Trump Agrees to Talks with Kim Jong Um

President Trump gave his tariff speech on the radio and television today.  KNBC also carried the coverage.  Moe Kelly wanted to stress that it all depends on how the various congressional elections play out on a district by district basis.  This tariff thing may not go over well at all with a lot of them and over a hundred Republicans wrote Trump a letter telling him not to do it.  The other question is how the stock markets feel about in the coming month or two.  I think the market may well be topping out anyhow.  But they’ll blame it on this.  I’ve been wrong before about the market topping out but it has to happen sometime.  Trump is doing this ten percent aluminum tariff and 25% steel tariff “for national security reasons” and because it was one of the chief issues he campaigned on in 2016 so I guess the people want it.  But the media doesn’t back the President on these Tariffs.  But I think Trump deserves a chance to see if they work.  After all, if it would have been good enough for Sanders, it’s good enough for Trump.  Throughout history, it’s something the Republican Party has traditionally supported.  

Kim Jong Um has agreed to talks with South Korea and even President Trump.  Trump agreed to talks.  This is quite a development for sure.  It could be that all of the tough, abrasive talk between the two of them, trading insults, has somehow “worked” to get Kin Jung Um to the negotiating table.  It’s almost as though Trump and Kim are communicating on the “same level” even if it’s an elementary school level of intellect.  My motto is “Hope springs eternal” and if Trump can somehow pull a rabbit out of a hat, more power to him.   All Kim seems to want is a non aggression pact saying we won’t invade North Korea.  Kim even understands that joint military exercises between South Korea and ourselves is necessary for security.

The economy added over three hundred thousand jobs in the past month but the unemployment rate stayed stuck at 4.1%   They were over a week late releasing these economic statistics.  Thee economy is still adding jobs and at a fast rate.  It's the President's hope that this continues.

Daylight Saving's Time will start this weekend.  I think we should go back to the first Sunday in April for this to happen because that way the sun will rise before six making it before seven once we make the change.  The change congress made in 2007 was a major mistake in my opinion.  News articles still say that Daylight Saving's time is "controversial" even after all these elapsed decades.

My view of what you could call “the psychic dimension” (which we refer to as the sixth dimension) stems from an idea I’m not even sure I believe in any more where Ideas are more real than Things.  Pastors have stated that “With God, words and things are the same thing”.  God gets an Idea and he “speaks it into existence” and that’s that.  For the rest of us I’m not sure the Idea is supreme.  For a composer or an artist it might be.  But the word “idea” comes from “imaginary” and that word is based on the word “image”.   In Greek thought the hierarchy first you have the Idea as “that which has the greatest ontological importance”.  It’s necessary (for God) to have the Idea before the Thing itself.  Then in Greek thinking you have the realm of Math and Geometry.  Then you have the Thing itself.  Then fourthly we have the Image of the thing.  In my way of thinking back twelve or so years ago, there were “portals” to the psychic dimension where travel was instantaneous and things were somehow more “real” than they are here on earth.  St Paul spoke of “Being taken up to the Third Heaven”.   (There seems to be no promise in the Bible that WE actually GO to heaven ourselves)  The first heaven is that of the air and sky.  Then there is an intermediate realm called “The heavenlies” and it’s ruled by “The Powers of the Air”, which seems to refer both to angels and demons.  To St Paul this is a dangerous realm.  St Paul also believed that both Angels and Demons were dangerous.  Indeed Demons often “disguised themselves as an Angel of Light”.   I guess we are to assume that the demons spoken of in our previous posting- - are from this realm.  It’s a real that is to a degree “not real” because there is no scientific way of proving its existence.  Supposedly this “realm six” as I referred to it a dozen years ago- - was a realm where understanding was instantaneous and sudden enlightenment occurs.  My problem with this whole idea of a “sixth dimension” is that how we know all of the “images” or “ideas” or whatever- - aren’t just abstractions of our own minds and brains.   The question is whether “the sixth dimension” has existence that is independent of our being there to “believe in it”.   This is where my objectivist training comes in.  If you have to “believe in it” for it to be Real, then it really isn’t real.  (Selah)

The following is a Blast from the Past - June 2007

LLEPS ETH ESREVER Volume Two

All I Really Want to Do (Cher)

Set Me Free (Kinks)

Stranger In Town (Del Shannon)

Go to Pieces (Peter & Gordon)

Saturday Night at the Movies (Drifters)

Maybe I Know (Leslie Gore)

Maybeline (Johnny Rivers)

Viva, Las Vegas (Elvis Presley)

Little Old Lady From Pasadena (Jan & Dean)

When I Get Home (Beatles)

I Get Around (Beach Boys)

Yesterday’s Gone (Chad & Jeremy)

Abigail Beecher (Freddy Cannon)

Glad All Over (Dave Clark V)

Ramrod (Dwane Eddie)

Lonley Bull (Tijuana Brass)

Ring of Fire (Johnny Cash)

Love of the Loved (Beatle rarety)

Dedicated to the One I Love (Cherrels)

Sway With Me (Bobby Rydel)

Hully Gully (Olympics) (?)

Ko Ko Bop (Little Anthony & the Imperials)

Come On, Everybody (Eddie Cochrin)

Big Bopper’s Wedding (The Big Bopper)

Rave On (Buddy Holly)

Rock and Roll is Here to Stay (Danny & the Juniors)

26 is kind of the standard number for very short songs three minutes or just less in average running time. We're allowing up to 77 minutes per CD, which some CD's have. Many of these songs are here and have been kicked off of other compilations and sometimes more than once. This is the first "official" airing for groups such as Bobby Rydel or the Tijuana brass.