Taking On the Devil

Some of the things you think are gospell aren't so. Leo Le Port said quite some time back that my space was old hat and that all the really hip teenagers had moved off of it and now my space was seen as a pretty rank place to hang out. Well, according to Montell Williams "My Space" is far from pase having fifty million subscribers and still is number one. Christianity should take heart. They're still "Number One" despite all the "decline" we've heard about for the past forty years. If you ever see my name attatched to a my space blog, rest assured it isn't me. If I ever decide to join my space I'll let you people know. Tomorrow or Wednesday is the one year anniversary of me as a blogger. When I started my liberalisum had not fully evolved and you saw tringes of conservatisum. Of course early postings were padded out with such things as letters to Larry Elder, Rush Limbaugh, or the Jesus Christ show. Keep in mind all that Orion Federation stuff I talk about is material fifteen and twenty years old. Last night I dreamed I was in my old apartment swinning pool and looked up in the sky and thought there was a lot of stuff up there. It was early twilight. I noticed a number of bizzare lit up shapes that turned out to be space craft as they got closser and I learned they were flying into a space port that was less than a block away.

Taking on the Devil is always risky. It's always better to just avoid the Devil if you can because you know he runs a rigged crap game. On the soap operas "Days" and "Passions" the Devil's strength lies in his threat to expose truth about people. Much of the strength of soap plots lies in people's extreme moral corawdess, and the consequences of their inaction in letting the Devil call the shots. For instance if I were Chad and I had and I had that gay stalker I'd expose him in three nano seconds. And you have Samantha and E J Wells. Samantha drugged him in that cabin but then was afraid to drop the lit match. She decided to leave but when she was just outside the cabin exploded in fire anyhow. I guess the idea of secrecy is a powerful one. Last night they talked about all these "Don't Snitch" RAP artists that spiew their sick lyrics and are financed by the leading corporations. One wonders whether they have a contience at all. So it seems like if you rape, extort, rob, or murder you get a free pass in the ghetto. To tell you the truth I really didn't know it was that bad. It just isn't among a certain gang or the mafia; this belief is among the general "good people" in the population and even little kids are indoctrinated with it at a young age. I'm not sure what can be done about this "No Snitch" lyric besides boycott the record companies, of course. I'm sure James Dobson must have talked about it some time but I have no specific recollection. Why live in a world where murderors and rapists call the tune. I don't see why good men would let their women be exposed to such danger. What do you think your little kids will be like when they're adults? Will there even BE civilization by then? It's moral cowardess in the extreme.

Of course I'm glad it's a new week and all the Virginia Tech students are back in school. Are they going to keep that one building closed down forever? I am strongly against having made April 20th. a perpetual holiday at Columbine High school. That is making a monument to fear. As Ethan says, "I choose not to live in fear". Go to school on that day and prove to one and all those two killers have no right to disturb your routine. Personally I was against a lot of disruption people chose to have happen because of 9 - 11. Some of the dialog in the media is strange. There was the case of a plane crash at an Air Show and we heard little about it. There was that Johnson Space center hostage situation they didn't even break soap coverage to cover. (if a few acres in Hollywood are on fire they'll have coverage for multiple hours even if there is no news) There was a shooting where a cop was called to quell a domestic disturbance and both the husband and the wife ended up dead. (sounds like the police screwed up) We've heard almost nothing. This Virginia Tech stuff has pushed so many things off the news. We haven't even heard about the Political Candidates the past week or more because of Virginia Tech. We are treated to all of this guild ridden hand wringing and recrimination about showing the assasin vidio that he made. My view is "If you don't want to talk about it than DON'T) But that's all we heard was wierdos and geeks and how do you spot them. A regular epidemic of geek-o-phobia has broken out in the media. I think the message is, "If you see a wierdo, never try to talk to him. Just start whispering roomers about him behind his back or call the cops on him making up something". People talk about "homophobia" but this behavior in the last week in the media seems obcessively strange to me. Their message seems to be "There are a lot of wierdos out there. Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid". It makes no sense.

The Democrats aren't pursuing any new gun laws. This is considered a "conspiricy", of course. A vast right wing conspiricy. People can read the constitution. People like Thom Hartman and Randy Rhodes say that there ARE NO RIGHTS guarendeed in the 2nd. amendment. No inailiable rights. There are "provisional" rights, or is it "priveleges" in the 2nd. amendment. These liberals say the amendment is about a state melitia. The only thing wrong with this argument is that no democrat believes in State's rights, so what are they talking about. In Colonial times every one was expected to own a gun, just as everyone was expected to have a fire bucket with water in it ready for action. Gun preparedness was seen as an issue of public safety. I think somewhere along the way my generation and those younger than me, have gotten brainwashed on the subject of guns. People say that laws should be tough on guns and apparently lienient on other crime. (It used to be that way) Now they have the three strikes law. This law is tough and has gotten lots of violent offenders off the streets and has done so by getting people who comit crimes out of the general population but NOT because they own a gun. Last election voters had a chance to soften the three strikes law here in California and water it down. I voted against the amendment for five reasons. There were five dangerous provisions in the bill that would redefine violent acts. You could burglarize a home and this was fine as long as you never confronted the owner. You could burn down a building, as long as nobody ended up getting killed. It didn't matter if you were a part of a violent youth gang. And also torturing animals was taken "off the table". If you want to look at anybody to see if they'll be violent, just watch how they treat innocent animals.

You know it's been pointed out that nobody wants to arrest Stephen King for "subversive and dangerous writing". I've sent the Asshole from El Paso a few letters and some had fictional scenarios in them. In the first letter I did a story that was inspired by Rush Limbaugh and "Gulf War I" which in his version opened with Saddam's Husein raping his mother when he was conceived after first being offered a New York school system condum. In My version it opens with a black and white snow and wind swept scene of a sign in Hebrew that an overlay tells you is actually Bethlehem. The Jesus family is in one of the local slum tennaments (not off by themselves with a halo over them) and as we go inside there is a baby crying, which of course is baby Jesus. His parents Mary and Joseph are quareling and Joseph is accusing Mary of going back to sleeping around with men like she used to do. She is saying this all in front of Jesus OLDER brothers, who getting their things ready for school or something. In my second letter mailed July 7th. 1991 I included a "take off" story on the progigal son in which the younger brother when he comes back home sit around watching pornography and then he invites a bunch of girls over and they film their own pornographic movies. It didn't strike me just because the Asshole from El Paso was a former actor he'd be offended by this. There is also a sequence at the beginning of the movie where the earth gets off its axis and contenents topple and chaos reigns and the tides sway. But then the US Army under George Bush comes and puts everything right. Feel free to interperet this however you like.

I'd like to talk just a little about Alberto Gonsolez. It seems some prosecutors were let go because they failed to prosecute for "Voter fraud" and yet as Thom Hartman points out "Election fraud" is far more massive and pervaisive and the thing that they should be looking for. Arlen Specter says that he's more or less convinced no crimes were committed but he's still not "satified" with Gonsolez's answers. The whole Gonsolez senate testimony has been underplayed by the media. Some stations on cable that normally carry it wern't this time. Station 4.4 in our area was carrying it some of the time and I watched that. The whole thing is they want a unitary form of Government where the President holds all power. Thom Hartman doesn't want the Attorney General to resign, he wants him Impeached. That's a lofty goal. I think Thom Hartman grossly overestamates the inclination of this Senate body to get to the truth. Hartman says that in 1987 they made a deal not to talk about a lot of issues. I'd heard this before, that the perameters of the investigation were vastly narrowed. I heard there was a deal Reagan would never be implicated. Hartman thinks there was an arms for hostages deal made with Iran in 1980 that won the election for Reagan to begin with. I don't know. I don't think anybody from the President down will be charged with anything. Perhaps that's going a little far but the thing is I don't see specific crimes being spelled out. The thing is when I tune in to watch I find myself getting bored fairly quickly. They just keep going over minutia and Gonsolez keeps evading and he'll be able to do that till the cows come home. I don't know- - maybe when Guiliani or Hillary become president they'll take another more serious look at all this and may then we'll see stuff getting done.