THE RETURN TO NORMALCY PARTY - The 98.6%.

40% MORE FOCUSED

40% MORE DISCIPLINED

40% MORE MILITANT

120% MORE EFFECTIVE

And now to Counter Romney's 59 Point Plan, here is our own Fifty-nine Point Plan.

You have questions.  Its electronic goods that will most be affected by the 15% terriff.  Many companies will “eat” some of the cost.  Electronics prices routinely drop anyhow.  Heating oil assistance programs will be maintained.  The drug pardon provision is only for those currently incarserated.  Others will not be affected.  There are no provisions for the banning of future enactments of drug laws.  But they will have to start fresh.  The line-item veto will save a lot of money.  Assumption of State government debts will help those states which were most compassionate during this past recession.  The one about clients is aimed at wooing and developing new, prospective clients, or trying to ‘hang on” to clients thinking of leaving.  This is “risk” that a company voluntarily assumes and is not part of normal operating expenses in servicing this client as a contractual obligation.  Eliminating mal practice insurance will “lower the market” of pay-outs considerably.  This reduction of suits will greately lower medical costs.  The minimum wage hike will most benefit workers in rural states that have been the most routinely abused.  The trader tax will vastly cut down on computer generated stock trading and save the rest of us money and preserve equity.  State marijuana laws will now be the supreme law there.

1. The maximum income tax for all wages and salaries will be raised to 50%
2. A flat 25% tax on all Capital Gains will be instituted.  A 25% tax credit for capital losses will be opperative for any party suffering said loss who earned less than an average of $125,000 over the past five years.
3. Income derived from interests or dividends will be at 50%
4. A 15% minimum Import terrif will be levied over and above any other taxes or fees that already exist, with the sole exception of prescription medications, which shall nave no terriff.
5. All Federal marijuana laws will be abolished immediately.
6. A general and complete pardon will be issued for any person incarserated for any period at all at the time of enactment of this provision, for possession or use of ANY illicit drugs, state or federal.
7. Impeach Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
8. Do a full investigation of the causes leading up to and the events on the day of 9-11-2001
9. Bring George Bush, Dick Chaney, Donald Rumsfelt, and any other relivent others up on charges of War Crimes for their actions while in office.
10. Abolish all tax exemptions for Churches and other Religious Organizations
11. A Constitutional Amendment saying that no artificially created legal entity shall be construed to have any of the rights of Persons in the US Constitution.
12. A general amnesty for any Illegal Alians who’s lived in US in excess of seven years.
13. Patents on any authorship, artistic property or product shall expire after fourteen years OR the death of the person holding the patent.  Whichever comes first.  The exception to this is corporate trademarks, which last the lifetime of the company or corporation, and may be sold.
14. Immediate Withdrawal of all US troops from Afghanistan.
15. Sever all diplomatic ties to Pakistan and end all foreign aid to them.  End all military arms sales to Saudi Arabia also.
16. Vigerously prosecute all Wall Street and investment offenders of the previous decade that caused the recession
17. Restore the provisions of the Glass-Stigell Act.  Prohibit banks from such financial speculation as was covered by this provision.  Proven fraud in loan ratings is a crime punishable by no less than twenty years inprisonment.  No lending institution shall ever profit from a "bad loan".
18. Institute a one half percent on Sales Taxes for the construction and repair or roads and bridges.
19. A one half percent Stock Trader fee on all transactions will be instituted.
20. Repeal the Patriot Act
21. Real preventative detention provisions of recent arms funding law.
22. A general amnesty will be issued for all people incarserated under the provisions of this law, who have been denied Habious Corpus OR their Maranda rights.
23. Institute an import ban on all Canadian oil from the Alberta tar sands.  No pipeline either through the US.
24. No corporate or individual tax shall be levied on any income derived from alternative energy production and merchandizing.  These will include, solar power, wind power, geo-thermal, and tidal power.
25. Media and commercial product testing of domestic dogs and cats will be banned throughout the nation, and in the States.
26. A 200% surtax will be levied on all sales of animal fur products in the US over and above any other fees that presently exist.
27. The 41 year Advertising ban on radio and television of cigarettes and other tobacco products will be eliminated.
28. No legal suit against tobacco companies shall be deemed as Valid solely on the charge of false claims or inferences derived from radio or TV commercials.
29. Daylight Savings Time shall begin nation wide on the first Sunday of April and end on the first Sunday following the first Monday of October (Columbus Day weekend).  After a five year trial period beginning in 2013 states may override these laws, if they choose to.
30. Repeal of the Communacations Act of 1996 and a restoration of the “Fairness doctrine” and “Public Interest” provisions for the Media.
31. The income cap on FICA withholding will be raised to 150,000 dollars annually
32. The depreciation expense period on Corporate private jets will be extended to 25 years.
33. No expenses incurred in developing of business client relationships or contacts will be allowed where there is no governing contract with said party, including trips, or nights on the town or any other perks.
34. No depreciation or other investment expence will be allowed for Corporations with the intention of relocating out of the United States.
35. A temporary 9.99% special low rate tax on corporate funds will be allowed if they “repatriate” those funds in this country.  This period will expire after 99 weeks.
36. The NASA space budget shall be Quintuppled.  (increased 5 times)
37. Stem cell and other medical research shall be Quintuppled (increased 5 times)
38. No one shall act as lobbyist unless they have been out of government for at least seven consecutive years.
39. The debts of all State Governments will be assumed by the United States that existed as of January 21, 2012.
40. Medicare Pare D – the prescription drug provision will be repealed.
41. Prices of prescription drugs will henceforth be competitive and indivuals and insurance companies have the right to seek the best drug price.  The 15% terrif will be waved in the case of prescription drugs from other countries.
42. No banning of any herb commonly sold in health food stores on the grounds of medical ineffectiveness.
43. Full Social Security retirement age will be raised to seventy with an actuarially reduced rate will be available at age 66.
44. FICA taxes will be 50% restored to old rate at 5.2% but no FICA withholding shall be made after age sixty.  This provision shall be retroactive with suitable funds compensations.
45. All Medical mal practice Insurance for doctors and hospitals will be disallowed.  From now on each person pays suits out of his own pocket.
46. If an individual loses his claim in a mal practice suit after due trial by a lawfully constituted jury of his piers OR is the final jury award is less than 50% of the original mal practice suit as served to the Respondent, than the one suing shall be liable to 20% of what he initially sued for to be remunerate to doctor or hospital. A trial jury may ONLY increase an award above request upon exposure to NEW evidence not KNOWN at time of filing.
47. A nation wide mandentory Death Penalty for anyone convicted of Arson where human lives are lost.
48. No individual shall escape the due punishment for the crime of Murder on the grounds of being either medically Insane or mentally retarded.  (This is what’s known as the “shoot the rabid dog” provision)
49. No person shall be denied the right to Vote on the grounds of having failed to regester to Vote or change in address,  who is eighteen years of age and not institutionalized or imprisoned, who offers proof of US citizenship by submission of an official State Drivers license or State ID card that is either Valid now or has at some time in the past been valid.
50. No Corporation shall be allowed to contribute to any political campaign or initiative or referendum process either Federally, State, or Locally.  Violators of this law shall be manditorally sentenced incarceration for not less than five or more then ten years in a state or federal prison.
51. All anti trust laws against companies and corporations presently on the books shall be riverously enforced.
52. Overturn the Roe verses Wade Supreme Court Decision.
53. The 2^nd amendment of the US Constitution shall not be constrewed as to ban any firearms legislation on possession or use that any State or Local government may choose to enact.
54. The Federal government shall make no law concerning the provisions of Marriages.
55. The minimum wage law for the United States shall be $9.99 per hour.  But stte or local government entities may enact a higher rate at their discretion.
56. No US troops shall be sent to fight on foreign soil for longer than sixty days without a former Congressional declaration of War as provided in the Constitution.
57. Internet “neutrality” will be scrupulously maintained.
58. Full diplomatic relations will Cuba will be reestablished.
59. Constitutional amendment to provide for a Presidential line-item Veto.

DAS KAPITOL - AS I SEE IT

First of all my apologies to Pat Buchannon for failure to render this speech in the original German.  The evil among us have an inherent abhorrence of fair competition but rather seeks to fahion rules after his own liking, which are agreed to by nobody but him, and by which he protects himself from the reality of his own inadequecy.  His chief goal above all others is to control things and people he has no right to by means he could not earn on his own merit.  The thing fundamentally "wrong" or "immoral" from a "Christian" point of view about Capitalism is that you let another reap the rewards of your labor.  However this view is seen even in Christianity itself where Another, namely God, "owns' you and derives his profits from your labors and takes all the credit for it, and should you try to seek credit for your own works, you would be seen as arrogent and ego centric.  First of all a fundamental "meme" of being Alive is that any life seeks to perpetuate itself.  To do otherwise would be contrary to Nature herself.  As such it is fitting that a man try to better himself.  He does this by working and hopefully deriving a reward for his labor.  When a man does his own labor his reward is apparent.  But due to the complexity of society it is needful that man cooperate with others in a common project that the greater good of the community may be realized.  Any "corporation" ought to be a living organism of workers working together for the best product that the Group can turn out.  They corporately work together to achieve this end and as such each contributer or worker on the Whole ought to be remunerated for the portion of Work which which each worker contributes.  Those that demonstrate virtue by working harder or being better organizers and planners should have more influence than those less inclined to expend any effort.  The problem under Calitalism is that the worker has no part in the "profit" said work engenders.  Rather he who OWNS the time and labor of the workers incurrs such profit.  And he prides himself in his ability not in what He has done, but in the profit he has engendered for himself.  Another means employed in such exploitation is the devaluation of the personal worth and dignity of each individual  In the same way Christians pride themselves not on what THEY have contributed to the betterment of the world, but rather on the Blessings they personally have received.  In truth they are as one who would insist that others worship not a common creator, but rather worship HIS OWN blessings so that He may establish moral superiority over you.  The problem with Owning others who do the labor for you is that you assume they will always be there to do the work for you.  It is, in other words, an unjust "Entitlement".  What these Lords don't realize is that each step along the way in production Value is added to a raw material.  The person who digs the ore out of the ground adds Value to the iron.  The person who smelts it into Iron adds value.  He who fashions and shapes the iron adds Value to it.  And the person on the auto assembly line who fits the now car door on to the car adds Value to it.  Many Bourswsee believe that somehow the finished work appears out of thin air magically if they wave but a few pieces of paper printed with green ink on them.  These LORDS in time come to in fact value the Money they make more than the product their wage slaves make.  And so they "learn" that they can "cut corners" on product production and make more money.  Since they regard neither people nor honor, they give it scarcely a thought if they commit defacto fraud on the Person to whom they Market this product.  And then they go into financial derivitives and turn the market place into a gambling casino.  And they come to bet against the very people they should in fact be routing for.  But to them the idea of Risk itself becomes anathema to them.  So increasingly as they become more Risk adverse they find sleazier and sleazier ways of deriving their capital.  And in time they believe money can buy them things Money was never meant to buy, such as Morality and the right to be paid personal Homage by others.  Sometimes they will invent a god in their own likeness and say to the workers, "To fail to pay Homage to my God is even worse than paying personal homage to me".  And they come to view the poor as morally evil.  And so they begin to enact laws to oppress said poor.  But these laws aren't enough to suit them so they seek to pay others money to fashion laws more after their own liking to oppress the poor.  And that's pretty much where we are right now.  They live with their idols - - their flags and their Bibles and their favorite quotations from hundreds of years ago.  And they throw up walls around themselves to isolate themselves.  They become Xenophobic- - and the more walls and weapons they are able to produce for themselves the more fearful they become.  Facts are anathema to these people.  They will come up with slogans such as "facts without God - are dangerous things and should be banned".  As one of the Church Fathers (Clement of Alexandria) put it "Not all Truth is true, but only those Truths that bring glory to God", which they themselves invented as sort of a psychological dildo.  They fashion something as an extension of themselves to make up for something basic that they lack.  Some have said that the ninth circle of Hell is where the most morally depraved people go.  If this statement is true- - - than anyone apprised that he is indeed among this elite percentage - - should be more Afraid than he has ever been in his Life.  Five walls cannot hide him.  Six diggers cannot burry him.  And seven death are not enough to kill his now, all to late, revived Awareness of his own depravity.  Once he pleasured himself with others in the political echo chamber.  But now he will have to live in the knowledge that he lives in the psychic echo chamber of his own thoughts, his own deeds and an utter isolation of his own making.

RICK PERRY PULLS OUT OF LOONEY BIN RACE TO THE BOTTOM

We are doing a little web site purging of our own just like John Huntsman taking off the anti Romney stuff.  The individual in question has now changed his mind and is going for Santorum based on moral and credibility issues.  This is a big step twords sanity in my oppinion and it was something we could agree about at least a little.  Last night I had the debate on but got disgusted in the very little I saw.  I missed Gingrich's outburst at the beginning.  The crowd was on Gingrich's side.  There is so much ugliness in South Carolina the best we can do now it to put it out of our minds.


Governor Rick Perry today withdraw from the Presidential race two days before the election, which was something that surprised me.  Of course of any candidate he was the most forceful one talking about “The difference between venture capitalism and Vulture Capitalism”, a distinction that needs to be made.  Now Mitt Romney has a post box address in the Caamen Islands, like all those who want to sequester their money to avoid taxes.  Romney said that “he hardly gets anything for giving speeches”.  Well, to most people $374,000 is pretty high cotton, but this is the rarified world that Mitt Romney lives in.  To him it is only a sliver of his income.  Rick Perry endorsed Newt Gingrich as the most “conservative visionary”.  He spoke of “having our differences” and they certainly did on issues like marital infidelity.  He spoke of the virtues of forgiveness and it being a Christian value.  Randy Rhodes and others want to know about the 234 men that Rick Perry gave the ultimate penalty to.  So any of them get to repent, particularly those who might have been proved innocent with new DNA testing?  Of course Newt Gingrich was virtually guaranteed a win in South Carolina a month ago.  He had everything going for him.  It’s a tailor made Southern state where he and Romney can feel free to toss whatever racial barbs they wish.  South Carolina of course is where the Civil War started and they still fly the Confederate flag over the State Capitol building.  And the state’s two senators are Jim De Mint and Lindsey Graham.  You can’t do better than that.  So yesterday Newt was telling Santorum and Perry to get out of the race and rally behind him.  Santorum took offence at the remark calling Newt arrogant and presumptuous.  However Rick Perry decided to contribute his five percent or whatever vote he would have gotten.  So now there are only four candidates left for tonight.  Yesterday Rush Limbaugh was all for Romney but today Rush was all for Newt on his show.  It’s hard to keep up.  But the zinger where Newt is concerned is that his second wife will be interviewed on ABC “Night Line’ or whatever this evening.  In the interview Maryanne says that Newt’s Catholicism is bogus and he doesn’t really believe it.  But the big news of the day is that Maryanne said that Newt came to her and told her he wanted an open marriage.   He said to his wife, “The problem is I want you to share me with Colista.  Colista doesn’t have a problem with sharing me”.  This advocacy of an “open marriage” plums new lows for even a scum bag like Newt.   People like Rush Limbaugh who are devoid of morality anyhow aren’t bothered by it.  And others don’t see it as any real problem and shouldn’t alter the fact that he is now two percent of Mitt Romney in one poll.  However in other polls he is still down seven percentage points to Romney.  So now there is Santorum, whom we learn today actually won in Iowa by 34 votes.  But they lost the ballots for eight precincts so they say that “we will never know who the actual winner is”.  We just have to accept things like this.  From where I stand the Republican party is having a total moral melt-down.  They stand for nothing but are all like a bunch of doomed men on a sinking ship blaming each other.  Since South Carolina is 30% Black and Santorum was kind of pandering to Blacks the other night there just might be a bit of a Black “front lash” vote, crossing over to Santorum.

There are other issues to be concerned about, of course.  The Internet restriction bill or the PIPA and SOFA bills - - anti piracy something- - both bills appear to be going down to defeat and neither bill has the support of the President.  Meanwhile Rush Limbaugh is saying that there is some push polling done by the Obama staff trying out ploys for the State of the Union address.  One of these suggestions is that the Administration file charges against Wall Street and suggest that so many of these crooks deserve to be in jail.  That one would get my vote.  Rush Limbaugh countered that Senators Dodd and Frank ought to go to jail for “their part in the real estate collapse”.  Perhaps Rush should inform us all just what PART that is.  If Rush will remember, both the House and Senate were firmly in republican hands for most of the Bush administration, who was also a Republican.  So how could two democrats with no power be responsible for anything?  There is a lot of support in the country for Campaign contribution reform, and others would go farther in this issue than I would.  Jerry Brown wants California to go full speed on that high speed railroad because people are moving to the Central Valley for lower land prices and need places to live and transportation.  And it’s pointed out that neither expanding Freeways nor expanding LA International Airport are workable solutions.  We need to think ahead.  Unemployment claims for the week are once again down and are in fact the lowest since 2008, which is something to be really proud of.   Also we can be proud of the fact that OASDI funds never were allowed to invest in junk bonds as I’m sure Romney would have done were he President, since according to him it isn’t really a risk of someone else is the one who gets hurt.  So Social Security funds are safe.  Democrats point out the fact that one thing government unions are good for is safeguarding Pension funds for workers against whatever thievery the Republican non union people would have in mind.  Some public figure had the audacity to suggest that “teachers are being devalued in joining Unions because it means they will get lazy and not try as hard and so lower their standards of quality”.   And it seems that people are taking exception to a certain minimal standard of Medic-Aid will have to be uniform throughout the States in 2012 to conform to the Health Care bill.  Even though the US government pays the vast majority of the funds some object on principal to the States being compelled to provide ANY medical aid, if they choose not to.

You know, I don’t even know if I’ll watch tonight’s debate.  I think we all know pretty much what to expect by now.  Nobody is going to ask Newt about his proposal to his second wife for an “open marriage”.  Nobody is going to state the obvious fact of the glairing contradiction with “Christian family values” people like James Dobson talk about so much.  Nobody is going to ask the hard questions on anything.  We will no doubt here more “dog whistle” speeches, signaling to the racists in the crowd.  It was Lee Attwater who said that back in 1954 you could do a “Laura Schleshinger” and use the word “Nigger” every other word.  But by 1968 this kind of talk was now considered goche and the accepted expressions were “Forced Bussing” and “State’s Rights”.  Just last night you-know-who was telling me how many more Blacks commit crimes than Whites and that’s why so many are in prison, because they are raised without moral values.  I don’t know how Republicans can even say the word “moral values” at this point without their tongues falling out of their mouth.  And now a cigarette break.

This reality of oppressed peoples and races is something that no tea bagger wants to be honest about.  A component in this “minority” status is the idea of illigitamacy.  They would also make Bastard all religions that aren’t Christian.  Of course some of this is vaguely sublimated guilt or “guilt shifting” to get psychological.  Newt Gingrich is exhibit A in this hypocracy.  Santorum is in the running on the abortion issue.  Many minorities were sired by rape of a superior race over an inferior race.  Thomas Jefferson and many others sired Black children by their black slaves.  Indian women were rapes.  The Latino race to a lesser degree has been oppressed by the Norte Americanos.  They talk about six degrees of separation.  Some of those six degrees of separation between me and Jimi Hendrix may go through Cherokee blood since we both have Cherokee in our ancestry.  The Cherokee people, thanks to Andrew Jackson are certainly one of the more oppressed tribes.  I was talking to Judy about various socio economic factors and just plain poverty figuring into crime among the poor.  Judy points out that there are poor people who were quite moral.  Yet the overall thrust of her argument (what she says the other 97% of the time) is that the mere fact of being of low income is In Itself a means to impute some sort of “guilt”.  People talk about America being a land of religious liberty but they don’t mean it.  They mean it the small sliver of time that the patriotic music playing in the background and they are in fact doing some film promotion.  But the rest of the time they look down on those of other faiths, as well as women, and homosexuals and also minorities as somehow “not in our club”.  It’s like fundamentalists who are always building their own reputations by preaching “you know- I fear a few undesirables have slipped in among us”.  You always feel as though you have to walk on tip toes around these people.  Too much of Christian life consists of “sneaking around” because you know they are looking for the slightest excuse to finger you for something, and thus justify all the horrible things they’ve been saying about you for years.  In my own case as you know I have at times doubted my own paternity.  I learned my father has O blood, and independently I learned my mother has O blood.  And yet in summer of 1976 me and Pete Richards did our own blood tests in biology class, and we both tested out to be type A.  Assuming we performed the test right.  I have suspected attempts to conceil the date of my birth making it two months earlier than evidence indicates it was.  And then we have the personality changes in my Dad around late 1965 and 1966.  You have Judy’s remark in the car on the way home from a dinner at LB harbor with Fred and his son in July of 1998 to the effect that I was not entitled to all the love I USED to get from my Dad.  You’d have to hear the tone of her voice.  You have this whole “personality shut down” particularly where I am concerned.  (however also with others)   Christianity appeals to these perhaps subconscious anxieties in people in how it describes Christians as a “New Creation” with a clean slate.  But people like Neil Savedra say not to place too much stock in lines line this, or in lines about healing.  One woman on the radio, I’ve heard her give the same speech twice on call in radio shows saying the world was like a big mouth with all kinds of teeth.  There were gold teeth, and healthy teeth, and teeth with small cavities and teeth with major cavities, and all sorts of gum disease in places such that many teeth were on the verge of falling out.  This mouth image is a metaphor for the world at large.  When you go to the dentist he treats the whole mouth, because you are all part of one body.  Many people read such sentiments by St. Paul in Corinthians about “the body of Christ” which is the Church.  It’s too ad so few believe it.

                                


"Here at Eternity prep school we teach to the test.  So what we do is shoot up our students with Prozac and Zoloft in order that they don't have those "bad feelings" that are just - Baaahaadd !"


Everybody is talking about blacks getting food stamps and somehow it's all President Obama's fault.  As Randy Rhodes points out, when a bunch of rich corporatists get a government subsedy they high-five each other in triumph.  When a poor mother with hungry children applies for food stamps she goes sheepishly with her tail between her legs and head hung down in shame petetioning the state.  And yet now they have ATM debit card type food stamps where the bank gets a cut of everything that woman spends, so they aren't complaining.  She pays higher prices for food than she would under a total free market because farmers get money for NOT planting crops to keep their prices up.  So nobody is complaining except Gingrich.  Michelle Bachman got a government subsedy for each of the 23 children she adopted.  So who is she to talk?  Mitt Romney was saying that he pays "around" 15% of his income in taxes.  What Randy Rhodes wants to know is whether that figure is ABOVE or BELOW fifteen percent.  Of course you can't resist Newt's appeal that if only his tax plan were adopted then everybody would pay fifteen percent, even those who have to work for a living.  Those who earn around 90,000 a year already pay in excess of fifteen percent.  People talk about racial quotas and yet YALE, Harvard and other private Universities routinely give preference in admission to whether your father or grandfather attended the institution.  So race counts for white people, too.  Rush Limbaugh was his inarticulate self this morning. He opened by the show by admonishing one of his staff not to yawn.  Was this some cue he was about to bore us all?  He then goes on an incoherent and contradictory rant about how the Democrats are instituting their own "opporation chaos", which is what he coined as his own crusade to get his people go go out and vote for Hillary to prolong the nomination process.  So I am to take it that is Newt does well this Saturday it's all because liberals sabotaged the SC results.  Of course Rush has supported just about every "flavor of the month" to come down the pike.  First he supported Perry defending him against Cain.  Then he put in his lot with Cain.  They he fawned all over Newt Gingrich.  How he says that Romney is the inevitable candidate.  If these people weren't so fickle maybe we'd pay more attention to what they say.  Of course some say that Congressmen don't get that much pay since they earn less than $200,000 per year.  Because they fall below the magic $250,000 demarcation line does that make them "the enemy"?  Well, that is not their total remuneration.  They also have a million dollar expense account per year, plus a number of other priveleges.  OH yes, it's these little pesky details that liberals love to bring to light. Of course they are but "middle management".  It's the lobbyists who really run the show.  These people on the right have no credibility on just about anything and they lie about everything.  If this font is too big I'll shrink it.  I've deemed it OK.


A mailing was sent to me saying how the tea party protesters incurred no arrests and no expenses to the government, and there was no public urination or anything.  And this same mailing pointed out that Occupy Wall Street is supported to the communists and Hugo Chavez and Hammas and just about every other subversive group.  We won't do the pinochio test here.  But of course people on the lower end of the income spectrum would love to dress in fine suits and be escorted in air conditioned busses and have all expenses paid by rich people.  When Real people protest it's not always neat and clean.  But now Mitt Romney costs the government because those pensions of the people he threw out of work are partially insured by the federal government.  I guess they used to have a statute called "unjust enrichment" which they got rid of probably due to right wing pressure.  And as to this whole Marxist thing, it's been pointed out that Karl Marx made some quite perceptive observations of the dangers of Capitalism.  And the whole game of Monopoly was based on the premise of one player eventually owning everything.  If the game were introduced today it would be banned.  And also this whole idea of patents being immortal and surviving the inventer is a relatively new one.  Patents were issued to honor an inventor or author for his work.  But they used to run only fourteen years.  But if you as an artist or inventer are bought out by a corporation you no longer own your own work.  They do.  And corporations as you know live forever.  So all that time further creativity and inovativeness is styfled.


Stocks closed at their highest levels in months perhaps because European money is coming here to invest.  Also housing and other economic indicators continue to improve, while all the while interest rates staying at record lows.  Some have advocated the value added tax as a way of sneaking in Corporate taxes that aren't "officially counted".  So since we don't have a VAT, we can't be said to have the "second highest corporate taxes" after all.  It seems the way other countries impose a de-facto anti-terriff on us is that they wave this tax on foreign sales so that the export price is  some 18%  below the domestic consumption price.  Of course if the republicans were to go for any VAT it would have to be "revenue neutral".  What we want, though, is something that is revenue Positive to bring IN revenue to CUT the deficet.  Republicans in California are now saying to Jerry Brown "we don't need to raise taxes now because the economy is improving on its own".  Well you know, some people have a pipe dream of a flat tax rate of fifteen percent for everybody, rich and poor alike.  While this would be Fair-ER, it would deplete the United States of so much revenue that you'd have to do a Grover Norqist euthanasia job on the budget as a whole, which would now be so emaciated that it should be put out of its misery alltogether.


We have just a few brief cosmic notes here.  What we have referred to hitherto as Bajorans are actually Reigel seven Bajorans.  But back on the home planet they also did music, which sounds LESS "Bajoran" in terms of the sound than the stuff on Reigel VII.  There are a few tracks - "Sleepwalker", "Na - na - na - na It Was I" and also "I've Had It".  You may never have heard of any of those.  Also the Detroit Romulans did stuff besides Blue Cheer.  Back in the 'fifties Bobby Day was a Detroit Romulan with stuff like "Buzz - buzz - buzz" and also there was the Dave Clark V (long suspected, now confirmed) and also "Tequila" by the Champs.  And here is another confirmed roomer, the Shantees were originally Bajoran, the Reigel VII variety.  But early on when "Pipeline" showed promise they were bought out by the Sixers.

Now we come to the Canadian oil pipeline.  The Republicans can tell ten lies in fifteen seconds on this one.  First of all it is not OUR oil and not "domestic oil" and the Pipeline isn't even owned by us but will be owned by the Canadian oil company.  They are just using our land as a conduit to get their oil to China in the fastest possible way.  Whether we can even use any of it is up to question.  Now today President Obama says there is a legal snaffoo and Rush Limbaugh is making all these hissy fit noises about "Obama is a slave to his liberal base".  By the way Rush also said that "Obama says he's going to cut the budget and this will be announced, but we all "know" there will be no real cuts".  Rush says stuff like this just to cover his ass for being wrong about stuff.  But as to the whole oil pipeline, President Obama has objections because the state of Nebraska doesn't want the pipeline going through their state.  According to the debates, the Prime Minister of Canada is some kind of an arrogant asshole saying "I'm giving you in America a shot at this oil and if you don't take it, I'm just going to sell it to China.  Are you in America fools?"  I hope this was never actually spoken.  We know the tea party loves to faboricate things out of thin air.  But I would say to the Canadian company "Fine.  You want to sell the oil to China.  Let's see you try and get it there without our help.  Your own province, British Columbia has blocked your efforts.  So you people care just as much about ecology and states rights as we do".  The fact is that if the President were to override the wishes of a state, that in itself could and would cause major legal problems and hang ups.  The Republicans see this pipeline is some sort of holy grail to end all of our energy and economic problems.  They of course are known for their tunnel vision.  At the State of the Union Message I expect the President to spell all of this out clearly so even THEY can understand it.

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.