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.