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.
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