When the Plot-line Comes Unhinged

The finale to "24" was last night but I only watched the first hour. I couldn't take any more. There seemed to be no point to it as the whole premise of the plot came undone. As you know Jack Bower had done such things as turn that alley into a shooting gallery when those diplomats were filing in in their cars. Then Bower wasted the entire Russian delegation leaving them all dead. Tonight he strangled one of his most trusted friends, Clowie from CTU. But the biggest development in at least what I watched came when Mrs. Hassan the widow who took over from her husband as president or Sheik or whatever of her mideast country. She had it on semi reliable information that the Russian government was behind the assassination of her husband. She confronted President Taylor with her knowledge. Taylor first responded "The reporter telling that lie has now been arrested and is being held". Mrs. Hassan asked "But why would your government arrest her- - - unless you knew the allegation was true. At this point President Taylor admitted openly that the Russians were behind the assassination of her husband. At this point Mrs. Hassan pulled out of the peace treaty signing. At this point President Taylor overtly threatened her, in a move that surpassed even Adolph Hitler in its brazenness. She told Mrs. Hassan that if she pulled out of the peace treaty signing, that the President would have no choice but to bomb her country immediately with nuclear weapons, at which point Mrs. Hassan relented and agreed to go through with the signing. I have TV dodger remourse today because I am curious now what did happen that last hour, so you people have me at a disadvantage.

But now in real life we have this insane British Petroleum plot unfolding before us. BP has made every mistake in the book and told every lie in the book, and every allowance and deference to British Petrolium in the book has been made by this President. He refuses to federalize the opperation and send in the Army core of engineers or people from MIT to get the job done right. People still say that only British Petrolium has the know-how to clean this mess up that is growing with each passing day. Certainly there are certain Presidential perogatives such as add a stiff per day fine, or cease all British Petroleum well platforms and for that matter to freeze British Petroleum's assets in this country. Chris Le Boy believes the President has alltogether failed to exercise real leadership in this matter. It is pointed out that President Obama has run a really lax ship as liberals view it. 89 key office appointments remain unfilled, and much of this is the republicans' fault. Bush officials still by in large man the justice department. The Obama administration is filled with economic sell-outs. But aside from a few lone voices, no politician is really going after the Obama administration on these matters. It's beginning to look more and more like there won't be any new off shore drilling in this Country. People on KTLK say the United States passed "peak oil" production in 1974 and that right now our energy production is so pathetic it ammounts to less than five percent of the world's total reserves. To this writer it hardly even seems worth running new drilling risks, particularly in deep water, for such a paultry energy pay-off. New forms of energy have to come into production.

If you're waiting for me to give you that Sell signal for the markets, keep waiting. In fact I say that today and tomorrow are excellent buying oppertunities to stock up on bargains. Other countries are rushing to the security of US dollars in these turbulant times in Europe. I have seen it before when waves of pessimisum make the rounds in other world markets, the wave about dies out by the time it reaches here. I think buying Gold and Silver would be foolish at this time, particularly with the dollar strengthening. This is, of course, a really smart time to buy a house with mortgage interest rates coming down, and a really dumb time to sell one.

In other news President Obama is sending twelve hundred national guards troops to the US - Mexican border. John Mc Cain believes we need six thousand troops so he's still not happy. I think the move is a constructive one because it sends a signal to foreigners that we are about to crack down big time. If there is any sort of amnesty bill I would exclude the past year or so, just so that people crossing now don't get any ideas and that "magnet" Steve Poizoner talks about will be deactivated. I have been displeased by the tone of the discourse between Obama and the President of Mexico. The President has let a foreign power walk all over him in some sort of guilt trip. The president has absolutely nothing to feel guilty about. I also think this blow-back to the Arizona immigration law has gotten out of hand. I don't see any point to all these boycotts, for instance, by the LA City Councel. This only breeds a lot of bad feeling and the only people who get hurt are businesses in Arizona, and all of the people that they employ. Basically I am in sympathy with Meg Whitman's new vocalized immigration policies. We need to deny drivers liscenses and welfare payments and benefits such as going to college, and sanctuary cities need to be sent a message. That's what I think.

Glen Beck Is Absolutely Right

Glen Beck said that if you hear the phrase "economic justice" or "social justice" run for the hills because you aren't in a Christian Church. As a person who has probably spent more time "On the Inside" of Christianity, I probably know more than Bill Press and Jesus of KFI put together. And as a moral person I think it cowardly of me or anybody else to "go with the flow" just because it's popular to kick Glen Beck around. Not when he's absolutely right. Here is a reality check. Nowhere is the institution of slavery condemned in the Bible. Nowhere in the Bible is the concept of a labor union enforced in the Bible. Nowhere is big time capitalism condemned. Let me cite examples. Jesus gave the parable of the Tallents where speculating the stock market was praised and the poorest of the three people had his money taken and given to the one who had the most. Jesus seems to endourse "golden parachutes" in the parable of the dishonist manager where if you screw up badly enough you "get kicked upstairs" and your incompetence is rewarded. In another parable Jesus pays people who work one hour and ones who work twelve hours identically. There is one test of morality that is not talked about enough and that is the "What if everybody did that?" test. If everybody did what Jesus did in that parable, people who worked one hour per day would make out and people who worked twelve for the same pay would find themselves priced into oblivian. The Catholic Church, according to Gene Scott is an institution where you may see a guilded church dome filled with rare art treasures, right next to some run down shacks held together with tar paper. And nobody dares question it. While the virtue of giving is apparently extoled do you remember when Mary Magdolane, that prostitute who out of guilt (?) poured three hundred dollars of precious perfune over Jesus' body. Judas said "this should be sold and the money given to the poor". Do you remember what Jesus said. He said "The poor you will always have with you but me you will not always have with you. You know, Dr. Levy said "Be really careful about using words such as ALWAYS and NEVER. Here Jesus seems adament. In the story of the widdow's mite, what stuck out to me is that if I were Jesus at that moment, I would have rather said "You ought not to be giving to an already bloated Sanhedren tresury, but rather they ought to be giving you money". And here is another in the "what if everybody did that" category. Priests are not allowed to have children. So that every bit of money goes not to their children and thence to the economy, but rather gets sucked in like a vacuum cleaner and horded by the Catholic Church. You don't hear words like "Power to the people" or "democracy" much in Jesus' speeches. If you do you're listening to Jim Jones. Now I will say this: If Christianity is like bourbon and you don't like bourbon, you want it diluted to the maximum possible extent. To the extent that a liberal church ad-mixes in Christianity with some social gospell, they do well. But if you don't like burbon you just might prefer that it be absent alltogether. Bill Press may have spent a lot of time in seminary. But it's kind of like being sent off to West Point and saying that's the same experiance as a grunt private draftee to be sent off to Viet Nam. Because West Point graduates are insilated to a degree from the real world, just as seminarian's are. They walk about with a certain aerodyte air about them knowing their destiny is set. This is just something to think about.