"Peace" Hasn't Improved Israel's Disposition Any

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Robert Barsocchini

The following is by Omar Robert Hamilton, from the London Review of Books:

On 26 August a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was agreed, bringing a fragile end to a war that killed 2150 Palestinians (mostly civilians) and 73 Israelis (mostly soldiers). Since then Hamas has not fired a single rocket, attacked an Israeli target, or done anything to break the terms of the ceasefire. Israel has done the following:

1. Annexed another 1500 acres of West Bank land
2. Seized $56 million of PA tax revenue
3. Not lifted the illegal blockade (as required by the ceasefire)
4. Broken the ceasefire by firing at fishermen on four separate occasions
5. Detained six fishermen
6. Killed a 22-year-old, Issa al Qatari, a week before his wedding
7. Killed 16-year-old Mohammed Sinokrot with a rubber bullet to the head
8. Tortured a prisoner to the point of hospitalisation
9. Refused 13 members of the European Parliament entry into Gaza
10. Detained at least 127 people across the West Bank, including a seven-year-old boy in Hebron and two children, aged seven and eight, taken from the courtyard of their house in Silwad – and tear-gassed their mother
11. Continued to hold 33 members of the Palestinian Legislative Council in prison
12. Continued to hold 500 prisoners in administrative detention without charge or trial
13. Destroyed Bedouin homes in Khan al Ahmar, near Jerusalem, leaving 14 people homeless, and unveiled a plan to forcibly move thousands of Bedouin away from Jerusalem into two purpose-built townships
14. Destroyed a dairy factory in Hebron whose profits supported an orphanage
15. Destroyed a family home in Silwan, making five children homeless
16. Destroyed a house in Jerusalem where aid supplies en route to Gaza were being stored
17. Destroyed a well near Hebron
18. Set fire to an olive grove near Hebron
19. Raided a health centre and a nursery school in Nablus, causing extensive damage
20. Destroyed a swathe of farmland in Rafah by driving tanks over it
21. Ordered the dismantling of a small monument in Jerusalem to Mohamed Abu Khdeir, murdered in July by an Israeli lynch mob
22. Continued building a vast tunnel network under Jerusalem
23. Stormed the al Aqsa mosque compound with a group of far right settlers
24. Assisted hundreds of settlers in storming Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus
25. Prevented students from entering al Quds University, firing stun grenades and rubber bullets at those who tried to go in
26. Earned unknown millions on reconstruction materials for Gaza, where 100,000 people need their destroyed homes rebuilt. The total bill is estimated at $7.8 billion

OK what we know if that as Christians we're supposed to pray for Israel's salvation. I confess this is something I haven't done. Ever since Chuck Smith's September 1977 sermon about Israel exercising the 'Sampson Option" on choosing suicide in some ultimate nuclear holicaust I have thought Jews were too violent to be saved. But the Church now teaches these days that Israel has the annointing of God and he who blesses or curses Israel will have the same fate happen to himself. And this appears to occur in Zachariah 13 or something where it says "They will look on Him whom they pierced" and scripture goes on to make a big thing about every family mourning by itself in its own house. On that day God says "I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone to the nations. He who falls on the stone will be Broken, and if this stone falls on anybody it will crush him". There are a lot of popular "bits" sprinkled in Zacariah 9 through 13 that pastors love to put in Sermons. Getting "saved" would be such a natural result in Israel since Christian missionaries go there all the time, and the people must be saturated with their messages. Also they know "Church history" better than we do since Jerusalem and Israel are the homes of all of these Holy Places, and the legonds that go with them. Dr Levy is very current on all of these. Why Dr Levy is not a Christian now is beyond me. Sean Hannity, a Catholic, says "We are supposed to stand shoulder to shoulder with Israel in their war effort". Personally I don't think God cares what I do. But since "The Church" says to do as I have described in this paragraph, I have nothing to lose, since God doesn't pay attention to me anyway, so doing his will more completely will just prove it.

The Truth is Worse Than We Want to Contemplate

Let’s discuss this Washington’s Blog video on 9 – 11.  It is the most extensive presentation on the topic of whether the twin towers were brought down by explosives.  The crushing weight of evidence is overwhelming in this instance, such that there can be no doubt that the buildings were brought down by a pre planned demolition take down.   Previously we told you that people in the media knew that “Tower Seven” would come down before the fact, and more than one media outlet announced that tower seven or “The Solomon building” was in fact taken down before it was.   Kerosene burns at sixteen hundred degrees, and yet this still was heated to the point of being molten and dripping down the elevator shaft.  But of course steel still has its full structural integrity at that temperature and doesn't become molten till 2700 degrees or a thousand degrees hotter than it got.  Also the buildings were burning with black smoke which they say is an "oxygen starved fire' and presumably less hot that it would otherwise be.  I'd always heard "Black smoke means incomplete combustion".  Yet there was molten steel burning under ground for no less than three months after 9 – 11, and nobody questions how the steel ever got that hot.  The commission- - this book in excess of 500 pages is pure lies and bullshit.  It said the steel was eighteen hundred degrees and “was becoming unstable”.  In the history of major high rises there have been only three cases of the frame of a building coming down from fire- - and you guessed it- - it was the three buildings that burned on 9 – 11.  In fact, we learn from ‘Burn Notice” that crashing into a car’s gas tank won’t guarantee that the fuel will explode, and it’s my understanding that kerosene is slightly less combustible than the gasoline you put in your car - - technically known as try methyl pentane.   We already told you about those two explosions with each plane that occurred just BEFORE the respective planes hit the building.  Perhaps this was to insure the kerosene would ignite.  We have the evidence of the violent explosions- - shooting out major heavy steel pillars weighing thousands of pounds going hundreds of miles an hour impailing themselves into other buildings.  There are an overwhelming number of witnesses that reported explosions before the fact, including George Stephanopolis.  Worst of all there was thermite in generous quantities found- - and a special type of military grade thermite called nano-thermite, which has Iron as a major explosive component.  Most of your home made bombs are nitrogen and phosphorous based.   But in the portion of the video I watched this morning they went more into other peripheral aspects, such as the way the media has been brainwashed to cover this event.  People are subject to the most severe of rebuke and mockery if they even suggest the buildings didn’t fall of their own accord.  As you know there have been raging infernos in high rises- - like in other countries- - where the fires burn for hours on end- - and still the buildings don’t come down.  We - - were lied to saying ‘Oh they design these buildings so they are easy to take down and fall into their own footprint”.  From what I saw last night this just isn’t so.  The buildings are built to stay up.  People buy into this “pancaking floors” argument.  They have seen floors pancake like this in documentary films, probably from pre existing structural damage caused by a severe earthquake.  Just think of this one example.  You say “Well the weight of each floor above the one falling just adds to the weight each time so the building falls faster and faster”.   Here is something you may never have considered.  What is keeping the buildings UP to begin with?   Magic pixie dust.  It’s not as though any weight is ADDED to a collapsing building that wasn’t THERE all along.  The structural engineers put an enormous amount of effort in the design of these high rises.  And it takes days or even weeks of placing of explosives in a building to bring them down.  In fact there was a ten day period in late August through September 2^nd of 2001 that there was a flurry of activity in the Twin Towers.   And for a long time there was drilling and all sorts of stuff because people were told “We are modernizing the elevator shafts”.   My slogan tends to be, “If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it”.   We then get into the enormous amount of Government connection with headquarters in all three of these buildings.  We have the company that “investigated” the event after 9 – 11 for the 9 – 11 Official Government Report.  They said “We know there were no explosives involved.  In fact we are so sure of this we did not even INVESTIGATE for explosives.  Neither did they say anything in the report at all about Building Seven.  This is beyond strange.  Of course NORAD was ordered to stand down that day.  But then we have the story to begin with about a Boston flight being hijacked by terrorists armed with nothing but - - box cutters.  Box cutters!  This is crazy!  You mean two seasoned Pilots who have undergone rigorous training are just going to hand the plane over to terrorists without firearms without a fight?  And of course no autopsies of anyone aboard were ever done.  And the steel debris from the twin towers was immediately shipped off to China.  And yet if I raise ANY of these points I am equated with the tin foil hat and black helicopter people?  All Sean Hannity has to say by way of intimidation is “Talk of any 9 – 11 conspiracy is silly because we all saw those buildings being hit on live TV and the fires burning for ourselves”.   Let’s talk more about how the media kept saying, and I heard them “These buildings are going to come down”, and “The structural integrity of these buildings will never hold”.  They were setting us up with lies- - preparing us so that when we saw the buildings actually implode before our eyes- - we would believe what the media wanted us to believe- - - and not be left to wonder or speculate on our own.

The other topic discussed in George Washington’s blog was- - this whole idea that the United States makes and breaks “regimes”.   We put in governments till we get tired of them – and then we take them out.  Like Bill Cosby was so fond of saying “Son, I brought you into this world – and I can take you Out”, as though that’s supposed to be funny.  Of course our government toppled Iran, and we toppled Iraq- - twice - -  and we even toppled the pro Soviet government in Afghanistan in 1979 - - and now we learn we overthrew the government of Syria was toppled by our CIA in 1949, and we even tried it again in 1957 that but attempt was unsuccessful.  Our government has so many impliments of war we don’t know what to do with them!  We hake War for profit – not national security - - and this has been true for 25 years and probably longer.  Now some General states that he told Obama we’ll have to have ground troops if we hope for success against ISIS.  From listening to yesterday’s Bill Press show this morning, it’s plain that Mission Creep is already a reality.  We already have “imbedded” special forces troops in Iraq and perhaps Syria.  We are training Syrian rebels to fight on our side.  And in this I tend to be in agreement.  But others say “And just when will these weapons and technology we give these people be turned around and used against Us”.    We know that ISIS likes to recruit moderate Sunni Muslems.  We took down the whole infrastructure of Iraq as Hartman and others remind us.  We not only disbanded their entire army but also their entire government and financial structure to make way for a Milton Freedman type economic eutopia, according to Hartman.  Hartman again read from this October 2004 manifesto or whatever of Bin Laden who bragged that all they had to do was create the slightest bit of terror or fear- - and the United States would spend a million dollars for every dollar that Al Qaeda spent.  Talk about bang for your buck.  At this point the thought hit me this morning “Fear is our worst enemy”.  Fear in this case distorts our judgement the way that alcohol and cocaine distort a person’s judgement.  It makes us do things impulsively without thinking.  First we hear that this war with ISIS will still be raging come election time in 2016.  But now we hear that two years is too optimistic a timetable for the elimination of ISIS.  Nobody ever told these people that you can’t make war against an Idea.  You can’t defeat an Idea with bombs.  (Selah)  Look at the Christians in the second half of the third century under Roman oppression.  The Christians never had such a rise in new recruits.  Nobody ever looks at the problem and concludes “Nothing we do is working in the least.  Perhaps we should rethink everything”.   President Obama plays into the hands of these right wingers because of his continued in-artful remarks such as “We don’t have a stragegy” or “These ISIS people are like the Junior Varsity team” or even “I guarantee there will be no ground troops”.  People like Hannity call this remark “Tipping the enemy off in advance of what we WON”T do”.   But also when Obama says “We don’t even NEED a war authorization because the 1991 war resolution is still in effect.  The President can’t be that ignorant that authorizations for the military can only last a maximum of two years.  It says that right in the US Constitution – which I’m sure the President must have read sometime.  I listened to Loretta Sanchez’ speech yesterday in Congress and she made a lot of good points.   But remember that George W Bush regarded his fathers limited war against Iraq in 1991 as a failure, because a much longer war would have given him “political capital”.  But such a protracted War would never have been politically acceptable in 1991 because the people hadn't been "prepped" to accept such a war yet.  There can be virtually no doubt now that Bush and Chaney and Rmusfeld and the whole bunch of them are sociopathic - - and deserve to be put on trial- - and for you death penalty fans- - these are your picture postcard examples of why the death penalty should be implemented.  The actions of these men is beyond criminal  Vincent Bugliosi in a book ten years ago even said that these War Mongers were criminals and ought to be brought up on any number of International treaty violations. 

I have a few observations about equal employment.  While I see a possible reason for firing an employee for chronic complaining and lowering the morale of “the team” I hardly see why expressing an opinion here or there is any major offence.  I consider it a primary violation of my freedom of speech to compare salaries received with those other workers get.  I would call this “the self preservation instinct”.  But above all I think it should be, and probably IS against the law to ever be forced to waive your rights to sue the company for blatant or less than blatant worker safety violations.  I would make it a part of the law that any such signatures were inherently null and void.   But having said that, as you know I’m just as hard on liberals as I am on conservatives, and when one of them messes up they hear about it from me.  In today’s case this woman on Thom Hartman’s discussion panel raised the point that “comparing apples to apples” if a woman is single and identically qualified with a man similarly single- - the woman in this case will get paid ten percent MORE than a man.  If this so- - then all talk about pay inequity goes in the trash can.   And I would also add that women and men are biologically different, in case it escaped your notice.  Men can’t have babies.  And it’s unreasonable for a woman to demand several weeks off to have her baby, and not have her pay docked.   I have also heard that the 78% figure we’ve been hearing quoted on salary equity since- - probably 1978 - - may be bogusly calculated.   I’ve heard that if you were really unbiased and took every relevant factor into consideration, it’s be closer to ninety percent.

 It was Norman Goldman who may have said that we must vote democratic for US Senator at least because they appoint the federal judges.  As you know Harry Reed got the whole filibuster rule knocked out for such federal appointments.  So I hope he “cleared the decks” because the nominations were piling up, and when - - the republicans take over the Senate in November we won’t have a prayer.  As it stands now most of the Federal judges were appointed by the two Bushes, because Clinton only put in moderates or blue dog democrats - - and Obama apparently has gotten very few appointments through this intransigent congress.

I turned on the Rush Limbaugh show.  Rush made a cood case that the NFL is not unique in either battered wives or child abuse, but that NFL arrest rates are actually only about half of what they are in the average Black culture.  I’m not sure if it’s a complement or not but Rush says “You know- - getting to the NFL is the best thing for their character that happened to these young men because it may well the first actual discipline situation they’d had in their entire lives.”  OK - -I’ll try and accept that bit of news. 

Southwest Plagued By Turbulent Weather

               

Hurricane O-deal has made a direct on Cabo San Lucas,  where they worship the evil goddess Samantha.  They said it was a category three hurricane- - and for a direct hit they’re lucky they weren’t more wiped out than they were.  The water in the Gulf of California is around ninety degrees.  Just put in a little soda mixture and you’re got yourself a giant Jacuzzi.   This O-deal story will head north by northeast into the southwest desert where Arizona and Phoenix have already had their share of flooding.  Meanwhile little of all that moisture will help California out that much.  It’s almost as if God is playing a gigantic joke on us.  The local surf is up but not because of that hurricane but other Pacific terbulance.  And in northern California wild fires continue to ravage the area and the town of “weed” is getting wiped out.  Time to call out Company B.  It’s one of those little lumber towns you drive through it and think “This town is right out of another century”.   Air conditioner usage is tying the all time power consumption usage from around this time in 2010 I already referred to above, where the temperature was in triple digits.  They say that in 1989 we had record highs in late September.  I actually remember that.  It was about the time I decided to quit smoking for nearly the next two years.  I don’t know to what extent they tailor the “west coast” national news for us- - and whether the people back east get that share of coverage of weather here in the southwest.  Last night I got my medication at five thirty with Donnie again at the northern part of the east hall.  I went to Glen’s room and negotiated a price for some Swiss Miss.  I offered to pay Glen five cigarettes and he “negotiated” it down to four.  (These cases of “reverse negotiation” are not an uncommon feature with Glen.  At any rate- - I went out again at a quarter to seven.  It was just before sunset and the sun was shining on the fence and Wally was watering the grass.  They say to water and run appliances after six.  Anyhow- - it was the new Jeopardy after this with brilliant “Sunset” colors” like a Word backdrop I use.  Alex Travec has his mustache back for the first time in thirteen years- - or just about the length of time I’ve lived here.  Maybe it’s a good omen.  The questions were thankfully easier this week.  After Wheel of Fortune it was “Law and Order”.  I went out after eight- - and “hung out” a little before managing to get a cigarette from Steve Carone.  You have to be careful anytime Janet opens her mouth.  First she goes into this big lecture and says “Bill better not run out of cigarettes” but then later changes her tune and said she was going to give him a whole pack (which she hasn’t done yet)  I was careful to say that “I’m getting paid tomorrow” because being paranoid - - knowing her- - the next statement would be “I don’t want Bill giving you any cigarettes if I do that”.   But she didn’t say - - that.  Instead we sat there in almost total darkness for a minute or two.  Then Janet says “Well you’ve been out here every half hour or so trolling for cigarettes”.  Naturally I looked around to see who she could be referring to.  John?  It was plain she was referring to Me - - even though I hadn’t been out there in nearly an hour and a half.  Janet continued “You’ve been coming out here asking everybody for cigarettes - - you got one from Nancy Bell, you got one from Bill”.   I was confused.  The only cigarette I had either asked for or gotten from Nancy Bell was at 6:25 that morning.  But I know from experience- - if you challenge anything Janet says she’ll only get mad and start telling still more lies.  She fancies herself kind of the J Edger Hoover of this establishment- - kind of a “Jim Spencer light” but beware not to listen to any of these exhaustive analyses of people- - because keeping in mind the Golden Rule, if she’ll lie about You- - then they’ll most likely lie about other people.  A lot of lies were told about this fifteen year old hooker on “Law and Order” batting in the big leagues - - - swinging for the fences.  How would like to be her father.  She’s got her girlfriends lying for her- - and lying convincingly.  She starts in with boys her own age but gets bored with them and so turns to females for a while for that kind of sex- - but then she goes now to much older men- - and I mean major league Call Girl stuff- - where her boyfriends buy her all kinds of expensive stuff- - there was twenty thousand dollars worth of clothing in her closet when she was murdered.  And by the way she also had HIV and had gotten medication for that.  That’s something else she never told her dad.    The other case really ticked me off.   It was this college kid- - engaging in thrill murders and claims it isn’t his fault because he was a violent video game addict.  You see I would rephrase that.  He was a violent sociopath to begin with- - who ALSO liked video games.  But the New York jury didn’t buy this defense attorney’s rhetorical bullshit- - and the guy was found guilty.   On the plus side the air conditioning is still holding up in here.  I guess having an air conditioned dining room, though, if something we can live without.  The nights are so warm- - some of the local lows in the area are in the eighties.  But this will be the last day of the really bad heat- - and then we get clouds and thunderstorms.

Stephanie Miller has a point about how the Media is obsessed with “optics” and surface appearance these days, at the sacrifice of real substance and analysis.   For instance if Franklin Roosevelt were President today, FOX news would be merciless at showing the President at his most helpless getting in and out of cars and such- - and seeing the great difficulty with which he stands, even with braces.  Today they have people with their legs cut off running marathons, don’t ask me how.  Franklin never gave up hope that he would get better, and that is as it should be.  I’ve always disagreed with this one “politically correct’ statue of FDR showing him in a wheel chair, since it’s the last way he wanted to be remembered.  But of course nobody today has any tact or human decency.  This whole idea of kicking a man when he’s down has never been considered sporting, but that wouldn’t stop FOX news.  You know they’re scrambling around just looking for the best way to use sexism to attack Hillary when she declares for President next year.  Some have already gone after her for her health from that stroke or something two years ago.  I wonder when we’ll be hearing jokes about “You’d never allow decisions of life or death to be made by someone suffering from PMS”.  

Last night besides the NFL game there was also Sixty Minutes.  There was a segment on the capture of Whitey Bolger and his wife, who feeds catrs, living in Santa Monica all these years.  He was of course a major Boston gangster.  The other topic was a more serious and timely one.  The laws on mental illness are so lax it’s impossible to have even known dangerous people committed.  This one father had a very troubled son, who stabbed him in the back in a barn and then went out and blew his brains out - - using an unloaded firearm from his father that he bought bullets for.   The whole mental illness thing is just scandalous.  It was the last 20 minutes of America’s Funniest Home Videos, which was back on the air.  

 We had oatmeal for breakfast followed by scrambled eggs, and I had two toasts, and two hashed browns, with salt.  You need the salt in this heat for water conservation.  Paul is really helpful and not to get spiritual or anything but “God will reward him for his kindness in the afterlife”.  Right now I still have the Today show on.  Now the NFL is reinstating Avery Peterson because they’ve looked at the evidence and concluded that until the legal issues are decided in this case- - there’s no reason why he shouldn’t play.  I imagine this will make the Romulans happy.  I’d rather be a gardener today than a roofer or ditch digger or someone re-paving the street.  Duty calls.  Of course President Obama is a liar and he lies when he has no reason to.  He talks like he’s going to do something on immigration and then doesn’t.  His administration’s biggest lie is about employment saying “We have added jobs every month for the last four years” or whatever.  Of course he lied about “You can keep your coverage and keep your doctor”.   The thing with a congenital liar is that they will lie- - proactively.  They use the LIE as a weapon of attack- - - and create arguments and issues where otherwise there would be none at all.  Like Mary Beth on the soap opera.  The Bible singles people like this out for special condemnation.

Phyllis Green was saying something I agreed with.  Jerry Brown is so bent on eliminating the deficit and then building up a “rainy day” fund that he has gone nuts in cutting back aid for college students and a lot of other areas, even if the economy in the state sucks royally.  In the area of child discipline as Stephanie was talking about- - - I think a case can be made where a child is in a psychically fearful state about “getting it” from his parents, that he will feel pressured to lie out of “self preservation” because he learns that lying is the way to eliminate conflicts that would occur if you were like me and decided to be perfectly honest on an issue.  They will use your own words against you and twist them around.   The basic idea is to be psychologically and emotionally in touch with your children so you know what’s going on in their minds.   And as Chris says, if you beat a dog, there is no way of explaining to the dog WHY you are doing it- - and all the animal knows as the trauma.   Thom Hartman is talking about the wiping out of large mammals in the holy land.  Lions used to be a common sight.   Right now Mike Papentonio is coming on as a guest.  Today it’s “The disinformation industry”.    So, should you take a switch to these industrialists who manufacture dangerous products?

 Lindsey Graham was angry about not being more proactive in dealing with ISIS.  “This is not an anti terrorist operation - - this is WAR.  And they are coming over here to kill all of Us”.   I watched Meet the Press in the morning.  I never checked “This Week”.  Now I have Stephanie on and Bristol and her five year old son were at some gathering with Sarah Palin - - high tops with the American flag.  I saw the American Flag prominent in Time-Warner and it was a surprise to me that Time-Warner was right wing.  Meanwhile yesterday was the hottest day of the year and I could have sworn it got over a hundred yesterday.  Then said in the news the hottest temperature we’ve ever had locally was 113 in late September of 2010.  I remember it was really hot around that period with people scurrying for meager shade on the patio.  This was right about the time Dana first moved in here.   But of course- - the four answers they had on their quiz were 117, 118, 120, and 125.  I was virtually positive we’d never gotten to 120 around here, but I remember the 117 in late September of 1963.  But strangely the weather guy did not cite this figure.  I think the heat has us all batty and I can’t function.  Even the AC is showing signs of giving out since the agrigate temperature of this building is so hot.

Saturday afternoon also in C-Span I watched the Kansas governor’s debate, held at the County Fair.  They remarked what perfect weather it was.  Now there are temperature in the fifties and even forties in the Great Lakes area - - with isolated snow in places like Wyoming.  We still have a week of summer to go.  Saturday was the anniversary of the Live Peace in Toronto concert with John Lennon and the original Plastic Ono Band.   Last Saturday was a much more dubious anniversary in 1980 at the swimming party at Judy’s trailer court when relations with Laura took an adverse turn, on a fittingly overcast afternoon.  The trouble with this Kansas debate was that Brownback used the same trick that Paul Ryan used against Byden.  He’d stick on at the very end of his rebuttal to another question a bunch of unproven charges against the Democrat, that he knows ahead of time the Democrat will never get a chance to respond to.  I could not tell by their words who the better candidate was, and have to trust the experts that Brownback is a liar and an economic fraud, and I would vote accordingly.

Lynne’s class had a whole third verse to “Mary Had a Little Lamb” that goes “And so the teacher turned out but still it lingered near; the lamb sure did love Mary or so it would appear”.   I had suspected the existence of a third verse from some old thing like the Little Rascals reciting it.  I got one cup of iced tea.  In terms of the soap opera plot it was too tacky for words.  Clearly if Mary Beth wanted to ruin her credibility for all time with page and anyone else in their social circle, that little stunt on today’s episode would do it.  She makes an ass of herself wanting to horn in on J J’s and Page’s date to begin with- - going to a party which by her own admission she said she knew no one, and then uses that “all alone” ruse to get Page away from Jack Junior for perhaps an hour or more- - where Cheryl can conveniently drug him.  That plot is so thread bear they should give it up.  Meanwhile Dr Jonas continues to be a perfect asshole with Jennifer- - looking for any and every opportunity to do things he knows would piss anybody off, not just Jennifer.   They have a new Chad with heavier eyebrows wielding a gun of course, to make his point.  I think his anger comes off as - - exagurated.

The NE Patriots defeated the Vikings in the morning game in Foxborough.  The SD Chargers defeated the Seattle Seahawks in San Diego, which made my day.  I was even wearing the jersey.  And the Chicago Bears came back and defeated the SF ‘40ers in their new football stadium in Santa Clara.  It was 17 to nothing San Francisco but the Bears came roaring back in the second half and the final score was 28 to 20.

The Moral Cesspool that is Congress in 2014

Clearly there is a racial component to the constant and chronic obstructionism we’ve seen since Obama has been President.  Clearly we see an utter unwillingness of the public to come to grips with the fact that nineteen big corporations and donors amount to the lion’s share of money in politics.  Clearly the American people just don’t Care that lobbyists have taken over congress and that term limits will only make the situation much worse.  Mike Papentonio this morning in a thing I watched (“Ring of Fire”) pointed out that Newt Gingrich, when the Republicans came to power twenty years ago gutted the traditional government offices that used to check out legislation economically and report whether the lobbyists were telling the Truth about this proposed legislation.  We got a bit “I don’t care” as far as the danger of bypassing all of these government filters.  We’ll let the Lobbyists themselves “affirm” legislation and often they write every word of it to begin with tailor made to their needs.  And of course after serving a short while in congress as a “Reward for their service” to the lobbyists, they immediately go out and work for these same lobbyists at vastly increased pay, such that the fastest known way to get very rich in a really short amount of time is to run for congress.  And the Republicans now say that they aren’t going to have embarrassing political televised Debates like last time.  No.  Instead Sheldon Addelson is going to “check out” each prospective Candidate himself, as one by one these prospective candidates march up to “kiss his ring” hoping that they are extreme enough, to obtain his Blessing.  We know last time big money was working against itself because first Addelson pours tons of money into the Gingrich campaign, keeping him in the campaign, but then Addelson has to switch to Mitt Romney.  We know that the Republicans just passed an amendment to the Dodd Frank act saying that these “Investment Swaps” would be OK now and are exempt from regulation.  Such a bill of course would never make it through the Senate.  We know that in Florida they liberalized their gun laws even further allowing for “warning shots”.  Now this Black guy says on “The Big Picture” that this law was passed because “they” meaning those who defended that Black woman who fired a warning shot into the ceiling because her husband was tracking her down and backing her into a corner so she couldn’t retreat this “they” or “everybody” wanted that.  What I never heard out of this Black guy’s mouth is whether HE personally thought that black “battered wife” was justified.  You see a lot of this blame shifting.  For instance the whole Real Estate mortgage crisis of the last decade was supposedly because “Democratic congressmen came to President Bush and told him he had to liberalize lending regulations” as though it weren’t a campaign ploy on President Bush’s part to garner Latino votes in the 2004 campaign.  But the tea party says “The democrats are responsible”.  Now they are saying something even more fantastic.  The Democrats alone are responsible for the very existence of ISIS, which stands for Islamic Society in Iraq and Syria or something.  What the tea party is now claiming is that “Well Obama came to us and wanted arms for this extreme organization fighting Assad’s forces but when we didn’t give it- - the President somehow secretly funded ISIS in a massive way on his own”.   So they would have us to believe that the tea party has NEVER criticized the President for being “Soft on Syria” or even worse “losing Syria”.   We know better.  The tea party LIVES for the next war.  For this black fellow to dare to claim that congress- - after the saber ratteling speeches last week of Mc Conell, Mc Cain and Lindsey Graham pro war- - that somehow the republicans are the “party of peace” really is slipping through the looking glass.  They would shift the Blame for this whole crisis to a funding decision (nobody apparently knew about) to President Obama.  So now it’s Obama who is killing Christians in Syria or something.   Mike Papentonio is right about one thing.  The rhetoric has been really “dumbed down” and it’s all knee-jerk politics.  They claim to love Israel so much but often Israel has said “Stay out of our negotiations with other countries”.  Israel has said this on occasion to the tea party.  The tea party would not like Israel’s gun laws at all.  You have to be checked out by a doctor, and a psychiatrist, and the police and check around to people you know, and then they’ll let you have a gun, and like a motor vehicle, you have to register it- - and if it’s used in the commission in a crime, like your car in an accident- - then YOU are liable.  Also, each time you go to buy ammunition for that gun, you have to show your registration card.   But this Black guy once again says “Owning an automobile is not in the constitution”.   Which is about the dumbest thing I’ve heard anyone say.   And now they call Thad Cochrin – the segregationist- - the Liberal candidate in Mississippi.  Every day Hannity and Rush and FOX news gets more extreme, defending psychos such as Cliven Bundy.  Or they advocate the murder of abortion doctors, and when one is murdered- - they can’t wash their hands of it.  They have gone so far as to defend cop killers.  Eric Cantor is called the most vile names by Ted Nugent, and nobody on the right will say that Ted Nugent shouldn’t have said it.  And all the while they call themselves Christian.   Neil of KFI, who isn’t the Messiah, he just plays one on the Radio - - speaking for Jesus Christ- - putting the words in his mouth that “On certain occasions like this Iraq War we are in right now- - war is absolutely necessary”, and no Christian raises their voice to claim how utterly sick and morally depraved this is.   Instead Rush Limbaugh calls a woman discussing birth control - - Rush calls her “a slut”, repeatedly – on his show.    Every year the tea party right makes less and less sense- - but show not the slightest sign of going away.

We keep hearing how stupid Blacks are.  According to Rush Limbaugh, the NAACP turned down a huge check from the Koch Brothers to their group calling this money "tainted".  But had the NAACP accepted this money, the tea party right would have just as readily argued completely the other way that the tea party itself is tainted and inconsistent because they accept money from the Koch Brothers.  So there is no pleasing these people.  We hear that Blacks will never vote for a Republican.   I heard something about how “the liberals all decided to vote for the segregationist” in Tuesday’s Mississippi election.  There was, we hear, “extensive Democratic cross-over action of Blacks (of all people) voting for the institutional segregationist Thad Cochrin.  They said “Rush Limbaugh’s head must be exploding because Rush thinks it is horribly unfair for Negroes to impact the success of one of Rush’s plumb tea party candidates such as Mac Daniel.  And yet Rush himself sponsored “operation chaos” by which he instructed his people to vote for Hillary Clinton in the Texas primary, a move he no doubt regrets now.  And just as race has been an issue these past six years (Rush Limbaugh in January of 2009 even came out and said this, "If you think the election of a Black man as President means all of the nations racial problems are solved- - you are sorely mistaken".   This utterance of Rush was disturbingly prophetic, almost like he knew something)  - - so race as an issue these past six years, and now for the next six years, Gender is going to be an issue and we hear things like one person saying "No woman should run for political office without her husband's permission".   These people will excuse terrorist activities if the people doing them are Tea Party Christians, but if any Islamic group were doing the same thing or things less extreme- - the Tea Party would be all over the FOX news waves in an instant saying "Something needs to be done immediately".   I don't see how Harry Truman was so successful in 1948 arguing that the congress of that session ruled by Republicans were- - "A do nothing congress" and yet nobody who labels this a "do nothing congress" now will succeed at changing anybody's mind.  That year of 1948 aided people like Ronald Reagan - - citing some convincing economic statistics- - the Democrats took back congress that year, and Harry Truman was reelected President.  But we are not as liberal now as we were some sixty-six years ago.  Why is that?

I would like to refer to this over-used notion of "The Well Intentioned Mistake".   It's funny how years after a war is over such as Viet Nam we'll admit it was a mistake.  But seldom at the time.  Look at the Catholic Church.  How many "well intended mistakes has the Church made".   Well they said horrible things about the Jews and centuries later apologised.  They called Joan of Arc a heritic or worse, and hundreds and hundreds of years later- - apologised.  They did the same thing with Galilleo and Copernacus- - they were condemned as heritics for centuries but the Church finally admitted it was wrong.  So many now say "Well the war in Iraq was a well intended mistake" as though "In the honest oppinion of our leaders, evidence pointed to danger if we didn't act".  Right wingers say this all the time.  I'd even imagine my parents would like to use this crap about "The well intended mistake" on me.  The trouble is you'll never get them to admit they're not perfect.  By doctrine the Catholic Pope is infallible.   This of course engenders certain logical problems.  Jesus Christ himself said "There are some standing here today, who will not taste of death till they see me coming in Glory".   How many "Well intended mistakes" have been made predicting the end of the world?  How many cops in police shootings have gotten off any charges because of the "well intentioned mistake".   As such I think I would like to ban that phrase from our vocabularies, but then again, that's just me.  I can't make any mistakes and get away with it because Neil Savedra said on the radio that God was such a Holy entity that forgiving sins would "Not do justice to his Holiness".  Besides according to Neil, a sin out there floating around will cause damage, and because of the damage caused by your sin, another person will be caused to sin, and it goes on and on from there.  As you can see Neil Savedra is not the greatest optimist in the world.  They should put a sign over KFI radio station on Sunday mornings "Abandon all hope ye who listen Here"

There was a quote from Karl Rove that admitted that people in government not only live in, but Create their own "Alternative Reality".   And they LIKE to confuse the rest of us, who study it and try out to figure out what motivates us" or some such thing.  It appears to me the thing that motivates these people is pure Evil.  And if there is anything to the teachings of Jesus Christ, those who cheer on these people from the sidelines even are Just as Culpable as though they had done the deeds Themselves.

Critical mass public-awakening of Americans to US “leaders’” unlawful and lie-started Wars of Aggression raises several related and OBVIOUS issues that must be resolved if the 99% are to end the 1%’s War Crimes:
US corporate media was/is REQUIRED and criminally complicit to lie in omission and commission to “cover” these War Crimes from public recognition.
Both US political parties were/are REQUIRED and criminally complicit to lie and vote for these War Crimes.
“Developed” nations are criminally complicit in these War Crimes by direct participation and/or refusing to enforce war law to stop OBVIOUS unlawful and lie-started Wars of Aggression.

This article explains, documents, and proves:
How we know US wars are unlawful as objective fact
How we know US wars are started with lies known to be false as they are told as objective fact
Resolving criminal complicity to US War Crimes by US corporate media
Resolving criminal complicity to US War Crimes by US political “leadership”
Resolving criminal complicity to US War Crimes by Earth’s so-called “developed” nations

1. How we know US wars are unlawful as objective fact:

Current US wars, including any attack on Syria, Ukraine, and/or Iran, are Orwellian unlawful because US armed attacks, invasions, and occupations of foreign lands are unlawful Wars of Aggression. Two US treaties, the Kellogg-Briand Pact and UN Charter, make armed attacks on another nation unlawful unless in response to armed attack by that nation’s government. Under Article Six of the US Constitution, a treaty is our “supreme Law of the Land;” meaning that no order can compromise a US active treaty.

Current US wars and rhetoric for more wars continue a long history of lie-began US Wars of Aggressionsince the US invaded Mexico; despite Abraham Lincoln’s powerfully accurate rhetoric of President Polk’s lies to steal half of Mexico at the expense of US military and Mexican civilian lives. The most decorated US Marine general in his day also warned all Americans of this fact of lie-started wars for 1% plunder.

Such lie-began and unlawful US wars have killed ~30 million since WW2, arguably more than Hitler’s Nazis.

Because US wars clearly violate the limit of zero military armed attack on another nation, current US wars are not even close to lawful, and are unlawful Wars of Aggression. This is as clear as a baseball pitch being ten feet over the batter’s head not meeting the requirement to be called a “strike,” and not even close to any objective judgement as within the strike zone.

2. How we know US wars are started with lies known to be false as they are told as objective fact:

In addition to the illegality of US wars, we know from the disclosed evidence of our own government that all claims for current US wars were known to be lies as they were told to the American public and not “mistaken intelligence.” Read this and this for more complete documentation; here’s the summary for lies to initiate War Crimes on Iraq and Afghanistan:

There were four basic claims of fact presented by US political “leadership” to invade Iraq:

a. Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), a scary-sounding name for specific chemical and biological weapons.

b. The US intercepted aluminum tubes that could only be used to refine nuclear material; irrefutable evidence that Iraq had restarted a nuclear weapons program.

c. Saddam had attempted to purchase enriched uranium from Niger; more evidence that Iraq had reconstituted nuclear weapons development.


d. Saddam had links to Al Qaeda, the alleged terrorists who attacked the US on 9/11.

Abortion Protest Buffer Zones Voided by Court

Today is Friday June 27, 2014 and I did not type in Word yesterday, or post a blog for that matter.  But I did write Allan a letter discussing yesterday’s outing, and other updates, we’ll get to in due course.  The Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon issued their long awaited ruling on cell phones and cops.  The Supreme Court justices agreed nine to nothing that when a policeman stops you they don’t have the right, ordinarily, to rummage through your cell phone just looking for “stuff” because cell phones contain your whole life, so it would be like rummaging through your desk in your home without a warrant.  The LAPD says “getting a warrant when we need it won’t be a problem”.   The Obama administration, curiously, had argued that your cell phone is fair game for the police, making me wonder just where President Obama comes down on civil liberties- - since he and Bush have had this aggressive NSA policy due to the Patriot Act.

However there are at least three Supreme Court rulings I take strong exception to.  They ruled that this “buffer zone” of a mere thirty five feet put in place by Massachusetts violates people’s right to “free speech”.  That is that women have to be subjected to hysterical people protesting against the practice of abortion and praying, carrying on, obstructing, or what have you.  To me rights to public access and freedom from harassment is at stake.  These protests aren’t going to be listened to by anybody, but women don’t need the added emotional stress and just might be going in for some other problem like endometriosis or something.  What is so hypocritical about this ruling is that for a political event- - they pen protestors off in protest zones maybe a block away from the event and the court sees no problem with doing that, and more often it’s much more important that these other protests actually be heard.

The Supreme Court also ruled, according to the Norman Goldman show, that these people that were living next to this abandoned industrial plant that was closed down in 1986 and got cancer- - that these people have no rights.  This is just another trend of the court to unreasonably side with businesses over the individual rights of the citizen, and here the issue is the same to lead a free and unmolested life- - in this case being free of cancer outbreaks.  They did not argue that the cancer outbreaks weren’t real or were not caused by the abandoned plant.  Rather the reason was (this is the height of stupidity) that “Well if these people are given the right to sue businesses, then people all over the place will want to sue businesses for damages, and we can’t set this type of precedent”.   The logic blows my mind.

The Supreme Court ruled against the Obama administration as far as letting congress know about recess appointments.  As you will remember that President Bush was famous for making all sorts of “recess appointments” during the summer when congress was not in session.  But this crop of Republicans is so dedicated to obstructing this president any way they can, that they would station one guy in the Capitol building- - and say that “technically’ they were not in recess.  Clearly this was not the Constitutional writers intended.  I think the court could quite reasonably that the intent of congress was to skirt the law, and that clearly, congress had NO INTENTION of meeting, to approve these appointments or any other work.  We know the five week vacation for congressmen is sacrosanct, and nothing but nothing, will “delay” something as important as Vacations.  Urgent bills- - they will put those on hold, but never vacations.

There is one more day when the Supreme Court could issue a rulings because Monday is June 30^th and for all I know they may save their biggest zinger for that final day.  Meanwhile the Brian Stowe jury is in deliberation now.  Given recent trends, particularly here in California, the LA Dodger organization will get off with no liability at all.  This seems to be a trend over the past twenty years or so.  The violent weather in the rest of the country continues to headline the network news.  I’m thinking that all these people in the nation’s heartland should be grateful that at least they HAVE rain this year and that the drought is over.  I had a dream a few nights ago I was in a city called Situation, Florida- - with people I didn’t know.  And there are things in this dream I forget.  It was on the west coast of Florida- - and we were watching TV and they were saying that in California they were suffering through a horrible drought, and I remember thinking “I’m glad I don’t live in California”.   You would think that with all this unusual weather in the red states, that people would think twice about the global warming issue.  President Obama was in Miniapolis the other day- - and it seems the entire town is under water or something.  And it seems that if you just go into a hospital for another reason- - they will stick you on a cholesterol lowering Staten drug- - even though Judy’s father, Henry died - - or suffered severe brain damage, from Staten drugs.  Paul indicated doubt as to whether this was the cause, but I don’t doubt it for a minute.  And apparently there is no positive benefit from Staten drugs at all as to saving lives if you take them all the time or never take them.  Given the FDA’s response to other needed drugs they won’t approve, (and some organic substances are heavily frowned on by the Food Drug Administration) so given this fact, how did Staten drugs slip by their radar?

I always wondered what they did with the Griffith Park Observatory since shots of it don’t look much different than before.  According to Terry, they vastly improved the planetarium proper with high resolution photographic stuff that “is so realistic it makes you dizzy to watch it” and also Terry says they escavated a whole lower level to the demonstration hall.  I guess I’m puzzled how they could do this without upsetting the foundational integrity of the whole building but I guess there will be a whole lot more “stuff’ to look at now.  Paul had indicated Tuesday evening when I was at his house, that “You know I believe you are destined to come up with some discovery that nobody else had thought of, and just might change lives”.  My ego loves that sort of remark- - but I can’t help thinking that my stuff would more aptly be classed as Science Fiction rather than science.  But maybe today’s science fiction, or tomorrow’s common place.  I think of things like “unformatted space” and “hard determinism” that are controversial at best- - but they are things I picked up from reading.  The whole tinker toy thing with baryon holes in transported “binding energy that carried most of the mass” is also really “out there”.

Mike Deletori had died.  When Richard Moore told me I thought it was either a roomer or perhaps part of some joke.  Richard grew annoyed with me. But it seems Mike really has died, after a stay of a week or so in some hospital.  It’s always the way that you go into the hospital around here for some mystery symptom and end up dead.  Ricardo says “It’s better this way because he’s in a better place; he’s in heaven”.  That’s the last thing I think about when I hear someone around here dies.  I think about the loss- - of that person’s life- - existence- - and I think about their grieving family and what his or her loss means to people around here.  Maybe DNA in cells is real and can be studied- but you can’t make the same claims about this place called heaven.  I have gotten two cigarettes from Larry Barton this morning, and one from Richard.  So I have been lucky.  We had corn flakes for breakfast and then two pancakes, which were under gone and a lot smaller than last time.  We got a sausage link.  The coffee was good, though.

News-flash.  Indiana is the next state to turn queer.  Some judge there just legalized gay marriage from the bench, and I guess there is no way to fight it.  Meanwhile Charlie Wrangle won his election to a 22^nd term in congress, by a slim margin of two thousand votes, yet he is still claiming victory.  Thad Cochrin, the animal husbandtry guy from Mississippi - - and I mean “husband’ in every sense of the word- - yes he won his challenge from this younger tea party candidate, and apparently in Texas some tea party candidate went down, which is good.   This seems to be the general pattern this season, with Eric Cantor being an unusual case on its own.

Tuesday morning after breakfast as I was wandering around the building looking for a cigarette I got a call on the office phone.  It was Judy saying that Mom had had what we thought could be a stroke.  She collapsed when her right leg went lame on the way down the hall back to her room after breakfast.  She complained of having trouble speaking and her right eye lid was drooping.  She was admitted to Saddleback hospital for tests.  But she passed all of those and these symptoms were caused by something else.  Later when Paul talked to her, Mom seemed to be in good spirits, and she could come home today after a night of observation in Keiser hospital.  This is the place Mom had been with diaria and had to wait in the “hallway” for service, for hours on end.  She had that “dificil” bacteria.  So obviously the visit of Tuesday night would be canceled.  At no time yesterday in the evening or otherwise, was there any conversation about this B 12 liquid capsule or the methylated folic acid.  I guess this was something Judy was going to get Mom to pay for the stuff for me, and it would not be appropriate to ask in these circumstances.

The Gigantic Conspiracy of "Intelligent Design"

What would you say if I said that “Thom Hartman is more psychologically disposed to be a creationist than I am”.   One thing about me is that- - I look at something and like most people go for the immediate explanation.  For instance if I see a lot of right wing hysteria in the country my initial impulse is to say “Well there must be some issue or issues that is pushing or driving the public opinion on this one”.   But Thom Hartman says “This is not some adaption of some (politically) environmental issue that is in some way “reactive” to some stimulus.  As a scientist, this is the way they reason.  But Hartman sees “Intelligent design” in the current prevalence of the tea party and points to some unseen “master architect”.   That is this hysteria - - like creation - - did not just spontiously arise- - it was the result of some “Intelligent design process”.   So Hartman points to Jude Waninsky and Paul Warwick, and Lewis Powell - - as forerunners from 35 years ago - - .    If you look at an outboard motor you see intelligent design.  FORM of matter shows - - intelligence of design in many cases.  Some would argue that things were “created” in a form for a said “function”.   It helps if you have something created in a certain FORM that this form is that way to fulfill a function.  I have told you how you have causality in Citizens United leading to a 2010 congressional republican victory- - leading in turn to gerrymandering.   This in turn makes democratic recaptures of the House more difficult.  You see intelligent design in rich donors going after local offices like district attorneys and AG’s and you also see how criminal involvement such as Chris Christie and Scott Walker are involved with - - spurs their election which insures a further entrenchment of tea party power- - and packing the court with right wing Justices insures that if you DO cheat in a political campaign, you won’t have to account for it.  You see intelligent design in putting right wing talk show hosts irrespective of whether or not they are popular or advertisers flee these shows in droves.  Hence you see a situation on right wing stations like Clear channel that is immune to the normal market forces that would serve as a check to power of anyone else.  And - - many times you need a lot of things to take place simotaniously for something to work, like a well executed criminal conspiracy.  You need some Force to call the shots and to communicate with each of the component parts - - like a coach on a baseball team.  But suppose you have all the key links in an operation save for one.  Randy Rhodes has said “A military unit is only as strong as its weakest link”.  Suppose one decides they “Want to be a Christian”.  We aren’t debating the merits- but I’m just using this as an example.  Now hypothetically the guy could say “OK- - I’ve read Evidence that Demands a Verdict” on the Bible, I’ve cut out booze, I’ve cut out cigarettes- - - Sex?  Well - - I’m still praying about that one, but I accept Creationism- - and I’m ready to be a Christian.  I’m not doing it out of any false motive or purpose to manipulate”.    This guy - - still lacks one thing.  This is “Having been chosen by God to begin with”.  You can have all the right “design specifications” but the trouble is - - even if in your eyes you see no reason why you’re not qualified- - - if God has not also provided some Function - - for you - - as a Christian - - all you have is a design without a function - -  .  And I might remind you that cell DNA is not psychic.  Once you have a living cell – or “Once you have confirmation from God that yes you belong in the Christian church” then you can build on THAT.  But if you have no Cell to begin with- - there is no means of “replicating success”.   Because the first replication has not occurred yet.   So it’s not a question of “survival of the fittest” because there is not yet Life to begin with to either have a successful or unsuccessful “mutation” to carry on the analogy about God’s intervention in your life is some sort of “positive mutation” and if it’s truly from God, God will honor you for that.

I now have to be back solidly in the creationist camp, not that I was ever out of that camp.  But that “Cosmos” thing had raised a few doubts.  These issues were the first ones addressed in the movie.  Sure you can have natural selection, and survival of the fittest.  Darwin noted it with the many types of finches on the island, and different length beaks for various types of seeds, but most of Darwin’s work (time) was spent theorizing, and only four or so years were spent in actual research- - and he never returned to that island off the coast of Ecuador.  But there is this basic property called “Irreducable complexity” where they talked about flagellum - - and this mechanism that enables it- - and how so many cellular mechanisms - - like rhibosones used to replicate DNA are like machines or factories- - and so the machine design analogy- - so successful employed in the last movie- - was also employed in this one.  Of course the RNA kind of unzips the DNA and is the messenger that helps form the new DNA cell.  But the DNA is only instructions for the protein and not the protein itself.  Of course there are twenty two amino acids and each of these are highly complex.  It’s like its own alphabet and shaking out scrabble letters to form lines in Shakspherian plays like “To be or not to be - that is the question, whether it is nobler to - - “ ect.  It would be equivalent to hundreds and hundred pages of text to get the right building blocks to form these amino acids.  These chemical components don’t just come together spontaneously as though some “Chemical attraction” process is at work, any more than a woman has a magic vagina that can tell if the sex was from rape or from an ordinary encounter.  Clearly the DNA are instructions to build the amino acids and from thence, the highly complex proteins.  And in the construction of these complex protien, the cell searches out specific amino acids to be used at each step.  Keep in mind you can have all of the parts for something - like something as simple as a mouse trap.  But you still have to have at least some ability to be able to put the component parts together.  It must be done in steps, and in the right order.  The foundation must be secure before you construct the rest of the house.  You put in the electrical wiring in and such, before you slap on the plaster and seal up the walls.  But I wanted to talk about this idea of irreducible complexity.  To me this concept of "irreducable conplexity" is something Evolutionists can't get around.  Even Darwin foresaw a possibility that "If in the future things proved so complex - where my theory could not apply, than obviously my whole premise on evolution would be wrong".  Darwin said this himself.  Even a mouse trap has irreducable complexity- - of a certain small number of essential components necessary for it to work.  This flagellum motor has a minimum of fourteen components, and if any one component is missing, the flagellum won’t work, and it would be of no advantage for these bacteria to develop tails, that just hung limp.  The whole conceptual leap needs to be made all at once, and this takes intelligent design.  They said that information was like its own entity having neither mass nor energy.  People can intuitively tell which things are artifacts of man, done with intelligent design, and those processes of nature, following strict erosion laws or something.  Mt Rushmore was not created, we all can agree, by processes of erosion but lots of hard work.  Computer operating systems are not coded by mere chance, but lots of thought and planning.  And yet it’s considered “unscientific” to encounter anything in nature that appears to have been done by intelligent forces- - since Darwin came out with his publication.  It’s almost like it’s not “PC” to even broach the theory of some outside intelligent force.  After the movie and the questions it was nine o clock, and Paul took me home.

I would direct your attention to another intangible, other than "Information" or "intelligence", which has neither mass nor energy.  There is also "potential" or some might call oppertunity.  You used to hear in science class that a ten pound weight held over your head had more "potential" energy than a weight lying on the ground.  But does that weight held in the air really HAVE anything that the other does not?  No.  It has the Potential to fall thus involving kenitic energy.  In checkers you may have the potential a move if you want to take it, of quadruple jumping your opponent.  Or take to people in a small town in Missouri.  One is a brick layer and he will be for all his life.  The other dreams of being a DJ or a talk show host and shows little inclination to be anything else.  Like the two "dumb bells" so to speak,  one does not HAVE any special quality that the other lacks.  What it does HAVE is this intangible called Potential.  Potential is probability- - and one can argue in God's eyes - - he KNOWS the outcome in advance- so in his eyes- - only one of these HAS - - Potentiality - - - which ends up being realized.  But this is where the tea party robs the poor.  They rob the poor of that Potential.  It is said that with two floppy disks- - one is formatted but otherwise blank.  One is filled to the brim with information.  Both floppy disks have identical weight.  But when an electric circuit happens on ONE of them- - a Situation is now apparent.  But that Situation- - did not come about by Accident - - It Was Planned.   Which bits were either "Set" or "Clear" in advance, is how that circuit will react.  There is nothing about electrons running through the empty disk as opposed to the one with information.  The Difference is in the Situation these electrons encountered.  (Selah) 

 In other troubling news- - we heard about it all yesterday and it highlighted the evening news- - that two extremist, terrorist Al Qaeda groups are joining forces to develop some kind of new bomb – explosive device – that could be desguized as every day objects Americans would take on an international flight.  Of course this roomer will be enough to send the airport security people into a new frenzy of precautionary regulations.  Meanwhile the overall situation in the Mideast is only getting worse all the time.  Today the nail was driven in the coffin of any threat of rationalist reasoning for the United States getting involved at all because Meliki has come out and said no way if he going to allow Sunnis into some coalition government - - and seems to have made a choice and chosen affiliation with Iran over any shred of hope of looking to America as a vehicle for extrication from his problems.  Shiite clerics are saying that people need to join the Iraqi army now and defend their country.  Thom Hartman raises an interesting point about - - well if the United States drops a bomb on a Wedding party in Iraq you're going to get maybe five times the number of people Mad at you who were actually there, as the story continues to be retold.  Many Christians, or George Bush and Dick Chaney though,  don't really care about "appearences" or whether something is popular.  They view themselves as so God like that "consequences don't matter" and almost Welcome the idea of being Hated by more people.  This is why I always roll my eyes when I hear of Christians claiming to be victims of "Unreasoned hatred of other people against Christians".   These people DO something to Incite that hatred to begin with, and then feed OFF of that hatred- - as a justification for even more violence against them, often just as lacking in justification as the initial act of agression.  (Selah)

I had C-Span on and watched some of the IRS scandal hearings.  The lead republican spoke, and then democrat Cummings, who is a black, made a speech declaring that the entire committee proceedings were a gigantic waste of time.  They had three witnesses they were calling, a woman and two men, and all three were given a chance to give opening statements.  Then there was the telecommunications hearing.  First you have Time Warner merging with Comcast - - and that hearing was held.  Today it’s A T & T merging with Direct TV, and next week it might be T-Mobile merging with Sprint.  It was pointed out that one advantage of merging would be a more solid capital acquisition base- - and also people tend to like “one stop shopping” to have all their telecommunications services under one roof, and if you call for service, they will be able to have continuity in handling their problems.   Today is June 25, 2014 and it’s the fifth anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death.  His family lost their legal suit against the entertainment company, but Stu-baby is still holding out hope that the LA Dodgers get screwed for everything they’re worth in Brian Stowe’s lawsuit against the Dodger organization.  Of course Bones is a Giants fan.  There seems to be in my judgment, sufficient evidence of lack of security personnel, and also action should have been taken much earlier.  John Fugelsang is on right now live in the studio, and Fugelsang points out that if these Republicans were at all intellectually honest, they would be mad at these right wing political organizations getting tax exemptions (robbing Them of Their tax dollars) because an obviously political group gets an undeserved tax exemption.  But nobody is going to blame Louis Learner for THAT)