HERMAN CAN IS PATHOLOGICAL LIAR IN DEBATE

Tonight will be another of those political circus republican debates. Those people exist in an unreal world. Randy Rhodes was wondering why the tea party people never got beaten up by police when they carried guns to political rallies and spoke of “second amendment solutions” and went around shooting congress-women. Police are dressed in riot gear in New York constantly expecting the worse. They beat people over the head and run over their legs with their motor bikes. Some protestors ask the police to join them, even as they are being beaten. Meanwhile Herman Cain has a little song for us all that goes something like this, along the lines of “Imagine”

Imagine there’s no pizza

I couldn’t if I tried

Just eating only tacos

And lots of Kentucky Fried

I hope my last posting, which has been up for a day and a half taught a few basic common sense principles about what human to human speaking, is wrong with Christianity. Right now even my link to Mormonism is weakened. Laurie took one remark of mine entirely the wrong way when I mentioned that I knew Yvon Steel and didn’t know, or had forgotten that she was a Mormon. A few weeks ago I prayed specifically for Seid’s health. And apparently now it has taken a turn for the worse. That’s God for you, as far as answering prayers. It was mid day I sent a prayer up to the Lord that I be worthy of the graciousness he has bestowed on me. That’s because things have been so calm lately. So after that I had one of the stormiest afternoons in a long time. The trouble with me and Christianity is that it’s like walking through a mine field. And you have to be pretty careful. I would hope sheer bigotry doesn’t determine whom the Republicans pick as their nominee. For their sakes I hope just once they are able to view things objectively. I guess some indendant agency yesterday ran a survey and concluded that President Barock Obama has gotten about the most antagonistic media coverage of any recent American president. Barock Obama has his own mine field to worry about. He’s still trying to play the “Mr. Reasonable’ and ‘Nice Guy” cards. I think he’s pretty much played those out, and now look to his hand for something else.

I watched most all of the debate beginning with the National Anthem as I was pouring coffee. Larry wanted his cup poured right then so I obliged him. Anyone who pays premium rates deserves service when they want it. Larry wants another cup at 7:30 and so I’m making more, even though I told him I was short for the week. Tonight's debate was sponsored by CNN and it was held in Las Vegas and like with all the rest, the audience was virtually all tea party. As such and as with most other of these debates, problems or ordenary Americans were ignored and labor rights or occupational safety or the environment weren't touched on even a little. At no time has Herman Cane said what he would do about Social Security. Almost not addressed at all were investigating Wall Street or saying that we have relaxed too many regulations, and these are the basic cause of the problems. Turning banks into gambling houses seems not to bother this crowd one bit. Only Ron Paul dared to touch on this topic, even a little. As such these debates are freak circuses bearing almost no relation to the lives or ordenary Americans.

Herman Cain is a pathological liar. There’s no getting around it. He goes on with this apples and oranges nonsense not realizing it’s all money to the people paying the 17% sales tax. Others accused Cain of it being a “value added tax every step of the production process”. Everyone agrees that once congress institutes a new tax that it won’t ever be repealed but most likely increased, now that there is a governmental foot in the door. Others such as Romney pointed out there was no allowances for family and child expenses and Santaurum was the first to bring in the idea of family and faith, which Latinos support. I would have raised this point even sooner, if I were there. Cain is also attackable on the whole bank bail out issue. He keeps flip flopping. If Bush does it it’s OK but if Obama continues the same policy then Cain has his doubts. Ron Paul aptly pointed out that rather than bail out the banks, why not bail out the mortgage holders so that they can keep their homes and prices not be driven down further, and neighborhoods go to seed with boarded up houses driving down prices further. Cain was also challenged mainly by Rick Perry on his idea of an electrified barbed wire fence for nearly three thousand miles of mainly desert. For one thing can you imagine the enormous energy loss as all that voltage gets disapated? It would take thirteen years to build and Rick Perry points out correctly that the same or better results can be accomplished by having surveillance drones and other electronic monitoring along with boots on the ground. Ron Paul wants to take troops from the Pakistani border and transfer them to the Mexican border, which makes sense. Rick Perry may not know a lot but I believe he knows Something about this border issue having had eleven years experience. Romney wants to take away the twin magnets of free health services and college education, and also institute employer sanctions, which Thom Hartman also advocates. Good point. Michelle Bachman’s position on foreign wars seems strange. She was against our activities in Libya where we didn’t have boots on the ground, and yet a government was successfully overturned. But she is FOR opening up a fifth front, if you will, in Iran by going to war with that nation as her “first priority”. Iran could get messy if it wasn’t done right and I don’t trust Bachman NOT to mess it up Ron Paul says it comes down to money. Newt Gingrich says it all comes down to National Security. I believe it comes down to expedience. What works and what doesn’t. If our military is dysfunctional we’ll waste a lot of a valuable national resource, both of men and of money. John Huntsman was given the axe and was not in this debate. As to Yucca Mountain, I am in favor of having one big safe site that will be secure for the next ten thousand years. From a pure common sense bases it’s a whole lot ecologically safer than having it the way it is now, scattered dangerously all around the country. In terms of natural gas, I believe it’s use should be increased and substituted for oil. But only if we don’t have to resort to increased “fracking” to do it, because the dangers of that are more than evident. In my opinion we need to institute a one percent stock transfer tax we can reduce to a half percent after a time. I would wave capital taxes on Real property, but not on securities for reasons I’ve given in the past. I would get rid of the President’s health care program in its entirety in the most expeditious manner possible after becoming President. I do not favor any constitutional amendment either on the following three subjects: Banning abortions nation wide, banning gay marriage nation wide, or banning the notion of these “anchor babies” born on our side of the border. There are other ways of handling these problems. I would however favor a provision overturning all federal prohibition of marijuana laws. All these stances operate on tenth amendment states rights principles.

If you practice my method

Just as hard as you can

You’re gona get a reputation

As a Flag-waving man

I’ve got such a sure fire way of remembering semaphore or flag signal letters that you’ll be dreaming about this stuff. You’ll wake up at night thinking about this stuff. Last night I had trouble getting to sleep, probably from too much coffee and two few cigarettes. And as you know when I haven’t had cigarettes I tend to get a little OCD. So in a future post I will be doing "Semaphore Made Easy". I didn't want to post it tonight because you people have enough on your plate already. Maybe later on we’ll do aids in doing Morse Code, but that’ harder. I don't know why it's not centered right.

MARCUS ARELIUS - NOT BORN YESTERDAY

BUT THAT'S WHEN MOST OF THIS WAS TYPED

This is Monday morning. Many might suggest that I confine my topics to things that you can see, smell and touch - - - like newly minted money. Herman Kane knows all about that. The trouble is that Cain presently ranks fifth among Republicans in campaign funding behind Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, and Michelle Bachman, in that order. I will say that Cain has better credentials as an American black man than does Barock Obama, who is about as "American" as Sean Lennon. While Cain had roots among actual black people here in American, Barock Obama let a highly elitist life as a child traveling to various private schools all over the world, not to mention, scarcely knowing his father. So he earns "points" with me as far as having genuine Black credentials. However Cain should be willing to "give back" a little to the country wherein he was able to prosper. In the Bible, in 2nd Samuel, I believe, there is the story of Nabal, whose vice was being a tight wad, and like all Bible stories, he paid the price for that. He's the guy who got married to Jennifer Horton's daughter. Basically, in terms of having a steady source of campaign revenue, Mitt Romney appears to be the man. I would like at this time just like to mention that sometimes "unexplainable" events occur to people that seem to be the result of some sovreign invisable force. You will remember after I had that dream where I declared "I'm in Hell" - - I was walking around in a blue funk for a while. Was "God" sending me a message? Can parts of the brain "rescue" other parts of the brain? I don't know. The human brain is complex and when it is diseased- - sometimes the patient exhibits actions which appear, for lack of a better term - - Demonic.

In terms of Afghanistan the news is that we will be far from having withdrawn all of our troops there by 2014 when the President says. This weekend is the tenth anniversary of the commencement of that war. Now we have around a hundred thousand there and nearly two thousand have died, and of course the death rate curve is accelerating. All to kill only a few thousand soldiers on the other side. Pakistan is this war’s “Cambodia” providing a safe haven for their troops, a luxury our side doesn’t have. At one time in the piece they said there may be less than fifty hard core Al Qaeda in the whole country. Another way in which our country is firing off a cannon to kill a fly is this whole bit with an aledged Iranian assenation of some Saudi ambassador and setting off a bomb. Pat Buchannon thinks the whole theory is bogus reasoning that Iran would not want to risk outright war with the US on such a small trigger issue. They say that Iranian assasins don’t make these sort of mistakes but know what they are doing. We of course have these “emergency measures” like the Patriot Act that are still in force. Many Republicans are also against our plans to clear out of Iraq altogether. People look at our foreign policy and they see war madness and spending money as though we were not running a 35% annual deficit each year. So on the news every day is Vetterans Day. The physical and psychological cost to those troops returning is ignored. And rather than all this allaying our national fears, these only seem to increase every day. I think we need a Presidential Candidate with a different world view. Republicans seem to have declared war not only on the 47% who pay no income taxes, but on virtually every other first world nation in the world, saying whatever opinions they have of us they are wrong, and we should scorn whatever input they offer us. The only government they seem to warm up to is China.

It makes sense to have “been around the block a few times”. If I were to visit myself from the past before I became a Christian I would say something like “It’s worse and more corrupt than you can imagine”. Herman Cain is deluding himself that there are “build in tax costs to everything we buy at the store”. But if we learned one thing from Proposition 13 in 1978 it’s that corporations don’t give back profits to their renters out of the goodness of their hearts because their taxes are lower. Price is determined by market forces. Rick Perry’s wife thinks that being fired from a job is the same as quitting a job. Everybody whose been fired knows that’s not true. There is this boxer who was wrongly convicted of killing a 92 year old lady in Buffalo or something. He was in prison for over twenty years, when the police had in their files the confessions of the guilty subjects, but they suppressed the evidence. Under Christian reasoning we are expected all to embrace, it doesn’t matter WHO pays for a crime, just as long as SOMEBODY does. I advise everybody to read my “Sermon on the Mount” from January of 2011 in the Psychic Balance bllog. There are a lot of anti Christian analogies. There is the barbershop analogy. There is the fighting Viet Nam GI analogy. Neither story was original with me and the fighting GI is an analogy of talk show host Michael Jackson. The Wizzard of Oz could be interperated to be an anti Christian analogy, about a cowardly “Lion” and a scare crow, who is smart but has a boring job. Of course we all know about the drug use referenced, even playing drugs off against each other. And most Christians would probably flunk the famous “auto race” test. The stipulations are this: You have to travel a sixty mile course in less than an hour to win and get a prize or whatever. The question is that if you traveled thirty miles of the course and discovered your GPS said you had averaged thirty miles an hour so far, how fast would you have to travel to make up the distance the rest of the race? Most Christians would say “ninety”, but the right answer is “You couldn’t; the race is over.” Jesus’ suffering had an eighteen hour expiration date all totaled. POW’s suffer for years. Teenage girls raped by their fathers endure it for years. That boxer witnessed his father beat his mother to death and then witnessed his brother being killed in a fight. The answer of Christians to all this is one of two falsehoods. They will either say, “It’s in the past. It’s irrelevant; forget it happened”. In this line of reasoning all the lessons of life "that you learned in the flesh" don't count for anything. Only what your pastor tells you can be trusted". Or - - the other extreme of “Yes, it’s significant. In fact it’s left you so emotionally shattered you are now no longer qualified to be a Christians. You are damaged goods.” People talk about Faith. Picture two little boys. One of them says, “Did you know that I have a two headed lizard in my back yard?” and the other little boy says, “Fine. Let’s go over to your place and you can show it to me”. The second little boy would be accused by Christian teachers as “Making a statement lacking in faith”. Were the first little boy to accuse the 2^nd little boy of “Not believing him” it would be a distraction of the conversation to the main question of the day. You know the Niagara falls analogy where the question is posed “Do you believe I can wheel someone across on a rope in a wheel barrel?” The stipulation is that he did it once with an equal weight of bricks. If someone says “Yes I believe you can do it”. But CAN isn’t certainty. Maybe the changes are seventy or even eighty percent chance of success. Would you get on a jet liner that you knew there were odds of one in five that the plane would crash and kill every passenger aboard? Of course you wouldn’t. Neil Savedra teaches that if you want to “do just enough to get by” you are being a tightwad and a tempter of fate and a lot of other things against God.” So after Herman Kane’s tax plan goes into effect you will owe 24.2% in federal taxes counting FICA. You have your eight percent sales tax on top of that. Now it’s close to 33%. Now slap on that another ten percent of the gross, and come up with about 43% of your money gone before you have spent a dime. So the answer to Michelle Bachman’s question is that you get to keep 57% of your pay. What Christians forget is that people are human beings and not sheep to be fleeced. You don’t “own” the souls of other people. There is an Ozzie and Harriet episode where Ozzie tells Ricky, “Now take what you would call a good strong front line football stance”. Ozzie wanted to demonstrate this whole “center of gravity” theory about how easy it is to knock someone over based on their distribution of weight. This is another anti Christian analogy. Because even in the Bible we are told in one place “Just stand”. Neil advises his people to anticipate where the devil will attack from and take a stand accordingly. Christians are always guilty of “fighting the last war” and spend their whole lives in a time warp.

Sixty Minutes had two full segments on Van Gogh. Van Gogh was a minister’s son, which was part of the problem right there. Vincent wanted at one time to be like his father. Of course he couldn’t. He had this temporal lobe insanity which is related to epilepsy or something. He could “feel the attacks coming on”. Of course mixing religion with insanity is like going around an oil refinery with a lit blow torch or throwing gasoline on smouldering embers. So many religious people are insane and I’d say the vast majority of insane people have some sort of religious quirk. Both categories are people that talk about “Hearing some voice” or mssage, but they are never able to tell you what it is, but only that it is somehow amazing beyond belief and they must base their lives on it. You have the brother shades of “Lost Weekend” who tried to make it better but he, too is helpless. You find him unable to live with roommates. And in the end he didn’t go all the way out to this wheat field he painted to kill himself, but rather the gun wound seemed to be the result or some sort of taunting or horseplay with teenagers, who got the gun from someone in Bill Cody’s wild west show playing in Paris. And you have his utter dysfunctionality with the opposite sex. It never dawns on people like Neil that if you had some “bad experience” with the opposite sex the solution is NOT to either turn gay or else live an a sexual life. Vincent told the police, “Don’t charge anybody else for this shooting”, which is a somewhat odd dying request. Of course now his art is famous even if Time Life has their own “psychotic” label to it.

In the morning I made coffee. I turned on the Jesus Christ show. Today Jesus appeared to relent on this “suffering is good” line he’s been doing and now says that God only makes reasonable requests of you and “Father Knows Best” because he can see into the future and unforeseen consequences of a premature blessing. You all remember that when the Cuban ambassador at the UN in 1962 told Stevenson “you will receive your answer in due course” Stevenson responded, “I’m prepared till Hell freezes over”. It’s kind of silly to say God has no sense of time. God created Time, didn’t he? [I'd like to reference Soren Kirkigard a bit. He said that many times people have a common assumption of things. For instance we assume the existance of Time. We humans believe in Time whether God believes in it or not. Dick Schimell, a Sunday school teacher said, "Mathmeticians assume things- - like the number one exists". Common assumptions enable communacation among human beings. Those who don't share the comon assumptions are at a disadvantage. Certainly Neil Savedra realizes that sometimes "tomorrow" or "bye and bye" have ways of never arriving. There is a line in a Dylan song that goes, "What makes you think he will haunt you? You can go back to him any time you want to" (tomorrow)] But of course chemists can create water in simple reactions in a test tube. But that doesn’t make them experts on skin diving in the Caribbean or what to do when you face a man eating shark. As the adage goes, any two teenagers can “create a baby” in the back seat of the car. But that doesn’t insure their being good parents. So it is with God. One of my adages is from the Queen song, "Take care of those you call your own". So many Christian preachers say "God is not trying to withhold good things from you". I think there are truck loads of evidence that suggest otherwise. Even Michelle Bachman said it, “The devil is in the details”. Or to put it more bluntly "talk is cheap". Or to quote Phil McGraw, "One must learn to anticipate all the possible consequences of an act in advance". Haven't you at times known someone was full of bullshit and that time would prove you right in the end. Like Ross Perot was proven right about NAFTA. But does anybody care? No. Because our collective memories are so short. So at times I wonder whether God has thought out the "conquences" of denying people's prayers. How many times has "God" been full of bullshit and proposed some pipe dream line "9 9 9"? Oh, but haven't you heard? God isn't trying to be a meany by taking poor people's money away from them. Some day in the great bye and bye they'd actually come back and thank Herman Cain for depriving them of their sustenance. This is how Neil Savedra reasoning. After this I switched to the Today show.

We had brain without the raisons for breakfast. We had a fried egg and a waffle. I left the table still kind of hungry. Loretta and I shared someone’s orange juice. Then it was Meet the Press where Herman Cain was on. It’s nauseating to eve4n contemplate what the consequences of his policies would be. Perry’s wife said it best when she said “When I hear 999 I want to dial 911”. Then they had a representative of Romney and a representative of Perry, who debated. Before nine I switched to the Beatles. They had Beatles animals which included bull dogs, blackbirds, piggies, raccoons, kittens, monkeys, octopuses and birds. They didn’t play anything with Jimmy Mc Culloch in it. The closest they came was “Big Barn Bed” from Wings. I mentioned to Bill that they do have the lyrics in the album. The final song was “Let It Down” from All Things Must Pass. They played “We Got Married” and the Anthology demo of “No Reply”. They played “I Want To be Your Man” by the Rolling Stones, and also “You Know My Name”, edited version.

CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE MYTHS

Get ready to be drowned in more mythology than you can probably handle bur first we have a few items you can probably relate to much better under the classification of "destructive myths". As you know this morning we get the Saturday morning radio messages on KNX 1070 by both the Republicans and the Democrats. The President spent his time giving us a pep talk from an auto plant saying how the economy was moving again and auto workers were back at work, and how he hopes that Congress will still pass his jobs plan although they have given signals in no uncertain terms that they plan to reject all of it. The President points out that independent economists agree as do the American people that we need this jobs package to get people back to work and "jump start" the American economy and hire police, firemen, and teachers and all the rest who have been let go in this economic contraction chain reaction we have been in. It can be pointed out that jobs losses in the public sector have weighed against the over all jobs increase in the private sector so have dragged down the overall jobs figures. The Republican response an hour later has centered on the same old myths spread by the Right Wing we have been hearing these past three years that had their basic origens in the campaign John Mc Cain and Sarah Palin ran for President in 2008. In this mind set all government intervention is bad and business needs to be "freed up" so that the economy can grow. Excessive regulations are killing jobs, and the stimulus plans didn't work at all and therefore the current jobs plan on the table won't work, either. But if you ask these people themselves what the country "needs" it's for the "economy to undergo a major restructuring". And in this process we need to "pay the price" for all the Feds tinkering with the economy and plunge for perhaps years into a deeper and deeper recession. The code phrase here is "even if things get worse under a President Rick Perry - - It's all for our own good- - and to just kind of grin and bear it. We take refuge into these "Neil Savedra-isms" such that Evil is Good and without Evil you can't have good. Therefore when evil and sickness and deprevation comes we are to praise the Lord for his wisdom. After all this Evil that is to befall us is "All part of God's plan" for either America or our own lives. Many say that death is a bad thing but in the realm of Jesus funny land Death is a glorious, marvelous, redeeming thing. I would like to talk about a time when I was at Cypress doing Wordperfect in their computer lab. And one day I looked in the directory and saw all of the files gone, swept clean. I thought maybe someone had just "hidden the files" but they wouldn't erase them. Such it is with how people view Death. They don't want to face Death as the ultimate End but somehow people's souls must be "hidden" to a place "where we can't see them". This could conote that there is some Personage out there who "hides" the souls, to a Place where we know not, that maybe if we could find that "Place" we could somehow "find" the missing souls. Still in most all situations Death would appear to be the end. Lets hope 2012 isn't the "Death" of the US economy, as we have known it for 250 years. When Death becomes the realm only of psychics like Sylvia Brown, then you know you are getting pretty desperate. They have done experiments with people in darkened rooms staring at a stationary light for hours on end or something. Invariably the people begin to describe the light as moving this way or that way- - in all sorts of intricate trajectories. So it is when there is "Too much of nothing" the mind makes up the Void. (Selah)

If you are looking for hints as to source or inspiration, the following are but possabilities that all point to the same source. But personally I'm not even sure myself.

One reference used to be interpreted by me as a reference to the Manson Family and not to any Egyptian deity.

The first destination after taking flight, according ti Jim Morrison, is Aldebran VIII

If you have a prominent talent you'll devote your whole life to it.

Egypt has been of source of lore and mystery for a long time.

Don't write a song about something if your own life contradicts it.

This brings us to Osiris, Egyptian Lord of the Dead. Osiris was referred to in a TV program last night. According to standard myth- - Osiris was born of a union between the sky and the earth gods. Osiris had a twin sister named Isis, whom he took to wife and they begat Horus, the Egypt Sun god and the one they most worship. Mormonism borrows a little from this saying that just as Osirus had an evil brother named Set or Seth, so Jesus has an evil brother named Lucifer who became the Devil. Apparently Isis conceived Horus by making love to Osiris' corpse or somehow Osiris was brought back to life temporarily or something. Hence you have another of these Virgin mother myths with which the world is overrun. In the Bible in Luke it says "Jesus was the son, so people thought, of Joseph". I guess I'm wondering whether the words "so people thought" as old as the rest of the text? Suppose I told a story about someone who paid me for my labor in a giant one Kilo gold, so people thought, brick of metal. Suppose I then go on to talk about where the gold was mined in South Africa and how a particular slave died in the mining of that very gold. The whole rest of the story would be made irrelivent by the words "so people thought" in the sentense. People on the Christian right seem to miss these at one time subtle but glairing points in their own texts. Now we come to some say my own version of the myth. (Now I give you the supposed "facts" behind the myth) The Orion Federation was given that name as a tribute to the "relics on Reigel VII" or the "Orion ruins" as they are sometimes reffered to. These are relics on Reigel VII that have no Reigellian writing on them but are believed to date from the time of the building of the Pyramids in Egypt which we place around thirteen - - Thousand - - BC. We have discussed this period before. The Relics on Reigel VII have no Reigellian writing on them. Reigel is known as the "Amazon star". Here I would like to correct Wickipedia and perhaps my own material. They say that "Belletrix" or something is the Amazon star. They also say that Bellitrix is "gamma Orion" and yet we refer to gamma Orion (maybe I misread the symbols) as a less bright star above and a little to the left of Bellitrix. This star we have referred to was known originally as the "Deep Purple" planet and then as the "Colors" planet where they were joined by hangers on spirits of such groups as Pink Floyd, King Crimson, the Moody Blues, and Black Sabbath. This whole migration thing we discussed a couple weeks ago is an amazingly recent phenominon. Anyhow in our version - - the people of that culture did indeed have green skin, and are referred to as the Amazons, who were since relocated. (see previous) So in our version Osirus came to earth and founded Egypt. Osirus is called a "Westerner" because he is Lord of the Dead on the west side of the Nile, or more notibly "the blessed dead" who are counted worthy of Life. Osirus' greenness is also associated with the Nile and the growing of crops. Osirus is often associated with Orion. In many ways he is analogus to God and Horus or "the Sun god" is analagous to Christ. Anyhow the big battles seem to be between Horus and Set or Seth. Horus is the god of lower Egypt (tword the Medeteranian) and Seth is seen as the "god of the desert" or Upper Egypt. When the two became United it is unclear whether the two brothers, or rather brother and nephew became reunited to the good side. Here is another KEY CORRECTION we're making. When I talked about Rameses I - - I should have said "Amoche" or "Ahmoche". This was the pharoah of the eighteenth dynesty that drove the Shepherd Kings or Hyksos out. The Hyksos ruled extreme lower Egypt in the Nile delta region. These Hyksos adopted the enemy god Seth as their god. This is the god of the desert, where they ended up migrating. My version of the 18th Dynesty founding has Ahmose - - going by Rameses I - - is based on the version told to me by Jim Morrison. In Jim's version he called himself Rameses I. In that version he had a brother - - me, who died prematurely - - but in the Egyptian version Ahmose's brother died at a VERY young age and left the rulership to his brother Ahmose, as undisputed ruler. Ahmose means "child of the Moon" or something. Personally I like Jim Morrison's version better. So it could be that Abraham was origionally a worshiper of Seth, the desert god. In our version Abraham was the father of the Midianites, who were the Hyksos. But now the Dardanians, when they conquered the old Reigel Federation- - renamed it the Orion Federation and claimed the relics as their Own. According to the Federation- - there are a few Dardanians referred to in the Bible. According to them Noah was really Shem. And Shem traveled to a space ship to Earth and was the first Dardanian on earth. Shem has a son named - Melchizidek in the Bible. It is pointed out that Abraham paid tithes to this man so thus was superior to Abraham's god. (Seth?) Also in the Bible Samson was a Dardanian, and also Rahab the prostitute was a Dardanian loyalist. In our version a troop of Dardanians were cut off from their space pod or something and under pursuit. And Rahab lied to the authorities as to their whereabouts. So these Dardanians thanked her and promised her protection against the coming astroid shower which was about to bombard earth, and is what destroyed the walls of Jericho. All she had to do was hang a big red ribbon outside the wall. Some say that "orders of the Red Lion" are derivitives of Dardanian worship. According to the Federation, many people in that era were named Dardanus. There are a minority of people who believe that Howard, alias Ernest Hemingway, is an incarnation of Seth- - - and apparently the line "The desert world began to settle down" in "Band on the Run" referrs to Seth. It is said that Seth was just a tad hydro-phobiac or has a fear of water or oceans. One new source told me this mornings that these Sethites may be "lords of the Outer World" referring to Bela Tagis IV, alias the Dune Planet and that somehow the whole Paul Atraites thing and the mystery pond on the pole of the planet has some of mythic basis. It is said that the poles of Bela Tagis IV are "off limits" to the majority of the population. And here we come full circle saying that Howard may be "hiding out" by this secret group, the "Lords of the outer world" or surface world. Others have said that Howard is "hiding out" on one of the lesser known stars of the Romulan Federation. Some say, "if anybody needed protection from people after them, a cloaked planet might be a logical choice. Others have pointed to this whole "Sirius 0" gene or the "0" immunity factor. According to one course during my unconsciousness during my suicide attempt I visited the Des Rho regions where it was said "What you lacked by birth you have earned by deeds" and I was given the "B" immunity factor even though I didn't have it before. Some have said who ever is conceiling Howard are also conceiling San Giancana - - of Kennedy fame. As to this whole myth about Howard returning - -some say it is under say and by rule the child has to be Earth born and 2005 is as good a year as any, but these sources say that Mal Evans is completely wrong over who the exact child is. It is pointed out that Mal Evans is not is a position to know anything about Howard. You know- - whoever is first to pilot a "warp speed" space craft will be a famous man no matter who he is. No doubt a lot of famous "Super heroes" are destined to be born in the future. It might be pointed out the world has been markedly short on these lately.

The I Phone 4 S came out today. Some say the S is for Steve. It’s pretty impressive. And you can ask it voice questions and it will answer you by locating just what you are looking for. One guy said he's getting an I Phone because he's a Star Trek fan of talking computers. My Mom has a talking computer but I think they would be a bit unsetteling. This revision is faster and got a log of gadgets and an 8 mega-pixel camera, and it’s better than the tablet they showed later. Some wanted the official "I Phone 5". Apparently this phone still officially does not have 4 G capability. Lines were down for the I Phone 4 S at least in the C Net promo. However they say this phone has caused a world wide first sales phenominon. In case you are wondering- - no I still haven't heard any personal messages from Steve Jobs, going the way of most dead people.

Contrary to common myth, the economy is not headed into a double dip recession, as least as of now. The stock market is up, and never dipped that far. Also I have never recinded the "buy" signal I gave a month or so ago. As to these trade agreements that were signed with Columbia and South Korea, I don't place much stock in those. Apparently a "hospiss" section of the Obama Health Care bill was scrapped because it would be too expensive, by which older people could receive long term care. There is some "three percent small business tax" that it was said there is "bi partisan support for eliminating". This tax was established in the 1930's. But essentially this country will be operating without a President for the next fifteen months.

HOPE WITHOUT A GAME PLAN EQUALS VANITY

People like to talk about Hope as some virtue in and of itself. Dr. Levy is one of these people who says that hope and optimism are essential even in the most dire circumstances. But if you go into anything with a game plan and the other side has one, you will lose. People told me when I became a Born Again Christian, and Chuck Smith is famous for this, that you "shouldn't lean too strongly upon your own plans because God has his plan for us all if we will only trust him" and how it's all a matter of trusting in blind Fate. There is talk about "not getting out ahead of God". There is the line I like to use regarding God using a Beverly Hillbillies example where Jed asks Jethro to solve a delema they have and Jethro says "Don't worry Jed, I've got my giant brain and six years of education working on it' and then he assumes a pose like he's straining, or he's constipated or something, and Jed sees this and says "- -in the mean time here's what I think we'll do". This how it too often is with God. God doesn't seem to have a plan. What people in Born Again often boast about is how they did NOT have a plan for their own lives but God dropped good fortune in their laps. Most likely I suspect that they DID have a plan all along and that they are lying through their teeth, and as such render a grave disservice to all of their listeners. And yet there seems solid evidence that anything that is successful has a plan to it. Ted Armstrong points to aspects of nature and says "Not only to creatures have to do it perfectly, but they have to do it perfectly the first time". My problems with Christianity is that old adage about "You never get a second chance to make a first impression". But even these people who talk about the Cosmos on TV and how things "worked out exceedingly well" for conditions in the Universe for Life to thrive- - point to a Plan. The idea of not having a Plan comes from out President and his writings in his book "The Audacity of Hope". And I maintain that to have Hope without a plan is indeed an Audacious thing. For most people you'd think being on the job and having four years of incumbency would be a real father in your cap as far as a resume is concerned. But if anything this President actually appears LESS credible and less qualified than he did four years ago. People like Dr. Levy say "this president has absolutely no experience". This is an albitros you won't want around your neck.

These tea party people are so far to the right that in order to find people of equivelant distance the other way on the left side of the political spectrim you'd have to really reach. Perhaps Ted Kennedy or Willy Brown, or James Carvile, Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. More likely it would be people from the past such as Henry Wallace, Alger Hiss, John Kenneth Galbreth, the early writings of Nelson Rockefeller, Helen Keller, Eugene Debbs, Margrete Sanger, and Madalane Murray O Hare. One viewing this election from any time other then the present would be hard pressed to see what the problem was in his being re elected. Four years ago the President had to grapple with the "Phone call at 3 AM of a national emergency". They doubted he was pro war or pro military enough. They thought he was really a Moslem or took his marching orders from leftists and was an economic socialist, and wasn't really born in this country. All of these problems have been disposed of. This president has been very pro business and cut taxes and the investment bankers' profits have skyrocketed under his administration. He has supported local governments such as aid to police and fire and health care workers and school teachers. He helped out labor in the auto bail out. Indeed he helped the bankers themselves by bailing them out, too. He has put through bills to increase the rights of consumers and passed laws to keep them from being dropped from their Health Care plans. In any other year each and every one of these things would have been a plus. Killing or apprehending so many Islamic terrorists would certainly be a plus. He's even suspended various EPA regulations to placate business. And yet the President is in such big trouble in the polls it is seriously doubted even if he should manage to squeak by next year - - with this congress it would be just as well as though he never ran. With this congress, after all, who would want the job? So that's where we stand. If Barry Goldwater had come up with any nine, nine, nine plan in 1964 the Republicans would have dropped his from consideration like a hot potato. You've got one candidate who put an innocent man to death and blocked his appeals. You have another with the nine, nine, nine plan. And you have another who drove five corporations into bankruptsy and proffited from each one of them. Romney treated those five corporations about as badly as Jesus treated the Jewish people. It was like he was running a chop shop. You have Michelle Bachman with her dingbat proclamations. None of these candidates would have a prayer in any other year except for this one. I'm sure Dr Levy wouldn't mind if any one of these candidates ran next year unopposed, which is pretty much what they've got with Obama anyhow. If any of these candidates were to run unopposed - they would still lose, to write in candidates like Mickey Mouse or Homer Simpson. All because the President didn't have a clue and didn't pave a Plan for four years.

WHAT THEN SHOULD BE DO NOW?

President Obama says it “Is not the end” as far as his famous Jobs bill is concerned that was going to turn around the economy, as well as his popularity numbers. He and I read the tea leaves different. To me it appears he’s had it- - zilch, kaput. The Republicans in the debate made it abundantly clear that they would accept No Part of this bill- - even a 2% payroll tax rate cut. So I don’t see where the President is coming from. To me the best thing he could do at this time is to announce that he would not seek another term as President in 2012. This announcement alone would make it a whole new ball game and more importantly- defuse and disarm his opponents. One way in which the tea leaves don’t augur well for him at all is that no big names are out there supporting him. Tell me, Where are all the hosts of Hollywood celebrities? You used to see them all the time such as Al Gore and the green movement. You’d see them out there with their red AIDS ribbons and their pink breast cancer ribbons. You would see the anti fur people out and the tree huggers who camp out in redwoods for weeks to keep them from being cut down. They’re nowhere. Where are the Rev. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson? They are AWOL. The President has blown off so many people I guess it isn’t surprising that nobody is giving him moral support in his time of need. The media sure isn’t on his side. They are treating Herald Cain’s “nine, nine, nine” plan as though it were from a serious contender and many in the media are praising it. Keep in mind this whole plan assumes the complete elimination of Social Security payments. Period. Also all capital gains taxes are wiped out as well as all estate taxes are wiped out. I told you what the capital gains thing would do to the stock market. Unfortunately it seems the average voter in the rest of backwoods America has the brain sharpness of a 75 year old, the income of a wall street executive, and the educational background of Jethro Bodeine. Whatever happened to science, and history, and economics in our schools. These things seem to be completely eliminated otherwise the swill of the tea party would never have been accepted by so much of Americans, and its precepts never questioned from that point on. Do all these small business people who complain business is slow realize they hadn’t seen anything in terms of economic heartache if a Rick Perry or Herman Cain were sitting in the Oval Office? The out of control deflationary cycle would overwhelm them. And I guess even at that point they would still blame Obama.

Abdul Al Matali, the underwear Christmas bomber plead guilty in court yesterday as his trial was just getting underway. The evidence against him was piling up quickly and it seemed pointless to go on. Of course Matali was defiant in court as he openly declared his hatred of Americans and a desire to kill as many as possible. Obviously Al Qaeda’s best days are behind them. They are never going to pull off another stunt where they down two skyscrapers and kill three thousand people. Of course they needed a little help from the Bush Administration to do that. That’s why nothing remotely close to that will ever happen again. Abdul Al Matali is another name you can check off in the “Done” list if the government is keeping tabs, and I know it is. Actually I have absolutely no idea how powerful Al Qaeda still is. I don’t know what their recruitment activities are these days, or whether or not they are at all successful.

Dr. Conrad Murray is someone else who well might consider entering a Guilty plea along about now. The court evidence is piling up rapidly against him. They said his trial is being broadcast live on 5.2 and I keep forgetting to tune it in. Already the evidence against him is impressive. First of all he lied about making the 911 call whenhe did. Yesterday a medical official stated unequivocally that Michael Jackson could have been saved had he not just been left alone for 45 minutes or whatever. Of course there were no Michael Jackson finger prints on any of the key medical vials, only the doctor’s. Yesterday they said even if Jackson actually ingested the Propothol it would not have had the lethal effects it would have from injection. And clearly Jackson was already too doped up to inject himself. Well, other cases have appeared to be slam dunks before in recent high profile LA court history, like the OJ case. And we know what happened in that one. This doctor is one sick puppy and deserves to lose his Medical license.

Now other groups are getting into the act. There is a group called the 53% ers because they represent the 53% of the American people who actually Pay federal income tax, who regard the lower 47% of Americans as mainly freeloaders. Of course these consist of the poor and the minorities, and the elderly, and in so many cases they are urban. Also there are still some University campuses out there where it is still respectable to be a liberal. I would imagine the majority of intellectual Atheists are also liberals because they teach human responsability. And now we have added to these the "one percenters", who are from the one percent of the privileged rich who feel they need to "give back" something to the country that enabeled them to prosper. You know, people make mistake in life they have to own up to. President Obama should realize that his pushing Obama Care was the single biggest mistake he made in office. I am waiting for him to say these words. Some mistakes I made in my own life were a mixture of bad decision making and not knowing all of the facts. Was publishing my prophecy book a mistake? Maybe. Was getting married to Laura in 1981 a mistake? Maybe. In both cases I felt these moves were prudent and would make me a better Christian. But I'll tell you what a bigger mistake I made was and that was getting a divorce in mid 1985. Both she and I made mistakes but I probably made more. When I moved back into the BOSC house it was a summer of oppressive heat all through July and most of August. Relations with BOSC mates were pretty bad and at least two of them weren't there before, and really all three. I wasn't ready for any "new relationship" even of the four legged variety. Dan Di Marco gave his dog Lobo to Ron a year earlier and I ignored the dog. Ron wasn't even living there any more. But let's get back to politics. I think it was a mistake for the Democratic Convention not to allow Hillary's name to be placed in nomination. What were they afraid of? If they were afraid of "dividing their base" well guess what? What they feared most has come upon them. Nobody supports Obama these days. I haven't talked to anybody who supports Obama in a long time. About the only supporters of the President these days are First Lady Michelle, Ron Emanuel, Larry Summers, and Timothy Geitner, and that's about it. And if there should per chance be any supporters of the President it's really shallow, and I offer myself as Exhibit A. Contrast this with candidates like Rick Perry or Herman Cain. Backers of these candidates would go to the end of the earth to elect their candidates. You know some Christian pastors will bemoan the lack of "Sacrificial devotion" in their church, as if you could just congure it up. Such sacrificial devotion is the result of a lot of positive karma and earned reputation. Most people would not regard "character" as one of the President's positive attributes. They see him as an aimless flake. Perhaps this is why the celebrities are not rallying around in his support. It's because they themselves don't want to be associated with a sinking ship. Perhaps these celebreties have become "corporatized" and now realize that "going with the money" is their financially prudent course. If the President had taken my advised and said he would not run last July when I suggested it, just think of all the political heartache he could have saved himself in the past few months. These are times that try men's souls. One thing we on the responsable left should perhaps do is "ghettoize outselves" like people on the political right sure do. At least we would feel better about ourselves. We on the left in our effort to be fair, want to hear both sides of an argument. Whereas those on the Right live in their own political echo chamber where dissent is not allowed. But I am fresh out of ideas. I guess this whole political tradgity will unfold in the coming months in whatever manner in which the Almighty has decreed it.

OK now for a little trivial clarification on something I said. I said that Mal Evans banned the "Flaming Pie" album in 1998. Now that I remember it was in 1998 after Linda died. Linda told Mal that this particular album depressed her. When I was doing a Mc Cartney compilation I decided I needed ONE more song representing "Band on the Run". I had two. Mal Evans first suggested "1985" saying "It will make a great plug for your Prophecy book". In the book I state that the Rapture of the Church will occur in early August of 1985. I didn't like that. Then Mal said "Linda likes Bluebird" and I thought "well how can I fight that? Bluebird it is". But then as the album was released in the Federation the concencus grew that most people would rather see "No Words for my Love" in that slot and "Bluebird' taken out. And so that happened.

PRESIDENTIAL JOBS PLAN DEFEATED IN US SENATE

President Obama’s jobs plan has died an ignominious death today when the Democratic Senate refused to even vote to bring this bill up for debate. All of the Republicans and two blue dog democrats did not even vote for discussion of this bill that’s so key to the success of the US economy. Mitch Mc Conell is living up to his promise to insure that President Obama fails. The senate is the easier of the two bodies since the house is full of tea party Republicans. But in the Senate you need a two thirds vote to even start debate, which I find unbelievable! It could be said that from this point onward we in the US have undergone a Silent Coup. It’s uncertain whether the democratic process will even still work in this land. Writers have feared about this happening and now it may be here. Of course you and I know that the Republicans only control one half of one third of Government, but this is enough. But the other problems we have is this “Red Shift” thing we have seen in electronic voting machines, and this is particularly notable in Ohio in 2004 because it may well have determined who won the presidential race. We know the Democrats won the popular vote in 2000 but doesn’t count. That election was decided in a ruling without legal precedent (and it was also decreed that THIS ruling could not be USED as legal precedent) by five anointed Kings who have not derived their power from the Constitution. Of course there are specific cases of malfeasance. Donald Siegelman went to bed thinking he’d won an election but the next morning thousands of Republican votes had suddenly “appeared”. Also Siegelman learned he was under indictment. Now the Republicans are systematically disallowing the Black and the poor and the urban and the elderly from voting. Of course all these groups vote democratic. We could pray for a turn around but if you want my “Theological position” on the matter, I don’t believe prayer will do any good one way or the other. Something is either going to happen or it isn’t. In my own life I have faced extraordinary hostility and opposition from certain key people. Some of the people who say to me “Why haven’t you been more successful" were themselves part of the problem - - and they know it. The government has all the tanks and guns and if they want to revert to killing a lot of protestors like they do in other countries there is really not much we can do to stop them. We really are, especially in this time, “living by the grace of God”.

Not everything observed about last night’s Republican economics debate was written down. For instance did you know that the Republicans are for repealing the payroll tax discount which is now 4.2% and raising it back up to 6.2% Romney was actually asked a question on this. After rambling for the longest time about “No stimulus plan of the President’s has worked” he finally got to the bottom of line saying that the cut was a temporary artificial creation of government and that employers don’t hire people based on the next two years. Since when? They rig their profit and loss figures by the quarter and try to manipulate those each time and are incapable of thinking much past the next six months or a year. Of course some say that that Solar energy company was one example of Presidential waste of an investment. Dr. Levy was more than happy to camp out on this example. But the thing is this President never personally drove five thriving companies into bankruptsy and profit from each one. First Romney would fire a bunch of employees to increase the quarterly figures I was just talking about. Then he would fire more as sales dropped and the corporation is clearly in trouble. Then the corporation would go into bankruptsey and Romney would escape in his Golden Parachute. Romney drove five companies and profited from each one, and 23% of his entire wealth comes from making innocent employees suffer. I imagine a lot of his money comes from lobbyists and some he inherited, and some probably actually came from companies that didn’t go belly up. But even in those companies he shipped a lot of US jobs over-seas. The idea of having this man as President should make anybody’s skin crawl. But back to energy- - Randy Rhodes refuted the idea that “none of these alternative fuels has panned out”. Randy is a personal friend of Willy Nelson and has written in his car powered by bio-diesel. And Willy drives his truck fueled by bio-diesel all over the land and is able to find a place to fill up. Solar is such a hot item now China and Germany are working overtime to invest in and develop it, and the US is finding itself lagging way behind. In all there are 2.7 million new Green energy jobs in the US. So these are ideas whose time has come. The electric car industry has really taken off in the United States this past year or so. Many think Herman Kane was speaking German with his “nine, nine, nine” plan. This debt commission or whatever ordered by congress said that corporate tax rates should fall to 26% but not 9%. At that rate and if we close all the tax loopholes we will be doing all right. I would like finally to take on this notion, this repeated Lie that the Presidential stimulus plan of 2009 “did no good” or even “made things worse. None of the bozos who say this will cite you any figures. Check the day the stimulus was passed. Compare how many jobs were gained or lost that month. What was the stock market doing that month? Are corporate profits up or down since then? What were the GNP figures doing that month? What was the investor confidence index that month verses now? Somebody out there believes these repeated Lies the republicans keep repeating. I would like to know who these brainwashed, uneducated idiots are anyhow. Some may ask me why I don’t fight harder to get MY views on politics out more. Well it’s like a military situation where an army Colonel knows he’s out-flanked on all sides and the smartest thing he can do right now is just to bide his time and wait for reinforcements.

THE SATANIC SAILS AT DAWN (mid January 1982)

Once there was a church with a Pastor named Charles Smith. And Smith thought it would be nice if he organized a cruise to take members of the church on a fourteen day excoursion to the Caribean Islands. So he immediately began selling tickets which members of his congragation paid cash for months in advance. But the deal to charter a ship fell through. Smith prayed. Apparently church donations weren't near to the level that Rev Smith imagined them to be. And if there was one thing he wasn't going to do as Pastor it was to go before the congragation and grovel for money. Then there was a ship that came on the market at dirt cheap prices called the Satanic. It seems that the government had recently passed laws against Satanism and suddenly this vessel was useless. Smith took it to be a sign from the Lord. His view is "Why should the Devil have all the good music- - or lands or boats or anything else?" Anyhow they painted the ship white and gave it some really tasteless name such as the Holy Roller or the S S Azlin or something. Formerly the vessel had been done up in impressive black with gold trim and covering it all up took a lot of paint. At last the morning came when the ship was to sail. Jack Johnson was among the many who went right up to the ticket booth and got a ticket and went right up the gang plank. At nine AM sharp they pulled up the gang plank and the ship was unmoored and sailed out of the harbor. People noted that Johnson was Black. They asked him "What do you do for a living?" and he responded "I'm a pugelist". One lady looked at him a little strangely and disdainful. He said "Yeah, that's how I make my money". She said "Shame on you. I bought a book written by a pugelist once. He pugelized an unpublished Mark Train novel, God rest his soul, and passed it off as his own. Things went well till a later on when the ship's captain came over and asked Johnson how he ever got on board. Johnson told him. And the captain said, "But you're Black" and Johnson said, "But I have money" and the Captain said, "Yeah, but you're Black" and to make it legal and everything the Captain read a proclamation how this ship doesn't allow Blacks on board as passengers. So Johnson was taken to one of the life boats and compelled to board it, and take off alone. There was another guy on board, with long curly light brown hair and wore his shirt open. People asked him "Are you one of the deck hands?" And he said, "No, my name is Frankie Lee." By now the water was starting to get a little rough and one man was kind of hanging over the edge feeling sick. And Frankie Lee came up to him and said "You look like a man who's not doing anything now. How would you like to read this book?" It was a paperback that read "A Brief Summary of the Theology of Karl "Barf". And the man looked at it and said, "Where'd you get it?" And Frankie Lee said "The last cruise I was on there was a man named Guy Owens who was reading it but he got bored and tossed the book on the ship's deck, and I picked it up. Then Owens said "This ship is going way too slow" so he looked out into the sea and saw a passing whale and said "I'm going to hook a ride from him". Another passenger said, "You don't suppose a storm is coming, do you?" He was greeted with a chorus of "NO" s from several other passengers. Frankie Lee said "You know we are violating Mother Earth in riding on her Ocean and getting free transportation from it. The sea is for fishes and other sea life dezigned by the Creator for the water, and not for these iron artifacts of man." He got a lot of strange looks from the other passengers but nobody really gave him much of an argument. Frankie Lee went below to the engine room. There were a couple of Black guys working down there and Frankie Lee pulls out a roll of tens. He said "A fellow named Judas gave these to me but I have no use for them so I want you to have them". The first deck hand showed it to his Black companion and the second Black said "Hot damn. These bills are REAL. " And the first guy said "how can you be so sure?" And the second guy said "Hell all the time I have spent in crap and poker games in my life, believe me in that business you come to know what a real bill looks like and what is a fake". And the first guy says "I have counted the bills twice and there is exactly a hundred dollars there and I'll split it with you fifty-fifty. " So he began counting out the bills, ten, twenty, thirty, forty- - and then the engine made a steam discharge. And someone said "Are you workers in any danger of the engine exploding? And they said "Oh, they are only thinking of us. If anything bad happens we'll die first whereas the others on deck will die a slow death as the ship sinks". The first deck hand then continued counting, "Where was I?" "Twenty" the other guy says. So he continued - - thirty - - forty - - fifty. The second guy walked away smugly. The first guy counted his bills and was amazed and pleasently surprised to see that he had seventy dollars. Frankie Lee went back top side and decided to get something out of the vending machine. And was puzzled at what he received. It was a bag gull of these puff like orange things that left bright orange residew on his hands. Lee said "I can't eat this kind of garbage. No natural substance is that color orange". Then the ship's captain showed up and said he was here to arrest Frankie Lee and take him to the brig. Frankie Lee asked why and the Captain said "There have been roomers that you gave one of our black boys a substantial ammount of counterfeit money, and we don't like people taking advantage of our Black people, just because they aren't as smart as the rest of us. " Lee was insensed but went with them. "What are you doing to do with that money?" and the captain just grinned and said "Oh don't you worry about that. I'm going to take real good care of it personally myself. But while Lee was in custody being escorted he managed to get free and made his way to a portion of the boat where a power boat was, and he got in it and sped away from the ship. Since the ship had no TV or movies to entertain themselves they passed the time having theological arguments with each other. They also had debates as to how much gold was on the islands where they were going or the size of the breasts of the maidens. They didn't notice that there was now a strange agitation in the water and the ocean was glowing with an odd greenish hew. The ship then sank to the bottom of the sea due to a mysterious whirlpool that had arisen seemingly out of nowhere.

THE DEAD ZONE -The Sequel of Indeterminate Ordenal

This story is part of a whole "Death Series" starting on April first 1996. Once upon a time Guy Owens was planning to commit suicide. He had a jar of mixed Amyltal and Secconal pills, blues and reds in a jar, and more available. He thought first he'd dissolve an Anytal in a glass of water to see how that affected him. Then he didn't like the bitter taste so decided to wash that down with some Burgandy. But then at this point he had a sudden mental flash. This wasn't real. It already happened. I was actually living in an apartment in 1996 on my own. "I remember now. Somebody told me that if I stayed alive me and Becky would be having sex by the following February." Since Owens was a virgin he held such news at a high premium. "Gee - am I being given a second chance or something now?" Hell, he didn't know but decided perhaps the whole suicide thing was way too premature. Instead he made his three o clock appointment that afternoon to see Dr. Glidden, his Psychiatrist. He didn't see his parents till the next day because they had gone out to dinner. Then his Mom yelled at him for drinking someone's wine without permission. But what struck him now was all the bad stuff he'd forgotten about his parents came back to him in stark reminders. How they belittled him and insulted him, and threatened him, and in general made life with them miserable. For Sunday dinner - four days later - Pete Richards came over, oddly without his girlfriend, Margie. The idea of getting rid of their two cats was brought up and now Guy Owens was the only one who seemed to be opposed to the idea, and anything he said on the subject would be deemed "irrational". They then tossed barbs at him for volenteering to do a project with a church group. He reminded them "That is tonight". They said "Well - - you're just LUCKY this time!" They were being downright surly bringing up petty stuff. Guy then thought he'd have fun with them and begin predicting things that hadn't happened yet. So he mentioned Nixon's mining of the port of Hai Pong, that would be announced the next day, or the shooting of George Wallace that would take place a week from tomorrow. And he mentioned the Watergate break-in. When they heard these things their eyes bulged in their heads almost as if they KNEW what he was saying was TRUE and were MAD about it. So Pete Richards began taunting Guy and said "Anyhow, why aren't you dead yet? I've done nothing but play mind games on you in the name of Jesus for the full year and had you doubt yourself and running around in circles." Owens said "Are you admitting something" and Pete says "Don't try to put words in my mouth". Oh yeah you and your predictions. You fool! You think somehow if you TRY hard enough you can PROVE that you are somehow a worthy person. It doesn't work that way in God's economy. Owen's Dad kicks in and says "You know if you open your mouth you're the only one that ends up getting hurt". Suddenly OWENS was transported back to Heaven and he knew it was true. Maybe it was the future but he wasn't at all sure When NOW was at this point. An angel guide said to him "I had to get you out of there. You were learning too much". Guy laughed loud and nervously. "You know I've learned more than enough. You DO know that. That horse had long ago left the barn!"

THE REPLICATORS ARE HERE Well now tool replicators are not just for the crew of the Next Generation. Now you can put any tool like a wrench under a 3 D scanner and apparently it's X Ray also or something because it replicates moving parts that can't even be seen. You can also instruct the printer how to color each part. Then you start the printer. It uses a powder that disolves into a solid plastic formed in the shape of the object that was scanned, hidden moving parts and all, and you "can use it to perform a task just like you'd use any other wrench". You just fish the object out of the powder and blow off the dust and you're all set. So if you're in space and you lose a tool, it's no problem. You just print out and replicate another tool. They also have something called magnetic fluid that seems to spontaniously form artistic shapes, don't even ask me how. I hope that video was on the level. Clearly, the Future has Arrived.

It has been noted that big business seems surprisingly uncerned about the looming debt default of the United States government. Do they know something we don't? Or is perhaps the crisis less momentus than what we have led to believe? Somehow big business has found a way to insulate itself from the problem, perhaps because they have so much money they've stockpiled now without giving any out, that they can ride out this credit crunch. After all they are already used to not making new investments or hiring new people. So that won't change. We will all find out in just over three weeks, and I have no predictions except to expect the unexpected.

PRESIDENT OBAMA SHOULD NOT

RUN FOR A SECOND TERM

I just listened to the Republican response to President Obama’s weekly address just now at 8:07. It was more of the standard catrch-phrases and clichés that we’ve been hearing from the Republicans. The Republicans want a “jobs bill” somehow without spending any money. They blame the President for the elevated unemployment numbers. This morning I was up at 5:30 already and so tuned in the Bill Press show for the final half hour of that. What became clear from that show and as Bill pointed out- is that the Democratic party stands for absolutely nothing. The President is willing to sacrifice anything and everything to “win something” and still he continues to fail miserably. Bill Press reminds us all that as of now the Republican House has made concessions on nothing. A caller said that someone told them upon his election that he was a total marshmellow and cave every time rather than ever stand on principle. It’s time for the President to announce that he will not be running for reelection next year in 2012. Clearly the president is up against an economic task he is not up to. I’m not sure anybody should do it, but he should at least let someone else try. The word “Obama” is a buzz-word now among Republicans now as a symbol of everything despised and “Washington”. By announcing he will not run again next year the President is taking that particular weapon from their hands. The President would save himself further humiliation when the Republicans refuse to fund his health care provision in 2014. Not running would accomplish other things. The republicans could no use the weapons of calling him a Moslem or question things like his fraudulent birth certificate, or question his college grades. As they say in the military, “You should either lead, follow, or get out of the way”. The President should get out of the way and let someone else take over who has a fighting chance against the Republicans. There is no disgrace in failure to run for another term. Lyndon Johnson recognized that he could not win in 1968. Harry Truman recognized he could not win in 1952 with an unending “police action” war and economic policies gone south. Calvin Coolage saved himself the distinction as being “the man who started the Great Depression. Herbert Hoover had to live with that the rest of his life. Jimmy Carter didn’t have the support of rank and file democrats in 1980 and he lost, and his name continues to be used with shame among Republicans. Clearly not running is the best political move the President can make at this point. Some people do fine in a certain environment but suck at other things. President Obama was fine as a legislator and had he stayed in that capacity he would have fared well. You know the guy who started the music group Boston was apparently an electronics genious, but could he write songs? He became a Johnny one-note. Of course Kurt Cobain picked up on the four chord progression of Boston and evolved it into new stratospheric heights and founded a whole new genus of music. The President has “gone off the plantation” as it were. He’s like an athlete caught gambling or using steroids and has to be fired from a winning team. He’s like an actress like Marilyn Monroe who kind of did a melt-down in 1962 and the S A G had to let him go. He’s like a rogue military general whom the President has no choice but to fire. He's like a stage actor who takes pills and they know first themselves that they have "not given it their all" in the performance. Then other actors pick up on it and know. And then critics in the audience and finally the public at large knows that they "don't have it" any more. Or as Maurie Head said in a song referring to Jesus, “Tables, chairs and oaken chests would have suited Jesus best. He’d have caused nobody harm- - no one alarm”. Perhaps Jesus was a really proficient carpenter, but he sucked at the job of Deliverer. I once knew a Christian who bragged that he “made bombs for a living”, and yet talking theology with this guy over the phone- - his logic is so spaced out I would not trust him with a book of matches, let alone a nuclear war-head. But some people are able to “compartmentalize”. Some things they are good at and other areas they aren’t. Pete Richards is an Excellent swimmer, a Good drummer, and at least an Average house painter. But he sucks royally at personal counseling. I ought to know. The President is still young and he can move on to other things in life where he will have more success. This job just isn’t for him. He was never good at it. He was never able to lead or to inspire confidence, and the “brave” thing to do now is to step aside.

Apparently a new nation has been born today, South Sudan. This will cause Sudan to now no longer be the biggest African nation, in land area. They say negotiations for nation-hood for this area were hammered out six years ago under Collin Powell. I sure never heard about it. They have a new flag and everything. Now people of the Negro persuasion have a refuge from the oppressive Arab majority up north. It's too bad this breakthrough didn't happen a few years earlier. I guess I'm wondering why they haven't said more about it on the news besides an occasional fleeting reference that it's already happened. Anyhow we all wish this nation a long and prosperous life.

FIVE TO ONE (No One Here Gets Out Alive)

Five stories by Mark Campbell and One by Guy Owens

SHEEP (early fall 1982) Once there was a man named Robert J De Falco who went to a road side carnival. He volenteered in a magician's stunt to make a person disappear. The trick seemed to be going well, but the magician couldn't bring him back. De Falco was as good as dead because nobody could see him. He went to another chamber and the man there said 'You're dead, you know, and your fate lies through one of those three doors". In this place were the usual fun house items of funny mirrors, flashing lights, and moving bumpy ramps. De Falco went to the middle door and opened it. In it he saw a deep dirt pit where a lot of people were apparently treading water in some bubbling mud or sludge or something and crying for help. Off in the distance were lovely girls in a park like picnic setting with pitchers of iced cold lemonaide. De Falco slammed that door and opened the door on the right. In it were scarey monsters and demons wielding all manner of torture devices running through a rocky cavern as people screamed in fear. De Felco went to the door on the left. He saw a peaceful field of tall switch grass and heard birds chirping. He went through. It was a wide valley of tall grass between two distant mountain ranges. As he made his way through the field he happened on the still waters of a pond and piered at his reflection and saw that he was now a dog. Apparently a part fox and part grayhound, with eyes that glowed green in dim light. At some point he noticed the weather hear was cool. Now a breeze was coming up. De Falco noticed that the sun wasn't all that high in the sky, either, and it was the middle of summer. After this he heard the sound of sheep. As he was getting hungry by now he pegged this as an oppertunity to get a good meal. But there were all these sheep dogs about guarding the sheep as if forming a barrier. They were now barking at him intently. He spotted ranchers and noted that they spoke in a heavy accent like Austrilian or something. He finally decided just to go around. Finally he happened on a farm house. Inside was a lad about twenty who spent his days listening to heavy metal rock on his record player. He learned he had an older brother named Howard and a younger brother named Pete. Pete had demanded his share of the inheritence before he left. Howard had gone out with nothing only asking the middle brother to take care of his prize pig, whom he intended to come back for and enter him at the county fair. De Falco it seems was the pet dog of the middle brother, who was glad to see him. But De Falco was also to talk to the pig, though everyone else thought it was just a pig. The pig called himself Jim. De Falco and the pig were friends. The dad was a gray haired mean son of a bitch who seemed to have a lot of enemies. One day the younger brother, Pete returned and the Father was glad to see him as he handed him more money. The father decided to kill the pig and present him as a welcome home gift to brother Pete. The father went into the barn and returned with a big knife he held in his sweaty hands, intending to slit the throat of the pig, kosher style and all. When De Falco (his name as a dog was Tobias) when Tobias saw what was about to happen he lunged at his father going for the throat, almost killing him. Pete then took a gun and shot Tobias dead. But then spared the life of the Pig figuring that there had been enough violence around the farm for one day.

FACE THE MIGHTY WATERFALL (turn of year '82 - 1983)

Jesus took his disciples on a little mountain hike. They began climbing along a trail, and then Jesus stopped the assembly and passed out magic mushrooms and said "Take these, each of you. Behold if you had the faith of a mushroom seed you could say to that mountain "be thou removed" and it would be gone". The desciples took the mushrooms and ate. One of them could be overheard to remark "- - - but where are the seeds?" They came in sight of a mighty waterfall and Jesus led them along a secret trail cut into the rock, and they found themselves behind the torrent of water. All of the desciples were amazed- - and then they began one and all to trip out staring into the waters- - - and they supposed that this waterfall held all of the cosmic secrets of the Universe. One of them said "I know what's happening now. We are inside some mighty elevator and we are ascending up through the heavens, and behold these waters are none other than the waters of Noah that existed in heaven before the flood". Then after a while Jesus raised his hand and the waterfall completely stopped, aside from a little dripping from the rocks. The desciples were sad that Jesus had "brought them down" like this and destroyed their "trip". And they looked at him and marveled. Then Jesus raised his hand again and the waterfall commenced just as before. And he said to them "What have you learned from this experianced". But none of them were able to express much of anything that was going on in their minds right then.

THE GREEN VAN (Spring 1982)

The local Calvary Pastor held services at "The church of the sanctified flake". It was a new, modern building he had comissioned, that had a varied coutour roof that looked just like a giant corn flake. Now at eleven AM every Wednesday a Green Van could come by on its regular weekly stop and pick up a group of seven or eight riders to go off, people imagined on some day excoursion. It had been doing so regularly for the past year and a half. And then I asked some of the people still standing around outside, "Where is the van going". And the others told me that every week a different bunch of people get picked up and are never heard from again. I said, "But doesn't anybody ever ask questions about this?" and they said "No". Now in those days there was a scarcity of warm weather. And sun bathers would search in vain for a place that was half way warm- - and since places in the church roof dipped low - teenagers from the local inhabitants, unchurched, would climb on top of the roof and try to get a tan in what often ammounted to drizzling rain that would sometimes occur. And they would smoke the weed. And sometimes someone noticed that pieces of the roof actually tasted like corn flakes. And others in the church asked why people were allowed on the roof to smoke marijuana. And the Pastor said "It's really more trouble than it's worth to try and get them off. Besides one day somebody may witness to those people and eventually lead them to Christ".

THE MOUNTAIN TO THE EAST (spring 1982)

Behold one time the Pilgram lived at the Palm Street house as a house resident when Zachery and his parents still lived there. But he moved a little westward to an apartment near Walnut just the other side of the overpass that goes over the Santa Ana Freeway. He felt he wanted to be on his own for a while. Then someone invited him to go in a missionary trip to Honolulu, and since he had nothing in particular planned, he went along with them. Now the sea became stormy and waves pounded the ship, and it became hard to hold the ship's wheel as water poured into the boat. The Pilgrim's head hit something and blacked out. The next thing he remembers he was being nursed back to health by a pretty woman named Michelle with sensuous breasts and long, slowing light brown hair. She would entertain him either on an accoustic guitar, or on the flute, which she was most proficient at playing. After a few days the Pilgrem felt he was ready to leave. He went back to his old apartment on Walnut. But now only to be told that over six years had passed and that it was now 1982. The Pilgram then decided he needed to see Zachery and he would be the deliverer to all his problems. But that overpass had now become a mighty mountain. The Pligrim asked others saying "There was no mountain there before' and then said to him "Behold nearly seven years have passed and this mountain represents the ammount of sin you have accrewed during this period. So the Pilgrim began to climb the mountain, rock by rock. And the overcast cleared and the sun beat down on him. And he prayed to the Lord for relief, and God sent a cool breeze to ease the man in his discomfort. At last the Pilgram reached the top of the mountain. It was like the plaza of the Disneyland Hotel with the Dancing Waters. And behold there was Zachery, now a young lad, and he was tuning his guitar. After this he took requests from the passers by. The Pilgram expressed his delight in seeing Zachery. And Zachery said "Blessed are the believers, but more blessed are those who have actually encountered and seen with their own eyes. Such are ye".

We are running a little long on this blog now and it's coffee break. We'll see you on the next blog probably and at that point we will continue with the last two stories. One of them is guarenteed to run a little long.

FINAL SPACE SHUTTLE FLIGHT TAKES OFF

This morning at Cape Canaveral the final space shuttle was launched into space. They had been worried about stormy weather that plagues the south Florida area this time of year with heavy thunder and lightning strikes, such that many feared it could be many days before they got off a successful launch. Today's launch is the final space shuttle launch capping a thirty year shuttle program, based on technology that came about in the 'seventies. As far as I know the launch was not broadcast live on any commercial television station. In contrast the launch of the Columbia back in April of 1981 was heavily hyped and broadcast live, and everyone was excited. Rush did at least two songs about this launch, and were live in attendance. Today the maximum attendance for a launch of 45,000 was reached and they had to turn people away. Even the Challenger explosion in late January of 1986 was seen by many people, including myself live. But somewhere along the way we lost interest. Spending on space programs has slowed to such a trickle you wonder just how much technological inovations have come about in the last thirty years. Apparently not enough to keep the program going. Now they say the proposed moon launch in 2020 will be scrapped due to this disease we are in of "chronic constriction of the wallet".

The Unemployment rate has continued its march in the wrong direction rising to 9.2%. Because of this the republicans have "stiffened in their resolve" to not give in on any tax hikes, anywhere. Maybe Thom Hartman is viagara for the brain but he's wrong. It apparently does lead to stiff thinking. Just yesterday we were promised some "break-through" with rosey news that the President and John Boehner were forming a working relationship, and that Boehner had agreed to some revenue enhancement in that he would agree to 200 Billion in closing of corporate tax loopholes is the President would agree that the rest of the four Trillion would be in government program cuts, mainly to the poor. Apparently the President agreed to put Medicare and Social Securety payments up for debate even though Social Security hasn't contributed a penny to the debt because it's an independent program. Senator Bernie Sanders wrote a letter to the President asking him not to cut Social Security or Medicare. The American people in poll after poll have told polsters that the deficet isn't that important if it means sacrificing these two programs, neither of which to the American people want cut in any way. We had been led to believe that "if the President continued to make progress in the talks with Boehner" that there would be some kind of a budget deal announced Sunday or Monday. But as I said nearly a week ago and nothing has occurred to change my mind, the President is going to do a complete cave-in on this issue with not even a semblence of Pride left. Only 18,000 jobs were added last month, which is way below expectations. But government has lost 500,000 jobs to a large extent because state governments have been slashing budgets. There is some question in my mind how much of this deficet is George Bush and how much as the current President. Thom Hartman states that Bush doubled the national debt from five to ten trillion, but now it is over fourteen trillion. I have no choice but to believe that President Obama is responsible for the final four trillion, meaning that this President has run up the deficet almost as much in a year and a half as George Bush did in eight years. Most republicans say that the current national debt is slated to double again in the next five or six years. As far as corporate taxes are concerned Hartman is now revising his figures. Formerly he had said that business is responsible for between seven and nine percent of the overall tax burden nationally. Now Hartman is saying corporations only pay six percent of all U S tax revenues, and are in fact second from the bottom among the world's developed nations. I'd be happier about tax cuts if I thought that THIS would make the republicans happy. But the truth is NO MATTER WHAT this President does, the republicans will complain and say the President didn't cut enough. At some point you have to realize these people are whackos. Now you know they have added a balanced budget constitutional amendment to their list of demands. As you know these bills take a long time to get ratified so if that is the way to make them happy, we're going to be waiting for a budget for a long time.

Rupert Murdoch is at it again. FOX news owns a tabloid newspaper in England called "News of the World" or something. Now this newspaper is in trouble for tapping people's phones and recording their conversations and using these to sell newspapers. But they tap not only the perpetrators of crimes but the victims of these crimes, as well as the relatives of fallen dead troopers in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Of course we know FOX fired Glen Beck for being too whacked out even for their news. I don't normally watch FOX news because I don't have cable TV. But perhaps I really should start, because Randy and those who do say it is really "out to lunch" in terms of what sort of items it represents as facts. I just watch Sunday mornings and I haven't heard anything there that was "over the line". But I know various apologists for the tea party will quote unnamed sources with absolute certitude to back up their fanciful claims about what to them is some "tax and spend" economic reality, as well as saying things like "We have high gasoline prices because Obama had banned oil drilling". They don't stop to think it just might be because we are running out of oil, and I mean world wide. We hit peak oil - - world wide- - in 2006.

I have been laboring over how to cover this last story for most of the week. I wanted to say that this bit about "occupying John Lennon's body" is nothing I actually claimed for myself. I'm just saying that some Person X seems to be showing his presence. Whoever it was we don't know if he is still alive, or whether he is writing songs now, or died mysteriously somehow. With the exception of the Hamburg trip in 1960, that is. There has always been one thing "wrong" with trying to make any claims for myself in that unlike other "astro projections" or whatever you call them, there is no visual imigry, and virtually nothing in the way of conversations or specific interractions with people. This has always puzzled me. The Hamberg thing was completely different from the later stuff. But I'll tell you what even prompted the theory to begin with. And that is you can see an "evolution" in Lennon that utterly ended in the spring of 1968. Vocally there is a certain machismo that Lennon developed in his voice dating back as far as when he recorded "Money" on July 18th 1963, if you can trust that date. Apparently "You Really Got a Hold On Me" was recorded the same day. If we believe it was truely some "unknown vocalist" as the letters N U J V would imply, then we have to figure out who it would be from the evidence. It was said that John Lennon wanted to write "a soul song" "something that sounded Black that would appeal to the American markets". The first some to fit this bill was "All I Gotta Do". Here is a song vaguely patterned after a Cherrels some or something, though Lennon claims he wanted it to sound like Smokey Robinson. People on KTLK this morning were going on about "how the Beatles brought Black music to racist white parents, who would never allow their kid to buy a black record". Obviously that's hype over-kill. We see this evolution in Lenon's voice further in songs like "I Call Your Name" and "Slow Down" and "You Can't Do That", "I'll Cry Instead" and "When I Get Home". (Later in 1964 there were "I'm a Loser", "Baby's in Black", "I don't want to spoil the Party" "Mr. Moonlight", and perhaps a couple others prior to 1965) I'd like to take issue with Wickipedia on one thing they said. "I'll Cry Instead" was obviously recorded in February when other songs were that were planned for the HDN movie. John Lennon even said where he wanted the song to be used in the movie. On June 26th 1964 they released the U A Hard Day's Night album and single in the US. The album included "I'll Cry Instead" but then Richard Lester yanked it at the last minute. Wickipedia claims the song wasn't recorded till June. But were this so meeting a June 26th release date in another country would really take some doing. There are other things to say on this topic but first of all here are a couple of intervening paragraphs before we get back to it.

Betty Ford was a couragious woman. She died Friday at age 93. She was known for facing her alcohol and substance abuse problems boldly and publicly, and founded the Betty Ford clinic. She also had a double mastectomy, and made women aware of breast cancer and encouraged them to get a check-up. She also was outspoken for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment, and also as a champion of abortion rights. She lent a new dignity and boldness to women that they had never had such a role model of before. And for this she will be long remembered.

OK this is a still warm Friday July 8th. We did a blog earlier today with mostly relatively sane stuff. Later we're going to do what I call "Six Songs and Stories" from the vault, mostly written in the 1980's. But after we're done with this opening paragraph, I'd like to tie up a few cosmic loose ends (assuming the wiring in my brain hasn't frayed completely) First according to Blogger this is the 75th posting in this particular blog, and we're aiming to do number 76 perhaps Monday, which will cap things off for a while. In the news you could phone most of this stuff in. It's the same ol' same ol'. Around here Dr. Levy's appearences are getting fewer and fewer and he missed last night, and maybe we'll see him at the end of next week. His "newsletters" have taken on an non existant quality. He's got a nice backlog of my writings if he finds the need to fill space. Relations with family members is sparse, and that seems to be for the best. Sometime I think the only time they want to have anything to do with me is when they see some problem or weakness in me they're able to exploit. I'm not at all optimistic about the election of 2012. People always talking about "not letting Democracy slip away" in this country, but I have the feeling that's just what it's doing. I guess Thom Hartman said today that they did an anthropological study of far flung cultures of the world and concluded that while the build up and development of cultures is usually slow and progressive, that their demise and collapse can often be quite sudden. This ought to give every American pause. I have this fear we are way too technologically dependent on gadgets and such and if we ever had to make it on our own, many of us would fall flat on our face.

COSMIC SECRETS, LOOSE ENDS, AND BLOOPERS

I now know the name of the fourth group of "Cassiopians". The other three are the Crestorians, the "Texas group" and the "Phil Collins" group. The fourth group are called the Taccomans. This is not an alltogether alien name to me. It's just that I had always referred to them as "the west coast Arkturians". It turns out their connection with Arkturas was some misunderstanding of something I was told a long time ago, but they are in fact of the Cassiopian star system. (Cassiopians refer to themselves as a "star system" rather than as an Empire, or Federation, or Republic, or whatever. Why this is significant is that this is the group that took over the Orion Federation communacation ministry back in early 1990 but it became much more pronounced in June of 1991 till they were driven out under "opperation mongoose" about March first 1992. That's one mystery down. As you know today is the 36th anniversary of the death of Richi Vallenz in his Romulan "avatar". This was when he had a heart attack in his swimming pool on a Tuesday afternoon on July 8th 1975. I didn't know such a thing could happen to "one of those people" and asked others who merely said, "It obviously did". The story on this one is that they took his body and dipped it in a vat of hydro-chloric acid on the shore in Ensenada, Mexico a few days later. Richi was never heard from again, at least by me till he resurfaced in early 1995, when he has been around frequently. Sometimes people will "go underground" for a time and resurface. As you may know Stewart Sutcliffe "went underground" about the turn of the year '62-1963 and didn't resurface again till late 1971 and he did so where he had departed from Torranto, and formed a band with the same band mates of all things. (No, I don't mean the Beatles) These included Fernando S. (Vocalist who kind of sounds like Pete Ham) Darren D. - - - Barret R. (who took over on bass) and occasionally Terry L. (backing vocal). He also "went underground" for a shorter period from about the end of 1989 through the early fall of 1993.

That WAS the most whacko paragraph in this posting so you've made it through the worst part. However I would like to talk about this whole dangeling loose end, at least in my mind that "was there some other spirit-fource, psychic energy, ghost, avatar, or what have you- - influencing John Lennon from July 1963 and later till at least early 1968? The one responsible for all those vocal machismo parts on Rubber Soul and the like? Well I've been"interviewing candidates" for the job. One guy Lennon referred to as his "new magic guru" and that was Magic Alex. But he failed to make the grade. Not a musical bone in his body. I checked out at least three others, who are all dead now. The thing wrong with most candidates is that they are "too productive" and have busy schedules joining bands and such. I was looking for kind of a loser - loner, like maybe some Black teenage gang member from Cleveland who died under mysterious circumstances or something. Finally I came accross someone who just might be a suitable candidate. If I ever thought of it before I pushed it out of my mind. This candidate "works" on a whole number of levels. First an foremost John Lennon is one person who can actually stand to be around him and who doesn't regard him as a total asshole. This guy's propensity tword flakeyness knows no bounds. The more you know about him, the more you don't like him. But I'm not naming him here and now. (I have to provide a little suspense) He has credentials as being "black enough" to fill the bill, and also creative enough, and a good enough musician, and actually rather tallented and inovative. We have a bit of a problem when it comes to Abbey Road however. At least most sane people would regard it as a problem. Of course there is a major problem with any "Walk-in" - - what I call the Impostor problem. Or as Johnny Taylor sings it "Who's screwing your life up, while you are busy making a botch-job of someone elses?" You kind of have to deal with this impostor problem with one-way walk-ins. Because logically it could turn into an endless chain of succession where in the end everybody is confused. But right now I'm stopping for today. I can do those Stories tomorrow. But now you've read this.