Let’s hear it for Attorney General Eric Holder. Like I say – he’s the one guy you can really trust in the Obama administration. It was his decision to put Caleed Shake Mohamed on trial in a regular US court criminal trial. This displeases the Right Wing no end because they fear he will use it as a sounding board to preach his terrorist views. Of course not that many at Guantanamo Bay were actually tried and convicted in one of those military tribunals to begin with. Many fear the New York trial, just blocks away from “ground zero” will become a media circus. So what else is new? Others site security concerns saying such a trial would make New York the target for Islamic extremists. Conservatives like Larry Elder cringe at the idea of a regular criminal trial for this master architect of the 9– 11 attacks or anybody else. They criticized the Clinton administration for regarding terrorist acts as criminal matters rather than “acts of war”. Perhaps it’s just the conspiracy nut in me, but I wonder whether one of their fears is that some how some way, something “secret” that the Bush Administration has been hiding will come to light and cast doubts on the “official story” of 9 – 11. Christians are the first to look suspiciously on the motives of others, but do they ever look at themselves? How many Moslems are their in the world now, one & a half billion? What percentage of all of those Moslems from Morocco to Indonesia to you think are trained terrorists, or somehow secretly yearning for some sort of pan-Islamic uprising by violent force? My brother said last week that “people should be accountable for their violent teachings that influence others”. I don’t know. Where would that leave people like Hal Lindsey?
It seems that “2012” has raked in a substantial 65 million in box office revenue for its opening weekend. Actually, it’s just another garden variety Hollywood disaster movie with the usual rogue asteroid that apparently comes out of nowhere, unheralded, and causes earthquakes and the usual stuff. The Mayans were obsessed with the planet Venus and 2012 apparently ends a grand 26,000 cycle of the earth’s polar axis, if I have it right. I recommend that people watch several NOVA episodes on the topics of the Mayans and the Calendar. As for the Federation take on all this, naturally talk of the Rizzonians arises, who according to them used to lived on Venus before that planet experienced an ecological disaster five or six thousand years ago. We teach that Adam and Eve were Rizzonians who “seeded” out planet, to save it from the violent Ape genes that would have eventually destroyed the population. As previously stated the year “2040” was in my mind as the date of the beginning of some predicted Cosmic events.
This is Monday November 16, 2009 and the 36th anniversary of my purchasing “Mind Games” on the last Friday before Thanksgiving in 1973. The President is in Meat City meeting with the Chinese leaders. We are on page six. I got up this morning and when I was getting into the shower the water went from tepid to ice cold so I aborted my plans. (abortions are not illegal yet) The TV went right on despite the cold weather. Meanwhile Richard still has his mendacity problem. He’s still talking about picking up his truck, and his wife in Vancouver before heading up to his horse range in Juneau, Alaska. Meanwhile every morning Janet reminds us that he’s outside the bakery and panhandles for a cup of coffee. I went to the bakery for a large coffee. I’ll be short changing the phone company this month because of this borrowing against myself. My bank account reminds me of that scene in Billionaire Boys club where they had that hostage locked in a trunk. He was about to pass out so they poked holes in the trunk. But then when he came to and began saying all this stuff to them they’d get tired of that and plug up the holes and he’d pass out again. They would repeat this cycle a number of times and like my bank account, pray the victim doesn’t die entirely.
Last night we learned that I E D stands for improvised explosion device. But for Christians they now report that 75% of Christian beliefs are destroyed by roadside I E D’s or “improvised expongement devicesx. My blogs are I E D’s.
Well now they are talking of inventing the Dinosaur Chicken. – which sounds like a new fast food place in the town of Bedrock that Fred Flintstone would go to. There is a guy in Montana who has found a whole “Dinosaur nesting area” and found more bones than his piers. But he has unconventional methods and dissects bones and soaks them in acid. And he has discovered soft tissue and even blood vessels in 80 million year old dinosaur fossles. He says that the baby ones are so small they would be unable to fend for themselves and unlike other reptiles, the mother does not abandon the eggs. They are continuing to find more and more anatomical similarities between birds and dinosaurs, and they both have the same bird feet – and chickens used to have tails. But the gene for the tail “shuts off” in the egg and the developing tail is destroyed, and now this guy wants to synthesize a new dinosaur out of a chicken. Stay tuned.
Here’s an idea for a new movie called “Going Rogue”. (I know – real original title) Saddam Hussein is the energy czar in this UFO type extre-terriestrial community and he is considered kind of a rogue and not to be trusted. He and a select squadron of space craft come to earth because he’s heard roomers of some dilithium crystal type energy source in the marshes of southeast Iraq. But the substance can only be chemically isolated if the ground is dry. So the spacecrafts shoot one of their ray beans at the ground and form a gigantic canal a mile wide to divert the water of the Tigris straight into the Pursian Gulf. And if there is “collateral damage” and the reeds are set on fire well that’s just tough. Meanwhile we see excerpts of this community of humans living there speaking a strange language with subtitles, in their reed houses. They almost get wiped out but then Saddam Hussein is in trouble back on his Home Planet and they all come and save the say and the community. End of movie. I know it’s not the most original script in town, but the bar in Hollywood seems to be set pretty low today. People forget that it’s actually a good thing Hussein is gone, because he was truly an evil man.
President Obama needs to decide his national priorities. They were saying on the Chris Matthews show (I caught the last fifteen minutes of the show) that this whole Health Care obsession has “sucked all the oxygen out of the room” and there is no room now to even think about other, more pressing priorities like more attention to jobs and the economy, and bank and financial reform. Now the President is going to China. The question was asked on Mc Laughlin whether the President needs China more than China needs us. Obviously the way things are now, we certainly do. They are “our banker”, as has been pointed out. And as our banker they lecture us on the dubious wisdom of low interest rates encouraging speculation, and “bursting the bubble” and endangering the recovering economies of the world. Now the President has “disappeared into a sea of umbrellas”. The President is in Shanghai even as we speak. Obviously the President could make things rather unpleasant for China if he confronts them on issues like manipulating their currency to keep it low and drive up our trade deficit. The President is taking a really long time to decide about Afghanistan. The news of last week apparently didn’t do it for him. They say if we make the commitment that we “should” we will be there for ten years and spend hundreds of billions of dollars to totally revamp the country. The American people have indicated they don’t want that. And speaking of China, why doesn’t the President urge China to get tough on Iran and discourage them from making bombs, because if Iran has the bomb, China could also be adversely impacted.
Sarah Palin can be counted on to do precisely the wrong thing if she has any shadow of a hope of running for President. Meanwhile most Republicans, when pressed, will inform you they prefer Mike Huckibee or Mitt Romney, or that newly elected Republican moderate governor in Virginia. Palin doesn’t mind being just another media circus and we’ve had so many of those. There is Michael Jackson and did Phil Spector’s victim really commit suicide, and there is Anna Nicole Smith’s soap opera like last months, and Martha Stewart and Blogoiavitch alias “Blogo”. The latest edition of the media circus is “Balloon Boy”. And Sarah Palin getting the whiff of sawdust could not stay away but now has to get back into things. It’s no wonder Christians like her because, no offence, Christians are obsessed with their own selves, so it’s logical they would pick a Presidential candidate in their image. People thought Bill Clinton was self-obsessed, but Sarah Palin breaks all the records. She had absolutely no inclination to any discipline or doing the needed leg work, or getting background on events, and she does not seem interested in serving her country but being the latest Media Celebrety. As long as she keeps raking in the money. That’s what it’s all about today. Or as Alice Cooper said thirty years “they can gossip about me, just make sure my name is spelled right”.
Preachers used to love to preach sermons on the topic “People aren’t really happy today”. I don’t know if that’s true any more. Today there are so many electronic devices to inform and entertain us, so we never have an idle moment but are most likely doing several things at once, like texting, driving, and eating chicken Mc Nuggets. Things weren’t so hot a hundred and fifty years ago. If you were a woman you had a lot of both back breaking and menial chores to do to keep the Mansion running. And perhaps your husband was off on the front lines of Gettysburg and you sit all along in one of those long dresses that leave everything to the imagination. And you dare not go out in public unescorted to, say, a tavern, or a stage show. I think people were much more well acquainted with misery back 150 years ago so they sat around writing flowery poetry and writing long-winded letters to their loved ones, careful to use proper grammar, of course.
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