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Al Gore has apparently sold Current TV to Al Gezera or something for a hundred million dollars personal profit.  Randy Rhodes just had to play that “enlightenment” segment from “Network” about meddeling with the primal forces, and how there are no nations but only ATT, ITT, Union Carbide, Dow, and Exxon.  I guess it’s true that money doesn’t talk; it swears.  Why a progressive network would sell out to an oil guzzling money drenched outfit like Al Gezera, is beyond me.  In other news there is a psychiatrist on FOX who is saying that Joe Byden must be demented because he smiled away during Paul Ryan’s rant of straight lies.  Eric Cantor got a few votes for speaker of the house.  But John Boehner won the reelection to chairmanship with only five votes to spare.  That’s not impressive in the least.  Newt Gingrich thinks the bringing on of another debt ceiling crisis by the tea party republicans is a Non Starter.  Newt pretty much believes the tea party’s goose is cooked.  Stick a fork in them; they’re done!  But they did say that the stock market has had its best week in six months.  I’d like to see that chart myself.  It's a fact - - a reality of our time - - that economic good health is like kryptonite to the Tea Party.  This usual "normal state" of growth is something which we have been deprived of lately, and once said normalcy resumes- - our President will indeed begin reaping the rewards of all his lard laid plans.

The Clippers are playing the Lakers tonight and personally, I’d like to see the Clippers win.  They were on a seventeen game run all through December but have lost the first two games of this year.   Apparently two LAPD officers, Detectives Nichols and Valenzuela, are accused of forcing women to have sex in exchange for keeping her out of jail.  The students from Newtown went to their new school eight miles away starting yesterday.  Obviously security there is even tighter.  For some reason they made the classrooms identical to their old ones.  Randy Rhodes says that business doesn’t mind successful progressive liberal talk shows, but only to a point, and if the right wing feels threatened, they will endeavor to bury them.  There was some conservative news commentator (was it Glen Beck) who went out collecting money for the Mitt Romney campaign but in the end, he just pocketed the collections himself.  I guess we should not be surprised that these carnivorous by nature predators, should eat their own in the end.  Evil, lacking all judgement, in the end is so overcome by Averice that it will indeed resort to consuming itself.  This indeed is "The end of Evil".

Sometimes when conservatives don’t like history, they rewrite it.  They regard things as the Senate filibuster and the national debt ceiling as things that have existed since the days of our Founding Fathers.  Ronald Reagan raised the debt ceiling seventeen times.  They seem utterly ignorant of the fact that Thomas Jefferson was a champion of free public education.  None of this private home school Christian bullshit.  Rush Limbaugh maintains that the term “assault rifle” doesn’t exist among true gun afficianados.  Rush says it’s a term invented by the drive by media in the 1990’s during the Clinton administration.  But the term dates at least back to the ‘seventies.  Someone else says that “riding the tressles” in San Onofre only occurred since 1971.  That’s not even true.  The word “San Onofre” is in the song “Surfing USA” out in April of 1963 and there is the line in the final verse of the long version of “Surfer Joe” that goes “he was riding the tressles, down’ by the sea”.  Of course they said that cigarettes were “coffin nails” a hundred years ago, so I’m told.  It was certainly not news when the surgeon general said in January 1964 that cigarettes caused lung cancer.  This is a case of liberals re-inventing history.  Now the Navy has a promo film on “Bath Salts” saying that the drug will make you psychotic and delusional long after the high wears off.  I hope they aren’t just pulling our chain.  As to those two prisoners that broke out of an Illinois prison using a seventeen story rope made out of bed sheets on December 20^th - - one of the two prisoners was captured right away.  The other was captured today.  They now have a mysterious photo of Dianna before she became a princess, and I suppose re-invented her virginity or something.  She was with a boyfriend enbibing in a bottle of Jack Daniels or something.  Actually in those days I heard they made you go through a medical exam to confirm your virginity before you became a candidate for Royalty.  

On a Criminal Minds episode they said that "Eleven is the Satanic Number".  I'm not quite sure how that key phrase came up.  As you know there are eleven on a football team, and eleven dimensions proposed to exist when the Universe was first created.  Actually we covered this around the first of September but we'll review it again.  There are Eleven dimensions that are what I call "provable entities".  The twelth - which is alternate dimensions of  Time - - is not.  I guess there was some famous Italian sculptur, who was doing a marble statue of a person and someone asked him "isn't that hard to do?"  He said, "No, I just chip away all of the marble that is not part of the man.  The man already Exists in the Marble.  This is how it is with God and Time and Creation.  Satan is the sculptur who "takes away" and in an Ironic way engages in the Creation process of his own.  (Selah)  There are three karmic dimensions, three spacial dimensions, four dimensions of Things- - and one of time.  That should make eleven.  We said "God is the twelfth man" like in a football game.  It could be argued that the Universe was (and perhaps IS) an undifferentiated Potential- - with Time going off in all directions.  But a man, and computers, and Time as we know it, is linear, and as such certain scientific "deductions" about the properties of Time are possible, that we have gone into before.  But whether God is truely the Twelfth Man- - implies that God is Alive as we understand the term.  But athletes in an Olympic contest compete less for the accolades of the "audience" than for their own sense of victory over the challenge, and their own sense of Self Mastry.  (Selah)  Gene Scott once said "Life is the capacity to relate to one's environment".  I would add- -  to relate to a person, place, or thing in our common environment.  (Selah)  But the most important aspect of what I call Life is the one things Christians to distain, and that is a WILL.  Without a Will or volition, can it be said that Life "as we know it' even exists?  So let's put these two together.  Could not Life be defined as the capacity to Respond- - to another, like say, the prayers of Man to God?  But some say "But your sin has separated you from God and so God cannot answer your prayers".  Really?  Which sin.  The sin that Christ atoned for on the cross?  That sin?  And besides if my "sin" as you put it has so separated me from God I am utterly cut off with any contact with Him, - - then he can't send me to Hell after I die, can he?  These people never think.  Some have quoted the scripture "but you know that God is a Consuming Fire?  I say, "Really?"  You know - - some would day a definition of Life is that the entity consumes oxygen and some sort of fuel, and that it produces "energy"  in this process.  Life has the capacity of movement, and growth, and even reproduction.  And can and does change unpredictably, seemingly, with the environment it finds itself in.  But alas these things are not "Life".  Life is something more.  Life is the capacity to be either pleased or displeased by one's environment.  Life in its essence is a volitional response - - which differs with each soul a bit - - as to HOW it chooses to deal with "challenges" in one's environment.   By this logic one can easily argue that Satan is not Alive.  He may be among the Un Dead, but he is not Alive.  (Selah) Unfortunately by this same reasoning, God is not alive, either, so in fact Neither- - - should be worshipped.  (selah)  But just remember from an exestential point of view there are Eleven Dimensions.  From a hypothetical absolutist point of view there are Twelve.  Remember this - - and you will do Well.