Governor Swartzenegger Under Fire

Today is September 9th. which used to be called Admission Day here in California. Back in pre-historic times when I went to school, the nineth would often be the last or nearly the last day of summer vacation. Back in 1962 they started that year on September 11th. I remember that on the tenth, a Monday, I spent a lot of time riding a skate board I had recently received as a gift from a neighbor. The first day of class in gym, me and a fellow named Danny Castro didn't have our names on the teacher's list so we had to go to the front office to clear the mess up. I had altered my class schedule at the last minute so that I could take band. That was about the only year I can think of where a girl actually had her locker directly over mine. Her name was Karen Hooper and she had to reach over me. But quite a number of girls were taller than I was that year. Anyhow- the governor is under fire now because of that ill conceived edit of his that state employees have to work for $6.55 or whatever the federal minimum wage is now untill a budget gets passed. We are in excess of seventy days without a budget here, which is a record even for California. The state controler said he'd refuse to go along with Swartzenegger and refuses to cut the stat employee's pay but issue the full check. Now Swartzenegger is also under fire from the prison guard's union. They claim that since their jobs involve public safety, they shouldn't have to receive the cut in salary. They are initiating a new Recall motion.

Kim Jung Ill may have had a stroke because he hasn't appeared in public in over a month. Of course when you're laid up there is a possability of a "come to Jesus moment", but I know that's wishful thinking. I don't think Communists worry about the after-life. It isn't in them to worry.

I've heard on the news, and Thom Hartman talked about it yesterday, that they were going to artificially produce a "Black Hole". I know, this is just like Wesley Crusher's experiment on Star Trek, creating his own Universe trapping his mother in it. Hartman is right in that a Black Hole is like its own Universe. But under Einstinian physics, if you do the math, Black Holes in this Universe are an impossability. This isn't to say they don't exist; only that it is impossible to ever know about then or go to or from them or for them to "suck up matter" from this Universe. So there are those who believe this manufactured Black Hole could start swallowing up everything but I'm here to tell you that mathmatically, that is an impossibility. Giving the definition of a Black Hole- - I think even the production of one is a mathematical impossibility.

Of course the hurricanes keep on coming. We've had Faye, Gustov, and Hanna, and now are getting ready for Ike, and the latest research indicates Ike will strike on the Texas-Mesico border. They had talked about a bi polar ridge of two higher pressure systems and maybe Ike would shoot right down the middle and head right to Florida. But now it looks as if it will take the more circuitous rout via the Mexican border. Josephine is out there but we don't know much about her yet.

In terms of the campaign you of course know that Mc Cain has overtaken Obama in the gallup poll. The boost for Mc Cain among white women is phenominal. I think the women of America have found their candidate, and it's Sarah Palin. The insulting thing is that Palin thinks she is equal to someone like Obama and argues as though she were his equal. So when she talks about ear marks on bills, Obama gets down to her level by even attempting to find rationality in her absurdity. She's the one who said she never sought earmarks. Obama never said that. Pork is good is you're running for re election. The whole thing with Palin is that per capita, Alaska gets way more pork than any other state of the Union and this should be the area of focus.

I'm just going to report the following in a "spin free zone". Jesus on KFI had previously said that fire fighters who saved lives in 9 - 11 but who wern't saved - - would go to Hell when they died and their many good works would be for naught. This time a woman asked Jesus about Surgons who save lives every day. And if you save a live it gives them a possibility of coming to Jesus they never would have had. In like manner Jesus said that unsaved surgons would go to Hell. And he said "You never know what they have done in their lives. They might be child molesters or something". Then Jesus used the following example. "You know, you wouldn't invite someone to dinner at your house just because he said he was a surgon, if you didn't already know them. Well, I wouldn't invite people to my house either that I don't know". So here we have the ultimate anthro-pomorphic example of God being like man in every way.

OK I believe on our next posting we'll be jumping to another blog. It will either be Cosmic Tides or Psychic Ballance, I'll have to check. I don't know how Sarah Palin can expect to get through a debate with Biden when her handelers won't even let her talk to the Press. I've never heard of such a thing as a major political candidate being sequestered like this.

What a Revolting Development This Is

OK I'll give you fair warning that this posting is going to sound like a shouting match heeded argument between Norman Bates and his mother up at the house. People want to know about the spiritual powers behind events. The book of Daniel talks a lot about "duels" between warring demonic entities and who is destined to win and to lose, and who is on top in the future. Listening to these Gene Scott sermons in mid 1980 I found intriguing, and provided part of the motivation for me to write my Prophecy book. As you may know there is a group from the constellation of Cassiopia that has been the "ruling power" behind the United States' imperial domination of the world that Internationalists of both Democratic and Republican stripe charish. Since World War II it's been accepted as normal that the United States was and is destined to rule the world, with Jesus Christ looking over the President's shoulder fondly. This impitus has been so strong that no President who dared oppose or dispute the wisdom of this philosophy has ever long succeeded and Jimmy Carter was the only President to ever show himself to be a whimp and a non patriot- - and he was booted out of office by the American people. It is this spirit that will decide the election of 2008. It won't matter how bad the economy is. Mc Cain in his own mind has already divorced himself from the responsability of any failings of the Bush adminestration. Like talk of impeachment or discussing of constitutional violations or abuses of power by Karl Rove and others- - such discussion is off the table in this campaign. But also taken off the table is any talk of "fixing" our trade deficet situation or the loss of American jobs or this economy going to hell in a hand basket. Mc Cain has refashioned himself as a crusador for Good Old Christian Values and "The American Way". The Mc Cain everybody else knew up to a very few years ago is dead and burried. The Karl Rove who oppressively fought dirty in the 2000 by Bush against Mc Cain, is now the organizer of his campaign. Mc Cain has truely morfed into his worst enemy. International newspapers have noted the loss of "the old Mc Cain". I listened to Johnny Wendell this morning and he talked of all the lies that were told by most everybody at the Republican convention. Tom Ridge, Mit Romney, Rudolph Giuliani, and everybody else who spoke has voiced the same line. Dennis Miller once said of course we need to sacrifice constitutional rights in the name of "Security". In fact, Dennis said he'd personally be willing to sacrifice more rights than we have so far. You think eight years of Bush is enough, but the fates have decided that it won't be eight years but twelve.

I was musing today what if Jesus Christ was taken aside sometime early in his ministry and told by Satan that certain issues were "off the table" for him to discuss. Above all Isrial's status as a nation or anything resembling patriotism could not be mentioned. That Rome had if anything to be referred to in morally superior tones to that of Israel. In fact Jesus could not even claim that he came to deliver Iseael from Roman oppression. The devout hearing these words would immediately say to me "Well, Isrial deserved to be punished for their Unbelief". Let me give you another example. When Moses said to Pharoah in Egypt, "Let My People Go" it is said that God hardened Pharoah's heart and he made it worse on the Hebrews than it had been on them before. What we have in the Bible are stories with a pre determined end, but how we get there is not always to people's liking. Jesus never quite said to the people "I'm not the deliveror of Israel you are looking for" but he came pretty darned close. Today the democrats and constitutionalists and libertarians and "artists" of all sorts are looking for "Deliverance" from the past eight years. Let's just say I've "talked to God" and it ain't gona happen. There is a world war in the next four years already written into the play book and to quote scripture, 'What I have written, I have written". Mal Evans told me that in order to preserve Security in the Federation, the Sutterans have to be attacked now. This move to attack them was a fairly swift resolution based on various lists of offences, not unlike the declaration of independance. Now what this means is since the Sutterans were such a MAJOR power behind the Democrats, that they are now so weakened in power that they can't win. Indeed Obama owes his soul to the sutterans because his "guardian angels" made sort of a "Deal with the Devil" with the Sutterans so that he would win the nomination instead of Hillary. I say this because the powers that back Obama, the spiritual powers upholding him, are corrupt and destined to go down. Mal Evans hated having to face this truth himself and had arguments with the Powers that Be about it. So he understands that it may take time for me to "get used to it", kind of like that proverbial cow pasture that Kruschev talked about. But he says "Well, there will be a slightly more liberal congress so maybe it won't be so bad". But he said this half mockingly. There will be a War with Iran that will include the exchange of nuclear arms.

Sometimes the Federation gets into the motion picture business. A few weeks ago they did a movie called the "Truth" about me. In this thing I became a close friend of Howard Richards in the later part of 1973 and that I was also by a technicality involved in the comitting of a murder. In January of 1974 after the semester expired he suggested I leave Orange County where the crime was committed. My new second cousin Henry lived in Paccoima and my mother thought it wouldn't be at all a bad idea for me to get to know him better. He is the grandson of my grandfather's older brother who was believed to be dead but later discovered alive. It was based on an error in reading a diary carefully. But I made the mistake of confiding in Henry about my situation with Howard and my illegal activities. So Henry ratted me out to the family and I had to appear in court in April of 1974. After more time passed I was giving a modified sentense of about a year and a half I began serving in late August of 1974. In mid 1975 I was told I could get out if I didn't associate with the criminal element and lived an exemplary life, and if I took some course leading to a productive occupation. That's where Golden West and the sound engeneering course comes in. - - - - - Now the Orion Federation has another movie that says that Zachary, or his body anyhow, is the antichrist and is destined to soon appear. That the spirit that exited his body in early 1984 went into Valerie S. and that Zachery was no longer in any way the Zachery anybody else had known, and he grew up to lead a secret life of evil, but that the Sutterans who also know his true paternity, will unleash him on the world soon. Yesterday, Friday September the 5th. was his 33 rd. birthday.

John Mc Cain - Dangerous for America

I'm really perplexed by people's positive response to this week's republican convention activity. I don't think people realize the ramifications of the things being said. Giuliani and Mc Cain are attacking Washington all right. But they're calling government now a hot bed of liberalism, which they are going to take swift action to remedy. The decisions of the current Bush Supreme court are attacked as too liberals, such as saying the accused have the right to habious corpus. Palin is not a reformer but a corrupt crook who is up to her eyebrows in scandal and misconduct. Yet she is being sold to the public as some kind of feminist heroin. Mc Cain and Giuliani keep talking about the out of control government spending over the last thirty years and yet most of that time Republicans have been in the White House. Mc Cain disagrees with Bush on foreign affairs, all right. Where Bush has made a deal with the Meliki government to reduce troops in the future in Iraq Mc Cain wants to stay there, apparently till the last Moslem has bitten the dust. Sarah Palin sees the Iraq War as some sort of a holy war for God and Christianity. These people want to have Creationism as the new educational standard for our young, and they want to remove sex education from our schools, so that we have more unwanted pregnencies. Mc Cain's attitude tword the Georgia invasion by Russia may sound appealing at first- - but if it's so conservative even Pat Buchannon is sounding the alarm for caution, I think Mc Cain better reassess his position before he plunges us all into World War III. I think there are questions about the "temperment" of both candidates that need further analysis. We know Sarah will pursue a personal vendetta even if she has to abuse her powers to do it. You know, for six years Bush has had everything he wants and vetoed almost no bills with the notible exception of stem cell research, which he is against. Bush has been the most conservative President we've had in the past eighty years but Mc Cain wants to go that one better. One might be inclined to dismiss this latter day Goldwater convention as some hysterical blowing off of steam that will ammount to nothing. But even though the Republicans are attacking the media, which itself has become much more conservative, it would seem this same media is giving a "thumbs up" on the convention and in the latest polls now Mc Cain is clearly ahead of Obama in numbers.

Sometimes nothing goes as planned. I never thought the Republicans had a chance if Obama got nominated. I thought with a good man at the head of our ticket, the Republicans would be toast and have nothing to say. After all Mc Cain has voted with George Bush 95% of the time. There was a total absence in that speech of any reaching out to centerists or independants. Mc Cain, Giuliani and Romney have all had that Karl Rove "make-over" for this convention. Democrats never talked about gay marriage. The republicans in this convention are trying to minimize the issue of abortion, though it does still get mentioned. But I would have thought that Obama would have a significant "bounce" by now from the Democratic convention. If you look at the Dukakis - Bush race of 1988 you see a parrellel trend. The democrats have this big lead early on and then there is that "turning point" where people are "turned". In my personal life I thought September would be a good month. I was expecting that renter's rebate to kick in early this month since I was seventeen days earlyer in getting the application off from last year. Now I'm told I may not get that. My mother was talked out of helping me financially, even though a week ago Sunday she had said "I have so much money you don't need to wait till I die before you get it". That's all changed now. When my Dad was alive I would usually get a Christmas check of about three hundred dollars. I didn't get that this year. And of course I didn't get a panny of the Bush rebate. Taken all together it ammounts to a considerable financial loss from what I was expecting. I think Joel Olsteen needs to take another look at his theology. Now this morning I had blood drawn for a full work-up, because I health has come into question. Of course I was right about one thing. This is the worst hurricane season in three years and I predicted that. But if "thinking it' made it so, then I'd be God. So I don't rightly know where Joel Olsteen gets his theology from. Sometimes things come out of nowhere and knock you off your feet.

There are disturbing rumblings from the Other Side. I might say messages from the Orion Federation are different from ordenary "psychic intuitions". Communacations from the Other Side tend to be much more reliable than psychic preminitions. I was told by Stewart that the Sutterans were going to be military attacked by the Federation. This was a couple days ago. Yesterday I was told by someone that Mc Cain is going to win the election, and nobody can do anything about it. Mal Evans had the message of "Sometimes you just have to Sell Out", referring to the Federation's position that the race is now hopeless and Mc Cain will win. If you are a Calvinist and believe "What will be will be" then nothing can be done to alter this political race from a result that has already been pre-decided. Whoever wins will become an unpopular president because of all the economic mess they inheret. And as you know we have been predicting a major world conflict, which will start in a couple years.

There are still a lot of people who believe that Berock Obama is a practicing Moslem and that he's gotten significant money from Moslem organizations that he hasn't given back. Many on the right think we pay too many taxes now and that Mc Cain will cut today's high tax rates for businesses. This is a platform plank. There is "good change" and "bad change" and with Mc Cain as President of the land, we are likely to see a lot of "bad change" in our future.

All Style and No Subatance

I'll say this about Sarah Palin's speech last night. The writers who wrote it, and who wrote all the speeches deserve an accadamy award. There is no way Mrs. Palin wrote all but a fraction of that speech herself. It was too cleaver for a dingbat like her to have come up with those one liners. She threw everything but the book in including the relative land masses of Delaware and Alaska. And the things she said about Obama were crude, tacky, utterly tasteless not to mention completely untrue. To equat her two bit corruption laden job as mayer of a small hick town with the community work Obama was doing to actually improve the lot of humanity and his own people, - -is without justification. And how dare Guliani bring up the line about "They would never ask her those questions about raising her kids and being Vice President is she wern't a woman". I don't know about you but they say women have a better sense of smell than a man. And this Convention's alledge embrace of feminism doesn't pass the smell test. I've heard Palin was still nursing her youngest child. No, they'd never accuse s man of that! There are still doubts as to whether it wasn't daughter Bristol who had the baby and not Sarah, because I'm told Sarah didn't look pregnent either on that fateful plane flight or giving a speech when she was six months pregnent that's on You-Tube, but as Randi Rhodes put it, "was wearing a perfect size six". As Biden says nowhere in the whole convention was there any talk about what anybody will do about anybody's problems in the country. We had Fred Thompson's analogy the other night about "only taking water from one side of the bucket". It's a cute analogy, but these people are nuts if they think corporations who have their taxes cut are going to suddenly start being more generous with their employees OR cutting prices to their customers. What is "ideal" and what is greedy corporate human nature are two different things. The fact is unless you earn over $250,000 per year, you will not have your taxes hiked. I can only guess the "target audience" of the Republicans this week is richer than that. Sarah lied about not taking money for the Bridge to Nowhere. She's lied about a lot of things. They inflated the population of the town up to ten thousand people. And I seriously doubt whether Mayor Palin received more votes than Biden did in any primary. Even if it should be true, it's immaterial. We know how obsessed they are with oil drilling with those "drill, baby, drill" chants. This is a woman who believes that Creationism should be taught in the schools, and goes to a church that says the War in Iraq is doing God's will. And her husband is a member of a group that wants Alaska to cecede from the Union. That's beyond the pale extremism. Apparently the facebook web site of the future husband of Briston is obscenity laden and states that he has no intention of marriage. Sarah's extreme stand on abortion wasn't mentioned, and neither was there any mention of being a gun freak. Of course I don't believe anyone at this convention is a "Maverick". The whole thing was choriographed and scripted by some master string puller, perhaps Karl Rove. This is a petty and vindictive woman possibly obsessive in getting her own way and abosing her givernment position to fire people. But you know, I bet Randi Rhodes has a lot of things to add to the list here.

In terms of my personal life I am undergoing a bit of a personal crisis now. There is a certain married couple who has a long track record of stabbing me in the back any time they get a chance, even if they have to "make" an oppertunity. You can go back to August 1980 for her and back before my suicide attempt for him, to see that the two of them have the heart of a betrayer. We can't have Christian Fellowship because they don't trust me, and I sure don't trust them. I'd like to quote Jesus words "If you don't forgive your brother, then God will not forgive you". This is assuming I am the one who is "The sinner" by smoking cigarettes. It's much more complicated than that and I don't care to get into it here. Let me just say that in the wife's case at least- - when we finally do get to heaven, I don't care if I ever see her again. Scripture says the standard by which you juge others will be applied to you. I'll leave it there.

Let them Eat Cake

John Mc Cain today has stated that he is thinking of cancelling the St. Paul Republican convention is the hurricane Gustav crisis materializes. The best indications are that Gustav is headed right for New Orleans. After it left the mountains of Cuba it went from a three to a four and now some say a category five storm. Winds are at least 145 mph. Mc Cain doesn't think it would be right to hold the convention under such circumstances. There is talk that the Media will be "confused as to which story to cover" if there are two events going on at once. But as Johnny Wendell says it isn't as though we have some shortage of reporters that they can't allocate their time well and cover both. Of course three years ago George Bush was presenting John Mc Cain with a birthday cake on his then 69th. birthday. Apparently Marie Antwenette was tortured by her Jacoban captors into being forced to watc the beheading of all her clossest survants before she herself was beheaded in the Guillitine. But John Mc Cain has more pressing problems. There is talk his vice presidential pick, Sarah Palin, won't last out the week. The "vetting" process has begun and there are so many scandals in her closet it isn't surprising that Mc Cain doesn't know them, since he apparently chose her after meeting with her only once, after one phone call. Sarah Palin is the governor of Alaska and before this was the mayor of a town of only 6,700 people. She is a gun freak and likes to skin and eat wild moose. She goes to the assembly of God church, and doesn't even believe in abortion in the case of a father raping his own daughter. It would seem that Alaska is a hotbed of political corruption. Sarah Palin was for the "bridge to nowhere" before she was against it. She had this "Who me?" attitude when picked, like a woman who'd just won the Irish Sweepsteaks. She told someone that she didn't even know what the dutues of Vice President were. She brought a Wal-Mart to her city, which is kind of a strike against her knowing all the people that are driven out of business. She is definitely against the little guy. Apparently she worked to bring some Sports Arena to her city but refused to offer the owners a fair price for the property but apparently began building the Arana anyhow, and now the city government is in big legal trouble and each and every tax payer is out a cost of three thousand dollars a piece. Also there was a "trooper gate" type case where a popular qualified commander was fired out of sheer spite and not even given severence pay. But the new guy she hired only lasted two weeks, and he for that two weeks was given a ten thousand dollar severance package. No doubt her views on abortion will be praised by some. She gave birth to a child with Down's sidrone despite being warned of this fact before she gave birth. Apparently she connects with John Mc Cain on some emotional level. But since this is the first "executive decision" candidate Mc Cain made, it's a shame he didn't make a better choice. In my mind I'm not sure whether Mc Cain is competetent either. There is stil those anger issues that appear unresolved. Johnny Wendell believes the media will protect Paylin from scruteny for the same reason they rig the polls so that Obama is never very far ahead. It reminds me of that Star Trek episode where Kirk revs up his phaser to full power and yet can't even make a dent in the wall he is aiming out. But Kirk says "How do I know I just didn't put a hole in that wall a mile wide but you people are preventing me from seeing it? Some would say the Democrat Convention as a whole "knocked the ball out of the park". But now matter how well they perform people like John Kovel will say "the whole thing is pointless anyhow".

All told I would rank the speeches given at the Convention in the following order. First place goes to John Kerry. Then Bill Clinton. Then Hillary Clinton. Then Joe Biden. Obama's speech was better than most speeches he's given and he "pulled a lot of things together". It was more like a Sunday sermon than a speech. He seemed to address his audience like Roosevelt used to do with his radio fireside chats. He treated the situation as some crisis for which every American would have to make sacrifices. There were things "that got left out of the biscuit recipee" as Everett Dirkson once said of a 1967 speech by LBJ. There are certain things nobody talks about such as terrifs and trade and NAFTA. This is such an important issue it can't just be ignored. Also left out of the biscuits was any reference to the impeachment of George Bush or the many misdeeds of George Bush and torture and abuse of powers and unauthorized spying on Americans or the Patriot Act. Also the Don Siegelman affair wasn't mentioned that has Karl Rove's fingerprints all over it. How can naked political abuse go unnoticed. And I haven't even gotten to the election irregularities of 2004 or Republican caging practices of potential voters.

Some might say not to grow weary in well doing. Dr. Dean Edell today was talking about vaccinations and is it OK if one person doesn't vaccinate his kids for various "reasons"? Sometimes things are a clear if not a present danger. The doctor says vaccinations are like speed limits and stop signs. The world won't come to an end if one person speeds, or rolls through a stop sign. But if society as a whole does it, you know you're headed for problems. So it is with vaccinations and "herd immunity". There is historically shown a specific point where if you go below it as far as percent of vaccinations is concerned, all those old diseases will again get a foothold. Besides they took the mercury out of vaccinations ten years ago and this autism thing is more hysteria than anything else. Did you know giving chili peppers to a horse is illegal? It seems it makes him run faster and makes him less sensitive to pain, and we can't have that. Even though some would call it a "natural drug". One "natural drug" herb now has been hyped on a radio station I listen to to restore the brain cells in your brain and prevent memory loss. It is said that if caffein were offered as a new drug today as a white powder that the government would never approve it. It seems that marathon bikers all use caffein. They just can't give chili peppers to horses. I guess nobody wants to start the roomer that in fact caffein will be the next target of the liberals as a substance they want to ban. They've already gone after tobacco and fast food. It would seem each subsequent thing will make less sense to ban than the previous thing so that in the end you will have media hysteria rather than reason ruling the day.

I myself am still loosing weight. I've lost in excess of fifty-five pounds in the last 26 months, and that's thin enough for me, and now I have a cold, which can't help. I have cut my cigarette buying expenditures to a third or less than what they were two and a half years ago, but I'm not sure that's enough for my mother and one brother. This is in the face of raging inflation where I got a four dollar raise for the year. Rent has gone up in the face of collapsing real estate prices. And like I say I'm one of the few people that didn't benefit from George Bush's tax rebate. Of course I promised "God" I'd quite smoking if Obama was nominated. Yet Johnny Wendell said something today that got me thinking about the credibility of Christianity. There is a fact, actually a set of two parrellel facts if you know what I mean, that if focused on and thought about even a little would leave Christianity quite vulnerable and "unprotected". If this fact were generally known (or believed) Christianity in total would go up in flames faster than that paper machet Thanksgiving table decoration Lisa Simpson had on a Simpson's episode.

Do you ever have a thought that just reverberates around in your mind and you wonder if it means anything or your brain is just on overdrive? You know that line Drive radio played the other day about President Reagan doing that radio mic test where he says "We have now declared the communist empire against the law. The bombing begins in five minutes". Of course we had a President Luther thing on "Smallville" the other night where Lex is even more evil than he is in real life where he blows up the world world in World War III to start anew and build a master race or something. Some worry about whether an aging President Mc Cain wouldn't decide life was no longer living because one of those skin melenomas will eventually do him in, and why not just take the rest of the world along with him as long as he's not going to be here. The vision in my brain was of that star, Krypton blowing up. I was musing on how there was that Jewish deliveror in 135 AD who started a war for Isrial against Rome. And his name in English means "Son of a Star". Is this a comon messianic theme where a star blows up and the lone survivor goes to another planet and becomes the Messiah? I don't know. I'm just thinking. And what of that dream I had were some star went supernova or something on December 12th. of a certain year? Does that mean anything? The trouble is if we did see a star go supernova this year- - it would have occurred years ago like in 1989 or perhaps much forther back.

Obama's Nomination is Official

This country has done nominated it's first Black man from a major political party for the highest office in the land. This most certainly is a momentus day. Last night was much better than the previous day all told. I tuned in CNN as the seconding speeches were being given for Hillary Clinton and then there were the nominating and seconding speeches for Obama. Then you had that real scripted circus thing going where they started the rowcall vote and the speeches from each state got longer and longer, till they arranged that bit of theatrics to have New York and Hillary was there to stop the voting and have the vote done by acclamation, which means states like Ohio and others in that end of the alphabet didn't get their moment in the sun. Now we all have a deeper appreciation of the Joe Biden family and what sort of dedicated man Joe Biden is. He gave an excellent speech. John Kerry gave an excellent speech. Bill Clinton's speech was meaty and well structured, some would say "like a legal argument". Joe Biden's speech was also quite logical and systematic showing and contrasting all the areas where John Mc Cain has just plain been wrong. It would seem that the Republicans really have their work cut out for them trying to top those speeches of last night. I guess for tonight we need to just pray that none of those predicted (?) thunder storms will happen at Invesco Field. One would hope the Republicans would listen to Clinton's, Biden's, and Kerry's speeches from last night ti size them up and figure out whether it's possible to do better than that. I really think the Republicans should look for a different man at the top of the ticket, because I bet a lot of people attending the convention already regret that they're stuck with Mc Cain. Mc. Cain has so completely sold himself out in the past few years - -not long at all- - that one would be hard pressed to talk about Mc Cain's past without reminding the deligates that he used to be a liberal.

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This is an overcast Thursday morning August 28, 2008. It’s funny the things that pop into your brain when you first awake. I was thinking of that time when Tom Leykis was talking about he was mad at his father for having so many kids that they had to move into a bigger house. When Tom was eleven in the summer of 1967 he lived in the Bronx and went to all the Yankee’s games. But when he was twelve his family moved to a big house out on Long Island and Tom was so lonely. And he would hitchhike back into town to spend time over at his cousin’s whom he was good friends with. I think some significant planet has moved into a new house today. I feel different. I was thinking on how I’d have to quite smoking to honor that fleece to God last May that is Obama actually won the nomination I’d quit smoking and do something else the very nature of prevents me from even bringing it up now. Of course this time of year you always get that “summer is almost over” feeling because the days are so much shorter both on the evening side and the morning side. We had oatmeal for breakfast along with toast and scrambled eggs and coffee. Alma remarked about the below average temperatures.

I caught hurricane Gustav on the Today show before breakfast and Rush Limbaugh is right. God is a democrat. They are already making plans to evacuate the city of New Orleans days in advance of the storm. Of course August 29^th. is the anniversary of the storm- - and I’d like to confirm in my own writings. This is the date that Mc Cain has chosen to make his Vice Presidential pick. Talk about lasts, August 29^th. 1966 was the last time the Beatles played a live concert, and that was in San Francisco, of course. It was seven years to the day that the Beatles were officially launched as a band. A tidbit I didn’t share yet was it was August 29^th. that Mona Best opened up the Casbah Club and George Harrison and bass played Ken Brown had just quit their band Les Stewart Quartet, and they ran up John and Paul and they formed the Beatles. And of course, they have been a hit ever since.

I guess the question is do I have to say everything about last night twice, or can I use this material on my blog. We’ll see. It’s kind of funny how people are always talking about the South sides of town. To listen to the media you wouldn’t even think towns had a northern half. You hear of south Chicago, south Boston, and south Philadelphia, and south central LA. Of course you know that Mom moved a lot when she was a child. People seemed to move around a lot during the great depression looking for work or whatever. She lived in south Illinois, south Indiana (there’s that word again) and she lived in Florida. She also lived in Modesto, San Luis Obispo, and Julian, but that was back before NBC renamed the town as Allester. One time she mentioned she moved back from Florida to Indiana and people remarked how she talked funny. She had picked up an accent from living there. And of course as you all know Marlon and Denise would make these trips to New Hampshire in the summer and come back with their accents “reinforced” sounding like Bobby Kennedy. But I never saw them much after the end of summer 1962. Of course there was that time in 1964 when me and Tim saw Denise and Susan, and Roger of course. That was when the joke was going around “How is a girl like a frying pan”. And my answer was “Well, if they’re like Susan it’s because they’re both flat”. We’re missing Drive radio now. The other day Drive had 1976 music but the trouble with that year is that 1976 is a year that’s pretty much been beaten to death on Classic Radio. I guess we’re about heard all of the songs.

Last night I had CNN on the computer. There were a lot of short speech. Tom Dashell spoke and Jack Reed (?) from Rhode Island, and Evan Bygh from Indiana and one other quickie. Bill Clinton spoke earlier than expected and I hadn’t yet gone out to get coffee. Then I got coffee and when I returned John Kerry was speaking. Both of them gave excellent speeches. Then KCET cut out and we were into that media black-out period again so I switched the computer on again to CNN and they had some lady Iraqi veteran speaking. Another key thing that they included hurredly was the actual nomination and voting for Joe Biden by the concention. This was done very quickly with alcclamation votes. Then there was that big build up to Joe Biden film, and then Joe Biden’s son spoke and then Joe Biden himself spoke. He finished up at about five to eight and then Obama himself appeared at the convention. Then I watched the “Bones” rerun. I saw Venus for the second time this year. The key is to get out there early before it gets completely dark, or it’s already gone. I don’t mind commentary is there is still stuff you can watch on camera and they still have the music going so that you feel you are a part of it. It’s when they cut away entirely that bothers me.

The Rotten Media Convention Coverage

The coverage all of the media including KCET has done of the Democratic Convention can only get a failing grade as far as I'm concerned. There were complaints after Monday night's coverage because they say the camera panned away to bored white people when Michelle Obama was speaking and they implied only black people were into the speech. Others said some networks trashed and over analyzed her speech after she was through minimizing the "glow" we all felt about it. Well, last night's coverage was worse. In the first place the whole evening was less productive. I caught some of the early speakers on CNN. There was this one guy who'd gotten fired from an auto assembly line or something. His speech was so dead pan it could be used as the "bad" example in some Better Speech class commercial. But as a whole the media seems incapable of distinguishing the good from the bad. The first major speech of the evening was Governor John Warner of Virginia, who is running for the senate or something. His speech was "adequate". Not a real world beater. But then the media throws us all into a 45 minute or more "black hole" where there was no coverage at all at what was being said in the convention hall. I guess the governor of Massachusetts spoke, and the crowd seemed to be into that one a little. Then apparently the governor of Montana spoke. And according to the meager reports he gave "a real stem winder" and the crowd was Really into that speech with a lot of boos and cheers at the appropiate point. But we never got to hear that one either. NBC said they were going to commercial and would be "back for the duration". As I recall them came back and flapped their corporate gums a little more- - and then went into another commercial. At this point I switched back to KCET. They were already doing the film presentation on Hillary, which means the people on NBC were missing it. When Hillary began her speech it was a quarter to eleven on the east coast. Keep in mind the public had been in this media black hole where the public saw nothing- - since before ten o clock east time, and it would be logical to suppose that a lot of people were switching channels to another program. When Hillary did give her speech she spent the first ten or fifteen minutes thanking all the people she'd met in the campaign and regailing us with yet more of the interminable "hard luck stories" we've been drowning in with this convention. When she finally got going she said some good things. One was the line about the Twin Cities and how George Bush and John Mc Cain are like Twins. The other was the line "Did you do it for Me or did you do it for all the Issues we both care about?" But the speech was all too short ending about eight after the hour, as I recall and immediately like THAT the cameras cut away from the celebrations to more media Jaw flapping, which no doubt went on longer than the entire speech took. Hillary should have played it smart. She should have done like Ronald Reagan did and given a really inspired speech where she didn't even mention the nominee's name. Never in any convention has the "Product Name" been more prominent. In a three word sentense there's a noun, a verb, and "Obama". All this stuff with the down and out people and their hard luck stories is fine for years like 2004 when you have nothing else to campaign on. But it's starting to remind me of Church. They drown you in all of these stories. It reminds me of Church in another way. Just as with there- - you hear perhaps out of the book of revelation talk of the pearly gates and people thrown down their golden crowns before the Lord Jesus and all acclaiming "Worthy and rightious of thy judgement". Worthy art the Lamb to open the seven seals" and the whole nine yards. But does anybody ask "Just exactly what is day to day life in Heaven going to be like?" No. Nobody asks that. This how it is with Obama. We know well WHO we are fighting for. Just WHAT are we fighting for is a little more vague. We hear the term "energy" but never any specifics. We haven't heard squat about what the democrats would have done different from Bush in the past eight years or the bills that came before congress or the way the democrats have handled themselves in congress these past two years. We haven't heard squat on anything involving United States' respect around the world, or what we will do about our many foreign problems. We haven't really heard any actual "plan" about anything. All we have heard is "We feel your pain". Tomorrow I'll be back with commentary about tonight's doings and we'll see what has developed.

Convention Time Is Here Again

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What the political parties put on now is really not a convention but an extravaganza for public consumption. It used to be at a convention they'd do certain things on Mondays like settle deligate seating disputes by the credentials committee and they'd have fights and votes on this. Then there would be a wrangle about the rules committee. Lastly they would have a keynote speech where the party out of power would take apart the current adminestration and catalogue all the weakness of the past four or eight years. What we see now in this "family" ephasis and human needs is something different. I guess the time is here where as Dylan says "You better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone" because the tide of change is coming whether we want it or not. The powers that Be are intent on turning this country into another Sweeden or something with cradle to grave care and welfare, education through graduate school paid for and all health care is paid for. This is a vision of America they are right in saying that many on the left have been clammoring for for a long time. I guess we'd better haul out Ted Kennedy's 1980 speech at the Democratic convention because it would seem that the Dreams in that speech- - some would say- nightmares- are fast upon us where there is no distinction between gay and straight any more and children are placed in day care ag six months and left there.

Of course growing up Republican is no picnic. I'll grant you that. Randi Rhodes likes to talk about the "fettid womb of Barbra Bush". She is such a cold and intimidating individual, I can't imagine growing up with a woman like her as a mother. Of course her kids had psychological problems. And if Randi is right they didn't even attend the funeral of their daughter who died in 1953. I often wonder what this does to a sibling seeing parents who don't care about the loss of one of their own. If I were the democrats I would have taken on the personality of George W Bush and done a full psychological analysis. Tom Hartman and others have done an excellent job about cataloging what is wrong with the mind set of our current President. Rather than talk about the Hillary fans who are voting for Mc Cain now, perhaps we should do a psychological profile of the registered republicans who are leaning tword Obama this time around.

What's supposed to happen on Tuesday in a "Classic convention" is a fight over the Party platform and votes on whether to include or omit various planks. Then on Wednesdays traditionally they'd put a lot of candidates in nomination. And that would be the time for any personal acolades on various candidates. It seems to me a bit premature for them to so idolize Obama ahead of time before ANY candidate's name has yet been placed in nomination. Were this parliamentry procedure I'd rule them out of order. Hillary is certainly as entitled as any other candidate, and perhaps more so, to have her moment in the sun. Depending on how you tally the figures she won the popular vote. It would to my way of thinking to say "You people should have chosen me" would not at all be out of order. She should say what she feels. Now is the time for it. Of course it used to be they had the plodium in the center of the hall, and you would be very conscious that there were deligations there. And in the old days people from the floor would be giving speeches. Also in the old days if you were pledged to a candidate because of a primary vote, you would be breaking the law if you voted for someone else on the first ballot. I think perhaps we should bring back that rule and let us see what happens.

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This is after eight and they are still doing post commentary on KCET. I checked in with CNN this morning. There was no action in the hall then but Obama was giving a speech to locals on another channel. At two I had Randy Rhodes on as usual and they called snacks at 2:15 and I had two cups of coffee. I turned on CNN again, and I’m trying to straighten out the chronology. OK the first time it was that lady officiating the election of Nancy Palosi as convention chair-person and voting on the rules. . Montel Williams had this little girl who had been mauled in a car crash with her mother riding bikes. Apparently the little girl was dragged under the car. I commented about it to the housekeeper who was here, though I’m not sure how much English she understands. Then I turned on Rachael Maddau. Apparently they simocast with MSNBC or something. It was Eye Witness at four. I ran out of cigarettes smoking my last one at 3:20 or so. Gary offered to exchange a partially smoked Wave for a whole Poker. This was the time before so I got another cigarette. We had lasagna for dinner. They rang the bell early but we had to wait and wait. We had garlic bread and salad and Jell-O. I finally got a cigarette from Richard paying him ten cents and telling him I’d pay back a whole cigarette. None of the usuals who have cigarettes to lend were around.

Then I dialed up CNN again. It was Nancy Palosi speaking, answering questions from people. They would occasionally have these little story bios of people who’d gotten involved in the Obama campaign. Then they had Hurricane Katrina and then Jimmy Carter spoke. Apparently the rift between Jimmy Carter and Ted Kennedy has never healed, even though he and Ford are good friends. Spike Lee was spotted in the audience milling around. Then Obama’s sister spoke. Then Jesse Jackson Jr. spoke, and then they played funky soul music. Unlike most convention halls all the chairs appeared to be facing the same direction and they didn’t have the usual center pulpit.

After six I switched to KCET. I know the regular networks talk your head off and weren’t even on yet. The Ted Kennedy tribute was the heart of the six o clock hour. First Caroline Kennedy spoke talking how “Everybody loves Uncle Teddy” and then they played the film talking about sailing with the kids. And then they introduced Ted Kennedy himself. He has become the elder statesman of the party and they said 1980 was a turning point because Teddy realized after this he would never be President but instead took the rout of Southern Democratic senators of yester-year, who knew they would never be President because they were from the South, and so threw themselves into acquiring power in Congress. At seven the focus was on Michelle Obama. First her mother dictated a documentary on her. Then Michelle’s brother came out and spoke some very illuminating words. Michelle herself did not exactly give a complete biography of Obama but instead talked of his work in South Chicago with poor people. Then Berock appeared on the screen and carried on a conversation with his wife and Shasha, one of his daughters. He asked her, “How did mommy do?”

Marsha came by at seven and gave me the two cigarettes she owed me and then Bill gave me the two cigarettes he owed me, so I suddenly felt rich.

The dietician was by and they did not have drinks on the table yet, to get our attention. I complained about overcooked broccoli. What they should do is take votes with each suggestions by a show of hands, “How many others here feel the same way?” Lunch wasn’t much and concluded with cantaloupe. I had Randy Rhodes on at noon and dozed during the noon hour. In soap land Marlena is clear the effects of the poison that Stephano gave her, and John Black appears to be falling in love with her all over again. Nick has now met Melody and they went to the holding cell of Max and Stephanie. Max overlooks the faults of his newly found sister saying, “I know there is good in her”. And there was an allusion to some “secret” the father did not want them (?) to share.

And now another "Jesus Moment"

Jesus had proved himself very adept in

circumnating the major Biblical Truthes of Scripture

Joel Olsteen yesterday morning had God’s surprises as his topic, and I’d really like a surprise, if it were positive. A lady was talking to Jesus on KFI about how her life fell apart when she became a Christian. Jesus used the absurd rationalization on her that “she was on novacaine and the novacaine was “wearing off” and now she was feeling the true pain of life. Someone else talked about messages from God. Jesus like so many others seems to believe “When in doubt, assume God isn’t speaking to you”. These people love to talk about how “scripture never contradicts itself” and yet there is not one line in scripture about prophecy “coming to an end in the church” or the gifts being recinded. They speak of the cannon of scripture as something nobody in the Bible had, and so they need God. Yet at other times they will say to not quote scripture

Channeling Real Enlightenment

We now see more of the future before us when it comes to Obama and Clinton. I don’t think it’s any kind of stretch to declare that Hillary won last night’s debate fairly handily. On the first question both balked at answering it directly. That was the one about being each other’s vice presidential running mate. Both declared it was too early to think about that. From then on Obama took a beating. He did not handle that stuff about his Chicago pastor well at all. He was worse at handling the “resentment” question. Overall Hillary was much more in touch with peoples’ feelings and guarding her words carefully. Obama called people who shouldn’t have guns “deranged”. Hillary preferred the more gentle term of “mentally challenged” and overall in the guns discussion you picked up the “vibe” from Hillary that she understood your desire to preserve the second amendment. In so many cases Hillary looked better merely because she got to answer first, like on the tax questions and Iraq War questions. Hillary set the tone that the “mission” in Iraq or anywhere is defined by the President himself and not by the generals. This is a generic Truth and I hope people understand that. It’s not the President’s job to obey the orders of the generals but it’s their job to obey his, or hers, or whoever is President. Hillary was unambiguous and assirtive in stating that it was her purpose to get all the troops out of Iraq, and I liked that. On the tax issue Obama spoke in less clear terminology than did Hillary. Overall Hillary was the more skilled word-smith. She was able to paint a better, more compelling picture, using fewer strokes. (words) Hillary spoke less than Obama but was ability to say more with the words she had because her speech has a “Self Evident” quality, which is a good quality to have. I think overall Hillary was able to “connect” with the voters better than Obama. Hillary didn’t seem to have the “flag” issue or the “terrorist sympathizer” issues that Obama had to face. On so many issues during a large portion of the debate last night Obama was on the defensive. A lot of times Obama appeared to be self consciously tap dancing around an issue in an almost Nixonian manner, and believe me, that’s not a good place to be. Like the Kennedy Nixon debates, Obama came off is kind of a “Me, too” kind of guy. Obama appeared more nervous and Hillary appeared more relaxed and self confident, and I’m sure people pick up on that. Occasionally a question is asked that if it were me I’d respond, ‘I don’t think that’s any of your business”. If it were me on the stage and some of that flag stuff came up I just might respond “Oh come on, you know what kind of people these flag wavers are. They’re covering up for their insecurities!”. In like manner when it came to issues of “Faith” I’d say the absence of a professed “Faith” does not to me indicate any lack of patriotism or devotion to one’s country.

It would seem that Obama is gaining in the polls according to the LA Times, which I read yesterday. But I’m getting déjà vu of Hampshire, where Obama kept going up and up in the polls and Hillary ended up winning. I suspect particularly in Indiana people are shy about their own racial biases and won’t admit they’ll decline to vote for a candidate merely because he’s Black. Many say Hillary’s remarks were aimed at the super-deligates out there. On the issue of who can win- - both candidates answered identically. They said they were the best person for the job but that the other one could win. I think this needs to be stressed because both candidates are so similar in what they believe and there is such a huge gulf between either candidate and the Republicans. Either candidate should be proud to work for the other one to win in November. I guess I am looking for something in Obama that I’m not seeing- - growth. You will remember that Pete Best was kicked out of the Beatles and the chief reason is “He just didn’t grow with the rest of us”. I’ve seen growth and evolution in Hillary. I haven’t seen this in Obama. Jack Kennedy “grew” as the campaign progressed, and he also “grew” while in office. Obama looks like the same guy who first appeared fifteen months ago. I’ve seen Christian pastors that I hoped would “grow” out of certain behaviors that were really immature- - but they never did. I guess if you’re a comedian or someone who works around crowds all the time you draw energy from the crowd and feed off their reactions and remarks to hone your own skills. Obama is like a football coach who’s working from a tattered years old play book frantically trying to figure out “What do I do now?”

In terms of my mathematical stuff- - often when I explain my own thoughts to people I have a tendency to leap ahead with my logic and leave out key sentences and stepping stones so that people can’t follow me till I back up and explain. It’s a weakness I need to work on if I’m ever going to speak in public. Of course often my logic is sound but I’m saying “Let’s suppose set of facts “A” is true”, and go on to explore certain logical deductive conclusions. Other times I will say, “OK, let’s assume set of facts “B” is true”, and work from there. Some teachers are “show your work” kind of people and if they want the work, fine. In logic there are often facts I regard as Self Evident, that occasionally I get frustrated when someone asks you to prove they are true.

They had a thing on Hemmingway a night or two back. After it was over I had the thought that a certain figure in “popular music” might meet his death soon. It’s my belief that that this Artist was “channeling” Hemmingway in some of his best albums. This has been a Z A C belief for literally decades. Also I have had certain “beliefs” about Hemmingway that I haven’t exactly been able to prove. The first of which is that he is more conservative “now” than the life he led on earth would tend to indicate, and that in fact he was not a raving pro Castro communist while living in Cuba, but often worked for the government. Hemmingway is said to admire “dead authors” but is not so hot about living ones. His “prototype” seems to feel the same way in his songs and the people he mentions. It wouldn’t be a bad “carrier move” for this Artist to die now (I’m thinking in terms of slipping on a bar of soap in the shower), and maybe his songs would get played on the radio again. Or is that just Colonel Parker logic?

Doing What You Have to Do

This file as you know is named after Sean Brady’s one time ex wife. Fortunately they’re better at serving food than they are at not lying to their husband.

Well, it would seem as if Randi Rhodes has pulled off a Mark Bove. As you know Pastor Mark Bove was fired because he took a stand and wouldn’t be pushed around by the church organization. After he was fired, due to the fact that he had a very loyal following, he had a new church up and running within ten days. In such case you are gambling when the stakes are high, but when you prevail the victory is that much sweeter. Randi Rhodes was fired by Air America when they tried to cram certain contractual restrictions down her throat, and I guess one of these was her right to leave at any time. Now she is with the Nova-M network, or whatever. The miracle is how she could line up all her old radio stations and sponsors when she was on Air America. We have missed her on the public air waves. We need someone like her to spell out the issues as they are and not pull any punches.

Well, people are still talking about a Clinton – Obama dream ticket. My psychic vibes tell me that isn’t going to happen, but of course I’ve been wrong before. It would seem now that Hillary is rebounding in the polls and many say she will now carry Pennsylvania by fifteen points. She is also slated to win in India but be beaten by Obama in North Caroline, whose primaries are the same day on May 6^th. Hopefully on that day we will know which one of the candidates has prevailed. You know, she is offering him the Vice Presidency. I’m wondering whether he shouldn’t just go ahead and take it because it’s unlikely he’ll ever be in a position like this again. I’m one of those people who is always shouting “Deal” on the “Deal or No Deal” program. Many people get pig headed and piss away their advantage. The thing is if the super-deligates do what everyone believes they’ll do and pick Hillary, then Hillary might not want Obama any more. At that point he’ll be a defeated also-ran. He should act now while he still has status. The thing is we still are a bigoted, narrow minded, even racist country. There are a lot of places like rural Pennsylvania out there. Remember: people don’t Think, they Feel. Experts and psychologists agree people don’t make political decisions based on rational study. Hillary for good or bad has tapped into the mind-set of the American public. If she wins two of the next three states she’ll claim a major victory.

In my personal life it looks like I’m not going to be getting any tax rebate this year because technically I’m not on Social Security. I can file on line, I suppose, and the worst the IRS can do is ignore me. There have been “things” where my credibility has suffered lately, including the spreading of a roomer that proved utterly without merit.

I like to blow up the TV picture in “At the Movies” so there is less darked out area. With Yahoo trailers you don’t get the running background commentary.

Sixty Minutes had two fascinating segments. If you believe them they have discovered a cure for cancer- - - Again. This is some Buck Rogers type invention involving home produced micro-waves arranged to zap the cancer. It might make you sterile but I have my doubts about the cancer. Apparently they inject metal into the cancer site, which is microscopic gold dust. I believe they call it nano-particles, or is it “nanites”, or is that a StarTrek show? Anyhow these “nanites” are sprinkled with cancer anti-bodies to help them seek out the DNA of the cancer cells anywhere in the body. When this gold dust settles into the cell (these particles are much smaller than blood cells) then the micro-wave is turned on and the metal expands and it zapps the cells. And all without side effects! Do you believe it? - - The other segment was on this Venezuelan youth orchestra. Apparently the local cure for delinquency and the way out of the slums is to start playing the violin at age four and practicing five hours a day before and after school and on Saturdays. Then you get really good and can play all this lovely music which has a refining effect on the soul. They have a lot of different trainer orchestras but the flag ship orchestra travels all around the world and is in the greatest of demand. On their last American tour they sold out Carnage Hall.

The problem between the Romulans and the Federation now centers largely around the newfound “raproshma” or whatever between the Romulan Empire and the Ionians. This is a group whom the Federation has positively loathed for three thousand years and in 2005 there were roomers that the Ionians were going to ally with another old nemesis, the Centaurians, to invade the Federation, the Romulans, Andromeda, and whoever else was in the way. If anything the Romulans deserve a medal for diffusing this bomb. People are still wondering what it is the Romulans gave them that would induce roomers that the Ionians were going to share their technology with the Romulans. We know of course that the Ionians grew disaffected pretty fast with the Centaurians and have left them pretty much to twist in the wind. It is speculated that if the Ionians pulled some Nepolianic stunt and went on the attack against everybody you’d have a World War II type situation where the tide would slowly but surely turn against them. At any rate certain things like Holiday celebrations on Sirius A the Federation suddenly finds “annoying” when they never used to before. We still don’t know how this will play out. We know like Japan and Germany, there has been a growth of a militarist movement in the Romulan Empire. They are tired of playing second fiddle to the Federation for fifteen hundred years. You’re thinking, “Gee, it’s too bad there isn’t a movie coming out”.

Some Truths to Meditate On

All right, those of you expecting to read about the events of yesterday at the family gathering, we are pushing that off to the next file. I will just say that I regard yesterday as a very successful outing and leave it to you Jimmy Carter freaks to deduce just what I mean by that. What I’d like to discuss are some truths to meditate on right now. The first truth is “If you are a Liberal Democrat, Hillary Clinton is your Candidate”. Obama is no Jack Kennedy. What Jack Kennedy said with utter certitude and forthrightness in his speech, Obama says haltingly, riddled with doubt, as if he were reading a tele-prompter. There is no doubt if you want to “Get the liberal democratic agenda done” then Hillary is your girl. She has the capacities and experience to push what she wants through congress. Of course Obama apparently misspoke at last week’s San Francisco gathering in a closed speech not for public consumption. He said that people in Pennsylvania were backward and provincial. They’ve lived in the same area for hundreds of years and they are an older population. If you saw “The Deer Hunter” you know they “cling to” such tried virtues as God and Guns and are for tighter regulation of immigration, especially when they likely haven’t met any aliens. I in myself don’t see any problem in Obama’s remarks and would advise the people in the Pennsylvania heart land to “get over it” and come into the 21^st. Century. But of course Hillary and Mc Cain swoop down like vultures to capitalize on Obama’s remarks.

We’re Searching for Something

That has Already Found Us

I hope that stays centered. This quote is one Mark Campbell often used and it’s from the “American Prayer” album. The whole idea is that God and the future is out there and our “discovering” him or it doesn’t change the reality of what was already there. I heard Joel Olsteen’s speech today about flowers from ashes and the resurrection experience in your life. If, as we’ve said, the future “isn’t already baked into the cake” it isn’t going to happen. Jesus Christ on his show today referred to one caller I didn’t hear who apparently spoke on Science. Here is another truth: Religion has no need of Science and Science has no need of Religion. Let me give an example to illustrate each truth. Religion is like somebody from a savage backward tribe where they survive from stealing things they need from their neighbors. If you show such a backwards tribesman a barrel full of money he’s going to see a bunch of pieces of paper with funny writing on them that might be useful to burn in a pinch instead of fuel if he got cold, but otherwise would have no value to him. If he wants food or a gun he can steal that directly. The idea of an intrinsic value of money is lost on him. In terms of science and religion I would like you to meditate on the truth “The bounds and dimensions you see in this universe are governed by your inability to approach the speed of light”. Some may say that black holes exist. For a pure Einsteinian such a question is meaningless because in his closed universe system, Black Holes CAN’T exist. There is absolutely IMPOSSIBLE to prove they existed even if they DID. For instance in a donut shaped universe- - whatever matter is in the hole of the donut doesn’t matter, just like shrubbery outside the bounds of a miniature golf course doesn’t matter. Neither can something outside a close universe system affect anything that is IN the closed system, be it by gravity or by any other means. There is no "inferential" information manifest. It is a proposition you have to take entirely on faith.

A Salute to Neil Asphenal

For you sensitive types who don’t like certain content appearing in my blogs, consider this Fair Warning. Apparently Neil was a roadie employee for the Beatles as far back as 1962 with Mal Evans being hired on as assistant roadie- - later and Neil was promoted to other key Beatle tasks. Neil stuck up for Pete Best when Brian fired him face to face from the group. Pete had functioned as a managerial person for the group and Brian was taking over these tasks. Mona Best couldn’t be to happy Pete was let go. Neil in later years was in charge of things like Beatle re-releases such as CD’s and the Anthology Series and only quit his job in 2006 when illness was taking its toll, and he died on March 24^th. 2008. The Federation has always liked Neil. It was about 25 years ago when Harrison, I believe, was dissing Neil saying “Some of these people like Neil Asphenol have been around us so long they think they are Beatles themselves”. The Federation came down hard on this statement saying how indispensable Neil was. Neil now is “with George and Mal Evans”. I asked the Federation why they didn’t inform me that Neil had died and they said, “We did, sort of. We said that the number 32 you had in a blog signified death, and you responded sarcastically, “Yeah- - Right! If anybody dies in the next few days I’ll let you know” (me talking back to them) I also asked why they didn’t inform me that George Harrison was with the Federation and they said “Well, the only reason why we even let you know about John Lennon is because of your favorable association with Stewart Sutcliffe”. This isn’t even accurate. The real reason I suspect is that relation between the Federation and the Romulans has deteriorated markedly in the past year or so and John and Stewart and I are all Romulans. They also told me today “You really aren’t that important now”. Then they began talking about how its important to be loyal to employees and how Bill Clinton shouldn’t have let Mark Penn go because he never did anything disloyal- - “. I can’t disagree more with this assertion. Mark Penn was damaging the campaign and the public image badly with his activities.

Four Things To Remember About the Theory of Relativity

Here are four things to keep in mind to help “keep things in perspective” when you hear Einstein discussed. I was going to mention them to Dianne and Wendy yesterday but it never quite came up in the conversation. If you’re out there, you know who you are. “Hi, how’s it going?” The first great truth is “The nature mass is governed by the nature of the Time it occupies. If you increase or decrease the speed at which we are traveling through the fourth dimension, mass has to increase or decrease to keep “all other things equal” as they say. This has nothing to do with the Theory itself but is deducable by ordinary Newtonian physics. I bring you back to Clark Kent doing those fast dashes in the Smallville episodes. The next Truth to keep in mind is that infinity is a real number used in science and it’s quite possible to go beyond infinity and when you do you “Go Negative”. I offer you two examples: One is in optics when it comes to real and apparent images. The other is “tangent waves” used in graphing circular trigometric functions. You get those “S” saves that spike low and then flatten and then spike high and then reform low again. (Excel will graph this) The third great truth is that the nature of space surrounding an object is determined by the nature of the atomic particle matter that makes it up. What this means, simply, is that you can only have negative matter in negative space. People talk about the “Positron” and how it is created. However the positron seems little more than an abstract creation if you read the material, and hasn’t been used to synthesize “anti-matter”. If anti-matter existed in this Universe it would have profound implications for space travel. The fourth truth is that it’s best to think of Accelerat-ING matter rather than Accelerat-ED matter. What this means is that all that weird stuff that happens to space and time only happens when matter is Changing in its Inertia. This occurs in a cyclotron when particles are put under enormous gravity field stress. (going around in a big circle) It’s this gravity field that alters space and time, rather than a static inertial speed close to that of light. Is everybody clear?

What's Coming Down

By now you know about the John Yoo memo about allowing CIA torture and the NSC meeting where methods of torture were discussed in great detail including how many times you could use which procedure. Apparently any form of torture was OK if it didn't lead to organ failure. In attendance were all the usual suspects, George Bush, Vice President Dick Chaney, George Tennant head of the CIA appointed by Clinton, Congelisa Rice, and John Ashcroft, Attorney General. Rice told the CIA to "go for it". Ashcroft was the one voice of conscience who said that history would not judge our actions well. I would have blogged on this sooner except I've had a host of situations to wrestle with in my personal life. It would seem Air America radio wants "War Crimes" charges brought against all these principals. I don't know. The whole network might be declared illegal by the government. You never know how powerful "The Powers that Be" really are. This John Yoo memo hasn't been talked about that much by the leading candidates for President. ABC news has a pretty good video on this subject if you're looking for a more in depth factual review to look at. Apparently the torture used was useful in nabbing at least one terrorist suspect. I think an adverse astrological alignment occurred April 9th. or 10th. and I plan to investigate that further. All of the news is bad these days. One can only ask themself now "What's Next?" It would seem to me if we were going to try and prosecute any of the principals of the torture, we would first have to impeach the President and remove him from office to insure that he didn't deliver a massive sweep of eleventh hour pardons just before he leaves office. Bush by his speech on Iraq yesterday morning still believes the Iraq War is going well. This republican pipe dream of being in a perpetual state of war with its attendant emergency measures- - is something the electorate will have to wrestle with in November. But right now I just don't think the average American citizen is upset enough about any of this to do anything about it. Usually things don't remain static. They either get better or they get worse. It would seem by all measurements "worse" is what we can expect.

People are upset because you can buy military equipment on Ebay and Craig's List. You can get this night vision stuff that identifies Americans and you can buy parts for F 14 hilicopters. Of course you can also buy any type of assault weapon you want incliding fifty calabre guns that have an amazing range. Personally I'm more afraid of what the government will do rather than the risk of some nut getting a hold of military weapons he shouldn't have.

The news now is so screwy. I know I’ve fallen behind the learning curve in not keeping up with it in my blogs. You know what Ship High In Transfer stands for you, don’t you? A lot of “Ship High In Transit” is coming down these days. Apparently they used to ship "cow pies" in the hulls of ships for fuel in hard times. However sea water would get into the hulls and cause the turds to emit methane gas and so when people would come down into the hulls with gas lanterns the whole place would explode. So they had to ship the cow pies higher up so that they could remain dry. The news gets worse every day. Microsoft still wants to gobble up Yahoo taking one more step twords a monopoly. We have the whole airlines flights mess and all this unscheduled maintenance. Hopefully I’ll be moving out of this place where I live. But to do that you need friends and I don’t have any, at least any that I dare lean on. I have found myself overwhelmed by various events in the past couple of days. I have gotten so much contradictory information from various people about the Bush tax refund coming next month and know that with every day I delay it will be that much delay in getting the money. They now have said the lowest gasoline prices are $3.49 and $3.54 a gallon. They didn’t say what the highest figures were but I imagine you pay four dollars some places. We have this pandemic energy crisis because China and India and all these places are requiring more energy production. These people are also demanding more meat in their diet and beef cattle eat wheat, which is wheat that could otherwise be used to feed human beings. Also wheat production is being abandoned in favor of the non food production of corn for ethanol production, not only here but around the world. Around the world food prices are doubling, no matter which country you survey. It’s not all a stretch to believe that they could have food riots and food wars before too long. Then you have China making that oil deal in south Sudan. And we are going along with that deal because we don’t care about individual rights but merely in keeping China happy. Who cares if the local people are screwed. Then there is the whole Texas cult thing in El Dorado where now mothers are complaining that the government has separated them from their children. At least this government raid was done without violence. You know if I were a Christian I might be praying at this point “Beam me up, Scottie”. But reality forbids us from having such fond fantasies.

Too Many Anally Fixated Minds

This is going to be one of those vent your spleen type postings. I'd like to go on an Andy Rooney rant against tightwads. You know, my dad lived like a miser and he died like a pauper. Some would see poetic justice in this but I'm not a big fan of shottenfreuden. My Dad was screwed over multiple times by hospitals, plural, doctors and nurses in the months leading up to his death. My sister in law sent me a copy of a moving letter she sent to the hospital where my Dad died. My dad died as though he were a piece of welfare scum who didn't deserve a second thought. It was a case of massive incompetence and not by just one isolated individual but on a massive, pandemic scale. He died of sepsis of the colon, which had nothing to do with why he was admitted. But as tight as my Dad was, my Mom is tighter. I got far less money for Christmas this past year, like forty dollars, from my Mom than I would have received if my Dad were still alive. Of course people in this place where I live drop and die like flies. There just hasn't been any recently. But certain events get in my craw. If there is an extra glass of punch on the table and the other person never shows up to their place, they get mad at you if you drink their punch. Lately Thu Thai has been giving her food to Manfred. Today an aid told Manfred he couldn't get in the seconds line because he already had Thu Thai's food. I guess you could call it the generosity dividend in reverse. These people probably fish the gold out of your teeth before turning the body over to the family. I have lost forty-five pounds, I tell you no lie, in the past two years largely because the food portions are so meager now. My parents played the tightwad theme to the hilt growing up. Of course Calvary Chapel has its own version of tightwad-ism. They sometimes describe God's blessings as a roaring waterfall or an oil gusher. And yet with their gushers not a drop hits the ground. It's as though someone spread the roomer that earthworms liked to eat oil and that they were becomming overweight and now on the media everywhere the media was flooded with stories of the "crisis of earthworm overweightness, and how this will ruin the ecology. So every time an oil well gushes new oil they move with cartoon speed to spread tarp over the ground before a drop of oil touches the ground. Of course the left wing is good as obsessing over things that were never important before. For instance there is talk of Big Tobacco and "Big Fat". Rush Limbaugh in late August of 1997 did a parody of "Big Fat" and how it will become the next big crisis the media obsesses over. Who would have suspected as with so many Rush Limbaugh parodies, that yesterday's jest becomes today's reality. Second hand smoke is one of these obsessional items. My family would obsess on my smoking if I'd let them and I have to be careful how the conversation is steered this Saturday when we meet together. I don't like this idea of "Big Science" either. I don't like the idea of obsessing over topics that didn't matter before just now. Mc Cain is obsessing over what will happen to Iraq. Clearly there are enough factions in Iraq that the morass is unsolvable, with or without U S troop aid.

On the other end of the "nut" scale - - are people like my Dad. Why is it all the people who are anti war are ones that served in the military whereas people like me, who often see good in war- - never served. My Dad got released on a disability and we can argue about that and whether General Patton would look at my Dad and say "You're not dead yet, back to the front!" People talk about "crises" that "wake people up". One of the biggest lies in the "Oh God" movie is the line "I work best under pressure". With all due respect God falls completely apart under pressure. I can think of a few "Pearl Harbors" in my life. One was my suicide attempt. Another was the events in and around October 8th. 1987. These were both"Pearl Harbors" in my life. If my Dad were President during December 7th. 1941 he'd be every bit the asshole George Bush and Mc Cain are but from the opposit direction. My Dad would see the billowing black smoke and destroyed ships and go "Oh well I can see how some might be troubled by this but we must Stay the Course of Peace. We won't"let" this "minor event bother us". If the enemy sees this event "bothers us" he has won. Therefore we will not go to war and therefore we'll send a message that will be remembered in history. There is a theme in the Bible that God is our protector. If my Dad were to have made such a speech as president I'd be among those clammoring for impeachment. If there is one thing you get from the Jesus Christ show it's "Don't count on God showing up when you need him. Because God has to "ballance" your own concerns against his own Divine Sovreignty. And besides remember that even when the worst happens "There is a reason for it all". This is another of my Dad's favorite sayings, and he has a belief in God that "It all makes sense". And the Calvary people say "Yeah and if it appears not to make sense then it's because you don't know everything God knows". There are times when you have to say, "Screw God. I choose to follow my own conscience" (Selah) If our nation truely ever were "attacked by a foreign power" of course I'd want our nation to rally around and defend itself. But we abuse this sacred trust with frivelous campaigns like the Iraq War. As Thom Hartman says "We won the war. This is an occupation". And we know that in occupations in other lands- - the eventual goal usually is to get out at some point.

I'd like to talk a little about this beating in the Orange County Jail. A 41 year old man was beaten by multiple inmates and presumably died. Yet the guards won't be prosecuted though they are clearly culpible. One Spanish teacher I had said "If you put your test paper where others can easily copy off it it- - I consider you just as culpible". The man was roomered to be a child molester when in actuality he just had child pornography. Obviously children were molested in the making of that pornography but that's for another day. But the guards as much as expected the guy would be beaten up. They slept often on the job and let the inmates run the assylum. They were just feet away and were doing things like playing video games and texting people, or else sleeping. I guess they sleep well knowing an innocent person is being beaten up. I guess being in prison is like the military. It's just luck whether you come out alive.

Johnny Wendell has made much of Hillary's firing of campaign manager Mark Felt. This is a guy who had connections to the Mc Cain campaign. He also had connections to Blackwater. But he was fired for helping to broker a Columbia NAFTA style deal that George Bush wanted, so Bush loves the guy. All the while Hillary was campaigning against NAFTA. Of course when you combine this with the whole donations issue with the Presidential library and possible influence peddeling, and also Hillary's "sniper fire" incident in Bosnia, it isn't looking real good for the Clinton campaign right now. But unlike Johnny Wendell, I don't see this firing incident as the smoking gun that's going to sink the Clinton campaign. I really don't think people care. There are still two whole weeks to go till Pennsylvania votes. Obama is now only down six points in one poll and is dead even in another. I don't know how the average working stiff would take to knowing how rich the Clintons are or how they are secretly working for NAFTA. Thom Hartman coined a very apt expression today. he said that "Free Trade" was just a buzz word for exporting slavery, exporting pollution, and perhaps exporting poverty. We don't have to worry about polution because we've exported it to others and we can point the finger of shame at them now. We abolished slavery in this country but tollerate it in many other nations. Child labor doesn't bother us if it's half way around the globe. Apparently John Negroponte was one guy whenever she showed up labor unions would be abolished and the goon squads would come out. Of course we know that labor rights were better under Saddam Hussein than they are now in Iraq. I guess the question is whether Hillary really has a heart for the common working man and woman or whether it's just words. I will say this: Electing a Black man would certainly "Send a message" that we have as a nation come a ways in the past forty years since Martin Luther King died. What these super-deligates have to ponder is just which of the two democratic candidates best suits the J F K mold of "New Frontiers" and looking tword the future with hope and resolve, and which one will be the "same ol' same ol' we've had for decades.

The whole thing with the Olympic torch is still an issue. Now a guy with a John Lennon T shirt is beaten up because some Chinese official thought it was the Dali Lama. I can't help but be heartened to know there are a lot of people in England and France and in San Francisco who still value liberty and are willing to "make a statement". If I didn't say so I'm also rather annoyed at this whole Urban blight thing they have in Peking where they clear out the dwellings of poor people who have lived there for decades. But then I didn't like sweeping the streets of homeless in New York for the Convention either. I think we need to acknoledge the America we have. We don't need signs around like 'No Jews or Dogs" like they had in Nazi Germany.