The United States ranks seventeenth in Science among the world's developed nations, and eighteenth if you can't China, which comes in first in both Science and Math. But people say, "That doesn't count because the Chinese do everything by rote". We have sunk to 26th in Math skills and only 16% of today's High School student care to pursue a higher education in any of the STEM courses, which is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. But of course the Mc Laughlin group is never going to say the President is correct in wanting to spend money on making sure our young people are properly schooled in these courses. Pat claims that "In Washington DC we spend more money per student than anybody else and our students do horribly on achievement tests". Pat says "It's all a race thing anyhow. We have these "feeder nations" such as Mexico bringing down our score and the Whites as a group score significantly higher." I kept waiting for Pat Buchannon to laps into his native German. He and others say "We are doing poorly now, but it's only going to get worse". Perhaps the worst thing about the Tea Party, and you also see it in people like Judy, is their extreme negativity, bordering on the pathological need to see America fail if Obama is President of it.
The Suicide rate on troops in Afghanistan are stunning. We have lost more troopers from Suicide in the past year in Afghanistan than we have from enemy fire. And in the course of the war in Afghanistan we have lost 2,862 men and women to Suicide. This is positively scandelous, and they really ought to have better psychiatric diagnosis in the military to head this sort of thing off before it goes that far. I think we should withdraw all of our troops in Afghanistan right now. I see no earthly purpose for remaining there one more day. Our mission there is over. Pat Buchannon agrees with me that our country never should have gone to war with Afghanistan or Iraq to begin with. I also agree with Pat that we don't want to turn America into another London with a million cameras and spending 200 million pounds of tax payers money to do it. That's an obscene expense, in any denomination. Pat also thinks we ought to ignore Syria also, and on that issue we part company. Pat believes "Syria will probably be destroyed as a nation before all of this is over". My point- - and maybe I state the obvious too much - - is that if we didn't squander our military manpower on two pointless Wars - - then when the time came where we really DID need our military to defend a vital issue- - they would be fresh and primed and ready to go.
If one but opens his eyes - he sees the utter absurdity of "The Christian proposition" at virtually every turn of the page. What people have to do is to "Unlearn" this habit of NOT asking the obvious questions that naturally occur to you. It's like if you're George Bernes in the shower with John Denver you're thinking "All sorts of questions are popping into this man's brain right now. Maybe if I just sit tight and don't say anything - - eventually I can change the topic to something else". (Selah) I
read up on Antonius Pious. He was Roman
Emperor from 138 AD to 161 or so. He is
unique in that there is no official history or biography of his life. What we know from him seems to be obtained
from “public records”. He is one
Emperor who actually “sheltered’ the Christians, and also in general worked for
rights of the accused against torture and other things. But he’s almost singularly different in that
he fought no military campaigns during his tenure in office. He was content to rest on Hadrian’s
laurals. They say he was enamored of a certain Rabi known as Juda the Prince, which I find - "interesting". I then reviewed Hadrian a
little. He passed a law forbidding Jews
to circumcise their young- - and of course built a Roman shrine over the old
Jewish temple. As you know that Jewish Messiah Bar Kopplah or whatever- - achieved brief Independance in a respite in the fighting and even minted their own Jewish coins. How interesting then that among the sayings of Christ Justin quotes is the one about 'Show me the coin in which the tax is paid" and it's Ceasar's image. Justin, contrary to Ghandi taught 'Civil Obediance" (Selah)
Then we come to Ireneus. This guy is strange. He never married, and seems to have no childhood, and nothing is known what education he received. He taught that Adam kept Eve a virgin while in the Garden. in the same way that the mother of Christ was kept a virgin by Joseph. So in Ireneus’ view – sexual intercourse was the Original Sin. Irenius also says that Christ was around 45 at the time of his death and that Pontious Pilate knew and consulted with each other about Jesus’ crucifixion. This means that Pilate wasn’t dethroned in 36 as history teaches but sometime after AD 41 or so. Irenius also taught that the Apostle John “and other apostles” lived into the time of Emperor Trajan, early in the 2nd century. It seems most likely that Ireneus never heard of the Biblical books of Hebrews, 2nd Peter, Jude, 3rd John, or James. This makes the heavy weight books Hebrews and James third century documents. They are as it were “commentary” on an earlier century. Iranius’ didn’t leave that many books, but “Against Hericies” was his major literary contribution. But the Dead Sea Scrols reveal that Irene often distorted what various Gnostic sects believed befause his goal was to discredit them and not to “describe’ them. The Valentinians (?) were the greatest threat, and hat the eight fold list of 'venerable attributes" and four were of Heaven and four were of the Earth, and they also venerated the number "30", which I have pointed out using geometric logic that if you do a "3D" cross- - you can count thirty wood surfaces. As you know this sect also believes that "6" was a Satanic Greek letter and "not normally used", which is why Aries Mu in our ETI stuff- - is reckoned as the 13th brightest star in Aries, and not the 12th as most Greek schollars say it is. The "59th St. Gang" is from a star around the Aries constelation, though I'm not sure what 'stars" Aries emcompasses since though the Star was highlighted on what I saw, there were no connecting constelation lines drawn. Ireneus seems to have died of a heart attack around 202. Ireneus was the first Church Father to attribute the Gospel of John to the Apostle John, and the first to use the term of “Catholic”. It seems as if the Hugonauts destroyed his buriel site in the fifteen hundreds.
Then we come to Ireneus. This guy is strange. He never married, and seems to have no childhood, and nothing is known what education he received. He taught that Adam kept Eve a virgin while in the Garden. in the same way that the mother of Christ was kept a virgin by Joseph. So in Ireneus’ view – sexual intercourse was the Original Sin. Irenius also says that Christ was around 45 at the time of his death and that Pontious Pilate knew and consulted with each other about Jesus’ crucifixion. This means that Pilate wasn’t dethroned in 36 as history teaches but sometime after AD 41 or so. Irenius also taught that the Apostle John “and other apostles” lived into the time of Emperor Trajan, early in the 2nd century. It seems most likely that Ireneus never heard of the Biblical books of Hebrews, 2nd Peter, Jude, 3rd John, or James. This makes the heavy weight books Hebrews and James third century documents. They are as it were “commentary” on an earlier century. Iranius’ didn’t leave that many books, but “Against Hericies” was his major literary contribution. But the Dead Sea Scrols reveal that Irene often distorted what various Gnostic sects believed befause his goal was to discredit them and not to “describe’ them. The Valentinians (?) were the greatest threat, and hat the eight fold list of 'venerable attributes" and four were of Heaven and four were of the Earth, and they also venerated the number "30", which I have pointed out using geometric logic that if you do a "3D" cross- - you can count thirty wood surfaces. As you know this sect also believes that "6" was a Satanic Greek letter and "not normally used", which is why Aries Mu in our ETI stuff- - is reckoned as the 13th brightest star in Aries, and not the 12th as most Greek schollars say it is. The "59th St. Gang" is from a star around the Aries constelation, though I'm not sure what 'stars" Aries emcompasses since though the Star was highlighted on what I saw, there were no connecting constelation lines drawn. Ireneus seems to have died of a heart attack around 202. Ireneus was the first Church Father to attribute the Gospel of John to the Apostle John, and the first to use the term of “Catholic”. It seems as if the Hugonauts destroyed his buriel site in the fifteen hundreds.
President Obama and the Democrats in the Senate need to be alltogether more proactive and assertive as to their program for America. Perhaps there will come a tripping point where Americans come to realize "the federal deficet has almost been cut in half, so maybe we can renew the Eisenhower dream of revitalizing America's infrastructure. As
to Chris Matthews there were a lot of similarities in raised topics between
Thursday’s and Friday’s program. In both
he talks about how Am-Trak is like living in the old west on a jingly train
where you get jostled that limps along at fifty mph, when - - when I was a kid
trains regularly traveled between 80 and 90 miles per hour. Chris Matthews says our country has become
amazingly backward. “In France they have
trains that take you 350 miles per hour and you feel like you’re standing
still. They have the Chunnel, where you
can get to England in 23 minutes. In
Germany they have a brand new subway.
And Kennedy Airport is no match for the new Johanasberg Airport. Why is Europe so far ahead of us in all these
things?” despite their economy as of late?
Mitt Romney is trying to get back
into the public mainstream and wants to “contribute to the political discourse”
or whatever. Anne Romney was shooting
her mouth off about the President the other day. To me this behavior from both of them is just
“nuts”. Now some say that Scott Walker,
Governor of Wisconsin, would make a suitable candidate for President by the
Republicans in 2016. Walker has so many
enemies he wouldn’t last one month. But
Chris Matthews wants to know why this
Administration doesn’t have a visionary infra-structure jobs bill complete with
shiny , glittery goals that would appeal to many. This is Saturday June first
and I’m not going to depress or bore either you or me by recapitulating the
events of twelve years ago yesterday and today.
This afternoon I was preparing today’s earlier blog posting, and another
is in sight. I went down for coffee in
the courtyard just after two and got two cups from Laura. Also we received an English muffin with
strawberry jam already on it. I saw the
four birds in the cage. It got no where
near the ninety degrees they had been predicting. It was pleasant up on the patio around one or
so. Janet mentioned she had cheese cake
and I talked with Joe and John and others for a while then went twords her
room. She saw me and invited me in for a
slice I took on a plate back to my room.
I had the Chris Matthews show on from about a quarter to three on for
the next hour. I watched the first long
segment of Thursday’s show as well as all of Friday’s show except for the next
to the last segment.
At
9:30 I listened to that Rodiola-Rosatia thing from Purity on KTLK. This product called “Vital Balance” has the
Rotiola and also Allutro, which is Syberian ginseng, and also something called
Shezandra. There is another bottled
product they are throwing in with the same offer called Maca, which is an Inca
afrodesiac, praised by Spaniard and Native alike. Then it was Melinda Lee after ten. Today there was a lot of talk about dips, and
also grilling. At some point I grew
drowsy and lethargic. Just after Levy’s
class at 9:15 I talked to Glen and finally baught that jar of Expresso that
he’d talked about earlier, and was only charging a dollar fifty for it. Then I proceded to brew up the last of the
French Vanilla. I guess we’ll call this
file twelfth. And so I did. Around this date in 2002 I inventoried my VHF
video tape collection, and was unable to locate any tape box after January of
1997. But it’s possible I just didn’t
see them.
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