The Killing Fields of Barock Obama

At the risk of garnering a little cheap publicity I am re posting this entry, which itself has an awful lot of borrowed material.  As you know the latest news is that Al Qaeda had nothing to do with the death of the Libyan Ambassador last month, despite the howlings of the right wing.  You can gather from the information here that the us can target anyone on US soil, and use missiles and even Nukes on US Soil, should it be deemed necessary.  Of course Flight 93 WAS shot down by a friendly Missile on 9 - 11 and there is little dispute in the evidence here, both in physical and eye witness evidence.  The saga of Flight 93 as we have come to know it is a myth.  So with this president you have things like "wrongful life' at one end of the human spectrum when it comes to his legal stance on Abortion, and at the other end of the spectrum you have this President who has become George Bush on steriods, and as the material here states, the domestic Killing Fields have become institutionalized and now become a part of American precedent that other Presidents will look to as a past example of future conduct.

“The [Government Agency] — Now Vested With The Power To Determine The Proper ‘Disposition’ Of Terrorist Suspects — Is The SAME AGENCY That Is At The Center Of The Ubiquitous, Unaccountable Surveillance State Aimed At American Citizens.”

The Washington Post reports that the same agency which spies on all Americans also decides who is assassinated by drone or otherwise:

Over the past two years, the Obama administration has been secretly developing a new blueprint for pursuing terrorists, a next-generation targeting list called the “disposition matrix.”  The matrix contains the names of terrorism suspects arrayed against an accounting of the resources being marshaled to track them down, including sealed indictments and clandestine operations. U.S. officials said the database is designed to go beyond existing kill lists, mapping plans for the “disposition” of suspects beyond the reach of American drones.  Among senior Obama administration officials, there is a broad consensus that such operations are likely to be extended at least another decade. Given the way al-Qaeda continues to metastasize, some officials said no clear end is in sight.  Obama has institutionalized the highly classified practice of targeted killing, transforming ad-hoc elements into a counterterrorism infrastructure capable of sustaining a seemingly permanent war.  White House counterterrorism adviser John O. Brennan is seeking to codify the administration’s approach to generating capture/kill lists, part of a broader effort to guide future administrations through the counterterrorism processes that Obama has embraced.  The United States now operates multiple drone programs, including acknowledged U.S. military patrols over conflict zones in Afghanistan and Libya, and classified CIA surveillance flights over Iran. Strikes against al-Qaeda, however, are carried out under secret lethal programs involving the CIA and JSOC [both of which have been called the President's "private army"]. The matrix was developed by the NCTC [the National Counterterrorism Center], under former director Michael Leiter, to augment those organizations’ separate but overlapping kill lists, officials said.  The result is a single, continually evolving database in which biographies, locations, known associates and affiliated organizations are all catalogued. So are strategies for taking targets down, including extradition requests, capture operations and drone patrols.  The database is meant to map out contingencies, creating an operational menu that spells out each agency’s role in case a suspect surfaces in an unexpected spot. “If he’s in Saudi Arabia, pick up with the Saudis,” the former official said. “If traveling overseas to al-Shabaab [in Somalia] we can pick him up by ship. If in Yemen, kill or have the Yemenis pick him up.”   The administration has also elevated the role of the NCTC, which was conceived as a clearinghouse for threat data and has no operational capability. Under Brennan, who served as its founding director, the center has emerged as a targeting hub.

As Glenn Greenwald notes:

The central role played by the NCTC in determining who should be killed – “It is the keeper of the criteria,” says one official to the Post – is, by itself, rather odious. As Kade Crockford of the ACLU of Massachusetts noted in response to this story, the ACLU has long warned that the real purpose of the NCTC – despite its nominal focus on terrorism – is the “massive, secretive data collection and mining of trillions of points of data about most people in the United States”.  In particular, the NCTC operates a gigantic data-mining operation, in which all sorts of information about innocent Americans is systematically monitored, stored, and analyzed. This includes “records from law enforcement investigations, health information, employment history, travel and student records” – “literally anything the government collects would be fair game”. In other words, the NCTC – now vested with the power to determine the proper “disposition” of terrorist suspects – is the same agency that is at the center of the ubiquitous, unaccountable surveillance state aimed at American citizens.  Worse still, as the ACLU’s legislative counsel Chris Calabrese documented back in July in a must-read analysis, Obama officials very recently abolished safeguards on how this information can be used. Whereas the agency, during the Bush years, was barred from storing non-terrorist-related information about innocent Americans for more than 180 days – a limit which “meant that NCTC was dissuaded from collecting large databases filled with information on innocent Americans” – it is now free to do so. Obama officials eliminated this constraint by authorizing the NCTC “to collect and ‘continually assess’ information on innocent Americans for up to five years”.  And, as usual, this agency engages in these incredibly powerful and invasive processes with virtually no democratic accountability:

“All of this is happening with very little oversight. Controls over the NCTC are mostly internal to the DNI’s office, and important oversight bodies such as Congress and the President’s Intelligence Oversight Board aren’t notified even of ‘significant’ failures to comply with the Guidelines. Fundamental legal protections are being sidestepped. For example, under the new guidelines, Privacy Act notices (legal requirements to describe how databases are used) must be completed by the agency that collected the information. This is in spite of the fact that those agencies have no idea what NCTC is actually doing with the information once it collects it.
“All of this amounts to a reboot of the Total Information Awareness Program that Americans rejected so vigorously right after 9/11.“

What has been created here – permanently institutionalized – is a highly secretive executive branch agency that simultaneously engages in two functions: (1) it collects and analyzes massive amounts of surveillance data about all Americans without any judicial review let alone search warrants, and (2) creates and implements a “matrix” that determines the “disposition” of suspects, up to and including execution, without a whiff of due process or oversight. It is simultaneously a surveillance state and a secretive, unaccountable judicial body that analyzes who you are and then decrees what should be done with you, how you should be “disposed” of, beyond the reach of any minimal accountability or transparency.

Americans on U.S. Soil May Be Targeted

This might be acceptable if the U.S. government was only targeting really bad guys, and if drones were not being used inside the borders of America itself.  But drones are becoming pervasive within the U.S.  Indeed, some of the numerous drones flying over American soil – projected by the FAA to reach 30,000 drones by 2020 – are starting to carry arms. When torture memo writer John Yoo was asked last year whether drones could kill people within the United States, he replied yes – if we were in a time of war:  (Of course, since the U.S. has declared a perpetual war – and see this-  drones will always be in fashion.) Indeed, the military now considers the U.S. homeland to be a battlefield.  The U.S. is already allowing military operations within the United States.    Indeed, the Army is already being deployed on U.S. soil, and the military is conducting numerous training exercises on American streets. And see this. Government officials have said that Americans can be targets in the war on terror.   Obama has authorized “targeted assassinations” against U.S. citizens.
And it is not very comforting that the U.S. government labels just about every U.S. citizen as a potential terrorists.

W.W.J.D.. Verses W.W.M.D?

What would Jesus Do?  And "What would Marcus do?"  Let's see if there are any difference.  I don't believe in the law of "limited good" per se.  Judy does.  She believes if you tax a rich person soon he will be poor just like everybody else, which is what these Socialists like Obama really want.  I don't believe that Good per see is limited by Quantity.  But I do believe that Good, unlike Evil, is limited in Quality.  As such you can't get "whiter than white" no matter how much the laundry detergent advertisers protest that you can.  You can't get more perfect than perfect.  That's the one word where if you use s superlative with it such as "more perfect" as in St Paul saying "But I shall show you a more perfect way" you diminish the word.  People say that God is so "Good" and next to God's goodness, Ghandi and Stalin are practically bed fellows, morally.  And Jesus is the perfect manifestation of God on earth.  Even the Mormons believe that.  I don't believe in limited good, but there are cases where I believe in limited gain.  Often sacrifice costs you.  It was an economic sacrifice to move in here.  It's a gift that "keeps on taking" kind of like the Supreme Court.  I know have enough Dr. Phil savy to be able to project ahead into the future.  Just because I have a full pack of cigarettes now, doesn't mean I should start passing them out like candy.  I know my capacity for income is limited, and that not too long in the future I'm going to wish for the time when I had that cigarette back.  You can spend minutes or even hours wandering around this whole place looking for someone with a cigarette.  It's no fun.  So when I see old ladies giving their family expensive heir looms to Gene Scott I cringe, because they are worth one hell of a lot more to the people who gave them, and their children and grandchildren, than they could ever be to Gene Scott.  To him they're just another notch on his belt.  And he puts them in a room and brags to others how people just gave them to him, no doubt to the sheer force of his personality.  You hear the story of the widdow's coins.  Were I there on the spot in Jesus' place I would say "Lady, keep your money.  You need it.  Believe me I'd seen your finances.  Besides, the church is supposed to be giving its money to people like you, and not the other way around.  If you give it- - it will get shuffled around in some beaurocracy and some cleaver accountant will appropiate it to increase the temple profits.  In like manner the prostitute who poured all that expensive perfume on Jesus that Saturday before Palm's Sunday.  I'd say "Lady keep your expensive perfume.  I don't need it".  But she would protest, "But I want you to have it.  I feel guilty about how I god it and I wouldn't feel right about keeping it, if you know what I mean.  It was from an expensive client.  I would then say to her "Lady, isn't that kind of the point?"  You're giving it as a token to try and ease your guilt because you know deep down God hasn't really forgiven you.  First go to God and get forgiven by him.  Then you'll see the whole question in an entirely different light.  In like manner in the parable of the dishonest steward- - I would teach against disloyalty and stabbing an employeer in the back.  The moral of the parable seems to be 'Just be as big of a crook as you can- - and win His enemies over to your cause and they will admire you and hire you on when they see what I real Crook you are".  Again this is Mitt Romney logic, and not mine.  You know in late 2004 seventy dollars was stolen out of my drawer, which was ransacked several times after that perhaps by the same person looking for more money.  Yet I am more affected by another loss.  The one of just twenty dollars, a lesser ammount, at the beginning of 2010.  This was not the result of theft but rather of getting cheated out of the twenty on pay day a couple of days before.  This loss affected me more because my finantial situation had changed markedly, and I knew it would be much harder to make up the loss.  You know that Mike Meloy says that we worship a blood thirsty sociopath of a god named Jehovah.  Maybe the president's Health Plan is a cure for "Romnesia" which is a pre existing condition.  But what about Sin as a pre existing condition.  I can always be rejected as a Saint on account of having this pre existant condition called Sin.  Or being more to the point it's because "My name was not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world", which was a long, long time before I was born and had absolutely no control over.  God sees things in Eternal terms.  God neither changes his nature, nor changes his mind about anything, or ever "sees things in a different light" with the passage of time, which we humans are all such a slave too.  I am "A Sinner".  Charles Tex Watson and Ted Bundy may well be "A Saint" and "A Saint" but I am "A Sinner".  God sees us the way he does, as it were from that Eternity vantage point outside our created Universe.  Mitt Romney says I was being a crook for not having health care into my mid forties.  I invoke the Dr. Phil doctrine again.  "Past behavior is the best predicter of future behavior".  I've managed to get that far in life without getting sick or have any serious conditions.  The odds favor me.  But it might not be so in Mitt Romney's world.  He apparently told Jay Leno last March that "If you are 45 and discover you want to buy insurance and they discover some condition you have that you knew nothing of- - well - - you can't do that.  Just have insurance your whole life and then you'll be all right".  My contention with Christianity is that you can't be accused of rejecting something which, in truth, was never really offered to you.  It was never yours to claim.  In the words of "No Words for my Love" - - "You say you want to give your love to me - - and end up giving nothing.  I'm not surprised that your black eyes are gazing".

Mitt Romney is now trailing in Virginia by five points to the President.  Well that's the ball game.  If Obama takes Virginia, and it looks as if he has, Romney doesn't have a prayer- - - even if he is a Mormon Bishop or whatever.  People at last, hopefully, even the undecided among us, are seeing Mitt Romney for who he really is.  And now it's spaghetti time.  And I imagine that post time is correct.

Some may accuse me of "hearing hoofs and thinking zebras and not horses" or going for the odd or unusual.  Just because I don't believe "The Story" that the early Christian church tells.  Or - - in a completely different area this whole Kathy and Joe thing from the last posting - - is something that my siblings might even be baffled about.  But if I haven't have been told anything, I imagine they haven't either.  My Mom might just- - let's hope not - - be headed down the same road that Caroline Brady is steps ahead of her on.  One of the most intriguing Star Trek shows- - and there are certain ones that "stay with you" and continue to mystify- - - such as "Clues".  It isn't one thing but a regular gulag of clues- - all pointing to the same thing.  And you're looking for some kind of signed confession from God that you're right on the subject.  It's little things like - - that letter I sent to my parents in December of 1992.  There were four topics covered in the letter.  My whole thing with the SSI audit and my termanating job prospects.  Then there is the question of why dates in my baby book appear to have been messed with.  Then there is the Asshole from El Paso.  And then there is you-know-who and her husband.  My Dad made a really strange statement I won't repeat here.  But even if it were true - - and I think he was way exagurating- - he would at least "theoretically" have no way of knowing whether it was true or not.  At one point in late summer you have Kathy openly accusing me of "spying on her".  You have VERY abrupt plans as to whether or not to move from that apartment.  People call the 9 - 11 Conspiracy people as a little eccentric.  Yet we are the sane ones.  We can't "Prove" our stuff to the extent it would compell a unanamus jury verdict.  Some philosophers say you can't even Prove you exist.  But there are the glaringly obvious clues that would arrest ANYONE"S attention.  They are literally screaming at you from all directions.  Yet there is this Conspiracy of Silence in the Government and in the Media which passeth all Understanding and personally - - - I Just Don't Get It!

I listened to Randy Rhodes. What I'd like to do now is talk about basic moral logic.  For instance a big reason why you punish someone is to make an example out of them so others see their punishment and learn from it.  As to the idea of making someone suffer - - I think you've exceeded your warrent if the suffering of said individual no longer points them to the crime they comitted but instead becomes "an ongoing condition of life".  As such it is pointless to send someone to hell - - and have nobody else know about it except you.  And need I say if you threaten someone you first have to have the Power to threaten them, and they pretty much have to KNOW you have that power.  But also, and this one is paradoxical, ti threaten is to some degree to assume the Other person has a Choice of how they Respond to it.  You can't change someone elses' behavior is the other person has no Choice.  This is a lesson God seems slow to learned.  God is unable to threaten people like Mike Meloy because Mike has learned that what he does is absolutely irrelivent in God's sight.  We now come to today's Soap opera.   Nicole dropped the charges against Jennifer and Roman will have them dropped officially.  Roman told her when she signs the document that her signiture must be witnessed.  Roman said "There is no going back once you do this".  Tell that to Ted Kennedy.  He made extensive changes in his deposition in the Chapiquittic matter.  Or do rich people have special priveleges the rest of us don't.  But knowing what a flake Daniel Jonas is I wouldn’t put it past him to say to Nicole, “You know I said we’d be together, but now I’m so overjoyed that they’ve dropped the charges against Jennifer, and that changes everything.  So naturally you can understand why I’m dumping you and going with her”.  It's a funny thing to suddenly be told out of the blue you owe someone a lot of money and payment was "due as of yesterdy".  I've experianced that.  Christine seemed only to be a “me, top” leader with this bit about her being Samantha’s boss and Sammy now suddenly owing all this personal money to the corporation.  Hey, do you think it would cause Mitt Romney one moment’s worth of sleep to know that he cost his corporation lots of money?  Not on your life.  Strange as it seems, Samantha is a lot more contentious with business affairs and money than is Mitt Romney.   Oscar is mopping the halls and I’ll be headed off to the store when the floor is dry.  Bill has not been around the last couple of hours.  Nora was in briefly to fiddle with the shower.

"I Talk To Dead People"

There is another guy in the news on ABC, who claims to have had an out of body experiance and went to heaven.  There he rode accross the sky on a giant butterfly, and later met his dead sister, whom he would not see a photograph of for years, but seeing her photograph clinched for him.  He said we all need to know that heaven is a place of enveloping, unconditional Love.  "So don't worry about what you've done.  Don't you worry, about the way it's gone".  "Well, Alright!" to quote a Blind Faith song I've been hearing a lot of on I Heart Radio these days.  He said upon his awakening that there isn't the slightest bit of doubt in his mind.  That he now sees the word with a crystal clarity never seen before.  He wrote down all he could remember in twenty thousand - - Count them - - words.  Maybe he'll put out a book.  Then I'll buy it.  Meanwhile the one time I thought I was in Hell - - - I told you about it.  I was at some church bazaar or carnival with booths and such and it was noisy and there were a lot of people around, and I was wandering about.  And suddenloy the thought hit me in this dream as if a bolt from the blue, "Good God, I'm in Hell".  It wasn't my immediate surroundings- - but this inner sick feeling in my soul that I had "gone too far" and sinned away my day of Grace.  All of the people I had ever known in my life and the places I had been and seen, I would never know again.  In the previous blog I noted that dream I'd had the first weekend of 1992 when we had that rare anular eclipse of the sun that was almost obscured by clouds.  I met someone in that dream who when I met her she acted as if she knew me well.  And I had this "Deja Vu" feeling I SHOULD know her, but I'd blacked out the recent past.  It was the dream I sensed something horrible had just happened, and maybe I had caused it, but nobody was telling me.  I had the feeling it was mid to late April.  This would be Denise Brown of OJ Simpson fame.  The only difference is "People look heavier in front of a television camera".  Other than that it was a dead ringer.  But I've met other dead people.  Of course there is Jim Cooper who formerly was Elvis Presley and thus a "walk in".  As such I feel as though I am in that rare inner circle of friends shared only by such as wife Pricilla, and Red West, and Scotty Moore.   But also there is another "Dead Person" I met in the flesh - - from a Stephen King novel.  He's an obscure character that dies in the second chapter of the book or something.  I dare say I have written more about this character than Stephen King himself has.  Then we have John Lennon's experiance of meeting his Sister and writing the song "Hey, you've got to hide your love away".  Then we come to Kathy, Nicholas' mother.  No she isn't dead.  But if a certain suspicion of adultry is true, she could be my half sister related by blood to our father, initials W M.  I've had the feeling that my Mom "greased the skids" to get to meet and know her, but then four years later decided "OK that's enough" and fixed it so she'd be out of my life.  But I can't prove this.  Then we come to a character, and by no means a prominent one, in another book that is in the Fiction section of some libraries.  That is of course "Denise DeLovely".  There are no photographs of her in the book above about age four, and yet I know her face as an adult as clear as a bell because I have met her in numerous "appearences" to me in the flesh, generally in 1987 and 1988, with at least as much credibility as Jesus' Desciples did.  Personally I believe I know and understand her psyche better than her own mother does, who has lived a life almost as secretive as mine, so to speak. I just told you, and I've told you many times I have neither had a revelation of God nor of Heaven, and I was even in a virtual coma for two and a half days - - as if to prove the point.  So I don't know.  They say peoples' brains are wired differently.  I thought I heard them say this guy's brain was examined with a cat scan or something and they have "proved that such detailed images could not be possibly be manufactured by his brain at the time".  And the man who had the revelation himself stated "I know now that the human psyche or soul, is not dependant on any biological brain to sustain it".  I have generally believed this.  But like a lot of things I have believed, I can't prove it.

More Exciting Adventures in the Land of Romnesia

TAKE THE BULLET OUT

The first six-pack of songs available in super high-fidelity 12 inch vinyl

Go Down (AC - DC)
Spanish Boots (from "Beck-O-La")
Am I Going Insane? (Black Sabbath)
Ogre Battle (Queen II)
Wang Dang Sweet Puntang (Ted Nugent)
My Life Is Alive (Gary Wright)
Take The Bullet Out (Obama speech early June 2007)

Let's look at the mystery behind the Romney numbers.  Perhaps you've figured this out already but the reason why the national pools on Romney verses Obama is because Romney is often leading by twenty percentage points in the red South.  But in the battle ground electoral map it's an entirely different story and President Obama is sitting pretty there.  However we could have a reverse Al Gore scenario this time out where Romney wins the popular vote but Obama walks away with the electoral votes.  They have run head to head polls between the President and Romney in many countries of the world, and the only country where Mitt Romney wins is Pakistan.  This could be because Mitt Romney said he would not go into Pakistan, at least without permission, to get Osama Bin Laden.  There was a CBS poll conducted showing that President Obama won the foreign affairs with Romney by some thirty points.  And the Gender gap has now gone back up a little to thirteen percentage points nation-wide.  But once women actually are in the secrecy of the voting booth we all suspect that figure will be much higher.

When it comes to other Romney gaffs we know that Iran in fact has an extensive frontage on the Ocean.  After they do call it the Pursian Gulf and many battle confrontations have been there.  As to our not having as many battle ships as World War I, those statistics aren't even accurate.  We had a lot of "firgits" that weren't even battle grade ships.  And the President was mocking of Mittens in the latest debate saying, "You know, Mitt, we have these things that go under the water now called submarines, and we have great big ships where planes land and take off.  They're called aircraft carriers.  And in 1916 we also had more horses and bayonettes in the military than we have now".  As to the whole Libyan ambassador thing, that issue died a sudden death when it was revealed that indeed the anti Moslem Video did indeed play a role in the decision to take out the Ambassador.  And we must remember that the Libyan people actually protested on behalf of the United States after the killing.  How often does that happen?  The Libyan nation is not "out of control" as people like Michelle Bachman would have us believe.  Arab Spring was genuine democracy, and Romney admitted he, unlike Bachman, started off as a fan of Arab Spring.  President Obama nailed Romney on the GM thing saying that Romney wanted General Motors to go bankrupt, and not get any Government air, but perhaps he would allow private funding.  The problem of course is that no one in the private sector had any such funding.  Now of course Mitt Romney is now stating that he will grant "No more Network Interviews" because obviously he was put on the defensive during this debate.  Rush Limbaugh and others on the tea party right have referred to President Obama's performance as "Mean".  And there is more yammering about how "women don't like that".  But of course "Mean" is just another tea party code word for "victorious".  Put that in your hash pipe and smoke it.

Another issue that the President could have raised but didn't was Romney's Federal Income Taxes for the past decade.  This is still a mystery and a lot of questions we all have about Bain Capital would be solved is we could get a look at these taxes.  The point is that we have enough evidence now to conclude that Mitt Romney is an out and out crook and probably a felon, who shouldn't be trusted to be elected as dog catcher.  Romney and the Missus should thank their lucky stars that we are "deeming to give them a chance to produce exculpitory evidence".  And this just might be achieved by Romney's releasing of his Federal Income taxes those ten years, so he can "expose us all as fools' and expose Senator Harry Reed as a liar, if in fact Romney actually believes Reed is a liar.  Now there is a divorce case- - and you Staples people listen up here- - - where Romney could be indicted for giving a false deposition in a divorce case.  Romney testified for a male friend against his own wife.  There was a dispute as to just how much all that Staples stock was worth.  As you know the past year Mittens has been touting Staples as one of his great victories in life.  However back then, Romney was saying that Staples was way over-priced, and Romney won his case and the court agreed Staples stock was way over-priced affecting how much money the wife got, bilking her out of perhaps millions of dollars.  So much for Mitt Romney being shivelrus to women.  Now of course there is this Merdoch fellow running for office saying that "Rape is God's will".  Someone should to new lyrics to "The Dangerous Type" by the Cars, saying "God's a lot like you - - the Dangerous type".  My guess is after denying the woman the right to get an abortion for rape, Romney's plan might not even provide hospital coverage to help that victim of Rape give birth.  Think about it.  Mitt Romney really is a first rate douche bag!

Donald Trump has stated that "I have a deal for President Obama".  If the President releases his college transcripts and records and applications, as well as all of the President's passports, then Donald Trump will five five million to the charity of President Obama's choice, be it disadvantaged people of Chicago or what.  Right now the President is on his way to Los Angeles once again to tape a program with Jay Leno.  But first the President will make campaign stops in battleground states Iowa and Colorado.  Now there are charges that Barock and Michelle Obama were on the verge of getting a Divorce as some point along the way.

Many Christians believe there is divine symbology in numbers.  Let's look at the number 35 for example.  Five is the number of Grace.  Grace for purposes of this piece means "enabelment" or if you will a Moving of God in our Lives.  Thirty five would contain seven such enabelments.  But what of the casting out nines numerology.  Here we get 5 plus 3, which brings to 8, the number of Death, and as some point out, "the number of new beginnings".  In terms of lunar cycles, 35 is about as close to a perfect (or nearly so) 38 as you can get without landing on it.  In the last Venus cycle - - early spring was the period when John Paul II died, and we chose a new Pope, whom many predicted at the time would be a "temporary" or "place holding" Pope, to be succeeded in time, by another more Notable One.  (Selah)

Burt Lombard produced this little record album, with the CD version containing Obama's speech given at that church where he introduces the Rev Jeremiah Wright as a good friend and mentor.  Sticking by a friend is a good thing.  Stabbing a loyal and lone time friend in the back is a bad thing.  I hope we all can agree on that.  I am predicting in accordance with others that this April around "late Aries" like April 15th thru 20th or so, will see some sort of traumatic and stunning event for Planet Earth. This is in part based on a haunting dream I had in early January of 1992.  In 1978 there was as it were a Meitosis or division of the spiritual psyche of the nation like never before.  This is why I consider 1978 so key because it "set certain things in motion".  I see some kind of metaphysical "dividing" going on next year taking on manifestation in the physical world.  I'll elaborate more on this in future postings, hopefully.  This period in late 1977 for me signaled a lot of "faith reverses".  Of course last week we celebrated the death of Ronnie Van Zant in that plane crash along with their current lead guitar player.  This time 35 years ago I was at one prayer meeting praying for three pregnent women in the group, and one of them was Robin, who gave birth to a daughter born with no right hand.  About this same time Pastor Mark's Saturday night group prayed for Don Lies because of his heart troubles.  He died of another heart attack a few days later.  It was a meeting of Mark's Saturday night group where I had a big blow up with Vince and Debby, who were substituting running the group that week, and at one point Vince said to me "I have every grounds for disowning you as a Christian right now".  Of course there are three other words that Neil of KFI would substitute for the words "I forgive you" and these three words are "Go To Hell".  One could say the same thing of Jesus of Nazareth in the Bible.  Dennis Prager rightly teaches that Christian theology believes in forgiveness as "reconsiliation" but modern day Preachers don't teach this. Maurie Head sang in JC Superstar, "Listen Jesus do you care for your rate?  Don't you see that we must keep in our place".  This whole idea of "keeping in your place" seems to be a concept Jesuss, as a Jew, never grasped.  He "supported the troops' all right.  The Roman Troops. If you truely "feel our pain" it means you yourself have to step inside our shoes and inside our psyches to view the world exactly as We see it.  Women, too, have "post traumatic stress sindrone".  It's hard to forgive someone who's dragging you around with a chain around your neck.  The whole idea of the day to day "pain of being a Jew" is something the New Testament writers have no concept of.  Jesus will forgive a prostitute.  But when someone offends Him personally, he makes sure you hear about it.  (Selah)

If Chuck Smith listened to the opening track of Ziggy Stardust as I did that November, he too might have concluded that "Five Years" was all we had left.  Only today if you see a comentater on FOX news you know "he IS lying".  It was approaching mid November when I came up with "Ziggy's Air Command" as an accronym for the Z A C.  Early December marks another "last".  It was about the last time I went to the Melodyland book store to buy a couple of Christian books - on cults. Tword the end of the year relations with Jim Klein were getting frosty, for a number of reasons.  This was the last period when I was still fellowshipping with John M's Bible group.  The last event I attended there was a Christmas Eve gathering.  There are movies taken by my Dad in January of 1978 (between rain storms - it was a sunny afternoon) with me and Pete Richard playing with Toby and John's dog Rufis.  The last movies my Dad ever took with a film camera were Sunday April 20th just after church, of me and Pete Richard.  The last time I ever attended a four year college was the first couple of months or so of the semester of February and March of 1978.  I was attending three classes- - dropping out of the Hindu History class after I failed the - six week essay test or whatever because "I wasn't being creating enough".  That ruling mystified me.  The Oriental teacher (doing "Ethics" this semester) dropped me after four weeks or so because he saw I wasn't properly registered.  I continued to attend the Criminal Justice class, at CSUF,, into April and then dropped out.  Pastor Peacock's last Sunday at our Church was the first Sunday in February.  His leaving triggered a massive division in my Parent's Church, which only in time led to the ultimate disaster.  Relations between me and Pete Richards chilled in February of 1978 - and this rift only grew as the years passed.  In late January Terry Kath of Chicago comitted suicide playing "Russian roulette with himself".  Burt Lombard has talked to him recently.  Now time really is short and I have to go.  And now I'm back.  I see the White House SS people haven't been in the room to search the place for weapons yet.  I'm surprised.  Back to what I was saying.  Me and Pete Richards went to The Strand in Redando Beach to see a Christian band called "Sea Wind" and I believe I had Tom Collins's that evening. Alcohol wasn't one of the things Jim Klein, at least yet, considered vices.  We got Bill T as a housemate sometime in March.  At the end of February Pete Richards had "posed" out in the back yard pretending like he was working in the yard all afternoon when in fact I was the guy that had been doing that. It was Easter weekend when we all went to Melodyland to see Chuck's official "film" on the end of times.  The leading theme of the movie was that it was highly unlikely the United States would ever sign a peace treaty with Egypt. It was early in April that Bill quit some sort of job he had with the government where he went to work in a suit, just to sit at home and listen to disco on his expensive stereo, and listen to tapes by this Dallas preacher that sounds like that guy who talked about "Frankly, our voting leverage goes up as the voting population goes down".  Bill T let it be known that it was "OK" to be a religions "connisour" tasting a little of this and a little of that to determine for yourself which one suit your fancy.  Another thing that became VERY thinkable with Bill- - that wasn't before as a Christian - - - was sex with girls.  Bill didn't mind referring to women as sexual objects even though he was a Christian.  In early April Pastor Mark chose me to be the youth representative on the Pastor Seeking committee.  I turned the job down and passed it off to Pete Richards, who accepted and was quickly approved by the congragation.  Needless to say that comittee outcome ended in disaster so I was spared that.  I went on the one and only "Retreat" in the Mountains in a cabin owned by friends of Jim Klein.  John, the pastor's son, noted all the couples that were getting together, and had me pegged to pair up with this hefty truck driver of a woman named Barbra.  Of course 1978 was the year of the big rise of the Howard Jarvis tax revolt, and also the rise of the Moral Majority.  It was also the last year of the People's Temple.  But you take all of these things - body blows to my faith- - and they are just in less than a year period.  Needless to say I "never looked at Christianity the same way again" or in the words of a married couple "me and God never got back what we once had".  (Selah)

A New Four CD Beatles Compilation

THIRTY FIVE YEARS OF BEATLES

 CD 1

All Those Years Ago

Any Road Will Take You There

Arrow Through Me

Backward Traveler / Link

Blow Away

Bogie Music

Brainwashed

Café on the Left Bank

Cheer Down

Choose Love

Cocamame Business

Cosmically Conscious (single ?)

Deliver Your Children

CD 2

Devil’s Radio

Don’t Go where the Road Don’t Go
Elizabeth Reigns Over Me

Famous Groupies

Flaming Pie

Free As A Bird

Here Comes the Moon

House of Wax

I Can See The World Tonight

I Don’t Want to Face It
I Don't Want to Know (Julian Lennon)

I’m Losing You

I’ve Had Enough

CD 3

Instant Amnesia
Kiss, Kiss, Kiss (Yoco Ono)

Living On Borrowed Time

Love Comes To Everyone

My Valentine

Nobody Said There’d Be Days like This
Not Guilty (solo album version)

On the Way

One Two Three Four Five

Real Love

Rockestra Theme

Soft Hearted Hannah

Spin It On

CD 4

Suicide (late ‘sixties demo tape)

Take It Away
Temporary Secretary

That Was Me
The Mark Is Rising

The One You Wanted To Be / Dress Me Up As a Robber
The Willberry Twist  (Traveling Wilberries)
Walk With Me (Paul and Ringo)

Watching the Wheels Go Round

We Got Married

When We Was Fab
Wonderful Christmas Time

You Can Lead a Horse to Water

Mitt Romney -Just Another Defense Contractor Piggy

Global Warming is a crowing crisis the whole world needs to come to grips with.  But rather than bring China and India up to our pathetic standards, instead Mitt Romney and the tea party set wants us to lower our standards to pollution to those of China and India so we can "compete" with them in Romney's ever pursuit of the Allmighty Dollar.  Michelle Bachman thinks we should give our workers no more rights than they do in Communist China.  Just as Bush and Chaney were oil men and defense contractors, Mitt Romney "loves to fire people" if they are American workers, even American non union union like this one company the Ed Schultz show did its program from last Friday where they interviewed all the workers- - would be losing their jobs by the end of the year.  And Romney's company Bain Capital is doing it to them, and Mitt Romney still exerts a lot of monetary influence with that Company.  They would not take a major step like this without passing muster with Mitt Romney.  And the thing is that Barock Obama had the perfect chance to call him on it in the debate, and he didn't.  The truth is that Mitt Romney wants a bigger defense budget not because he's patriotic or the military wants it, but because the Defense Contractors are saying 'We can guarentee you win Virginia if you play ball with us" because there are so many military contractor contractors there.  Romney lives by the all mighty dollar.  Apparently Romney "ordered" his "Blind Trust" to earmark a lot of money for his son, Tag.  Why knows what sort of currency manipulations Romney would engage in as President.  As I have said the most logical thing to do right off after Romney takes office, is to introduce a resolution in the House to Impeach him.  Well, I say why not "Impeach" Romney before he is ever elected.  Mittens is a man who likes to get his way, and takes it very poorly when he doesn't.  Even if it means he has to purpously trip his daughter in law in a friendly family foot race.  Or it means hounding a berieved widdow on the phone when she clearly doesn't want to talk to Romney and Romney just gets mad and says "I'm a busy man.  Answer my calls!"  Of course then we have the words of Anne Romney saying the thing she fears for most is "My husband's mental stability".  And this is the guy half of America will be voting for on election day?  Lord help us!  Romney is such an ignoramus according to many he didn't even know that Iran and Syria do not border each other, even a little, or that Iran has a coastline.  Apparently Mitt Romney said last night "Iran needs Syria to find a rout to the sea".  And he refers to the people from Afghanistan as "Afghani" when the correct turn is "Afghans".  Personally I now believe someone is rigging all these polls because I really have a problem the American people are so completely stupid that they will elect this man.

The San Francisco Giants won the pennant last night winning three straight.  The past three games they’ve won haven’t even been close.  They’ve been blow-outs, and that’s what’s been so strange.  How could the tide of play turn on a dime like that?  Who could have predicted it?  Of course the Cardinals were “second place Wild Cards” and they say they added another wild card this year but I don’t see how because they play with three divisions and one wild card making a fourth like they used to do in football.  I had the debate on of course most of the evening.  But the strangest thing in this nine to nothing victors is that it began pouring down rain in the top of the ninth.  It became a major question whether they’d even get in the last out.  Changing pitchers was rather silly with one out to go and it pouring down rain, sitting on a nine to nothing lead.  I began watching at the bottom of the seventh just about twenty to eight.  The debate ended suddenly at 7:30 with seemingly no closing statements and I went out looking for a cigarette and I’m not sure I got one.  I came back and switched to the game.  The next two inning halves took forty minutes, or forty minutes to cover an inning of play and keep in mind they’ve already had the seventh inning stretch.  The entire game ended about a quarter to nine as I recall.  I did not see the trophy presentations on that soggy field, if they even had them.  I went out and had a cigarette, talked to James a little and when I came back they were done already.  I switched on Mike Meloy after nine and listened to him till about a quarter to ten and went to bed.

Last night I was continually in dire need of a cigarette.  I watched the ABC network news and caught the start of the debate but then went down to the Medication line, which I was hoping wouldn’t take too long.  Fortunately it didn’t.  I got my medication and one of their dreaded tuna sandwiches from Yadera.  I thought Romney and the President were both a little dull, whitted but since I had a coffee deficit maybe I’m no judge.  The President was clearly more knowlegable and authoritative.  Romney came off as nervous with that stutter or whatever of his.  Romney was sweating and didn’t look all that healthy like he had the flu.  He seemed to agree with the President’s position a lot and even seemed to defend a position the President had taken.  He did however say we needed a ten percent bigger military.  When a California state program gets cut back by ten percent, it’s cut back by ten percent.  But with future military budgets I have the feeling they are talking about pipe dream projections, which may never come to pass anyhow.  One caller noted how the whole thing was on War.  War with just about anybody.  There was little talk of trade with other nations, or global famine, or global energy, or global warming.  There was no talk about NATO or the UN or our “European allies” that Romney seems to worried about all the time, I’m not sure why.  Bob Sheefer did a good job as moderator.


This morning Bill took an early shower.  I got up at 6:15 and it was still dark at six thirty.  Now it seems that Brenda is perswading Marcia to vote for Obama.  We had oatmeal and I used a pink sugar and yet again Irvin asks for one of my pink sugars rather than get one himself.  We had a big pancake with not enough syrup on it, and again some rather off-flavor sausage.  I had Stephanie Miller on.   Sean Hannity and Sarah Palin both say that Romney won the debate last night and was more “Presidential”, whereas once again they tagged Obama as overly defensive, which he most certainly was not.  There were a couple of other right wing people quoted who were pretty much “out to lunch” on the subject.  

Since this blog will be prove to be "a day late and a dollar short" anyhow let's continue with this next story.  If you were wondering what John Lennon has been doing, we have some sort of answer for you.  It seems that the rift between Burt Lombard and Mal Evans has gotten larger again in the past few weeks.  Burt has now joined Sirius A forces in wanting to take over the whole "ZAC propaganda" stuff, and also believe Mal Evans judgement is in question lately.  This whole "sounding the alarm" thing with the Sutterans may be over-blown just a bit.  Bones, after sticking with Mal Evans for a couple of days, decided that he "disagreed with Mal's assesment as to how to handle an aledge Sutteran threat on the Federation.  Other high aids have been unhappy with Mal Evans' rulings on certain matters for perhaps unrelated reasons. As to that whole bit with siding on behalf of the St Luis Cardinals over the SF Giants there is mutiny in the Andromeda ranks, many refusing to go along with routing against their own team because of shall we say "international considerations".  John Lennon was invited to sit in on a duscussion of what the Sirius A forces could do to make the Sutterans look bad.  And the idea was hit upon, so they tell the story, of a sudden downpour just before the end of the game because because "We were granted power from Alcyonne to influence the weather" if we wanted.  When John heard about the downpour idea he said in that half-excited half-sarcastic voice of his "OK, let's do it!"  The idea was to creat tension and frustration among the Sutterans not knowing if they'd even get the whole game in last night.  The score was nine to nothing which is kind of Lenonesque in itself.  Now we have another paragraph for you from last Saturday afternoon.  There is a longer paragraph I could have included here, but I'd already touched on that material anyhow.  Since nobody is going to be reading this anyhow because this posting isn't timely, who cares?

We had a chef’s salad for lunch.  The Oriental guy wasn’t eating his at all and clearly wasn’t going to.  So I grabbed first the crackers and then the hard boiled egg from it.  Then he dumped a bunch of trash on the rest to insure nobody else would touch it.  We had mushroom soup, which I am getting used to but still not crazy about.  We had a pear for desert.  I had Leo Le Port on and now Leo says he’s really not “into” the I Phone V at all these days because the phone has just too many strikes against him.  There is the nine verses thirty pin plug that is incompatable with anything else you’d see at a Hotel or whatever.  Also the “loss” of Google maps is a big strike.  Leo seems to indicate it’s not just one thing but a major failure.  And then Leo dislikes how fragile the I Phone V is and how he’s already “dinged’ his up, and getting a case for it kind of “defeats the purpose” of the sleek styling.  Maybe the I Phone V was just too “stylish” for it’s own good in terms of utility.  Also of course it isn’t the be all and end all of features to begin with.  And Apple just over-hypes all their stuff, overstating it, in general.

We had a taco salad for dinner and I’m reminded they don’t put corn chips in that any more and I’m wondering why.  I got seconds on that from Laura, who started on our side.  We had yellow cake for desert.  Francis after a hesitation, let me have a cigarette.  Eye Witness news is on now but generally we have been having “quiet news days” since last Tuesday’s debate.  Nora came by and reminded me that I should rinse out that sponge after floor usage.  I am hoping that Obama demolishes Romney in this debate.  He sure has enough material to.