An Inexperienced Pilot Will Crash the Plane

Today a caller was asking Thom Hartman about sharing the progressive point of view with people in rural Florida or other parts of the country that are culturally set in their ways.  And Thom Hartman was telling him how to do it.  Unfortunately I've followed just the advice Thom Hartman gave to the called and I fell flat on my ass.  So who you need advice from is someone whose been around the block a few more times than Thom Hartman.  In the first place telling people that since they are a Christian then they need to give to the poor and shun money, won't work.  Today's Christians are first and foremost the Gordon Gecko variety with the sacrosanct doctrine of "Greed is Good".  All else is subordenate to the "right" of an individual to "get money" and as much profit out of something as the market will bear.  If you tell then they should buy American they will rise in protest saying it's "unfair to ask another to give up their potential profit atvantage".  If you tell then that Jesus said to pay your taxes they will say "OK, I'll pay them, but I don't have to Like it and I'll fight against it".  If you tell then you have ethical questions about certain rich people's financial dealings they will say to you "I don't care about ethical questions.  All I care about is whether they are overtly breaking current laws".  You will remember that it was Gordon Gecko who said "What was once illegal when I did it is the law of the land now".  To say that Christians teach against valuing money is incorrect.  They are against you keeping Your money, but they value Their money plenty, and want to get as much of it as they can from you".  If you say you are taking a cheritable deduction on your taxes for someone like Gene Scott, he will say that "taking a charitable deduction is wrong.  It isn't a charity.  You OWE it to me.  It's a Tithe and not a charity".  Gene Scott has gone so far to say "It isn't the Church's responsability to serve the poor; that's the government's responsability".  This is why I cringe when people talk about Christians being generous.  Not in my experiance.  "Tough love" is really IN right now.  They will employ the same logic Barry Goldwater employs with labor unions.  Goldwater says in his book, "Unions are like charities.  Just because you Should give to them doesn't mean the government should Force you to give to them".  They will tell you that Obama isn't encouraging individual generosity because he is Taking your money, in accordence of fulfilling his Marxist doctrine of equality for all.  Of course in the case of Unions - - if your State doesn't allow a Union or Closed shop this means that more and more people will get the bright idea you did and reap the benefits of better working conditions without feeding the kitty, and before long the Union is destroyed for lack of funds.  Gene Scott will tell you that you should Pay personally for the crap on almost any issue he spews out 24 hours a day "Like someone paying a resturant for the dinner they just consumed".  But the thing is, I did not Choose to consume Gene's dinner.  He as it were came into my home over the TV waves uninvited.  It's like these old Readers Digest books that they would sent you unsolicited and you had ten days to ship they back to the company at your own expense, or be billed for the book.  Gene Scott loves to talk about his P P rights, which he referrs to as "Priveleged Position".  He says that- - like Gingrich, Religion is Supreme over Government and that Religion may dictate to government but government has no right to dictate to Religion.  So of course Gene Scott will not pay fair share of the taxes others would pay to government.  On the whole Sermon on the Mount thing Thom never tires of mentioning, Gene Scott expressly addressed this issue in July of 1981 when he said that the doctrine of Cecil Rhodes was the doctrine of the Antichrist.  Cecil Rhodes proclaimed "If a Free Society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are Rich".  John Kennedy said the same thing in his Inogural address.  But it is anathema to current church teaching.  Of course the Bible itself provides for food to the poor in rules about not going over your fields a second time to harvest them but to leave the gleanings for the poor.  The Bible also offers up the story of Nabal, who means "Fool" in Hebrew.  It's a story every rich Wall Street fat cat should read because it applies just for them.

It helps to have a clear mind when you are sharing any political or social or personal point of view.  As Bob Dylan said in a song once, "The thing that I learned from my friend Jim is that one should always flush out his house, if you don't expect to be housing flushes".  This means to get all the garbage out of your mind so that you don't suffer from "backed up" thought processes.  You clear your body of both physical toxins and psychological toxins.  Or as those buddies of ours, Bart, Pete, and Andy would say, "If you're going to bail out a boat filling up with water, it's really helpful is the boat itself is not cracked.  Because the thing is if you try and follow "Cracking the Code" your reputation may crack with it.  As I said, I've been a block a few times on this issue and I know what I am talking about.  You have to know your enemy and decide whether he is worth redeeming at all.  I came to the conclusion three months ago that "For me further words to people are useless.  I'm just going to sit back and watch the economy improve, and let the rosey economic statistics do the talking for me.  In other words Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.  Sometimes God will do that.  He Himself will step into a situation where you in your own human human power have come to believe that all is lost.  I guess other platitudes you might confort yourself with are "One man plus the Truth equals a majority" and "The earnest prayer of the Rightious availeth much".  Sometimes it's just impossible to compromize especially when verbally you feel like you are having "stuff" crammed down your throat.  My word to Gene Scott is, "Maybe he's concerned about the rights of his P P, but the rights of his P P end when he starts probing into my affairs".  And also there is this from my writings "Half a loaf is not better than no loaf- - if you're selling shit".  Also keep in mind that technically the gay lobby is correct in that legally, marriage is a contract between people and the government, and not between a couple and their Pastor alias "God".  And I will close with this, a line from a song Elvis Presley has recorded many times so it must be a favorite of his called "That's when the heartaches begin".  The line goes "When you bring a friend into your love affair, that's the end of your lady love, and that's the end of your friend".  I have seen an increased ammount of shall we say "Third party meddeling" among Christians, and I find few things more oppressive.  (Selah)

Ensign Willy:  Look officer - - a squadrin of Japanese Zeros off our Starvard Bow

Officer DeVries:  Let me see those.  "Willy, perhaps if you stay in the Navy ten years you'll be able to tell the difference between Japanese attack planes - - and Seagulls".

I guess Mitt Romney is starting to lose it as now neither Arizona nor Michigan are slam dunk guarentee victories as before but Santorum may win both thus heightening the likelihood of a Brokered Convention.  We'll know a whole lot more after Super Tuesday.  But now Mitt Romney is saying things about how the trees in Michigan are just the right height.  Randy Rhodes did a fascenating adlib of this speech and she got off into rambling about things like Soup, and Calvin Klein underwear.  (I didn't know they made it for Mormons) And in general Romney is starting to remind me of a conversation Captain Queeg had with his Officers in the Ward room after one Navel maneuver went particularly badly.  Captain Queeg begins:  "Perhaps mistakes were made today.  But you know - an officer's job is a lonely one.  I mean I'm really not a bad fellow.  Even my dog doesn't think I'm such a horrible person".  Later on Tom K. says sarcastically: What a speech!  Never mind the fact that I was a Coward- - - My dog likes me".  To which the more consiliary Steve says:  "I thought it was a pretty good speech myself.  It wasn't exactly an apology but it's the clossest he'll ever get to one.  And we could have done more to back him up when he specifically asked for our Help".

There are certain things I find disconcerting.  Now Rick Santorum has taken to attacking Institutions of Higher Learning throughout the land.  He says "Sixty two percent of college freshmen who arrive on campus with Faith, end up graduating having lost their Faith".  He then said "And you people who donate to such colleges are part of the problem".  He said that the Universities serve as "recruitment grounds to indoctrinate the next generation who will make up the socialist left-wing in this Country".   It was the general theme echoed by Gingrich that says "College institutions are undermining American values".  Meanwhile in Denmark and Singapore, Thom Hartman said that teachers are held in such high esteem there by society that they are paid the same as doctors and professional people.  Now in Afghanistan Newt Gingrich was throwing gasoline on the fires of contraversy there.  US troops burn the Koran and then the citizens of Afghanistan retaliate and say "Go home, America".  And even Prime Minister Karzai is hostile to what America did and our relations there are in jeopardy.  I don't want to say we should "Cut and run", but you know something?  "We should cut and run".  We have no purpose in being in Afghanistan any more.  Just thank God that Newt Gingrich isn't president now who criticizes President Obama for even making an apology in the first place.  After all we're America!  We can do no wrong.  Now they are saying four hundred new people are made refugees every day by this War.  The reason why Israel hasn't gone into Iran to take out their Nukes yet is because they themselves have concluded that the Mission is Undoable.  But of course we don't need to let the Iranians know that.  Meanwhile there is a new viral internet mailing that states that President Obama is preparing to raise the tax on Savings and T Bills and IRA's and the like from fifteen to 44% in the near future.  I found that alarming that a twenty year bond or something might mature and get socked with a 44% tax.  But I got to doing the math and conservatively you'd have to have upwards of ten million dollars just sitting around that you're not spending to even qualify for this tax, assuming that it will ever be enacted.  I am uneasy with this whole idea being put forth now that Religion has some inherent right to run the government and that the rest of us should exceed to whatever demands the Christian right makes.  What if Amish were in charge of the electric company?  If some wires went down the Amish management might simply say "Well, electricity is something people don't need anyhow".  (Selah)

You know, people say now that gasoline is new and improved and here in California we meet strict polution laws and have "detergent gasoline" that cleans our engines.  Of course we are drilling more for oil now more in this country than we ever have before.  Petrol products are at record exports.  And demand is down.  But it's still President Obama's fault that the price is so high.  Of course as near as I can figure the chemical formula for gasoline is C 8, H 18.  I can easily do subscripts now in Word 2007 with the click of a square.  That would give gasoline an atomic weight for one molicule of 114 there abouts.  A molicule of water has an atomic weight of 18 so why does water float on gasoline?  I don't know.   An oxygen molicule has an atomic weight of about 32 and it's 28 for a molicule of nitrogen.  Of course you know that in pre organic chemistry there are a lot of endings for basic substances that end in either --ANE, or else ATE, or KEYTONE, or NOL, or - - ELINE.   And they have number prefixes like ACE or METHYL for one or Ethyl for two or Propol for three or Butyl for four or Penta for five and Hexi - -for six and so forth.  The stuff BP used to clean the water or 2 Butyl Alcohol is the "least toxic of the four budyl alcohols".  Of course you know that either ethanol or methanol is only about 60% as efficient as an exothermic energy source, and methanol is slightly better than ethanol here.  There are only one type of molicule here for each but with prophanol there are two and the "ISO" one is the one more generally known.  It's the same formula but the atoms are arranged in an isometrically symetrical pattern hence the prefis ISO.  I would speculate that there may be twenty different virieties of hexinol, all with the same chemical formula designation.  Of course you see the word Poly a lot and when it's chemicals it usually denotes plastic, which generically means "tinker toy" or something you piece together like Poly Ethelaine.  But in other areas the word Poly denotes anything with bird seed extract in it. Actually - - Poly in my mind denotes four or more.  Like you have poly-dimensional, or polygon, or even polynomial.  There are monomials, by-nomials, tri-nomials, and polynomials.  With wives or saturated fat, poly can mean two or more.  But now even poly-unsaturated fats or fats with two or more missing hydrogen molicules, are under attack as "trans-fats" because they give you "fatty blood".  Of course now pure sucrose is considered "natural sugar" and healthier for you than the kind you get in corn syrup.  I think the formula for this one is C 11 H 22 and 0.  It breaks down into dextrose and fructose, and the first one is better for your body in my oppinion.  Of course Mitt Romney knows all this stuff backward and forward because his father was into petroleum products.  Right now I have to decide whether or not I want to go to a resident's council meeting or not.