Already Baked Into the Cake

ODE TO SISTER IRENE

(Chorus)

Good Night, Irene

Irene, good night

Your many detractors are after you

Don’t give up without a fight

There’s a prophetess in our church

Her name is Sister Irene

She says she knows the future well

But doesn’t seem to know where she’s been

Corus

She spins her words like a wherl wind

Always congers up quite a brew

She carries on so till you’re mind is blown

You would pay just to know when she’s through

Chorus

Last Saturday night she was buried

They had the biggest Wake in town

The whiskey flowed like Niagara Falls

Their sorrows all to drown

Chorus

Shakesphere said "All the World's a state and we are merely players, performers and portrayers here on Planet Earth. So how does an actor merit an Exit Stage Left and perhaps leave a bad play? On StarTrek, Reiker, Data, and some others were trapped in this Las Vegas style casino and couldn't get out, till they realized they were playing out someone else's scripted story and when their role was done, that magic revolving door opened up for them. The actress who played Christeen Di Mira on Days of our Lives was interviewed around March or April of 1998 and she let it slip that she was "done" with the series. There's one problem: at the time she was playing no less than four different characters! That's no problem. You wonder sometimes whether an author doesn't script characters in a scenario based on factors utterly independant of the story. It's been twenty years or so since Sister Irene did her Exit Stage Left from planet earth. One wonders whether God just sits up evenings scripting out stories for characters and one night he gets a headache that won't go away and just says "To hell with this. I'm eliminating this character. They were a pain in the ass anyhow". Sometimes it's nice to have a set of "characters" magically do a disappearing act. This happened with me in late July of 1993 when a bunch of people who were hasseling me just did a stage exit and were never heard from again. When Belle and Sean first appeared on the soap in late 1999 it was as teenagers the same age about ready to graduate from high school. Previously he had been a ten or eleven year old boy and she was a little girl about four or five. That's no problem for writers. Now they are exiting together to have a no doubt better life, and I happened to think of Jesus' line about "Don't bury your father". He left his father virtually at death's door and didn't seen all that concerned about a sudden departure. God's call is like the Army. It takes precidence over everything else. I can think of a couple of people who I have "unfinished business" with, who died suddenly and I'd like to talk to them and ask them questions. One of them is my father. Sister Irene is another one. She departed this worldly plane about twenty years ago and there are a lot of questions that were unsettled in my mind that I would like to ask her. For most of us our destiny is "already baked into the cake". It's just a matter now of playing out the rest of the scene.

You may know that Thom Hartman has stated that the future of the dollar is “already baked into the cake”. The future of a lot of things may be “baked into the cake” such as British Royalty, marriage, and “the local neighborhood church”. Get ready for a new round of stag-flation. We may be encountering a South American monitary devaluation in the coming years as current trends continue and nobody is inclined to take any real steps to correct them. This brokerage “Bear” bail out will only make the crash in stocks that much more profound when it occurs. Even people for fiscal non involvement say Bush had to bail out the brokerage firm to keep a domino effect from happening. But nobody is talking about re-arranging the actual dominoes so that they don’t fall. All the potential for financial chain reactions are still there waiting for some other major or minor event to trip them off.

As the price of gasoline marches inexorably on to four dollars a gallon, dissel fuel prices have risen twice as fast as conventional fuel. Crude oil prices meanwhile are at their all-time highs of $108.00. Truckers now are so up against it that there is talk of a truckers strike. Obviously transportation costs raise the price of everything we buy at the supermarket. Meanwhile another “cure” for our energy woes is contributing to the hike in many food items, and that is the price of wheat, which has doubled or worse. Farmers have switched from wheat to corn in the past few years in the futile hope that home grown ethanol production from corn will somehow ease our energy crisis. But when you figure up all the costs, the carbon footprint is actually increased, and it costs more in energy to produce the ethanol than the energy saved by ethanol use. Obama is floating around a few ideas of a corporation able to surpass energy standards for a given year can “sell” their credits to a corporation that still falls short. This could be a new type of commodity.

Violence in Iraq and particular in Bhagdad has increased because apparently all this rosey talk about the Shiits of the south being all happy now that the British have left- - is just so much hot air. One wonders whether the British were not DRIVEN out. Now these Shiites of Bosra and that area are causing problems in Bhagdad and the Meliki government is at last waking up and cracking down on them so for once you have Shiite against Shiite. Apparently it all depends on what Al Satir does and whether or not he’s willing to honor a cease fire. What is plain at any rate that all of America’s problems in Iraq are not behind us, as plans for any troop scale back keep getting pushed further and further into the future.

Meanwhile “The Long Wait” continues. Rome burns while old man winter turns slowly into spring. Thom Hartman let it slip that he now is far less confident of a democratic victory come this November. Meanwhile it is a full three & a half weeks before the Pennsylvania primary, which admittedly you can phone in because nobody doubts that Hillary will take it easily. But it’s May 6^th. when North Carolina and Indiana vote that will be the key vote. Just maybe, and I know it’s wishful thinking, if Obama wins both states, this orgy of democratic blood letting will come to an end. Meanwhile Mc Cain is already airing commercials for the General election. The thing is- - this democratic congress has had two years to stand up to George Bush and they’ve squandered the opportunity at almost every turn. Some people may begin to think, and I’m one of them, that “As long as the Democrats don’t care whether they win or not, perhaps I’ll just vote for Mc Cain. Perhaps Mc Cain won’t be so bad- - whereas some of the democratic proposals such as health care seem pretty radical. Since it’s been 48 years since we’ve elected anything resembling a liberal- - what makes us think it will happen this year? Perhaps we just are not ready for The Democratic Party and they would be best used as they have been in the past as watch dogs to make sure Republicans don’t go overboard on a particular policy. If you take a poll I bet the average person now would like to see Roe verses Wade overturned. The average person is for the defense of marriage act, and the average person does not want “To throw Israel under the bus” as Obama seems to want to do. Do not understate fear and apprehension as potent weapons. It all comes down to a simple truth of how you “Choose the Devil you know, because you fear more the Devil you don’t know”.

A Clear But Not Yet Present Danger

I am sure a lot of us have had the following experiance. You're at the camp fire all nice and cozy and it's getting latter and suddenly all these flood lights come on that completely spoil the mood. It's the government's way of letting you know the beach closes at midnight, kind of like Cops sweeping the streets at midnight at Mardi Gras. Of course you start to thinking about the thin blue line that protects you not from the criminal but from government. If cops wanted to they could have cleared the streets any time they wanted to, and who would have stopped them? Who's to say you're actually guilty of something when a Policeman wants to kick in your door? Of course you know we have the internet now, and I marvle that it's as free as it is. In China it's less free but even they have their degree of freedom. You know that if government had designed it there would be all matter of restrictions of where you could go and what sites you could see, just like a teenager. And if you put the government's two cents worth of ideas there would be fees for everything, including how long you were on the internet. Of course they're already spying on what you look at. Supposed they changed the rules. They have rules against illegally removing copy protection from CD's. Suppose the government instituted rules about illegally removing cookies, so that they could track you. What if deleting them were declared an act of treason? What if it were REQUIRED that every person have a computer in his home so the government could keep tabs on you? In North Korea they have these blairing propaganda speakers all the time out in public. At home one imagines the radios blairing propaganda day and night so that you can't even sleep. In July of 1978 I was at this Christian (?) camp in Malibu canyon. What struck me about it is that there was alltogether too much pavement and they had these flood lights everywhere, even though they wern't turned on. And there was this tinny, blairing music coming out of the loud speakers making you aware of some omni-presence. I thought that "camps" were to get away from it all. John Lennon talked about this non retreat retreat when he wrote the words to "I'm So Tired". He found the life of "relaxation" and "meditation" with the Maharishi to be- - - exausting. Tiring. He couldn't get any shut-eye. I think this is the state that the government in its fondest wish would have for all of us that we are sleep deprived and hence suggestable. One of these days they aren't going to have actual elections where people go to the polls. They'll desguise the elections as just another phone survay, and they'll beguile you with a luring speech. The government will put sensors on the TV to track eye movements to see which political commercials you respond to best. And of course in the spirit of "Cracking the Code" the government will use buzz words. Words that contain a pleasent emotive meaning for their side and unpleasent terms for the enemy. It could be that the results of any election will be known in advance, like a Cardassian Court Trial on Startrek. Perhaps they will actually hold a lottery to see who gets to be the shill or opposing candidate that is pre planned for defeate. Once again perhaps the "loser" could even have charges of treason brought against him by the government should he "pull a fast one" and actually WIN the election. You know- - they could always have ten times the number of mental institutions they have now just for wearhousing dissenters. You'd see old ladies manhandled by these big burly attendants. A doctor regards his hypodermic needle as his security blanket the way a cop regards his gun. They have said that more cops commit suicide than ever get killed on the job by criminals. You might say that being a cop is a lot safer than a lot of jobs, like coal miner. There is this thin line called precident that protects all of us from law enforcement of various stripes running amuck and coming after us all. Mc Cain is against torture one day and then he's for torture in a vote in congress the next. In a soap opera scenario, if they wanted to make it hard on truckers and shippers they could have phoney "inspections" where shipments were held up and valuable business lost. You get one of these old time Big Political Machine majors like they had in the old days- - as President of the United States and you could really do something. People should go to bed at night thanking their lucky stars that by in large the FBI is a lot more honist than a lot of traditional big city police departments. They could pass a law against being without a cell phone the way it is to be without your drivers license. Power companies that cut off service for not paying your bill could even be charged with treason because they "broke the tether" of government on you. Think about it.

Coming soon to a blog site near you, "The Night Comes Down" a documented account of David Stanley and eighteen or so months that irrevocably changed his life for the worse in 1993 and 1994. It probably won't be our next blog but look for it some time. Did not Jesus say "Are there not twelve hours in a day?". Find out what he meant.

Elevision

Well, we know elephants are intelligent animals. And we know that they have good memories. In this way they can remember where watering holes are, when others have dried up. Now they have some guy who can find water by looking at the ground for prior evidence of lots of water like a detective. One guy says you can find the most well water under sand dunes. In Darfore they are now in the process of discovering a huge underground late the size of Lake Ontereo, where they can drill wells for the local population, and perhaps keep women from being raped on the way to the well to get water. The concept of "Elevision" is to train elephants to carry video cameras that are desguised as logs that the elephants are trained to carry around with them, and the tigers don't suspect. Elephants can get a lot closer to dangerous animals such as tigers, because the tigers are used to having the elephants around all the time and know them. Through the cameras that are programmed to go on when they detect certain motion, the most intamate interractions between a tigress and her cubs, or adolecent tigers playing, can be captured. The whole concept of using another animal as our reporting eyes and ears is fascenating. But I always like to expand a concept. What if we could leap into other people's minds as a form of astro-projection and spy on them, and even controle their actions. After all they do have these "go to my computer" programs out there. What is there is a certain brain wave frequency in the ether waves you can tap into. This has been the pipe dream of psychics for over a century. Three people come to mind" John Lennon, Jess Ryder, and Denise "Delovely". One of them you know, one of them is a composit of two different Stephen King characters, and the other is based on information I have in my position that I don't care to reveale at the moment. In the Bible at one point it says that the Lord "clothed himself with Gidion", meaning I guess that the Lord physically occupied Gidian's body. I guess that's a low rent way God could incarnate himself. Of course the whole idea of a superior being taking you over is far from a novel one. What you want to know is what is this person like on an "I and Thou" dialog situation? (I'm going to leave out the next couple of lines based on who might be reading this) We don't know that the soul exists or what "consciousness" consists of, or if you can physically measure it. But if we can train animals to pack video cameras we can do all sorts of things. You know "Ben-dai sydrone" is a ficticious disease that Valcans get. I'm wondering though whether I may have had it in March 1968 when I for a brief period become vary depressed and entertained thoughts of suicide. What if certain people are held together through "mind melds" and when that other mind manages to "disconnect" the person falls apart. It's something to think about.

Of course the media with John Mc Cain has their own version of "Elevision" with him. They are as "embedded reporters" in his campaign. They travel with him and they know him and relate to his particular vibes such that they know that when he "slips up" it doesn't really mean anything. Mc Cain has gotten on the "good sides" of reporters by giving the reporters everything a reporter wants. He is candid with them and he tells them long elaborate stories and reminisences. As such he has "money in the bank" with them. He has political capital with them and from time to time he needs to "spend" that by their not jumping all over him when he makes a slip-up like he did with Al Qaida in Iran. He has their good will. However the local media in Arizona knows him to well and they are aware of his fierce temper and are unwilling to give him a "pass" on this issue. But the national media according to one Air America source gives Mc Cain the best press any candidate has gotten in the last forty years. And there have been questions about Mc Cain. They say he was born in Panama and not really an American citizen who can run for President. They say he's spend 58 million on his campaign when under subsidized spending rules he was only entitled to 54 million. They overlook his temper. He's never asked about his involvement as one of the Keating five. In fact, right now were I to be compelled to cast my ballot for President today I'd vote "None of the Above". I don't think there is a one that would fill the bill. I'd like to bring back some of the old ones like Byden or Edwards. Either Huckibee or Romney are more appealing as candidates when it comes to the economy. Mc Cain is said to have been quoted as saying that "I understand why people might not to vote for me if they are concerned about the economy, but might want to vote for one of the others". This will be a campaign issue. On the other hand you have all this blood letting in the democratic party. Now there are reprinted anti-Isriali articles put out by Obama's church. I guess some people there buy the PLO line Israel should be drive into the sea. Both Bill and Hillary have joined Rush Limbaugh in saying "political contentiousness is not bad for the American system but is in fact healthy". We'll see. Just think that a year from now we'll know who the president is and what the issues are and whatever they are now will likely seem like nothing a year from now. I bet you'd like a sneak preview of one year from now. The concept of both space portals and time portals is a fascenating one. It would be neat to have a system like the Iconians on Star Trek where you can just step off into a portal and then be on someone elses space ship, or else step through a portal in time like that "library" episode on another Star Trek. In some ways the future is so close you can almost taste it. One has the distinct impression if you knew what things would be like a year from now you've be in a much better position to make an intelligent political decision right now. (Selah)

Signs - and the Reality Behind Them

This morning I woke up at two o clock and had trouble getting back to sleep. I had just had a dream about being in a place where we had access to lots of computers. And the people who ran the place were telling us which computers we could use and which web sites we could buy things from and which ones we couldn’t. I got to thinking about this and it dawned on me that the reason why this was important is because computers are real and they represent real things. They aren’t just typed words on a screen. If you give someone your credit card number they have power over you and if you do something on line it isn’t just “games” but it’s the real thing of buying and selling and making contracts. I got to thinking of this whole notion of “Signs”. Jesus Christ oddly said that “Signs aren’t important”. Jesus also made the oddly atheistic sound statement that “Swearing oaths is something you should never do”. I got to thinking about this and then thought of how some of the fiercest theological battles you get on the radio between Christians and cults is on the important of baptism. Christians taking the position that baptism is not important. Traditionally baptism is a “Sign”. It represents the reality of something and is a confirmation of something important, like a wedding ring, and to throw it in the trash can just like that says something about the person making the statement. In Genesis it speaks of the heavens and the stars and has the statement “Let them be for signs and for seasons”. I find it odd that the “other” Jesus Christ (on KFI) says “Of all the supernatural arts, astrology is the least validated”. Last July I made the statement when the stock market has been going nothing but up that “I predict thus and so and as a Sign that my words are true I predict that the market will take a precipitous drop in the next few days. This drop occurred right on schedule. In a posting further back in this blog I talk about the Housing market. This was back in mid summer when it wasn’t much of an issue. And I said the housing markets were going to become an issue and to look out for it. One scripture I take very seriously is the one about not taking the Lord’s name in vain. And by this scripture means “empty pursuits that will come to nothing”. But if I had to guess I would say that this is the most common sin that devout Christians commit without batting an eye. Faith, or credulity, in reality, is like paper money. And paper money is only good if it’s redeemable for the real thing, typically silver, which also has special Biblical significance. In my prophecy book I make the statement “People make counterfeits to look like the real thing; never like a fake. People are hoping that they can trick someone else into trading in a counterfeit and getting back the real thing”. It’s kind of silly to say you don’t believe in signs. There are signs everywhere. There are street signs to tell you where to go and signs on products to tell you they are poison. You will note in the life of Joan of Arc, those Burgundian churchmen, as corrupt as they were, wanted Joan to swear out an oath publicly- - that her voices were false and sign her name to a confession. They wanted this because they knew that oaths were real, and not just some kind of a game to pass the time. Many Christians say they believe in faith for faith’s sake. They don’t differentiate between good faith and bad faith. It’s kind of strange when you think about how the idea of “Faith is just as good as reality” became an axiom in our society. Jesus introduced it when he told doubting Thomas that others besides himself may be more Spiritual because they didn’t have to see for themselves but only believed. People peddle their product like giving you a slug and saying “It’s just as good as a quarter” or a pastor giving you a lick and a promise and saying “It’s just as good as answered prayer”. It’s like those commercials that go “It’s just as good as a Xerox”. One of these days some pastor when he’s all alone is going to encounter a talking copier and it’s going to say to him “I’m not just as good as a Xerox, I am a Xerox”. And the pastor will say back “How dare you talk back. I decide what is real and what is not”. To so many religion is like the crazy Aunt they keep in the attic. But every so often when you’re having company over she comes down and mingles among the guests and embarrasses you terribly. That “Dr. House” on the show “House” was commenting how he envied this autistic nine year old, because he didn’t have to conform to social convention but could say anything that popped into his head about anything. Only Royalty in this world have that kind of power. We could say that Royalty have a license to be insane. I’ve contrasted two people in my mind lately. One was that guy named Marcus, who used to live here. In case you’re wondering I picked my alias before I ever knew of him, otherwise I might have decided otherwise. Marcus left here essentially to get outside care because he was showing signs of insanity. But when I contrast the way he interracted with me and a certain main stream denominational Pastor I’ve made reference to in my blogs before but seldom by name. Both were abusive tword me and at times cruel. Both put you on the defensive from the word Go and cranked the maneuver of “Projection” up into the stratosphere. Stated perhaps too simple, projection means “The best defense is a good offence” and both of these people, Marcus and the pastor were offensive to the max. The difference being that Marcus is acknowledged as Insane, but the pastor continues to be a respected man in his church and denomination. In fact if anything, Marcus was the more lucid of the two of them. Christianity does not believe in Signs any more than it believes in any force outside itself. Gene Scott is another person I used to be swayed by but since he’s dead now all of his teaching seems rather irrelivent now. Gene Scott once said that “Unless you have been personally hurt by a religion, you don’t have the right to complain about it, but if you’ve been hurt your words have credibility”. Jesus Christ on the radio’s response to this is the famous “sin transfer” doctrine. So much more rewarding than an ATM machine! The sin gets transferred from the perpetrator to the victim. It is said that nothing is True unless there is some logical scenario by which it might be proved and demonstrated as false. My attitude twords God is “Deliver the goods”. Bob Dylan once had a song “Nothing was delivered”. You should listen to it sometime. If I make a prediction I usually do it in my name, because I do NOT want to drag God into something that’s none of his doing. John Lennon once said of “Six Six Six” that he should “Free the people” and “stop the killing” because “Your time is up you better know it, or maybe you don’t read the Signs”. If only Lennon has been correct. As you know several posts back I wanted a Sign to confirm another Sign. I said there would be “something witchy” to happen to demonstrate to the world that all the stuff we say about the Orion Federation is correct. You might say “You really take the cake. You want something to happen in the world to prove something that you just made up to begin with”. Perhaps. We’ll just see how my predictive “batting average” fairs in the coming months. You know- - whatever happens I want to look back on these blog postings exactly a year from now just to see what the hell was going on in my mind at the time.

In my previous posting I told you of some of the dire things that could likely occur if a Republican were elected in November. But Obama is not off the hook by any means. The media has indeed given him a pass, but not necessarily how they normally mean it. Keep in mind that on certain moral, social, and family issues, Obama is like Hillary on steroids. I have been reading some highly disturbing things sent to me from conservatives about Obama. There is one thing about the World Net Daily crowd. If you say “Deliver the goods; let’s see your evidence”, they have the evidence and the facts, unlike certain other Christians you and I have probably known who go through life on a wing and a prayer. Obama is really bad on the abortion issue carrying partial birth abortions one more dimension into depravity by saying that live babies born from botched abortions should be killed. Obama is also rabidly anti fire arms protection, and also as pro gay as you can get, possibly even affecting areas of employment by a church, not to mention what pastors would be allowed to say about gays under an Obama presidency. There is still that religious banana peel ready for someone to trip on. Just what does Obama believe about Islam and the whole idea of race and religion to begin with? Is he really as much the “JFK man of tomorrow’s enlightenment” as he would like you to believe or does he indeed hold the “views of the past” when it comes to Black extremism? I find it hard to believe that a man could be in a church for twenty years with a pastor like that giving the sermons he gives, and not know what the pastor stands for. I know in myself a certain pastor, previously referenced in this posting, who gave awful sermons, and they only got worse with the passage of time, and I haven’t set foot in that church in over eleven years. That’s what most people do when they encounter a bad situation. They leave. I’d just like to know what was and is going through Obama’s mind.

Hitting the Four Thousand Mark

We have lost four hundred thousand troops in Iraq in the five years of the war. Chuck Hagel tells us that we've lost nine hundred troops since the surge began. There are 29,000 wounded. They say that Iraqis have lost at least 80,000 into the hundreds of thousands. We don't know. Now we hear the roomer that either Hillary or Obama would not discontinue the war. One Christian conservative said, "It would be like trying to termanate the orbit of a sattelite". Presumably we are in for "as long as it takes". I guess the question is just how long "long" is. They say in gang warfare you don't just knock the person out in a fight, you have to stomp all over their head and kick their teeth in so they'll remember it. Is George Bush looking for the day when we have so inilated the native population that no voice dare dissent? Of course there was Mc Cain's gaff last week where he said that Iran is becomming a staging place for Al Qaida. Of course he didn't just say it once but four times and people are saying it must be deliberate. They say Mc Cain really knows that Al Qaida is not Shiite, and he's not just having another of his "senior moments". The error is deliberate to "conflate" the issue in the mind of the American public. Now there is talk of an October surprise. The feeling goes that we need something to ignite the intrest of the neo cons just before Election Day and nothing would do that like starting a war with Iran just before election day. The image of Nixon in 1960 is pointed to because the Bay of Pigs invasion was already planned, but Eisenhaur held off, and perhaps if they had gone ahead and "taken Cuba" it would have put Nixon over the top on election day. They are also saying that Joseph Lieberman has the job of Vice President pretty much in the bag. They say he'll attract the centerists, the "Reagan democrats" as well as the "Zionist Christians" and Jewish people. Personally I think Mc Cain will pick some nobody because he doesn't want to take the spot light off of himself. Several years ago they said he'd be 73 on election day. But now they are pegging his age at 71. He would still be the oldest man ever to be elected President for the first time. People say that he's flip-flopped on so many issues, legalizing torture being the latest one, that people aren't sure what the "real" Mc Cain stands for. They say that he thought of becomming a Democrat in 2001 to caucus with the democrats in congress but that Jeffers guy beat him to it. Of course John Kerry says that running as Kerry's vice president was clearly an idea from the Mc Cain Camp.

People are saying they don't like Hillary because she "parses" words. She lies a lot and also wedges certain groups against other groups and hopes to come out on top. She would be a very polarizing figure as President. Now Bill Richardson has endorsed Obama and James Carvile is calling Richardson a "Judas". It would seem to me that Richardson would be the person to shore up the Latino vote in the southwest. It will sure be interesting to see how all of this plays out. Nevertheless it's always been my belief that is Hillary ever chose to run for President, she would win. And whoever is President in January of 2009 is going to have an economic mess on their hands. You can't find the tides of the economy. History has shown that we have little more influence over this than we do over the weather. You can't control just when people just decide to stop spending any more than you can controle when birds all decide to fly south for the winter. When the economy flies south it's "gone". Some have said that massive monitary bail outs of the economy are like "trying to push a string". It just won't go. It will coil up. This indeed will be President Bush's great come-uppance. There will be no repeats of the fall 1992 recovery this time around.

I suppose this next paragraph could be called the perils of in-breeding. We know it's a bad idea for dogs, or the clans in West Virginia and Arkansas. But it's also a bad idea for plants. There used to be hundreds of species of apples comonly grown in America a hundred & fifty years ago. Now there are fifteen or twenty or something. They say the number of apple varieties has dropped 86% in a very short time. This is true for all other types of seeds that are planted and grown for food or beauty, and so they have build that fortress type place on an island off the northern shore of Norway just a few hundred miles from the north pole. They say it's so well insilated even if the power goes out for 25 years the seeds will still be usable. It's kind of a doomsday store house. But it doesn't require an asteroid of nuclear winter to bring on doomsday, just the normal process of global warming ought to do it. The thing is we have so in-bred our vegetables that food (like British royalty) is more succeptable to certain diseases which spread like wild-fire through a crop with on counter-vening genes in other species to resist the pestelance. The danger here is obvious. That same person from the Christian right I previously quoted from states that nutrition has dropped drastically with modern food production, and a lot has to do with depleted nutriants in the soil. We need to switch off the species we grow for the over-all "genetic health" of our food supply.

Today is March 24th. or the 32nd. anniversary of my becoming a Christian. One line I've frequently heard quoted at me is "He who began a good work in you will be faithful to complete it". Why should that one be any less a lie than all the other things I've been told. I'd like to point to the example of Joan of Arc. Sometimes when you watch a movie for a second time different things jump out at you. Joan's army was winning battle after battle but then the Brittish forces sued for Peace and Charles was annointed King of France and rested on his (or rather Joan's) laurals. Joan was kept around as a well respected figure-head. But the news of Peace was like a dagger to her heart because she was so conscious of the Lord's will not having been completed. And in the end the fact that British forces were not wiped out proved to be Joan's undoing because her trial was in Burgandy, which was sort of a capitulating vassle privince of the British, and the Churchmen who tried her were British puppets, and she was denied the right of every Catholic to appeal to Rome, to the Pope. In my prophecy book I was doing a homily on the number "three" and I made reference to this one Jewish King, perhaps it was Hezekiah, who was told to symbolically thrust his arrow into the ground to symbolize the enemy. He struck the ground three times. Then the prophet, perhaps Elijah, said to the King "You have done wrongly, for now you shall only achieve three victories. If you had struck the ground six or seven times your troops would have won the final victory. The Rev. Sun Myung Moon has a teaching that the reason why Jesus failed is because he had to complete the ministry of John the Baptist, who was cut off before his time, so Jesus had to continue with his ministry of repentance and redemption, rather than his own ministry, which was the conquest of the earth. It's something to think about. You've heard the expression, "for want of a nail, the battle was lost". At another point in the movie Joan got upset because the troops were retreating and not continuing to storm the fortress. "The troops are tired". But Joan said, "The other side is even more exausted than you all are and now is the time to strike". I think with a war or a campaign or anything the secret is to give it your last ounce of strength, and when you think you are completely spent, give it some more. This is how the decisive battles in life are won.

A Holy Day Out of Time

First of all I'd like to congradulate all you people who found this blog. This is the first time we've posted here in over seven months. Right now I'm listening to Latin Jazz on Yahoo. Some of that stuff reminds me a little too much of something Dezi Arnez would have done sixty years ago. I just got through eating a crab salad lunch. When I order "Seafood and Crab" at Subway I tell them to hold the mustard and hold the pickles, because those things don't go well with sea food. You better remember that; it's likely to show up on the next trivia test. Today is Good Friday and I'm wearing my blood red "Seminole" shirt. That's from all the blood of guilty White people the Seminoles killed. Today it could also stand for the blood of Christ. But there are some compelling reasons why we should hold off in celebrating Easter for another lunar cycle. First of all this will be the first Easter in my lifetime where the sun doesn't rise on Easter morning till nearly seven o clock. Also, "Maundy Thursday" or Holy Comunion will have been celebrated on March 20th. and as you know that ought to be on a full moon, and normally it's the first full moon AFTER March 21st. Also I don't believe we have ever had an Easter during the first week of March Madness in the NCAA. Also I don't believe St. Patrick's Day should ever come during Holy Week what with all the partying and getting drunk and all. Of course what we need is an Easter update theme, you Rush Limbaugh fans, and may I suggest "Out of Time" by the Rolling Stones. If Rush were doing a "Me" update the theme he'd pick would most likely be "On the Border" what with its creeping "Black" elements in Eagles music. If I were doing a Christianity update I'd alternate between two songs. One of them is "Little by Little" by the Rolling Stones. Great refrain. The other is "Not a Second Time" by the Beatles. Rush Limbaugh for that "Kennedy spring break" incident back in 1991 had not two, but four update themes. This was when Edward Kennedy and his nephew got arrested for getting drunk and picking up women down in Palm Beach for "Typical family Easter reunion". The four songs were that Bart Simpson one "I didn't do it". Then there was "Kenne-day-O" and "The Fillanderer" and finally "They'd arrest anyone else but when the Kennedys show up they use their wealth".

The Shroud of Turin made it into the news again this morning because some people believe it's still authentic. The punch line of that is that the Shroud evidence shows that it was a "Still Living Person", who was wrapped in it. There was talk today on channel 40 about how Jesus came to seek and to save what was Lost. And one of the things that was Lost was "Dominion" over the earth by man. I prefer the word "Stewardship" rather than "Dominion", which implies some kind of royal sovreignty. God entrusted to us responsability for the earth and to tend it and keep it. Some preachers say that they are anti "green" because "It will only encourage mass abortion and gay marriage or anything to prevent reproduction". My response is you're mixing apples with oranges. God charges us with keeping the earth in proper balance, and we'll just leave it at that. OK?

Now they are getting on our case for wood burning fireplaces. Wood burning fireplaces will not be allowed to be constructed in homes in the LA area any more. In the whole southern county region of the state, you will not be allowed to have a fire in your fireplace burning wood- - on bad smog days, or any day when the AQMD decrees that there is too much "particulate matter" in the atnosphere, which knowing them is likely to be every day. Next they'll be coming after our barbecues. There is already one Christian vitamins outfit that says char-broiled meat gives you cancer. I don't know if they're advocating you eat your meat raw or what.

Sarah Jane Olson was let out of prison after serving six years for plotting to blow up an LAPD police car for the SLA, but the crime never came off. She was captured in 1999 and had lived a whole other respectable life for over two decades. Personally I would have let her off with a fine or community service or something, but she served six years, and the police are mad because she didn't serve the whole twelve. In another case a Black man was released from prison after serving time for a crime he didn't commit. He was "inside" 23 years! A witness lied and finally recanted his story so they let him go with no plans to re-try him again.

People are becomming more aware of the turmoil in China these days. There are protests in Tibet about the Olympic Torch passing through there, and there are also protests in Canton, another region of China, next to Hong Kong. Other people want to boycott the Olympics on the grounds their pollution is so bad it's a health hazzard for long distance runners. I'm starting to think it might be a pretty good idea to boycott. Of course the Chinese have George Bush's balls in a jar, so Bush has to trust the Chinese implicity on so many matters.

I imagine you've heard all the news about how there won't be re-votes in either Michigan or Florida for controle of those 300 odd deligates. It could be that yesterday will go down as a historic turning point in the Obama campaign as the day it became impossible for Hillary Clinton to win. Of course Obama has other problems with the Federal Government breaking into his private records on three different occasions earlier this year. Now Berock Obama is in trouble for making a politically "insensitive" statement about White people. It would seem that saying his grandmother was "a typical white person of her generation" is offensive to White people. I guess Rush Limbaugh needs to start a political correctness class for Black people. I must admit the remark went right past me. I must be dense.

Then there is this whole bit with Pastor Hagee's remarks or whoever Mc Cain's pastor is- - and hos John Mc Cain sought his endorsement. Now Hillary Clinton is in trouble because there is a photograph of her husband with that Chicago pastor who made the flame thrower remarks. One talk show host today was speculating what sort of Church George Bush goes to, or if he goes to church at all. You know I forsee a time when religion itself will become taboo to practice in any form. I would like to quote from myself a few words right now on the subject of cults:
. I got that “Mind Lock” Cult book out of the box and read the chapter on this one Jewish guy joining the Moonies. All the questions and conflicts that ran through his mind ran through mine as I was wondering whether I’d ever be a genuine Calvary Chapel Christian. “Everybody but me seems so happy”. He was always told that his many questions would be answered by and by but never were.
This is what happens to you when you're sleep deprived, or "sleep depraved" as Tommy Smuthers would say. Your mind short circuits reality. Note that new prospective converts are not allowed to speak or congragate next to each other, and your "alone time" is checked at almost zero. The pressure to conform with the "everybody else is doing it" is quite high. I would assirt that the Calvary Chapels differ not in kind but only in degree. Another mantras is "Don't listen to your feelings; your feelings will always lie". What they pummel you with is a sea of re-defined words. I've lived it. I've gone through all the mind games. The really "smart people" are not the ones who fall for the line "Well, you don't want to quit now, before you've heard all the evidence".