A Dreadful Twenty Year Anniversary

We are reminded that today is the twentieth anniversary of the horrible 6.9 earthquake in the San Francisco Bay area that caused freeways and bridges in Oakland to collapse on top of each other. The earthquake began just as the first game of the World Series was about to start between the Giants and the Oakland A's. As I remember from the time I think the initial response from people in the stands at the stadium was th applaud. But apparently it knocked a network camera out of comission. Last Thursday school children in this state were reintroduced to the "duck and cover" drills we used to do as kids, when they still feared bombs. Really the biggest danger in case of earthquakes was the heavy flourecent light fixtures that our school had. If those fell and conked you on the head it would be a problem. This San Francisco earthquake was on the San Andreas fault but they say the Hayward fault is now the greater threat because that one hasn't moved in 140 years and it's due. And they say that now cracks are opening up in the earth around that fault along the East Bay. Of course a month or so ago we had a swarm of earthquakes in the Imperial Valley, again near the San Andreas fault, which is always a worry. Now they are saying that this swarm didn't mean that a big one is coming. Nevertheless we in California need to remember anniversaries like today to bear in mind that when the big one of 8.0 really does come, it will not be any picnic.

It's nice to see Ron Reagan on his show yesterday saying the same things I was saying in my Wednesday blog about the President's position on health care. In terms of the stock market, I urge that you use even a small downturn in price as an oppertunity to buy and get a better deal, and if the price goes down more than that, do more buying. We should all be happy to have this second chance not to miss the boat. Many are upset by the fact that Wall Street executives are earning even more humungus salaries now than they were before the 2007 crash. They shouldn't be blaimed entirely but rather the whole bail out policy of the Bush and Obama administrations is to blaim for creating the situation. You can't blame individual people for merely being slaves to human nature. Republicans are now crediting George Bush for the rise in stock prices lately, and to a degree they are right. It could well be that George Bush through his swift actions last fall prevented a much greater economic calamity from taking place. Normally they say if you buy in the early stages of a bull market, you can virtually throw darts against the wall at the newspaper and you will score a hit. It's only in later stages that you need to be more selective. If I had the money I would buy, but I clearly don't, now.

Many are blaming that balloon family for staging the whole saga that we saw on out TV screens on Thursday. It was pointed out that venues like Sixty Minutes and Jim Lerr check out their stories more thoroughly before they run them. Still, I believe that people like Randi Rhodes and Stephanie Miller are way off the mark when they claim that the whole family and their three boys staged the entire thing. I believe the events that occurred with "Falcon" on the Larry King show where he said "We did it for the show" was some kind of misunderstanding. I don't think this family was maliciously using the media. (Some people want to be used) Randi Rhodes questions the psychological relation between father and son. These incidents don't bother me. So the kid hid- - that's what six year olds do. They play games. Randi says she had a strict father. I bet her father merits being afraid of a lot more than this father does. So he puts kids in danger driving them into tornadoes. Parents all raise kids differently. That crocadile guy used to routinely expose his young children to dangerous reptiles. I don't think you can read anything suspicious into anything this family did. So the kid gets sick on the air. These things happen. Sometimes Randi Rhodes gets to milking a particular topic, long after it's been milked dry.

Some people may think that stuff I wrote about "living someone elses life" was just a little too far out - even for me. John Lennon was said to have remarked around September of 1969, "I want my life back". The theory being that he's been heavily on drugs since the beginning of 1965 and now that these drugs are wearing off four & a half years later- - he should be able to make decisions like join George and Ringo in going with Allan Klein as producer rather than Mr. Eastman. I think though drugs is not the opperative key in -for instance - my life. If that were so then the period from 1993 to 2001 would be the period where "I wasn't really me" because I was an alcoholic. However if you look at my life the periods like mid 1983 through December of 1989 when I "claimed to be under the influence of another" was not a heavy drinking period for me. You've met a lot of people that seemed to live a lot of their lives in some dream state that they can't remember too clearly, or if they do remember it they will say something like "I don't know what I was thinking back then". A lot of people will have times of awakening or "coming back to themselves" where suddenly time passes much more slowly and each day seems to be market with key events. There are of course any number of explanations for this. But I'm just throwing out this theory as one possible explanation.

The topic came up in class yesterday about using supurlatives such as "always" and "never" about God. I asked the teacher, "I know one thing God can't do. God can't change the future". The teacher responded "I believe God does intervene in history". To me this has the conotation of getting in the midst of something for the first time, that previously you wern't a part of, for instance a drug intervention. I think it's all how you define terms. Sometimes there can be a surprising shift in the tide of events, just like changes in the weather. But these occur because of natural laws previously set in motion. Some would ask "Was God sleeping through the Holicost?" I think "sleeping" is the wrong word because it presupposes that other times God is "awake" and somehow acts differently. Some may ask "Can God do anything that is really stupid". My response is "Not Stupid- - in terms of the way God defines the word. But in terms of how WE define the word- - Yes. You could say allowing the Holicaust to occur was Stupid. But the whole idea that God intervenes in history is an erronious one as far as I can see. It's what Walter Martin might call "An anthropomorphisun" or something that LOOKS like human intervention, but wasn't really. I don't think you can have an "I and Thow" relationship with God where there is dialog and response and more dialog and response the other way. I don't think "God's ears perk up when he hears his name" as Chuck Smith maintains. God is not surprised by anything. If God really knows the future from eternity past to eternity future, then how in heaven's name can he change it?

Living In This Bogus Reality

The stock market closed above ten thousand today for the first time in years. The Dow Jow Industrials first hit ten thousand in March of 1999, so it has been a long time getting back there. I told you last February to be looking for a bottom. A few weeks ago I said, "I wouldn't want to be the last person to get in on the bull market". Clearly the market has indicated it's going higher. I would say for everyone to buy now. Since this ten thousand mark is a "psychological barrier" we have over come, we will probably shoot up drastically from here, so you better get on board without delay. There is an upside potential of at least forty percent, and that ain't bad. If this post recession follows previous ones, we should be up forty percent in price within the years, and at that time I will re-assess my position. All of the economic indicators are pretty much headed up now. It may not feel like it, but in terms of investment reality we are OUT of the recession. Get used to that reality, no matter how little sense it might make in your personal lives.

California educational scores are among the lowest ever. A few years back California was second worst in standardized tests and only Mississippi was worse. This time fifth and eighth graters took tests and they scored better than Mississippi and the Dictrict of Columbia, and tied a few other states, but are clearly still in the bottom ten alias bottom twenty percent. This isn't healthy. Some say you shouldn't "Teach to the test" but if it wern't for these tests, California students would fare even WORSE. It's no surprizing California students do so bad in light of the things the Governor has done the past few years in terms of vetoing bills and cutting at the very vitals of the educational process. Lately he's almost been bragging that "I'm going to reject every bill that comes to me". His attitude seems to not be too far from "Let them eat cake". But our school children are our future. California used to routinely be number one in education. It was certainly that way all the time I was growing up. These days even faring merely "average" seems to be an alien concept with the Governater.

The media is continuing to slant things way to the right as far as health care bill coverage is concerned. This bill is the only bill of the five to come out of congress that does not contain a Public Option. Yet it appears to be the one bill that President Obama has given his personal backing to. The republicans are still living in dream land talking about how the democrats want "single payer". Perhaps they figure they can scare people into voting against this current bill merely on roomer, not expecting anybody to actually read the bill. I can't fathom a congressman being that stupid, but these days, who knows? Hypothetically this bill will be merged with the bill to come out of the Senate health comittee and then the resultant bill will go to conference committee once the house consolidates their three more liberal bills, Why do I have the lingering feeling those other bills will meet a sudden death somewhere mysteriously, as in a dark alley? It used to be for a fillibuster you actually had to be on the floor debating, and if you "yield the floor" according to the Jimmy Stewart movie, then you lose your chance and the debate is ended. If only that happened in real life! This is a bogus, bullshit political reality we live in today.

Today has not been a good day for me. I didn't mind waking up to rain. Rain is nice. But there was a power failure in the night and all my fifteen FM and six AM radio stations went out and I had to re-tune them and lock them in. Google Earth was acting squerelly. It kept going to a galaxy I didn't want to go to. None of the planets would work, along with the sun and moon. It didn't matter if anything and everything under the sun was checked, nothing worked. As you know someone stole a new package of boxer shorts a few weeks ago. Today another pair was missing from the laundry. The TV didn't go on for 25 minutes this afternoon and I missed valuable "soap time". This problem with the TV used to be evident only on very cold mornings like last winter. But today was not a cold day. Eventually I imagine the TV will be unusable. Of course I was also criticized for "complaining so much". And I said to the individual "Name a day other than just now when I last complained". Of course the price of cigarettes has gone up two dollars in the past year, yet they have told us there will be no Social Security increase this year, not that I would get it anyhow. In short, along with lingering dental worries, the future for me personally looks pretty bleak. As Christians we are supposed to "Dwell in the consciousness of the love of the Lord". I'll try and remember that. I know that 29 year old woman with the two daughters forcibly conceived and born in captivity who was abducted at age eleven from her home, has "risen above her problems" in a most amazing way. I can't believe how "happy" they all seem. A few years in captivity I'd have been looking for a Jack Kavorkian type in some dark alley, or the Salem waterfront. But a lot of people do amazing things that are beyond my capabilities. If I see someone do a tripple flip off a 200 foot rocky cliff into the ocean should I "try it till I succeed?" What about the Arctic tern. These birds migrage every year from the north to the south pole. Can you imagine what it was like for the very first tern that conceived this idea? He could think back and say "Well my father failed, and my grandfather failed, but perhaps I will succeed". Oh, that's right. Those birds never got the chance to live long enough to reproduce. There goes that theory. Some people overcome amazing disadvantages in life. But I'm not then and beating myself up - that I can't duplicate their efforts- - would be pointless.

Eliminating "Don't Ask Don't Tell"

President Obama gives a good speech. We all know this. He gave a lot during the campaign last year to get liberals to vote for him instead of Hillary. Hillary in my oppinion made a major campaign mistake last year in portraying herself as a candidate from the right, even appearling to the redneck West Virginia vote. Now that Obama is in office we see the whole retrenchment on one issue after another, and I don't need to list them. You know what they are and how many of them there were. But now President Obama has been dragging his feet on the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" issue with gays in the military, no doubt under pressure from the defence department. Today I even heard he helped kill some amendment that would have opened the doors to gays serving openly in the military. Personally I'm still opposed to gay marriage, and gays teaching young school children, "Young impressionable skulls full of mush", as Rush Limbaugh would put it. But clearly gays have proven that they are just as worthy as any other serviceman in the military, serving with honor and valor. We hear that Arab translaters were kicked out because they were gay. I wonder how Larry Elder rationalized that? We know he has a real tallent for rationalization. Of course if you are expelled from the service, it follows you on your record and adversely affects employment for the rest of your life. I think we can all agree that in these modern times, there wre no longer concerns about "securety risks" or blackmail, as in former decades. Some say that gays need to wait a little longer and "be patient". Harry Green, a pastor grew up with, could have many of his messages distilled down to "There is NOW and NOT NOW". Something is either "Now" or you might as well wait till Hell freezes over, because as Harry Green says, "Now is all you really have". He went on to tell a probably apocraphal story about a guy on a highway who had a gas station with the sign "Free Gas Tomorrow". He had evidently had that sign up there for years and nobody ever called him on it.

Today is Columbus Day, which for a liberal is a shameful day in world history. Many think that our contacts with the natives were friendly for a long time and then "something went wrong" and misunderstandings in relationships cropped up. But clearly this was not the case with Columbus. His attitudes tword natives was hostile right from the start. As warly as 1493 various tribes of Hatians were being taken back to Spain as slaves, and often nine and ten year old girls were taken as sex slaves because they were most in demand. Rape was a comon thing, because these women did not submit willingly. After a while merely imprisoning the native peoples got tiresome and they soon took to wiping out whole civilizations entirely. On Haiti, the population was decimated in the next few decades. Least you think this is just a Spaniard thing, our Pilgrim fathers soon grew hostile to the Peaquat Indians, who had saved the passengers from the Mayflower from starvation. No good deed goes unpunished. Apparently colonists began wiping out the Peaquat Indians such that another tribe- - Nantucket- - -Naganaw or something- - they broke their alliance with the White Man. And there were Whites at the time who wagged their finger and had the gall to say "Gee, that was hostile act". Of course Whites weren't grateful to the Indians for what they really did, but instead gave their God the credit. Of course if you read your Bible you get the idea the Isrialites did the same thing with the Caanenites in Biblical times. But in reality (if you read my blogs) you will know that those whom we call the Isrialites were called this while they were slaves, not to the Egyptians, but to the tribe to the south, whom we call the Dardanians. Those who we call Israelites are really Perezites. Not to get Mansonesque or anything but God leveled the karma of the Jews and one wonders whether they wouldn't take back their former hostile deeds in exchange for the last 2000 years being better. You better hope that something equivelently bad doesn't happen to the United States of America.

It's time for we Americans to get off the dime. First of all we need to overhaul our tax code. We need to eliminate tax deductions for Churches. We also need to eliminate tax credits for having children. On the contrary we should have a carbon tax for each new life brought into this world. Welfare mothers and fathers will be tracked down, will be assased this tax on a delayed basis when they can afford it. Also we need to raise the top income tax level to 49%. I'd make it higher but I'm in a charitable mood today. Also if Hartman is right, we need to re-assess what constitutes a "Non Profit Corporation". We need to strengthen the rights of women world wide. We need a regular crusade. Bush used to talk about crusades. Tom Hartman says the whole problem with overpopulation would be largely solved if women in minority countries had decent Rights, and an education. We also need a crash program in clean coal by perfecting the sequestration of carbon dioxide. We can accomplish this if we work at it. Our energy needs can't be met any other way. Women and children will also be helped by jacking up import terrifs into the stradusphere. Let's make them punitive for any country that employs women and children at slave wages. Let's encourage the rebirth of domestic production. It's funny that conservatives used to be in favor of this, like they used to be pro American, but that's before Obama became President.

In late news Rush Limbaugh wants to buy the St. Luis Rams, which to my way of thinking would be a blight on the NFL and the Rams, and many players say that if Rush is the owner, they won't play. In other news, insurance companies say the Obama Health Care Bill will raise insurance premiums for the average person. I told you that a week ago, which is why it's currently a bad bill.

This is our metaphysical paragraph. First I'd like to put in a plug for our entry a couple of postings back with the album listings for "The Many Lives of John Lennon". I updated the song listing just slightly a few days after the original posting and perhaps you haven't looked at it. Some of you may have questions about spirits "switching lives" and living in someone else's body. "Why would anybody want to do that?" Particularly in the case of Jess Ryder, who by my own words, probably had a better life, and he was younger, with fewer constraints, and he probably had more money. Well, it's the same reason that a University student takes 21 units per semester when he could get by with fourteen. He wants to karmicly advance more quickly. In Jess Ryder's case unfortunately that didn't work, (of the four "entities" discussed in that posting, three of them are physically alive right now living in bodies. Only Mick Ronson is not presently incarnated. He is also the one I have never had physical contact with in this world) There is also the old "grass is greener" or "Any life but the one I'm living" aspect of the whole thing. If you aren't happy you aren't happy, regardless what another might think. I would guess that most of the direct swap posession occurred between mid 1983 and late August of 1989. Trust me on that one. We did that posting on the Spiral Staircase. I think each incriment is based on a 22.62 angle of a triangle. You can calculate the figure to gread exactitude in Windows calculator if you want. But the thing is like this. If you're playing tick tack toe with a computer- - if the computer is perfect, the game will end in a draw. But if you're playing chess, it's MUCH easier for the computer to beat you. Even if the computer "allows" you just as many mistakes, the complexity of the set-up favors the computer. Each stair step up is 13/12 bigger than the one before. If you extend this out by backing up the camera, you can invision a giant funnel, because better karma equals vertical space, and more "oppertunity" equals more horisontal space. If you live a more difficult life you have more "oppertunity" for karmic advancement. As some point the need to advance further dwindles to nothing because your current "oppertunities" are already so numerous. Thus- - you are approaching karmic perfection. (Selah) Remember 10-10-10 is coming!

The curved surface of the funnel represents physical space (HORIZ) and gravity. (VERT) The space within the funnel represents psychic space. (space to be psychic) Here's something even I didn't know. Gravity is not instantanious but travels in waves at or below the speed of light. (alert: Whenever you hear the word "waves" think of a medium of travel and propigation such as ether) What this means is that when they calculate the volicities of distant plants they have to factor in the fact that gravity is "tape delayed" so to speak. I never heard this before! What they do say is that if you eliminate gravity that time and space would ALSO be eliminated! Gravity is part and parcel with matter in that it is not part of any particle (such as a graviton) according to this author. Einstein himself in his writings says that gravity is "the same as" accelateration, and also that gravity doesn't exist but is merely "bent space".

President Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Well, Randi Rhodes gets perplexed by certain developments like NBC documentaries. I am frankly perplexed by President Obama winning a peace prize I thought was only given out to people with notible achievements in the world of Peace. But there is no peace in the world and no recent accords have been achieved. Now they are saying that Albert Nobel merely wanted to promote "efforts" tword peace among nations. My worry is that this will only make Obama a bigger target for all the right wing nuts to shoot at, verbally or actually. Republicans also don't like being reminded that this move of the committee may simply be a reaction against eight years of George Bush. Some Republicans still think Ronald Reagan should have his imagage carved on Mount Rushmore. I have not tuned in Rush Limbaugh today and shudder to think the sort of things he is saying about our President at this moment. What we know is that General Mc Crystal or whoever, wanted MORE than 40,000 additional troops shipped to Afghanistan. He wanted 50,00 or perhaps even more, and was convinced to "compromise". Others are advising our President just to step up the bombing using the drone planes. But once again I fail to see how this will win us any votes in the public relations department. Once again it looks like we are supporting just another corrupt leader, the way our country has done for decades, or in short "business as usual". I don't think anybody has sucked in a breath and given real thought to just what our actual goals are in Afghanistan. Back when Bin Laden was alive our actions of hot pursuit made a lot of sense. But the experts are now saying that Bin Laden died in late 2001 of a lingering illness, and that those in the know say there was a funeral held for him. Other than provide a last minute campaign commercial for George Bush on the eve of the 2004 election, I don't know what keeping the image of Bin Laden alive in the minds of the American people has done for us. Some say that Alexander the Great didn't even want to fight in Afghanistan. Even back then the area was too inhospitable. There are even some intent on playing political Russian roulette, who want to bring back the draft, again, for various motives. This would be going from the frying pan into the fire. Senator Santorum was on some video the other day and if there is one thing I agree with him on is that we should keep our eye on Iran rather than Afghanistan. The US always seems to be making plans for the "last war" when the march of reality has moved forward.

If you were to listen to Randi Rhodes the other day you might have thought you were listening to Rush Limbaugh or O Riley. Because she trashed some Keith Oberman documentary on Health Care. Of course one thing we bloggers can do is revise our remarks, with no one the wiser, should we mis speak. Radio commentators don't often get that chance. Personally I think we need more and not less "liberal propaganda on the media. We used to get a lot more of it. I wish I had seen that program because it looked like a good one. It featured historical perspective, and quoted all sorts of people from Winston Churchhill to Charles Dickens, to Homer or whoever wrote the Oddesy or Iliad or one of those things. (How about a movie called "The Many Lives of Homer Simpson) But the whole idea in making reference to Joanas Salk or Albert Sabin, the inventers of polio vaccines, was to gain perspective on the reality of death and suffering in this country today. The way I figure it, cranking up the emotion tear jerker index is just another means of trying to shake people on the center and right of this health care issue out of their lethargy. I find it amazing that President Roosevelt made his revolutionary statements nearly eighty years ago. Yet in this, the 21st. Century, we are way behind the vision of enlightened people a century ago. There must be some way people can be shamed into living with the realities of today. As Dylan said, "Your old road is rapidly fading. Get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand- - ". Bernie Sanders seems content to say "Only a select few will be ellagable for Publicly funded health care". The past few weeks the whole health care issue has been pretty much off the radar screen as far as the media is concerned. Just looking at the situation, I don't see any bill being passed at all. They will talk and talk and decided it can't be done.

Mick Ronson seems to be known almost exclusively for being a good guitar player. And yet Mick is not "indespensable" because both Diamond Dogs and Space Oddity have excellent and ingenious guitar playing on them, yet Ronson does not appear on either album. The fact of Ronson's Mormonism provides a key to his personality and a glimps to his mind set on metaphysics. Beings who inhabit other planets is one of these realities we shouldn't close our eyes to. The Mormons as you know, believe in pre existance of our karma before we were born. Our whole way of looking at reality will one day be put to shame, when we see how the rest of the universe lives.

Fractals, other than a turm used by Lisa Simpson, is one of those words I didn't know what they were except wolframalpha.com states they are symmetrical designs. There is a lot of graphic "truths" that wolframalpha.com does and I don't totally understand all the mathmatical concepts behind them. On Star Trek, they don't have five year olds doing calculus, but I believe there is reference to twelve year olds routinely being introduced to calculus. Our karmic brains must be getting more intelligent.

Portrate of a Scitzofrenic

We'll get to our title topic after the following news updates:

This is Tuesday October 6, 2009, and it’s evident I was wrong about dire predictions for today and nobody is gladder about that than am I. Still I think it might be prudent for a couple more days because the danger period could extend that far. They say the battle action is worse in Afghanistan now. Apparently our troops have made the classic mistake of quartering troops in a valley where they can be shot down on. Even if the President gets the additional 40,000 (?) troops he’s asking for, the idea is to move out of the country hamlets and protect the larger cities, using that term advisedly. VP Joe Byden wants to focus from ground anti insurgency action and instead concentrate on anti terrorism and specific, targeted missile attacks. This would be a compromise of sorts. Randy Rhodes will not attack Cindy Sheehan for her “belief” because we’re all on the same side in that we want to see a better life for Afghan women, but have different ideas how to accomplish that. My belief is if we are going to preach “peace” and “getting along” there is no better way than to practice it ourselves. If we spend the war funds instead for overtures of peace and helping out the common wage earner, in this way, like Hammas before us, we will be appreciated by the people and assured their loyalty.

Ron Reagan discussed the morality of these cat snuffing videos. Departing from my fair weather conservative friends (?) I would like to come down on the side of the puritans in this one. I believe that certain acts are held by society in such moral revulsion that allowing such videos to proliferate in a free society is degrading to all. I don’t care if it’s a woman crushing the skull of a small animal like a kitten or even a mouse, or other just as repugnant videos such as the use of children in pornographic scenes, or depictions of man on animal sex, like say the penetration of a dog, or anything involving gratuitous mutilations- particularly if done by a hate group against a racial minority, and put to the beat of rock music or whatever with flashing captions such as “Do It”.

What the Beatles thought of doing with Sgt. Pepper, we are going to do here, and that is to show the four-fold aspect of a personality. You people know that the individual we call Jesus Christ is actually a composit of four different personages, if you don't count John the Baptist, which makes five. Well today we are going to draw and quarter the mind of Guy Owens. So what we are going to do is cover the four alien personages that have inhabited his body at one time or another, so hand on to your hats.

The first personage I thought of calling Candidate X, to keep his identity secret, since he is a known entity. The Federation suggested the name of Johnny Rhythm, which may get confusing since John Lennon used that alies a few times. Johnny Rhythm grew up loving old rhythm and blues rock and roll in its pioneer days. He is one of those people who thinks of himself as "liberal minded" but also flirts with gospell fundamentalism and often openly criticizes evangelists. In this respect he's a lot like me. In March of 1960 he booked what then was a fairly new recording studio in Nashville, where in the log book he spelled his first and last name backwards. Later he had a very minor hit with what I found out later was a cover version of an old Clyde Mc Phatter song. This was released as a single around August of 1964. You may know candidate X better as Jim Cooper in a pre walk-in existance. It is he who coined the term BOSC and also said what the letters stood for. Guy Owens comonly referred to this "imaginary" person as "my imposter" and this "imposter" occupied his body sporadically from early 1965 through around March first of 1968. But he also posessed his body in latter 1960 when Owens was off in Hamburg with the Beatles.

Persona number two is Jess Ryder, of Stephen King fame. Posessions don't always have a direct reciprocity. Often it's a spiritual game of "musical chairs". Owens began occupying Jess Ryders body starting about March of 1976 but Jess Ryder did not occupy his body till perhaps the end of 1980, and we'll explain that later. "It will all become clear". Jess Ryder is the child of divorced parents and apparently an only child. His father was a pharmicist in New York City. Often Jess would visit him in New York, and Jess was in New York when John Lennon was shot. Jess' mother died of a long lingering illness for which there was apparently no cure and the doctors wern't even entirely sure what it was. Jess was born on April 9th. 1965, a key date to Beatles fans. This makes him an original "409". In a previous life Jess Ryder drove his car off a pier in New Jersey on November 9th. of 1964. Jess lived with his mother in Portsmouth, NH while she lived. Later Jess rented a house by the ocean in a town in southern Maine that starts with an "O". Jess was often with the bleah color of his hair and thought of dying it, perhaps jet black. Jess was by-sexual from an early age. But in the summer of 1983 had an affair with Fran Goldsmith, who was a tall, attractive, olive skinned brunette. She "whigged out" and began acting strange at the end of that summer and later on there were unconfirmed roomers that she was pregnent. Jess was into heavy metal, and his records include a lot of Judas Priest and AC DC as well as the Babys, and Def Lepoard's first album, and he was also a "Cult" fan. Jess continued to live in the New England area till the last Saturday in July of 1991 when in the early morning he got his car into a fatal car crash and died.

Our third personage is someone we call "Denise De Lovely". Many of the facts about her you won't get any place else. Of course you know she is a rather short blonde with blue eyes. The period of "posession" was from April of 1968 through about January of 1971. At this time it is believed she refused to posess Owens' body any more because "His life was getting too weird for me". Denise has two older sisters and one younger sister she called "Baby Pig" because of her pug nose. Her favorite color is light blue. She used to enjoy playing board games with her family, particularly "Candy Land" and "Shoots and Ladders". She was basically a lezbian. She liked women but in the early 1970's had her first physical relation with a boy, but the relation didn't work out and she resented him. In the summer of 1972 she moved to Phoenix and became a student at Arizona State University, and went to all the football games. She got her drivers license in July of 1970 and like to drive fast, like the girl in "T Bird". She had a big collection of eight track tapes. She prefered going on group dates, that way her sexual orientation could be better hidden. Later she is noted for the "Denise sightings" by Guy Owens in 1987 and 1988.

Candidate four, known for a long time as merely "Burt Lombard" is actually Mick Ronson, of David Bowie guitar fame, who later became a Mormon. He was a cagy person who liked to try new things and meet new people. He occupied Guy Owens' body from late March of 1976 through early September of 1977. Guy Owens never occupied his body. If it were not for Ronson, Guy Owens may have never made the fateful decisions he made in 1976 that inalterably changed his life. By the way, John Lennon refused to occupy Owens' body because he saw psychically what Owens' life was like and the whole idea made him really Paranoid, hence the song Los Paranoias.

THE MANY LIVES OF JOHN LENNON

Your Favorite versions of Beatles songs

Disc One (Red)

I’m Gona Sit Right Down and Cry Over You (BBC)

Too Much Monkey Business (BBC)

Some Other Guy (from Beatles BBC compilation)

Soldier of Love (BBC)

I'll Be On My Way (BBC)

I’ve Gotta Find My Baby (Brian Matthews: introduction)

When I Get Home (from "Something New")

Leave My Kitten Alone (Anthology)

I Just Don’t Understand (BBC)

I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party (original album)

Baby’s In Black (original album)

I'm A Loser (original album)

You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away (Anthology)

Ticket To Ride (“Help”)

Bad Boy (Beatles VI)

You’re Gona Lose That Girl (“Help”)

It’s Only Love (Anthology)

Norwegian Wood (“Rubber Soul”)

Say the Word (“Rubber Soul”)

Beatles Twelve Bar Original (Anthology edit)

Girl (“Rubber Soul”)

Run For Your Life (“Rubber Soul”)

Disk Two (half Red half Blue)

Rain (original mono mix)

And Your Bird Can Sing (Anthology)

Dr. Robert (“Revolver”)

I’m Only Sleeping (original “American version”)

She Said She Said (“Revolver)

Tomorrow Never Knows (original mono mix with slower fade)

Beatles 1966 Christmas Message (fan club exclusive)

Sgt. Pepper inner groove track

Strawberry Fields Forever (final version on “Anthology”) with trailer

Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite (“Sgt. Pepper”)

Good Morning (Anthology)

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (“Sgt. Pepper”)

A Day in the Life (from the “Blue Album”)

I Am The Walrus (original US single release version)

Across the Universe (original version with birds)

Hey Bulldog (“Yellow Submarine”)

Glass Onion (White Album original)

Disk Three (Blue)

Happiness is a Warm Gun (Anthology)

I’m So Tired (version with weird overdubbed lead guitar – not previously - )

One of Nature's Children (unreleased track)

I Don’t Want To Be A Lawyer, Mama (“Imagine”)

Revolution I (new seven (?) minute edit with some R 9 stuff at the end of it)

It’s Johnny’s Birthday (from “All Things Must Pass”)

Helter Skelter (mono version as appears on “Rarities” album)

Give Me Some Truth (from “Imagine”)

Yer Blues (original White Album version)

Mailman, Bring Me No Bad News (from “Anthology”)

Sun King (Abbey Road)

Mean Mr. Mustard (Abbey Road)

Polytheme Pam (Abbey Road)

She Came In Through the Bathroom Window (Abbey Road)

Dig It (from the original "Let It Be" album)

Give Peace a Chance (original Single release)

Released in this somewhat revised line-up as of 4:00 PM PST or 7:00 PM Federation time, today, Thursday. Tital letters are red on black backdrop. The rest of the front cover is taken up with pictures –preferably in color – of John Lennon at various phases of his life. The back photo is one of these cryptic messages supplied by Mal Evans. It’s that Kite scene from last night’s Simpson’s where the red and the blue kites cross in the sky. The caption at the very bottom of the cover is in yellow saying “Ah, blue and red, the sign of friendship” in italic letters. The rest of the printing on the back is in bright lime green, which is the song listings. The inside of this album contains of course a sleeve for the middle disk (like “The London Years”) and also a booklet featuring the circumstances of the recording of the various highly biased and select choice of songs, with a few black and white photos for illustration.

John is part Bart Simpson and part Milhaus Van Hauten. He’s at the same time the happy go lucky, confident kid with a wise ass personality, and also the brooding, unattractive nerd with glasses who holds his feelings in, and a messed up family life.

Getting Your Just Desert In the Next Life

Chicago was rejected as a city for the Olympics this morning, and all of the conservatives are gleeful. Chicago was bumped along with Tokyo in the first round of voting. In the next round they decided for Rio instead of Madrid. Had a played my hunch and fought the odds I would have won money. The way I heard it Rio was always more favored than Chicago. But the way they told it yesterday, Chicago was ahead, and moved dramatically ahead in the betting after the President showed up. Of course we are reminded that Rio de Janeiro has a really high crime rate.

Astrological indicators aren’t at all good either personally for me next week, and also for the country. If there is going to be a military attack by Iran against whoever, next Monday or Tuesday are very likely days. Unlike President Bush with 9 – 11 indications are that President Obama will under-react. Also there are indications that Hillary and particularly Bill Clinton will be involved in an adverse way, Bill Clinton could well interject some unwanted stray comment into the mix. I don’t think Al Qaeda will be involved at all but if by chance they are, it will be bad.

Governor Swartzenegger wants to put in bullet trains to insure high speed transit between the north and the south ends of the state, and he says we can start construction as early as 2011. Do you ever get the idea that history is running in slow motion? Where do we get the money from? I thought we were broke.

Apparently there is some deal with Iran where Russia will be instrumental in their nuclear reactor inspections. People are saying that Iran’s “compliance” should be the big news of the day rather than David Letterman’s pecadillos.

Unemployment has notched up from 9.7% to 9.8% as new jobless claims proved to be higher than expected. But June of 1983 was still worst they tell us.

This is Sunday October 4th in the early evening. There were two "signs" God gave to me on Friday. One was he said that "If you can pick up channel eleven before breakfast, then go ahead and publish that astrological prediction of yours". The other sign is part of the prediction that on Saturday or Sunday the weather would cool off DRAMITCLY. this is just what the weather did, particularly today. Whatever "incident" with Iran that occurs Monday or Tuesday will have been in one way or another "building" for seven and a half years. This is astrologically indicated. The incident will not be satisfactorally dealt with by our government, but there will be a tendency to want to "wish it away" like it never happened. I hope I'm wrong about all of this.

I am still sticking by my astrological prediction for next week. Dennis Prager said that after we die that we will be “rewarded” but not necessarily by going to heaven. Of course when people think of heaven and describe what we know, it comes off as childish. Unfortunately when we were a child was the last time most of us actually believed in heaven, so we can only draw on our prior experience. But an intriguing question would be that if you knew you were on God “good side” and that you would be rewarded in the next life, what would you ask for as a reward? I happen to think of Kate Roberts and her conversation with Elvis last week where he said to her “You know all that damning evidence that my father made disappear last week, I can just as easily make to reappear”. When he said this something clicked in my brain, and I realized that I could make KTTV “reappear” merely by flexing the ground wire of the antenna a different way. But many of us would dearly love it is a lot of “evidence” against us just “disappeared” never to be heard from again. Some people including myself would like their sexual virility restored to when we were 25 and the idea of 72 virgins is definitely appealing. Unfortunately, sex is one thing we will NOT have in heaven. Scripture expressly says this. A lot of things Christians believe about heaven aren’t necessarily so. Many believe that we will have angel wings and will be able to fly. Most people believe that gravity in heaven will be no problem. Many believe we will be able to fly and exist in outer space and visit other planets. Most people believe we will somehow be psychic in heaven and will be instantly able to receive thoughts from others and will be able to communicate our own thoughts. Many believe transport will be instantaneous, even better than the Star Trek transporter beams. Many believe God will sit down with us and explain to us all the mysteries of life, and review our lives and go through it step by step and tell us what we did wrong, and also what we did right. Unfortunately none of these things are mentioned in the Bible. But revelations does say that the righteous dead will remember the deeds done against them by others while they lived on the earth. One evangelist as I indicated above, said this morning that the secret of getting God to do things for you by nature of a reward or whatever, is not to “prove yourself” or to make protestations of your great love for God. Rather, he said that the key to God’s blessings is to realize how much God loves YOU. This is an intriguing prospect. There is no indication Christians will even go to heaven, except for the first seven years, which I have described as “dinner and a tournament” where we watch the events on earth unfold. But beyond this I can’t figure out for the life of me what we will even be doing.