Happy Income Tax Paying Day

The two things in Trump news are his six years of back income taxes and also when is the Muller report coming out.  It was supposed to be this week but we all have our doubts. Congress is not even in session this week.  By law President Trump has to present his taxes for the past six years, but of course he won’t and congress won’t do anything about it.  Then there is the whole sanctuary city proposal where “We have an unlimited supply” of people to flood the sanctuary cities with to give them beaurocratic nightmares.   Today is Jackie Robinson day at Dodger Stadium and it’s also the day they run the Boston Marathon.  

Game of Thrones is a violent show steeped in fantasy and weird sexual stuff.  I guess there is even brother and sister incest.   Then we have all of the super hero stuff in the movies.  Religion can’t keep up with all of that.  All you have is this messiah figure who was by their own admission “despised and rejected” while he was alive.  They make it a point of doctrine that he “failed” in his mission (whatever it was) while he was alive and only after death (by many decades) did he come into his full power by being the object of worship of the Catholic Church.  That’s a strange way to write the script.  One would suppose that at least at his funeral there would be throngs of people pledging allegence to him because of what he did while he was alive.  But the Church isn’t really interested in what Jesus did while he was alive.  They are more interested in the theological framing of his ministry.  We are the ones who are “framed” for crimes we didn’t commit so we can feel guilty and indebted to the Church leaders. 

(from last Tuesday)  Bill was already out there by the van and we waited for John to arrive.  We went down Cerritos to Walnut to Ball.  We dropped Bill off and then took the Santa Ana Freeway to our destination to La Palma and Romnya.  I had been to this gastro plate before.  It’s the place that kind of reminds me of a hospital and had a big waiting area with a lot of chairs.  I was called in a little after nine thirty.  I think the guy who weighed me goofed having it at 164 rather than 168 if he had read the scale properly.  My blood pressure was 152 over 90.  This is as high as it’s ever been since I’ve lived here and I explained it because of the shoulder pain I was in.  I talked to a lot of different staff and technicians.   Finally the doctor came in, Dr Amin.  He told me that my blood test from October showed that my hepatitis B had been acting up again, which explains the five or six week long fever illness that I’d had at that time that I had been unable to explain.  I have an appointment for July 2^nd to get the colonoscopy I guess.  I also have another scheduled blood test.  I began to smoke a cigarette outside.  Then John came.  We went and picked up Bill and I smoked another cigarette while we waited for him.  By now it was ten to eleven. 

(Thursday)  I went with John and Jeff to go to Dr Saran’s office.  We both had  the same destination.  We got there right at ten and Jeff went in first even through I signed my name first.   Jeff told me again of this story where he already had a funeral plot for himself in Newport Beach but then he sold it back to the place and gave the money to his mother because she needed it.  Jeff never did say what he was seeing the doctor for but talked about orthopedics.  A lot of people went in ahead of us including people who got there after we did.  Dr Saran called me in.  My blood pressure was 148 pver 84 and my temperature was 97.7 or something.  Dr Saran had me move my arm around.  The shoulder muscles hurt no matter what position you have your arm in.  I told him the story about opening up a can of difficult cat food.  He scheduled me for an X Ray I think will be done here.  Also he increased my Adville.  I wanted him to switch to a different drug because Adville has stopped working.  We finished up at five to eleven.  Jeff was already in the van ahead of me and we got here about four after eleven, in time for lunch.

They had that funeral for Nipsey Hustle on at the doctor’s office and also it was playing in the dining room.  I later learned that this funeral is being covered on all TV stations except for KCOP 13 and the funeral was still going on at the Staples Center at one.  So I’ll miss my soap opera.  This is a rapper with a prison record I guess and they are treating him like a deceast president or something.  They weren’t playing any rap music at his funeral.   Just now  I used that shoulder cream Bill got me.  That’s the only way I’m going to get relief right now. 

They had this Gandhi list of seven social sins.  Most of them I would agree with.  No riches without work, no politicians without real principles.  no commerce without a rule book and yard markers, no pleasure without ethical principles.  But one area where I would disagree with Gandhi is "No worship without sacrifice".  Basically all worship of a deity IS sacrifice anyhow.  I would change this one to "No religion without science".  That would be a constructive addition.   Of course there is another one called "No science without humanity".   There is another one involving "Knowledge without character".   If you're going to have any religion that can be called respectable (which is saying a lot right there) that religion has to be backed up by science. 

My view of Jesus is that he didn't have a suicide impulse and that he Did have a successful ministry and when he sensed he wasn't as popular as he used to be like if someone were seeking to betray him, he left town as was his practice.  I would cite the scripture from Genisis spoken by God himself that goes "If you do well, will you not prosper, and if not- - sin is crouching at the door and it's desire is for you and you must master it".   It's funny how Church leaders can slip in and out of this humility and forgiveness mode when it suits them.  They cam become petty and vain, and will foist their own feelings on to Jesus and turn him into someone who is petty and a little vain.