The Shape of Things to Come

 This is Sunday April 7, 2013 and the anniversary in 1965 (you people will love this one) it’s the anniversary of when Jess Ryder in his immediate previous life drove his car off a Jew Jersey pier at 9:30 in the evening, and was reincarnated just two days later on April 9^th, which just happens to be the eight anniversary of when the Royals, Prince Charles and Camille Parker Boles got hitched.  It doesn’t seem that long.  Anyhow I guess the only thing unusual about the hour was it’s kind of early to be drunk by then, assuming this was the case.   It continues to be my preminission that "something very strange" is slated to happen in a few days that will affect the whole country adversely.  But I just can't tell you what it is.  Nobody knows when a personal disaster might befall them.  Take that Black woman who gave two teenage girls a ride and they drove out in a desolate area and dragged the woman out of the car and stuffed her in the trunk and continued to drive around.  They only opened the trunk again to rob her of valuables.  It must take time to get over a trauma like that.  Is God like a soap opera producer who when he has the equivelent of labor or contract disputes with a cast member just hauls off and writes them out of the script?  It's amazing how suddenly certain soap opera people can be gone in a flash such as Jack Deveroux or Sean Brady Sr.  I wonder how many people in the afterlife if there is one say things like, "you know Death has a way of coming at the most opportune moments and all in all is a big pain in the ass, and something to avoid if at all possible.  Think about it.

The Clippers just beat the LA Lakers at the Staples center in a game two thirds of which had gone by before I remembered it was on.  The Clippers beat the Lakers 109 to 95 and never looked back.  Now the Lakers are tied with the Utah Jazz for the final playoff position, which means it goes to Utah because they win the tie-breaker.  The Clippers swept the LA Lakers in the four games they played with each other this season for the first time in their history.  I think it's time the Clippers got a little respect.

You know back in the early days of blogging in 2006 I talked about sixth dimensional psychic “port holes”.  Just because I don’t believe these are probable, it isn’t to say that they don’t exist at all.  Remember at the time I said that two things can be “connected” and it needn’t be by exact time, but only that they are connected.  The Federation teaching on the matter of “congruant’ or identical “shapes” is that any two Shapes (however you define THAT term) that are identical in Every way- - - ARE the same Thing, even if they are separated by locality (or by time)  Of course then again there are things like “karmic events” and fung chue surroundings to contend with.  So that even two clones are not the “same shape” because there are things that are different about them in minute ways pertaining to surroundings and creation order.  Well, it just could be that you could call these “Identical shapes” as “psychic port holes’ connecting them, if you want.  I admit I was influenced by the Movies by the very term “psychic port hole”.  Of course I owe a lot of my background knowledge to “my brains in the chat room” as Leo would say or otherwise known as “The Other Side”.  

I listened to my biggest block of Leo Le Port in a long time this afternoon from shortly after twelve thirty, till two o clock, and I caught most of the KFI 2:00 news.  Leo had that ten year old computer genious who constructed his own computer, but he seemed a little shy and not used to Leo who was being just a little over-bearing.  This kid knew all the terms and openly admitted he had a major mentor in the father of a friend.  His concerns were about “over-clocking”, which is a term I’m fermiliar with.  It pertains to souping up chips to run faster than their specs say they were designed to do – perhaps by stepping up the voltage.  But Leo points out, and I hope the kid was taking notes, that in the old days, back when I was a mere lad of forty, there used to be a vast disparity of chips when they would come down the assembly line and would be rated at 1.8 gigs or whatever, even though they could do faster.  In the old days you might be able to get fifty percent in more increase in speed, but today that figure has been reduced to ten percent, due I suspect, to more tightly regulated assembly lines and ratings.  The other topic had to do with not backing up your software in the cloud, but only your data.  But Leo admits he uses these “imaging” programs - - that “take a photo” of the entire hard drive, like Judy talks about.  Since Leo is the “enema king” of computers believing in frequent purges - -then he has his whole disk image ready to go to reload.  Of course even with today’s break-neck internet speeds- the whole idea of uploading an entire hard drive to the cloud is still a little on the unthinkable side.  After this, coffee break was announced just after two, and I went down to the courtyard.  All four birds were in the cage.  It was a long line and some of the early ones got grilled ham and cheese sandwiches but she ran out quickly.  Laura handed me a cup of coffee going up the line- - (to speed the line up?) but there was a really long line behind me.

.According to the latest word, the "Gang of Eight" may have already worked out a comprehensive immigration bill that may be signed into law tin he next few weeks.  In other “Mixed up Confusion” every time I see that car commercial with the “Rush Limbaugh” opera in it- I wonder what the actual name of the thing is.  That’s a real “thought virus”.  Today April 7, 2013 is the seventieth anniversary of the Jewish uprising in Warsaw, Poland in 1943 about two weeks before Passover.  Now they have a new movie coming out called “No Place on Earth” where there is this underground bunker with it’s own water supply and latrine that was home for 38 Jewish men, women, and children- - and they remained there safely undiscovered till Russian troops liberated them in 1944.  They now have 134 children and grandchildren and great grand children.  Mitt Romney can about accomplish that all by himself.  Two survivors were interviewed.  It seems that “Evil Dead” is the number one box office draw.  It’s supposed to be a bloody remake of a movie out decades ago that I never saw either.  One wonders whether our appetite for blood and gore will ever subside.  It seems that Nicholas that hiker - - fought off hillucinations every day he was isolated and lost and the day before he was found, he dreamed that Kindell had been rescued.  Keith says that North Korea has two long range missiles that are well hidden that are capable of reaching San Francisco, but that we are confident that our missiles will be able to shoot them down.  Finally we have troubling new genetic mutations in that Asian “bird flu” and they say the virus is now able to survive in human beings- but it “still needs to undergo a few more mutations to be really dangerous”.  But if that ever happened it might wipe out a lot of people really quickly.

And now we have a new food horror to worry about, Carnitine.  It sounds like a made up word by some fear monger, I know.  Carnitine is this “horrible substance” found in red meat and in expensive New York steaks, and there is a New York steak’s worth of “carnitine” in a can of some of these Energy Drinks.  It helps the body burn fat for energy, but they now claim that it elevates cholesterol and hardens the arteries.  Maybe it will help “harden” some other organ.  I'm waiting for the first Christian pastor to come out with the revelation that "Carnitine" is the unknown substance finally discovered by science that makes you "carnal".  I have news for you.  You were "carnal" the minute you were born.

Pastor Rick Warren's Son Takes His Own Life

Pastor Rick Warren’s son, Matthew committed suicide yesterday in an inconfirmed case of shooting himself.  I don’t know – maybe he was just commemorating an anniversary of Kurt Cobain shooting himself with a gun, I don’t know.  Matthew Warren killed himself in his home in Mission Viejo at age 27 after “having an enjoyable evening with his family” the night before.  They made it sound like there was almost this “demon” of mental illness pursuing him and out to get him.  They claim he’d been “batteling mental illness” for at least ten years.  Maybe this is one of those secrets “everybody else” already knows, like Magic Johnson has a gay son, or something.  It’s like a little “closeted” secret, if you catch my drift.  So what is the sequel to “A Purpose Driven Life’ going to be called- - “A Suicide Driven Son”?  As you can surmise I am not in particular sympathy with Rick Warren at this time.  These pastors brag endlessly about how perfect their lives are and it’s all because they are “smart’ or astute enough to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and if others appear to be less well off, it’s not because of some objective external cause like your Dad embracing radical right Tea Party reactionaryism or economic policies of the government, it’s all because they don’t have Jesus in their lives.  I have a bias for my own personal reasons of seeing other pastors and people of the Born Again bent - - and they look almost down upon even loved ones to whom misfortune comes.  It’s like they see themselves as evolutionarily superior to them or something or perhaps like that Next Generation episode- - they themselves “suck off psychic energy” of those around them and vicariously saddle these “weaker vessles” with their own emotional problems like some kind of emotional waste receptical or something.  You see - - if we were to apply Biblical principles strictly - - even by voting for Mitt Romney as President you vicariously adopt all of his policies like all of the employees he drove to despair or even business owners who turned to him for help.  And then there is all this crock about “mental illness” and here again perhaps my personal biases are showing but I think the term “mental illness” is used as a blanket coverall for not probing the true nature of the relational problems.  Too often – particularly in decades gone by, psychology and drugs were used as a cover to rationalize old fashioned character flaws.

I said I watched the Chris Matthews program on computer starting a little after two, because I wanted to finish up before the game started, and I wasn’t sure exactly when that was, so I didn’t listen to all of the Hillary for President thing.  Hillary sure is looking older and frumpier and tired and the sparkle about her from a few years ago is gone.  Of course wearing those glasses didn’t help.  On Meet the Press we learn that she’s really chummy with Joe Byden and that they “have the same political base”.  We also learn that “political campaign strategy has changed a lot in the past five years and that last time Hillary didn’t run an up to date campaign.  Of course this time she had James Carville, who has come out of what seems to be virtual obscurity these past dozen years ago- since President Clinton was last in office.  Carville was the pit-bull that defended Clinton so forcefully at every turn and put the fear of God into the opposition.  President Obama could have used someone like Carville when the Republicans were talking all over him last year.  Of course - - one other factoid from the Matthews program may be out of date.  President Obama tried to be conciliatory and offer up a deal to John Boehner and put something substantive on the negotiating table.  It seems Sen Lindsey Graham and Bill Richardson are more moderate and conciliatory and just might work something out legislatively on a lot of issues, were it left up to the two of them, both on the economy and the deficit and revenue enhancement- - but also on immigration.  Richardson believes that seventeen or however many years you have to wait now “on that path” to become a citizen- is just too long

The Basketball game proper started at almost a quarter after three in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.  It was a moving version of the Star Spangled Banner with that choir and all.  The Louisville Cardinals beat the Witchata Shockers by a score of 72 to 68.  But the Shockers shocked everybody into thinking their just might be an upset.  But Louisville rallied in the fourth quarter and came from twelve points down in a sixteen point swing to win the game.  This was after dinner.  I had been worried that the game would not still be going after dinner because at least of half of the second half- probably more- remained to be played – since we eat so gosh darned early around here.  The game ended about twenty minutes to six.   Michigan defeated Syracruse by a score of 61 to 56.  Unfortunately like I said above, I fell asleep during this game as it approached eight thirty due to a caffeine deficiency from an off brand of instant coffee.  So now we have two long established teams of Michigan and Louisville facing off on Monday.

Let’s return to the Mc Laughlin group where a whole host of productive issues were discussed.  First John Mc Laughlin laid out the whole timeline the past month or so with the ominus war drums going in the background, one could imagine.  There was threat and response and new threat and stronger response- - making a whole train of offences that Kim Jung Uum is guilty of now- with no indication he’s going to let go of this firecracker before it explodes in his face.  Pat Buchannon doesn’t even want this war and was chided for sounding almost dovish on the issue of War on the Korea peninsula.  Of course China is afraid that is the North takes over like in Viet Nam- - that the whole peninsula will be communist and there will be an even more powerful entity to contend with.  If Kim Jung Oom wants to prove his manhood let’s put him back in his place and show one and all that this bozo is not qualified to be a world leader.  This next story is most troubling.  British Petrolium is now de-funding all of its wind driven turbines and also its solar cell research, officially known as photo-voltiac cells, that have been around for fifty years and in that time they seem to have had zero progress in efficienty or marketability, perhaps due to do little ongoing research.  Research in wind and solar doesn’t have any immediate reward for British Petrileum and since there is so much energy around now in traditional hydrocarbon fuels- - BP considers research in the future a waste of time and money, because of course they can’t see past the bottom line.  People like Judy should be extatic, sionce people like her maintain that “These alternative energy forms will never pan out and we are just wasting time and jeapordizing out national security in pursuing them”.  Meanwhile going to a real farce of a story, last week President Obama said that he’s giving back five percent of his salary, which is like Gene Scott giving back five percent of his.  It isn’t the salary but the expense accounts where all the money is poured down the drain since Air Force I costs prodigious amounts of both money and fuel to maintain.  On Friday the President made a strictly political trip to Colorado and California and then back.  The President now sees himself as some kind of “professional tourist’ like Cisco and Ebert were professional movie watchers.  The president’s job should be a whole lot more than being “The propagandist and chief”.

Of course then we have Mort Zuckerman’s “doom springs eternal” stance on the economy.  Zuckerman and Mc Laughlin were the two pessimists on this show saying that we would eventually go to DEF CON III in the upcoming war in Korea, and also that the economic news would gradually worsten throughout the year of 2013, an assertion I dispute.  People have said that Fed Chairman Ben Vernanke is the best friend this fledgling economy ever had, and they are correct.  There was also the news story about how in North Carolina that parents are taxed more because they can’t take their children as dependants is they Vote - - at an address not their parents’ house. (?)  This is like if they are on a campus or something.  There is news that Sears Portrate studios are closing down because nobody is having professional portrates done any more because we are all such egotists we take amature pictures of ourselves with delayed camera, and then sent them over the internet to announce “Here I am!”  They also said that possibly unattractive women aren’t shy about announcing who they are nowadays.   Also in the news there is this SWAT-ting thing about LA Police dispatchers fielding 911 calls and they are deceiving the department about what phone number they are calling from because they have this sophisticated electronics that keeps them from being fingered for fraud, by endlessly sending the Police to a celebretie’s home- - only to find that nobody is being stabbed or murdered.  Of course this costs the department money and they’ll get GPS soon to counteract this possibility.

Doom and gloom also reigns about the Republican’s chances next year because now they say that the table is tilted tword the Republicans in the Senate- - and that this legislative body is in danger of falling into the hands of the Republicans.  But we need to watch things such as minorities and the under thirty vote because people who were under thirty in 2008 will be 36 next year and this constitutes eighteen years of legal voting.  The Republicans have won the popular vote in a Presidential election but one time since 1990.  And strangely, people born AFTER 1990 are now of voting age.  Nicholas is of voting age and that’s a real eye opener for me.  Of course on the gay issue, Proposition Eight only passed by a few percentage points five years ago, and there have been considerable shifts in demographs since them, as old people are dying off, and the like.  People have come to expect things such as “signers” at rock concerts where some woman near the front row is “sign”ing the lyrics for deaf people.  And if what Dr. Levy says is correct, the NO-BUTTS people will give you free nicotine patches, upon a doctor’s signature.  I’d like to see that one realized.  Are organizations that altruistic?  Sometimes people will deliberately not calculate for certain things.  Somebody goofed on their weather prognosis yesterday.  Because the weather they predicted would happen, would be true is what they were seeing were a High and not a Low pressure system.  With a High you would first see a lot of wind and cold and clear skies, but the wind would turn warmer and subside.  But with a low in the same position you would get possibly rain and continued cloudiness, which is what we have today- - and the weather would be more moist, but not as cold. 

A Gulf Too Far

In January of 2007 we learned that the Democratic revolution was canceled.  This month, the news is camceled.  There has been no news out of Congress in weeks.  They were supposed to deal with the debt ceiling to raise it.  I never heard they took any action.  There was a White House news briefing today and President Obama will be unveiling the 2014 Federal Budget next week.  The problem is the budget should have been before congress in January. It's silly to think any gun bill will be passed, even getting a background check, because if you can't even get a bill out of the senate no matter how much you water it down, how in the name of hades can you hope to get it past the House?  President Obama has even agreed to adopt Mitt Romney's economic plan to gut Social Security and slap the middle class with elimination of needed deductions- if it will make John Boehner happy.  But clearly nothing makes John Boehner happy.  The Unemployment rate is down but we hear the same song and dance about it's only because massive people have left the labor market.  I've heard this stuff about how four million people have left the labor market in the past five years and that were these people still counted in the labor market the unemployment would not be 7.6% but in excess of eleven percent.  It's all so discouraging because President Clinton said those "famous last words" last summer how, "The recovery is in progress but you people just don't Feel It yet".  Well, we're all waiting - - but we still don't "feel it".  (Selah)   Now the President is in trouble because he said the Attorney General of California, Camille Harris, was the nation's best looking Attorney General. According to David Cruise there were well placed photos accompanying the news article showing the President and AG smiling at each other like a toothpaste commercial, or else one with the Attorney General clutching his arm, or something.  The funny thing it's women who are most inclined to view this sort of nitt picking as just silly and in no way a violation of any "feminist ideals". Many have tied this in with Bret Musburger (?) a seventy plus sports caster fawning over this Alabama basketball player's girlfriend several months ago going on and on about how lucky he is and how others should strive to be like him.  Apparently here people say there is the "dirty old man factor' at work, and he's old enough to be her grandfather. Only someone like talk show host Moe Kelly would connect these two disperate events, but then again Moe Kelly is a guy who "things about things" even more than I do, and that's a stretch.  The sad fact is that you don't get news now on the evening network news but a lot of fluff, and have learned nothing in the half hour.  Oh, but apparently they ran a story about how boneless KFC will out sell the regular KFC in a short time, if it hasn't all ready.  But apparently they get so specific they start talking about how much you can get it for and what size bucket or barrel and the date it will go on sale.  Apparently this "news release" was nothing but an advertisment.  It's my fear that they will turn every single sitcom out there on TV into an advertisement in time, so you can't tell which is which.

Now the media is trying to scare us again because they want to ban the sale of "water balls" and water beads".  How about water balloons?  These little pellets are soaked in water and soak up water to become many times their original size and there is a fear that some two year old might ingest them and have a ruptured intestine or something.  I guess this is nature's way of weeding out the truely stupid speecies or something.  And by the way when it comes to insurance companies and Pre Existant diseases- - - they say that the average insurance payer out there will be paying double starting next year for the same coverage he got four years ago.  And besides that- a whole lot of new pre approved taxes will be slapped on.  I have just a simple logical question.  You say you are healthy and the Insurance company says you are not.  If you are as healthy as you Believe you are- - if you really mean it- - then why pay in inflated insurance rate anyhow.  Save the money by skipping insurance entirely.  And if you should get sick down the line- - guess what?  You'll have all that money you saved over the years from not having to pay those outlandish insurance rates.

News is still in a state of stagnation concerning my blood test.  They told me it was scheduled for yesterday but for the first time- - something that almost never happens, I had chocolate bran muffins to eat before breakfast.  Usually I consume no food before breakfast.  It was enough to compel them to cancel the test.  So I still don't know what's going on with my weight.  Also I still don't know what's going on with my Mom any more now than two or three weeks ago when I heard her blood pressure was at 190.  My Mom claimed to be ingesting nineteen pills per day of various types.  And she was getting light headed and losing her balance from the blood pressure medications.  I really haven't heard any successful follow up on that one, either.  Sometimes even if you're going to pray for somebody it's be nice to know exactly what the problem is and specifically what you should pray For.

In better news the crime rate in LA is down and the state unemployment rate is coming down.  Both the state and federal deficets are coming down.  And the autism rate may be even coming down, because now they say that "up to twenty percent' of kids with autism "outgrow it" at some point in their lives.  Many say it's through more intensive therapy now.  Back when I was younger a lot fewer people were diagnosed with autism.  It sure wasn't one in a hundred in fifty like it is now.  And the disease had a very specific set of symptums tied in with brain function and development- - and it cast a major shadow over a person's whole life.  Still there was always the question in the back of my mind, "If autism is a life long disease, you come you never hear about autistic adults"?  There are also a specific set of criteria for being a Sociopath that's diagnosable at a young age, but for some reason nobody seems concerned about that.  I guess maybe because being a Sociopath is as American as apple pie or something with so many successful and patriotic ones like Dick Chaney and Donald Rumsfeld.

I suppose it's a tribute to the charismatic power of Cultic leaders, that they are even able to rule their Cult, like that Jeffers guy in Texas, by giving orders from his prison cell.  And it's an eery thing that even little kids there are stalwart in their defense of Jeffers.  It's a sociological phenominon I have observed that many Bible studies seem to start out as coeducational but then one sex or the other will weed itself out- - and "deport itself".  It may either be men leaving and leaving all feminine groupies, or else it's the women who leave seeing these men are such mindless zombies they are not to be regarded as suitable husband, or even boyfriend material.  When I first joined the Jesus Freaks, there was no problem either by mixing married couples with singles.  But later on this wasn't the case and you knew if you were in a "singles" group or a married group.  Because if a couple got married they knew that they'd finally "gotten a life" and has whatever sexual bliss allowable under the constraints of Born Again Christianity.  The thing is people like Dr. Levy - - and Born Again teachers will say "Don't compare yourself to others" as though they were telling you some profound Truth.  And we are reminded that employers don't want their employees- - particularly between the sexes "comparing notes" to see how much their counterpart makes.  The Profound Truth I have this day is that "Comparing yourself to Others is the surest sign of Sanity".  Anything a leader can do to loosen your grip on Objectrivity- - it's one step tword making said person their psychological slave.  (Selah)

To continue in the vein we entered in the last posting about the idea of recripicals and opposits.  How do you know something even HAS an oppisite?   Like what if you were a male raised around all males your whole childhood and never even knew the opposit sex existed.  Ditto for a female out there.  Wouldn't you get the vague feeling that "Something was missing' from life- - even if you didn't have a name for it or could specifically put your finger on it?   We see opposites all the time in Math.  For instance, in trig you have your Sines and Cosines, which never have a value of Greater than One.  And you have your inverse Sines and Cosines, which never have a value of Less than one.  So what can we deduce from this.  It's this.  Anytime there is Comparrison going on, comparing one Thing to Another, you'll always have an "other side" because there is always the viewpoint of The Other, that you have to be aware of.  (Once again a Sociopath would no knowing of this)  Jim Morrison was talking with me today.  And he's saying that he's bought into the theory- - having heard it from Bones or Mal- - this idea that there is the "other side" of Ether- - in empty space.   Showing more math expertise than I had expected- - he talked of a graph that was calibrated inversely on the value of Exponents of a number needed to reach a certain BASE - - - and said log number would decrease the further Right you went on the chart.  But off to the left, the chart would go on to Infinity- - and there would never be an end to it.  Morrison talked about how the Egyptian culture has always believed in this "Sea of Death" that the soul has to cross over safely.  In Egyptian culture, the Nile river- - deep and wide, is symbolic of this Crossing.  Even in Genesis he points out- - God speaks of this "firmlement' or Expanse of something separating what is Above, from what is Below.  He says "So far from being the farthest thing from us- - this "Heaven" or "Firlement" or "Eternity" is in the Middle, in the middle of it all.  And then there is the simple example of staring into the magnifying glass and there is the part of the lens as your eye reaches the focal length of the lens- - where it all goes fuzzy and then the image reemerges inverted on the Other Side.  Returning to trig for the moment- - we ourselves have spoken of "crossing the infinity threshhold".  But what form would this "Infinity" take with our old friend the Higgs Boson? Well we know that newtron stars are dense.  We know that with these the effects of the Higgs Boson is the most intense- perhaps because there are more of them in a smaller space.  (Thanks to General Relitivity)  More Higgs Bosons- - more Time Advancement- - more Gravity.  Get it?  If you are right in front of a wave in the surf- - it will bury you- - a few steps further back and that same wave has little effect on you at all.  This is by way of illustration.  Like Trig Tangents- - - you see the same spiked curve - - as far as gravitational and time effects of it.  If you were to graph the thing using logarithms of X necessary to get to Base Y  for instance- - you'd have this same thing of "crossing the gulf of eternity".  And by the way- - not according to Me, but according to Einstein Himself- - "The Future" is already HERE.  This proposition is not even up for Debate.  Because these newtron stars have much faster progression of Time than we do here and hence have Advanced their own timeline far into the Future compared to our Own.  We have spoken how things on the Other Side would be Opposits such as refraction indexes for instance.  Just as space becomes more constricted between longitudinal lines near the North Pole - - so it would be just Silly to propose that somehow "The World" ends at the North Pole.  But if you look at these projection maps- - you never see the North Pole on these - - and people get tired of looking at Greeland being the same size as South America.  Like the lens - like the trig tangent functions- - so this Eternity Wall is NOT the end.  But indeed we do have to "Break On Through To the Other Side"  (Selah)

Boy and Girl Teenage Hikers Rescued Today

 At three was  David Cruise.  Those two hikers that have been in the news that were hiking on a Sunday afternoon in Trabucco Canyon- - and have been missing for four days, are now found.  The guy, Nicholas who is 19 was found last evening at 7:50 and the girl, Kindell (?) who is eighteen, was found today about noon.  They heard her screams from a cliff she was trapped on.  I don’t know if either ever found any water source in those four days, but they both seem to be allright now except for minor stuff.  They had been separated since Sunday evening.  I turned off the radio and sat there head bowed and sort of thought meditatively about it and thanked God they were all right.  Then Bill came out of the bathroom and I went in, and then I went out for a smoke.  While out there I thought I heard Steve Carone’s voice talking about a hospital stay.  It wasn’t him.  It seems that Steve didn’t have indigestion, Steve had an actual heart attack on the way home from Harry’s Café with Janet and Joe and those who went at that early hour.  As you know I was invited but I declined because it was five thirty or something.  (AM)  That was now six days ago and we haven’t heard from Steve.  Randy talked about guns and read off a lot of statistics.  Guns definitely do kill more murder victims than by any other means including knives or asphyxiation or blunt objects or fists, of what have you.  There should be no doubt about that.  But the NRA people are saying “Well you know - - why stop at ten bullets in a magazine?  Why not make it eight, or five, or whatever?”  Of course there are other means of protection from home break-ins other than guns, such as lights, alarms, or various other measures the authorities tell you to take, like don’t leave visible expensive items in your car.  But I think we’re all whistling Dixie right now anyhow, because as far as I know, Congress is still in recess.  In two days we’ll all be glued to our television sets watching the Final Four.

Rush Limbaugh claimed that Al Roker is not qualified to do the weather report on the Today show even’t though he’s been there twenty years or something.  Rush says “They’ll hire anybody nowadays; it’s not when I was a kid”.  Apparently Al Roker was astonished that fully 37% of the American people believed that global warming was a hoax.  He then went on to share his ignorance about the nature of Hurricane Sandy.  As if it’s perfectly normal to have hurricanes practically in November in New York.  He then said something about Obama’s embarrassing basketball scores, or brackets or something petty like that.  He made a big thing of it.  Rush then began playing word games with us.  He said that Tony Romo of the Dallas Cowboys, was the highest paid player in the NFL, but that five people earned a higher salary than he did.  He went on to explain that Texas has zero income tax, and what a wonderful state Texas is because they didn’t suffer from this five plus year recession the way the rest of us did thanks to Rick Perry and his “Texas Meracle’ attracting industry to the state from all over.  Kentucky is another low tax haven- - where people have gotten used to the miners blowing off the tops of mountains- - and thus destroying the natural beauty of that state.  Rush went on to say that “It’s things like this that have a way of mushrooming and starting a major movement to get other states to eliminate their Income Tax.  And Rush went on to attack the whole University System and “You know that most of the students already know more than the teachers who teach them”.  While that would be a nice complement, it is of course completely untrue.  Also dubious is Rush’s next story.  He says that the secret to sound mental and emotional health is to “Never apologise for anything” and Rush is a firm believer in taking his own advice.  He says “Never apologizing vastly increases you sense of moral justification and power and overall self esteem” and went on to say that “It could be demanding that your kids apologise for some injury to a neighbor kid or whatever could be the worst thing you could do to them emotionally”.  I don’t deny that that there  is a certain beguiling amount of appeal to this whole line of thinking.  It’s certainly a boost to my ego, that’s for sure because a lot of times in the past I wish I hadn’t been in the position of having to apologise for things, since nobody believe them anyhow, so what’s the point.  I guess that Coach Sandusky or whoever it was the head coach that got fired from Penn State last fall just before the final game of the season- - that guy was a Broken Man, and he died soon after that.  That’s what happens to you when you are publicly humiliated and your whole pride of livelihood goes down the drain before your eyes.  But right now it’s dinner time.

This is Thursday April 4, 2013 the 45^th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s death.  The quote of the day from Dr. King is “Power without Love is Despotism” whereas “Love without Power is sloppy sentimentality, in a danger becoming Impotent”.   Only Randy Rhodes today even talked about today being the 45^th anniversary of his death.  As you know we learned about it when our whole family was in the car just before sunset headed to go out to dinner at the Chicken Pie Shop, which I imagine is still there.  I remember some cop there saying “It’s too bad it wasn’t one of the more radical ones like H Rap Brown or Stokley Carmichael rather than him”.  But there is an old ZAC saying that “One should never speak of a necessary evil, because Evil is never Necessary”.  In Mein Kamph Hitler writes “The extermination of the Jews isn’t a necessary evil - - it’s just Necessary”.  Mal Evans and the ZAC actually regard this is the more humane philosophical choice of the two.   War is not a necessary evil.  Sometimes war is just necessary.  You don’t want to “Make War” heeding the John Lennon injunction, just like you don’t want to start in a fight in a bar just for the hell of it where peace had reigned.  Bob Dylan is very unapologetic in regarding War Itself as metaphorically Evil.  I don’t.  If you have a virus and you’re sick with a fever, the fever is the body’s way of fighting the virus.  Nobody likes the smell of bug spray after you’ve had your house fumigated and come back four or five hours later, but it’s necessary.  People can become war weary.  I have said “I wish we didn’t have all this perpetual war.  It’s draining”.  You grow weary of it.  People grow weary of going to work every day like a 62 year old house painter with a bad back from all those awkward positions he assumes painting under the eves and such.  But every day he manages to pry himself out of bed one more time.  People say that humility and contriteness and forgiving others when the idea of doing so makes you physically ill - - but they say you should do it anyhow.  Perishioners in the Catholic Church routinely are psychically weak from this self flagulation they are expected to undergo at the confession booth every week.  Don’t you think wise psychologists knew long ago that contrition makes you weak, and that humility can be at times self consuming?  You know I like “Living in the Material World” but I have to take issue with one line that goes “Senses never gratified only swelling like a tide”.   I’ll tell you who’s demands are never satisfied and that is the Church.  And perhaps God Himself.  How many times to you have to tell someone you really love them only to have them continually Doubt you?  (Selah)  I’m not appealing to your conscience or the lack of it here, only your memory.  Do you remember the Billionaie Boys Club movie where they had this hostage in a box and he was not getting air so they punched holes in the box, and then when they became more vocal and demanding- - they “solved that problem” by just covering up the holes.  Certainly they could well rationalize their refusal of demands for air to breath.  They could just say “Oh, If we give him a few good breaths, he’ll only want another and another- - and there’ll be no end of it”.    There are times in the past when one thinks they would like some favor from God and what if he were to say to them “Oh don’t worry there’ll be so many gold bars in heaven you’ll be amazed, and it’s all for you”.  The problem is that up there gold will be worth very little to you.  And it’s an insult to both your intelligences for God not to realize this now.   There indeed is “The urgency of Now” as Dr. Martin Luther King says.

Last night out on the patio I was talking to James about the prospects of World War III breaking out any day in Korea.  I was saying “Yesterday WW III was called off but today it seems to be back on again- - as Kim Jan Oom is again escalating the rhetoric.  Now he’s saying that he’s going to initiate “a massive war in a few days on the US and its allies”.  We’ve heard this song before.  Remember when Saddam Hussein claimed to have the fourth largest army in the world and he was going to unleash “the mother of all battles” in a few days.  “How did that work out for you”.   In this case- - in a sense war could be good for us because it’s shake loose the purse strings of congress and finally get out defense economy going again.  The war will only last a week or two but then there will be the aftermath.  First there is the disaster relief of restoring South Korea to some sembelence of what had been before the War.  But in the North there would be the horrendous task of just identifying and sorting out the bodies and readying them for burriel.  I imagine it’s a job you have to have a stomach for.  Of course that April 11^th Rapture date isn’t lost on me, even if I’m the one who nailed down that date.  I’m just saying that if you’re thinking of somehow “taking a vacation from God” now is not a good time to do it.

Many people may wonder what would happen to a space craft if it passed close to a newtron star.  Well, the funny thing is- - if you play your cards right- - absolutely NO ill effects what-so-ever.  You see you will get a powerful “sling shot’ effect- - as you draw close to the star like a coiled bow string and then shoot away.  But you won’t notice all that acceleration and de-celeration provided you are in a “free falling hyperbolic course”.  It will be like a body surfer on an air mattress not realizing that he’s being swept away by the tide.  People other than me have proposed a bizarre “symmetry dance” of matter and movement.  Many people look at double entry bookkeeping- - or divine reciprocity in Eastern Religions of what have you - - and conclude that there must be “another side” to the Ether of space.  Some people always will tell you that there has to be “the other side” to everything.  This supposes the idea that what we are seeing in nature is just a Side of it- - and not the whole Enchalada.  Some would argue that “If you can think of it - - then it must be True”.  Many call this the Ontological argument, but it’s really the Bullshit argument.  People think of a lot of things.  I came up with a formula to predict the number of sides on cubs in dimensions that haven’t been discovered.  Does that make it actual?  No.  Some people have even claimed to have seen this “symmetrical dance” of various sub atomic particles in an electron microscope.  I’ve read no confirmation.  Many would argue that what we call “The Soul” exists even though we can’t localize it- because we see “Evidence” of - - people being Alive - - - all the time.  We know that in logarithmic charting- - that the number ONE is the “zero” of that chart.  Nobody ever does exponents of one.  But if ONE is the neutral point- - some would by sheer reason infer that Both Sides of ONE be represented.

We had hamburgers for lunch with potato chips and vegetable and rice soup.  They had refills on the soup richer in the rice and stuff than the first.  We had half pears with whipped cream and colored sprinkles on it.  Janet asked me if I would like some more Easter candy and a hot chocolate right now, and I wasn’t going to turn down food.  She also informed me that if I ran out of coffee she’d make me some, and that she had twenty more boxes of Swiss Miss I could buy for a dollar each.  I went to her room and she’d just started boiling the water so I went back to the soap opera and came back a couple minutes later.  She gave me two chocolate chunk pieces and two rolls from the bakery and I used that styrophoam cup one last time.   And then I got a visit from Bones and since this is page six, it’s unlikely anybody will be reading this by accident.  Bones was mystified like “He’d missed a few chapters” because the last time he had observed me and Janet there was still tenseness in the air with my owing Janet money and she reminding me of that.  “And now you wander into her room with her door wide open”.  Bones was also puzzled about what he was seeing on the television with ”Days”.  To him it looked like your typical boy and girl break-up scene where the girl throws the boy’s locket down on the ground and says she never wants to see him again and she’s tired of his treating her like a child”.  I said there was a whole lot more to it than that but it’s take way too long to explain.  Then of course Clowie is there to pick up the pieces and in the final scene they’re kissing, and then Bones left.  The whole Sammy and Lucas thing was also strange.  Sammy throws herself in the door jam and refuses to let him pass.  Lucas says he’s going to sue her for sole custody of Allie if she so much as sets one foot in the Di Mira house.  But somehow after talking it over- - Samantha managed to get her way.  (She always does)   Lucas understands perfectly.