Whatever Happened to "The Whore of Babylon?"

No we haven't jumped to the next blog yet, and there will be one more posting after this one right here. It dawned on me that the image of Babylon the Whore, described in detail in two long chapters in the book of Revelation, is an image the modern day tea party Christians seem to have lost all awareness of. A couple of days ago I was rattling off a lot of Newt Gingrich's inconsistencies and things that the tea party themselves should say disqualifies him to have their support. And Pete asks me "What is the worst thing that bothers you about Newt?" I mentioned how he continued to take 1.8 million dollars for lobbying for Freddy Mac despite the fact that he claimed not to agree with them. Pete's response was that "Whatever report Gingrich was asked to write he never wrote". I only have his word. He also said that President Obama was guilty of taking more money to lobby Freddy Mac than anybody. I said "If that were true Mc Cain would certainly have brought up that key issue in the 2008 campaign". Pete said "Well you know of course there is a general media conspiracy to keep the truth quiet". He also said "Besides taking 1.8 billion is just "how business is done" in Washington and it's wrong of me to be critical of it because "after all, as Christians we are all sinners". This whole idea of "everyone is doing it so get with the program" is echoed by Jesus of KFI when he says "So the church is filled with hypocrites- - - well- - everybody is". I guess I have trouble laying my finger on any passage in the Bible that says "It's wrong but everybody is doing it so that makes it OK". On the contrary I know scripture says "Do not join a multitude in doing wrong". This whole message of the tea party right, their take of the Gospel seems like "Gospel for hire". They say that the occupy Wall Street people are a bunch of bums who hate capitalism and want to bring it down and take rich people's property". Also I've heard the line "This idea of equality and everyone sharing wealth is a completely un Biblical one". And "You have to go with what the Bible teaches", which is of course if you covet the wealth of rich people you are guilty of theft. I just wonder if someone had said that to the real Jesus of Nazareth- - how he would respond, given his views on rich people. The book of Revelation talks about whorish business and whorish religion that bends to accomidate it. Are you going to tell me Congressmen are not whores is they cater to lobbyists dumping money in their laps to pass hand crafted legislation? These tea party people usually quote people from colonial days nobody heard of to justify their attitudes twords religion. I felt like saying, "You know Pete, if I were you I'd tone down all this economic crap when pitching your beliefs to Christians. To the extent they believe that the tea party and Christianity are interlinked, the more you will turn them off to Christianity". But the Book of Revelation uses much of the same phrasiology to describe King Solomon and his riches. And scripture expressly says "You shall not multiply wives or houses or horses- - - ". OK maybe four wives is permissable. Jacob, the patriarch, sired children by four different mothers. But you draw the line somewhere. There comes a point where making money for its own sake is a sin, particularly is you just use that money merely to get MORE legislation passed and oppress more people and bilk Them out of their money. This whole idea of portraying the idle rich as "victims" is a strange one indeed. These tea party people would liken them to an old lady who is mugged in the park and the purse snatcher is the occupy wall street movement. I continue to be amazed at how the government can be seen as evil for bailing out these big financial institutions, yet the institutions are faultless for Needing the money in the first place, or taking the money, and then complaining they don't have enough and can't lone any money out because they have "anxieties about the future". Well, take a prozac for it! They lie about taxes continually rising, when they have continually fallen, and as we have previously stated, President Obama is the best friend Wall Street ever had, particularly if you're a crook. You know I heard all this stuff about Babylon the Whore back in the early weeks of 1972 before the oil crisis ever hit. And the Russians would come down and invade the mideast and the Arabs (known as Dedan) would say to them, "Have you come here to take a spoil?" and he'd point out that "spoil' contains the word "oil". These people are wedded to big oil. When they were in power the US did absolutely nothing to establish energy independence by developing alternate energy sources. This seems to be the last thing the tea party wants. But the word now is that Newt Gingrich is the best choice for the tea party because he has the "best credentials in living his life by Christian principles". And once again should you find fault with Newt's character you are told "Well, you know, we're asll sinners". What I suggest is since the Mayans say the world will come to an end in December of 2012 is that we dedicate 2012 as a "year of reflection" about our own souls and the future of the United States as we have known it all our lives. It's funny how the word "America" or "best for the country" is a phrase that's being used less by the tea party. If they should accidently say anything that seems to be pro the American people, they are probably only throwing those lines in as hooks to make unsuspecting people think they are talking about something they aren't. I did not post on Thursday, Friday, or Saturday, because like Mr. Ed I don't talk unless I have something to day, and on this day I do.

Sometimes you have a period of enforced idleness. Of course I had diaria and could not attend the gathering on Saturday with my family and found that very frustrating. They did send over to me what I most likely would have ordered at Mimi's of an avacado, bacon and turkey sandwich from Mimi's with lots of fries. I had been looking forward to taking pictures. Of course with the new math one plus zero equals five. Tuesday was Randy Rhodes' last day and when they ran a rerun on Friday they had to go back to at least Tuesday. Tuesday was the last day they had a normal episode on Days of our Lives. Wednesday's was going to be drivvle and I knew that and turned it off. Thom Hartman didn't play this Wednesday's episode, and I was not here for that morning- - but rather dip all the way back to the previous Wednesday to do that old Bernie Sanders interview with stuff about which we commented eons ago. Of course congress is off almost all the time. If you were making book on whether they'd be in session on any given day you'd come out a major winner over the long haul. So I guess we're all just going to continue with a five week "holiday season" where politics takes off, and rejoin the news in January of 2012 when the actual political Primaries start.

This period of late November is important for a lot of anniversaries in ten year intervals. They talked about it being the 40^th anniversary of that hijacking by D B Cooper, and his first name was Dan. They explained exactly how the hijacking went and even showed some note. They then said he exited out the rear door and down to an escape hatch. They said the plane was going 200 mph and that the air temperature was seven below zero. He landed on the Oregon and Washington borders. I always thought Idaho was involved somehow. They found a lot of the money many years later. Of course Jim Cooper’s last name was taken from this Cooper, and the first name Jim, was in two Elvis songs where Elvis refers to himself as Jim. Ten years later it was the drowning of Natale Wood. I still think it was 1980 but if they say 1981, fine. In November of 1991 was the death of Gene Rodenberry the creator of Star Trek. Star Trek VI opened up in December and it was the end of the Star Trek era, and they had a Dr. Demento song about that movie. That brings up to November 29^th of 2001 when George Harrison died of cancer. They had two song requests of Olivia Harrison and those were really good songs they never used to play before I moved here- - “Run of the Mill” and “Let It Down”. They played that Danny Harrison song that sounds like some musical borrowing from Fog Hat. They played that “Horse to Water” track that was the last thing George recorded. They also played “Mama, You’ve Been On My Mind” which features some of the best Harrison acoustic guitar playing I’ve ever heard where Harrison actually out-Dylans Dylan. They played another blues based song, and also “Let it Be Me”. Peter Asher of Peter and Gordon was there and they played “I don’t want to see you again”. They also mentioned Jerry Marston, of Jerry & the Pacemakers. Those are a couple of Romulans- - and I’ll have a little more to say about that- - right now. Most all of those "Merzy Beat" groups were Romulan, and the curious exception was the "Swinging Blue Jeans", which is an interesting - - conbination. This group is Sirius 0 bodies with "North Romulan" Karma, and to review - that's a mixture of Romulan and Portland Reigelian. This race of north Romulans is responsable to songs like "Rinky Dink" and "Let's Dance" by Chris Montez and the remake of "Warm California Sun" by the Rivieras, but not the original which is by the - race - - "Mezzser - - something " not Mezzerschmidt. Anyhow this group also did "Last Night" and a few other hits from 1961. Getting back to the north Romulans - - they drew me the analogy of the "Africanized bee", with Sirius 0 bodies and north Romulan karma. This group is not entirely trusted by the regular Sirius 0's. Three Beatlish personnel are from this group - - Brian Epstein, Tony Sheridan, and Pete Best, but interestingly not Stewart Sutcliffe, who is just a regular Sirius 0. So now you know that. Basically it was an all George Harrison three hours with all the usual Beatle songs. But oddly or not so oddly there were any number of solo albums they played absolutely nothing off of. As far as I know there was nothing from "Material World" "Dark Horse" "George Harrison" "Somewhere in England" or "Cloud Nine". Am I correct?

We had tomato soup again- with green beans in it. We had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and I had an extra half. Loretta had considerable trouble getting her plate, and I don’t know if she ever did. When you don’t put in these special orders you don’t run the risk of that sort of thing happening. We had bananas for desert. I had Leo Le Port on briefly before lunch. I had some vague stomach pains right after breakfast but my system soon settled down. I imagine I’ll go to the Mormon gathering tonight, and three consecutive weeks is rather unusual for me. Also Richard Powers should get due mention and honor in Dr. Levy’s class tomorrow. As you know I attended Bob Guyer’s funeral last March and I’ll attend Richard’s, if the Mormons are kind enough to hold it here again. At this late hour I still have no idea whether Dr. Levy finished the race last Sunday. There continues to be basically nothing in the news. Mayor Antonio Viragosa wants the protestors to break camp tomorrow by 12:01 AM but that’s not a hard line. As reasonable as Los Angeles has been, even we lose our patience with these people. They just need to fumigate the place and clean it up and again make it for human habitation. It has been a continuing eyesore.