Happy St Patrick's Day

First of all we mentioned that this Culture here in America is kind of a slave to religious idioms and what you might call a "common Christian heritage", which according to Glen Beck separates us from poorer less bless countries like Mexico, which according to Glen Beck, must not have this same Christian heritage.  (?) Glen Beck today began raving about the Constitution of the United States, as to the chief reason why there is more abject poverty in Mexico than in the United States.  Although someone like Rick Perry should be thrilled because real estate prices are much lower and "a person can find it much more economical to live there than er- - uh - - California - - oh I meant the United States.  I mean who cares if you're Rick Perry if there is no unemployment or welfare safety net and the crime rate is higher- - if you like Texas, then you should be in seventh heaven if you move to Mexico itself.  Huh?  But my point about Glen Beck was that he couldn't just leave it as "The Constitution" but had to bring in God Himself- - who is of course the being that actually Wrote the constitution, if you're Glen Beck.  [ I'm going to post this now and check it over after dinner to see if I screwed up anyplace.]  This idea that "Western Religion" or the "Judeo Christian Tradition" as conservatives refer to it is somehow anathama to "secular Greek philosophy" is of course nonesense.  Certainly Plato's allegory of the Cave figures heavily, particularly in the writings of Paul and John.  (George and Ringo have yet to be heard from)  Paul believed in a spirit realm filled with both good and bad spirits, and kind of considered the whole area too dangerous to mess with.    "Powers of the air" doesn't refer to birds but remember your Greek.  "Air" often translates as "spirit".  We also hear about the supposed "Holiness of Gowd-d!".Of course - - if you carried Pythagarean gnosticism- - a forebearer of Marcionism to its logical application- - the very idea of the approachability of God is itself an impossibility for mortal humans like ourselves to achieve- - with out the intervention of the miraculous anyhow.  The idea of "reproducing' God in any form or even of God attempting to reproduce Himself- - is anathama to these Pythagareans.   I only throw that word around because the branch of gnosticism I'm most fermiliar with is called this- - after the Greek Geometry guy.  Epicurianism is out.  Because this is basically pragmatism at all costs and "Whatever enhances a man's pleasure in life is good and right and should be pursued.  But then we come of course to Platonism and Socrates- - and the Idea of "The Idea" itself as a physical entity.  Which is to say that Ideas have an Existence not only equal to- - but Superior to this physical Universe.  This is an easy mental trap for psychics to fall into and assume that it's true without Proof.  It's an appealing notion to many because it presupposes that we are being as it were "Back-stopped' by a Divine power, and not left on our own.  It is my belief that feng chue strings- - - "engender ideas".  It as though certain strings are so pervaisive or suggestive of a certain idea- - that the notion of a certain Idea springing forth is almost inevitable.  This of course is just my oppinion.  

Last night at nine there was this new “Cosmos” show instead of “Family Guy”, which the previous week aired a half hour sooner anyhow.  We had “Snow White and Friends” or whatever it is now, what with Rumple Stillskin, and Queen Ragina, and now the flying monkeys from the Wizzard of Oz.   Anyhow the Cosmic show very adeptly explained how dogs evolved in just the past hundred thousand years or so from man’s days as a hunter and gatherer, where scavaging for food became lucrative, and dogs that wolves that were friendlier tword man, ended up living longer and then adopted physical characteristics such as “becoming cuter”.  Then they talked about the mutation of brown bear coats into white for polar bears that hunted on the snow and lived longer without being detected.   Here’s a thought that just occurred to me.  “Why don’t we see fossils of all these failed mutation and failures in evolution?  The answer is simple.  Only a very few Dead Animals gets to be a fissile- - and since there are so many MORE animals who survived and proliferated- - than died- - the odds steeply favor finding animals that were usefully evolved.  (Come on creationists- it makes sense)  At some point I dozed off- - and went to bed a few minutes to ten.  It was hot in here last night so I opened the window farther - - to cool off.

I listened to Breakfast with the Beatles and they said they were having one Beatle song and then one solo artist song.  They concluded with that “Flo and Eddie” song called “Keep her warm”, which is kind of an early Wings clone and was out maybe at the time of “Wild Life” and expressed concern about a lot of issues of the world, that we no longer seem to care about today.  It’s just not “cool” to be sensitive to the progressive issues such as violence or ecology, these days.   They played both “Give Ireland Back to the Irish” (Wings) and “The Luck of the Irish” (John and Yoco).   I thought that synthetic Wings song was "Dallas Romulan" but later I got notice that they refuted that.   Basically I can only think of six groups who are Dallas Romulan, these are James Taylor, Carley Simon,  Carol King, Neil Sadaka, Cat Stevens, and Seals and Croft.  This font shouldn't have changed and still stayed the same color but it did.  We could say that to be a Romulan in Ireland during that "three digit year" period- - was to be anti native Celtic.

We had our St Patrick’s Day party and I had to sit over at Jim’s table, where he used to sit.  Silva wasn’t there, and only this old lady was there besides me.  Since I had this grayish-green shirt on Sarah said I’d get some sort of snack prize.  Pat and Marcia sung a duet.  By far Marcia has the better of the two voices.  I’m thinking Marcia kind of reminds me of Dusty Springfield, if I had to classify her.  What the hell.  For the longest time I thought Dusty Springfield was Black, anyhow.  Joe Drisco claims he’s Irish by adoption or something. My guess is that the song “Danny Boy” is Scottish and not Irish, anyhow.   Of course someone suggested “My Bonnie”, which certainly is Scottish.  Songs ABOUT the Irish like “My wild Irish rose”, I don’t think would count anyhow, and it wasn’t sung.  We had green font in the previous file- - and very recently a green background file, so we’ve already “been there”.  We had turkey soup and corned beef and cabbage with a carrot slice or two.  We had iced chocolate cake and rainbow sherbet for desert.  In terms of cosmic news- - the latest blurb is that “Since I don’t have You” is not “Trumbolian” but it’s that “Falcoln” bird group- - that does these “dreamy” songs between 1959 and 1962.   Of course any other songs identified by me on this CD of about twenty songs- - remains opperative.  I left pretty much when I was done and didn’t hang around.  The decorations, of course, have been up for weeks.  I’ve been foraging for cigarettes.   

 Randy Rhodes or Ed Schultz - - somebody - - is saying maybe that flight 370 was remotely “hacked” and that the plane was being controlled by parties not even ON the flight.  That would be trippy.  My theory of course is that- - the whole flight was Shanghaied to some remote island where an air strip was secretly built, and maybe it’s part of some bizarre religious cult.  It's kind of strange that they haven't gotten to the bottom of this one in ten days with all of the advanced technology we have now.  Rush Limbaugh (I think) says the plane may have been shot down by Islamic terrorists using ground to air missiles.   Dr Levy as you know goes for the pilot suicide theory where two rogue pilots just drive the plane straight into the ocean with such intensity there would be no debris large enough to see remaining. 

 Rush Limbaugh talked at length about his cochlear implants today.  He got his left ear done with “twelve electrodes” but now has had to “turn off” six of them “because they make my face twitch”.  His speech comprehension has gone down from eighty percent to below fifty.  But he also says is there is ANY other room noise this severely cuts into his comprehension.  He said “The only music I actually hear as music are songs that I already know the tune to, because I can’t hear pitch”.  He also said that success in cochlear implants varies greatly from patient to patient.   Rush stressed that it’s important to get cochlear implants as soon as possible after you go deaf “or else the brain atrophies”.  But Rush is now going to have his right ear done but took a balance test first, which he passed.  He says basically he can only hear in conversation people who directly by his left ear.  He says even if he has his right ear done he won’t have stereoscopic hearing for reasons I don’t entirely understand.  But if his brain has atrophied eight years on that side, success is problematic anyhow.  Of course I know what you all are thinking.  It's been a lot longer than eight years - - more like twenty plus - - that Rush Limbaugh has had a dead or atrophied brain. 

Today I got up when that fire alarm thing kept going off before six.  I booted the computer and listened to Yardbirds Radio for a while such as “Good Morning Little School Girl”  (speeded up tempo), “Lazing on a Summer Afternoon” and “Well, Allright’ by Blind Faith.  I had Stephanie on and she and the whole gang were back, but not saying anything particularly interesting at any rate.  However Stephanie and the gang reported a strong earthquake, and I kept waiting seconds to see if the shock wave would reach here.  Apparently this area was the ONLY place that did NOT feel the earthquake at all.  My theory about this (short of divine shielding) is the interplay of sizemic waves against softer and firmer soil patterns causing what they call in acoustics "localized dead or cold zones".   (?)  It was a 4.7 downgraded to a 4.4.  I went down early for my medication.  We had oatmeal and I got a second bowl, perhaps by accident.  Owen had taken to staking up the bowls and perhaps the guy thought I hadn’t been served, or he was just being nice.  We had scrambled eggs, and toast and jelly, and hashed browns.  I wore this muted green shirt rather than the bright, striped one.  I had more of Stephanie on.  Bill got a new pack of cigarettes today, luckily for me.  President Obama gave a speech on TV.   He announced increased sanctions after yesterday’s bogus election result in the Crimean peninsula.  There was also talk about freezing the assets of rich Russians with money in this country, and the NATO community will be backing up our policies.  China voted neither for nor against us.