The Inevitability of It All

Many people have had their own slant on 9 - 11. People say that it could have been prevented, but of course it wasn't. You can't go on a Monday morning quarterbacking orgy forever. The fact is what happened is what happened. If we believe the scientists everything is predistined, including the winner of the Presidential 2008 election. It's not a question of "making the future"; it already exists. It's just a matter of waiting for it to be revealed to us. People say that outer space really isn't empty. It's just as filled with sub-atomic "strings" as the rest of matter. Scientists say this space "traps us" in time. Just to review what I consider the scientific up to date explanation of the subject, at some point twelve or fifteen billion years in the past, both space and time, as well as matter were created. There was no "empty space" in the remote past because there was no space. It didn't exist. Also there is no "infinite past" because it only exists to a finite point. Before this even the word "before" doesn't exist, just after the last moment in time to exist there simply "is no more". That day will come. God had to "ontologically" exist because the creation of time and space is "ontologically" prior to its existance. But we cannot say WHEN God created anything because there was no Time before God created it. It would be misguided to say creation was in the ultra remote past because neither the future nor the past existed till God created them. Both the future and the past have equal reality and validity and importance to God. It's just we don't know the future, now. Perhaps some psychic, if he tunes into the right cosmic vibration can sense it. Of course if he's genuine he won't be able to change it. Nothing has any free will; it's all an allusion. We have the illusion of free will. Those who think they have more freedom are not experiancing more free will but more illusion. The Hindus say that all life is an Illusion. This is not to say that it is false; mearly that we are experiancing something that cannot positively be proven. We cannot prove whether any other being is "sensient" as they say on Star Trek, be it biological or cybernetic or something other.

They say the secret of Beethoven in writing his symphonies is that the music had to have a sense of inevitability to it. I have heard you could reduce a whole Beethoven symphony to sine wave interfearence. Sine waves are technically graphs of the sine function in trigonometry but just think of them as those half circle things you see. In radio if you had one wave generated at 1110 kilahertz and another wave at 1115 or a five thousand cycle difference this would be said to be a modulated "beat frequency". I guess the theory behind what I'm saying is "The whole is contained in the part".

In the fall of 1970 George Harrison came out with the All Things Must Pass album. I think I can see why the Beatles didn't like that song. Some things don't come to pass, they come to stay forever. Back on September 12th. 1970 on a Saturday morning I discovered for the first time that my brother was a Born Again Christian; that's when he "Came out". There is no more taking back of that day than there is the taking back of September 11th. 2001. That disaster didn't come "to pass"; it came to Stay. It's still a reality after five years. Just like the break-up of the Beatles didn't come to pass, it came to stay. I've heard that George Harrison cut his hair just before that album came out. That was the symbolic death of the 'sixties. At just about the same time that album came out, Jesus Christ superstar came out. There were a lot of "those groups" those groups that Calvary Marinatha bands like to immotate that came out at that time, such as James Taylor, Bread, Cat Stevens, Elton John, and Badfinger. Other than the one hit song "No Dice" is a pretty wasted album from Badfinger. It was as if God were saying, "You've had good music for several years running; now I'm going to torture you with a lot of bad music". Death itself doesn't come to pass; it comes to stay. Life is the fleeting thing, and hence precious. Death is far less precious than life because it's permanent. I get a little unconfortable when I hear Born Again Christians say they can't wait for Death, and how great things will be once this life is over. Some may wonder what the saying "Artificial flowers cannot die and neither can a tombstone kill a feather" means. I'll explain it. Christians are always trying to be plastic. They seem to regard the emotions God gave them as somehow wrong, and they seek to, and succeed, in generating artificial emotions. Real people have real feelings. I'm a little tired of the line used by Christians, "Well, if you didn't have your own ego what I just said wouldn't bother you". I feel like saying, "The point is I do, and so I regard it as a dead issue". I was so often told by one spiritual adviser to "Die to self". That saying sounds more Bhudist than Christian but I was always hearing "Die to self" from this man. The second part of the saying is that there is something about life that death can't conquer, if you don't let it. Life is its own reality. Death may bigger and scaryer and more massive, but life has something that death cannot touch. People who are dead, like Christians, seem to always envy the rest of us, who are Alive. Life is in the Now and death is tomorrow and hence irrelivent to now. (Selah)

I want to talk just a bit about how bogus I regard early Church history as. I've thought about it and thought about it- - and have concluded that there is no evidence at all for Christianity for the first thirty years after Jesus' death. That means the Apostle Paul, if he preached at all, preached at a later date, perhaps the turn of the Century. The reason why I say this is because there is no secular evidence at all for Christianity's existance during that time. The first incident we have where church fantassy meats Reality is at the fire of Rome in 64 AD that was probably initially set by Nero, to make way for some new public buildings. However some say the fire initially began accidently in a faboric shop. But there are sources who say the fire showed signs of going out when unidentified people, and they could be Christians, went around setting new fires. This idea was broached by the "Barrabus movie" and I also read it in a book somewhere. So the first "Trials" Christians were on from Rome was not for "practicing their faith" but for setting Fires. We assume they were all fed to the lions but one major arena in Rome, where this was done, wasn't built till AD 80, after Nero was long dead. One powerful argument that St. Paul and that whole croud he hung around with, you know, Silus and Timothy and Luke, didn't live before 64 AD is because since Luke wrote Acts about 85 AD so he most surely would have recorded Nero's depravity and the fire in Rome. It's kind of too big a thing to ignore since it changed everything, along with the fall of Jerusalem, which is also ignored by Luke. Another fact I find puzzling is that the Christian Church was ALREADY IN ROME before St. Paul got there and I'd like to know how that came to be since he was the number one forerunner and "point man". I guess you could say the rise of Christianity was another of those "Inevitable" things. But a lot of people have seen Elvis alive and no massive churches have formed. I have to ask myself "What's the difference". There are those who say that Christianity was not founded by poor working stiff deciples but a group of rich "Illuminatti". There is an obscure early 2nd. century historian that starts with an H who reported that Dometian arranged for the relatives of Jesus to move to protected status by Rome. We hear from Paul of the "Christians in Ceasar's household". (Meaning Nero, supposedly) How did they get saved if they were already saved when Paul got to Rome? You see, I think there is a Roman-centric history of the early Church- - the "Catholic aspect" that people try and downplay. By the way the first time Catholic is ever used in a Christian writing is by Ignatius. Some say over half of his letters are bogus. I say all of his letters are bogus because I don't believe Ignatious ever lived. I believe he was a made-up composit being. Most of the description of his life, and there is very little of it at all, occurs several hundred years after he lived. He is said to have lived around the turn of the first and second centuries. There are those who say real Christian history doesn't begin untill about the year AD 160. I disagree with that only to say AD 135 is a more reasonable date. I believe the Church started in Rome and worked its way outward- - except for Egypt and I discuss that in "Escape from Egypt". Rather than the Beast of Revelation, Emperor Dometian may be the one who gave Christianity its birth. They say that Emperor Dometian was an outward Moralist who did all his sinning in private, just like Christians. I hope I have given you something to think about and hopefully, to investigate on your own. I've done that and looked at all the hints and pointers and where they lead, and where they don't lead.

Lacking in Moral Credibility

George Bush has squandered any moral authority he may have had right after 9 – 11. People point out that at that time the country was unified against the Talliban and that we had the goodwill and sympathy of the world. What did we do with it? They have released an official report as of yesterday saying what we had all long known that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with the terror attacks of 9 – 11. The last time Saddam had met with any members of Al Qaida was 1995 and that Saddam sent a memo saying he openly distrusted Al Qaida and Islamic terrorists as a threat to his regeim. This ought to answer the question once and for all. Dick Chaney and others have repeatedly stated that there was a 9 – 11 connected to Saddam Hussein. Chaney will be on “Meet the Press” tomorrow and face tough questioning.

Innocent people have been kidnapped or “extreme rendered” and held for months or longer by the CIA. One Denver doctor was detained. There was another Moslem who was detained at the airport coming back into Canada where he lived. He moved there to escape the regeim in Syria. But with tears in his eyes he was told he was going to take a plane ride back to Syria where he knew he’d be tortured. Why would the United States conduct any business at all with Syria? I thought we were enemies. The Bush Adminestration had trashed any “moral authority” it may have had on the issue of terror. Now we’re dealing with Uzbeckistan, one of the most brutal regeims of all time, where they boil people in oil. Someone says they looked that up and says they got a recipe for rice pilof. I guess any sattalite nation of Russia in the old days would have been considered a “Freedom loving nation”. Today we know better. That man who spent a year in Syria was eventually returned to this country with never a charge being filed. Of course Bush wants to suspend important key principles of the Constitution to try these so called terrorists. Since the evidence is classified, not even the defendant is allowed to see it. So the defense is stripped of a key right to confront the evidence and people against them. This is the sort of court or “tribunal” Bush wants set up. We need to stop him now by voting democratic in November, to insure the next two years he knows that it’s the American people who are in charge and his actions are investigated.

Apparently they’re growing more opium poppies now in Afghanastan then they were five years ago. I’ve heard this charge repeatedly. At first they were saying that the US was allowing the opium because it’s better to grow poppies than to train terrorists. Now we hear that the Talliban, who formerly against the opium trade are now in favor of it. Also “our side” suffered an attack yesterday by the Talliban, so that they are not as weak and disabled as we thought. We can’t get anything right. I’d like George Bush to put out a list of things he’s accomplished these past five years to make us secure.

I had another of those dreams last night where I was in a mental institution. But we were traveling around the world through various countries. One night we stopped at a hotel-hospital in Libya, where our group was assigned quarters that started with a W in Arabec, and was associated with the colored red. The overseeing nurse or whatever was a nice lady and was also some sort of a researcher. It was just the lower level mail nurses that drove me up the walls. I was being given this drug. I felt as though I’d lived this whole dream before only this time the drug medication seemed higher. One side affect of the drug is that it made me a fantastic swimmer able to beat anybody with short jerky movements. I found also that my fastest swimming was in swimming backwards. There was some other protest leader against the whole program and I had the hope that perhaps this whole drugging thing might stop with exposure in the press.

J. EDGER HOOVER'S PRIVATE READING

Buddy Owens was fighting in the Pacific Theatre on a battle ship battling the Japanese in 1944. Buddy had recently received news that the only father he’d ever known, Martin Owens died of a heart attack while working on his oil rig in Oklahoma. The news possibly had a distracting effect on our sailor and he may have been making minor errors in judgement. It’s believed that one of these errors was the cause of a minor battle defeat one day when his ship took casualties from the Japanese. It’s believed that Owens put out a radio transmission at the wrong time. Buddy himself was injured. After consulting with his mother- - who laid this big trip on him about how worry about her son may have killed his father- - Owens subsequently took a military disability and was out of the war. There are people to this day who say that Buddy Owens exaggerated his injuries. Be that as it may in the fall of 1944 Buddy was enrolled in college at UCLA. During the first year or so of campus life Buddy was plagued by nightmares of his fellow comrades in the war getting their heads blown off. In the spring semester of 1948 Buddy’s hopes of graduating that semester were dashed when he discovered he needed one more accounting class to graduate and get his degree. At about the same period his mother hired an Astrologer who prophesized that if Buddy Owens didn’t meet a woman and get married this semester he might never get married. He had to act while Venus was still in the western skies. As June faded so did Venus as it slowly sang into the purple haze of sunset, and perhaps along with it Buddy’s hopes of getting married. One night while lying in bed he said “I’d sell my soul for that prophecy not to be right”. That summer Owens got a job working at a bank. In mid August he quit the job under questionable circumstances and got a job operating a fork life at a warehouse at night so he could take the classes he wanted that were only offered during the day. His mother expressed fears, “What if a twenty ton crate falls on you and you end up paralyzed from the neck down?” But Buddy would reassure her, “Mother, if I survived the Pacific, I can survive this job”. Since the death of Martin, his mother had become increasingly de-pendant on him because he was the baby brother and still not yet married.

On the first or second day of the new semester, it was believed to be around Bill Clinton’s birthday, he offered a coed a ride in his old car which was the laughing stock of the campus. Needless to say they fell in love and she fell under his spell, or was it visa versa. She was a feminist and to prove he was for the cause she urged him to do some-thing trippy a feminist would do. He decided changing his last name from Owens to Dutton would be a good idea. And it was so. Charles Dutton was his biological father who had ran out on them when he was a baby. Such a move appears flakey but feminists always do things illogical. (Like Patty Reagan changing her name to Patty Davis, Nancy’s maiden name) His mother was uncomfortable with the idea. After a short court ship they got married. In the presidential campaign Owens’ mother was a southern Democrat supporting a northern Republican in Dewey. Owens voted for Dewey but then regretted it that evening, as his wife has been for Truman because he was a democrat and more likely to believe in the things she did.
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The preceding was from "Standings". The following is from the "Yorkshire" file typed in August of 2004, and is under a bit of a fictionalized format where Howard puts an appearence after death, and we drag in the Federation. By the way I didn't know till yesterday that Russia calls themselves a "Federation" now. Sometimes the Orion Federation acts a little like the old USSR.
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OK, it’s after eight now. Frank hasn’t asked for more; Glen has. We continue. I asked Howard what his exact relation was to me and he began munching on a candy bar. I watched him for a while and then it dawned on me and I said, “You know they aren’t made by the same company now”. Just one change. This half sister of my Dad relative austensively had no children. She was much older than my Dad. At age fifteen she had a daughter Howard called Bernice, (not Ivey), who was his mother and she married a man Peter Richards, who was his father. (not “Burtrin”) The rest of the story in Tabloid is going unchallenged about an eldest son named Raymond dying of an “aggressively growing” brain tomer. The middle child was named Mary and the youngest child is Pete. The federation wanted me to agree to a statement. That my Dad was left by his natural father at age two, and that “Casey” married again to a man named Martin Owens, who worked on an oil rig in Oklahoma. And he died of a heart attack in the ‘fourties perhaps out of worry about his two sons in the military, Dad being in the South Pacific.

- - - - A Hebrew blessing: YVAN - EHT - NIOJ!

A Cheap Political Stunt

I presume this thing is working OK now. They were working on it earlyer this morning. George Bush is giving us all political whiplash pulling his own "September Surprise". After years of nothing now just before the congressional elections, Bush has produced fourteen prisoners who are responsible for 9 - 11 and other Al Quaida activity. In this political 180 now after months of saying how it was a horrible thing to disclose secret CIA prisons, which used torture techniques, now he's coming out into the open and admitting it. Now the pressure is on Congress to pass procedures for some military tribunal to try these fourteen prisoners, which have now been transferred to Guantanamo Bay. I thought they were going to close guantanamo bay. Bush is as much as saying that because we used these "alternative interrigation methods" including "water-boarding" these fourteen prisoners disclosed valuable information. I don't think the democrats should let the President "get away with" vindicating torture methods the way he has done. All of this is suspicious because the November elections for Congress are just around the corner.

Congress, for its own part doesn't have a very good record now. They get paid a hundred and sixty-five thousand or something. But this past year they were only in session seventy-one days. I bet the average C E O works more than that. Clearly they are targets for the charge of being a "do nothing congress". Now the democrats are in an all out push to get rid of Donald Rumsfeld, a move Ed Schultz criticised. This congress has apparently decided to table any action on raising the minimum wage from a low $5.25 an hour, where it has been for nearly ten years. It almost seems as if the Democrats want a terrible record to take back to the Voters so they can blame Bush or something. I guess that's their motive. Clearly in the eleven days they have left for this congress they can't do much in deciding the fate of these fourteen prisoners. We hear that their trials will be secret because they have classified information. As I understant it, the prisoner himself won't even be able to see all of his own trial because the evidence used to convict him is classified. Apparently three republican senators, including John Mc Cain, question the President's motives in wanting a resolution before the November election.

The President had a major embarrassment the day before yesterday. It seems as if Bin Laden's group in Pakistan has been given sanctuary by the Pakistani military. They have a peace accord where if the Taliban promises not to attack, the army won't try to root them out. How is the President explaining this major diplomatic failure? I don't know. Of course several days ago the "second in command" of Al Quaida was captured. I guess one has the right to ask, "Just how many Second in Command" do the Talliban have? If they've captured all these people it would seem we have taken a major step tword solving the terrorism problem. But nobody seems to believe that. I guess we should thank God we have a vigellent President and that Britain is vigellant to break up all these plots before they can be exicuted. You know- on the show Nova the other night, those building dezigners were acting as though another 9 - 11 could happen at any time instead of being a one time flook event. Who is right? I personally don't feel as though I am "In danger". I don't know how many people voting in November do feel endangered, and if they do that President Bush and he along is the one they need to turn to and trust to feel secore.

I am against both of the propositions now on the airwaves here in California, propositions 86 and 87. Prop 87 raises drilling taxes for oil in the state. I guess they call it a "severence tax" in other states. The thing is with that added expense, we will end up importing more oil from other countries and that will end up increasing gasoline prices in the long run. The "energy research" part of the bill seems dubious. Apparently there is no accountability. Proposition 86 seems like a boondoggle for Hospitals who can fix prices and suspend a bunch of regulations that would normally apply. And they rake in a lot of money for projects not related to smoking, but they get it from taxes on the dwindling number of smokers.

Brave New World

Today is September 5th. the start of school for most places. It used to be that school didn't start till the week after Labor Day but that was the old days. For many kids it will be a brave new world, for instance kindergartners, or going into middle school, or entering as Freshmen in High School or College. This younger generation has its oddities, of course. For one thing, so the experts tell us, winning and losing don't mean that much. It's important to message everyone's feelings and to get effusive praise for even a small accomplishment that would have been ignored in my day. Of course this is the cell phone generation. It's "The most watched over generation in history". Today's kids never experiance the sort of freedom my generation had as kids. They're always over-scheduled and checked up on by parents. If we believe some sources the homework this generation is saddled with is much worse. Doing homework over summer vacation would have been considered totally bogus in my day, but today's teachers get away with assigning it. I don't see how because once a class term is ended it would seem a teacher had no power over you.

Many of the things we predicted just months ago in "President Hillary" are pretty much realities already. Smoking is already banned even in your own car if there are kids in the car. Now there is talk of extending car seats to age six or something. Of course TV as we know it will soon become a thing of the past. In February 2009 the VHS analog stations will go off the air and the bands will be reclaimed by other more vital use. (perhaps national security) We have gone from the 3 by 4 aspect TV picture to the 9 by 16 aspect picture, broadcast at 720 lines progressive. This higher quality will soon become standard. Now they have HD digital radio. Your VHS tapes and your casette tapes are fast becomming a thing of the past, even though I regard these both as perfectly respectful mediums. Now they are saying even the CD is becomming a thing of the past as downloads take over. My question is, "Whatever happened to album art?" I guess that went the way of the TV theme song. Now we are all waiting for Vista to come out and those in the know say that early versions of it should be out next month, and they claim a lot of changes will be in it. If history is any guide, being a new version of an opperating system, it will probably be so bug laiden that numerous "fixes" will have to be offered. Of course the smallness of today's electronic devices is getting rediculous. Now they are referring to blackberry users who have to do it as "Crack berries".

By the year 2020 today's kindergartners will be in college. Lord knows what they'll be studying by them. There are so many bogus classes now. But by then according to Leo Le Port they will have computers that are as smart as human beings. According to Leo and according to some guy in the 1940's the test of whether a computer is as smart as a human is if in analizing text answers to questions, an expert cannot tell which answers were generated by humans and which were generated by machine. At that time, according to Leo, computers will be writing their own software. It seems that programmers, as smart as they are now, are incapable of writing software programs beyond a certain level of complexity, but they hope to "teach" this concept to the computers and have them write the software that will be necessary to run tomorrow's programs. Of course one of the end of the world scanarios is that an intelligent computer will cease control of the nation's defence system. They will no longer be entering launch codes and having a team of people in the holes turning keys to launch missiles, computers will do it. Of course already they have computers which anticipate the needs of human beings and "guess" what you will want or guess what you intend to do next. Leo also says there will be increasing links between human beings and computers with computerized prosthetic devices that hook into your neuro system and respond to your brain impulses. So as we said before, the line between biological life forms and cyber life forms will be blurred untill we come to what Leo referrs to as "singularity". This idea of a half human half computer walking around is still a little too Sci Fi for me. I guess in the year 2025 things will be different, but sometimes predicting the exact nature of the cultural changes so far into the future is difficult.

Back in 1986 they predicted all sorts of things for the turn of the century that didn't come to pass. Among these were that bathrooms would be called "entertainment centers" and every one would have a jacuzzi. They predicted we'd have vaccines for any kind of cancer by then. In reality as of now, 2006 they are working on gene therapy taking the body's own imune cells and especially treating them so that they attack cancerous cells in the body, and apparently they have had success with this procedure. If this turns out to be so it will mark a major breakthrough in cancer research. Nowdays we are fighting off aging every day. There will be people living to the year 2020 whom we never guessed would last that long. Now of course besides all the hair treatments and botox and lyfosuction and cosmetic surgery, we have things like taking hormones to stay young looking. Some people think this is horrible, I don't see why. I think they should make testosterone available to anybody who wants it- - because no other single substance could be more expediant to restoring lost youth. But people say sex hormones are dangerous because they encolurage cancer growth. But now they've got a cure for that so that eliminates that reason for not taking them. Other substances people take are human growth hormone and also steroids such as cortozone, which the body makes naturally anyhow, and is already a standard treatment for certail ailments. Personally, I think this whole athlets on steroids thing is way overblown. I don't see why "professionals" those who are paid to put out - - can't take whatever best enhances their performance, since that's what they get paid for. People don't pay to see "a fair contest"; people pay to see record breaking performance. The Olympics is one thing- - I can see the reasoning there- - -but I don't see why people in professional sports can't take cortozone or steroids, since these are substances the body produces naturally anyhow, and they can sure retard the onset of old age.

Of course we might not make it to the future if any number of flooky, freaky events overtakes us that they talked about on ABC last week. We could cross paths with a Black Hole. We may know the date of our deaths and unable to stop it. But before you fear being sucked into thirty-two pieces, keep in mind that way before that happens the mile high tides on planet earth will about wipe everyone out. Another unlikely event is a supernova of a neighboring star. They say the clossest star where this could happen is one eight thousand lightyears away. When that happens there will be two suns in the sky. First all the ozone will be burned off. Then with the ozone gone, the massive amount of gamma rays will kill every living thing right down to the cellular level. Another possability is that an asteroid could do us in. This would leave a five mile long crater in the ground and plunge us into sort of a permanent night blocking the sun. This is what killed the dinasaurs. Of course more likely than any of these are biological weapons or else global warming. We know all about that. But even the pessimists are saying it will be ten thousand years before one of these things does us in. Untill then we should see a lot of scientific progress. If the Star Trek people are right, we should isolate the "graviton" particle and invent the warp drive in just over fifty years. If and when that occurrs, it will revolutionize space travel. "String" theory and study of subatomic particles should be an upcoming field. On a recent earthlink mailing they had "Fourteen facts about Space you probably don't know". I recomment everyone download it and read it.

Profiles in Craven Cowardess

It is said that the one thing Satan can't synthesize, but wishes that he could, is courage. That's an interesting thought to meditate on. It is said that courage tests what men and women are really made of. We know when something is "The Real Thing". I was going to download a big photograph of Robert Kennedy to feature in this posting. He showed courage because he ran for President even after his brother was assasenated. He also showed courage in that he didn't back down from campaigning even after Martin Luther King was gunned down. History might be very different today had Robert Francis Kennedy survived. It is said that counterfeiters are successful because people are expecting the real thing and not getting it. If the Real Thing were not valuable, there would not be so many counterfeiters. In the recovery of "The Scream" painting yesterday, the criminals knew they had The Real Thing, but of course they were unable to sell it because of all the computer data banks. In Christianity there is the parable of the wheat and the tares, or as I say in my book, the wheat and the darnel grass. Now, there is nothing wrong with being darnel grass, so long as you don't try to pass yourself as wheat. I think if there is a distinction between the real and the fake among Christians, it's along the dividing line of Courage, ie. who has it and who doesn't. I have often said that the two biggest vices of modern Christianity is that they are cowards and hypocrits. Scripture tells us in the last day that it's the fakes who will be "taken" first. Scripture says "Wherever the corpse is there vultures will be gathered". People talk about the Rapture as being the be all and end all of Christian faith. And yet it's dawned on me that the reason why they cling to what well may be a falst doctrine (and a tracable Adventist offshoot hericy) is that these people are "Frightened of the Real World". They can't face it and they want to get away from it. It's funny when you listen to Christian music they are Johnny come latelys. I remember when I first heard my first disco Christian song. What a shock. That was in 1980. I heard my first "Christian punk" in early 1983. Now they have Christian rap. It seems as if Christianity is always playing the "me, too" game. They're always a follower and never a leader, like Abraham, Martin, John and Bobby were leaders.

I supposed if I were to venture who deserves the hottest places in hell and the least deserving of any mercy or appeal or even a hearing, it would be these people, and usually parents, who murder their children and then kill themselves. This is what I would call an extreme form of cowardice. Those kids have their young lives cut short and they get no hearing or appeal. Why should their parents get any? I suppose it would be a tad less hot for Andria Yates. At least she didn't try to kill herself after offing her five innocent children. At least she stayed around to face justice, such as it was. I don't know what goes on in the minds of these psycho parents, often estranged divorcees, who kidnap and then murder their kids and take their own life.

Ed Schultz is about the only host who is still on KTLK these days. The guy who replaced Al Frankin was a complete asshole, and I tuned in Rush Limbaugh to get away from him. This whole air traffic controler crisis has been going on, I suppose since the firing of air traffic controlers by Ronald Reagan in 1981. If Ed Schultz is right by the year 2010 75 % of the air traffic controlers on the job 25 years ago will have retired, and the thing is they are not being replaced. It seems in Philadelphia the union there had some terms crammed down their throat they really didn't feel confortable with. Now they have to work extra overtime, and under conditions of extreme fatigue. Excuses that used to be acceptable won't be any more. They are endangering the welfare of passengers, such as happened last week. We will be seeing a rise in "incidents" where controler error is to blame. There have been a lot of near misses in the skies over our airports lately. It was only a matter of time before the chickens came home to roost. So why do people agree to terms they are ethically opposed to? Why do certain construction firms agree to a cheaper grade of cable or steel in a project than was agree to, and may not even be legal but they do it anyhow? Strange as it seems it seems to be Fear. Fear of their superiors looking over their shoulder and wagging their fingers. They would rather endanger humdreds of lives than look their superiors in the eyes and tell them they're wrong. Now we hear the goal of the Bush adminestration is to privatize the whole industry. Perhaps if the Bush bragades can generate a sever enough manpower shortage- - somehow the solution will be to privitize, and give the account to Haloburten or some other corporation where the Bush people can make a nice profit.

There is a fictional case on a soap opera that merits looking at. There was a guy named Ethan who needed a job and his wife was leaning on him to get some mulah into the account. Suddenly a plumb case drops into his lap. There is a guy who was ripped off by the Crane Empire because of a pattened invention that was stolen by the Crane Empire and the guy wanted justice. Ethan turned him down. The reason given was that "Oh innocent workers may get fired if the case is successful and I can't be responsable for that". First of all he doesn't know that. He doesn't know if he will win the case, or if another attorney got it he'd win. But most importantly, if a worker sings up to work for an evil man like Allester Crane, they pretty much are taking a moral risk. The right has a point. Sometimes things happen. Corporations do go bankrupt. People skip town without paying their workers. If you go to work for a crook that's what you can expect. But all the man who brought the case to Ethan wanted was justice and Ethan was an attorney. But there is another cowardess factor working with Ethan. First of all Allester when he was alive used that excuse, "If you put me out of business millions of workers around the world will suffer". I doubt it. But Ethan was afraid of losing the love of Teresa, a woman he's had a lust problem with for years. Ethan let cowardess and his hormones get in the way of a rightious judgement. But you know- - God himself had a moral lapse in the Bible when Satan came to him and began making demands on him concerning his treatment of Job. And God decided even though he knew he should do the right thing, he really didn't want to offend Satan, only Lord knows why. Literally. Rather than offend Satan, God decided it would be better to allow evil to take place. If we could put an Ethan mask on God and a Teresa mask on Satan- - - well.

There is another case from the same soap opera. Why do criminals like to kill people for the hell of it rather than let innocent live. I guess robers are becomming more violent. Now if there's a bank robbery they figure it's best to kill the witnesses so they can't testify. Guns can make people cowards. In the Tieshia Miller case where the cops opened fire on an epeliptic who was dazed in a car- - people like John Kovel said "When you start firing the edreniline gets to pumping and you can't help yourself". I guess shooting a gun is kind of a sexual thing. There was a case here in LA where a guy was in a van and a rain of 112 bullets decended on him from all the cops in the area turning the street into the OK carrell. On this soap opera this guy named Spike was blackmailing a guy named Chris. First of all blackmailers are losers anyhow. Just call their bluff and stare them down. Right away they are disarmed. It's always escaped me why the things you have to do to appease a blackmailer are ten times worse than the thing he was going to rat you out for in the beginning. Why jump fron the frying pan into the fire? Chris should turn Spike in and face the music and redeem himself. Then he'll be able to sleep at night knowing he did the right thing. A clear contience is something people should value more. Chris was acting out of fear of Spike, when Spike is basically a man without power unless Chris give it to him. Spike's boss is dead. Now Spike is on his own, unless you enable him.

Well, it seems ABC has its own political stance to take to maintain its integrety. We heard on Rush today that ABC has this excellent 9 - 11 movie they plan to show next weekend on how Bin Laden became a problem and how the Clinton CIA had a chance to eliminate him in 1998 but they were told from headquarters that the adminestration would not back them. Bill Clinton has personally phoned ABC demanding that they edit out all the offencive segments that make his adminestration look bad. As for this blog I had the wrong name in a key segment I had to correct. I suppose the origional name might be a cause of discussion for some.

Finally I 'd like to talk about the Nazi haulocost. Dietrich Bonhoffer was one Christian, a Lutheran, who stood up against Hitler. He is revered as The Real Thing by liberals and conservatives alike. The church should be full of Dietrich Bonhoffers and if that were so- - Hitler would not have gotten to first base with his genocidal plans for the Jews. It's just a matter of looking at your moral compus and getting your ethical bearings so you know what to do. Even a pacifist should take up arms if the evil looming is hanious enough. Interestingly King Saul stood up against God in the Bible when Jehovah God wanted King Saul to comit genocide against the Amalikites and wipe them out, every last man, woman and child. King Saul wasn't ready to do that, and lost his kingdom over it. Joining Jehovah is kind of like joining the mafia. Among the things you have to sacrifice is your sense of morality. "Your morality is not your own; God owns everything". I don't know if there is such a thing as Jewish karma but if I were a Jew I'd look at stuff like this and ask myself the question "Is it true we take our morals from the people we associate with?" I'm not letting Jehovah off the hook here because it's in the Bible, affirmed over and over as the word of God over centuries. Is genocide ever morally justified?