LOOK OUT FOR E I B (Ever Increasing Bullshit)

The big news is that on Sunday, President Mushariff of Pakistan cracked down on all of his political opponets in often bloody protests. He arrested five hundred "opposition" leaders and arrested seventy lawyers. The Supreme Court was about to rule on whether the last election which put him into power was valid, and Mushariff fired the Supreme Court. Formerly Mushariff had promised to hold new elections in January and also to resign as head of the military. Randy Rhodes sees this is some sort of "message" to the people of the United States, and to George Bush, saying, "This is the way to deal with dissenters". Randy says that what this does is to disenfranchize the middle class while at the same time if you're an Al Qaida terrorist, he'll make a deal with you to protect you from the Americans. George Bush has condemned this government crack-down, but one has to wonder whether he means it. How ironic it is that the two countries Bush appears to trust the most are Saudi Arabia and Pakistin, where most of the 9 - 11 hijackers are either from, or associated with. On the other hand a nation like Iran with a "young, progressive population" is seen as the enemy and we are doing our darndest to radicalize that country and push Iran into the hands of our enemies, such as China. Some on the right are trying to "spin" this crack-down in Pakistan as somehow Mushariff getting serious about terrorists in his own country, but clearly the people Mushariff has gone after aren't Al Quaida, but rather are groups that a vibrant democracy needs to thrive. The trouble is I don't think George Bush believes in democracy but some sort of oligarky of powerful oil interests, whom we can make sweet heart deals with. I found it distressing that Fred Thompson seemed to endource virtually Bush's entire foreign policy. To me right now it seems Fred Thompson is the inheritor of the Bush legacy, if there is one. Hillary Clinton is saying the developements in Pakistan are the result of Bush's failed foreign policy, and I can't disagree with that.

One thing I need to do in my Blogs is pay a little more attention to the fact details and also spell people's names correctly, such as the candidate for Attorney General. Mukasey now has retracted his "water boarding" statements, and now says he is against it. The news today is that this will put him over the top to assure his confirmation with the endourcements of Dianne Feinstein and Chuck Schumer there will be enough democratic votes, and they don't need that many considering what an egg shell majority they already have. It appears unhappy days are ahead for the civil rights of the American People as Bush, despite everything Randy Rhodes and Thom Hartman say about him, continues to win battle after battle, on issue after issue.

Oil is now up to $95.00 a barrel, which is a record, obviously, and that price has not yet been reflected at the pump. When the price trickles through the pipeline gas will be selling for four dollars a gallon, and we may never look back. Obviously this has had, and will have an adverse effect on the economy. In terms of the economy, Unhappy Times have not arrived yet, but they are coming and six months from now we will be looking back on today as "The Good Old Days", so enjoy it while you can. I predicted that some "new international crisis" would dominate the news in October. The closest we have come to that is the situation in Burma, which appears to have come and gone from our consciousness. I've been saying, and not varied, that the really bad news will come at at the start of 2008 when trade ballance and debt figures will come in that will fill everybody with alarm. I believe the spending splurge this Christmas will be the last the American public will see for many years. I believe it was Tancredo who said that the two biggest spending worries we have to address- - not the Iraq war or defense, but rather the twin evils of Social Security and Universal Health Care. If we don't get a handle on these two issues it really doesn't matter about the rest. We can blame high gasoline prices for triggering the bad times to come, but there are other underlying debt and negative savings issues that we have been ignoring for decades that will come home to roost. I think the American People have forgotten how bad inflation actually was in the Ford and Carter adminestrations, and the crippling effect inflation had on the economy. Bad times are on their way again!

SOMETHING FROM THE GOSSIP CORNER

This is after dinner. We had meat loaf and scalloped potatoes and I had seconds on both. I also got seconds on lemon pudding thanks to Dianne, who intervened for me. She’s also good at dealing with Sarah, who for some reason I find it hard to talk to, perhaps because she’s so distant. Janet says Marcus just might be coming back because the information about his never returning is third hand at best going through Patty and Marsha and then Janet. Mike’s roommate apparently drinks half gallon bottles of vodka and is passed out in his room a lot when he isn’t pounding on Janet’s door in the middle of the night. Just now I reviewed “Midevil”, which is how I spell it. It’s an interesting file all right to read personally, but if I gave my blog readers several pages of it they just might get bored. This is, of course, the file with “Termites on Patrol on it. Before dinner while Bill had “Cops” on I reread “The End of a Presidency” about Richard Nixon and their multi year timeline. I was sure about half that book was devoted to “updated” tape transcripts, but there were to my surprise no tape transcripts in that book. It was Kleindenst and not Mitchel, who resigned as attorney general along with Halderman, Erlichman, and Dean. L Patrick Gray resigned a few days earlier on April 27^th. of 1973. They had the actual articles of impeachment and I think, the votes.

The flame thrower event in “Days” is that it was Belle who sent that letter to the Police Academy trashing Sean’s reputation and taking that dark stroll down memory lane. It wasn’t Philip that sent that damning anonymous letter. If I were Sean I’d become more furious by that than I would her sleeping with Philip. One is a momentary if revealing giving in to the flash. The other shows her ongoing state of mind. Bo wants to confront Philip about the sex. Of course the famous “last words” are in every scandal are “You have to promise not to tell a soul but did you hear- - - ?”

BLAST FROM THE PAST - NOVEMBER 4th. 2005

In France there was this gang of youths that stole hub caps and other car parts because they are poor, as is common in socialist countries. The local police were so intimidated that they would not venture into the neighborhood so the thugs had free reign. One day some woman called and insisted the police come out and so they did but found themselves out-gunned. On a later time they sent a division of cops in armed with mil-itary equipment and still they found themselves unable to quell the disturbance. It turns out the original gang was Moslem and we know Moslems emigrated to European countries like France as a safe haven. The socialist authorities hoped they would be assimilated but they weren’t. So now you know the problem.

They’re digging a little deeper now outside but I still don’t know what they’re doing. They talked about the group Opus Dei this morning on Today. They say the group was founded in 1922 and not centuries ago as I had figured. They portrayed it as a harmless devotional group comprised of married and 30% single people. They use some midevil device to whip themselves endeavoring to “mortify the flesh”. I think there are a whole lot of skeletons in the closet that they aren’t even talking about. Medieval is apparently the operative spelling. We’re not going with that spelling.

“Tooki” Williams is scheduled to be executed December 13^th. The governator is still considering a request for clemency. Now he writes children’s books.

This is after dinner and the hall light is still out. We had BBQ chicken for dinner and lemon pudding. Mike and Sandy were here on and off. I knocked on Glen’s door and he brought coffee. They’re still debating teaching Evolution in the classroom.

The CIA runs prison camps in various secret locations in various countries I guess they call Black Ops or something. Larry says our country has been doing this for a long time. Perhaps. I’m still morally opposed to it if torture is involved. Today is the 25^th. anniversary of the election of Ronald Reagan as President. Now they’re saying that Bush’s problem is he doesn’t have the winning manner and rehearsed speech and smooth delivery of Ronald Reagan. Perhaps. Now there is talk by Pat Buckhannon urging George Bush to withdraw troops starting early next year. I think that’s a pretty good idea. Bush needs to put this whole Libby thing behind him. Pat Buckhannon says the best way to do that is to ignore it and it will wither on the vine, so to speak. Perhaps. Larry Elder says he expects this Mideast war to be a “Generational” war. I don’t know if the US has ever had one of those before, if you don’t count the War Between the States. Bush’ popularity numbers are down to 37% approval and 59% disapproval.

TERMITES ON MANOVERS - LINER NOTES

(see "For the Record"- May)

. Front cover photo is what looks like the crucifixion of Christ. There is a dusty trail with people on both sides- - Palestinian peasants and Roman officials in uniform. The figure of Jesus Christ is sort of from the rear so you don’t see his face. He is wearing a purplish-blue robe and it and the Christ figure are out of focus. He is carrying a termite-infested cross that is in perfect focus. In the lower left of the picture is a magnifying close-up of the wood and the termites are carrying signs pro-testing the crucifixion and have their hands out in a “stop” gesture. On the back of the album is that internet photo of George Bush reading a book to school children with the book upside-down. The title listings are superimposed (in standard black) letters over the back cover photo. On the inside is a bunch of commentary why George Bush will never succeed either with the war effort, or with the Supreme Court nomination because the democrats and independents will ‘Let him hear about it” come election day 2006.

OK we just added two songs, “Psycho Killer” and “I’m Losing You”. I think they’ll fit. One song not included is “We Are the Worms” from Dr. Demento.

Leo Le Port says he doesn’t want to spend forever talking about viruses. This is after lunch and we had pizza. Glen just came by with coffee and I ex-pended my last two cigarettes. Today is Guy Fawks day or something in England. [some editing took place here]

Ken Galliger had some interesting topics today. First of all there is this practice of commercial names for Stadiums. You have Heinz Field, Minute Maid Stadium in Houston, the Staples Center, and Edison Field. Every time you say the name of the venue it’s a free plug for office supplies or whatever. So maybe I’ll do the Lucifer is Lord Federation news.

I wasn't asked for my Google account password today. I was in Google last night looking at my Google history, watching Google videos and looking at Google maps, which come in a lot faster now that I have DSL. This is the first time I have blogged since last Monday. Rates are slowing down because there really isn't that much "new" in the news that I haven't already commented about. That means if you are a regular reader of my blogs you're "ahead of the learning curve" as Rush says because the things I talk about will be in the news for days and days to come. Today's big topic is that NBC is going Green with reporters in Greenland watching the ice bergs melt, and also in Ecuador, where presumably you will no longer be able to get all that lovely produce they showed you of exotic fruits, if global warming gets out of hand. They're going all Green in their sitcoms. Of course we have the writers strike which to me is as absurd as hogs going on an eating strike because they don't want to get fat and that much closer to slaughter. It's something contrary to their very nature. Likewise it seems a "queer" thing to me that a natural born comic like Jay Leno would not be able to just improvise a few jokes at the beginning of their show on the day's events, because their jobs could easily be taken over by a tallented armature, who would have no problem with it. Soap operas never went into reruns. Often I've provided enough material in ideas in a letter to provide them easily with a year's material, if they want to use it. Ideas are like dandelions. Why buy some when you can go out into any field and pick them, if you even want them? Also in the news is Joe Torrie taking over the Dodgers bring all that championship expertise. You know how the karma of the coach or manager seems to transfer to the teams they head, time after time. Yesterday the Orion Federation battled the Pikes in a "battle of the undefeateds" and lost. The Patriots are a "Pike" team and the Federation has been backing the Colts, but no other Indiana team. Last night Google showed mostly all green traffic, and today going to the bank with Terry we saw nothing but a sea of green lights all the way there. It's nice to have things go your way.

A couple of days ago I told the Lord that if he answered a certain prayer I was asking for "a miracle" for that I would honor Him in my blogs and in conversation. Of course as a Christian I'm supposed to be doing that all the time anyhow One man said, "Adversity and trials don't create character in a man, they Reveal it". The Bible also says to the believers, "You are predestined unto good works". What this means is that God knows who you are before you do it, for good or for bad. You're never going to catch Him by surprise. Therefore it's absurd for Jesus Christ on KFI to say, "Oh, we need adversity and evil in the world, for how else would we know who the heroes really were. Without adversity there would be no heroisum". This is completely bogus reasoning. God knows whether or not you are a champion. The circumstances of life merely Reveal that fact to others. You could make the argument, "Well, being in abject poverty is a good thing because poor people tend to be more generous as a percent of their substance that they share with others. The poor often engage in sacrificial giving with each other". I will agree with that statement. The rich could learn a thing or two about Christian sacrificial giving from the poor. But still as a percentage of total Giving, the poor are overwhelmed simple because the rich have so much MORE to give to begin with. If God wanted more giving going on by my way of thinking he'd make more poor people rich.

The one big story that is hanging on in the headlines is the candidate for Attorney General, Mc Kasey. He has had troubling answers in his confirmation hearings, according to Google news. Not only doesn't he know whether waterboarding is torture or not, but he's also mistrustful of the FISA court and thinks we should have unimpeeded wire tapping. People say that Mc. Kasey could in fact be worse than Gonsolez because he is slicker and "more confortable" breaking the law than was Alberto Gonsolez. This is troubling indeed. The Japanese were brought up on military charges for various tortures of Americans, and among the crimes was waterboarding. So by our own sixty year old standards, waterboarding Is torture. But it's said even though the CIA no longer uses waterboarding, the Bush Adminestration wants to keep waterboarding open as an option in case we encounter a really bad terrorist with valuable timely information.

Sixty minutes had an interesting show. It seems that photos were faked of Iraqi "seed purification plants" and a lot hinges on whether or not there was a brick wall there in 2002. And our inspectors found there was a "wall" there and trucks could not get in or out. Moreover the German guy who brought the charges of Iraq developing biological weapons of mass destruction, himself was found out to be a fraud, and he got bad grades besides. Our inspectors in early 2003 found out there was no secret biological lab and there were no weapons of mass destruction, and Collin Powell was delivering known false information to the U N. The next segment was on elephants and the hunt for ivory. My position on it is if a merchant has ivory that he might as well go ahead and sell it, because conthiscating it won't bring any elephant back to life. That damage is done. It's ironic that nearly twenty years after an Ivory ban, the place where elephants are still being hunted is the Darfore region east of Chad, in the same area where genocide is also going on. The elephants venture out of their safe havens during the rainy season because they were know where the green Savannas and the watering holes are. As such the poachers use their knowledge of the elephants nature against them and lie in wait for them. If I were president I think I'd send troops to save the elephants in the Darfore region, and if we save a few human beings in the process, so much the better. The third segment was that rich guy with his cars and his castle and his 88 meter long sailing yacht, that's all computer controlled. I have no problem with the rich spending their money on whatever makes them happy. That's what life is all about, to "enlarge our capacities" and I think it's kind of neat in a sense to own gadgets nobody else owns. It's kind of what the American Dream is all about.

I watched some inspired piano playing of really beautiful music, and it was part of a religious program and they said it was “playing in the spirit”. They talked about the mystic vibrational qualities of the vowels of the Hebrew language, and how Jesus promised streams of living water and healing, and even the rocks would praise him because even rocks have their own vibration they resonate at. Joel Olsteen’s basic message this morning was “stay the course” and spoke of digging a building foundation deep when the building was to be really high. I thought of the Union Oil building and how there seemed to be a “stall” in that building’s construction for all of 1956. That building has four underground parking levels. Then there was Col. Harlen Sanders who went into the Kentucky Fried Chicken business at age 66. He is a Christian, of course. He had opened a restaurant once but then a freeway was put in and killed his business, so he drove down the street selling chicken out of the deep fryer on his truck. Then he sold chicken to other restaurants. Olsteen spoke of David and Nabal that “fool” and how if David had come against him militarily for the sin of ingratitude, it might not set any better with the government than it would today, because David had to wait thirteen long years after he was anointed by Samuel at age seventeen before he ascended to Power. I think we all need to look for the miracle in our lives. Joel was saying there may be people whom we count as “lost” as far as a relation goes, perhaps even our own kids, but that God can restore the years lost to sin and you will “come out better than when you went in”. We can pray for that. I think people worried about the office of Presidency need to pray about what to do about our situation, and ways God might enter in to make his will known, both for your own political involvement, and the country as a whole.

I watched Meet the Press. It was Fred Thompson. His position on the war and the trouble in Pakistan pretty much matches the president. Then it was Chris Matthews, and then I caught a little of the Beatles. They had “Live” “Hey Jude” and “Resolution” songs as heard on the Smuthers Brothers program. KOLA had the “Help” movie, and I think it’s the new “fake” John Lennon that does that Help rendition from anthology they played, because of his enunciation of certain syllables. "Help" is being re-issued with improved picture and sound and all that and everybody should buy it. The "fake" John Lennon missed out doing the "Help" movie but was going to be in the Beatles' third movie, a prop. Western that never came about. I caught “This Week” on station 7.2 and they had John Edwards and then their round table. At one point I was starting to fall asleep. I went out to the patio. Hillary Clinton got the usual criticism. Hillary herself has said "They aren't criticizing me because I'm a woman, but because I'm ahead". I think being "Number one" can be a status symbol. It's like Xerox and everybody having the slogan "It's just as good as a Xerox". Well, Xerox wins from that. (Selah)

Yesterday I had Dr. Dean Edell on in the afternoon. He’s a little concerned that this new early screening for nine month old babies might make parents a little needlessly paranoid. It seems to me it’s a good preventative measure to have two “screenings” before the child is two. It seems better to be safe than sorry and I see no down side. Dr. Edell once again criticized vitamin usage saying vitamins do no good and they cause cancer. He said that cateracts are not really a “disease” of the eye but merely aging of the lens and that doctors say this is one area when it’s entirely the patient’s choice when or if they want to get the operation, and it might depend what profession you are in. As to his assertion about fall birthday being the smartest, back in my day (when we wrote on stone tablets) the "fall" students were the youngest students in the class because the cut-off period was December first. I think some places even that date was "early" because when I was five, the LA school district suggested since I was so smart that I not wait for the semester, and enroll in September when I was five & a half. My birthday was December 31st. or one month past the deadline that became the standard later on. I think being with older kids makes you smarter, and I'd imagine being with younger kids makes you dumber. But according to Dr. Edell, the older students in a school class actually do better.

This is the first posting since I have switched to A T & T Yahoo high speed internet. I have no beef at all with the speed for things like videos and music, however certain files such at USA Today meteriological and Blogger are still a little sluggish to boot. I do like all the extra nifty software that Yahoo has for paying customers. I was told by two people I could have gotten a better deal with Time-Warner cable. One guy told me I could have gotten a $29.95 deal for both internet and digital television with two hundred stations. Well, I don't have that. One should count their blessings. We're going to try photos and I bet that goes faster now. I have one cigarette that has to last for the next 24 hours. I've spent all my money and made all the bargain deals I can with people. My only hope now is that some outside friend lends me a few dollars till tomorrow.

War truely is hell. Dr. Dean Edell was mentioning on his show that women who are sent over seas to fight for their country return often to find that they no longer have rights to see their kids because their back-stabbing husbands have gone to court against them. Dr. Edell says "There has to be some limits to this Best Interest of the Child reasoning". In a world run by me adult's rights would supersede the "rights" of children. Children need to know that this is a world of adults and not children and that some "Shirley Temple" child charmer can't beguile a judge into making an unfair decision. Children are often used as pawns and are quite easy to bribe as you know. But children need to know that the real world is not like that, or shouldn't be. We need to respect all the rights of our vetterans, be it in the job market or with children. The doctor also stated that it's women, more so than men, who do not want to have children at all. Men apparently have what some would call that sexist macho thing about leaving their "seed legacy" and also having someone to carry on the family name. Perhaps the Bob Dylan song is all too relivent here. "You've been threatening my son, unborn and unnamed. You ain't worth the blood that runs in your veins". That's from Masters of War. One has to wonder what God sees when he looks down from heaven at this Bush Adminestration. To quote Dylan again, "I can see through your masks; I can see through your brain, just like I can see through the water that runs down my drain". In George Carlen's words, this adminestration is "circling the drain" on a moral karmic basis. On Sixty Minutes last night they had a thing where they will allow the deaths of up to thirty civilians in Iraq bombing raids in an attempt to "take out" suspected terrorists. But in reality they've killed over a given period two hundred civilians and missed all eighteen terrorists on their target list. Why can't the Republicans go back to their 1952 Campaign slogan of, "A vote for Eisenhaur is a vote for Peace". Amen to that.

In dealing with the right wing sometimes you've got to have a little understanding how they think and the language they invoke. In my book "God's Winepress" I too spoke in rather hell fire and brimstone damnation tones "a little lacking in love". People use the words and phrases they are exposed to in their lives and are products of their upbringing. So deep inside that hell fire and brimstone pentacostal preacher is just another human being like the rest of us. I was talking to one guy yesterday who says after hearing one pentacostal preacher in Oklahoma he had nightmares for several nights and was afraid. I'm not bothered by these people because in the majority of cases they just express themselves in words they are fermiliar with. I got the title "God's Winepress" from two Biblical sources. One is from Zachariah where it talks about the winepress of God's wrath and the blood running in war up to the horses' bridals. But the other reference is to Gidian, who was afraid of the midianites and so threshed his wheat in a wine press, which we are to take was a hole in the ground, sort of like a wine cellar. Yesterday someone was talking to me on the phone and there's a story about a conference between the US the British, The Canadians, the Austrailians, and the French, and the French raised a big stink about "How come we never conduct these conferences in French?" and the answer from one of them was "Because 65 years ago we arranged it so you people would not have to be speaking German now". Touche! Of course these people on the right can be gingoistic and insist that everyone, including the hispanic immigrants, speak English and are like Pat Buchannon in that they fear our culture being inundated by foreigners. This is the last worry on my mind. I know I should learn to speak fluant Spanish and am surprised I haven't picked more of the language up from living around here and being among the people around the corner.

Of course another Sixty Minutes story was the trouble with the bees. It seems that the bees just lose their way and abandon their hives, and now growers have to pay top dollar to import bees for key seasons like raising pumpkins for Halloween and Thanksgiving. Just as the canary in a coal mine is a harvenger of things to come so are the vanishing hives. Some have said it's the pesticides and their is nicotine in the honey and that bees won't even use the honey in abandoned hives, which is their practice normally. It's kind of what was happening to main stream Christian Churches in the sixties where millions of Christians were "losing their way" seemingly with their inate sense of direction gone, and abandoning the churches that formerly nurtured them, and are now drifting on their own only to eventually die out. It's hard to say what keeps a hive or a church going. It's kind of one of those God-given instinct things and once it's gone, chaos reigns. It's kind of like the movie "The Birds". "Something" is happening.

Gerald Ford has a new book out now called "Write this when I'm Dead". Gerald Ford told William Saphire in April in 1974 that Nixon had had it and that he would be President soon, but he also told people to forget he'd made this utterance in a moment of weakness. Ford also has his oppinions of Clinton and Reagan. He thinks Ronald Reagan is a good salesman and puts on a hell of a show, but he's hopelessly ill-informed on many issues and lacking in real substance, and foreign dignitaries have told him this. But after 1994 Ford stopped saying unkind things about Ronald Reagan. He thought Clinton had real moral lapses on the Paula Jones and the Monica Luinsky affairs and should have not purgered himself under oath in court. If there is one thing Gerald Ford has a reputation for it's being an honist, decent man. I may buy the book.

Now we hear that George Bush is going to put sanctions on Iran and also accuses various branches of the Iranian military of certain things. People on the right really want war with Iran and some may even advocate it during the upcomming campaign. Of course these people see it as a culture war against Islam even more so than terrorism. "Terrorism is just a TOOL to these people but the underlying issue is the war between Islam and Western Culture". These people claim you can't be a Moslem unless you're willing to bomb the US because that's the one way you can be assured getting into Paradise. These people say (as one did to me) "I'm not so hot on this idea of the Rule of Law. Christians deal in grace and not the law". My response to her is that she is completely off the track. This is a nation built on the principle of the Rule of Law, much more than it is of religion. As Abraham Lincoln said, "No man is above the law, and no man is beneath it". I also regard this attempted implementation of democracy in the midease as a Nobel Experiment. It didn't work, apparently, but it was worth a shot. Our focus should be on terrorism and how real the threat is. Collin Powell is said to have said "Regeime change is not grounds for going to war in Iraq, but weapons of mass destruction are". I told her, "Look, we're winning the war and things finally seem to be shaping up and going our way". She said, "Therefore we shouldn't get out". No, my "therefore" is, "Therefore we can put this whole Mideast episode behind us and move on to the many other pressing security matters".

I must stress that we do need a third party candidate. I foresee a possible alliance with people on the right. Me and my conservative friend both agree that we like Ron Paul on SOME issue. But she and I disagree on WHICH issues. In a World Net Daily debate, Ron Paul was the one candidate that said we shouldn't be in Iraq and that those mideast people see us as invaidors of their lands. I think it was Thom Hartman that said we need some candidate who is not tied to the Fascist corporate structure of America. We need someone of "Traditional American values" and I say "Amen" to that. There really is time go get something going, if we're motivated.

The Red Sox won the World Series in four straight games over the Colorado Rockies. And I did not hear one line about the Rockies having a lot of Born Again people on their team. It would seem New England is pretty much unbeatable both in football and in baseball. Unlike the previous celebration Sunday, I watched the game continuously from 7:30 on. In Federation labelling it's the Red Sox rather than the Rockies who are labeled "Pikes". the "Pikes" live somewhere in the constellation of Pisces and are sometimes allies of the Federation and sometimes they are rivals. By the way, Google Earth comes in a lot faster now.

IS IT TOO LATE FOR AMERICA?

They were saying that Congressmen don’t care if they are voted out of office because they will just go to work for Becktell or Northrop or somebody and earn a lot of money. However other people become rich by being congressmen, as the lobbiest gravy train keeps right on rolling. Some people may have the chance to “work for the government” as an entrepenure in some private Security firm or something, if they’re lucky. With all the connection between Evil and Big Money it’s a wonder if the Asshole from El Paso really is destined to be a renound “Evil” person why he hasn’t made his move. He’s the Pastor of what used to be a small time struggling church. Perhaps it isn’t any more. Nobody stays at a Pastoral job for eighteen years at the same place unless they are getting some kind of “pay-off” one way or another. You know how flaky some pastors are jumping from job to job at the drop of a hat. The guy is older than I am and he’s pushing sixty now. The typical age for an “Anti Christ” character is 33 and the second most tagged age is forty. But if the antichrist is destined to rule the world I guess he’d have to be an older man, such as Fred Thompson. Many people are convinced that the Born Again Republicans haven’t found “their man” yet, because none of the candidates running is enough of a Redneck. We do know that Hillary’s presidency will end up in disaster and she will go down as the Herbert Hoover of the 21^st. Century because the economy is going to blow up in her face. People are worried about whether Christmas spending will exceed last year. They’d do better to worry about whether Christmas debt will exceed last year. Of course the antichrist could come from another world city, perhaps Peking, or Singapore, or perhaps Dubai in the Mideast. Scripture says that in the last days “Babylon” will be rebuilt, “on many waters”. We know that some leader or a group of tightly knit world leaders are bringing about corporate fascism and we are well on the way to that realization. All the important functions of government will be privatized, where they can be beyond the reach of voters. We know that lobbying is the one industry that is specifically protected in the Constitution. There are times when I do wonder whether it might not be a wise thing to completely take money out of the political process, both before and after elections. But I think we all know and fear that no matter what laws get passed, politicians will find ways around them. I think we pretty well know that “things are going to get worse before they get better” as far as corporate lobbying to ramrod bills through congress that they don’t even read. People say that the word “crisis” also means “opportunity” in Chinese. If that’s the case I don’t think things will get to any “crisis” point for a long time. Dr. Phil has stated that you can’t count on a drug addict “hitting bottom”. You can’t count on falling stocks “hitting bottom” as if to ready some Floor that is a security blanket. In the Bible they are always lulling you into the belief things will hit “crisis point” and to coin that old lie from the George Burnes movie “God works best under pressure”. Don’t count on that. You need only to watch modern soap operas to know that sometimes happy endings never come, and a parrellel truth that sometimes negative events have a Finality to them good events lack.

Here are two jokes. What is the similarity between Saddam Hussein and Little Miss Muffet? - - They both say, “Too many Kurds in my way”. What is the similarity between a healthy cereal and the state of California? Easy. Once you remove all the fruits and the nuts, the only things that are left are the flakes. (Selah)

Randy Rhodes was reading from a book, “Ten Steps to Fascisum”. Most of these we have already done in one form or another. We have some national traumatic event, we have the secret Gulags, we have the paramilitary organization in Blackwater, and now there is talk about Rathion or Northrop being enlisted. Then it’s create a massive surveillance system, and encourage neighbors to rat on each other. Arbitrarily arrest and release certain key people. Go after organizations to harass or declare illegal. Broaden the definitions of words like “terrorist” or “extremist” to include almost anybody. Go after the press. And overturn the rule of law. Of course another thing is to get political candidates to make a slip of the tongue. Osama Bin Laden has produced another of his famous videos. In this one he says for all the insurgent groups in Iraq to coordinate better with each other. Mit Romney in criticizing the tape kept referring to Obama, so that people bet Obama and Osama mixed up and melded in their minds. I don’t think this is entirely an accident. Randy Rhodes also points out that you don’t want a lot of para-military groups with massive amounts of munitions in their back yard in this fire prone area. Some of Randy’s assertions crossed the line into paranoia. I guess they had a centure vote by congress over what Pete Stark said the other day about George Bush reveling in the deaths of our young people. The measure was not approved.

There were only a dozen or two Billionaires in 1981. Now the entire list of the Forbes richest four hundred and Queen Elizabeth is not even on the list making a mere 460 million. I wonder how the Crown feels about that, with centuries of acquired wealth and some hot shot Billionaires in this country outdo her. Back in 1981 this richest group of four hundred held three percent of all the wealth. Now this same group holds eleven percent of the wealth. The pay of the average working stiff has not gone up since 1973. It was in this year we had skyrocketing food prices, like we’re on the verge of having again- - and for the first time the purchasing value of the dollar dropped. Carter was a time of malaise and transition. Some have said not to buy Gold because owning a piece of metal is not an “investment in anything”. That’s a matter of opinion. If you look at the long range charts adjusted for inflation the spikes of the past are way higher than the start of the spike now. It is my contention that things are going to get a whole lot worse economically, before they get better. Some democrat needs to point out all the economic and moral outrages we are experiencing now. We’re letting the era of corruption and greed take over, and we’re allowing criminal violators to run the government. I don’t need to elaborate any further because there are plenty of blogs to read.

Now the liberals have really stepped out. Thom Hartman is arguing this hour that the state has the right to ban smoking in your own apartment! You let these people get a foot-hold and they get more and more hysterical. Thom Hartman claims to be an ex smoker from age fourteen to his twenties and quit at the birth of his first child. Thom Hartman says “Local democracy must have free reign”. Since when? These people hate local control. I guess there is hysteria about the smoking getting in the heat vents or something. What about my old place that had individual gas heaters? At the same time Thom Hartman is all for eleven to thirteen year middle school girls in Maine being given birth control. They claim that in a five hundred student school, seven girls have gotten pregnant in the past year. May I suggest they restructure their sex education program to promote abstenance? Of course Thom says “cigarette smoke is five times as addictive as heroin”. And says since they began puting ammonia in the cigarettes people have in essence been “free basing nicotine”. Tom forgot about the line in the constitution about “No shall life, liberty, or property be denied except by due process of law”. This doesn’t mean “putting the issue up for a vote”, either; it means a court trial for an actual crime.

Apparently the republicans had another debate Sunday evening. Some callers have stated that the crowd was cherry picked by “someone” because though Ron Paul got 34% in a post debate telephone poll, the crowd were routinely booing Ron Paul when he spoke. I think we all agree that both the democrats and republicans want a certain type of corporate centrist media-acceptable candidate. There will be a lot of disposed people from both parties that perhaps should get together to form an outcasts party. Of course people still talk about “Islamo-fascisum” even though Fascism is the name of a political process used by Franco and Musselini, and Hitler in the early days. It’s a merger of the corporation and the State into one entity. It’s perhaps the last thing a Moslem extremist would want. “Fascisum” has nothing to do with hating or persecuting Jews.

. I did a blog this morning but I did not make any reference to the Iraqi war. The thing is if violence is as diminished as they claim it to be than the whole war shouldn’t be an issue at all and troops should be coming home as Sylvia Browne and I predicted months ago before 2007 was out. I had made the statement “The war (strange as it seems) will not be an issue in the 2008 campaign”. But there is no way to know whether we’re being lied to about the “pacification” of Iraq. It wouldn’t be the first time. I had Thom Hartman and then Randy Rhodes on. At 1:30 she had John Dean on. I missed the soap opera because of the fires like I say. Randy and Dean were talking about the fact you can’t sue the phone company for infringement of your privacy, and also the fact that “Privacy is more than just secrecy”. It’s a sacrosanct constitutional right in the context we are talking about here. This line “If you have nothing to hide, what are you worried about?” might be true if you’re talking about God, that is an all wise, benevolent judge who only has your best interest at heart. Nobody has made that claim about the government, and my biggest fear is that you will wind up on some government black list and find yourself unable to fly, or get a job, or get certain kinds of insurance.

Twords two I tuned in station 7.2 where KABC had their soap operas. I watched “General Hospital” and would have learned a lot, if I had a photographic memory. The thing is people remember things more easily in the “context” of something else. At three I was dial twereling and Bill wanted to watch Cops, so we did for that hour.

Cindy came to the door this morning and gave me two Kit-kats for one cigarette. That’s actually a pretty good deal. Marsha wanted to make a cigarette trade deal after lunch but at the time she had no money. After one Marsha came to the door waving two dollars and I sold her five cigarettes for one of the dollars so that I could buy coffee at the bakery after dinner. I also went to the bakery at two to buy a Coke. Otherwise I might have worked out some coffee deal with Glen. Right now it’s still rather unpleasant out. As you know that patio continues to heat up and is hottest just before dinner, and is almost as hot just after dinner. Of course the Bosc house had weird Australian weather. The north and west sides of the house were the hot sides on a hot day, and the south side was the cool side. If there was a brease at all it would blow in from the south and make its way in a northwesterly direction through the house. OK, we’re done.

There are ill winds blowing today. The political ill winds have been obvious lately. You find George Bush getting his way on the congressional votes on all his pet issues. The President called this a "do nothing congress" but this congress has done more to violate peoples' civil rights than any republican congress did. Who would guess the President would make an issue out of hungry children and children who need medical care? The President favors not helping them, and he's the winner. Now they have this stuff in the nation of Niger they are trying out called "Plump-a-nut" or something that tastes like peanut butter or something. It's gone a long way twords eridacating starvation in places in Africa. The political ill winds are blowing favorably to to the President because on ABC the other night they featured a trash piece on Al Gore saying his science was bogus and all of his scientists were just political hacks, and none of the "real" scientists believed in Global Warming. The media is referring to a melt down in the Berock Obama campaign. The candidicy of Obama has been a great disappointment to all his backers, and many who contributed money to him are now having second thoughts. His money appears to be drying up. On the Republican front we're told that Giuliani is winning there because he's the only liberal fighting against a host of conservatives such as Romney, Huckabee, and Fred Thompson. As we've known for the past year now two centerist candidates, the ex Mayor of New York and Senator Hillary Clinton will be the nominees. Hillary is remaking her image on an almost daily basis. Now she is trying to appear more feminine and "motherly".

The other ill winds that are blowing are these Santa Ana winds. Yesterday I checked on the program "This Week" on ABC and they were having coverage of the fires. Fires around here are almost a non event except this season of the year where Southern California seems to be "in flames" like the song goes, "I see your hair is burning. Hills are filled with fire". I remember the fires referred to in that song- -from late September 1970. We had a bad season in 1993 and in 1997 and 2003, I think, and the past year there has been a continuous fire season. It used to be fire season began July first or something. I know we were fighting fires in February. Other places in the nation have had fire problems. In the west the "mega fire" has become much more common. The statistics on wild fires in the west are almost Gore-esque. This modern phenominum of the West being on fire dates back to 1988 in Yellowstone where they first announced the "let burn" policy. It seems the "mistake" we were making all these years was putting out small forrest fires and now there is all this dry brush to worry about. It used to be fires of 200,000 acres were rare, but now fires of five or six hundred thousand acres are common. Every fireman on the line believes in Global Warming. The average temperature has only gone up one degree but the fire season has been extended by 78 days, and of course around here it's much longer. The drought around here in Southern California isn't helping. We had our second lowest rainfall total ever last year, exceeded only by the 1960 - 1961 season. It was about four inches. In fact, we may have SET a record last year. In Atlanta they have a severe water crisis because all their lakes are drying up. We've had ration rumblings around here, too. But in the southeastern US it's gotten really bad. I believe when Sylvia Browne said the hurricane season would be Worse this year I announced in a blog that hurricanes in the US would be less than usual. How ironic that the whole Southeast is suffering from a drought, in the middle of hurricane season! Of course if you need to cool off just book a ship cruise through the Northwest polar passage, since that area is free of ice now. It would take a first rate fool to deny that we've had major climate change in America lately. Of course in the sub Sahara they have had a decades long process of the desert advancing and greenery retreating and this accounts for a lot of the mass starvation in what is known in geography books as the Savanna lands, or the sub Sahara. The thing is convincing women to use birth control to curb the population problem and that with modern health measures, half their children won't die before age five.

The Boston Red Sox are American League champions now. It was a depressing experiance to watch last night. Actually much of the time after it became clear the Indians would not win the game, I was in Sketch drawing a Greek temple. The Red Sox finished with a flury last night. Even before winning game six, some were predicting it would be a "Sox and Rocks" Searies. I would have preferred a Rocks and Rock & Roll series. The Rockies have a lot of nerve claiming "Rocktober" is their own word. KLOS has been using the expression "Rocktober" since 1981 and perhaps they should sue. You know how those Born Again Christians in Colorado love to ride other peoples' tail winds. Of course I hate the Red Sox because they're always beating the Angels. Rather than be jinxed, I think the Red Sox are leading a charmed life.

On a personal note, with any luck I'll have D S L in a couple of days, that is, if you can trust the phone company. I don't see why you have to BUY a modem if you're only "trying it out" for one month. I'm not sure why I'll be paying ten dollars more than advertized in their mailings. But still you're really not in the modern era unless you have D S L so we'll see how it shakes out.

Sometimes we live with what I call "The Tyranny of the mundane". You see all these biographies of famous people in the movies or you hear Joel Olsteen talking about the life of one convert or another and the notion may arise "Yeah, it's just one good thing following hard upon another before you know what's happening". We know life isn't like that. If you watch a soap opera such as today and you see a person breathing their last breath before they expire and you know that death is one of those things that's as regular as eating and sleeping on a soap opera. It means virtually nothing. People wonder "when their ship will come in". We are growing an impatient society in America today. It's really a sign of the degradation of our culture that gambling is so popular because it shows a mass desire to "get rich quick". Oddly this same impulse may be the one that causes a ghetto resident to start using drugs. It's borne out of a despair for the future. The funny thing is that the popularity of gambling in our society shows a despair of the poor and the middle class about their own future, and oddly all this gambling began taking place and being legalized during the Reagan adminestration. In former times it would have been called a "lack of character" or an abandonment of the "Puritan worth ethic". People are impatient, all right today. One talk show host was despairing over the loss of the American family farm. Well, farming is a slow way of life. Often the image of the farmer is used in the Bible to illustrate the need for patience. I get impatient living around here. Just the past couple of weeks I thought I had a chance of getting an actual girlfriend around here, when her "boyfriend" went into the hospital. Well, I found out. Even though the guy is a total jerk and treats her like crap, she still pines after him rather than show an interest in me.

In the news we're all looking for something interesting, but sometimes it's like watching grass grow, and I don't mean bamboo. George Bush at his press conference today was asked about this incident with North Korea giving nuclear technology to Syria and Israel bombing the place, but the President, even after a month since I mentioned it on one of my postings, would not talk about it. It's another of those lingering mysteries. Today on the Stacy Taylor show, or was it Johnny Wendell, they asked the question whether the soldiers (and I used that term advisedly) in Blackwater should be put on trial by the Iraqi government for murder. I say that they should, because they're a private company not subject to the uniform code of military justice. But others think they shouldn't be accountable to anyone. Sixty Minutes has lurched to the right in that they had an apologist for Blackwater on their show. It was strictly a propaganda piece the right wing wanted out there. Of course "everybody" in the media is virtually calling General Petrayas's speech last month as a great success. Of course one of those lingering soap opera issues, (like "who is the father of Little Ethan) that seems to linger on forever is this whole idea of an attack on the nation of Iran. You think now it's off the table but now we learn people are still thinking about it. Four fundamentalist Christian groups including James Dobson and the family research council, are putting out propaganda campaigns and alledgedly spending millions of dollars (?) to try and perswade people that invaiding Iran would be a good thing. The extent to which the right wing has taken over the media can hardly be over-enphisized. Now they point out that that the Rockies baseball team has a high number of Born Again Christians on it and no doubt we're going to be hearing a lot about that. Of course I'd like to know who is watching all these Political Debates of the candidates we've been having. We only have to go on what the media chooses to share with it. They want us all hung up over the bathroom exploits of Larry Craig and they ignore the important issues. Bill Cosby gets a whole hour to explain to us all what Blacks aren't doing right. I really think there are more tactful ways of handeling issues like that. I do not believe seventy percent of black births are illigatamate.

Some criticize Joel Olsteen for his positive confession messages. It’s no crime to want liberation from your hum drum life, any more than it was a crime for Hebrews to want freedom in The Ten Commandments. It’s a basic yearning of the human spirit not to want to feel constrained by sometimes irrational limits. Olsteen is thoroughly Biblical in saying that “God has appointed our set times for prosperity”. You can find Bible verses to support all sorts of Olsteen’s messages. Some would say that Jesus Christ wasn’t giving “the whole message” as to “what it is to be a Jew”, so this criticisum is nothing new. People have had enough of the pastor-centric church where you turn your life over to some arbitrating and arbitrary dictator to run your life. People don't want to bother with all that theological baggage like spiritual regeneration, transsubstantiation and whether Jesus was really God incarnate. Even words like salvation and redemption and Hell and Eternal Life seem a little ethereal today. People don’t want to get lost in a theological maze. People are just people with ordinary problems they’d appreciate a little help with, if that’s possible. I believe Olsteen is genuinely touched by people’s infirmities and cares for their needs, and people sense this. Joel Olsteen may have rescued me from the brink of atheism. Where stuff like “rationalism” and “discipline” comes in is stuff, in my opinion, where you need to turn to the teachings of Scientology, to meet these needs. If Gary says he’s seen God, well I say if he had a clear mind with no engrams, he would be in a much better position to know for sure, wouldn’t he? People need to know what is psychological and what has a true basis in reality. Capish? Keep in mind that the difference between a Calvary Chapel and Olsteen is that Olsteen says "You never know what good things God may have in store for you any day now. Don't lose hope". The Calvary message is "I've got Mine because Me and God are so tight. I f you don't have Yours then you haven't discovered the secret to "flowing in the spirit" like I have so "nya - nya" to you. You may never rise to the level of Me because God in his wisdom has chosen to justify anything I choose to do.

I’m going to have to take issue with Thom Hartman on the issue of Christianity. Thom says being religious is like someone coming to a group of blind men and talking about the color Red and the blind men saying “Come on. There’s no evidence for any such thing”. According to Hartman one belief is just as good as another even if one is based entirely on rationality and the other has absolutely no rational evidence behind it. The essence of Faith according to Hartman and Dad is that it is Unreal. Of course I know about the Talosians on Star Trek where you think there is a hole blasted in a wall and there really isn’t or visa versa. But such illusions are made evident by further investigation, whereas you can investigate Religion till the cows come home and you will never be pointed to any evidence that will “answer your doubt questions”. It makes as much sense to say you believe in UFO’s as it does in Christianity. Hartman apparently never heard of the adage “You can’t prove a negative”. Think about that.

LEAVING EGYPT FOR GOOD

Yesterday the Senate followed the House in voting on an appropiations bill that fource a pull out of troops in Iraq by August of 2008. So both houses agree on this. Apparently two senators switched votes from a previous straw poll and one of them was Chuck Hagel. It seems to me an odd thing this is even an issue because doesn't the Constitution deligate the house as sole funding proprietor for appropiations for things like going to War. It would seem the intent of the writers of the constitution was that if a majority of congress does not agree to support a War, then the President can't levy that war. What do people like Larry Elder think of that? It's not a question of whether there is a two-thirds majority to override a presidento veto of a STOP to a war. That doesn't even make sense. It would be nice if Bush woke up and smelled the coffee but that's not going to happen. According to Thom Hartman many of the constitutional framers did not even favor having a standing Army in peace time. That would be interesting. But what they did want was for every citizen to be armed with his own firearm and to be a member of a state melitia. And there are those who even suggested mandentory service in one form or another to the State, kind of like Mao conscripting people to go out and sweep the streets. The notion of culpulsary service seems a little Maoist to me but according to Thom Hartman the core of liberalisum is being born into a "social contract" with society where we owe society something just for being born in this country. I'll think about it.

The news now is that that guy's mother who was killed in Afghanistan in 2004 who gave up a football carrerr now says that her son may have been deliberately shot by other soldiers to shut him up. He was vocal about the fact he was against the War in Iraq even though he was himself fighting in Afghanistan. According to his mother she was told first by the army "The terms of engagement were changed at the last minute and we are not allowed to tell you what they are". Also his personal diary was burned and his uniform was burned. Could it be that he did not just die of "friendly fire" but it was an ordered "hit" from higher up? If so this is another scandal that will never be investigated. According to a Russian newspaper the US plans to invade Iran on April 7th. or so just in time for a Moslem sabbath. (which would be a Friday not a Saturday) Of course we have moved air craft carriers into the region. Now it seems those Brittish sailors who were captured were not even in Iranian waters and Brittain is now saying "Iran stands alone in the world". But I suppose some would say as long as we have ships in the area anyhow we might as well drop a few bombs. Others say that the Russian newspaper story was planted by a conservative mole from this country for which reason God only knows.

John Mc Cain's cozyness tword the Bush adminestration is all the stranger because in his 2000 campaign for President he himself was the victin of the Bush Bragades. Karl Rove did "push polls" by which the Republican organization would call up voters and ask, "If you were to learn John Mc Cain had fathered a child of another race would you vote for him?" or "If you were to learn that John Mc Cain was certifyably mentally ill would you vote for him?" It would be against human nature to just dismiss such hostile action from another candidate. Could it be that Mc Cain is being blackmailed into not attacking the Bush Adminestration? It seems to me that some magic hand is pulling strings to cause Mc Cain to fall so dramatically in the polls now.

Gonsolez has apparently admitted that he got those eight prosecutors fired. He'll blow hot one minute and cold the next, admitting culpability one minute and denying it the next. It seems that in general the Bush Administration tries out various lies to cover up their deeds. Some "play well" and others don't, and the lies that don't play well get "updated".

There have been two major marijuana plant busts in the past week involving houses within three miles of each other here in California. They had gro-lux tubes and heating lamps even and irrigation systems on a timer. Both hauls were huge taking a lot of grass off the market.

I guess the question is what do we do about George Bush? I think if I were starting a new political party I would put out an expanded version of our US Constitution going paragraph by paragraph and line by line explaining what I think each one means and how it applies to today. Clearly the house needs to draw up a bill of impeachment or update an old one including the latest outrages as they occur, and get a case they will prosecute fully and not back down on. Of course you only need a majority to bring charges. Getting a 2/3 vote to convict in the Senate should be no problem once you get a snowball affect going. I would take longer than the Republicans took with Clinton in the Senate. A lot longer. The republicans were just playing around after a certain point just going through the motions to get the whole thing over with, as though they'd regretted bringing charges at all. It won't be that way this time around. But if they don't act soon nobody will care because Guiliani will be President. That's what apathy does for you. You and I know certain people - and the polls say 45% of Americans, will never vote for Hillary for President. But not only is it a growing certainty that Hillary and Rudy will be the two candidates, with no third parties, but that Giuliani will take it all on January 20th. 2009.

You know sometimes you have to wonder what is going through God's mind. There is a soap opera character on Passions named Sheridan. And she framed a guy named Luis for rape and then murder hoping then to be his "Rescuer". Now Luis faces the death penalty and Sheridan is telling others, "Gee, if there were another murder now that would take the heat off Luis, wouldn't it?" Of course she is planning to murder again. She's planning to murder this bar tender with exculpitory evidence that would free Luis. It sounds to me like Sheridan's thought processes are muddled. People said in Moses' day that "What we need is a man to become a shave and then rise up and save our race" kind of like Jesus became man to save man. But this thinking too is addaled. Because throughout most of their time in Egypt the Hebrews were not even in slavery but dwelt in the best of the land. But now they were inslaved and they had two choices. Either Moses could say "In a few weeks I'll become Pharoah and as such my Will will be law and I can free the slaves". The alternative is to wait another fourty years, longer than the life span of a slave, for Moses to come back from the wilderness and send all those plagues and such. If I were a slave in that forty years I wouldn't be too happy with Moses' decision.

Of course the whole History of Isrial is quite likely very different from that portrayed in the Bible in some key aspects. In the book, "The Secret Passage of the Lion" it says that Solomon was king around 1450 BC and not 960 BC as most Bibles stipulate. What this means is that Jerusalem was not yet taken over by the Jebusites yet and that the name of the City was Salem which means "Peace". Scripture says that at the time of Solomon the Sodomite was in the land. We know from Genisis that Sodom was wiped out by God, and so this passage is a clear time deliniator. It also says that Egypt was a mighty empire and invaded Palestine at the time of Solomon's son, Rehoboam and took back all the gold of the temple. Later on a couple of Kings later it states that at the time of King Johasaphat the tample was in shambles in disuse. How did it get this way so quickly? My guess is that there is a time gap between King Asa and King Johasaphat of several hundred years. If you compare events between King Asa and his "son" Johasaphat, none of the players is the same on the national scene. All of the Kings are different. Scripture also gives a possible alternate explanation for the slavery of the "Isrialites". The first time (according to Garner Ted Armstrong) Judah and Isrial are mentioned together Judah was at war with Isrial. What it looks like happened was that King Rehoboam, son of Solomon decided to oppress "Isrial" a people to the north and virtually enslaved them. It was "Judah" from the south, that "got the idea to sell "Joseph" (Isrial) of the north into Slavery in Egypt, which was then a mighty empire. Since the Bible also says "Egypt would never again be a mighty empire" this is another time-line indicator. So "Isrial" went into Slavery for several hundred years. It's dubious the story of Joseph and his favor happened at all. I would also like to mention that there were Dardanians in the land who were "Elders" in the time of King Solomon. The word gets mixed up with "Dan". It says "Dan" abode in ships and finally sailed away from the Philistine shore to Greece to become the Trojans in 1100 BC. Sometimes the Dardanians (sons of Zerah) are called "Danus". The word Danus means "Judge". And it's known that "Elders" were also known as "Judges" and in denominations such as the Presbyterians, it's these "Judges" or "Elders" that accept or reject a perspective member joining the church. Justin Martyr in his "Dialog with the Greeks" states that one thing Palestine or the Hebrews have is Antiquity and that they are more ancient than the Greeks. If the Trojans are the Dardanians or "Danus" this isn't quite true. Justin states that this is part of the appeal of Judaisum. The other appeal of Christianity is that they talked to God directly via the Holy Spirit, as an "old man" told him one day while walking on the sea shore. Of course if you're like me, an "objectivist" you believe that God if he exists is provable. But if there are "Elders" or "Judges" to which earthlings are accountable, it's the Dardanians or ancient Trojans, rather than your local pastor. I welcome any "discover of God" that's demonstrable in objective fact.

Montell Williams had a psychic on this afternoon. She got messages from dead people. What I believe she picks up on is some remaining ektoplasum or "aural energy" left over from the dead person that somehow congiels and just "hangs in the air" at a certain locations. Many if not most of the questions asked this lady psychic involve "What was the dead person thinking at the time of their death?" The only violation of this rule is that one womans mother has "re entered the world", reincarnated as a baby in Idaho. The other case was a man's mother who carried a lot of resentment and bitterness. But the psychic said "When she passed to the Other Side" all of those feelings went away". I'll tell you what vibes I'm getting from John Lennon. That he feels trapped where he is. He spends all day jamming with different musicions and keeps thoughts of Yoco Ono from his mind. This is partially because the Federation is hostile to Yoco's native planet, which is in the Pliades. This is John Lennon's fate. To psyche and brainwash himself into thinking he's happy when if he thinks about it he isn't. You know John Lennon once said "Better free your mind instead" (Revolution) I never like that line. I guess one reason why I don't like it is because it could easily become corrupted to "Better free yourself in your own mind", which degenerates into "your own imagination". A person should CLEAR his mind. That's a given. But to SEE that you aren't FREE is not a sin. Some people have objective provable chains of bondage of one kind or another, most likely economic. In Jesus' day I suppose Jesus' biggest fans were people who believed "Better free your mind instead". The word "Instead" conotes to me that the Real World isn't all that important. But like I say I am an objectivist. Sometimes printing presses need to be forged into opperative guns. (Selah)

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I get a little exasperated with the news because it all seems to point to the same thing. The Democratic congress is never going to get any successful investigations and Bush is going to leave office just as powerful and with an iron lock on all "Truth" as he currently is. He'll just hand off power to his dictator in waiting, Rudolph Giuliani, and we'll continue out till 2019 the same way we have been going. Look at the Alberto Gonsolez investigation. If this were thirty years ago Alberto would be GONE by now. Look at how fast John Mitchel was fired as Watergate was starting to raise its head. There were no massive media fights to keep John Mitchel on. Say what you want to about Nixon he has more of a sense of "ought" than George Bush has. Now there is this woman White House leazon who is taking the fifth amendment when she testifies. The stupidest thing you could do now is to give her Immunity from prosecution. They did that with Oliver North but I've got news for you; you don't grant immunity to a pathological liar so he can continue to propigate his lies. And if you're out to impeach a president you don't think about pardons because the Constitution plainly says that after a president is Impeached he is nonetheless liable for any and all prosecution. It would be argued that what Gerald Ford did in pardoning Nixon was unconstitutional. Clearly as you look at Bush's activities we are already well into impeachment territory. As Thom Hartman stated yesterday- - the question of firing honorable government office holders without good cause was discussed in the very first congress in 1789 and Madison said that the unauthorized removal of any duly constituted prosecutors would be grounds for impeachment. Some would argue that the "government can't be frozen" or "wrapped up" or "have its time occupied" by impeachment. Well guess what? This congress isn't going to pass any other bill that the President is going to sign because the democratic lead isn't that great in the House to begin with and the lead is paper thin in the Senate. For all practical purposes, government is paralyzed. The Clinton adminestration happily worked with Republicans in the nineties. But this Bush adminestration shows no such bi-partisan inclinations. We are still letting the Republicans define all the terms of the argument. The media no longer sees the democratic cause as a noble cause to crusade for as the media did fourty years ago with the War in Vietnam. Today no reporter will leak any hard news or good story because they are so buddy buddy with all of their White House sources. I remember back a year ago last winter (early 2006) all the impeachment charges were being laid out then and people were saying "Just wait untill we democrats get into power. Then you'll see things begin to happen". But we haven't seen anything happen. No matter how blatent the abuses of power are with this Presidency there is always Tony Snow or someone whom the media listens to to explain it all away.

In terms of these attacks on Katie Curic leveled by Mr KABC or whoever he is- - I would only say that it's good that she asked all the hard questions and the Edwards' responded to them boldly. Mr. KABC has been known to "turn" on people be they callers or even guests for no reason at all and yesterday's show on 1150 was clearly a "get Katie" show. The phrase "some people say - - " is less inflamitory than other expressions she might have used like "It's a given that- - " or "It's comon knowledge that- - - " or "Every body knows- - ". If it were me they were talking about these broader tar brush expressions would be used. I think Katie had a job to do and she did it well. It's true that Katie pursued her own carrerr earning million dollar income with her husband dying of colon cancer but guess what? She wouldn't be the first hypocrite, and she isn't the last one. Let's just say that Mr. and Mrs. Edwards won that verbal duel Sunday night on Sixty Minutes and everybody should be glad of that. I would have to say at this point that Edwards is best on the issues of any of the three leading democratic candidates. I think he sees the situation in America most clearly now of the three top candidates. I've found O Bama disturbingly lacking in substance the more I hear him and the more I read his material. Hillary's problem is she cares more about one ups manship and politics than she does doing what is morally right. Hillary isn't really a crusader for good causes but rather is a political "triangulater" like her husband was, playing one group off against another and hoping to come up a winner. On the war she's afraid to say what the rest of us are thinking and feeling but instead scared spitless she may say something to "offend" the Giuliani campaign in the fall of 2008. She's the ultimate "me, too" candidate.

This computer just crapped out on me. My internet connection was broke. I still had what was in the cache and so transferred the file and got it back but if I didn't know better I'd say there was something conspiritorial at work. We'll continue now.

Tony Snow's colon cancer has now spread to his liver. I guess the media is getting us all confortable with the idea that all our lives are finite and if we're under a medical death sentense of a few months it's no big thing any more. If this were a soap opera like Passions if we were given six months to live we would spend that entire time puking our brains out in the hospital from chemotherapy watching our hair fall out so we could have eight or nine months to live in that state instead of of the six months we'd other wise have getting on with life. I guess it used to be that being under a medical death sentense like Tony Snow and Elizabeth Edwards are meant your employment prospects would be severely compromized and nobody would want to hire you. Perhaps times are changing. One person raised the issue of whether Tony Snow would do a death bed "Mia copa" like Lee Atwater did just before he died in which he admitted that all those political dirty tricks he did were wrong. My oppinion was that Lee Atwater was astrologically compromized in that his death was just an event in the overall scheme of things and the rise of Bush's enemies and the decline of Bush's astrological fortunes.

Life is a soap opera. Like Days of our Lives or Passions, once you know the "Ways" of the author events become quite predictable. My philosophy is "knock off the person who's been writing all those bad political scenarios and get someone on our side in the position, and all of our problems will be solved. Some people say that if we could tap into the Psychic dimension we could control all that stuff. This seems to be the dimension where the chessboard of events is being determined. This dimension is like two opposing authors battling on who gets to write the scripts for world affairs depending on who controls what on the chessboard. As I look at the future I don't feel confident. Of course sometimes "feelings" are inaccurate, but most often "first impressions" turn out to be a lot more accurate than you think they are. In the I Ching you go by the first toss of the coins, not the ninth or tenth that you do "to get a better reading". It's even adversely referred to as "importunity". "Importunity" really doesn't work with prayers either. God would help us all out if he'd just give us a green arrow or a red one to let us know if he's with us or against us and let us plan our lives accordingly from there. Don't work yourself up through positive confession into some "State" where you think "everything is going to work out fine" only to find that in the end nothing at all has changed.

The news now is that the US is going to invade Iran on April 15th. 16th. and 17th. Of course we won the War in Iran in the first three weeks but we just don't know it. We took out their government and wiped out their military and devistated their country bombing all of those expensive pallaces that may have had historical value for art collectors or something. But the truth is that Iraq's military was weak before we invaded and Saddam was compliant letting UN investigators search for weapons of Mass Destruction anywhere they wanted to. And they didn't find any. Of course the media led by the conservatives was apparently lying to us the whole time about all of this. Now Iran can look at what they did to neighbor Iraq when they were compliant. And then can turn and look at North Korea, who are bulligerant and Kim Jung Ill is bulligerant saying he's boing to bomb the West back to the stone age, and we make DEALS with him. Obviously Iran is watching this and thinking "We can win if we just up the bidding price a little. A little more bulligerancy on our part and we'll get a better deal". As I said in the last blog I don't think an invasion of Iran will happen at all. We'll have to see who is right. A caller on the Thom Hartman show today, or the Astrological indicators. To me it just doesn't make sense for Bush to invade Iran. It's a larger country, with twice the population and bigger than that in land area. And Iran's military is intact. They have men and planes and ships that have not been devistated by war. There was a woman caller today who said something some of you pro Draft people (and I'm not talking about beer) should think about. And that is the one thing limiting Bush now is not congress or popular oppinion. The one thing limiting President Bush's widening the war in the Mideast and ramping up the casualties is that we have no draft. Just think of all the young people Bush could lead to their deaths if we had a draft? Should we give an obsessed man everything he wants? I say before we institute a Draft we had first better get ourselves another President. One who thinks before he leaps.

In terms of the whole en-grams thing we talked about, I should have said "compatable" engrams rather than "homogenious" engrams when I was talking about souls criss crossing into other peoples' bodies. They have to have "compatable" engrams in terms of agreement to do something. There are also "hostile takeovers". In fact the whole thing with the Centaurians is that they are people from another Realm out to take over the bodies of earthlings. But even in this case you need compatable en-grams. Just like a computer virus has to "speak the same language" before it can take over your computer or a virus in your body has to replicate your DNA in order to get access to any organisum. But right now I believe I've said enough on this topic only to say that with engrams - - distance really doesn't matter. You don't have to do a valcan mind meld routine to enter another body. Engrams work with different physics.

Back when Reagan was running for governor of California he said that Pat Brown had “looted” the state. This was a lie. But the Bush administration according to the Thom Hartman show today has looted a lot of people. First all the government has looted the social security fund. It was agreed 25 years ago under Reagan that this would be the first generation to not only pay for their parents’ retirement but their own as well so rates were jacked up to thirteen percent. But of course that fund has been routinely looted by Bush and the Republicans despite strident promises on both sides of the aisle in the campaign of 2000 that this money would be kept safe. This “lock box” line was a major issue in the campaign of 2000. Next our children are being robbed. The tax cuts of the rich are ballooning the federal deficit, which is something our grand children will have to pay back at God knows what interest rates. Of course GATT and NAFTA have enabled rich corporations to loot underdeveloped countries such as Mexico, which contrary to the promises people like Gore and Clinton made, is not better off today but worse off under NAFTA. The only difference is that Ford plants have been moved from Flint, Michigan down to Mexico, where the people work for peanuts. Back in the Eisenhaur administration is was a common belief that the highest paid CEO should not make more than twenty, or at most thirty times the pay of the lowest worker. This ethic went out the window under Reagan. Under GATT and NAFTA the percentage of wealth in America owned by foreigners has gone from 12% to 24%. And that’s just since 1995 when these two treaties had already been in place two years. China may decide to pull the plug on us because if they ever discover the former American virtue of “self reliance” they will stop buying our goods or anything else we trade with them. They will stop investing in this country. Bush has now secretly begun to inflate the US dollar and we’re apparently trying to duplicate the fate of post WW I Germany who thought it could pay back its creditors with inflated currency. If that happens there will come a point where China and Asia at large will refuse to accept our dollars as payment. Bush has stopped publishing the M 3 money indicator, which shows how much money is being printed without any backing. The savings rate in this country is now at a negative 2% because people are using their homes as an ATM machine borrowing on homes with little or no equity in them. The Federal Reserve wants to increase interest rates but there are fears that if they do so that the housing market will collapse and housing at this point is the only thing that’s keeping this economy afloat. I suppose at this point “It’s not a question of Whether but When”. People keep saying that the Feds manage our money growth so well that we have in our economy “outgrown” the idea of recurring recessions. The thing is about recessions is that they happen when you’re not expecting them, and you can’t always predict how bad they will be before they hit. It would be a pity for the Republicans if the next election hit right at the heighth of the 2008 election campaign season.

Stacy Taylor took a caller that questioned whether today’s conservatives are really conservatives, because they don’t take responsibility for the consequences of their own actions. Tony Snow in 1998 said that Clinton Aids should testify and that executive priveledge was a bogus concept that is often abused. I imagine Tony feels different about that today. This same caller said that John Edwards is already up for abuse by Rush Limbaugh calling this Edwards press conference this morning a political stunt to get votes and sympathy. Most of the time I hear Rush Limbaugh now it’s not directly but it’s from some report of something outrageous that he has stated. Listening to his show straight through must be really trippy these days. I guess Thom Hartman has it right when he said that liberals believe in the people, plural, first. But the Republicans believe in isolated individual person-s first. We thought the corporations were taking over the Media and the Nation thirty years ago when “Network” came out. Just think how much worse it is now. I guess the American Dream used to be having a confortable house to live in and raise your kids and have enough money to retire and get medical benefits. Now it seems the American Dream is to win the Lottery. And as we know there aren’t many lottery winners. Rush Limbaugh is one. Perhaps Larry Elder is another. But we know there aren’t that many filthy rich people out there. I suppose there are some who view liberals the same way that those Hippies were portrayed on yesterday’s King of the Hill episode, as lying, manipulative, thieving leeches. But we know where all the biggest corporate walfare goes. The drug companies are the only segments of society that don’t have to bid competitively for pricing. If capitalism is good for anything it’s to get the lowest price on something for your money. And when Government is spending the peoples’ money this should be doubly true, but sadly it too often isn’t.

PREVIEW OF SOME COMING NEWS

Well I don't have any ideas myself about the future. That's why I consulted the stars. I haven't made really good use of astrology in some time. Here's what's going to happen. The US is going to strike a peace deal with Iran that will also help to scale the Iraq war way back such that troops will be sent home in the next few months surprizing many and relieving everyone and also bolstering Republican's chances for President. But in the long run it will prove to be the wrong decision because Iran right now is in a state of extreme astrological weakness and if we kept the pressure on their government just might topple, but it won't happen that way. As a result of this and also astrologically based, the security right wing of the Republican party will be bolstered in their egoes and become more bold and demanding. I see either Giuliani or Romney benefitting the most. As for George Bush there will be a rash of announcements from the White House but playing the probabilities they'll be a week later than we said before. It should be sometime the Saturday before Easter and the headlines will fill the Sunday morning news. It looks as if not only Alberto Gonsolez will resign (which the right wing will bitterly resent and Rush Limbaugh will attack Bush for doing it) but also Dick Chaney will resign the Vice Presidency for health reasons, possibly that blood clot thing. Even after Dick Chaney resigns his health will be in jeopardy and he may just end up dying soon anyhow, suddenly.

I'd like to clarify a thing or two from the last Blog after talking to the Federation. That bit about two people with the same "soul" not knowing each other- - can't happen. To clarify your soul is defined as pure consciousness as limited by the engrams you came into the world with, plus the ones you develop afterward that aren't cleared. Some see the soul as some liquid substance that's shot into the cell at the time of conception with a hypodermic needle or something, and at death this same substance just vaporizes into the ether looking for a new home. Just so you pro abortionists don't get upset it doesn't have to be at conception. It could be after forty days or at the time of birth or even after birth, believe it or not. The reason why your soul could not be in two places at once is because even with a hetrogenious body (two different people) the souls or spirits can criss cross and swap places mutually volentarily, if there are similar engrams between the two people prompting it. Some of you may ask about identical twins. These two are homogenious in body but can be highly hetrogenious in the make up of their souls and they might be quite incompatable for a swap and incompatable in engrams. The question remains "Can a spirit have consciousness out of the body, and if so how?" The soul would seem tied to the body biologically. I have speculated in the past whether the population explosion might cause a "shortage of souls" so that one soul would have to be used for several incarnations. And do they have to be consecutive or can they be concurrent? The Bible teaches reincarnation, believe it or not. I'm not lying to you. In corinthians 15 it talks about a "seed" being planted. This is the soul of your former life "planted" in a new body and as the Apostle states, what grows up may not resemble what the soul was before, physically. Keep in mind this business of judgement upon death and going to heaven when you die is virtually unbiblical, and don't quote me Hebrews, a book with no Author. Pastor Bob Hawland, who pastored in my church nearly thirty years ago states, correctly that when you die your body turns to ashes. It decomposes. At a later date (12 Billion years from now when the Universe ends) God "remembers" you. The soul is said to "sleep" between lives because if there is another life you have no conception of the passage of time, not to mention no memory. Whether this "body" is a naturally or test tube "conceived" body or one that is "A New Creation" by God on "The Last Day" really doesn't matter. The soul is being reincarnated none the less. So don't say it doesn't happen. As to any "judgement" I know of no "dialog" between a subject and God after they die that isn't part of a metaphorical parable like Luke 16. We know the damned are judged and inialated, with no report of any "dialog with God" or "review of your life". As to the saved, we know the first thing that happens to them is they go to a Wedding Feast. "Dinner and a tournament". You have to ballance the whole reward - punishment idea against the "pass - fail" system also alluded to.

I had one of those "Ah ha!" light bulb moments this afternoon. Remember that Next Generation Startrek episode "The Price" where they are negotiating for a business contract and the one guy is partially psychic and "cheating" and he invented this incident with the Forengi of a hostile nature to scare this one party into doing business with him rather than a rival. But the incident was faked because they made Peace so quickly. Don't you think the Church and Rome made peace awfully quickly? Constantine went from persecutor to head of the church and giving orders virtually overnight even though some say he believed in "Sol Invictus" more than he did Jesus. Yet Constantine became almost titular head of the Church. How? Romans 13 says that all government is instituted by God and is to be cooporated with. The biggest secret that will be revealed is that Donetian was a closet Christian as the Catholic Encyclopedia hints at and one ancient historian brings up an incident of.

If someone were asking me what my belief about the Constitution was say if I were applying for Supreme Court Justice or something I'd say I was a strict constructionist with the constitution, just like Thom Hartman seems to be. But with one exception. Where is says "be secure in your persons, papers and effects" I'd take "papers" to mean anything on computer or I pod or disk. It's only logical to assume this. There is a mention in "reefer madness" that formerly they said that because of the interstate commerce restriction in the constitution, the federal govt. could not go after drug traffic. I would take a look at their logic and if it passed muster, then I'd end all Federal drug laws.