FINDING OUT ABOUT THE WAY THINGS ARE

It's really a human being's job to find out about the way things are with his life, and his soul, and his environment. Many times people want elaborate myths about heaven and creation and the gods. What this is is escapism. True sciencs looks at objects in nature like a leaf or a rock or a soil sample. Man studies animals to dissern how they interract. You know there are people who say it's "all in the genes". Scientiest say there may be a monogamy gene. This is a nice fact to know. And there are scientists who say there is a religion gene. A search for God might all be due to a biochemical imballance in the brain. I know that when I came here and they put me on resperidol that suddenly thoughts of religion seemed rather silly. It wasn't reality. It had nothing to do with my every day, day to day problems. Now I have a money crisis in my life. Do you suppose any of those Christians who talk about giving sacrificially are going to lend me any money? It hasn't happened yet. Many people may feel they've been screwed over by life. Now my internet service provider is trying to cheat me and an innocent 3rd. party out of money. I have gotten myself into a situation where someone else is holding money of mine I badly need. Well, the alcoholic's prayer says "Lord give he the courage to change the things I can change, and the serenity to accept the things I can't change and the wisdom to know the difference". There are times when I have wanted to "Change the church". If the church were an alcoholic the advice to me would be "You can't change the church unless the church wants to be saved". Perhaps the church, like an alcoholic has to "hit bottom" in order to listen to others. You know it is written, "As you did it not unto the least of these you did it not unto me". I'd like to change that to read, "As the Calvary Chappels did it unto me, Jesus Christ did it unto me". After all, the church is the body of Christ. I think there is a difference between "Putting a sad situation behind you" and "forgiveness from the heart". Sometimes you have to, as they say in accounting, "write off your losses" as a bad debt or whatever, but that's not the same thing as forgiving somebody. Forgiveness to my way of thinking means justification. That's what a Christian will tell you it means. Like a defence witness who refuses to testify, you are not to draw any "adverse inference" in the future from the conduct of the person you forgave. As far as you are concerned, that person now might as well be Jesus Christ. You know, on Days of our Lives that "problem daughter" is now stealing the adult's vodka at a wedding and drinking it. But if you listen to "therapists" like Jesus Christ on the radio- - you can't see this little pecadillo as anything other than one mark on an otherwise spotless character. In the story of the protigal son- - it's one thing for The Father to be generous with his own money. But as the story progresses- - he ends up being generous with his son's money, and that's a horse of a different color. After George bankrupts himself he turns to his brother Joe and starts going through his savings like a knife through hot butter. Some say when they are going through hard times, harder times than me- they say "God must be punishing me for my sinful life" and invariably they're greeted with the response "God doesn't work that way". You bet he doesn't! God screws people over for the hell of it! We know that Christians believe God is always in complete controle of everything and knowing all in advance, he knows the future. You have a choice of being punished because you deserve it or being punished when you don't deserve it. There is no third alternative. "Well, God was off napping in a hammoc that day and events kind of got away from him". No, that just won't fly. No, no.

When you read World Net Daily you come accross some screwy beliefs. Just last night I was reading about the "Pillar of Enoch". This line of thinking is what Gene Scott believes. He believes that the patriarch Enoch built the Great Pyramid of Egypt. There is a line in Isaiah about "An altar in Egypt, a pillar" being "on the border thereof" meaning on the deviding line between lower and upper Egypt. You hear about this 365 obcession, as if whatever Babylonian first came up with the Enoch myth was fascenated that there were 365 days in a year. Some even say there are text that say "365 years and 88 days" to make it exact. These people speak of a "map room" in the Great Pyramid where the secrets to decoding the message of the pyramid are held. Some people speak of Enoch's interest in astronomy You see Enoch was really Thoth, the God of writing. When I was reading all this crap last night I was thinking of how many times I'd heard it from Gene Scott. Of course Josephus, the Jewish historian gets sucked into this nonesense talking about "Two pillars to the Lord, one of bricks and the other of stone, and the one of stone remains". There are people who say there are "water marks on the linestone casing of the pyramid". Of course it's easy to forget this limestone was removed by the Moslems in the seventh century. But the implication is that when the world flooded the water rose to a certain ammount. Of course the pyramid is like 700 feet high or something, and it's absurd to think there was no mountain in the whole earth higher than seven hundred feet. Some sites point out there were Two Great Floods. Genisis 1:2 properly reads "And the earth became without form and void". Of course one thing I couldn't find was the actual text of the Book of Enoch.

Another belief these World Net Daily people cling to is that there is no such thing as global warming. Of course there is evidence of Global Warming just today in the news because of the rash of brush fires. They say there are several times as many forrest and brush fires than there used to be and they're all over the west. Firemen say they've never seen fires as severe as these their whole working carrerr. Of course the fire season gets earlier and earlier each year because the snow pack on the mountains melts earlier each year. They say this was the fourth hottest spring ever in the American south west. So we're just going to have to get used to snow melting earlier and earlier every year. They were batteling brush fires in Texas and Oklahoma in early February. That hat a surreal quality to it. Yet the world net daily people it's all some giant commie conspiricy, only they don't use "commie" today any more.

Another thing right wing nuts are against and that is stem cell research. These people are in love with pain. They will deny Jesus heals and if you are to either ask for or claim a healing from Jesus, a lot of people like on KFI will say that you are being unreasonable because God sends pain because pain and suffering are good for us and build character and all that. So they will deny Jesus from healing, so in my way of thinking that means it's up to scientists to come up with an answer. And of course people like Rush Limbaugh have every reason in the book why stem cell research will not only pay off now, but will NEVER pay off. People like Rush love that word NEVER. Just like there will NEVER be global warming. Now stem cell research has borne fruit. Parilyzed mice are now walking again and now they want to test this stem cell therapy on larger animals like pigs. Just think, a mouse that had been paralyzed from some polio virus (?) is now walking again. The stem cells have regenerated new growth in the neurons and they have attached themselves to the right muscles. I'd say "Praise the Lord" only I'm not sure "The Lord" is for it. Science is marching on. It's just a question of learning about our world. If they can use these stem cells for spinal cord regeneration, perhaps they can use them in optic nearves for blind people, ect. ect. My guess is in ten years the world will look a whole lot brighter for people suffering from deseases of the spine than it does now. We could see a radical reduction of the number of people forced into wheel chairs for life. I think it's a wonderful thing. I'd consider that something worth tax funding, and I also think it would be a cause worth donating to privately.

Lincoln told someone to tell General Mc Lellon,
"If he's not going to use his army,
Tell him I'd like to borrow it"

REALITY SHAPE SHIFTERS

A lot of times you wake up and you find reality isn’t what you thought it was or is. Al Frankin was just recounting a Bill O Riley speech last night. He said that if the US pulled out of Iraq it would plunge the nation into an all-out civil war with the Shiites now in power on one side and Saddam supporting insurgents and Al Kaida on the other. I didn’t know Al Kaida was pro Sunni because I thought they represented the religious extremes. Anyhow under this scenario- - the Al Kaida side would lose and leave to fight the United States in some other battle ground. (That’s supposed to be a bad thing) I suppose they’d go back to Afghanistan or some place. The victorious Shiites would then enter into an alliance with the Iranian Shiites, who would form some super power block. From there Iran would control Iraq and Iran would also be in a position to blackmail nations like China (?) by withdrawing their supplies of oil. The funny thing is that Al Frankin did little to refute anything in this argument, so there must be truth in it.

I guess there are a lot of Anne Coulter jokes going around, such as “Anne Coulter is the reason they invented feeding tubes”. (Is that an allusion to Terry Shibo?) Anne Coulter is the reason they invented ten foot poles”, “Anne Coulter is the reason they invented noise reduction headphones”, “Anne Coulter is the reason they invented the gag reflex”. You know, it would be easier to envision myself actually married to Anne Coulter than to be a member of certain Christian churches, considering what their pastors are like. This is what is known as argument from the lesser to the greater extreme.

A lot of people are debating about the shape of the Universe. Some people say it is like a shell, like a surface of a soap bubble. This is one of those analogies you have to take “on faith” because these people offer no way of using geometric logic to prove their point. Some Black Holes are drawn like a shallow golf course hold. They show some big grid of squares that slowly curves into a hole as it gets closer to the black hole. What is this supposed to represent? Of course many people such as in Star Trek talk about wormholes. These may lead either into another point in this universe, or more likely into another completely different universe. There are some who say the Universe is shaped like a donut. What this means is if you head out one way you go around in circles in a short path- - but if you head out ninety degrees the other way you go around a big circle instead of the small circle. There is a certain geometric logic to this one. There are some who say the universe is saddle shaped. I don’t know what that would mean. For those who believe in The Big Bang what they usually end up saying is that you can never reach the “edge” of the Universe, because you’ll begin going around in circles. In Star Trek they had this dog like god of “null space” where they put up a beacon and speeded away from it as fast as they could- - -only to see another approaching beacon up ahead, but it only turned out to be the same beacon. They were going in circles even though their instruments said they were going straight. This is what is known as space bending, and you see a lot of it with science writers. These people extend the analogy to time saying that if you go far enough into the future, you will end up back in the past. Kind of like the line “So very far away; maybe it’s only yesterday”. If the universe were circular, like the surface of a globe, it would be a simple thing to prove it with triangulation readings like the Greeks did using geometric logic. But of course they offer these “examples” more to trip you out than any motive of actual enlightenment. These same people take the parables of Jesus- - to make a limited point- - but when another like me tries to use what as known as expositional constancy- - in other words, inferential rational logic, to prove other points they don’t want made- - they will complain. One pastor had a good analogy one day and I don’t think he knew it. There was once a donut shop owner on a street corner and he painted his shop red white and blue and put out a sign “The best donuts in America”. Another owner across the street tried to better him saying “The best donuts in the World”. A third guy looking at these two decided he’d get far out with a real inter-galactic Space theme, with the slogan “The Best Donuts in the Universe”. The owner of the fourth remaining corner simply decided to put on his sign “The Best Donuts on this Street”. There is a simple point to this story. Sometimes the Immediate is of more importance than for out abstractions. But I don’t think the Pastor even knew about the implications would be about God. Under what conditions is your god “The Best”?

We titled one of our prior blogs “Cosmic Tides”. Martin Luther King once spoke in a movie about him of “Zeitguist” or “spirit of the times”. Some people may say it’s easier to tell wave from waves than it is to tell where “the wave leaves off and the water begins”. Very true. You and I know that many times Events sweep over our society like waves. On recording tape magnetic patterns are formed that when played back in the proper manner produce sounds. And yet if you take at each individual magnetic “orbit” whether or not it is aligned with ten thousand others doesn’t seem significant. You just look at the electrons and say “seems normal to me”. A lot of time you can have many people just happening to think of the same event or idea at once. Yet if you examine each case you may well find “I see no miracle here; this looks normal”. It’s no miracle to have a coin turn up once heads as called. But that very same act, if it’s occurring for the hundred and first time, is called unusual. This is what we mean by zeitgeist.

The Romulans have something called “The middle voice”, which is sort of akin to the reflexive here in English. We speak of doing something for ourselves. But this “voice” if used in Ronulan lands freaks people out because the “mode” or “voice” is associated with Oracles and witchery. Most people take the Marcionite view of creation. That is that creating the Universe is a horrible mistake and that all matter is by its very nature, evil. It’s probably the same people who say dating the Opposite Sex is evil, because it’s a “gateway activity” that could lead to Sex. Creation and most everything about it is seen as a perversion at best, of what God’s will is. As such there is no such possibility that “God” could be represented in anything or any part of The Big Bang. However for certain people they say that since everything leads back to The Big Bang, there is a little bit of “God” in everything. Many people criticize even White witches who are into “earth religion” as just as evil as those who invoke Satan, because like we say, they believe created matter is Evil. For those who use the “middle voice” words and things are believed to be simultaneous happenings. Words are things. If you back a Christian up against the wall, he will admit that the Hebrews definition of Faith states that faith is the “substance of things hoped for”. In other words, saying it makes it so. It could be that certain people are so psychically plugged into sixth dimensional reality that they actually see Words as Things. People in the Orion Federation see their Universe as a theater of war, somewhat like a giant chessboard. People like Obey Wan Canobe can be on one side, and the forces of Darth Vador can be on the other. Some see events on earth as a reflection of some sixth dimensional chessboard. Few things are that cut and dry. Some people see the uttering of Words over a situation as Hexing or Charming a situation because the hex or charm sets up these Cosmic Waves that influences reality. Well, to put it simply, most people don’t have that much “Faith”, and I used the term advisedly. People who are in psychic balance with their engrams under control can usually defeat a Hex. But there are those exceptions where hexes hold true.

CLEARING UP SOME METAPHYSICAL CONFUSION

Some of you may ask me, “Do you really believe in things like The Big Bang and in Predestination?” The answer, if you’re asking what I really believe- - is No. No to both. That may surprise some of you. I really don’t like the idea of predestination. I think it’s mentally unhealthy to live by such a belief- - even if it turns out to be True, it’s unhealthy. You may remember a quote I had on Escape from Egypt. Suppose there was an alien who landed here in a super-dooper space ship and he announced that he came from the Future. Further he announced that he knew my fate but he wasn’t going to tell me what he knew it was- -just to taunt me (or probably because he didn’t really know) the question is how would I respond. It should be, “I don’t give a damn about your Future, I live here in the present and it’s here, today, that I have a decision to make. (assuming I have one) In a four dimensional construct, time travel is inherently impossible. Think about it. Either the time machine or space craft is there in our world or it isn’t. It can’t be both there and Not There at the same time. Also in a Larry Elder letter I express hostility twords the doctrine of predestination. This may have puzzled some of you. A way to “reconcile” the two views is to say that the Universe predestines; God doesn’t. If, as I intoned in the letter, the Devil is in control of “this world” then it’s actually my duty to fight his will, and make up my own mind. The only reason why I mentioned predestination so much is because it fits in with the Big Bang theory. There are times where I decide that I must accept what Scientists and others who know more than I do say, because I don’t have the mathematical where-with-all to mount a counter argument. Of course it’s easy to know why Christians believe in predestination. One of their reasons is that they worship a God they really consider (when push comes to shove) as a part of their own Ego, and such a God to be the greatest of any god that could be, is to say he’s “omniscient” or all-knowing. To be all knowing would logically mean one knew the future, too. In terms of the Big Bang theory I don’t believe in that, either. I didn’t as a young kid in elementary school. To me the idea of counting stars or counting galaxies or “measuring” how big the Universe was seemed absurd, because obviously it went on forever. Some may mount a complaint to this saying “If enough time passed eventually all the celestial bodies in the Universe would be pulled together in one mass by gravity, no matter how weak”. My answer to this is to emphasize Not If There Was Also Infinite Space. People have some primal opposition to either time or space going on forever. People seem to want to have a beginning, a middle and an end, like a two hour movie, where all is resolved and all of your questions get answered. I don’t know where this desire to know everything came from. Knowledge is out there and we’ll find it out eventually. As for Einstein and his equations, I say that those same equations could be put to better use- and would probably serve just as well, if they were done under simpler Newtonian physical laws. A lot of the logic of Einstein doubles back on itself. Take the Doppler effect. This is the phenominum where you hear a train whistle lowering in pitch as the train passes. The whole doppler theory rests on the idea that there was be some wave medium like ether, where pitch and color can be translated into approaching and receeding distances. But to me when I see everything in the distance receeding or appearing to, the logical thing to suppose is ther there must be something in the medium (ether) itself that slows down the light waves as they travel through space. I call it ether drag. It’s a good thing to have a theory that actually answers questions rather than to raise more questions than it answers. If space and time go on forever then there is no problem with the Theory of Evolution. All of Chuck Smith’s arguments rest on the premise that there is a finite amount of both space and time, and frankly, I just find no reason to accept this.

For those of you who are curious my friends at the Orion Federation say they believe in predestination but have absolutely no problem with the “Steady State” theory, which is what I have described. Some of their history I know of goes back five thousand years and all intents and purposes, those people were just as advanced as today.

I’d like to address the matter of dying for one’s faith. They say only good people will die for their faiths and not bad people. They also say that lies eventually get found out because Guilt gets the best of people and they confess them on their own. I think both of these assumptions are false. The Russians were willing to, and have, died for their Faith, which is communism. Moslems die for their faith all the time awaiting those seventy-two virgins. Dad used to always say how cruel it would be if General Patton had turned his tanks on the Russians after defeating the Nazis because “The Russian people were so wiped out”. Yeah, but just think of how many lives would have been saved. In fact Stewart Sutcliffe (next posting) has stated that the Nazis when they invaded the Ukrane region should have been treated as liberators because Stalin had rigged the collective farming system to insure a slow and laborious mass starvation of the population. The other thing about dying for a lie is an area I’d like to use soap opera character Lexi Carver to illustrate. Just today a sexual affair of hers was found out. Since the person blackmailing her threatened to reveal this secret if she didn’t tell certain lies to certain people- - one might think now that “the worst” had happened she could go to people like Austin and Carrie and tell them she had lied to and deceived them and caused them much harm. Well, you don’t know soap operas very well. The more a lie is threatened the more tenatiously people hang on to them and defend them against exposure, sometimes at all costs. Lexi doesn’t want to admit what she did because her trust in the community, not to mention medical mal practice suits and disbarment (or whatever) licence revocation would be the next step. She has to hold onto her lie more than ever. If all a Christian has left to live for is some imagined bliss in heaven- - they are literally going to hold onto that belief forever- - because to give it up would be a sort of psychic death for them.

Tomorrow or Wednesday is the first day of summer. I would now like to reprint the following letter written quite a number of months ago- even though my opinion on the Iraq War has changed a bit. I am more sympathetic to reasons for our being there now than I was when I wrote the letter. But here’s what I thought in late January.

You wanted feedback about 1150 talk radio. Yes it does come in on my radio. In fact, it comes in better than some other stations. It isn't in my push button rotation because it used to be Sports and simocast with XTRA 690. I dropped it from the pre-set selection and so untill yesterday hadn't checked it for a long time. I was pleasently surprised with the station. Not to sound like a slogan but I guess you could say from now on I will go to KTLK to meet my talk show needs. I notice they have good publicity agents and all the right slogans. That's good; they'll get more people. It shows they're going for a main stream audience. I listened to the host who is on from nine to twelve and then the host from twelve to three. I guess there is some woman on at three and she didn't interest me. One thing I kept hearing on the station is that we have HAD a lot of elections in the Mideast but they haven't gone our way. There was an election in Iran that put a fundamentalist fanatic into power, and the Shiites won a majority in Iraq, and in Palestine the Hammas party got in just after the former PLO party had purged itself of its war like elements. That's what you call really bad timing. Of course there's that tape of Bin Laden. Every time one of those tapes surfaces in this country the effect is to strengthen President Bush's power. Indeed John Kerry said that the tape that arrived a few days before the US election in 2004 may be the incident that got Bush re-elected. I didn't see the connection at the time but I do now. There seem to be new demonstrations carried out in mideast countries with people shouting "Death to America". I guess you have heard that the stroke of Ariel Sherone in Isrial was blamed on God because God didn't want Isrial to give up land. That's what Pat Robertson said. It would seem Pat Robertson is slowly slipping out of the "main stream" of Politics. Combined with all this are increasingly frequent statements from people saying that the US Army is stretched thin and we won't be able to sustain present troop levels much longer. Where I disagree with the democrats (and possibly you) is the notion that we didn't have a good cause to go into Iraq to begin with. I believe we DID have a good cause for war at the beginning. We had a "reasonable belief" there was a mad man in power who was becomming increasingly dangerous. My personal second grounds for going to war was that Bush 41 made a promise of the people of Iraq that if they fought for their freedom in 1991, we would back them up. What we have now is a horse of an entirely different color. We're out to promote some region wide "Cultural and religious revolution" to Western ideas in the mideast. In this war of words we are failing badly. For this reason it's time to try another tack. I think we should start withdrawing troops, doing everything we reasonably can to prevent chaos from ensuing in Iraq when we leave.

NEWS OF THE WORLD

This is Monday June 19, 2006. There are a number of news items that should brighten George Bush’ day. We have that World Net Daily story about Al Kaida plans to gas the subways of New York during rush hour. According to one book this plot was 45 days away from execution in 2003. Plans were scutteled they say because the explosions wouldn’t kill enough people. It was sort of a basic crude device mixing sodium cyanide pellets with sulphuric acid, kind of like those old Superman episodes- - and hydrogen cyanide gas would result, and we know how that stings and burns. Of course we have not two Americans in Iraq being killed by insurgents working for Al Kaida. This means that Al Kaida’s influence in Iraq is alive and well, which is just what George Bush has been looking for. North Korea is ready to test a long range missile that can hit North America and the US now is trying to put diplomatic pressure not to do the test. I think whoever the next President is, he’s going to have his hands full of international terror problems.

A woman bishop has been elected head of the Episcipal church by a close vote of 95 to 93. The Anglican communion- - - England and the whole world- - doesn’t allow women in the church at all but this woman has ordained gay priests. There are those who say that all people are welcome to God’s table.

Signs of global warming continue. We have the rash of tornadoes in Kansas. Back a few weeks ago we had that severe flooding in New England. We had that freak storm Alfredo in Florida that was way early, and there is flooding in Houston. In tennis coverage they’ve been saying how hot it’s been in Paris lately.

Of course the whole thing about Paul Mc Cartney reaching 64 has been beaten to death. If I’d had a blank tape I should have recorded that Mc Cartney “live” special on KRTH yesterday morning. Of course back in 1967 the big news was receiving a school report card on June 20^th. after a beach outing. (for more on the era read the Arimid III file) The next day, Wednesday the 21^st. there was out of our famous “family meetings”. These meetings always seemed to be called when it was in the interest of parents and not the children, notably me. So I had to go to summer school to take American Literature. It just dawned on me why they wait to have summer school a week and a half after school gets out and that’s because they have time for the report cards to get out.

Now they are saying Macho men are back in style and the “metro-sexual” is out. This whole “getting in touch with your feminine side” bit is out now. There was a lot less sex on TV in 1967. You had “Exercise with Gloria” and you had those Eileen Feather commercials. Commercials were better back then. They had catchier jingles. I miss seeing cigarette commercials. Today you have all this health product crap on.

Well, Miami won last night by one point. Dallas screwed up in their time outs timing and then missed their final shot and so ended up losing by one point.

West Hollywood has passed my kind of ordinance, or “resolution” actually, that is non binding. They said if cops catch people casually smoking marijuana to look the other way if it’s an adult. Of course marijuana usage is a federal law.

Last night 60 Minutes talked about the A L F and the E L F, the animal liberation front and the earth liberation front. I think we need an S L F or shark liberation front. In a story that must give Kenny the shark nightmares they had that story about feeding “chum” to sharks off the tip of South Africa to lure them among humans. Only now certain people want to go on a shark killing rampage. There are perhaps fifteen shark attacks world wide per year. Your odds of being struck by lightning or being abducted by a terrorist are much higher than being eaten by a shark, but people have a primal fear of it. People know that a shark’s preferred food is seal. The seals lie on the rocks sunning themselves but then have to venture out into the water to eat fish but risk being eaten themselves. But in China they serve shark fin soup. The previous time they aired this clip Stewart Sutcliffe appeared to me and said that China had a curse placed on this because of what they do to sharks by cutting off their fins. Then they throw back the live shark in the water to drown. A shark needs to keep in constant motion or else it dies. Sharks never sleep. And without their fins they’re goners. So if China should get Nuked, accidently or on purpose, well they’ll know they’ve got it coming. God has been known to punish people even if it turned out to be an "accident", such as hitting the wrong combatant with an arrow. Of course James Dobson has told of some of the grizzly abortion stories in China. Their policy bias against female births is also notible, not to mentioning stealing all our electronic secrets and pirating them on the open market. "Thou shalt not steal".

Eighty percent of the Iraqi people want the US out of their country. They want a time-table. Al Frankin is talking about this now, how Rove and others have been putting out misinformation about how Iraq leaders feel about us. Certainly the Sunnis would like a time-table. I personally would like to see some sort of a time-table for the mere reason that it shows at least we’re thinking and planning ahead. Rove said we couldn’t have gotten Zarcowi if we had followed liberals’ advice. This is not true because we relied upon foreign intelligence to get Zarcowi and launched the attack from Qutar, or whatever. Like what’s-his-name says, we have done everything Militarily in Iraq that we can do.

Apparently we’ve got blogger site problems. Last night I kind of forgot about the “Agents of Fortune” album till the 2^nd. side. It’s good to hear those songs. I’ve missed playing my old records. I need to transcribe LP’s to MP 3 files or something. According to Leo Le Port and contrary to what I’ve heard, you can copy a file done in any format into a .WAV or music file and from then on it’s “safe” to transcribe it into whatever other file format, such as MP3 you want to copy the music in and get 600 songs on a disk.

The Seventh Day featured Sgt. Pepper’s. Later on it’s “So” by Peter Gabriel, “Dreamboat Annie” and the album that made Blue Oyster Cult a household word- - “Agents of Fortune”. Petty said Glen wasn’t at home. Just when you need a fix you don’t have one. I assume Mike is having a good time with his children. The Simpsons are on right now. I have a few comments to make about the latest blog listing. For one the biggest criticisum of it is that it’s rather emotionless. I guess John Lennon might say it wasn’t “from the spirit”. My hostility twords Christianity or their hostility twords me doesn’t show nearly enough. In terms of that “Wave” I think the figure might be 52 rather than 54 years, but I’m not positive. It would make more sense. Of course Bo’s death was in the early spring of 1985 and not 1983. I don’t remember the exact date, only that- - it was around April 11^th. or 12^th. I bought the album “Reconsider Baby” and two days later that Sunday afternoon I had that conversation with Tina, or “Tiner” as they say across the pond. This was at a baseball game at the old location of the church when they were still at the school on Orangewood. I expressed concern about Bo since she disappeared. And then we have the dating of that party. May 24^th. stands out in my mind, but I think that was the date Gene Scott went off the air- - or the date “Return of the Jedi” was released or something. “Jim Cooper” said the party was to celebrate those two things and a third thing I don’t remember, but perhaps it was importance to him. If you don’t know which Bosc Jim Cooper was you obviously haven’t been reading my blog posts.

Well, what do you know, the basketball game is on. “At the Movies” isn’t. I had Leo Le Port on from twelve to two. Dr. Dean Edell said he’d like to have a debate with Howard Stern on the subject of circumcision. Dr. Dean says now less than half the baby boys are circumcised in this country. The figure I heard was 80% in the east and sixty percent here in the west, no doubt because of all the Chicanos. But those figures are at least fifteen and perhaps twenty years old. In Brittain even if you have a problem in that area they deal with it by other means. Dean Edell vented some of his hostility twords abusive patients in hospitals- and put in a plug for how waiters and cashiers are routinely abused. After this it was Ken Galliger. What can you say? These people still think Jimmy Carter or worse yet, Lyndon Johnson is still president. There is this talk about how we aren’t pursuing the War with enough vigor and not enough killing is going on in order to win. And there was the same old song and dance about how Blacks deep down really resent the educational opportunities they are given today because we all know Blacks are really inferior and know it. I think that was the point of Ken’s rembling but one can’t be sure. These Blacks who come on conservative shows aren’t “Uncle Toms”. An Uncle Tom is a person who pretends to get along with Whites to further their own interests. These people like Larry Elder actually love Whites and despize their own race. So they talk about seventy percent illigatimicy rates and the like. Finally Ken talked about Al Gore. He had absolutely no arguments or any facts to refute anything Al Gore has said- - all Ken had was a lot of hot air. Then Captain Di was scheduled and his point is not enough rich people are in the Armed Forces. I think that’s a good thing. Just think if Bush had to decide to sacrifice a city like New Orleans “in the interest of national securety”. When it comes to “proving things” or just “assuming they exist” Christianity is the biggest offender of all in this area. But I don’t want to go there now.

----. Last night things were rather usual. It was Family Feud and then rather boring network news. The one story about teenagers being discouraged from loitering in shopping malls is something that struck me as a bit odd, considering what impulsive spenders teenagers are. The malls say they scare away the old folks. Of course you have those British “mosquito” things that generate a high shrill sound that only teenagers can here. Now teenagers have turned that around and use them for ring tones so the teacher doesn’t know they’re text messaging in class. Leo Le Port said it was only a ten thousand hertz sound. That’s not that high.

Stewart Sutcliffe, for you Federation fans is believed (aside from his Beatle connections) to be reincarnated from that French priest, Sonierre, who had the parish at Renes Le Chateau, who discovered some "treasure" and obtained all that money from the Catholic Church. If you're trying to decided whether Jesus in fact had a daughter named Sarah who was twelve when she came by boat to the south of France, keep in mind there is scanty evidence for this fact. How there is NO EVIDENCE that Jesus was NOT married. The only propigators of this belief are sexo-phibic priests with biased motives in the Catholic Church.

JOHN DEAN'S TESTIMONY BEFORE CONGRESS

Once upon a time there was a man about thirty, who lived at the Bosc house. Lately his ex girlfriend named Laura had been coming over for various occasions like Bible Studies and such run by Pete Richards. David Stanley had been sort of avoiding Laura for about eight or nine months now because of a series of events that happened last September where David had sex three times with Laura in the space of a week, but then went away on an extended trip with a good friend. Upon his return he was put under pressure to pay for an abortion Laura wanted to have. He managed to find out that Laura had had sex with someone other than him in that period and he was rather suspicious of her to begin with. Now in June of 1981 he noticed a change in Laura’s personality. There was a coarser nature about her. The previous March she had had sort of a mental break down and spent time in the UC Irvine facility. David kind of saw Laura as a shadow of her former self. The bloom was off the rose. So it only figured that on July 3^rd. (the day before the fourth) when they went to a baptism in Corona Del Mar that Laura would be jealous when David began showing attention to a new girl, Susan. The fact that Susan had a child didn’t bother him. He wasn’t planning on marrying her or anything. He just wanted to get to know her better. On July 18^th. in a non related event I want to include anyhow, Mark Campbell gave a warning at a swimming party BBQ at a trailer park, “Don’t eat the chicken”. David ate the chicken anyhow and got sick the very next day. Perhaps he was feeling tense because his parents had just bought a house on Pinewood street, which they were hoping to rent to “a mutual friend” shall we say, after he got married. Sometimes David Stanley saw things as not necessarly bad but with his parents even neutral news had a way of ending up bad even if he didn’t know how.

[the following paragraph is vaguely out of sequence]

A few days after July fourth David Stanley, Pete Richards, his girlfriend, and David Snow, went to Magic Mountain. When they came back to the Bosc house, their dog, Toby had torn up the whole screen door in back. Toby had been unusually freaked out by the recent fireworks, or at least that’s what they thought at the time. In late July approximately the same group, plus Terry and a girl named Vicky, and Zachery, Dick and Robin’s five year old child, went to the LA Zoo. Vicky loved animals and seemed unusually attentive to the tigers, so that Zachery named her “Tiger lady”.

A few days later he and Laura had another shot at things and they had a date (with a group) at a water slide park somewhere to the east, “The Big O” or something, that later had problems. Laura and David had that old spice back in their relationship. A few days after this when Laura was over at the Bosc house, perhaps for a Bible study, the news happened to be showing Prince Charles and Princess Dianna’s wedding reruns, and Laura made the starteling statement, “David, you know that could be us”. It was a week or so later in the first week of August that David was on a beach trip at Laguna Beach with Pete Richards, his girlfriend, and also Jean Hayse and Vicky, otherwise known as the Tiger Lady because of the bathing suits she wore that Zachery liked. One time David was way out in the water and then coming into shore when he was badly pummeled by two giant waves. Vicky was with him and she required assistance from a lifeguard. When David got back to shore Jeane said to David, “Those two waves seemed to have it in for you personally”. While facing a semi “death” or something experience- - David saw into the future. He saw how Ronald Reagan’s economic plans would blow up in his face and there would be poor and homeless like there never was before. He also saw that if he stayed at the Bosc house that future roommates may not be people whom he gets along with. He felt unnearved by this “future flash” and decided when it came to the future it was time he thought about it a little. Hell, he thought it was something he did something about. (Jeane likes to read books) Laura wasn’t there.

The following Saturday Terry brought over an Annie Hearing album, which is “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” set to rock music. This is the night where Terry made the joke, “How can you tell a California fruit fly from an Oriental fruit fly? The Oriental fruit fly has a camera”. (Many people suspect that Terry must do cartoon voices because he always stands out in a croud telling stories)

David bought “The Fifth Horsemen” at the local supermarket around the first of August. He was into those weird kind of books in those days. It was a few days after August 8^th. during the next week that David and Laura decided to get married. It seemed like an insane, impulsive act. David weighed out all the pros and cons. He had a job he’d had for a few months landscaping buildings and houses. He wasn’t sure how long the job would last but he knew that since Laura worked too now, they could make a go of it if they could come up with a place to rent. Parents just announced that the Pinewood St. house was up for rent because they had just got done re-tiling the kitchen counter and doing other improvements. He considers the fact that they agreed to rent the house to him a minor miracle. Mark Campbell took to calling David Stanley by the nickname of “hoser”. For a long time David didn’t know what that word meant. He thought it was because when Mark drove up to the Bosc house he’d always see David watering the yard. It wasn’t till years later that David found out what a “hoser” really was- - a fast talking con artist. David says “Usually being a fast talker doesn’t work with parents. This time it did”. Laura and David Stanley were married at a court house that Saturday morning. The next day was Laura’s 22^nd. birthday. They didn’t go on any honeymoon.

In late August Jim Cooper, another ex Bosc roommate built Toby a dog house. At the time Toby was showing signs of not being all well. He seemed weaker and tireder than he normally is. David Stanley noticed this a few days later when he and Jim went to some school to run the dog. David himself was aware that his own physical stamina wasn’t as good as he thought when he began running the track. He was comparing himself to the way he used to be in high school or something.

The last outing Toby ever went on with the group was on September 16^th. It was Pete Richards, and his now fiancée, Vicky, David, and of course Toby.

It was Monday October the 12^th. that Pete Richards called up David Stanley and said that this was the day Toby was being taken to be euthanized. There had been a recent thunder storm where Toby freaked out more and often the dog would hide, shaking in dark places and be withdrawn. One time I saw him on the patio trying to eat his food and some “force” was spinning his back legs around. The dog could not keep his balance and appeared to be in continual torment. The doctors said it was brain leshions. Pete and David rode together to the pound and made a stop at David’s parents house because David copped 24 pills of his Dad’s Vallium, just in case he needed it.

By late August Mark Campbell had kind of taken over writing letters to the media under the name Ziggy’s Air Command, or the Z A C. Sometimes David would includes “bits” from the real world in his letters, but Mark urged David not to say he was married because it would add to an air of mystory. Instead it was Mark’s idea to say that David committed suicide by laying across the train tracks at Lincoln avenue in Anaheim. Mark even wrote out a whole skit a few months later based on this plot.

Pete Richards ended the Bible Study the weekend before Thanksgiving. David had lost his job in October and went to CETA to look for another, as he had done so often before but this time they were closed down for good. As it turns out it was wife Laura to the rescue because she had heard about an accounts receivable job that had opened up. We don’t need to name the business. It was one of those obscure Tech sounding names they have in this area. David applied for the job and he had it till late May of 1990 when he was laid off because of the coming George Bush 41 recession.

We’re going to take a break here. I guess I won’t be posting this till tomorrow.

Meanwhile the Bosc mates were down to three. They were Jim Cooper, and Bobby Hayden, who had replaced Gary in early may. Bobby Hayden’s brother, known as “Pike” had coincidentally moved in in August. His appearance from Texas had worked out so beautifully it’s almost as though the Lord had planned it. They needed one more and that turned out to be Mark Campbell, who had made increasing appearances at the Bosc house. Mark was not a Christian but he stealthfully hid this fact from the others. He moved in the first of December and now the four Boscs were complete. Jim Cooper was the one who coined the term “Bosc” after “Tobosc” sort of a strange name for the dog, and in the dog’s honor, the term “Bosc” was used. The Bosc house at this time was sort of a pear green, as, incidentally, was the Pinewood house. Mark Campbell complained because he claimed the social circle was changing and all these new people were being added and he had trouble keeping up with the changes. Mark complained of feeling especially alienated at the New Years Eve party, where they took communion.

Meanwhile David and Laura were happy living in the Pinewood house. To David it kind of reminded him of Palm Street because they both had a garage in the back yard. It was a big yard, too. Mark had asked Pete if he could take Toby when he moved in but Pete turned him down. The couple never did have any dogs, only David Stanley’s cat, Bo, who was found dead under a bush in the early spring of 1983. David and Laura had talked about having a church wedding. Laura wanted to have it at the Crystal Cathedral. They were both dreamers and perhaps that was their problem. They both talked about having kids but somehow never got around to that either, thank God, some might say. As far as David knows he didn’t have “low motility of sperm” like Phil Kiriacus or anything.

Mark Campbell and the other Boscs gave themselves names. They were avid Star Trek fans, Mark was Spock, Jim was Captain Kirk, and Pike was of course Captain Pike, from the pilot, and I don’t remember who Bobby Hayden was. This was in the late winter of 1982. Some months later during a rather dour, dreary, overcast summer, David Stanley made a visit to the Bosc house. The things he noticed were that the place had a run down quality to it. He noticed that the Ash tree had been removed. He didn’t like that. And mostly he noticed how the Blue flower plants had taken over so much of the yard. Nobody seemed to know what species it was. David Stanley still went to Bible Studies held at the church on Wednesday nights, but Laura didn’t go. She says she felt uncomfortable with those old people. Mark Campbell had his eyes on a girl named Michelle Green- - and David would remark “I wish I was Mark” to the annoyance of his wife, Laura. She had nice breasts, but Michelle’s were bigger.

It was a Saturday night, one week before the Memorial Day weekend, according to Mark, after an evening of miniature golf, that the Boscs first acquired the black and white kitten at the time that Jim named “Bones” after the Startrek character. Bones was a black cat with seven white spots. (four for the paws) Bones was an adventuresome sort with sort of a dog karma. Jim said “Normally I don’t like cats but Bones is different”. There was a roomer that the cat could never be photographed. It was around Newyears of 1984-1985 that Bones disappeared. The rest is up for speculation. There were rumored “appearances” kind of like Elvis, or that other guy who died on a cross.

In March of 1983 Bobby Hayden got married to Lilly. She got that alias because of her lilly white skin and not “normally complected” like Bobby Hayden and he were. There were media letters sent to the effect that this entire marriage was held under water and everyone had SCUBA gear on. On March 24^th. 1983 s some sort of “incident” occurred with Mark Campbell and Zachery causing Dick and Robin not to trust Mark being around Zachary by himself. Mark moved out of the Bosc house at the end of the month and seemed to have “had it” with marquarading as a Christian. However he did join the others in seeing the movie “Gandhi” in a theater in mid April. It was around May 24^th. there was some big party at the Bosc house that David Stanley and Mark Campbell attended, but Laura was absent. After this Mark kind of faded into the woodwork, at least for a while. And now time passes. When Bobby Hayden and Mark Campbell moved out of the Bosc house they needed two more people. On Easter Sunday Henry (an alias) and “Captain X Ray”, we’ll call him, took their place. Meanwhile in some ways despite being married- - David Stanley hung out with the same social group and also had all the other hang-outs that he still frequented.

In late June of 1985 Mark Campbell was dying of a terminal disease. Ron moved out of the Bosc house and a friend of Henry’s named Jack moved on in. Jim, of course, had also gotten married. More time passes, and we’re going to take that break now.

Getting up early in the morning can sometimes be symbolic- - -

Parents have a reputation as rather meddlesome landlords. They worry themselves into a not so early grave over the actions of their tenants. In January of 1987 Mom had the famous tree trimming party at the Bosc house, and I don’t mean Christmas. Actually it was tree removal. Two large pepper trees, one in the front yard and one in the back yard were completely removed- and a lot of other stuff was dealt with. You can tell neighborhoods with active gardener recruiters because a formerly lush and green tract will now take on a rather scalped quality and many houses that didn’t look like “cracker boxes” before the gardeners when through the tract- looked so afterwards.

In late May of 1987 Captain X Ray quit one job and was going to start up another. He wanted to start his own drafting business. Of the four Boscs he already made the most money and was the least reliable of the four in paying bills, and the Sparkelettes water service is a prime example of something that went bye bye. As the summer progress Captain X Ray became more religiously fanatical in his beliefs. When he had moved in he had tons of text books from college. One day he decided these books were evil and had a giant bon fire on the patio. The landlords weren’t too happy to hear about this- since cleaning up the mess was not high on his agenda.

In late September parents became obcessed about trermites. By now they owned four houses. The Pinewood house was the second house they bought, and ended up being the first of all their properties to be sold. The landlords had both the Pinewood house and the Bosc house inspected for termites. The Pinewood house got the OK signal but the Bosc house wasn’t so lucky and the place had to be tented. This occurred the night of October 5^th. and 6^th. or Monday going into Tuesday. Henry asked David if he could stay overnight with him on Monday night and David reluctantly said OK. The funny thing is that his wife, Laura had stated that she wanted to spend a few days with her mother. Laura had been saying some strange things lately and acting a little strange. David felt safe thinking “We’re married- what’s she going to do?” Well, you know how flakey mermaids are. Henry stayed over Monday but then said he was hyper allergic to bug spray and asked to stay over Tuesday night also. This was the night of the total lunar eclipse, which David observed. The first part of the month of October 1987 had been dry and very hot. Now on Wednesday there was a break in the weather and clouds could actually be seen. Henry himself began acting strangely and he asked if he could stay over just one more night because of his hypersensitivity to bug spray and all and the headaches he’s gotten from it in the past. David wanted to call Laura’s mother’s number to see how she was doing and Henry got defencive and said “She’s doing fine. I talked to her earlier today. She just feels she needs to get away and spend time with her mother”. For some reason David bought that. Thursday morning October 8^th. Henry was up bright and early as if going somewhere before seven. He then told David he had to come with him over to the Bosc house because there were some documents that looked important and his Mom was concerned that they were important that were over there and David had to come along to look at them. So David rode with Henry over to the Bosc house.

In honor of the WW II dead we are leaving out this next part- - - -

On July 17^th. 1988 David Stanley moved out of Pinewood into his own apartment, and Henry helped him move his stuff over in his truck. They stood in the livingroom and prayed over the apartment that the Lord would bless his living there. David was feeling naustalgia for Christian music and played albums like “The Way” 2^nd. album and also Larry Norman and Elvis gospel stuff from the Million Dollar Sessions.

The fact he was a Christian became known there and was greeted in a hostile manner. He would always be carrying his Bible to church. David felt as if there were something Satanic about this place. A couple catty corner from him so to speak had just had a baby named Nicholas, and Ron and Marcy from across the way came to look at him. Ron had started off friendly tword David but turned hostile and Marcy always struck David as weird. This couple, who we’ll call George and Kathy- - notably Kathy, seemed to have a close relation with the manager’s nine year old daughter, Corrie. Corrie looked nothing like her mother. Her mother was a boosemy brunette with fair skin that sunburned easily and Corrie was a “dirty blonde” and skinny as a rail. In fact she bragged she was so skinny she could actually slip through the pool railings, as they then were. Corrie tanned easily, as did Kathy and Nicholas. Corrie spent a lot of time over at that apartment even taking care of Nicholas. “Do you want me to change Nicholas?” and I happened to think of that Bewitched episode, “Into what?” I mused. Another troublesome guy was from apartment one married to a cute Mexican. His name as I recall was Tony Quello, same as that congressmen. There was a lot of rock music and there was heavy marijuana usage. George and Kathy themselves grew an herb (or spice) garden. Nicholas seemed unusually bright for a newborn infant. There was a certain intelligent quality to the eyes. He liked to watch the sunset if it was colorful.

OK we’re bringing this to a close. In late May of 1990 David Stanley lost his accounting job that he’d had ever since late November 1981. He felt kind of stunned to be out of a job. He walked around in an unreal daze. One Saturday he went to the store and (this is going to get weird) saw a magazine article that Elvis had really committed suicide. He mused about the idea of suicide. The song “I’ll be on my way” by the Beatles at the BBC was running through his mind. That Tuesday was election day but after he voted he thought, “What ever am I going to do with the rest of this day?” The weather this day was perfect for a summer’s day, hot and sunny.

So right now- - We’ll Be On Our Way. Here’s an “Abby Road” snippet

Allright, I want everybody now to watch Kenny the Shark with me. Roomer has it that “Cat” or Kathy was really adopted and that when she grows up she would bleach her hair to kind of an artificial reddish blondish. And that her first born son would be through artificial insemination, and that her husband at least claims to be from Boston, and the “original” lyrics to the demo are actually, “More Than A Roomer”.

”. Anderson: “Do you care to elaborate? Stanley: “Well yeah, Jim one of my roommates that March got a promotion to pole climbing as a utility worker and not just a ground grunt. And Mark Campbell- - he made the prediction that Rush, the rock group, would become a household name, when “Moving Pictures” was not even released yet. Anderson: “Do you care what Mark thinks?” Stanley: “Well yeah, he’s a friend of mine and it was early April and the Joseph Granville report predicted there would be a gigantic collapse in the stock market in a weel or so. And I agreed with it based on my astrological calculations. But Mark thought all that astrology and end of the world stuff was a bunch of bullshit” Anderson: “End of the world stuff?” Stanley, “Well yeah- - all Christians in my circle believed the world was coming to an end in 1982 - - it was sort of based on something called the Kandratiev wave that occurs once every fifty four years and in 1982 when all of the planets are in proper alignment- - “ Anderson: “Don’t you think you’re running a little far a field? You were going to talk about your wife”.

They say the price of freedom is association with nuts. Well, Gene Scott is the nuttiest of the nutty. In 1978 he had this wind-up Monkey Band playing on his show all the time to denote government beaurocrats, whom he said were the Missing Link. He spoke of the Four Horns of Power (of government) that was arrayed against him and even had an artist conception painting of it. His mission was presumably to financially rescue Faith Center. Instead he merely appropiated the assets of Faith Center and made them his own. I believe he did this in mid 1979 when he told his viewers no longer to direct their money to Faith Center but address all contricutions payable to Gene Scott.

In 1980 he really featured a lot of demonology in his sermons, based largely on the dubious chapter eleven of Daniel, which most scollars agree was back-dated. In mid 1981 he began to talk about Cecil Rhodes and Rhodes scollars and how evil they were because they believed in the Kennedy axiom "A society unwilling to help the many who are poor cannot save the few who are rich". Gene rejected any sort of theology that involved the helping of poor people. Gene would speak of the Catholic Church and its treasures almost enviously, like they're the one entity that's got what he wants. Gene would speak of gold embossed cathedrals standing next to shanty shacks and the only people who would complain about the inequity are in this country. Gene would allign himself with Tom Bradley to such an extent that he tought that the LA Times had no rights of any kind to run an editorial against him. He would sometimes take up the cause of some protestor group of dubious background, and if you didn't support it, he would hang up on you. He taught his people who manned the phones to be mean and hang up on anybody that wasn't contributing money. He would often make threats he'd go out of business tonight if he didn't have a pledge totalling thirty thousand in the next half hour.

Gene got weirder as time passed. He got into Anglo-Isrialisum in late 1981. These people believe that people in the Brittish Empire are really the lost tribes of Isrial- -and he says Brit-ish really means "Covenant man" because brit, or briss, is the word for circumcision. Gene would often speak with glowing envy about British Royalty.

Gene Scott got even weirder when he began to say there were mystories in the Great Pyramid. He fixated on the number 2520 and said that this many years from when Babylon took over Judah, in 539 BC, some glorious event would happen and would kind of lead people to believe this event would occur in 1985. Others who studied the Great Pyramid said that glorious events were herolded by the year 2001.

Gene then got into the stars. He got books I've seen nowhere else talking about not only the Zodiac signs but also "decands" or three auxiliary constellations that go with the basic zodiac constellations. He taught that the astrological year started with Virgo and ended up with Leo, or Jesus Christ coming back as the Lion of Judah. He also spoke of the Red Lion referring to the Zerahites, or children of the scarlet thread that Tammar tied around the hand of her son Zerah, when he was born.

Gene then began talking about "Secrets". There was secret one, and then secret two and they kept mounting up. He developed an obcession to take over the Church of the Open Door. He wanted it named a historical monument. He failed at this and in late 1988 some time the wrecking ball won. Gene then began selling paintings in some gigantic art scam. He would sell his own paintings for sometimes hundreds of dollars and he would use the money to buy horses for his new horse ranch. He would now often show shots of his horses. Next Gene developed an affinity for the LA library after that terrible fire. He now made a judgement call and abondoned the gospell music people like me tuned in to hear to be edified, and began playing secular songs like "Key to the Highway" by Claptin. He would speak of the need to "be one of them" in order to get their money. Gene began getting cozy with many politicians such as Tom Bradley- - one of the most self-obcessed people I've come accross.

And then in 1989 Gene bought this theater on Broadway in Los Angeles. He now began "dissing" the old Church of the Open Door saying now that he was lucky not to have that building. Finally Gene, who had been divorced, married his horse trainer, Christine. Their marriage didn't last that long however because he was unfaithful to her and began taking up with Melissa. During this period his father died, and in my oppinion Gene began acting a lot wierder after "Ted's" passing. He'd have Melissa singing on songs. Her background was in pornographic movies so she knew how to put on an act. She was in her twenties when Gene was in his sixties.

When Gene Scott died- - it was of song lingering cancer that probably produced a painful death. All of Gene's money couldn't help him. Gene had been prophisied over by Claire Grace in 1967 and five points were made. Number three was that other people in Christianity would come to look to Gene as a guiding light house- - by which they would take their doctrinal bearings. Point four was Gene's Church would feature healings, because "all the others were doing it". Point five, and by far the falsest of the five, is that "A note of joy would come into Gene Scott's ministry that had never been there before". This five point prophecy pretty much fell on its face when Gene Scott died over a year ago. Yes sir-ree!

It doesn't end there. Now when you log onto Gene's web site they act as if Gene is still alive and have a thing on their web site "Listen live", as if Gene were actually still preaching. One guy had on his blog site "I have a theory that Gene Scott has actually been dead since 1976 and that he has just been recycling tapes". His wife, with her background in pornography, I call the Pornographic Priestess- - -she is the one who heads up the church now! Supposedly she goes into rants on camera just like Gene did and has taken over his mantel asking for money. Gene Scott had a divotional area to Bibles present and past in the lobby of his church. Now we learn that his wife, Melissa, has taken all that Bible stuff out and put in the monkey band, and bumper stickers praising Gene's work. She wants this to be Gene's legasy.

I find it worth noting that the only reference people make to Gene Scott that are at all favorible are that he is "amusing" - -the way a two year old child is amusing even when he does things he shouldn't- - and people say they like to listen to Gene Scott late at night and get stoned. Gene's audience now are a bunch of loadies!

If there were anything else going on today I'd be talking about that and not Gene Scott. There are questions you people might have about me, and I'd like to endeavor to answer them sometime. Gene often said "Pay for what the teaching is worth" and I have often said "If I paid according to the spiritual edification his teaching has given me I'd be taking money out of the pot instead of putting money in". (Selah)

NOTHING TO CROW ABOUT

There are times when you don't see a title above and this is one of them. I wanted to call the last posting "Warning Signs" but the software wouldn't let me. It would seem that not many people read these blogs, and I may quite writing them after a while.

Money for me is tight. For only the 2nd. time in the last thirty-two years I've had what you would call a real monitary crisis. The other is when I rented the yellow house (prev. ref.) with Pete Richards in November of 1978. I lent Pete some money because he was short but then I myself fall on hard times and in the summer of 1979 he lent me money, which he didn't like to do. Now I'm in the position of having another individual posessing over two hundred dollars of my money and I'm not sure how to ask for it back. Today I transfused my account with a deposit of $25.00. That will hold off the wolf a couple more weeks. Since about January of 1974 I've been self-supporting in terms of independancy from parents. Since April of 1976 I have not spent so much as one night at my parents' house. My problem is that I smoke too much and now I have taken steps like cutting out snacking and smoking a less expensive brand of cigarette. I'm really not used to thinking of myself as a hard-up person for the simple reason is it's sore rare for me to be in this state.

George Bush was certainly in a chipper mood yesterday. The edreniline was really going. Bush seemed excited about his great five hour trip to the mid east, and how it eased his mind. You don't suppose Bush was snorting something yesterday, do you. It's just natural "excitement" I guess, at being nine points up in the polls from what he was two weeks ago. Nolbody wants to see the President fail. I do have a question and that is, if we've train the Iraqi soldiers and have supervised the election of their government and all- - by now shouldn't the government be "in our own image". Shouldn't the government they have now be able to fight insergency. I don't understand why people say if we even "think" of leaving, things will fall apart. Some have said we plan to have a permanent contingent of fifty thousand troops in Iraq. Is this true? What does Larry Elder think about this? It was Harry Truman who said that war profitiering was tantamount to treason, and yet isn't this what all the Bush contracting companies like Haloburten are doing? What the democrats need is a good man to raise all the right questions in the fall campaign. The democrats don't seem to want to win but seem perfectly content being the minority political party.

Well, now we have hit a milestone. 2,500 American troups have been killed in the Iraq War. But they have announced that 125,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed in that same war. According to Randy Rhodes there is a guy named Boner who has talking points and they all deny the possability of any exit strategy. It seems to me that Iraqis are starting to view themselves more as a sovreign nation and whatever side they are on, they can agree that they resent United States presence.

Now Sanuel Allito's court has issued another 5 to 4 decision. This one involves a no knock policy for cops. They can break down the door and enter your house without even announcing that they are police. I guess Allito loves his labido. He loves his power. This court will be making decisions long after George Bush is gone.

In soap opera news- - Allester Crane is really back! He now sees himself with all the power of God. He lied to and manipulated everyone and now everyone is a sitting duck for him to destroy. I wonder, will Martin, the young child, rise from his firey death like the phoenix? Did anything rise like the phoenix on October 8th. 1987? How many of you out there have seen The Omen IV? That movie is kind of like an Adam and Eve in reverse. What happened to the eight year old daughter? She kind of exited the cast early, and we're not talking about Passions now. We're just dropping a few hints you followers of the Federation already know about. But right now I'd like to do a complete change of topic. Here's the pornographic priestess.

-----the following was lifted from a
fall 1998 file ("Searve Somebody")

New Song "Searve Your Labido". Sexy babes singing the song at Gene Scott's church swaying around. Let's come up with a good corus.

You got to searve your Labido (echo: Searve Your Labido)
Searve Your Labido (Searve Your Labido)
Well you might just ended up in a Monistary in Saucilito
---so you really got to Searve your Labido.

Don't say you're old to pick it
Get on out of that emotional thicket
I'll tell you what's the ticket
Get some babe to lick it

(corus)

Well you may call me Dicky
When it comes to sex I'm not picky
(You know you) just got to searve your pelvis
And Reserect little Elvis

(corus)

Well now, you might like to Covet
Just tell your priest to "shove it"
It would do him a lot of good
To show off his "old groath" hard wood

You may be some bastard, a causing people pain [ late addendum ]
You may be a killer, that's riding on a train
You may be pardoned for treason, without ever saying "Thanks"
You may even own pastor's souls- - even world-wide data banks

I heard from the Federation last night. Their report was there had been a recent battle involving troops loyal to Howard and the Centaurians, and Howard’s troops had suffered significant casualties and lost the battle. Now the same troops are more vulnerable in the case of another clash so that one wonders whether they should retreat now or risk decimation later. Howard was not leading them because Howard is under some sort of house arrest by the Federation. In a nut shell the situation isn’t looking too good.

I’m going to try and think positive thoughts about God and being faithful to him- just because, but I’m not saying it will be easy. I had not checked the blog today because I figure by now the odds are about four to one against the thing having been updated in the sixteen plus intervening hours since last night. It’s always possible. No matter what happens I’m going to be doing Blogs that speak of the Lord more highly and “keep up the faith”. I want to show God that I am not the enemy. Patience is highly spoken of in the Bible as is keeping the Faith and never losing hope, so we’ll see. Rev. Joel says that often god uses adversity to somehow push his people into some new direction. I should do some symbolic act to show that I am rededicating my life to Christ and the Faith.

Sixty minutes just replayed their Plan B segment, or the morning after pill that many progressives wanted OTC, over the counter. The commission voted 23 to 4 or something to approve it but then it was sent back for more study and a minority report was written and the language of that report was adopted in denial of the drug. Previously many pharmacies throughout the nation refused to fill prescriptions for the drug including most pharmacies in Kentucky. Now approval for OCT may be put off for years.

Today is June 13, 2006 and yesterday was the 12^th. anniversary of O J Simpson committing a double murder. Denise Brown says she no longer hates OJ. I don’t see why there is any reason to change her mind after all these years. I can’t imagine that OJ apologized. The deeds he did that night as just as evil now as when he did them.

Tropical storm Alberto hit the Tampa-St. Petersburg area of Florida over on the Gulf coast and is scheduled to cross the state and end up somewhere along the Georgia coast. According to Ken Galliger, Harry Truman was the very first President of the US to ever declare a weather event as a “Natural Disaster”. Eisenhour declaired a few per year, and by the time of Ronald Reagan, Reagan was averaging 28 disasters per year. But the level jumped to 44 under George Bush 41. Clinton doubled the number to 88 and under this current President the number is now 125 per year. Of course this is only June 13^th. and already we’ve had our first tropical Gale, that’s almost a hurricane. I think that has to be a record. I’ve never heard of a major tropical storm in June in that area. The news media does seem to have an increasingly low threshold as to what is a “Disaster”.

I guess a favorite pastime of Republicans is to quote things that no Democrat ever actually said. The latest one like this is that Al-Zarcowe’s death was just a “Stunt”, like it wasn’t real or something. No democrat ever said this. There are few if any democrats that actually want America to lose this war, but if you believe Rush or Larry, all of the democrats think this way. Apparently democrats are accused of saying that non Whites can’t run a democratic government. The obvious places to look are Turkey and Israel. And yet it’s a Republican false belief about the democrats that they hold this view.

Randy Rhodes was talking yesterday about all of the ways in which government collect information about our lives. Of course they have their sattalite microwave “listening in” devices to hone in on key words in our phone conversations to know when to actually start gathering evidence for prosecution. They know all about us from key loggers and tracing our steps in the internet. They know our date site history, our banking history, and various interests of ours, such as have we ever visited a Secular Humanist site. George Bush won’t be treated kindly by the History books. He will go down as the most Orwellian President we have ever had.

Of course we could have had Zarcowe back in 2002. We had three chances to get him at least and each time, according to Al Frankin, the President vetoed the plan to capture him. Of course if we had captured and killed Zarcowe earlier, before the war, our grounds for going to war would be vastly diminished. Of course we let Bin Laden slip through our fingers at Tora Bora. Every liberal agrees that if we had stayed with the war in Afghanistan that country would be better off with advanced women’s rights, ect. As it is now perhaps to our involvement- - opium sales have never been higher.

If a soap opera just yesterday on the 12th. anniversary of the OJ double murder, there was a gross misscarriage of justice on Days of our Lives. You have an eighteen year old, Chelsea, who's sole purpose seems to be to break up her parents' marriage. She wants her Dad to break up with his wife, Hope, and marry her slutty real mother, Billy. She got into one problem with the law and had her drivers liscence suspended. Her father, Bo signed a thing to reinstate her liscense and then lent her his truck to drive on Newyears Even to be out on the road with all the drunks. He only did this because he is weak and wants to deny his newfound daughter nothing. She runs over and kills Hope and Bo's son Zach, who was five. She says she felt a bump but didn't even stop. Other lies were told by Bo and Billy to try and cover up what she did. Chelsea is a girl who has never had to face the consequences of anything she has done. So what does the Judge do in this case? He gives her essentially a suspended sentense with community service. Now she's already complaining about that. Bo and Hope's other son, Sean, who is about twenty, never got to testify. Hope's testimony was muted because she was hoping to save her marriage and not say anything too antagonistic about Chelsea, or Billy, or her husband, Bo. The defendant, as in the OJ case was not put on the stand at all. Like in the case of OJ her testimony would be so torn to shreads it would have been a major melt-down for the defence. This "soap opera" justice all took place in a one day trial, with no jury.

If you read the top posting on "The Ten Commandments" you see I make reference to a guy whom I took an instant dislike to who came to a Bible Study about the first of May 1980. My feeling tword him at that instant was a definite indication of things to come that his presence would not bode well in my life. On October 8th. 1987 I found out just how "ill" the omen was, when this individual committed an offence against me, breaking a Biblical commandment. But I don't blame him alone. There's lots of blame to go around including "Pete Richards" (an alias) an an unnamed pastor whom I've referred to a few times in my blogs. You've heard the expression "That's not a threat; it's a promise". Here's another one: "On the day that you break that oath will be the last day you live". (Ten Commandments, the movie) And then there is Dr. Phil who says that when parents punish a child that child should know with utter predictability the consequences. In my own childhood I've found punishment to be rather unpredictable both as to when and if you're punished, and sometimes who is punished, and often the penalty is more severe than you imagioned. If you're wondering about the nature of this "offence" against me- - - well, there were "warning signs". There were "vibes" that I tried to ignore. The offence was committed at the "Bosc house". Oddly enough when I told parents about it, they somehow tried to make it out that it was partially my fault. That's just how they think. Since I officially "forgave" this individual- - - Let me phrase that another way. In the 1990s a pastor known as "The Asshole from El Paso" committed an offence against me or a series of them that ecclipsed the event of October 1987. Oddly enough, about the time of this "offence", Nicholas was conceived- - - right around the ecclipse of a full moon. I know, you thought Nicholas was a fictional character from one of our skits. "Surprise!" You've heard the riddle, "why does a dog lick itself in the groin?" The answer: "Because he can". That seems to be an answer for a lot of things people do. "Because they can". You just have to trust people less. Trust is like currency: If you overextend it you pay for it later.

Karl Rove has escaped indictment for his part in the Valerie Plame ( ) affair, ie. outing her when she was trying to investigate whether Iran had nuclear secrets. I guess this shouldn't come as any surprise because they had been stalling for months. Considering how our President likes to micro-manage everything in our Government it's a wonder the investigation took this long. Now Randy Rhodes is talking about some video of Iraqi tanks gunning down civilians set to the music of "Mystory Train" by Elvis, with superimposed laughter in the background, and the video can be found on the internet. Randy has a tendancy to ramble and I'm not sure how or if this is connected to the Karl Rove story. Of course there is still the outside possability that the election of 2000 was actually stolen from Al Gore, who won the popular vote, as the democrats charge. I just remember at the time I thought "The preponderance of the evidence" favored Bush but not even I was "convinced beyond a reasonable doubt". Bush has always, since day one, acted like he had this huge "Mandate", which he has never, ever had.

He's the fiddler on your darkest night

Rome is burning but that's all right!