Senate Votes Health Care Out to Floor Debate

President Obama’s popularity rating slipped to 48% in the polls and people on the Mc Laughlin group are elated because the numbers fulfill their fondest fantasies. And the President is only 41% among White voters. This is indeed unhealthy. Not only this but the President himself said recently that he was comfortable with the idea of not running in 2012 if his poll numbers were down. The Mc Laughlin people cite the president’s “Lack of conviction” as a reason why he should not send young men off to war in Afghanistan, because America won’t support a leader who does not have his heart in the war. Clearly the President has to do something to show he had cajones. In terms of the Senate vote on the Health bill tonight, yes, the bill passed, but only by the thinnest margin possible echoing the narrow margin in the House a week ago. This health bill once it hits the floor will be torn apart and dissected to death. I am also reminded of the rather unpleasant truth that with each amendment that comes before the Senate, each one of those amendments has to pass by a sixty percent vote to become part of the bill. And this sixty percent rule is a rather stringent filtering process and I fear that along the way a lot of good idea may become filtered out. (Selah) And unfortunately along with the demise of this bill may be the demise of the Obama Presidency. FOX news will show bogus file footage on even the smallest protests of the Right, but when the Left brings out a lot of people to an event, it is ignored by the corporate owned media.

We are now listening to “Don’t Bother Me” on “The Beatle Years” on KRTH. November 29^th is the seventh anniversary of George Harrison’s passing. Of course today is November 22, 2009 and the anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. There is apparently a new book out now on Lyndon Johnson, and it seems that with Johnson he was aware of the “Optics” of his assuming the Presidency. So he had himself sworn in even though taking the Oath of Office was not technically required by the Constitution for a VP becoming President. And he had Jackie Kennedy by his side, dutifully. And he rode back on the jet that carried the President’s coffin to Washington. But now alas with President Obama the optics are all wrong now. Conservatives will get milage out of such things as the President bowing low to the emperor of Japan. And also in China, the President spoke of freedom of the internet, yet the Chinese censored his speech for television and the internet, to the point of shutting down bloggers who blogged about it. And Obama held a press conference where no questions were allowed to be asked. And also the President is in trouble for allowing Coleed Shiek Mohamed to be tried in a civilian criminal court in New York. Even centrists on the Chris Matthews show were baffled by this imagery saying that it sends the wrong message and leaves Americans with an incomfortable feeling about President Obama as a leader.

We could title this next topic “Reconsider Baby”. This morning I had to make a fateful decision about whether to go out and buy morning coffee on this cold morning, knowing that I would now no longer have sufficient funds for a pack of cigarettes. And yet I opted to go ahead because I’ve been wanting to give quitting smoking another try and this will as it were force my hand. I was going to treat you blogees to a story called “Behind the Pinewood Wall”. In mid April of 1985, David Stanley had a decision to make about whether to stay married to his wife when the relation seemed to have gone stagnant, or else file for divorce. David Stanley lived to regret what he decided and that was getting a Divorce, with a little push from his parents, who were more than eager to see David Stanley fail at anything. We’ll have that story for you sometime. The next posting will be one of the black blogs, either "Cosmic Tides" or "Psychic Bellanca" The TV went right on in this cold weather again. I don’t know about you but I look to signs from God, and there are certain things “God” does that just piss me off. For instance, I don’t like contradictory bull-shitter Evanveligests, who say they are teaching one thing but are actually telling people to do the opposite. They say to “Walk in the ways of grace”. So like if someone comes along and hands you a check for a million dollars on which the taxes have already been paid, one might expect you’d be like those three Russians in the movie “Nanotchka” where they bought a lot of fine clothes, and invested some of their money to buy a Russian restaurant to sell Russian food to the Turks, the way it used to be before the Revolution. But instead what I see with Christianity is that they are a few people as it were “flashing signs of money around”. I speak metaphorically now. Some are in tuxes and others drive fine cars I could never afford, and have women I could never afford. Meanwhile unbeknownst to me they are really working at a minimum wage job that pays $6.50 an hour- - but they’ll never admit this to me, or anybody out there in evangelical television land. Meanwhile I’m working just as hard if not longer hours getting paid three dollars an hour. One day Lucifer approached me and he said “Marcus, clearly you can’t keep this up because financially you’re running in the hole every month” and I said “Yes, but what am I going to do?” And Lucifer said “Come and see me at my business”. So I came and went in his office and saw all of this “script” money. Lucider says to me “Oh that isn’t for you. That’s for my Christian suckers. I intend to pay you the real thing in US dollars”. I asked how. Lucifer says, “Clearly living the way as you do as a Christian is insane. So I think you can make lemonaid out of your lemons and apply to the government to get on SSI to supplement your income, and you don’t need to tell anybody. I said “But who is this funny money for?” Lucifer said “That money is for the Christians who come in here. They sell me their souls so that in the After Life their life energy is mine. And in exchange I give them the script currency. Then they can go out and buy the tuxes and cars and jewelry and all the other things you see. But I also decided when I’ll let them wear them. I allow them only to wear these things to impress fellow Christians to the point of envy. I don’t allow them to go out into the work a day world with these things, but instead for the world I force them to appear as they are. One time Marcus went into a French restaurant and he ordered a cup of coffee without cream. Five minutes later the waiter comes back and says “We don’t have any cream. Can you take the coffee without milk?” When I got my black coffee a Christian apologist in the restaurant observing me came to me and said, “Don’t go around telling Christians that you’re drinking your coffee without cream. The owner of the restaurant wouldn’t want people thinking he was cheap”. This FOX evangelists- - after translating his words into understandable English- - says. “I know a lot of you want to go into Politics and you think if you do you will run a squeaky clean campaign and be utterly honest and untouched by graph. But I tell you if you’re really serious about that then you will never file papers to run. By never filing papers you will convince me you are serious in what you say about honesty”. Of course these people are in politics themselves, and they are members of The Family, and they are the most corrupt right wingers on the planet. But Christians don’t see what is right before them.

Jesus was talking about faith and belief as a road from here to there. In the beginning many trails appear but gradually one well trodden path is laid out, which eventually becomes a paved highway. I did not disagree with Jesus’ words. He said that “Just because you are discerning and reject false belief, does not mean the Truth is not out there waiting to be discovered. The truth will reinforce itself with respect to its truthfulness, and by this you shall know that it is true”. It is said that when one does an act of positive karma, that positive energy radiates out into the Universe and in the end the Universe pays him back. And when one does an act of bad karma, that bad karma again goes out into the Universe and eventually pays him back. We don’t know whether hyperspace is the realm of the “Spirit” or the realm of “karma”. I was asking my friend Larry about what he thought hyperspace was and Larry said he didn’t know, that the math and the concepts were beyond him, but suggest I read a book by Isac Assinov. We know that often “unsaved spirits” for lack of a better term, seem to reside in a single small area such as a house. Could this point they reside in be the point or funnel of the psychic realm? Does each person ascend through his own funnel of local into hyper space? One person I talked to agreed with me that perhaps God created hyper space as a part of our Existence. We don’t know but that we don’t, as the Apostle Paul claims, have some yet unknown “presence” or “reality” in hyper space right now, or that what goes on in hyper space NOW is vital to our lives now, and in the immediate future, and we humans do now know when unknown things will be revealed to us, or what effect these revelations will have on our future Lives. (Selah) Alright, cut and print.