Today Judge Walker after a seemingly troubled deliberation, decided that next Wednesday would be a good time to commence the avelanche of gay marriages that are sure to occur in this state. But he gave it six days for "the other side" to appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court and have them pass on this ruling before it goes into effect. I had hoped that Justice Walker would grow a conscience and decide that he didn't want to make a bad situation more complicated, when the final Supreme Court ruling does take place. But the Judge figured these gay couples had waited long enough. So we will have gay marriage as an enduring reality in the State of California for at least several years untill the national Supreme Court can at last rule on this subject. No doubt is Justice Kennedy steps down from the Court before then, the Republicans will pull out all the stops in terms of fillibusters to block that replacement nomination, and I don't blame them. I guess it was Kruschev that said that missiles in Cubs were "like a cow pasture outside your window. You may not like it one bit, but in time you'll get used to it".
The Dow Jones Industrials went down 59 points after a drop of over two hundred points yesterday, and all the other indexes followed suit. The beef now is that first time unemployment claims are again on the rise. There is a growing concencus that three months will not be enough time to turn this economy around before the November 2nd mid term elections. If this be the case we need to resign ourselves not only to continued Republican gridlock, but also that this economy will relapse as the stimuli go away and the Republicans enact measures such as drastic cuts in spending that will indeed send this fragile economy into a tail spin.
According to today’s Presidential speech, congress DID pass some “Buy American” legislation. I didn’t know that. Obama says tax laws were also changed which encourages corporations to relocate overseas. I didn’t know that either. I don't want to be perceived as a negative nabob of negativism on this issue. We should count our blessings. But I fear the things that most people call really important like ending the War and ending racial prejudice, or get this economy really humming- - are areas beyond the President's present control.
They say that stress introduces a hormone in women that inhibits conception. This is certainly no news to men out there. Many a husband has seen his wife get all wrought up over not being able to conceive. In the case of Clowie on Days of our Lives, it may well that the only time she can really "relax" is in the arms of another man, in this case Philip. In heaven I see no reason why the whole thing can't be one big sex orgy where nobody has any hangups and we are all "free to be ourselves". That may be in the case of Melanie that she is truely in love with two different men. Each one meets a particular "need" of hers. Only here on earth to we men get neurotic over stuff like that.
It isn't often I get a revelation about "God". But it dawned on me today that we owe our Life itself to God. Life after all in its pure form, is energy. And that energy has to come from somewhere. It's both in the giving and in the receiving that we truely have life. For instance a similar looking device (s) can be used either as an electric motor, or as a manual torque powered generator that produces electricity. Also one has to see life as energy and now it remains whether our brains are AC or DC. I would be inclined to believe our brains produce DC current impulses- - and only in the hundreds of waves per second, if I'm correct. Some people would prefer to see us as generating AC modulated current. I was in the story following struggling whether to use an AC or DC metaphore. I'm not sure how the font and color will turn out in the final posting. I'd like it to be as it is right now.
One day Anne Rice went to bathe and she slipped in the shower and lay unconscious for hours. When they found her they diagnosed a subdural hemotoma. They took her to a Catholic hospital but she got mixed up with another patient named Anne Rye, who was there for an appendectomy. But they got Rice instead and performed the operation on her instead. Meanwhile she got complications from the brain injury and by the time they discovered the mix-up she was dead. When Anne woke up it was in a place she knew not. A man was there with her and said that he feared he was going to Hell. She asked him why. He said that he was a heritic and tried to distort the teachings of the church. He wrote ten bogus letters perporting to have been written by St. Ignatious. But he changed the name to Saul and he also wrote a Gospell of the Christ and was working on a s sequel which he planned to call Acts of the Apostles, when he died. He got stuck on chapter eight and wasn’t sure how to write it- - since he was making it all up anyhow. Some men came for Marcion and they took him behind a door and closed it. Meanwhile Anne Rice was invited into a room. There she was told she wasn’t in any trouble but she needed a few things before she went into eternity. She mentioned the Catholic hospital where she died and the others said “Catholic? You mean they don’t discriminate on race, color or creed?” “Of course not” Anne said. She asked what year it was and they said “790”. She said “That sounds like a Los Angeles talk radio station”. They asked her for some help. Somehow they had obtained a bunch of Steve Jobs videos but it was in a strange, indecipherable tongue. “She said, Oh, that is English”. They said “Our expects have been trying to translate it and so far have been unsuccessful. Perhaps you can write out a transcription for us. They said “You do know the Roman alphabet, don’t you?” “That shouldn’t be a problem” she said. “You said this was the year 790. Is that AD- - - -in the year of our Lord”. They jumped up and shouted “Hail Ceasar”. Anne said “Are the Ceasars still ruling? If so I need to restudy my world history because that wasn’t my understanding”. They said “The history of the world IS the history of Rome”.
We would like to show you something that will help you understand our world.” They took her to a room filled with books. “This is what’s known as a Holi-deck”. It’s a deck used for recreation aboard space ships a long time ago”. Anne got curious. “How- - Long Ago?” “About thirteen thousand years ago men traveled in air ships, but some called them space ships”. Anne says “I didn’t know that”. They said, “I would like to show you something. Take three books from the shelves and throw them one by one at that door”. Anne Rice did so. One by one the books disappeared when they hit the open space into a bunch of sparks.”. She then turns “I thought I heard a noise”. “Look” they said. Behind her were the three books she had just thrown out the door. Now they took her to another room and directed to her a computer screen. “This is a really advanced device” they said. She laughed. “This is an Asteroids game. It’s right out of the eighties”. They said “Oh it’s been around much longer than that”. Anne thought a minute- - “Oh yeah. For you the eighties was- - just last year”. “Have you ever played this game?” “No” she said. Now try it- - here is the control that powers the ship. Anne took the controles and soon the ship was spinning off the screen and then would zoon out of view and zoom again on the other side of the screen where it would again cross the screen and return to the left. “I don’t know how to control it” she said. They stopped the ship for her. “Do you know the point of what we just showed you?” “No” Anne said. “Well- - it illustrates something. Exceeding the speed of light is like getting to the edge of the universe. Anne said “What do you mean- - LIKE”. They said “Well, the minute you exceed the speed of light you leave the universe. You as it were “Hit the edge of it- - no matter where you are. If you are on the road to Antioch and hit the speed of light in Antioch THAT is where the end of the Universe is. If you don’t break light speed till you get to Jerusalem, then Jerusalem is the edge of the Universe” “I think I see”, Anne said. “Thanks for explaining that”. Now since the Universe is expanding at one third the speed of light- - and is 12 Billion years old- - we can presume that the Universe has a radius of four Billion light years- - and that basically at the speed of light- - - it takes twice PI of four billion years to circumnavigate the Universe, or about 13 billion years. But we also know that the human soul ocelates at trillions of cycles per second. So you start multiplying seconds into years for number of revolutions. And so it’s safe to say that you have to travel several quintillion times the speed of light to be in the state of Awareness or LIFE so that we can really call you a cosmically conscious Being. “So you travel around in circles, do you”. “No” they said. The physical manifestation of what you are travels that fast. YOU are the magnetic ocelations that precees from this orbiting. Your soul is a giant magnate and Time is the vertical bar and the electric wire spirals around the Bar of Time and generates pulsed magnetism. And this magnitisum ocelates in sixth dimensional space within a step on the Cosmic stair case”. Anne says “Hold it, you’re going too fast”. They backed up and said “You know all these cosmic nutrinos scientists say fill the Universe”. “I suppose so”. “Well these nutrinos are bits of matter that are physical fragments of your former life”. “Do you know what alpha particles and beta rays and gamma rays are”. “OK that will be tomorrows lesson”. She said “Which kind are generated in a nuclear chain reaction just out of curiosity?” “That would be Alpha particles”. They said. That’s two protons and two neutrons. “ “OK I had to ask. They said “When you were in the world you learned the history of the world. As a novelist we expect you to be smarter than the average bear, and this will give you a little background”.
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