WHAT I'VE BEEN DOING 2010

Yesterday was June 25th. the one year anniversary of the day Michael Jackson died. Legal hassles are still in progress. Yesterday June 25th. was a rather memorible day in terms of my busy schedule. In the morning I was informed that I was to have an E K G done, which I have never had before and wasn't entirely certain of the procedure. As it turns out Dr. Saran said my E K G was normal but that my heart rate was only 49 beats per minute, which is way slow and may explain why I have been feeling so tired. So Dr. Saran took me off of the beta blocker blood pressure medication I was on, leaving one other one. Later on I had to satisfy my housekeeper that I had cleaned out the cabinet under the bathroom sink to her satisfaction. She was satisfied with what I had done. We had barbecued chicken for dinner. Yesterday afternoon Judy was over here to download and update my Norton 360 so that it is valid for another year, in fact till July 23rd. of 2011. They say doctors no longer make house calls but Dr. Judy prescribed an ancient Greek remedy for the fungus on my finger and toe nails. It involves using a Silver-Biotic jell locally and ingesting some solution that tastes like dirty water of Silver-Biotic solution internally to kill all invading organisms, and they can't build up any resistance to it. I'm also taking acedocipholus, ( ) which is the equivelant of ten yorgurts. Then I got a haircut done by a barber without all that much experiance, but my hair had grown absurdly long so I was happy to get it. My concern was I hoped the bill would be applied to next month - rather than this immediate Tuesday. Later on in the evening I looked at the 85 photographs done in a specially processed software that involves layering. There is stuff like Lindsey Lohan in the local halls, and three residents sitting in a sofa at the top of the Seattle space needle. There's also stuff that involves painting- - and other photo guimics that make me look like a blooming genious. I watched Wheel of Fortune but I'm not as sharp with that as I was back in my apartment. My mind was sharper and more intuitive then. Ever since I've been taking anti psychotic medication in late 1999 I've had "senior moments" where I forget names, for instance, the attorney's names in the O J Simpson trial.

That unemployment bill has been under consideration for eight weeks, or eight times (or both) and every time it has failed, and it failed again last night. As you know the majority of the improvement in job figures comes from the hiring of US Census workers, and very little of that is from the private sector. Randy Rhodes says that not only can you be “over qualified” for a menial job and they are afraid you’ll leave, but with some executive jobs if you aren’t already employed they will refuse to hire you. Thus if you are unemployed you are pretty much “marked off” by the system. One must bear in mind for every dollar spent on unemployment outlays the economy gets back $1.35 into the structure of the economy, so that there is a definite human investment dividend. The banking bill finally got passed. The liberals say the bill is hopelessly watered down. The Republicans and the banking community say the bill is too constrictive and restrictive. I would hope now we would have a little economic equity in our society. The government is constantly giving big business breaks that it would never give the little man. This is an issue to be gone into with the next Supreme Court nominee.

There are countless blogs you can read on the subject of the British Petroleum leak, and there are numerous entries under George Washington's blog. Randy Rhodes has been talking about something called "fracking", which sounds like a cross between fragging and cracking. It involves injecting lots of water and other poisonous substances into the ground to force out the remaining natural gas. But the thing is they don't know what to do with the water afterwards and so they put it in an unlined pit where it contaminates the community water supply. As it turns out the Gulf area is geologically unstable and if that weren't even the case the piping of the well is weak and unstable, such as if they put a cap on the well that actually fit right, either the piping would give way, or else the whole geological structure of the sea bed would collapse. They say this is one of the biggest oil deposits in the Gulf. British Petroleum has an even bigger platform called the Atlantis that many believe prudent to shut down at least to inspect the thing before IT blows. But of course they won't. And now we're into hurricane season. Tropical storm Alex is now making its way tword the Yukatan pennisula. Some southern senator days ago said he thought the then "tropical depression" might be headed straight tword the Gulf. Well the thing is, I think we can say that it isn't a question of whether a storm hits, but when.

I wanted to review for a moment why I say that Calvinism "lets people off the hook" as far as Christian salvation is concerned. Under Calvinism you can neither will yourself to be saved if you are not meant to be, nor will yourself to be lost, if you are meant to be saved. We are all totally depraved, which means that any decision we make, including the decision to accept Jesus' salvation, is a decision devoid of any moral insight, but it's as if it were made by an utterly depraved person without two brain cells that work together properly. Under Jewish law, the whole world is saved because Jesus died with sufficient power to cover the sins of the whole world. And there are certain universal salvation scriptures in the Bible such as in Peter where it says "God is not willing that any should be lost". If you believe that if it's the will of God, that ends the issue right there. But there is one doctrine called "limited election". The best way to describe this one is to picture Palm's Sunday and the money changers at the temple. God said to come with the sacrifices you have. But the temple authorities want their special kosher tag or else they won't accept the sacrifice. In a similar vain, the Church works off a "Jesus- - Plus- - " formula where you take Jesus, PLUS all of their little rules and regulations to proved that you are really saved. The "I" stands for Irresistable Grace. This simply means that Everyone who is Meant to be Saved- - Will be Saved. This takes the human decision factor out of the equation. The P stands for perseverence meaning that if you are among the lucky chosen- - if you have the million dollar wedge and land on the $100,000 now million dollar slot in the circle, you have a chance at getting a million dollars if you persevere to the end. An epistle of John states that "They (the unsaved) went out from amongst us, that it may be made manifest that they were never really one of us". I hope I've cleared things up for you all.