U S Circuit Court Rules Health Care Constitutional

This morning the sixth circuit court ruled that you did indeed have to buy into "Obama Care" and have no choice in the matter. But guess what - the republicans aren't even going to fund the thing when it comes in three years, so it will be a mute point. On this court are justices appointed by republicans so that the conservative foes of Obama Care were rubbing their hands in anticipation of a favorable ruling. But the court said that since health insurance was "commerce" therefore the government had the power to regulate it. According to Thom Hartman since according to him health insurance is a "need" then the government must provide it. Now tell me where in the constitution does it say or hint anywhere that "the government is obligated to provide for the basic material needs of each and every citizen"? It doesn't. Therefore it can't regulate what he hasn't been given the power to control in the first place. Judy and Dr. Levy and all the rest were right when they said that Obama Care would take us down the road to socialism. And if there is anything the constitution is not, it's a socialist document. Nowhere does it say that the government is in charge of making private business decisions. It could be to expand or not to expand your business, or a hospital deciding whether or not they want to hire on a few more doctors. Clearly it's a short step from today's decision to deciding where any individual can practice and which city already has enough doctors. Of course the utilitarian argument is made that we need all that "fresh blood" in the system to drive down the premium table to an affordable rate for those who really need it. And it wouldn't matter whether it was somebody growing marijuana in their window box for their own consumption - - or whether they are growing apples. Because as far back as Barry Goldwater he complained that nowadays "An American is guilty of interfering with interstate commerce if he grows food to be eaten on his own farm". When I read that back in the 'sixties I really thought our government had gone screwy. Today it is medical insurance. Tomorrow it would mandating that all cars be manufactured so as to only run on corn oil. You know how strong the corn lobby is getting. Or the government could mandate solar pannels on everyone's roof. They may say "If everybody does it it will drive down the price". Don't get on that. It depends how elastic the supply curve is. "What is a supply curve?" you ask. Well suppose I want to buy a solar electric pannel for my home. So I agree to buy one for one thousand dollars. Then I get to thinking about it and decide I can sell these things myself as a profit. So I go to the guy and say "You know I've decided I want to buy 95 solar pannels from you. What will that cost me?" He doesn't bat an eye and says "$95,000". But I protest I should get a volume discount. And the guy says "A thousand dollars is what they cost a piece so that's what you pay". That would be an example of a completely inelastic supply curve. An example of a more elastic supply curve would be being told by the head waiter they have no tables at a certain resturant. So you wave a twenty dollar bill in front of him and he says, "You know sir, something just opened up". It would be the same thing for oil supplies or perhaps rare leather goods nobody can get. There was a store that was selling them yesterday but today they say they are out. So you say "what can you get me for ten thousand dollars?" and suddenly they just remembered that a shipment was coming in. There are two conflicting slogans about elastic supply curves. There is they saying "Money will buy you just about anything" and there is another slogan that goes "Some things money just can't buy". Some might argue that the government does get involved in business stations like "must carry" TV stations on cable or for that matter rural electrification inthe 1930's and the Tennessee Valley Authority system of bringing electric power to a whole region. But in this case it's a matter of government saying to business "You know we have got a ton of money and we'd like you to have it, but you're going to have to play ball with us". Something like that.

Most people don't know what a supply curve is anyhow. Many people think as the price comes down the supply increases. But they have that ass backwards. If you study economics the supply curve goes up with price. It's the demand curve that comes down with price. And where the two lines meet is presumably the price of the product. Let me illustrate this further for you. I just got a coffee maker. I give a few cups to close friends and make deals for cigarettes occasionally and once I bartered for more coffee filters. But that's basicly the ammount of coffee that exchanges hands when they get it for free. The more people are willing to may me for coffee the harder I'm willing to work to insure that there is a supply. Suppose the head hauncho of this place comes to me and she says, "Marcus, I've issued an order that nobody in this place gets coffee unless they come to you for coffee at a guarenteed buck twenty-five a cup". If she said that I'd suddenly be a busy man. I'd start working my ass off working sixteen hours a day in a money making venture like that. Well, this is what the government is doing with our health care today. They are ordering you to buy it and they are also mandating that there can be no discounting in the price of it. Now what most people think of when someone talks about supply and demand is something different. They are thinking of the sales volume demand curve. I'd also like to illustrate that one for you. They say that high volume in sales will compensate to a drop in price. Yes it does, but only to a degree. Suppose I'm selling widgets and on each widget I make a dollar profit. Now if I sell one of them for eight dollars I make eight dollars in profit. And if I sell eight of them for one dollar profit I also make eight dollars a day or whatever. But I would be wiser if I sold the widgets for either four or five dollars of profit. Because if I sold five widgets for four dollars profit a piece, I would make twenty dollars a day. If I sold four widgets for five dollars a piece in profit I would also make twenty dollars a day. In either case twenty dollars a day is more than eight dollars a day. Geometricly this is what is happening. If you stacked blocks up and took the perimiter of a stack of eight it would be eighteen. If you lay all the blocks out in a row it would also be eighteen. But if you had a block of four by five- - - actually that perimeter would be the same, eighteen. It would be 18. And yet I would make more money. This is why sales people to well to run Excel computer models.

Well, President Obama stumbled through his lengthly press conference this morning taking five minutes to field each question. If it were I up there I would rather give a short and concise answer and because it only took twenty or thirty seconds there would be time for a follow up, if the reporter needed clarification on something. At any rate I would be forthright and not hesitate and tell the reporter the answer to his question as best I understood it. After all you're there to satisfy the press with answers and not to stand up there jerking off for an hour. But it was the way he answered these questions which mused me. He would act like he were reading off some teleprompter a carefully scripted answer. And every now and then he would pause and stare off into space, almost as if he were waiting for the text crawl. It was like these psychic mediums that have their headphones on during seances and some relative not there is feeding them the remarks to deliver to the client. And he would pause and then "Wait- - I'm getting another message" and go on. It was like Obama had a head piece and someone were whispering into his ear telling him what to say. But what he did say I didn't like either. Someone asked him whether the war powers act were constitutional. He said he would let the supreme court rule on that. That wouldn't be Hartman's answer. He doesn't believe in that. Obama has a whole lot more legal training than I do. But even I would attempt to give an answer, if I actually were the president and presumably supposed to know stuff like this. From my own reading of the U S constitution I say the war powers act IS constitutional. After all the constitution does talk about war and therefore has the power to decide the peramaters of presidential powers. And the constitution limited troop allocations for only two years at a time, which also happens to be the length of time House members are elected for. And all money funding bills have to by law originate in the House. Some say Jefferson didn't believe in standing armies. I don't know about that but clearly congress is given the most power under the constitution, and it is mentioned first. So to me if there are any conflicts of power, congress should pervail. Which means the President of the United States must obey the war powers act passed by congress. And that's my ruling on the matter.

The accronym B I T C H stands for Bravery, Intelligence, Tenacity, Creativity, and Intelligence. These are traits every school should seek to develop in its student body. Hell, I like this accronym. I think I'll start calling myself a B I T C H. Hey, want to take a BITCH-ing test in school today? Here is a solid geometry problem. You have a block, a rectangle. You want to saw the upper right corner off. So you draw a plane at a downward slope of thirty degrees from a horizontal axis, and hit six inches before the corner and keep going till you have transversed the object. Now as to the shape that is separated - - it is a three dimensional object, and there is a specific name for it that we mentioned a few postings back. What is it? We know two points define a line and three points define a plane and four points define a volume. But I bet what you didn't know that this is true no matter how many dimensions there are. Two points will define a line even in a three dimensional environment. Four points will define a volume even in a four, five or six dimensional environment. As to the word "define" it carries a certain power. So some degree if you define something you claim a type of ownership over it. As we said if you have four dots in space one of them is most likely non co-plainer. That's because you "have already set up the rules". If you have three dots that fail to make a straight line, you don't curve the line to accomidate the dots. (Who knows, maybe Einstein does it) We could use more Bitches in Bible School actually and exhibit a little bravery, intelligence, tenatiousness, creativity, and honesty there, too. Here are some common Greek translation errors. They say the Bible says that time will come to an end. Not so. This is a mistranslation of the passage in Revelation that says "And then an angel decreed that there should be delay no more". The word is "delay" and not "time". Another one accounts for drunken Catholic priests. It says "Drink ye All of it" so the priests do. The proper translation is "Drink of it - - - All of you". Another one is the place where it says about "remembering your first love". They take this to mean that Jesus is your "first love". How romantic! But the passage should be rendered "Remember the love you had at first". Then we come to Timothy about the passage that says "All scripture is inspired by God and is suitable for inspiration, instruction, reproof- - " and all of that. Others will come back and say it rather says "Every scripture (that happens to be) inspired by God is suitable for- - - and all that stuff. Well guess what? On this one the fundamentalists win. There is no word for this sort of IS in Greek. That would have saved a lot of hassle for Bill Clinton. And then we have the one about "Physical exercise profiteth a little". That's the proper translation. A lot of people try and take the "a" out of there and it changes the meaning for something more syniccal. Now we come to the most despited one. The Jehovah''s Witnesses say that the beginning of John states that in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was a god. This drives people nuts, of course. They are right, of course. Clearly if the Greeks wanted to denote "The God" they would have used "The God" like they do other places. Yea, it's that whole Romulan thing again. Another occasional mistranslation is when some quote Jesus as saying to the adulterous woman "He who is without guilt let him first cast a stone at her", as though casting a stone at her were somehow a prerequisit to declaring your virtue on this issue.

What I Would Do About the Federal Debt Now

First of all I agree budget reduction needs to be in the trillions and not millions. At this point I'd be ready to accept Paul Ryan's proposal for streamlining the budget and medicare. It's severe but Tim Pawlenty's plan is worse. I still think Ryan's plan is kind of a bargain with the devil saying older repipients won't have their medicare coverage messed with. I figure if we ever get on our feet in some future decade we can always modify the bill then. If you want to scrap student loans and school milk programs or other "descretionary" humanitarian programs, fine. But I'd work on the revenue side, too. If a bread winner of a family loses his job, he spends all day trying to find new work to RAISE revenue. I think there are all sorts of corporate perks and subsedies such as corn for ethanol subsedies, that are completely wasteful. Perhaps the government could open oil reserves for leasing out to drillers. But I sure wouldn't give the leases away. I'd make them pay top dollar for the privelege. And I would end oil depletion allowences and also end all of these "zero tax bills" for giant corporations. I think I would set up some sort of minimum tax floor for corporations I still believe we should let the Bush tax cuts expire. Actually I'd like to junk the whole tax package of last December, but I'm willing to give a little on this issue Also I think we can agree that the prescription drug bill passed under Bush was a boondoggle for the drug and insurance companies. I also we should give a long thought to just how many foreign wars we want to be involved in. We're fighting three wars now, with more possible theaters of action on the horizon like the Congo or Sudan. We have to draw the line. For every day we "cut it short" in a battlefield, we save that much in medical and rehabilitation costs, which are huge now. After all men just don't "die" any more like the good old days. I'd also put in a one percent stock trading tax to cut way down on computer trades. As time passes we can eventually reduce this as the danger passes but I'd leave it at a quarter percent.

There is the usual continued political wrangling. Now they are editing Wickipedia to say that John Quincy Adams was a founding father who also fought in the Civil War to end slavery. I hope someone has locked down these history pages. Yes, Michelle Bachman’s fans are responsible for leading the charge here. The march of enforced ignorance goes on. I think we can all agree from this event and remarks I made in the previous posting that Michelle Bachman has pretty much checked out of reality. They say that when she lived as a youth in Iowa she was a liberal, and that she actually campaigned for Jimmy Carter. That’s funny, because I didn’t vote for Jimmy Carter – either time, and therefore can be held accountable for none of the blame of his failures. But then when she moved to Minisota she got in with the wrong crowd. Some rightward shifts are relatively recent. They say that Sarah Palin and Tim Pawlenty both used to be “green” on ecology issues. Obviously the Koch brothers pollit beauro had to step in and remedy that. Sarah Palin is playing this came of “chase me around” and catch me if you can. Maybe we’ll just give her the nickname of “Frosty” you know- - to go with the Alaska cold weather. Now they say that Sarah Palin will make a comeback in 2016 because the next four years will be so bad economically the Republicans will be bold enough to run her. And she will face off with Hillary Clinton, who will by then have been elected Vice President this year, because she and Joe Byden will swap jobs. I don't believe Hillary wants the V P one bit, but I just thought I'd pass it along. And now we have President Obama trying to negotiate with the Senate and House republicans trying to get a budget through. But as I have stated in a previous posting President Obama apparently has nothing to worry about. He can say to these Republicans, “Go ahead - - Make My Day!” If he stands for at least a few of his principles and a budget passes he can save face. But if the worst happens he’s the executive officer, and he can determine what bills will be paid and what money geta allocated to whom. He can go “If you don’t give me everything I want on this matter somebody is gona get hurt”. Hey, that’s not a threat. After all, he didn’t way who!

Well, some people like Thom Hartman can see the dark side of even a positive issue. We are told that since Obama took office that exports to China are way up. Hartman says this is due to the economic standard in China going up and the people having more money to spend. But he warns in dire fashion that "soon our positions may be reversed and they become the consumers and we become the workers at bare bones wages". Well you know something? I wouldn't be in any mad rush to raise the minimum wage just now. Let's see how things play out. I believe that as our economy improves that market forces and the jobs market will dictate that employers pay more per hour for their workers. We are told Henry Ford paid his workers five dollars a day so they could afford to buy the cars they produce. Ford saw the economic value in "putting money in circulation" with his own "economic stimulus package". So now isn't it kind of strange that today Henry Ford is the benevolent socialist and the Communist Red Chinese are the corporate pigs. I think people are getting used to the new "normal" for their standard of living. In some perverse may it may help our economy with things like exports. So far we haven't had riots in the streets or anything. At this point in Ronald Reagan's administration of June 1973 unemployment was at 10.0% I kid you not. But Ronnie knew how to dish out the bullshit, and blame other people besides him for their present difficulties.

I guess it was Stevie Ray Vaughn who had the song "Love-struck Fool". Well Elvis Di Mira certainly qualifies as that. He is debating whether to tell this light of his life his dark secrets, or at least some of them on the principle that if you love someone you're honest with them. Unfortunately for Di Mira, he's in such deep doo-doo it's up past his knees already, and rising. I can see telling a half truth such as "Yes I admit that Raphael Hernandez murdered your mother by pushing her down the stairs and them suffficating her with a pillow in the hospital room and stealing her cameo. But somehow I feel guilty about this whole tradgety. And if I had only been a little more vigilent and protective of my ex wife, Samantha, he would have never have gotten mixed up in our lives, and you can bet he is going to pay for what he did. Me and Stephano were just discussing this topic today". Of course this is a whopper of a half truth but at least from her point of view she "got him to admit the truth" and so she will feel so much better about him for "coming clean and being honest". But as for telling her the whole truth, I'm not even sure Dr. Phil would agree with doing that at this point. Dr. Phil might say, "You know I have a .38 revolver on the top shelf of my closet I'm not using. Perhaps if I accidentally left it out and you just happened to pick it up by mistake and all- - and the next morning you were discovered dead in the mansion - - well, nobody would be any the wiser. After face it Elvis, your life isn't worth a plug nickle anyhow and all this shit is going to hit the fan sooner or later so why not just have a descrete, quiet exit."

Here’s a geometric brain teaser that shows how we approach everything with as it were “cultural” and geometric bias. And not to be too blunt but the more bias you have the more mysterious this paragraph will sound. I was thinking about the idea of “circumnavigating the universe” and wondering “which way would you go around”? Take a basketball with no markings on it. Draw a horizontal line across the middle. Now draw a 90 degree intersecting line going to the “north pole” and going all away around the ball back to the starting point. How look at the ball and from the left side draw another 90 degree intersecting line all the way up to the “north pole” and down the east side and completely around to starting point. These are not only the ONLY THREE ninety degree lines you will draw but also the only LINES that are even STRAIGHT, at least to the eye. Think about this for a minute. You will now draw eight more all as to some degree or another are cockeyed and bend and zig zag across the equator - - twice, in fact and return to starting point across the broadest path along the ball they can take from their starting point. Each of the eight lines will intersect with its partner on the far side of the ball. OK for the original three lines you drew look at the six intersection points the lines make. Now highlight these points in your mind. Now make the ball disappear and just see the points. Now in your mind take lines and connect all of the six points and when you are done you will have eight equallatteral triangles of the same size. Now draw a dot at the exact center of all eight triangles. This will further divide these eight triangles into 24 triangles along the ball of equal size and shape. (but they won’t be equallateeral, only the big ones will) Now draw lines from all eight dots to the center of the ball and project the lines outward from the surface a little. Now, reform the spherical shape of the ball in your mind and see where the eight points are. Now at these points draw two intersecting lines at ninety degree angles that go all the way around the ball. Do this with all the dots and note that each pair of lines intersects at a dot on the other side. These lines should be so drawn so that they divide the areas up into as similar sized segments as possible, that is WHEN YOU’RE ALL DONE. So you have to anticipate and leave open areas. After you have drawn all eight additional lines, twirl the ball around a little and bounce it around and hand it off to a friend and let him examine the ball. If you did it right, HE should not be able to tell which are the “Straight lines” and which are the curved, zig-zag lines. This is because your friend does not have YOUR refrence of geometric bias. I didn’t get this example out of any book. I just thought it up this morning.

Secret to Matter Cloaking Revealed ?

We have a real treat for you this “lottery day” of June 27, 2011. I resolved if there were pressing morning headlines like a new Supreme Court decision I would cover that but otherwise we’d talk about cloaking. There actually is a Supreme Court decision that came down today. The U S Court overturned California's restrictions of the sale of violent Video Games to people under eighteen. I have to come down in favor of state's rights on this one. California has the right to protect the safety of its citizens, and there is ample evidence that violence does adversely affects the minds of teenagers in ways we haven't even fully realized. We may be breeding a whole nation of subconsciously bred "killing machines". Perhaps the government may even find this useful They say there have been reversals in Iraq and now people are getting killed once more. The U S Court is attempting to legislate from the bench.

I would now like to make a humanitarian comment about the Sixty Minutes thing last night about busses in Florida picking up kids at Motels because the families essentially live homeless and cram several families into one room. I saw a little bit of that where I used to live. They say 25% of the children in the US now live in poverty. This is a shameful statistic. We don't know how many of their mothers have to turn tricks for a living. Now that we are a majority of minority newborns the White race is going to have to start looking at itself differently. The Gerber Baby has now pretty much had to go multi-ethnic. Welcome to the 21^st Century. Now I hear that Latinos outnumber Blacks. That one shocks me more than the other one. For hundreds of years Blacks have been “King of the hill” as far as minorities were concerned and I’m sure few of us ever thought we would be beat out by any other minority. In forty years by 2050 this will all translate into a majority of minorities in general.

I’ve been checking out the E = M C squared formula. Here are some facts I didn’t know. Contrary to what the equation espressly states, energy is not “convertible” into mass or visa versa. The closest you can come is when a vast amount of energy, like from an atomic blast, is weighted – then the amount of mass decreases from the debris from what it was because some of the mass was lost in the energy. But “splitting the atom” and the science thereof, is NOT based on the E = M C formula. Furthermore there is no “conversion” of mass into energy. Normally energy and mass are carried together in an object. Einstein says as an object is accelerated then both mass and energy increase, and that when you approach the speed of light both mass and energy approach infinity. And they will continue to grow by leaps and bounds but thenceforth the speed of the object will remain constant at the speed of light. The question arises of “where is zero in all of this?” Well much as we all suspected there is no “zero”. You ask “then how about all that increase in mass and energy?” Simple. The object is “still” and you have a new, heavy mass unit which the observer cannot distinguish from ours. So as I said in my last posting, “zero is anywhere you want it to be”. This whole idea of “the incredible shrinking space” is still hard to swallow. Some of the energy of the object is heat energy or kenetic or potential energy or all that stuff we learned in science class. When it comes to atomic structure there is that “binding force”, which of course, has mass. Therefore the collective mass of any atom or molecule is always a little greater than the mass of its component parts. This “strong force” is the one that is “violated” if you will, in an atomic explosion. Radioactive decay is the “weak force” that works the other way. According to science this decay or loss of alpha particles from the nucleus is not a “natural result” of improper nuclear structure but is a distinct force (like God) that causes it to happen. I had been rather hoping that somehow an argument could be made that objects became lighter as they approached light speed. This would make it easier for them to accelerate, but alas, this eventuality is not to be the case. In terms of photons, they have no mass at all in a rest state, but since they are kinetic or moving, they possess energy and hence mass. That resolves one question I’ve had. They said something trippy. They said the mass of the proton varies with the motion of the observer. This approaches non objectivism, and also plays into the hands of my pet theory.

I think Gloria was about to comment to Peter about my clicking my jaw, but just then Dana came out and tripped on a walker just outside the door and fell down. He says his knee wasn’t skinner, but I’d check if I were he. The next thing you know you see blood spots appearing on your jeans. Before this I was at the NBC site looking at “Hardball” episodes, minus Chris Matthews. They were talking about “funny science” and funny everything else, too where you just make up facts as you go along, such as they fought the Revolutionary War to end slavery. This whole idea of trying somehow to “break government” (like “breaking a Nigger) and somehow in the process of destroying the very fabric of government itself you “prove” that it “doesn’t work anyhow”. They quoted that guy about shrinking government till it’s so small that you can drown it in the bathtub. When it comes to creationism, that could be accomplished by one sentence and that would be something like “In the beginning God created heaven and earth, and every species after its own kind”. After that what are you going to spend the rest of the semester in science class doing? I can’t believe these people are really interested in “science”. Science like government is something to be sufficiently starved till it is no longer a threat. (Selah) And of course they mentioned how practically every scientist now believes in global warming. I don’t know where Michelle Bachman comes up with these figures saying there are scads of Nobel Prize scientists that agree with her.

This afternoon has sort of slipped away, one way or another. I went out for afternoon coffee break that was after 2:15 and got one cup regular and one cup black coffee from Laura. Smoking rates are too high and I’m going to have a rude awakening tomorrow. Elena was by to empty the trash. No phone calls in or out.

We had beef stroganoff and the usual overcooked broccoli, and a piece of whole wheat bread. We had vanilla pudding for desert, and I had a second helping of the main dish emptying Antwenette’s plate. I plan to do a posting on my latest theory but I want the information to percolate around in my brain a little. Loretta didn’t mention Seid and Nicky coming and I didn’t ask. I’m glad the caffeine in chocolate ice cream isn’t an impediment to Mormons. I don’t plan on being as confrontational as I was last week, if I even go. Oh, the Mexicans beat the Americans at last nights soccer match at the rose bowl where people began arriving at noon for a game that didn’t begin six.

I’m writing this assuming you’ve read the material typed earlier this afternoon. We come to the whole idea of ether and material space and its limitations and can they be exceeded and what happens when (or “if”) they are. First of all I want to clarify something from a couple of postings back. If a space vessel is approaching you and you are approaching him, and by doing ordinary Newtonian math you are exceeding the speed of light. He will be momentarily “out of your universe” and you will momentarily be out of His. But Neither of you will be “out of Thee universe”. Capish? In terms of ether, if we take the “soap film” in the soap bubble analogy to be ether there is one thing we can say about it and that is that it stretches. (and eventually bursts) You have heard it said and I repeated the remark to my brother over the phone one day that “There are scientists who say we should soon come to a time when objects receding from our telescopes - -stars, galaxies - - will not only be receding at a third or a half the speed of light as they appear now, but that they will indeed be receding at a rate exceeding the speed of light but they tell us “That’s OK, because the “space” itself is moving and so that makes it OK with Einstein theory”. Well this is pretty much an admission of my view that space is filled with a substance called ether. In terms of approaching the speed of light I have believed you could do it with 1 G acceleration for one year, and if you did 1 G acceleration for two years you would be double the speed of light, or any combination thereof such as 2G for one year or 3 G for eight months. (there’s a cell phone bill for you) And we have learned that ether “necessarily” stretches because the universe is expending due to necessary requirements of the soap bubble theory. He has nothing to do with “the universe being out of control”. The rate at which it expands can easily be rendered by surface volume geometry. The whole “event horizon” thing here is as I described it in the previous posting, with the exception noted here. Now as you approach the “edge” of the Universe and leave it, your kinetic energy will surely have increased but gravity and acceleration will non the less remain a numeric steady computation – neither greater nor less. Let’s talk about electrons. They’re everywhere. They go through each other and they go the speed of light. But it will be the kinetic energy in the rest of your body that will rise. I believe energy rises but basic Newtonian mass remains constant, and in this way disagree with Einstein. But there will come a point when your body and soul as it were are transformed as you relation to traveling electrons is altered due to your increased energy. So you will have the ability to perceive differently should the situation arise. This occasion will come when you breech the hyperspace barrier. As you know optically you will seem to “back out” of the Universe. This is a quark of light speed verses optics. We’ve talked a lot about hyperbolas but the one bit of Ether clinging to you will be from your vanishing “event horizon” as you look on things behind you. If you are traveling with a ship in front of you, you will no longer be able to see him physically, but he will still be able to see you, that is, until he exceeds three times the speed of light. Then the last bit of ether clinging to you will let go. What you will “see” at this point will depend on this newly liberated “energy” you have. I would note parenthetically that the “Super Self” theory by which you may already know the future, to a certainty past and present- - may be a reality. I said maybe.

But as a final byproduct of all of this I think this evening out on the patio I stumbled upon the possible secret to the Romulan cloaking device. If two objects approach or interact with each other exceeding the speed of light- - - well they Don’t. I think Einstein buff would say that if two objects approach each other each at half the speed of light the figure Einstein buffs quote to you is 80% the speed of light. Now note it’s called the “addition of speeds” formula. I’m technically adding negative numbers and when I do this in Excel I get the figure of positive 1.8 when Einstein buffs would tell me I should have gotten a negative 4/5. Hence we can throw out the whole formula. If a molecule is sped up sufficiently it could theoretically exceed the speed of light in one direction for a short time. If you could somehow have some possibly ocelating energy field where a molecule went first one way and then another and then and another and returned to the starting point- - this might give solids the consistency of a gas. Freeway traffic when organized flows much more smoothely. You could do this with a whole group of molecules in unison, which itself would cut way down on light obstruction. As with our two approaching space craft one would vanish in relation to the other one. But manner cloaked with a similar “cloaking key” would be compatible and both optically visable but also material and coherent. When I first pondered this idea I worried about heat generation. The principle is when a body is exposed to EHF waves it heats up the molecules (speeds them up) and then the body itself begins emitting heat or infra-red rays. Capish? However this could be controlled for as the “heat movement signature” could be preserved. (not that there might have been a few horrible accident where Romulans got fried in experiments that went bad) But bigger movements would generate longer and safer electro-magnetic waves such as in the lower SHF or even UHF bands. Going lower would require too big of a movement or ocelation. The bigger the ocelation the safer the device would be but the harder to achieve. You sacrifice some risk for expediency. As such a cloak ship would still be detectable with a certain EM wave signature. But that would be a small drawback and most people probably wouldn’t scan for it. Perhaps they have ways of desguizing these waves so that they are mistaken for something else. In two thousand years, Romulans have probably worked out the bugs.

New York State Legalizes Gay Marriage

New York governor Andrew Cuomo signed the gay marriage bill into law last night after this bill passed the New York state legislature last night. I never thought the bill would make it. I was kind of hoping this whole gay marriage thing would “wither on the vine” and it would amount to just some passing fad. Now we know this is not to be the case. With a state with New York sanctioning gay marriage it’s no longer of moving to a rural state such as Vermont to participate in your own brand of perversion. The bill passed because four republican legislators jumped sides and switched their votes to “Aye”. I can’t begin to imagine what sort of mental processes they exercised, but perhaps it had something to do with this “Christmas tree” bill they voted for, which we have discussed previously. There are "religious exemptions", which I more or less assumed there would be. Christians don't have to put up with two grooms mincing down the aisle. Also Churches cannot be sued for refusal to marry gay couples. What puzzles me is the provision about "not being denied government aid". I didn't know churches could take aid from the government. The bill takes effect July 24^th and same sex couples can hardly wait to tie the knot. I guess I’m happy for them. But I don’t like what it will do to society as traditional values fall. I know there are people who say that same sex marriage they want, with two people who are homo sapiens getting married. They say that now but in the future, who knows? Clearly this is a slap at all forms of traditional culture and religion with values stretching back thousands of years. This is nothing to wink at. What is happening in the here and now is truly momentous to our culture in general.

Addul Kallid, a self radicalized Islamic terrorist was arrested for conspiring to attack a Seattle military instillation on Friday along with another man. Kalid posted his beliefs on You Tube. He used a mixture of modern slogans mixed with quotes from the Koran, “but his tone was more like that of a preacher”. OK. He says that what we need is a jihad, but jihad doesn’t just mean going out and killing a bunch of people. “That’s murder”. He says that the U S is responsible for killing a lot of innocent people. Thom Hartman says that Afghanistan leads the world in number of refugees fleeing, at three million, and this exceeds even Iraq and together both countries comprise about half of all the world’s refugees. Kalid is apparently a prison convert, as so many of these latter day “lone wolves” are. Kalid was in contact with the Fort Hood shooter. Clearly conspirators like these two were what George Bush had in mind when he said in September of 2001 that “we were going to extend out our war on terrorism in many different directions”. Clearly it’s guys like this the Patriot Act was passed to enable the capture of. Apparently these two conspirators tried to recruit a third man who grew suspicious and contacted law enforcement, and then they worked on the case.

Bin Laden worked for the government as a Pakistani secret agent in their equivalent to our CIA, we learned on the News last night. This is unbelievable! This may be a reason why George W Bush didn’t want him taken down because in some perverse sense he was on our side. This may be why the Pakistani government reacted so histelly to our raid on the Bin Laden compound. If any of this is true it has more than profound implications. We know the whole relation between the US and Pakistani governments is shrouded in secrecy and at times “inexplicable” in nature. I have not really been able to get traction on this story on the internet. We’ll just wait and see.

You know, there should be a warning on intelligently written material you actually expect to be understood that says “Idiots Needn’t Apply”. There are a few basic questions I could ask of Dr. Levy to demonstrate that I don’t think he even has a thumbnail understanding of the basic concepts of some of those writings of mine he printed out this morning. There are basic questions a teacher can ask of a student, perhaps sly ones, to indicate to the teacher that the student hasn’t even looked at the material he’s supposed to have read. Unfortunately I think the same holds with Christian history. The other evening as you know I spent a long time tracing down a piece of information I’d been repeating in my writings for five years, to verify it. This pertains to a quazi religious group that started in Egypt and made its way to Rome. According to Tacitus “even now (in AD 109) this group is not extinct”. I’m ingrigued by the phrasing because if it’s Christians as we know then - - they weren’t “going extinct”. If they were growing by leaps and bounds why then didn’t Tacitus say that? If you read a couple postings back you read about an agitator or “instigator of the Jews that was stirring up the crowds” and nobody bothers to check how his name is spelled or whether or not they think it’s In fact there are manuscripts in the middle ages where the "e" has been changed to an "i" for "Christos, just to divert suspicion. But the term on many manuscripts is "Isu Chrestos" rather than "Yeshah Nazarius". Jesus or Christians as we know them the passage is referring to. There are certain “problems”. First of all they are referred to as Jews and not Christians. And next the “instigator’ is referred to as still being alive. We have two problems. Jesus had been dead for twenty years and Jesus never suggested you stir up trouble in society, but to be passive and “turn the other cheek” and “go the second mile” and all of that. Also the charge Tacitus made was not of "trying to convert others". As to the matter of Nero blaming the "Christians" for the fire, Titus states that "The Crestians were a group that was most hated and despized in society". The problem here is that - in the Epistles we are taught to "dwell at peace with all men" and to obey Roman laws, and pay your taxes and all of that. (Sorry, tea party people) As my sixth grade teacher told me "a word to the wise is sufficient".

Now I would like to comment on that eleven year old Aspurger’s Sidrone kid, the eleven year old who confidently asserted that you could go 1.9 times the speed of light. The whole “secret” to Einstein’s “special relativity” if you think about it is “being seen”. If you aren’t seen you don’t exist. Were you to have asked me before today “Where does ether end and hyperspace begin?” I would have said at the speed of light. But alas it’s not quite that simple. (I know, with Einstein it never is) I told you and that kid that for approaching objects the cosmic speed limit was .999999 of the speed of light and for objects going away from each other it was 2.999999. Actually this is true but it’s ONLY true, for instance, for those two approaching objects, and for those two each one need only be traveling 0.500001 the speed of light. OK? Remember what we said about the “event horizon” a couple of postings ago. We said optical star gazers the event horizon was a cone. It's actually just the side walls of the cone and not the space inside. However this "cone" is carried out to every third dimensional contingency, as is the soap bubble model itself. (see previous references) The following bracketed text is no longer relivent or deemed accurate: [ with a curved spherical base with the base and corners connecting at perpendicular angles.] If these objects are going faster- - they will each no longer be in the other’s “event horizon”. I know people say under Einsteins addition of velocities formula this can never happen. I believe this "infinitely shrinking space and speeds phenominon" isn't valid. For me it's straight newtonian math. Einstein believes "the Illusion IS the Reality". I respectfully disagree. The question arises at what point, if Einstein be right, that "matter begins being converted into energy". The big question is that under the "no absolute stationary" doctrine - - there is NO POINT that can be said to be at absolute zero velocity above any other "point". Therefore a point nine tenths the speed of light has JUST AS MUCH credential at calling itself "stationary". Hence one wonders "how long the energy conversion process" is at any given point. That's a real big problem when every point can be redefined as zero. (thanks to Einstein's incredible shrinking space doctrine) From the point of view of the one (space ship traveler), the other is no longer in the Universe. Actually we have seen this phenominon in the laboratory where it was found electrons pass through one another with ease, because they lack materiality. Now when EACH object attains a speed of 186,000 miles per second with respect to the normal stationary objects in the universe they will have “left the universe” or at least “gone hyperbolic” with respect to these stationary objects. Because (optical image) time is reversible you can go up to 2.99999 the speed of light with objects going away from each other- - - first time stops, then goes backwards and hits Normal in reverse- - at which point they see mirror images. This point is at twice the speed of light. They have one more Unit to go before light again approaches unavailability - - this time in perceived optical reverse time and space, but NOT in actual time or space, which remains unchanged. To have something going “your speed” or near it will insure that the other vessel is “in your event horizon”, as you are in theirs. The recriprication doctrine states that however you see them is how they see you. (If more Christians actually believed this, this would be a lot nicer world) To summarize then the “absolute speed limit” of Ether is directly tied to the speeds of other things in your event horizon. So the border of ether and hyperspace is not only speed related (regardless of location) but it also “neighborhood related”. Capish?

Lack of National Debt Ceiling May Be "Doable"

Well as you know yesterday House republicans walked out of a conference session with democrats on raising the national debt ceiling. They still don't want to raise taxes on the very rich, and want to cut taxes on giant corporation, who pay almost nothing now. Senator Bernie Sanders and Thom Hartman believe that the democrats should hang tough on this issue and not to give in. And the rationalle is simple. Obama caved at the end of 2010 in granting the rich their continued tax breaks under Bush even though they were scheduled to expire within days. But the way they did it was to grant them two years more of tax cuts, but only granting extension of unemployment benefits for just one year. This means that come the beginning of 2012 that there will be many people whose unemployment checks run out. And the republicans are hoping that the democrats will be blamed for their condition. Dr. Levy would love that. That's why he talks about it so much. So it was really sly of the republicans to work it this way. People will be out of money and all the while big business will have all that extra money for the republican presidential campaign next year. So the thing to do is to not give in to the republican economic blackmail this time around. They think they are holding the nation hostage by their demands. But apparently Bob Packwood made in inquiry in the 1980's when Ronald Reagan was in the process of trippling the national debt. He wanted to know if the government worked under FIFO or last in first out regulations - - or whether the government could pick and choose any program they pleased to de-fund. It turns out it's the latter. So quite simply the government can just choose not to fund pet republican programs in red states, such as highway funds. The red states tend to be takers and run a tax surplus with the government. For every tax dollar they put in they get $1.20 back. Whereas in blue states they put in one tax dollar and may get less than eighty cents back. Having Obama as president hasn't altered this basic situation since the days of George Bush. Quite simply, the republicans will be informed that because of their own actions that they will lose out on funds for their pet projects, whereas all the programs they wanted to cut like student loans and health care for the poor, will continue to go on as usual. Pretty smart, huh?

In the news Whitey Bolgier was arrested in Santa Monica yesterday. He is this Boston crime boss who is being charged with racketeering and murder and all that good stuff. The government has been after him for years. His brother led a very different life and is a prommonent Boston politician. Some wonder whether he was covering up for his brother not telling them information he knew. It seems what they both have in common is that they run their respective organizations with an iron hand. President Obama has decided along with various nations of the world, to release oil reserves to get the price down. This was a desperation political card the President finally found it necessary to play. I don’t think it will affect the price a hill of beans and much more probably the price of oil would have come down due to natural market processes. However if you have a corner on the oil market why not jerk speculators around by dumping oil after they have paid a lot for it and then withholding oil when they get discouraged and decide to sell. If I were the government I could play that game all day. Meanwhile atholete Ron Artess has decided to go into court and change his name to “Meta World Peace”. I bet the judge will just love that one. Well, Grace Slick at one point wanted to change her daughter’s name from China to “God” in the early ‘seventies. For weeks they have been telling us that a certain overpass spanning the San Diego freeway will be torn down and traffic will be completely closed from July 15^th through July 18^th. Supulveda Blvd. will also be closed except for residents in the area. So if you want to get over the Santa Monica mountains you have to traverse these local bendy, curvy mountain streets. I guess I’m wondering why they have been saying it so much over a month in advance. Meanwhile if today is June 24, 2011 then it means “Cars II” is opening tonight. Believe it or not there are people who actually line up to see this movie on the first night. Meanwhile California still doesn’t have a budget so the state legislature is continuing to have their pay docked as the days tick off, one by one. If this is late June there must be all sorts of long awaited Supreme Court decisions coming. Compared to most prior years we’ve hardly had any this year, but they still have another week to go.

The whole problem with the nuclear reactors in Japan isn’t going away. Now they say this accident was definitely worse than Chernobyl. All three reactors melted down completely. They have found traces of radioactivity from the accident in milk of school kids in New York City. They cannot even start the clean-up process because they are nowhere near shutting down the reactors even now. They estimate that sometime next year they will be able to commence the clean-up process. There is no doubt about it now, the Japanese government lied. Scientists here knew they were lying because they did computer simulations of the accident and deduced that the radioactivity and the damage had to be a lot worse than we were being told. Some are even saying there is a probability of an after-shock, which could make things all the worse. I just heard James on the patio saying that Germany has decided to shot down and remove all nuclear reactors from that country and concentrate on coal, wind, and tidal power. That’s nice energy if you can get it. Thom Hartman has oft repeated the phrase that “That’s an awfully expensive process of what amounts to boiling water”. The water is boiling now. I think our President needs to suck in a breath and take a long, hard look at which energy sources will cause major ecological damage and steer twords other sources. The good news is that there seems to be little harmful radiation beyond about fifty miles out. Luckily the tidal wave hit mainly farm land. Clearly if circumstances had been different this reactor melt-down would have killed a lot more people than it did. George Washington’s blog has a lot more details on this whole subject and I recommend you read that.

Ben Vernanke said today that this economic slow-down caught him by surprise. If that’s really true then he’s really not as economically astute as someone in his powerful position should be. Like I say we are headed into a deflationary spiral. People don’t think that’s possible because nothing like it has happened since the ‘thirties. Or in Dylan’s words, “Things like that don’t happen now days, do they?” Yes they do. Oil prices won’t be a factor because they are headed down. What is clearly the cause of this economic downturn is that nobody and especially business wants to put money at risk because they are uncertain they will get their money back on any new capital investment. And if they don’t spend the money they’ll be right, so it will be a self fulfilling prophecy. These corporate manipulators never think about what happens to these businesses they raid and gut and leech all the money they can out of, or how their own “Golden Parachutes” will affect the overall economic climate after they’re gone. The percentage of outright crooks is so high in big business right now, the whole problem is more legal and tax revenue related than it is anything the Federal Reserve does. You can’t blame events in Japan because if this economy has recovered normally, by now in 2011, two years after the so called “bottom” of the recession, we would long since been out of recession by now. Of course all the servicemen return from Afghanistan won’t help matters any because they’ll all need jobs, and so will all the extra people no longer covered by Social Security after age 65. There is a glut of labor. People don’t get paid that much so seek a second and third job, and these people are all competing for the same brass ring. But the worst part will be when the economy really falls apart about 2014 and there are riots in the streets here just like there are in Greece and elsewhere. As it is written, “People are inclined to suffer injustices so long as said injustices are tolerable” but there will come a point when that “natural lubrication” will break down and lose its viscosity, metaphorically speaking. People will lose their traditional civility tword one another. And at that point the tea party “revolt” will seem like pettiness in comparison when the people wake up and realize who the real enemy is- - the banksters and these giant internationalist corporations. Believe med whoever is President then, and it may well be still be Barock Obama, will have to wake up and smell the coffee.

Court Cast Shadow over Generic Drug Use

Today the U S Supreme Court bolstered the positions of all those who insist that we all pay top dollar for name brand drugs, for instance in Obama's Health Care plan. This is because they denied the states and/or the people to sue over certain mishaps and side effects that generic drugs may have. The Court seemed to be saying that if there were foreign substances in the drug that the FDA didn't catch, or there were gross side affects to a certain drug, well then "tough" and to go out and by the more expensive name brand drug at three times the price. Clearly this ruling is stepping on state's rights. Of course these anti immigration people talk about stepping on state's right. And the Bush v Gore case was about treading on state's rights. It could be argued that these current neo cons are not at all adverse to treading on state's rights when it's in their political interest. Of course the whole area of drug safety or the safety of any product should be the pervue of the states. It's not mentioned in the constitution as the exclusive domain of the federal government. People should be able to sue whenever and wherever they want. The thing is the drug companies don't owe us "success" with every drug. But they do owe us a "reasonable expectation that the product is suitable for the use it was purchassed for. The same would be said for a piece of machinery or electronic equipment. This was a five to four decision of the Court and my guess it's the usual suspects who voted for it. It's just another way to continue to strip rights from the American consumer.

Now there is a trend in 24 states or whatever to greatly restrict voting rights to vast segments of the population. You remember that Paul Warwick fellow said in 1978 in his church that "Quite frankly - our power to sway presidential politics goes up as the percentage of American voters goes down". Thom Hartmann today on his radio program referred to the Jeffersonian model of "making sure the public is educated when they vote". But Rev. Warwick spoke of typical liberal objectives as the "Goo-goo sidrone". Thomas Jefferson said the remedy for the uneducated masses is not to take the vote from them thus disenfranchizing them, but rather to educate them", and of course Jefferson was a champion of free education. What these states want to do is to require a photo I D for all voters. The trouble here is that it impacts Blacks and old people, and the poor in general particularly hard. I don't believe it's coincidental that all of these groups just happen to vote democratic. I know that were I just to go down to the DMV and not even get a license renewal but merely to just go down and have my picture taken- - I'd have to shell out $22.00 because only people over 65 or maybe it's 70 get to have a photo I D for free. And I don't even know what the laws are in other states. Thom Hartman has spoken often about the "red shift " phenominon that manifested itself first in the election year of 2,000 and became more pronounced with each passing year. I remember the California 1964 Primary when they predicted Goldwater would win. CBS was a champion of this new thing called VPA or voter profile analysis. They were now able to do exit polls and take all the suspense out of elections. I even think Ralph Story once did a comentary on this. Since these early days exit polling has become quite acquerate. According to Hartman they have down to a tenth of a percent in Germany. So even though it takes days to tally the election ballots in Europe, they know the final outcome within a couple hours. This used to be true in this country till about twelve years ago when this red shift thing showed up. Of course generically "red shift" means "retarded" and we all know if you vote Republican you are retarded. But the good news is that demographically now in this country there are more minority babies being born than there are Caucasian babies. That's quite an accomplishment. So demographically the worm has turned, and now it's just a matter of time and the whole Tea Party movement will become just a distant memory.

A lot of people were not happy with the President's speech last night. They argue that the political reality is now the people of the United States will not continue to support a war in Afghanistan for at least three more years, and probably longer, given our deficet and debt situation. But an even bigger reality people are missing is that these economic stimulus packages passed two years ago either will run out or already have run out, and it's showing up in the economic statistics. Democrats are likely to inform this President that we really need a new economic stimulus package if we are going to win next year, and if we phrase it right, the republicans might even go along with it. We continue to hear stories about various state government program shutting down and colleges being defunded. Also even in the private world I heard a roomer that Marie Callendar is going to initiate a massive lay-off of its employees numbering in the thousands, and that many outlets will be closed down. This whole constriction phenomonon, both public and private, has not spent itself yet, and for each program closure or business closure, that's that many jobs lost and that many people without spending power. Someone said that if you are running a bakery if you give the owner a tax break he will not go out and hire new employees. He'll pocket the profit. The way to induce a bakery to hire more workers is if their business were suddenly to double and they had lines of customers out the door. This would induce employers to hire more workers to keep up with demand, even if they were short on capital at the moment. The trouble is that these hard right tea baggers such as Dr. Levy know little to nothing about basic economics. This president spent all his political capital on just one thing and that's getting that Health Care monstrocity through, which come 2014 will not even be funded by a republican congress so it will all have turned out for naught.

If any of you have questions about the origens of Christianity you may ask yourselves how a Jewish sect could get involved with people into higher math. The "Pythagoreans" have nothing to do with the mathmetician but this is what Apolonius of Tyannus believed and taught. Again it all stems back to worship of "The One" or "The point". Gnosticisum in its worst form boils down to the slogan of "I just got a revelation that I Am the Center of the Universe" and there are a lot of Jesus Freaks who feel this way. Remember that Agape love was never intended for love of people fut for love of things. Things are worth only for the value you place on these things and what these things can do for you. As I have said Gene Scott charishes things and uses people rather than visa versa. If you are "chosen by God" then you too can be elevated to the status of being a Thing, like that statue over there or this bag of cocaine in my pocket. Your value comes entirely in terms of how you can "make me feel". Your feelings are not important. How much I'm worth to you is irrelivent. Some would argue that Marcionism and Gnosticism are different in that to a Marcionite the world is completely wicked and depraved and corrupted, whereas a Gnostic is saved by discovering that spark of divinity within him. But as you know the pecking order in Gnosticism goes first The One - - Lesser Gods - - Angels - - and finally Man. Man is the low point on this totem pole. If we believe St. Paul- - the whole process of even being saved is in itself a Mystery. Gnostics can't say how it happens. It's just an "experiance that changes you" and you yourself don't have within yourself the power to make it happen. As to Marcionism, Tertulian said of them "They would have God the Just at odds with God the Good, and they portray the two as irreconsilably at odds with one another". My response is that Justice is one of my seven cardinal virtues. If you are Just then it's a big sign that you are good. If you are Not Just, it definitely shows that you are Not Good. It's just that simple.

Some of you out there in cyberspace are asking, "Did you mean to imply that a distant planet such as revolves around Sirius A spins on its axis with reference to the star at exactly the same rate down to the minute or second that the earth spins around its axis once in reference to the sun?" It sounds like that. But someone told me years later that the sun on Sirius A that night did not set till around 11:30. There were no windows in the building I was in so I didn't know whether it was day or night (or even whether I WAS really in New York). It's most likely that the people did not go to bed till two or three that morning, which would be twelve or one AM current DLST California time. What you people need to know is that people on Sirius A are night owls. They don't sleep based on whether the sun is our or not. In terms of time - - this planet spins on its axis once about ever 26 hours or so so that every day the sun rises and sets a couple of hours later than the day before. The sky is kind of a dull gray, which tells me their atnosphere does not contain Nitrogen as ours does, which is rendered into a blue liquid near absolute zero. As to whether the entire planet is cloaked, for me personally this is a real possibility since Sirius A is one of our clossest stars being only twelve & a half light years away. Our astronomers would not see a cloaked object with their telescopes. If a body such as myself were also cloaked in the same manner, handeling other cloaked objects would be no problem. By the way cloaked people do not sufficate. Cloaking of solids does not affect gasses. Just to set you at ease on that one. As to some other planets we could review these again - - like the outer ones in Reigel- - - Reigel VIII is some sort of an industrial military planet where the sun shines very brightly and the atnosphere is quite thin and the sky is virtually black. On Reigel IX there are geysers and bubbling pools and things such as are at Yellowstone, and and the air is steamy, and I imagine, sulphury. Reigel X is a very nice earth like planet with grass and greenary with blue skies. Reigel XI is unknown. Reivel XII is a cold planet and inhospitable and cold. They mine some "black, crysteline substance" there. I don't think it's dilithium. But apparently it's a valuable substance that resembles graphite. By the way, ordenary sand is the export on Sirius "O". Silicon dioxide is a valued comodity by the Federation. I guess if you have any more questions you'll keep asking them.

President Orders Withdrawal of 10,000 Troops

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"Well Dear, at this point I'd settle for any body under 65"

Well as the expression goes, that speech of President Obama tonight didn’t amount to a warm bucket of spit. It was a big bunch of nothing. Apparently ten thousand troops will be withdrawn by the end of this year. I must assume troops are actually coming home next month, not to be replaced. Another 20,00 troops will be withdrawn next year. This would about cover all those added in that “surge” of 2009. But the President didn’t want to linger on that topic but rather preferred to talk about the preparedness of the United States to fight battles around the world and to not retreat into isolationism. He did by implication agree that our Libya policy now is a nice compromise. There seemed not to be the slightest inkling of when the bulk of US troops are going to be withdrawn from Agthanistan. Somehow some way, some politician has to plan beyond the next six months. The odds are better than even that the Republican nominee next summer will stake a position to the left of the President with regard to the War. The last time there was this party switcheroo was in 1960 when Senator John Kennedy staked out a position on military preparedness to the right of then President Dwight Eisenhower. If the scenario goes down this way, the Republican candidate, even if he’s an obnoxious ass, stands a real change of winning the 2012 election next year. I suggest that the President talk about more the expense of war, in human lives, and the lives of families, and of tax dollars. This is what the American people are concerned about. I think this whole Al Qaeda thing is fading, and will soon be only a relic of the “ought” decade.

Let’s slip in a little clarification addendum regarding that recording studio on Sirius A. The roof was black. The lighting appeared to be incandescent. The carpet was some dark print pattern and appeared to be made out of wool. As to the changing the radio channel incident it went like this. John Lennon was complaining away on some tyrade didn’t want to hear the current station playing on the radio. (My guess is that it was 97.1) Sirius of course can tune in any earth radio stations they want. They chose LA stations. But they run in New York time and it was a little after eight when I got there. So Stewart points to the radio and says “There it is” or something. John continues to bitch and complain, but is showing no inclination twords getting up out of his comfortable chair. He’s looking at me so I go “what the hell” and go over and change the radio station to KRTH. It was a dial tuner radio, and fortunately the dial was accurate.

This morning I resolved that I was going to investigate the origins of Christianity further, because having five revered figures to draw upon, I’m still not certain how, if it happened that way, the Jewish Christians were able to override the Gnostic of Pythagoreans or others. Also I wanted more “historicity” of early first century Christians. This afternoon I think I got it, or at least a big piece of the answer, with God’s grace. I was thinking perhaps the Essines took the gospel to Rome or Asia Minor. However it was one early historian who fingered the Nazareans or “northern Essenes” who were in Palistine and may fulfill that Isaiah passage about “a light is seen in the North”. Obama is speaking now. Here is a group that had their own “teachers of rightiousness”. They say Jesus or Yeshau was born into this sect of Nazareans, who were centered in Mt. Carmel, which is usually known for another event in the Bible. (shades of Elijah) Of course Jesus of Nazareth is also translatable as “Jesus the Nazarene”. Capish? I would now like to excerpt the following passage I dug up. - - - Translations of the Bible, from the fifth century Vulgate on, have generally rendered this into a form equivalent to "Jesus of Nazareth." However, it is not the only possible translation. Linguistically, "Jesus the Nazarene" would be at least as correct, and some critics have argued that it is more plausible given that city of Nazareth seems to have not existed at the time of Jesus; it is unmentioned in any contemporary history and it is not possible to prove its early existence other than by reference to the gospels. Other area of this site allude to Essenes and the Pythagoreans. These people did not go along with Temple animal sacrifices, in fact seemed to abhor the slaughter of animals. Some say that John the Baptist was from this school, originally.. Of course in a skit of mine - - I have John the Baptist claiming to be a follower of “the Egyptian”. Here's a little more history that's interesting

The emperor Claudius reigned 41 to 54 AD. Suetonius reports his dealings with the eastern Roman Empire, that is, with Greece and Macedonia, and with the Lycians, Rhodians, and Trojans. He then reports that the emperor expelled the Jews from Rome, since they "constantly made disturbances at the instigation of Christ" (Judaeos impulsore Chresto assidue tumultuantis Roma expulit).^[4] The name appears in manuscripts of Suetonius as Chrestus, a form also used by the Roman historian Tacitus to refer to Chrestiani. Chrestus (Χρηστός, "Useful" or "Good") is a not uncommon Greek personal name,^[5] and may not refer to the man known as Jesus Christ.

Chuck Smith was born in June of 1927 making him just turning 84, which means he’s just older than Dad was when he died. Lonnie Frizee was only 18 in early 1968 when he teamed up with Chuck, who apparently regarded him as important. There was nothing about Chuck’s accomplishments in the past thirty years. The latest reference is to his eschatology when he said in August of 1977 for the first time that he expected the tribulation to arrive within weeks. In 1978 Wickipedia quotes him as saying he felt strongly that “end end” would come by 1981, and he repeated this assertion in 1980. There was some controversy raised by one site saying Chuck condoned the father in a child beating case in Viusailia. The other incident was Chuck advising a desperate woman to have an abortion on his radio program earlier this year. She was due to give birth to Siamese twins. I’m no fan of abortion but for me, I draw the line if the mother risks giving birth to something not altogether human. Chuck said Jesus would say to her in such a case, “Neither do I condemn you”, and I definitely agree. Stewart admonished me later to remember his words from earlier in the morning about the Centaurians being the ones involved in “Selling your souls to the Devil - - for a reward now”. Certain events in lives I know are a little “inexplicable” Stewart said that the Crestorians don’t do this (“buy” souls) despite their identification with Satanism. The Crestorians are also identified with the Masons, the Skull and Bones fraternity, as well as the Knight’s Templer - they are zionists after a fashion -" but they're good zionists; they aren't Idumeans. " (I knew what Stu meant by this reference) The Knights Templar were too successful in raising money for themselves, which was a group the Catholic Church turned against in the 1300’s.

[earlier today] Randy Rhodes is on right now. I got coffee from Dora and had two cups. The dark gray birds have been out and about with the white ones now. You’d think they’d get tired of their little hideaway anyhow. I watched the soap opera. You know I don’t think Julie handled the thing right with Maggie. Maggie came to her for a little support of her decision to break up with Victor and to buttress her resolve, and instead she came away more confused and depressed than when before she began. Julie was into this psycho-babble and head shrinker stuff. Hope is jerking Taylor around. Brady won’t tell his own grandfather it was Elvis whom he beat within an inch of his life. Nicole says she wants a divorce from E J. That’s the sanest thought she’s had in months. I had Randy on after lunch but had to use the facilities before soap time, and I had to smoke my cigarette during one of the commercials. At two I took inventory of the laundry items.

Well, the day has come. Remember this June 22, 2011 because Dana announced at noon that tonight would be the last time he was swelling coffee to us all. He needs the rest of the supplies for his own use in the next few weeks and isn’t going to buy more. He doesn’t believe that given this “war” he’s in, that they would aid and abet him in his money making pursuits. Not everybody is as big of an asshole as Mark Bove. I would at least assume the best till I found out otherwise. I guess I’m going to again have to get used the taste of instant coffee. The weather today is identical to yesterday.

In the morning I got up a little after four and Wally and Dana and the whole gang was out there. I lingered a while in conversation half thinking I’d just stay up. But I eventually went back to bed and even got more sleep. In the morning I got coffee from Dana. I had Stephanie Miller on for most of the three hours. We had Raison Bran for breakfast with a fried egg and toast and butter and jelly. Randy wants to have breast reduction. Why throw away an asset? Thom Hartman was unusually boring today. I went out for morning coffee from Dora and had two cups. I hung out on the patio for a while- - - [and we're ending it right here]