Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio Declare Their Candidacy for President

Today the President announced unilaterally that he was restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba.  I didn’t know one man had that kind of power, but Sean Hannity acts as though it’s a done deal.  The move seems particularly stupid because Marco Rubio just announced for President with his sizable Cuban constituency.  The big thaw was triggered by an exchange of political prisoners between Cuba and the United States.  Cuba got three prisoners we were holding and we got 53 prisoners freed.  Coincidentally, Sean Hannity left out that little detail in his rant today.  We did hear that Ted Cruise is NOT elligable to run for President because unlike John Mc Cain, Cruise was not born in US territory, and having your mother as a citizen doesn’t count.  I continued to be puzzled why Hannity keeps trotting out radicals such as Bill Ayres and Jeremiah Wright.  But the president should not have opened the door.  Of course keep in mind that Obama was eleven when Nixon was being renominated by the Republican party in one of the best produced “Made for television” conventions of all time.  Red China had been recognized by one and all, and the SALT talks had been held with Breshnev.  And it was about August of 1972 that the Sixties could officially be pronounced dead - - when all the polls showed Nixon winning by a landslide.  But I’m wondering about this Cuban refugee guy that Sean Hannity talked to.  Let’s say that Sean was a fourteen year old teenager at the time - - this would still be 1975 when “Communism” was no longer considered that big of a threat. I have to wonder what spending your formative years in Alabama has to do with it.  Jeb Bush formed a campaign committee to run for President and he has to fight Rubio for the same Latino constituants.  And they are both from Florida.  They’ll knock each other off and Christie could come out the winner.  There are so many candidates, including perhaps Alan Keys, for President- - even the biggest drawing candidate doesn’t exceed fifteen percent.  Now we have negotiations for “the past year and a half” of diplomatic relations with Cuba.  I don’t know what to think of it.  It seems that Pope Francis welcomes the thaw in relations with said Cuba.  Hannity and Rubio call themselves good Catholics, so their beef is not with me but with the Pope.  And Pope Francis is a popular, charismatic Pope to try and go up against.  Don’t you think?
Ever since the torture report was released last week, U.S. television outlets have endlessly featured American torturers and torture proponents. But there was one group that was almost never heard from: the victims of their torture, not even the ones recognized by the U.S. Government itself as innocent, not even the family members of the ones they tortured to death. Whether by design (most likely) or effect, this inexcusable omission radically distorts coverage. Whenever America is forced to confront its heinous acts, the central strategy is to disappear the victims, render them invisible. That’s what robs them of their humanity: it’s the process of dehumanization. That, in turns, is what enables American elites first to support atrocities, and then, when forced to reckon with them, tell themselves that – despite some isolated and well-intentioned bad acts – they are still really good, elevated, noble, admirable people. It’s hardly surprising, then, that a Washington Post/ABC News poll released this morning found that a large majority of Americans believe torture is justified even when you call it “torture.” Not having to think about actual human victims makes it easy to justify any sort of crime.

Will the gulf between left and right ever be bridged?  Mike Papentonio said that these whole situations with grand juries failing to indict Police Officers for anything- - is based largely on the fact that they don’t question the officer’s testimony to them.  They can say “I felt like a five year old in the hands of the Hulk” or they can talk about a “demonic look in the eyes” or the classic “He was going for his gun belt” or almost anything.  What I want to know is “Where are those ten or twelve Black people who supported Darren Wilson’s story.  Why aren’t all of THEM all over FOX news now giving their testimony.  I have not heard word One out of any of them, and severely doubt that any of them actually exist.  And yet from the other side of the fence we hear that liberals are hyper sensitive and hyper offended by civil rights and race issues.  Now we hear that Michelle Obama was “offended” because some woman in a Target store asked her to get something off a high shelf for her, as though she were a floor worker.  And the President is quoted as saying “I’ve been mistaken for a bellhop”.  There was much talk about the “pace and rhythm of the President’s words” giving this speech, which was needless to say was before he was elected President.  Whatever President Obama used to be- - - if he ever was a liberal to begin with- - - he most certainly chucked that all aside the minute he made the decision to become a serious candidate for President and do whatever he had to do to win.   But by opening up this Cuba sore point with the Right “all that stuff” about Obama’s supposed radicalism comes right back to the forefront.  And visions of “2016” come to the fore again with talk about how “The President will never face another election and is free to advance his radical, leftist agenda without fear”.   All of this anti Obama talk could end up hurting Hillary.

With the three or four Trillion dollars the Federal Reserve has given the banks to further bolster their profits in capital gains in stock investments- - the government could have given each and every American - - ten thousand dollars.  Ten thousand dollars would be about two thirds higher than a lot of individuals on fixed social security incomes get each year.  There is no doubt at all that such a move would stimulate the economy.  If the federal government had cracked down on employers who hire illegal aliens, this would raise the wage base for all Americans.  But they won’t do that, either.  If they had passed a democratically sponsored tax bill, they could have prevented jobs from being shipped off to foreign countries starting last year.  But John Boehner and the House refused to do that.  I don’t like to see powerless people being taken advantage of.  Perhaps this is what separates liberals from conservatives.  The latter doesn’t care.  Conservatives don’t care if various type of minorities- including the mentally ill- - get beaten up or killed by the cops, if it doesn’t happen to them.  Mike Papentonio was talking today about various forms of wage theft on those already down to minimum wage.  They are now saying that “setting up” in the morning and “cleaning up” at closing time- - doesn’t count for the salary a fry cook makes, for example.  Illegal aliens dare not protest their living circumstances.  Since Ronald Reagan and George Bush 41 were the ones who “set up” the whole “dreamer” problem we have now with children of illegal aliens- - I guess I see it as the government’s responsibility to some how ‘make it right’ for these people.   This Rock Star guy on Monday’s “Law and Order” episode was a crusader for the rights of the mentally ill and I admire him for that.  He had a hellish life in a mental institution including getting electro shock.  And yet one person had the audacity to say to him “Well you’re not insane now and you were then - - so you OWE those people your sanity, do you not?”  That line is right on a par with people claiming that African slaves “got a free boat ride” to this country, and were Christianized in the bargain.  And then others say that “Those slaves were Godly people”.   It’s one thing to say you share the concerns of the down and out- - disempowered.  It’s quite another thing to be ONE of them.  But the establishment is good at vilifying the disempowered and putting THEM on trial.  They did this in the second century with the Jews after the Second Jewish war.  They invented a whole religion who’s goal seems to have been “Making Romans and other gentiles feel GOOD about pointing the finger at these disempowered Jews.  There are no “checks and balances” of police power.  Norman Goldman put it strangely but probably correctly when he said “There are no Definite requirements in our legal system.  It’s all what some grand jury of DA decrees at the moment, and it’s an amazingly subjective thing”.  I find this Truth highly disturbing.  And if the poor and down and out ever DO get any firm “legal rights” you know people like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are the first ones to complain.  Like that song “Now’s the Time” says,  these people want “liberty and freedom” but they only want that so that they can take YOUR rights away.  They think abusing YOU is one of their God-given “rights” that is now being threatened by “liberalism”.   Someone said the age of the average FOX news viewer was over sixty five.  If this is so one will hope their ranks will not be replemished as the older ones die.   There is some sinister force out there literally “Feeding the hate” with some sort of “underground pipeline”.  We as liberals need to find a way of somehow, some way, shutting that whole thing down.

Soap opera character Eric Brady now finds himself paralyzed by doubt- - and resentment.  But strangely people like Neil of KFI  (Jesus Christ show) rather than try and help him are inwardly saying “Good.  I hope he STAYS that way)   To quote a favorite Dylan song “They say “How are you, good luck, but they don’t mean it.  Because you know as well as me that you’d rather see me paralyzed”.   It’s like a girl looking for a new romance after the break up of an old one- - people like Dr Laura or Neil would say “Finding a new romance is the WORST thing you could possibly do”.   It’s kind of in the same vein as people plagued by theological doubts.  They say “The WORST thing you could do is actually answer their questions, even if you have them.  By the way if you DO have them, DON’T tell the person asking them, who wants to clear up his doubts that are troubling him so, and frankly you should SAY you DO have them even if you don’t because you must stress that that ethereal thing called PATIENCE takes TIME (I would adlib here “A whole lot of precious time you ain’t got”.   If you keep such a seeker of truth in a NEEDY position, then YOU have the power.  YOU have the control over him.  (Selah)  And when it comes to resolving questions of God- - just as that Rock Star decided he didn’t need pills to keep him Sane,  others decide the only way to keep from GOING INSANE is to abandon their self defeating belief in God.  But then Neil of KFI will come along and say “This is just a sign that a person has mental (sanity) issues, because no Sane person would ever come to the conclusion that God doesn’t exist.  So how different is Neil’s view than the old Russian gulags or mental institutions they kept dissidents in?   But you know people like Neil of KFI are completely nuts by their next statement.  Some lady caller says “Well I need to pray for a healing of this mentally ill guy I’d like to share Christ with”.    You’d think Neil would be all FOR that.  But he isn’t.  To summarize Neil Savedra’s view on mankind there is a name for what people like him do with callers.  It’s called Crazy Making.  People like Neil Savedra are “toxic people” who I’d advise a lot of people to just steer clear of, the way Brady Black tells Melanie to steer clear of Teresa.  Because no good can come from having their paths cross.  (Selah)

Elizabeth Warren and Lindsey Graham

The sign of a true "Mental Patient" is he thinks he has answers to questions nobody could possibly know.  Keeping this thought in mind- - prepare to "have your intelligence insulted" in the final paragraph where I give some of my take on "The Theory of Everything".

 I would like to discuss Elizabeth Warren’s speech in the Senate a few days ago.  I was inspired to check out the whole speech on C-Span, which wasn’t that long.  City Bank has an undue influence on our national policy.  They were the number one recipient of the TARP bail out of 2008, receiving substantially more than number two.  They also have had three people from City Bank in high government positions while a fourth high ranking democrat turned a chance for a high position at City Bank.  Elizabeth Warren reminds us that “Dodd Frank isn’t perfect”.  It should have been a lot stronger.  Dodd Frank should have broken City Bank into little pieces.  That’s what Teddy Roosevelt would have done.  TR recognized that these rich monoliths not only have huge monetary power but immense political power, which was what Teddy was most afraid of.  After listening to the entire speech I was more convinced than ever the necessity of defeating that Omnibus bill.  After her on the same link was Lindsey Graham.  While I sympathize with Lindsey’s speech, and he makes a lot of emotional appealing points, he’s just plain wrong.  Let me tell you the moral distinctions I make.  In 2011 and 2013 in particular, Lindsey Graham sided with the forces of reason and said we had to rise above petty ideology to keep the engine of government going.  But the big difference is that Obama Care was duly passed by both houses of congress and signed into law.  It was validated by the Justices of the Supreme Court.  And the American people affirmed it again in reelecting Barock Obama for President in 2012.  Now contrast this with the proposed gutting of Dodd Frank.  This was a new initiative.  Dodd Frank too was a duly passed bill by congress.  And as bad as shutting down the government, it pails into less significance when contrasted to the idea of reinflating the Investment Bubble and again putting tax payers on the hook for speculative behavior, which I have gone into before in more detail.  So it’s not that “Lindsey proved himself to be the better man” so to speak.  It’s a case of one brave senator, who happens to be a woman, standing firm on essential moral principle.

I guess the stock market was up today.  I hope you got the message NOT to sell yet but to wait for my signal.  There are still gains, perhaps substantial ones, to be made on the up side, short term.  Don’t get shaken out in a bear trap, which is what I warned you about even more stridently in mid October.  In the news now they are talking about this Sony Pictures computer hacking because of this satire spoof movie on killing the head of North Korea.  North Korea says they had nothing to do with it, but I insist “the lady doth protest too much”.  Everybody knows it was them.  This is the one “Earth issue” that the Federation seems to be involved with lately since as you know Sony Studios are in Culver City which is the Skyway Group.  This Skyway group has done valuable reconisance work for the Federation in terms of providing information to the Federation, and the Federation is standing by them.  North Korea obviously doesn’t know the American people if they think a few threats on their part is going to keep Sony Pictures from releasing the movie as planned on the original date.  I would join in those who are requestion that information that’s been hacked NOT be made public.  In the old days reporters would sit on stories just out of human decency.  They don’t do that any more, nowadays.   Now and then I entertain a dark thought about just bombing North Korea off the face of the earth.  As far as I can tell North Korea has no friends, except for China- - - and only some of the time, at that.  Some people say that body cameras on police officers pose a privacy risk to the public.  I am not on their side.  I believe that the best insurance against police abuse of force, is knowing that they are on candid camera.  Also the subjects of the police stops are also on their best behavior.  It’s been shown that in places where cameras are in use- - complaints of police abuse drop way off.

This teenage girl involved in the fake rape case in ‘Law and Order” said something last night that flagged my attention.  “I would just like to get back to being- - Normal.  Lately I don’t feel like Me”.   I’m thinking that my obsession with politics these past six-odd years has been a little hyper- - - way hyper- - - even for me.  My writings did not used to be so heavily dominated by politics of almost a “crisis” nature, and that can be tiresome.   Back 25 years ago many talk show radio programs had “topic driven” discussions.  They’d devote an hour to this topic and a topic to that.  Many times Tom Leykis would devote a whole hour segment to sex and dating, and you got to hear his many opinions on that subject.  I remember one hour in September of 1989 I believe- - was a contrast of two current court convictions.  It was Jim Bakker verses Zsa Zsa Gabor being charged with slapping a police officer.   A lot of times Leykis would express his views on religion.  In my writings in the nineties that I have on computer starting from late 1995 a lot of the time I read these and think “Why am I in such a good mood.  I’m so light hearted and jocular.”  In 1998 I was taking Judy’s vitamins which bolstered my mood.  And I was also making a conscious decision to curb the alcohol consumption, which I had become concerned about in the course of the year 1997.  Even in 1998 I remember there was one day when I was in a downer mood and reading this one file I thought “OK, one file where I actually act normal”.  Because for me the new Normal was being in a downer mood.  My writing has always been rather free-wheeling and flighty.  But only the present “serious” me is now annoyed by this “undisciplined” style.   Captain Janeway was in the final Voyager episode with the young her and the current older “more seasoned” her- - and they had spirited arguments.

We had sloppy Joes for lunch with four onion rings and catsup.  We had corn chowder and peaches for desert.  Today I decided to listen to regular radio to Sean Hannity to get his current take on things.  He is not happy with the “Establishment Republican party” these days, and believes Ted Cruise was right in pointing out the issue of the President exceeding his executive authority.  I wouldn’t want anyone to vote for a bill is they in good conscience felt that they would be violating a basic constitutional principle to do so.   It was Days of our Lives at one.  We never got very much rain today at all, and now they are saying that the bulk of the storm is still out there.  Jennifer began calling names for Money Draw at a quarter to two.  They had coffee in the front room and I had two cups.  Then I got in the tail end of the Money Draw line.  In fact there was no line except for the individual already in the office.  I asked for nine dollars and got it, but was surprised to see I still had three dollars on the books.  Had I known that I would have taken all twelve.  I grabbed two pieces of chocolate and left.  I went to the liquor store for a pack of John Blacks.  Then I got in the line to see the doctor and spent most of the time behind James Fisher.  Nancy Warwick cut in line ahead of both of us.  James mildly admonished her.  The dog was attentive to that woman (I forget her name) who is in a wheel chair the dog hangs out with so much.  My temperature was 97 and something.  (cold weather, probably)  My blood pressure was low.  I told Dr Saran I had no medical issues and have been in ideal health.  Then I made my way back here and I think I’ve already covered that part.

There is talk on how string theory is “The Theory of Everything”.  I’m going to have to accept that statement on Faith because I personally don’t understand how that could possibly Be.  You may have questions about “string theory”.  I can tell you about MY string theory.  Though you can draw lines between the anchor points of the strings, said “anchor” has a reality in place and time but NOT in substance.  The TYPE of substance, just as TYPE of variable in a computer program must be identical in order to be operationally compatible.  You CAN draw lines connecting the “loci” of points A and B but once again the string does not pass through formatted space at all.  Therefore there can be no said ‘direction’ unlike with either light or sound- - that the strings vibrate in.  As nearly as I can figure they have an “a priori” causality in their vibrating, which is they are a CAUSE without an EFFECT, and in this sense they share a trait theologians attribute to God.  Some may ask “If this psychic realm the strings allude to – just another name for God?  The official Federation answer is NO with a capital N.  I stated this notion of “conscious dwelling in the realm of causality”.  Many religionists would say that this is the goal of every spiritual “pilgrim” to achieve this “God presence” state.  The Federation regards the word “God” as part of a humanistic superstition which they’ll have no part of.   The Orion Federation picked up the name Orion- - because of the “Ruins of Reigel VII” which is said to “be about as old as the Great Pyramid of Egypt”.  The term of Orion is called “the realm of the dead” but could be translated “the realm of the Under World’ or “the Realm of the Other Side”. There is certainly no claiming that the Federation was founded by a "God" named Orion.  Some like Stewart Sutcliffe and perhaps myself- - have a past life in ancient Egypt where Orion was revered.   So the Federation has always hyped up this whole “psychic realm” thing as one of their great strengths, and some say - - great secrets.   Lately I was wondering- - whether my rather snipy attitude as of late tword the Federation was the prompter of the Federation seemingly (in my view) “walling me out” or “giving me the silent treatment”.  But I was assured this played no part in that decision. It was just “a decision that was made not to be so influenced by the concerns of Earth people.  (Unless you live in Culver City)   This answer will have to do, because this individual would not elaborate.  What it does of course is “Place me more on my own” than I would otherwise be, forced to “figure things out for myself”.   There was a time last night reading this hype about “The theory of everything” when I mused in a completely egotistic flight of fancy that “These people are searching out questions I’ve already found the answers to”.  I guess that would have been enough in the old days to be struck by lightning on the spot.

All The Media WhoresI h

It’s been pointed out that if you’re in the “Good ol’ boys club” otherwise known as DC Insiders, no Insider will ever criticize another Insider.  Police and Doctors and Attorneys won’t weed out bad apples among them.  Two classes of “professionals” I admire for their price of workmanship are magicians and circus performers- - will weed out the duds in their midst because they don’t want to give their profession a bad name.  The idea of the media giving sociopaths an audience with the public is a new one.  We didn’t used to hear what mass murderers or rapists or fiends thought.  They were sociopaths and were regarded as such by the responsible media.  But with people like Dick Chaney given so much time so often in the media, only go to show that today’s Washington media are a bunch of whores.  Thom Hartman fielded a caller that says there is a training area called “School of the Americas” where the marines at Ft Benning were instructed not only how to survive torture but also how to administer it.  I know the Marine’s mantra is “be prepared” and they get more down into the nitty gritty than the Army does.   If someone were to go from 45 years in the past, or the turn of the decade of the sixties to seventies - - I fancy that they would think that psychopaths had taken over the government in a hellish scenario that would barely work in a horror movie.  I mean I understanding having John Mc Cain on every week of these shows.  I actually agree with John Mc Cain on the issues of Ukraine verses Putin, or of Syria a year ago - - and even the Iran threat I'm inclined to side with John Mc Cain on the side of caution.  Only on the subject of Iraq itself do we part company.  But this week we needed someone more out there than John Mc Cain and so went with Dick Chaney - - Darth Vader himself.  It's one thing to hear people like Thom Hartman refer to Chaney as a sociopath.  I think when we really start believing it- - deep down in our souls- - that's the time to really start being afraid of just what sort of evil can be put out by the media in terms of government sponsored propagandistic Lies.

Sci Fi has always been an iffy proposition with me.  There is only so far I will allow myself to have my creduility stretched.  Some things like robots taking over the world - - yeah, as a fantasy I guess that will work.  But there comes a certain "cartoonish point" where there are too many "leaps of logic" I have to make, where the story line just "doesn't do it for me" anymore.  I was out in the courtyard for two cups of coffee, and got a piece of rich chocolate cake with the first cup.  Lishia, Joe, Nancy Bell and I were talking about Science Fiction stuff like a show that comes on KTLA at midnight on Sundays.  We were talking about a remake of “Millions Missing” or left behind or whatever.  There were millions missing in the Midwest and in south Texas in the year 2012, and also in 1967 some UFO crafts were scanning our skies and neutralized all of our nuclear weapons and “It’s useless to even build Nukes anymore because everyone in the know, knows the UFO people won’t ever let us use them”.  The implications of this would be startling if it were ever demonstrated to be true.  This next thought may seem off the wall to some but as you know that there was a lot of psychedelic and 'enlightened' thought in philosophy and music going around then, but somewhere along the line it peaked out, sooner than anybody dreamed it would.  Suppose some grand bargain was struck with some "insider" or some high official had some Michael Benner style conversation with a space alien who was of a more conservative "bent" and then said "We'll protect you from blowing yourselves up but in exchange you have to turn away from any "mind expansion" of the human race".

   Thom Hartman was saying how any treaty in essence becomes part of the Constitution as far as its specific provisions.  That way the Geneva conventions on torture are part of our constitution, and also the Trans Pacific Partnership, will become part of our United States constitution, as far as the binding power of its provisions are concerns.  I take exception to the notion that this Omnibus bill could not be filibustered.  The US Senate has a three fifths cloture rule (and in Roberts Rules of Order it’s a two thirds vote to cut off debate) but I know of no clauses or exception to this debate cloture rule that says it can be waived on certain specific occasions such as any bill involving funding, which would be a huge number of bills.  (Selah)  But now we are hearing that the Trans Pacific Trade deal will be "fast tracked" meaning that lengthly comittee hearings would not be held but the bill would be ushered through - - like someone with a special pass to a rock concert who didn't have to go through all of the crowds.  In what or who's name would this "fast tracking" be done?  Are we THAT eager to forfeit ALL of our ecological laws, and minimum wage laws and worker's rights laws and told we could be sued for "restraint of trade" or worse yet "restraint of profits" and that regulation have the same Force of constitutional law as the right to trial by jury or a defendant's Meranda rights?

I haven't seem the movie "The Theory of Everything".   But allow me to anticipate questions you readers may have about certain things.  I have come to the conclusion that Time cannot be reversed, - - speeded up - - or slowed down.  You can prove this to yourself fairly easily.  You've played tapes the wrong speed where for example a clarinet now sounds like a bass clarinet.  But the trouble is that physically- - frequencies of a lower frequency an octave lower- - are also produced by longer wave lengths.  In other words - - all the sounds you hear on tape would be from a proportionately larger instrument.  Therefore since physically you see larger EM waves- - it's impossible to just "slow time down".  Big waves posess more energy than smaller waves.  In fact we tried to indicate that the laws of physics and mass and colision as well as things like inertia- - - are laws that are in force whether a human is there to observe them or not.  But also in the psychic realm where everything physical you see by way of illustration is more metaphorical than actual (such as a psychic football field) you see this whole thing of "psychic down shifting" which of course is "exchanging speed for torque".   In other words it's getting more POWER out of the karma you DO have RIGHT NOW without having to gain (engine size representing developed karma) and somehow "earn" that extra power.  In short it's kind of like borrowing against the equity in your house.  Physically - - big things have different properties than little things to begin with.  A grasshoper may leap ten times it's size, but if an elephant tried that he'd break every bone in his body.  In short- - even things like line spectra of gasses- - - all tie in Time and Space together as a part of one physical reality.  Humans are not the best judge of time lengths anyhow.  Because of the mood of the individual he may experiance time as speeding up or dragging on endlessly.  A child at play may not notice that hours have gone by in his bliss.  But take that same child and have him wait outside- - in the rain - - waiting to be picked up by a parent from somewhere, and suddenly now ten or fifteen minutes seems like an eternity.  We have spoken of what I call the "Tulip" principle of karmic development.  This is where- - upward movement, or the end of the tulip- - represents forward time progress.  It could be said that exestentially a very young child does not appreciate Time. He does not mentally organize his life into events coming after one another, and still less the notion of one event leading to or causing another event.  So that exestentially we could say that a very young child does not live in a world of time.  Hopefully the parent may find this a blessing if he did something which hurt the child either physically or emotionally - - maybe a doctor's visit- - and now the child doesn't remember it.  Hence one would think (as we used to) that there was a practical limit as to how young a child can be in order to start a formal education.  That upward line we call the "tulip" formation is hence "the learning curve" where we begin retaining past experiances. 

But I would also like to tackle one other question you readers of my postings may well have.  It goes "You say that there is this psychic force that can intervene and "alter the course of events".   OK.  We have to define the concept of "altering time" because you're right.  This assumes two things.  It assumes the future already exists, and also that we know what that future is- - and either do something to alter it- - or some unforseen "psychic triggering event" comes along to alter the course of events.  Many times - - the prospect of something happening we wanted to happen- - was DOOMED way before we thought it was- - like a democratic victory in the 2014 elections.  We ignored the signs.  We could chalk up the loss to a last minute surge of funds after October 15th that was some cut off reporting day.  But the signs were there of the disaster that was to befall us way before that.  We can say "I lost that job because of one thing" when in reality there were other factors we didn't even want to admit (and I'm talking about myself here) that we shoved aside- - and fixated on just One Thing that maybe went wrong.  You may have another question about Feng Chue itself.  You say "I thought that was the Chinese art of furniture placement in a home to properly distribute the "Chi" energy force- - or whatever".  You're right, of course.  Then you ask "If this is so- - how could the other end of a Feng Chue "string" as you refer to them- - be in some other Universe which can't be proved in the least by our best scientists.  Again you're right.  I DID say that "There is no way to prove the existence of either parrellel universes, parrellel space, or parrellell objects IN that space.  You may therefore go on to conclude that "Then obviously a string on a musical instrument needs to SOLID BASES to vibrate from- - if one of those bases is in another Universe- - the string can't vibrate at all".   OK the best analogy I can come up with here is the old Star Trek worm hole.  You know where ONE end of the worm hole is- - and you HOPE the OTHER end of a worm hole is somewhere you want to go.  But you ALSO know that when you're IN the worm hole, you aren't in ordenary space.  You can call it either hyper space or unformatted space or pick your own name.  It isn't actual space that is being traversed.   So keep in mind- - that here the "string" or "trip wire" itself- - has a Locus in the here and now, a time and a place the wire is tripped.  But remember we said that "Like relates to like".  This goes back to one of Gene Scott's professors telling him 'It's easier to describe wave interracting with Wave - - rather than wave's relation to "water".   Do you see that?  In this case the whole "wave" or "string" - - RELATES with our own psyche or soul.  The EVENT is like a computer program.  Programs are not material things so much as they are "triggering machanisms" that cause things in the hardware (material guts of the computer) or physical world to happen.  Now I know you have another question that goes something like this.  "You said once that the existance of the unprovable is NOT dependent on our Believing in its existance.  But then lately you (meaning Me) said "It's possible that these psychic EVENTS - - - NEED us to exist and might not exist without us".   I can easily reconsile this.  If your doctor tells you when you go in complaining of indigestion "Did you know you have paracites in your digestive tract?"  You will say "NO, I didn't.  You didn't KNOW you had them but they were STILL THERE whether you KNEW they were there before or not.  But at the same time the paracites by their definition - - are dependant on a Host Organism.  That should clarify it for you.  You know- - - people debunking Astrology have always stated that "The stars do not fall into the four primal forces- - therefore Astrology can't be true".   Because some bright genious said that there were only four basic "Forces' like the Greeks believed there were only four basic elements of Fire, Water, Air, and Earth.  We consider this nonesence today.  I regard these four primal energy sources of Gravity, the Strong force, the Weak force, and Electro-magnitism - - as also pretty limiting in it's world view.  Someone would say a fifth force just like "Quintessence" is needed.  I would remind you that it's my belief that what we view as ZERO MASS is an illusion.  Your bathroom scale still reads Zero even if fifteen pounds per square inch is constantly pressing in on it.  (Selah)  There are logically things "On the other side of Zero" which are real - - - and that are CAUSES of things we see in our world as EFFECTS.  I guess the secret - - the big trick everyone would like to learn from his Guru is this, "How can we CONCIOUSLY live in the World of Cause- - rather than always being reactive in the World of Effects?   The answer to that riddle deserves a Nobel Prize!  It can be argued that EFFECTS need CAUSES and that CAUSES always have effects.  So you need both things on their own side of the balance ledger.  That's my view.  Feel free to modify it and improve it- - if you think you can.

The CIA was Actually Hoping to get False Confessions of 9 - 11

It used to be back in August of 1969 or the spring of 1971 and you wanted to bribe the President for a special favor, such as Herb Kalambach did with fixing milk prices, you would walk in with a brief case into the president’s office and plop it down and show him a million dollars or two.  They don’t need to do it that way any more.  Now you just give a half a billion to a campaign and get a 760 fold return on your money “investment”.  The other person knows that - - - you pretty much OWN them.  Now they have increased the legal amount an individual may give to a politician by ten fold as part of this “grand bargain” that Boehner and the President finally managed to arrive at.  It’s just like a prostitute and a john arguing over the price, and the President finally stooped low enough that Boehner would bite.  (No sexual implication intended)  But another horrible provision of this Omnibus budget deal is the whole thing about patently ignoring IRS rules about “primarily political based organizations” built right into the legal books as not being allowed to get a 501 C-3 category exemption.  It doesn’t matter WHAT politics you have.  But people know political organizations when they see them, and to take such scrutiny suddenly “off the table” is to arbitrarily rewrite IRS laws.  But now of course pensions are the other problem.  People give up their pay raises for future pensions, and now those pensions are stolen, and now it’s expressly permitted by law - - written into law by these Republicans- - that you can go on and just steal pensions, the same way it’s written into the legal code that Banks can be just as reckless with their investments as they wish and they will continue to be bailed out regardless of Dodd Frank.  And today that British guy on the Mc Laughlin group, and the others just raked Dodd Frank over the coals.  They even claimed it disadvantaged lower income people but offered no example of how this would ever be the case.  That’s because they don’t have one.  The Republicans have hated Dodd Frank, or any other bill safeguarding investor’s funds.

Then we have this whole idea that the CIA senate report will undermine our national security.  You’ll recall that they WERE saying there would be some terrorist event soon after the report was released and of course there were none.  It was just some sort of sick wishful thinking on the part of these tea party Republicans.  But the Mc Laughlin group provided an endless chain of remarks about- - - how traumatic the release of this report would be in the Court of World Oppinion.  But Pat Buchannon also said the exact opposite.  “This is all old news.  It’s all stuff that was known?’  Well which is it?  Just some tired rehash of old facts, or some new blockbuster revelation that will destabilize things?   But to hear them talk- - even the Gulags when they were in force, must have been a good thing even if there was mistreatment of prisoners because after all “You can’t pay too high of a price for national security”.  I mean there are “enemies of the state” everywhere, don’t you know.  But Thom Hartman raised the important point that the CIA was never “LOOKING for the Truth”.  What they wanted was to obtain some false confession that Saddam Hussein was behind 911.  This is why the CIA kept at it for fervently with the torture program.  They were hoping for a FALSE confession, just like the tyrants of hundreds of years ago in the European monarchies did.  Once they obtained a “confession” they themselves KNEW wasn’t true- - they could exploit it for their own propaganda purposes.  Then you have this bit about how various European countries don’t want to spend so much as two percent of their gross national product on Defense, as NATO requires.  And there was talk about now weak European economies are.  I wonder why they kept dwelling on this situation in Europe.  Then it dawned on me that- - it’s a slap against “the welfare mentality” and now the European people are fat and lazy and spoiled with all these government programs.  Eleanor Clift kept saying “Austerity hasn’t worked in Europe”.  But somehow it’s these welfare freeloaders, that are responsible for NATO going down.  And Pat sings his tired, sad rapsidy about how “The power of the Western Nations is declining”.  But of course Pat had to put in his weekly plug for Putin.  Putin feels hemmed in in part because he can’t use his Oil Reserves to exploit his political bully power over other nations, like he was able to do a year ago.  But I’m wondering whether Putin, like Japan before WW II came to our shores- - feels economically so “threatened” or “backed into a corner” that he’ll do something really rash on the world scene.  “Hummm?”

 I had the computer on for the majority of the afternoon.  I watched ‘Justice Now” march in Washington DC with a vast majority of Black faces.  There was one man, then one woman, than that Al Green House rep guy from Houston I heard speaking from the House floor the other day.  Then for the highlight of the day it was the Rev Al Sharpton.   I also had some internet talk panel thing on- but got bored in the not that relevant minutia of it.  Then there was this conservative “Bratt” guy from Virginia (?) who is this conservative House member who preaches that the secret to our economic success is belief in Adam Smith and belief in God (in that order) and how we are a Christian nation and that somehow “free enterprise” was something either invented or “discovered” and when the world “discovered” the principle, prosperity broke out everywhere, with the very unsound implication that more laze fair economics would be a panacea.

It's probably part of human nature for people to believe in something inherently false- - or we would call it 'Magical'.   Nobody wants to consider talk of God of Heaven as "Magical" because that has become such a tainted word.  Certainly the psychologist's phrase of "Magical thinking' is a condemnation of whoever it is they are using the phrase on.  There is of course there could be an Objective (as in 'I am an Objectivist') realm that can't be proven- - like what we referred to as "psychic triggering events" by crossing some imagined or real "string".  And if you could run Time in reverse and crossed that same string the OTHER way, the Reverse of said event would occur.  The event would undo itself.  There is a philosophical question that could be raised about - - psychological or some would say psychic realities such as these "triggering events" or even "images" actually exist on their own as Independant entities and DON'T NEED the Real World to exist- - or whether they are inexerably Connected with THIS WORLD in some way.  But what my theory has in common with religion and even fairy tales is that we both assume there is some PART of what we call human beings- - call it the psyche or the soul or what have you- - that somehow - - transcends what we regard as reality.  That has to be the most dreaded phrase of an Emperical scientist.  Because an Empericist believes above all that "There is a tight limit on the material that is Known and Knowable.  We know where we need to look for it, and if it isn't where we are Looking- - then it simply does and cannot exist.  This is how an Empericists reasons.  And there is a logical possibility they could be Right.  On the other hand it's just as possible- - from a logical point of view- - - that these empericists are Wrong.  My side is butressed by - - going back to the Flat Earth believers or as far back as the philosophy of Ancient Egypt, mankind has repeatedly fallen into the trap of "We are fully aware of all the knowledge that's knowable". 

Immigration and Employment

"Don't Take That Tone with Me, young man!"   How often have you heard a parent say this to his child?  I resent the whole "Tone" of the Chris Matthews show today.  Chris has this way of being overly pragmatic- - and willing to sell out principles when the going gets tough.  He did it on the Iraq War in 2003, and he did it with the XL Canadian pipeline a few weeks ago, and now he's attacking Nancy Pelosi because Chris doesn't realize that 57 house democrats is NOT a majority of the democratic house.  Send Chris back to grade school where he can learn how to count.  I'm for "stand your ground" politics.  I guess I'm of the school of thought that "People who stand for Nothing will fall for Anything".  (Selah)  I'm for property rights and always have been.  I think the farmers in Nebraska don't want their private property rights trampled on.  But neither do I believe people in California should let some ecologist run them off their land because because of the latest rain storm there are puddles on your land and now it's a "protected wet land" or in the name of protecting some obscure species- - you can't develop your land.  I don't like homeowners associations either- - telling an owner what color he has to paint his house.  I find driving in the South County area stultifying because of all of the 'organization' and slavish conformity I see there.  Chris Matthews wants this slavish conformity to see with this President.  He's falling for this media hype how "The voters wanted the President to cooporate with congress", which is a line the President has gone along with even if it means selling out on principle.  The following two paragraphs were already written.  [splice] Right now Chris Matthews is discussing torture.  The democrats now are “Going left” and they are cynically saying that “These caucus leaders in such safe districts, they can say anything”.  As to Nancy Pelosi- - she is not “moving away from the President”; he is moving away from her.

Once in a while people have an Epiphany while listening to a speech and what I have to say now will be unsettling to a lot of my readers.  Yesterday in C-Span I wanted to see what was going on in the US Senate right NOW - - and I had a choice of Live or Memorex, and I chose “Live”.  Senator Sessions of Alabama was speaking in what has to be called an old fashioned filibuster- - because he went on forever and I didn’t stay to hear him finish.  He was speaking against the omnibus tax bill, so right off I thought “I need to listen to this guy because at least he’s on our side” if perhaps for different reason.  He was speaking on the controversial topic of immigration and jobs- - employment.  First of all let me say that I heard a few days ago that Legal immigration rates in this country were near Zero with a capital Z - - for over thirty years from about 1930 to 1960.  I didn’t know that.  So in West Side Story they sang “I want to come to America” but not in the past thirty years they didn’t.  As a percentage of the population, the percentage of foreign born among us shrank drastically from 1930 to 1960.  Pat Buchannon used to speak of “allowing the current population to assimilate” and at the time I regarded this statement is patently racist.  It’s not something a country did, so I thought, in the spirit of the Statue of Liberty of “give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free”.  But none the less apparently it was reality that we slammed the door to LEGAL immigration for a good thirty years.  Other countries such as Germany don’t allow just anybody to saunter in and get a job like they lived there or something.  Thom Hartman often speaks of how hard it is to get a work permit in other nations- - and that no nation has as loose of immigration impediment as the does the United States.  But at some point in our history everything changed and in the mid sixties we flung the doors wide open and now as a percentage of the population, the foreign born among us constitute a huge and growing percentage.   Sessions said he was not a priori “anti immigrant” and he identifies with them and their economic woes, just as Victor Kiriacus identified with nephew Sonny and his financial problems with the club on the south side.  But would all of that “compassion and concern” translate into hard dollars Sonny was asking for?  No it wouldn’t.  Sometimes you have to save people from themselves and not be an “enabeler” as Dr Phil talks about.  Rumors get spread around by these mules or whatever- - people who arrange illegal passage to the United States.  And then the President has to step in and clarify that we will not accept all these children and their mothers.   With my Christian background I always assumed that it was immoral to turn anyone away who, for good reasons, sought entry into the United States.  In fact I assumed that if you weren’t “generous to a fault” then you weren’t fulfilling Christ’s commission.  I believed it was Christian to be generous even when it hurt you economicly to do so.  It’s kind of like supporting that dead beat relative that takes a dent out of your income every month.  And the bottom line is that immigration has a material impact on the employment and unemployment rates in this country.  All Pete Sessions is asking is that the laws on immigration be enforced.  Many would say that “children should not suffer for the faults of their parents”.  On the other hand these children would not BE in the country “except for the fault of their parents.  It’s one of these Leave it to Beaver type situations, or perhaps you’ve had an experience with your own father.  I have.  That is you got in trouble for doing something and you claim that you were a “victim of circumstance” and your father comes back and said “Well you shouldn’t have been doing that OTHER thing to begin with.  And maybe that other thing you felt led to do because still ANOTHER thing you were doing- - and so there is a chain of causality where one wrong decision- - forces OTHER “wrong decisions”.  Back in 2007 I used to argue immigration with Marcus Blackwell.  And I would say “All I’m saying is that we need to enforce the laws of the United States” and Marcus would attack me for being a racist against Latinos- - which really hurt me, because I didn’t consider that I had a racist bone in my body.  Now we have a situation none less than John Fugelsang pointed out that “If it comes to setting up a situation where the economy could collapse due to Wall Street irresponsibility being encouraged- - or a few children of immigrants being adversely impacted- - I’ll side with saving the US economy from ruin.  My ears perked up at his words.  And I’m being morally consistent because in both cases I’m encouraging moral responsibility- - and not shielding the guilty from the consequences of their own actions.  This Omnibus Bill is so BAD- - that frankly ANY excuse not to pass it is sufficient with me.  And this immigration problem looks like as good a place as any to put your foot doen and say “This will not stand”.  I think the President thought he had the morality to FORCE an issue.  I reckon forcing an issue is- - cramming something down someone’s throat because you feel the tide of public opinion is on your side.  There was a case last night on “Bones” where the content of this locker had to be thrown out as evidence because they claim it was illegally obtained.  Here is a case where I would have FORCED an issue, with the facts and public opinion on my side.  My view was “let’s just pile the totality of evidence up there- - and let ordinary people decide whether the defendant is or isn’t guilty as sin.   But in the case of the President he grossly underestimated the OUTRAGE of congress on this issue, and that the whole of congress considered this “The crossing of a red line in the sand”, and said so.

We spoke of the unemployment rate a minute ago.  I agree that illegals pay FICA withholding and haven’t been here long enough to benefit from payments.  If you have a large base of working people paying in- - this makes social security solvent for a longer time than it otherwise would be.  Personally I would raise the upper cut off limit from $115,000 and just double it to $230,000 or whatever AND I would raise the retirement age to seventy because of this demographic time bomb we are facing.  My Dad retired early and spent his past 28 ½ years in retirement.  Something about that length of time seems a little misplaced.  Not to borrow a phrase or anything but retirement nest eggs should be a safety net and not a hammock, to just sit around at leisure- - - for decade after decade.  Maybe it’s my Protestant work ethic or something kicking in here.  In Washington’s blog they have been including a whole raft of graphs on the economy centering on the past ten years and just how BAD the situation is.  Employment as a percentage of the working population is now way down in the sixties and dropping.   There was this multi colored line graph they had up- - and dig for it - - showing all sorts of indicators such as real estate applications (and by the way Real Estate sales have not rebounded)  and the employment percentage and other things- - and all of these lines are at near record lows indicating a failing economy.  By the way don’t count on shale or tar sands bailing us out- - because as prices at the pump continue to drop, and I regard this DROP as a permanent state of affair now because the markets, with the Soviet Union and the United States producing more petroleum products than ever- - - the market is fundamentally altered and OPEC is not in a position to do anything about it except at their own economic peril.  The stock market has dropped sharply in the past week, and my yellow flag is out there.  I’m saying to be very watchful and I’d be looking for the right time to get OUT of stocks now, way sooner than I had ever imagined.  I don’t want to be “faked out’ in some bear trap.  You know me better than that.  I told you ion mid October to stay IN the market, and I was right.  I STILL don’t think we have peaked.  Still I have been looking at the shape of the data- - the time is coming and sooner than this writer ever thought- - that you should pull all of your investments.  A bit part of my hesitancy to say “Sell” now is because no year ending in a FIVE in my lifetime has ever been a bad year.  That would mean 1955, 1965, 1975, 1985, 1995 or 2005.  That’s a pretty impressive string of fives boding bullishness.  Immigrants should be NOT be brought over here on work permits to ‘Do jobs Americans won’t do”.   I think even the KKK agrees with me on this, and Christianity certainly agrees with me on this.  The very idea of a caste society is anathema to everything Christianity stands for.  Keeping in mind that Protestant work ethic,  Americans should learn to trim their own shrubbery and change their own sheets.  The Republicans remain hypocritical on this issue and people like Thom Hartman will call them out on it every time.  Employers should NOT hire undocumented aliens.  I’m not going to go as far as Neil Savedra saying you should rat out your friends on this issue.  I value friendship too much- - and friendship is a Christian concept too.  But the Employers who hire these aliens need to be cracked down on, but the tea party right has become too internationalist and no longer qualify as what is referred to as an Economic Nationalist- - a term applied to Pat Buchannon.  I am also an economic nationalist and always have been and have always been against these trade agreements like NAFTA, CAFTA, and SHAFTA.  They should all get thumbs down.  But we used to hear of “The New World Order”, which the tea party neo cons are held captive by these days.  I believe when it comes to trade matters and jobs, it’s our patriotic duty to put America first.  (Selah)

I would like to address questions you may have about "Time".   Does "Time as we know it" already exist or is it just some property of physics that should be studied but nobody is saying that "Time" has already occurred?   My point about "Longitudinal" time is that in theory it's completely predictable.  It's the "true course" or arguably the "natural course" of events, predictable with mathematical regularity- - but it doesn't Exist in advance.  I'm not going to offer up my view on this delema right now.  I wanted to touch on the matter of "Dark Matter", which is matter that seemingly posesses Mass, but is in "insensable to light".  That's almost a medical term meaning "It does not respond to light in any way".  It neither gives off light, nor does it absorb light, and our sole knowledge of it is through it's measured Mass.  Some of you are wondering about my position on Feng Chue strings.  How can they as it were "travel through hyper-space" or unformatted space and still be said to be "non spacial"?   And "Can feng chue strings ever have one or both "base points" like on a musical instrument- - - be NOT in the material world?  I don't know.  They CAN in theory be two base points in Different Universes.  Back in the spring of 1986 we spoke of "psychic portals".  Now what I'm saying that there are these psychic "trigger points' where some sort of "energy" (for lack of a better term) is released when you transverse one.  And to "transverse' a string- - obviously it has to have a position IN space and not OUT of space.  OK?  I would add that this "dark matter" and apparently "dark energy" that goes along with it- - accounts for the Majority of total mass in the Universe, and don't ask me how.  But what is it?  Is it the realm of somehow "cloaked' sensient beans and perhaps whole Civilizations?  I don't know.  You see?  I'm telling you things I don't know - - - yet.  As you know from reading our stuff, this is different from "Romulan cloaking" and I'm not going into that here.  But the question is how something can have mass- - as though they were part of our world- - yet NOT have the properties of absorbsion of light or the giving off of light- - that ordenary matter has?   It's a mystery.

Stop the House Omnibus Budget Bill Now

There is a last minute on this so called House Omnibus Budget bill.  The democrats are balking because of the contraversial giveaway Banking provisions.  The Republicans are balking because it "Puts off a confrontation with the Obama administration over Immigration till next year".  As such John Boehner's plans to have the bill voted on today have been frustrated.  After the bill clears the House vote it goes over to the Senate where he will have to survive that sixty vote filibuster that put a halt to the XL Canada pipeline - at least until the next congress.  So there is still time to call your Congressman and oppose this budget bill.  This House bill contains every goodie in the book for the tea party right.  Of course they are keeping a pro life stance with no abortion funding.  But I raise the question of "the cigarette doctrine" by Judy and my mother saying that "any money you give him could be turned into cigarette money" so that ANY money given me any time could be said "Well if you spend that money on something else it's money our of your usual alotment you won't be spending on that thing, therefore to spend on cigarettes.  I don't see why the same thing couldn't be done with women's health issue.  What's to stop some bright budget beaurocrat from saying that ANY money spent on women's health could be turned into money spent on abortions?   I guess you women out there better pray nobody thinks of that.  Thom Hartman is talking about "Free Speech Zones" that both Thom Hartman and his pro Cliven Bundy guest agree are wrong.  You can't rope off people and say "you can protest, but only in this tiny little area alloted for you to do it".  There does seem to be added funding for small businesses and facilitating job growth.  But there is no funding for the Export Import bank, which the democrats have been asking for.  They are restricting funding for the clean water act- - showing an anti ecology bias.  There are new restrictions on the Fish and Wildlife comission.  This house bill contains NO FUNDING for the Affordable Care Act.  There is a ban on enforcing "light bulb" replacement requirements.  There are further 'safeguards' on second amendment Rights, and also eliminating restrictions on lead in ammunition.  Here's a big one.  There are express limitations on the closing of Guantanamo Bay or the transfer of prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to other locations.  And there are severe limitations on the IRS saying that ANY organization with a political ax to grind may NOT BE INVESTIGATED, which is completely absurd.  They aren't being investigated for their politics to begin with, but they were being investigated to see if they QUALIFIED as tax exempt in the first place.  There is NO FUNDING for any high speed rail, and the EPA budget is being cut back.  There is a pay freeze for the Vice President and "other high government officials".  There is no funding for "Race to the Top" whatever that is.  But most importantly, and this merits extended comment - - that now your money is FDIC insured.  But now the Banks can gamble with your life savings and if they lose that money the FDIC will still have to anti up.  But what is unfair is that Bank investments that go bad- - are reimbursed.  But if your IRA fund was worth a hundred thousand dollars last year and only eighty thousand this year- - the FDIC will not reemburse you for that.  Nor should they.  Worse than this - - derivitives are immoral on their face the way they are usually constructed.  This is you bet on Loans in your own control - - will Fail.  If Sonny Kiriacus had such assurance with the loan on his night club- - he'd be praying for a default.  It would be like Pete Rose betting against the Cincinatti Reds and throwing a game or two and making lots of money.  The Republicans don't seem to mind this sort of conduct.  "The government is WE and not THEY".   If Government becomes a THEY or a THEM - - - then it is "destructive of the ends" for which it was established, to safeguard Life, Liberty and Property and "to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and posterity."  (Selah)  I agree with the Sheriff that "I don't want to be compelled by law to buy Health Care from a corrupt Insurance Company".  "Here, here!"  On this he and I are in agreement.  There are laxed rules on the ammount of money you can give to Politicians.  Thom Hartman once said that politicians receive a 760 fold return on their dubious Political donations.

In terms of Dick Chaney and high ranking CIA officials, some suggest that they should be Pardoned by the President.  Thom Hartman thinks we should emulate what they did in South Africa and have full disclosure of their many crimes, but then Pardon everyone involved.  I'll say on the subject of Pardons that I say on Forgiveness.  I believe it's a Sin to "Forgive" an act for which you are not the agrieved party but are only a third party involvement.  In short, just as I lack the authority to "Forgive" Adolph Hitler for his hanious acts, I believe even the President of the United States lacks the authority to Pardon CIA officials for what are basically crimes against humanity or in short "International Crimes".  As such these crimes should be tried in an international court.  Many would say that if you "accept" a pardon you are accepting the Guilt for your act.  I'm not so sure.  Criminals plead "No lo contendare" all the time saying, "Yes, OK I"ll pay some token fine but I don't want this felony conviction on my police record".  Save "police records" for juveniles with a record convicted for hot-wiring Cars, or what have you?

Well I'm coming up on another Birthday but instead of "Birthday" this year, "When I'm 64 would be more appropriate.   Because I am at "that age": when people retire.  I first knew that Nana was 64 when I was aged five- - and age 64 was the youngest I remember her, as she was on the verge of retirement, from being a librarian.  But I can't picture myself as some old codger bouncing grand children on my knees.  Yet my brother will be retiring from the Cadillac place this Christmas eve or whatever.  He and Marie talked it over and decided that it was time.  Of course in other Mal Evans approved family news- - the only Black liniage I'll cop to is that I have a blood related third cousin- - now a small child named Samuel, whom the Federation claims is a reincarnation of Uncle Bob.  He's half black.  And of course the third husband of my first cousin is named Funkhauser, so there has to be something going on there.  And of course Nana referred to my biological Grandfather, Charles Dutton- - as Henry - - back when they were dating during WW I.  Of course his last name used to be Miller so I don't know what happened there.  Speaking of Mormons - I guess they said that Brigham Young had 56 children and the last one, number 55, died back in the fifties.  So the saying held "In Utah everybody married Young".   Of course Martin Owens' mirror image - - Owen Martin, has been in the hospital for over a week now and I don't know what the problem is.

Thom Hartman is still having a conversation with that Sheriff, who agrees that torture is wrong and inexcusable.  These two agree on something else, too.  This economy won't survive all eight years of the Obama administration.  The thing is going to blow up in someone's face at an embarrassing time during the election campaign.  I find myself less and less sure that the stock market advance will hold out for at least another year as I've been predicting.  But if I change my stance from 'Hold' to "Sell", I'll make my decision known plainly to you blog readers, so that there will be no misunderstanding it.  One sign is- if repeatedly the intra-day close routinely is early, rather than later in the day.  Another is if there is heavy volume churning with little change in price.  this is another danger sign.   I'd also say that if the odd lott people are net buyers, this is a sign that stocks are moving into "weak hands".   Another sign would be if "sharp down days" come with increasing frequency- - even if made up in the long run to days of higher prices, still the presence of these "sharp dips" would be troubling.

This Never-ending Recession Is Worse Than You Think

This economy or “the great recession” we are in, is, by one key measurement- - every bit as bad as the Great Depression of the 1930’s.   I kid you not.  In terms of what they call “money volicity or how quickly money changes hands, we peaked right about the end of the Jimmy Carter administration.  In fact our very best years, economically, according to this measurement, were under Jimmy Carter, and we would never again equal it.   Perhaps the timing of the drops on this economic roller coaster are the most key.  There was a major drop in late 1981 and 1982.   And strangely there was an even bigger drop in 1990, 1991 and early 1992, about the same time St Paul’s Presbyterian Church was losing church members in a major way.  People come the turn of the year 1992 as the Presidential campaign was revving up were speaking of an economic malaise that wouldn’t lift.  And they were right.   But by far the most drastic drop in this indicator, which sent us all the way back to the 1930’s was commencing in 2008 and a drastic drop, “the mother of all roller roaster drops” was in 2009.  Since then we have actually continued to descend but as a modest pace.   This bad news is true for England and for continental Europe.  Not only this but the recovery FROM “The Great Depression” was actually quicker than any positive economic stats from this recession - - partially due to the austerity plan they had all over Europe.  For me I have personally not recovered from the economic recession that began for me in the late summer of 2008.   They went all the way back and quoted the Federation Reserve chairman back in June of 2009 as saying then that this would be the most major recession with “no recovery” for years into the foreseeable future.  You wish just once an expert was not right.

President Obama’s henchmen will not answer the question of whether those who instituted the tortures in the CIA should be brought up on crimes.  But Obama administration officials did state that IF the deeds of Chaney and the gang were brought up on charges that the US Justice Department would defend these CIA officials.  As I said a minute ago, Senator Udall of Colorado things current CIA chairman Brennon should be fired because of the attitude he’s shown to this congressional investigation from the git go, and also by the fact that a few honest people believe the CIA is in the official business of telling lie after lie in its attempt to deceive this congressional watch dog.   I never guessed that President Obama would come down so firmly on the side of the “forces of repression” in this country. It’s just something else we didn’t know about President Obama when we voted for him in 2008.   These two psychologists designed the program which they charged eighty million dollars for.  Dick Chaney said Wednesday he'd do it again in a heart beat.  If Dick Chaney should suddenly croak, I wouldn't want to be going where his likely end destination is.

There should be something in the constitution which allows for the line item veto that every governor in all fifty states has at his disposal.  It’s one way to prevent some sort of legislative anarchy and chaos from breaking out.  Congress routinely sends up these Christmas tree bills loaded with a lot of “poisoned pill” provisions, but you have to push them all through because they are part of a package of something you need desperately, such as next year’s Federal budget.  So now the republicans are pushing through legislation against marijuana legalization, which has already been passed in the city of Washington DC, and the Obama administration said they would not interfere with.  Also the Congress itself promised it would not interfere with local municipal affairs, but now they are going back on their word.  And what we are seeing now is only a grim appetizer of things to come, once the full allotment of Republican strength is in force next month.  It’s going to be grim times in Washington the next two years.

In general it’s been taking me longer to cycle through all eleven blogs lately because new posts have been less frequent.  So we are now returning to a blog that I last made an entry in around August 28^th or something.   Of course we could talk about the mystic power of the number eleven.  The final eleventh dimension is what could be best called the psychic Image dimension.  It’s that congruency thing we were talking about that transcends what we would call “material” (or formatted) space.   The tenth dimension is one of Dynamic.  The tenth Dynamic is the dimension of the Dynamic or S/N ratio for those of you into electronics.   Dimensions (doubling as calendar years in this case) are the Time dimensions.  Let’s put lateral time as number eight - - and the more “specific to our frame of reference” longitudinal time as number Nine.  Dimensions five, six, and seven are the three spacial dimensions that we all relate to every day.  Some may say there are three sets of paired subatomic particles.  These would be top - bottom , charmed - strange, and Up and Down "firmion" particles in the subatomic world.  As long as we’re doing kind of a Twelve years of Christmas here FOUR is the number of “commonly held perception” or some might say the “natural” dimension.  Three is the year or dimension of Function, or you may prefer the terms of either Destiny or the Hindu “Dharma”.  Dimension two is the reproduction or FORM or blueprint dimension.  And the first dimension would then be the one of “all the stuff we call material” such as gravity, weight (kinetic force), mass, and speed.   So I just had this idea for blogger of celebrating my eleven dimensions by having some calendar year cycle of eleven years.  The moon is pretty much in synch on an eleven year cycle, and so is the calendar day of the week.  And if you combine this with the five Chinese elements, metal, water, wood, fire, and earth - in that order, you get a grand cycle of 55 years, for what that’s worth.  55 is a triangulation of the number of ten, but otherwise I know of no other significance.  As it is the Chinese already have a grand cycle of sixty years.

It was late summer of 2012 when we came up with "opperation gemstone" with that arrangement of twelve dots.  The twelfth dimension would be God or "the twelfth man" but Stewart Sutcliffe says "God can't be a dimension because he's the one that created the whole thing to begin with".  Interesting point.