscope hits your eyeball the thing you are looking at has changed.  Not that absolute objectivity is an impossibility in theory it’s just that we’ll never reach it.  He also brought in Aristatle saying that he’s the first one to come up with the concept of pure objectivity in measurement.  We even know that gravity affects things because it slows down all atomic movement so that time goes slightly slower on earth than it does in space, a fact we have proven beyond a doubt.

This morning I had it on DVR delay so I had the computer on past eleven and they were still back a half hour earlier or something.  Again they swapped out the lunch and dinner menus at the last minute.  We had “stir fry teriyaki chicken” for lunch, with good rice, and mixed vegetables.  I mixed the rice and the chicken together.   Aside from being rather salty it was a pretty good meal.  I had seconds on the rice and the teriyaki chicken.  We had mixed fruit and the honeydew was not frozen today.  Then it was Gary and Shannon talking about Proposition 53 which has to do with bond measures.  It’s a “revenue bond”, which means it pays for itself in time so that as of now the state doesn’t have to go to the voters for approval.  But proposition 53 will change that for major projects, such as you might see after a major earthquake, as the proposition alludes to.  At one it was Days of our Lives.  We missed a lot in yesterday’s episode.  Clyde Weston was caught somehow and presumably not a danger to anyone anymore.  I’d like to have seen how they did that.  Clyde appears invincible.  Most of the episode was pretty wasted, because today it was just a hospital scene because Orphius set off a lot of explosions.

Last night the San Diego Chargers played the Denver Broncos in Jack Murphy stadium and beat the Broncos 21 to 3 or even a bigger score.  I guess Denver scored and it was 21 to 10.  I had ABC news on and picked up on the football game at half time at ten to seven.  I got my medication from Ida.  Later on in the evening it was that “Future Legend” time-travel program.  Paul never called me up but if he had I would have said I was tired.  I got cigarettes at a quarter after six and just before then I went to Glen’s room giving him my last three cigarettes of the pack for instant Taster’s Choice.  I have decided not to do any major writings on religion.  I don’t want to compromise the person of Jesus Christ this close to the election because we pretty much all know what Jesus taught and how the Trump campaign doesn’t follow Jesus’ teachings.  Liberals have gone a long way toward reclaiming “traditional family values” and we need to continue to do that.  

Sanders On His Way to Success in the West

Senator Bernie Sanders won big in Idaho and Utah taking about 78% of the votes in those two states to Hillary’s 21% in those states.  If he keeps it up he can catch Hillary because Hillary’s delegate lead actually shrank down a little to a 303 delegate lead.  As of right now Hillary has 1223 delegates to Bernie’s 920 delegates.  Washington State is coming up this Saturday and most likely Bernie will win big there closing the gap.  Bernie always says he wins with a high vote turnout, and the turnout was strangely down in Arizona.  Norman Goldman just now said it’s his hope that Bernie is still relevant in early June when California votes and Bernie will win big here, too, as well as in Oregon.  There were irregularities in the Arizona Primary.  Donald Trump and Hillary both won big in Arizona but it’s a closed primary and winner take all on the Republican side so Trump scored big.  People who were recent registrants to the democratic party were given a provisional ballot and their votes probably won’t count.  Cruz won big in Utah because of its high Mormon population.  Ted Cruz is the one who wants to police Mosques to insure that there is no radicalization occurring among the membership.  They tried that in New York under Giuliani and it didn’t work, so I’m told.   Hannity says that both Cruz and Trump are strong candidates in their own way.  They are both scarey candidates in their own way.  Trump of course wants to bring back widespread and systematic torture.  Michael Savage claims that torture led to the hunting down and death of Bin Laden.  He is wrong and all the government agencies say he’s wrong.  Trump even wants to kill relatives of terrorists.  And then we have Judy’s remarks about how the mass deportation will work because some will be deported and Judy says “breaking up families is no big deal.  They can go back too- - besides these ilegals go back and forth across the border all the time.  Anyhow this writer is pleased with Bernie’s success in two states yesterday and let’s hope some kind of trend is started.

Last night they had hour long news on ABC dedicated to the Brussels bombings.  They ended up repeating themselves a lot.  The first attack came at 9:12 in the morning or something at the Airport.  Then an hour or so later was the attack in a subway tunnel.  They showed scenes here where it was completely dark and I thought it was night or something.  I’ve heard from two independent sources that Brussels has lax security and it’s too easy for the wrong kind of people to move about freely in the city.  It’s noteworthy that such news tends to help Hillary Clinton.  Of course Hillary Clinton is also helped by closed primary states.  If ISIS hadn’t taken credit for these attacks one might suppose that it was either the Russians going after NATO or something, or perhaps the Greeks going after the European Union headquarters.  ISIS loves the publicity and loves and feeds off the fears instilled in westerners.  People on the left maintain that for some perverse reason ISIS wants the United States to really crack down on dissent and institute measures the more draconian the better.  Because no matter how repressive we are it will feed into the recruitment videos just as mass torture would feed into the recruitment videos.  I had to wait a long time in the medication line with Christian.  I didn’t attempt to get coffee from Glen’s room because I saw Glen earlier by the elevator and he walked away in the middle of the conversation.  But later I met with him on the back benches and he offered me a white cigarette and some of his big glass of tea.  I was looking for a little “lift” to the evening.

I had Norman Goldman on for the three o clock hour.  Norman states that it’s folly to wish that “Well if we really elect somebody really bad we will all see how bad things get and therefore in the next election we will vote sharply in the opposite direction.  Norman as do I believes this theory needs to have a stake driven through its heart and buried.  Because what happens is that the political fabric is so damaged at we never will get back to where we were but that so many things will have “happened” it will be impossible to reverse them all.  It’s kind of like the children of an evangelist preacher being “protected” from “sin” and therefore aren’t allowed to dance or go to movies or to date until they’re eighteen.  He knows that once they get a taste of the good life the rest of us enjoy they will never want to go back.  It’s the same principle with the Cuban people.  With just the prospect of “the good life” in America they will want to learn all they can about America as they reach out to this president.  And “going back” to the way things were will prove problematical.  Of such are resolutions made.  But on the negative side- - we in America have certain traditions and morays.  Once these strings of civility are severed by a Donald Trump, there’s no telling what might happen.  Of course now Norman claims to know Donald’s military advisors.  He describes Trump as an eclectic on Foreign P:olicy taking a little from here and a little from there.  Trump is a non interventionist to the extreme that he wants to even pull out of NATO.  This would create a sense of chaos in the military as well as the Republican Party hierarchy. 

The lead headline in Washington’s blog is “The Trans Pacific partnership is Unconstitutional”.  This goes without saying.  The only thing is what happens when someone brings a case before our Supreme Court.  Some international finger of “justice” is likely to proclaim that even bringing this case before a court trial in the USA is disallowed under this treaty.  Then we’ll have a real international crisis on our hands.  Of course Richard Nixon invented the concept of the modern “trade treaty” even though the majority of the articles of the agreement are not about trade at all.  Neither do they address the question of currency manipulation by China and others.  I guess Nixon is living by his own doctrine of “Well if the President of the United States does it, it is not against the law”.  I don’t know.  I haven’t heard about “Obama Trade” much lately in congress or anywhere.  Maybe the Republicans don’t want it now because Trump has done a thumbs down.  Maybe this is part of the reason why the Republican leadership wants to dump Trump.   But will Trump even have the delegates?   Now Norman Goldman is saying that these same Republican bigwigs are manipulating the “rules” to that Trump thinks he has 1250 delegates but in reality will only have eight hundred and something.  It sounds pretty shifty and underhanded to me.  But I learn new things every day. 

Tuesday:  Thom wants to go back to America First in economics, economic nationalism.  He’s arguing with an anti Trump tea party guy who believes in total Free Trade where American workers compete with slave labor in Malaysia.  Washington’s blog indicates that is Hillary Clinton fails to get indicted then we have no criminal justice system left in this country.  Are there any Roman Brady’s in the justice department who say “I know best” and chooses to block the prosecution of the obviously guilty for some “higher purpose”, in this case the election of Hillary Clinton as Wall Street’s tool in Washington.  Thom just said “The Chinese government is more repressive than the Cuban government”.  If that’s true, what are the right wingers complaining about?  There was an attack in Brussels last night by ISIS or somebody.  Ted Cruz is now calling for police patrols of Muslim neighborhoods to make sure there are no outbreaks of radicalism.  Apparently Mayor Giuliani tried this right after 9 – 11 and it was unfruitful.

President Obama is in Cuba this Sunday and today and tomorrow.  (They said 48 hours)  He’s meeting with Raul Castro but he won’t be meeting with Fidel.  He took the wife and daughters with him there, too.  I am in favor of the trip, which I’m sure would make me a bad Republican.  It’s time to set aside old grudges from 55 years ago.  Sunday was also Palm Sunday and they featured some Papal activities.  In terms of political beliefs, the Pope is much closer to me than he is the rest Protestant Christianity.  

I had Rhapsody in Black on and they spent most of the show doing a tribute to Sam Cooke.  They started with “Let the Good Times Roll”, which they inform us is from March of 1964.  The Rolling Stones performed this song.  They started off with some gospel music from Cook in 1956.  I went out a while and the next song I heard was “The Cha Cha Cha” followed by “She Was Only Sixteen” and then Cook’s contract with King records ran out and they brought “Don’t Know Much About Biology” from their vault.  Sam Cooke moved to RCA and they played “Chain Gang” and later “Cupid” but some stuff from early 1961 wasn’t familiar.  They played “Twisting the Night Away” and the follow up single according to Bill Gardener was a two sided single of “Bring It On Home” and “We’re Having a Party”.  There were three more songs I didn’t recognize then they played “Another Saturday Night”, which I thought was from 1962.  They played a version of “Frankie and Johnny” and then “Little Red Rooster” and then “Ain’t that Good News”.  They then played some civil rights song about “The Change is going to Come”.  They finished with “Shake” and one other.  Sam Cooke was shot by a jealous boyfriend- - and I guess he was only thirty-three when he died.   I think my cold symptoms are getting a little more pronounced now.   I have NBC network news on right now.  There is a growing trend of teenagers not to get drivers licenses than they used to.  There are the insurance costs and better bus service and a growing trend toward physical fitness and walking, and also more rely on their parents or friends.   

The Bill of Rights Revisited

Re-posted Without Permission, ha ha

Amendment 1

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Translation and update:

The United States is founded on the principle of separation between religion and the state.  The United States has no religion nor does it favor any government, movement or ideology that has a religious or nationalist identity.  Religion is a personal matter and has no place in American politics and statecraft.    All persons may speak, blog, paint, photograph,video ,write or publish as they please so long as they do not infringe upon the rights of others. The United States government will not punish journalists and whistle-blowers, will not mislead  people via newspapers,radio,television,movies, social media,the Internet or any future technology.   

The people are free to participate in civil disobedience, boycotts, demonstrations, marches, protests, rallies, recalls, sit-ins and strikes targeting corporations, politicians and the government itself.   The government will not outsource any activity that the Bill of Rights prohibits, nor will it establish constitution free zones at airports, border crossings, ports of entry or border regions.

Amendment 2

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

My Translation and update to 2015:

Individuals are ultimately responsible for defending themselves and their property.  No amount of policing can bring the crime rate to zero and gun control only serves to disarm law abiding people.  Deterrence requires that people have the right to arm themselves and the right to properly use those arms without fear of the criminal justice system.  Therefore, the government (federal,state and local) will not arrest,intimidate,hinder, kill, penalize, taser or spy on people who buy,sell,carry,conceal,import,export,market,store,swap or transport ammunition,handguns, pistols,rifles,revolvers,shotguns or any other civilian weapon. However, to help protect the public from abuse,the government may enforce minimal age, criminal history, mental health and competency standards.

Amendment 3

No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Translation and update:

Recognizing that drug abuse is a mental health crisis that does not have a military solution, no government agent, detective, inspector, police officer, sheriff, deputy, investigator, private contractor, security guard, special agent, SWAT team or soldier will invade or occupy the business, cabin, condominium, dwelling, home, office, property, ranch, residence, self-storage unit, motor vehicle, mobile-home, airplane, helicopter or computer of any citizen without due process of law or hot pursuit of a real crime in progress or a warrant signed by a judge. 

Decrees, administrative subpoenas and National Security Letters are not sufficient. In no case will any home, business or vehicle invasion be authorized to search for alcohol, crystal meth, tobacco, marijuana, cocaine, heroine, prescription drugs or any other mood altering substance.

Amendment 4

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Translation:

The government, its agents, contractors, peace officers and military will not confiscate, copy, disrupt, monitor, record, spy on, surveil, search, seize, track or video the archives, art, banking records, books, briefcases, cables, cassettes, cell phones, cell phone towers, cloud storage, computer drives, credit card receipts, crypto currency wallets, deliveries, desk tops, diaries, drawings, electric consumption, employment records, Facebook pages, financial records, files, folders, hard discs, health records, journals, hand-written letters, Internet activity, kindles, laptops, library records, license plates, luggage, magazine subscriptions, medical records, packages, papers, pockets, political activity, private conversations, purses, religious texts, social media, spread sheets, tapes, telegrams, telephone records, television usage, texts, thumb drives, travel histories, Twitter accounts, wifi, word documents, automobile, home, office, business, private property, rental space…without just probable cause that spells out the specific reason and specific person or thing to be exempted from this rule. The reason must be clearly stated to the accused and no fishing expeditions are permitted. This rule will apply equally regardless of race, color, appearance, dress or form of speech.

The government will not detain, stop, frisk, interrogate, delay, strip search, scan, fingerprint, iris scan or palm scan any person without specific probable cause. Government will not, without probable cause, impede the movement of people, create black-lists, no-fly lists and watch lists.

The Fourth Amendment prohibits government agents from touching you or placing you under surveillance or entering your property without probable cause and even then, only with a court-sanctioned warrant. Unfortunately, the Fourth Amendment has been all but eviscerated in recent years by court rulings and government programs that sanction all manner of intrusions, including giving police carte blanche authority to break into homes or apartments without a warrant, conduct roadside strip searches, and generally manhandle any person in manner they see fit. Moreover, in the so-called name of national security, intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency now have the ability to conduct mass unwarranted electronic intrusions into the personal and private transactions of all Americans, including phone, mail, computer and medical records.

Amendment 5

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Translation:

If you are accused of committing a felony, especially if it is punishable by spending the rest of your days in prison or by ending your life altogether, you have the right to have a grand jury decide first if there really is enough evidence to put you on trial to begin with.  However, this rule does not apply if you are in the military during wartime.

If you are tried but found not guilty, you can’t be tried again for the same crime.  

You can’t be pressured into confessing or incriminating others to save your own skin.    You cannot be forced to plea bargain or pressured and tricked by the police and prosecutors. The government can’t take your house, business, car, bank account, laptop or anything that is yours, without good reason and without compensating you.

Of major importance in the year 2015, the Fifth Amendment is supposed to ensure that you are innocent until proven guilty, and government authorities cannot deprive you of your life, your liberty or your property without following strict legal guidelines. Unfortunately, those protections have been largely extinguished in recent years, especially in the wake of Congress’ passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which allows the president and the military to arrest and detain Americans indefinitely without due process.

6th Amendment

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.

Translation:

If you are arrested by the police:

You have the right to a trial and sentencing within ten business days and all proceedings must be open to the public and journalists.  Secret evidence and secret witnesses are not allowed.  The case has to be heard by a judge and jury consisting of people similar to yourself demographically.  You have the right to know, at the time of your arrest, what you are accused of doing wrong, and to see and hear and cross-examine anyone who testifies against you.  You have the right to represent yourself, and have a competent lawyer represent you regardless of your ability to pay.

“…and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor…”

Somebody who is going on trial for a crime has the right to know why they are being accused of a crime and to ask questions to any witnesses who testify, or say in court, that the person committed the crime. A person that is going on trial has the right to have witnesses to the trial who say that the person did not commit the crime.

“…and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.”

A person going on trial for a crime has the right to be defended by a lawyer because without one, you will lose.

The Sixth Amendment was intended to not only ensure a “speedy and public trial,” but it was supposed to prevent the government from keeping someone in jail for unspecified offenses. That too has been a casualty of the so-called war on terror. Between the NDAA’s indefinite detention clause and the Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF) legislation, which has been used as justification for using drones to kill American citizens in the absence of a court trial, the Sixth Amendment’s guarantees become meaningless.

Amendment 7

In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

Translation:

In the event of a dispute over property worth at least $1000, people have the right to take someone to court in a civil trial and seek a judgement.  Examples include back wages, embezzled funds, fraud and failure to deliver.  The defendant has a right to a trial by jury.  The decision of the jury is final, although in some rare cases, the judge can throw out the jury’s decision and bring in a new jury if the judge thinks that the jury’s decision is wrong.

The Seventh Amendment guarantees citizens the right to a jury trial. However, when the populace has no idea of what’s in the Constitution—civic education has virtually disappeared from most school curricula—that inevitably translates to an ignorant jury incapable of distinguishing justice and the law from their own preconceived notions and fears.
Amendment 8

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Translation:

You are innocent until proven guilty.  The criminal justice system can not make it difficult for you to regain your freedom, property and prior status just because you have been arrested.  You have a right to defend your interests and if you are found guilty by a jury of your peers, the punishment has to fit the crime.  Decades behind bars, solitary confinement, slave labor, denial of voting rights, separation from family and torture are not permissible.   Nor is capital punishment because it is impossible to apply in an equitable way.

Of major relevance in the year 2015, the Eighth Amendment is similar to the Sixth in that it is supposed to protect the rights of the accused and forbid the use of cruel and unusual punishment. However, the Supreme Court’s determination that what constitutes “cruel and unusual” should be dependent on the “evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society” leaves us with little protection in the face of a society lacking in morals altogether. America’s continued reliance on the death penalty, which has been shown to be flawed in its application and execution, is a perfect example of this.

Amendment 9

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Translation:

Just because these are the only rights given to you under this Constitution doesn’t mean that you don’t have other rights not mentioned in this document.

The 9th Amendment provides that other rights not enumerated in the Constitution are nonetheless retained by the people. Popular sovereignty—the belief that the power to govern flows upward from the people rather than downward from the rulers—is clearly evident in this amendment. However, it has since been turned on its head by a centralized federal government that sees itself as supreme and which continues to pass more and more laws that restrict our freedoms under the pretext that it has an “important government interest” in doing so. Thus, once the government began violating the non-enumerated rights granted in the Ninth Amendment, it was only a matter of time before it began to trample the enumerated rights of the people, as explicitly spelled out in the Bill of Rights.

Amendment 10

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Translation:

Anything that the Constitution doesn’t say that Congress can do, is left up to the states and to the people.

As for the Tenth Amendment’s reminder that the people and the states retain every authority that is not otherwise mentioned in the Constitution, that assurance of a system of government in which power is divided among local, state and national entities has long since been rendered moot by the centralized Washington, DC power elite—the president, Congress and the courts. Indeed, the federal governmental bureaucracy has grown so large that it has made local and state legislatures relatively irrelevant. Through its many agencies, the federal government has stripped states of the right to regulate countless issues that were originally governed at the local level.