Today is April 30, 2008 and of course it’s the anniversary of Adolph Hitler, Eva Brown, Joseph Goebles and his wife and family in Hitler’s bunker. It is said that any day Hitler dies is a Jewish Holiday. May first, ironically is a Russian holliday for I’m not sure what reason. I don’t know if they just appropriated it from the pagens or what. In school on May day we would make flowers out of construction paper symbolizing spring. I guess the question this year is whether any demonstrators will be beaten up by cops. This is more of a posting just to "see where we've been" as a people and note "how far we've come" and what we can do about it, more than it's about anything new or profound. Phil Donahew was on the Stacy Taylor show. He’s a reminder of course of the past. People say it’s like the ‘eighties now but it’s really not because in the ‘eighties we had talk shows like Donahew to raise our collective consciousness about pressing national issues. On the network news there would be open criticisum of the Reagan administration talking about the homeless crisis or the farmers crisis or whatever. A lot of the political reality of today was only a pipe dream in the Reagan Adminestration. You will remember that the House was democratic the whole period of the Reagan administration, and the Senate went democratic the final two years. Back then there were liberals like Michael Jackson on a major radio network. You didn’t have this stranglehold the conservatives have now over the media. Donahew was pitching his new movie about a paralyzed veteran from the Iraq War. It’s apparently a movie about the War from his point of view. I’d like to insert something from an E mail at this point on the blog. OK let me just summarize. (transmission problems) Bush is obsessed with this Iraq War and like all obsessions it clouds your judgements to the point of being unreasonable. I don't care if we're winning; I don't care if we're losing; it's time to get out as soon as physically possible. Of course Thom Hartman talked about some important “Fairness” doctrine that was repealed in 1987 and another related (?) law that was changed by the Clinton administration in 1996. But we are talking about the Iraq War. Instead we’re talking about showing a teenager’s bare back in a magazine photo. There seems to be more uptightness about sex in society today than there has been in fifty years. I suppose in some ways this is a good thing. Some of these mothers you see with their hard faces complaining about today’s loose morays, you wonder whether their brains were transplanted from fifty years ago or something. Back, say when I was eighteen, I never would have dreamed that women my age would be so uptight one day. In light of all this I’d peg the chance of republican victories in November as excellent. As bad as this recession is- - and it figures to be the worst in nearly thirty years- - it doesn’t seem to be tilting votes in favor of the democrats. You still see John Mc Cain holding his own against either democratic candidate. If the recession gets worse- and it no doubt will- - I don’t think this will change, because for the first time in either my generation or my parents generation, economic affairs have become divorced from Presidential politics. The people look and see that President Bush is doing all he can, short of instituting a negative intrest prime rate. I just wish I had one of those six hundred dollar checks going in the mail next week. It’s been said we use sitcoms like drugs today to take our minds off problems. What’s worse is that people are STILL buying things they can’t afford- - just to try and take their minds off the fact that we’re in a recession. There is a lot of “living for today”. This Iraq War is the most cleaverly marketed war in American history. It’s a shadow war that unless you have someone in your family who is actually stationed in Iraq, you just don’t care. All people ever hear from politicians of EITHER party are reasons why we have to stay in Iraq and how getting out is unthinkable. If a politician hints they’d like to end the war they get thrown back at them ten reasons why dire things would happen in that country “and it would be all our fault”. Donahew said that Nazis like Goering came up with the notion of merchandizing fear and seeing protesters as the bad guys. People on the right speak in comparison fashion to World War II as if they had actually lived through that war. Nobody short of an octogenarian is even old enough to remember that war. This is a classic case of “false memory sidrone”. But somehow there are warm fuzzy feelings associated with World War II. It’s like they’ve received brain implants of dead people. The big question now is “Where is all of this going?” Where are we headed as a people with reactionary attitudes such as we have? I can’t say for sure but you know as a fact that you never wind up where you think you are headed and there is such a thing as “the law of unintended consequences”. An obvious consequence is the loss of our civil liberties and “becoming like the enemy we are fighting”. Obviously President Bush’s vision of “democracy flowering throughout the middle east when they see what we have accomplished in Iraq” isn’t any more of a reality than Chuck Smith’s vision of Born Again Christianity breaking out in Israel. I have predicted darkly that we will indeed get into a war with Iran in the next administration. We aren’t dealing with the real frustrations of the Islamic peoples. We’re like a parent who complains about the conduct of his teenager and yet passes up chance after chance to talk to him or her- - and both parties continue to stew in their pent up frustrations and resentments. Till finally some crisis event comes along, and right away the adult looks to anyone to blame for this event other than themselves. But it’s also a fact of political reality that “the people aren’t ready for a new war with Iran”, at least- - yet. What the right is hoping and praying for is another 9 – 11 that we can somehow blame in Iran as an excuse of going to war with them. But I want to emphasize that some of the danger out there is REAL. But all that means is that NOW is the time to prevent the next war BEFORE it starts- -by negotiations and accords, and just plain old getting to know each other better.

I'd now like to take a stroll down memory lane back to late summer of 2004 during the Republican convention. Even at that date it seems I wasn't too enthusiastic about Bush being re-elected, even though I did end up voting for the President in November and considered myself a loyal Bushy through early fall of 2005.

President Clinton is in Presbyterian Hospital in NY and he plans to have quadruple by-pass surgery. When you’re famous when you hiccup they all jump. Clinton was having mild pains in his check and they did an angiogram this morning and saw the acute warning signs. It’s all that junk food he eats. Someone remarked that he had been losing weight lately. Yesterday I called Judy about file search and she said she didn’t even know what that was. Is she kidding?

Zel Miller was a governor of Georgia as you know. I also learned today that he was a segregationist and a friend of Lester Maddox. Today on KABC Curtess what’s-his-name, head of the guardian angels was on. I never knew the guy was so right wing. He referred to Arnold Swartzenegger as “Bill Clinton on steroids”, and Curtess mocked his choice of Nixon for a role model saying that Nixon was regarded as socialist by Barry Goldwater (which isn’t true) and he started all these programs like the environmental protection agency and social programs like the negative income tax and wage and price controls. Curtess also spoke of giving demonstrators “wood shampoos”, beating them over the head, and saying protestors aren’t very tough today. It was Curtess who also said that his favorite convention speech was Zel Miller’s.

Last night at the convention it was Governor Pataki. Isn’t “Patak” a cuss word in Klingon or something? After this they had the usual film documentary. George Bush spoke on a specially constructed round stage. He unfurled a lot of new social programs extending education and health care. And he also talked about his step by step reasons for going to war in Iraq. But at a key point in his speech a demonstration broke out. It turns out some outside protesters came in and were being shouted down. He spoke till 8:15, which was just over an hour, and after this there were balloons and confetti, and then the commentators got their turn. They are now saying Kerry is so far down in the pools he’s going to “implode”. Both Sean and Curtess were saying this. Kerry spoke at midnight and these two called him “emotionally unstable”. I disagree. Kerry just made the same points he’s been making, hoping it will stick this time.

Will and Grace were on at nine. Football is on right now. Before one I had this computer on doing word searches. On the soap operas Bo has asked an Irish judge to allow him to exhume the rest of the bodies, starting with Abe and Roman. Belle and Philip are headed to Green Mountain. Jennifer had a boy. On Passions, Sheridan fell into a snake pit and now her mother is down there with her.

THE DIVISION BELL

What we see playing out on the political scene is nothing short of a Greek Tradgity. Berock Obama has disowned his long time pastor of twenty years, Jeremiah Wright. This is the Pastor of whom he had formerly said "I could no more disown my pastor than I could disown my own White grandmother". The way in which Jeremiah Wright has gone public the past few days has been an occasion of offense to Obama. Wright said certain things like the government is responsible tor AIDS and Pastor Luis Faracon is one of the most important people of this age. Well, I'll have you know that the Federation has finally seemed to find its gonada and endorsed the Pastor for his statements about- - for instance- - the CIA bringing crack cocaine into the ghetto. The Federation is not a pro Jewish entity as you may know. What we have a case of here simply is another King Saul case of disqualification to be King for "failure to go the whole nine yards" to put it simply. Obama doesn't want to pay the price to be president. So I say, echoing the words of Ramses II in a famous movie "Judge now where Obama is everything I said he was- - and that it's Hillary who is destined to be the nominee". We've been saying all along that Hillary would beat out Obama for the Party nomination. The only question in my mind is how she would do it. I don't think Hillary paid Pastor Wright to "go public" at this key juncture. I believe it was just karma coming back on Obama, and don't try to blame anyone else for your problem. Obama thought he was "a new kind of Black". Only like Clarence Thomas before him, "The new kind of Black" couldn't exist today were it not for "The old kind of Black", those in Pastor Wright's generation who had to fight for everything they got. This Greek Tradgity is going to play itself out because now I'm going to vote for Mc Cain in the fall. Of the five leading candidates for president on the Democratic side, Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Berock Obama, and John Edwards- - four of them are excellent candidates. But no way in Hell was I ever going to vote for Hillary and God Himself knew that. I can only speculate how many millions are like me. You know- - I'll forgive an awful lot in a man if he shows signs of bravery. My two chief complaints against Christianity is that they are cowards and hypocrites. Some have said that Reverand Wright is a "narcicist". To this I say look in the mirror. Christianity was founded by one of the most narcisistic men ever to walk the face of the earth, Jesus Christ. He was practicly the inventor of "Don't do as I do; do as I say". You know- if Mc Cain has "gone conservative" I'll say "Well, he knows which side his bread is buttered on". It's too bad Obama didn't know which side his bread was buttered on. He was happy to hang out with Pastor Wright while he was a nobody. But like Moses and Ramses II - - the time came when Moses said "You know I have all this position and power and military and intellectual training I got from Egypt. But I'm going to chuck all that and just say it's "God" that brought me where I am". If you want another example- - do you think Judas never suspected what Jesus Christ was all about before he followed him. And then there comes a day where Judas is "embarrassed" by a speech Jesus made and he might be an embarrassment in the social circle. Some may say of Pastor Wright "Well there are certain situations where Wright should just take a back seat". Well, don't you suppose there are certain situations where "I'd rather not take Jesus with me?" He's just kind of an- - embarrasment. You know now Obama can write a book called "Why I have now turned against Reverand Wright" and make a lot of money trashing his old church. Isn't that the sort of thing we love here in Hollywood? It's kind of like Tom Keefer alias Fred Mc Murry in "The Cain Mutiny" where he craps out at key moments and gets a massive attack of cowardess. All he is thinking is "this will make a good book someday". I will forgive an awful lot about a person if I think they aren't cowards and aren't hypocrites. Mc Cain may have his faults, but he's proved himself to be an honorable man who loves his country. Of course you know that Hillary going out the gate had a built in 45% of the population who would Never ever vote for her. The democratic party is going to have to live with that reality come November. Of course- I know of no one who would consciously vote for a lying, cunning manipulator of events like Hillary. Say what you want about Mc Cain, he's not basing his whole campaign on The Race Card- - the way Hillary has done. She has pervailed by fighting dirty. For her it's been victor at any cost. And that cost will be John Mc Cain being sworn in as President next January.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Federici This one became a link the minute I moved away from the space. He’s the long time E Street Band keyboardist who died of skin melanoma. This was on April 17^th. 2008. He had the Dylan sound. We often throw out mysteries without answers like we did with the "channeling Hammingway" thing a few posts back. I was thinking of Dylan as the person who might die. But this keyboardist has that Dylan style. I was thinking when I made the Hemmingway allusions "Some of you might be thinking of Bruce Springsteen". In terms of psychic hits this is kind of a tangent near miss.

The Federation does have "dog fights" with ships in space, like Star Wars, and they like Star Wars, prize themselves on their manoverability and deadly accurecy. The key to having a good air force is to do what Israel does. Draft out the best people from other branches of the armed service. Sixty Minutes featured the Israeli Air Force. The way they work it is everybody gets drafted but the best and the brightest then get drafted into the Air Force. But from there only a handful get selected for the really plumb assignments, including occasionally, a woman. These pilots are known for their precision accuracy with minimal collateral damage, but spend their days bombing suspected personal targets trying to “take leaders out” from the other side. They showed cockpit footage from the 1981 raid on Saddam’s nuclear reactor in Iraq. Now people are speculating they’ll do the same thing to Iran. In some ways the Israeli Air Force could be equated to Star Wars fighters fighting and firing with precision accuracy. Of course the “Federation” imagery and “Ziggy’s Air Command” kind of draws on this Star Wars imagery. I’m trying to correct as I go but I’m making a lot of spelling errors today. Of course Jim Cooper is said to have come up with the term Ziggy’s Air Command, even though the “real” Jim, or as Biblotrists might say, the “antitype” did not appear on the scene till late July 1980.

They interviewed Justice Scalia. He was an only child and was spoiled with all the love and attention. As an Italian it’s unusual not even to have any cousins. But he made up for it having nine children and they are all successful today. Whether it’s the “Jesus Gene” or the “Conservative Gene” I don’t know. It’s that Bovian influence where all your children turn out blessed because you love the Lord. Scalie was making sense with his “Originalism” till he began talking about Bush and Gore in Florida. Then he just said “Well Gore is the one who brought it to the Court and we could hardly refuse it”. Is he saying Gore should have let the process play out? Scalie had absolutely no legal reasoning behind his decision; it was apparently strictly political. Also Scalia says that torture is OK because it isn’t officially “punishment” and therefore doesn’t fall within the eighth amendment. This is totally screwy reasoning on his part.

STILL BEGUILED AFTER ALL THESE YEARS

This represents John Kerry's America. Plus the other states for which there is still hope. The states that are beyond hope and should be kicked out are Utah, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. It's a thought, anyhow.

I was re-reading Donald Regan's book, but I imagine others agree, that there are two things that really stand out about the personality of Ronald Reagan. One was that he was obsessed with his image and how things said to the Press would affect his poll numbers. The other was that Reagan surrounded himself with people who made his decisions for him. Reagan was not a "hands on" kind of President the way most men are today. The legacy of Ronald Reagan is still alive and well and we still buy into most of his myths about "free trade" and "deficets" and just ignoring AIDS and other health issues, and shredding the Constitutional civil rights safeguards. It seems that these days thanks to Rush Limbaugh and his voter insergents, the Democrats, both of them, have slumped in the polls in any contest against Mc Cain and people who were not formerly inclined are not considering voting for Mc Cain, and I confess I am one of them. What Obama needs to do is start acting more like his mentor, John Kennedy. He needs to come back swinging when accusations are made against him. This "nice guy" routine is wearing thin and the public just isn't buying it. People are sold "notions" as they say in EST, every day of their lives and once they get a notion about something or someone it's hard to dislodge it. People still believe that Al Qaida is out to take over America. People still see non White races as a threat even in this enlightened year of 2008. They say some OCD people are afraid to venture out of their house to go on a date or even shop for food. Many people in the red states are afraid to venture out from the security of their long held prejudices. Mc Cain can afford to throw the Blacks a bone now and then. Some centerists (like myself) will take comfort from the fact that Mc Cain occasionally differs from the Bush-Chaney-Rove line. I guarentee you Hillary's approach in Indiana is to white people to muster up every ounce of racial prejudice they have.

When you see the Jeremiah Wright interview on Bill Moyers, he appears to be a most reasonable man. I think he has one thing wrong. Christianity is and always has been about culture war. St. Mark who knew Jesus lived in Egypt and was an African and the founder of the Coptic church, as we have said, the earliest church. When these ideas about Jesus being alive came to Rome- - Rome took over. It was their goal to wipe out Jewish culture and I don’t want any to be misled about this. Most “missionaries” of the past despised the cultures they preached to. If the Jews had been more like Westerners, then we would all be good Jews today. Since I only saw the first half hour watching it on computer and they were just playing the controversial sermon when the transmission broke off, I don’t know what the Reverend said later on about his words. But clearly the man is not a hateful man and cares about both his country and the gospel. But he also admires the culture of the African peoples and this is absolutely no reason to fault him. I think the people who, for instance, talk about the Latinos “taking over” our culture one day- - are full of bullshit. I’m not the least worried about my culture and if it becomes Latinized in the future, which it won’t, then it must be because I think it’s superior.

Three New York policemen, two of them apparently Black, were acquitted for unloading 31 rounds of gunfire and killing a black man on the eve of his wedding day. They say the number of shots is irrelivent; it’s only what is going on in the officer’s mind. I don’t like this “paranoia escape clause” provision of the law. Now they are making laws even for private citizens, that if they feel personally afraid or threatened, they are free to fire away. Of course they are going to "feel more threatened" if it's a member of a non white race. Being a policeman is a lot safer than many other jobs. The proof of this is when a cop does die they suspend everything else on TV and cover his funeral. What if they did this every time, for instance, an individual who had taken VIOXX or CELEBREX died from the drug. The answer is obvious. They say that one death is a shame but a thousand is a statistic. That's how we relate.

There was a shack attack on a man in Salana Beach near San Diego, killing him. The tri-athlete suffered gigantic wounds in both legs from a single bite. He was wearing a wet suit and the shark thought he was a seal, attacking from below Naturally this will only feed the waning panic about sharks. I told this to Phyllis. Christians are sensitive people and the idea of their being evil in the world- - bothers them.

Mc Cain has spoken up and said those anti Rev Wright commercials playing now in North Carolina are wrong, and he doesn’t believe in that kind of campaigning. And Reverend Wright will appear on the Bill Moyers program at nine o clock. I think black people need to fight back although this guy has lighter skin than I do. I don’t have any immediate plans to blog. I was going to talk about my own “Gift that keeps on taking” meaning mental illness, and an inability to break out of my family’s shadow. Dad is still alive and well with his proclamations still in effect from the grave. The Holy Spirit seems to be a person like "Billy Babbit" who stutters and is deathly afraid of what his mother, (or the Devil) might say or think of him if he does wrong. So basically the Holy Spirit gets a pass in my life not to be there to defend me, because it doesn’t even know who the enemy is. I need to learn to come out swinging should my mental fitness ever be questioned- - particularly if I’m ever in a situation where I need to defend the Faith.

On Days of our Lives, Eva was captured. Kayla came in on them having sex and then there was a gun wrestling match and Eva fired the gun and was disarmed and Bo and Hope came in and they were joined by Abe and Roman who got information from that same guy, information they could have gotten weeks ago before any of this happened. Now Eva is going to jail. Meanwhile Stephanie is being kidnapped after almost having sex with Max. John is entertaining Nicole, or was. To be frank John Black is turning into an asshole these days. This makes two women he’s dissed. He had no intention of all that romantic crap he spewed about going to NapaMonte Carlo or something. The shocker of the day is that Victor knows where Brady is. He’s always known but played this shit-ass game of his. Now he’s kicking both Nicole and Clowie out of the house and questioning his son why he is “siding with others against the family”, like some kind of crime boss. to stop off for wine tasting before jetting on to

On the Randy Rhodes show and BS news they talked about Clinton math and how she really hasn’t won the Popular Vote. Even if Hillary counts Florida she still hasn’t won. In addition none of the “uncommitted” votes in Michigan can go to Obama. They say Pennsylvania has the second highest oldest population figures. “Except for any state Mc Cain is visiting”. And they’re trying to spread the roomer that Hillary’s idea of a dream ticket is her and Mc Cain on the same ticket. Clearly if you are looking for a candidate who doesn’t make a habit of lying, you have to exclude Hillary. Now they are saying that there were voting irregularities in Pennsylvania and they hurt Obama excluding people who voted for him. I wish Hillary wasn’t associated with “Rovian” tactics. Some would say "Well the Republicans are aiming their guns at Berock Obama now". That's right, because Hillary might be mistaken for a Republican in some quarters. There is also a roomer that Hillary has privately decided just to sit 2008 out and let Obama lose to Mc Cain and them come back and run in 2012. Meanwhile Mc Cain is campaigning in places like Selma, Alabama, praising Black protesters of 1965. He’s also been in New Orleans saying he’d have handled the Hurricane Katrina fiasco much more compassionately than Bush handled it.

RIDING THE TIDE TO VICTORY

Last night Hillary Clinton did what she had to do. She won by double digits in Pennsylvania. Every time people are ready to count her out she comes right back. Rather than Obama close in on his five point deficet, he expanded his deficet to ten. I will give Obama this: His speech was a lot better than hers. She understandibly centered on herself and her victory. Obama's speech was about the great issues that trouble this land. I would still like to see a Presidential candidate talk about terrifs both to close the budget deficet and close the trade deficet and restore ballance to our economy. Now they say all Obama has to do is win Indiana. With his luck most likely he'll lose that state and we'll be in this thing till June. The polls against Mc Cain don't look good. Now they show both Hillary and Obama losing to Mc Cain. You would think that for a historic loser candidate in a losing political party that Mc Cain would be toast by now. The fact that he's such a viable candidate and could well take it all at this point is because the democratic message just isn't getting out. Of course with the ABC network working for the republicans in last week's debate, that isn't helping matters any. I guess Obama needs some new guimic or a new slogan to snag a few extra voters to put him over the top.

Oil is now at $120.00 a barrel. The price keeps going up and it won't stop. We shall surely have four dollar a gallon gasoline by summer, because we are almost there right now. Clearly this ethanol from corn business isn't working. I think we should abandon that and do something we're been resisting: There are all these capped oil wells in Texas and even in off shore California platforms. We need to get every oil rig in this country in full opperation as quickly as we can. And don't give me this "Well, the price of oil won't justify starting up a capped oil well". That argument won't fly at $120.00 per barrel. If we produce our own oil we can't be worried about a declining dollar. Why don't we make nice to Chavez of Venesuela and perhaps he'll let us have some of his oil at a discounted price for some government concession of some sort. Now Airline stocks are tanking and none of the flights are making money. I think there is going to be a trend against using the Air Lines. Either you'll have "Go to meeting" on your computer for business conferences, or else you can take the train for a lot less hassle. I think a rise in train ridership would be a good thing. That way you can see America from the ground level, the way it's meant to be seen.

THERE ARE SEVENTEEN MONTHS TO ETERNITY
BUT WE'RE JUST SIX MONTHS AWAY FROM "NEVER"

I actually had a dream last night where this was a slogan on a letter I sent to a Calvary Chapel pastor, only it was "Eight" months for eternity. I'd gotten the idea from watching some movie involving some false Jewish messiah in times long ago when they still had Royalty. They were saying "I don't give a damn about eternity and all knowledge and the hereafter. What I want to know is are you a God of Goodness and Justice, and Rightiousness?" The rhetorical answer being "No". On one Star Trek episode we pointed out once Captain Piccard was confronted by a guy who knew the future and Piccard wanted answers and finally he said "I don't give a damn about YOUR future. What I know is that I need to make a dicision here and now- - Today". Some "apologists" for religion (I've never liked the term "apologist") will say that the devil is in the details. The devil is in the "Here and Now", which in reality is all we've got. Any other beliefs about God are delusional.

In terms of that claim or accusation I had against God let me modify one thing I said and that is this "situation" will indeed affect me in eternity if it's not dealt with. And frankly if this thing follows me over into eternity- - - it will have a much more profound effect upon me there than it does here on earth. Some of you have asked "Well you don't talk about it with people but I'll bet you've talked about it endlessly with the Federation". Wrong again. There are certain things the Federation's minds can't grasp and this is one of them. One of them "accessed" that conversation with Clint of September 1991 and he accused me of outright lying to Clint saying something I knew at the time was clearly untrue". That's not the way I see it. At the time an aspect of the Federation (ministry of propaganda) was occupied by one of the Cassiopia entities, of which there are several. This one entity is associated with George Bush (either of them) and his Presidency. The Federation told me in late 1991 if the President went to Japan he would cross Alcyonne and jinx himself to his own doom. That's what happened, in December. There are other Cassiopia groups including what we call the "Phil Collins" group because it's associated with a lot of 'eighties bands that made it big, and is also responsable for promoting the Claptin albums "Behind the Sun", "August" and "Journeyman". In case you haven't figured it out yet this paragraph is about "that" stuff from "out there". You can quit reading now if you want, or keep on and learn something. There are various kinds of demonic activity but only the Alcyonne demons are ones you can dialog with, and even then they'll eat you alive if you aren't careful. These gain power by belittlement and mockery and shame. Some other kinds of demons are Centaurian demons, Sutteran demons, and Crestorian (?) demons. I just learned that term and I'm not positive it's right. These are guardian demons of Jimmy Page and I used to refer to them as Led Zeppelin demons. They are associated with the Rune stones. They are also associated with the "wiccans". I asked a Romulan about the use of the word "wicked" in their language and first of all they said normally their language doesn't even have a W in it, except for special occult words. There is no specific Celtic connection here but your garden variety Witch. These are an extremely vengeful lot of demons and deal a lot in fire. Thd 1994 Northridge earthquake is said to be caused by these Crestorians. In terms of the Sutterans- - these people are the biggest liars in the cosmos. Never, never dialog with a Sutteran demon. The Centaurians are pretty flakey and don't dialog with them either. Dialoging just gives them more power. As for the Crestorian (?) cassiopian demon, remember if you cross them they can be quite vengeful, more so even than Alcyonne. As you know the "Bush" Cassiopians occupied- - I said this- the propaganda ministry of the Federation in September 1991 so this is why the conversation with Clint is new to these people. I wanted to talk about the Federation. They use hypnosis and planting delusions in your head such as "these are not the droids you are looking for" like in Star Wars. They only occupy people with their permission and if found out they leave immediately. The Federation is more of a vertical community in dealing with earthlings. The Romulans are more horosontal. Of course their stealth technology was an advantage for a while, till everybody else got it. Even now Romulans are the most geographic of entities- - mapping out which spiritual entities live where on earth on an almost block by block mapped out- - - . At some time in the past the Romulans were occupied by Alcyonne. During that time they picked up the "J" in their alphabet. They didn't have it before, for such words as "Manja", which is a cuss word in Romulan, but it's so bad they won't tell me what it is, except to say "Mamja Bene" is about as disgusting name for a resturant as you could have. Another word "Moo-shay" or "mush" has a negative context for Romulans because in the past there was some bondage thing going on. "Mooche" just means "Let's go". My guess is they were occupied sometime during the middle ages but they won't tell me exactly when.

THREE LONG AND ONE SHORT INTERLUDE

We have been waiting out this six week interlude between presidential primaries. All of these events have happened between Obama and Clinton. Tomorrow we get to find out what it all means. I have always had the preminition that when all is said and done, Clinton will be the victor over Obama. Time will tell whether I'm right. I'm one of those people perhaps from being around the "World Net Daily" crowd lately, who feel that perhaps we should give Mc Cain a second look because the left-wing agenda of the democrats may not be to my liking in ways I've gone into in the past. I don't like the potential to interfere with family structure, or the relation between parents and their children, and I don't believe the institution of marriage should be tainted with homosexuality. I don't want government spending to go up; I want it to go down. I am against some massive expansion of Socialized Medicine. I haven't heard "grandpa" Mc Cain speak much lately and since 7.2 was off the air at ten o clock yesterday I missed John Mc Cains interview.

Another long interlude we have is the basketball play-offs. We all saw the Lakers beat the Nuggets yesterday afternoon. Now we should all take a two month long nap and wake up for the N B A finals in June where the Lakers will be playing whoever they are playing. The whole NBA play-off system is just one that takes too long from start to finish, over two months.

My Mom got another computer last Saturday and we took the HP one she had with Vista on it back to Cosco and they gave us back our money. She got it the Friday before we went on Daylight Savings Time, and in that whole month and a half period did very little with it. I am getting the vibe that she just isn't interested in having a computer.

Last Saturday night I awoke at about ten to one when I thought I heard an ex room mate saying something. I'm not sure what was a dream and what I was actually awake to hear. But a thought about God, an accusation against Him, popped into my head. It isn't the first time this accusation has occurred to me but I consider it a "deal breaker" type issue. (other "deal breakers" people might have would be joining a country club that admits Jews, or perhaps a conscientious objector in World War II, if there really is such a thing) A theologian would tell you it doesn't affect my Christian salvation but I see it differently. I'm not going to share the issue with you. I consider it personal. Let me just say it centers around whether God has the cajones to take on Satan in a fight for who is supreme. In all of the Bible there is only one old testament that even deals with this "issue" and then not as directly as I'd like. The only reference I've heard to this old testament story is in one Gene Scott sermon and also in a Jehovah's Witness illustrated book for children, where they watered the story down. The only person I've even talked to about this specific issue with no sugar coating- is Clint, that fourteen year old boy back at my old apartment in September of 1991. I was restless and stepped out to the patio for a smoke and noticed the full moon in my eyes. I realized it was Passover night. There was a guy there, Bill W, who said it was his last night here. It wasn't; I saw him this morning. There is also one movie that deals with this "issue" with God I have. And the movie ends in a shocking, bloody death. That's what happens when "issues" aren't dealt with. I thought "Well, since I have the goods on God, I should sleep well the rest of the night. Instead I had the following dream.

Last night I had on some Law and Order episode I just wasn’t tracking with. I had a dream after I went back to sleep. Dad was really mad because this one family wasn’t getting the proper respect for all the sacrificial work they had done for the church. And there was this one teenage blond who for some reason made me think of Lisa Simpson, and she married into the family and Dad as much as said she didn’t appreciate their family legacy. Also Dad made some snotty remark, “And then there are these grandkids who all they want is on Christmas morning to be taken on a sleigh ride”. I am thinking (a) why is this a sacrifice? And (b) where is the snow? In this same dream and I think I’ve had the following part recurringly. I began complaining about family gatherings giving off bad vibes starting around Thanksgiving of 2000. But the situation only got worse and I would come to dread holiday and often holiday gatherings would often be combined with church worship services. Around the first of March of 2001 I moved in with [Pete Richards] in some house in southern Fullerton and got used to all of the stores and libraries and stuff around there. There were one or more roommates but I don’t especially remember then. It only lasted a couple of months. Also starting in 2001 I would go on these long vacations like five or six weeks with parents. Only I think they were trips to the hospital to have brain surgery done on me or something because I’d come back feeling strange and disassociated from my past with gaps in memory.

The following material was typed Sunday April 20th.

This is after six. This time the plug ins did not pop up but an orange thing on the blue bar did and I also got an “unused icons” notice- - twice. Gary managed to get over half of the cigarette I was smoking for just a dime. This dashed my hopes probably of limiting my post dinner cigarettes to four. Normally the price of cigarettes is supposed to go up when they are in short supply, not down. On the ABC news they had building trust between horses and teenage girls. There is world wide food hoarding going on, hoping to drive the price up higher. People are penniless and starving right now. This is one case where I could justify stealing from another. What US farmers should do is sell our food to these poor countries if our farmers are always so broke and can’t get a decent price for their food as they always complain. I missed the Mc Cain interview because station 7.2 was off the air this morning at ten o clock. “The Ten Commandments” apparently is not on tonight. For dinner we had turkey with stuffing in short supply and cranberry sauce. A nice meal. I had seconds on the turkey and peas but they were out of stuffing. We had strawberry ice cream for desert. I went to the bakery for a large coffee that was actually hot in the evening two days in a row. Ebert and Roper are coming on now. How much is Roger Ebert paying to have his name on the show title after nearly two years?

Here’s a word to the wise. The more fundamentalist Christians find out about me- - the worse it makes them, as well as God look. I’m official charging God with a misdemeanor, of which I’ll elaborate later- - maybe. Conduct unbecoming a God. Some may say “Perhaps you’re asking something unreasonable of God”. My response is that if I were asking it of a person it would be reasonable, and the last time I heard, God had more resources than a person. Here’s another thought for you. If you judged my life on how many “mistakes” I made because I didn’t know the future, it would pale into insignificance the mistakes of others who made mistakes around me, not having to even know the future. Medication is late tonight. Watch out, I may go psycho!

Let’s discuss last night’s Sixty Minutes program. In the first segment they had a story of great bravery of our troops fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. While the story is fine as far as it goes certain questions were left unanswered. I would have liked to have seen maps and charts demonstrating why and how the Taliban got to be as powerful now as they are in Afghanistan. I would have also liked to seen a prognosis of the future of just how many troops it might take to defeat them or even whether that would be possible. The second story was the closest thing to pure bullshit I have ever seen on Sixty Minutes. They said that if you had gastric bypass surgery it would cure your weight problem- - . Actually what they said was that if you were three hundred pounds going in you’d end up as a slightly overweight two hundred pounds. They said that none of the people actually ended up skinny. My response to that is that it’s a glandular problem and this proves it because even eating much less food they are still unable to obtain completely normal weight. They then said that the surgery procedure cures diabetus in four to seven days and well before the weight comes off, and that it’s a universal cure for excessive cancer rates. They said that merely snipping off a portion of the duodenum (small intestine) cures diabetus. This lie is right up there with the notion peddled in Africa that circumcision will keep you from getting AIDS. They formerly said that the procedure was only for dire, desperate cases where nothing else works, but now they want to leagelize the procedure to broaden it’s usage for these other things. Usually they have some “balancing factor” talking about the down side of an issue but they’d lead you to believe there is no “down side” to this issue. The obvious one is nutrition. Clearly eating only a fraction of the food you had before would open you up to nutritional deficiency. As to that guy who craved cheese cake- - - cheese cake would be the first thing I’d head for. And if I got filled up on that then I just wouldn’t eat anything else. If I were a sugar junky before I’d see absolutely no reason to change now. Their third topic mystified me. They claimed this painting of a famous battle by Leonardo Di Vince is buried behind another large painting in this place in Milan or Florence or wherever, and they have been “working on the problem for thirty years”. Why don’t they just get someone to take the other picture out and end this mystery right on the spot? I don’t see the problem. If it’s there they’ll find it and if they don’t it wasn’t there.

I just bought three cigarettes from Gary. It’s past nine thirty in the morning and we all know I had extra money last week but this week there is that 24 plus hour interlude where I am without cigarettes. Gary in the past has offered eight for a dollar and sixy for 75 cents. He’s wised up and no longer has those bargain rates. Today I bought three for fifty five cents, with another thirty cents for at least one more cigarette later.

Once there was a cat who was afraid of other dogs so that it cowered. But one day a tiger said to the cat, "When you get afraid, just plump yourself up and growel like a tiger". The cat did this and it worked for a while, till one day he again met this same tiger and remembered it not. The cat groweled at the tiger and the tiger said "Don't try that on me. I'm the one you got it from in the first place." The moral of this story is "Don't dis the one who gave you the power you have in the first place".

I don't know why some of these blogs have places for headings and some don't. I'd like to say we are about to celebrate Freedom Friday, or Patriots Friday or whatever. It's the anniversary of Paul Revere's ride to warn of Lexington and Concord. To celebrate this day there is that anti Science movie out called "Expelled", which perports i imagine to "expose" Big Science for being narrow-minded and not looking at the facts. Of course we know that people of the Far Right of the World Net Daily variety will seek out people who agree with them and ignore anybody else. I was just reading more of that Cults book I've been reading. Limiting information that cult members get is a key weapon, for sure. This particular book, while a good one, is flawed. For instance they include Scientology along with other groups such as the Moonies, the People's Temple, and the Children of God. This is sad because the book adeptly in many key areas sounds like something L Ron Hubbard would write when it talks about programming the mind. As to myself I would say in some key ways my experiance with Fundamentalist Christianity was dissimilar to that of a cult recruitment. For instance one might say that I "Chassed after Christianity like a love-sick school girl". In the second half of 1975 I on my own altered my behavior such as listening to people like Jimmy Swaggart and Stewart Mc Burnie, and Doug Clark, and I began reading things from right wing authors including three Hal Lindsey books. I also read novels such as "666" and "1000" including stuff by more off-beat authors of questionable beliefs. I was going now to launch into my personal beef with the Calvary Chapel system. I'm not doing this because since I haven't been around these people, really, in years I feel I might be unfair. But there are enough lines in the Bible to provide a foundation for Cult indoctrination such as "He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me". Incessently you hear that it is your duty to sacrifice your Life for God and to God should he require it. We are told that hesitation is one of the worst sins you can commit. And "Holding back" is perhaps the worst sin of all. The worst sin in the Bible is a married couple lying about how much money they gave to the church. That this incident should be elevated to such paramount importance speaks volumes about the psychology of fundamentalist Christianity. In cults there is the whole idea of "Getting under your skin" and "playing with your mind". It doesn't necessarily mean being exposed to a fire and brimstone sermon. As the book states it's less what a cult doctrinally states they believe and more How They Act and Behave. They lie. They change the subject when confronted. And they invent doctrines to fit the occasion. Jesus on KFI has his Swine Doctrine which goes "If you say to a certain person- - 'You Swine" then you are excused from following the Golden Rule". I get worried because this is not thirty years ago and people don't just "sit and dream about things" like they used to. I will say this about my own religious involvement with Calvary Christians. Every time there was a "change" either in teachers or New Members arriving- - the change always pushed the environment in a more restrictive direction and a more legalistic direction. Usually "getting serious" about the Faith means that person is now a whole lot harder to live with. I don't know about now- - but today most Christians associate themselves with the farthest of the Far Right. There is a shell of protectiveness people envelope themselves in. As bad as my past experiance with the Calvary Chapels has been, the worst of them is several layers removed from the Rev. Bill Halliday. A few minutes with him is as destructive as a whole year with a Calvary Christian, if you catch my drift. Some cults are dangerous because the leader has discipline and drive and stick-to-it-iveness. These are good traits. But another could be just as depraved of soul and spirit and seeking the things cult leaders have, but lacks the drive and initiate to accomplish what he desires. Should such a person be spared whatever fires of Hell await the first group because he's lacking the necessary positive traits? Today people such as Calvary Chapels voice their politics openly. They are no longer trying to pass themselves off as "Just another place where hippies can Praise the Lord". Cult watchers will stress there are doctrines they want the public to hear about their beliefs and there is what they Really believe. Today people like World Net Daily's audience- - would not have lasted two seconds in the world of 35 years ago. People would look at them and point and say "You must be some kind of freak". But today to paraphrase, "Right wing is now Mainstream".

I would like to talk a little more about last night's Presidential debate. People like Thom Hartman and Randy Rhodes have done a good job of exposing the biasness of the ABC TV network, and many are boycotting ABC news because of last night's attricity against fairness. I admit I virtually ignored the whole inherent unfairness element of last night. They grilled Obama like something out of the inquisition, and were I Obama I would have told those moderators to Fuck Off, more than once. And what's his name kept saying "Every time the capital gains tax is cut the revenues go up- - what do you think of that?" This sounds like a Rush Limbaugh talking point if there ever was one. The truth is simple. People sold a lot of real property in 1985 and 1986 in anticapation of the hike in property - - excuse me- - capital gains tax. So of course revenues went up when this one time rush of property was sold. In like manner when Clinton cut the rate back down to twenty percent late in the last decade, prices topped out in speculations because people now suddenly "had a lot more profits" and decided to cash them in and take a cruise around the world or whatever. In any case this was a one time affair. Since when do "Moderators" take part in the advocacy process themselves in debates? But all of the important issues including all those skeletons in Hillary's closet were not even discussed. None of the scandal of the Bush adminestration was discussed, so far as I'm aware of. One could clearly complain, "Where's the Beef"? Some have said last night's debate was the worst of any of the debates they've held. As long as the right wing defines or frames the issues than it's the people at large in this country who are being brainwashed. (Selah)

I would now like to do a little Johnny Wendell type rant where I advocate for something that might seem right wing whacko. What if they eliminated the right to attorney - client provelege? This means that any evidence obtained by any bugging device can be used as evidence against the defendant. It's always mystified me why they have these evidence hearings determining like some shell game, which evidence can and cannot be used and which witnesses can and are not allowed to testify in the case depending on whether they are "on the list". And personally I think "discovery" sucks no matter whether it is the prosecution or the defense that invokes it. If you have nothing to hide- - then there is no problem. Can't they do like with drunk drivers and say that by pleading not guilty you are giving up the right to hide things from the legal system? I don't know. You have to admit such a ruling would sure streamline trials and insure that an awful lot of guilty people get convicted.

As you may or not know I have a bias against "Child protective services". I believe more often than not they overstep their bounds and take children from innocent parents and trample on parental rights. People forget that the Foster Care system spawns all sorts of child abuse. I don't know why but that's what I've heard. It certainly does nothing for a child's esteem. You may have the kid here and there who is beaten wrongly by his parents. Perhaps the physical scars, if any, aren't as bad as the psychological scars that kid would endure as a pawn in the juvenile court system. What if he runs away from his foster parents and is out alone on the streets?

You know, people talk about nuclear poliferation. How about Meat Poliferation. It would seem an epidemic of Meat eating throughout the world just might be one of the worst things, ecologically, that could happen. Societies who have managed this far on very little are now demanding large amounts of it as part of their Westernized diet. Of course all that cattle and pork requires feed. And that is grain that could more profitably be used for feeding human beings. Then there is the whole pesticide problem where with each element of the life chain the pesticide enters and then gets eaten by another- the concentration of pesticide gets that much stronger. And by the way- - disposable diapers for our diaper set is responsable for the deaths of a lot of trees not to mention untold polution. I guess we should all be thankful the rest of the world doesn't produce as much trash as we do or we'd all be burried in a sea of trash. And perhaps as far as transportation goes, we should go retro in this country and start using bicycles to get to work. Perhaps we could do it on casual Fridays so that people don't mess up their suits. Perhaps there is some tax incentive to encourage people to ride bikes. I surely think we will have to accelerate our fuel efficiency standards from any pace not imagined. Also I think we could use tax incentives for having fewer biological children by saying only dependents who are not biological products can be used as tax exemptions. Another area where I'd get rid of tax exemptions is churches holding property but that's another story. We have to start thinking about the future because like they say "Tomorrow will be here before you know it". We need to look at energy consumption in terms of tomorrow's reality rather than by the fond, but outdated idealism of yesterday. (Selah)