More Utterances from the Whacko Right

Gladiators killed themselves -

It was in Roman Times

People watched in hypnotic gaze

As hearts and Minds went Blind


Many on the right honestly do like to "show off God" to people, like walking a dog at a dog show on a choker chain.

I guess it used t be the dream of every set of parents to have a respectable, wholesome son, even if he married a "Stepford Wife' with only a quarter the IQ of his mother.  But she would faithfully live out her role and be content doing those feminine, womanly things like having children, and otherwise being morally emaculate as well as an emaculate house keeper.  She she would do all those feminine things like meet with her "woman's club" and play cards and gossip and issue phoney complements about each other's sense of fashion.  In a sense this appeals to an America that never quite really was since women had been working as "Rosey the riviter" and often the women had college degrees of their own even back then in some respectable area such as socialogy.  I remember this great aunt on Leave it to Beaver who would visit from time to time and the Beaver would always dread her visits because his mother was scared spitless she would "do something to embarras her" and the aunt was kind of a snob, and I'm not even sure whether June was comfortable around her.  And she would say stuff like "It's always to see such an Eastern house this far west".  (the last time I checked Universal City was about as far "west" as they come.  Anyhow all of the churches would be filled with "respectable" people in their congragations.  They have an adage that "The most segregated hour of the week is nine thirty on Sunday morning".

Well unfortunately I have bad news for you all.  It isn't 1962 any more.  Now instead of joining the booster club or the Cadets at school, Junior is likely being recruited by the various school gangs.  One woman today on the radio was saying she had to "learn to overcome her fear of young Black teenage boys".  What was she afraid of?  That they would grow fangs and suck her blood?  We learn from Randy Rhodes that there are even stranger and more whacked out sermons than have been related so far.  This one preacher was in this emotional froth like Will Horton today on the show.  He could hardly contain it.  He was talking about parents with a four year old son who put on a dress.  And the preacher said "Rather than squash this homosexual impulse like a cockroach, the parents got out their camera and took pictures of the boy in the dress and uploaded the photos to the internet.  OK to me that too is a little insane.  The preacher went on to say "You should have ripped that dress off that boy and told him to go out and did a hole in the yard and all that other stuff that Boys do".  I guess that was the same preacher who went on to talk about "If you have a limp wristed son".   Now there is another bizzaro organization called BOND.  And this stands for Brotherhood Organization of the New Destiny.  Sounds a little Nazi to me.  Anyhow there are some big names on this corporation's board of directors including Dennis Prager, whose moral stances in the past have been as spotty as Newt Gingriches but then birds of a feather- - and all.  Then you have Sean Hannity, whom you all know and dread, and there is Dr. Walter Williams, the guy who is "Black by Popular Demand".  He is fifteen years my senior and talks of attending Junior High when corporal punishment was a lot more "liberally' carried out than it is today.  Anyhow this group has a Reverend named Jesse Peterson.  Last Sunday he said that the downfall of America can be traced back to when man gave woman the vote.  And that the Founding Fathers were wise in not giving women the vote because they knew if they ever did they'd vote for such things like liberalizing abortions and leagalizing gay marriages.  And this guy just rambled on and on about how America is being destroyed today.  Now apparently Katholeen Sabelius, a Catholic, is being attacked because she is the head of Obama's Health and Human Services department.  They want to bring back abortion as an issue just like I talked about this morning.  And apparently people on FOX television took offense to some Vagina Manger skit.  Personally if I didn't like what a show had on I just wouldn't watch it any more.  But the Ned Flanders of the world spend all this time trolling the cable networks for shows that are offensive and writing down all the naughty words, and then go running to their city councilmen or congressman or the FCC or something.

I saw guns and sharp swords

In the hands of young children

I met a young man who was wounded in Love

I met another young man who was wounded in Hatred

I heard the roar of a wave

That could drown the whole World

And you know don't you that often society's downfall or the downfall of any thing or person or istitution by Failure to Answer certain questions that nobody ever dared ask, but should have.  We've got one of these for you in a moment.  I was reading Revelation 12 about the virgin woman who was pregnent and gave birth to a son.  And she was circled by the twelve stars and the sun and moon and all of that.  And the surpent was crouched ready to "snatch the child away as soon as the woman had given birth.  But the book goes on "But then the child was snatched away to the throne of God.  This is the individual who is destined to Rule the Nations with a Rod of Iron".  So much for peace and love.  In Luke Jesus is prophisyed over by that old dude who said "Truely this child shall grow up to be the Deliveror of Israel".  Here is the question.  Name me ONE time in the ENTIRE Bible, you've got the whole book to pick on from the early chapters of Genisis onward. Name me ONE time where Satan's plans were ever thwarted or Satan was ever "caught off guard" or "caught by surprise" or "was disappointed at he outcome" and had to "modify his well spun plans".  You won't find any.  How then can you call it strange of me to say that Satan and God are one and the same, as people like me say that God is, because that's what being a Determinist Deist is all about.  What struck me is that the evangelical writings go on and on about how Satan wanted Jesus dead and crucified.  Really?  Name me one quote in the whole Bible where Satan is quoted as saying this- - even remotely.  As I read the scripture I see absolutely no frustration or disgust with the fact that Jesus apparently rose from the dead.  I see Satan is a creature not one bit weaker AFTER the Resurrection than before.  Satan "Has posession of Planet Earth" or to use the shorthand is "Lord of this World' both before and after Jesus' resurrection.  Unlike smallpox, satanic posessions are not a thing of the past.  OK now that I've messed up the dinner of all you respectable Irish Bostonians - - try and enjoy your meal.

I heard ten thousand people whispering -

And Nobody Listening - - -

Let me say just another word about Will Horton.  Sometimes you can fully agree with someone's speech and only wish you yourself had the balls to say it, but will criticize them publicly because it's not "shiek" to be a fan of theirs.  We have the case of Will Horton today.  I agree with every word he said, and they were words that very much NEEDED to be said by SOMEBODY.  This whole "emperors new clothes" thing can go on only so long.  Samantha Brady IS a hypocrite of the first magnitude.  She speaks of her sister Carrie and "Austin says- - Samantha and Carrie are sisters and they love each other".  Since when?  Name me ONE good thing Samantha has ever said about Carrie in the nineteen years she's been on the show.  When has Samantha ever even spoken a civil word to her. And for the most part Carrie just "takes it" in good stride.  And Samantha has repeatedly reviled her mother to her face, a sin if you want to get Biblical is one meriting Death.  She hasn't "forgiven" her mother for her "Affair" with John Black, whom she had been previously married to for years, and who would be married to again for nearly twenty years hence.  But Samantha can't let it go.  Will lost a grandmother.  He has standing to mourn.  And then we come to her most beloved husband - - Raphael, the "Love of her life".  Yeah,until she cheated on him with their worse enemy and then lied and hid the thing.  Not only that but Samantha engaged in what I call "preemptive guilt trip diversions" to cover up the facts.  And as for Stephano- - he has no friends left.  He drove his wife and son away, and his daughter thinks he's a hopeless moral reprobate.  And now he's got the whole town after him because John Black decided that "Stephano deserved to be taught a lesson" and Shane Donavin and Roman Brady agreed with him.  As to Brady Black's desire to put a bullet through his brain.  On this show that must be a thought as recurrent as sex that you have every fifteen minutes- - and I bet everyone had thought it.  As the Italian proverb says "After all is said and done, a lot more is sand than done".  The only friends Stephano seems to have left at all are his own hired henchmen, like Gene Scott or somebody, and he even yells at those people.  Evil always collapses in on itself.  (Selah)

A disturbing thought just hit me, Steve.  This is the Real Navy; it isn't the Cain, with Captain Queegs running lose.  They'll never believe our story!

Postscript:  The whole Tea Party debates specticle took place last fall.  But how will it be in a "Real Debate" where the crowd isn't a howeling blood-thirsty pack of dogs, the usual bigoted, ignorant tea party bunch.

What kind of results indeed, will you have when people attending are told to keep silent

Or like a Jury in a Court Trial-  when told not to form any decisions till all has been Spoken?

Al Qaeda Continues a Troubling Threat

Now there is a new threat for us all to get upset about all over.  Now they have a new and upgraded version on the "underwear bomb" and Al Qaeda is still trying once again to bring down a US airliner, something they have so far been unsuccessful in doing since 9 - 11.  Only a few people such as Quadafi, whom is revered by people like Michelle Bachman and Pat Buchannon, is in that rarefied class of people who has actually sponsored the taking down of an airline such as the Lockerbee, Scotland downing in 1988.  Stephanie Miller is musing that perhaps it WILL become litterally impossible to scan for today's stealth explosives on the body.  Either the bombs will be surgically implanted, or perhaps they will be triggered off by such things as human sweat.  It's a known fact that there are over a hundred Al Qaeda in Afghanistan whereas in Yemen and the Arabian peninsula there are over a thousand Al Qaeda.  It's no secret of course that fifteen of the nineteen 9 - 11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, so that President Bush could be said to be more palsey with "the enemy" than President Obama has ever been.  Personally I would rather that this whole terrorist stuff become a thing of the past and it not even be in issue in the 2012 campaign.  But if it's going to be made an issue the least Republicans can admit is that the United States has continued the vigilance against Al Qaeda it has maintained for the last ten years both under Bush and Obama almost seamlessly.

The Problem with Romney is that he has actually no Core Principles.  There seems to be no line that Mittens will not cross.  We remember John Mc Cain rebuking a woman for saying that Obama was a foreigner and a Moslem sympathizer.  But yesterday a woman began her remarks by saying "We know that this President has dealt widely outside the constitution and is guilty of treason - - " and the crowd exploded in applause.  But then when it came time for Romney to respond to her, he didn't.  You must keep in mind in that accusing the President of Treason you are accusing him of a Capital crime for which we still have the Death penalty.  You are in essence saying that this President is deserving of Death.  That's pretty serious.  If someone were to accuse Romney of for instance being for overturning Roe vs Wade how would he respond.  Romney would not DARE go against the Tea Party on this issue and I'd "demonstrate" this fact in the first Debate.  No woman is going to give up her right to an abortion since women under forty have known all their life and can't even imagine an America where she LACKS this right.  For women the right to an abortion is viewed the same way as men on the second amendment.  "I'd never carry a gun myself but Lord help the person who would ever take this right away from me.".  In terms of the Supreme Court two very Different statements are being made by republicans.  On the one hand they agree with our side saying "The Supreme Court is getting just too powerful".  On the other hand they are saying "But if we ever get into power we are going to get all of OUR people in there so WE can be the ones who are treading on the rights of others".  What this philosophy ammounts to it would be like a football game.  Normally you figure which team is stronger or where the game is being played or what the odds makers say.  But for Mitt Romney the all consuming question would be "Who is refereeing the game".  If Football ever degenerates to where WHO the Referee is - is the most important element of the game- - then NFL football will have degenerated to a level where I no longer care to watch it.  Don't you agree?  Romney won't step up to the plate when he is wrong.  There IS on "inner referee" in Romney's mind that opporates as a "gate keeper" to guard what comes out of his mouth.  So he cannot even Admit that he was Wrong about the bail out of General Motors.  These tea party people continue to call it a "disaster" that General Motors was bailed out.  They say it's bad because worker's jobs were SAVED  - - and so Unions were helped.  And they call it "Government Motors".  Romney will NOT he was just dumb ass Wrong about something.  And on the whole idea of calling the President a Moslem- - is being a Moslem per se a bar against ever becoming President?  That's an interesting question.  Are there no good and moral people of the Islamic faith living in these United States?

Scott Walker will be recalled on June 5th or four weeks from today.  But today there will be picked a democratic contender for him to run against.  In North Carolina they are voting on that anti gay marriage constitutional amendment.  It seems even though N C already bars gay marriage that it is the only "southeastern" state that does NOT have a constitutional amendment to make it official.  Much as the proposed 27th amendment - - the Equal Rights Amendment was fought by the right because it would institute such thing as Unisex restrooms and the drafting of women - - so those on the left now say that there would be "unintended consequences" to proposition one being passed by the Voters of North Carolina.  We'll find out later to day but those in the know say it's an almost Certainty that proposition one will pass.  Certain things become a fad as the Tea Party issues an edict and all the states have to fall into lock step, such as this whole thing about "Stand your ground" gun laws, where the burden of proof falls on the State to prove that you Deliberately killed someone.  They say the count of "stand your ground" gun laws is up to 27 states.  Of course incidents of certain types of gun shootings are not up tripple in Florida, and the courts won't even try these cases but sumarily dismiss cases before they get that far because the LAW requires some special "gun court" that bypasses the usual grand jury thing all together so that the Grand Jury has the decision on whether to charge a crime is taken preemptively out of their hands.  Welcome to Mitt Romney's World!  It's interesting that Mittens Romney has NO experiance in Foreign Policy and NO experiance in any Government Legislative body either the House or the Senate.  All he has is experiance firing people.  We know he loves to do that.  He's good at it.  You love what you're good at as the adage goes.

The following material is about that Egyptian named "Crestus" and NOT about Yeshua the Nazarene.  They were two different people.  If you doubt me read for yourself.  Tasitus and this guy here are saying about the same thing.  Perhaps one of them got it from the other.  The notible thing is that in AD 96 that the Roman government differentiated between "Crestus" followers and your garden variety Jew.  Keep in mind once again Crestus did not die in 30 AD but continued to live on in Egypt for perhaps several decades.  Whether Crestus was dead or alive in 50 AD is a matter of speculation.  The whole ministry of Crestus is that there was a "shadow Israel" or "spiritual Israel" if you will where things of Heaven are more REAL than the things of EARTH and so the Temple in Jerusalem on EARTH could not be the "REAL Temple" because you had to have this physically transforming experiance of somehow living in Eternity- - - in a world envisioned somewhat like the book of Revelations where all the physical stuff down here has a spiritual counter part- - right down to thrones and the twelve tribes - - and crowns and Elders and streets of gold and gems and pearly gates and the whole shebang.  So here it is from the horse's mouth, before the Tea Party gets to do a rewrite.

The emperor Claudius reigned 41 to 54 AD. Suetonius reports his dealings with the eastern Roman Empire, that is, with Greece and Macedonia, and with the Lycians, Rhodians, and Trojans. He then reports that the emperor expelled the Jews from Rome, since they "constantly made disturbances at the instigation of Christ" (Judaeos impulsore Chresto assidue tumultuantis Roma expulit).^[4] The name appears in manuscripts of Suetonius as Chrestus, a form also used by the Roman historian Tacitus to refer to Chrestiani. Chrestus (Χρηστός, "Useful" or "Good") is a not uncommon Greek personal name,^[5] and may not refer to the man known as Jesus Christ; however, it is just as likely that a Roman, through linguistic assimilation, would hear Christus as the more familiar Chrestus. The passage suggests that in the mid-first century, the Romans still viewed Christianity as a Jewish sect. Historians debate whether or not the Roman government distinguished between Christians and Jews prior to Nerva's modification of the Fiscus Judaicus in 96. From then on, practising Jews paid the tax, Christians did not. See also: Great Fire of Rome and Tacitus on Christ  In 64 AD, the Great Fire of Rome destroyed portions of the city and economically devastated the Roman population. The emperor Nero (reigned 54–68) was himself suspected as the arsonist by Suetonius,^[8] who claims he played the lyre and sang the Sack of Ilium during the fires.  The historian Tacitus, however, says that Nero was in Antium when the fire broke out. Tacitus accuses Nero of diverting the blame to the Chrestiani, a form that has been related to Suetonius's use of Chrestus.^[9] If the followers of Jesus are meant, Nero's is the first documented case of official Imperial persecution of Christians. Suetonius does not say that any persecution of Christians occurred as a result of the fire. He does mention the infliction of punishments (afflicti suppliciis) on Christians among other abuses perpetrated by Nero, in a passage several paragraphs earlier than his account of the fire. In this passage, he describes Christians as "a group of people of a new and maleficent superstition" (genus^[10] hominum superstitionis novae ac maleficae).^[11] In Roman usage, the word superstitio refers to any type of religious observance that could not be incorporated into traditional Roman religious practice.

Dedicating Yourself To A Lie

Certainly the Tea Party has dedicated itself to myths of their own making and flat out lies are not only told but believed by the electorate because they are propigated by the mainstream media.  I just read a piece from the right that stated that the real inflation rate was over seven percent and not "just over two" as the Fed Chairman maintains it is.  If that's the case than the Tea Party wouldn't mind of anybody on SSI was given a seven percent increase per year.  This "correct" inflation index is based on "the day to day items people buy every day".  I will say this.  To count real estate prices in the index is nothing short of silly because that is NOT something people "buy every day".  If housing is included in the C P I, then it should be taken out.  For instance the latest unemployment figures have been the endless target of conservative spinmeisters.  To just review what the facts actually are it is for the first time there have been more jobs gained by the Private Sector than lost since the President took office.  There has been 26 straight months of consecutive adding of jobs in the private sector.  The unemployment rate went down.  Over a hundred thousand jobs were created last months.  Contrary to what I was hearing from the tea party about previous numbers being revised Downward, "they are Always revised Downward' they say.  Instead the month of March was revised substantially Upward, as was February revised upward.  And yet Rush Limbaugh is now spreading the Whopper that "President Obama has lost eleven million jobs" and Mitt Romney has stated that "These latest unemployment figures are disasterous".  Rather than be "normal" unemployment figures in the four to five percent figure are VERY unusual in the past forty years, I kid you not.  And the creation of a "normal" figure of five hundred thousand jobs per month - - is almost unheard of, I kid you not.  Romney says it's normal and expected.  He's lying.  And the fact is that had the Republicans passed Obama's jobs program last fall there would be two million more jobs by now and most of those in the public sector.  But the tea party thought a half percent levy on millionaires was unreasonable.  Now another adage of the Right Wing is put to the Lie.  France just elected a Socialist for President who ran on a platform of a top rate of 75% top tax rate for rich people, I kid you not.  The people all over Europe see the fruits of these "austerity" programs, and that it hasn't worked.  Obama is absolutely right in saying "If you didn't like George Bush spending policies- - Romney's plan is George Bush on steroids!  He wants to give every millionaire an additional $250,000 per year in tax savings, as if they need it.

The Tea Party when they make quotes about this being a Christian nation often go to the sixteen and seventeen hundreds to get their quotes.  They surely won't draw on any author in the past century.  And contrary to what Gingrich and Samtorum are saying - - at NO time in our history has a College education been put up to such scorn and ridicule and denigration as it is by these people.  Not even in'Inheret the Win" movie set in the 1920's is the idea of a College education itself deemed as a bad or dangerous thing that ought to be curtailed as Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum advocate.  College graduates after all get more jobs and generally have a lower unemployment rate.  As such one might logical think that the Tea Party would be all for a college as part of their "Pursuit of excellence" as Rush Limbaugh talks about.  But alas this is not the case.  It's hard to say what an educated personal with an actual degree in Economics would say about the "Romney Plan" to reform the economy- - because if he has ever developed one, none of us in the public have heard of it.  Mitt Romney in his classic "risk averse" philosophy of life- - never goes on any of these interview shows such as Meet the Press or Face the Nation to discuss his views.  Obama puts it well when he says that Romney will ammount to little more than a rubber stamp for Tea Party edicts, much as Grover Norquist has advocated in saying "We don't want a president who can think but just one will pass any bill we put before him without questioning it".  As much as President Obama talks about the Private Sector and his  delight that it is now doing so well- - you'd think these tea party people would stop calling this President a socialist and a communist.  You'd at least think they would respect the fact that the President is a very accomplished, well educated individual.  But they don't.  But despite the fact that Romney has lost the Northeast, The West Coast, the Blacks, Latinos, Women, the Elderly, and most likely the College Educated- - still the polls show him neck and neck with Mitt Romney in a puzzle that I have yet to figure out.  All Romney used to say about student loans being so hard to get is, "Let them ask their parents for the money".  But alas it seems "I could go on but my words would soon turn into a meaningless rain".  The tea party is not listening and no ammount of reality will get to them.

State and local governments are in a never ending process of cutting back, each year greater than the previous year.  Surely it must show up in such things as the quality of the education or our school children, or road safety, or whether the police or fire departments come when you call them.  And of course all of these local government cutbacks has a negative spiraling quality of their own as far as leaving less money to spend for all concerned.  The things that would happen under a President Romney administration are too grim to contemplate.  But the President should NEVER get the idea that he is being "too strident' in his campaigning.  Now the Media has even taken to such statements of "I've never known a President to make such direct attacks of his political opponet before".  What planet are they on anyhow?  Stephanie Miller has been saying that rather than a pro Obama bias in the media as the tea party alledges, the Media has shown a decidedly pro Romney and anti Presidential bias.  This survay was done by counting up the negative references, one by one.

So who has told the most demonstrably false statements- - Jesus or myself?  Well if you go by the red print in the red print Bibles and quote from that- - Jesus has said that there are four angels at the four "corners" of the earth.  Jesus said "you desciples will not have gone through all the nations teaching the gospel before I return".  Jesus said "All these things will come on this generation".  Jesus said "You will Always have the poor with you".  I'd like to believe this one will some day not be true.  But what policies did Jesus institute to improve either local or national government.  If he believe the pharicees misuse their power- - did he take the next step in the tradition of Thom Hartman- - go "get out there and get involved in politics".  Wagging your mouth is one thing- - but actually DOING something about that which you view as a problem is something else.  Jesus said "Father Abraham foresaw my day".  Jesus also said "I was there when Satan fell like lightning out of heaven".  That at best falls into the "unproven" category.  Some times people think Jesus aid things that he never said.  He never said, for instance, "If you accept me as your saviour, your life will be a lot better off five years from now and you will find happiness you never knew before".  Jesus never said "The way to deal with a bully is to turn the other cheek - - and he will leave you alone".  Jesus also never said "Being a bully is bad" or "Bullies ought to be subject to punishment".  There's a lot of things Jesus never said.  (Selah)

Arriving at "The Point" (a medetation)

Greetings all you blogees out there.  If I am the blog-ger then You must be the "Blog-ees".  I was going to title this one "translation glitches" since anyone who reads my material is likely to come accross "translation glitches" all the time, like Jesus and his Parables.  Yeah.  We had those 9 - 11 defendants on trial yesterday at their arreignment in Guantanamo Bay and they refused to listen to the Arabec translation through their headphones and so the presiding judge ordered all translations to be spoken over the PA system in Arabec.  Of course national security is of utmost concern in getting a proper translation.  One time when Mike Wallace asked if he agreed with Mubarek's assertion that Bin Laden was insane, apparently the translator balked.  Of course I let a paragraph "slip through" to one of my brothers that mentioned a whole lot of dead rock stars such as Syd Barret, Mal Evans, John Lennon, Johnny Cash, and Jim Morrison all in one breath.  "It got garbled in the translation" will be my General Patton explanation, perhaps.  To illustrate translation problems one time a missionary to some Micronesians or native Samoahs talked about how "My past can be divided into two different parts" and began talking about his life history and there was all this laughing and snickering in the audience and he wondered what was up and was informed he'd used the wrong word for "past" but instead said "My ass (as in buttox) is divided into two parts".  You really gotta watch embarrasing stuff like that.

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We have translation problems with the Bible that almost constitute their own reality.  For instance there is a line often mistranslated as "Let he who is without sin first cast a stone at the woman".  This would seem to imply that Jesus is saying "To prove you don't have any sins - throw rocks at this woman", which is not what he was saying at all.  Many mistranslate a passage of Revelation that goes "But I have This against you - - that you have abandoned your First Love".  But what the verse should be translated as "You have abandoned the Love you had at first" (or at the beginning)  Even in Spanish class I ran into this.  There was a line in "En La Biblioteca" that goes "Pues, parace mal".  And it's translated, "Well, is that bad" when a much more faithful translation would be "Does it seem bad to you?"   And then we have the line of Jesus where he says 'Drink ye All of it' referring to the comunion cup.  You have a lot of drunk Cholic priests feeling they have to finish the comunion wine.  The proper translation that makes sense is "Drink of it - - all of you" since in context it was one common Cup that was being passed around from desciple to desciple".   You have another problem with some people who translate one passage in Timothy as "Every scripture inspired by God - - - ".  The correct translation is "All scripture is inspired by God".  The Greek word for Love has nothing to do with the love of a parent for his children,  That would be "Storge" or something.  Agape, the word used, is used exclusively as a man's love for a Thing such as a masterpiece of gemstone of some sort.  Or it could be used as "The love of a drug addict for his drug of choice".  At any rate it's man on object love.

We have the old testament where in the Living Bible it talks about angels coming down and having sex with earth women.  This is the only one that's ballsey enough to get it right.  This is JUST what is referred to.  In 2nd Peter and in Jeremiah it speaks of Alien Beings living on Earth before Man was created.  These Beings were shipped off to a place called "Tarterus", which is a holding tank used exclusively for Fallen Angels and never for Man.  In Genesis it says "And the earth Became Void and Waste".  The word "was" won't work here and I'll prove it to you right now.  It says later in Genesis that "Enoch walked with God 365 years and he was not for God took him".  Walter Martin would infer "Then it says Enoch Never Existed", which is NOT what the scripture is saying.  And by the way the term of "Sons of God" is used exclusively for Angels.  The opening chapter of Job speaks of "The sons of God presenting themselves before God" and this is Angels.  Exekiel is referred to by God as "Son of Man" as a way of God belitteling him and letting him know he's only human even though he's seeing visions of winged angels and UFO's and wherling discs and all that.  We can thusly infer that when the Messiah is referred to as "The Son of Man" later on, it's said in the third person, and by an individual who regards the Messiah as fully human, even as Jews today believe he will be.  Enoch expressly says that the Messiah or "Deliveror of Israel" will in fact be a "Son of Man".  This book never got officially included in either the Jewish or Christian Bibles, but was in common use then.

In terms of the word Kristos this is the Greek word for Messiah and I'd like to look further at it.  We also have the word "Christians" which is a diminuitive of Kristos.  Kristos alluds to either a small something or more commonly the Singular of a noun.  However in Latin the word "Crestus" is used as a proper name, I believe by an individual who was either alive or mistaken to be Alive in AD 50 when Claudius kicked "The Jews" (who followed "Crestus") out of Rome.  The Timothy scripture takes on importance because followers of Marcion did NOT want the Old Testament included as inspired.  So you had to have some desciple like Timothy - - pretend to be like Paul only change the meaning a little to make it more what is in fashion now.  So "All scripture is inspired by God".  One must understand Gnosticism - and the best way to do that is the Star Trek episode where "The One" gets taken aboard the Enterprize and in the mind of the Borg, got "brainwashed' or something.  He was "The One".  And others wanted to be LIKE "The One".  They not only worshiped "The One" but wanted to be "The One" themselves.  In Gnosticism you are a "New Creation" and even if you ripped somebody off for hundreds of dollars just last week, you aren't accountable now because since you had your "Born Again" new creation experiance, you are now Not That Person you were before any more.  You reach an instantanious state of perfect moral Enlightenment and Clarity- - where you feel as though you'll "Never make another mistake the rest of your life" and feel that "no man need teach you anything" like it says in first John.  Keep in mind that this "Knowing" is unexplainable - - and something you could not arrive at in your own efforts.  It either "Happens" or it doesn't.  You can't turn it off or on.  As such it can be called "Grace".  You are a New Creation - - which means you are now a Christian - - or in the words of Jethro Tull in "Wondering Aloud" you Are your Own Saviour.  You by nature kind of HAVE to be under gnosticism and I'll explain later.  You are not separate from God but are indeed in such a state of Oneness with God - - that you yourself have the RIGHT to be called God.  Dimiinuitives are by nature lesser in Age or Size but NOT in kind.  So you have Rick, with Ricky as the diminuitive.  You have Dog, and then you have "Doggie".  You have blanket and you have "Blankie".  A Blankie is but a smaller blanket- - one made for a child.  But none the less it is still a blanket.  So it's a difference in size or age reference, but NOT a difference in Kind.  Capish?

Up till now we have re-trenched fermiliar ground.  However this morning I got a fresh insight which impelled me to even put this posting out.  I thought of something called "Twords a 21st Century America".  I am a fan of Joe Byden which Dr. Levy says he thinks "Has no credibility".  I admire his thoughtfulness and direct frankness.  But I got to thinking "Sometimes you have to re-vamp your whole vocabulary and Way of Thinking so as not to fall into a Trap.  Catch this next point.  The Gnostics believe in the utter Purity and Goodness of God and also the "Preciousness" of said Goodness and Purity.  This is held to such an Extreme among Gnostics that it would be a Sin for God Himself to ever attempt to "dilute" his own goodness by reproducing (hence the view many Gnostics hold to abstain from sex) or for that matter to Create any other thing, which by Logical (?) necessity can NOT be a part of that goodness unless it is Compromized.  I was in an Eastern Religion class 39 years ago taught by a Dr. Grouver where he said "There are two forms of Bhuddaism.  There is the Mahayana Bhudaism - - and the Thereveda Bhudism.  The latter follows the addage of Jesus that "Rocky and narrow is the way to Salvation and few there are who find it"  (Selah)  Dr. Grouver likened God to a fine wine that it would be a Sin to have it "diluted" and served up to the masses.  So then how can anyone be saved.  By returning to "The One" in Borg Startrek lingo or "The Point" as the pythagereans put it.  This is a religious group apart from the geometric reference.  It might be what Jimmy Page and Robert Plant were referring to when they wrote in Stairway to Heaven "- - - The Truth will come to you at last - - where All is One and One is All - - - To be a Rock and not to Roll".  First of all riddle me this.  Does a point really Exist?  No - - it is a mathematical abstraction.  Do lines have physical existance?  No.  They are mathematical abstrations.  Some say Cartoon Characters are one dimensional like the Simpson's.  But Cartoon Characters are in actuality Two Dimensional.  But guess what?  Two dimensional things don't have "Existance" either.  No.  To have Substance in this Universe you have to exist in three dimensions because this is a three dimensional Universe.  Remember I had as an addage once "He who is incapable of three dimensional thinking - - is not worthy of having Both Sides looked at" in keeping with another adage of "A pancake no matter how thin - has two sides to it".  Capish?  So what we are saying is that Since - - - God CANNOT ever become like us- - Then we have to Become like Him.  Which in essence would mean that we Cease to Exist as defined by the physical laws of this Universe.  In this there is a bit of a Nirvana in reverse principle going on here.  In both cases you have not conquered Karma by force of will - - but rather- - because you are no longer on the karmic wheel, and therefore not Subject to the wheel.  Capish?  You have returned to "The Point" which is the most revered thing in so called Pythagareanism that the Gnostics claim to have derived their origens from.

Some people in an attempt to learn my real name might look to really early "snail mail" letters and make the same "David' inference as in the Bible where it gives Another name of the man who slew Goliath, but has the words "the brother of" inserted.  Gary is such a name that I quickly dropped.  "Gary Owens" sounds a little suspect after all.  Without telling you whether my first name is really Gary I will say the following varifiable facts.  I have only known of one Gary ever to live in this place these past eleven years. Gary is the name of Gloria's husband but that Gary has never lived here.  And Gary is living here now.  I have never seen Gary either ahead of me or behind me in Money Draw line.  Gary regularly attends Dr. Levy's class and is known for saying comments that much against his best intension are "Off Point" at times.  Gary smokes. Gary has been known to lend people cigarettes when they were out of them.

Obama Campaign Check-off List

             
Hasn't the President kept inflation and interest rates low insuring sound US bonds?  YES


Is not the stock market double or better the price where it was at when President Obama took office?  YES


Did President Obama keep his promises made during the campaign to end "renditionings" and torture?  YES


Hasn't the President responded admerably in failing to respond to the most vile verbal abuses and epithets against him?  YES


Hasn't the President's personal moral life been impecable?  YES


Hasn't this President endulged less in "vacations" than his immediate predecessor?  YES


Didn't this President keep in the background during all the Republican campaign blood letting?  YES


Did not the President successfully pass a women's equal pay for equal work bill?  YES


Do or do not Women now rightly fear a repeal of Roe vs Wade should Romney be elected?  YES


Did not the President get passed Wall street and Wall Street reform bills, and does not Mitt Romney and other Republicans have it as an avowed goal to repeal these bills?  YES


Wasn't it Michelle Bachman who said last summer that she did not CARE if the United States went into debt default and did not the President work to successfully prevent that?  YES


They said 'If gasoline prices are five dollars a gallon Mitt Romney will win.  Is or is not the price of gasoline headed down and now no where near five dollars a gallon?  YES


Didn't the President take a step to go ahead with the southern part of the Canadian Oil line?  YES


Has the President maintained all of Bush's securety precutions like the Patriot Act?  YES


Didn't the death of Bin Laden take place on Obama's watch?  YES


Did the President succesfully conclude the War in Iraq?  YES


Do we or do we not have Health Insurance protections we never had before?  YES


Isn't the private sector out pacing the public sector in terms of growth and a drop in the unemployment there as the Republicans say they want?  YES


Wasn't General Motors rescued and saved after Mitt Romney said "Let them go bankrupt?  YES


Aren't the President's "Christian" credentials actually superior to Romney's Mormonism?  YES


Isn't mandentory Health Insurance modeled after the mitt Romney plan of Massachusetts?  YES


Didn't Mitt Romney get passed a whole lot more "gun regulation" than the President has?  YES


Was Rush Limbaugh wrong in his assertion that the Economy would be in chaos two years into the Clinton Administration?  YES


Did not the ONLY budget surplusses occur during a Democratic Administration?  YES


Doesn't the European "austrity" programs demonstrate that those plans are an economic disaster?  YES


Haven't the various tax cuts ALWAYS filed every time they've been tried over the past fifty years and virtually Every Time resulted in a dramatic Hiking of the Federal Deficet?  YES


Is not domestic oil production now the highest in the US it's been in ten years?  YES


Hasn't the net flow of Immigrents been reduced to a net zero in part of because of this President's enforcement of immigration laws?  YES


Are not US relations with virtually every Nation in the world dramatically improved now?  YES


Did not Quadafi meet his "end" om President Obama's watch?  YES


Isn't it True that Mitt Romney never served in the Military?  YES


Hasn't Mitt Romney been the major "flip flopper" of political positions this year?  YES


Wasn't it the President who first got congress to move in the Student Interest loan rate?  YES


Isn't not the current "treasonous " Federal Reserve Charman a Bush appointee?  YES


Isn't it true that Al Gore won the Popular Vote over George W Bush in 2000?  YES


Isn't it true that the vast majority of Americans hate the Citizens United Supreme Court Ruling?  YES


Isn't it true that a slim majority of Americans actually favor gay marriage now?  YES


Haven't we had more consecutive months of Jobs Creation than you can Count?  YES


Isn't it True that between an Optimist and a Pessimist in any Campaign the Optomist wins almost every time>  YES

A Modified "Limited Hang-out"

"Bound to Lose - Bound to Win" was performed without Notes, and we're doing this posting the same way, so if we leave anything out - - that's just Tough.  This chance will come again.

"Alright ladies and gentlemen - tonight you're in for a real Treat - - - - NO NOT THAT! - - You only get That Treat on Full Moons - - - The last time it happened - Grown Men were weeping in the street.  Policemen were turning in their badges!"


I'm sure everyone wants to be more photogenic if they are applying for a Play Girl photo session, and appear fourteen percent larger and thirty percent brighter.  I have a bit of a math problem with that because assuming the same ammount of sunlight hits the moon all the time, then if there were fourteen percent more surface- - then the Moon should appear fourteen percent brighter, and not thirty.


People get immediately suspicious of you if you even vaguely try to invoke the name of God to somehow bolster your own moral position.  That's why I try not to do that unless "You know you've got the goods".  Are you packing?  But in the case of President Obama the facts of the matter are so blatently obvious only a fool would deny them.  And you know it's an addage of Stu Baby that "It's OK to deny God now and then if you have to, but to Second Guess Him - - is always Sheer Folly".  I am still of the belief that next month the Tea Party will be in for the shock of their lives when the High Court declares Obama Care constitutional - - all of it, even the mandentory part I personally would like to see scrapped.  I've watched the Court for quite a few Decades now and I've got a pretty good idea what makes them Tick and how they decide things.  They are a lot more Stateist than the Tea Party would have you to believe.  Mitt Romney has flip flopped on so many things it's no longer funny.  If now he is going to say he's done yet another flip flop on Obama pursuing Bin Laden, and also as to this whole College Tuition thing- - - this may be just too much for the Tea Party people to take.  He may yet run the risk of not being Nominated or something strange happening at the Convention in Tampa in August.  Of course there is a reason why no Tea Party has been ever nominated as President.  And it may all come down to the Sane people feeling they can't support the Insane, and conversely the Insane deciding they just cant bring themselves to supporting anything but an Insane candidate like Themselves.

One of the shall we say "guiding moral lessons" (among so many) of the "Planet of the Apes" movies is the gem of "You Know the Truth - - but you're just not ready to Face it".    We spoke of T L being a regular Ice Hockey fan.  I suppose if it were anyone else saying this like David Cruise - - I couldn't care.  But the fact is with T L - - I have felt that I knew him from a previous Life.  So what he says is given more weight to me - - and deep down I'm guessing maybe that letters I write to Him carry more weight than they otherwise would.  T L is no longer on the air.  Perhaps he's gone underground or something, but in my snail mailings of twenty years ago - - his name was found frequently in my writings.  One time I got on his case for bashing "Dead Rock Stars" and he singled out Elvis and Jim Morrison.  I took exception to Elvis in particular and told him before he said Elvis didn't have any real singing tallent to listen to the last two tracks of the "Potluck" album, "Fountain of Love" and "That's Someone You Never Forget" and tell me these tracks aren't great.  After this letter- - - T L never again bashed Elvis on his show.  It was over twenty years ago when the character "Adrian" was introduced on Days of our Lives.  This name was REALLY familiar to me, but it was the wrong Gender.  Mal Evans informed me that Adrian was not only a close friend but he was in fact my twin brother during the time Marcus Aurelius was emperor of Rome in the 2nd Century.  But Adrian and I came to be divided on the subject of Religion.  Adrian was a non believer in Christianity.  I myself KNEW that Christianity was a Made Up Fiction.  I knew this for a fact.  And yet somehow I was somehow "beguiled by the fantasy of someone's own creation" and decided to Go with it- - and as it were to become infatuated with what I knew was a delusion and a falsehood.  But I continued to revere Marcus Aurelius as Emperor regarding him as some kind of a Philosophican Genious or something.  So when T L revealed that he was an Atheist in the media, I took his words to heart even though when he first broached this idea I was a pretty strong Christian.  Yet I could not get away from the fact that his words somehow had the "ring of Truth to them".  If T L is reading this he'll know it's me because I'm the one who sent him that long lyrics sheet for alternate words to "Chimes of Freedom" like I was channeling someone when I wrote it.  It's genious.  Unfortunately for me the page must have gotten stashed in some folder I no longer have- - so the lyrics may be lost to history, as it were.

Certain things and decisions make are by nature Private and should not be questioned by others.  Some would say one's sexuality should be a private matter.  I'm not entirely sold on this idea - - at least right now, but ten years from now perhaps I'll feel differently.  T L once said (and we posted it not too long ago) that there is a certain place that T L would not Go sexually- - and I fully agree with him on this matter, but quite a few in the media say that they wouldn't Care.  Now we are going to invoke more dead people so be warned.  Stewart Sutcliffe talked with me this morning.  Among the things he said were that the Bible was a book one should read and learn from.  He also said that as to this matter of Mal Evans wanting Johnny Cash to do some Favor for him seven months ago or so, that he's talked to Johnny Cash - - and they keep in contact now and then and Cash said that "It's a private matter and he didn't have the right to ask me.  It was a personal decision on my part and I just wish he's respect it".  Stewart told Johnny Cash he agreed with that.  Unfortunately I'm not sure I can agree with Stu because it involved a previous life that Mal Evans and Johnny Cash and I shared.  I looked up to Johnny and he was kind of "the decider" and the person whose judgement I trusted.  So he makes a bad call.  The whole incident Mal is referring to can be likened metaphorically to a woman calling Rape after a sexual encounter that didn't work out well and perhaps involved her catching a Venerial Disease or something- - so she then charges Rape.  The thing is of course that she knew the dangers going into the thing in the first place.  As to the matter of "The Three Bears" incident Red West relates in his book, Stewart just says "Red West was given to mixing in a little Bullshit in along with his recountings of the facts.  And Johnny Cash and June Carter were NOT the couple in the incident.  Stu says "You and Johnny Cash were friends at least to a degree.  The guy in the Three Bears incident was someone else whom you'd never met personally before.  Last night a guy named Pete had a big bag of candy bars and he handed one out to James Fisher and another one out to that new Rick guy, and I said "What about me and Steve" or something.  Pete ignored me.  I felt offended.  After all many times in the past Pete had handed out bagels to people or invited him to grab their own.  His sudden "tightness" caught me off guard.  But the thing is anybody has the Right to be Generous- - or NOT - - with the things that are under their control.

NOW DETARTING WHITMARK STATION:  Enlistees for the "Mooonshot File" project are now boarding on track four.  Interestingly some stories are prophetic with shadows both in the past and in the future.  As far as the Past is concerned- - Track Four- - - has an almost identical Plot to my moonshot story- - even though I'd obviously never heard the song when I wrote it in July of 2004.  Also the story cast a prophetic shadow into the future because an in-law of mine was just such a victum.  She didn't die but was in a coma for several weeks such that her loved ones feared her passing out of this mortal plane.  But one day in early January of 2005, it was during the evening of some major USC bowl victory- - that she revived with no apparently physical or brain damage, and eventually she made a full recovery.  Like Printers Devil - - sometimes what is written- comes to pass.

"Life is like an endless Highway - - where you are standing on the side of the road trying to flag a ride staring out through blood shot eyes and grinning teeth as a cold chill hung heavy in the air."

Lessons from Old Testament Bible Stories

There is not one reference in the Bible condemning

 woman on woman sex, and all of the restructions 

to man on man sex seem to be restricted to anal sex.  

I say to my liberal friends they ought to pick up their Bibles and actually read it.  You might learn something.  There are a lot of simple "life lessons" the Bible teaches covering an amazingly vast array of subjects and we're going to hop-scotch around these here.  The first principle is "The curse without a cause does not come".  This is something I have believed most of my Christian life, though I've had lapses of doubt.  Our first two stories kind of illustrate the same thing.  In one case you have a man behaving like an ass, and in the other you have an ass behaving like a man.  In the story of Baalem, he was out to curse God's people.  So he mounted his ass and went tword the city.  But along the trail his ass balked at going further and began talking back to him saying that what he intended to do was wrong.  And when he actually got to the Israeli camp, all he could do was to Bless the people he intended to Curse because they had done nothing wrong.  In the case of Jacob and Esau - - Jacob had heard reports that Esau was headed his way with a hundred mounted cammels and all.  He worried all night and metaphorically wrestled with the problem, but the next day his brother Esau had no animosity tword him at all and the meeting was peaceful and tranquel.  In the case of Jonah you again have the reluctant prophet.  Sometimes God overrides the intensions of man to mess up his Will.  Jonah wanted the city of Ninavah to burn- - - and he preached a very harsh message.  But the King declared worship of the Hebrew God and ordered a day of prayer and fasting to him and the people repented in sack cloth and ashes.  So indeed sometimes God will forgive people under conditions where man would rather not.  Like in the case of President Obama back four years ago you had Hillary Clinton and the 3 AM phone call, and lack of foreign policy experiance, and the President was born in Kenya and was a Moslem and hung around with terrorists like Bill Ayres and socialist groups like Acorn.  Now four years later we know that NONE of this is the case.  Yet the Republicans still act as though it were.  There are stories against both human greed and the notion of "what's mine is mine and the Government isn't going to get any of it".  You would read the story of Nabal for this.  Nabal was called a fool, and he paid the ultimate price for his hardened, selfish and presumptuous attitude.  But there is another story against looters.  One time an employee of a prophet named Gehazai - - was jealous of his boss.  And so falsely represented himself as speaking Words of his Master that his Master had not spoken.  And he perswaded King Naaman- - to give him twenty changes of Royal garments contrary to God's expressed desires.  The man was cursed with leporicy.  You have two stories of Samson that illustrate the principle that keeping Some secrets is not only OK but downright essential.  This idea of "Never withholding the truth even from your enemies- - is a completely unbiblical one.  First there was the riddle he gave away of "What is stronger than a Lion or sweeter than honey?"  And more famously is the secret of his strength being in his long hair.  In the story of David and Johnathin you have the lesson that sometimes eating straight sugar can be good for you, and don't believe all this hypoglycemia crap.  Because of eating honey from a bee hive, Johnathin and David were able to assault a cliff to the Philistine fortress and win a vital battle- - all on account of consuming sweets.  There is another story about King Naaman on the principle of both showing a little humility and "following instructions".  In this case it was to come to Palestine and dunk yourself seven times in the Jordan River to be cured of your leporacy.  In the story of David and Goliath you have the principle of Jealousy coming to the fore, and this Bin Laden thing highlights this.  You have King Saul mocking David saying "He could never bring down Goliath' and yet David went and did just that.  When someone you have Jealousy about does a great deed the smartest thing you can do is to just Shut Up about it.  But the Republicans won't do that.  They will yack away and say "Oh - we could have done it better and sooner" when they are just blowing smoke out their ass.  Stay tuned for the rest of this posting.

Rush Limbaugh today was saying that Dick Lugar of Indiana is in big trouble because he is being "primaried" by the Tea Party even though Lugar himself is pretty Conservative.  Lugar is not asking democrats to vote for him.  Rush thinks this is funny.  What will be very un funny when this overconfidence of the tea party gets slaughtered in the election this November.  Apparently Oren Hatch of Utah is not even imune to this tea party onslaught even though he's staunchly conservative.  Of course the reason why the tea party is so down on the nominee of their party this year and four years ago is because NO political party has ever run such a right wing nominee as they envision.

In the interest of political correctness, J C Penney is now featuring lezbian women in their catalog adds apparently.  You have two women holding hands both wearing wedding rings or something.  However Vogue Magazine has also gone P C not only in requiring that none of their models be under sixteen, but also in overtly rejecting any models they regard as "too thin" because models that are excessively thin are deemed as unnatural- - and unwholesome to promote in their adds.  Good move!  A six year old boy was suspended from school because of "sexual harrassment' singing the lyrics of "I'm sexy and I know it" to all the little girls he came around.  That's more funny than anything else.

You heard the story about how sometimes Dog is "Dog's best friend".  One traumatized and shy black dog came out of his shell when he came accross another who needed him, and he grew in confidence. It seems he was paired up with a brown dog who was blind, and now a dog is "seeing eye dog" to another dog leading him around.  Most certainly the black dog has to know that the brown dog cannot see.  It's just a touching animal bonding moment.

Now Ted Nugent is saying he never threatened anybody and the Secret Service agents said "We never thought you threatened anybody" and Nugent had a "delightful" conversation with them for forty minutes and presumably never heard from them again.  Nugent says he "feels sorry for liberals".  He says people should listen to his words more closely and realize he wasn't threatening anybody.  Ted then went on to discuss what a nice and compassionate guy he is with impoverished kids and all, kind of like "Make a wish".  Hummm?

Dr. Oz has some sure fire sleep remedies.  Women can't sleep because they get hot flashes due to a drop in estrogen and it's often the first sign of "perry-menopause" even in their thirties.  You take 600 mg of calcium and 400 mg of magnesium two hours before bed time.  Dr. Oz suggests you retire at ten o clock because this is a melotonin peak and after this the "sleep window" closes.  So you take the vitamin pills at eight.  At nine you eat a bread pudding desert made from bread and apercots and other fruits and sweetened with "agave and honey" to cut down on the sugar rush.  You drink it with camamile tea, which has sedative qualities to it and is also good for colds.  Then at 9:15 you breathe in lavender scent from a vaporizer because the scene of lavender bypasses the higher centers of the brain and settles the anxiety center.  Then at nine thirty you turn down the heat, perhaps to deal with the hot flashes.  He has some egg device you can buy that gives you color cues.  Also the woman is instructed to take no phone calls after nine thirty lest they upset her.  Then at 9:15 you engage in muscle relaxation exercises, and lights go out at ten.  It sounds simple, but does it work?