"How Long - -Oh Lord!"

 Just a brief personal note before we begin.  Marsha lent me two dollars which hopefully will keep me in cheap brown cigarettes till Friday.  In terms of the photo I intend to use- - it like most of them lately will be a rerun, since I visit flicker so seldomly now and haven't downloaded any photos from my camera.  They predicted seventy plus degree weather with white, whispy clouds, which is just what we got.  The weather here in Los Angeles graphed out on a temperature graph would make V formations.  Because the temperature spikes high mid day and goes straight down from there and it's freezing at night, and then visa versa the next morning.  We'll be switching to "Marcus in Exile" after this posting, so check there.

Everybody is concerned about that crazy uncle or dingbat aunt who spouts tea party rhetoric and ruins Thanksgiving.  If my sister in law tried that this year she'll be out-voted.  It's funny how you can tell what movie it is- - like ones about crazy people - - from the Mental Institution.  There is one way they play it in "Harvy" and another way in "Coocoo's Nest" and still another way in "Snake Pit".  They all have their little proclivities.  Of course each movie or TV show has its own set of Gang Wars.  In real life it's the Bloods in the Crypts in LA, or at least it used to be till they made peace twenty years ago.  One movie about juvenile deliquents had the Scorpions and the Avengers.  "West Side Story" had the Jets and the Sharks.  Whereas Days of our Lives used to have the Vipers and the Stingrays.  Of course don't serve grilled stingray at your Chunukkah gathering later this week, because according to Dr Levy, fish without scales aren't kosher.  If I knew that I had forgotten.   Of course given the way our gun laws are today you better make sure that crazy Uncle Willy doesn't have access to firearms.  Some of these family gatherings can get heeded.  Of course Randy warns us how these people are "fed their version of the Truth" from FOX news, and occasionally it's advisable to tune in for as long as you can stand it, just to see what's going on in looney land.  Apparently Anne Coulter is still a fixture on that program and just has a new book out (?) on why this deal Obama is making with the Iranian government is a bad thing.  According to Anne Coulter - - George Bush "won the Iraq War in 2007, but then this CIA report came out that claimed that Iran had given up developing a nuclear weapon in 2003, and this made the Democrats mad and they began attacking - - - somebody.  But then Akmadenijab announced in 2010 that Iran had a nuclear weapon."   There are several things wrong with this rant.  I hope Anne Coulter knows that Akmadenijab is no longer in power.  He was voted out.  As you recall a big campaign issue with Gingrich was that the President "Didn't protest the results of the Iranian election of 2009".  Well now they've had another election and a guy who wants peace in conformance to the wishes of at least the young people of his country, who want to be pro American, was able to come to some sort of accord with this President.  What Obama did was far less radical than Nixon's embracing of Mao Tue Tung, who was a mass murderer of millions.  But back then nobody cared.   Apparently President Bush was confronted about this report in the fall of 2007 and Bush responded "I just received it last week" when in fact he'd had it for six months, and all the while was allowing fanticies about World War III breaking out any day now to persist.  Dick Chaney actively tried to surpress this CIA report.  Of course Thanksgiving is well ecclipsed these days by the Holiday Season - - and last weekend there were a few cooking shows talking about preparation of the Thanksgiving meal reminding all of us it was time to take a break from shopping madness and celebrate the next holiday.  There is no good way for the media to market hype Thanksgiving, therefore it is some peoples' favorite holiday.  It's all about how a bunch of tree hugging pagans taught some sea sick religious zealots how to farm, and being the zealots they are they gave thanks not to their pagan hosts and mentors, but rather to their imaginary god.   Thanksgiving is a time of tradition such as parades and football games and having loved ones over.  But now Wall Mart employees can't get the day off because naturally the merchants are just deciding to scrap the comemorations and make Thanksgiving Day itself a marithon shopping day.   And the thing is I hear sales figures are expected to be down this year.

We then venture into the Sick Mind of Adam Landsa the Sandy Hook Elementary School killer of twenty kids and six women.  Apparently Adam wrote some story in the fifth grade about killing a bunch of school kids and then his mother, and he lived out his fantasy.  Adam Landza was totally strange.  He wouldn't even talk to his mother even though she pampered him.  She fixed him all of his favorite dishes and gave him money to buy a gun for Christmas.  The family that shoots together stays together- - or not.  He had black plastic over his bedroom windows and was obsessed with certain video games.  He was obsessed with Dance, Dance Revolution.  He kept old news clippings on mass murderers and was particularly fond of the Columbine shooting, but I think he'd saved news articles dating as far back as Jack the Ripper, if I'm right.  It seems Adam only communacated with his mother via E mail and he would not allow her into his room, but made her do his laundry, and he was obsessed with changing clothes several times a day.

As you know the Jewish Calendar is one of those like the Ancient Roman Republic's that revolves around the Lunar Callendar, just like Southeast Asia does.  So every nineteen years Chunukkah comes about as early as it does this year.  Of course - - in my version of the Christian Gospels, there is an out of season "Passion" that occurred in Jerusalem in AD 29 during a partial eclipse of the sun.  The only other indicators of season that we have was that it was cold at night because they had built a big bonfire for the people in the courtyard to keep warm.  Also it was at a time when figs were not in season - - and apparently when leaves were falling.  If the Jewish Calendar was once figured from the vernal equinox (in synch with Easter, then all of the Holidays would come a month earlier for some years, including this one.  Keep in mind that "The Feast" was already apparently in progress on Monday and this would be a - - Thursday (?) and with Chunukkah the last day of the feast is the most important one.  Also there was likely no moon that night because it says "They came after Jesus carrying lanterns and torches", which would not be needed if it were a full moon.  Perhaps Jesus took exception to the - - marketing of Chunukkah gifts or something on Temple grounds.  But there is this Evangelist who would say "Put flesh and blood on the people in this Bible story".  So let's look at the "Last Supper", which according to the Gospel of John was just another meal because he told Judas to "get some stuff for the feast" or so the others believed.   There is a question how much the other desciples knew.  If they saw Judas get up to leave- - certainly they would have stopped him if they remotely suspected he was leaving to betray them all.  And yet there is no talk about "I never could trust that Judas anyhow.  He was always a loner with his money bag".  There was no talk about what possible crimes they might be accused of or whether they would be killed outright or placed on trial, and if they did what were their chances.  And now Jesus says "I am going to leave you" and also "I go to prepare a place for you in my father's kingdom, where there are many mansions".  At one point they did say "Why can't we go with you"  (I'm into archetecture, you know, and I love watching buildings being constructed)  There was none of that.  If they had no idea at all what Judas was up to - - then it must have mystified them why Jesus was suddenly talking so strangely.  Little in this conversational exchange has a natural flow.  It's kind of like that Simpson's episode.  "Oh- - you're being betrayed - - That's Nice.  You're Building Mansions for us in a place that takes about a half a day to get there if you travel by  - Dragon Fly.  Oh - - That's Nice."  Also if the feast were in November the days would be shorter- - and the three hour prayer hiatus would not have made it so late in the evening to apparently find all of the officials on the job, which were it a passover- - all of these "night trials" might well have taken place after midnight.  Oh- and one more thing.  Suppose Judas reconsidered and tried to return the money to the Priests, but they said they'd changed their mind - - and arrested Judas as well "since you by your own words say you agree with your Master's cause.  So they cast him into prison.  Then with Pilate went to pardon "one of the prisoners' the other prisoner was in fact Judas.  And we know the crowd was on Jesus' side.  We know that from the demonstration on Sunday.  Most likely then the crowd would have been shouting not for Jesus' crucifixion but rather that of Judas, who was then crucified.

Our Thanksgiving gathering of 1994 was the first family gathering I felt went "too long" and where I began to feel conversationally squeezed out.  Again it is that year where everything is really early on the Jewish Calendar.  Yet some things NEVER CHANGE.   You'd be amazed.  Back in 1994 we wondered if we'd ever have national Health Care insurance.  This today is still an open question and by no means a sure thing.  In terms of music trends back then Grunge Rock had gone into a slump.  But since then there has taken place virtually NOTHING NEW in Creativity or by way of a new music trend or style. It's no wonder then that all of the songs you hear on TV commercials are most likely at least thirty years old.   We wondered when Death Row would ever get cleared out of its huge backlog in California.  It's clear now that the death penalty is little more than anachronism on the books, with no intension of ever carrying it out.  There are so many anachronistic things that are unchanged.  We still have no gun laws requiring a mental stability background check.   And of course President Obama with that immigration bill was only trying to clean up the mess that Ronald Reagan let loose in 1986 when he granted mass Amnesty to Illegal Aliens opening the flood gates to drive down the wage base, which is what the Republicans wanted to begin with.  The Republicans want these people "in the shadows" and kept in fear so that they won't ask for higher wages.  This hasn't changed.  Who would have guessed we would never again to Space travel to the Moon, let alone Mars or beyond.   You still have to be Celebate to be a Priest in the Catholic Church, and Birth control pills are still not allowed, if you're a Catholic.  We still don't have any systematic High Speed Rail transport in California though they have talked about as a pipe dream since the sixties.  There has been no progress in improving the marketability of Solar energy cells in over forty years.  Only now are we at least dabbling a little in things like electric cars and hydrogen cars, which are pretty much in the experimentary stage.  And Los Angeles still has no NFL team hear after 1994 was the last football season for both the Rams and the Raiders here in Los Angeles.  There are no real prospects of Los Angeles getting an NFL team.  It's just another of those - - anachronisms.  Surely looking ahead from the fall of 1994 by now England would be like other normal monarchies with both a King and a Queen.  What a strange, funny surprise that Princess Dianna is dead- - and Queen Elizabeth is still alive.  Both me and Ringo will be old men before that ever changes.  In 1994 the Republicans regained control of Congress in a historic election.  How long would they continue to be in power.  They still are basically running the government now, apart from a four year hiatus between 2006 and 2010.  They were talking about abolishing the Electoral College back when I was in High School, and yet nobody has made a move to propose a Constitutional Amendment simply stating we'll henceforth elect Presidents with a plurality popular vote.  And we still have the anachronism of prayers being spoken in the halls of Congress and in the Supreme Court, no matter what Madalane Murray O Hare thought might happen with "freedom from Religion".  Newt Gingrich is right.  We ARE a "Christian Nation" whether we want to face it or not.   And finally, when are we ever going to get rid of that ban on the "Seven Deadly Words" George Carlin mocked four decades ago on an album?   And so a liberal can call Bill O Riley and begin to talk and get cut off and a second later - - O Riley comes back on and says "You can't threaten me like that, I know your name and where you live and I'm coming after you"  This sort of shit wouldn't happen if we didn't have this completely stupid twenty second delay in call in shows, which is the source of countless confused callers listening to themselves on the radio.  The more things change, the more they stay the Same.

The LAPD Is Up To Their Old Tricks

Well, the LAPD is at it again, doing what comes naturally, as the song says.  There was a Judge Cunningham who happened to be a man of color, coming out of an LA gym after a work, out and appearently he was adjusting his belt after putting on his pants over his shorts.  Well an LA cop, a regular Kate Roberts type, didn't miss that one.  No Siree.  He knew exactly what was going on.  He pulled the Judge over on a seat belt violation!  Naturally the Judge explained what the circumstances were.  If you have ever watched Cops you know that all "suspects' are liars, just like if you watch Days of Our Lives, you know that those people who stick up for the "straight" sexual orientation among us, are all psychos just ripe for some psychotic break.  The cops didn't take kindly to his explanation and pulled him out of the car and threw him against the wall.  Apparently they searched him for drugs and they found blood pressure medication.  Of course the moral of this little tale is that if it could happen to this guy it could happen to anyone.  It's just another case of "driving while Black".  Of course it's ironic that the President of the United States is in town and it was hoped that this is "just the sort of thing we'd get past by now".  We need people like David Cruz out there as guardians of the rights of the "little guy".  The little guy doesn't get a break in our justice system these days.  But I remember when they were questioning a Supreme Court Justice prospect before the Senate and the question came up of "are you going to look out for the little guy?"  Personally, this question assumes much more relevence to me now than it was then because I myself have had a "change of heart" on certain subjects over the past decade or so.  Police procedure is "Don't step out of the vehicle" but then they change their minds and order you out and - - you'd better darn well follow their instructions to the letter with a gun trained on you, and even you can't count on being "safe" with certain Law Enforcement agencies.

If people are going to advocate for a cause, and this must be in Sol Allinsky's book somewhere (a book the tea party seems to have read through and through) you do your cause, for which you are advocating no good if your speech is constantly laced with qualifiers in the name of "objectivity" any more than advocating for a client means you should 'help the other side out".  That's not your job.  People don't need to know all the negatives about your cause, at least not from you.  This is particularly true if you are, pardon my retro thinking here, advocating for God.  There are tomes when I have come off rather atsolutist in addressing people even like the Asshole from El Paso, if I'm convinced I am saying what I'm saying out of love and loyalty to whom I think is God.  Like I say, in that saying "If you were tried for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you" the answer would be a yes.  Like President Obama with the tea party - - my "accomidations" to Christianity over has caused me to bend in near yoga like positions. But the upshot of this behavior is that no preacher, no way can ever come back and say "Well, that guy never made a serious effort to even try and be a Christian".  Capish?  As Randy Rhodes points out there aren't many of us progressives left on the radio, and we need to not wast our precious air time on the radio with mincing words or constant equivicating, which only causes confusion in many listeners, and lessens the cause we are advocating for.  If it is a right and just cause, it needs to be zealously advocated for.  (Selah(  And the thing with Ebony K is that while she says she supports the President she, like Moe, drowns her persuasion in so many qualifiers you’re not entirely sure which side she is on.   Ebony K buys into this line that the President is having some sort of a popularity melt-down or something, and the ACA roll-out is headed for disaster.  I don’t think if the Republicans had “confidence”, if that is even the word, that the Affordable Care Roll-out would be such a disaster, they would be jumping on it hysterically from day one.  On the other hand if they know it’s the only time they’ve got because after the site is fixed, they’ll have to shut up, then obviously they are going to milk the present moment for all it’s worth.  But the key is, "Yes" you should tailor your remarks to the here and now rather than to some etherial generality if it isn't true at the moment.  To have clear and present evidence for your cause at hand, is important for speaker effectiveness.  But don't "borrow from the future".  The strange thing about the tea party to date is "so far the future hasn't arrived yet", which is not to say that it won't.  There future being - - - Their Complete and Total Demise.  (Selah)  Keep your options open and be optimistic enough to leave pathways open for a better life even if the circumstances for all of it are not apparent at this present time.  It's a derivation of the old expression "keep your powder dry".  It's a good idea in general to "leave something in reserve" you can spring on someone at a later date.  These people whom you address from the other side of the fence are not your friends, and you need not treat them as such.  "Gunny sacking" is not only not incorrect, it is a survival mechanism.  Nothing puts fear and despair ad well as the appearence of utter cowardess on the other side than knowing that you seem to have a bottomless pit or "Reserves" that can be called on at any time.  (Selah)

Back when I was young they spoke of "Living out your dreams" or "having a dream, or an idea" and pursuing it and seeing it come to fruition.  Christians used to appeal to people on terms of "You can be what you've always wanted to be" like in that one song by "Love Song".  President Obama had his dream, and he lived to see his dream come to fruition.  Unfortunately for the rest of us, the Tea Party has gotten a lot of mileage out of saying "President Obama promised everybody the Moon - - and now they see this President for the liar he is- - because once he was elected peace and brotherhood didn't break out everywhere".   Thomas Edison had a lot of ideas, and he was able to market them and become a famous inventor in history.  Chuck Smith claims to have had a dream of converting long haired hippy types to Christianity.  Unfortunately the left wouldn't go to Calvary Chapel now if they were paid.  It turned out that Chuck Smith's "dream" was just another tea party marketing ploy to make an awful lot of money.   People like Judy are always talking pie in the sky stuff about a man can be born dirt poor and invent something and become famous, or he can make something of himself and become an Illinois lawyer and then congressman and then President of the United States.  (Of course they're talking about Lincoln and not our current President.)  It seems as if this Heratio Alger story happens to a Black man, the right wing will hence forth view a that man with great suspicion.

Dr Levy was in the building when I came in from coffee break and I was soon down there in the room.  We did our check in.  I asked if Dr Levy had read both of my E mailings and he said he had read one of them, but I’m still uncertain which one.  The Christmas party is being changed to Sunday the fifteenth of December, and may have to be changed again depending on what his wife says.  Dr Levy hopes to have his knee surgery the week before the party.  Dr Levy gave Joe Drisco and me each two dollars to spend on cigarettes, and I did just that the minute I left the class.  We talked about resilience, which is a favorite topic of Dr Levy’s.  I spoke of how one's Actions are more a key to a “constructive approach to things’ than are mere words, and Dr Levy had to agree.  Dr Levy responded "Well someone who does what you say in talking a big game but then doesn't follow through - - that man is a hypocrite".  The fact is that with age, one loses his "resiliancy".   Resiliancy is a goal to shoot for but it doesn't always happen.  It depends on circumstances.  People say I too much speak of the importance of circumstances.  But others would deny that circumstance is something you even need to take into consideration at all.  And somehow if you "make a decision to do something" that this mere "resolution" itself somehow gives you mastery of something.  Marcia Meredith showed up to class for the first time in months, and she talked about her involvement with the Mormon Church along with Wally.  It was point out that “Many of our group have either dropped out - - or died”.   I would call it a good session, and it broke up just after three thirty.  I had to use the facilities and therefore saw very little of the game.

There is always the possibility that this physical world and universe and this physical life is "all there is" and we should just face that fact.  It does raise the question of those who "forbear' certain things or give up rights they might have under some sort of Christian sense of morality, or expecting to be rewarded in the next life.  Not knowing the future isn't a crime.  And it isn't a transgression of some holy edict "Not to know everything", particularly is "nobody else knows it, either".  (Selah)  Mankind has always had a vivid imagination.  They have always imagined other dimensions and realms.  Dimensions almost by their mere definition - - only measure or otherwise "take stock" of things in that dimension.  If you are playing baseball, you don't impress anybody by suddenly playing by football rules and running with the ball.  In the same way - - a character in the story can't say "stop the scene - - I want to consult the Author because I wish to alter the plot."   (Selah)  If it's true, as I have suggested- - that some "thing" in dimensions we know of - - can have a "different interperitation" or manifestation in some other dimension - - this is not really our problem without some scientific linkage of cause and effect.  In short, these are not the "rules" we live and play by.  Also I believe that while transgressions - - must be atoned for- - - the idea that "sin" as it's defined in classic terms - -can or should be "atoned for" is about like saying "The problem with my cat is that he isn't a dog"  (Selah) In bewitched they engaged in travel to other dimensions all the time like to the "Witch's Council meetings" and places where they abducted Rock Groups to perform for them.  People have no problem accepting these "conventions' in a fictional setting.  For Walter Martin expressed his belief in "other dimensions" when he said that in John 20 that Jesus "appeared before them" not by "walking through walls", which Martin thought was silly but says 'Jesus always had a solid body and not some ghostly apperition but he merely "switched dimensions on them".   Samantha does it by snapping her fingers.   Scientists maintain that space on the subatomic level- - is of a very different orientation from what we know.   But I am well aware of a problem that it's a lot harder to make a case for something for which there is absolutely no proof.  This hasn't stopped people through the ages from doing just that.  Many will say "science is advancing all the time and yesterday's pipe dream is today's reality".  Perhaps.   But other than landing strips in Peru, or crop circles in England in the summer of 1990, evidence you can measure of "something beyond the here and now" is pretty much lacking.  The way that Evangelists get around this obvious lacking on their part is to say things like "the signs are all around and all will be revealed soon, if you know how to interpret these signs".   But when you come down to it, the bottom line is they offer you something FAKE in exchange for something REAL, in the here and now, from you.  And no matter how you put lipstick on this 'Pig" this is a character failing on the part of these Evangelists.  (Selah) 

The Right Wing Stranglehold on the Media

 First of all there were two postings done last Saturday which should have been in this blog but instead were in "Rocca Rolla".   If you are looking for more recent postings than what you see here, well, that's where they are.  But the next thing is that the reader numbers have been in the toilet for both blogs lately.  Nobody is reading my stuff so I guess it doesn't make all that much difference where you find it.

President Obama is making a fund raising trip to west Los Angeles yet again.  And leave it to Bill Handel to point out the traffic headaches that occur whenever a US President is touring in this area.  Once again it is for the purposes of raising money and the President knows where he can get it.  Rush Limbaugh once criticized President Clinton for "always being in campaign" mode, and it's even worse for President Obama.  Apparently there are two official speeches that will both take less than a half hour.  The President expects to raise five million dollars but will probably spend more than that in raising that five million in security and air force one expenses.  The Problem with this president is not even money per see but rather the whole power thing.  The President has not had the Media at large on his side in an awfully long time.

Part of President Obama's problem now is that he has completely lost the power to define his own accomplishments.  In truth the President is a horrible campaigner because the more he speaks, the more he drops in the polls.  There was a deal with Iran over the weekend of course. John Kerry concluded a deal with Iran last night, and the President apparently made a rare Saturday night speech I missed.  NBC had auto racing on, but John Kerry was the early guest on “This Week” and spelled out the terms of this limited agreement fairly well.  In case you don't know the terms of this agreement it merely states that Iran will put a temporary halt on "their effort to build a Nuclear bomb", which they are denying doing anyhow.  In exchange we will lighten their sanctions.  But the Republicans in congress want to increase sanctions against Iran, although really- - - if the government has less money to work with they will put ALL of the funds they do have into nuclear research, and starve out the people, thus making it easier to turn the people of Iran against the united states.  This may be what the Republicans want.  After all there is the arms industry and if there is no war it's less likely they'll make a profit.  In terms of the Israeli leader, I'm getting a little tired of listening to his negativity.  He's been saying that 'Iran could have the Bomb any week now" and he's been saying the same thing the past ten years or something.  It's like Chuck Smith talking about the Lord coming back.  "How did that one work out for you, Chuck?"  The trouble is since the conservatives have hijacked the language the word "distraction" crops up a lot.  Democrats taking back their constitutional power in the Senate to approve presidential appointments was called a "distraction" and this deal is called a "distraction".  And Hillbillies in Kentucky who are at last able to get Medical Care - - that is also called a 'distraction".  The Republicans make speeches against a Presidential nominee before a name is announced.  Romney used to be famous for his "prequels" or he would "critique' a certain a certain speech the President of the United States gave on any topic- - Before He Gave It.  To tell you the truth it looks pretty hopeless.  Judy gives me tons of this "documentation" about what a disaster Obama Care is.  You have this woman on FOX saying she lost her health insurance but has a big smile on her face as she describes how much she's lost- - and how insurance rates will be doubled and her deductuctable is now sky high.  The thing with Republicans is that they have these script writers- - and I kid you not, Sarah Palin had a whole staff of script writers working overtime on her stuff- - as dumb as her statements are, she didn't come up with those whitty remarks herself.

This is Sunday November 24, 2013 and on this date at St Paul’s they began grown breaking for the Fellowship Hall, which Dad took movies of.  Needless to say it was the last construction project that church ever engaged in, with exception of the widening of the sanctuary in the late winter of 1966.  At some point after that our church entered sort of a living death phase where they never grew to maturity, like a stunted plant.  You'll pardon the classified information I hope I changed before anybody saw.  Having a church that never reaches the potential the founders dreamed of in some bygone era - - must like giving birth to a mentally retarded child.  Or worse yet something like Tay Sachs that only gets progressively worse with time.  It must be and is heartbreaking to see his piers developing all around normally but it never happens for your child.  Many people who used to go to that church had fond hopes for it way back when.  ABC news is certainly politically stunted in their growth since they seem to tilt twords the politicl right in their political round table discussions.  Only the Black lady and Koki Roberts made sense.  The rest of them seemed in a desperate attempt to fog the issues and rationalize the things the Republican congress has done in the past three years

That tin foil hat guy was on KFI this morning before six and he had on Alex Jones, who is a libertarian and most of what he was saying made sense.  I would remind you that there is very little connection between a tea bagger and a libertarian.  Tea baggers are happy with a big government that strips the common people of their rights and voter representation, and will take us off to war at the drop of a hat to feed the armlement industry.  They are up to their eyeballs in international trade agreements- and the tea party’s vision of utopia is a worldwide corporate-ocracy.   Trying to convince these hicks and hay seeds of this fundamental truth may be close to impossible.  We know FOX news is very skilled at making the most absurd conclusions about anything appear perfectly rational and documented with a lot of facts.  I imagine these people at FOX news have studied the art of human psychology and manipulation well- - and they are most adept at their craft.  Judy sent me stuff from apparently even British newspaper cartoonist meant to convey the notion that Obama's affordable care act is held up to general mockery in the British press, when we know this is not the case since those people have had socialized medicine for well over fifty years.  We are informed by these right wingers that Canada has the worst medical care of any nation in the developed world, and that the United States is where the Canadians go if they want to get decent medical care.  Sometimes I just don't know what to believe.  And if even I'm confused you know all these rednecks from heartland American are going to vote the straight tea party ticket- - and the spotlight will not just be on the House but now it's the US Senate.

 Then it was Neil of KFI giving a little talk on thanksgiving.  He says God loves us and has a wonderful plan for our lives if we will seek him and yield to him and all that.  He views God as this overseeing father figure- - and completely benevolent parent figure.  This is what toothless hillbillies from red states seem to need is some overseeing father figure who steals their money and denies their kids a decent education and calls it "being patriotic' or else "being loyal to God" by not discussing true science- - or covering anything in American History that took place past the civil war.  I'm a whole lot more interested in what took place in the past 150 years in this country than I am in some jerk-off William Bradford, who has slaughtered a few Indians in his day.  These people get this coat of varnish-stains on them to desguise all of their many warts, because if we knew what they were really like we wouldn't want to know them.