THE EVER PRESENT THREAT OF ASSASSINATION

As you know, today is December 7th and the 68th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941. It was earlier in 1941 that Franklin Roosevelt delivered his Four Freedoms speech. In this speech he said people of the world are entitled to freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. But the question is whether freedom from fear is a realized value to a lot of citizens of the world subject as they are to oppressive dictatorships and the other horrors described in the previous posting. Tomorrow is the 29th anniversary of the assassination of John Lennon. Number 29 in the I Ching was something I did commentary on back in October of 1997. Number 29 with a nine at the top symbolizes a wooden raft sailing over the abysmal waters, safe to the harbor on the other side, presumably. John Lennon wrote a song shortly before he died called "Living on borrowed time". You've probably heard it. In this song he expresses the joy he now has in life "without a thought for tomorrow". The song is eerily prophetic. And yet in many people's minds, people become expendable. I've often marveled as the way Christians are able to "blow off" people in lost relationships as though they were yesterday's baggage. The day before John Lennon was shot, Chuck Smith gave a message where he talked about the deaths of his father and his brother in a plane crash. You wonder what sort of loss this would engender in the survivors. But there is a thing called the Pete Richards sidrone where these losses are just considered as "part of God's plan" and who can argue with that? As John Lennon said again prophetically in another recent song "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans". In the mind of Mark David Chapman, John became the source of all his problems and hang-ups and by killing John Lennon as the "embodyment" of all his "issues" then the problem could be relieved. The voice in his head were screaming "Do it". Time and again Champan would relent as the forces of sanity in his life tried to regain a foothold, but in the end, the forcess of madness ruled, and we are all the poorer for it. We don't know what sort of political or pshchological force in the world that John Lennon would have been under Ronald Reagan. We all know that God has alotted a certain amount of time for all of us on this planet, and that we cannot worry about it "add one cubit to our alotted span of time". (Selah)

I’ve been watching the Senate debate on the Health Care bill this morning and have come to certain conclusions. You should hear John Kerry’s speech going on right now that the Republicans are offering the Craid amendment to scare Republicans into the false belief that the main bill will somehow misappropriate payroll taxes away from Medicare. This is a falsehood and a rhetorical guimic to insure that positive changes made in this bill are not realized for good. First I watched the democratic senator from North Dekoda and he said that that it was the democrats who want to cut Medi-Care costs by 370 Billion dollars or whatever- - so that fraud and waste is eliminated and that the Bush administration proposed an even larger medi-care cut proposal of over 400 billion dollars, so that you can’t say the republicans don’t want to cut medicare. However it’s come to my attention now that if it involved padding insurance company profits, the Republicans are in favor of it. Anything that might tend to diminish insurance company profits the republicans are against. This Craig amendment will prevent any savings in medi-care from being used for the new health bill. The Republicans use the term of “assumptions have to be made” for this Democratic savings to be realized. Well, life in general is making “assumptions” and yes, the democrats are saying “yes, with the provisions of our bill enacted into law- - these savings will be realized”. But Republicans say “Well you know old people are never going to allow one dime of medi-care funding to be withheld”. To hear these Republicans talk you’d think they invented medi-care in the first place, instead of violently opposing the original bill back in 1965. These Republicans are so in the back pocked of insurance companies that they will do or say anything to keep up their little sweetheart arrangement with them.

Yesterday in the news there was a horrible story about a young boy about 11 or 12 who had to undergo the removal of his remaining eye from cancer. They removed one eye at birth saying they’d have to remove the other eye at some later date. The boy is in amazing spirits for someone about to have his life stripped away from him. His desire was to meet the USC football team and watch practice, and even “post op” he has demonstrated enthusiasm about their games.

There were a number of good movies reviewed in “At the Movies”. The one about the two marine brothers and the awful statement of the Dad wishing that the surviving brother had died, was akin to that Johnny Cash movie. What do you do with a cold bastard father like that? And the brother thought dead in the marines was really alive after all but he comes back all embittered. There was another movie about a Dad visiting all of his adult children in various parts of the country because all of them refused to come to a family reunion he had scheduled.

Then there is the story about the Black guy running that advanced school for Harlem disadvantaged youngsters and the amazing results he was able to achieve. Then also on Sixty Minutes was the referee who bet on his own games. He won 75% of the time and drew the attention of the Gambino family who wanted in on the action to the tune of millions of dollars in profits. The mafia made a whole lot more money on these bets than the rogue referee himself, who was referee in NBA games. The referee let the mob in on his action because he had no choice. There were people out ready to kill his family if he didn't cooperate. It was kind of a new sense of fear he'd never known before. But the FBI concluded to everyone’s surprise that this referee was honist in all of his calls. He made his money because he knew how crooked the system was and how they take vengeance on certain players like Iverson, and favor other ones like Colby Bryant. Also there is a conspiracy to lengthen the playoffs between teams by helping whoever is behind so the series will go longer. To me the referee is more Hero than Devil because he exposed fraud in the N B A. Because of his actions in gambling, the N B A may be actually cleaning up their act now.

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In the past couple of days the whole mystery of Einstein's theory of special relativity has come into crystal clear focus. I'd like to talk about the effects of light delayed images. When you see a flat image on a delayed basis you see the whole image at once, only later. But when you have a real life or 3 D image, the varying lengths and distances light has to travel to get to you means varying degrees is distortion if you are viewing fast moving "targets". First of all the key to the whole thing is that if you are traveling away from an object, the objects behind you shrink in their front to back distance. And the objects ahead of you are longer (like a high angle setting on Sketch they "recede") - - only in the dimension of travel. It dawned on me that even if Einstein's theory wern't around, when you engaged in really fast space travel - - optically you would see the objects in front of you shrunken in sort of a Christmas tree ornament or fish eye lens type of situation. Objects directly to the side of you would appear to be still in front of you but you would "see around them" so to speak due to a distorted image. Optically you would experiance an increased "depth of focus" phenomon like with a wide angel lens of a camera. Objects behind you would appear like a telephoto lens with a diminished depth of focus meaning you had to be "exact" in your focus. Also in front of you the sides of objects would be enhanced whereas looking behind you - - the sides of objects would be of diminished importance, like looking through a telescope. Now objects headed away from you Shrink, as most people say - in front to back depth. But objects in front of you "recede" away or Stretch distance. Also time moves faster for objects approaching you. (the doppler theory proved this without even using Einstein) So this theory about "we are the only still people" isn't quite true. Our time goes slower than it does for objects approaching us but faster than objects headed away from us. To me this is one aspect of the theory that needs to be made clear to others. If the universe is expanding then most of the mass would assume a spherical bulb shape in the Universe. I had that part right. Here are two more key things to remember. Acceleration moving forward is always diminished and acceleration moving backward is always enhanced. Like if a football player throws a forward pass and he's running forward- - normally that forward motion would ADD to the speed of the ball and if the player were running backward then his throw would be weaker than normal. Einstein's theory Eliminates this discrepency so that forward and backward speeds match. Also with Einstein is that there is a quality of the non simotanious nature of events that appear simotanious to other observers. But what the theory does and says is that yes, if you are approaching something you will see the event SOONER and if you are going away you will see the event LATER. However here is where Alice in Wonderland logic comes in. Because like in Einstein's "train signal" analogy - - viewers on the train see the lights from the engine and the caboose SIMOTANIOUSLY. But if you are stationary you see the Caboose light first and then the Engine light. But Einstein says this is NOT an optical illusion but that as far as you're concerned the caboose light REALLI IS FLASHING first. And so when you figure the speed of light from engine and caboose - - you jerry rig the figures so that the speeds match. Here is the reason why the "beam" to the engine appears not to go faster than the beam to the caboose. That is because the light after going to the engine still has to go from there to your eyes. Because light never varies in speed. OK you can ask me questions about any of this if you want.

OH- - I forgot to talk about "reprocity of measurements". This word "recriprocity" is used the same way as psychologists use the word as in talking about Aspurger sidrone people lacking emotional reprocity. The term isn't used the way you would use it in math meaning "devided into one". For instance if I come up to you and say "You are slower than I am" then you would recriprocate and say "No, Charlie - you are slower than I am". Each sees the other as the other sees him. This is reciprocity. In answer to your question about TIME and SPACE TRAVEL - what this reciprocity doctrine does is pretty much wipe out any time difference if you take a trip to Neptune and I stay here on earth. There is one Small Time Factor however involving General relativity and psudo gravity caused by Acceleration. This phenomonon is NON reciprical. That Small portion of time distortion will remain. But you have to have a LOT of gravity to distort time, like say a neutron star or something. That would cause a lot of distortion. Feel free to ask me about any of this.

The big news of the day seems to be that ComCast is going to buy out NBC because General Electric wants to let it go. Apparently the number of major communacation outlets in the country has gone from 53 or something in 1983 - to just six today. This is most certainly an alarming trend. According to George Washington's blog there are five reasons why the media is so pro war in Afghanistan and most of the reasons have to do with either self cencorship or government sencorship. There are a couple of links you should look at that lay out the organization of the communacations media today. As you can see, choice is not a major factor in our TV news selections.

• The Nation

• Free Press

Of course many are saying that we need to take the money raising aspects out of political campaigns. Money feeds the war machine. It all depends where the oil is and the pipelines are which "Just causes" we decide to intervene in. There are all sorts of dictatorships and rape and oppression and genocide in the rest of the world. There is the "blood for gold" scandal that 60 Minutes recently talked about. We ourselves in this country have recently been in grave danger of losing a lot of our rights. Why is President Obama pursuing a war the American People do not want? Thomas Jefferson said "All a Tyranny needs to establish itself in a country is for good men of conscience to do nothing". What do you think? When it comes to the Afghan war itself people confuse the Talliban with Al Qaeda. Apparently it was Al Queda that planned the 9 - 11 attacks and not the Talliban. But it is the Talliban that rule Afghanistan whereas Al Queda are in Pakistan. Some have suggested that they could easily relocate, but according to the secretaries of Defence and State yesterday they are going to stay where they are because "This is the historic site of their victory over the Soviets" and also it was said that "No other area of the world would be more hospitable to them". But if Al Qaeda can plan attacks on the US from Germany, I don't see how leveling Afghanistan will solve the problem. If we're worrked about Al Qaeda getting nukes as the President suggested the other night, Pakistan is the one with the Nukes - and the US isn't going to invade Pakistan. The whole war campaign is frought with illogic.

Unemployment is now back down to 10.0 % We are so desperate for any good news on the economy this story will have to do. Randy Rhodes, as an Obama apologist points out that they revised the October and September job loss figures sharply downward, and that this month only 11,000 jobs were lost, which is nothing compared to the 600,000 we were having per month. Also the Chicago index of business activity was at 56.1 last month and they say any time it's over fifty it means the economy is doing better. This index has been on the rise since August. But what I can't escape is the reality of that "real rate" of 17% unemployment, and how the 10. 0 % figure was only possible because people who had given up looking for work were knocked off the unemployment rolls. When they again are counted, we'll talk again.

Professor Dyer or whoever says "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." Just think for a moment how utterly infantile that sounds! But some people look at things that are clearly illusion and label them as reality. This is where Einstein's "train analogy" we talked about kind of gets off the track to most people. We know when something is "really happening at the same time as something else". Because a "normal person" sees one explanation for why you see the caboose signal light before you see the engine light- - in the example. But Einstein and how followers have a whole other Alice in Wonderland "explanation" for viewing the same data. If we really do have the power to change "things" by "looking at them differently" there is a lot of untapped power out there. Our President wrote "The Audacity of Hope" whereas in retrospect the book should have been titled "The Audacity of Peddeling Hope". That's what the President did. He sold us all a pig in a poke. But every time the President has had to make a decision of real subatance, he's made the wrong one. That's my oppinion anyhow.

DOES THE RIGHT WING MATTER? I believe in giving the right wing equal time to air their case. If any of the charges listed here are relivant to the job Obama is doing as President, I as a patriotic American want to know. We are however going to perform a "breast reduction" on Anne Culter, so that nobody mistakes her as a woman, and so the text doesn't take up so much space. Read this in good health..

The Fanatical Transformation of Glen Beck's America

When Obama wrote a book and said he was mentored as a youth by Frank, (Frank Marshall Davis) an avowed Communist, people said "POWER TO THE PEOPLE".

When it was discovered that his grandparents, were strong socialists, sent Obama's mother to a socialist school, introduced Frank Marshall Davis to young Obama, People said, "Nice background".

When people found out that he was enrolled as a Muslim child in school and his father and step father were both Muslims, people said it was good upbringing.

When he wrote in another book he authored “I will stand with them (Muslims) should the political winds shift in an ugly direction,” people said it didn't matter.

When he admittedly, in his book, said he chose Marxist friends and professors in college, people said it was "youthful folly".

When he traveled to Pakistan after college on an unknown national passport, (it could NOT have been a US passport as the US didn't have diplomatic relations with Pakistan at the time..),people said it didn't matter.

When he sought the endorsement of the Marxist party in 1996 as he ran for the Illinois Senate, people said it doesn't matter. http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2008/05/29/obama-sought-endorsement-of-marxist-third-party-in-1996/

When he sat in a Chicago Church for twenty years and listened to a preacher spew hatred for America and preach black liberation theology, people gave the Black Power salute in response.

When an independent Washington organization, that tracks senate voting records, gave him the distinctive title as the "most liberal senator,"people said, "gee, I wish I had that rating".

When the Palestinians in Gaza set up a fund raising telethon to raise money for his election campaign, people said "give Palistinians a chance.

When his voting record supported gun control, people said. "You're mistaken".

When he refused to disclose who donated money to his election campaign, as other candidates had done, people said it didn't matter..

When he received endorsements from people like Louis Farrakhan, Mummar Kadaffi and Hugo Chavez, people said it showed good taste.

When it was pointed out that he was a total, newcomer and had absolutely no experience at anything except community organizing, people said it didn't matter.

When he chose friends and acquaintances such as Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn who were rvolutionary radicals, people said it "wasn't no never mind".

When his voting record in the Illinois senate and in the U.S. Senate came into question, people said "questioning is good".

When he refused to wear a flag lapel pin and did so only after a public outcry, people said it didn't matter.

When people started treating him as a Messiah and children in schools were taught to sing his praises, people said it "really did their soul good".

When he stood with his hands over his [eyes] for the playing of the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance, people said it didn't matter.

When he surrounded himself in the White People's House with advisors who were pro gun control, pro abortion, pro homosexual marriage and wanting to curtail freedom of speech to silence the opposition, people said it didn't matter.

When he aired his views on abortion, homosexuality and a host of other issues, people said he was a flip-flopper.

When he said he favors sex education in kindergarten, including homosexual indoctrination, people said it didn't matter.

When his background was either scrubbed or hidden and nothing could be found about him, people said it didn't matter.

When the place of his birth was called into question, and he refused to produce a birth certificate, people said it it was made up.

When he had an association in Chicago with Tony Zco, a man of questionable character, who is now in prison and had helped Obama to a sweet deal on the purchase of his home, people said it didn't matter.

When it became known that George Soros, a multi-billionaire Marxist, spent a ton of money to get him elected, people said it didn't matter.

When he started appointing "czars" without Senate approval that were radicals, revolutionaries, and even avowed Marxist/Communist, people said it didn't matter.

When he stood before the nation and told us that his intentions were to "fundamentally transform this nation" into something else, people said it didn't matter.

When it became known that he had trained ACORN workers in Chicago and served as an attorney for ACORN, people said it didn't matter.

When he appointed cabinet members and several advisors who were tax cheats and socialists, people said it didn't matter.

When he appointed a science czar, John Holdren, who believes in forced abortions, mass sterilizations and seizing babies from teen mothers, people said it didn't matter.

When he appointed Cass Sunstein as regulatory czar and he believes in "Explicit Consent," harvesting human organs without family consent, and to allow animals to be represented in court, while banning all hunting, people said it didn't matter.

When he appointed Kevin Jennings, a homosexual, and organizer of a group called gay, lesbian, straight, Education network, as safe school czar and it became known that he had a history of bad advice to teenagers, people said it didn't matter.

When he appointed Mark Lloyd as diversity czar and he believed in curtailing free speech, taking from one and giving to another to spread the wealth and admires Hugo Chavez, people said it didn't matter.

When Valerie Jarrett was selected as Obama's senior White House advisor and she is an avowed Socialist, people said it didn't matter.

When Anita Dunn, White House Communications director said Mao Tse Tung was her favorite philosopher and the person she turned to most for inspiration, people said it didn't matter.

When he appointed Carol Browner as global warming czar, and she is a well known socialist working on Cap and trade as the nations largest tax, people said it doesn't matter.

When he appointed Van Jones, an ex-con and avowed Communist as green energy czar, who since had to resign when this was made known, people said it didn't matter.

When Tom Daschle, Obama's pick for health and human services secretary could not be confirmed, because he was a tax cheat, people said it didn't matter.

When as president of the United States, he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, people said it didn't matter.

When he traveled around the world criticizing America and never once talking of her greatness, people said it didn't matter.

When his actions concerning the middle-east seemed to support the Palestinians over Israel, our long time friend,People said it doesn't matter.

When he took American tax dollars to resettle thousands of Palestinians from Gaza to the United States, people said it doesn't matter.

When he upset the Europeans by removing plans for a missile defense system against the Russians, People said it doesn't matter.

When he played politics in Afghanistan by not sending troops the Field Commanders said we had to have to win, people said it didn't matter.

When he started spending us into a debt that was so big we could never pay it off, people said it didn't matter.

When he took a huge spending bill under the guise of stimulus and used it to pay off organizations, unions and individuals that got him elected, people said it didn't matter.

When he took over insurance companies, car companies, banks, etc. people said it didn't matter.

When he took away student loans from the banks and put them through the government, people said it didn't matter.

When he designed plans to take over the health care system and put it under government control, people said it didn't matter.

When he set into motion a plan to take over the control of all energy in the United States through Cap and Trade, people said it didn't matter.

When he finally completed his transformation of America into a Socialist State, people finally woke up...but it was too late!

Any one of these things, in and of themselves does not really matter. But.... when you add them up one by one you get a phenomenal score that points to the fact that our Obama is determined to make America over into a Marxist/Socialist society. All of the items in the preceding paragraphs have been put into place. All can be documented very easily. Before you disavow this, do an internet search. The last paragraph alone is not yet cast in stone. You and I will write that paragraph. Will it read as above or will it be a more happy ending for most of America? Personally, I like happy endings.

• If you are an Obama Supporter, please do not be angry with me because I think your president is a socialist but there are too many facts supporting this.

• If you seek the truth you will be richer for it.

• Don't just belittle the opposition. Search for the truth. I did.

• Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Constitutionalist, Libertarians and what have you, we all need to pull together. We all must pull together or watch the demise of a society that we all love and cherish.

• If you are a religious person, pray for our nation.

Never before in the history of America have we been confronted with problems so huge that the very existence of our country is in jeopardy.

Don't rely on most television news and what you read in the newspapers for the truth. Search the Internet. Yes, there is a lot of bad information, lies and distortions there too but you are smart enough to spot the fallacies.

Newspapers are a dying breed. They are currently seeking a bailout from the government. Do you really think they are about to print the truth? (The ONLY newspaper that tells the truth is The Wall Street Journal. It is the Fox News of print journalism and is the #1 newspaper in the USA.) Obama praises all the television news networks except Fox who he has waged war against. There must be a reason. He does not call them down on any specifics, just a general battle against them. If they lie, he should call them out on it but he doesn't. Please, seek the truth; it will set you free.

Our biggest enemy is not China, Russia, Iran; no, our biggest enemy is a contingent of politicians in Washington DC.

Zephorah said to Moses, “You are a bloody man!” She didn’t like Moses serving a bloody god like Jehovah, who believed not only in animal sacrifice, but on occasion, human sacrifice, as in the case of Jeptha’s daughter, or the five sons of Michelle, one of the wives of Solomon. These five men “hung before the Lord” as some sort of atonement sacrifice, and not for deeds they themselves were guilty of. The Bible also speaks of “Meddeling to your own hurt”. This is what Judah did when it tried to intervene in foreign conflicts that were none of it’s business. Lately I have witnessed my own family having done this and “meddeling in my affairs” in areas they had no business doing. And yet the United States loves to do this. The USA is a Bloody Nation and loves to sacrifice lives- - particularly lives of the foreigners it invades. We wouldn’t want someone doing this with us. If you get in the middle of a family conflict be prepared to be seen as the villain by both sides. And Afghanistan is like a family conflict. On Star Trek they preached against going to a planet and taking sides in favor of one group of armed people against another, neither of which knew anything about Space Travel. Some might say that the Republican Party should be renamed the War Party. Their slogan is “Pick a War- - Any War”. Just fill in the blanks as to which group you’re going to hate today. Is it immigrants this week or gays. It isn’t Communists any longer. Oh yeah, today Islamists are the flavor of the day, fighting against “Islamo-Fasciests”. Of course in my life I fight against the “Christo-family oppression complex”. Try putting that on a campaign pin. Of course most Islamists are anything but fascist and often take exception to the sort of economic fascism the United States practices. Some like me would say, “If it’s oppressed women that you’re bothered about- - then send in agitation groups to insure women’s rights. Send in protests to engage in civil disobedience, which is admittably a dangerous practice in Islamic culture. A well timed protest movement, as Ghandi showed, can be as effective as war to bring Empires down. But really our Republican friends were not always the war party. The 1940 Campaign platform of Wendell Wilkie heralded equal rights for women, as well as opposition to World War II. Abraham Lincoln himself was selective about which wars he liked. For instance he wrote against the Mexican War. That war conveniently arranged it so we in Southern California didn’t have to speak Spanish. Nobody wants to roll back that clock. I don’t know what it is that Republicans are really looking for. When they are attracted to people like Sarah Palin - - one realizes that their irrationality knows no bounds, to elect a congenital liar like that.

They are discussing health care today in the Senate. Senator Bernie Sanders went off topic to put in a plug for not re-electing Ben Vernanky as Federal Reserve Chairman, though he really failed to come up with a substantive reason why he in particular should be singled out, as opposed to Larry Summers or Timothy Geitner or all of the other Wall Street sycophants that the President hangs around with these days. I think Senator Bernie Sanders’ time would be better used proposing trade legislation, and composing laws that don’t encouraging corporations relocating overseas, and that “Buy American” is entrenched in any bill affecting international commerce. Actually I think there just might yet be hope for this Democratic Health Bill. I’d like to see a real knock down drag out debate on the monitary and alledged savings aspects of this bill, and how it makes the system more efficient. I’d like to hear more about deficit reduction and are the figures the democrats are providing honest or not? Have the figures been jiggled so as not to be relevant to any reality? I think every American should be tuned into these debates on C-Span since this bill will so obviously be affecting their daily lives. You heard the breast cancer commission say that their recommendation about mammograms was not to be constrewed as any sort of proposed alteration in Medi-Care policy, even though Republicans were quick to pounce on this idea. I think we can all pretty much agree that the goal of national health care is to cover the most amount of people for the greatest number of services they actually will need regularly, and do it for the least possible per patient cost, and that this cost should ideally be less than they are paying right now. If the Democrats can deliver that then I’ll support the bill. History will not look too kindly on us if we once again “kick the can down the road” and go on as we are with insurance rates destined to double every ten years or so and bankrupting us all.

People speak of ideas warring against one another. I have proposed an idea where ideas are like things. But that the human spirit inhabits these ideas, so it might almost be said that the ideas themselves have Egoes. Ideas don’t know anything about time. Like that tsunami tribe in SE Asia, words like “wait” and “hope” and “patience” are not in their vocabulary. Ideas live in the perpetual state of “Now”, like Charles Manson preached. Ideas want to control space and when they do this they are freer to operate and to launch assaults against other ideas that inhabit the chessboard. People in this realm don’t really have “Time”. When a human being says “I need Time” he means “Not now”. And “Not Now” is as good as a “No” to an idea. In this realm of ideas- - everything with an ego is lost in the “Now”. They don’t have concepts like, first, second or last. Nobody in that realm Owns anything. They Control space. They have all of the Things they need and aren’t worry about their Things being stolen, because the Things that go along with the Idea are only suited to their owners. There are no concepts per se of any sectors of land they own - - and geometry of shapes doesn’t exist there, except perhaps as a form of artistic expression. In this realm nobody worries about tomorrow and they don’t wait till tomorrow for anything. Doubts don’t exist up there per se because everybody and everything is “self actualized”. The trouble is that people with Bad Karma are actualized in their Pain. People with good karma are actualized in their Pleasure. I hope this has clarified things for you. I don’t know what causes such sensient beings to reincarnate, and it might not even be up to them. Any more than a caterpillar sits down and plans out how he is going to emerge as a butterfly.

I would at this time like to clarify issues as to Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity. Much of the problem is resolved when one contemplates that not everybody sees the exact same event as “simotanious”. Some see A happening before B and in turn before event C. Some see A, B, and C happening all at once. Others will see the same series of events in reverse order. Wickepedia had a chart involving this where the squares become oblique- -and the grid becomes skewed. If you are watching events A, B, and C, from a distance and are stationary, you may see the events as simotanious. But if your vector travel is headed “to the right” or closer to C than A, you will swear that the events on A occurred after events on B. So light from A had to travel faster because you as X were moving away. Newtonian vectors get neutralized under Einstain. And you will also swear that events on C occurred first, and before B. But you will reason to yourself that light from C didn’t have to come as far because you were moving. Yet you “see” that the distance between A and C are equal. And you say “C" came before A”. In like manner if you are at a train platform and suppose there is a train headed west - - and you are looking south. And the train is moving rapidly and from the center of this moving train a radio signal is generated so as to be seen by both the engine and the caboose, equal distances away. And to you on the train these events are simotanious. And when the signal hits these two end points, beacons crash and the person on the stationary train platform sees the caboose light before the engine light flash. Not for the reason you are thinking. But you believe that the caboose light really IS flashing sooner and the engine light really IS flashing later. Because the radio signal from the center of the train had to travel more distance, IF you are on the platform. If you are on the moving train you see the distances as equal and the signals arriving at the same time. Here is one more example. A space ship labeled B is moving half the speed of light twords planet C and away from planet A. If both of the planets A and C agree to flash a signal “at the same time” - -the light from planet A will have to travel faster to "chase down" the moving B ship - but the ship will see the light from A as having left later than from on C - since “everybody” sees light traveling the same speed – whichever thing you are going TWORD will always appear to be cheating and sending their signal SOONER so you’ll figure that factor in Calculating the Speed. But if you are on planet C looking at rocket ship B you will conclude that the light traveled a greater distance from A to B than from C to B but on the ship you see these distances as equal. If on the other hand rocket ship B flashes a signal simultaneously to planets A and C, remember the ship is headed from A to C, then if you’re on stationary planet D equal distant from A and C you will see the signal be generated and arrived at the same time but on the ship B, it will see C's light as having arrived sooner "because there was less distance to travel because C was seen to have moved in B's perception. What I am saying that Einstein says these events don’t APPEAR to not be simultaneous but in some way they really ARE not simotanious. As to the relativity of dialated or slowed down time, it is much as you and I suspected. EACH moving object perceives the OTHER as having slowed down time. They call this a Reciprocal Property. It’s what Wickipedia calls “counter intuitive” On the other hand in General relativity when gravity is the culprit slowing down time- - this is NON Reciprocal dialation of time. Capish?

President Obama Makes Case for Going to War

President Obama tonight at West point gave the sort of stock speech that "should" be appealing to the right wing. Unfortunately the right wing in the form of Rush Limbaugh has already weighed in on this speech hours before it was even delivered. Rush Limbaugh claimed that Obama would enphasize the temporary nature of the current "surge 2010" effort, and how Obama doesn't want to be trapped into a ten year long protracted war. Rush said that Obama would attack Bush and Chaney and Rmusfeld in their handeling of this war. But what did Obama really say? He talked about how the Talliban somehow "appeared out of nowhere and took over" after Afghanistan expelled the Soviets. The truth is that the US were supporters of the Talliban back then. Obama omitted this little factoid. Also omitted was the fact that the 9 - 11 attacks were not even planned in Afghanistan but in Germany and other far removed nation and that fifteen out of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. Also omitted was how close President Bush was with Talliban officials. Also, the President failed to mention that General Mc Crystal was the same general who was "kicked upstairs for incompetence" after covering up the Pat Tilman "friendly fire" affair. We are told that the Afghani people support the actions of the United States and that the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan under Karzai are more trustworthy than they used to be. This is another mis-assumption. The plain fact of the matter is that the US is expanding wholesale into two Mideast wars at the same time and taxing our service men unduly. Of course people will compare Obama to President Bush, who never attended a single funeral of a fallen soldier. Unfortunately President Obama's speech will please no one. The President is living in a mythical world where spending money on War is perfectly OK, even while he is professing concern about the national deficit. One sure outcome of this decision to send more troops is greater recruiting appeal of the Talliban. You can't go to war with an idea in a nation that arguably has no organized leadership at all but is made up of a disperate collection of tribes that often war with each other. The American people won't buy this speech, or the idea of a massive escalation of hostilities. I don't think President Obama realizes the utter impossibility of this task. We are reminded that Afghanistan is only slightly larger than Iraq in area, the "theater of battle" is much more vast and wide spread, as the population is much more evenly spread out over the land. Next, we are told that this "surge" will enable the US to "train the Afghan army in eighteen months". We've had eight years to "train the Afghan army" assuming there even IS one that will do our bidding, what makes us think can accomplish this task now? Rush Limbaugh believes that Bin Laden is dead, and I'm inclined to believe that. That right there should pop our whole motivational balloon. I'm inclined to view these terrorist acts as more criminal in nature rather than cause for a generalized military action.

That Dyre positive confession guy has cancer now. People are wondering about whether is is going to alter his message because of his new circumstance. Not to be sarcastic or anything but this new "development" as it were "provides a new oppertunity to put his theories to the test". It's like a guy carrying a rain coat and an umbrella everywhere and one day it actually rains and he has the opportunity to use his implements. People put their lives on the line for their country, but some people will put their lives on the line for their belief system, saying that their Beliefs must be guarded and protected "at any price". (Selah) There is a "Meme" that compells them to do so. Last Saturday I said almost absent mindedly that I was thankful that I was no longer in debt. Then I received a phone call that evening claiming that I had short changed the phone company by four dollars. My response to this is that "If I had to have all my Christian prayers reflect reality I'd be screwed before I began". Christianity has never been about reality. Clearly I had definite money problems last Saturday. In Christianity it's fashionable to deny the obvious as a means of appearing "spiritual". It's an entrenched force of habbit. The Devil brings occasion in my life to expose basic flaws in my Christian belief. One might think that if others are "blessed" with the exposition of flaws in their own belief, them just might try changing their belief systems so they more closely reflect reality.

Many people say that they would like to get back to the Religion of our Founders, like Washington, Jefferson and Franklin. These men were all Deists of course, and many people like Thom Hartman don't even seem to know what that is. It is not "animism" as suggester. Neither is it pantheistic. If you're going to attack Deism, at least know what belief it is that you are attacking. Deism is the belief in a god that designed this universe from outside of this universe, but after having done so- - does no further action but only leaves us to the Natural Laws. These consist of the laws of Science and also the Inailable Human Rights that we all cherish. Some would say that to "Deny Christ" is really to hide from God because of your own sin that you are somehow deathly afraid might be brought to light if you really "Came to God". I resent this assertion to the core. It's an insult to Atheists and Deists everywhere and in Spencer Tracy's words, "A denial of the one thing that elevates man above the beasts, and that is his Intelligence". I don't mind people having beliefs they can't prove. But I do resent the fact that part and parcel of their "evangelization" of their beliefs is that they belittle other people's intelligence and consider it a badge of homor to disrespect the intelligence of others.

People see God as a rock, something that always existed, a guiding light in a sea of darkness. In other words they appear to "need God" and they project their own sense of need on to others. So they coin statements such as "A food hath said in his heart that there is no God. First of all, people have cosmology all wrong if they assume that before the Creation of the World as we know it, that the Universe was one unending sea of blackness that existed forever and went on forever. Not only are time and space "human constructs" but even "existance" itself is a human mental abstraction. We humans are bound into thinking that something "has to" either Exist, or Not Exist. But why can't there be entities whose existence or lack of the same, has not been determined. We see existance as some inherent property of everything we describe. Some may point to their TV set and turn on station 4.0 and say "You see? Black screen and no sound- - that's non existence". But try to stop thinking digitally for a moment and start thinking analog. If you turn on an old analog TV these days you'll get - not a blank screen and silence, but rather a gray salt and pepper pattern and roaring "pink noise". I believe I spoke of how when this or any Universe is created it "reformats" space that existed before, or whatever existed before, like formatting a floppy disk. In the same way that our brains are "formatted" by our environment. If you are a Deist, as I am, you believe in a god that created time and space. Some may say "But what about the intelligent design of this Universe and the creation of life on this planet" and will argue that with four billion years there simply "is not enough time for life to have evolved". Mathematics is a stern task master - - and given a large enough sample - - certain events will occur with exacting regularity. You've certainly heard the saying, "You got away with it This Time- - - " But if you believe in the axiom "anything that Can happen Will happen" then you believe time as well as space-time occurs on all directions and not just "forward". There may be a hypothetical Universe where time flows backwards and effects precede causes. We have a saying "things will all happen the way God intended them to happen". That's from the perception of our own little cubby hole we'll call "God". One traveler from another dimension might accuse us of "cherry picking what we call reality". There may be countess Universes of this sort. People say there used to be eleven dimensions and they "collapsed" down to four. We know our own dimensions because we relate in this "formatted space" but if you are captive to other dimensions- - where time travels, shall we say, obliquely, (at an angle) this time-space reality is so totally divorced from our own we can't conceive of it. It isn't a question of it being "far away". Think of Select or On TV, which used to be pay TV stations. You get a picture that is in negative, with a white frame line running down it- - and no sound at all. It's the same signal - - that paying subscribers to these TV stations also receive and they have no viewing problems. So how do we know that the same "primordial explosion" doesn't have entirely different manifestations depending how the view's space is time-space formatted? It's a case of "You can't get there from here". What we call "our space" may in another "time space format" house a different reality even though it's occupying the same space as we do. My point is that chance has "all those other universes to examine" and count into the probability equation. It isn't just our universe but all of the countless others, too.

The one thing that is a wild card in even all of this, the more than obvious thing we haven't talked about is that nobody has even SEEN the human soul. We use our bodies as vehicles of perception, but we aren't our bodies; we merely use them, the way a soldier uses his gun. The whole "battle ground" of decision making lies elsewhere. Capish? Some of you readers may say "Are you going to go into all that hyper-space crap again?" Could it be that hyper-space is as much a part of our Universe as the physical part we see? Allow me the one example of an atom. There is a nucleus - - that is surrounded with electrons. The electrons exist in the realm of rapid travel in spherical shells. If you have the nucleus or "the solid part" what comes with it are the electrons. Nobody would suggest that one is less important than the other. But in the hyper-space world they don't relate in terms of space and shapes, any more than hyperbolic trig is about space and shapes. There is no time - backwards, forwards, or sideways. There is no space as we know it. Just as the nucleus and electrons don't mix, so hyper-space and ordenary space don't mix.