Sometimes You Can't Win for Losing

You sometimes read the news in the morning and you think you're Alice in Wonderland. Now they are dropping all charges against Ted Stevens, that Senator from Alaska who based his whole carreer in Politics in political wheeling and dealing, who built "the bridge to nowhere". Now the same prosecutors are telling us that they screwed up, but contrary to the usual procedure, Stevens is not going to be retried, but presumably is exhonorated of all wrong doing. Of course the subtext of this story is that it's all the same republican prosecutors who are in power now, as then. So the question is why Obama hasn't replaced all of these office posts yet? I don't know. But the Bushies can't help but be happy about it. Now these same prosecutors will be there to continue to harrass Don Siegelman in his bid for vindication of all wrong doing. You see if he is retried, he could again get conviction. This is because someone changed the laws in influencing to now all conviction on even hints or allusion of wrong doing lacking any hard evidence. Apparently juries now will be entitled to go into what the jury thought his mental state was. So all the prosecutors have to do now is sell an illusion or inference, and inform the jury that you interperate actual testimony in light of this "inference". Karl Rove is alive and well, and Siegelman has been fighting to get his name and reputation back. I think one area where Obama has really fallen down on the job is in the whole area of criminal justice in this country.

Now President Obama is in England. Yesterday he visited Queen Elizabeth. I never knew the Queen was so short. No doubt until now she has carefully guarded how photo opps are managed. Of course protesters have come from far and wide to protest the economy. No doubt if it were a President Mc Cain visiting Europe, his name would be associated as the object of the protestor's complaints. But basically as this point Obama can still do no wrong on the world scene. He's attending the G 20 conference where "The world's power brokers will hammer out a solution to the world's economic problems". Markets in Hong Kong and Tokyo are up last night and so they must be favoribly impressed with the progress and think that workable solutions are being put into place. Nobody has yet used the A word to describe President Obama. No, not that one- - - I mean "Antichrist". Supposidly among his other tallents, the Antichrist will be an economic genious who will see obvious solutions where other people see none. My fear at this point is that we just might attempt to do too much manipulation in the wrong areas and actually cause fresh problems, such as runaway inflation. I have heard people actually say that what we really need is to "inflate out way out of the debt", just like the Weimar Republic did. But I'm sure every father has lectured his son on the subject, "The best way to get out of a serious problem is to never get into it in the first place".

And now for today's culture moment. No, we're not talking about French Impressionalism. We've gone way beyond that today anyhow. Today we are exhibiting elephant dung and calling it art. And it's not even fosselized dung, like they had on the recent Nova episode. It seems that the Wolly Mamouths and all of those other giant mamels that used to roam the land wern't really killed off by the ice age as we have been told in school all these years. It seems that man is responsible, because of his over-hunting. In Tanzania they are heavily into the lion poisoning business using a powdered poison that's illegal in the rest of the civilized world, and it apparently can't be traced in the blood stream. They say the lion population is only about a third of what it was just a couple decades ago. Of course you know that yesterday was April fools. According to the Simpsons, an April Fool is what they called pagans who refused to adopt the Christian callendar 1500 years ago in the Druid lands and other Nordic regions. Of course you know that Halloween Jack was a character who was kicked out of heaven but wasn't allowed into Hell either, so that he dedicated his life to playing jokes on the Devil, hence the Jacko Lantern is really a good symbol to place in the window. I once considered using the alias of Halloween Jack and am not sure why I never used it.

Looking over the panoramic sweep of world history, it's amazing how little that man saw himself as the center of all important decision making. The saying of Descartes of, "I think; therefore I am" is tantamount to blasphamy in most religions. Man is not allowed to think or have individual thought, let along individual rights. Hence the phrase of John Lock's of "Life, liberty and property" is another blasphamy with the idea that man has the rights to these. Liberty truely is a minority concept in a world where slavery has ruled the day. Most religions of the world see God as some kind of glorified Animal, either a Lion, or some bird such as a Falcoln or an Eagle, or else some kind of surpent or dragon. The best God will allow is for the Ruler of a people to dawn the trappings of their god on ceremonial occasions. Perhaps the idea of God as an animal stems back from the fact that psychologists say children below a certain age dream mainly about encountering talking animals. I have no memory of such dreams myself but I guess I was too young. The idea of God as some kind of beastly "Creature" seems to guarentee that not even God is allowed to think like a human, let alone an enlightened human. In the after life - many cultures assume that we assume the form of these animals and may be accorded worship by our living relatives. My greatest fear is that if there ever is a "Beast of Revelation" that such a leader will demote man back into animal status, and inform us that this is the level we are incapable of rising from

Format Test

Testing one two three. This is a format check to see if the print on the blog is oversized still or not, like it was in all of the March 2009 postings. The problem did not appear correctable in any of the Blogger format settings. That April first "worm" is out today so I downloaded Defender from Microsoft and my computer came up clean, which surprised me. I figured since it was a progran that had never run before it would catch all sorts of previously unnoticed stuff.