Legal But Still Not Legal

Well those of us who thought we would have "arrived" with marijuana legal have another think coming.  Because you can't smoke marijuana out in public.  You can't just sell some weed to a friend, and they can't serve it at parties, at least legally.  I guess it's a question just where and how you can use it.  Of course you have to be over 21 to buy it so that lets high school and college kids out.  And I'm still not sure what happens now if you have marijuana in your car when a cop stops you.  And now there is this Church that uses marijuana as a sacrament.  Sounds like my kind of church.  I need some drug to "find peace and tranquility".   There is that song, "Don't worry; be happy"  I should be content and "happy" now that I have economically been "delivered" from ten years of having my back up against the wall financially.  It was almost exactly ten years minus a few weeks.  But I still have these symptoms of stress like restless bowels and a touchy stomach like I had a couple days ago.  I wake in the morning and have an anxiety attack.  I am beseiged with all of these random, anxious thoughts.  I can't relax.  Marijuana would solve a lot of these problems, perhaps.  I've thought about buying one of these little 99 cents plus tax airline bottles of vodka and saving it till the first thing when I wake up in the morning and downing the bottle and then I'd be prepared to face the day.  Really the country is prospering economically like it hasn't in a dozen years.  People are hiring more for the Christmas season with seasonal employees.  More people are quitting their jobs now because they are confident they can get a better one.  There are more openings for jobs than there are people to fill them.  And the best thing of all is that wages are headed up.  And yet with all of this- - I still feel anxious about my health and getting older and whatever. 

The Christian Church really isn't the friend of the common man.  Steve Harvey yesterday was saying "If you keep on doing what you've always been doing then you get what you've always been getting".  Just hen you are used to a prayer meeting that goes twenty minutes they raise it to a half hour.  And just when you're used to a half hour they raise it to 45 minutes.  It seems like you can "never get used to being a Christian.  You can't "out patience" God.  You can never wait him out.  You can never answer the question of "How humble do I have to be and for how long- - until God sees I'm really humble and considers me worthy to get my prayers answered".   There were other issues I was going to raise about the church but they'll keep.  I did want to say thing about heaven.  We're all supposed to have heaven as our goal.  Some would say heaven is like the ultimate "new frontier".  If the old west was exciting to explore and took a certain kind of rugged individual, and if space travel were the ultimate "New Frontier", what about death?  Shouldn't that be the ultimate frintier?  Oddly enough- - No.  Listen to what Christian themselves say about heaven. It's a place of "eternal rest" or sitting on a cloud with angel wings and playing a harp.  Or else it's endlessly praising God and thanking him for our salvation.  There is a hymn that goes "When we've teen there ten thousand years bright shining as the sun,  we have no fewer days to sing God's praise than when we've first begun.  Gratitude is fine but ten thousand years of it could get a little boring.  I heard something on one of these TV "Supernatural" shows that struck a chord with me.  They said "Oh heaven is no big thing.  There's nothing there, actually. It's all just living on people's memories.  And so when Chuck Smith or Mark Bove talks about heaven- - they speak of remembering family life and loved ones.  We are rejoycing in our children and grand children, which I don't have.   At least with my own "after death" visitations from people like Mal Evans, Stewart Sutcliffe, Richi Vallenz, Kurt Cobain and Dennis Wilson- - most of my "encounters" with these people aren't based on their past lives but on revelations I've gotten.   If we get the notion that heaven is all just "memories" once again these could get boring after- - oh, say ten thousand years or so.  We were still coming out of the ice age ten thousand years ago.  It just seems almost narcicistic- - - - that our smidgeon of time here in planet earth in the here and now could provide the central focus for an eternity of happiness, or that what we do at some evangelical rally could shape our destinies for an eternity. 

Paul Manifort was convicted on eight of eighteen charges last month with more charges to come.  Now Manifort has struck a deal where he pleads guilty to two more charges and that’s all.  These are “conspiracy against the United States” and “Obstruction of Justice” and with those two more charges he’s let off on the previous eight according to Dorthey.  But he has to testify before Muller’s commission and if they don’t like what they hear they may recind the deal.   All of these peole are testifying before Muller but there is never any pay off.  There should come a point of critical mass where it all explodes and the full charges under investigation hit the newspapers.  It was stated earlier that even if Manifort, or Trump for that matter, get a pardon, then they no longer have fifth amendment rights and can be questioned on anything and they will be charged with new charges of purgery if are caught in a “purgery trap”.   Now we hear that Judge Bret Cavana (sp) molested a girl when he was still in high school.  I heard another story that he transported a female accross a state line for sexual purposes.  Others are saying that Manifort STILL has to serve time on those eight charges he's already been convicted on.  That could alter his decision on whether he wants to cooperate with Muller.  He may decide it's not worth it.

Today is Friday September 14, 2018 and the LA CO Fair has two more weekends to go.  They won’t start the new TV season till the week after next.  But Halloween is in full force in Disneyland.  I think they are hopelessly rushing the season.  Summer isn't even over for another week.  We're still celebrating Jewish Neayear now  We have a mini heat wave in progress.   Summer reruns are still in evidence.  Mexican independence day is celebrated tomorrow.  And they're trying to get us in the mood for Halloween?   Maybe they could wait at least until the regular baseball season is ended before coming to us about Halloween.