Some More Things to Think About

You know I may have to rethink my position on this whole China investment in the U S industries bit. The thing is if someone invests in you it increases your “value” whether you do another thing or not. I’ve always wondered that since God owned me he didn’t “Invest” in me because it would be in his own interest to value his own property higher than it would otherwise be. As I see it China investing in our financial institutions increases their stability from what they would otherwise be. Sure it can be bad, but it doesn’t have to be unless they get a working 51 percent and can take over Stork board room votes. As he says “Anytime it’s roomered some rich person is going to buy your stuff it automatically goes up in value, and every time it’s roomered a rich guy is going to divest himself of your stuff, the value of it will go down. I guess we should all get down on our knees and thank God that as worthless as we are, someone is willing to put their hard earned money to invest in us. The middle story was about this one man in the Bush administration who was the architect of the Iraq War strategy. Everyone else in the Bush Adminestration, except for Donald Rumsfeld, hates him. But even this man says we should have not disbanded the Iraqi army because we lost valuable time in trying to bring stability to the post war scene. Finally there was that segment on going to Mars, which won’t occur till the year 2030 when I am an eighty year old man. We won’t make it to the moon till 2020. Yet preporations are already being made. Rockets are being fired and equipment is being tested. They are saying the journey to Mars will be two & a half years because we have to lay over eighteen months on the red planet till Mars is again in a favorable position for a return trip. (And they say Astrology is a bogus science!) It is absurd to talk of deficits right now when we’re planning for an event of 2030. Who knows what the economy will be like then? In the Kennedy Adminestration we spent a good four percent of the entire budget for space exploration. But in the Nixon adminestration we junked all of our Saturn rockets and otherwise dismantled the entire infrastructure of Apollo. That to me is “appalling”. Andy Rooney has commented on how cars nowadays are harder and harder to get in and out of. And I thought it was just me.

“The Simpson’s had one of the strangest ill fitting shows on last night and the other time it aired I was preoccupied to doing something on computer but last night I was able to give the episode my undivided attention. The fact is there has always been that five year “gap in time” where Marge could have gone to college. But the gap normally would be from 1975 to 1980. The allusions to Nirvana were such that I hope they got permission to use Kurt Cobain’s name and music style in the episode. But of course the least believable thing about the episode is where Marge is in love with this college professor but merely because he disparages the idea of marriage she blows him off and runs back to Homer after a presumed gap of many years. That doesn’t make sense. Of course the “underlying theme” is that there is Unconditional Love for certain individuals and somehow Marge welcomes a life of sure misery throwing her potential life away for an utterly self centered buffoon. It’s one of the “things” of the whole nineteen year series that just doesn’t “fit” with the rest of the reality of the characters.

There are these adds out for “Prince Caspian”, which is one of the seven Chronicles of Narnia. The first book is what I tag “The Lying King”. The image of the cowardly lion is one used frequently by the Federation in their propaganda. There is also the lying lion. There is I story I typed back in April 1996 in the file “Songs and Stories” about a story I’d heard as a kid about this African tribe that was undergoing famine. But one day a wise man said this one bare tree in their midst was actually a magic tree that would bear all manner of fruit if only the magic word could be uttered. But to obtain the magic word various animals were sent to a far land to see a wise man who gave out the magic word. First they sent the rabbit, then a deer or something, and then a hippo or something and last of all they sent the Lion to obtain the magic word. Every one of the other animals had failed in their quest. The Lion went out streaming along at a fast gallop but then fell asleep after he’d obtained the Magic Word. Now he had forgotten it. But the lion was too proud to admit he’d forgotten the magic word and so made one up and said it many times to the tree. Nothing happened. The others in the tribe said “You are no better than the others who failed”. Last of all then sent the tortoise and he was successful and said “Ohh-won-ga-lem-a” and immediately the fruit began to fall. There is a saying we need to learn well from Bill Clinton who once said “If you see a tortoise on a fence post you can rest assured he didn’t get there by himself”. I think Jesus of KFI should meditate a good long time on this saying every time he thinks of me, till at last he figured out what it means. In some says my brain is absolutely amoeba like. When it comes to people saying “Christianity is a bunch of bullshit” I and my brain took a lot longer to arrive at that conclusion than other more acute people who pick up on that Truth virtually instantly. I didn’t arrive at today “of my own accord”. (Selah)

Leo Le Port is from Tsmania both today and yesterday recording at four in the morning and he’s coming in via ISDN lines, which are digital phone dial up lines where the signal comes in at 128 K. Before eleven I had The Beatles verses the Rolling Stones and they were playing songs from 1967. Any time you hear an RS song from 1967 you better check to make sure the D J doesn’t have a gun to his head.

I watched Meet the Press. They were talking about Hillary and all the millions she’s earned since leaving office. The Clintons have raked in twelve million a year or something every year they’ve been out of office. Perhaps it’s more. They’re raising money for the Clinton library people wonder whether that isn’t political bribery somehow. At nine was Chris Matthews but by then I had fallen asleep and woke at 9:15 and at 9:30 I went out to the patio to smoke. James had his chess set out and wanted to play but I told him I felt tired. They had a new topic on the Beatles show. They talked about Paul and Heather’s marriage and the break-up and physical abuse from Paul and failure to provide for her handicap needs. Apparently she nagged him to death about smoking marijuana and “failure to control the press”. I watched “This Week” on 7.2 at ten and in general this political scene is the same old song and dance. They talked about the Iraq War. That’s kind of a yawner. So is Mc Cain going to get General Petrayas to run on the ticket with him? Wake me when the race has been decided.

I had Joel Olsteen on this morning and he was talking about faith dreams. I decided to have the Jesus Christ show on a bit. It’s such a trip to hear all their holy roller music and hear all this crap about “Laugh with him, cry with him, pray with him, on the radio”. Today Jesus wanted us to know God never condoned polygamy. Unfortunately Jesus is in error. The Mosaic law specifically makes provisions for polygamy and the rights of the first right verses the second. In terms of that scripture about multiplying horses and wives- - unless you’re willing to say a man who owns two horses is guilty of polygamy you can’t use this verse. This verse is in the spirit of “Multiplying the salary of the C E O’s during the Reagan administration”. But more to the point, Adam and Eve never had a marriage ceremony and scripture only says they had sex after Eve ate the apple. And the first son Eve gave birth to was a murderer. [added: Nowhere in the text does it say that Adam and Eve loved each other. Jesus said certain Bible passages were “descriptive” and others were “prescriptive”. Did you know that Rebecca was the love of Jacob’s life and yet scripture says “When God saw that Leah was unloved, he opened her womb- - and she bore six children] Jesus quotes Titus or somebody about how you can’t be an Elder unless you are the husband of one wife. That lets me out since I do not have a wife. And why would Paul, who is unmarried himself, be writing saying you had to be married to be in a position of church authority? Jesus talked about “concepts” that are taught such as the Trinity, even though the word is never used. [added: On the contrary the “concepts” of Philo of Alexandria are paramount in the Bible, which conform to the hated theology of Arius of the 4^th. Century. Arius was not a “Trinitarian”] Jesus says there is a concept against “self destruction” in the Bible. You’ve heard of suicide by cop. How about suicide by Roman legions? Does thyat one count? (Selah) Well, another “concept” is that serving God brings happiness rather than misery. Jesus doesn’t want to talk about that, I bet. There is a “concept” that you are to stone false messiahs who claim to be God and yet do not fulfill the prophecies of the messiah, like being the deliverer of Israel. In fact in Ezekiel 28 it specifically states that a man who claims to be God will suffer death as the result of wounds administered by uncircumcised foreigners, and that people at his death will ask if he will still say, “I am a God.”

Johnny Wendell reached a new of stupidity of topic. Now he’s going after the American lawn. Tomorrow it will be motherhood and Apple Pie. Every one of his arguments were completely stupid. He says “land is being wasted”, but you can’t just scoop up land from out of the blue by some cosmic hand and put it somewhere else where it can go into something we really need- - like another ten lane Freeway. There is something to be said for green areas and spacing out the population. Lawns cool the ground. They are pleasing to look at and require far less maintenance than growing crops, which is a lot harder than it looks because we’ve tried it. Having a “farm” on your land lowers real estate values so you’ll have the neighbors, and possibly zoning on your case. Also grass is good for playing games on like croquet. Johnny Wendell says all golf courses ought to be blown up. In Japan a golf course is a marvelous thing for where else are you going to see that much unused land? Lawns are good for lovers to sit and dream on and for kids to play football on. We played football on our front lawn as kids and all the neighbors would show up. Wendell kept talking about Monticello and the British estates of the mother land. Dad used to hate trees. He was just as whacked out.