Too Many Withdrawals

At five thirty this Saturday morning I was out back and it was still completely dark.  But tomorrow with daylight savings time we are going to be plunged into darkness.   If I were president this is one of the first bills I would repeal.   It was coming up on a quarter to six and I thought I’d tune in the UFO station.  The caller there says the government may not know one way or the other whether or not we have been visited by UFO’s but uncertainty is one word the government doesn’t like to use because it makes the people feel uncertain and insecure, like our national security has been compromised.   Of course Christians would say any UFO manifestations that have been demonstrated are demonic in nature and it’s the devil trying another ploy to get us to believe in him.   So is mankind just an ant hill out in the Sahara desert where any human visitors aren’t going to put a flag on top of the ant hill and claim it for America.  There is also the fact that God is not only an all powerful being, but he’s a being with an intelligent will and he wants us to believe in him.  Some would say this is egocentric thinking.  But at five to six they cut off the caller and planed some demented thing about space aliens, as though it were all a joke and we really didn’t want to hear what the caller said.  I wanted to hear what he said because he sounded halfway sane.   In other news the LA marathon will be run tomorrow from Dodger Stadium to the sea, as usual.  People who are sick are invited to withdraw and given a free pass to running in next year’s race.  The NBA has a contingency plan to ban audiences from all NBA games and they’ll play the games without fans like they do in Italy.  The Pope is canceling more plans.  Yesterday President Trump signed an emergency funding bill to conquer the Corona virus.   I had the regular KNX news on after this.   I still have that carpo-tunnel thing in my right arm.  I’m assuming that’s what is but I want to be see Dr Saran about it on Tuesday if he’s here.   Afghanistan has already broken their peace treaty of last Saturday.  You knew that.  

Enough people have withdrawn from the presidential race in the week to last a lifetime.  Last Saturday we had Tom Stire withdraw.  Then on Monday it was Mike Budagieg and he lent his support to Joe Biden.  Then on Monday it was Amy Clovichar who withdrew.  She likewise lent her support to Joe Biden as previous candidate Beto Ororke.  I guess you could call that the ultimate insider opperation.  The party circled the wagons around Biden.  Of course Biden won big.  He carried ten states.  Sanders carried the other five.  These were Vermont, Utah, Colorado and California and I'm a state short.  Maine was up in the air for a long time.   Then I guess it was Thursday that Elizabeth Warren withdrew.  Clearly she didn't want to withdraw and I don't think she should have withdrawn.  She had her loyal supporters including my brother.  A lot of women and girls were counting on her, just as she pointed out.  Those little girls now have to be told "you have to wait for more years to see the possability of a female president.  

Chris Matthews abruptly retired from Hardball.  They say he was pushed out by MSNBC.   It apparently was a combination of flirtatious remarks to women and also "the young people" who have their own way of approaching the news.  It would seem the Bernie Sanders lobby kicked him out.  Chris has had it in for Bernie Sanders for a long time now and I guess management finally got tired of his continual hostility.  I don't know.  He was a good comentator in all other aspects of his job and we will miss his presence on our TV screens after twenty years.  

The devil has been playing mind games on me.  He now wants me to pray for things God knows that I don't want to come to pass and would be unhappy if they did.  But they may be things that aren't destined to come to pass.  But he wants me to pray for them just to prove to God that I'll submit and pray for anything he wants me to.   Of course Alcyonne has the power to switch fifth dimensions and thus to seemingly bring about things that formerly weren't destined to happen, and visa versa.  This is quite a power.  So you may pray for something bad in order to keep something worse from happening.  The devil can always torment you with "Well, just think of all the horrible things that haven't happened to you that could.  Actually it was Pastor Don who opened up this line of reasoning to me.  He said it to me when he thought I was making too many complaints about the way things were.   I guess when it come to the will of God I feel so powerless.   Jesus said "Blessed are the poor in spirit".  I'm not poor; I'm bankrupt.   Thursday afternoon's Bible study is something I should have said more at than I did.  I was restless then and kept thinking of getting away.  

 .   For lunch we had corned beef and potatoes au gratin and mixed vegetables.  We were supposed to have had roast beef with dipping sauce.  We had apple crisp for dessert.  I had one cup of coffee.  After noon the housekeeper came in but she said it was just to empty the trash because she was on her lunch break.  I watched Days of our Lives up till twenty to two when she came back.   The real Marlena has decided to submit herself to Steve alias Stephani Di Mira.  Supposedly he’ll let Kayla go free.  Justin has already paid him ten million dollars.  I was restless coming to the front room.  I got more apple crisp and then went back out for another cigarette.   Bart and Chris were talking with each other briefly.  This is the day that Chris gets paid.   They were playing Mo-town songs in the front room.   Brother Bart came for the Bible Study.   Today he said he’d actually do lessons from the Bible.  We did the Beattitudes from the Sermon on the Mount.  Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy.  Everyone wants that.  Show grace to people who ask for a cigarette.  Blessed are the peace makers.  They will be called the sons of God.  Blessed are people who hunger and thirst to see right prevail.  They shall be satisfied.  We can always hope.  He covered them all pretty quickly.  Then he moved on to the Lord’s Prayer further down.  We should forgive those who commit offences against us if we want to be forgiven for our sins.   There was some talk about persecution.  My favorite line is “Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil”.  I tried to illustrate the point with an example from my own life and how Satan plants things in my mind that are unhealthy.   The remark fell flat.   There was a strong smell of poop when I first entered the room.  It went away when someone opened a window.  But then another lady in a wheel chair had an accident in her pants and the air became very foul and they were slow about getting her out.  I had a coughing spasm and I left when it was five after three.  I never got to pray for my sore right arm.  We did sing three hymns.  I went out to smoke.