Drowning Christian Values in the Bathtub

There was one famous conservative, perhaps it was Milton Friedman, who said that "Out goal is to shrink and shrink government so much you can eventually drown it in the bathtub. Don't look now but George Bush desguized as Norman Bates is dawning his Andria Yates whig right now. Thom Hartman, a prophet of our time, has stated that there is a war out there against fundamental American values, and I do consider Christianity a fundamental value, and I'll get to that in a minute. But there is a common thread behind everything George Bush is doing, particularly in Iraq. The idea of not having a draft isn't incidental; it's part of the master plan th privatize the Army. If there are no draftees, there will be no protesters. All of these private security companies like Blackwater are things we never used to have. Remember that Bush wanted to completely destroy the Iraqi governmental infra-structure so that they could, in Thom's words, "Build a new Republican paradise of no government involvement". No wonder Meliki feels so ham-strung. We need to build him up if we truely believe in democraticly elected officials. In the correct view of things the whole "election" thing was just some side rabbit trail, and not in keeping what we were after in Iraq with war profitiers everywhere. As you know the whole philosophy of the Republican party is "Government doesn't work, so let's undermine it wherever we can". Bush doesn't want anybody protesting the war, just as he wants to export any potential protesters in Mexico to this country. If they are here they can't supply the reform voices badly need in Mexico to reform their dysfunctional government.

But now there is a new book out called "The Politics of Shock and the Economics of Disasters" or something. Hurricane Katrina is a way for the government to do something many have probably wanted to do for a long time in New Orleans, destroy its Black culture. If the mayor or anybody else says "New Orleans is going to come back as a chocolate city", this is seem as some kind of overt threat to Republican power, who want to dispurse Blacks, as once the Jews were dispursed as a people. There are shocking things that come to light "once the pieces are all put together". Someone got a hold of a 1963 CIA manuel, and it said that the goal in breaking down a suspect and getting him to talk was to "Reduce him to a snivelling child, who will confess anything to his "father" and once the Stockholm syndrone kicks in, the suspect will see the CIA as a parent figure, who will protect him. In the same vein many people see Rudolph Giuliani as some kind of a "father figure". These personalities like authority for authority's sake, and there are more people like that than I ever suspected. That must be why Kings have been so successful for thousands of years. But you also need to keep in mind that all the plans being put in action today by our Government are plans that have been on the shelf and on the drawing board long before 9 - 11 ever happened. They were just looking for some traumatic event to give them an excuse. The Rev. Gene Scott likes to quote the Bible where it says "Work out your salvation with fear and trembling" but goes on to say a more accurate translation is "work our your salvation with beatings and trauma". The media loves to talk about incidents such as kidnapping and sexual molestation a lot more than they used to. Since the media is run by corporations, one wonders whether they just might want to keep us in a state of fear. In my own life, October 8th. 1987, twenty years ago was a "day of shock and awe". Mine being the paranoid personality it is wonders whether the idea was original to Frank, or that he was somehow put up to it by someone who wanted to "break me" by "sending me a message". I think 9 - 11 is a "trauma" and Scientologists tell us that in a "trauma" en-grams get registered in the brain that are both unreasoned and unconscious. There are people who actually have said on call in shows, "I want MORE of my Civil Rights taken away". We may be in the twilight of democracy and not even know it. There is certainly nothing "Christian" about the War in Iraq. A real Christian would say "A battle between religions is a battle for God to fight" and that would be done through prayer and hard work working with individual people on a one to one basic. No Christian would say that bombing a people back to the stone age would "Win them to Christ".

Al Gore has won the noble peace prize. Many people are now putting increased pressure on the former Vice President to run for President. Others have taken to making disparaging remarks, such as that the Vice President has put on weight. My view on government intervention in the economy is that if it's really a necessity for cultural and ecological preservation, then we need to do it, which includes federally funded energy research (with a watch dog on who gets the money) and regulations such as gas milage or what kind of light bulbs we can use. I aguess you could say I favor government involvement if it's in our vital national interest. I do have my doubts about other things like what kind of arthritus medication we can take or what kind of cold preparations we should give to children under six. Now they want to take the lead out of lipstick. I'm a reactionary who says if we kept the lead IN gasoline, we'd have more efficient consumption today. Now people are upset about mercury in the new light bulbs and say that eventially we will switch to L E D's, or light emiting diodes. It seems to me that tidal power is one source of energy in our coastal areas that is under exploited. There is talk of harnising some "force" in substance that once "reverse" can "reverse" the pull of friction in a lot of items. One thing about Al Gore is that apparently he's been against the Iraqi war from day one. We need a president who detests this war as an immoral abomination- - enough to End It. It would seem that the Bush Adminestration is bowing to public pressure NOT to go to war in Iran, no matter what Hillary Clinton thinks. We need a foreward thinking President in a whole host of areas, and to my way of thinking, Al Gore seems to be the right man at the right time.

There are five things as I read my Bible that Jesus talked about. One of them was LOVE and inter-personal relationships and living in peace with your brother and winning him through kindness rather than hostility. The second is a hatred of religious hypocricy, be it repeticious. meaningless prayers, or lording your authority over others. often bullying them. The third is the notion of sin producing sickness and the healing of the body. The fourth is the casting out of devils and demons, and the fifth is a "crisis" at some future age where an Armageddon type battle to decide the fate of the world will be waged. Of all the inputs on my view of the Christian religion, three are the most destructive. And two of those are now dead. Gene Scott spread seeds of discord and confusion wherever he went. The second source is a person whom I refer to as "The Great Pervaricator" (liar) who has as his adjunct, "The asshole from El Paso", who is a local Pastor. I wonder if he knows his friend and perhaps mentor is now dead? The third negative source is Jesus Christ on KFI. Jesus scoffs at people who believe in tongues- - and in "gifts of the holy spirit" in general, and at times I wonder if he even disputes the existance of the Holy Spirit. Jesus says the only good prayers are meaningless ones and that making a religious act of prayers is what it's all about. He has in almost shocking terms denied the value of healings of diseases, and he definitely does not believe in Satan or demons, and as to the Second Coming he has dismissed it with the words "Last things should be worried about- - last". Still, Jesus Christ is on the air waves every Sunday spreading his bad karma. Every time you are a bad witness for God you diminish yourself. In this vein, Christianity has been such a bad witness for itself lately, he has gotten so "small" that pretty soon you'll be able to drown it in the bathtub. I guess there is a saying that if you diminish others, you diminish yourself. It is also said that "one man plus the Truth equals a majority". Were I to take the Gospel's advice, I would not seek outside Authority for my words. Gene Scott said, "Christ ceded all authority in himself". I don't see why I can't do that. I need someone who's word I can trust and who isn't a flake and has an experianced background. It would seem "Me" is the best candidate for the job. And now I am telling you readers of this "Trust me; I know what I'm talking about". The Devil is not some mouse staring at his own shadow in a flash light, as portrayed on the radio. The Devil is a lot more powerful and slick than most of us think. He's like a master chess player and he's beaten the best. This is where the lyrics "A mighty fortress is our God" come in. This is where we need the power of Christ, but there are devil agents who want to pull the plug on that Power. They want you to abandon the real Jesus for their theological games. You must resist them. (Selah)

Dealing with the Real World

A fact of life is that we don't get much in the way of real news on the network news. It runs a half hour but a lot of that is commercials, and there is also about half fluff filler material. One news item is that rendering case where a guy was "rendered" by the CIA and tortured for a while and dumped off in Albania with no ID to fend for himself. The Fourth Circuit Court of appeals has just ruled that "Official State Secrets" need to be protected and therefore the case can't be looked into because national security would be compromised, and the Supreme Court will not take the case. Of course this whole thing about not impeaching the President till there is an investigation is backward reasoning, because in the case of Nixon and Watergate they knew very little to start with. If you don't impeach (or indict) how can you get the ball rolling?

Thom Hartman knows his Bible rather well, particularly certain passages in Leviticus where it says you can't be gay, but also that you can't play football or sleep with your wife while she's having her period or eat shell fish. Of course there is a prohibition against the gay life style in Romans 1 by Paul and if you listen to Gene Scott's reason, you interperet Jesus's words in the light of Paul's letters and not the other way around because as a "Paulinist" you regard Paul as superiors to all those desciples who wrote the Gospels. In Gene Scott's reasoning therefore, Jesus has no a priori existance apartment from the status of the people who wrote about him. Therefore whether Jesus personally condemned homosexuals is not relivant.

Now that twelve year old boy has been attacked by conservatives, for delivering the democratic response on radio in an address last Saturday. People have come to his house and harrassed his family and said false things about him. This is the boy who was in a horrible accident and got that "S-chip" aid that President Bush vetoed last week saying the family income limit in the bill was too high. The father of the boy is a wood worker and owns a small, struggling business and has never earned over fifty thousand in any one year. The boy has a scollarship to a private school. The boy is a positive testimony to the beneficial things that government can do.

George Bush is stepping up enforcement of immigration laws rounding up aliens with new vigor. Now I'm wondering whether the President isn't doing this to go "See, our crops can't be harvested without hiring illegal aliens to do it". I guess they're blaiming the coming inflation of prices and food shortage on the fact that we don't have Mexicans to harvest our crops. Well, this could be a wake up call to American workers. But if we go out to work in the fields, do we get to join the United Farm Workers and get paid a decent negotiated wage? Allan Greenspan is wrong for once because we're starting to get that Jimmy Carter economic malaise back that we so dreaded thirty years ago. We could have the twin evils of inflation and recession at the same time. Our dollar is collapsing. We need to elect someone like Ron Paul as President to put our economic ship of state in right order. As I have said, the whole thing is going to blow up in Hillary's face in two years, just as the abuses of the Nixon adminestration blew up in Jimmy Carter's face, and he had to take the blame for decisions made before he was in power.

Of course we had that national heat wave a few days ago. It was ninety degrees during the Chicago marathon and people were complaining they shouldn't have to run in the heat and they were dropping out right and left, and I guess they finally ended the race early. Well, if temperatures thirty degrees above normal in most of the nation to alert to global warming, then I don't know what is. We're going to continue to see more flookish things like this.

The Republicans are having their debates but I'd like to know where a person can even watch them if you don't have cable and are still on dial-up. This is the first debate Fred Thompson has participated in and like the media has been doing they've been talking down Fred Thompson calling him lazy and ill-prepaired. Of course the better Thompson does the more he cuts into mayor Giuliani, and the media has a love affair with the ex mayor of New York. Now the Republicans are not debating in Hispanic formats, (except for Mc Cain) and also they all seem to be thumbing their noses at Blacks not debating in a Black forum. To me this seems like political suicide to just write off thirty to forty percent of the population before the starting gun. Of course three months before one vote has been cast the media has declared the winner as we continue to exist by government by polling. I'm hoping that some of these many candidates will come here to California so the local people can have a better hearing of them.

Of course my stance on Labor Unions is that I believe in their right to organize. But I also believe in a corporation or business's right to negotiate a wage with anyone they wish, and if the unions go on strike that substitute workers have the right to be employed by said business without being harrassed or threatened by goons at the picket line. In this I disagree with Thom Hartman saying that "government has to rig the game in favor of the middle class because otherwise they'd never exist". I've heard Thom's argument. The Black Death in Europe in the late 1300's and early 1400's killed off one third of the population which created a labor shortage and a middle class emerged and hence the renasance was born. Hartman has also talked about all the gold looted by the Spaniards creating trickle down wealth and how in general the only time we had a middle class here was before the Civil War and after 1945. My position on government and the economy is that they are to "promote the general walfare" with minimum wages and child labor laws and prohibitions against illegal ailen workers taking American jobs. We also need fair trade laws and terrifs with teeth. In all this I agree with Thom. But I don't agree with the rest of it, and I do not think government workers have the right to strike, because unlike private enterprize, there is no alternative competetion.

I continue to be amazed that they won't show smoking on TV and smoking is working its way twords universal abolition almost everywhere. And yet NBC thinks it's OK to show underage college students drinking. If I were Dean of the college I'd expel anyone caught drinking after the third citing. Better yet I'd say if you're caught once you could be expelled depending on how I feel that day. Imagine a fraternity haising that doesn't involving getting really drunk to the point of endangering your life. Probably rapes would drop and grades would go up, too.

Al Franken has stated that we should re deploy our troops in Iraq to the Kurdish border with Turkey, and I think that's a pretty good idea. If the Turks don't like us reminding them of the Armenian genocide I say, "tough, that's the price of being friends with the USA". I think it's time for the U S A to demand a little respect from our friends, if we're going to demand it of our enemies. I think the Kurds have the sort of democracy and prosperity that we've been hoping for and that we should tell Meliki to look north and "go thou and do likewise". If the Kurds want to take a chuck of Turkish territory, I think our country should support this. Nobody's holding a gun to our head are they? Can't the United States do virtually anything it deems "right"?

One way in which I'd at least psychologically get the US off a war footing is to roll Daylight Saving Time back to the first of April. And I'd also end it a lot earlier. I'd end DLST the second week in September or the week after Labor Day and when football season starts. I would like to kindly disagree with Rush about these school kids having to wait for the dark in places like Cincinatti and Fargo and San Antonio where it's virtually pitch dark outside. I just think it would be psychologically more healthy to see light when you got up in the morning to go to work or school. If I were the President I'd also get up and make a speech that we were NOT AT WAR with Iraq, and that any congressional resolutions to that end were null and void. I'd also say that Meliki was the duly elected president of Iraq and it was up to the Iraqi people to look to him for whatever solutions to "local" problems he might come up with.

Political Correctness Gone Nuts

It's funny how the book "1984" has become prophetic. For instance now it is "politically correct" to be in a "constant state of War". This is accomplished by never showing a funeral or a casket or showing the President at a funeral. It's "understood" that you don't talk about death. Also since taxes were cut for this war instead of raised, the notion of "sacrifice" is gone. George Bush should feel proud of himself that the economy has done so well. Sometimes I like to "take my political temperature" and listen to Larry Elder. He points out what I've heard before that the poor in this country live better than middle class people in Europe do. According to Larry the average poor person owns his own home, has sattalite TV and air conditioning. Accordxing to Larry there is no "overcrowding" in quarters of the poor. I have seen direct contradiction of this with about ten Mexicans in a one bedroom apartment. But according to Larry Elder the poor are doing just great and that poor children are as well nourished as anybody else in this country. So on the surface George Bush appears to have had a major success with the economy. Of course in the book 1984 there are lines about how the government must maintain a perpetual state of warfare so that the poor do not advance economically because if the poor get a taste of prosperity, they will want political power, too. The goal seems to be to keep the poor ignorant and gullible and deny them education that might cause them to think critically. If this line of reasoning is correct then we should expect some sort of a REAL "Peoples' uprising" in China, where they have a taste of prosperity. "Party members" are supposed to also be rather dumb, but hopelessly zealous, who would do ANYTHING asked of them, for the Party.

Rush Limbaugh has stated as one of his goals "To have everyone in America agree with me". It would seem that Rush Limbaugh does not consider soldiers in Iraq "real" soldiers, unless they agree with him, and with the War. The whole idea of the all volenteer army is to get a bunch of mind numbed robots out there doing the fighting. Rush does have a point in that, "These people (for the most part) knew what they were getting into" and that if they re-inlist for a third or fourth tour of duty it must be because they Love It so much. To the rest of us it seems a horrible disruption of family life. It used to be that if you were going to be a father they wouldn't draft you. I don't see it as any badge of honor not to get to know your kid till he's ten.

There is this urge to rewrite history. They want to edit all the smoking scenes out of old movies they show. They edit the Twin Towers out of sitcoms that rerun. In Leave It To Beaver there was a big contraversy because they wanted to show a Toilet, heaven forbid. This was unacceptable. Michal Jackson often has said when he came to this country in 1963 they would not allow use of the word "Pregnant" on a soap opera. Now there is a contraversy on "Desperate Housewives" involving some line apparently spoken about either Philapino doctors or Philipino medical schools or something. They're going to edit out the offending line in reruns, but I still have no idea what the line is because they're so secretive they don't tell us. For that matter don't you get tired of the phrase "The N word". Why don't they just go ahead and say it. Of course you know they chopped down that offending tree where all the nuces were hung in that racial incident in Louisiana or wherever. To me seeing a big pile of mulch were the tree used to be would be more of a reminder of the event than if they'd just left the tree up.

I don't know about you but I'm getting a little tired of this steroids hysteria. In the case of Marian Jones- - since this is the Olympics we're talking about it's OK to make it an issue because they have certain stated rules of participation. But I'm tired of Barry Bonds being raked over the coals. Suppose we discover our heroes AREN'T perfect? What if we were to learn General Mc Arthur was on steroids in the battle of Inchon? Would that make what his troops did any less heroic? The media seems to have very definite ideas who it loves and who it hates. And the media hates Larry Craig. They are in a tizzy because he "broke his word" and didn't leave the Senate by September 30th. as he had promised. His exact words were, "It is my intention to leave congress by September 30th.". It wasn't a resignation. And it wasn't a covenent made in blood. It was just a remark. The Republicans want him "gone" for other reasons involving Craig's voting record. This whole idea about not being perfect could become obsessive. Of course if you listen to Dr. Laura, apparently every woman is entitled to marry a Perfect man. If you discover any flaws in him then you made a "horrible mistake", and next time find a man a little less- - - mortal. Some of the things the media obsesses on are really silly, like Senator Obama's American flag lapel pin. Not wearing it is supposed to be some sinnister sign of his abandoning patriotism, or something. Of course the obsession on hair styles and make-up of Hillary Clinton is something I find a little silly. It seems we bring up all these phoney balogna issues, as if there were no real, subatantive issues in the land to talk about.

Now the buzz is about this four year old little girl who is supposed to be a genious painting pictures in the tradition of Picasso or something, but they say "maybe she had help". Well, if she "had help" did Picasso come back from the dead to help her? Sylvia Browne had a "warning" for all of us, the comercials intoned promoting Wednesday's episode. Well not only was the episode a year old rerun, but it would seem that the "warning" was deleted. I never saw it. Well, I'll give you a warning if you want one. Hillary Clinton and not George Bush will go into the history books as the worst president since Herbert Hoover, because it will be under Mrs. Clinton that this economy collapses. It's also my belief that civil liberties in issues that really count will suffer, and that a lot of the things we don't like about President Bush will be traditions that Hillary chooses to continue. You need only to read World Net Daily to know that there is a war on Christianity out there, and its one entirely based on irrational fears of the left. But like so many things in this "1984" politically correct world, opposing religious liberty will become the "in" thing in American culture. Think about it when you vote in November 2008.

The Seduction of Complacency

It seems that the American Public will believe anything the media tells them. The past couple of weekends has featured on the news interview programs an almost coronation of our new Royal couple, Bill and Hillary Clinton. The Clintons have dominated shows such as Meet the Press and "This Week". And now there is the famous "Hillary laugh" that is in the news. I take that laugh to be she is so out of touch with reality when an attempt is made to answer a question, she just doesn't know where to begin. We continue to hear that Hillary and Rudy are our anointed nominees of the respective political Parties. In California they even engage in circular reasoning saying we need Hillary because she's the only one that can beat Rudy, and the Republicans are saying they need Rudy because she's the only one that can defeate Hillary. Even people like Pat Buchannon and Anne Colter by their passive resignation have almost endourced this dynamic duo of Rudy and Hillary. Buchannon has as much as said Hillary is virtually unbeatable, whereas Anne Coulter has said that conservatives will probably end up voting for Giuliani. The spirit just isn't there for any third party because they would know it would be political suicide.

I'd like to know what the appeal of Hillary is. " I guess you heard about the outdoor resturant smoking ban in Beverly Hills. My biggest fear with Hillary being president is that she will try and micro manage all our lives with rules about tollarence for gays in grammar school or corporal punishment, or being busted for smoking around kids, or what foods can be sold in school, or somehow rewriting US History to remove all references to God. I'd like to know what Hillary's basic appeal is. If it's universal health care will that care be at "the lowest comon denominator". I think [name withheld] could have gotten better hospital care if they paid the whole bill themselves or something like fifty years ago before they had medi-care. A lot of conservatives say "You don't WANT health care like they have in Europe". (the preceeding was from an e mail) Personally I'm disappointed in that "The Clintons" still stand behind their pro NAFTA decision when Clinton was in power. If you will remember it was Democrat Al Gore who advocated for NAFTA whereas Ross Perot was wisely against NAFTA. Now Bill is still saying NAFTA was and is a great thing. How does Thom Hartman feel about that, if he's going to vote for Hillary? Now World Net Daily is bringing up past political shady dealing by Hillary. The other day I heard that when the Clintons left the White House in 2001 they stole valuable things from the White House (like the silverware or something). I don't see how all that political corruption stuff from the nineties that Rush Limbaugh talked about is "just going away". What we need desperately is a third party candidate who is squeaky clean politically and isn't corruptable. I'd vote for that candidate. I just don't see why we're locked into two bad choices a year and a month before the election and over three months before the first vote is cast in the Primaries. Someone is trying to drive down the voter turn-out when the primaries do come, in some sort of a self fulfilling prophecy. Where do you go if you think government is spending too much money? Where do you go if you're fed up with this Securety mass paranoia? Where do you go if you're morally opposed to abortion? Where do you go if you don't want government micro-managing our daily lives? Where do you go, most importantly of all to find a candidate who won't continue to polarize America they way it's been polarized the last eight years?

Now the latest message the media is cramming down our collective throat is the idea that "The economic crisis is over". The Real Estate crisis is solved. The President has taken action and now the stock market is happy and is headed for new highs. I said quite a number of months ago in reference to a Sylvia Brown remark about "October" that, "Even if there is some kind of rally in October it won't last. It will be the last hurrah before the crash". I said that the economy would crash just about the start of the new year 2008. I see no reason to divert from this prediction now. We also have the upcoming War in Iran to worry about in addition to the falling (collapsing) US Dollar. People from Randy Rhodes to World Net Daily are reminding us that the War with Iran will be no picnic. China is happy that our economy is just about to go under and preporations may already be being made to pull the plug on the US dollar. And of course both Russia and China are allied with Iran so if we declare war on Iran we will really be at war with Russia. The media has us so hyped up on the necessity of War with Iran now we take it as a necessity and a foregone conclusion. We need to get over this fantasy that "the worst is behind us". Violence is down in Iraq. If this is so shouldn't we relax a little and celebrate, rather than to go ahead and plunge headlong into the next war? Is George Bush that much of a War Junky that the prospect of even a few months of peace anywhere terrifies him?

Clarence Thomas is in the news again. Needless to say that Clarence Thomas is a man who disgusts me. He is NOT a credit to his race because all the things people don't like about Blacks are manifest in Thomas. In saying this I apologize to everyone of color because Thomas has so little in common with anyone else of his race it's hardly funny. He's really a guy in a KKK sheet that happens to have colored skin. He talks about this "High tech lynching" he underwent in 1991 before congress. Howard Stern has remarked about the "stacks of pornography" that Thomas has in his home. Now Thomas has taken again to attacking Anita Hill's performance in the work place. If there was one thing that was certain it was that Thomas regarded Anita Hill as a good and faithfull employee. How Thomas is just lashing out angrily at everybody. He won't lash out at racial injustice, but he'll lash out at the very people who voted him into power. I didn't see the Sixty Minutes interview. I was coming home from a funeral at that time. Actually about one minute of a Clarence Thomas rant is about all I can take.

There are three women I'd like to tip my hat to because they have gotten a bum deal. One is that Chicano lover of Mayor Antonio Viragoso. This was a news reporter for a Spanish speaking TV station who got suspended, and then apparently fired, for being involved with the Mayor. Meanwhile nothing happens to him. I don't think the affair is anybody's business at this point. Next is Lady Dianna. There are the three haunting questions. Was she engaged? Was she pregnent? Was she murdered? 31 % of British subjects believe her death was not an accident, and now they're going to have another investigation. I think someone should do a movie in the tradition of Oliver Stone and just "lay it all out there" and say that there were people who wanted her dead, and just fill in the detales in a movie plot. Lastly, I'd like to extend my sympathies to Brittany Speers. Stewart Sutcliffe of the Orion Federation said we would come through for her and we didn't. Speers is just overwhelmed by negative forces that now are taking her two young sons from her and this is a sad thing. It's like the public is fickle. They love you one week and hate you another. I just hope that Brittany doesn't get murdered in the next few weeks, because if she does you know some wise-ass attorney out there is going to say that it was Suicide, and we all know better.

There is some Orion Federation news I'm now going to mention- - briefly. There is a group tagged the "Zachery lobby" that is causing trouble- - and trying to say I don't deserve to have anything do do with the Federation because I call myself a Christian. This is the same group that during the Cassiopian takeover of 1990 and1991 got rid of the real "Mal Evans" and put in a fake Mal Evans they could control. But when "Operation Mongoose" got rid of all the other Cassiopians, they hid in the shadows and escaped. Stewart and I launched a demand for investrigation of them last Saturday. Oddly this is also a fanatically "Pro Apple Corporation" group. They are all in favor of the I Phone self destructing if you try and modify it. In a Federation ruling that came out they came up with the ruling that "Corporate profits are a creature of the state. Corporations can't make huge profits unless state laws give them the Power to make profits through patent laws and such". It was stated that they ripped off the Beatles with the use of the name Apple and haven't got a leg to stand on.

The Final Disappointment

You know in that Peggy Lee song, “Is that all there is” after relating all her woes and tribulations of life she goes, “Well if that’s the way she feels about it, why doesn’t she just end it all?” and she goes, “Oh no. Not for me. I’m not ready for that final disappointment.” This morning I would like to announce a death. The death of the Democratic Party. Death came in the early evening hours of last night in New Hampshire during the debate. We’re all familiar with the sense of betrayal we felt when the democratic congress legitimized all of Bush’s abuses that he deserved to be impeached for last July. Yesterday the democrats passed a War resolution giving the President permission to go to war in Iran. Sometimes a patient will display disturbing symptoms but you’re thinking “Well this isn’t major. We’ve got years and years to work out the problem”. Then last night all three democratic candidates deliver the death knell. All three of them announce there will be no reductions you can count on in Iraq and as far as they are all concerned you might as well have George Bush as Presidents because there will be lots and lots of troops still in Iraq in January of 2013. Not only this but now these democrats have advanced to a level of necrosis of “Not saying anything that could be used against them in the general election”. Apparently they are worried because Gepheart and Howard Dean took pot shots at each other in the Primary campaign of 2004. That was so long ago I don’t even remember. And of course Mr. milk toast John Kerry came out the victor. If that had happened in 1960, Stewart Symington would have been the Presidential nominee and Nixon would have won that election, because Symington being the “safe candidate” would have failed to go after Nixon with the vigor that Kennedy did. Clearly the democratic party has delivered the final betrayal and it’s now time for liberals to form a new party that will speak for their interests.

There is one thing about death in that it is a final chapter in the relationships to all the lives the decedant touched. People who knew him might say “Well, there were issues in his personality that he needs to work out”. But there comes a moment when time runs out. You go into the hospital room and are told that the decedant has passed. You go over to the bed and feel the corpse. He still feels warm. Perhaps there is hope. You try to make sense of that expression on his face, one of apprehension mixed with puzzlement. You wonder what “facial expression” the Democratic Party is frozen in. You remember Harry Truman’s words about Kennedy. “It isn’t the Pope, it’s the pop that bothers me”. In the end Joseph Kennedy had virtually no input on the new administration. Sometimes with either a loved one or a passing acquaintance there is a chemical substance abuse problem that has never successfully been dealt with. I guess with the Democrats it’s a “fear of not fitting in” or “not being patriotic enough” so you do things to get your “fox” of patriotism, so you “feel good”. The Democratic Party is addicted to Not Rocking the Boat.

They say that the decedant died of a secondary infection, caused by an attempted cure for a primary infection, that was caused directly by the hospital and had absolutely nothing to do with why the patient was brought in to begin with. I guess the question with the Democratic Party is, “Who do we sue for their death?” Would a million dollars suffice? The concencus is not to sue at all. It doesn’t even enter into people’s minds that the Democratic Party was killed by anything. I guess the party will go on in sort of a phantom existence who, in Sylvia Browne’s terms, “Doesn’t realize that they are dead”. For me, to vote for something merely because it has the label of “Democrat” on it, is henceforth, meaningless. I think the idea of having a nomination locked up for either party locked up by the September the year before the election and one primary vote has been counted is more than absurd. It’s time to take another look at Ralph Nader.

According to segments of the debate played on the Thom Hartman program, John Edwards wants to end combat missions in Iraq. Good for him. The great phantom fear is that somehow if we leave will "leave the field to the enemy" and the specter of genocide is raised, but just who against whom is unclear. We are not against supporting Sunnis who attacks Shiites if they are from Saudi Arabia, and yet we pillery Iran for "daring to get involved" in this war. Now we are going to start a war in Iran that will spread to Syria and perhaps even involve the Palestinians in some sort of an Armageddon scenario that even Chuck Smith's fanticies could not bring about, but which George Bush's machinations put us in danger of.

The democrats and republicans, as one person put it, “Are two wings of the same political party, the War party”. Yet you’re willing to throw objectivity out the window. We’ve all heard President Bush say, “Bin Laden, I don’t know where Bin Laden is. I don’t think about that”. We learn that just last month our troops again had a chance to capture Bin Laden and once again he slipped through our fingers. It’s a complaint made by men against woman that “They won’t want to Solve their problems, they just want to roomanate about their problems and say the same things, over, and over and over”. Such is this “perpetual state of war” that Larry Elder gets so giddy over. Most people see a “State of War” as a necessary evil, and as a state they hope not to be in all that long. But for the Bush – and future Clinton administration, War is not seen as a means to an end but as an end in itself. In this state certain pet corporations cam maximize their profits, as we slash civil rights at home. I guess even the Supreme Court is behind the time. They are actually starting to strike down parts of the Patriot Act. Good for them. The trouble is, if the Patriot act were up for a vote of this democratic congress, they, unlike our Courts, would reaffirm every bit of it.

We have in a sense been at War with Iran since the 1979 hostage crisis. Today the Keil – Mc Cain amendment passed, which strengthens the sanctions against Iran and calls their whole army mere terrorists. There was also a military action provision, so we have a duplicate of the October 2002 weapons of mass destruction resolution. Now we are officially sanctioned to make war in Iran. It does not look good. The thing is that Iran is three times the size of Iraq both in terms of land mass and in population. Clearly the democrats of the Senate are acting more and like republicans with each passing day. There was a concencus that any attack on Iran by our President would be political suicide. But it’s just a question of “preparing the public” psychologically for it.

Bush vetoed some children’s aid bill because the democrats didn’t word it right. But Bush said that he wanted “No child left behind” supported, and I am inclined to agree that we should give the President what he wants in this educational area.

The judge in the Phil Specter trial was threatened, which is a felony with a three year sentence if convicted. The perpetrator tried to perhaps allude that Phil’s wife was behind this action. Meanwhile the jury is still nowhere a decision in the case, which has gone on way more than any case I can remember in my lifetime. Now they want to see a replay of some video tape evidence and will be meeting in court at one thirty.

I called [name withheld] early this morning asking about the funeral. Apparently it’s going to be at [name withheld] house because the ashes won’t be delivered till Friday or Saturday. They say we can’t meet at the cemetery because “it’s too big there”, whatever that means.

Last night it was the usual stuff on TV. I watched “Bones” at eight and had trouble following the plot. About eighty thirty I booted the computer and looked at the “Campus” file again, thinking of changing it some more, but I gave up on that idea. That file has certain fundamental flaws and has had since creation that are too problematical to remedy. I slept well last night but one time when I woke up I was thinking, “What if yesterday never happened?” I talked with Dave Praither about it before breakfast.

Some vandal attacked the Crystal Cathedral yesterday. He carved in the same cryptic inscription in glass, in metal, and even in granite and they said damage would amount to $40,000. The guy had no respect for a house of God.

Now they are saying if you eat meat you can’t be an environmentalist. If that’s the case then cross me off the list because their logic was silly. They said it does more damage to the Earth to raise animals and eat meat than the entire transportation system of the whole world contains. They kept referring to “factory farms”.

Now it’s soap time. Andre has pretty successfully been calling all the shots but now that Stephano may come out against his nephew, perhaps there’s hope. If Andre will threaten Elvis’s life I guess Stephano regards him as dangerous.

This is at six. For dinner we had chicken patties and not the scheduled “oven baked chicken” but with scalloped potatoes. I had seconds. I went to the bakery after five thirty for my coffee and was just watching TV before this. Sylvia Browne was on Montell Williams and it was a rerun. She says in twenty years we’ll be talking to dead people just like talking to anybody else. Marcus implied that he had heard some sort of roomer about me. Nobody ever came in here to clean. The weather warmed up.

The Phil Specter trial ended in a hung jury. They polled all twelve jurors and they all agreed continued debate was pointless. They had taken six votes just today. The vote each time was ten to two for conviction, as three votes got swayed. They only spent 44 hours deliberating in the two weeks and two days it took. The D A plans to re-file charges. The topic was discussed on the Johnny Wendell show.

George Bush was giving a speech at the U N before breakfast but after breakfast Bill had his TV on and I got fed up with about ten commercials in a row, and this isn’t the first time I’ve just seen him watch them. I turned on my set but Bush was no longer on. For breakfast we had Cheerios and hashed browns and fried eggs. Bush was talking about a monk protest uprising in Burma. Last night I heard about Burma on the news and apparently there’s been nineteen years of repression that people are just beginning to react to. He also talked about Zimbabwe and also Sudan and the genocide at Darfore going on there. He also talked about all the educational help we’ve given to children.

Yesterday I had Randy Rhodes on at noon and watched the soap opera yesterday and today at one. Now Stephano has re-emerged and is talking peace. I switched to station 4.4 at two o clock and they were having President Amedinajab of Iran. This guy really has the hootzbah. He just stands there and takes insult after insult that is heaped upon him by his Columbia University host. That’s Dennis Prager’s alma-mater and perhaps they have some conservative bent. I would have walked off the state myself because I would have seen anything I said given the poisoned atmosphere as pointless. Nonetheless the Iranian President made a stab at it and got metaphysical and talked about God and Science and revealed knowledge and spiritual matters being superior to the physical. He alluded to the Mormonesque doctrine of the Priesthood of Adam and how Adam was superior to the Angels. He either reminded me of St. Thomas Aquinas or else Ron Hubbard. He also talked about the hypocricy of the United States. But they cut the thing off when it came time for questions and the same thing happened on the rerun today. Are those people capable of even asking a QUESTION that isn’t some sort of mindless diatribe? After this I went out for that Coke. Then I tuned in Montell Williams where they talked about this woman back-packer who survived a sixty foot drop and dragged her now paralyzed body in an effort to “survive”.

Mark Germain is flaky, like a crescent roll or something. I thought he wanted to discuss President Amebinajab but instead the conversation degenerated into a debate between himself and his lady producer about “Can you speak out against the President here and get away with it?” In actual fact you can’t if you’re perceived as a threat and there have been so many examples of government intimidation and hammer-downs I don’t want to go into them. It will be people like Mark Germain yapping away when the authorities come to take him away and he won’t know what hit him. We know they listen and they keep records and the IRS and other agencies monitor and harass you and make your life miserable if you go against them. The Federation has never liked “Mr. K” as he is known, and yesterday did not improve his standing with the Orion Federation.

The Two Emerging Police States

Yesterday Sixty Minutes had Amenijab or the president of Iran on. He's the one who wants to lay a wreath or something at ground zero in New York and say a few appropriate words. I don't see why we shouldn't let him. We're just kind of being snobs by making an issue out of it. Also there those who don't want the Iranian president speaking at Columbia University. That would be funny if someone insulted Amenijab and got tazed by the cops! Dream on! The bigger issue last night was this whole idea we are fostering that the President of Iran has nuclear weapons. He said over and over again that Iran didn't need nuclear weapons and that the whole idea of nuclear weapons was obsolete in this world. After all, they didn't prevent the Soviet Union from disintegrating back in the 'eighties. The Sixty Minutes reporter kept baiting the Iranian president with the notion that Bush wants to start World War III and how Bush despizes him, and all the Iranian guy wanted to do was to talk peace, and give George Bush every benefit of the doubt, even when it comes to his own personal religion. It's clear by the media hype even Sixty Minutes, as liberal as they are is getting sucked up into- - - is the notion that Iran wants to start a nuclear war and that they are developing "weapons of mass destruction". Bush is playing off the same prompt card now five years later with a different country and he's hoping we buy his act. The fact is we did do Iran a favor by getting rid of Saddam Hussein. But does that make up for eight years of war with Iraq that Iran had to fight where we backed Saddam? You tell me. The Iranian president seems correct in saying that the U S keeps backing away from a chance at peace. Bush doesn't want peace. For Bush to say he wants peace would be as alien to him as it would be for Joseph Stalin to announce that Russia only wanted peace. It's not what this type of individual is all about, and has been from before he was elected.

Then we have that Russian chess champion. He took on twenty opponents and beat each and every one in the space of an hour and a half. Now he has turned his energies to the dangerous world of Russian politics. In this realm people don't play by the rules, and a lot of victims have been killed in the process. There are two emerging police states in the world now. One of them is Russia, and the other is the United States. In everything that Russian chess champion said there was an odd sense of deja vu. He says "Well I don't think Vlatamir Putin is going to candle the election next March. The polls right now say eighty percent of the people will vote for him, but if Bush has as much control over this country as Putin has over Russia, eighty percent of the people would favor Bush now. In his words were the same sentaments of how the Russian people are happy with their jobs getting wasted on vodka every night but managing, just as people in this country turn to their prescription drugs to help get them through their day of over work and under-paid jobs. The people in neither country want to rock the boat. The fact that the elections of 2008 in either this country or Russia haven't been suspended yet is more a function of "they haven't gotten around to THAT yet" more than it is any natural adhorance to the idea. I'm sure both Bush and Putin must have thought about it. We are an emerging police state and so is Russia. We've killed people and they've killed people. The Giuliani crowd in this country doesn't care about Civil liberties and neither do the Russian people. They have no appitite for anything with the word "dissent" in it. When that chess guy talked about all those "fringe" party candidates, I thought of Barry Goldwater's words, "Extremism in derfence of liberty is no Vice; moderation in pursuit of justice is no Virtue". I guess the "fringe" parties as people on CBS called them, over in Russia are kind of like Ron Paul's campaign here. They are people who, in Thom Hartman's words, "aren't afraid to speak the truth". These people are getting fewer and fewer. The idea of any party running on a libertine platform seems equally alien to both people in the Soviet Union, excuse me "Russia", as it does in this country.

Of course among the forces that "sell out" to foster a police state in this country is Religion. Who would have guessed that Giuliani would be the darling of the Religious Right in this country, or that Giuliani would be most popular in South Carolina. It seems that Christians don't care about all that "other stuff" they've been talking about like a person's personal life or his divorces, or his position on gays or immigration or gun control or abortion. The overriding position now is how do they feel about starting World War III? That's the big issue. Do they favor "Security" alias the Police State? When Gene Scott first became the pastor of Faith Center he did this "woe is me" routine, "Oh I'm divorced; I'm not sure whether the people down here will accept me as their leader". Of course that's before he began fooling around with his future third wife while touting his second wife as the perfect marriage. Oh I was talking about Gene Scott- not Giuliani, I see where the confusion came from! And now there is a whole new threat to religion from the government. It's something that emerged just after the 2004 election. There is a church in this area where the pastor gave an anti war sermon just before the November 2004 election. Now the I R S is after them for expressing a political oppinion from the pulpet. Something I've always found adhorant and a fundamental violation of the first amendment is that government would in Any Way dictate what is said from the Sunday morning pulpet by a pastor. And yet people like Thom Hartman speak of some "deal that was made during the Johnson Adminestration". I never heard about it and if Hartman's words are true there would have surely been an explosion of contraversey back in the 'sixties were such an idea to be proposed that "You muzzle what your pastor says and the IRS will go easy on you". If "separation of church and state" doesn't allow a pastor to speak his contience before God to his people- - that is speaking what God has impressed upon his heart to tell his congragation on any given Sunday- - I'd like to know what the hell the first amendment is all about if not this. This is the Bush Adminestration using the IRS the way Nixon did, to terrorize an individual and religious freedom. God and government machinations don't mix!

Then we have the marijuana laws in California. In the segment, California was portrayed as a "wierd" state for allowing marijuana "dealers" to poliferate. The point is we passed a law, and it was a law brought about through lawful processes by a vote of the people as provided for by the State of California, proposition 215, that says that you can use marijuana if you have a note from your doctor. I don't see how anything could be clearer. The federal government has no business being involved in this issue any more than they do in the abortion issue. It's an area of States Rights they need to stay out of. If the Supreme Court wont affirm this basic truth, we need to get justices on the court who will. The only problem I see with marijuana distribution is certain zoning factors like too much traffic obstructing parking, and late hours in a residential neighborhood. These problems can be dealt with in the normal manner. I think all these abortion people need to come out and demonstrate saying "We need to respect the relation between a patient and his doctor". The point of fact is that marijuana is useful for a lot of medical ailments, as well as for various textile and oil purposes. Obviously it's a drug that can be abused, but then so can Vallium. I don't know for sure but I think Vallium is in fact more addictive than marijuana, yet there are no mass protests against Vallium. Where is Larry Elder on this issue? He keeps saying he's a libertarian but he never seems to step up to the plate. As you know from that 'sixties Beatles program, marijuana also fosters musical creativity, the whole "flower power" movement in both art and music is marijuana influenced. Of course at the end of that program they had to say "This program in no way sponsors drug usage". Or as they say in Rock & Roll doctor, "We merely prescribe drugs, we don't advocate them".

In the Year 2027

What will life be like twenty years from now? If there is one thing we know it’s that we can’t predict the future. There is no anti gravity potion. We aren’t planting colonies on other planets. We haven’t exceeded the speed of light. Twenty years ago scientists could talk about the “strings” theory of matter that had recently been mathematically proven with a scientific formula. But what has come of it? I’d like to have as a goal in my life to study sub atomic particles such as leptons, pions, and mesons. Back in the seventies they were constantly discovering new subatomic particles. But what has become of them. I think I’d like to study genetics more completely. I know the genes are in a double helix and that there are four connecting letters between the strands standing for four compounds labeled A T C G - - I think and these four letters appear in different combinations along the two helix strands and that’s how we get our “genetic code”. I kind of think I’d like to study foreign languages. Thomas Jefferson was fluent in French and I think other languages. A lot of the famous men of that era were multi lingual. I’d like to study calculus after watching Nick and Chelsea yesterday. I know very little about calculus. I never took it. Two members of my family have taken probability and statistics. I’d done some “study” on my own and even done computer programming on the subject but I’d like to get into it officially. Someday I’ll probably become a computer chat room junkey, but it hasn’t happened yet. I just don’t have that much confidence in myself. As far as Match.com and all of those- - I guess if it’s in the stars it will happen but at this point I don’t see anything on the horizon.

Thirty years ago Anita Bryant brought up the topic of homosexuality for debate, and we are still debating it. We aren’t sure whether or not we accept it. Eugenics is not yet dead and when it comes to guessing which bad traits will be elected to be bred out, don't speak too soon, for the roulette wheel is still in spin and there's no telling who that it's naming. Twenty years ago we had never elected a Black president or a woman president or a Jewish or Athiest, or for that matter, Gay president. Guess what? We still haven’t. Those adept at scientific trends will say “If something has never happened, it’s unlikely that it’s going to happen tomorrow or any time soon. " Twenty years ago – it was Christmas 1986 Parents made announcements about their Will when they die that I was not pleased with. When I'm old and gray and want to call someone for the latest anti aging therapy- simple, I'll just call my parents. Their deaths could be a long ways off. Twenty years ago we thought Billy Graham was getting to be old. We’re still talking about Billy Graham crusades as the quintessential crusades. They used to say that computer speed would double every year and a half. When this computer came out in 2003 the going speed was about 2.4 gigahertz. Given the projected doubling rates the average computer should be operating at twelve or thirteen gigahertz by now. But it isn’t. Thirty years ago we were talking about improved gas mileage for cars. We’re still “talking” about it. Gas mileage has not improved. People back then talked about high speed bullet trains that would go two hundred miles per hour. We still don’t have them. Back then there was the Concord supersonic jet that had entered commercial use. Guess what? Not only don’t we have a lot more of them even the ones there were are taken out of circulation. Back in early 1987 when Iran-congragate broke and then Oliver North was held as a near hero for stabbing President Reagan in the back and saying “I was only following orders” there dress before congress in his military uniform, we hailed him as a hero. Even at that time it was clear to the perception that Ronald Reagan was already going senile. He had Nancy make all the important decisions for him such as schedule a press conference when the stars were auspitious. Of course now we have a one govt. branch dictatorship so it doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks. That’s how far we’ve progressed. I don’t think the US congress has the balls to tell the President that we are not a fascist military state. Back then I looked at the lives of other Born Again Christians. They all seemed to be prospering and mine was not. It’s still that way. The “Faith of our Fathers” is still pretty much alive and well, and there are still an awful lot of Red states out there.

So what will life be like in the year 2027? You know something? The way things have changed were not the ways people would have predicted they’d change. Of course our phones are vastly different now and our kids are tethered to their parents by cell phones and survailed in their driving by the latest spy equipment. We are much more afraid now in general. George Bush gets an A plus at fostering a climate of fear. I find that the way things the most quickly are the immediate people we surround ourselves with in our personal lives. I know it’s that way with me. Look at the vast turnover of people in this place in just the five & a half years I have lived here. You could almost guess which year it was at my old apartment by looking at a roster of the residents. The idea of a twenty year relation in a neighborhood or a job or a marriage seems pretty far fetched to me at this point. Of course in soap land they can do anything. They brought back Frankie and Jennifer and Jack and Austin and Carrie and Patch and Kayla and Benji. All from twenty years ago. I wonder if they’re going to bring them all back again twenty years from now. Eileen that therapist said something I guess she thought would be encouraging to me but was anything but. She said “When you’re seventy you just might get into a discussion group that you really find fulfilling and stimulating”. If that’s all I have to look forward to I just better off myself right now. There are possible good things. Medical discoveries are being made all the time. Perhaps I could get my eyes rewired to see with superior vision to even a normal person now. I have a feeling this “Baby Boom generation” is going out the way they came in, as a real pain in the ass to all concerned. They will probably be headlined as “The generation that refuses to die” as government goes bankrupt trying to support them. And the thing is 75 is not all that old now. Even then our generation won’t be close to the end of our lives. We’ll probably live to be a hundred. What will we be able to say in the year 2027? Will we have had our first woman president or Black president? Will the Catholic Pope in that era be talking about the same tired topics they’re talking about today? What will the music be like then? Will be still be listening to “Satisfaction” as I am right now on KRTH at 4:02 in the afternoon? Is Leo Le Port right. Will all our playback and storage devices of today we just invented be laughingly out of date in the year 2027? My guess is that our generation won’t regard 75 is all that old and will still be quite active. Back when I was a kid 75 was pretty much considered having one foot in the grave already. Will we solve our medical crisis? Will be solve this whole Al Qaida crisis that seems so important to us right now? One thing we know is that in politics things that seem important right now seem to fade away in time. But no matter what we’ll have the same two crusty democratic and republican parties and traditions in congress will probably be virtually identical to what they are today and all this talk about “reform” will be barely a blip in the radar screen twenty years from now. And we know this about tomorrow. It won’t feel like “The future”. In fact were you to take a camera there there would be just as much squallar and poverty and pot holes in the road and pealing paint as there is today. Nobody will be “flying around” then either, as John and Yoco talked about in their 1969 Christmas Message. It will be pretty much the same old same old it has always been.

Epilog: Just between you and me and the grand piano I'm predicting Vice President Dick Chaney will be impeached by congress. This snowball still has a lot more downhill course to roll. In Berok Obama's words I am daring to Hope. When the stars are auspitious one should act. Other quales still remain to be flushed from the bush. All the rates have not yet emerged from their hiding place upon news of the sinking ship. The fuse to the dynamite has not yet been quenched. Karma is less a hurricane than it is an earthquake- - and a resulting Tidal Wave.

And behold the New Messiah stood on the grassy mount and opened his mouth and told this parable against certain asshole Born Again pastors he’d known in his youth. “once there was a town where there were but two barber shops. One shop was emaculately neat with every bottle of hair spray lined up perfectly and not a speck of loose hair on the floor. That barber had an emaculate haircut. The other barber shop was in constant disarray and there was hair and dust and dirt on the floor and that barber looked as if his hair had been cut by a pair of hedge clippers. Now which one would you go to?” “Yes you in the front row. Your name please.” “Bart Simpson. I’d go to the barber with the messy shop”. “Why?” “Well- - - who do you think gave that barber his emaculately neat haircut?” “Thou hast spoken wisely my son”

Swift and Certain Exicution of the Law

Clearly impeachment of the President and Vice President should be the next thing on the congressional agenda. They talked about the “100 hours” but I’d like to have my memory refreshed just what was passed during that period. Clearly it had nothing to do with safeguarding our civil rights or limiting the abuses of power of President Bush and his co president, Dick Chaney. I know the media has it’s biases. Listening to Mr. KFI this afternoon one becomes painfully aware of the desire for sheer fluff from the consumer. That’s why we get it in the news. Mr. K even is promacing a segment called “All the news you don’t want” or something. Now they announce ahead of time when they’re going to bore you so you can change the station, preferably off. Thom Hartman had a new story this morning. He of course reminded us that Cindy Shehan said that as far back as 1999 that Bush had it as his goal to finish the war his father started and go ahead and take out Saddam Hussein. To accomplish this goal the administration got some Italian cleaning lady (?) to steal some stationery to fake documents of W M D sales from Niger that you’ve heard so much about. The documents were faked and then peddeled to the British and have them make the “discovery” so that Bush could say that Iraq was obtaining weapons of mass destruction. This isn’t the first time Republicans have tried to fake something. Back in the Ford administration, with Chaney and Rumsfeld in it, they were talking about the discovery of a secret submarine the Soviets had unleashed. The CIA checked it out and said there was no such thing and Rumseld quipped, “You See, I Told You So” (which also happens to be a famous book title. They were desperate then to scuttle the SALT II talks and this time, above taking vengeance on Joe Wilson for exposing the lie about the yellow cake uranium from Niger, they were out to cover up the whole idea of fraud leading us to eventual war. Taken as a whole, these acts would seem to most people to be an Impeachable offence, not just of Dick Chaney, as I said yesterday, but of George Bush as well. Of course the media is owned by the big corporations such as G E as in the case of NBC, and they and all other of the big four will thus be biased. Sixty Minutes still tries at times to get out the truth. They had that article about the government going bankrupt with Health Care expenses and how we pay 40% more than other nations for inferior health care, as I mentioned the other day. Ross Perot is the only guy who gave us the straight economic skinny in the election of 1992. Mr. KFI voted for Ross Perot as did I. That’s one thing good about him. Ross Perot told the truth about the way things are in this country economically. He was kind of a prophet, and he was smeared for it. Of course now we hear that the internet is in wide use in the Arab world and that Al Qaida makes liberal use of it. There was an old show about the Black Muslems in 1960 or so called “The Hate that Hate Created”. It sure does seem that we are feeding Al Qaida with our hatreds. I said there was still hope for a favorable outcome in Iraq and I’m sticking by that. But there will come a time when there is absolutely nothing we can do. How will George Bush feel when we’re there?

Of course today they announced they had discovered one of the prisons in northern Poland where the CIA sent prisoners to be tortured. I knew we were using Serbia but I didn’t know about Poland. Apparently Poland is reverting to its NAZI past or something. Apparently the prisons are so makeshift they arise spontaneously created out of buildings that originally were meant for other things. It would seem that some of these ex communists nations such as Poland and Serbia haven’t made a clean break with their totalitarian pasts. We constantly hear Bush is on friendly terms with Vladimir Putin. I wonder just what that means. Are fresh atrocities waiting to be discovered?

Last night on KABC prime time or whatever they had Jesus of Suburbia, who wears a pink shirt. Of course Bernie from 1993 used to wear pink shorts, and he had the nerve to call other people queer. Jesus is from Puerto Rico but has now settled in the furtile soil of Miami, Florida and hopes his winning ways will entice the rest of this nation. I hope he isn’t malicious the way Jim Jones turned out to be. As for having kids call themselves the Super Race, there may be no evil intent behind it. Perhaps he’s just trying to build their self esteem like “Black is beautiful”. As to his contention that there is no sin and no Hell let me deal with that. The book I was reading when I first started blogging and commented upon at that time said the same thing. You don’t necessarily have to be a nut to believe that and you can make a Biblical case for it such as St. Paul’s statement of “There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” or the line “All things are lawful to me”. I personally in my own ethics have a problem with the assertion that there is no Devil, no sin, and no Hell. I believe we can all think of sins that are Bigger than the man committing them. Sins that transcend man’s ability to reep reciprocity for them such as mass murderors and serial rapists and NAZIS such as Eichman and Mengele. Some arguments of Christians admittedly just don’t make any sense. You hear things like “If you continue to sin (drinking, carowsing ect.) you will just be driving the nails deeper into Christ on the cross”, but at the same time imply that if you don’t stop, you’ll be going to hell. If Jesus really saved you from your sins, you should be sin free and forgiven, “no matter what”. In the book of Daniel one of the things it says you’ll know the Messiah by is “He will make an end to Sin”. If that’s true than Jesus of suburbia is more of a prophet than these hand wringers in the pulpet. But you hear other things. Other things come with a “no matter what”. Jesus in the Bible plainly said, “For if you do not forgive sins against you from man, neither will your father in heaven forgive you”. In theological code what this means if you have a beef with someone who owes you money and on the way to his house throw a cigarette butt in the gutter, you are guilty of eternal Hell Fire. There seems to be nothing short of eternal burning in Hell for the “unforgiven”. There is no lesser penalty such as being locked in a room with a bunch of old ladies listening to Laurence Welk music viewing slides of the family vacation. If you refuse to forgive your brother, or “resist the evil one” when it plainly says NOT to resist the evil one, then you are recompensed by being Denied Forgiveness by your heavenly father. I cannot accept this premise and since Jesus taught it, it means I cannot accept Christianity and for the sin of “rejecting” it, I too am sentenced to exist in eternal hell fire. But there is one atrocity beyond this that really raises my hackles. David once prayed “Against thee Lord, and thee ONLY have I sinned”. I say, “No, you idiot, you sinned against that woman’s husband”. There is kind of a view that sins against men are OK; it’s only sins against God you have to worry about. Their argument totally breaks down though when you think I have to forgive a sin that might be against God rather than me, so it isn’t my fight after all, one way or the other. That Jessica Lunstrum girl or whatever from Florida was raped and murdered two years ago and her killer was just convicted for it today. It seems like we’ve had “Jessica’s laws” for child preditors for at least two years. The killer might well say to the victum, “Don’t bark at me with your problem. I didn’t sin against you. This is strictly between me and God so bug out!”. There is one more sick game Christians play. Jesus of K K K F I has stated “Well, evil can be a good thing because it brings out the actions of good men”. So the GPS ankle bracelets are a good thing and therefore the rape and murder was a good thing. No. This does not follow. Any more than these compact discs with copy protection that have “root kits” and sink their tentacles deep into your computer system and screw you up so that not even an antivirus can rid them. If we were to undergo a global ice age and thousands of people died from the cold would THAT be a good thing simply because some bright inventor came up with some new faboric to put in jackets to keep you warmer during those cold spells? Remedial is fine but preventative is much better. And the same things go for our ailing governmental processes.

THE REALITY AND NON REALITY OF MARCUS ARELIUS

There's a story, I thought it was in the "Black" file that I couldn't find. In it I offer an alternate version of events of late 1977 referred to in the last file. Oliver Stone, I hope you're taking notes. In this version I met a girl named Jenny at Cal St. Fullerton the first day of school or perhaps even during registration. We were both mutually attracted to each other. Jenny had long red hair and well shaped large breasts and loved psychedelic music of the sixties. We went to the beach that weekend and she introduced me to Jim Morrison who announced that from now on he'd be known as Mark Campbell. This is before his plastic surgery so I saw what he really looked like. We got married and moved into the Pinewood house. (which my parents would not own for another four years) Henry then tried to get me to agree to a divorce, and he moved in with me and I feared if I turned him down I'd be guilty of a non Christian act. But Henry, a so called friend of mine, for unknown reasons gave me a drug that caused me to have amnesia. Meanwhile Mark Campbell moved in with Pete Richards in the Palm Street house, which apparently I never visited. When Jenny learned I had amnesia Henry convinced her to move out and to "disappear" but later that winter I ran into her as if we met for the first time and I invited her to go on a retreat with the college fellowship group. We ended up having sex in the cabin, which should have been OK because we were married but Henry convinced me I had sinned and he would tell the others who didn't already know and I'd be disfellowshipped and end up in Hell.

Guilty As Charged

It’s a rather warm, dry, sunny day today, not too unlike that day in early October 1995 when the OJ verdict came in. Today the Sudder Libby verdict came in. Guilty as charged. A jury voted twelve to nothing to convict Libby on four of the five counts against him including obstruction of justice. The other four counts were two of purgery and two of giving false statements to the FBI. The vote for the one acquittal verdict was eleven to one in favor of conviction. Just to recap- - Joe Wilson went to Nigeria to investigate weapons of mass destructions and when the administration was told by Joe Wilson that there were none the President ignored the report and Dick Chaney ordered a smear campaign against Joe and his wife Valerie, who was outed as a CIA agent assigned to investigating Nuclear weapons in Iran. Scudder wasn’t charged directly with the crime as Patrick Fitzgerald explains because it was like a baseball umpire getting sand kicked in his face so that he wouldn’t make the correct calls. Unable to make the correct calls he went after the guy who was kicking up the most sand. The foreman of the jury was interviewed on 1150 today and he said they wanted to convict Dick Chaney but he wasn’t on trial. It’s likened to indicting the guy in the bank robberey that drove the get away car and the jury had a “finding of guilt” about everybody else but they were only able to convict Joe because Joe was the only person charged. Apparently Patrick Fitzgerald is no longer going to be special prosecutor because they did away with the position and now it’s up to Alberto Gonsolez the AG to do other investigation, which of course he won’t. But Fitzpatrick did say he would cooperate with congress if they wanted to bring impeachment charges against Dick Chaney. This seems to be our best bet at the moment. Getting rid of Dick Chaney would be like in Julius Caesar where they decided not to slay Mark Antony but only Julius because “Mark Antony is but an arm, who can’t function once the head is cut off”. I’ll be frank. I was starting to have grave doubts whether Libby would ever be convicted because the jury had taken ten days and now they were asking questions about “reasonable doubt”.

They are making medical advances all the time. Now they have discovered the LKCI bacteria in the intestine that constitutes seventy percent of the body’s immune system. They should have discovered that a long time ago if finding one thing would account for 70% of all immunity. Now they are saying that plump girls enter puberty sooner and are more plagued with promiscuity and other jouvenile delinquent offences. In 1970 they said there was a link between homosexuality and child molestation but they were using faulty research because most of the gays they interviewed were in police station jails. Further the act of molestation itself was considered an answer to the question “Have you ever participated in a homosexual act?” so obviously they found a link that may not be there. The latest study says that 45% percent of the 18 to 24 year old women have that papaloma virus in their system and most women naturally build up a defence to it. Further it is stated that 30% of cervical cancers are not linked to this papaloma virus.

Now they are selling Holy Water. They warn on the bottle that it may cause burning and itching to the unsaved, and not to drink alcohol with it.

There is apparently some guy called “Jesus of suburbia”, who wears pink and teaches that there is no Devil and that there is no Sin. Sounds like one hell of a church. When I first heard about it I thought it was the plot of a movie.

"Mr. KFI" ect. is on KTLK now. The Federation doesn't trust him and says he has some bad karma to deal with (notibly from July 1995) and if this fact is ignored his bad karma will end up jinxing the whole station such that the rest of Air America, not to mention the many new fans of the station, will come to mistrust both him and by extension the entire station. This line about "Now we're main stream" may be just a line, or it could be a troubling Omen.

The following was typed July 2004 when a lot of stuff was typed. The original file is called "Venture" and we might call this one "Venture into the Too Well Known". I'm going to post this right now before dinner and later on we can retire to the drawing room around a cozy fire with cigars and brandy and I can make the concluding remarks I was planning.

[three paragraphs at the beginning of this article have been removed]

It was the last Wednesday in August and [Pete Richards] and I were at a St. James Episcopal prayer meeting when word came Chuck Smith was doing a special on the End Times. He was interrupting his study on the Beattitudes to do it. On Thursday September 1^st. we went to Calvary Chapel. It was crowded so we had to sit outside. Chuck was talking about the European money system and these little chips they were using on cattle that they could put under the skin of humans. He said something drastic was happening on September 24^th. in a couple weeks. The next week, September 8^th. he held the meeting at the Anaheim Convention Center. In early August I had bought the Dylan album with “Masters of War”, “Hard Rain”, and “Talkin’ World War III Blues” on it. In this message Chuck Smith talked about the coming Holocaust in the Mideast and of the “Sampson option” by which Isriali officials would prefer to commit suicide but this time they would take the whole area with them. Chuck spoke of “their flesh shall consume away” from radiation, and people’s eyeballs melting and running down their face. And almost mockingly he said, “If you don’t like this message then Go to Hell”. I was disturbed by the group I was with liking this message and not being bothered by it. Right there it was showing a fundamental difference between me and other Born Again Christians. Later on Chuck made this message into a film.

The next weekend we had another swimming party at the Snows. I remember giving airplane rides to [name withheld] and [name withheld]. I lost a white comb I had had for five years and some-odd months, and I considered it a bad omen. Since my Suicide attempt my life had generally been on an upward course till now.

I started attending CSUF at the beginning of September. I took “Literature of the Middle Ages”, a class on Prisons, a Philosophy of Religion class taught by a teacher [Pete Richards] knew, and an Oriental philosophy class. At this time I changed my number one prayer to God from getting a girlfriend to - nothing going wrong in getting my transcripts from Cypress. I knew I finally had the required 56 units to transfer. It turns out that’s exactly what happened and after four weeks I was fourced to withdraw from all the classes. Mike Bowman was doing a study on Hebrews during that period and one of the scriptures was “Let us fear lest we miss a promise of God by failing to enter in”. I got prayer for my situation and considered it a test of faith. But I lost. About this time Rev. Mike canceled the volleyball games we used to have before the Bible Study nearby. It was just another symptom of that ultra spiritual quality [Mike] has. One time [Rev. Mike] gave thumbs down to a car rally to be held at the church. I guess they didn’t mix.

In September there was some big meeting at St. James Episcipal that had taken place. There were a lot of conflicts between the left and the right wing. But then Paul [last name withheld] stands up and reports “We thought we were facing conflicts, but by the end of the meeting we couldn’t remember what any of the conflicts were” and the congregation burst out in applause. Rev. Eagleson was the only glue that was holding left and right together. We home at parents I remarked “I don’t know, it looks like the church has to deal with some serious problems” and [someone] got mad and burst out that I was being negative. But of course in the end I was more than proven right.

[One paragraph was removed here].

In October, having to withdraw from school when some office list of “official students” failed to have my name on it, I was feeling a little dejected. On TV there was Transendental Meditation stuff on channel 18 with the “Seti” program. They said if they could get one percent of people meditating crime would drop and wonderful things would begin happening. They always ended with “Jay Guru Dev”. Also on TV was Chuck Smith’s program on the book of Revelation that had that catchy theme song, “I feel like we’re at the end of Time”. Also at that time Gene Scott was on the air.

Sometime around this period I attended some function at John Hmlin’s house from John’s group. His group was more caring and involved with people’s lives than was Mike. It’s kind of like comparing a dry gin to sweet vermouth. [added] : John Hamlin told me that he had something really profound to say to me, but that I “Wasn’t ready to hear it yet”. I’m naturally suspicious of lines like this.

Don Lies’ health had become a crisis issue at St. James’. Week after week Rev. [Eagleson] would be leading prayers for him. It was the last Saturday in October and we were at the [Bowman’s] house when word came that Don Lies had died of a heart attack. In retrospect I feel guilty for not praying fervently enough. Of course maybe God wanted her to be married to an “unbeliever” like Elliot. Something to complain about.

It was some time in the fall of 1977 I began to feel like I was spiritually stagnating. I said “I’m not growing” and people insisted that I was. One night in early November Mike Bowman didn’t lead the Bible Study. Vince and Debby did. We talked about this a few files back. Somehow I got into an argument with Vince about something and he said “I would be Biblically correct in cutting off fellowship with you” or ruling me out of the Faith or something. I was thinking in my mind, “this bullshit wouldn’t be happening of [Mike Bowman] were here”. Later on he said, “Call me anytime you need to talk”. But I didn’t. This offer seemed out of place. Debby was a little incensed. She protested, “Every morning at breakfast I pray for you”.

About this time [Pete Richards]l and I went to a meeting to have prayer for three women who were pregnant at the time. This seemed to me a super spiritual act. It was Robin, [name withheld], and some other woman. [Robin] gave birth to a girl with no right hand. [Pete] said it was because [Richard] had taken LSD. What surprised me was the air of calm resignation with which they took the news. It’s been 52 years since doctors told my parents [material withheld here]. You know, “Can’t we take this one back to the maker and get another one?”

It seems as if I was waiting forever for “News of the World” by Queen to come out. Meanwhile I bought “Ziggy Stardust”, which had the song “Five Years” on it. According to this song the end should be this year. It was at this time I launched the concept of the Z A C to the media. Ziggy’s Air Command”. It was kind of a quantum leep in delusion.

Like "All the Presidents" men this narritive extended on for several more months past November but for audience purposes we decided to conclude it here. How many of you can guess what I had for dinner tonight? How many of you think it was spaghetti? Well, you win the E J Wells door prize and I'll ship it to you as soon as I can contact E J Wells to find out what it is. Wally was going from table to table with some green leafy stuff he says was oregano, saying for people to use it on their spaghetti. I declined. It looked a little too organic. I trust it was really oregano. There's a guy named Marcus who lives here now. I thought of passing myself off as him making some kind of public appearence. I'd let him talk for a half hour, ponthicating the way he does, and then I'd have someone bring me out for real. Of course I'm sure Chelsea would be jumping up and down saying, "I knew he wasn't the guy all along".

I would now like to offer two narritives. Perhaps you can tell how they are connected.

There's a shot of a back yard and a bunch of cats, about five or six in a yard kind of looking at each other and sending each other tail signals and such. Then another cat bounds over the fence. Most of the other cats hide, at least a little. The new cat strides accross the yard and begins meowing and arching his back, rubbing his back up against a patio cover post.

Jesus taught a parable about a dishonist manager who robbed his boss by writing markedly reduced ammounts for the receipts that were debts the owners creditors owed. Instead of getting mad, when the head of the business found out he praised the employee for his stealth. For when the employee got fired, as he surely was, he found safty in the shelter of one of those other creditors, on who's half he swindled his boss. Jesus concludes "Thus the sons of light shall be cast out and mankind will find everlasting habitation in the gates of their new master".

Here is the moral of the tale. Both stories are playing to an audience unseen. The cat was "playing" to the human being taking the movies, and not for the other cats. As such one would obtain a distorted view were he to assume there were no human beings in the picture. In like manner it's dubious Jesus ever told this parable - - particularly to a Jewish audience. The Jews hate crooks just like anybody else and faithfullness is a highly prized trait. What we see could well a post Marcionization trate, after the Church came under the sway of Marcion and became anti semetic. The apostle Paul lived around the turn of the century and as we have said both Ignatious and the "Pauline" letters are derivitives of his life. Paul lived in pre Marcion times when the anti semitisum hadn't developed so far. If Jesus really was Philo of Alexandria, perhaps then he was referring to himself, knowing his movement would begin in Egypt but soon take shelter under Roman wings. It is said the Bible is inerrant and that the Bible is and has always been a fixed cannon of scripture. Yet one needn't look far to find errant prophecy. Let me give you a few examples. Jesus himself tought that "You will see the Abomination of Desolation standing in the Holy Place". This referrs to the Jewish Temple, that was still standing in Jesus's time. Zachariah says there would be "blood rising up to the horses' bridals" at the battle of Armageddon. We're going back to horses? Also it is written that if Egypt would not bring the anual sacrifice to the Temple that Jehovah would not send rain on them. Some times the obvious needs to be given a second look. It's obvious that Dick Chaney and Karl Rove are guilty along with Libby in this whole Wilson-gate affair. Yet it looks as if these two will never be brought to justice and nevertheless Bush will end up pardoning Libby anyhow. This is what we have sunk to. Any God worth worshipping should value things like faithfullness and justice and truth, as well as sober, coherent logic. We are a long way from this. It's clear we are going to one day have a government credibility crisis in this nation. Are we up for that challenge? "Tag, you're it!"