The World Needs a Better Vetting Process

Many college professors will tell you of the importance of Critical Thinking.  Yet so few of us practice it.  Often you will be told in logic classes for instance of the basic absurdity of so many adds on TV, as well as so many politician's statements.  But few people take them to heard.  Certainly Gingrich and Santorum don't, for they regard College life as for "a bunch of snobs".  Newt Gingrich is what is referred to as "A Stupid person's idea of what a smart person ought to be.  I caught Newt on Face the Nation today.  Here is an example of what I'm talking about.  He has been so pig headed about getting out of the presidential race and endorsing Santorum so that the tea party can have a better chance against Romney at the Convention.  But he's too pig headed to do that.  He's too proud.  John Mc Cain has warned Newt of the folly of his actions and how he fears for the future success of the Republican party.  Of course say no more.  In tea party reasoning - if John Mc Cain says it it's wrong.  John Mc Cain was the "liberal traitor" who blew it for them in 2008 according to the tea party, and if they'd had a "real conservative they would have won".  Then Newt says "It's silly to think an extended contest is bad for a party.  We decided on John Mc Cain early on last time and we lost, but the democrats fought all the way till June with Barock and Hillary".   Reality check.  Randy Rhodes was saying at the end of February that "the race for president was all over and Obama won.  He has the math".  After this elaborate steps were taken to bend the convention rules and not allow Hillary's name to even be placed in nomination for "image" sake.  And even the content of speech was closely guarded.  Contrast this with John Mc Cain when - - the Tea Party virtually "took over" the convention with flame thrower right wing speeches.  And Mc Cain was so completely unsure of himself in desperation he picked Sarah Palin to playcate the right.  And so clearly the democrats won with a united front, but the Republicans could never come together and they are about to repeat that same history now, four years later.

Sixty Minutes has this former Mossad leader Degan or whatever.  I guess it isn't "Degar", that would be a French artist.  Anyhow his father was killed by the Nazis and he grew up with the adage of "Never again".  He was a holy terror to the Arabs and the PLO and organized death squads.  One time his group carried out an assasenation in a Hotel.  The assasenation went down but there were video cameras, and the World saw for themselves exactly what the Israelis had done.  Now he is talking Peace.  He says as we have been saying that it just "Can't be done" as far as preventing Iran from obtaining Nukes.  Even Israel says that the best they can hope for is forcing a Delay in weapons development.  We can't do that knock out punch, because Iran has at least four nuclear facilities deep underground, and some say as many as twelve.  Dick Chaney issued a White House memo advising the President to take out Syrian Nukes in 2007 or whatever.  Bush rejected it but Israel took the ball from there and took out the Syrian nukes.  But they won't be able to do that now.  Now this say Degan - - is out of the Mossad.  And now had turned against the Netenyaho administration and they are saying "It's pay back" because they believe his current opposition to any War with Iran is strictly out of spite and getting even.  But the fact is we need to properly "vet" a world situation before we jump in and take action we won't be able to take back.  The whole taking out the Nukes thing could get really messy on the world scene and people like Romney and Newt don't see it.  All they see is the young men in their shiny uniforms in perfect formation - heads held high.  They don't see them when they are coming out - - bloody and dispirited - - often feeling abandoned - - and disillusioned about War.

You know both men and women have a "vetting process" for the opposite sex.  For women it's making sure a man has status and earning power and macho leadership.  Her adage is "vaya con dinero".  Obviously some women are better at this than others.  For a man, he too has a "vetting process" for women.  It's called sex.  Men are like samplers.  They like to examine the merchandise before they buy.  They are looking for an ideal help mate that will fulfill their fondest sexual fantacies.  Men have the genetic desire to "spread their seed around".  This proved a positive evolutionary trait on former times, both because the world wasn't populated, but also because the DNA gene pool needed as much variety as possible, and for a man's legasy to continue the more people of varied genetic nature that were connected to it, the better.

The Times They Are a Changing.  Robert Schuller is out of a job for the first time since 1955 being dispossed from his own church by a bunch of Catholics who renamed it from the Crystal Cathedral to the "Christ Hope" Church or something.  Well, it was a good run, and Schuller certainly helped a lot of people, with prayer warriers on the phones and up their in their prayer tower, praying for them.

Let's talk a little about the Mayan Calendar and I'm assuming that grand 387 year cycle is right that I heard on that radio program.  "387" used to show up on our snail mail as "387 Desolation Row".  I think that was the cubic inch displacement of one of the bigger Dodge engines back in the'sixties.  At any rate - - maybe it's 394 now that I think of it.  Anyhow - - close.  So the Church is pretty much finishing up Cycle 4, and as a dog dies so dies the church.  That's a Bible verse parody in Eccliastes.  Anyhow the previous date is 1618.  This is when Keppler and Gallileo were shaking up the science world with "Undeniable truths" more power than you know who's.  The Church was never the same, literally.  It was only a few years later during the thirty years war that the Catholic Church lost an awful lot of it's power, and the English Bill of Rights in 1648 followed not long after.  If you go back another 390 years you come to the era when Ghenghis Khan was knocking at the door.  I think I was a prominent officer in his army in a previous life.  This empire of Ghenghis Khan they say is the biggest land area Empire the World has Ever Known.  This empire was instrumental in preventing Christian influence east ward.  After this Marco Polo visited China and stayed there over twenty years.  They say back in those days "traders viewed time differently" where people expected to spend Years in a far away land.  The Chinese leader wanted Marco to send Priests over.  I wonder if he was planning on killing them.  Any how Marco Polo traveled first at age 17 with older people, and then set out on his own.  And he course he brought back news of marvels such as gun powder, and introduced pasta as we know it to the Italian diet, and also set loose the whole idea of expanded trade with China for the mutual material and cultural benefit of both.  This was all in the twelve hundreds.  If you go back another four hundred years you have the demise of the Mayan Empire itself.  If you go back yet another four hundred years you come to the era when the Huns were sacking Rome and Ancient Society would never be the same again.  Ironically the Catholic Church was just putting their finishing touches on their theology, which would remain unchanged from then on.  But in cementing its own position - - it was at the sacrifice of the rest of the Roman Empire.

We have that school teacher on Sixty Minutes who first put a math video on You Tube to help a relative in the seventh grade with her math.  He was surprised all sorts of people were logging on and watching his videos.  Now he runs the Sol Khan Institute and has the endorsements of no less than Google and also Bill Gates.  He breaks down Math concepts to their simplest componets.  The way to do Math and any subject is to start with Basics and keep it Simple, and then work on the details one by one.  They say they have flip flopped the student's school day.  They received their instruction off the internet at home, and save class time for working on assignments and getting private tutorial help in school.  The guy looks a little Lebonese or something.  He's a young guy and he's just getting started and may be revolutioning the Math and Engeneering world of education, and this author can only give his heartiest endoursement.  That's what we need today.

Some may have a question as to whether I contradicted myself on the whole "brainwashing thing" one moment saying I'm for it and the next posting against it.  Let me clarify right now.  There is nothing wrong with maintaining or "washing" your brain to keep it efficient.  But this is not what Christians are about.  You've heard the adage "Love the fetus; hate the child".  My adage to build on my plumbing analogy is "Love the pipes, hate the sludge".  Here is where I part company with Christian.  The Christian HATES the whole idea of even Having a Mind or a Brain to think with.  Intelligence is almost right up there with Sex as the Original Sin.  But as one evangelist once said "The best cure for wrong use is not NON use but Right use".  But to a Christian back before Adam and Eve ate the apple, neither sex nor intellectual curiosity were known, and to them this is how it should be.  Gnostics of course have a rather vague premise that "Any form of reproduction only weakens and devolved the resultant product".  So the whole idea of "seeds of knowledge" or "building on things" is anathemal.  And of course the sin of the Tower of Babel was manking working together to build something memorable.  This again is a No - No.  So it's no wonder that Christians carp at each other like angry birds.  And all they want to do is to bring the rest of us down to their level.  Rather than doing you any favors by taking his "Gospel" to heard,  your Christian friend only wants to put you in the hole that he's in.

In Search of the Lost Discord

"I"m Looking for the Treason That I knew In 'Sixty-five"

Some groggy people this morning are wishing they could turn back the clock.  I'd like to turn back the clock to about oh - - forty-odd years ago wouldn't be bad!  How many out there remember the albums "Space Oddity" and "The Man Who Sold the World" when they were on the Mercury label?  You remember how David Bowie introduced the song "The Width of a Circle" in a live concert in Santa Monica in March of 1972 don't you.  (They used to have that whole Live album on a now defunct web site)  He said, "This next song is one of Ziggy's compositions".  Speaking of 1965 I remember when "Heroin" by the Velvet Underground was played on AM radio in the mid 'sixties.  But then the song dropped off the radar screen for what seemed like decades.  It's almost like one of those songs you only Imagined ever existed because the so called 'underground FM stations" wouldn't touch it.  How many remember Quadraphonic - - - or eight tracks?  I think the theory was that they came up with eight tracks because that would provide four discrete tracks for quadraphonic sound.  How many of you out there remember when it was called the "Newport Freeway" because it was slated originally to go to Newport Beach when completed.  This whole "Costa Mesa Freeway" bit seems awkward to me.  How many remember when the Long Beach Freeway was supposed to go to Passadina?  When my Mom was just starting out at Cal State Los Angeles in September of 1964 and still not that fermiliar with the area, she saw the sign that said "Passadina' and got on the Long Beach Freeway and had a rude awakening to find the freeway hadn't been completed and she was dumped in the middle of nowhere.  I think that Freeway is STILL complete!  I know they've talked about it a lot.  You know back in the sixties people were saying 'I remember when you used to be able to drive to Huntington Beach in twenty minutes, and now it takes 45 minutes or longer".  Well - - that sounds more like Pipe dream than reality to me but the solution was to build the Huntington Beach Freeway.  Seems logical to all of us and they did studies on it for years, but it never happened.  How many out there remember Bussing.  I mean everybody has to be Bussed.  Whites were bussed to black ghetto neighborhoods, and Blacks from Watts were bussed to Van Nuys or whatever.  Now THAT sounds like an efficient means of transportation!  Remember when the OCTD started out.  They had busses that ran every hour and there was generally a bus rout ever two or three miles or so.  And even though delays of 15 or 20 minutes were common, that isn't going to be a problem for anybody is it?  How many remember Buddy and Sonya, brother and sister that looked nothing alike from "Mama's Family".  How many remember when they had a different "Mr Jefferson" on "All in the Family".  How many remember "Chuck" from "Happy Days".  How many Elvis fans remember the drummer Elvis had before D J Fontana?  It was a sixteen year old high school kid named Jimmy Lot.  Yeah, he did that song that I think Credence Clearwater sued over for copyright infringement in 1955.  How many people remember when Culver Street in Irvina was a two lane drag strip through the countryside?  How many cam remember when Irvina was mostly countryside?  How many Lion Country Safari or Japanese Village theme parks?  How many remember Nixon's wage and price controls?  Where was the tea party then, huh.  Then there is the question in my family tree of the three grandmothers my mother had.  Of course she's part Cherokee and we now learn that the Charokee people slit their own throat by trying to be "Too white" and kissying up to the British during the French and Indian wars.  She had a Grandmother Hiss, and a Grandmother Shrag.  And a Grandmother Stanley.   The trouble is NONE of those forebearers were the last name of my grand parents, so what happened to them?  How many remember when adoption agencies would guard the true identity of Adopted Kids with their Life- - and nobody but nobody got to learn the truth?  How many remember "cold hydrogen fusion" and the wonders it was supposed to bring?  How many remember when various Oil Companies were saying "Rock shale is the future of the oil industry".  One company had a lot of rock shale sites in Colorado that would provide energy for a hundred years or whatever.  Just turn the entire rocky mountains into a moon scape.  Nothing wrong with that is there.  Oh, and how many people remember when manned space flights left as regularly as the next bus?  (except, of course, in Orange County)      Some people can only be pegged as "people who never grew up".  Remember what's what Jimmy Stewart said of bar mate Clarence- - in that one dream scene where Nick gets mad at both of them and says "Allright you pixies, get out of here!"  Personally I don't think Bill Gunderson never grew up.  He writes good science fiction (of a highly moralistic didactic nature) and it's brilliant and carefully written.  But I would never buy it.  You think my writing is bad, you should try reading his.  Ah yes, and then we have Mr. Big Mac who was "born with a third bun".  Yeah, like having three grandmothers.  I'd like to see that on a genetic chart.  Some to think of it - - that lady last night thought she was Wonder Woman.  Personally I thought the lady was totally sane and I would have respected her wishes not to bring in the shrink patrol.  Better to die with your boots on than be discovered by enemy captors kissing somebody's ass.  Jesus of course seemed to have this "Peter Pan" mind set because he wants to go back to a time when Adam and Eve wern't sexually attracted to each other - and the word Love not once appears to describe their relation.  Of course you know Jesus "misses it" where Children are concerned because the one trait that seems utter LOST on Jesus is that children grow, and change and discover and mature.  Something that seems utterly beyond Jesus' capacity.  Well, for you Peter Pan freaks, I think I'd have my DNA checked out to make sure I didn't have some genetics equivelent to 'being born with a third bun" in my family tree.  Oh yeah, maybe in 1968 you were Hot Stuff as the new kid on the block.  But this isn't 1968 any more.  I can remember a period when there was actually talk of churches and church services being "relevant" to society.  "Revelence".  That's a word you never hear any more except perhaps in Court proceedings.  Good word.  Mazdas were supposed to wave of the future.  My brother is still a Mazda freak, so they're still around.  Remember when pull top cans had things that came off?  Of course to come full circle, you know that when David Bowie write "1984" he wanted to make it duly futuristic, and so he wanted a futuristic beat for it.  So naturally he came up with disco.  Back then of course labor unions were respected American Institutions and people who thought of eliminating them were some kind of John Bircher whacko candidate for the funny farm.  Remember when George Murphy talked about the coming thing to solve Southern California's water problem was De Salinization plants everywhere?  Whatever happened to that?  Of course DDT is considered one of the safest insecticides compared to any other, as far as the health of human beings is concerned.  But other things are more important than humans.  Of course now they are arguing for the personhood of Gorillas, so what's next?  I haven't a clue.

Failure to Deliver the Knock-out Punch

Well I watched about 45 minutes of Chris Matthews on MSNBC.  The college game ended just after three and it seems that Friday’s Hardball show ran over 35 minutes in its own right.  I watched one more ten minute segment till almost four.  The concencus now about President Obama now is that he has just “failed to deliver the knock-out punch”.  People are still talking as if the President could well lose in November since his popularity numbers seem to be hovering in the high forties and not rising despite the raft of economic good news.  Just yesterday we were bombarded with stories that droves of people are finding new hope and reentering the labor market.  So even though a lot of jobs were created last month unemployment remained frozen at 8.3%.  But as I told Judy weeks ago “The real unemployment rate is coming down a lot faster than that”.  The fact is that the Candidate has to assume that the American people are when you come down to it as simple minded as Forest Gump and cannot hold more than one thought in their minds at a time.  This is a problem I would certainly have running for office in that I would give people credit for more intelligence than they have.  So the President is admonished to “keep it Positive” and don’t even hint as “looking back where we’ve been” although to me this is to deny the obvious.  I think we all know Obama’s “hopey changy” message of 2008 kind of backfired on him and as such I don’t hold the Tea Party entirely at fault for their coming to resent this President so soon.  On the other hand Mitt Romney has not exactly been the brightest bulb in the package and the people are picking up on that.  If he has to say “I’m really angry at this President” and doesn’t LOOK it, people will pick up on it.  Someone said he was “too contented as a candidate”.   And the whole Romney line about “turning this economy around” could backfire if people think we are now on the right path where we’re going.  But Romney too has “failed to deliver the knock out punch”.  Not since 1992 has the outcome of a Party Nomination process been in doubt this long.  And Tuesday will do little to clarify things.  The commentators got on Romney’s case for other odd remarks such as “I feel like I’m at an away game being down South”.  But in an attempt to show he was “morphing’ into one of them throws in a few awkward “Youall’s” and then says “something is happening to me”.  Others have pointed out that conservatives themselves WANT Mitt Romney to be the standard bearer because even THEY admit he’s the best choice to take on President Obama in the fall with the best chance of winning.  And when push comes to shove they really have to admit he pretty much represents their views.  So now they are saying “The conservatives want to “Out-source” their Campaign to a Moderate.  That’s funny!

I really want to see this “Game Change” movie.  It would seem that Sarah Palin holds a central theme of this movie.  The Mc Cain people picked her out of some irrational desperation and basically “weren’t thinking”.  Now in the movie they say Sarah Palin was given tutorials on just who the nations were who fought in World War II and who won.  I guess they thought she was Michelle Bachman.  They say this movie is not cherry picking or biased but that “over twenty people were interviewed for the material facts of this movie, and this movie is a compilation of all of them”.  This is just another case of the Conservatives firing blanks.  Just like they were firing blanks with Acorn and Bill Ayres and Jeremiah Wright.  You know my feelings about Jeremiah Wright.  You pick one line out of one sermon to a targeted audience and judge a man’s entire multi decade history and credibility as a Christian by that one remark.  It seems to be a trend now to soft peddle people you regard as your enemies and to somehow over-compensate and “understand them” and take a “sympathetic view” of their mind set and all and how they “can’t really help it”.  That reasoning won’t wash with me.  Not one bit.

Tonight some different guy was sitting in the Black John’s chair and John was sitting in mind.  They got him out of there and I took John’s chair for today.  We had a tomato based beef and rice casserole and carrots and a green salad.  I got seconds on the casserole and salad.  We had applesauce for desert.  I asked if anybody knew when Manfred would be back.  He’s been gone for going on two months and now it really is beginning to look like he’s not coming back.  As to that new attractive brunette who sat at our table once a week or so ago and seemed so friendly,  I haven’t seen her since.  I hope she didn’t get scared off thinking this place was too whacko for her.  If I had my way we’d get more “high functioning people” in here.  As for Loretta there is a definite wall or distance between us these days and I don’t know why.  Sometimes you wish you knew why “walls’ suddenly form like this.  It sure happened often enough with various people associated with Pastor Mark’s church.  I think this President needs to look for a moment and think “Is it ONLY racism why people don’t like me?”   Maybe the true source of tea party resentment of President Obama is something yet to be discovered.

People say that ‘An Eye for an Eye” is not a good philosophy to live by.  But some have suggested that this scripture was put in scripture not to Encourage vengeance, but to Limit it to JUST that.  For instance if you “dis” a gang or mafia leader in public because you know they can’t do anything right then- - they won’t just respond in kind.  They will track you down in a dark back alley one night and beat you to within an inch of your life probably breaking your nose and your jaw and whatever.  They want to make sure “You get it real good”.  And we as human beings tend, I believe, to still think this way.  We may not reflect it in physical violence but other types of “getting even” in social situations where the punishment far exceeds the crime and after a while it goes from hurt to just blind, unreasoning resentment.  (Selah)  If you asked why Santorum’s remarks calling college people “snobs” strikes such a strong chord with southern hicks, they might not even be able to tell you.  Most likely it’s a deep seated insecurety about their OWN intelligence and “mental where with all” and they don’t even dare admit it.  Therefore in their minds the best defense is a good offence.  Of course the other adage of these people is “be sure and get in the first shot”.  That one also explains a lot.  Since they also believe if they are Macho enough that the “thrill of Victory” so to speak, will drown out any thoughts about the shoddy reason that led them into aggressive conduct to begin with.

Going About Our Business

                

Basically we all go about our own Business and hopefully we mind our OWN business unless our opinion is asked for.  People hate Meddelers, because I know I do.  Unfortunately these tea baggers won’t be happy till everybody thinks like them.  Rush Limbaugh has come out and said as much on his radio show that he won’t be happy till everybody thinks like He does.  And the thing is at the time he was not shown as to be as utterly expreme right as he has proved to be at his political core.  Now this guy from North Dakota gets on the air on KNX and starts raving about how North Dakota doesn’t have an unemployment problem and their state budgets are balanced because unlike the federal government they were able to enact “real spending cuts”.  Just a reality check here.  Thom Hartman months ago said that North Dakota was one of the most progressive states in that they had their own State Banks.  Therefore their financial system could afford to be run honestly and efficiently, without the usual machinations of private business.  Secondly, North Dakota is blessed with lots of new oil revenues from the Western part of the state.  To ignore these two big elephants in the room is to virtually lie to your listeners about WHY your state is doing so well.  He failed to point out that in Wisconsin that they HAVE taken draconian budget cutting and anti Union measures and the jobs situation in Wisconsin sucks and ditto for Romney’s Massachusetts.  And it’s pointed out, and I noticed it months ago but could not exactly put it into words- - that the Barock Obama presented by the Tea Party has virtually nothing to do with the real Obama but a comic book characture, and a rather poor one.  The President once again in his Morning Message laid out “the way things are” and in time maybe his Message will sink in.  This is that the United States has two percent of the World’s oil reserves, and yet we use twenty percent of the World’s gasoline and energy.  It doesn’t take a college degree to see that no amount of drilling could feed our ravenous energy appetite.  But in point of fact that oil drilling is way up now, and that production is up and U S innovation for new and better products is up.  This is all good news.  Also because of laws passed by this administration, automobiles will soon have to get 55 miles to the gallon.  Already United States citizens are driving no more than they used to, but are using LESS fuel than they did in year’s past.  This should be good news for Republicans concerned about foreign oil reliance, but of course it isn’t because they don’t really care about foreign oil.  This guy from North Dakota then said something interesting.  He said that North Dekotans wanted the Canadian pipeline because it would further buttress the economy because North Dakota was going to add Their oil to the pipeline.  I never heard that before.  I would have thought that with their Own supply of oil, laws of supply and demand would dictate that they would want to keep foreign oil OUT of North Dakota because it would insure higher prices for domestic producers.  But apparently “Things don’t happen that way at all”, to quote the Who.

I guess Kofe Annon or whoever from the UN is meeting with Syrian leader Assad today to try and bring a negotiated end to the killing and violence there.  Now the people are experiencing food and fuel shortages.  Apparently Russia is talking of Syria “toning it down a little” now.  I will repeat one of my big points in that if these Mideast crises get Solved, then this will ease tensions and drive US stock prices up and international oil prices down.  And to paraphrase Paul Warwick, “Obama’s chances of re election go UP as oil prices go DOWN”.

In the news we have been having some really strange stories and nothing is stranger than the saga of this boulder they are transporting by truck bed to the Los Angeles museum to be in some “suspended in mid air’ demonstration.  I’m confused.  But some truckers are coming out to see the big rock just to see what kind of a big rig is towing the thing.  Apparently the convoy averages only eight miles per hour or so because it’s such a major project and there are so many inclined grades in this area.  Now the big rock is almost at its Destination.

The news last night on ABC was kind of a freak show of strange events.  I compiled notes and last night highlighted them in a blog where I used Bullets for about the first time, and I added in quite a few more Bullets early this morning.  Of course I wasn’t going to do another blog till, what was it I said “late Monday at the earliest”.  Well as they say “the best laid plans of mice and men”.  Maybe my schedule wasn’t as full as I thought.  Suddenly areas of time opened up.  I would imagine tomorrow being the anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan will spark press commentary world wide as people roomanate about how safe, or not, Japanese nuclear plants are.  Somebody on the radio said any Nuclear plant was only 30% energy efficient at best.  Of course it’s a well known fact that no insurance company will touch nuclear accident coverage, just as no pastor will want to ever take responsibility in the least that anything he ever says or advises people might be either wrong or damaging to them.

So how did Jesus reflect on his own death?  He spoke of himself “being no more in the world” while he was apparently in his flesh praying in this world as follows.   And all my things are yours, and yours are mine: and I am glorified in them. 11 And now I am not in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name whom you have given me: that they may be one, as we also are. 12 While I was with them, I kept them in your name. Those whom you gave me have I kept: and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition: that the scripture may be fulfilled.   Are there other examples?   According to Hartman, the tea party likes to use this next scripture as justification for NOT giving to the poor.  Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, he that was about to betray him, said: 5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence and given to the poor? 6 Now he said this not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief and, having the purse, carried the things that were put therein. 7 Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against the day of my burial. 8 For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not always.   Well you heard him say it right there.  But what were his feelings like going to the cross itself?  Try this on for size.  And there followed him a great multitude of people and of women, who bewailed and lamented him. 28 But Jesus turning to them, said: Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not over me; but weep for yourselves and for your children. 29 For behold, the days shall come, wherein they will say: Blessed are the barren and the wombs that have not borne and the paps that have not given suck. 30 Then shall they begin to say to the mountains: Fall upon us. And to the hills: Cover us. 31 For if in the green wood they do these things, what shall be done in the dry?    I actually quoted this one in my prophecy book in 1980.   And of course everybody knows this final one.  And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying: Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabacthani? Which is, being interpreted: My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me? 35 And some of the standers by hearing, said: Behold he calls Elias. 36 And one running and filling a sponge with vinegar and putting it upon a reed, gave him to drink, saying: Stay, let us see if Elias come to take him down. 37 And Jesus, having cried out with a loud voice, gave up the ghost.   I don’t see how you can accuse me of cherry picking scripture.  This is how Jesus reacted to his own death, after all he was only human.  Or when pressed, the majority of theologians will say so.

I was just doing you  Take two.  I was just doing your basic mouse preview of various colors and decided on this, which I guess is basically peachy.  Things are just peachy today.  It’s a nice day outside set to be another warm day in the winter time.  This is Saturday morning March 10, 2012.  I hope that Chili’s luncheon later on with you-know-who isn’t just a figment of my imagination.  I think the secret to better blogs is to be a little “less out in front of them” by making what seeds I’m trying to plant just a little more obvious than at previous times.  Like I say some blogs of the past must have hit people out of left field.  Like that one in May of 2006 when I went on a rant about how come Mal Evans abandoned the Federation war campaign against the Centaurian Betas.  Also there is one in the fall (maybe) of 2997 where I talk about the origen of the Universe is being a “perpetual falling machine” from one Black Hole to another but from then on the reasoning for it was rather awkward.  And the one where I postulate not a new theory – it was one of Burt Lombard’s Mr. “Width if a Circle” guy, that the center of the Universe is basically almost Hallow and all the mass is at the edge of the sphere, the width of which may seem infinitessible if carried out this logic to extremes.  The trouble is one again the idea was an old one but the execution of the theory in this August 2007 posting is one of the most awkward I have ever done.  OK then.  Point taken.

The Rain Exploded with a Mighty Crash

Hello everybody, pink here.  This photo is not what you think, or maybe it is.  It's the morse code flip flop like with the letters B and J for example.  That's B as in "Beat It" and J as in "No I won't give you a job".  And then the prospective employee says "Not that kind of a Job - what do you take me for, a pervert?  I don't swing both ways".  To which the Employer said to him, "Are you kidding?  I've seen your batting average and you're batting over 350 each way.         Einstein desguised as robin hood, with his memories in a trunk                     
Passed this way an hour ago with his friend a jealous monk                                             
Well he looked so very frightful as he bummed a cigarette                                    
And he went off sniffing drain pipes and reciting the alphabet            
You would not think to look at him but he was famous long ago                      
for playing that silver guitar of his - - - on Desolation Row                             
The Rev John Mc Arthur says it's not the blood of Jesus that counts but rather the fact that he died.  Because people like Walter Martin said that Jesus is flash and bone, but not flesh and blood.  Who am I to argue with that logic?   Marco Polo changed "a lot of things" after his voyage in the thirteenth century.  After all, what Identity would Italians have without spaghetti and other pasta? Huh?  You mean there is such things as explosives that simulate the actions of God?  Why if God had wanted us to have those he - - Oh never mind!"    
"Change - - return - - success - - going and coming without error.  Let us embrace the mighty thunder that roars under the heavens and gather balls of hail in Honolulu and wait for the week of deluge.       Things happen and people still to deny that such is even possible.  Let us medetate on this Truth, my friends.  Cocain synchronizes the cycles of the brain so they all move in unicin.  I bet you didn't know that.  There are three things a Tea Party member can't give job.  A lot of lip,  an African American eye, and a con job.  (That's kind of a reworking of an old joke told to me by Jim Minor in 1966.   "I've been singing the blues for as long as I cam remember".  Ask Grandpa Simpson.  He can't remember a time when Rick Santorum was ever NOT in the news.  Or is that Sanatorium, I get so confused.

News Bullets

• The big news is of course how rarely the accomplishments of President Obama have actually all been listed starting with the Lilly Ledbetter act for female job pay parity.  This President faced perhaps his greatest crisis last Summer when the Republicans did everything they could to force a US dept default, but the President still managed to cut a deal that not only averted the problem but also actually cut the cost of government for the first time perhaps since the days of President Clinton.  If the whole situation just "fades away" as I predict it will, it will give the Republicans one thing LESS to complain about.   Those who know all the facts know the odds are at least 95% that there IS no crisis now, and Never Has Been!
• The Cherokee Nation was one tribe of Aberiginals that supported the British during the French and Indian Wars, unlike almost all other tribes.  So as Dr. Phil might say "How is that Newt Gringrich routine of embracing British Colonialism working out for you?
• Accoring to Thom Hartman it used to be common for there to be a "second sleep" after a mid night waking for a couple hours when all the religious Mystics got their best revelatory Insights.  This was up to the end of the Seventh Century when "street lighting become more common.  "Huh?"
• It's someone wearing a Gene Kelly mask saying 'Why should we mourn for Jesus Christ.  He mourned enough for Himself while he was Alive.  To which Spencer Tracy responded.  "Have you no compassion on the true meaning of his message".  Kelly:  Oh, you mean like the Romans setting the Jewish Temple on fire and the gold melting between the stones and they had to take the Temple literally apart to dig out all of the Gold.  That kind of Compassion?
• They say that Sarah Palin was unfairly portrayed during the "Game Change" movie.  Well maybe, but our electronic software would not except numeric inputs for IQ scores smaller than two digits.
• Joe the Plumber says "Some of my best friends are homosexual".  Anybody who begins a sentense with "some of my best friends are - - " are lying through their teeth.  You know that, don't you?
• If "de-mylonization of the brain" is something that occur when you shed the illusions of Child hood, well I say otherwise.  De-mylonization is like bullemia.  You may think it's exercising "disgestive system clensing" but in reality you are screwing yourself over royal, as part of some psychological compulsion.
• Dennis Kessinich did not to deserve losing that Primary in Ohio.  The Republicans redistricted him to pit democrat against democrat.  Just like they enjoy pitting Black against Jew or Black against Latino
• Lumpy Rutheford:  Wally, you've offered me all this crap to eat like BBQ potato chips and diet lemon line, and Cheetos, but all this still doesn't equal a hunk of chocolate cake, which is what I originally asked if you had.  Sorry, I picked up that bad habbit from being around my Church Pastor too long.
• After we had sex, the young girl began bleeding.  "It's my period, she says".  I said "Yeah, that happens to me all the time with my brain when I feel violated by a Sunday sermon in church.
• They say that to get Cancer from the caramel coloring they use in Coke and Pepsi you would have to drink one thousand cans a day on a sustained basis.  This is the concentration that it took for mice.  But in some ways Corporations are a little TOO paranoid about roomer and imuendo.
• The woman who invented Spanks slimming underwear has had a lot of tradgedy in her life.  She had a "never say die" philosophy ever since she was young when she had a "Susan" like determination to "try and be good at Something".  As a teenager she used to listen to Wayne Dyre tapes in her car and people didn't want to ride with her because the tapes were always going.  Wayne Dyre teaches that "You'll never get Healed if you think a healing is something you get from other people and not from yourself".  To me this is highly presumptuous.
• The Iditerod is being run in Alaska right now, which is a 600 or whatever - mile trek to Nome or whatever.  There is a dog who was 67 years old in dog years that had to drop out, and his owner gave him mouth to snout recessitation and carried the dog to safety where is got medical help and is at home now.
• Of course we here at the Vatican have had our finances audited.  Why, we've been having our financial records audited for the past 1200 years.  And Both accountants died mysteriously of arsnic poisoning soon afterward.
• March 11th is the one year anniversary of the bad nine point earthquake in Japan.  It was two months before the Japanese government told the people there had been an actual melt down.  The Japanese people openly express distrust for their own governments and are quite paranoid about radioactivity, traces of which are still around.  The Reactors still have not been repaired.
• Normally we go on Daylight Savings Time this weekend but I have heard no overt reference to it either on the radio or the television, and Network News didn't bring it up.  Well allright.  Bill Press thinks it's rediculous to go on DLST this early.  Just who the hell do we think we are- - France?   Bill Press just says wouldn't be funny if everybody showed up for their same jobs on Monday at the old time?
• Cosco and Whole Foods are two retail food stores that don't allow that "pink slime" in their hamburgers.  They claim that regular gelatin has more protien content.  The government is steadfast in its refuse to label meats that have it.  And you thought George Bush was no longer President.
• President Obama denies that he's been in bed with the Wall Street crowd ever.  So what's with all these new DNA mutents that have suddenly been discovered walking around.
• Andrew Britebart is living proof that anal sex can indeed produce a Child.
• The Love Boat used in the seventies TV series has been docked in Italy for the past thirty years but now it has been sold to a Turkish salvage company, which is going to junk it.
• Next month will be the one hundredth annivery of the Titanic going down.  Of course I toured replicas of this vessel in March of 2003 and it was a pretty amazing experiance, at the LA Museum.
• I guessed that the movie "The Rain Maker" had Burt Lancaster in the starring role as the leading man.  I've never seen the movie but based my judgement strictly on his personality in other movies.  The story is about a real person who was hired to make it rain in San Diego.  But he produced so much that people wanted to sue for damages, and the city of San Diego refused to pay him what was promised.
• Mitt Romney is now campaigning in the South because Mississippi and Alabama have primaries next Tuesday.  So now Mitt Romney has learned to fake a Southern accent.  This truely may be Newt Gingrich's last stand, if he can't win in the two most bigoted states, he's through.  Kansas is tomorrow.
• Apparently there is really such a thing as a "glow worm".  But it isn't even a worm but some sort of a Beetle.  No news yet on whether this insect can sing.
• This may come as news to you or perhaps not.  We've heard that optical zoom on a camera is what counts and that computer zoom is meaningless.  This is not true.  Computer zoom often works perfectly fine.  With optical zoom there is an increased liklihood of jerking the camera.  Also since the lens lets in no more light the picture is more apt go "go grainy" for lack of proper light, so watch that.
• According to Thom Hartman scitzophrenia like hyper activity, is an evolutionary device to help people cope in societies.  According to Hartman the Shamans of old were scitzo and we all know those are people "who can see right through you" like they were Jesus or somebody.  What if I told you I could see right through Jesus?  In point of fact, unless they are genuinely demon posessed (that's another story) they are most likely playing some kind of mind game on you and you fell for it.
• For four cycles of the Mayan Calendar, or perhaps it was only three, the tide was high for those Cardinals in Rome under the reign of the Holy See.  But in the year of the Dragon the Church wherled around, in cycles - one, two three, and the people cried for Mercy but the Lord wasn't listening and it sank to the Bottom of the Sea.
• This picture really was taken early in the morning on January 8th 2011 I believe.  It kind of looks like I just got up, and as you can see it was still dark.

The Meaning of Life - - Or Not

This is just a pause, not a full posting exactly since I did very little work.  It's quotations from the NUJV Lennon.  "New Unknown John Vocalist"  I'll give you another hint even though his identity is pretty obvious by now.  He is associated with the "Colors" planet Black Bart identified.  The first quote (in red) is mine.  The Beatle experts dispute the recording date saying this song was later in the spring.  What if it turns out I'm right?


About my only "visual" on the Beatles [of the post 1960 variety i e], and maybe I dreamed it, was when they had just finished up a long recording session.  (I think I sang "I'll Cry Instead" but I'm probably dreaming)  And we were going out the door kind of reflecting on what we had accomplished and Ringo goes, "Yeah, It's been a hard days - - " and then we are all surprised to see it's pitch dark outside and the lights, and he adds "Night".


A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing. (You aren't living up to your potential, and you definitely have that)

Fairy-tales are nice. (Fairy tales are for girls with father fixations)

Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.

Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them. (That's the way to do it)
I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should. (Believe it or not, I'm an amazingly lazy reader)

I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.  (ditto for me and President Obama)

I like songs that are simple.  (That's not true)

I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.

I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people. (Absolutely)

I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.

I wasn't always this introverted. (I definitely believe that)

I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends. (From what I've read your relatives had a regular monetary feeding fest after you passed)

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

I'm full of dust and guitars.

I'm sorry I can't speak very coherently.

I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.

I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.

Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.

The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.

When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.  

Read more: See Postings of Marcus Arelius.  This is a Google directive!

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Today we are doing double duty.  Right now it's time for a Reality check.  Yes that is Syd Barret.  The guy who likes the Rolling Stones and the Kinks and the Yardbirds, or did when he was alive anyhow and I imagine he still does.  I'd like to see his art work.  I'm sure I can find that if I look.

GETTING ANSWERS

I see the morning light

I see the morning liiight

Well it's not because I'm an early riser

I didn't get to bed last night

The following notice used to appear in "Vinyl Remakes" before I just took it out as utterly unnecceesry.  The reason is apparent.  "Let Me Die in my Footsteps" is not a long song.  It's only three & a half minutes.  I had the idea from somewhere it was over six minutes.  Also "Things Don't Happen Like That Nowadays" is a shorter song than I imagined it was.  These two things combined enables the songs to be exactly as listed.

As an addendum for a "dirty trick" I intend to play on the people who get this album actually on vinyl rather than the CD, let's use the Whitmark tape version of "Footsteps" because since side two of the Vinyl does run "awfully long" let's shorten it up a bit, by having Dylan interrupt himself and termanate this track to it doesn't run too long on viny.  The CD people get the whole song.


We want answers to a lot of things in life.  Christians tell you if you remain with the Faith you will get all of the answers to questions you are seeking in full.  Not a one of them has been answered.  We were led to believe the Mysteries of Daniel 11 would be revealed in progressive phases along the lines of "Every day see one more card".  I guess those cards must be stuck together with crazy glue.  No answers.  We were told we would get the answers to 9 - 11 in time.  Not a one has revealed.  We were told by certain conservative people "The President knows things are a whole lot worse as far as terrorism and he's not telling us so as not to panic us."  We are still waiting.  We never found those "weapons of mass destruction".  Then don't exist.  We were told new archaeological evidence would soon "prove" Christianity.  It didn't.  Not a one.  i was vaguely told by Dad that "once I realized I was scitzofrenic" or whatever I'd see all the errors in judgements about people I made when I was younger, not in so many words but he implied it.  That never happened.  I was told 14 months ago I would encounter "certain problems" if I pursued my push for increased financial independence.  No problems occurred.  We were told of some horrible tapes that that Britebart guy was going to reveal that would utterly Ruin his chances at reelection, and maybe the left did him in because of that.  There was nothing incrimidating on that tape at all.  It was just Obama introducing the first tenured Black professor who had worked with Thurgred Marshall when he was younger.  Glen Beck told us that by now we would be having Wymar Republic style inflation because of the president's FED "remoniterization policies".  We didn't. We were told things by Sylvia Brown about the "wall between the dead ones and the living getting thinner and thinner till it disappears".  Where is Sylvia Brown now?  Retired?  Or maybe she's in prison convicted of fraud or something.  Quino sabe?

And some of us will go on to Sing-Sing Prison

And some of us will grow up to be lawyers and things

And some will be right here to meed You at your crossroads

From inside the walls - - the Walls of Red Wing.

Senate Rejects Canadian Oil Pipeline

Today the US Senate by rule needed sixty votes to approve the Canadian pipeline.  They didn't make it.  Now the Republicans have no basis to say that Congress has not spoken because they have and they turned the pipeline down.  The President has not said he opposed the piipeline but in general said he wants it to go through, don't ask me why.  Were I president I would be opposing it.  The President is only concerned about the legal mechanics of government and the sovreign rights of certain states like Nebraska.  Newt Gingrich and John Boehner continue to lie and say that this pipeline will bring us oil and lower our oil prices at the pump.  Gingrich talked about opening up all these US reserves now off limits and how many barrels of oil it would produce.  What he fails to say is how MUCH of a dent this would make in domestic gasoline prices at the pump.  Gingrich and Bohner seem to continue to labor under the apprehension that somehow "If the pipeline comes through the US then we are making a deal with Canada and in doing so we will Prevent - - Canada making a deal with China to get the oil.  But China has already agreed they want the oil and the only problem Canada has is how to get THIS oil to them.  The US can make it harder or easier for China to get that oil already agreed on.  I vote they make it harder, and the Senate agrees.  Thom Hartman says wind turbine electricity is already so prevelent in Texas that the electric companies are telling them to STOP production because the grid can't handle all the extra voltage.  What the grid needs is to be more computurized to rerrout surplus voltage to other sources.  Also the President rightly fingers the rise in gasoline prices as a bottle neck distribution problem and this could easily be solved by a few Presidential executive orders, which he fully has the power to do and in my guess, intends to use it.

The solar electrical storms of course come every eleven years.  I knew that.  It just seems I can't remember when the last "quiet" period was.  This current storm wasn't as bad as feared but some (polar?) airline routs were re-routed away from the poles I guess, where the magnitism is the highest.  They are saying however even now they expect these solar storms to get worse and last for years.  In 2003 the last storm knocked out the vast grid in Quibec and plunged millions into darkness.  This may happen again.  With each passing year we are all more vulnerable with increased electronics, to more information disruption due to black-outs.

Unemployment first time claims are up for the past month and the stock market appears to have stalled out lately and the robust upward pace has not continued.  My guess is that the whole Iranian thing will cease to be an issue in a few weeks as, as Thom Hartman points out, fifteen different investigative agencies of the US government all concur that there IS no threat of Iran building a bomb.  They aren't even close to that.  There is not even any decision that they have agreed to TRY to build a fission bomb.  So all this talk of war is highly premature.  The best time to end a war is before it starts.  That way there can't be any of this crap about "disrupting the moral of troops that are already stationed in the theater of battle" or anything.  President Obama is stating the obvious.  War is hell and it costs lives and causes pain to a lot of people, and of course will hinder the efforts to reduce our US spending deficet something fierce.  Which is something the Republicans all SAY they are for, but if "future behavior is best judged by past performance" none of these Republicans has any moral credibility at all.

Now they have dolphins wearing sponges over their snouts to protect them.  Bears give themselves sponge baths.  Elephants use stools as step ladders on their own.  Crows bend wires to get food out of a glass.  Animals are smarter than we think.  There are many stories of "psychological games" that cats play with their owners, as far as threatening to knock something over or other stunts.  We know now that APES know how to use an I Pad and associate pictures with English words.  It is alltogether possible that our whole attitude about animals for food may change.  It costs us a tremendous ammount of resources to raise grain using valuable land in resources, just to fatten cattle and sheep up for slaughter, when the animals could be eating grass anyhow.  They say that chickens that eat grubs and worms produce healthier meat than do factory farm chickens.  We know that people who live sheltered lives not only have compromized immunity, but are also prone to more allergies as the body attacks itself.  In the coming centure we as a society will "grow" in ways that aren't apparent even now for this author.  But a lot more problems are being "worked on" and even Solved than the doom and gloom Tea Party set can possibly believe.

This blog will probably be the last one at least for a few days till perhaps late Monday.  For me even that short time off is a long time these days.  We wish everyone a happy March Madness, and remember not to arrive an hour late to work on Monday, but if you miss Church, that's no big deal, ha, ha.