I Can't Vote for Donald Trump, Either

Donald Trump was on Meet the Press.  I don’t see any way I could vote for Trump.  He said that businesses would “pay a little more in taxes” but he also said he would cut taxes for business.  Chuck Todd asked for a clarification.  Trump said “Pay a little more” meant that it was more than HE would want but he pictured congress raising the amount of taxes he recommended.  (He must be expecting a democratic congress)  But Donald was also hazy on the Trans Pacific Partnership.  Hillary, on at nine, was more specific about being against the TPP but even she thought the deal could be fixed and tended to believe John Kerry when he said it would be a good deal for Californians.  Donald Trump is against a federal rise in minimum wage and said that if there was any raising of the minimum wage to do that the states should do it.  When Hillary was on “Face the Nation” she pointed out that Donald Trump wants to bring back widespread torture of Islamic terrorists worse than we’ve had it before.  Of course I don’t agree with deporting twelve million illegal aliens, and I’m against barring all Muslims from entering the country.  But at least those things don’t affect me personally.  As far as I know he still wants to build the border wall and make Mexico pay for it.  And he plans to take ISIS oil and bomb what he doesn’t conthiscate.  He made some remark about “Women know what I’m talking about more than men do” as far as raising their voices.  I’m not sure what he meant by that.  But I can’t be “sure” what Trump means about anything.  It’s always these vague promises.  All I know is if he wants to cut taxes on everybody (including the middle class) and also build up the military to something amazing- - that the deficit is going to skyrocket. 

They did not have Rhapsody in Black at two but it was some sort of spiritual enlightenment program that sounds a little Scientology based.  They used the word “Theta” at one point and talked of a marriage between technology and the spirit.  But the best word to describe the show was “unapproachable” because they say going to a seminar is a sign of weakness and hence unworthiness.  They could at least say something like L Ron Hubbard crossing "The Bridge" over the Lake of Fire into OT realms or whatever.  We need a hero to look up to and show us the way.  They didn't seem interested in showing anybody the way to anything, at least without money in the hand.  I haven't the slightest idea how this breakthrough or "awakening" is at all supposed to be achieved.  And once you are enlightened you’re not even allowed to say “I have awoken!” because a statement like that comes from the Ego.  But that doesn’t stop them for asking for money.  They want a do $125.00 as in dollars - for one course sight unseen.  In fact they didn’t take one caller the whole hour so far as I could see – except to line up donations.  It would seem to me if anyone has inflated Egos it’s them because they talk of financial security and healing but you can bet their own wallets are well healed.  There was a guy at Calvary Chapel Anaheim named Al Satorius who used to preach the doctrine of "Death to Self".   It's funny how Jesus said that you have to become a child again to get into the Kingdom of Heaven because children are almost ALL ego.  Even that pull-ups commercial on TV has as its tag slogan the toddler exclaiming "I'm a big kid now".  It would certainly seem through the pages of scripture that God has an ego, and he wants us all stroking it.

A question arises about what would happen in terms of external observation if you saw a rocket ship fall “into” a black hole past the event horizon.  Some say that you would just see the final image freeze presumably for all eternity.  There is obviously something wrong with this picture because you’d see that ship not only from that point on – but every other craft that ever crossed the threshold of the Black Hole.  So in time you’d see a gigantic pile up of vessles at the surface.  Actually you’d see a gigantic blur like looking into a magnifying glass at the point of focal length at infinity.  The rationalization is “Well it’s because you’re in a powerful gravitational field and so time would just freeze”.  The problem is that you are not in a gravitational field per se because you are free-falling, so that you are free of any gravity at that point.  Under general relativity- - it’s not so much the speed at which you are traveling but rather you are exposed to a gravitational field.  Space crafts orbiting earth travel 18,000 plus miles an hour and yet they are in a weightless, gravity free state.  The same would hold true for a jet traveling along the top of a gravity parabola with space trainees inside experiencing weightlessness for a couple of minutes.  But it is true that this is one area of relativity that has been proven beyond a doubt.  Time actually passes more slowly on earth than it does in space and they have to make adjustments for it.  But this indeed is tangible evidence.  So the bottom line is that you would continue to free fall into the center of a black hole at an ever-increasing speed with nothing to slow it down- - as in the case of the earth’s atmosphere.

Nations certainly have Egoes.  One talk show host is constantly referring to the United States as "The Empire" as though we were a nation of Klingons, or perhaps North Korea.  You don't get any dissent in North Korea no matter who you ask on the street about North Korea's esteemed leader.  But the topic came up on the Mc Laughlin group on whether the US Navy should be expanded.  After all we have to sail the seven seas policing the whole world.  This is how it was described.  The United States has to police the entire world to make sure everybody is behaving properly.  Pat Buchannon is concerned about the United States navy being in the Baltic Sea right at Russia's back yard.  Why can't the Germans do that.  Why does NATO have to rely on us for everything.  What if the US decided we're tired of paying NATO's bills?  But no Presidential candidate, not even Bernie Sanders is going to advocate that the United States reliquish its job as World Leader.  The image of the Empire must be protected at all costs.  That's what the Republicans say.  They are obsessed with the notion that the United States doesn't get the proper respect around the world.  Too bad we're not North Korea or we could just DEMAND it.  I think that just maybe we should scale back some of the bravado and not be so full of ourselves.  It won't be an easy task and it may at this point be an impossible task.  We all want to take pride in our country but it can't be demanded at the barrel of a gun boat.