What a Drag it is to See You

This is Thursday after breakfast October 4, 2012.  Let’s start with last night’s debate, which is uppermost in people’s mind.  I didn’t even wait for the debate to be completely over before I got on line and fired off my response on the blogisphere.  Mike Meloy was pretty much non compus mentus in terms of his response last night, and talked over everything he played so if you hadn’t heard all of the debate you couldn’t hear it here, either.  I had Meloy’s show on till about 9:35 and then went to bed.  Clearly there would be no “turning point” where one could rest assured Obama had the race in the bag.  Can you picture Johnson debating Goldwater in 1964 and giving a performance like that?  Hell, ho!  Obama was looking down staring at his shoes like one of Romney’s black servents being dressed down.  Obama was the furthest thing from “Presidential” last night.  As to Jim Lerr he’s usually not so scatter-brained as he evidenced last night.  Sure Romney hogged the time, but there was no rule President Obama could not have done the same thing if he had cared to.  In general I slept well last night.

I got up at five thirty and made coffee and turned on Bill Press.  Bill never came home last night so I guess relations with Olivia must have gone well.  Bill had guests and Stephanie Miller had guests.  I never bought this crap about “How the media loves a horse race”.  I think perhaps millions of democrats may well be thinking “Perhaps I better re-think voting for a third party candidate”.  If a sports player say on basketball performed as badly as the President did last night were I the coach I’d be tempted to kick him off the team.  The analogy would be me coming out before the game and doing a regular Harlem Globe trotters routine with fancy dribbles and spinning the ball on my finger and all.  And then the rest of the team comes out for the game, and really stinks up the place.  I’ve never been into the school of thinking that “President Obama is using the rope a dope strategy”.  You know a week ago Saturday night I too let “a lot of good points go unsaid” and challenges unanswered.  This is because I exist in a realm where family members, if they can’t hit below the belt, don’t even want to get in the ring at all.  Fighting fair is anathema to them.  Dr. Levy, too, uses bullying tacticts like High School seniors bullying an under-developed freshmen.  Dr. Levy makes all these pugnatious below the belt statements, which in some other setting might result in coming to blows.  But he knows he can get away with it.  Some might say to me, “Yeah, but people like Paul and Dr. Levy are so upbeat and cherry most of the time- - unlike you.  You could learn from them”.  My response to this is, “You know of course they can afford to be upbeat and all, because they don’t have anybody else in their world like Themselves, that they have to contend with”.  Pastor Mark once admitted that “I thank God that there is only one of me as a preacher.  One of me is enough”.  It would be a case for either Dr. Levy or Paul of saying ‘You know, you wouldn’t talk so loud - - you wouldn’t seem to proud- - - if you had to stand inside my shoes” to borrow from two different Dylan songs.  You know I am at the mercy of my environment.  That Three AM awakening last week where I heard Janet talking with Pete about Nora’s stealing all this stuff from her room.  I thanked God that such things had happened almost not at all with me.  But of course I have learned from experience that “Thanking God for his grace” is often the very door cracked open to give the Devil entry and stick it to you, and that’s just what happened Sunday evening.  I’ve seen it too often with myself and others.  Scripture says to give no place to the Devil.  No port of entry, and thanking God for his grace is just the open door Satan often uses.  Of course I know if I had my own place or even my own room that the odds of theft would go way down.  And I curse my family for even putting myself in this financially vulnerably and personal vulnerable state.  When I went to breakfast that Oriental guy was sitting in my seat and it was difficult to get him out.  You know all kinds of “shit could go down” every day were I not so lucky most of the time.  I saw Brenda wearing a black Raiders shirt, and you can get the first thing I did when I got back to my room was to check my own closet.  We had Rice Krispies and I got toast and butter and jelly from Mark, in addition to my own.   I owed Mark 75 cents as you know, but he has amped up demands for full payment since I paid him fifty cents of it.  I told him I could pay him all but about three cents of the remainder but he said ‘Keep it till you can pay me the full thing.  And by the way I want a quarter, not small change”.  We got our scrambled eggs and coffee.  But I would conclude my earlier thought that I didn’t like the idea of President Obama and Romney even appearing to be friendly last night or Obama’s statement that “I guess it wouldn’t be so bad if Romney were President.  America is a strong country.  It will survive.  I’m sure a lot of good Germans said the same thing in 1933 also.  America as a nation is toast if Romney gets into office, and we are already almost there already.  You know that people like Judy are going to keep their lips hermetically zipped if Romney gets in and profits from this “endless stream of printing press money” that the Fed Chairman will be pumping into the US economy.  And Mitt Romney will only say “It’s my genious that pulled this economy out”.  It won't be because we "have a man of God occupying the office" and God looks down and smiles and 'gives our country more time to Repent".  Someone said that for a Christian to get into power is skin to the plot of the Dead Zone, where you have someone with fanticies about the Rapture of the faithful coming in America or something.  It's an old saying you can talk to God all you please, but the minute you start hearing back voices, it's time to get out the butterfly netting.  Some people would say "Test the spirits" before listening to them.  Last night it was like the turnstiles had been disengaged and people like Mitt Romney were driving all over the lot without paying.  (Selah)

What A Disaster!

Mitt Romney did NOT have a melt-down.  Mitt Romney did not have any major gaffs.  In fact Mitt Romney just may have won the first debate and the best thing that could happen from our point of view is for people to forget about this debate as soon as possible.  Mitt Romney finally made that long awaited move to the center, trying to be as much in agreement with the President as possible, perhaps due to pressure from his advisors.  The one silver lining if there is one is that tea baggers liike Paul and Judy are probably pulling their hair out, because Romney strove as hard as he could to put as much distance between himself and the tea party as he could.  Nevertheless Rush Limbaugh will probably crowing like a Rooster who just won the Irish Sweepstakes tomorrow.  Jim Lerrer moderated the debate and this one was  - - different.  It was free form and free wheeling with Jim Lerrer almost lost for words at some point.  But he wanted the American people to see a clear comparrison between the two candidates and this much was accomplished.  Now let's get to the specifics.  President Obama appeared nervous at the beginning.  The right words were there but he appeared to be reading from a script.  Mitt Romney started off weak but got better throughout the course of this debate.  Mitt Romney by far gave the better Closing Speech.  The best thing we could learn was that the American people got bored and tuned out after twenty minutes or so, missing Romney's best stuff.  We can hope so anyhow.  President Obama made one major Mistake I would never have made.  How I wish the President had had a pinch hitter up there like Randy Rhodes, or Stephanie Miller - - - or Myself.  I wouldn't leave so much low lying fruit just hanging.  Allow me to enumerate these.  First was the uncontested statement that Obama Care will cost jobs, and that surveys show people will be far less inclined to hire should Obama Care be in effect.  Mitt Romney distinguished his Massachusetts role saying that he did not have the Government beaurocratic pannels that Obama's plan had.  Romney accused the President of cutting 716 Billion from Medicare and hospitals say they won't accept medicare any more should these massive cuts occur.  They affect direct funding to hospitals who are economicly impacted and make decisions accordingly.  This refutes the words of people like Stephanie Miller, who claim it's all beaurocratic fat that's being trimmed.  On the matter of Energy left hanging and uncontested was Mitt Romney's claim that the President cut government Energy leases.  And that if Mitt Romney were elected President he would double them, presumably from the Bush years.  Energy was a little discussed topic and the global warming and pollution cards were never played by the President.  The news media is calling this a "big night for Romney".  That is bad news.  Romney also said that will NOT be able to keep your insurance under Obama Care and this statement went uncontested.  The President scored a small point on the notion of sending Medi-Cal back to the states increasing burdens on the States.  Mitt Romney near the beginning was a bit "Daft" when it came to the idea of his tax plan causing deficets.  Mitt Romney said that there ARE no tax laws on the books encouraging corporations to relocate off shore in another country.  This statement went uncontested.  But most importantly Obama dropped the ball on the reason for the necessity of hiking many taxes.  I'll answer the question for him.  Taxes are like if I were to get blood pressure medication to lower my blood pressure from 170 over a hundred to something a little more "livable".  I might have some side effects, but these are a necessary evil of the medication and perhaps they can be tweaked later.  Also the idea of jobs originating FROM taxes being cut.  No.  Jobs come from customers with money to spend creating the necessity of expanding the business.  Clearly you want to make reinvestment of income capital tax deductable.  This is the solution, but I didn't hear it.  Also the Laffer Curve has been totally discredited.  Mitt Romney said "Raising taxes NEVER increases revenue".  This is a Lie from Romney but one that went Uncontested.  Tax cuts failed to lower the deficets under Johnson, Reagan, and Bush. Tax HIKES did cut the deficet under Clinton.  This wasn't stressed enough.  As to putting money in customers' hands, the Federal Reserve is handeling that problem, and a President Mitt Romney will benefit from that action of the Fed Chairman, once in office.

This morning Rush Limbaugh had a melt-down on the idea of so called "race baiting" and "buzz words" and "rabel rousing" as far as Obama's June 5th 2007 speech in a church.  Rush hated the idea that he was still speaking fondly of the Reverand Jeremiah Wright, who by the way is a Vetteran, while most tea baggers are not.  It's a very good speech and I urge all President Obama fans to track it down on You Tube and watch it, and it runs nearly forty minutes in full length.  Rush Limbaugh's racial charges are completely unfounded.  Perhaps I should have included the speech in a link.  The transcript would be too long.  I only wish the President had performed as well tonight as he did in that speech.

The middle class in Mexico has grown from 12 percent to 56 percent.  And they shop at Wall Mart and buy the same American foods we do.  They particularly like American made baby wipes because they are made a lot better than their Mexican counter-parts.  It's great to see another country prosper, and it's great to see Pat Buchannon in reverse going on.  We see the whole of Mexico becoming Americanized.  There is a rising middle class in other countries such as China, Brazil and India, and world wide this is a healthy thing.

Edmond Starr said "War can't give life- - it can only take it away".  One might say the same thing of Religion, "Religion can't give life- - but you could be tried and sentensed to burn at the stake".  Religion can't give Liberty; it can only take it away.  What the New Testament promotes is not Liberty but as John Kennedy might say "Replacing colonialism with a far more Iron tyrany", that of Rome and the Church.  The President invoked God and Jesus in his June 2007 speech.  That's like putting lipstick on a pig.  I guess even a pig looks cuter if it's dolled up a little.  But we don't get things like Liberty and Equality from God.  These things have in my system an A Prior existance.  Which means they exist Ontologically on their own as independant entities.  I think once people come to realize this, they will come to view Atheism a whole lot differently.

You Can Lead A Horse To Water, But - - - -

Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren debated last night in the senate race in Massachusetts.  They tell me now the race is tied.  I had thought that Warren had pulled ahead.  They say Scott Brown has been trying to desguise himself as a moderate.  Of course with Mitt Romney as Governor, he claims he got bills passed with the state legislature 75 percent Democratic.  This he says to prove that he is a compromizer.  Well, here is a debating point.  The President should say to Romney, "Then I suppose you are against the obstructionist tacticts of the tea party congress in their failure to work with me and get needed jobs legislation passed these past two years to put America back to work.  If on the other hand you say the reason why you don't criticize this Republican congress is because you agree with them, aren't you contradicting yourself?  I would further ask you, is this your 'real feeling on the matter" or do you take positions dependant on whose paying you the big Money, hmmm?   Now apparently in California you dare not vote for the Green candidate because there is a massive insergent effort by the Mormon and Catholic Church to register voters republican.  And Nicole Sandler says that if a pastor tells you how to vote from the Pulpit you should turn them into the IRS because they should lose their tax exempt status.  I don't believe ANY church should have tax exempt status.  The Bible says in Romans 13 that all Christians are to be "good citizens", which means things like paying your taxes, as Jesus told us to do.  But it's amazing how quickly they'll discard the Bible when it becomes "inconvienient" to follow it.  There are vast segments of the Latino community where they almost totally disassociate "politics" from the exercise of their Christian faith.  In the Latino culture they would consider it an insult and infringement for the local Priest to tell them how to vote.  These people divide moral issues that white people are so uptight about- - from issues of "government" such as taxes and funding and programs and such.  So speaking in these churches would be of little avail, so the theory goes, in recruiting Latino Catholics to vote the way the tea party wants them to.

It seems that Mitt Romney has lied about his family history.  There should be no news there since Mitt lies about President Obama so much.  As such he is violating another Biblical commandment not to bear false witness against thy neighbor.  You see he faboricated the whole story about "Being ordained by the Mormon Church to set up shop in Mexico.  Mitt Romney's great grandfather actually fled the Arizona border to Mexico because he was convicted of purgery regarding a land fraud case.  It so happened that when George Romney as a young lad reentered the Union, that he was given "sanctuary" from the Mexican Revolution and as such he got tax dollars most people wouldn't ordenarily get.  So much for Mitt's "government spongers" remark.  Now there is the whole thing with the Arizona-ization of America as other states like Virginia, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina adopt these racial profiling laws for law enforcement to keep aliens out.  The LAPD made it their policy to follow the Constitution and not interfere with matters of immigration, which is the exclusive domain of the federal government.  But the Republicans have in their Party Platform this year this extreme position of the racial profilers, which Obama filed suit against.  By the way Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney are best buds.  There is no rift between them.  The two men are close and the reason why Romney picked Ryan is because they are in such tight accord.  The President needs to remind the American people of these things during the debate, i e that if you vote for Mitt Romney you are also casting a vote for Paul Ryan.  But the funny thing is now in Tuscon- - - they have been the object of the ire of the Voting Rights law for thirty years and that Tuscon is under "desegregation orders" by the federal government.  But now Tuscon is censoring their school books and ninety books and videos on Mexican heritage, have been conthiscated and the teachers told it was illegal to teach Mexican history and culture in the classroom.

In Pennsylvania a ruling came down by a Judge Simpson, the issued an injunction against voter purgers and the requirement of photo ID's for getting to vote.  But they also say "Of course the regestrars can still hassle you with questions about it.  You're just not required to respond".   This one guy named Nathan Sprawl - - the same guy involved in Florida, has set up a new organization without his name on it because he is under investigation or indictment for regestration fraud.  The name of the organization he heads is the Strategic Allied Consultents. Anyhow one trick of these regestrars is to say they are from the County office, when they're not, which might be a felony right there.  First they pretend to be poll takers, but if you say you're Obama they'll pass you by but if you say you're for Romney they'll then get you registered to vote.  These Republicans are guilty of "Projection" in that what they accuse others of they are guilty of or already planning to do themselves.  This isn't the first time this trend has caught my eye.  So they'll come down hard on Acorn, which is out of business now, when what they themselves are doing is far worse, often just forging - - filling out whole registration forms.  The bottom line in all this is that everybody's got to be on their toes.  These people see 2012 is perhaps their last chance to take over the country, lock, stock, and barrel, before future demographics make this feat impossible.  Given all this it's funny how seldom AG Eric Holder's name ever comes up in the news.

There was a Law and Order program where this troubled seventh grader was a problem in class and later his inner drug induced rage prompted him to off two of his classmates.  He lived in a fantasy world when he was on this drug called Adderol or whatever.  Antidepressents, notibly, seretonin uptake inhibitors, create this quality in less than two percent of the people who take it, mostly kids.  His mother gave it to him "for his own good", you might say.  I won't summarize the whole plot here but clearly you can see that scientologists have a thing or two right when they come against drugs.  Scripture says not to "Provoke" our children, and I would assume that means provoking them to murder.  Mitt Romney is said to have slammed one of his son's faces into a bowl of oatmeal just "Joking around".  Johnny Cash's father, when his older brother died, said of the surviving son, "You know, the wrong son died".  How can a teenager live with such a condemnation by his own father.  A guy like that might even do time in prison.  Actions have consequences.  Even Neil Savedra said of God "You know- - unlike us, God's accounting system is so exact that he cannot forgive so much as one sin just by  - - Letting it Go".  (Selah)  Neil also says of mankind, "People don't change".  To God, we are as dead as a marble statue in an art museum.  The dead become highly predictable.  To the exact extent something is predictable, to that very extent said entity loses his free will.  Neil says you can "be a good guesser".  Well, yesterday the Dodgers had won five games in a row.  Many odds makers might well say "Well the odds are they're going to start losing games".  We boldly predicted a Dodgers win over the Giants.  But can you "predict" what someone is going to order for dinner?  The day of my Uncle's funeral we were scheduled to go to the Cheese Factory.  I love cheesecake   Ergo, one might "predict" that I would have cheese cake, particular when I wasn't paying for it.  But I didn't.  Due to the stress of the day my appetite may have been down.  And we ate outdoors in oppressive heat, further depressing my appetite   So I declined.  Only someone holding all the cards, or to be exact, "The answer sheet" would be able to predict the correct outcome.  People in their karmic orbits- - analogus to approaching the North Pole- - the circles get smaller and smaller as directions get harder and harder to get a "take" on.  "Direction", in this case, meaning "Free karmic will".  Tracing a circle on the edge of an hour glass cone- - one would see that as one passes the "nader" point- - the lines move from counter clockwise to clockwise, or "direction reversal".  But one projecting the distance on a graph- - one could fall literally to Infinity before hitting bottom.  But if "Free will" diminishes - - then predictability increases - - and the Dead are completely predictable.  Just as a status is dead to a man, who created it, so we are Dead to God, who created us.  And since God is also Dead to us- - God in in a perverse sense, becomes so "predictable' you can read Him like a book.  Mitt Romney is Dead.  Mitt Romney has also become quite Predictable, in that one should never underestimate his capacity to Screw Up beyond one's greatest Imaginings.  Being predictable- - - he can't be really a very good chess player, nor would he be an effective negotiator.  His very use of the 47% phrase, indicates that not only cannot we believe in Mittens to ever Improve, he does not believe himself that his fate will ever Change.. (Selah)

Yesterday in that class we learned more of how the Mind works.  For instance if we are told to count the F's in a piece of writing we routinely scan out the OF's as words because we see them as not important.  Also the human mind is by nature rather dislexic.  There was another experiment of 'How many of these words are misspelled.  Can you read this at all?"  It turned out that EVERY word over three letters in length was spelled incorrectly with the letters out of sequence.  But it takes a while for this major fact to dawn on you.  Also when we read colors printed in font of a different color than the word they spell and we are instructed to name the color of the font, it's amazing how many mistakes we make, because the logical and the verbal takes precedence over our actual senses.  Also it's amazing how cliche ridden our English language is, such as the saying 'You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink", or "That's like leaving the fox in charge of the hen house".  It's amazing how agrarian and animal centered so many English language cliche's are.  Also, our children are not learning them as we did, and they ran an experiment on "finish the expression" and got some very amusing answers from sixth graders.  Nicole Sandler says she tends to be an Idealist rather than a Pragmatist.  Actually I fall somewhere in the middle of this idiological spectrum, and let Prudence, one of my segen cardinal virtues- - - decide.  I refer to cardinal virtues as Causative virtues.  There can be Primary causitive virtues and Secondary causative virtues, formed, as with colors, by mixtures of the Primary ones.  All of the resultant virtues are what I call Pure Virtues- - like the pure rainbow of colors that used to adorn a Capitol record label.  Justice is an effect as most people think of it, as in "All I want is justice".  Technically the Causative virtue is the "Pursuit - - - of Justice".  Love might be called an "Effect" but not really a Cause.  The reason why LOVE is not a cause is that it requires mo personal volition or effort, in most cases.  The object of our LOVE dictates the emotion.  It's like saying this candy bar TASTES good, or it sure FEELS hot today.  These are Sensual attributes- - and one might say Passive by nature.  Some of my cardinal virtues have Objects such as Perseverence- - - and Faithfullness.  One could argue that an improper or Evil 'Object" taints the candinal virtue.  I would only say that the Virtue is not at fault, only how it is employed is a fault.  One can praise an Evil person is he is morally Consistent with his own Values.  Then there are people like Mitt Romney who are Loyal to nothing- - not even their own cause of Evil.  It's all what mood they wake up in that morning.  So it is with a flake and a flip-flopper.  But some virtues such as Prudence - - - are Causative - - - but it's not a trait people wax sentamantal over.  A woman may like to be wined and dined and sent flowers and a greeting card on her anniversary.  But you won't most likely read in a greeting card "You know - - when I think of your Prudence it just warms the cockles of my heart an it's such a comfort to me".  But most people don't break down the gramatical and logical flow-chart structure of words.  For instance a "Realist" has what I call a "naturalistic" definition and a pragmatic definition.  The natural definition would go something like, "Sure- - I believe in seeing things for what they ARE and not for how I'd like to envision them".  This is true in natural science, as well as "human nature" science disciplines such as socialogical considerations and the realm of statistics, surveys, and polls.  So - - when you say you are a "Realist" you need to know the whole Mode of the Speaker's reference point.

There is an addage of "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink".  The meaning of this little parable is that sometimes you think you have "set everything up to make the choice obvious" but for some the choice is not obvious.  Lyndon Johnson thought Ho Chi Min would go for a whole hydroelectric modern system of dams and power and water works and flood control and the like.  But Ho wouldn't bite.  There is one difference between "God" and a jackass.  That's because if you place a carrot in front of the jackass and a cattle goad behind him, the ass will move forward.  But these sort of tacticts don't work with God.  God is what one might call "insensable" to human common sense.  Gene Scott's definition would preclude God's even being what we call "Alive".  Because Gene's definition of "Alive" used to be "A capacity to relate to one's environment".  This is what God never did.  Some would argue that "God is Great - God is Good" because "He did things like create humans in his own image with a Free Will, and he also created Compassionate and Caring human beings".  I must take this oppertunity at this time to introduce another work into your lexicon.  The concept of an "A prior existance".  Soren Kirkagard talked about this.  This is assuming the Existance of something without having to prove it.  It's a "given".  Dick Schimmel, my old Sunday School teacher used to say "It's like in Math.  We ASSUME the number ten - - or the number one".  Nobody asks you to "prove" the existance of mathematical numbers.  We do this with other things.  We assign A Prior status to our civil rights such as Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.  We do it with Free Will and pastors are always saying God won't violate that.  But they never stop to tie cause to effect.  You see all of these virtues I've named here are human value virtues - - NOT GOD'S.  God doesn't care.  We saw some property of creation and decided we liked what we saw and placed a great value on it.  Abraham placed a great value on his son Isaac, but God didn't care.  God didn't see why Abraham wouldn't mind discarding his son, like last night's TV dinner tray.  People and entities that create other entities, don't necessarily, and usual don't, create clones of themselves.  For instance - - a woman gets pregnent and gives birth to a daughter.  But can she impart to her daughter what happened to her?  Can she make her own daughter pregnent or enable her daughter to make other women pregnent.  A Jewish concept of God is that- - God has certain qualities- - aspects - - which would disallow God's ever becomming a mortal being.  God is immutable and true and constant to his own nature.  To become limited and finite would be a Violation of the very core of this Nature, according to the Jews.  If an artist creates a marble status- - no matter how impressive - - would it not be a "downgrade" to say that the artists would somehow suddenly "become" his own Creation - - and be religated from flesh and blood to a block of Stone?  Just to engage in a bit of personal ego centrism for a moment - - I believe that I as it were "Was created by God to preach Scientology values but to do from OUTSIDE the walls of the Church of Scientology and get my revelations directly from the Source, and not filtered through any eccliastical structure.  I am as it were the watch dog who is stationed outside the house, who barks when an intruder approaches.  So it is my nature to swing into action when I sense the Values of Scientology being encroached upon or assaulted.  But I would be useless inside the walls of said structure and I would lose a lot of my power.  Perhaps I've illustrated the point I'm trying to make.  And that is that God is who he is and we are who we are and never the twane shall Meet.

"God" could not pass a typical fundamentalist ethics test.  First of all many forget about the line where Jacob says "I shall go down to my grave never having seen my son Joseph again".  In other words this "man of God" believed that death Is the End.  The author of Ecclistiastes believed the same thing when he said "The dead know nothing".  God killed David's first son with Bathsheba because the son was a product of adultry.  And adultery is not as bad as rape or incest.  King Josiah was a righteous man, yet was felled by an arrant arrow.  But at no time did Josiah or any other dying man utter words like "The Lord has chosen to take me home".  Nowhere in the entire Bible is there so much as one recounting of a person brought back to life- - of what the Afterlife was like.  Not even Jesus, the son called "son of God" ventured to do this.  What is more - - no Disciple of Jesus even ventured to ASK him the question".  (Selah)   God became angry with mankind because they were working together and cooporating by building the Tower of Babel.  Are we to infer that God is an enemy of peace?  Jesus said he came to set brother against brother and mother in law against daughter in law, and "I came not to bring peace, but a sword".  Not one person Jesus raised from the dead spoke of an afterlife.  Nowhere in scripture is it written "You will go to Heaven when you die".  When St Peter was believed to have been put to death by King Herod- - when the desciples saw him alive they said "It is his angel". They believed angels were supernatural but not people.  Jesus told that farmer building bigger barns "This night, thy soul shall be required of thee" but he didn't add, "And you will see me at the Great White Throne".  It is also given "And what would a man give in exchange of his life?"  Satan was instructed not to take Job's life.  The only person who believed in the possability of life after death was king Saul, and people believe King Saul was having some sort of mental break-down.  Nowhere does it expressly say that even Judas Iscariot went to hell.  Neither does it ever say "Judas went to meet his Maker".  Stephan had a vision of God before he died, but it never goes on to say "And Stephen went to meet his Maker".  Nowhere in scripture does it ever say that ANYONE either difinitively went to Heaven or to Hell.  Scripture does say "Hell was created for the Devil and his Angels". Scripture in Acts also declaires "No man hath ascended into Heaven".  When a disciple dies the phrase is used "And he slept with his fathers" or some such thing.  It never says "They went to be with Jesus".  Jehovah God does not condemn various acts of sick vengeance which was often carried out in the Old Testament.  The words "Father forgive then, for they know not what they do" are not found in most texts.  Rather Jesus is constantly calling people children of the Devil, and promising vengeance on those who rejected him.  You have a Bible.  READ IT some time!

Setting the Bar High Gains Stamina

I am setting a goal that Mitt Romney will fail more spactacularly in the first TV debate this Wednesday that millions of Americans will see.  I predict that Mitt Romney will go beyond the fondest hopes of his worst detractors and commit a series of major gaffs that will astound even those who are on our side.  From this debate Obama will open up a double digit lead, which he will never lose between now and the election.  I predict that the democrats will take back the House of Representatives.  The Democrats MUST take back the house or this nightmare we have experianced these past two years in terms of governmental gridlock will continue through the next four years.  This would be an intollerable situation.  We need to create the level of defensiveness of Romney - Ryan similar to the sense of utter doom that Goldwater - Miller felt in 1964 when the media had clearly turned against them.  I think it will be "interesting' to look at Friday's unemployment numbers.  Everybody is predicting an economic snag coming and that numbers will be up.  Let's prove them wrong.  Sometimes you have to be proactive in setting your goals and act as if you are on the winning path, and this will increase your odds of success over what they would be otherwise, with the bar set lower to begin with.
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I see the chances of a Dodger post season as better than people think.  San Francisco may be smug but the same "powers" that bring the '49ers success don't rub off on their baseball counterparts.  I only felt you needed to be reminded of that.

The I Phone V has all these glitches like Wi Fi connection problems and dumping Google maps and glitches with their own maps on various landmarks you all know about.  Some say that if Steve Jobs were still alive these problems wouldn't be happening.  The truth is that I phones have always had their problems, like the antenna problem a year or two ago, that was solved by an antenna case.  Steve Jobs' death has nothing to do with Apple's problems.  It's strictly a case of accumulating bad corporate karma and their shortcomings are just coming home to roost, as one by one, other companies, with better karma, will be moving ahead and passing them by.

Jerry Brown signed that "homosexual rights" bill where now a disease has its own legal protection.  This is what you might call the Neil Savedra-ization of laws surrounding homosexuality, where it's now a crime to decide what sort of care your own child gets for sexual identification issues, which every parent worth his salt- - Is and Should Be Concerned About.  This law makes it a crime to offer or practice psychotherapy on anyone with a goal to getting them off the unprofitable and in the end - unfulling gay life- - - into evolving into more of a "whole individual" without such proclivities.  Neil Savedra has an almost visceral like for anyone who will come against any disease because after all, we as mortals have No Rights as Christian, but Satan is to be fully accorded all his "Constitutional Rights", so to speak.  That's my judgement and I'm sticking to it.

People come against proposition 37 or the genetic manipulation of food measure as "Half assed" or "ill conceived" or "misbegotten" or "Ill thought out" or what have you.  The people who make these No on 37 ads are the ones who are ill.  It's kind of like how many view the Affordable Care act.  They see it as a case of "It's not as sweeping as we would like, but it's a start".  We heard this crap from Mitt Romney on the race issue and his take on the Dream act.  Remember he called it a "stop gap measure" and wasn't a "Final Solution" although anyone who would use the term "Final Solution" and race in the same sentense oughta have their head examined.  People complain that our rapid transit system is "inadequate" and therefore the answer is not "to do better next time" but instead to blow up the progress we have already made and go back to the horse and buggy or something.  Make no mistake about it.  These Proposition 37 opponents know their own ox is being gored.  And I dare say the ones putting out this Ad against the proposition - - are the very genetic engineers that manipulate our foods and screw up the ecology with consequences of almost "Book of Revelations" perportions.  Capish?

Sometimes you can have a - shall we say - cosmic deal crammed down your throat you don't like, but you learn when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.  Raphael is mad at E J on Days of our Lives for being forced on pain of imprisonment of his sister, Gabriel, from five to ten, choose rather to dump what was a bad relation to begin with.  Getting back with Samantha Brady would be the worst thing he could do regardless of threats and blackmail.  In a perverse way E J is doing him a favor by forcing him to do something he should have already done to begin with.  Of course I know any self respecting man does not like to have their free will violated.  My advice is "Deal with it".

They are saying that the I 405 bridge demolition was a major success with no traffic problems.  In fact word is they actually reopened the freeway a few hours early.  Sometimes endless media carping does bear productive fruits - - even if it's like those spoonfulls of cod liver oil your mother made you take as a kid and later on that you learned it help prevent some horrible condition that one or more of your piers your age is now suffering from.

This whole idea of "inverted karma" broached on the last posting, which is actually the one ABOVE this one, time wise, so you just read it,  is not an entirely new one.  This means that some people can't really feel "alive" unless they are doing the most dastardly Evil, often even self destructive Evil.  Trying to "metaphysize" this reality is a little tricky but I think we get at least a "C" for effort.  Try picturing two funnels connected by the skinny pour hole.  So the other funnel opens up downward.  It's not just a case of being a dead fish going with the flow, but you indeed strive to ourdo yourself in your previous evil.  The idea of "giving your neighbor a fair shake" in life is as repulsive to him or her as for a normal person giving a hobo on the street a blow job.  There is another school of "Evil" or the C S Lewis model I'm not adverse to, either.  He maintains that "Productive Evil" or evil that actually accomplishes something big, like Hitler or Mao, has to be mixed with no small ammount of GOOD or else it would never get off the ground.  The message here is not to intellectually oppose the "good" in such an evil person- - but to see the Evil person as an opponet who must be stopped with the zeal of a Spartan preparing himself for the next Greek City war.

Message to the Cosmos: "Shut the F - - - UP!

We did not post Saturday or Sunday.  The picture for President Obama is not as rosey as one might think.  One guest on the Bill Press (?) show stated that "President Obama will only win a close election.  Everybody concedes that the Presidential margin of victory will be slimmer than the six points he won by last time.  Also the situation in the House looks hopeless.  Under the best case scenario due to dedictricting and all the Democrats will only pick up about twelve or fifteen House seats.  But they have a fighting chance of holding the Senate." - - - - - Personally I'm not that gloomy yet.  I'm been a little gloomy lately and frankly I think there is a chance I might not be living here that much longer if this whole theft on a massive scale that's going on here isn't identified.  One transcendant truth around here is that theft is rampent and that bringing it to the Office's attention does absolutely no good and the cultrit is never identified and the stuff is never recovered.  Let me tie these two ideas together.  We know about the rampent voter manipulation and hiring crooks to do voter registration- - - and we know about these rigged "De-bolt" voting machines or whatever, which apparently are programmed by Republicans.  We know the President needs to have at least a three percent margin of victory to even merit a tie vote on election day.  We know how "hungry" these tea party people are for total control and domination of the American scene, and they are almost there already.  We are like the Russians in World War II defending Lenongrad and Moscow.  We may lose a lot of good men and we still aren't guarenteed a victory.  Unfortunately we can't pray for supernatural help.  "That's not the way it works", which would be an excellent "magic eight ball" expression.  "It really don't happen that way at all" like the Who song.  You can't goad the Supernatural into "behaving reasonably" by taunting or cajoling.  Their motto is "What can YOU do?  You're only flesh and blood.  I have all the power and frankly you don't have any say much about it at all".  President Obama says "America's a strong country.  We've survived a lot of bad stuff.  I guess we could survive Romney for four years".   Well, now here are a bunch of other paragraphs containing my varied nuggets of wisdom.

Now I’m going to look at those photos in Google.  I looked at recent photos in slides.  I plan to keep “Watering Hole” around a few more days till the weather cools off.   I guess I won’t post tonight.  I learned that rising air is a low pressure system, and a high pressure system is sinking air.  Romney is a vortex of sinking air.   But there are karmic applications to this phenomenon.  The average person out there strives karmicly tword the ‘ Idealized Self” or Superego.  He learns to keep his ID in check, which will screw him up if he lets it.  However just as High pressure can lead to “thermally inverted” smog- - with warm air trapped under colder air so the smog can’t escape, so if you’re in a “karmic inversion” your WILL rather than be aimed upward is aimed instead downward.  Now for the Low pressure system the natural or “Romulan direction” is counter-clockwise, the same way my stuff ticks off trigonometry degrees from a counter clockwise direction or the Romulans do things like Radar scanning or the way navigation readings are calibrated.  But for inverted types such as Mitt Romney they have a “thermally inverted soul” where the rotational direction is retrograde- - and he thinks in clockwise terms, like running the game of Pitfall backwards- - - or the old gag about stuffing sausage into a meat grinder and having live pigs come out the other end.  People believed the polls with Obama and Romney neck and neck.  Now that Obama is up by six points, the same people deny the reality of it.  You know of course in the Bible that Elijah was taken up by a tornado, which is an extreme low pressure system of “rising air”.  So in normal people there is this “equal and opposite’ some might call “complementary” aspect of karmic gravity, which is “The Price each of us pays for his own existence”.  (Selah)  Going retrograde creates your own reality- - where the lie is truth and truth is a lie.  And some born again Christians can coast like Dead Fish in this seemingly eutopian kind of existence just “going with the flow” failing to realize they’re Already Dead.   You've heard of "Right Ascention" when it comes to longitudinal counting off of astronomical constelations.  Well, Mitt Romney represents "Wrong ascention" meaning Mitt's whole existance is just "wrong".  He shows few signs of even being human.  He as it were- - is like a vortex of "non existance" struggling against the Universe of Existance, reversing the usual metaphor.  He's like the sudden down-draft when you're flying your twin engine Cessna craft.   You can't say he didn't get the breaks when he was raised.  He got all the breaks and the fine example of his father, George Romney, yet he still turned out the way he did.

There is the invasion of the "green slime" in our lakes of America.  It's blue-green algae that is anything but blue-green in color.  Not only has it completely taken over whole lakes due to global warming, which the right wing denies, but this yellowish-brown-greenish slime is highly toxic.  It killed a dog the other day, and has caused major nerve damage in humans, though nobody has actually died from it - - yet.  According to Mando and the gang, if you've eaten a papaya in the last four years, it's been genetically modified because there was this round worm or something that threatened to wipe out the crop till they found a solution.  I'd like to come out and endorse another California proposition and that's number 38, the education tax allotment initiative insuring schools get their fair share of state funds and that local control is maintained.  Some of the educational funding cut-backs have been pretty draconian around these parts.

They ran a triathlon in Los Angeles this morning bicycling down Vennace Blvd up to Fairfax and down Olympic Blvd to the LA downtown area where they do the foot race.  However it was the “easy triathelon and not the “Iron Man” of Dr. Levy fame.  They were right on schedule with the bridge tear down this morning after being worried about a stubborn concrete chunk last night.  They put in four - - feet of sand to cushion the fall of the chunks.  The rest of the job now seems to be to get the debris out of the freeway.   Gov Christie has a speech of pure bullshit on ‘Meet the Press” today.  He is, shall we say, “daft” in that he doesn’t see how out of touch their candidate is, and no matter who stands in for him, has to do better than the real thing.  David Gregory said that “The media is looking for a Romney come-back” saying that “the challenger usually wins the first debate”.  Who made up that rule?  Now they are telling us that Mitt Romney is practicing humerous come-backs, real zingers.  The trouble is that Romney and humor don’t mix well.  Now Anne Romney is saying “I have no doubt Mitt is intellectually prepared for the debate but it’s his emotional welfare I’m concerned about”.  That is not a good sign at all.  For Romney.  Well if I were I were up there I’d taunt him saying “Your zingers don’t worry me one bit.  Bring it on.  I love seeing your remarks fall flat”.  Of course there was also the line Romney said (?) that “You can’t expect me to bring forth details on my tax plan.  After all, I’m not an accountant”.  Well - - - duhh  - - we all knew that!  No accountant worth his salt would screw up all those companies Bain Capital was involved in.  But now we hear that Romney had to cut his rehearsal time short because he was going to skip town after the debate to avoid the media flack for a poor performance.  Romney was out making a deal with a ticket scalper busily securing a cruise on a first class state room aboard the Lucitania

We had an almost spaghetti like beef and pasta and tomato casserole with decent seasonings.  We had corn bread and a green salad with it with strawberry ice cream for desert.  I got seconds from Laura on the casserole.  Georgia ended up moving ahead of Tennessee and winning the game.  KNBC had cartoons on at five.  I didn’t see any Network news.  Wisconsin was clobbering Nebraska and was up 20 to 3 at one point and then it was 20 to 10 right before the half.  I watched the Mc Laughlin group which was mainly about the Mideast in its various aspects.  That new dark haired guy was the strongest protagonist for the tea party position.  Pat Buchannon ardently said that Iran has no plans for a nuclear bomb and all their leaders have made that clear.  Neither do our sixteen intelligence probes say there are any Nukes under development and even Netenyahoo has decide to postpone decisions on starting World War III till after the November election.  That’s good for Obama.  The first debate will be on domestic policy, which will help Obama because the one glimmer of hope Romney has had lately is that “light bulb” diagram speech of Netenyahoo, and FOX was happy to have that for us.  But we all know Romney will far apart when grilled only moderately on just what his economic plans for recovery are, or for that matter any clarification on his continuous flip-flopping on the idea of Mandentory Health Care.  They seem to have pulled a few commercials from the broadcast.

I guess there is an adage of  “be careful what you predict or even allude to because it might come true.  Yesterday I was thinking how there was some “vibe” in the air similar to 25 years ago in 1987.  It was the dry heat wave and October first and the near full moon.  And that day as you know Frank had returned from New Orleans the previous night while we were watching that “Far Point Station” Premier of The Next Generation.  And I noticed there was “something different and cinnister about Frank” but couldn’t put my finger on it.  The next morning we had that Whittier Narrows earthquake that was a pretty good shaker.  Frank was in a testy mood and kept moving my radio around and changing the station while my back was turned.  The book burning followed a few days later.  These past few days I’ve been a little paranoid and OCD around here due to chronic lack of cigarettes and coffee.  Last night on the west bench I managed to secure a cigarette from James Fisher on credit and I was thinking “This will most likely be my last cigarette of the night” and I had only had two since noon or so when I ran out of the pack I’d borrowed money for from Federico.  We stood in the medication line and Sarah had to leave her post because Yadera said there was some “emergency” with one of the inmates ( ) and nobody left the line, but it only grew so when Sarah got back ten minutes later it was really long.  Nobody dared leave and lose their place.  Later as it approached seven I entertained this mental fantasy of our having an earthquake this morning before I could get to the ATM and that the store had a power failure and the ATM was unusable -  -   .  And then my mind in OCD fashion fixed on that “Fleetwood Mac” remark about “Sun King” (a song I wrote if you believe our writings)  But I couldn’t remember Stevie Nicks’ name, as I was mentally going over the names of the people in the band.  So I looked in the drawer for the answer from the CD and immediately noticed the Yellow Submarine CD was missing, and there were only fifteen CD’s in a row there should be seventeen in.  I checked the other row and that row was normal with no extra CD’s in it.  Upon further investigation I noticed “Return of the Rocker” an Elvis compilation you might not be able to buy now, was also gone.  But “Potluck” right next to it, was still there.  I missed the Arnold Swartzenegger interview on Sixty Minutes because it of.  I was in desperate need of a cigarette and managed eventually to secure one from Richard Moore.  I have since paid Richard the four I owed him.  I don’t know whether Phily or the Giants won the game.  When Stewart Sutcliffe was Jess Ryder’s guardian angel, he was a Jets fan, but had no particular interest in the Giants.  Jess Ryder went against the NE grain and favored New York teams, where his separated pharmacist father lived.  Jess has favorable views of New York City.  Anyhow then it was the Simpson’s and Bart’s love life, and the crazy Bob’s Burgers, and then the Mt. Everest thing on “Family Guy I didn’t bother to watch the end of.  I was in bed before nine thirty but I woke at twelve thirty and knew I couldn’t sleep.  I was still desperate for a cigarette and went out side where Mark and James were.  I tried to cut another cigarette deal with James but this time he balked and would not budge no matter how desperately I paced anxiously around in circles.