Each of us Determines "What is Moral for Us"

I’d like to talk a little about the plight of newly graduated College Students.  I always paid whatever token fees there were for my own Education in cash.  I never borrowed the money from anybody.   But today such a scenario is just not possible.  California used to be the envy of the rest of the country.  We in this country therefore need to have a major conversation about the topic Dick Derbin raised yesterday in Congress about all of these government college loans for one of these “for profit” Private Colleges that advertize and suck you in with on line ads that promise applicants the moon and then don’t deliver.  Often they will have such deceptive names as “The United States military institute” and yet their credits are not even recognized by the military branches.   As we said above, you can’t even declare bankruptcy to get out of paying these high interest loans but are kind of financially ruined for a long time- - even if you think you have the education to get a good job.   It would seem that the government should not be “wasting” their limited resources in throwing good money after a bad education.  But yesterday some High Court ruled that student athletes can be Unionized.  This to me is completely absurd since after all they are just students and technically the “extra curricular activities’ are only an adjunct to their “Higher Education”.   The idea that most players expect to make it into the NFL is kind of hoping against hope.  All of the issues raised by people like Ed Schultz in this unionization debate are irrelevant because- - there is no “professional consideration”.  It’s not like the students sign an employment contract for pay.  Putting the colleges in the position of having the big guns of labor right there on Campus could really styfle their activities.   The hours put in by these football athletes is immaterial.  I thought the idea was that it was considered an honor to represent their school the way they do, and give it their all for their particular college.

President Obama yesterday asked for a mere two weeks more time for applicants to get covered in Obama Care extending the March 31^st deadline.  The way I look at it they should get at least the whole month of April and why don’t they make it till Mother’s Day?   I’m not sure why the conservatives are so boisterous in their Objections to any extension or bending of the rules of any kind.  It’s not like they voted for it, or can now say “This is not what I voted for” because THEY didn’t vote for it.   Stephanie Miller takes exception to the idea that Democrats should throw in the towel right now because both the House and the Senate are lost causes in 2014.  It all depends on the success of the Affordable Care Act, and I’m sure that John Boehner knows this.  He expresses “concern about a problem” all the well wanting there to BE a problem- - anything that could come along and sabotage the entire Affordable Care Act.  It was pointed out that polls are not always right and opinions can shift markedly in an election year, and that declaring a DOA is entirely premature at this point not even out of March yet with over seven months to go before we vote.  In point of fact the vast majority of the people actually agree with basic democratic issues when the polling questions are put in non partisan terms.  So it would seem to me that all our side has to do to win pretty easily is for all the people in these polls to just get out and vote in November.  I continue to believe that women’s issues are our Ace in the Hole.  Because women may be flexible on a lot of issues but one thing where women stand firm is their “Rights over their own bodies” and I think Democratic candidates for both the House and the US Senate need to exploit these women’s rights issues to the max.  Even employ a little fear if you have to saying if we get a Republican Senate the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court just might be the one to overturn Roe verses Wade.   And no matter how the High Courts decides on this “Religious Rights for Corporations’ issue- - get women involved as active protesting partisans for their cause, and bring along their friends, too.

The attorney for Governor Christie issued his "report" on his "findings" about whether his client, the New Jersey governor was culpable or not, and of course the attorney says he was not involved in any way but that Wildstein organized the whole thing himself.   Ed Schultz made a decision in January not to come to any hard judgements about the situation because facts in these cases have ways of trickeling out slowly.  There is no doubt on my mind that Christie is guilty as sin, and personally as a talk show host I would not be bashful about saying so.  But Ed isn't me and I respect this personal decision of his.  I had the “Today” show on actually after breakfast for most of that hour, now that I think of it.  Fleetwood Mac is planning a come-back and Christie Mc Vey is rejoining the group for the first time in fifteen years, since 1998.   So now all is well with the Cosmos once again.  (I think that must be an Andromadan expression)   I think things will be “well” with the stock market this year and I’m still predicting a pre election rally in October, when I suspect that an outbreak of “satisfaction” with Obama for perhaps the first time may break out.   I just don’t see any way the markets will be headed downward short of World War III breaking out.  We express concern for the threats of Vladimir Putin - - but I don’t see any crisis coming to a head on this issue this year.  It may well be one of those issues where we just kick the can down the road.   Of course people have a legitimate reason to BE concerned.   Because that treaty of 1994 was violated.  In this treaty Ukraine surrendered all their Nuclear weapons to Russia in exchange for a pledge to never question the integrity of the Ukrainian borders or their sovereignty.  Nobody at the time questioned this treaty which was signed by Ukraine, Britain, Russia, and the United States under Clinton.   Now yesterday John Mc Cain and Lindsey Graham had that little “dialog” in the Senate with some lady from Maine, who personally was in the Ukraine.  And of course if you get one “personal testimony” that means “Everybody” feels that way.  So she could have us believe that “No the people of Crimea are concerned about Ukraine losing its sovereignty.   This of course is a prime gimmick of Presidential State of the Union addresses to have someone stand up in the audience and have everyone applaud them, while they tell their particular store serving the President’s interest.   It just seems funny to me how virtually the whole world can agree with the Rightness of something- - and still nobody does anything about it.

People who live their lives "for God" do themselves no karmic favor.  Living "for" anyone other than yourself is self defeating even from a karmic perspective.  You don't owe "God" or any "other" human being because THEY don't "Pay the bills" so to speak, and will not be subjected to the karmic judgement that You alone are liable for.  It's the karmic version of "The buck stops here".

Some of you may wonder how I feel about being pressured to give to a cause for which you are told “It’s good for your karma” or to get a better seat in heaven or something.   As you know I received a revelation about a month ago I told my blog readers about to the effect that “We are the best determiners of our own moral values and what is truly Good”.   This sounds like a precept right out of the Church of Satan.  Not to “give the devil his due” or anything but- - if that revelation is a correct one, then in truth what can be a “Good deed” if YOU do it may NOT be a good deed if someone else does it.  I would say that in things like donating, even sacrificially to good causes, that if you look back on it later and say “I’m glad I did that” then it was a good thing.  So then is there merit in giving to a Cause you may NOT agree with but someone TELLS you that you SHOULD be enthusiastically supporting of - - is there any merit in THAT?  My answer is- a qualified Yes.  Because even giving to a cause you really don’t believe in, or are dubious of- - is of merit in the sense that it shows “Compliant willingness to help your brother”.   I have reflected on my history with the Churches in my life notably Calvary of Anaheim.  I never gave a red cent to those people I didn’t do quite willingly because Pastor Mark doesn’t believe in that.  As such it was a “Free Gift” as the Apostle Paul says.  There were no strings or conditions or some “expectation” of something in the Future.  It was a done deal.  What such “willingness” will do for you is that it garners you karmic points for “compliance”.  The problem of course is, that many Cult people have accrewed enough “compliance” karmic points to bury themselves ten times over in unneeded credits.  Indeed there is a passage of the old testament (not that I’ve read it personally) where Jehovah God tells the people to STOP giving because their “Goal” was reached.  This is as it should be.  Moses did not decide to build a gilded Tabernacle out there in the Desert as a monument to Himself with all that extra money.  But some would say that “Yes there is an absolute sense of Good and Bad out there”.  To this I would say that Evil people sometimes prosper and Good people often lack.   Someone in the Mafia for instance may give to something- - but perhaps his destiny is to be murdered when he sits down to eat in a family restaurant, when an ambush comes completely unexpected out of nowhere.   The thing to beware of is to know “who you are”.  For instance- - some people may say “Do I better my karma when I force myself to give to a cause- - like Free Speech radio for example- - - even though I do it grudgingly and muttering things under my breath.  Again- - it’s all about “How do you feel about the deed after it was done?”   People like Chuck Smith would say “Well if you complain about it- - this takes away your reward”.  The problem is with this (Thom Hartman is way ahead of me on this one) is that Chuck Smith doesn’t know what it’s like to be poor and to actually give “sacrificially”.   Certainly that “willingness to sacrifice” will not be overlooked by God.   Interestingly the expression “The Lord provides” is technically True.  Since under pure Calvinism every good thing that ever happens to you is “The grace of God”.   I would not base my life on such a philosophy, but in the purest generic sense of the expression - - it IS True.

Do Corporations Now Have "Religious Rights"?

Nicole Sandler just coined a new word, "Hatriot Radio"!

Mitt Romney told us "Corporations are People, my friend".  But now the question before the Supreme Court yesterday in oral arguments is, "Do Corporations have first amendment Religious rights?"  I don't know who "Hobby Lobby" is but I don't like businesses who wear their religion on their sleeve and cram it down our throats the way like Chick Filet did.  I may agree with them, but I STILL don't want it crammed down my throat while I"m trying to enjoy my lunch.  However - to me this is not a slam dunk.  I'm not sure.  Mal Evans and the Federation has weighed in on this idea of whether Corporations have first amendment rights.  This is the idea about employing or serving gay people, or refusing to insure workers, who have a negotiated right to Insurance coverage, for the birth control these workers need, or that an employer may impose any religious requirement he wishes on his workers.  To me this is kind of one of those gray areas.  But not for Mal Evans.  The issue is crystal clear to him.  Clearly “religion” is a subset of “race, color, or creed” in the Civil Rights bill and in the fourteenth amendment.  And the idea that an artifact of the law- - somehow has the god given (if you care to employ that term) of all the Rights of the Constitution.  One person put it this way.  “Maybe God created people, but God didn’t create corporations, which again, are a mere artifact of the law, and only exist to begin with by permission of the government.  Think of all the “trips” you could lay on either workers or customers were you to impose religion.  For instance Jehovah’s Witnesses and Christian Scientists don’t allow blood transfusions.  Does that mean if you suffer some kind of a horrible accident on the job- you cant get emergency care?  Certain liberals maintain that in the old days Southerners used the Bible to support segregation, which is a passage of scripture that I, with all my expertise, have failed to locate.  So basically this is a big Court Decision, no matter how they rule.  As for me personally, an adverse ruling against “separation of church and corporation” would still not be the wholesale disaster that the Citizen’s United ruling was in 2010.  But an adverse ruling would fire the left wing base up. 

We have more "News Digest" items for you right here- - .    Nicole is playing the "Literally Paralyzed" speech from Rush Limbaugh.  Both Nicole and Rush agree that "Something has got to give", but therein lies the rub, because you don't know which end of the wishbone will snap off.   President Obama is in Europe this week talking about controling Nuclear Weapons, but Putin was not invited.  I disagree in the strongest terms with the notion in Obama's words "Vladimir Putin is invading these other countries not out of strength but out of weakness".   No.  It's like one time as a kid - - I was in the eighth grade and for a brief while this one kid was hasseling me verbally with insults and the like.  Strangely it was one of the few- - maybe the only foes me and my brother Al had in common, since we traveled in almost completely different social circles at school.  Any how word got back to Dad, and Dad told me "When he begins hasseling you like that just say "You know, I feel sorry for you", and I was thinking "how laughable that suggestion is".   It's like the bully who keeps saying "You keep hitting me in the fist with your face".   The trouble with this President is that he's weak and everybody know it.  And people who are weak get mocked and picked on and joked about.   Speaking of prophetic comedy routines try this one on for size.     George Carlen's speech about "The corporations own you" - - and how the Media no longer serves the people but dishes up a bunchy of crap for news - - - could have been delivered last week and not thirty years ago, or whatever it was.  I was flabberghasted when I heard this comic routine and realized how prophetic it was.  Then there is that fire fighter who leaped from one balcony down to a lower one.  And them a moment later- - a ladder is out there for him to climb down on.  And a moment after this - - the entire building which had been ablaze just collapses because of the fire.  Now THAT is dodging a bullet!   And of course there was that sky-diver or tower jumper or whatever from last September who leaped off of that New Skyscraper in ground zero that is 1776 feet high, photographed at night.  And just now we are hearing about that.  Twenty two bodies have been unearthed in that Washington State bad mud slide of last Saturday.  And they have found over a hundred piece of wreckage from that presumed disappeared Flight 370 in the south Indian Ocean.  At last there is news!

WHAT I'VE BEEN DOING - VOL XIX

 

This Wednesday morning and things are looking up just a little bit.  Nicole Sandler is reviewing the fourteen points of fascism and this list came out ten years ago.  She was just playing that prophetic clip from “Network” where Howard Beale tells us all to get up out of our chairs and open up the window and stick our heads out and say “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more”.   This computer has me a little perplexed.  On Monday afternoon I did a quick clean of the register and also de fregged the hard drive.  The next day, Tuesday I was busy on computer piddeling around with this or that.  I cleared out all of the cookies in Firefox, a clean sweep.  It took time to find the control because they’ve hidden it in a deeper layer.  I also eliminated a few more start up items in Firefox.  I also went into msconfig.com and I eliminated several items in there.  But still the computer runs slow, but only in the ‘loading your personal preferences” section.  That is what’s taking the time.  I am putting away the laundry and everything is accounted for.  We had cheeseburgers for lunch and tater tots and an orange frozen so hard- - or it had been in the freezer, I warmed the orange with my hands before peeling it and wasn’t even going to do that but everyone else was.  I crossed the room to get soup from the cart.   

SICK IN THEIR BODY - SICK IN THEIR MIND - SICK IN THEIR SOUL

Now Nicole Sandler is saying that not even George Bush has the “evil in his soul” that “these people today have”.   Mike Papentonio and “Ring of Fire” were back with a new episode - - and I watched the entire hour of that.  Of course as you know there- - they say that biologically people’s brains on the right wing are “different” physically, and not just in terms of meeting the “sociopath” criterium that Thom Hartman used to talk about.  Of course we know that Paul Ryan is a follower of Ayan Rand and his people who worked for him read her book.  As you know - - Alan Greenspan was also an Ayan Rand fan but in defense of Greenspan- - it wasn’t he but Paul Volker that personally brought us the 1982 recession and he was a Jimmy Carter appointee.  If Volker and Greenspan had been around in the 500 point drop of stocks in October of 1987, we would not have recovered nearly as quickly.  Greenspan was captaining the ship during the Clinton economic revival of the ‘nineties.  Of course the golden era of Industrial growth spans from about 1947 to at least 1973, and you might extend that to 1978.  It was that year that Proposition 13 passed, and the tax payer revolt was afoot.  In this golden era from 1947 to 1973, the income increase of the average American rose over four percent annually, which was a higher percentage than for the very rich.  Now the figures are more than reversed.  If these red-neck ignorami would just look at the statistics on this they’d see the Truth- - of what is going on now.  But they won’t do this.  I shaved before lunch.  It was maybe ten thirty that Marsha knocked on the door and gave me a pack of cigarettes.  She yesterday had recommended Arleen as someone who might loan me money.  But when I went to their room Arleen told me she’d need all her money for shopping today.  I told Marsha this.  I paid back Zach one cigarette I owed him, and paid Glen back two of the four cigarettes I owe him.  We got rain last night and today is a “crisp” day- I believe is the term- - the sort of weather they talk about in October as “perfect football weather”.  There are nice picturesque cumulus clouds in the blue sky.

RELIGION AND GOVERNMENT

Thom Hartman and others have pointed out that when Thomas Jefferson signed the treaty of Tripoli, the same Tripoli the Marine song mentions, that he said "Let it be known that the United States has nothing against the Islamic faith and that in fact, the United States is Not a Christian Nation".  Jefferson in fact, owned a copy of the Koran, and read it.  As to the notion of Ted Cruz putting out Tweets that quote Bible verses, I guess if he's using Congressional "franking priveleges" or doing so not as an individual but in his capacity as an elected Congressman, that this would technically be improper.  Some of you may have taken suspicion to the phrase of "Right Thinking Individual" last week on our part.  You are justified in your suspicion because even in Romulan the phrase "right thinking' has an emotional edge to it.  There is the conotation you can't get away from that it's "Right" in some particular person's eyes, and there is almost a conotation of God in this word.  It also connotes "Right' as "On the right side of history" or "in the eyes of some Deity, perhaps some old Roman Deity.  For instance a Buddhist would not properly say "I am medetating to be a right thinking individual" - - not unless you saw Buddha as a personal deity, which is contrary to what Buddhists believe.  This word "Right" also means "an emphatic affirmation" or the conotation of Dominance, as in "right handed".   This is an entirely different Romulan word than for instance "Delante" or its derivitives, which translates as "straight" or "right on" or "completely unbiased".

Last night I had this long dream I forget a lot of.  However I remember it was this new holiday that was a multi day celebration of “The last days” celebration, that occurs around June 19^th and remembering back Valerie M mentioned it that time we visited her house on June 19^th 1971.  And this celebration was something we had to travel “just across the border” into Canada for- - and it’s something to do with graphs and cycles- - and something cosmic going on- - that needed to be celebrated in almost a religious sense in a new national holiday, people wanted Congress to approve.  I remember this east west street and I was walking on the south side around sunset (I think) and there was greenery and trees everywhere mixed in with the buildings and I remember this one field of tall grass.  There were these celebrations held in a house- - but I remember the actually celebrations being boring and tiresome.When I first actually woke it was 6:07 already, which surprised me because I was still half asleep.  I got a cigarette from Zach- - and later got one from Bill just before breakfast.  We had corn flakes this morning, followed by scrambled eggs and toast and butter and jelly.  I was kind of angeling for another cup of coffee for both breakfast and lunch from Delores or somebody but didn’t get it.  I had the Stephanie Miller program on after breakfast but got bored and the noticed Mike Papentonio.  I plan to use that b & w photo of Nixon and Hoover as my lead photo, because it’s the best photo I’ve downloaded lately.   The male housekeeper didn’t even ask me to leave the room when he changed the linens.  I was listening to Ed Shultz on Media Player gazing at the fire-wave video.   I spent some time on the patio, and then went to the courtyard for coffee but just got one cup because there was a long line behind me.

C O S M I C - N E W S

We had rain last night.  The question is “When you get stressed do you lose your contact with the psychic world?”   Some people cling to the adage “There are no atheists in fox holes”.  Maybe I am the odd bird but when I get stressed- - really stressed- - one of the things which gets thrown out the window is belief in God- - or more generally anything psychic.  Because I’m fixated on my problem in the here and now.   John Lennon contacted me Monday and he said “I contacted you a few days ago when you were doing that thing about taking back credit for songs from Pink.  And I said to you then, “Good idea.  But why don’t you add “Rain” to the list”.   In terms of other cosmic news the group “The Box-tops” is a Leonorian group.  And one rep told me “If there is this kind of fake sitar sounds on guitar- - most likely it’s one of our songs”.  But today I was told that this one music guy Dr Levy knows- - who produced a Single in the late sixties of his own composition with orchestration - -   (his two best songs- in retrospect) that he was under Moranian tutelage, and that also Scott Mc Kinsey was a Moranian.  I didn’t know that because after he died he went to Andromeda D.   A surprising number of Moranians have a vaguely country background including Bobby Goldsborough,  Johnny Rivers, Glen Campbell, and John Denver.  Richard Harris and the Union Gap are also Moranians.   In terms of the orbiting planets around the Sirius double-star - - this is one case where letters refer to planets rather than to stars, which is the single exception in protocol.  In terms of that Alcyonne immunity - -  it’s best to be an “AB” but of the two, being a “B” gives you more protection than being just an “A”.   And speaking of the Monkees,  Mike Nesbuit- - has been claimed by FH to have jumped ship and become a Romulan as far back as 1982.   For almost that long Mickey Dolenz has wanted to join the Federation and his guardians have petitioned to be free to join the Federation, but the Aldeberan “A”s won’t let him out of his “contract”.  The term “Aldeberan A--- Holes” has been in use on Sirius A, which has the highest percentage of English speaking people of any planet.  Also on Sirius A - - - someone who doesn’t like ZAC theology came up with the turn of a phrase “I don’t want to be Zach-religious”.   In terms of the Purple planet,  we could call it the purple star- - because it’s a bright star in the upper right of the Orion constellation - - - but I have no idea whether the star is actually physically purple.