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.