TWO CONFLICTING POINTS OF VIEW

We are approaching a political divide so serious in this country it's starting to rival the civil war. Of course "Todd" wants Alaska to secede from the United States so we're practically there. It's good to see Mc Cain at least trying to "put out the fires" of the worst discord in his own campaign by trying to allay the fears of the most extreme elements who think Obama's an Arab. Of course Mc Cain was actually booed one time he did this, in Minisota. The divide between my two other brothers is enormous right now. So perhaps it's best to take on some of the troubling issues and examine them. One charge that almost makes sense that has been made by the right wing is that Obama knows little to nothing about economics himself and that he has been getting bad advice, from his friend, Frank Rains, who is associated with Fanny Moe and Freddy Mac. I was amazed to learn on the Rachael Maddau show today that Fanny Mae does not write mortgages, it only buys other bad loans up and guarentees them. I further learned that the vast majority of the bad real estate mortgages are actually from parties not regulated by the rules established by Jimmy Carter, who was naturally concerned about red lining. This is the complete exclusion of certain neighborhoods from either getting loans or insurance. Clearly no other practice is as instrumental in promoting "Segregation" that all liberals profess to hate. Some on the left want to blame George Bush for trying to hype up Real Estate sales to convince people that we were really out of the recession of 2001. But it would seem that corporate greed rather than "misplaced generosicy to minorities" is to blame. This whole idea of buying and selling debt risk and debt guarentee swaps are such an obvious Ponsie scheme I'm surprised corporate executives were stupid enough to fall for it. Averice knows no bounds! Mc Cain has a pretty good idea in wanting to buy up the bad mortgages directly from the mortgage holders and renegotiate the price of the home and established more reasonable fixed rates. To me, anyone who would buy a flexible rate mortgage is a fool- - and I never saw the appeal of it. But now Obama is promicing his "New Economic Plan" that was supposed to be out today except that I haven't heard about it. One part of the Obama plan is to not penalize the destitute for pulling money early out of an IRA. It would seem that Obama also wants to buy up individual mortgages. But in his plan the bank is bypassed and the customer is dealt with directly.

We were saying we'd tell you when we hit the bottom of the stock market. Well, I can pretty safely say we've hit it. Some may want to "wait for a pull back" to buy. Well, you just might have a long wait. We have gone up about fifteen hundred DJI points since mid day Friday, and you really should have bought in the depths of despair on Friday. We may "test the bottom" again or perhaps even exceed it for a day or so, but basically if you don't buy up now everything you can get your hands on, you are not maximizing your money making oppertunity. Experts will tell you industry group selection is important at market tops but at market bottoms it really doesn't matter. If the fundamentals of a stock are good, then buy it immediately.

The right wing has appealed to many people's fears. There is this "Manifesto" put out by the Communist Party, alledgedly in 1963 with all these bogus "goals for America". Most of the items have to do with undermining our culture or respect for authority. But there are other salvos like appealing to racism. Some of the things sent to me backfire in this respect. There are readings from Obama's first book about his upbringing where relations between the races are gone into. Obama mentions how his white grandmother fears being attacked by a white man at a bus stop. And yet clearly it's black women who historically have been the ones raped and taken advantage of. In fact a good case can be made that the white man can't be trusted to deal fairly with minorities. Today is Columbus Day. Thom Hartman today told of the native people on Haiti where Columbus landed. The people who live there now are imports from Africa and not the native population which was wiped out. Columbus kidnapped thousands of the native population and shipped them back to Spain and made slaves out of them. The sex trade was enormous, and somehow Columbus being a Catholic had no scruples against exploiting young girls, sometimes as young as nine or ten. My guess is that smallpox was the thing that wiped out these native peoples. Apparently the population of Haiti went from 160,000 - - - to zero, in less than a century. Some would say the Puritans of this country are more ethical. This is true up to a point. But reading of the Pilgrems in the thing sent to me it kind of bugged me that the kindness the native Indian population showed the Pilgrims was chalked up to "the sovereignty of God". This to me is an ugly license for ingratitude to say "It wasn't you- - it was God". This slick logic works the other way too. If you go to a church and the pastor treats you like crap, and the other people can't always be relied upon- - they might say "It isn't they who let you down, but God showing his displeasure tword you, or he wants to "teach you a lesson". Dragging "God" into everything is usually more trouble than it's worth. How interesting that this might well the last time the white man and the red man were on socially civil terms, before our nation decided to start systematically wiping out every trace of their culture, without which, the Pilgrems couldn't have survived their first year here. It's a different way of looking at something.

Sixty Minutes or somebody had a thing on this cute little nine or ten year old girl taking up hunting and having the experiance of blowing an innocent animal's head off. I guess if Sarah Palin gets in, a lot of young girls will leave the Mall Shopping scene and take to the back woods.

Of course if you're going to infiltrate the Mafia, it's best to be an Italian food critic. It wouldn't hurt to have watched Jeff Smith all those years and learn all the lingo for various cheeses and meats that Italians use. This involves the taking down of the Gambino family. The other sixty minutes story was on the battle for Al Sotter City in Iraq, which took place earlier this year from March untill May. What we did was build a wall dividing the city much as the prophet Neiamiah built the walls of Jerusalem when the exiles returned there, with a trowel in one hand and a rifel in the other. It seems we used advanced unpiloted drone planes with lazer heat seeking divices. I guess what both these stories prove is that our government can actually accomplish something constructive once we put our mind to it. After Obama gets elected we're going to have to go about healing the divisions in this land, and that will take on psychological aspects, as we "counsil" our right wing friends among us that resisting the Obama government is futile. People talk about blacks rioting but they never talk about white people rioting. The vast majority of the American people may agree that our nation has "turned the corner" and we will soon again be on the road to economic prosperity and fiscle responsability as well as regaining the respect of our European brothers. But there will be that troublesome minority that just won't "let it go" and want to return us to some glorious state that never was to begin with, where conservative values trickle down in abondance. Let me close with this one thought. In the first place we HAD this for six or eight long years and Roe vs Wade was never overturned- - and somehow we managed to not overturn our charished civil liberties in that time. But as I said two years ago "The trouble is how many bad rulings from the Supreme Court would you have to have in order to get the court far right enough to overturn roe vs wade." The point is, it isn't worth taking that chance. If Obama gets elected there will be no more "mass abortions" than there were before. But if Mc Cain is elected our constitution is in direct peril from one more right wing judge being added. This indeed to my way of thinking is "a clear and present danger".

There is a dangerous, growing climate of political Hatred in this country developing in this campaign season. I've never seen anything like it. At least not in this country. You sure never saw it in the Goldwater campaign, and I'm old enough to remember that. There is an appealing to the darker side of human nature rampent in both the Mc Cain and particularly the Palin speeches. The crowds who attend these gatherings are more like the crowds you'd see at a Reichstad rally in Germany with people yelling "Kill him" and "off with his head" and "he's a terrorist". The truth is a casualty in this campaign. I guess if you're a Christian, and not of the far right (which might these days be mutually exclusive terms) then you have to wonder what God thinks about all this hatred. But of course we know God will allow hatred to take place. If he didn't intervene to save his own son who was crusified 2000 years ago then I won't imagine he'll intervene to save Obama, should he actually be in physical danger. But now there are still other disturbing elements. We hear that the government has called back troops from foreign countries to be ready just in case Obama loses the election to handle potential Black rioting, much as there was in the second Rodney King, civil rights trial, where nothing ended up happening. You kind of have to wonder what sort of police state Mc Cain would "ideally" like to have were he chief executive. One supreme court decision I'd like to comment on (even if Palin won't) is the one involving 'enemies of the state' and denials of Habious Corpus. The Supreme Court rules five to four that "enemy combatents" had the right to Habius Corpus, or to know the nature of the crimes they are being charged with. Do you know how close we came to losing our freedom? If just one judge had gone the other way we would have lost these rights, perhaps for a generation. If for no other reason we cannot elect John Mc Cain as President, knowing the sort of person he'd appoint to the Supreme Court. Of course if you've seen that Keating Five vidio you know of Mc Cain's involvement in this scandal. Rush Limbaugh used to talk about the Keating Five, but if he had his old shows to do over again I bet he'd decline to discuss it now, knowing Mc Cain's involvement in a scheme not at all unlike the situation we are seeing with the banking system today. Lincoln Savings was driven into the ground and had to be bailed out by the government. For the life of me I do not know why Obama hasn't slipped this scandal in in one of the debates so far. The Keating Five scandal should be a "deal breaker" in its own right, precluding John Mc Cain from ever being thought of as a Presidential candidate.

One more topic never discussed in the debates is this whole area of N A F T A and the looming trade deficet and fair trade terrifs. We need to restore fair trade so that we can build up industries in this country. To listen to an Obama speech you'd never know that unfair foreign trade practices were a problem. Along with this we need to set some sort of immigration laws with real teeth in them- - not "because our culture is being undermined" as Pat Buchannon says but for (a) to restore respect for our laws in general and (b) to keep minorities from lowering the wage base in this country. If these people stayed in Mexico these "best and brightest" of that country could organize unions and such in their own country and improve everyone's lot who lives in Mexico. As Tom Hartman says, what the US is doing now is exporting polution by moving factories to other countries. I also personally wish Obama had not endourced this gigantic 700 Billion Wall Street bail out bill because I don't think we really needed it. As you know there has been no "stock market crash" of the perportions we had in the twenties. We aren't even close. It's inacurate to say people's funds are "wiped out". At worse they are down thirty percent. And if you wait a while they'll come back. Only people in the most dire emergency should think of cashing out now. We may well in fact be very near the all time lows in the stock market. Remember you heard us call the high first. We may be first to call the low. This is not the time for pessimisum or dire thinking. Countries around the world are taking unprecidented measures to prop up the banking system and cut interest rates on a world wide basis and get that cash flow going. In President Obama's inogural speech he may well be justified in talking about "The Audacity of Hope" once again. But untill we address our trade imballance problem I would continue to buy gold because the anxiety level through the world continues to be high and items on the horison won't make world tranquility any easier to invision.

In my personal life if you're curious as you know a friend loaned me some money a while back. Given the "deletion" of the renters rebate, I don't know how I am going to pay that money back. He has not brought up the subject but I've been thinking about it. Some of you may be wondering whether we'd have to do a little snipping of "Thick as a Brick" on our last posting to get the song listing to fit. The only other time the Federation has ever edited a song was the end of "In my time of dying" by Led Zeppeling, getting rid of all that stuff after the song is over.

There are a couple of other Supreme Court decisions I'd like to comment on, and I've already "tried out" in an E mail to the brother who is not a Christian. This concerns the ruling that states that people have the right to bear arms regardless of any local laws on the books. May I suggest that this is a violation of local sovreignty. Only in very specific, limited areas are state and local municipalities prohibited from passing whatever laws they wish. Clearly as I read it the second amendment is about limitations to the power of the Federal Government and Congress to abridge or eliminate the right to bear arms. In an urbanized area like Washington DC they have their own needs and they don't need street gangs wiping each other out throughout the city. In the same way some salloons even in the old west said "check your guns at the door". Because they didn't want any violence. But I would use this same local government sovreignty argument to overturn Roe verses Wade. Of course the basis of that decision was based on a previous bad ruling - that Griswald one on "privacy". The Griswald ruling overturned sodomy laws based on the idea that we all had a "right to privacy". The right to privacy isn't the Right to comit criminal acts in secret. Most blackmailing is done in secret but that doesn't make it any less immoral. But in the overall scheme of things- - I'd rather living in a world with abortions up the wazoo than one that's some sort of Fascist Police State, as Mc Cain dreams about fondly at night. It's a question for me anyhow, of priorities. As you know the Federation has not helped Obama in this campaign as it helped Kerry and Gore. But then again they both lost. In fact the Federation has stated that they'd rather see Obama murdered if it "has to happen to insure a greater good". Well, once again in God's oppinion God killing his son was preferable to the alternative of seeing Truth and Justice prevail in Palestine. So who can really tell with these Supernatural powers?

THE FINAL BRICKS IN THE WALL

Fingertips (Little Stevie Wonder)
Got My Mind Made Up To Love You (Marvyn Gaye)
Gimme Gimme Good Livin' (1909 artist)
Hot Buttered Popcorn (1969 artist)
Pictures of Home (Deep Purple)
Sock It To Me (Isley Brothers)
You Just Don't Care (Santana)
Shining Star (mid '70's disco group)
Get It On In the Morning (Bill Chase)
Thick as a Brick (Jethro Tull) Pts. 1 & 2

Now laying in that final tier of bricks. "Marvyn Gaye" and "Isley" are two songs similar to the selections used in "Soul Parade" in the Opera blog. The "popcorn" thing might be the name of the group, I'm not sure. "Gimme" is a Paul Revere & the Raiders sound alike group. The Santana is a former Reigellian B side. The Deep Purple track is track three of "Machine Head" and I wish I were able to positively confirm it. It's the song with the fast tripplicates. But Napster no longer let me use their product as is but insisted that I update it. "Brick" is kind of meant to be listened to with the pause in the middle. I don't think we have any repeats here.

LATE NOTE: "All the Young Girls Love Alice" had to be deleted for lack of space on a conventional CD. However there is a plug for the Elton John album on the back of the album as well as a plug for the Reigellian movie (Neir Reigel) "For What It's Worth" about the rapture on earth coming in November 1973, where a portion of the song "Good-bye Yellow Brick Road" appears. Also on the back of the album is the circled callendar date of November 23rd 1966 and November 23rd. 2008. This is more of that mystery stuff which may not mean anything.

We're like the Beatles. If we don't like reality as it is, we make up our own. In that spirit I have some recent day or two old news from the Federation. This whole tight money liquidity crisis we are in now is according to what the Federation says now, orchestrated by the Sutterans. They saqy "this crisis might have happened on its own but in this case it didn't. It was orchestrated by forces beyond earth control. The goal is (and here it gets weird) to put a man in office who will control the United States who will end up getting us in a war with Iran. This is because though the Sutterans and Alcyonne (who controls Iran) have gotten along till now, a major rift is developing between these powers behind the powers. So that the U S will get sucked into a nuclear war with Iran we will end up winning (or at least not wiped out) but that life and liberty not to mention spiritual life as we know it in America will be destroyed and come to an end.

Meanwhile back in the funny papers, they held a debate last night between the two principals of this campaign that was all sound and fury signifying nothing. I almost fell asleep during this debate. None of the hot button issues were even touched. Nobody accused Obama of being a traiter by talking to that Ayres guy. And Obama never brought up the Keating Five and that video now making the rounds showing that Mc Cain's hands are dirty. Mc Cain's age and his health were not brought up. Even the things they DID talk about we are no wiser for the hearing of it. We know both candidates have health plans, but if I had to explain the difference between the two plans or why one is better than the other, I couldn't do it. All I know is Obama says people happy with their medical insurence plan now can keep it. Energy was discussed but I heard no plans for effient auto engines or ethanol or hydrogen or most other sources. I believe Mc Cain did put in a plug for nuclear. But there was no Plan on the table from either side as far as I could see. The threat of both social security and medicare going bankrupt in twenty years was not discussed. We know Obama wants to invade Pakistan and Mc Cain doesn't. Basically what I heard was a lot of flapping of the lips but neither side was saying anything.

Last Saturday I was discussing politics with family members. The topic of the day was some secret law that was passed to enable nurses to euthanize patients, ie. kill them, and the patients would have no legal recourse. The medical care my late father received was discussed but nobody discussed the elephant in the room, ie. suing the hospital. We talked a lot about the wonder of creation and how unique each of us are, as created by God. We talked about what a crime abortion is, and how could anyone vote for a candidate so virently in favor of abortion as Obama is. A lot of people don't blame Mc Cain for the financial mess our country and now the world is in now. Because Mc Cain has people so confused some people think he's the big hero in all of this. There was a lot of talk about individual responsability. As of now I'm still voting for Obama but I'm doing it with a lot less conviction than I did a week ago. I like to think of myself as a moral, God fearing and responsible person. Obama needs to do a better selling job for the notion that you can still be a "Good American" and vote democratic.

PRESIDENT BUSH SIGNS
700 BILLION BAIL-OUT BILL INTO LAW

The house voted mid day yesterday and the bill passed by 260 to 150 or something like that, and not an hour passed before President Bush had signed the thing. It's the most heavily laden with pork boondoggle Congress has ever passed with an additional 150 Billion in added pork from the original bloated bill. Of course everyone on both sides of the aisle is happy that it passed. But now even people like Governor Swartzenegger are getting in line for hand-outs. They say that the state of California is going to run out of money at the end of the month. We usually borrow from the "private sector" to tide us over till January when income tax payments begin to roll in.

Winter has come to California, with the Sierra Nevada getting its first snow fall of the year and a cold front has moved on into Southern California rather suddenly and rain is expected later in the day. In other news proposition two is on the ballot here to prevent crowded caging conditions for livestock. The animals have to be allowed to move around and extend their limbs and at least have their feet touching the ground rather than be piled on top of each other. Of course even though 72 % of the people are for this measures, the nay sayers say that it will drive up meat and egg prices. Of course people who talk about "small business" have a certain dogma they live by. If they raise the minimum wage they claim it will drive up unemployment because people will be fired. Larry Elder talks about this. And yet when they hiked wages to $1.65 an hour in 1968 by the next year unemployment was down to 3.5% Some people say that raising taxes on incomes of over $250,000 will impact small business. Larry Elder likes to talk about these people working fourteen and fifteen hours a day only to have their money taxed away. Some will even say "businesses don't pay tax; they just pass on costs in the form of raised prices". I guess my response to all of this is market forces are pretty good at dictating success or failure and you hear stories all the time of people getting into business on the internet or something and making a killing and gettiong really rich, and they don't mind paying taxes. I guess where the logic of conservatives escapes me is that they say "Small businesses don't make any money with high tax rates". Well, if they don't make any money then they won't be paying any taxes, will they? Do you see how easily that all works out?

Now they are saying this home spun speech of Sarah Palin is all just an act for this campaign, and that she was never quite as "stupid" or country hick as we were led to believe and that in all her other debates she didn't have this folksy demeanor. On the "Frangela" show they were lamenting how education is distained today. Since when did ignorance become so fashionable? We hear the same lies from these people over and over on how Obama didn't vote to fund the Iraq War or that Obama wants to raise taxes on anyone earning over $42,000. The right wing lives by the three by five card spouting the same tag slogan lines over and over. To these people the American people are like a gullible mother getting sugar sweetened cerial for her kids because it's advertized and supposedly fortified with vitamines or something.

OJ Simpson is behind bars today. This is a red letter day for social justice. O J Simpson finally is getting what has been coming to him. A jury found Simpson and his friend guilty on all twelve counts on which they were tried, and how faces possible life in prison. And guess what? He isn't getting bail. This is truely a comeuppance where Simpson will have an "attitude adjustment".

THE FOLLOWING WAS TYPED YESTERDAY

Last night I was watching videos and such on computer right up to six o clock. The debate lasted just over an hour and a half. What immediately struck me was that Joe Biden was talking too fast to make his points successfully and he appeared much more nervous than did Palin who was smiley and radient throughout the debate. She made frequent eye contact, winking at the audience and such and unlike Biden, addressed her remarks right to the camera. They were limited to a minute and a half responses. But it seemed as though Palin got more time than did Biden. While his responses were rushed, hers were perfectly timed out. Biden did not go on the attack till twords the end of the debate saying that Mc Cain is not a Mavoric and enumerated the reasons why. Palin was at times short on the facts and once even said “I’m not going to answer the questions the way the moderator or Biden wants me to answer”. Palin set the tone making it a home spun debate with a lot of anic-dotes. Some topics were not discussed at all. For all the times Palin used the word “Energy” that topic never was discussed in a serious manner and nobody talked about research & development or carbon footprints. Other areas not discussed were health care and what to do about Social Security. Other areas not touched were the trade deficit, NAFTA, and immigration. Neither in general was overall border security from terrorists creeping into our ports and airports, ect. The big elephant in the room that Biden didn’t mention was that this tax bail out bill is loaded with pork, and that Mc Cain and Palin are both pretentious frauds on this issue. When it came to foreign affairs I was impressed that Palin knew names like Akmadinijab and walked about Afghanistan as if she were an old hand. Biden scored points talking about his interventionist mind set and human bondage and genocide, and intervening in Bosnia and Kosevo. Palin relied on these buzz fraises sure to score points with my brother and his wife. They are likely to describe her performance as “perfect”. There were only a few times when I felt Joe Biden was really “scoring” and connecting with the audience.

I listened to the commentary afterwards. Neither candidate was guilty of any significant distortions of the facts. Palin accused Biden of “living in the past” when he pointed out how Mc Cain voted with Bush 90% of the time. At eight I watched Superman. Not having coffee in the evenings means I go to bed a little earlier. If Joe had gone on the attack earlier I think he would have “won” the debate. None of the cute, witty remarks of Palin swayed me, but a lot of people are a lot more shallow.

They are still predicting rain for tomorrow. I guess I’ll check out WDRV now. And this is later. Drive radio was doing 1971 and two songs of note were “Burn Down the Mission” by Elton John I heard on a KLOS album play and also the stellar “Get it on in the Morning” by Bill Chase, which I have always admired for being immaculately executed. It seems that it’s always the good ones who die young.

NO HOT FUDGE SUNDAES IN HELL -
JUST COLD TURKEY

It's time to termanate the Termanater. Swartzenegger is really done it now. He had "deleted" any renters rebate payments retro-actively, and this isn't fair pool. This action of eliminating the renters rebate deprives the poorest segment of society, like myself, the use of about three hundred dollars that we would have any other year. At this point I'd be perfectly open to joining a recall movement of the Governor of California. I most certainly won't vote for him again. Up untill now I was on his side. But the Governor rejected a spending plan that had a one cent hike in the sales tax and also an increase in income tax withholding. Personally I wouldn't mind a bit paying an extra three or four cents per cigarette back, if I had three hundred dollars to go along with it. I imagine the Termanator will be getting a lot of hostile mail from this one. This story of the retroactive cancling of the renters tax rebate didn't even make the main news. I had to dig around for it.

It's Cold Turkey time in soap land. Of course anybody used to spending money in my economic state has to go through cold turkey, particularly if they're spending it on something addictive, such as cigarettes. Nicole Walker in Soapland has her own problems. She's such a severe alcoholic now that she's pregnent she can't keep anything down, including alcohol. She upchucks the very substance she needs to keep her going and prevent her from getting the D T's. No doubt her doctor will put her on a no alcohol diet. If I were in her shoes I'm contemplate abortion and get back to my first love that gives meaning to life- - - alcohol, but she's smarter than me. She knows the baby is a way to get an MRS degree, and perhaps a lot of money, even if she doesn't even want the brat.

Well, we all know Mc Cain refused to even look at Obama in the last debate. This shows a lack of style and civility. Apparently even while shaking Obama's hand he "gazed right past him" like he wasn't there. Of course Mc Cain was dismissive and contentious in his remarks to Obama. One might say he "over played his hand" considering that Mc Cain isn't that smart to begin with. I don't even think Mc Cain had any idea how he was going to vote last Friday as he rushed back to Washington. I sometimes doubt whether Mc Cain has the mental capacity to understand the issues he now so sure about, now that his handelers have told him what to say. But Mc Cain has other problems, health problems. Many believe Mc Cain has Belle's palsey or something because of his left eye staring off into space or something. One person said that Mc Cain had a really strange look on his face just before he tripped on a stage. One person today said Mc Cain had a one in four chance of not surviving his terms as president. I didagree only to this extent. On the Johnny Wendell show the other Saturday they said he had a one in five chance of not surviving his FIRST term. That right there peggs the odds of dying in eight years at two our of five, or almost half. But Presidents are generally less healthy in their 2nd. term than their first (for example, Reagan) and I dare say the odds of dying before the end of his second term are better than fifty-fifty. We should wish him a long life- - while we vote for Obama.

Sarah Palin will be in the debate with Joe Biden tomorrow night. One thing that troubles me is this idea of "Joe Biden won't look good if he does too well because he will be perceived as beating up on a girl". So let me get this straight. Obama is in trouble if as a Black man he tried to be to assertive in his debate because "people fear Black men that way". And yet in Biden's debate the bar is so lowered that if Sarah Palin gets through without falling down and babbeling incoherently and drewling, people will say that she won the debate because the bar is so low. Haven't you noticed that the media has been spending a lot of time lately telling us how to think. People in Palin's own party are losing faith in her and quietly hoping that somehow she will just drop out or be pushed out of the race, so they can get a real contender in there. Of course now the buzz with Sarah Palin is that she is such an air-head she can't name a single supreme court decision besides Roe verses Wade. But besides that she was asked what magizines she reads to get her news and she couldn't name any. She just said "Oh I read the ones that are out there". At least the Gardener guy in "Being there" had the savy to say "I watch television".

Herbert Hoover had a financial rescue plan out on October 8th. 1931 called the Financial Reconstruction Adminestration. It was to increase the liquidity of banks. How strange that as the stock market was dropping back then newspapers were peppered with articles just like today where "chief economists" and the experts said "Everything is fine. The economy is sound. Steps have been taken to insure that last Thursday's stock performance will not be repeated. Of course Thom Hartman has this theory that there is an actual conspiracy to wipe out the middle class because they are "a discontented rabble" and eliminating them from organizing or protesting would be a good idea. But of course Hoover's plan didn't work and this current plan won't work either. Last Monday you thought everything was settled because they had a fair vote and it failed by 23 votes. More republicans than democrats voted against it. But now they are sweetening the pot for the republicans. They are putting in new tax cuts for the rich and getting rid of the "minimum income tax". They're also hiking FDIC insurance levels from a hundred thousand to 250,000. The moderately rich should sleep better at night. But as far as I'm concerned it's kind of like sticking in a marshmellow in the middle of a cow pie. I don't know about you but I find it easier to get my marshmellows elsewhere. Both Obama and Mc Cain are now avidly for the bail-out plan. It's still a bad idea. Monday when the measure failed by a few votes in the house the stock market had a hissy fit and fell 777 points. It would have been an excellent time to buy and anyone with any brains should have known that. It's as predictable as Gene Scott glairing at the camera saying "I'm pulling the plug on my minestry if I don't get thirty thousand pledged in the next half hour". He never missed. Basically we haven't had a "stock market crash". We aren't even close. You'd never know that from listening to the news media. They love to scare you with talk like "The market is up today because they're all hopeful that congress will reconsider the bill". It's too much of a case of the secretary of the Treasury saying "Give me all your money or I'll blow my brains out". It used to be that calls to congressmen were running ten to one against the bail-out. Now the public is stampeeding congress to hurry up and get this thing passed. Such is the thorough job of media brainwashing and conditioning.

Many are wondering what psychological message I was trying to deliver with that last rock compilation. Who is to say the thing is my idea. I'll tell you this: I still feel really jinxed and don't know how to go about lifting or termanating it. But stay tuned- - .

OK the economic bail-out bill has just passed. 67 senators have voted in favor of the bill. I guess that answers all of our questions. What we're headed for is a new sort of fascistic economy where corporate and governmental are indistinguishable. Don't these people know they are only "buying a few months"? Just like Herbert Hoover attempted to "buy a few months". The stock market was actually up in 1032 before things fell apart and things got even worse. It's like the republicans have given up and want to stick Obama with as much economic heartache and fiscle bankrumptsy as possible. In the thirties we produced our own goods and our own energy and we were a creditor nation. None of these things is true today. We cannot escape having to pay the piper.

WHAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE TO DO TO WIN

Today John Edwards endorsed Berock Obama for President breaking his long silence on the subject. Hopefully and presumably this means the race really is over because now Edwards' deligates will be released to go for Obama on the first ballot, but I haven't heard this for a fact. But the democrats aren't home free. I was just reading my own material on the Democratic convention hoping to get something inspiring to pass along. Well, if you thought my endorsement of the Republicans at their convention was less than sizzeling, I was downright put off by the democratic convention. Media coverage of conventions pretty much sucks these days anyhow, and I wasn't on the internet back then. So often it was just commentators flapping their gums reinterperating everything that went on anyhow. But I was pissed at Kerry because I regarded him as a liar. I believed the swift boat people. Not that I believed all their political commentary that went along with their charges but I believed the substance of what they said. Next I didn't like and don't as a rule like conventions of the democrats being a parade of special interest cases like people with AIDS or gay activists or anything smacking of that. I also don't much go for any speech made that sounds like their putting on a parade of whiners and mal-contents. Neither did I much like that psudo military stuff like "John Kerry reporting for duty" as if he were "Just as macho as George Bush. Neither did I like that "Send me" speech, done along the same vein. Not to quote dead people but Stewart Sutcliffe announced he would vote for Ralph Nader in the fall. Of course Stewart is more of a government "activist" than I am approving of things like the nutrition police and it's the government's duty to promote the health of it's citizens- - and all that stuff about how employees can't even smoke in their own homes, to get employee insurance rates down. John Lennon didn't like Kerry either, regarding his speeches as too hawkish for his blood. The thing that Kerry did all throughout the campaign was to say how he's really for the war and all. Nobody except Howard Dean was advocating the withdrawal of troops from Iraq in those days. I saw the race of 2004 as a choice between someone who basically is in control and knows what they are doing and has had success both domestically and abroad- - - verses the other party that can't seem to find their asshole with a high powered telescope. In short the democrats the whole time ran as a party that just expected to lose. Hillary not running in 2004 was signal enough to many people that the Democrats' chances this year of 2004 were pretty much doomed from the git go.

So what do the democrats have to do to win? First of all they can't do what Hillary has been doing and that is trying to placate the inveterate (and confederate) racists of West Virginia. As long as you see the ignorant and the prejudice setting the tone and framing the debate, you will never win. You have to do something brave; you have to Ignore them! West Virginia is just not relavent for the 21st. Century. Neither would I court Hillary to be a major part of the campaign. Rather than beg her for her support if there is any begging to be done it should be done by Hillary promicing to "behave" if she's allowed any part in the campaign. There is no way she should be considered for Vice President. To many having a woman AND a black is just perceived as a "loser ticket" and the democrats need to shed the tag of loser. There is no way Hillary deserves to be Vice President, not that she would even want the job. Obama needs to signal a clear break with the past and there is no better way to do that than make a clear break with Hillary. I think having a lot of debates will help Obama because it will emphasize Mc Cain's age the way the Kennedy - Nixon debates highlighted all of Nixon's physical shortcomings. Obama needs to campaign in areas where he's done well in the primaries like the northern plains states and in the middle Atlantic and places like Virginia and North Carolina where he did well. He needs to do the intellectual Thom Hartman approach to provide Americans with an adacademic education of what our problems are in this country and how they can be solved. I would declare all out war on the medical insurance companies. I would also declare all out war on the secretive policies of the Bush adminestration of unauthorized wire taps and torture policies and denial of detainees their Civil Rights. Obama has not enphisized this strongly enough in the past. I would also do a full court press on Mc Cain's economic plans for the nation, while trying to say as little about my own plans as I can get away with. People need to see Mc Cain as lost and alone without any support for any of his ideas. I would suggest talking fast and firing a lot of questions at him and make him appear old and dottering when he is slow to answer. I would certainly keep using this phrase of "The third term of the Bush adminestration". I would also highlight ethics reform in congress and do an all out attack on lobbyests. These are some of my ideas. I would also do frequent private survays for my eyes only to get a pulse on where the public's head is at and which speeches are resonating and which speeches aren't. In terms of moral issues such as gay marriage and abortion, I wish Obama would say as little as possible about this. I don't think the American Public is "pro abortion" and I don't think they're anti marriage.

THE MAX BRADY ADDITIVE VELOCITY
FORMULA FIX

OK if I'm going to be as smart as Thom Hartman who was doing all this advanced math in grammar school I'd better get on the stick as far as additive velocities in the theory of relativity. I have the correct formula now done in Excel. It's, =(H49+I49)/(1+(H49*I49) I'll explain. H49 is the velocity of the first space ship or whatever and I 49 is the velocity of the missile or rocket that is launched from it going forward, OK? What you do is add these together and then divide the whole thing by one plus the product of those same two velocities, provided those velocities are some varient of the speed of light. If they are not, simply factor in the speed of light to these numbers below the fraction line. This formula was tested for accurecy trying it out with 2/3 and 2/3 as velocities and the answer is supposed to be 12/13. However I was a tad off in the thousandths collum or a few tenths of a percent. I'm not certain whether this error is tollerable. At any rate the speed of light does not come to a grinding halt. You know, it doesn't really matter. The speed of light is so infinetessible compared to the size of the Universe, if it's only expanding at this slow rate it will take forever. You will note that as of late they are saying that the edge of the universe is accelerating faster than they'd dared imagine. What they also say is that in the outer reaches of the universe "space" itself is in motion. This cannot be true unless you subscribe to the Ether theory, that space as we know it "moves" and it can only be said to move if it had some sort of substance to it, so- - you decide. You can plug any two fractions of a number into this formula in places H 49 and I 49 and this formula will generate an answer.

While I have you here I might as well repeat that we all know the future and not because of any "revelations from the Other Side". No, we know the future because after the theory of relativity hits infinity it doubles back on itself, which means our own Self or soul doubles back on itself so that we are living life both forward and backwards. We already know the future because we've already lived it. (Selah) People talk about God consciousness. For Calvin or a determinist such as Einstein, we can absolutely know God by one way, and that is by what happens in our world. Of course the theory of relativity is a bit nonsensical in one way in that it says that two simotanious events when observed by a third party do NOT happen simotaniously. To me this violates all sense of what reality consists of but proponets have their reasons, I guess. In religion what too often is most important is belief for belief's sake. In science we base things on facts. When Fred Price talks about belief, oddly by his definition you cannot Believe something if it's actually true, but only if it's unknown or false. As such if one postulates that you are saved by belief- - ipso facto it has to be belief in something that is either unknown or false, because if it turns out to be true, if you're Fred you have to use some other verb. Scientists see things as they are. They are believers in what IS and not as some might dream them to be.

SOME PEOPLE DON'T BELIEVE IN THE
IMPOSSABILITY OF SOMETHING UNTILL
ITS NON REALITY MANIFESTS ITSELF
BY NOT HAPPENING

PLAYING THE RACE CARD

Well this Clinton victory tonight over Obama has to be the most pyric victories of all time. People like Randi Rhodes have been talking about "the math" since February. It's a little sickening that Hillary seems not to be repelled by people such as Rush Limbaugh. Even worse that Hillary should make statements that "she's appealing to the good white working-class people". And of course now there is this "block" of states Hillary had won or will win in that part of the country. Nothing Hillary has done in months seems to be in the interest of either the party or unifying this tired nation. It's a victory for racism and poverty and ignorance. These of course are the fruits of eight years of Republican adminestration most manifest in West Virginia. West Virginia is 48th. or 50th. in several key catigories involving income and education. It's pointed out that West Virginia is one of our most rural states and not near any big metropolitin areas even if you venture into neighboring states such as Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, or Virginia. West Virginia is only three percent Black and I doubt even that many voted. I imagine little of the state is connected up to the internet which means they have to rely on the right wing media for their information. I guess some right wing news outlet was interviewing voters and one democrat age 67 said he would vote for Mc Cain in the fall if Obama was the candidate. And a 24 year old said he wanted to vote for a "full blooded American" like Mc Cain over someone like Obama. There were roomers that Hillary would drop out of the race after West Virginia. There is not even any guarentee that she'll get out of the race eight days from now after Oregon and Kentucky. I guess if this race is a learning experiance for Obama it's to avoid states like West Virginia and Kentucky in the fall as hopeless bastions of prejudice and ignorance. Still it's nice to have a state like West Virginia where you can step into a time-warp and be transported back fifty years. Actually, a hundred years is more like it. You can expect to see 1908 in a lot of callendars there going back to an era where people called everyone else "cousin" and you had to ask the father for the daughter's hand in marriage and the two-step was the latest dance.

Fifty years ago none of us thought of ourselves as living in a "backward age". Indeed you had shows like Space Explorers on TV, which was a cartoon series about man going to Mars in 1978, twenty years hence, which at the time seemed like a perfectly reasonable proposition. The US government had gotten into the space race with Echo I or something. I think the Nautelus, the first nuclear powered submarine was launched in 1958. In 1959 the St. Laurance Seaway opened up and we were admitting new states and expanding our Frontiers as a nation. And also in 1959 Disneyland got its monorail. We weren't so backward; they had even just come out with stereo records, and the word "stereophonic" was on our lips. The democrats made huge gains in congress in the election of 1958. I think the democrats picked up 48 house seats or something which set up a lopsided majority that would go on for twenty years or more. The people were more progressive than the President and "liberal" was seen as an enlightened word in those days. Back then the John Birch society was considered far right. Today it's platform has pretty much become main stream for the right wing media. We thought of ourselves as a scientific nation. But of course in those days, and for decades to come the National Media was liberal. They were our conscience. And of course the Supreme Court was progressive in those days.

Today I guess the Christian Church has been reduced from political and social involvement, which proved too much for it to bear. (Christians don't like thinking too hard) Instead I suppose now the best thing they can do in the light of an earthquake in China, a Typhoon in Burma, and tornadoes in the midwest and South, is to pass out religious tracts saying Jesus is coming back in five years. People who get their purpose for life from belief in the Supernatural really get off on natural disasters. It gives them an opening. Sylvia Browne said almost a year ago that weather would be in the news. If you wait long enough anything is likely to come to pass. Even Browne is saying stuff like "We only have twenty years left". You know when it comes to space travel, we are living in a new Flat Earth era. From things I read and watch, we aren't going to accomplish squat in the next century or so. It will take us till 2020 to get back to the moon, and beyond 2030 for our first manned excoursion to Mars. And when (and if) we do, who is to say some nay sayers won't come along to scuttle the program after a few flights. It would seem that the medical profession is having much better luck with "inner space" than we are with outer space. Why is it that almost any government program runs BEHIND schedule. Why not have something actually get done AHEAD of schedule for once? That would blow all our minds. Remember it was Kennedy who said, "We are not going to the moon because it's Easy; on the contrary we are going there because it's Hard". You know that dolly that says "Math is hard" when you pull the string or whatever- - if it were easy you wouldn't be expanding your cognitive capacities. We as a people need to "enlarge our capacities". We need a more intellectual climate in this country. We need to make being a redneck newly Unfashionable. (Selah)

YOU MEAN - STAR TREK MIGHT
ACTUALLY BE WRONG ABOUT SOMETHING?

You may remember that Next Generation episode where Beverly Crusher was trapped inside her own universe. She asked the computer a question she said "The computer should not be able to answer" , which was to state the size of the universe. When the computer actually Answered this question she knew "something was wrong". Well excuse me- - but there are certain deductions that can be made from Einstein's theory of relativity people haven't thought about. From simple cauculus computations one should quite easily be able to deduce the size of our universe. Let me explain. Back before I even knew him, Mark Campbell was saying things to people (like Pete Richards) that the Universe was like an air bubble floating inside a bottle of green Prell shampoo. I bet this dates back to 1977. Anyhow, the key is that it is a static bubble and not a growing one. People don't know it but according to the theory of relativity itself the speed of light slows down to a stop if you go far enough out. Let me prove it to you with a simple illustration. Suppose you're going 9/10th. the speed of light. If you want to do the Physics thing and square that number you come up with 81/100th. or roughly four fifths. Let's say that when you are nine tenths the speed of light that time slows down by four fifths. Let's also stipulate that space in that direction also shrinks by four fifths. Together you have not a compensating but a compounding effect or multiply five by five and get 25. So that in reality you are only going one /25th. the speed of light. Keep in mind that a keystone of Einsteins theory states that whatever speed you are you'll never see the speed of light vary. If you shrink time any significant ammount and space a similar ammount, pretty soon light has got to slow down. Least you think I'm talking out of my ass, I've seen things like if you go 2/3 the speed of light and send out a light beam going forward- - the result is measured in thirteenths or something. I think you take thirds and fourths and get not twelths but thirteenths is based on the same theory that if you see five X on one side and one X on the other- - you may well wind up before you're done measuring things in multiples of six. In like matter when you speak of a four to one ratio- - youre going to end up measuring things in fifths. Basically the Universe is analogus to a soap bubble with most of the "substance" on the surface (edge) and not in the center. For purposes of argument let's throw out my Ether theory, which makes a hell of a lot more sense to begin with but we'll do things Albert's way. Remember when we talked about accelerat-ING matter verses accelera-TED matter. Einstein himself said (like Newton) there is no absolute stationary point. If this is true then we have to go with accelerat-ING matter. Wherever you are in this bubble universe you can never reach the edge of it and go beyond to the "Sea of Green" as Mark Campbell originally said it was. You can use sheer calculus logic to show that you're talking about there being a fixed, stationary point "out there" you cannot go beyond. Matter and mass shrink into nothingness. But here is Einstein's "out". Nobody knows where the CENTER of this universe is and everyone who is NOT ACCELERATING at the moment believes he is IN the center of our Universe. So it can be said "Everyone has his own center". There is a center here and a center over there. No matter how "close" you think you are to the "Edge" of the universe there is still two down and Infinity to go. So according to Einstein not only is everything that happens in this universe determinate, or predestined- - but there is a fixed "Volume" the universe has with infinity as the edge. Again, simple calculus should be able to reveal this number. I don't know what it is. Perhaps we can get Max Brady on D. L. to help out.

ALL THINGS MUST PASS

Well, we’ve heard it now from Thom Hartmann. What we have in America today is classism rather than racism. This is pretty much true. But it’s even more pernicious. People in the Civil War were all haughty about slavery and yet we are all “slave holders” when you look at how many slave labor and child labor goods we import in this country and there are people like Larry Elder who seem to want a permanent under-class in America in ways that even the KKK would balk at. After all even the KKK would balk at a landowner having sex with his Black slave subject. Now the ultimate insult is delivered by calling Obama “elite”. This is just another take-off on the “uppity Nigger” phrase you used to hear from Southerners. No doubt Hillary will continue to pander to this racist and prejudiced view of America. Perhaps it is true. Rush Limbaugh has a secret crush on Hillary Clinton. Other than my writings nowhere else where you hear Hillary’s campaign tacticts extolled. Rush wonders why Blacks vote for Blacks. Well if we were suddenly taken over by Extraterriestrial aliens, and we had a chance to vote on a government officer, don’t you think earthlings would naturally vote for the human? Rush doesn’t know the difference between racism and self preservation. It all comes down to credibility and let’s face it: a black is just more “credible” when he says his aim is to advance the Black man, than is a white candidate. If Obama gets the nomination I will happily admit I was wrong. After all I predicted the Bears would defeate the Colts in Super-bowl 2007. I still can’t believe that one. Some may say when I talk of things that “never happened” that “well, perhaps those events are due now”. There are things I didn’t put on that list. I have never seen the movie “Let it Be”, I have never been held at gunpoint on the street and robbed of my watch, my wallet, or any jewelry, I have never been homosexually gang raped in prison. I have never been in a live earthquake where the shaking was so strong that glass was breaking and furniture was toppling over. I guess the question arises whether such fortune is chance or whether certain events are being cosmically prevented by some Cosmic Hand. The Jews back in the era of the Prophets thought “We will always have Jerusalem” when Ezekiel preached against them. Jesus’ role on earth seems to have been to euphemistically “remind the Jews that they were fallible” as a people. I don’t need to be reminded that I’m fallible. Some on the right say this same Cosmic Hand will somehow “protect” us should we get into ecological trouble due to global warming and/or pollution. It could be that God clicks off certain events, or rather events that were prevented from happening. And he says “You have this many chances to put things right and them I’m going to “let the forces of nature loose” and you’ll see what it’s like to live in the real world”. As I’ve often said, “Grace” is not a girl’s name, grace is not a blank checkbook with God’s signature on every page. “Grace” is a test each time it occurs, for us to pass or fail. Sometimes I myself am tempted to deny the reality of “All things must pass” but there are some in positions of power, and you know who you are, that dare not forget this axiom. If you’ve led a sinful life and are now an old widow, you can’t buy atonement for your sins by donating your children’s inheritance of pricess heirlooms to a money grubbing Col. Parker type Pastor who whispers sweet promises in your ear. In like manner we cannot cut taxes on the rich and deny that we as a nation are robbing from our Children by running up the deficit sky high. I don’t know how that Hebrew King was allowed to “see into the spirit world” but if there is a world out there beyond the four dimensions we know of- - we should at least check out what is going on there. “Don’t look at the people who were fired from their jobs by Bush, look at the ones who kept their job”. Don’t look at the anomalies, look at the overall pattern of corruption. You know if the Bible says anything about Jehovah, it’s that he doesn’t like to be bull-shitted. Jehovah has been known to retract forgiveness for individuals like Shimiai for one- - and later decided to come after him. Let’s talk about Col. Parker, as long as his name has come up. I bet he never thought he’d ever get his come-uppance, but he surely did, and now his name is a by-word and accursed forever more. I guess the question is whether the national politic will get worse before it gets better. Some may look and say there is no hope for the future of America, and I have been one of these at times. Sometimes it seems as if the forces of Darkness have a perpetual hammerlock on our economy and our political dialog. Now they are interviewing that Governor Don Siegalman guy from Alabama who was wrongly charged and convicted and abused in other ways. Certain sins are committed against whole races such as the native tribes here in America. Since these people are long dead, how shall their name be avenged? I don’t know. Sometimes “history gets things wrong” for a long time. What will the history books in our grandchildren and great grandchildren’s day say, for instance, about Karl Rove or Scudder Libby or Dick Chaney? Some, including myself, would ask, “Are there any guarantees that indeed All Things Must Pass”? Suppose a criminal when he was on the verge of being caught or whatever, had the option merely to kill himself and know that his soul would leap into another body and have a whole new identity? I have thought of things like this. I have said that at least in my case and perhaps the nation’s case, too- - that Evil does not come from individual people but from Supernatural Entities of one sort or another operating as karmic forces. As I have said before- - karma goes out into the Universe and congiels in a spheroid around an object where it’s energy has recursion power that cycles the same negative energy over and over. Perhaps Sylvia Browne should be asked about the origins of such Evil. I guess maybe that Apache tribe Thom Hartmann had the right idea rather than arbitrarily punish one for a deed to somehow “undo the deed” like Scientology seeks to do with eradicating engrams. And some if not most curses are just meant to run along their pre set course.

If we had prosecuted World War II against Germany as poorly as God has “courted” me into the Christian Faith, we would be fighting World War seventeen by now because nothing would ever get solved and resentments would only grow and fester. So why is it that Christians count themselves as exempt from the third commandment?

Congress is one group that’s actually allowed to buy and sell corporate as well as commodity stocks on insider information and make a pile of money and not be accountable. Now we finally know how come they all become so rich.

They say the peace sign is fifty years old first used in England in 1958. I thought it dated back to the 1930’s and all the “ban the bomb” stuff a little later on. They say the symbol is derived from the semaphore letters N and D for nuclear disarmlement.

"- - - and what is Truth?"

"Welcome to The World Beyond, Marcus
Outer Space is Where We Live- -
- It's where You Die!"

Well, what's it going to be?
Hillary's "We Fight On!" or
Obama's "Game Over!"

The last time I checked - the only
one with an EXIT STRATEGY for
Life was - Jack Kavorkian

"Today We Fight!"
-from "300"

In a real fight, each side
shares the same number
of dimensions
whether they want to or not

"I don't want you to die for your country
I want you to make the other
son of a bitch die for His!
-General Patton

What number does each of the following events have in common? The number of locks in the Suez Canal * The number of mutinies in the US Navy as of 1954 * The number of times Quantas Airlines has crashed as of cerca 1990 * The number of power failures I’ve experienced while using a computer. * The number of times I have “passed out” from too much alcohol either in a public situation or outside. * The number of times I’ve been playing with that “Game Boy” thing on my radio and had all three numbers come up the same. * The number of times any Christian authority has retracted or apologized to me for giving false doctrine or counsel. * The number of divorces where I was the one filing for it. * The number of US Presidential elections in this country that have been suspended (not held) The number of each of these is zero. There are certain things that have never happened. It’s not to say that they won’t but the odds grow of their never happening grows each day. How many times have we nominated a Black presidential candidate in a major party? If you’re playing the numbers game you have to say the odds are against it simply for the reason it’s never happened. People have told Hillary “You can’t win” and to get out of the race. If they weren’t so doubtful about their statements they’d keep their mouths shut and Hillary would be “Doing all the talking” by actually taking steps to get out- - so their words would not even be necessary. You know in that “Lion” CS Lewis movie last Saturday that little girl wanted people to believe her that she had been to this “place” called Narnia. When her older brother, who had been with her, denied he had been there, she started to cry because nobody believed her. Why should she cry? Either she was there or she wasn’t and if he’s lying- - why should she feel threatened by that? This smacks too much of Christians and their “testimonies” where it seems to matter less whether what they say is Real but rather- - who believes them? (Selah) People are trying to “talk” their way into an Obama nomination using mathematics and any other “logic” that occurs to them. I will have absolutely no problem if I’m proven wrong. My problems in confronting Christians is that I never seem to be proven wrong on my major statements and doubts and questions. Why is that? What’s bizarre is that people feel threatened when you announce you don’t doctrinally agree with them, almost as if you had insulted them. Once again too much of religion seems to center on “saving face” rather than seeking after Truth. Some liberals have said “The trouble with Christians is that they value Love over Truth”. My position is that you can’t have love worth having without Truth, but if you have Truth without love, the rest will sort itself in time. Do you remember what Moses said to Nephretiri in “The Ten Commandments”? He said, “Love can’t drown Truth”. People who accuse me of “infidelity” to the Gospel- - too often appeal to “realities” and other things that don’t exist here on this earth- - Now - - and may never exist. C S Lewis was “Surprised by Joy”. We later learn Joy is the name of his wife. The problem is his wife isn’t God and I’m sure C S Lewis isn’t advocating that I begin worship of her. Why is it that Bob Dylan only “found Jesus” after he divorced his long time wife, Sarah? Why is it that when Christians are “at their best” (or perhaps worst) they get an attack of the I, Me, Mines? I often feel that people would label me a “Doubting Thomas” with the implication that even if true, this disqualifies me from the Faith. (A common trick of Christians is to turn scripture 180 degrees around from what the text actually says) But they one and all fail to come up with so much as once incident where “If you had only believed this or that at a certain time your life would have taken another course”. This is not to say that such events don’t exist, only that they have never been pointed out. I have this feeling often that I am “estranged” from some ideal life I’m “supposed” to have, if only- - - . In other words I’m raising that old Nixon anti-impeachment argument of “Specificity”.

We had chicken fried steak for dinner with rice, and just peaches for desert. I had seconds on the meat and rice. I went to the bakery for a large coffee that was almost as hot as it’s supposed to be. The entire day has been heavy overcast. The housekeeper was by before dinner to change the linins and give us new blue bed spreads. Before this I was on the computer looking at thinkprogress.org and msnbc.com. We have moved a ship off the coast or Iran. I also re-watched that thing on the Vice Presidential mansion I was distracted this morning when it was on. Silver lake in Hollywood is being filled up again. It’s been dry since January. The old water had bromate in it. It’s medication time.

Sometimes when I get mad at the world I start to think of myself as perfect. Or rather I feel “OK I’m not perfect, but you’re so messed up you’ll never find my flaws”. Some say I have a “faith problem”. It’s funny what is actually IN the Bible verses what these people CLAIM is in the Bible. I know of no story in the Bible where a person is told or gets the notion “If I just BELIEVE strongly enough- - things will begin to change for the better in my life”. In most cases involving God and man in the Bible, guess what? God is actually THERE. There is no QUESTION about it. Some may speak of the book of Esther where these God and man (or woman) dialogs are lacking. This is a book where having the guts of a river boat gambler are praised. In history nations have shown great courage on occasion. Like we allowed that Coventry church to be bombed rather than let on we had broken the German codes. In the battle of Midway the whole battle depended on what our side believed A F meant. I will openly admit that when it comes to things like looking for a job- - I have fallen down badly. You can call me lazy. You can even rightly accuse me with “fear of failure”. I guess it was Howard Stern (forgive me if I have the wrong person) who said once that making marriage decisions was simple: He just married the first girl who would “put out” for him. I think there are a lot of Born Again Christians- - grabbing the first thing that comes along, in whatever field, be it choice of wife, employment, or church. I myself have never reasoned like this. Alas, the “first thing” that “came along” for me after I got out of R O P in February 1992 was going on welfare. This is not a victory but instead a wholesale collapse in pride and in work ethic. There is a song in 1967 by Eric Burden that goes, “- - and I was so much older then- - when I was young”. How true! Some people like Gene Scott under went a whole scale melt-down in personality in his later years- - and congratulated himself for it. There are some things I haven’t done to help myself, like Computer Dating, because these are things only “desperate” people do. My disbelief in a successful outcome at the current time is too strong. I don’t want to be just another middle-aged man searching out some menopausal woman to “share my life with” like Abraham Simpson. I’ve heard some of the dialog old people have on dates and believe me, it’s a turn-off. The reason why I don’t show up at computer chat rooms is because if I don’t “fit in” then I’ll feel even more out of it. People don’t gain confidence as they get older. I don’t know what these Christians are talking about. You LEARN cowardice. There seems to be some Cosmic Hand out there constantly raising the bar. And as some point, even though you’re a trained seal you refuse to jump and look for a chance to go AWOL. If I had real balls I would risk negative feedback even if it’s sure to come. Remember that Buena Park Hospital group that Gail invited me to go to? I went three just three days before I was told I was no longer (never was) qualified to attend. But even at the end of that three day period I was beginning to feel walled out of conversations, even ones led by therapists. That was a “cliquey” group. Even in a dog kennel I’m a smart enough dog to realize when the food is being yanked away from me and given to other dogs. But the other dogs are not the problem. To me it isn’t people who are the problem but that Cosmic Hand that appears to be manipulating my life. I’m only got one life, and a dog’s life isn’t fun”, to paraphrase John Lennon. So- - who do I contact? Sylvia Browne? Don’t tempt me; I’m thinking about it. “I think we need to know the truth about Marcus Arelius”.

S P L I T - D E C I S I O N

Well, Hillary's own early polling in Indiana had her down eight points. Obama predicted he would win Indiana by seven. It turns out that Hillary won the state 52% to 48% unless there are newer numbers I haven't seen. Obama book North Carolina 57% to 43% and those percentages were shrinking. Some would call it an Obama victory because they say that Hillary had to win both states to stay in the race. But if you watched the victory speeches of both candidates, it was Hillary who clearly had the more enthusiastic crowd. And once again Hillary like in that last debate was able to say more - using fewer words. I liked what Obama had to say but Hillary had more feeling in her speech. There was a long hour break between the two speeches on CNN.

Now I'd like to get a bit more esoteric. Let's just say that as of late I have consulted "the powers that Be" on this subject and I have disserned that Hillary is going to win the nomination regardless of what the mathmeticians say. There was just too much dirt uncovered about Obama and his weaknesses are too apparent for all to see. It seems that no matter how loyal the Black vote is, Obama is never going to get certain older, white working stiffs known in the trade as "Reagan Democrats", of which the country is saturated with. Thom Hartman talked of a coalition that Bobby Kennedy was building at the time of his death, and how that if that coalition had been allowed to come to fruition then it would have signaled a new day in America. But it didn't. There are some things that if you look down from the perspective of God himself, that you view differently. God knows that certain things are never going to happen. Christians talk about things that are never going to happen like the Rapture of themselves and how "everything will unfold to justify them and to hell with the rest of the world. Many today have said of the conflict in Iraq that "What is Iran invades Iraq; what will we do?" Hillary trudged out Kennedy's M A D or mutually assured destruction doctrine. She promises "massive retaliation" on Iran if they should threaten Israel or any ally of ours in the Mideast. This is assuming of course that Israel does not "take out" Iran's nuclear capabilities on their own, which they have proven in the past they are able to do. Worrying about an invasion that never will happen is pointless. Worrying about anything you feel "might happen" but God knows never will Be - is pointless. Many times Christians throw a "what if" phrase at you while witnessing to you. For instance, "suppose they should archologically prove Christ lived and rose from the dead?" The theory goes that should that happen we should have a Republican like Mc Cain as president at that time so that our country will reep its reward for "keeping the faith". The difference between democrats and republicans is that democrats embrace the real world as it is today. Today has problems unto itself without the "whit if's" posed by religious preachers. Particularly under Hillary religion will take a back seat. The right wing will take a back seat and some people like Johnny Wendell say this process of "withdrawal" has already begun. Jesus said "consider the lillies of the field". OK, I'll do that. Once a lilly blooms, it is a full fledged flower with petals and everything. But once a flower sheds its petals can it get them back? So it is with the Christian right and political influence. There was a time when they "weren't ready" to share their political clout with the world. They hadn't "flowered" yet. Now Johnny Wendell brings us the news that the bloom is off the rose of the right wing. Christianity no longer has the strength to look outside itself to the world, but like in its germanation period, finds keeping its ideas to itself more prudent. To summarize, we may well be seeing the dogmas and notions of the Christian right "withering on the vine" as the left gains ascendancy. I would like to think, and do believe, that whether it is Obama or Hillary the ideas of the liberals will grow and become dominent as they haven't been in forty years. It could well be that some of the horrors the Right wing describes in World Net Daily may indeed come to pass. I guess our job is to "get used to this". As the country comes to embrace Thom Hartman's ideas about "the comons" and what the true role of government should be, or idea of what a good President will grow and evolve, along with our values. The job of a Born Again Christians is not to shrink from the future, but welcome it.

In terms of spiritual powers and all that E T I stuff we talk about- - I don't know for a fact that there is life or intelligences on other planets. I don't know for a fact whether or not we survive death. But assuming any of my "revelations" are on the money- - we can look at things such as Hillary is supported by members of the Pliades star group. We know the Pliades symbolize the idea of the Circle of Seven. They themselves refer to them being "The Axis around which the Universe revolves". We know in the I Ching there is a chapter called "limitation", which is a part of nature as anything else. Einstein embrases this ideas of circles in his view of the Universe. In his universe certain things CAN"T happen because they are being cosmically prevented. We have said that Bill Clinton is a sutteran, which they themselves referr to as "South bound" but the Romulans have a different, slightly obscene word for. We know that the Sutterans don't get along with the Pliades although they are co-genitors along with the branch of Cassiopians who tried to take over the propaganda division of the Federation in June of 1991. I want to get back to this notion of the circle- - as well as the color yellow. The Pliades wave a white flag, in race driver tradition, when they have but one lap to victory, and it's the yellow flag they wave or see their enemies wave when they desire to surrender. Michelangelo knew this bit about the yellow circle symbolizing the Jew. Circles contain things but they do it by turning an entities own karma against them in a curse. I say this not to be racist but because it's true. There is a game called "Defend Atlantis" or something where you have to draw circles around invading entities from space and they encase their enemies in bubbles that float off harmlessly into space. I guess you could say that Black Holes in Einstein's thinking- - A - don't exist because there is no way to prove their existance if they did and (B) we are protected by "the circle" so that we can never Know them. In like manner the Christian God, if he exists at all the way he claims, is something no one can ever know because he exists in a bubble and has floated off harmlessly into space. And now I would like to say a few more words that were written yesterday but I wasn't sure if I was going to use or not. The Federation had a thing about “giving the finger” to the Cassiopians who took them over back in 1991. Michelangelo had his yellow “Jew” circle. The Mal Evans sector of the Federation had the “yellow ribbon” that was changed in symbology to appeal to Alcyonne to help them in their fight against that Cassiopian group. As such all this stuff about "yellow ribbins" in 1991 here on earth was turned on its head by the Federation. If even your enemy is just, you may appeal to him for help against another enemy. The Federation claims to have put out that "Day in a Life" mash-up recording back in September of 1988. I figured out where I heard that “Radio Head” riff before- and on this planet. You know that haunting bass and piano and percussion riff underpinning the track. It’s from “Shangri-La” by Electric Light Orchestra- - the “trailing” section where the strings are doing all those arpeggios going up and down denoting waterfalls or fountains or something. I don’t want to overwhelm blog readers with too much Extra Terrestrial stuff on blogs.

THE FOLLOWING WAS ALSO 'PREVIOUSLY RECORDED'

Just to pick up on the last line, I did call Terry about going to the bank today and he suggested watching “Jason and the Argonauts”. First I had on “At the Movies” then Sixty Minutes” first two segments and I switched to channel 30 for a while, dialing away at 8:17 and watching the Simpson’s and the “Sundance Festival”, and then “King of the Hill” featuring forged items Hank Hill bought. I slept well.

This morning I got up not too early so as not to have to borrow any more cigarettes than I needed to. This Black guy sat at our table and had breakfast along with us but he was obviously too articulate and intelligent to be a resident. It turns out he was a Mormon guy there to see Yvon, which he did -at lunch time. Even if I hadn’t heard he was a Mormon from someone else the choice of conversational topics would have given it away. I don’t know if Yvon has been going as long as Dianne or whether Dianne convirted her and in turn Yvon is in the process of converting Phyllis. We had Raison Bran and then toast and fried eggs for breakfast and beans and franks for lunch. We had rainbow sherbet for lunch, which was an unusual treat. Earlier he was talking with Manfred and me and I didn’t know if he was some government inspector or what.

Terry called to say he’d be early at about ten thirty and I happily was waiting in the parking lot out there. I asked him about the Pastor’s sougern into Africa and he said it was to Uganda. I asked about his mother’s health. I asked about his writing. He in turned asked how I liked his story and I kind of artfully changed the subject. I thanked him for the transportation and offered to remunerate him at a later date but not today. The line at the bank was longer than usual but lots of tellers were in action. I had no problem withdrawing a paultry $6.25 from my account. Terry says he’s seen “Iron Man” already and we talked about the Argonauts movie. Terry also doesn’t know whether or not we’ll get any of the Bush rebate. He says he needs to fix up his truck.

Matt Lauer was in Buenos Aires on Monday and Amsterdam on Tuesday and Istambul on Wednesday and Laos on Thursday and I think Friday must have been some remote island. Today they talked about how older siblings have all the advantages and achieve higher, a proposition I have always disagreed with on both counts.

John Black testified for Elvis at the immigration hearing saying he knew the subjects were more in love than either of them knows. We don’t know what Nicole said but she tried to get Sammy’s goat by saying “I hope E J will be happy visiting his son twice a year in London”. Kate apparently knows Mr. Vitalli quite well.

I bought Ace cigarettes and a black lighter this time at the liquor store. At two I went for a large coffee at the bakery that was actually hot. Bill has the usual afternoon TV fare on now. Randy Rhodes and Thom Hartman are keeping the fires of hope alive for Obama. Loyalty is a good thing. Randy was saying how the Right Wing crowd like the oil and defence contractors now know that Mc Cain will never be elected President and they have already fixed their sites on Hillary to make sure that she is in their back pocket. They see Obama as the only hope. I myself have chilled on Obama, and once the bloom is off the rose it’s just hard to bring it back. I like Hillary’s gasoline tax “scheme” to stick it to the oil companies. Neither Stewart Sutcliffe nor Mal Evans from the Federation is with me on this. Even if they aren’t my memory of proposition 13 is too vivid to fall for this crap about “Well if a corporation is taxed more they’ll just make it back in charges” or the equally false axiom “If a corporation has its taxes cut, they will pass the savings on to the consumers”. This is Larry Elder type talk, and I wish Randy Rhodes and Thom Hartman would realize this. Hillary has for once accurately fingered the problem and I think we should all applauder her. My only regret as a competitor of hers would be that I hadn’t thought of it first. If people will wait in long lines in New Jersey for a discount of a few pennies, what will they do for eighteen cents- - - per gallon. I’m old enough to realize we’re talking about sizable money here. They say that in terms of constant dollars, Ronald Reagan is still the master of the Deficit, hard as that is to believe, despite the fact that Bush has almost doubled the deficit while in office.

On Sixty Minutes they had Henry Wade on, who was the “Wade” of Roe vs. Wade. Now we know where “Texas justice” comes from. Dallas is the most fiercely prosecutorial city in the country. Wade served from 1951 to 1987 and now there are over two hundred suspected miscarriages of justice. The Black guy last night was the seventeenth guy to be released after investigation. He was accused of rape 23 years ago and new DNA evidence set him free. There was a line: “Today you are less getting justice than a long injustice if being corrected”. You know if God is just, he will be telling this to a lot of people when they enter the Pearly Gates after death. Their next segment was another one on Pat Tillman where we learned some new details. But we all knew the army just made up a story about how he died to get Bush’s poll numbers up. The question is how many deaths have taken place in Texas due to unethical prosecution where even though the law espressly states otherwise, evidence of an exculpatory nature was not taken into account or handed over to the defense. Prosecutors in order to get a conviction any way they can ignore leads that might point to the person who really did the crime. (It might even be a white person) I think one thing a President Obama or Hillary, either one, will do in office is to launch a nation wide look at these cases. I would imagine that the Supreme Court will lurch to the left with a President Hillary, for good or for bad. People will know that a new day has arrived. Religion in particular will find it much harder to go about their business under a President Hillary.

We’re going to go off blog now. “Hey- - - I said turn that camera off!”