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.