Myths that "Nobody Can Touch"

 Besides their God and their Bigotry and their Guns, rednecks like to cling to their myths.  For instance the President gave a nice little Pep Talk for us this morning on KNX.  He reminded us how well the economy is doing and with the real estate market there is now so much demand for houses that the interest rate for morttgages is hiked a whole half percentage point back up to 3.75% where it hasn't been in years.  People want to buy before it gets any higher.  Energy production in this country is doing so well that OPEC is mad at us, and in retaliation for us increasing the supply, they are going to cut production to maintain the hundred dollar per barrel petroleum prices.  How come the Right Wing never foresaw THAT happening?  But then on the eight o clock "Republican Response" the Republicans are still singing that old song about how we need to "Free up" energy production in this country.  They then said that it's states with Republican governors where the economy is doing the best.  Of course I just heard on Thom Hartman that the reason why North Dakota fared so well in this recession is because they have their own Bank, their own Fed financing, if you will.  And they also have a lot of oil, like Texas has a lot of oil - - and government defense contracts.  California is doing economically well and its a blue state - - so failure to include California on the list is kind of a lie right there.  From everything I've heard- - the red states are the ones that are the greatest economic leeches off the Federal Government- - and the hypocracy of these people knows no bounds.  Because one way some governors "Balance" their state budgets- - is just to shove everything off onto the local governments- - so that sales tax, property tax, and other miscelanius fees go sky high.

One way in which the Jesus Myth is different from other religions, is that Bhudda was a real person.  Mohamed was a real person.  Confucious was a real person.  Nobody disputes this.  In fact they say things like Mohamed married a nine year old girl and had sex with her.  We know who organized the Tea Party and their own particular set of myths.  Who organized Christianity.   My theory is it had to be "someone with a motive" like an out of work Priest from some other religion now out of fashion.  (Selah)  It seems that Justin Martyr was well bred, Greek on one side and Roman on the other and was born into a high diplomatic family.  (Kind of like Mitt Romney in his own way was)  He went from Greek philosophy to Greek philosophy and was unfulfilled by each.  He wanted to join the Pythagareans, but they insisted he learn math and astronomy and physics, which he didn’t want to do.  So we know he was intellectually lazy.  Just like Paul you-know-who didn’t want to learn Greek and so took a degraded Theology degree.  But he was happy for a while as a Platonist.  But he said something on becoming a Christian I actually agree with.  He said “The testimony of piers is more relevant to me, than the teachings of philosophers”.  Using that logic today is an excellent reason for NOT becoming a Christian, and for LEAVING Christianity, once you have joined it.  One wonders what sort of “testimony” he heard, since Christ had been dead nearly a century at the time.   It would be like someone today talking about President Taft's footman (coach driver) if they still had those.   Of course the Tea Party has accused President Obama of being the "Manchurian Candidate".  This is someone mysterious without a past.  They say things like "Where are all President Obama's old girl friends from college?" and conclude he was either gay or from another planet or something.  The most convincing argument that Christianity is based on a pre scripted "Story" is that with ANY real person - - one that actually lived- - we hear other things other than their last three years of life.  Perticularly in an age like the Roman one where pen and paper were not scarce and people wrote at length.  So where is the person who comes forth and says "Jesus wasn't perfect- - I've seen him give the finger to people in the street several times" or "I saw Jesus smoke a cigarette in the alley one time before going into the Synagogue to preach".  They say "We can trace when Bhudda was declared a God despite his wishes- - in history".  But Jesus never "Became' anything other than what he was.  There is NOT ONE source that portrays Jesus Christ as anything but Divine.  For a real person this makes no sense.  Yes his followers would see him that way, but how about the people who knew him for the previous 33 years.  It's unreasonable to suppose that NONE of them ever dared say he was anything but perfect or divine, assuming they could even agree what that was.

Last evening I viewed Venus for only the second time in the evening twilight.  I have deduced that Mercury is about to go into retrograde, which happens to be a good omen for me, but I would remind you that Mercury’s orbits are really short anyhow.  So these retrogrades occur often.   In terms of Justin - - I do have the Apology I downloaded already.  He addresses his thesis to the Roman Emperor himself and other high ranking officials.  I say this because it occurred to me that just someone with Christian writings addresses the thing to a certain person, this is not to assure they ever read it.  (Selah)  It’s Antonius Pious, who was a welcome breeding ground for Christians since he did not oppose them.  He was gay according to the right.  But the next guy Marcus Aurelius, was straight, and he opposed Christians.  He quotes Matthew extensively in his treaties - - and the most stringent parts I thought were “textural glosses” such as not marrying a divorced woman, or for that matter “He who is twice married is a sinner in God’s sight”.  Of course all of the ripping out of the right eye stuff was there.  I quotes this stuff as though he’d “heard it” but not necessarily from a written “Gospel”.   We had breaded fish for dinner with rice and broccoli, with lemon pudding for desert.  I did not wait for seconds.  Bill just turned on Eye Witness News.  But it’s kind of funny how one paragraph is headed “Being a Christian is Rational” and the very next paragraph is headed “The Activities of Demons”.  Maybe that's one you should leave out of your "Conservator hearing testimony".

As to the Trayvon Martin case- - three vocal analysts have stated that the screaming for his life bit on that 911 tape - - you know- - when the gun shot is fired the screaming stops - - and is never heard again - - that tape, that voice is not George Zimmerman’s.  Once you can establish that- - this case is a done deal.  Judy has bought into the myth that "Travon Martin started the thing" and that Zimmerman was only defending himself.  The fact that there are people who believe this visious lie, only shows what sort of a morally depraved and sick country we live in.

That trans California railroad is in big trouble.  Bill Handel announced it in his roster of news items this morning.  They just want to start construction on the Fresno to Madera portion of the line later this summer but it may not happen.  Some land owners are suing California saying the project is not viable.  And since there were provisions in the original 2008 measure that the ten million project had to keep within those spending bounds and clearly it won’t therefore legally it can’t even be started.  The Supreme Court put another hold on the California death penalty here.  The last California execution was in 2006.  Apparently they didn’t clear it to be able to switch from a three drug injection to a one drug injection.   The California legislature may be “railroading’ another piece of controversial legislation through.  It seems more than likely as if California will now give drivers licenses to illegal aliens – and there won’t be any markers or tags on those ID’s to make it clear to law enforcement that these drivers are in fact illegal aliens.  It’s been argued that they may have already spent the money and registration fees to get a car, and legal registration, and even insurance.  So if the State is going to garner revenue from all these sources- - it’s only right that they then should have a certification to Drive. 

This morning I woke up at four twenty.  Then I got up at five to five or something.  I listened to the Bill Press program.  I had Stephanie on at six, but grew bored with that and switched to Bill Handel on the news at a quarter to seven and afterwards at eight twenty with Neil Savedra.  Neil was talking about the perfect way to grill a hamburger, or even a large filet of ground beef- by indenting the middle so the top cooks flat.  He said something about how “handeling the meat too much isn’t a good idea because it changes the taste of the burger”.  (?)  I’m not going to blog any of the things heard on this morning’s radio.  Frankly there is no coherence to it, and I’m not even sure it’s reliable.  First Bill claims that people have only gotten back half the wealth of their household since the recession of 2007 began.  That’s really hard to believe in light of how stocks and real estate have done in the past several years.  If you haven’t “gone under’ in your mortgage yet, you should be way above water now since you’ve obviously been making the five or six more years of mortgage payments.  News on Social Security is “not encouraging” because we’ll run out of funding in 2034 they now say, which is “unchanged” from previous figures.  The Medicare figure for running out of funds is 2026, which is little improved despite the fact that “people are avoiding elective operations due to the extended recession”.  OK.  Also now apparently consumer spending actually dropped one recent month- like April, and the rises in spending the other months was much smaller than I’d been led to believe.  President Obama is still not popular in his health plan.  Bill Handel says it’s a disaster and insurance costs will be hiked.  And now we have those Dick Morris commercials on liberal radio talking about “The Obama Care Survival Plan” because according to that ad, tax on medical insurance will rise as much as forty percent.  (?)  Also Bill Handel thinks Israel’s intervention in Syria is “insignificant” and how Assad is not afraid of Israel at all, but he’s probably going to defeat the rebels, because this is the concencus now.  If I were Israel I’d consider this statement almost a challenge.  But apparently since the Soviet Union and Hez Ballah are going full bore with support for the Assad Regeime in Syria- - the Rebels don’t stand a chance.  There’s one thing I’d like to know.  Is there a dime’s worth of difference between the “Russian” government now, and the old “Soviet Union” as far as cold war politics is concerned?  How can we now say that “The cold war is over?”   What exalted power decreed that it was OK for Assad to slaughter as many innocents in the Mideast as he can and we won’t do a blessed thing about it/.  Then it was the Mexican lady for the fifth day in a row.  Seldom if ever can I remember a week when KTLK had the same nine o clock host all five days consider the “deep bench” of hosts they have.   This lady was into trivia topics such as how men and women “fight” or verbally joust - - differently.  And there was talk about the Washington Redskins changing their name to something “not racist”.  They are trying to tell us that now in the 21^st century that “Redskin” is a commonly used term for the American Indian.   Bill Handel was talking about “nine year olds having sex” because of that new “app” that will inform your friends that you are STD free.  You don’t have a sexually transmitted disease.  It’s kind of strange for Bill to go “What, sex?  Why would anybody want to have sex?”  As though Bill Handel had never engaged in sex before he met Margerie.  He himself openly admits besides having his nasal passages eaten out by cocaine that Bill “shtooped his brains out when he was younger”.   Rush Limbaugh wasn’t on - - and I’m not going to listen to a substitute reading a script, or else I might have listened to that.

This is seven and Jeopardy is just coming on.  I fell asleep during the ABC network news despite just having had a big cup of French vanilla coffee.  Marsha knocked on the door about three thirty to claim her two dollars and I gave the two dollars to her.  Janet offered us some coated cake kind of like cheese cake but not.  She opened up a new box just for me.  Donnie had sugar cookies for us and Bill gave his two to me so that I had four.  There is a rash of new tornados in Oklahoma on the south side, right where the bad tornado last week struck.  ABC had on the spot live west coast coverage.  It’s gotta be hell for those people all over again.

 

The Accidental Master Stroke of Genious

The other side will accuse you of "Being Subjective" even when they know damn well you are one hundred percent correct.  In the psychic realm of Real Images, they don't have this problem.

I got up at five thirty this morning and had Bill Press on a while.  They happened to mention that Congress had not been in session all week.  I figured “Well that figures.  They never do any work”.  Perhaps in June some long awaited things will finally happen.  We’ll get the supreme court ruling on gay marriages in California.  And they will also rule on the Defense of Marriage act.  The latter is a Law that has always been unconstitutional, but of course that hasn’t stopped people from embracing it for seventeen years.  Later on I had Ed Schultz on that Monterey station.  People are still roomanating about Michelle Bachman’s “resignation”.  Actually she’s far from a “lame duck”  (that term is highly overused)  Because she’s still in a position to do an awful log of damage before she departs a year and a half from now.  But Ed Schultz says that “Congress is like a glorified Union.  But this one is a lot more powerful and binding than most”.  That’s because there are few Union jobs where you could work eight years and accomplish nothing.  Her name isn’t on any bills that ever passed.  And apparently you get a life long pension.  You ask why these people who hate government even run for Congress to begin with.  Here’s a good reason why.  Another is to MEET the lobbyists and such that will be hiring them once they have chewed up the government and spit it out.  Perhaps she will run for the US Senate from another State, like Hilary Clinton did.  We don’t know.  Maybe she’s fanaticizing about running for President again.  One thing we don’t know is WHAT the real reason for her resignation is.  There are a lot of logical suppositions why.  But she never told us the reason why she DID resign- - - only reasons she DIDN’T have for resigning.  I had Ed Schultz on for close to two hours from nine o clock to eleven.  After this Janet saw me trying to borrow a cigarette and again volunteered to give me money for another pack - - and I went to her room and got the money - - and then went out to the liquor store for a pack of John Blacks.  And after lunch Randi Rhodes played Bill O Riley clips where he threw a tantrum about “Hate speech” and in a prime example of the pot calling the kettle black, accused Randi Rhodes of “hate speech” merely because she agreed with Bobby Gendel that “The Republicans were the party of Stupid”.   One can’t help but wonder whether people will realize how nonsensical the right wing extreme has become.  This morning I was reading about the September 23^rd 2012 gathering at Mom’s, where political rhetoric was so thick, not to mention oppressive, that you could cut it with a knife.   Rush Limbaugh has lost a lot of viewers and sponsors since the President was reelected- - and Judy has for the most part decided to “keep a lid on it”.

It seems the author of these Riesen laced letters to the President and most recently to major Bloomberg of New York - - is from Baton Rouge or something.  And the topic of the letters is about guns and legislation to regulate them.  “If you think this letter is bad, it’s going to be as nothing when you see what other horrors I am prepared to unleash”.    There is no shortage of not only hate “speech” but also hate Actions- - and overt and dangerous threat, which cannot be prudently ignored.   I thought about it going down for medication.  (By the way I got two bananas and there was no line)  I’ve come to the conclusion that the reason why there are more overtly violent and threatening letters and other actions now is that even the Tea Party knows that money cannot buy everything- - just as money was useless in the major California elections and we here in California have largely been immune to the wave of tea party madness that has swept America’s Heartland.   I’ve said all along that “As this economy improves slowly but steadily and inexorably- - the power and sway of the Tea Party over America- - will diminish.  Back in September of 2012 I’ll admit my hope for any future of liberalism was at its low ebb about that point.  I thought it was an open question whether or not Romney would be elected president.  I felt there was a very real possibility that he would be.  A lot of America’s future rides on whether it will be a liberal or a conservative Justice who is the first to die- - and have President Obama replace him.  The Republicans in the Senate would not date to filibuster that.

If what you have to impart is a Truth of great Magnitude- - - and if you are careful how you phrase things so as not to make a misstep- - then your truth will ‘Land” where it is supposed to land or at least be “captured” by the hearer.  But if your truth is or little importance or magnitude- - -  AND - -  if you say your Truth with great force and ardency pounding the table and shaking your fist or- - perhaps waving your Bible about - - and looking upward as if to invoke God - - then the “circle of error” for your truth shrinks, and it’s incumbent on you to be MORE and not LESS accurate than a truth of Great Magnitude.  (Selah)  A Real Image is one that Everybody Sees.  An Apparent Image is one only You see.  In the other world - - I believe that psychic communication is Immediate.  Down here it’s relatively easy to engage in a life of stealth and treachery all your days.  Your enemies wait longingly for the day when you’re found out.  But not over there.  There is no “waiting around” for anything.  There ARE no secrets.  Some people might pay most any price not to have their own inner intentions revealed.   One Mormon teacher around here once said “Life down here is an opportunity to learn lessons you’ll need to know when you get to Heaven”.  In fact Mormons see life down here as an interlude or interruption of your Heavenly existence, expressly FOR that purpose- - - of learning; gaining knowledge.   But when you pull the plug on a computer- - the information in RAM is lost.  So what the human soul wants to know is, “Is there some way of storing the knowledge I have acquired that isn’t contingent on pulling the plug on my brain cells?”  I must say that today’s kids appear to be getting Smarter much more quickly than we did.  Hummm.

Now they have passed a couple of problematic laws in California.  It’s just a by-product of having a veto proof legislature.  The minimum wage will be raised to $9.25 in three years.  It’s a known fact that every time the minimum wage is hiked, the unemployment rate rises.  It happened around 1980 for sure, and it happened again in 2007.   There was a massive hike in the minimum wage in 1968 and unemployment rates were never to fall that low again.  Our economy doesn’t need the added drag, and businesses don’t like it.  The other law is the one that says that twelve year olds are “emancipated” as far as having any medical procedure done from STD testing to the morning after pill to abortions, without their parents knowledge or consent.  David Cruise believes this is a little much.  However David Cruise may be on the protective side by his remark about “these kids don’t know what their genitals are even for”.  Surely he’s not saying that sex is only for procreation.  Perhaps he’s alluding to the fact that he’s against sex outside of marriage.  The trouble with this is people like Emily said she didn’t want her kids even thinking about marriage till they were 25.   That means for a male- - he spends, let’s say the period from age 15 to 25 as a virgin.  That’s ten years of his sexual virility down the drain.  You’re asking a lot of a young man.  The Geritol commercials inform us that “When a man gets beyond the age of 35 his body begins to slow down”.   So in essence a man is being asked to sacrifice half his peak virility- - all for a marriage that might not last five years.  Marriages are a farse now anyhow.  It will soon be more the domain of gay people than heterosexuals.  I mean for them being into wedding gowns and flower arrangement and wedding cake design - - they are in seventh heaven!   I would have no problem with hiring a gay wedding planner.  My problem would be with myself for even thinking about getting married given the facts.  There are people who have “done everything right” and it wasn’t too long at all before everybody realized their marriage was toast.  I am not among that number.  But I fully understand it. 

Nick Fallon has been on his “apology tour” just like conservatives accused President Obama of doing in the Mideast a few years ago.  Here’s a word to the wise.  “Coming clean” is not all it’s cracked up to be.  Sometimes there are unintended consequences.  As Bob Halderman wisely told John Dean in April of 1973, “Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it’s impossible to get it back in”.  Just because you CAN do something doesn’t mean it’s the wise thing to do.  Are the consequences something that you’ve really “thought through”?  Here’s another word of wisdom from Collin Powell, “You break it; you own it”. I don’t think those jerk-off writers of the Soap Opera even considered that.  Question.  What the hell is Gabriel going to do now?  She has a newborn daughter that is by her own wishes declared illegitimate.   The biological sperm donor - - can go off and marry his gay lover, Sonny, but where the hell does that leave Gabriel?  Of course these days Nick Fallon has been digging his own grave- - and much of how he feels right now is his own fault.  Just as it’s Brady’s own damn fault for how he’s feeling right now and it’s difficult to feel sorry for Brady.  A therapist might say of Brady Black, “He almost deliberately set himself up for this disaster”.  But the thing is with Nick- - as feverishly as he’s been working to dig himself into a deep pit - Sonny and Samantha and Will are shoveling the dirt on top of him.  This may be an inconvienient time to make this remark, but has anybody for a split second considered how Gabriel feels right now?  And I mean in part the things Nick said to her, that were not only unnecessary but tactless.   Samantha gave a curt “Thank you” to Nick for allowing her to say that Arianna the newborn was now a bastard child and that the hospital made a grievious mistake saying she was the legal offspring of a marriage.  And then Samantha, Sonny, and Will make an expeditious exit from the hospital room almost as if someone had sounded a fire alarm.  It’s kind of like the Holy Spirit must feel when an alcoholic fallen business executive comes to the altar to get Saved.   The Holy Spirit hi-fives Jesus and goes “We did it!  I knew we could break him is we worked at it hard enough.  We’ve won.  Here Jesus, let’s toast the moment.  Now let’s get the hell out of here.  I don’t want to hang around a loser like that.”

And now the saga of an innocent teenage belle named Wilimina who had the misfortune to be seated alone on a flight next to a guy who was masturbating under a blanket.  But rather than alert anyone about it, she just sat there and observed.  But the guy seemed to have trouble getting off and eventually put the thing back in his pants in sheer frustration.  She then followed him from a distance when they landed and she followed him into a restroom where she saw him moving his feet into the area of another stall where another man was and made all of these tapping sounds to alert him.  But just then a Disneyland employee drops off a container of dry ice in the sink and turns the water on.  After a while the dry ice exploded and it made such a loud, startling BANG -  it threw her off her feet and she slipped and fell into a pool of urine in this filthy restroom.  Then she did the only logical thing s- - - he sued the Airport and the City.