No More Circular Firing Squads

We continue to see the democrats forming a circular firing squad, shooting their own. Now Move On has come out against Scott McLellon saying he shouldn’t be appearing on these Sunday morning talk shows and that he’s not entitled to the profits of his book, as though he were a convicted felon or something. Today Scott said, I think generously, that he would donate a portion of his book’s profits to victims of the Mideast War. This whole thing in another Jewish metaphor could be likened to a Jewish General that was a brilliant tactician and conducted brilliant battle campaigns. But at the same time he allowed T shirts on café press to be sold that had an unflattering depiction of some Jewish rabbi in the community nobody liked anyhow. And some would say “Because of this flaw, this man ought to step down as general”. “Meet the Press” continues to be hostile to Scott McLellon with questions that were so combative they didn’t give him a fair shot at actually being able to make a positive pitch for his book. On ABC the reception was somewhat more sympathetic. A Black woman said she liked “What Happened” because she got to see Mc Lellon’s thought processes and how he came to form the conclusions that he did. Another commentator stated that while it’s true Scott started off to write a pro Bush Adminestration book, that when you actually come to sit down and write out your thoughts step by step, different conclusions emerge. NBC had their fire coverage at Universal so I switched to ABC and picked up that first half hour later. The Hillary campaign has dug in their heels and won’t concede a thing, and Tuesday will be irrelivent. It’s pointed out that Mc Cain has come steadily up in the polls with independents and Obama’s numbers have come steadily down, with those same independent voters, so that now the lines are meeting. What Mc Lellon is doing is performing an invaluable service for the Democratic party in that he is giving them “talking points” for the fall campaign. If the independents knew Mc Cain’s lock-step voting record in the past seven years solidly with the President, they just might feel differently about him than they do. What people need to do is to quit flapping their gums and actually read the book, which I intend to do. Obviously once any person has actually read the book, they aren’t limited to these thirty second sound bites you hear.

We now come to the two big news items. Senator Obama has announced his resignation from his Chicago church. This is an act of sheer yellow-bellied political cowardice. To continue with our football analogy, when the quarterback runs south and the goal line is north he may say he’s “repositioning himself” or “giving himself room to throw” but most of the time he just tackled for a fifteen yard loss. Robert Kennedy in his waning days once got into an argument with a hippy and he finally said, “You should do what I did; get a haircut”. Another thing Bobby did was talk about Blacks swarming out from the ghetto into the suburbs. Obama refused to commit himself on whether his next choice of church would be politically motivated, although I was glad to hear that he plans to seek God’s will on the matter. This is a major act of back-tracking and his enemies will say that Obama is merely politically posturing. In terms of the deligate decision, I was surprised to learn they had made one considering their two & a half hour – plus lunch break. They decided to give both Florida and Michigan deligates half a vote at the convention. Obama wanted to split Michigan fifty – fifty which seems only fair to me, since Obama was leading heavily in all the exit polls. Hillary Clinton was furious and vowed to take the fight to the Convention itself. What we have here is a classic case of bad sportsmanship and not playing by the rules. She expresslied to the voters of those two states saying their votes didn’t count, and now she wants the convention itself to make an even bigger liar out of her. I don’t see how, for instance, you can have a hypocrite negotiating with other nations using the same logic she’s used in the past. Now Mc Cain is wrong about the number of troops still in Iraq. We’ve heard so many contradictory things about the progress of the Iraq war lately if I were Obama I think I would go to Iraq and see for myself just to shut up my detractors. In case you people are wondering I am sticking by my prediction of some new foreign flash point occurring next week that will flood the newspaper headlines. I wouldn’t put an invasion of Iran past Bush, but I don’t think it will be that serious. I wish Hillary Clinton’s chiefest supporters were not Pat Buchannon and Rush Limbaugh. This reality makes me very uneasy.

The first hurricane has already hit the east coast of Central America. I’m predicting a busy hurricane season this year. I was right last year when I said the number would be down, and I’ll be right again this year. It appears that the Celtics are the team that the Lakers will be playing. The Centaurians decided weeks ago they were backing the Celtics against Michigan. It was a case of “I’m picking mine – now you choose from what’s left over”. My guess right now is that this series will go seven games.

. Johnny Wendell was on and once again we see the circular firing squad in force in the Democratic Part. I don’t get that. Wendell’s chief assertions were fundamentally false. He described McLellon’s book as a book by a coward and wrote it “when it no longer matters” and used terms such as “piling on” implying that our President is being put under too much pressure from the public and we need to ease up. That expression is so wrong on so many levels. The last time I checked Bush was still President. The Iraq War is still going on with no letup in sight. The democrats in congress are still hamstrung and can’t get anything done. The US media is still madly pro Bush as Phil Donahew again pointed out last night. Not only is the quarterback not down, he’s on his feet and running with the ball and it appears only a matter of time before he crosses the goal line. I know what Johnny means about “speaking up when it matters”. That moment is right now. Those two other guys who wrote books have been marginalized. Who knows who they are? Who bought their books? I didn’t. People who wrote or said anything against Bush were ignored by the public media. NOW is when it matters. We need to stop Mc Cain NOW, not several years ago. Obama is being put under pressure NOW. You know if I were Obama, at my acceptance speech for the party nomination in August I would reference that pastor who made those mocking remarks about Hillary. And I would conclude, “I heartily second everything that man says! Can I get an “Amen” from this crowd?”

There are people who are rats and cowards repenting of a deed when it no longer matters. One famous member of the head shrinker profession did pornographic nude photos of herself in the ‘seventies, and had sex with all sorts of men and loved every minute of her life. Now she’s a sixty plus year old menopausal woman who points the finger of shame at her callers for committing alledged sins only a fraction the severity of her own moral short-fallings. We all know about Charles Colson. How often people have said “It’s too bad that Colson didn’t get religion five or so years earlier before he did and spared us all a lot of heartache. If you were to resurrect Dad from the grave and he were to apologize for various things he’s said to me and attitudes he’d developed about me- - would Johnny Wendell say “It’s irrelevant now. You’re a coward. You should have done this fifteen or thirty years ago”. Do you think that Joan of Arc much cares from the grave that the Catholic Church finally “exonerated” her in the 1920’s? So I see Johnny Wendell’s point. When you take a particular action can be of key importance. It’s just that in this case Johnny is doing damage to the liberal cause in general by bashing Scott Mc Clellon, as if he were the most evil person Johnny could think of to vent his anger on, on today’s radio broadcast. How say you?

I’m going to re-sequence these paragraphs once I get them into a blog, so that they flow a little more naturally. I’m writing stuff right now as it’s on my mind. I would like to talk about the Jesus Christ show, which is doing and has done a credibility melt-down. Now Jesus is saying that he will accept “any callers that don’t have an agenda”. I’d like to define agenda, because to me it sounds like a code word for anyone who actually has organized their thoughts into something material to say. Jesus also said that the statement in Matthew 7 is not correct about “If you ask anything in my name I will grant it”, because this contradicts “the overall truth of the Bible, once you study it”. And he also said that “A denied prayer is always a teaching experience”. It would seem to me the first thing that is actually being “taught” is that the Word of God is a lie.

CMK Romulans have always told me that the strawberry was an especially celebrated fruit among their group. But apparently they weren’t referring to Romulans but rather the Scorsesian Reigellians, who have a strawberry festival.

Stewart Sutcliffe has dome something Christians never do and the Federation rarely has done in 25 plus years, and that is to apologize or retract something they said. As you may know three years ago Mal Evans called Stewart out on statements he made to me about the reality of the Fifth Dimension. Stewart today told me that he probably “overstepped his bounds and engaged in unwarranted speculation” when he made the remarks to me he did because “Fifth dimensional travel is only now in the experimental stage” and apparently not very far along at all. This is a big admission for anyone in the Federation that they aren’t omniscient, and don’t already have the answers to everything.

Finally I’d like to address this question of “Jesus the Egyptian”. As you know according to the knowledge the text writer had about this battle on the Mount of Olives one evening was that “The Egyptian escaped and was never heard from again”. Suppose we take this passage a shade less microscopically and perhaps the Egyptian was captured and stood trial before Pilate. (Some say Felix) There is another famous Egyptian scripture passage that quotes this “Messiah” or “Christ” in saying, “I was the one who was flogged but another was crucified on the cross”. Twice in Luke Pilate states “I shall have this man scourged then, and set him free”. It’s a question is perhaps “Yeah I’m willing to dedicate my life to a cause, but if I end up dead now, I’ll have nothing. John Lennon was the one who was really “into” that “Butcher Block” photograph of the Beatles and wanted it on the album. But later in the summer Lennon lost his taste for blood and gore. Perhaps it was the negative experiences the Beatles had in Japan and in the Philipines recently, but reportedly John Lennon didn’t want to tour in the US with the other Beatles knowing the growing climate of hate and bigotry in this country. In Memphis a fire cracker went off and the Beatles on stage were so apprehensive they looked at each other, thinking another of them had been shot. Some people like Obama are not averse to fighting on the front line, so long as the other side isn’t firing back. (Selah)