Former Justice Thergrood Marshall came under attack today from Jeff Sessions and other "tea party" senators on the committee. I haven't heard it directly- - yet - - but I've heard about it. They are trying a real low-ball character assasenation attack against Solicitor General Helena Kagan. They are saying that she is "consorting" with activist judges the same way you might fear your teenaged son consorting with gang members and ruining his character. Elena Kagan was a law clerk to Justice Marshall and as you know from any knowledge of how the legal system works, being a law clerk places you in the position of having a lot of power, often to shape preliminary drafts of a document, and you're also privy to an awful lot of inside information, so if one were of evil intent, one could do a lot of damage (or just possibly a lot of good) Justice Marshall left the court in 1991 and not in 1983 as they were saying on the radio. The guy later corrected himself. The time frame is indellibly etched in my mind because Clarence Thomas replaced him, and it was a dark day for people of color everywhere. Marshall argued his most famous cases as the legal rep. of the NAACP. He argued cases in 1940's setting a lot of preliminary legal mile stones such as not having racist provisions allowed in deeds, or integrating graduate schools. In Brown verses the Board of Education the vote was unanamus. I didn't know that. Marshall must have argued his case exceedingly well. I remember from the movie that the turning point in that case was when Marshall raised the stakes of the case and broadened the parameters. I see a pop up "scheduled task started". Today we get inanimate objects like software to do our grunt work. Obviously Roberts and the reactionary four took a page out of this book themselves with the Citizens United case. Marshall was a judicial activist. He was solicitor general under Johnson for two years before getting on the High Court in 1967. (in 1967 everyone was high) I suppose Marshall was an activist. But Black people needed an activist. One would have hoped that is Ancient Rome were like Israel and had democratic representation, that Jesus Christ might run for senate or something and be an advocate for the Jewish people and nation. (Jesus was not a social activist in that he never spoke out against either oppression or slavery and as such would not get high marks today) Having said all of this I still would not vote for Kagan because I believe she is a statist. She believes in the perogatives of the State over the rights of the individual. One person on the radio said "The power of the Presidency has grown imensly in the past fifteen years". 1995 was not that long ago. I may have conservative leanings but I do not have NEO-conservative leanings. I still cringe as the notion of Black and gay rights being spoken of in the same breath, and I'm sure that there an awful lot of people of color who agree with my sentaments on this issue.

You know I was rereading Sol Allinsky's book "Rules for Radicals" and I'm wondering whether any of his ideas would even work today. We have so much more of a locked down police state mentality and the media is so far to the right they wouldn't even cover it. Just think about how Republicans are afraid to speak against the Rush Meister himself. I don't think this truth can be over-emphasized. I think there would already be a massive push from the left of the democratic party if people sensed the media was behind them. Contrary to what Christians teach and I believe, if you aren't doing something for an audience, it's hardly worth doing. Howard Beale said "Don't look at us. We are not reality. You people are the reality". There used to be a song that went "The revolution will not be televised; the revolution will be LIVE". Perhaps what we need is a new updated version of Sol Allinsky to teach us how to protest with today's realities. And I think it would involve knowing a broker on Wall Street like Buddy Fox in the movie, who knows what levers to pull and when. I wish Jesus had taught (and I would have in his place) that there are a lot more of US than there are of THEM and if we all work together like Lennon sings about in "Only People" if we all pull the chain the biggest weight can be lifted off our backs, with the proper preliminary engeneering. They can't survive without we the workers, who are the muscle in all of their doings and who enable them to make all the money they make. We need to organize strikes and also perhaps a little organized financial chaos, or at least the threat of it.

I guess I'd like to call this third paragraph, "Have you ever thought about it?" Just think of what constitutes "The Church" legally. It isn't the people who attend it. Obviously they must have had laws on corporations way back in the middle ages for the Catholic Church to be a legal entity. If there's a scripture I'd expunge from the Bible it would be in acts 5 where Peter is able to threaten people with death for not giving ALL their money to the Church. I know in Sunday School we were all told "We were the church". We know what that's worth. The Churches just may have been the original corporate entities. If I'm God I'm thinking at judgement day, "I'm only judging people; I don't DO corporations. So it's just a question of whom I decide to pin the blame on for something you want to blame IT, the corporation for doing." My second observation was when I weighed myself today and discovered I was right and the doctor had me ten pounds light. That takes a load off my mind. I didn't lose ten pounds in a few weeks after all. Do you ever notice how the numbers run in a straight progression? How come they aren't logerithmic or in some other complex progression? Does it really mathematically using physics and geometry work out that the position of the weight denotes a straight numeric progression? It's something that just struck me. My final observation is- - - Shapes. You know Shapes are the realm of the Gods. In Peru that thing that looks like some kind of cosmic air port can only be viewed from the Heavens, before human beings had flight. Snow flakes do not realize they are forming in a hexagon. Neither are other crystals possessed of a conscious Will when they form into their pretty shapes. Bees aren't conscious, I don't think, of the shape of the homey combs they build. So when it comes to the shape of the Universe, is this not something for God alone to know. If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it- - - - if a Universe is formed in the shape of a donut and nobody sees it can it be said to really be that shape? The answer is "Yes" if you do the proper measures and prove that light doubles back on itself and you see the same things over again. You could prove it like the ancient Greeks proved the world was round. Of course there are other shapes. You can generate a saddle shape from Wolframalpha.com by entering certain algebriac formulas. But certain things such as we might expect to encounter such as Black Holes, we know from Einstein's math that can't exist in this universe. Therefore when you see one of those green grid things- - even ones I've described in previous postings, where the lines go around in circles- - those can't exist. If they DID exist you would have certain parts of the grid that wasn't squares or rectangles or some derivitive thereof. You would have shapes with five sides. Then you have the problem "Where do the shapes with five sides go?" I was wondering this a couple of years back. Well, it's no problem because the whole black hole in a golf green doesn't fly. It doesn't exist, so we don't have that problem.

At the risk of destroying the four movement symphonic pattern of this blog, this is the next day and I feel the need to add in this important addendum. First of all while there are not Black Holes there ARE "Black Parabolas", so we are still left with the problem of "where do you place the non rectangular grid segments? Next, what I meant to say yesterday was that certain shapes that men uses are constructions of man to aid in his perception of nature. While the rings of Saturn form in perfect circles due to laws of gravitational attraction, certain other patterns such as the golden mean spiral are kind of abstractions by man. Also when we speak of the possibility of time "bending" we have to infer that such "bending" is caused by some foreign object, otherwise time would be "straight". Some might want to infer that a supernatural deity "bends" time. Others who believe in feng chue - - believe that the physical placement of objects in the room might gravitationally "bend" time and alter their future. It's important, as Scientologists teach to always make sure word definitions are understood in advance by the reader. This will be the last posting in this blog for a while. Now enjoy the final paragraph.

In my prophecy book I allude in one of my brighter moments, to certain people posing as Christians really being like cancer cells. They may multiply, but they never seem to bear fruit, except unto themselves. They never do anything for the body at large. In fact like cancer cells they are IN the body but not OF it. They are like parasites who lack the initiate to say who they are but have to trade on someone elses' name, such as Jesus. The Neil Savedra Show would not sell as well as the Jesus Christ Show. And there is a dirty little secret. While their affect on the host body is to kill it, the secret is that They are doomed to die along with it. I think this pretty much happened with Gene Scott and Faith Center. Does Faith Center even EXIST any more? And as Thom Hartman points out, Corporations nowadays are like cancer cells in the US economy. Once again they think they are prospering but they are killing the economy, and when it dies, THEY die. And Churches are Corporations. The next supreme court justice will have to be mindful of these things, and as such I would grill him or her heavily on this subject.