Since I have a little extra time today I might as well do this posting, though it's hard to come up with something really new to talk about. People are upset about the cover of New Yorker magazine, which shows Berock Obama and Michelle in Moslem attire and an American flag in the fireplace, etcetra. Six months ago I would have been bothered by this cartoon but now I just don't care. Obama has already made it plans he doesn't stand for anything. If Obama were put on trial for being a liberal the jury would return a Not Guilty verdict in twenty minutes.
Now we're going to ease our way out of Iraq and at the same time go right into Afghanistan, since the situation is worstening there. Once again I'm inclined to yawn. Because after fighting there for six or seven years Al Qaida is stronger than ever, so what's the point? Pakistan is a sanctuary area for Al Qaida so we're never going to get them. For those who were hoping for a Peace Divident, well, sorry, Charlie. That's not going to happen. In terms of the issues I saw Mc Cain at a Town Hall meeting today in San Diego talking to a Latino group on "humain" immigration. Apparently drug runners will rat you out of you're crossing the border, so that the agents will be drawn away from where the drug runners are crossing. I myself am satisfied with Mc Cain's stand on immigration. At this point the difference between the two candidates is that Obama wants to vastly balloon government expences. Both apparently plan to take drastic steps to fend off the recession which technically has not even begun yet. How wonderful it is for an institution to be "too big to fail". I think that's why Christianity has led such a charmed life. It's "too big to fail". So I guess the lesson we all take away from it is try and get to where the gravy train is. Get where they are passing out money. Apparently they ran some experiment at the Rand Corporation that involved trusting the other. They were supposed to simulate some underground sale or transfer like two criminals would do. One guy would burry some jewelry or other valuables and the other guy would bury money and each would dig the other's up. And when they ran this simulation it turned out that consistently the only people who were never trustworthy were sociopaths - - and economists. I'm not sure what that means. Of course we hear in Europe now they have a whole year's leave for paid maternity leave, and even the fathers get time off. I remember back fifteen years ago when Howard Stern and others raised a howl of protest when it was suggested one had a right to ten days UNPAID leave per year. Things have come a long way. Hartman says they "over hire" in other countries so that people can take five and six week vacations. Sounds like the good life. But here they work employees to death and they leave. I agree with Hartman that "the powers that be" want to turn the United States into a third world country. We have a growing lower incom and poor class, and we aren't known for manufacturing anything. Our claim to fame comes from rich people pushing money around. But you know Obama will never talk about the real issue. He'd love to talk about some new freeby or government program to make people provide insurance. In other words he wants to require MORE of what we AREN"T DOING already. And he wants us to do more of it. In short, Obama's economic policy is non compus mentus. What we need to do is to correct all the imballances in the economy such as the trade ballance and immigration. But Obama believes, "Why waste time dealing with all the hard issues when all I have to do is stroke the people saying they'll get everything they want if they just elect me".
Montell was talking about teenage prostitutes and how they fall into a poverty trap and a pimp gives them drugs and they spend forever "working off the debt" by hooking. One might almost think they had no choice. But if this were twenty years ago when I was still a Christian, per chance I might try and witness to one of them. I bet you know what the response would be. It would be "Get out of here; I'm working. I have to put food on the table and you're wasting my time". And the funny thing is she'd be right of course. An impoverished person can't witness. Not everybody gets where they are by choice. Ted Bundy really didn't become the darling of Focus on the Family by all the "good decisions" he made in his life. Some people say that Christianity wipes the slate clean. That's not exactly true. First of all in my case the slate isn't wiped at all. All the negative aspects are still there. But for someone to have a "blank slate" it would be like the new kid in town playing on the local baseball team. You've heard the line, "I don't want to take a chance on an unknown". For a Christian the slate isn't blank. If it were blank you'd be an absolute nothing, a nobody. No, a Christian when he gets saved is Albert Sweitzer, Mother Teresa, and Ghandi all rolled into one. Fantastic things are attributed to the successful ones, like Chuck Gerrard, Bob Dylan, or Charles Tex Watson. Bill Clinton came up with the line a few months ago "If you see a turtle on a fence post, you can bet he didn't get there himself". Most people don't have a lot of choices in life. And of course most people aren't God. They don't know the future. They can't see the end result of every single alternative they might take. Hartman points out that White middle class and Black middle class are horses of a different color. A white household has a lot of inherited wealth from prior generations. Just as the typical Calvary proselide seems to have this "vast inheritance" that's laid at their feet the minute they get saved. I myself have always had this niggerization factor. I have to fight a lot of things I had absolutely no control about creating. It kind of makes you wonder what if one person were zapped instantly into another's life. Even if I were to wake up tomorrow an Iraqi citizen- - some peasent trying to dodge the bullets and the opposing religion, I would be at a disatvantage. I'd have to learn everything (and the language) on the fly so to speak. Everybody else would have had their whole lives to prepair for being a "good moslem" or whatever.
I've further checked the astrological indicators of the planets and combinations of planets and it would seem next years "rapture date" of 9-21-09 is a better one than the one I had pegged for this year of "10-01-08". The only thing is this year fits in a lot better with psychic vibes I've had for the past twenty years. An area where Christians show themselves to be jackasses is that they say "What you believe will be what comes to pass". This idea is so patently false I could do ten pages on the subject. I "envisioned" a lot of things about myself that never came to pass. I sure never would have believed Berock Obama would defeat Hillary Clinton for President. In fact some are saying now that Hillary plans to make a convention fight of it, and this time I'm going to side with Hillary because she voted against the FISA bill. Sometimes, as Arlo Guthrie comicly puts it in Alice's Resturant, "There was a third possability that we hadn't counted upon". This is why only a jackass would say "all my bets are covered" pertaining to the After Life. If we have unknowns between now and late August, there are certainly manifold more unknowns for after you die- - with possabilities you never dreamed of, both good and bad. This is why I tend to put more weight on Astrology and less on psychic preminitions. Preminitions are fine if based on some "clues" that exist in reality. But as the EST people say, people get "Notions" that they cling to. There is some part of the brain called the hypocampus, where anything there is perceived as Truth. I don't understand that. A lot of psychology therapists have "Notions" and what you need to do is sound a loud buzzer each time one pops up. I personally would like to see God as a contestent on that show about Telling the Truth. My guess is it would be so embarrassing for Him that he'd "never do it again". See you in the funny papers. Bye.
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