Speech Leaves Unanswered Questions

President Obama spoke before congress tonight and I'd like to know if any of you out there were left as confused as I was. He says he wants to cut costs but the key way of doing this he leaves optional, which is having a Public plan to compete with private insurance companies to keep them honist. I would have declared war on these Insurance and Drug companies saying that "either you trim the fat and overhead and cut costs, or the government will put you out of business. Apparently Obama wasn't kidding when he said only five percent of the population would go for a public health plan. Why veil this little detail? Apparently the bill states IF there is a "public option" at all it won't be for All of the public but only a select five percent who are now without insurance. If you have insurance already, however dissatisfied you are with it, you are STUCK with your present policy. The insurance companies wrote this little protection for themselves into the law. President Obama seemed not to have the vaguest idea how he'd pay for all these people who've been dropped from insurance policies due to a pre existing condition or some other reason. It looks like people who have been doing "fine" without any insurance will not not only have to buy it, like auto insurance, but also these people will pay new, higher rates for the privelege of being insured. More than they would have to pay right now, because they are subsedizing all those people who were dropped and now reinstated. It strikes me as a highly disingenuous statement of his saying that the people without medical insurance are freeloaders, and this state of being will not be allowed under his plan. The fear is not that they will contribute to costs. On the contrary these are the people who will NOT increase costs because they never see the doctor anyway. The Public option would be no threat to existing insurance companies, obviously with the highly select qualifications to get it. Obama made some sense when he said he was for "mal practice reform". In other countries they don't practice the sort of "defencive medicine" practiced in this country. People are not subjected to unnecessary tests. Neither are people subjected to unnecessary drugs, I suspect. This is one area where costs might be cut in Medi-Care itself. But as to how to pay for this thing without adding a dime to the budget deficet is something the President never explained. The insurance companies love this plan because they will just hike everybody's rate to cover all those people who had previously been kicked off due to pre existing condition. With these people again as a cost burden, rates will necessarily go up dramatically. Clearly from the applause the bulk of Congress prefers the Public option. If you're going to do a bill what the public option will hopefully assure is that there is no waste and overhead and profit gauging. The argument can be made that half a loaf is worse than no loaf if the bread is dry or old and moldy and otherwise inedible Coming up with some weird watered down hybred that makes nobody happy but the insurance and drug companies will realize new untold windfall revenues. This makes no sense at all.

They were going to broadcast a republican response to this address. I stepped out briefly for a cigarette before the address began and when I came back in, ABC news was just signing off. Either it was the shortest response on record or else the news networks didn't cover it.

There is a "death movement". It seems investors have begun speculating by buying up peoples' life insurance policies and speculating when the beneficiary will die, and if they die before a certain date they get a lot of money. I wish the President had address issues like these in his speech, where it's all a game of finance and wheeler-dealing.

The Supreme Court held "an unusual summer session" ruling about a conservative propaganda piece that activists wanted to run against Hillary Clinton. It would seem from excerpts of the deliberations today that the Court will rule in favor of the corporations and big money interests.

Many people play the game of "I'm afraid of the strong, so I'll attack the weak". Even Lisa Simpson, while in the guise of a boy had to play this game by wasting the weakest, most defenceless kid in the school in order to curry favor with the local bullies. Certainly in the South they play this game well, where the overlord pigs of the plantation keep everyone impoverished so that poor whites were told to make scapegoats of the Negros. Conservatives play this game in not attacking NAFTA for ruining American business but instead blame the poor and those on minimum wage for their woes for "driving up taxes". We saw this in opperation on today's soap opera where Ariana attacked her boyfriend and jetisoned a friend she badly needs, all because Grandpa gave her an ultamatum, but she dares not let it be wispered that he has something on her. And now President Obama is playing this game by being so afraid of the insurance companies he could shit in his pants, but refuses to attack them but rather attacks the "devicive ones out there who want to prolong debate". It's those damn leftists and their do or die attitude tword the Public Option. It's this very attitude that is going to insure that we do NOT pull out of this economic recovery because Obama appears to be in the back pocket of special interests and will do anything the corporate bankers and the insurance companies tell him to do. He dared to invoke the Kennedy name. But if I were a Kennedy I'd be ashamed of this man because he is the exact oposit of Jack and Bobby Kennedy who never backed away from a fight on principle. Think about it.

The Corporatist Takeover of America

Randi Rhodes just reported that FOX news will not be airing the President's speech on health care tonight, but instead will be running an episode of "So You Think You Can Dance". So it could be argued that FOX is "dancing around the issue". Apparently if you are in an area that only gets FOX, you can turn to FOX news and get a chopped up and re-processed version of the President's speech. One of the roomers about the Health Care bill is true. You heard it said that if the bill passes you will lose your medicare. But actually the insurance companies with their tight grip on congress have written in a provision that if there is a public option you are forbidden from joining it like if you're a Wal-Mart employee and get their crappy insurance, you are now able to qualify for Medi-Cal or some state health plan due to the fact that Wal-Mart workers get paid below the poverty level. But you will no longer be able to get Medi-Cal should this version of the bill pass. Also you know don't you that 20% according to Hartman, of large corporation boards of directors are foreigners from places like Communist China. Of course now conservatives love Communist China now that they are corporitist. But there is a supreme court decision that was argued today in which John Roberts telegraphed the outcome in advance. There was a case last spring involving whether a corporation was really a person and John Roberts apparently told the party "Come back and argue your case broadly in the fall, and you will get a favorable ruling". The case involves corporate financing of campaigns. The buzz around Washington is that the Supreme Court will throw out one hundred years of statutes and say that it's perfectly OK for a corporation to write a direct check for a million dollars to their favorite politician to buy their vote in congress. The concencus now is that Corporations already own congress. The whole Republican party is taken over by the far right, and Thom Hartman says that progressives need to "infiltrate" the democratic party and take IT over so we have at least ONE political party that represents "the rest of us" on the left. As you may know Corporations were given person-hood in 1886 when one court clerk put an addendum on a case in which he quoted a dead Justice's opinion on the subject. So now we have dead judges making Supreme Court rulings. Hartman had said that the upcoming Supreme Court ruling will set off such an uproar it will be the equivelant of the Dread Scott case legitimizing slavery in 1857. But our President has no inclination to want to take on the right wing the way Roosevelt did in a campaign speech of 1936 in which he was very brazen about his aims and who was at fault for our economic woes. Roosevelt came out and said "We are after their corporate power" right out. And the statement met with thunderous applause. But now President Obama says that he is "open to new suggestions and ideas". To me this looks like he's trying to weasel out of the Public Health Care option in any of the Health Bills. I am not at all optimistic about the course President Obama's speech tonight. I'll have more to say on this after the speech is delivered.

According to George Washington's blog, what we are going through economically is not a "cyclical downturn" but the problem is systemic. These are jobs that are going away and not coming back. He had figures on unemployment from the late twenties and early thirties compared to the past few years. In 1930, the year after the stock market crash, unemployment was only at eight percent. In 1931 it had risen to fifteen percent. But there are computations they do now but keep secret that indicate unemployment is already at fifteen percent if you count those who have given up looking for a job, or those who are "under-employed" meaning the pay they are getting isn't keeping them afloat economically. Contrary to what we were all told there was no massive drop in unemployment in the fall of 1992 but figures continued elevated into 1993. Also, Rush Limbaugh in 1993 predicted that unemployment would be dramatically UP in two years (which would be 1995). This proved to be a very false prediction. We won't even discuss how bad Sylvia Brown's predictions are. We know the problem with this economy is that there is no demand. And it's hard to have demand that drives a recovery, with unemployment rates that will probably bump over ten percent in the next reporting. The President, unlike Franklin Roosevelt, is still a foot soldier to the corporatist who caused the problem in the first place, refusing to fire people that Really should be fired.

You know, in the Mayan Calendar there was a four hundred year period of one royal dynasty comprising sixteen kings. And their calendar appared to prophesy this 400 year auspitious period in advance in the ninth of some grand cycle. But a good slogan for empires might just be "four hundred years and then you're done". The Roman Empire was invaded in 412 by some group about four hundred years after it got going good. The United States as a culture has been around not quite four hundred years if you use 1620 as a starting point. Other 400 year periods suggest themselves such as the Ottoman (Turkish) empire and the Russian Empire that ended with the Romanovs in 1917 and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which may be shorter than that. Who is to say what macro-forces are out there. Some people say Time is a "real substance" like space is, because your perception of it can be altered. If time is a THING that is perceived - - then it's just a question of HOW we are perceiving it. Hopefully from the past to the future. Now they have a show on ABC "Flash Forward" where there is a massive black-out of the population and everybody has their own "revelation" of some aspect of the Future. One would hope it's the REAL future and not some Sylvia Brown Twilight Zone phantom. That is, the people are shown actual moments in the future and from THAT moment on, then they can TRY and change things. Of course if the Cosmic Game-master wants to put a "free revelation" into the mix as part of the master opperating program, this is His or Her perogative. So all of these revelations are just as "predestined" as everything else that happens, to make it interesting.

Finally, the Beatles have their Beatle Game out today or 09-09-09. All of their music has been remixed and for the first time their first four British albums are out in Stereo on CD. Also I would wonder whether other items have been "fixed" like the guitar bass in "Day Tripper" or going back to the original mixes of Yellow Submarine, Taxman, Got to Get You Into My Life, and Tomorrow Never Knows. I bet they still didn't release the Christmas records. I do know that people were saying in 1987 that those releases were put out "hurridly".

Obama Follows Same Defective Script

Well, President Obama’s spine has again suffered one of those gelatinous attacks, to which he is so vulnerable. He let go Van Jones, the green jobs czar. This was a newly created post in March of 2009. Of course, like is so typical of Obama, he didn’t fire him for unsatisfactory work but because he is too Controversial. So he has been arrested once or twice in his life. He protested the Rodney King verdict. We all did. He said that he was “almost a communist” now. If I didn’t have such a strong background in business finance, I might have made the statement myself. He has used descriptive language about republicans where the expletives were not deleted. And as to his remarks about Columbine and how you never see a minority going psycho like this killing thirteen students, while that’s true. While we’re at it just about all of the mass bombers of note have been White. Since when is it a crime to state the obvious? But it would seem that the statement that got him in the most trouble was that he wanted to see 9 – 11 investigated and he thinks the government was careless in allowing it to happen. I think the same things. Should they throw me in jail? Any time President Obama takes any kind of an affirmative position siding with the left, he always seems to apologize for having said it. But as for me, count me as still firmly in Van Jones’ corner.

This is Tuesday morning September 8, 2009. Obama gave his speech today but getting it on TV was another story. FOX had promised the speech at nine. That would make it at noon in the east. But at nine I checked every TV station and every key radio station and none of them had a hint about it. It was not the conversational topic anywhere. Finally about twelve after nine I got the speech on FOX but suddenly the station was plagued with interference and neither it nor nine would come in more than a second or two without blacking out. This interference went on for the duration of the speech, but now that the speech is over, the station is coming in fine. Tammy Bruce, that expert on hearth and home, proclaimed in her Twitter today that “You parents are your child’s best moral tutor, and not that shady lawyer from Illinois” referring to Obama. Of course Tammy Bruce had absolutely no problem anything Bill Clinton did during his administration, when I was listening to her regularly. These celebrities like Dennis Miller, Star Parker, and Laura Schleshenger, who have fallen off the edge of the earth politically- - I just don’t understand how it happened because all four of these people are latter day converts to the fringe right wing. Of course I read the speech on line last night so I knew what was in it. What struck me was that the speech seemed longer than I was expecting. Newt Gringrich said that was a good speech and for kids to listen to it. Who would guess that Newt Gingrich would be positioned to the left of Tammy Bruce, who as you know likes to put on a dildo when she’s having sex with another woman.

This next paragraph may come off as psychotic ramblings like that Cellist they had on Sixty Minutes who revealed how mentally ill he actually was when he tried to hold his own in an interview. This is because we mentally ill folk see connections in things that ordinary people don’t see any connection with. My overall theme for this paragraph is that there is some all-encompassing “master script writer” for the events in our world. And sometimes these “writers” aren’t all that believable. They are so bent on writing certain “events” into the script that just how they unfold becomes of little concern to them. Like you’ve seen these movies they review on “At the Movies”. It’s a really bad movie and you’ve figured that out and you’re just waiting for the moment when you can leave. But there is some “event” that they “telegraphed” would happen early in the movie and you’re just “waiting for it to unfold” even though when it does you will know you’re already bored and disinterested. A couple weeks ago Stewart Sutcliffe talked with me and he said “No matter what events take place during the Obama administration, we are still Cosmically a lot better off than we would have been under Hillary”. If you are a “believer” in all my “Federation” writings this remark will make perfect sense. For the rest of us (including me) we wonder whether Hillary Clinton would not have been a far more effective standard bearer for the party. What if Hillary people were “out for blood” and wanted to carry the fight to the convention floor. I know party officials dread a prospect like this because they say “It would divide the party”. Oh really? Consider who the opposition turned out to be- - Mc Cain and Palin. With a team like this NO democrat is going to vote for those two over ANY democrat. In a July 2008 blog I wrote “You know right now I just Trust John Mc Cain more than I do Obama”. If the Republicans had gone with a moderate platform and chosen someone like Arlen Specter or Lamar Alexander for Vice President, there are decent odds I would have voted Republican in the last election. But as I have indicated higher up in this file, The Republican ideology seems to have fallen off the surface of the earth lately. Their political positions on any issue are so far “Beyond the Pale” that almost ANY democrat would have gotten my vote last year. Script writers like to screw around with you. Like take the case of Melanie and Philip on “Days of Our Lives”. We all know they had sex and everybody is inclined to blame Melanie for it- - as though Philip was some zombie with no will of his own. But with the facts Melanie had to work with- - who would guess the outcome? Melanie had had it made it clear to her over and over that Philip and Stephanie were through, over, kaput. She had “played the hero” once too often- - waiting on pursuing the relationship with Philip any further- - because she wanted to be absolutely sure. Sometimes no matter what people say, however stridently- - their assertions dissolve into mush and aren’t worth a thing. One of the stupidest Simpson’s episodes was that “1990’s rebellion” one they did about Marge being in College just fifteen years ago. Over and over again she affirmed that what her teachers were saying was true, that men are all pigs and want to hold you back. She was there to learn and expand her mind. You will also remember that other episode where all the Simpson’s women were really smart. They were doctors and researchers and lawyers and such. Given this model- - one would suppose that Marge had something to aspire to. All her life she’d admired an intellectual. And yet all her teacher has to do is make a casual disparaging remark about marriage- - and Marge turns into a “Born Again- - - dimwit”. Suddenly all she wants to do is be the dumbest female on the planet, as well as have far fewer friends (piers) than her husband does. This idea of Marge’s fondest aspiration is being a ditz or a “blue haired bimbo”.

OK this is another Einstein moment here. You whistle blowers, I know I violated one of the sacred axioms of the theory of relativity by talking about tachions and de-facto hyperspace. I should have said "And then a giant hand reaches down and slows time w a y - d o w n so that Special Relativity remains inviolate. But I didn't do that. I thought maybe I would use logic instead. My bad. Do you want to hear something funny? The whole special relativity formula was come up with by a guy named Lowitz or something, to try and get Maxwell's well established ether theory to hang together. Because of that other Michaelson-Moorley experiment where they concluded that ether didn't act like "wind". There was no "ether wind". This doesn't disprove the existance of ether, but only its manifestation of "wind" like you could measure with a weather vain. So I guess the natural question arises why Einstein would adopt a mathematical formula designed to protect an ether theory that was no longer credible? There is another mistake I have been making for over 35 years with special relativity. We are to ASSUME, no matter WHO we are that wherever WE are is absolutely stationary and IF there is movement, it is movement that slows time down. NO HOW are we to assume that there is ANYWHERE in the Universe where time moves faster than it moves right HERE, wherever HERE is. But suppose we make a mental leap in suspended belief. Suppose for instance if we adopt the axiom "If A is faster than B, this does not preclude B from being also faster than A at the SAME TIME". In like manner "IF B is faster than A, there is nothing wrong with at the SAME time that A is faster than B". If you accept this bit of refutation of classic logic, then the whole theory makes perfect sense. Suddenly instead of the doppler effect (which is only logical) you have time and space expanding and contracting and speeding up and slowing down. What we have in Special Relativity is the adoption of a highly complex theory, to replace a far simpler view of reality people used to have.

US Not Ready for a Black President

You know there are things in life people are just not mature enough for. In Criss Business College they used to tell people "Don't take Accounting II unless you have a rock-solid understanding of Accounting I or else at some point the roof will just cave in on you". In sex education it would be easy to invision (not from any personal knowledge) a situation where a group of kids were just plain "too young" to be told about Sex and the class degenerated into snickering and joke telling and other activities and the teacher loses complete control of the class. It's sad to contemplate that the United States of America is just not psychologically ready for a Black President but we sure do see signs of imaturety all the time. Apparently Marines normally function as security guards for embassies around the world. But in Afghanistan, this job was turned over to a bunch of "frat boys" who, according to news reports, engaged in homo-erotic people with themselves and others. I think we all rememember the poster Laura Schleshenger's son had in his barics, which depicted a soldier forcing another to perform oral compulation at gun point. At this point Dr. Laura's credibility with me went straight to zero, and has stayed there. Of course people usually won't come out and say it's because Obama is Black that they are afraid of him. So they come up with this notion that he isn't really a US citizen and that they can't find his birth cirtificate, and that he was really born in Kenya and all of that. You have the tantrums toese stooges of the right throw at Town Meetings. A few days ago a woman in a wheel chair was angrily shouted down by a mob when she tried to present her problems that she's having. You forever hear these charges of "socialized medicine" and the US government allocating doctor supply. Now the far right is all in a spaz about this message the President is broadcasting to school children next Tuesday, and phones to school board members are ringing off the hook and schools are refusing to let their children see it. What you have to remember is that Obama almost didn't get elected last fall, and probably wouldn't elected had not the economy done a complete melt down just a few months ahead of schedule while President Bush was still in office. Personally I don't see how we are still such a bigoted nation. I remember the line from "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" where Sydney Portier says to his father, "Untill the dead weight of your generation is off our backs, our generation will never get anywhere". One would have easily thought then that had "The greatest generation" all dropped dead then that George Mc Govern would have won the Presidency in a walk, and in 1968. But that didn't happen. Somehow all those "young people" back then have turned into the grumpy old men and women of today. Maybe they should take co-enzyme Q 10, or a little B 12 and Folic acid or something. I know this. Usually people become less flexible when they are older, and that also means being succeptable to new ideas. But I know one Pastor's son who was already an "old man" at age 23. He took pride in how he was already more reactionary than his father.

So when all else fails, go back to that famous time-line prediction of the spring of 1982. What does that say? It says that any "revolution" or spiritual renewal won't occur till the early 2040's, which actually was then I thought untill quite recently when the Mayan callendar ended. We know they are working on drugs that make the body think it's gotten exercise when it hasn't with a host of beneficial effects. Science doesn't yet know how to manipulate subatomic matter to make it weightless, but they'll figure it out. 2061 is the scheduled date for this. But you want to know what's on tap for right now. A war with Iran, that's what. It could start any time. And according to the scenario the chief protagonist of the war was incarnated at a Japanese citizen in World War II that got A-Bombed, and he's for out and out revenge and nothing will say him. In retrospect the US government will see that it should have been tougher on Iran all along, but too often let things slide untill the crisis was upon us. Polution and global warming, as well as the presence of a military state will be ongoing realities for the next several decades. I will be ninety by the time all of this political darkness lifts. It's not a rosey picture but that's what's on tap.

The Insurmountable Reactionary Tide

This is Thursday afternoon and I just went down for a quick coffee. Randy Rhodes is reporting on all the looneys today. They don’t like paintings in Rockefeller Center. There is one painted in 1937 that is supposedly Musselini propaganda showing a little boy leading horses pulling “engines of industry” and in the back there is a strong, powerful hand on the reins controlling the whole thing. You have women in wheel chairs being shouted down by an angry mob at one of these Town Halls. At eleven I watched a British fill-in for Rush and of course he gets a lady caller from Canada saying how awful their coverage is and how much you have to pay. Republicans to a man seem to believe still that what President Obama wants and the bill contains is a scheme for socialized medicine where the doctors are chosen and allocated by the government and where now they have not only “Death Pannels” but the Obama administration is planning to build 42 concentration camps that will be youth retraining prisons for youths. And yes, Americorps is really like the Nazi SS. The hysteria knows no end. President Obama will be getting on TV a week from Wednesday to at last explain his health care aspirations to the American People. In my book he is several months too late and the damage is already done. The Republicans have won, and now the only debate is how many seats in congress are the Republicans going to pick up next year. According to that Brit, it was key that Obama lose in health care now because with Health Care in place, Conservatives would be helpless to run anything but a pro liberal campaign themselves saying not to eliminate the program but only that they would be able to run it better. The republicans have defined all the terms and framed all of the issues, and they have won. Meanwhile Obama, far from echoing the speeches of Franklin Roosevelt, has instead betrayed the left on just about every conceivable issue, even the ones I don’t agree with the left on like public financing of campaigns or this Union card check thing. Banks only have to pay back two thirds of the money the government gave them. Far from making a profit for the American tax payer, America is losing 33% on every deal. The banks are getting fat and sassy again with high CEO pay. None of the finance regulations eliminated under President Clinton have been reinstated. In other words, there is everything to be discouraged about and I really don’t see any silver lining to any of it.

Apparently the idea that Corporations can't be sued does back to Queen Elizabeth and the founding of the East India Tea Company. With legal protection like this, Rush Limbaugh should be at the forefront of protest because it's he who says, "Actions should have Consequences". But for corporate people there are no consequences for Bad Behavior. They say kids who are never disciplined - turn into self indulgent monsters. I wonder where that puts Giant Corporations such as Banks, Drug and Insurance Companies and the giant Media corporations? Tell me, would you be like Hope Brady and desire to pay off an attempted murderer to the tune of five million dollars? Well, people pay drug companies for drugs that might be killing them. We dump all our E waste in places like China to kill off their population rather than ours. Our biggest import as a nation just might be pollution. All of the great crusader news reporters are gone. We live now only on corporate gruel.

This room is really hot today. It feels worse than if there were no air conditioning at all. It’s a good ten degrees warmer in here than right out in the hall. The AC was working fine up to about a week ago. Today is Thursday September 3, 2009, the day Michael Jackson gets officially interred at Forest Lawn, assuming they don’t change their minds. I don’t think there have been any arrests yet. Why not??

Yesterday someone was saying that the Mayan Calendar doesn’t predict the end of the world but only “a new beginning” and a “restructuring of society”. No offence but I’ve heard this kind of bullshit before. I remember when I was in group therapy in Santa Ana at the turn of the decade of the ‘seventies and Al Kaders said something after a particularly bad session “You may feel like we’re sticking the knife in, but a surgeon has to do this in order to operate to make the patient better”. The only problem is that the doctor doesn’t leave the patient sliced open on the table and walk off. And then there are Church Pastors who in the middle of the worst crisis their church has every faced, chose to walk off and strangely at that moment “God calls them away to a better paying job”. If I were God I would slap these people in the face the first time I saw them. And then there is the line spoken when someone suffers a loss of, “Well God has to take away what you have before he can bestow a new blessing”. How convienient for these pastors that God always does the taking away part first. And now we are told that somehow the world as a unit is going to undergo some sort of rebirth or being Born Again. You know what Bob Dylan said on the subject, don’t you. He said “He who is not busy being born is busy dying”, and there is more than one way to take that line. In another song, Hollis Brown, Dylan sings about a man who just killed himself and his whole family “Seven shot gun blasts rang out. Somewhere off in the distance there are seven new people born”. There is also more than one way of taking that line. Some people are so much into the Born Again stuff there’s not even any need for God. The Jehovah’s Witnesses teach that when Jesus rose, it was merely his spirit that rose from the dead into a new spiritual heaven. Perhaps this is what Nicodemus believed. The problem is that in order for a re-birth to be kosher, you have to have some kind of womb, and a birth canal, and oh yes, the new life organism. All of this appears to be missing from this crowd who talks about the Mayan calendar signaling rebirth. I just laid out for you how our national landscape sucks royally. I don’t see any hope. Even in card games or in dominoes, you get a new deal of the deck in the course of an evening. Only in Risk and Solitaire are you stuck with the same hand you are dealt, so to speak for the entire game. In the game of Risk you may have Commander Data’s expertise with the dice, and still lose royally. I ought to know. I’ve done it. Jesus has said this more often than he has said about anything else on the radio and that is “You don’t get do-overs. You don’t get second chances”. The problem is for a lot of people is that they never got a decent FIRST chance. If you don’t get “This important early breaks in your carrier” to quote from Rosemary’s Baby- - -you’re pretty much washed up in your chosen profession. This is how it is in “Risk”. It doesn’t take a freaking genious to look at the Game Board of the World to see the picture. Like Thom Hartman says the game is designed to keep the people who are on the bottom that way for life. Now we hear of this organization called “The Family” which is a Born Again organization that actually looks down on other Born Again preachers like Pat Robertson as “not elitist enough”. No, no. I was astounded this morning to hear someone on the radio pick up my “bee hive” illustration. He was talking about “recruiting worker bees”. These are they who work their buns off but in actuality don’t know what the hell is really going on. According to what I heard, “The Family” almost seems to want to bring back a monarchy or sorts, and has actually been funded by Royalty around the world. There is one thing conservatives used to not like ever being called and that is to be tagged “elitist”. Most “classic” conservatives believe in a strong Work Ethic. But as you know the elitist Neo Cons of today don’t produce anything, either with their hands or with their intellects, but rather just push paper money around all day, and go home each night thanking God that the tax laws are custom suited to their particular “needs”. (That is – if they think of God at all) I am going to investigate “The Family” a little more and urge my readers to do the same thing.

In summary then I don’t see how “The World” at least the one I’m living in, is at all ripe for any kind of a “rebirth”. Because the reactionary forces are well watered with deep and growing roots, and survive well even during democratic administrations. On the other hand the liberals and libertarians among us are a weak and languishing species, and ill nourished and prone to disease. I think it could be several decades before the world is ready for any kind of the Revolution envisioned by these Mayan Calendar people. You know this morning I couldn’t sleep and got up and went out on the patio and the full moon was out. For some reason a light bulb went off and I realized that thirteen thousand was just about half of 26,000 years. As you know the “great circle” of the polar axis takes 26,000 years to make a grand cycle to which the pole points to, kind of like a top while spinning. The last major civilization they tell us was thirteen thousand years ago when the sun was in the sign of Leo. Now it’s in Aquarius. So summertime now would have been winter time then. So I’m wondering- - are we allowed only two great civilization periods per 26,000 cycle. I’ve done other postings where I speak of evidence (structures) all over the earth point to a civilization 13,000 years ago, which was still in the middle of the ice age. In fact even Ted Armstrong (decades ago) states that there was a sudden and violent cold snap that almost froze grazing giant mammals in their boots, with fresh food still in their mouths. I bet those people probably expected something better too, for their future. We’re all optimists. That guy on KCET who is a “Believe it and have it” kind of person- - might not like the idea that reality can be unforgiving. Reality doesn’t tap you on the shoulder and then say “Oh excuse me. You don’t believe in ME any more. I’ll just go away”. If you want to change your feelings, take drugs; take Prozac. If you want a better reality, sue God. Because we don’t know how much time our planet has. And this is the only planet we got, and if we blow it, it will be our collective fault.

Black Parabolas or "Cheating Infinity"

The other day I was endeavoring to draw potential orbital paths around perhaps a neutron star which would consists coming from the same point of origen a series of hyperbolas that would vault said object near the edge of a "golf course hole" around the rim of said hole, so to speak, and out the other side and each successive hyperbolic orbit would in turn be more angular than the last. Then I would rotate the picture and do a copy overlay of this image turned twenty degrees or so, and keep repeating this process of copying and turning twenty degrees. I thought I would have a nice incricate geometric design in Sketch 7. Instead what I ended up with was a big mess. The whole program locked up and I had to wait several minutes for it to un-freeze. What I learned was that Sketch 7 locks up more easily than Sketch 6, which I still have on my computer.

As you know there are no "Proper" Black Holes in Einstein's Universe. (That's assuming that Einstein created it) If you will remember from our Green Grid exercise a while back, there are no black holes but only Black Parabolas, which go on to infinity. That is, there is an infinity of space before you reach the center of one, which you never do. In Einstein's world, there IS no "event horizon". Here the golf hole metaphore appears to break down because that "event horizon" where the ball swerls around but eventually actually goes into the hole- - - this never occurrs. No matter how carefully you hit the ball the ball always manages to swerl out of the hole. What you have is an elaborate de-facto "worm hole", which aren't as the Star Trek people invision them as but merely a series of potential hyperbolic paths, described in the first paragraph. Of course what you would have is enormous acceleration not unlike that Bajoran ship that traveled to Cardassia, where the Cardassian ships were waiting for captain Piccard at the other end to congradulate him for making a successful worm hole journey. Every time you came near a Black Parabola you would be greately accelerated due to gravity. You would speed way up and slow back down, always to the exact same speed you began your journey at.

Here is where we have a logical quandry. Only people outside the worm hole are allowed to Exit it. If you are already IN the worm hole you have to STAY in it. How can this be? This is where the idea of cheating infinity comes in. There are theorized things that exist called tachions, which can ONLY travel FASTER than the speed of light. Obviously they have to be made of some other kind of matter. But as we have repeated many times, the nature of space surrounding any matter is determined by the nature of the subatomic particles IN the matter, and visa versa. This means that somehow due to the unusual nature of the space you are in- - your atomic mater somehow mutates into a tachion like substance for the duration of your trek through the worm hole, and then once you are again in normal space, it shifts back to normal. All this mental gymnastics is necessitated because Einstein places the "Event horizon" an infinite distance away. What this means in practality is that the size of any black hole would be self limiting, if they exist at all. Because "infinity" is always a finite distance away in Einstein's world.

DISCOURAGEMENT ON THE HOME FRONT

Two nights ago I had a dream. I dreamed it was 2012 and we were voting on President of the United States and every time Joe Byden would come in first, but also in every contest, Senator Tom Harkin would come in second. But they passed some crazy rule that whoever came in second would become President, so that was Tom Harkin who became President. In this dream I discovered I had lost a back pack like school kids use for books, that had been a gift from my deseast Uncle a few Christmasses ago. In the final scene I was in the shower and I slipped on a bar of soap or something and fell flat on my back. Then I woke up. Then I remembered that the part about the missing back pack was no dream, but that had actually happened. So it is that this September first will also be a day of negativity. Of course around here people are always reporting stuff stolen out of rooms. It's spoken in a state of resignation like they never hope to get it back. Of course as you know Monday I smoked hardly any cigarettes. Borrowing them has never been a tougher proposition. It once took me four hours to even buy a cigarette with a quarter that I had. Of course this week I get paid only fifteen dollars, because the checks don't arrive on the first. It's not as bad as the Nothing I was paid last September first, though. But you know not smoking makes you more paranoid and a little OCD. So you check things. Around here you better check often because you never know.

Last night I had a dream where there was this movie out called Grendel of the North, or something. There were this group of supernatural beings that were Atlanta Romulans or something and they were around in the late 'seventies, and they sponsored Blues artists from Atlanta to become famous and there was a rash of them during this period. They had supernatural powers. On a crouded bus you'd see them in their Afros and they would look at you and hypnotize you into giving up your seat. And they had powers to hypnotize you into doing other things. In this dream Marian (no, not "Maid Marian) was Princess of the North Pole or something and her father wanted her to mary one man but she was in love with another man. And Black Bart (my Romulan friend) told me she was also in love with me. Me and her were lovers but I had amnesia and didn't remember. And that Marian secretly fantacised that she could have three way sex with me and that other man her father didn't want her to date. In this movie there was a lot more about these Atlanta Romulans, or whoever they were- - and sometime after 1980 they went away, but they would be coming back - - to take over the Planet, perhaps in 2010. There was also a "soundtrack album" with strange music and all this whispering in it, with the "pre-verb" where you here the re-birb ahead of time, and this voices were saying a lot of strange things. And the album was called "Journey accross the North Pole" or something and it was played around Midnight by the local rock station.

These fires are discouraging. You turn on the news and all you hear is stuff about the California fires, even on the Today show. Of course I'm worried they will knock out the TV transmitters and when the stations come back on the air they won't be broadcasting at full power and I'll have that headache all over again. Nobody at this point is very optimistic. Yesterday they said the biggest one of the fires was only five percent contained.

People are waiting for a pull-back in the stock market. If the market goes up I'll be barish and if it goes down I'll be bullish. My fear as stated in the last posting is that we are "re-inflating the bubble" and that we're headed for another economic crisis at some point in the future where things will be worse than ever and nobody can say when it will be. Just as in May of 2006 even then I knew in the abstract that we were in a Bubble but I didn't have the vaguest idea when said bubble would burst and supposed that it was many years into the future.