RE: "If I Did It"

O J Simpson is embroiled in this whole TV interview and book deal now. But I'm wondering with all the bad press O J has endured over it whether this time it's really his fault. Apparently Rupert Murdoch put him up to it. They say the now defunct book was ghost written anyhow, so it wasn't really an OJ "confession". O J himself has called it "blood money" and is claiming to give all of the proceeds to his kids. Why not give the proceeds he's gotten to the Goldman and Brown families, to help with their grief? Simpson himself seems to regard the writing of the book a rather stupid idea to begin with and kind of says others put him up to it. Of course you know there could be a whole series on famous murders. Perhaps they could get Allester Cook to do the books on tape versions. You could have "Ted Haggard - If I did it" or how about Andria Yates, who offed her five children in the bathtub and copped an insanity plea? Lee Harvey Oswald would be a best seller. Scott Peterson is another good candidate for an "If I did it" book. The difference between Peterson and OJ Simpson is that during the Simpson trial I personally got that Perry Mason moment of "There is no doubt he did it" like with Peterson. Peterson acted guilty as sin. With O J Simpson there was overwhelming DNA and physical evidence that he did it but psychologically they never quite put the puzzle pieces together. Chris Darden never convinced me that O J just "snapped" and committed the murders out of rage. There was never any real evidence submitted that Goldman and Nicole were having an affair, but everyone assumes they were. Most of the people who testified against Simpson were less convincing than the many witnesses who testified for him. I kept looking for that key killer witness who would wrap up all the loose pieces. That VCR tape that was released didn't do a thing to promote the "sullen pent up rage" theory. Neither did all the witness the defence produced that saw OJ just before and just after the murders. Of course you know, the ultimate "If I did it" book would be by Jesus Christ. If would be "How I faked my own death and resurrection - - If I Did It". Some pious, well meaning people actually say that Jesus felt compelled by scripture to fake his own death. Rather than it being an act of fraud or deceit it was actually an act of piety. People who don't read in the original language miss traits of that language. It is said that in the book of John the "herbs and spices" were actually meant for healing and not for burrial. Also, as something I read on the internet points out, the word "resurrection" is not the usual word, just as the word for life is not the usual word. Neither is the word Love the usual word - in the original Greek. The word "life" refers to a psychological state of being and not anything physical to do with the body. And the word "resurrection" translates many places as "Awake" or "Awaken". If you are "asleep" you aren't dead. There are secret "Conspiritors" if you want to look for them. But even if there were a running VCR movie of Jesus rising from the dead, that still wouldn't explain why just seven decades later- - the Church would be centered in Rome with dezigns on ruling the world.

All of our holidays are goofed up anyhow. The Canadians have the good sense to celebrate their Thanksgiving in October, when the harvest is done. Ditto with the Germans. It makes no sense they'd be having harvest celebrations in the snow, like a Drew Carrie episode. Baseball starts up in late March now while Blizzards are still going on. The weather for Easter is terrible in much of the country when we celebrate that. It's been bordering on freezing during a lot of recent World Searies. And most people don't believe Jesus was born on Christmas (except Ruth Montgomary says that he was) but rather in the early fall. (like Zachery) The book of Luke can be leaned upon to support this theory. The only thing wrong with Luke is that he professes to make improvements in the Gospell as opposed to the three others that came before his. Luke has Jesus born in six AD during the first Roman Cencus. If it's also true that Jesus didn't begin his ministry till he was "about thirty" that places the start of his ministry about 35 AD, which is later than most people believe. There is an incident about the slaughter of Galilean worshippers by Pilate that Jesus refers to, that historians place about 35 AD. How did Jesus know about that if he died in 30 AD. Also there is a thing called the "Jubilee year" where all the workers left their farms and had time to follow prophets around. This Jewish tradition comes every fifty years and is said to have come about 35 AD, which may be what Jesus meant when he read Isaiah 61 saying "to proclaim the favorible year of our lord". Of course our holidays now are so mashed up together you can't tell where one leaves off and the other begins. Chuck Smith has a saying "If you see Christmas decorations in the stores, can Thanksgiving be far behind?" Is it normal for people to have parades during blizzards? Not that that's what they're having today but sometimes. The whole Macy's thing isn't to honor the pilgrems but rather to sell merchandise. In fact they used to call it the Christmas parade back when they first had it.

SOME OTHER NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST

Three outrageous stories are in the news. The OJ Simpson interviews on FOX, which were to last two days are now cancled. Not only this but the book “If I did it” was all printed up ready to ship to the stores by November 30^th. for Christmas presents, and now the Publishers have pulled the release due to public outrage. Randy Rhodes says “AT least the American public are smart about certain things”.

There was a Seinfeld (?) entertainer who was at the Laugh Factory and was heckeled by a Black man and said “If this were fifty years ago you’d be hanging from a tree right now” and went on for two straight minutes of racial epithets. The crowd fell shocked and silent and with one accord everyone said the display was in bad taste.

That 89 year old “old man” who offed ten people in his car in Santa Monica in July 2003 was sentenced to “Probation” by the judge. He won’t see jail time of any sort due to his “poor health”. I know some people who would like to make his “health” a lot poorer. Perhaps he could practice medicine on himself in the jail cell if he needs medical attention, since he’s obviously used to doing things he’s not qualified for.

They once again are talking about reinstituting the draft. If I were them I’d do anything I could to keep the bill alive and make sure it gets a proper airing. In these pearlous times we bloody well might need the draft. North Korea and Iran beckon. We as a country at least need to know we have the man-power if circumstances decree that we have to fight another war. The Republicans are ridiculing the idea.

M A D D is at it again. Mothers against drunk driving has cut down drinking and driving rates by over forty percent. But they want to cut it further. So they want these cars with starters connected to a breathalyzer. You blow into them and have to pass to start the car. It sounds like a good idea. MADD wants them for all convicted drunks.

There is some talk over negative campaign guy Sadonavitch or something and Al Frankin had him doing adds against a new upcoming opponent of his, who is apparently gay. They want to crack down on these Republican “Robo-calls” that call back a minute later and mis-identify themselves. They pay the fines but they aren’t enough.

Robert Altman died at age 81. He was the director for movies such as “MASH” and “The Player” as well as “Nashville” and “Gosford Park” in 2001. I don’t know what he died from. He received some honorary award earlier this year.

I had Randy Rhodes on before this. She is concerned about all the new racism in this country. Steve Edwards commented that he thought by now racism wouldn’t be around any more. Six “Imams” were arrested and ushered off a plane because passengers felt uncomfortable in their presence. Apparently prayer is a subversive activity. But they said “We cleared all of our actions with the authorities first”. (???)

You know the same old stuff is going on with both soap operas. If I were Sean I’d try and build a relation with “Willow” and forget about Belle. How many times can you be spurned by the same woman? And now she’s starting to act like your mother. The only things that were in E J’s safe deposit box were Italian tarot cards. For all we know Charity will be turned into a frog by Tabitha before Miguel ever sees her.

The mideast picture has turned more turbulent in the past day or so. Lebanon’s president or whoever was assassinated by either Hez Ballah or else Syria. The U S government distrusts the recent Iranian and Syrian “peace overatures” to help us settle the situation in Iraq. The Lebonese government could topple altogether, which would be a bad thing for that part of the world. Syria just reestablished diplomatic relations with Iraq after twenty-five years. I can’t say that’s a good thing if you’re trying to play enemies off against each other. The facts are things in that part of the world were a hell of a lot more stable four years ago. But we can’t go back. If prayer weren’t pointless I’d advise it.

Apparently the Russian government is still bumping off dissidents, this time by poisoning them one by one. I don’t know why Bush hasn’t come down harder on the Russian government but he seems to say “Vladimir Putin isn’t a bad guy”.

W N D Hate-mongers

Sometimes I have been known to get a little bit combattive in arguing my beliefs. The thing with arguing "for" the left or the right wing specifically is that you end up going "Nya - nya" at the other side. As a debater you may decude that you are 60% right and your opponet is 40% right, but you can never let him know that in the debate. You have to argue as though your beliefs were flawless and the other guy is a blithering idiot. However- - it's easier to argue that the other side are blithering idiots when they actually act like jackasses. This is the case with a number of World Net Daily articles lately, or as I'd like to say, World "Nut" Daily. Here are a few examples of what I'm referring to. I dialed up World “Nut” Daily last night. Ted Haggard and the guy who wrote the purpose driven life were being attacked by a “Net” or “Nut” person who accused the author of being soft on Syria. Many have suggested Syria might be a good nation to approach to make peace in the mideast. Syria is neither Shiite nor Suni, which makes them a good "neutral" candidate. They are in a position to help us with both Iraq and the Palistinian problem, if we will just be civil tword them. Instead pastors like Ted Haggard and that other guy who wrote "The purpose driven life" were labeled as not "true blue" enough, in an era where "blue" meant Conservative. What we learn here is that the conservatives are against peace. Just this morning I heard on the news that Iran helped us drive the Talliban out of Afghanistan in 2001. I didn't know that. So how did we reward them? Bush labeled them as part of the "Axis of Evil". This is bad diplomicy.

In another article it was suggested that unleashing massive sulphur dioxide pollution might be the key to global warming and it was suggested one time when a volcano erupted the global mean temperature was lowered a half of a degree. WND and Rush love stories like this. Rush is constantly doing these animal species preservation stories where seemingly one species is pitted against another as a sacrifice to the cause. Rush would like nothing better than for a green flag to be given to every palluter in the planet spiewing all matter of Sulpher dioxide and Sulfuric Acid into the air. Obviously this method of "solving" global warming is madness. WND, I suspect is not really seriously suggesting anyone try sulphur pollution as an answer, they're just trying to tick off the liberals because they don't believe global warming actually exists.

World Net daily is disappointed that Murtha wasn’t elected majority leader. Then they could talk about the Abscan controversy for the next two years. John Murtha was an "unindicted co conspiritor" in the Abscam Scandal back in the 'eighties. It's something most people have forgotten about by now. The democrats in voting down Murtha have reaffirmed their resolution to have a squeaky clean congress, and boy that sure ticks off World Net Daily. Perhaps W N D should talk about the republicans and their many, many scandals more often before nipping at the democrats. What scares W N D to death is some sort of a purist reform spirited liberals revival that would sweep the nation. Well watch it, W N D. Getting control of congress is just the start. Your worse nightmares may come true when congress passes badly needed legeslation on a host of urgent matters.

It was the next night, which I guess is Friday, that I saw a couple more articles of intrest. They have been running these book ads in World Net Daily on "The Real Mohamed" saying that Mohamed was a war monger and violent and that one of his wives was a nine year old girl. I downloaded the articcle. But the magazine went on to attack President Bush for- get this - Giving Moslem terrorists aid and confort! How did Bush do this, you ask? Simple. He tried to be civil to clerics of Islan. He called Islam a religion of peace that had been recently hijacked by a few extremists. (Much as Christianity has) The President dropped the word "Crusade" in his anti Arab campaign because of its midevil conotations. World Net Daily sees Islam as the great Satan. There are Christians, and I know them, who can't stand the fact that Arabs are moving in right here in Orange County. Right here in River City! Everything about Arab culture and Islamic culture is seen as evil and Satanic. You could argue that communists aren't around any more but now society has a new whipping boy. Of course to add fuel to the fire there is that U C L A library story where a guy didn't have identification to be in the library. I've been in libraries, and campus libraries without identification. It was only later I found out the guy was Iranian. He refused to leave the building and so Campus police tazed him. Now he's appealing to the federal government and filing civil rights violation charges. The danger in "racial profiling" is that it can all too easily evolve from being a pramatic law enfourcement procedure and degenerate into a vehical for hate and bigotry.

Some may say to me, "If we were all just Christians we could all live in love and peace". I'd like that. But you know who wouldn't like it? Jesus Christ - - of K F I radio, of course. If there wern't hate and evil in the world and all matter of catastrophies man made and otherwise occuring, where would we get our Heroes from? You see Jesus believes God is so stupid he doesn't know human character without plunging the earth into hell and then find out who rises to the occasion as a hero. I wonder if the earth were plunged into such mass starvation that people resorted to canabalisum, whether people who didn't sink that low would get gold stars? Some people still believe people have to be "tested" to find out "who the real sinners are". In our last posting we talked about this notion that God doesn't even Care who the "real sinners" are. Here is a case in point. This morning Jesus was talking about the notion that there are no gradations of sin. Jesus said the reward system in heaven doesn't consist of who is the least of the sinners. He then said that Adolph Hitler has just as good of chance at getting a good seat in heaven as anybody else. The Catholics say that when you repent of sin you have to do pennance and also "make right" all of the evil you have done and the people you hurt. How long do you suppose it would take Hitler or Eichman to do this? What if Billy Grahm appeared to Jesus in a glowing vision and Billy told Jesus to preach the gospell to Adolph Hitler. Let's say the date was October 1938. But the months passed and the years passed and Jesus didn't feel it was the "right time" to preach the Gospell to Hitler. It would be too "upsetting" to him. Altogether too "inconvienient". So of course Hitler ended up killing all of the Jews as well as the Allied Forces in the War. You may say "that's an extreme example". But Jesus Christ on KFI told a boyfriend of a girl who was about to have an abortion not to make a real issue of it if it was too "upsetting" of an issue for her. I guess they say one life is a tradgity and six million is a statistic. If that it? Of course none of the Jews probably had a chance to hear the gospell but if they ever had in their entire life, no matter how flawed the vessel they heard it from, they are "responsible" for hearing the gospell. Dying in a poison shower isn't bad enough for these Jews. After they die some Christians want to send them to hell. Some may say that the thing that signifies Christians is their willingness to die for their cause. Yet "sincerety" even unto the point of Death isn't how you "get into heaven". No. You "get into heaven" by "Dialing the right phone number". If doesn't even matter if someone gives you a wrong number- - you go to hell unless you dial the right one. So Jesus once said of alchoholics that "I wouldn't trust an alcoholic to know who the real GOD is. I don't like the words "God as we (alcaholics) understand him to be". Jesus has his likes and dislikes. He hates alchoholics. Remember that time I told you about the alcoholic brother in jail and Jesus said, "Don't try and visit him. He'll only try to manipulate you". Of course mental illness is another of those "Too bad" ailments. If you have an emotional problem, you have to get rid of that before you can come to God. That's something else Jesus of KFI teaches. Hatred is less rage or uncontroled anger than it is the complete vaccuous absence of Love. (Selah)

Thumbs Down on Rudolph Juliani

Today 1150 KTLK sounded like it was being taken over by a conservative during the Randy Rhodes show. Did you know the CIA says Castro is going to die next year? Apparently he is morbidly ill and near death and dying either of pancriatic, stomach, or colon cancer. People are apparently dancing in the streets at the mere thought of Castro's death. You know, I'm still wondering whether or not Illian Gonsolaz was brainwashed by his mother and grandmother and other relatives in this country. I've heard reports that Ilian's grandmother used to routinely sexually molest him. Ilian seems happier now that he's back with his father in Cuba. Several years ago I heard that Castro was on the verge of becomming a born again Christian. The KTLK DJ seemed to portray Cuba as more backward than it in fact is. The littericy rate for kids is actually quite high in Cuba. Someone needs to tell the host that Cuba is no longer a Soviet sattalite. Apparently according to this host, George Bush has plans to invade Cuba this year, but the only thing that worries them is that he says the Soviet missiles in that country from 1962 are still there and that's why we havent invaided before. I don't believe any of this. Even is Castro dies next year, which I doubt, his brother Raul seems to have the government well in hand. It was Harry Truman who first said that America made a mistake not giving Cuba aid in 1959 before they asked for it and before they turned to the Soviets.

I don't trust Rudolph Juliani now that he's running for President. I don't see the appeal of the man myself. He was famous for a few brief weeks after the 9 - 11 crisis but come election time that event will be seven years in the past. Hopefully Al Qaida won't be as big a threat them if the democrats in congress straighten out the mess in Iraq created by the Bush adminestration. It seems that our presence there has in fact heightened divisions between Shiite, Suni, and Kurd. Personally I'd trust either John Mc Cain or Joe Lieberman any day of the week before I would trust Rudy Juliani to run the country. I've heard he has fasciest tendencies. I don't like the idea that Juliani has chief of the Guardian Angels- - Curtess Sleewah - or whatever his name is. Apparently police beatings are much more comon now in New York than we were led to believe. Curtess likes to joke constantly about "wood shampoos" adminestered by Cops. And Howard Stern adds that the one thing the LAPD did wrong in the Rodney King beatings was that they did it out in the open and not in some private back room. In the first place I don't see how Juliani can possibly get through the Republican primaries. I wouldn't vote for him and I'm still a Republican. He's pro gay; he in favor of extreme gun control, apparently; and he is pro abortion. I don't know where he stands on first amendment rights such as freedom of religion and I'm not sure I want to find out. It would seem that John Mc Cain has had much more hands on experiance at the reins of government. What has Juliani been doing. Going around the country and making speeches? Juliani is all image and no reality, and a fast fading image at that. Hopefully in these two years the democrats will have done more to implement the recomendations of the 9 - 11 commission, and Juliani will be irrelivant.

I find it a disturbing trend today that there is pressure to conform behaviorially. There is a growing near obcession with the biology of the brain, which they say can solve anything from drug addiction, to depression, to homosexuality. If homosexual's brains are different perhaps it's because of the Biblical verse "They receive in their own bodies the penalty for their deeds". God may well have intended that our brains change from year to year but that they do it from the experiances we create for ourselves and the way we condition ourselves. It would seem in this day and age personal responsability is out the windows. I don't need to tell you how disgusted I am with all this obcession over consuming various fats. It seems as if trans-fats have become the new tobacco. Back in August 1997 Rush Limbaugh did a parody on "Big Fat" that was sort of a parody of Big Tobacco, saying one day we would be as obcessed with poor eating habits as we are with smoking. You remember the Stephen King story "Quitters", don't you? Right after they cure the guy of tobacco they begin working on his eating habits. I think we may well be too concerned about certain occupational safty regulations. I realize there are extremes and it's a continuoum, but small businesses are finding themselves increasingly hampered by ISHA regulations. Not only do we have "Equal outcome based education" but we are also trying to declare all problems and tribulations of life as somehow "illegal". Sometimes when a person trips on a step it's nobody's fault but his. It's our business whether we want to sear seat belts or motor cycle helmets, or smoke or eat fast food. When we give Ritilan to our kids we just might be snuffing out some creative genious down the line. Society seems to be having an increasing intollerance for "different" people. In the old days they accepted these "differences" as just parts of peoples' personalities. One thing that bugs me is these psychological "normalcy" tests. They seem to have them for everything and my first impulse upon taking one is to cheat and look in some book to find out what the correct answers are.

Now they are going back to wishing people a Merry Christmas in department stores such as Wall Mart and Macy's. This to me is a good thing. They rightly call it a "Christmas" sale and not a "Holiday" sale. Euphamisums have always driven me nuts anyhow. It's time we just called a spade a spade. I don't want to do anything to styfle people's holiday spirit. It's so rare that we have it anyhow- - we need all the unifying fources we can get be it manger scenes or crosses on top of buildings or spelling out words on signs such as "Noel".

If I actually put out another book people could buy I'd call it God is Dead. Scientists have proved predestination. So the following things are irrelivent or impossible - - Prayer, Maracles, Divine Jealousy, Sin, Personal "testing", Divine intervention into this World, or God "Changing his mind" I'd have all those terms on the back cover or some place. Also with this theology Evolution becomes much more probable than before. Other things I'd bring out in the book would be that it wouldn't be necessary for Christ to suffer and die on the cross because since there is no free will anyhow, God could program us any way he wanted to. One other concept that would be out the window is Chance. The word IF would not exist. Things that happened are certain to happen and there is no way by which Anything could be Avoided in the past or in the future. There is no abstract "Divine ideal". It doesn't exist. People talk about mathematical odds with Evolution. Either something happened or it didn't and you don't think of one in a million, if those are the odds, all you have to worry about is the One, because that's the one that counts- - the one that Actually Happened. (Selah) In terms of an afterlife, this is a fairly simple concept. In Eccliastes it says "The spirit of a man when he dies goes back to God, who gave it (in the first place)" In other words the Afterlife isn't come "New Experiance" but a return to an old one. It's an existance in what we call Eternity where there is no Time as we know it, which the Bhudists call Nirvana. It's indeed an "extinction" of all existance. But have you considered this idea? Even DEATH as we know it has to have Existance. If you remove all "existance in time and space as we know it" not even DEATH can exist. Not only that but when we think of this life (IF we're even able to be conscious of it at all) it will neither be in the past nor in the future but at some point on the "googooplex continuoum". The entire Universe in fact will be just another point in Nowhere. The truth is that God never needs to "test" us, nor put us through any Trials, to somehow "Proove" our worthyness. God is not "Curious"; he knows everything already. If God listened to Lucifer in the testing of Job in the Bible, it was only because he wanted to and NOT because he wasn't sure whether or not Lucifer was right and somehow needed to "find out" for himself. In like manner God didn't need to "find out" whether Abraham would be obediant in sacrificing his son Isac. He knew that already. God doesn't need to test us to "find out how much we can bear". He already knows our breaking points, and if we crack, it is nore his doing than our choice. Some may say "Perhaps if God had intervened in Cain's life sooner and counsiled him, he wouldn't have killed his brother Abel". The one thing God is incapable of doing to the slightest degree is to Change what IS and what MUST BE. In this way there is no sin because there is no other way things could conceivably happen. Few people would argue with the proposition "What God Wills Gets Carried Out". Why would God "Will" something that he knew to a metaphysical certainty would Never Happen? (Selah) With examples like this I would fill my book with the cover title "God Is Dead", and perhaps with a sub title "A new scientifically demonstrated theology for the 21st. Century".

A New Day in Congress

There seems little more to do now than state the obvious, that the democrats have now taken over both houses of congress. We have not typed under this Blog heading in nearly four months. What we do is jump around from Blog to Blog usually adding about four postings in rapid succession and then jumping to another blog, so I hope you have found us. The democrats had to take six of eight key states to win the Senate and that's just what they did. They won in Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, Misori, and Montana. They failed to win in Tennessee and Arizona. The key event of this whole thrust came mid day Thursday when Senator George Allan conceeded the race to Jim Webb, being behind by seven thousand votes and confident that he would not be able to make this up in a protracted recount. Today George Bush is meeting with Senate leaders just as he met with Democratic house leaders on Wednesday. The democrats won at least 28 seats in the house, with a couple of races undecided. I heard 34 one place. What this all means is that it really is a new day in Congress now. Winning the house assured that President Bush could be investigated for his many questionable activities. Winning the senate means that our side is control of things like treaties and cabinent posts and who the next Supreme Court Justice is. I guess I'd also like to thank whatever Calvary Chapel Christians routinely pray "Thy Will Be Done" in terms of the election. You owe the democrats taking over both houses of congress to their prayers!

Donald Rumsfeld is out. That was the first item on the agenda and it was taken care of swiftly Wednesday morning when Bush announced his replacement, Robert Gates. And of course he was smart to do so while the old congress was still around to hurry up and confirm him without asking any embarrassing questions like his involvement in Iran Contra. Gates served as CIA chief from late 1991 to 1993. It's hoped that he will provide more lucid leadership in Iraq than we have seen there, though we can't be sure of this. Apparently now the US is being blamed for victories of Al Qaida in Iraq because the word went out at the beginning of the year that there would be withdrawals of US troops this year, therefore the enemy hearing this, became more confident. Few Democrats these days are talking about withdrawal now. Instead there is enphasis on the "basics of counter insergence" to insure success now.

NBC is talking a lot about "People of Faith" now and how you "get to heaven". Apparently if you're a Jew the key to getting to heaven is doing good works. People associate getting to heaven being a reward for people exercising sound morality. For Christians however, there's a whole other set of criteria for getting into heaven that has virtually nothing to do with morality, and we will cover this in further detale in a later blog posting.

In Mathematics there is such a thing as a "Taylor Series" that was invented in 1712 by Isac Newton or somebody. It's a formula where odd numbers do an increasing number of sine wave "itterations" that interrupt an otherwise diagonal line accross the graph. Many mathematical functions are deducable from the Taylor series including ordenary trig functions and hyperbolic trig functions- - as well as computations for calculating Base E. I say all this to remind you that math has a lot of formulas. There's a lot of "thinking" people have been doing to solve certain problems and mysteries. We all have to "stand on the shoulders of giants".

Rush Limbaugh apparently made the statement yesterday that he felt "liberated" now that Congress of either house was no longer controled by the Republicans. I'm not sure what me meant by this but it could be that Rush is considering getting out of the talk show business entirely after all these years. He's been at his current post for eighteen long years. Sometimes when people retire from a job they have a heart attack or stroke soon after. Their "will to live" is diminished. It could be Rush "just doesn't want to go through having a Democratic congress again". Apparently Rush says the Democrats didn't have any focused "Message".

Bastille Day

What do you red blooded Americans out there think of all the dissing of the French that's going on. We hear they are leftists, that they are cowards, ungrateful, smell bad, and along with their new good buddies, the Germans, never vote our way in the UN. Actually the French are kind of like America's twin sister, born the same year we were, in 1789. The French are responsible for a lot of great literature and art, and they are the ones who presented the Statue of Liberty to us as a gift. For some reasons American's haven't trusted them for a long time, since the days of Charles De Gall. When General Patton made that speech about the Americans and Brittish being destined to rule the world, he should have included the French. When it came to the planning of World War II, the Americans were consulted, the Brittish were consulted, the Russians were consulted, but what about the French? It was only fought on their land. Of course now French cooking is getting a bad rap for containing too much cholesterol. And what do people remember now? That soccer team captain who head butted his Italian opponet on the soccer field. But we don't know what the Italian said to him first. I'm tired of people saying that yeah they were all for the French untill the head butt and then they were rooting for Italy. People speak of German ingenuity and science but they forget about the French.

I guess the question is has President Bush gone insane? According to Randy Rhodes at a German news conference and gathering all George Bush could say in response to questions about a possible World War III is "But what about the Pig. I want to know about the pig". It seems Bush took the baton out of the orchestra conductor's hand and began leading the orchestra himself. Then he tapped a flute player on the shoulder and starteled her and mentioned that Congelisa Rice wants to play their organ. I have been wondering today- - it's actually a revelation that hit me right after a missile blue up that train on Passions- - I was thinking what if Bush "lost it" completely and Dick Chaney had to take over as President? People say that Dick Chaney and Donald Rumsfeld have been running the country for years anyhow. What would be the best way to do it? I was thinking that to save Presidential face they would fake George Bush's death and take over and Bush would turn up January 21st. 2009 after Hillary took office. According to Randy Rhodes it seems "Hes Ballah" are only the "flying monkeys" sent as a little distraction to take peoples' minds off of Iran. It seems Bush and Chaney want a war with Iran after and they're thinking of the best excuse they can come up with for having one. It seems now that Syria and Iran are working together and are the ones behind the current Hes Ballah conflict with Isrial. Of course I would agree with the French and the Germans that Isrial should show a little tact and not bomb civilians. After all they don't want to swell the ranks of Hez Ballah. Of course I'm sure Isrial thinks of it more as a roach infestation that needs to be "Cleaned out" and then everything will be just fine. Just from what I've seen Isrial has a decided advantage. They're doing more damage to Lebanon than Lebanon is doing to Isrial. I guess we should let Isrial fight all of our wars since they enjoy it so much.

Oil has now gone up to 78 dollars a barrel. They were predicting it might reach ninety, which seems very likely now. They are predicting gasoline here at four dollars a gallon. The stock markets won't like that. Some say we should put all of that empty land in Wyoming, the Dekodas and Nebraska to good use since the wind blows so much of the time there and put in those giant wind thingies to generate power. I don't know. We in the US are so bull headed it may take even something more caticlismic to get us off of our oil addiction. It seems to me they have yet to prove that automobiles can be run more efficiently on either ethanol, or vegetable oil. And of course we can always make methane out of manure. They have a lot of that in America's heartland. Not only is Bush not slapping a windfall profits tax on the oil companies, but they are still actually giving them millions (or billions) in subsedies. I suppose a war might look attractive as a way of securing more oil fields at "market prices" as Rush used to say was our reason for Gulf War I. However the US is like a hog at the troff and pulling away a hungry wild boar might prove challenging. But if we don't change, or even if we do, the economy is going to take a nose dive and Bush better pray it doesn't happen before November.

Now we hear the reason why Antarctica and Greenland have more snow in their interiors is because there is more moisture in the air and moisture produces snow. But we also hear the reason why there is no longer snow in Killemanjaro is because we chopped down all the forrests and there is LESS moisture in the air there to produce snow. I think we pretty much have to go with the scientists on this one. I guess the World Net Daily people say there is a vast conspiracy to silence any scientists who disagree with Global Warming because all their funding dries up. Well, let's not forget who is in power now. If those scientists can't get funding now from Bush, I don't think they will ever get it. I still haven't seen Al Gore's film. Of course it's like someone with blood pressure of two hundred and cholesterol of three hundred. You can tell them they are in danger of having a heart attack any minute but you don't know whether it's six weeks, six months, or six hours. We're not tea leaf readers. This January I think we're going to have the most thorough house cleaning in Washing that we've had in a long time.

This may be the last blog post I'll do from this location. We did an edit and expanded the list from one CD to two of thirteen songs each. These songs have never been listed on blog postings and they aren't even in my somewhat larger collection in my Word files. Actually I guess some of these songs were rejected before because they were TOO good or too dramatic. I can't believe we've never used "Let There Be Rock" before but I can't locate it.

OUT OF OUR HEADS 2006

Go Down (AC DC)

Mad Man Across the Water (Elton John)

The Prophet’s Song (Queen) (ends on long note after fade-out)

Vampire Tatoo (Blye Oyster Cult)

I Am The Walrus (The Beatles)

Down by the River (Neil Young) (song Pink Floyd ripped off)

Frightened of the Real World (Alice Cooper)

Sweet Sally (Ted Neugent)

Blue Morning (Foreigner)

Not Guilty (The Beatles) Anthology version

Seven Furry Creatures Gathered (Pink Floyd)

Dead Line (Blue Oyster Cult)

Dear Mr. Fantassy (Traffic)

---Disc Two

Instant Amnesia (Ringo Starr)

Hole in my Shoe (Traffic)

Sad But True (Metallica)

Sweet Soul Sister (The Cult)

Black Hole Sun (Sound Garden)

In Bloom (Nirvana)

Black (Pearl Jam)

Walk Like Me (Blondie)

Suicide Solution (Ozzy Osborne)

Let There Be Rock (AC DC)

Fight The Good Fight (Triumph)

A Little Less Conversation (Elvis Presley)

Columbia Shuttle Launch (Rush)

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I guess if you want to be famous as a kid, first be a mouseketeer because so many from that show in the early nineties went on to be famous. It seems you have to be born a star almost from infancy. I get kind of tired about hearing about all that stuff. The Media acts as if that’s all we want to hear about.

Isrial has found its Huevos these days. Now they’re back to bombing Lebanon like they did in the old days. I guess Hamas and Hez Balah get the message. They have renued reasons why Isrial should be wiped off the map. Isrial is decimating Gaza. They bombed their power station two weeks ago and have benerally made life hell for the people who live there, all on the fig leaf of belief that all this devastation will get back one Israeli who was taken hostage. I’m sure a lot of us like to see Isrial confident. We’ll have to see how it all plays out.

Randy Rhodes is upset because they compared Ken Lay to Jesus Christ at his funeral eulogy today. Like John Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Lay will be “vindicated” after death. Bush 41 and Barbra Bush were there in attendance in the second row. Perhaps Barbra could say something like, “Since he’s going to jail anyhow I guess you could say things worked out rather well for him”.

Ed Schultz is worried about Isrial and Hez Balah starting a major war, and some say the U S may get sucked in. I guess we’ll do what we always do. We’ll give Israel all the weapons they need and they’ll kick ass on their enemies. Then at the Negotiation table they’ll give back all the land and rights they won.

The Federation announced today they have completely dropped war on the Centaurians and letting them pretty much have what they want. I don’t get it. It’s as if the last year and a half never happened. To make matters worse they are supporting Hez Ballah against Isrial in the current conflict. I would go with the Federation, but why, if I’m going to be on the losing side? What has the Orion Federation done for me? (Is that an unfair question?)

And now, a little something from a couple weeks ago for time perspective.

The Seventh Day featured “Smash Hits” and “In the Dark” by the Grateful Dead, missed. I also missed side one of “Out of our Heads” but I did catch side two, as well of some of the puzzling bonus tracks they played. The Simpson’s weren’t on. Instead I watched the intro of that Navy frog man thing they had on and commented on it on my blog. Sixty Minutes had Illian Gonsolez on again. Stu had indicated he supports Illian but I do not. There was talk by the Federation a day or two ago that the Centaurians had attacked this one Centaurian unit again, but elsewhere the White Andromadans had made significant progress against the Centaurians on another front. I did a lot of dial twereling

Spinning the News for You

By now you all know about the awful series of train station bombings that took place in India for the evening commute. All the bombings were stratigically planned to take place along the same rail line just minutes apart. I think as of now over 140 people have been killed outright, to say nothing of the injured. I don't like Randy Rhodes' take on this. According to her, at least she was vaguely implying, it's because India just tested a missile one day after a Pakistani commercial flight crash under "mysterious" circumstances. They don't know who did it though it has all the ear marks of Al Quaida. Randy didn't like George Bush for not condemning India for the missile test. They didn't sign any treaties so they have the right. That's how I see it. Perhaps those Al Quaida members will come back as a cow or something in their next life. Preferably not one of these "contented cows" that live in pastoral bliss here in California that pull pranks on humans, but a real cow raised almost entirely in confinement who's udders are bursting with milk most of the time because of the way they have been overbred. Clearly Islamic extremist are nuts, and they have know knowledge of God. I feel it necessary to re state this. If Bush were a more popular President than he is he could exercise some of his political capital and go after the terrorists. I'm sure India has the world's sympathy. It really is time this sort of violence be brought to an end with international cooperation.

They say that the average wedding in America costs $28,000. That's what a confortable house cost forty years ago. For a lot of people even today that's a whole year's income. I guess I don't see the point in such an expensive wedding when it's probably going to end in divorce. Divorce seems to be a birth right of the rich. The richer you are and the more famous you are the more you're likely to get a divorce. Having some corporation sponser your wedding to me seems the height of tackiness. What must the Russians and the Chinese be making of this news that we in America are so crass we have corporations sponsor our weddings? Of course Paul Mc Cartney was criticized for not having an ante nuptual agreement with Heather. Rather than be critized he deserves praise for not doing this. I'd like to know when they're going to get around to eliminating "till death do us part" from the ceremony. What I find most obscene is the way the Catholic Church deals with marriages that don't last. They have them but they end the marriage by annulment and not divorce. To me any marriage annuled for any other reason than fraud or incest is an abomination tword God. You are in essence calling the innocent person a liar. As such by seeking an annulment you yourself are breaking the commandment by bearing falst witness against your neighbor. You know what I think about no fault divorce laws. I think they are immoral and ought to be eliminated. But I know they won't be.

Apparently the book "Silent Coup" is about John Dean. I baught the book sometime around seventeen years ago but I guess I never got around to reading it. The only thing I remember about the book was it said that Bob Woodward wasn't who he claimed to be. The book supposedly claims John Dean is the primary cause of Watergate. John Dean sued over this book for years in the early 1990's. Mike Wallace was about to interview the author on his show, but when he realized what a liar he was he called John Dean instead to interview him. John Dean never profitiered from Watergate parlaying the incident into some high or low political. Instead John Dean went into business to earn an honist buck. The myth of the right is that all of the whistle blowers of watergate like Mark Felt are only in it for the money. What Dean observed was people who were considered fringe characters in his day 35 years ago such as Gordon Liddy are now considered main stream by the Right. The last thing Liddy was doing was telling people how to murder A T F agents on his radio program. John Dean was shocked at how regimented the Republican Congress was during the Clinton impeachment trial. My only complaint is that they didn't include Whitewater, Travel Gate, or Rose Law Firm in the proceedings along with Monica. I didn't know that Clinton had something like 62% popular support even at the height of the impeachment hearings. Now John Dean is writing a book on the Bush Adminestration. He says they may not be Fasciests but they are the clossest thing to it. This is a read I am looking foreward to. I guess Bush people have in common being unusually bull-headed. Nobody can tell them anything. Just how old is John Dean now anyway?

I want to talk about the morality of the real Jesus Christ, the one who actually lived. Unlike the Christians of today who believe the louder and longer and more empty headed your prayers are, the more spiritual you will look in the eyes of others. Jesus said to go into your closet and pray to your father in secret. Classic Christianity teaches that we are all Brothers in Christ and children of God. Fundamentalists prefer tallying the people destined to go to Hell. Jesus said to pray for God's will to be done. According to the K F I jock, God has predestined all from the beginning so his will is "locked into" happening from the foundation of the earth. The real Jesus suggests that what happens on earth is not necessarily God's will and that it can be changed. Jesus saw the Kingdom of Heaven as something that men will bring about on earth. He didn't see it as a place, but as a state of being. Jesus said to forgive others if we are to expect forgiveness. This puzzled me. Am I to forgive Charles Tex Watson for the Tate - LaBianca murders. I'm not even qualified. Jesus gives us hints what he meant. He said "Whatever you mete out to others will be dealt back to you". George Harrison sang "Whatever you do will come back on you". Jesus said "By the standard you judge, so shall you be judged. Jesus said to ask and it will be given unto you. He didn't say "Ask, but if it's denighed and you don't accept that you are spiritually inferior". He said knock and the door will be opened. He said to seek and you will find. He said blessed are the pure at heart and those who hunger and thirst for rightiousness for they will be Satisfied. They will see God. He didn't say "Except if you're a Hindu or a Moslem", either. He meant everybody. As to the sincere - - some teachers say that Christianity is like dialing up a phone number or a security code. If you're one diget off you don't get in to see the Man. Jesus asked one man, "Why do you you call me good? Nobody is good except God alone". Jesus also said "Call no man on earth Father. Jesus also taught, as to Bhudists and Hindus, "Narrow and hard is the road that leads to salvation, and few there are that find it". Salvation is a path, not a magic formula or a security code. St. Paul said "Work out your own salvation". I think most people instinctively know all these teachings, but I feel it necessary to remind you of them because there those people out there in Evangelical land, who would rob you of your faith. Finally, Jesus said to become as a young child. One thing about children is they aren't embarrased to ask questions. Children learn from experiance. Above all children GROW, which shows that religion isn't a stagnent thing. And when children are lied to they get madder at the teller of a lie than adult would. Children are the fastest to spot hypocricy. Above all, children live in "The Now". Meditate on this truth now.

Here We Go Again

For the record this is Tuesday July 11th. of 7 /11, a good day to play craps. Before we get started I would like to mention that nine years ago tomorrow morning a neighbor of mine for nine years, nine years ago, named Ken Hancock died of a sudden massive heart attack. Apparently he had to dial the 9 / 11 number himself and died before the paramedics could save him.

Too much of life is "Here we go again". We are now hearing that senator Hillary Clinton plans to keep on raising money for her Senate campaign so she can squrrel it away for her 2008 Presidential campaign. A commentator said "Apparently she is playing the odds and figures that the chances of her being elected President in 2008 are higher than having a majority Senate. I believe she is grossly in error and that that money could be more wisely spent raising money for other democratic Senators this year so that we will pick up the six senators we need for a majority senate. It's pointed out that all the bills have to pass the Senate conference committee and that more bills end up looking like the Senate version of bills than the House version of bills. Also, the Senate has exclusive control over things like nominations, including Supreme Court Justices. Hillary is playing the odds by betting on herself rather than her party. I wish I could say she is the first to do this but she isn't.

I guess it was Gene Scott who in June of 1991 talked about all the "Bulsh" that's going down. Sometimes you wish if something bad is going to happen, it would be something new rather than the same old "bulsh". Of course "Bulsh" is kind of a contraction of the words Bullshit and Bush, and has become a more comon word lately. Today President Bush released the National budget deficite figures and the figure for this past fiscle year is 296 Billion. That's hardly a figure for anyone to brag about. It's probably the sixth or seventh highest deficet of all time, but they warm their hearts by saying they were expecting worse, and delude themselves into believing people will be cheered when they hear the actual figure. Nixon used to talk about "full employment ballanced budgets" when in 1970 he first started actually planning for a budget deficet. The trouble is NOW is the time when we actually HAVE full employment, hence the budget this year should be ballanced. What we need to do quickly is raise about three hundred billion in revenues. Apparently O Riley announced that Clinton in 1995 raised only 1.5 trillion whereas bush in 2005 raised 2.1 trillion. But O Riley needs his math checked because both "equivelant mid points" should be eight and not ten years apart. It's pointed out that if you use inflation adjusted numbers Clintons figure for year 2000 was 2.3 trillion whereas Bush this year will only bring in 2.15 in revenue. So Bush will have about 150 Billion revenue shortfall compared to Clinton's last year. If Bush thinks lower taxes bring in higher revenue, I'd urge him to think again. I predict the deficet will never again be this low during the life of his adminestration, and correspondly, the economy will never again be so high. But basicly what we have is the same old thing of the Bush Adminestration grasping at straws.

We now have a full fledged Civil War in Iraq. Nobody can now doubt this. Fighting has escalated something fierce the past week or so. And we didn't have to wait for our troops to leave for a civil war to break out. Can there be any question now that we should withdraw our forces from Iraq and let Iraq get on with its Civil War and let nature take its cource. I as recently as a year ago was optimistic about Iraq. We all were. We felt things were "coming into shape" and that stability and infrastructure were being established. But once again it turns out that the nay-sayers were right and that the United States was accomplishing nothing in Iraq.

Gasoline prices, once again, are at an all-time high. Three dollars a gallon nationally means higher prices here because we're 30 cents higher than the national mean. For the average American citizen it's just more "Bulsh" to deal with. People say how hard it is for the middle class now but part of this is because what passes for "normal" is a much higher bar now. People take their blackberries into movie theaters and churches and other public places. I guess the ultimate insult would be to be on a date and having your date be constantly interrupted talking on a cell-phone, or worse, making the calls herself. Andy Roomey has a lovely idea to solve our energy problems. Put up some gigantic mirror in space so that the earth is continually bathed in daylight. Andy says, "We have the technology to do it". Let's not, because someone just might try it, and that would be too Buck Rodgers for me. The economic facts are that poverty has gone up every year of the Bush adminestration and went down every year of the Clinton adminestration. Peoples' wages, particularly minimum wages, are not keeping up with the cost of living. Commuters will have to put up with this "Bulsh" at the pump untill we do something about congress. Doesn't it seem as if November 2006 is awfully far away?

Lexi Carver on a soap opera is one personally gone beyond the moral pale. It's no longer just Samantha's sin that Lexi has to worry about, but her own sin, her own complicity, and her own medical mal practice. Her lies are more and more adversely affecting everybody's lives. How many Lexi Carvers in government are there. Once Nixon told Eisenhour, "Get off the pot" but I tell people today "Get off the Pod". Because they've got something plugged into their brains that are affecting their moral judgements. Of course they Four-flushed us yesterday by tantalizing us with previews and then crapping out on their audience. Kate said wisely, "Whatever bad karma or retrobution is visited on Sammy, you're also going to be cought in the cross-fire, and don't delude yourself that you won't be". On a recent posting we made reference to the pastor of Calvary Anaheim. Of course all the Calvaries are screwed up theologically, but the pastor of Calvary Anaheim is particularly screwed up in that he has been brainwashed much as Lexi has. It's affected all his decisions about various people. I've been looking forward to HT TV because the color on normal TV is inherently flawed so that you can never get a proper picture. I learned that the red phospher has too much orange in it, and isn't really red, and that the blue phosper should really be violet. Isn't it funny how you never see proper pinks and purples on your TV screen. If you see a magenta or pink on your TV you can bet it's because the picture isn't properly adjusted. The TV picture doesn't know what's real and what is not. The same holds true for the pastor of Calvary Anaheim. He's been brainwashed by various parties and is held hostage by them, and every thing he does is colored by that brainwashing. But he who brainwashed him is in Jesus' words "Guilty of the greater sin". Don't write him. It won't do any good.

The Calvary Chappels as a rule aren't "Paulinist" in a way that they should be. Revelations teaches the White Throne judgement by God alias Jesus. Paul speaks of the Judgement Seat of Christ for believers. But these people don't believe they will Be judged. They believe they have gone "from death to life" and everything they do is perfect. St. Paul and the book of First Peter speak of "the living HOPE of the reserection". The Apostles Creed speaks of a coming judgement by Christ of the living and the dead and that that date is sometime in the FUTURE. It hasn't occurred yet. Of course some Calvary Pastors say "I hope I never attend a Church servace that recites the Apostle's Creed ever again". It's painful to be reminded of the truth. The judgement is in the future. There is no magic rightiousness Pill. George Harrison and John Lennon are into real religion. Real religion involves seeking something greater than yourself, and you realize it might take time to do it, perhaps many life-times.

Thomas Paine had the right idea to citizens of America in colonial times. He said "Why put up with the same ol', same ol'? Why don't you DO SOMETHING about it. In EST there is something known as the Reasonableness equals Rightness trap. Dr. Phil has often said, "Would you rather be Right or be Satisfied"? Morally I find that a challenging statement. You know, back around Forty years ago there was a pastor named Harry Green who preached at a Presbyterian church in Whittier, and one day he came up with the starteling statement preaching on the "Last Times", "Society at any time has just as much probability of Progress as they do of retrogression". I never till then thought retrogression was a viable prospects. That's because the democrats ran everything and we didn't have to think about it. Now the republicans run everything and the expression "Had Enough?" takes on new meaning. For me the answer to that question is an emphatic "Yes".

Time And Space

The thesis is this posting is to express the oppinion that Time is NOT the mysterious "fourth dimension" because it is not provable. Many scientists maintain that when the Universe was first formed there were ten or eleven dimensions and that they somehow "collapsed" down to four, or three. People say there was a "starting point" to the universe because they point out that all of the galaxies in the Universe are approximately same age. They further point out that the galaxies that are now farthest away, the ones most "red shifted" are "under-developed" and hence less "time" since "Creation" has passed since they were formed. I guess I'd have to ask these scientists just how many galaxies they had to fish through to come up with some that were "under-developed". Is this a universal phenominum among the most red-shifted galaxies we see, or they did they have to fish through thousands of galaxies to come up with an idea of what a galaxy out to look like that's much "younger" than our Milky Wal galaxy or any of the "comon place" galaxies we see in the sky normally. The whole four dimensional thesis is that along with the three dimensions we exist in spacially, that time was also formed. There is something immediately wrong with these theory because many of these same people who see the universe as we know it as an infinitely thin surfice of a soap bubble, will also have to observed that this bubble is a moment IN TIME. So right away you have an asymetry. Time right off the bat is not recconed equally among the three other dimensions.

It was the second weekend in the new decade, January of 1970, that I took to drawing what four-dimensional space looked like. I used sort of a checkerboard grid to illustrate various shaps of things in the fourth dimension. By this hypothetical construct I was able to create four different sub realms. There is the realm of our three dimensions. But there are also the realms including Time as a spacial dimension, but lacking either dimensions one, two, or three. You can picture one of those eight pointed stars, or a cross and an X superimposed on it to get the picture of looking in four dimensions. Some may say "If you can draw it, it must exist". Not necessarily. Because scientists have never "found" any of these three other "realms" where Time isn't Time as we knows it but exists as a spacial dimension. Of course these realms would be only seen as a plane, and an infinitely thin plane existing in our own space. Stumbling accross this "plane" by accident might prove problematical. It's kind of like belief in UFO's. No real scientist seems to have seen and studied one, but we take it on "faith" that they exist. The same could be said for "sixth dimensional psychic plane" space we have talked about before, where The Orion Federation and other governmental entities exist. This psychic realm too would only be seen as an infinitely thin "plane" in this universe. Only in the case of the Federation we teach both a "sixth dimension" called the psychic realm, plus the Time dimension. So instead of being an infinitely thin plane, it would be an infinatessible line, which would make a dot or "portal" on this plane of earth. What we would see would stuff going on in our Time so I as observer see events with the Orion Federation as changing and evolving, but in their own perception, they see Time as "all at once" past, present, and future. It would be one of these "portals" that Captain Kirk was trying to find when he was stranded in that seventeenth century realm and all the people around him thought he was practicing witch craft, particularly when the "voices from the portal" only seemed to be addressing him.

There is another way we can deduce that Time isn't a co-equal dimension with the other three dimensions in space, and that is because- - if we switch the metaphore from a soap bubble surface to blowing a bubble gum bubble- - the bubble keeps expanding and expanding untill it bursts. Many people would say the Universe will keep expanding (note "expanding" canotes we are leaving out time when we talk about "The Universe) and expanding untill the faboric of the Universe gets stretched too thin or something and bursts, perhaps as described in the book of First or Second Peter in the Bible. The universe and the heavenly bodies either burst, or explode or "melt" or in some caticlismic way, disappear. All of this involves physical action. This idea that Time is just like any other spacial dimention kind of flies out the window when we speak of other cosmic events occurring "In Time" because it implies that Time itself keeps on going when the other dimensions are gone. Of course many Biblical scollars say Time Itself comes to an end- - but that's a matter for a whole other discussion.

This is Saturday July 8, 2006 at ten to one. Leo Le Port is on. Leo says they don’t use ASCII code now because Asian letters have more than 250 characters, so they have something called Unicode, which is 16 bit, which gives you 65,000 individual characters if you want them. This guy was having trouble with his space bar terminating his E mail entries. Leo recommended using plain rather than “rich” text. Leo talked about parallax distortion. I didn’t entirely understand that optician talking about lens nodes. He said to put your camera on a lazy Susan and rotate it with two pencils lined up and when both pencils when seen through the focus window disappear, that’s your node. I understood more clearly when he said images around the edge look bent. This is the problem the Disneyland Bell Labs thing had. A straight line would be bent away in each segment. I was thinking about this and if the back of the film were completely flat you would exactly counteract the trigometric angle narrowing of parrellel lines we’ve talked about before when you’re looking off to the right or left. What a flat surface would require is a lens with a variable focal length depending on the angle. A round backing with identical focal length is what I suspect cameras use. If you used a flat surface the image would appear stretched- - tword the edge kind of like those maps of the world. Leo says that your standard nano-pod has only two megabits and not four and it’s the twos that have a thousand songs. I thought the fours had a thousand- - - because if the twos have a thousand songs that would represent a lot more than ten to one compression radio.

Leo often has talked about how copyright encryption turns ordinary users into pirates because we’re forced to learn to crack code. Leo says that the CD and DVD manufacturers are at a disadvantage because the machines they are played on have to know how to crack the code, so you just take the machine apart to find the key. Of course Blue Ray has been talked about for a year or two. The HDDVD has been out about a month and already the encryption code has already been cracked. It seems what you do is enter “print screen” after each frame. That sounds tedious but of course that’s what program writers are for. I guess there are all sorts of cracks for codes you can find on the internet. I must confess I haven’t really looked.

I have to take slight question to something Leo just said. He says if you want to encrypt your stuff use “True crypt”. Is that like Master locks, where there are roomers one key opens up all the locks? Penny Lane was named after James Penny.

I would like to comment mainly on the material in red. When I did that sun angle BASIC program last year I made a mathematical discovery. Picture yourself inside a giant hula hoop tilted 34 degrees a angle from perfectly vertical. Now as you look around in the hoop image, the image should form a flat line in your eye ball or whatever. If you look at the highest point it should be 56 degrees above the horizonal plane. Therefore half the way down tword the "west" it should be 28 degrees. Right? But it isn't. It's a straight line; it should be 28 degrees or exactly half. We are talking about the angle the sun makes at noon vs. three o clock in the afternoon. My point is that even though the hoop path looks straight it really isn't. Because if you were to face south and take a picture of the hoop on an east west axis, the hoop would appear curved. Because this is what straight lines become when photographed by wide angle lenzes. Straight lines become curved. This amounts to "paralax distortion" we were talking about in the red print above. The hoop is only "straight" if you're looking straight at it in your focus. If your focus is off skiew- - the hoop will appear curved. (Selah)

A New C I A Chief

We have a new C I A chief, Michael Hayden, who was apparently hand picked by John Negroponte. And John Negroponte according to Randy Rhodes is director of the newly created D N I or Department of National Intelligence. You thought we just had one agency but it seems we have about fifteen intelligence agencies in various departments. The defense department gets a lot of intelligence funding. General Michael Hayden does have an extensive military background and many civil libertarians seemed concerned about that. Michael Hayden was the one in charge of all the National Security Agency wiretaps. Head of the National Security Adminestration is one of the many, many jobs that Gen. Hayden has had in his carrerr, and it seems this man cares very little about the fourth amendment. Randy Rhodes says these people all look alike, Chaney, Bove, and Hayden and must be all from the same gene pool. Of course I have mused whether there was a “Jesus gene” because all the kids of Pastors and prominent church people seem to come out the same way. This selection of Bush is a clear indication of the direction Bush wants to lead the CIA and the country. Of course we all know that Porter Goss was forced out of the CIA after only being there a year and eight months. His job was to bring reforms to the CIA but now I guess they’ve given up on that idea.

Today is Monday May 8, 2006 and it’s been overcast all day long. The Jacaranda tree is getting its annual purple flowers. That is one messed up tree. It loses its leaves in late January and gets them again in late June. And along about this time of year it gets the purple flowers without leaves- - and sometimes it loses its purple flowers and still doesn’t get leaves. Sometimes I think we are all entertainment addicts. We watch these soap operas with people being chased by hungry wolves in church catacombs- - - and “fluffy” gets his “cat box changed” and you need one of these rent-a-dumpster to deposit the old litter. We watch these movies in theaters that get crazier all the time with their special effects. If we all became Puritans tomorrow the entertainment industry would go into a tail spin and the economy would be in shambles within the month.

Randy Rhodes is again reiterating the fact that the Defense dept. only wants “Intelligence” that supports their war aims. Once again if you have read “Plan of Attack” you know how obsessed George Bush was for years and years as far as getting into the current Iraq war. Nancy Palosi was asked yesterday where the democrats would get all the money required for their various programs. I don’t know how much money has been spent on “nation building” in Iraq, but you know it’s a lot. Bush is placing all of his eggs in one basket betting that Iraq’s democratic government will work and that when other mid-eastern governments see Iran they will have a “Larry Elder” moment and suddenly they will realize how great democracy is and all their people will overthrow their own governments and we will all live in peace, happily ever after.

Leo Le Port is talking about the sort of computer gadgets we will have in twenty years. That is, if we live that long. Bush is now playing a game of “beat the clock”. He has to “spend that political capital” on the next war, wherever it is. And you have to wonder where that next war will be. If the next war is in Iran the US will have a major problem on its hands that could last for years to come. Of course we know the Bush administration has gotten more secretive if they are taking to not allowing news conferences to be televised any more. They don’t want to be held accountable. Dennis Miller once said he was “down” with all this loss of civil liberties in this country. Some people’s view of the statement “Those who would sacrifice liberty in the name of security- - - deserve neither” line is something like this. “The biggest security problem they had during revolutionary times was the breech loading musket that couldn’t straight three hundred feet”. In this day and age when anybody could smuggle a nuclear bomb through any port and set it off anywhere- - I suppose we do need somewhat more security.

Guess What? We've got some moree albums for you. We have two more compellations. By the way if you put so many compellations in one file like this you can word search them all at once. But if you want to skip down to another section of this file, just click one of the links to the right. That's what they're for. As per the second compilation you see that's the shortened "American Version". I decided to cut this one down from three discs to two. This origional post was Monday May 8th. at 4:04 PM. Two songs have been added to "KAOS" by Guess Who and Sam the Sham. They are "add backs" because both of these songs were on the original version of this album in late Sept. 2004 but got inadvertantly dropped. There is space. OK, here we go.

GROWING UP IN THE SEVENTIES Released November 16^th. 2005

Blind Mellon Chitlin (Chich & Chong)

A Pillow of Clouds (Pink Floyd)

Free Bird (Lennard Skynard)

Razor Boy (Steely Dan)

The Loser in the End (Queen)

The Thin End of the Wedge (Procol Harem)

Toys in the Attic (Aerosmith)

Tea For One (Led Zeppelin)

New Kid in Town (Eagles)

Hammer Down (Ted Nugent)

The Fez (Steely Dan)

Anarchy in the U K (Sex Pistols)

Sister Morphine (Rolling Stones)

Trick of the Light (The Who)

This Ain’t The Summer of Love (Blue Oyster Cult)

On The Border (Al Stewart)

Planet Claire (B ‘52’s)

Rock and Roll Will Never Die (Neil Young)

Religious Vomit / Moral Majority (Dead Kennedy’s)

Is That My Mother On The Phone (Police)

Big Brother / Skeletal Family (David Bowie)

The Night Comes Down (Queen)

Moby Dick (Led Zeppelin)

Talisman (Guess Who)

Smoke, Smoke, Smoke that Cigarette (Commander Cody)

Love One Another Right Now (Youngbloods)

One Piece at a Time (Johnny Cash)

Beck’s Bolero (Jeff Back Group)

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K A O S R A D I O A TO Z The Sixties

Disc One

Amphetamine Annie (Canned Heat)

Can’t Seem To Make You Mine (Seeds)

Cold Turkey (Plastic Ono Band)

Dirty Water (Standels)

Do What You Like (Blind Faith)

Double Shot (Swinging Madalions)

Fortune Teller (Rolling Stones)

Hey Joe (Leaves)

I’m A Man (Spencer Davis Group)

I’m Comin’ Hold On (San and Dave)

I’m Not Your Stepping Stone (Monkees)

In the Year 2525 (Seger & Evans)

Keep On Dancing (Gentries)

Little Red Riding Hood (Sam the Sham)

Disc Two

Piece Of My Heart (Big Brother & the Holding Company)

Pushing Too Hard (Seeds)

Rainy Day Women (Bob Dylan)

Refrigerator Heaven (Alice Cooper)

Seven and Seven Is- (Love)

Shine On Brightly (Procol Herum)

The House that Jack Built (Aritha Franklin)

Tighten Up (Archie Bell & the Drells)

Time Has Come Today (Chambers Brothers)

Unconscious Power (Iron Butterfly)

Undone (Guess Who)

Venus (Shocking Blue)

Voodu Child –Slight Return (Jimi Hendrix Experience)

What Condition My Condition Was In (Kenny Rogers)

Who’s Making Love To Your Old Lady? (Johnny Taylor)

Amti Semitism -A World Wide "Hit"

Many would say not to talk about this issue because it's kind of like beating a dead horse. I'd either be "preaching to the choir" or else talking to people who are never going to listen. I think this talk can be productive. First of all the term is a misnomer because the Arab peoples are also of the Semitic race, too. They are children of Abraham's wife, Ketura, who had lots of children. It's an odd fact that Black people seem to be anti semitic. This is unfortunate because it's the Arabs and the Moslems that are responsible for the slave trade in Africa, and not the Jews. Blacks seem to ignore this. It's said that Jews were Blacks' best ally during the days of the Civil Rights movement. It's been said that Jews are loan sharks and "hard business men". My guess is if you get a loan from a Jew he will be a heck of a lot fairer than, shall we say, the Mafia. The reason why Jews are businessmen I suspect is because they are more intelligent than the "median" of the human race. In the Middle Ages they kept their head while everybody else was losing theirs. They, (along with the Arabs) were people who kept the light of civilization going when Europe and the Church was leading us backwards into some dark feudal era. Of course Jews were a main object of the Spanish Inquisition and other persecutions led by the church. People wonder why Jews don't want to pray Christian prayers. Well, Jesus Christ at times seems not to have had a Jewish bone in his body. People ask if we will fight Al Quaida in Iraq now. But if our own nation were under attack everyone agrees they would fight to defend it. In Jesus day the nation was not only attack, it was occupied. Every time the gospells have an oppertunity to take a stance of pro or anti Jewishness- they always side against the Jews. This whole lying down and turning the other cheek doesn't work. That's not how you deal with bullies. You all know this. One time a bully was picking on me in Jr. High and my Dad just said, "Why don't you say something like "you know, I feel sorry for you"". My Dad is of the oppinion that we should feel "sorry" for criminals and bullies. I got in four fights in Jr. High and this guy was not one of them. All the Jews want to do now is live peacably in Isrial under the United Nations mandate of 1948 or whatever. People want to "witness Jesus" to the Jews, but the Jews already have a "witness" of Jesus. They can read the Gospells. They can also read history. People wonder whether we should have the draft now. Let me tell you Jesus was the ultimate draft dodger. People who are "above it all" during a major conflict bother me. They don't have their head on straight or their feet on the ground. People "cant be bothered" and regard War is something someone morally inferior to themselves do. But Jesus was worse than neutral on the subject of Roman occupation in his day. He was actively pro Roman. All of the "good" people in the gospels were Romans. If I had a beef with a church now, my prayer would not be for the Chi Coms to come over here and nuke them. Certain words have taken on ugly conotations such as "Zionism". If you use thie word you're probably a racist. Some Christians claim to "have a special love" for Isrial. If they loved them they'd find out why they can't stand the idea of Jesus as Messiah. They say a prophet is never accepted in his home town. You never know what sort of things, however, that you might learn from interviewing- - well, for instance, people who knew the Reverand Jim Jones before he got famous. You know people talk about "Jewish humor" but it's partially because Jews have to deal with so many assholes that they have to develop a thick skin. Humor helps people deal with things they can't deal with directly, kind of like the humor in M A S H. Personally I think some of the parody stuff on the Simpsons takes on anti-semetic conotations like the way Krusty the Clown is portrayed.

I guess the question is have we lost our audience? Much of our sense of Justice and morality comes either from the Greeks, the Romans, or the Jews. You can bet it doesn't come from the Christians because all you need to is look at the "Justice" the Church has adminestered on its enemies over the years. One thing about world dictator wanna-bees like Chuck Smith- - and that is you should thank God they have no political influence because if they ever got any power they'd be dangerous. I think part of our fear of Moslem terrorists is that it's a case of "Ths chickens coming home to roost". We Christians have spiewed out violence and hatred into the air for so long talking about the Rapture and Armageddon, that the Universe is paying us back. In deed the saying is true, "What goes around, comes around". I think we all need to look at Moslem terrorists and at least have a passing thought, "Where is this Hatred coming from?"

And now we're going to have a little fun with Elvis and then I'll be back. There's one word that was wrong and I intend to correct it to a correct word when I download this.

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I suppose people like to talk about their near death experiances. I think I had one in mid November of 1989. I was walking to Cypress college where I was using the lab to perfect my word perfect skills. I was walking- - I had taken a Contac and I guess I was a little over-medicated. I was walking accross the street when all of a sudden I hear this squeeling sound- - and before I know it there was this white car speeding down the lane right to my left. The only thing is that I looked at that moment and I was standing inside the skid marks. That got me to wondering. The guy had made a risky and probably illegal left turn. He didn't stop or even slow down but just went barreling ahead through and accross the intersection. I guess the only question was why he didn't hit me. The "evidence' would suggest he should have.

The Face Of Justice

“The Face is Justice” is the title of Carol Chessman’s fourth and final prison book, as I recall. For the benefit of you internet people, Carol Chessman was convicted of kidnapping, assault, and rape and got the death penalty, but there are people with questions about whether he’s guilty. I’ve been saying that the country has been moving to the left on a host of issues. On gay sex, availability of pornography, and this huge entity we call government regulation- - we are moving way to the left. But there is one issue where we are so far to the right of where we were thirty years ago it isn’t funny- and that’s crime. Thirty years ago I would have been called a hard conservative. Today I’m not sure sure. If you watch these Cops shows you realize Meranda rights have been thrown out the window. They have those suspects singing like cannery’s in minutes. They even say, “Don’t lie to us or we’ll pile on the charges. I don’t know if it all stands up in court but I imagine it does or they wouldn’t do it. It would seem with Cops as proactive as they are on TV the crime rate should drop to zero. The crime rate has dropped markedly in the past fourteen years- and that’s a good thing. But it’s one of those issues like smoking. The faster the rate drops the more people complain about it. Don’t get me started on these City wide bans and bans in all outdoor or public areas including parks and baseball stadiums. The anti smoker laws are becoming so repressive it isn’t funny. We have the three strikes law and I guess it’s worked pretty good over the twelve or so years its been around. As John Kovelt says “Even if you bust them for stealing a pizza slice or cologne- they’ve probably done something to deserve a long prison sentence”. John is a firm believer in ex post facto laws, where you are punished for previous offences you’ve already been tried for. The thing is the Constitution does not agree with John and if the three strikes law were to come before me, you don’t wanna know how I would rule. Of course our children should be a lot safer now. We have all those adds running on how to be a strict parent, if a hypocritical one, on the subject of drugs. I myself, not being a parent am not sure how I’d do at playing the hypocrisy game but I guess I’d have to learn. You’re supposed to keep track of your kids 24 hours a day and give them cell phones to keep tabs on them. Curfews seem commonly to be recommended at eleven PM, which to me sounds like rushing things a bit from a purely logistical standpoint. Back when I was a teenager they had double feature movies where the first show ran from seven to nine and the next show ran from nine to eleven. How are you supposed to get back home after dropping the girl off? Most football games end at ten fifteen or ten thirty. That leaves a half hour to get both the girl and yourself home. Like I say, it’s rushing things. Of course at Leo Le Port’s house it’s “Lights out” at ten o clock sharp. I heard they were thinking of a bill extending the school day till five PM. And they say kids should have two hours of homework per night. I’m just wondering after all that how much computer “chat time” a kid actually has now. Child molesters are rightly given long sentences, but now that basically amounts to a life sentence since experts tell us that is a crime for which there is no Rehabilitation. Now you have to wear an ankle bracelet for life and are tracked by GPS and can’t come within a half mile of any school. Rotsa Ruck on that one. They really ought to give they a cyanide capsule to take the day of their release.

Of course if you heard Ken Galliger today you realize his dream prison in Colorado has just been built. He loves everything about it. Everyone is in solitary and even the staff don’t interact and they slide the food under the door. All of the furniture is made out of concrete. Ken says if everyone went to a prison like that just think how much lower the crime rate would be. I can’t disagree. Just think of what a boondoggle for the concrete industry we’d have. I can’t imagine the costs to build every prison like Pelican Bay here in California. Of course castration has been experimented with child molesters.

Of course the next step beyond global position sattalites and leg anklets is computer chips imbedded in the skin itself. We use them for pets now. I imagine soon some bright guy will suggest we put chips in our children, so they can be found when lost. Of course now failure to spay or nuter your pet is a crime in LA county. It may be a ways down the road but some day we’re going to take a cue from China and go one step further and suggest spaying and nutering human criminals. I predict “Population control” is going to reenter the headlines before too long. Of course they already have psychological profiling for certain jobs. I imagine this will become more wide spread after they generate some statistic saying it makes for better employee selection.

Ken Galliger says that if there is any doubt as to whether to administer the death penalty we should always err on the side of death. Using that John Kovelt reasoning it’s to counter-balance all those people who never get convicted at all of a crime. Of course the Supreme Court is definitely going to move to the right on Civil liberties questions; we know that. Basically people are becoming more fearful about more things. They want to be sure they are “safe” and want to make sure their kids are safe.

You know, Ghandi made non violent civil disobedience a big thing fifty years ago. I don’t know how many people would want to try it now or in the future if we build the kinds of prisons Ken Galliger invisions where every cell is solitary confinement. Of course civil disobedience depends on a free states. Such a method of protest would fall completely flat in a totalitarian country where they drop you in a hole and you’re never heard from again. Jesus Christ preached “Turning the other cheek” but as Gene Scott points out the doctrine is fraudelant if you think that in a non free press it’s “magically” going to work its purpose. It won’t work in a repressive society without a free press to “raise the conscience of the public”. Jesus said blessed are the poor. Yet society today regards poor people as a scourge and something to be swept aside. I don’t think much of the Christian community feels materially different. Jesus said to “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and ye shall find and knock, and the door will be opened unto you”. But we don’t want a society of “seekers”. No. Today’s employers have a very specific idea of the sort of people they’re looking for and they don’t like to be “hustled” by anybody. Today it’s the rich who call the tune. Rush Limbaugh gets treated with kid gloves on his drug bust. Patrick Kennedy wasn’t even tested by the cops for alcohol use. We have two standards of justice today but it’s not the poor who are “Blessed”. (Selah)

We hear that Iran’s plans to get the Bomb are right on schedule. Ken Galliger’s schedule, whatever that is. I don’t know what to think. It would seem that we better transfer troops right out of Iraq and into Iran quickly. This Iraq thing has been some kind of a joke, but with Iran we’re got a real Nuclear threat and we don’t even realize it. According to Ken, Iran is playing a game of “Beat the Clock” in counting on the fact that this country will drag its feet in doing anything about Iran’s nuclear development. No. According to George Bush “we are just at the beginning of the negotiation process and not the end of it”. No. First we have to get Russia and China on board at the UN and then we will obtain “permission” to “ask” Iran to stop working on the Bomb. But by then it may be too late. You’ve heard the saying “a stitch in time saves nine” and that applies to an awful lot of things. World War III or at least some mini version of it might be closer than any of us think. Most of us think war can’t happen now; we on planet earth are beyond that sort of thing. The only thing we are “beyond” is an objective weighing of the facts. Perhaps “God” will bail us out. But I wouldn’t count on that.

Below are just a few more albums of ours. We can put both "Radar Screens" together to make a two-pack out of that one. The other title comes from "All Hail The American Night", which Jim Morrison utters at the beginning of side two of "American Prayer". It was originally a two-pack but we could combine a single with it and let's make it a three CD box. OK?

BELOW THE RADAR SCREEN

Shaking All Over (Guess Who)

If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Bob Dylan)

It Ain’t Me, Babe (Turtles)

I’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better When You’re Gone (Byrds)

Heart Full of Soul (Yardbirds)

Diamonds and Rust (Joan Baez)

Whittier Boulevard (artist)

Treat Her Right (Roy Head)

Stepping On Me (Paul Revere & the Raiders)

Highway 61 (Bob Dylan)

Get Off of my Cloud (Rolling Stones)

I’m A Man (Yardbirds)

It’s Just Like You It’s Just Like Me (Paul Revere & the Raiders)

These Boots Are Made For Walking (Nancy Sinatra)

I Ain’t Gona Eat Out My Heart Any More (Young Rascals)

Secret Agent Man (Johnny Rivers)

Little Red Book (Love)

Good Loving (Young Rascals)

Sunshine Superman (Donavin)

Stop Stop Stop (The Hollies)

96 Tears (Question Mark & the Mysterians)

Set Me Free (Supremes)

World of Time (Yardbirds)

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BELOW THE RADAR SCREEN PART TWO The Cultural Revolution

Good Vibrations (Beach Boys)

C. C. Ryder (Eric Burden & The Animals)

Here Comes The Night (Them)

I’m A Boy (longer version from album) (The Who)

Rock and Roll Star (The Byrds)

The Beat Goes On (Sunny & Cher)

Sock It To Me, Baby (Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels)

All Your Love (John Mayol)

Dandy (Herman’s Hermits)

Dedicated to the One I Love (Mamas& Papas)

Blues Theme (Davie Allan & the Arrows)

When I Was Young (Eric Burden & the Animals)

In The Morning (from “Early Flight”) (Jefferson Airplane)

Friday On My Mind (The Easybeats)

The Happening (Supremes)

Live For Today (Grass Roots)

Baby, Baby, Baby I Love You (Aritha Franklin)

Higher and Higher (Jackie Wilson)

Words (The Monkees)

Expecting to Fly (Buffalo Springfield)

Strange Days (The Doors)

Outside the Gates of Cerdies (Procol Herem)

We Love You (Rolling Stones)

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THE AMERICAN NIGHT

Disc One

A Touch of Gray (The Grateful Dead)

When We Was Fab (George Harrison)

Bicycle (Queen)

I Can’t Stand Losing You (The Police)

Know when to Hold ‘em (Kenny Rogers)

Another Brick in the Wall (“Dance” version with lead in) (Pink Floyd)

Dancing Fool (Frank Zappa)

I’m Your Pain (Alice Cooper)

YYZ (Instrumental) (Rush)

Something Big (Tom Petti)

Bad Boys Get Spanked (Pretenders)

Mr. Crowley (Ozzy Osborne)

Rock the Kasbah (The Clash)

Abracadabra (Steve Miller)

Disc Two

Dirty Laundry (Don Hendley)

Domo Origato Mr. Robato (Styx)

Teenage Enema Nurse (Killer Pussy)

Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (Eurithmics)

License to Kill (Bob Dylan)

Pink Cadillac (Bruce Springsteen)

Good Rocking At Midnight (The Honeydrippers)

One Night in Bancock (Maurie Head)

Rain on the Scarecrow (John C. Mellencamp)

Christmas at Ground Zero (Weird Al Yankivic)

The Thing That Should Not Be (Metallica)

Thai Quan Leap (Frantics)

Dead Or Alive (Bonjovy)

Star-trekking (The “other” Firm)

Disc Three

Into Money (Bruce Lordman & Trower)

Stop Dragging My Heart Around (Stevie Nicks & Tom Petti)

Burning For You (Blue Oyster Cult)

Over the Mountains (Ozzy Osborne)

ABACAB (Genesis)

California Uber Alles Part Two (Dead Kennedys)

Mexican Radio (Wall of Voodoo)

Should I Stay or Should I Go (The Clash)

Riding on the Metro (Berlin)

Rainbow in the Dark (Ron Dio)

What’s Love Got to Do with It? (Tina Turner)

Valotte (Julian Lennon)

Pride In The Name of Love (U2)

I Drink Alone (George Thorogood)

Inner Track Riff (Def Leopard) not listed on CD