GETTING THAT ROCK OVER THE HILL

The question is how is Obama going to get that heavy burden over the hill? Once the bill gets passed it will work. Anything will work. Some liken it to a sugar high but if you’re starving with nothing else to eat, a Snickers bar will do just fine. As this point almost any government involvement in employment and job creation is welcome. I am distressed to learn that the $40 Billion for State governments has been deleted. Logic would dictate that it’s the senate and not the house that will “dictate terms” of this bill because it has to keep those three republicans on board so that the bill will pass the required sixty senators. I’ll say again I was not happy with Obama’s performance in the news conference last night. If it were a ping pong game he would be down 21 to nothing and not know what hit him. You have to think fast as President and talking fast doesn’t hurt and that includes not losing stride or hesitating a well aimed volley you are preparing as response almost from the instant the questioner opens his mouth. People respect a guy who knows his topics backward and forward and were I Obama I would have practiced. Every time a question asked you’d hear those wheels spinning, like a computer with insufficient RAM. The hesitation shuffle won’t work in the big leagues. Obama did well to be dire in his predictions. Some say it will take more than the 825 Billion to plug this economic dike. But you have to do something. Something is better than nothing. Some have said “If there was a formula just how much a government should spend in an economic crisis- whoever marketed that formula would make a lot of money”. To this I say this: Doing the best thing that can possibly done will not insure success. Even the most brilliant surgeon will lose a patient if the deck is stacked too strongly against him. For those who say that Roosevelt prolonged the Great Depression I have two words: “Bull” and “Shit.” Tom Hartman points out that republicans are having a guilt trip from looking in the mirror at what their forebearers did with the Smoot Holly terriff in 1930 and saying “If we were in charge we would never have did what they did”. But Hartman points out that only five percent or whatever of our commerce was from foreign trade. To deny the “bucket shops” and all the other legalized gamboling that was going on at that time is to deny the elephant in the room. President Clinton re-legalized certain “derivative securities” such as insurance swaps that were they insurance companies would not be allowed to exist. In terms of what the Sec. of the Treasury said- - again Hartman has it right. To deny the trade deficit we have Right Now is to deny another of those elephants in the room. If we don’t do something to restore American Manufacturing we’re just whistling Dixie with all this other stuff like tax breaks. Swimming in the nude won’t help Don Knotts win a swimming race against Michael Felps. It is said that there are even now too many “supply sider” Reaganesque. You know, Bob Shiefer the other day on C-Span was lamenting how many bloggers there are out there who put out misinformation over the internet. I only say that I don’t read those blogs and I an confident that my sources are trustworthy- - and if I have doubt about any of my sources I share that doubt with my readers. My advice now is to start buying stocks because I believe we’ve hit the bottom. The risks of missing the bottom now are greater than the risks that somehow if you put your money in and the market doesn’t explode “tomorrow” you’ll take it out. The whole idea behind buying stocks or for that matter gold or rare coins is faith in the value of the object you are buying. If there is inherent value in what you are buying- it’s market value will eventually catch up to it.

I really need to say something about what's going on in Austrailia. What they are experiencing is not your typical heatwave like we experiance here in the Southwest. I looked at those temperatures. For one thing the temperatures in the south part of the continent were hotter than they were in the north, and with the seasons reversed this should not be. They ranged from 40 to 47 degrees, and that is celcius. That means a prolonged heatwave in places like Melborne in excess of a hundred degrees. When I lived in East Anaheim the highest I ever saw the bank gage was 41 degrees celcius. They have been dealing with temperatures of up to 120 degrees ferenheit. These fires rage in a wall four stories high ravaging one town after another. In the past Austrailia has suffered from other calamities from sunburn due to the hole in the ozone layer, to sharks, to invasions of mice, to prickly pear cactus taking over, to Tashmanian Devils, which are real. Living there is no picnic.

Tomorrow is the 46th. anniversary of two events. The Beatles recorded eleven songs this day from ten in the morning to ten at night, ten of which were used for their first album. In our family life, it's the first time we baught a New Car within my memory, a Chevrolet Byscane. It was green, if you're wondering. 1963 to those who have long memories here in California was the year they flipped the licence plates. They used to have gold plates with black letters but then they flipped them to gold letters on black in 1963. I remember it rained lightly that Monday evening but it was bright and sunny the next morning. I remember the song "Mama Didn't Lie" playing on the radio. The Beatles didn't do all that takes on any one song. The maximum was ten for "There's a Place", which was recorded first. "Twist And Shout" was called a wrap after the first take. They say they tried a second take but Lennon's voice was shot. Now you know.

Some will tell you to be suspicisious of blogs trying to lay some "trip" on you. I have come to believe that the secret to most things is to go with the Obvious. For instance, the most obvious answer to what happens to you when you die is that you cease to exist and have no consciousness at all. As Captain Queeg says, "If you're going to go against me you better have a half a dozen good reasons and you'll still get an argument from me". In the same way when I say something that seems forced or strained, like when I'm defending Einstein's theory of relativity- - I indicate my disconfort with the theory. My chiefest problem with the theory is that it raises more questions than it answers, and it strains the credulity of those looking at the Obvious. Some people look at Christianity and say "Christianity is an Obvious truth". What's obvious here is that we've been lied to. Women get lied to every day of the week and twice on Sundays. They are lied to being told they are inferior or that they somehow "Need a man" to be whole or worthwhile in society. Blacks in like manner have been systematicly lied to such that their lack of self esteem is endemic in the race. People are told that the Jews were punished by loss of their Temple for not believing corporately as a nation in the Salvation offered by Christ. I say to them, "You can't be blaimed for turning down an Offer that you never Got". (Selah) Also the key to figuring out history is that there was a man named Crestus, who is historically documented- - and that he was an Egyptian and an anarchist, and people of this sect may well have been guilty of spreading. but not Starting the fire in Rome and that Nero fingered then as culprets as did Pliny the younger in AD 110. But what we know as Christians or "Catholics" (which means Universalists) did not even begin to get going till after the Second Jewish war of AD 135. They lied to you about this war. The Jews were actually winning for a while and even established their own government and their own coinage- - such that words in Jesus' mouth were put in "Show me whose image is on this coin". Likewise this "Son of a Star" had to be replaced by another Christmas Star event. They felt they "had to" connect Jesus with Egypt somehow, and so the genocide was invented, which virtually all historians agree never happened, as they do many other events in the Gospells, such as the alledged "Freeing of the Passover prisoner". People are told lie, after lie, after lie, after lie- - such as to prove the addage, "If you tell a person a lie often and consistently enough, he will of sheer weariness begin to believe it". (Selah) Many people will respond in the affirmitive when asked "I bet you miss the Church, don't you". But Dr. Phil has the ultimate rebuttal for this assirtion. You remember what he says. He says "You don't miss the Church. You miss what you Wish that it were". (Selah)