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".