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 1st. 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 24th. in a couple weeks. The next week, September 8th. he held the meeting at the
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
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!"
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