Just What the Hell Is an Idol, Anyhow?

Stephanie Miller is talking about Governor Christie.  He’s holding a press conference at eight.  He now claims that it was his aid that issued that “traffic jam” order.  If he didn’t know about it, it’s still incompetence that he would allow an aid that kind of dreastic latitude of action, and claim, apparently now to know about it for four months.  Knowing how Christie is in public, I do not anticipate this news press conference going well.  Bill Press discussed this, and Gates new book.  Bill’s take on this is less complex than mine.  He just says that Gates hated Obama and Byden because “they thought they ran the place”, whereas with President Bush, Bush would just roll over and give Gates anything he wanted.  Welcome to the constitutional world.  Just now Stephanie has a guess, the Rev Jim Wallace, who is talking about “recovering the common good”, which is one of those pinko leftist phrases that’s instantly suspect among Evangelicals.  “A nation is judged in its integrity on how it treats the least fortunate among us”.   “Some fundamentalists have been “converted” to true Christianity by reading the Bible.   Just one thing about Matthew 25.  Even if Jesus regarded the Jewish religious authorities as the lowest form of scum,  and even if they are “the least” important in Jesus’ eyes, I don’t see how basically having the Roman General Titus  nuking (destroying) the Temple as an idea to treat “even the least”.  (Something to think about)  Of course when it comes to “Idols” an idol isn’t something like, for instance your car that you wash on Saturday mornings to keep it clean and neat looking.  In the same way I reject the idea of people who believe in sound Ecology being ‘tree huggers” to the exclusion of human habitation.  On the contrary I guess I’m basically selfish.  I happen to LIKE trees.  They are a creation of God for us to enjoy in nature.   I like the way they look; I like the way they smell.  Jed Clampet used to have a saying “you done muddied up my creek”.  In other words, people don’t relish the idea of drinking polluted water.  We do our ecological measures, because it makes our world a nicer and more enjoyable place to live in.   Clearly the "common good" is adversely impacted by our vast income inequality, which apparently is worse than it was in the twenties.   The very words "equality" and "equal rights" have been put on Trial by the right wing as somehow an advocacy of Socialism.   John Boehner can talk about "jobs" but I fail to see how if you say "The government CANNOT (under any circumstances) create Jobs- - you can in virtually in the same breath say "The Senate has rejected our jobs bills", which don't exist, as far as I can see.

People in politics need to rediscover the Truth that “Selfishness is not a virtue” as this reverend guy on the Stephanie Miller show reminds us.   So if you’re a politician and your phone rings off the hook, you have to make a decision.  Do you just “dial for dollars” all day long, or do you listen to your actual constituants, who voted for him, as prescribed by the Constitution.   People are being peddled the falsehood of “If I were just allowed to be more selfish, to let my “God given greed” a chance to run rampant, then I could succeed and find happiness like I’ve never known before”.   Some people have not the slightest problem, for instance, with these "pump and dump" Wall Street stock schemes, which is not masturbating all over your partner, but all the same, we all feel as though we have been slimed.   You hear them all the time on the radio hyping this or that financial instrument, and may even talk about "God's sure fire money code for instant wealth".  And people from the Red states have been sold this line, and they buy into it.   The Bible does talk about idols.  For instance I referred to Rush Limbaugh being ‘Married” to fossil fuels.  That is- - in a marriage vow you pledge your undying loyalty to the partner, “forsaking all others- till death do you part, in sickness and in health, for better for worse”.  This is the depth of Rush Limbaugh and others’ commitment to things like racism and guns and world wide pollution.  And if people die from industrial pollution, it’s just a “sacrifice to your god” that as an afficianato of your god, you will gladly pay.   Perhaps if your own son were gay, or your own son, or father died of some cancer caused by occupational pollution, just maybe they’d see things differently.  But don’t count on it.  There IS no redeeming up side to tea party positions.  No “right” is in any way being “safeguarded” or preserved.  (Selah)  Just think that apparently there are a majority of Americans who not only OWN a gun, but their gun is almost their “means of salvation”.  Their guns will protect them from any and all circumstances.  They will be willing to sacrifice anything for their guns, even their moral principles.   This gun thing is such a sacred cow that as in the case of Cattle- - the whole purpose of Cattle is defeated.  People raise cattle to eat, and to drink their milk.  Cattle are not meant to walk around unencumbered on the streets.  In India they are so messed up, cattle don’t have to obey traffic or sanitation laws, but are allowed to graze at will from vegetable stands.  This is how it is with the gun lobby.  Yes there is a “common good’ in “feeling safe”.  We agree we want that.   But these people are as reluctant to “tamper” with the gun laws as for instance a Moslem would never burn a copy of the Koran.  The right to stroke and fondle your guns is so sacrosanct, that all other considerations fall by the wayside.  So mentally ill people can get guns without questions.  People with violence against their spouses or  violence against police or those with felony records, have this “right” to unencumbered access to an assault weapon.   Just as to a fundamentalist there can be “no such thing” as “too much religion” to these people there can never be “too many guns”.  To them the idea that “there are too many guns out in public” to them is an inconceivable, even blasphamus notion.  One more thing.  This idea of marbelization or “voting with our feet” to use the old Radio Free Europe expression, of people congregating to portions of the country that are politically friendly to their own views- - is a principle I thought we pretty much rejected after the Civil War and that we were now “One Nation” (perhaps or perhaps not “under God”)   But now, as in the old Dylan song about “Emit Till slipped through his Southern Door” it’s like entering a different country traveling to a Red state.

I would briefly like to address this idea of “Organized Religion”, which is a saying Neil of KFI is so fond of.  I have no problem with “organization” per se, as an extension of logical thinking.   But I submit this is not at all the kind of “organization’ Neil is talking about.  Have you ever heard terms such as “middle man” or more to the point “Pontiff” or people whom God “must go through first” in order to give you a blessing.   (Selah)  And I’m not wholly averse to the idea of “Churchianity”.  Indeed one thing about the Mormon Church is that it is a set of principles that people agree to abide by and believe in in common.  But this isn’t how it is with Protestent Churches nowadays.  They primarily are church of, and by, and for the Pastors.   I’d like to give you the example etched indelibly into my mind from the Jim Jones movie.  This is where Jim Jones filled the church with druggies and prostitutes and other unsavory types.  And the deacon board of this Baptist church got pissed and fired the pastor, Jim Jones.  This is because, and it’s particularly of note with people like Gene Scott, the people are loyal not to “The Faith” but to the Pastor personally.  He is the head hancho and calls the shots.  Yet even in my own church where I grew up- - in Harry Green’s class we learned that the twelve elected church Elders were called “Ruling Elders” and that the pastor was referred to as a “Teaching elder”.   Their job was an adjunct or prompter of our Faith,  NOT the Object it it.  (Selah)   It would be like a bunch of us fellows went golfing at a golf course.  And we would hire one or more caddys to carry our Golf Bags.  We would be the Players, and the caddy would be a hireling, to do a specific job, and if he no longer functioned in that capacity satisfactorally, we would let him go and hire another.  (Selah)  Someone who says “Yes sure you can be a Hollywood celebrity and live in your sin and depravity- - as long as you are loyal to Me, and not to put too fine of a point on it- - “Make Me You God”.  No, no.  So the people in that Church of Jim Jones weren’t really converted from their prostitution and drug addiction.  Again Cult leaders throughout the world are known for their womanizing, and often sexual abuse, as well as drug addiction.  But these Pastors resort to a paraphrase of President Nixon (whose birthday it is today), “Well, if the Pastor does it- - than it is not against the law”.   Some are saying “OK, I get it now”.

Some people think that religion itself can be an idol.  Others use the saying, “Some tradition is like a bad egg.  It’s better to break it than keep it”.  How can congress and the Supreme Court dare to invoke God in a prayer, and continue to do the things they do.  Certainly they would say “We do it in the name of religion”.   Form has taken primacy over substance, which the Bible teaches against.   As such even a Christian should be a little sick when he sees the overt tributes to “religion” around the nation’s capitol, but as Jesus himself would say, “These people are like whitewashed graves.  They are clean and neat – and even downright “Awe Inspiring” what we see - -on the outside, but are full of dead men’s bones”.  Of course the term “religion” itself is rarely used in the Bible.  James and Hebrews along with 2^nd Peter and Jude are almost third century documents, and nobody even vaguely believes any of these Books are “Apostolic”.   James uses the term “religion” in an awkware manner saying it’s to “Help and minister to our fellow man, and to keep ourselves unspotted from the World.    We of course use the term “Cosmos” when we speak of Federation matters.  But here on this Planet - - for most of us- - this tea party congress runs our “World” as we know it - - and is a major determining factor what kind of year 2014 will be, and which the rest of the planet is spared. 

P A R A N O I D

In a display of naked political power, a form of "Chicago thug politics" took place not in Illinois, but in New Jersey.  You know Bones has an undying contempt for "The Jersey Boys".  Christie is a Jersey Boy who just might have ruined for all time his political chances to be elected President in 2016.  He got even with a democratic Mayor of a town called Ft Lee in New Jersey for not endorsing him for Governor last year.  A minor offense by reasonable standards.  He did it by creating a marathon traffic jam over a bridge by blocking key access points and backing traffic up for miles last September.  The Order went out from Governor Christie these words "Time for some traffic jams in Ft Lee" with the confidence only the fictional character Stephano Di Mira could relish.  Christie is not a bit remorseful over his actions.  He feels perfectly entitled to reap vengeance on the people of a town whose democratic Mayor refused to endorse Christie in his run for governor last time.  There were a lot of strange political dealings involving that Governor's reelection race, and Randy Rhodes and others have cataloged them. It's "political horse trading' gone mad.  There are certain politicians who are just "not likable" period.  One of them is Justice Clarence Thomas.  I took an almost instant dislike to him the minute I heard him testify at the Senate hearing in 1991.  Another is Governor Christie, who doesn't seem to care who he offends.  He needs to know he's not the reincarnation of Dick Daily or something running for President, which even Mayor Daily had the good sense not to attempt.

Once again it's the fiftieth anniversary of President Johnson's 1964 State of the Union message where he launched his War on Poverty.  The miracle is just about everything he proposed that evening eventually got passed.  According to Randy Rhodes the War On Poverty was in force till the second year of the Nixon administration.  I remember at that time Nixon began torquing to the Right, perhaps at the urging of Speech Writer Pat Buchannon and others, who thought he wasn't being partisan enough.  But now the FOX media is abuzz with the new book by former Secretary of Defense Gates, who was a holdover from the Bush administration.  No wonder the Republicans didn't want to vote for Chuck Hagel because that would be a man of Obama's own choosing.  Gates in his book accuses President Obama of micro managing the military and not letting them do their jobs, and he says "I've never seen anything like it".  However Gates also has unkind words for this Republican congress who he regards as "almost entirely to a man, unfit for their jobs" and is bent on getting nothing done.  But FOX isn't going too report that.  Gates was against going after Bin Laden in the spring of 2011.  Perhaps it's my paranoid nature but it could be Gates was still loyal to Bush and he didn't want this new guy showing up his old boss.   I look forward to researching this topic further on the internet.

Nancy Pelosi was all sweetness and light today at her press conference.  She said how wonderful it was to begin a new legislative year and was looking forward to getting a lot done.  However the unemployment extension bill only passed muster to be able to even DEBATE the thing.  Even THAT now is considered a major hurdle for any bill these days, particularly one sponsored by democrats.  I am not confident at all that things will "turn around' by the end of the year either politically or even with the economy.  The Republicans will "move heaven and earth" to keep that from happening no matter how brazen they have to be to wipe old people and minorities and the poor off the voter registration polls.  Rush Limbaugh once said "These democrats won't even accept the fact that Al Gore lost the 2004 election".  That's because he won.   We never counted the votes but the President was chosen by nine men in black robes with no accountability to anyone, except for God, if they even believe in him.   Some may say to me "Its strange that you would say this.  You've seem how glum and downright desperate the Tea Party people have been.  You've seen how incoherent Rush Limbaugh's program has been lately.  You've heard the rosey reports of the economy for this year.  You've listened to Nancy Pelosi and heard Randy Rhodes and all the others talk about how the Tea Party forces are falling apart.  Why are you so glum?"  Well, I'm not sure any of that will matters.  It's just "pumping sunshine up our skirts" to use that expression again.  People don't know whether it's really realistic Hope they are filled with, or they just got around to refilling their Prozac prescription.  Rush Limbaugh has even fancied the idea that a Republican would win in 2016 and that President Obama would stay in Washington DC as sort of a "shadow president' and the Media would listen to every word he said.   This to me is really a pipe dream, and Rush has been smoking something funny.  If President Obama is still in town then they'll be reviving those old signs 'Get out of town Nigger before sundown or suffer the penalty of stoning".  That's more likely than what Rush Limbaugh envisions.

I'm entertaining thoughts once again of moving out of here.  Trying to get anything fixed around here has always been just short of impossible.  It's like talking to yourself.  The heat still isn't what it should be and yesterday the dining room was freezing at breakfast.  In the past year and a half, and less, loss of property incidences have risen markedly.  Just since December first I've lost two clothing items in the laundry.  I was telling Paul today that not that long ago a whole white T shirt was stolen, right from the package.   I've lost three CD's and a book in the past sixteen months.  I've had several bad encounters with one particular resident around here, and have debated reporting it.   In the first part of December I had a substantial illness that lasted two and a half weeks.  They've eliminted monthly birthday celebrations where each resident born that month received a birthday gift.  They've begun skipping a few Residents council meetings at the end of each month, including last month.  I've had more paranoid thoughts in general.  We have not had a regular class meeting with Dr Levy since the week before December 15th.  I thought Dr Messina the psychiatrist wanted to see me more often, but I've listened on Wednesday afternoons and my name hasn't been called.  The food table service has been really bad since Labor Day of 2011.   I pay for all sorts of "medical extras" that I seldom use, and one wonders why I don't just get back on Housing, or else find a roommate I get along with and move out together and split expenses.  The family thinks I should be off psych meds entirely anyhow.  But if anything I think they've already been withholding psych medication-  - - .  There are objects that I haven't even missed yet that have suddenly "appeared" in strange places.   Other people routinely report major thefts on an almost regular basis, so I've kind of gotten off easy.   Of course they conthiscated all of our coffee makers and can't make coffee now.   And there are roomers that they will be trippling taxes on cigarettes because "That's the most effective way of getting people to quit smoking".  There was that fire in another facility- - and I'm wondering when they will "Drop the hammer' on smoking around here.

The Republicans are continuing to report that the Affordable Care Act had reaped a net hardship on the majority of Americans with skyrocketing premiums and deductables, and not even being able to keep your same doctor, whom you like.  President Obama has this personality flaw, and in a politician it's a fatal one, of vastly overestamating his own abilities to "Accomplish what he wants to".  I wish, by way of repudiation, that Obama would repudiate his own book "The Audacity of Hope".  It will be his political Tombstone, as is the whole Obama Care thing is to begin with his Albitros that has kept him from accomplishing one thing in the past six years, for all practical purposes.   It may not be "Fair" that Republicans want to sabotage the economy and America herself all to get back at Obama for being elected- - Twice.  But that's the reality of the situation, and Obama will have to endure three more years of this nightmare of not accomplishing anything for the final three years of his Presidency.  He will leave Office as the most unpopular President since Ulises Grant.  That was a almost a hundred and fifty years ago.  Rush Limbaugh is so in love with fossel fuels that while some people marry their St Bernards or their Television Set, Rush would like to marry a gas pump.  They drag in "Christian values" at the drop of a hat, and yet their actual knowledge of what the Bible actually says, in the old or new testaments, is from vague to non existent.  It used to be that humanitarian proposed bills would be met with apolause.  Today it's the "Meat Axe" or bust for Republicans.  They aren't even making pretence any more that spending should be for anything besides cutting taxes for the richest among us and paying corporations to relocate off shore- - and boosting defense and oil profits.  It's the pervasive reality that Lyndon Johnson knew nothing of, but is as common is water in the Amazon rain forest today.

Label Them - - Ungodly, Narrow-Minded Biggots

As of a few minutes ago around three I watched the Obama informal press conference or statement.  Rush Limbaugh didn’t take kindly to the President’s remarks held just before nine our time this morning.  Rush said “It makes no sense to grow jobs by paying people NOT to work”.  That’s an odd way of phrasing it even for Rush.  Rush Limbaugh reminds me of a guy who whose grass is brown and someone suggest he water it, and so Rush waters the lawn and it turns a healthy green.  But now Rush is “mad at the grass” because IT has been getting “free water” at “someone else’s expense” and that isn’t right.   Rush said this was the Democrat’s version of the “trickle down” theory, which it absolutely is not.  So let’s get back to what the President actually said.  First of all Randy Rhodes played Lyndon Johnson’s speech of fifty years ago about getting Americans- - out of poverty particularly those in appelatia, who were helped the most from his “war on poverty” not Blacks.  That’s my understanding.  He discussed the moral imperative of doing so, and even said that it is what God would have us to do.  Liberals don’t make speeches like that now that are strident like that.  Instead they sound like Obama, almost whimpering and apologetic in asking for scraps.  Rush Limbaugh has no soul, and he’s gambling that none of his listeners do either.  This one lady put out “hundreds” of resumes, which is more than I’d ever put out for a job.  People take pay cuts from a $75,000 a year job to a thirty thousand a year job.  People can’t go to a job interview if they don’t have a car because their car was repossessed.  They can’t respond to a call-back if they haven’t paid their phone bill and have been disconnected.   People “Put out applications for every conceivable job that they are qualified for”.  They lose weight, and this woman looked mal nourished and covered it up with rogue.  She only heats her house to 58 degrees and walks around in a coat inside to keep warm.  The life of the unemployed is no picnic, even with help.  I have no doubt they would give anything to be through their financial crisis and not worry about how they are going to feed and clothe their kids.   Personally I still haven’t heard of one Republican bill introduced that would do one thing to reduce the unemployment rate.  If I’m uninformed, please correct me.  One more thing just occurred to me.  Employers discriminate against people who “aren’t leaving a current job” right now, which seems strange to me because one would presume those would be the most eager applicants.  But also employers will discriminate against the long term unemployed.  As such if Rush Limbaugh is serious in anything he says, he should personally write out a letter to every employer of a long term unemployed applicant who is “proving they aren’t lazy” and urge that employer to hire the applicant, because “It is I, Rush H Limbaugh who says so”.

Today Dennis Rodman lost his cool in having to defend the indefensible.  You know what I'd like to see don't you is a Ted Cruz or a Marco Rubio losing his cool and completely "going off" before the camera when they realize they are now cornered and have become reduced to defending the completely absurd.  You know some people who are recruited by religious Cults become like this.  They defend their newfound beliefs or "Faith" to the death, it would seem, and that no price of embarrassment or absurd behavior is too high of a price to pay, for NOT having to - - you know - - Come to grips with Reality.

The consumer electronics show is starting in Las Vegas today, but Leo Le Port has been downplaying the thing for years saying it’s no longer relevant, because Apple doesn’t market there anymore.  (?)  My impression of the convention is that they show stuff that won’t at beat be on sale to the public for months, and in some cases it’s just demo items that will never be marketed to the public.  Florida State won the BCC or whatever.  I was planning on getting rid of my Florida State shirt but perhaps I’ll wear it one more time before I get rid of it.  Channel seven is coming in well today with no problems, without any antenna antics even.  Basically I know how to turn that lamp switch so that it goes on, but it’s not the way it’s supposed to be.

I guess a big beef I have with not only the Far Right but a lot of other people is this love affair they have with Labels.  Personally I don’t like labels, and I don’t feel comfortable when asked to make generalizations about other people.  People forget that the Label is of a lesser or secondary reality than the Thing itself, which you are “labeling”.  It’s less impressive to me to say “So and so is a paranoid schizophrenic” than to just describe the particular behavior that makes him seem odd.  I don’t like using the term “manipulative” either, partially because I don’t like keeping company with others who misuse that word when they Themselves are the ones who are most guilty of it.   Rather than tell me that Christ was “sinless” tell me what he did in his thirty three years on this planet and let me draw my own conclusions just how I feel about him.   I back away from the terms “always” and “never”.  But one area where these two words are actually Under-Used - - is the expression “Sometimes we don’t get our way in life.  Sometimes God doesn’t answer our prayers.”   All too often these “Sometimes” statements can be broken down to either an “Always” or a “Never” - - “Where the rubber meets the road” so to speak.  It used to be that the term “liberal” had certain connotations.  Maybe he wore an Afro, or wore beads and had long hair and smelled grungy.  Maybe he was always looking for the next new drug to come out to get high on.  He was probably a peacenik that was against war under any circumstances.  Or perhaps he was the opposite.  He was a hijacker or Islamic terrorist.  He was most certainly a Marxist, (I say mostly in jest)  But when you look at President Obama he is guilty of none of these things and yet his Hatred from the far Right is no less strident.  The word “Marxist” is used most feely to describe ANY economic policy that is contrary to this ultra right nternationalist big money, create a new permanent underclass, type philosophy.   Virtually none of the things liberals used to be “guilty” of are true now.  There are many liberals who are true to their wives and are good family men and raise their children relatively strictly.  On the other hand there are conservatives addicted to all manner of prescription drugs, or who are closet gays, or guilty of multiple divorces and remarriages under circumstances that would have gotten they looked on with a lot of suspicion in a lot of Baptist churches.  They say the word “Values” but seem to have none worth striving for or emulating.  “Values’ has become another buzz word.

I would like to clear up the matter of Quarks, the sub-atomic particle.  By now you should know generically what a quark is, and if you don't just Google it.  But one thing I looked for in my study of quarks was this alleged "Quirkiness" we've all heard about.  We were told of this 'mirror symatry" where quarks do this little choriographed "dance" where their actions are mirror image synchronized.  I think you brighter bulbs out there already know where I'm going with this.  Because you may know that - -  light travels at a fixed speed.  Just as you can have inverted interest yield curves in Bonds and other financial instruments, so you can have reversed light- - where you are truely "viewing light backwards".  Just like with a mirror - - it isn't the lateral image that's reversed.  This is an illusion.  It's what I call the "longitudinal image" or dimension that has been reversed, causing the illusion it's all "reversed".  As you may know in my theory - - OK I guess Einstein would agree - - that since gravity goes where light goes, "What you see is what you get" in terms of that "Dimension" or aspect of THINGS we call "Materiality" and by "we" I mean Me.   The apparent light source of Light is now from the Opposite direction - - and as such - -  the "apparent" gravity field is NOW ALSO coming from the opposite direction.  So you have an apparent reversed "source' of the image, and apparent "relocation" of the gravity source- - such that were you pursuing such an object- - that object would at sub light speed be exerting a tiny positive gravity field "pulling you tword it" as gravity attracts all objects together.  But after the barrier has passed- - you would now appear to be "repelled" by that same object since the "gravity pull" is now BEHIND you.  But none of this behavior is inherent to the Quark, and you don't find this behavior referenced in any of the writings on Quarks I have read.  This "quirky behavior' is in fact, COMMON to all material matter and not limited to Quarks.  Hence there is nothing inherent about a quarks behavior which would single out this trait any more than say, Blacks are inherently lazy or lacking in morals, and prone to violence and anarchy.  Get it?  Good.

Last night I did do that blog post on Al Qaeda and the Theta star in Scorpio.  Al Qaeda actually got more prominence in that letter than did the famed “Polar vortex”.  However numbers in blogger were sharply up for both recent blogs, which pleases me.  I guess we had the ABC game shows on but I don’t remember them.  Then it was “Almost Human” and “Sleepy Hallow” but I didn’t watch the whole program.  I did get four tea bags from Glen last night as part of a cigarette deal.  I had two bags last night and two bags this morning.  The ones in the morning upset my stomach because I hadn’t eaten anything.  I asked for and got milk with my medication from Ricardo because of this.  I had Glen Beck on from six to seven.  It’s kind of reminiscent of the Bob and Doug Mc Kinsey duo where they talked about “hosers” all the time.  Their dumb humor gives them a harmless quality.  But the banter is so vapid it must drive their hard core followers up the wall.  We had a good breakfast.  We had oatmeal with regular sugar.  We had a fried egg, and toast with butter and jelly, and I got an extra hashed brown from the Oriental guy, with catsup.  After breakfast I turned on Stephanie Miller on computer.  I tried Free Speech dot com but it seems a referral service for other satellite agencies and pay TV outlets.  It seems that all they want is your money.  But one place they said that Stephanie Miller and friends weren’t even streaming on that network yet.  So I had the light show in Windows Media Player.

It's Simpler Than You Think

 

Rush Limbaugh this morning introduced the concept of the Polar Vortex, and since then I've been hearing about it all day.  This is the "vortex" presumably of the jet stream which keeps the mass of cold polar air far to the north so that it doesn't chill the rest of us.  We have heard that as global warming progresses, this jet stream breaks down.  But oddly- - normally a LOW hurricane season is indicated by a strong jet stream that shears off the tops of forming cyclones before they grow to a dangerous size.  When the jet stream is weak, it is then you are in danger of the damaging hurricanes striking our coasts.  So if this theory about the breaking down of the "Zonal flow", which is my understanding of a "healthy" jet stream that flows straight from west to east- - this keeps the polar ice mass well in check and out of the United States.  Presumably now this jet stream has become weaker, proponents claim, by Global Warming and hence what has happened this winter takes place.  They say the polar ice has never frozen this solid so early in January and put our usual shipping lanes in jeopardy.  According to Rush Limbaugh, that Austrailian vessle that was touring the South Pole was there to "gather evidence of Global Warming" - - so that it's the greatest of ironies that they and two other vessles got trapped in seventeen miles of rapidly forming sea ice.

There is kind of a strong Charles Manson tinge to the next story.  Remember when we talked about Theta Scorpio, the bright star at the base of the tail of the scorpion, alias Scorpio.  The Theta in Greek numerology, has the value of "Nine".   The term Al Qaeda means "The Base" and I'm wondering whether it could refer to the Base of a Scorpion's tail.  Here is the Charles Manson part.  In Revelation Nine you have the Demons coming out of the Bottomless Pit and they are there to torture mankind for five months, and that time people will seek death from the pain, but will not find it.  It is said that the sting of their tails is like the sting of a Scorpion when it stings a man.  In Federation text (I've seen it somewhere on the internet) the Prophet Moses is said to have died in the desert from the sting of a Scorpion.  Since it was God who said he was punishing Moses by not letting him continue to Live, then one might infer that God Himself is the Scorpion.  As you know in Federation loore- - Abraham was from a "high star" even is it is way below the celestial equator and in fact a rather "low star".   The Greek letter Theta is the number Nine, and in Arabic, the symbol for the Theta means "Earth" and isn't too far removed from the Zodiac symbol, used for earth.   In our version Abraham was the father of the Midianites (referred to in the Ten Commandments movie) who dwell in tents and dig wells in the desert.  The Arabic people are descendants of Abraham's wife Keturah.

Some things are easily explained by the most elemental of examples, which this author delights in providing.  Many have wondered about these UFO's that often appear strangely close- - and yet jut and dart around like someone not holding a camera quite steady.  And then after a number of erratic movements they just disappear, seemingly without the slightest warning.  I have a way of proving my theory about such alledged sightings.  Are there ever "mirror sightings"?   That is, do these "sightings' ever do an encore, but this time they do it in mirror reversed form (actually this part wouldn't be noticable from earth anyhow but only viewed from much closer)  But the kicker is that all the antics they did before, they repeat with exactitude once more, but this time they do the whole chronology backwards.  The phenominon is simple to explain.  These ships are moving just SLOWER than the speed of Light and so are just Within our Event Horizon, and thus if they gain only slightly more speed, they just as quickly slip out of it once more.  The reason why the sideways or lateral motions are exagurated is the same reason why a telescope needs to be on a tripod- - or it's harder to hold a camera steady with the Zoom lens cranked way up in optical power.  The "longitudal" distance, for lack of a better term, has been vastly shrunken making these objects appear much closer than they are.  When they are seen in this matter they would be receding from our view, not approaching.

They say that Al Qaeda has taken over Felugia and another city in Iraq that they controled back in 2006 and they had to organize "The surge' in 2007 to take that territory back.  I thought they had built a major wall in that area to keep away invading Armies, but perhaps I'm thinking of what they did in Israel.  At any rate, the Sunnis accept Jesus as a Prophet and many other Biblical figures including Abraham and Adam and Enoch.  Bill Handel is upset that the Sunnis are gaining power as the Shiites are losing it in Iraq.  And indeed if I were a veteran of the Iraq War I would be getting a really sick feeling in my stomach these past few days having to watch these images on TV and all that sweat and blood of my conrads, some of which may have died in those battles, has now all been swept away.  But to send back troops into Iraq would be to give Melikee more chances than he deserves.  We gave him every break and extended ourselves to protect him, and at some point his country needs to fight for itself.  Because we did not intervene in Syria, Al Qaeda has gained hegemony among the Revels in Syria, so this too is a problem of our own making.  But our government seems less interested in dealing with the indemic struggles of the mideast, and more interested in gaining headlines by announcing we're going into another war.  Some say that Al Qaeda "only has hate for us" but I'm wondering how we'd feel if some foreign power bombed the hell out of us in the middle of a civil war we were having.  Just think about that in your saner moments, why don't you?

Psychic coincidences can and do occur.  Whether such "chance coincidences" or "Events of Synchronicity" are in fact demonstrably ABOVE the laws of natural probability, I cannot say.  It would take an advanced degree in statistics to properly "Test' for this.  But if you believe in Determinism, whether these events are chance or actually there is a psychic link going on- - these events are pre planned by an Entity that shall go unnamed at the moment (Just as Jehovah is the unnamed god) and as such it's less important HOW they were caused but THAT they are caused and are present is now the "opperative fact" that the group or groups involved have to deal with.