The Topic Of Impeaching Obama is Alive and Well

Ted Cruise is today’s Joe Mc Carthy, except he’s a little more careful and exacting in his wording than the Wisconsin Senator was.  But it’s the same sort of thing.  Ted Cruise has said that the President personally is guilty for sabotaging the Israeli economy as a means of weakening Israel’s negotiating position.  Ted Cruise also went after Chuck Hagal accusing Hagal of accepting vast sums of money from Saudi Arabia and also from North Korea of all things.  And now Cruise is threatening a “ne investigation of this matter” because the FAA cautiously chose to shut down air traffic to Israel for 36 hours.  It’s insane!  Of course others such as Rush Limbaugh have said “It’s absurd that John Kerry should ask Israel to show restraint in their bombing barrages of Gaza.   Let’s get this straight.  Gaza is a postage stamp plot of land that is densely populated with poor defenseless Palistinians- - faced with the vastly superior military might of Israel.  Israel has lost 40 mostly military in this current conflict.  The death toll for Gaza citizens continues to mount and I’m informed it’s now over 900.  So there is an excess kill ratio of twenty to one- - and Rush Limbaugh sees no need at all for Israel to show restraint.  Of course with people like Ted Cruise “It’s the seriousness of the charge, not the presence of evidence, that is important”.  Cruise will admit “I don’t have anything to back this up but - - “ and go off leveling all kinds of charges.  Marco Rubio has gotten into the act of this “victimization” thing with Chick Filet.  Rubio insists that heterosexual marriages have been victimized by pro gay advocates, and he says “After all look at the damage they did to Chick Filet in their boycotts”.  The last time I checked- the whole gay controversy was a Bonanza for Chick Filet- - and they never got more media publicity- - and had long lines of born again Christians camped out eager to eat there and show their solidarity.  But people like Cruise and Rubio live in this alternate Universe where they see themselves as champions of “the oppressed minority of Born Again Christians” or something.  It isn’t as if Stephanie Miller is going to knock on my door and threaten my wife and kids and ruin my reputation if I immediately don’t support gay marriage.

Only 65% of the American people believe we should NOT impeach this current President.  Keep in mind growing up being taught history about Andrew Johnson, we learned that impeachment is an extreme act, and one that should be employee only as a desperate last measure.   It would seem that one third of Americans at large and 57% of Republicans believe we should impeach this President, despite the fact it would be an act of political suicide, just as it was for President Clinton in 1998 for the Republicans.  They apparently don’t care how silly it makes them look.  John Boehner didn’t “shut down” talk of impeachment the way Nancy Pelosi did with Bush- - but to keep the tea party happy Boehner is “still open to the idea” apparently, and this may figure into that Montana Republican guy’s speech this morning saying how vital it is that the Republicans take back the senate.  Of course a Republican senate would not get any actual bills passed and sign by the President, but a Republican Senate can act to try a President for Impeachment.  But if you think 65% is a reassuring number- - try getting just 65% of the questions correct in a written test at the DMV and see if they say you passed.  Try missing seven words out of twenty on a spelling test and see if the teacher thinks you passed.  My point is that impeachment is no longer the domain of fringe whacko groups but rather is an “intellectually respectable” thing to have a debate over.  A majority of the American people actively disapprove of the job President Obama is doing, and his job approval numbers have never been lower.

I’m frustrated with what I’ll refer to as the “John Boehnerization” of conversation.  It’s like talking to an empty wall or a void- - empty space.  When you try and listen to what the other person claims to be saying- - you just hear a lot of static.   Take the two Saturday morning speeches on KNX this morning.  This morning I got up a little before six as usual.  I did not have money for coffee but I did go down and get my medication from Ricardo.  President Obama gave a little pep talk on how well the US economy is doing and had statistics to back it up, and also made a few suggestions on bills we could pass to make the economy perform even better.  Now contrast this with this Montanna Republican guy who followed at 8:06.  The things he began his speech with I was in total agreement with.  He came from a hard working family and learned the value of a dollar and all that.  He said that Washington is completely dysfunctional and we can’t get anything done.  And their “work ethic” is non existant, compared to what would be expected working for any private corporation.  This whole thing of “hard work and diligence, and personal responsibility for one’s actions” I was in complete agreement with.  But then he goes off on this tyrade against President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.  And then he has the sheer audacity to quote what he claims was the leader of this Crow Indian reservation in Montana and he says “President Obama is waging war on the Crow tribe because he won’t let us develop our coal”.   And I’m thinking “Yeah, that’s the plot of a lot of Western movies.  The Indian chiefs are complaining because we settlers won’t strip mine their farm land”.  The whole exchange was an insult to anyone’s intelligence.  He lied when he said Obama has “waged a war on coal” when the opposite is true.  Obama has been a fanatically pro Coal presidents, and has enraged environmentalists from Agusta to San Francisco with his insistence that “clean coal” is destined to play a key part of America’s energy revival.  And this whole idea that President Obama is a “job killing” President is also completely absurd.  You know- - you try and expand your own understanding of issues- - but then realize that the other side never THINKS at all.

This is Saturday morning after breakfast July 26, 2014 and of course Mick Jagger’s birthday and the anniversary of Jim Cooper moving into the Bosc house, also on a Saturday.  Now I’m informed there is a “Basque” museum in Boise, Idaho.  I don’t know what to make of that.  This machine has been working much better as to the latter part of yesterday.  So whatever CHKDSK did in blue screen that last time, seems to have worked, at least for now.  There is that cold draft of the air conditioning blowing on me now and it’s not that warm yet.  You know, I’d like to think of myself as half way intelligent and I’m trying to get smarter all the time.  Last night I looked Johanes Kepler and the three mathematical laws or planetary orbits.  Kepler died in 1630 and I thought it was sometime in the 1640’s.  The first law is that “all planets travel in an elipse”, which we all know, but what I didn’t know was that ellipses of the type he discusses have not one but two “foci” - - within the ellipse, which if a concept I can’t quite wrap my head around.  And there is some law about all points and the “sum of the distance between the foci” I’m going to need some math teacher to explain to me.  In a parabola the second “focus” is infinity.  That I get, but they go on to say that in a hyperbola- - there are also two “foci” but you flip the equation around and turn the plus into a minus sign, kind of like you do with the root trig formula.  But picturing the concept in my mind eludes me.  The second mathematical law is the one I knew about the distance traversed in orbit in an interval of time- - subdivides all of the sectors of the elipse into equal areas.  The third mathematical rule is something involving the squares of distance and even certain things cubed.  Kepler is referred to as a mathematician rather than an astronomer.  I read decades ago that Kepler used to rely on Tycho to give you specific readings for the planets to use in formulating his calculations.  One thing we appreciate is that conversation should be a give and take kind of thing.  You may write a thoughtful letter to someone like a teacher or pastor and care to sit down face to face and discuss it- - but you kind of want the other person to bring some Intelligent ideas of his own to the table, so that you can get necessary feedback and “grow”.   My big lament in life is that I have been in too high a number of conversations where the other person brought almost nothing of his own to the table and it’s frustrating.  And it’s not that their “comprehension” is merely poor- - but it’s the sort a thing a teacher would put a big, blatant red F on the paper.  Not a “Bart Simpson” kind of F where you tried studying and “just couldn’t get it” but often it’s a blatant total lack of any attempt to put forth any effort at all. It’s what I call the John Boehner effect - -  of the other person deciding a head of time it seems that “No ideas will be exchanged today”  no give and take.  Let me give you a simple example.  Uncle Bob was a meteorologist for the Air Force.  Yet if you were all the things I learned from Uncle Bob and compared it to what you get on a local TV news weatherman- - speaking to the general public- - the amount of useful information by the TV weatherman- - exceeds the useful information by Uncle Bob by- - I don’t know- - a ratio of twenty or thirty - - to one.  People can actually learn useful things from the Media.  For instance Melinda Lee said this morning that adding wine to foods actually creates new flavors in the food because the alcohol unlocks certain flavor compounds.  Fats in other foods does the same thing, which is why these low fat foods are often so inherently bland.  So it’s not a question at all of “disagreeing” with a person over something, because at least there is “something” to have a conversation about.  Not with Uncle Bob.  Worse than that- - most information I did get from Uncle Bob dates from when I was a little kid.  Uncle Bob seemed to have interactions with a lot of people who considered him a marvelous conversationalist in many ways.  But it’s almost as if he went out of his way to “hide” who he was from us- - my immediate family.  Why?

This World Is Too Much With Us

Here is a riddle put forth by Bill Gunderson:

You're going along- - and then you make a left turn, and then another left turn, and then another left turn.  In the course of time you find you are approaching two masked men.  Who are they?

Social Security is doing a fundamental cutback in services.  They are closing eighty offices, and they are reducing hours back to nine to three PM.  You also can no longer “verify your social security number” but they claim they will “save time” if they make you just apply for a new number.  (?)   People need number varifications for jobs.  These measures make absolutely no sense, but congress routinely cuts the SS administrative budget.  For the government to close down a Post Office they have to hold a public hearing but no such provision exists for SS office closings.  Meanwhile Governor Rick Petty has called out the National Guard in Texas.  Perry has claimed he as Governor has the authority to “Federalize the guard”, which he does not.  Not even congress can do that.  Only the President can do it.  But this is not an “invasion of the border”.  The border is secure and we have never had more personnel on the border.  These children are not fleeing authority but are gladly turning themselves in to authorities.  There was talk about turning some military base into a “detention center” but of course that makes too much sense, and the government never does things that make sense.  Congress has and will NOT vote the extra money that Obama asked for.  And according to Bill Press Congress is going on vacation at the end of Thursday because the heat and humidity is so bad in Washington, and the President is headed off to Cape Cod.  Congress will remain on vacation till “The week after Labor Day” and I’m not sure if they mean September 2^nd or September 8^th a week later.  Then congress will be back for two weeks and then be off again and will not return to work till late November.  If the Democrats take control of the House- - it could be a busy “lame duck session” in a frezy to pass any and every bill.  In terms of “Swords into Plough Shears” they say they are going to turn the Berlin Wall into a bike trail so you can ride along leisurely looking at all of the historic check points, so that the whole 93 mile trip (?) can be a learning experience.

In other far flung news Weird Al Yankivick has his first hit album in decades, called “Mandentory Fun”, which is now a number one best seller. Contrary to persistent rumor Weird Al Yankivick is very much alive.  Now there is talk about sexist culture in Japan where cartoons involving the rape of women are all the rage and Japanese men get off on that stuff.  But if a woman does a “vagina shaped kayak” then it causes all sorts of contraversey in the society because women aren’t supposed to be that liberated.  Of course if it weren’t “vagina shaped” as Chris points out, it would be a row boat and not a kayak.  Of course there is also trouble with Japanese authorities for people printing up these 3 D gun replicas that really work, and don’t even ask me how.  Even in this country this is one form of firearm the NRA frowns upon because of course the gun manufactures don’t get a profit on these sales.  It’s a little odd that there have been three major airliner plane crashes in the past eight days.  This latest air liner crashed in Timbuktu in the country of Mali in Africa.  Meanwhile Sean Hannity had leveled the charge that there is a NATO and United States conspiracy to sabotage Israel economically by closing flights into Bengurian Airport for 48 hours.  There was a 24 hour moratorium on Tuesday and then that was extended one day, and flights resumed into Bengurian late yesterday.  Closer to home Lebran James has gotten into the cupcake business, making Abigail Deveroux work overtime.  Lebran James has given 65 dozen (?) cupcakes to the neighbors, and five dozen (or sixty?) cupcakes to the police, because of all of the traffic disruption he caused.  Now they are saying that ISIS or ‘Islamic States of Iraq and Syria” are planning a massive campaign of female genital mutilations.  But possibly this is just an ugly roomer that got started, and ISIS denies it.  All the same I’d have the Third Division ready to Invade Iraq.   And finally we have Donald Trump opening up a new Hotel in Washington DC, as reporters joke “Done in his usual modest fashion”.    Trump claims that this is the third highest building in Washington, and that his new Hotel will become a world famous Mecca for visitors.  OK, if he says so.

Thom Hartman claims that hospitals weren’t always required to accept Emergency patients, and every time I want to see a doctor about anything the first thing they ask is what is your medical plan.  But this is where it gets screwy.  Because after Obama Care was passed they did away with this government subsidy hospitals get for doling out this Emergency service, because naturally it was assumed that the states would administer Obama Care and that states would accept free government money for Medic Aid services to patients.  But something went wrong and these things never happened.  Justice Roberts said that states did not have to accept free federal money for Medic Aid services to people in their states, and Republican governors, being the “principled” men they are- - decided that their Egos took precedence over the medical welfare of the poor people in their states, and naturally they’ll understand come election time and vote these red state bozo governors in for another term.  But the bottom line is that you have this giant “donut hole” where vast numbers of people can’t get any medical care at all.

I’d like to hit the RESET button with the tea party right, just as I’ve had to reboot this computer because it has a failing hard drive.  But this feat is no easier than hitting the RESET button with Russia that Hillary talked about.   You can say to your adversary “Please just walk me through the steps that got to our present impasse so I can understand”.   And they won’t do it.  How can President Obama think of making any deal with the right wing- - when they declared the day he took office- - by way of a Vow they have stuck fast to with an iron resolve, that they would give this President “No Quarter” and would work from day one to invalidate him as a person and to “break him” and would not pass ANY legislation from which the President would benefit in any way.  It’s as Rush Limbaugh said ‘I hope Obama fails”.   So I turn on the radio and there is a fill-in for Sean Hannity.  He’s talking about this Zuckerman fellow that founded Face Book.  I thought stock holders “took a bath” when the stock went public and they all lost a lot of money and the stock was way overpriced.  Now we are told that Zuckerman is well on the road to becoming one of the richest men in the world.  But then they insert the knife.  “Of course we know President Obama hates both wealth and private industry”.   How can they say this when President Obama has been the best friend big money ever had?   People who are “At war with you” normally don’t write you a check for Seven Trillion and don’t care how you choose to spend it, even if it’s to stuff a mattress with it.   When did we get to this age of when a disaster strikes – such as a plane downing- - their First instinct is “How can we blame President Obama for this?”  But they do it every God damned time!  And I’m sick of it!  And another thing.  You know Romney in the 2012 debate tried to blame the fact that College Graduates being in debt was the President’s fault and Romney goes “I feel your pain.  If I were President things like this wouldn’t have happened”.    Basically-  - if I’m engaging in the proper mental gymnastics and cortions- - Romney is saying that “Right now we have a Kaynsian economic policy- - and have abandoned Milton Freedman and trickle down”.    First of all for MOST of the past thirty years including RIGHT NOW- - we have been practicing supply side “trickle down”.   Do you remember Ronald Reagan taking advice from Arthur Laffer and the Laffer curve?   OK fine we gave him a chance and the thing failed miserably and the federal deficit ballooned like never before.  If he were working for me- - I would not be giving this man a Second Chance.  You would think the Republicans with their “business sense” would have come to the same conclusion, but they haven’t.   It doesn’t matter that the Laffer Curve has Failed every time it’s been tried over the past several decades- - Mitt Romney was still peddling it in 2012.

Let’s talk more about Dark Matter.  We’ve told you its properties – that it possesses Mass but does not either reflect light or absorb any light but is “insensible to light”.  My next question is- -is there anything more to this theory than gravitational “calculations” gone awry?  In other words, does this supposed Dark Matter have any “Shape” so that we either know where it IS or where it ISN”T.  In other words does it have any LOCATION in this universe?  Now on Star Trek they had this gray “Null Space” but it had boundaries, shape and location.  You knew where it was and could determine what you need to do to avoid it.  But this fictional “gray matter” for lack of a better term- - is not what we have referred to as “Unformatted Space” because how can something that is NOT “special” have any location IN our space?  Just as big a problem is how could we, who occupy space, ever enter such a realm?  So this Dark Matter we know does not contain baryons, the building blocks of atoms here.  But now I’d like to address a question you may have, and that I had- - about this (hypothetical?) Romulan matter.  Here we have a realm with different “properties” because they absorb light but don’t give any out, and are IN our gravitational field but nave no gravitational field of their own that we see.  So just what would account for this, what you might call “Electro-magnetic wave Greenhouse Effect?”   We have used the GMO analogy about DNA that “cannot occur in nature” or perhaps you would rephrase that of “Has not occurred in our nature”.   In other words it’s a case of “Man messing with mother nature”.   Just follow my logic a bit here.   It could be that in other parrellel universes there are herbs and medications from substances we don’t find on earth, or rather perhaps they USED to be on earth but have gone Extinct, but still Exist in these other parrellel universes- where the fate of man worked itself differently.  Keep in mind that in Nature (you won’t find this theorem in any book) that “Time is always in straight lines”.   But mind you we aren't actually talking about Time - - but rather the "dimension axis lines of our space" to use a metaphor from Google Sketch.  But picture this for me.  Suppose you draw a straight line on a blackboard with a ruler- - and then took away the line except for a dot at the beginning and a dot at the end, and then YOU were told to draw a line between the dots.  It would not be as straight.  So now you have “crooked” EM waves (light and gravity) eminating from this “warped space” which cannot be viewed in this Straight world.  But somehow out “Straight” EM waves can be viewed in That realm.  This is where the subject of digital algorithms comes in.  We know about MP3 music files.  These can be understood by a digital computer- - but if you pot one in your standard WAV CD player- - you will get nothing.  Do you see the mystery?   In other words “Analog” material can always be digitized.  But material that originates as digitized- - - may not be at ALL compatable or understandable in an Analog world.  So again- - Romulans use these specific digital algorithms – and when they match up, like in an MP3 file, you get Music.  Otherwise you don’t get squat.  But we told you that parrellel Universes are actually highly oblique- - - .   The Romulans cannot duplicate this “oblique” quality- - but are as it were “trapped in this Universe” because in the agrigate- - the overall “timeline” so to speak- - must STILL be in the prevailing direction of the timeline in this Universe.  OK that’s enough material for you to chew on and digest for this session.

NOW YOU"RE ENTERING THE FAR OUT ZONE    Before this computer crashes for the last time I better include this last paragraph I was planning about Cosmic stuff from the "Other Side".   The first point is that the Romulans got their technology a thousand years ago from the Lanians, and not the Alcyonized Sutterans.  So the Edomites are safe on cloaked Aldeberan VIII, because the Lanians have no intention of invading there themselves or "yanking the rug" or overriding the Romulans.  The Edomites are given protection from the Marduk or Merdoch group - - that comprise the rest of the stars of Taurus the Bill.  As you know of the 'three religions of the Book, Christianity, Judaism and Islam, ONLY Christian believes in the doctrine of "Blood Atonement" or the shedding the blood of the Innocent (either animal or human) for the remission of the Sins of the Guilty.  Marduk is a Babylonian diety.   John Lennon has denied he was ever putting me on regarding that 10 - 12 -14 rapture date.  He claims he was serious as "They seemed to me to be helpful hints and suggestions".  I'll take him at his word.   John Lennon has said "George Harrison produced way better music after he left the Beatles than we produced as Beatles".  John also said "My stuff on the White album was definitely better than the psychedelic stuff" (on the albums of Pepper, and Mystery Tour and Yellow Submarine)  Since we know that Lennon only praises his NEW compositions, ones he just wrote- - it's almost deducable he was therefore alluding that someone else wrote some songs off of the White Album and we have five to propose that were not written by John.  These are "I'm So Tired", "Bungalo Bill", "Happiness is a Warm Gun", "Sexy Sadie" and "Cry Baby Cry" we propose were actually written by a fourteen year old teenager named Denise.  Of course it was Roger Waters that John Lennon learned what I refer to as the "Julia riff" style of guitar playing, that Pink Floyd sometimes employs.  Also the official version of "Pink" is not a parrellel of Syd Barret.  Spokesmen for Syd say they don't like Syd being referred to as "Pink" because of this "Staring eyes like black holes in the sky" insanity bit.  Of course Jim Morrison was instrumental in getting Pink Floyd into the ZAC Tarot Deck cannon in late 1981 after we kicked out Van Halen because after due investigation they were a Cosmic Uniknown.   (Except David Lee Roth who is a Reigel Sixer)  Other Unknowns include the first two albums of Dire Straits, R E M, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Guns and Roses, the Smithereens, Billy Joel, Tom Petti, and also the KNACK of all groups, and also certain grunge groups such as Nirvana and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.  This last group has a particularly bad cosmic reputation about now and is said "To be coming from a dark place" and we said more about that (at least I think we did) last February.  But Nirvana is said to be safe because they are now an extinct group, envoking the Prager Doctrine.  Dennis Prager said that "I listen to Wagner even though he was an anti semite because he's dead now, and can no longer derive pleasure".   Nirvana was too unstable to survive as a group, or just maybe they couldn't stand being ruled by a powerful demon.

The Government Stole Seven Trillion from the US Economy

OK then it was “Ring of Fire” because they had last Sunday’s show up.  If this computer doesn’t freak out again like it did earlier let me describe the first portion, which was an interview with Thom Hartman austensively discussing his book “The Crash of 2016” but it’s the economic statistics that arrested my attention.   We have heard that the government gave the banks outright over twenty Trillion with a T - - dollars austensively to lend to the banks in business loans.  But the banks said ‘screw you’ and just sat on the money.  After all nothing was ever done about all of these Mortgage “derivitives” which would be like the star quarterback betting on the other football team in a key game.  So the banks know in advance- - the odds are stacked in favor of a default.  Let’s make it clear.  These banks were lent this money almost free is perhaps point five of one percent.  And the government turned around and paid them three percent for not doing their jobs.  Three percent is more than you or I would get on a government T bill.  And I imagine it’s all tax free.  So why should the banks take the “risk” of lending that money out with the republicans telling them ‘You know taxes in interest is going to be jacked up to 35% if Obama is reelected”.   This is the Romney “uncertainty” principle.  So the banks more than tripled their interest rate return- doing absolutely nothing, and this was just fine with President Obama and in five and a half years the President has said nothing at all about it in any public speech.  (Selah)  But the statistics are grimmer than this.  Because right now the production part of the US economy is eleven percent or maybe 13% depending on the specific survey.  And the banks have 35% of the GNP - - - so finance or paper pushing is now over a third of the US economy, which produces nothing.  Back when Reagan took office the figure was 35% for industrial production and the banks controlled nine percent of the capital gain or whatever.  Reagan is a classic tax hiker.  He doubled the income tax rate when he was governor of California. There were major tax hikes for the middle class in 1986 to make up for the short-fall of revenue from the 1981 tax cut.   Back then I’m told there was a tail wind for economic recovery due to the exploding deficit- - and also government was in a hiring mood.  Today we are five years into a “recovery” that isn’t.   But don’t blame the government debt, because contrary to the lies of people such as Rush Limbaugh- - the private economy is actually sustaining debts of over twenty trillion - - maybe thirty trillion - - and the trade deficit (which largely began under Reagan) is humungus.  We hear things about how “The trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money”.  Yeah, when hell freezes over.  We have tax bills pending in congress which will eliminate the tax subsedies for corporations moving off shore, and give tax breaks for corporations returning to again HQ in this country.  But of course John Boehner won’t allow this to come to a vote even though it would pass easily in an up or down vote in the house. 

THE ORIGIN OF POLITICAL BIASES - FOR DUMMIES

If you are a Righty rather than a Lefty - and say you have an open mind and want to listen to the other side - this is your lucky day.  Just to note- - I don't know which view God personally takes.  We aren't here to offer either moral judgements or mud slinging.  I'm just here to break the thing down into simple to understand logic, step by step.  According to Thom Hartman- - the Origin of the conservative mind set comes from the philosopher Thomas Hobbs, notibly in his book Leviathon.  In it he says that apart from some sort of "powerful noble rulership" mankind is destined to live a beastly life that is unproductive, btutish, and short.  He says we owe it to Kings such things as Commerce and order and higher knowledge.  These Rules were as it were 'Stand in the place of God' as it says one place in the old testement speaking of the "Elohem" or "Council of Judges".  The other side - the liberal view- - is that mankind is basically good and inherently endowed by certain inailable Rights such as life, liberty and property.  This is the view I personally subscribe to.  For much of my life I was a conservative with a liberal world view.  My Dad was a life long Liberal, however he had a substantially Conservative world view.  He idolized the Kennedy Family as people who could do no wrong.  He had certain fixed views of me which apparently never altered from a very early age.  Unlike Judy on the right, by contrast, who has very fact filled intellectual arguments to defend her conservative views,  my Dad would never try and defend his liberal views.  He just thought anyone who held conservative views was just Stupid, and the conversation ended there.  One can understand why at times in my life I thought my Dad was being completely unreasonable.  My views have shifted to the left on a few issues such as immigration, labor unions, and the subject of gerrymandering.  Once I became educated with the facts, I adjusted my views.  But even at my most conservative I would have been Mortified at the current political situation with the tea party running the country.  Congress- - has maybe eighty house members that are tea party.  And yet John Boehner persistently lets the tail wag the dog, and for these people to call all of the shots.  Indeed- - people like me used to pray for "God's rule to come" but now that I've actually SEEN what it's like, I dread it!  This change occurred in me about the fall of 2005 I guess about the time that Justice Allito was made Supreme Court Justice.  Let us go to Fox News and a line they miss in the Declaration of Independence.  There is that line about being endowed by God with certain inailable rights.  But they miss entirely the next part.  "And to secure these Blessings of Liberty, Government is instituted among men, that such government may derive its power from the consent of People.   You will not it does NOT say "and to secure these liberties - - Corporations and unregulated free markets are instituted among men".  So government is not the problem.  But we also have an issue with that by these Righties.  Because in keeping with the writings in Leviathon - - people are inherently evil and therefore cannot be trusted with the Vote.  Many on the right still believe this today, and so they would deny the vote to many people they don't deem as "worthy" and speak of their power going UP as the voter participation goes DOWN.  (Selah)  Think about this.  Also by the way I am a property rights person- - and take a very "conservative" stance on the use of Eminent Domain, which I don't believe should be employed for the conthiscation of Private Property for the use of Giant Corporations.  But you see these Conservatives believe that Corporations are good.  It's written into law mandated greed and maximum profits.  To have any value other than Profits is to violate their corporate charter.  Gordon Gecko said "Greed is Good" a contraversial statement 25 years ago, but now it's taken as accepted fact.  Since corporations MUST employ greed, and Greed is Good, therefore Corporations have to be Good.  I have spoken of how these people on the far right if they had the opportunity, would have sided with the British in the Revolutionary War because they stand for the same thing of trans-national business corporation and the merging of Church and State.  (Selah)  In fact in the "2016" movie they say that "Anti Colonial sentament" is Dangerous.  (Selah)  How can they make it any clearer?  We move on to other "Papentonio Horrors" such as this Governor Le Page of Maine, and these people that convert their dissel engines to billow out Black Smoke giving the finger to the environmentalists.  They want Creationism taught in the schools.  But personally because I have studied it- - to argue for "Creation by a higher intelligence" requires a lot of deductive reasoning and research- - and I doubt these people even HAVE the intelligence to properly study "Creation by Intelligent Design".  (Selah)   But then we have the BBC which came out and said today that they were no longer to have "Climate warming deniers" on their programs, because what they teach isn't science.  There is an all out rush for the bottom- - and to really mess up the next generation of school children in the South.  And of course Thom Hartman speaks of that famed Louis Powel letter written to Nixon in 1972 saying that we need some political indoctrination organization and we need to secure control of the Media, and the Courts to start putting our beliefs into Law.  And of course now the people are denied one man one vote due to gerrymandered house districts- - and if they had their way every one would look like strands of spaghetti.  All they need is control of the House to STOP all governmental processes- - which is their goal to shrink representative government to so small you can drown it in the bathtub.  They are not against Government per se of course.  They want to corporitize the military, corporatize the prison system, and the educational system.   Make no mistake about it.  They would positively LOVE to have their own private warped opinions to have the Force of Law.  And darn near do have that today.

We know that so much is a lie from FOX news.  The latest survey is that only eighteen percent of what FOX news says is the complete truth.  Another thirty percent is deception and half truths and misleading statements.  And just over fifty percent of what FOX news says is an outright lie.  So therefore you hear things repeated like that Nancy Pelosi statement about “We have to pass the Health Care bill so you can find out what’s in it”.  You will note she used the word “You” in that sentence and not “We”.  The ‘You’ in that sentence is You the Public, because once you get away from the media hysteria and look at it, you’ll see.  But of course the original Nancy Pelosi statement has been viewed five hundred times, where is the edited “Tweets” have been viewed tens of thousands of times.   Of course even religious people get it wrong.  Jesus Christ spoke of the Kingdom OF Heaven, not the Kingdom IN heaven.  Indeed the Lord’s prayer reads “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on EARTH, as it is in heaven”.  You say it every Sunday and never realize the Kingdom Jesus was speaking of- - is one here on earth, along of lines of “The meek shall inherit the earth”.   Barock Obama is chronically misquoted such as when he said “The private sector is doing fine” referring to- - business profits and stock prices.  But the Romney people go “Look you poor out of work people - - I really feel for you but your President doesn’t.  He thinks you’re doing just fine”.   There is of course the lie that President Obama eliminated the work requirement for Welfare by executive order.  The Sean Hannity show airs clips of liberals at the start of his show- -that make sense to me- - but I get the distinct impression that “These are sentiments you WON’T find on our show”.  Sean Hannity made the statement today that “The fate of Israel and the United States are inexorably tied together”.   Actually, the tea party people would like to move Israel to the Right- - on foreign policy.   I once heard someone say they’d like to make Israel the 51^st state.  But under the misimpression that Israel had some official Jewish “State Church” they went on to state that “of course if we did that- - we’d allow State’s Rights as far as religion is concerned”.  (?) 

In yesterday’s “Days of our Lives” (viewed on line this morning) episode the highlight of which was Samantha and Caroline Brady and talk of letting go of hate and resentment.  Personally I do not buy this line of Caroline that resentment is never a good thing.  My big beef is not the idea that hurt causes resentment, but rather- - I think the whole issue is bogus.  As you will remember the engagement was “off” at the time, and Samantha had thrown EJ out of her bedroom.  As Will points out- - EJ had sex with Abigail to quiet her curiosity so she wouldn’t ask too many questions about Nick.  And the affair ended months ago and it’s Samantha who’s thrown the two of them together and engaged in this massive charade- - almost as bizarre is Norman Bates talking with his dead mother as if she were still alive and he never murdered her.  I mean when you think of other issues Samantha has let slide like the faked kidnapping of their daughter, or the whole Stephano framing her for murder and then demanding a heavy bail out price, or worst of all the whole drug and sex thing with Eric and Christine.   Keep in mind Nicole only had a few pieces of paper with a doctor’s name on it that she concealed from Eric.  Samantha knew everything about the whole conspiracy from the horse’s mouth- - and kept silent, and by the way is still keeping silent what she knew and also when she knew it.   Somehow Samantha’s own atrocities mean nothing to her and don’t prick her conscience- - even her betrayal of Raphael means nothing to her - - but like I say it’s almost as if finding about this one peccadillo “made her day” and gave her the excuse to do what she so much enjoys doing anyhow- - which is to go on an angry self righteous tyrade.

I've thought about my brother's remarks about "One day you'll discover a scientific truth that is unique but will eventually become generally accepted.  I think I have one.  Einstein says that mass of objects increases with speed.  I maintain that it does not in the slightest- - unless the acceleration rate is well in excess of one hundred G's or something.  All a man can take is about eight or nine G's so this is not a problem.  It does not matter in the LEAST how FAST you are going.  The reason why the Mass does not increase- - is because only the distribution of the gravitational field Around the object changes.  Picture a circle with an Earth symbol in it of an orb and cross to represent Any Planet.  Now picture one such Orb with a vertical Oval around it.  Now picture another with a horizontal Oval around it.  This is how the "mass" is "distributed" when you are either Approaching or Departing from an object.  For the flattened Oval.- - this is the one Approaching an object.  It's like looking in a rear view mirror of a convex mirror where "Objects are closer than they appear" and time gets "sped up" and distant objects are right behind you out of the blue.   The other with the vertical Oval- - is the one for Departing objects.  This is like viewing life through a telescope.  Distant objects appear closer.  An Italian sports car may be headed right at you but you have nothing to fear because it's obviously traveling so slowly, at least it looks that way.  For the flattened first oval- - mass appears to decrease and time to speed up.  For the second vertical oval- - mass appears to increase and time to slow down.  But these are Appearence and do not reflect actual Reallity.  For an obvious example of what I'm talking about- - nobody would say "Mirages are real physical entities on a desert highway and are larger on really hot days than on days that aren't so hot".   No.  No one would say Mirages are real.  And yet this is the mindset Einstein freaks are trapped in.  Mass does not increase with speed.  Mass does not decrease with speed.  If the agrigate MASS of something could be altered, than Man would be in the position of God being able to Create mass at will.  (Selah)   This is why I am an objectivist.  Because I believe in things the way they really ARE- - and not the way they are Perceived- - even by a Scientist.

Court Ruling Leads to Botched Execution in Arizona

We have what I’d call an “interesting” execution scenario which played itself out in Arizona today.   Some appellate court stayed an execution by lethal injection in the state of Arizona involving a guy who committed a brutal double murder in 1989 and he was sentenced to the death penalty.  But then political pressure was applied and the Supreme Court of Arizona overruled the lower court and said to proceed with the execution as planned.  There had been doubts raised about the quality and nature of the drugs that were to be used for this lethal injection.  Here’s where it gets interesting.  Because it was a botched execution and it took our prisoner nearly two hours to officially “die” and he gagged and wheezed in a seeming state of agony and now Governor Jan Brewer says she’s going to review the execution procedure.  The thing is maybe the republicans KNEW this is what would happen to the prisoner and this is in fact just what they wanted.  And of course the relatives of the victim say “Well, however much the prisoner suffered it wasn’t nearly as much as the suffering inflicted on his two victims”.  Personally I find it difficult to argue with this logic.  Am I right in this assertion?

For the second day in a row Bengurian Airport in Tel Aviv has been deserted, closed down virtually because all of the nations of the world have extended the flight black-out to Israel for a second 24 hour period in a row.  Dr Levy never mentioned on Monday how his plans are shaping up to travel to Israel later this year.  The UN has voted almost unanamusly to condemn Israel as a perpetrator of War Crimes, with the United States one of the only nations that did not for this resolution.  But I think to be fair FIRST they should bring Hamas up on War Crimes charges because it’s also a war crime to use civilians as human shields.  75% of the people killed so far in Gaza have been completely innocent civilians.  Once you have dealt with Hamas, then the UN can deal with Israel.  Unfortunately, I don’t think the UN has the moral consistency to do this.  Too often the UN- - is just a mouth piece for the most vile of nations.   Now there is a security problem with the Brooklyn Bridge of all places.  Because a couple of nights ago at just about three thirty in the morning all of the lights went out on the bridge.  Two US flags were removed from the top of the two towers, and they were replaced with two white flags.  Perhaps it was just a stunt of someone who did it on a dare.  But naturally there is concerned with 9 – 11 not being that long ago, and there a lot of government buildings within a mile of the bridge.

I caught the Norman Goldman program today.  And I have to wonder whether Norman Goldman is suffering from “burn out” and will soon go the way of Randy Rhodes and Ed Schultz on a daily basis.  Normal was preaching the virtues of “patience”, which I consider highly misplaced.  His patter made little sense today because he admitted the American voter has never been more apathetic, and the voter turn out for this November election is expected to be way down, particularly on the democratic side.  Of course certain members of the FOX tea party brigade will vote come hell or high water rain or shine.  I wish we liberals had that kind of diligence, but we don’t.  The whole term of “patience” is badly used by Norman here, just as it is badly misused by Evangelical Christians.  The word in normal usage refers to a process that takes a set period of time.  Such as a repair man might tell you it will take two hours to repair the air conditioning system.  But in this case there is no “ongoing remedial process” but rather a case of just “dropping out” and letting it all go to hell in a hand basked, as I have spoken of many times in recent blog postings.   No normal person would NOT lose patience with President Obama for instance who now is on his 18^th money raising trip here to Southern California.  They say the White House will charge each person $32,000 just to be photographed with the President.  We know of Clinton offering nights in the Lincoln Bedroom - - for a price.  It seems to be a case of Obama fiddling while Rome burns.  We remember how he turned down a trip to the border on the Rio Grande - - in order to attend a money raising trip in Austin.   This is in no way to justify what Sean Hannity said just today- - in his rapsidy of praise for Vladimir Putin.  This sort of behavior on the right by FOX news and the like is nothing short of sick, in going on and on about what a strong and effective leader Putin is and how weak and ineffective the President is.  It would seem people like Sean Hannity have a man-crush on Vladimir Putin.  There used to be a saying that “Politics stops at the water’s edge”.  The Bible tells us to pray for our Leaders.  This is what Pastor Mark of Calvary Anaheim used to do- - even with Clinton in office, where I’d have just as soon wished he’d just resign.  But even my reason for that was because I valued the office of President of the United States too highly to see it cheapened.  But Sean Hannity is just as guilty of cheapening the office of President, and respect for America in general.  I’d like to revive the slogan “Love it or Leave it” and if these people are so in love with Putin why don’t they just make the move to Moscow?   And yes, I think all of this should make the average American citizen - - restless, and impatient.  This is only a healthy and appropriate response.

There are at least four views of “Reality” and I’d like to just name them for you.  The first is that “Everything is an illusion and nothing we see is real”.  This is the Buddhist view of the universe.  It’s like we’re all some cogs in a gigantic holideck program of the Enterprise and that some master computer program is actually the thing that is running everything.  There is the opposite view of course in that “Nothing is anything other than exactly as we see it, and if we can’t prove scientifically, beyond a reasonable doubt, that it exists and is real- - then Ipso Facto it does NOT exist, and shouldn’t even contemplated at any time to exist by any sensible person.  We then have Subjectivism, which means that the human Mind is the sole determiner of what is real and what is not, and that if we have enough Faith as a mustard seed, then we too can order that Mt Baldy pick itself up and throw itself into the ocean.  This is a view that kind of says that “everybody has a little of God in them and all we have to do is discover and tap into it”.   The thing demonstrably wrong with this view is what I call “Doubt blindness”.   You’ve heard of tine deafness- - and there these cat litter commercials that speak of “nose blindness’ where the person can’t smell how putrid his apartment even smells from the cat’s litter box.  So you are left with the necessity- - not of Faith in any true sense- - but rather “Doubt eradication”.  Because if there are any seeds of doubt- - God won’t answer your prayers or whatever.  The obvious logical thing wrong with this is that various substances Brady Black could tell you about- - are very useful for “doubt eradication” and hence marvelous faith boosters, such as booze, pot, cocaine.  Just take another shot of Faith.   No Christian wants to admit that such well laid illogic of theirs can be defeated by such a simple example.  Finally of course we have Objectivism.  This is opposed to the previous doctrine called Subjectivism.   Under Objectivism an object or entitie’s existence is not dependant on any THOUGHT you may or may NOT have.  But also- - there are things that may exist that we have no way of proving.  For instance I have spoken of myself not as Earth centric but Universe centric.  If it happens in this Universe I care about it.  But if it happens in some parrellel Universe- - even one with a twin Earth and Sun like our own- - then I don’t care what happens there because it can’t possibly affect me.   I would like to revive an axiom I think I introduced just about two years ago this time of year.  I call it “The Forbidden Twelfth”.   That is- - like the Forbidden Fruit of old- - there are certain things- - dimensions- - that are roped off and off limits to us.  It’s kind of along the lines that right now we can’t look up and see the constellation of Cancer, and I said Cancer- - in the heavens, because right now the sun is in this constellation.  People wonder whether there is ‘forbidden knowledge’ that the minute we become acquainted with it- - we suffer the Curse of it.  I can’t prove this per se - - but I suspect that it may be true.  It’s almost like a separation of enmity spell.  Well, OK that’s enough for today.

Finally, here is a bit of a Mia Copa from earlier today:   I should apologise for the poor quality of the lead posting in the blog ‘Rocca Rolla”.    The first two titles are promising “You Broke the Rules” and “Rush Limbaugh is in Big Trouble” but most of what’s in these blogs seems to me now to be filler trivia.  But that’s what happens when I am depressed- - things I thought were brilliant at the time now seem suddenly boring to me.  But there is a place where I say that “Congress has just over two months to get needed legislation done before the August recess, and I don’t think they’ll make it”.   Now they’ve got one week, and you know they won’t get anything done.  That’s all she wrote for this congress.  It will give the voters an opportunity to reassess this congress.  In terms of the cryptic stuff in purple- - it’s more cryptic than the stuff in “Karmic Suicide”.   But you know there is a silver lining because you can always come to ME to explain it- - rather than if you read something in a fortune cookie or the I Ching or something and are completely lost for an interpretation.   Dr Levy had a quotation that sounds like it was from a Zen Buddhist or something.  “In the beginning there was Nothing- - and then Something went wrong”.  Who is going to explain that one.  It’s one of those sayings designed to drive you mentally nuts.

Court Rules Against Major Portion of Obama Care

A Circuit Court in Washington CD invalided a vast portion of the Affordable Care act today, which last week I said there was a distinct possibility of.  It seems that the ACA specifically states that it must be Start boards that people go to to get Obama Care, and the Federal Government alone is never mentioned in the bill.  Rush Limbaugh has a theory that since this bill was entirely scripted and voted for by liberal democrats, that the Democrats WANTED this “stress on the system” and Pressure Red States to go on and adopt Obama Care in their state, knowing if they didn’t that leagally their citizens could not receive any ACA subsedies.  I can’t argue with that logic.  This is a major setback for the Affordable Care Act.  There is another appealate court where there are more democratic Justices on it, and the liberals may at the time that case is heard, get a more favorable ruling.  But as of now- - the tea party is looking mighty vindicated because they have scored a major knock-out blog against Obama Care.  Conservatives have claimed that there have been 41 changes, unauthorized or otherwise- - in the Affordable Care Act.  The media has been strangely silent these past few months on just how successful the Affordable Care Act has been, except most of those forty million are STILL uninsured, which of course was the rationale for even pushing for the Affordable Care Act to begin with.

The news is unhappy on the Gaza front.  As of now over five hundred Palestinians have died in this current conflict, and 29 Israeli soldiers have been killed.  Israel launched another bombing raid just today and they said that five Mosques were hit.  There seems to be no hope at the UN for any cease fire accords.  I do not like where this is headed.  Gaza appears to be going for broke and maybe it’s as Israel says that “These dead bodies and constant ER hospital scenes of the wounded coming in in Gaza- - aren’t playing well in the media, and that Gaza will use this adverse coverage on the “drive by media” to garner the leverage to cut a more favorable deal.  Given things Putin had said, and the very shakey basis of the Iranian accords- - I would say that the possibilities of a nuclear exchange in the world right now have never been higher.

Long time blog followers will want to note what I’m about to say.  As you know for most of the past five years I’ve been full throttle bullish on the stock market.  Now I’m saying that I am a bit less confident of at least the short term future of the market for the next two or three months and now might be a good time to sell some stocks and “take your profits” and go out and have a good time.  The fact that the market is at its almost all time high is only a better reason to sell.  Why wait for a dip when you can maximize your maximum profits right now?   Talk to me after Yom Kippur and we’ll reassess then.  I’m been thinking about the “bubble theory” followed from such diverse people as Thom Hartman and Glen Beck.   I’m still not sold on this theory that we are in a bubble, however I do know that the jobs situation still isn’t good and a lot of spending capital flowing through the system is not there.  They said that the long term unemployment period - - is the worst its ever been.  More people are long time unemployed right now than ever before.  Rush Limbaugh said this morning that “There is a survey that proves when the government stops supporting unemployed people they go out and find jobs”.   To that I’d only say “There in things in life we want and even need, and that fact that we desperately need them doesn’t make them happen any faster.  Even Fred Price will admit “If counts for nothing to God that you are really desperate to obtain something.  This is not going to influence God one bit to answer the prayer more quickly.  In answer to this “bubble”: theory- - I point to all of the great Empires of the past like Egypt with the chain gang slaves building the Pyramids.  Many a great empire has fared just fine without a prosperous working class.  But I am also aware that in the twenties, ninety years ago- - History books I’ve read indicate that capitalization was unstable without “broad participation” and that prices are on much shakier ground.   If you are wondering what the stars are like in late September “The moon will again be at the feet of the Virgin”.  Only due to the precession of the equinoxes, this would have occurred a whole month earlier in Roman times.  On the Venus cycle- - there is an indication that we’ll have troubles for the next two and a half month- - and then the Bull Market should reign supreme once more.

Bill Clinton is back to his old ways.  Bill Clinton has a new, busty blonde mistress who goes by the handle of “The Energizer” and Clinton’s secret service know when they see the energizer driving up in her SUV (?) to go on and let her through the gates.  I’m personally a little disappointed with the President.  I thought that due to his advancing age or whatever, or just moral reflection, that he had changed his ways, but apparently not.  And Clinton has his men trained to warn him when Hillary is coming home.  And stranger Hillary’s staff is even in on this conspiracy- - and sometimes her staff will tip off Clinton’s staff Hillary is on her way home and for Bill to get “The Energizer” out of the house.  But this blonde mistress does not travel to Arkansas when he goes there, and sources say he has a different mistress there, and he’s bought her a house there.  There are at least two new biographies on the Clintons.  Meanwhile, Hillary’s book, “Hard Choices” is not faring well at all on the best sellers list.

Like I said in the last posting “Facts Are Funny Things”.   For instance- - Rush Limbaugh has pointed out that we’ll never be able to fuel a commercial or military jet on “wind power”.  When you get THAT image in your head you see the absurdity that wind or solar power could ever really solve our nation’s energy policies.  I have heard rumors that the Energy crisis of 1974 at least was totally bogus just to get gasoline prices up, and “There was never a time when there was any lack of oil in the pipeline supplies ready to go”.   Think about this.  I have not one time heard the government say ‘Well I don’t know if we can wage the next war or even do that planned military exercise due to a fuel shortage”.  I know the government of course had off limit reserves, but even so what about these big transport ships that travel the seas.  Are you telling me you can power one of those with - - a solar panel.  Clearly when you think about it for a sober minute - - the amount of energy we consumers use is a drop in the bucket compared to what the military and businesses use on a regular basis.  You take your tidal power, your wind, your solar, and throw in geothermal- - I don’t see- - and neither does Rush- - how these “renewable energy supplies” can ever compete with old fashioned fossil fuels.  Can you?

Well, I guess it was just another day.  This is Monday July 21, 2014 and Prince George celebrates his first birthday tomorrow.  The computer crashed right at the stroke of nine right after Stephanie Miller signed off.  I turned it off and turned on Bill Handel till ten.  Then I went out for coffee break in the courtyard and had two cups.  Lishia kept saying that Dr Levy was coming today.  He didn’t come yesterday.  Then I listened to Rush Limbaugh.  Most of what Rush said was incoherent babbling.  However he did quote Coach Dansa or something as saying “Well I’m not against gays or anything being football players, however I would not have hired the guy the St Louis Rams did because he’s gay and would generate unneeded media controversy”.  Rush kept going on and on about “controversy” that exists only in his own mind.  So what else is new.  I was a minute late for lunch and I had to ask Augustine for what turned out to be spinach soup.  A moment later I received my grilled ham and cheese sandwich with macaroni salad with raisons in it.  I managed to get two bananas for desert.  I had fifteen minutes of Thom Hartman on, and then David Cameron or whoever the prime minister guy speaking in the parliament with the green chairs.  After a while with that I turned it off and just watched the KNBNC noon news.  Then it was the soap opera.  Today Teresa just talked so much and was so paranoid- - I’m very surprised she hasn’t undergone more questioning.  You come in a room with two unconscious men and Teresa- - but nobody thinks Teresa, with a track record as long as your arm, is somehow culpable.  

Half the Distance to the Goal Line

I caught enough of the Mc Laughlin group to hear Pat Buchannon blubbering away at how Putin is so mistreated- - and don’t we all feel sorry for him.  We told you about those two young attractive Russian women who were interviewed what they thought of Vladamir Putin and the current situation, and they spoke so “innocently” and matter of factly what a great leader Putin is.   It used to be that people used psychological tricks and buzzwords to sell Products.  Today they use them to sell IDEAS, and I’ll tell you right now the amount of money and influence at stake is much greater.  College professors always told us what dopes the American people were to be taken in by “buzz words” and “feel good talk”.  Some say like the lady on Dr Oz today say that we can “read other people’s auras and that’s how we know to get close and be friends with one person- - and to pull away from another.  But this one time I’m saying it’s a whole lot less “psychic” as if we actually KNEW something, but rather in a lot of cases we are being PLAYED.  And we are told what we want to hear- - often appealing to a buried “image” ourselves we got from our parents - and the leaders know psychology, and the psychology of our brains and things like engrams or messages we tell ourselves almost on a subconscious level.  These engrams will control our lives if we let them, which is what Scientology is all about.  People are appallingly mentally not that evolved at all and not nearly as removed from the non verbal Ape population as we would fancy ourselves.  So FOX news can get away with having people on who remark about what a “Masterful Leader” Vladimir Putin is- - and a superior chess player and all that.  We are told things by Pat Buchannon about how “Putin wants to restore the Russian Empire and the Russian Orthodox Church to its former glories of the past” and people who are into FOX news get off on that. 

FACTS ARE FUNNY THINGS  - - THE ORION FEDERATION HAS SIDED WITH THE PALESTINIANS IN THE CURRENT CONFLICT, AND I HAVE BEEN A LITTLE 'OFF THE PLANTATION' LATELY. BY WAY OF ATONEMENT LET ME SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING

• Gaza (along with the West Bank and East Jerusalem) is occupied Palestinian territory under international law, determined by the vast majority of the world, as well as the highest court in the world, the UN’s International Court of Justice. Gaza cannot commit aggression against Israel, since Israel is in constant and continual commission of illegal aggression against Palestine by occupying it (illegally and sadistically blockading it and frequently committing terrorism against its civilians, including by targeting them with chemical weapons provided by US taxpayers – see “Rain of Fire” by Human Rights Watch). As documented by Amnesty Int’l, Human Rights Watch, and many others,Israel intentionally targets and murders civilians, including children, en masse.

• Israel also kidnaps and tortures children, including by keeping them in outdoor cages, over night, in winter.   But, even ignoring international law and that Gaza is under illegal Israeli occupation, Gaza did not initiate this current round of violence; Israel did:   Western/US/Israeli propaganda says the violence started with the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli youths on June 12th. That is a lie:   On May 20th, the Israeli government murdered 2 unarmed Palestinian teens, one on video, and wounded a third.    The firing of pathetic scrap metal rockets from impoverished Gaza, which have killed no one, were in fact launched in response to earlier Israeli bombings, killings, assassinations, and arrests of Palestinians, including children.  Since the year 2000, Israel has killed 1,500 Palestinian children, while Palestinians have killed 132 Israeli children. That means Israel has killed over 1,000% percent more Palestinian children than vice versa.  As documented by the Washington DC based non-Profit, The Jerusalem Fund, Israel breaks far more ceasefires than Palestine – this includes firing of the Palestinian scrap metal rockets.  For example, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and many other human rights organizations reported that in Israel’s 2009 Gaza Massacre, Israel killed about 450 children, and it was Israel, they documented, that broke the ceasefire. (In that massacre, Israel killed overall from 1,400 to 7,000 Palestinians, almost all civilians, while 13 Israelis were killed, several from friendly fire.)
• .Most of the wars in which Israel was involved were the result of deliberate Israeli aggressive design . None of these wars – with the possible exception of the 1948 War of independence – was what Israel refers to as Milhemet Ein Berah (war of necessity). They were all wars of choice . ” – Defending the Holy Land, pg. 35, (bold added)
• “I review a number of peace-related opportunities ranging from the Zionist-Hashemite collusion in 1947 through the collapse of the Oslo Process in 2000. In all those cases I find that Israeli decision makers – who had been willing to embark upon bold and daring military adventures – were extremely reluctant to make even the smallest concessions for peace . I also find in many cases Israel was engaged in systematic violations of agreements and tacit understandings between itself and its neighbors.” – Defending the Holy Land, pg. 40   Israel has violated more UN resolutions than any other country. That includes Iraq under Hussein.

There hasn’t been any particular “new” news today.  You know how it works.  A few things happen worth talking about and we thrash them around for a few weeks till we get good and tired of them- - but maybe by then something new comes along.  It’s kind of like Days of Our Lives - - nothing ever gets “solved” so you can look at it and say “This is the account of how a certain problem got Solved”.  No- - they get delayed and bantered about- - and no progress is ever actually made, kind of like our political situation.  Then all of a sudden a problem just disappears or gets “deep sixed”, and is never heard from again, almost like it never existed.  We see examples in soap land - - of one guy framing another for murder and destroying or concealing evidence, and is never Prosecuted for this act.  I'ts never even considered.  Or someone gets murdered and six people are involved, and only one of them ends up doing any time at all.   In politics, or in Gaza, we are told, or think ourselves, 'Nothing is ever going to change so why bother.  Many friendships or families - - or "Life of Faith" is destroyed merely because people think "If we ignore the problem and eventually SOMETHING will happen.  And so often that "Something" when it comes- isn't good.  So someone with an addiction problem figures "If I ignore this - - the "problem" will go even away, even if it's "solved" by Death.  I wonder if the Rapture is like this.  In the case of the Dead it just might be because one way in which hospitals with ten times the infection rates of other hospitals "solve' this problem is to just wait till the patient dies, and the problem is taken care of because the malpractice caps being what they are- - there is virtually no incentive to solve the problem because nobody is going to hire a bunch of attorneys to get a Maximum Possible Ammount of $250,000, and for the rich- - they suffer the most because it might be a drop in the bucket of their own capital reserves.  Money isn't the issue- being Punitive is.  We had those clues in purple font for you down further in the same blog- - and now we are “Half Way to the Goal” to bring back football terminology, since we’ll at last be entering football season, seemingly after an eternity of waiting.  Some sports like Basketball and Golf seem to get media time year around.  Not football.  But we may have good news for you.  I’m pushing UP the date of the rapture, because I’m starting to wonder whether John Lennon wasn’t jerking me around with some of those clues.  I have always felt our tagged date was too Late anyhow, and a late September date would be better.  I have always envisioned it as a time when baseball was still being played and also in the Regular Season- - and not the play-offs.  So how would you like Sunday September 28^th?   928 is a date I’ve regarded as a little lucky because it’s the sip code of Anaheim, where of course Zachery was born.  (Yeah, I had to drag THAT into the argument)  And you know- - if Dallas is playing that day- - I think the perfect time for the rapture would be at the Two Minute warning of the second half, in conformance to the lyrics of “We’ve Got a Bigger Problem Now” by the Dead Kennedies.  That’s my thinking at the moment.  Some people think 'Well we haven't had a Nuclear Holicaust all this time- - so I guess it won't ever happen.  I'm sure the Dinasaurs thought the same thing when it came to global climate change.  Now California has had its hottest first six month period EVER.  I’ll just tell you we CAN’T go on in this continued state of national and state government disfunction much longer.  Because the funny thing is things are constantly getting worse and the tea party is getting more powerful and influencial all the time.  We just don’t talk about THAT any more because we’ve all gotten used to it and accept it as an ongoing reality of everyday life.  But it is NOT NORMAL.   There is a line spoken by Humphrey Bogart in “The Cain Mutiny” where he says “These are things we are going to begin noticing again”.  Things like the constitution, first and fourth amendment rights- - and a congress that actually functions- - and a sitting President who for once is NOT a tool of Wall Street.

Mom’s health was the entire topic in the car with Paul, and also when we arrived.  Judy offered to let me talk to Mom on Scype.  I had never used that before and Mom’s voice was on speaker phone, and her voice was so much richer- - and “different”.  It caught me off guard.  It seems that Mom is giving up driving officially.  She still has to use a walker but ‘If I have to use one for an extended period of time I’m getting one of the nicer ones with a carry basket” and complains that when she’s in the salad bar it’s awkward getting selections.  Mom give up her Christmas project assignment, and also her job of “passing out bulletins” in the morning.  But she’s still going to her exercise and other classes.  She seemed in really good spirits.  They had the elapsed time figure on screen and Mom ended the conversation herself just after ten minutes.  Judy says that Scype is only three dollars a month or $36.00 a year, a deal you cant pass up.

  Stephanie and Chris were also discussing the Gaza crisis.  Stephanie read some of her hilarious hate mail with Sarah Palin non punctuation.   So I guess Stephanie is a Zionist Hammas sympathizer.  There was that story again about the guy who super glued his hand to his penis.  It seems his wife awoke him in the night and wanted sex so the guy reached for what he thought was lubricant, right next to the crazy glue.  Now doctors say to use either paint thinner or nail polish remover- - but due to all the tugging on his hand, there is now an open wound on his penis- - and the pain would be excruciating.  The other alternative is to wait a week for the outer layer of skin to flake off naturally.  His wife seems to want an immediate solution because she’s eager to have sex.  But then they tell us that they are going to continue this saga in tomorrow’s news broadcast.  “Whopee!”