The Scarey Unknown World of Tomorrow

Man and Machine - keep yourself Clean

Or be a has been - like a Dinasaur

Man and Device - - For everything Nice

You Better think Twice- At least Once More

As you all may know by now, there has been another major gun shooting incident, and this one was in the heart of Orange County, safely behind "the Orange Curtain".  I won't go into the details of the thing right now.  You can follow it on the evening news complete with video.  His name is Ali Seid and he's just twenty-one years old.  He killed three people and then himself and wounded many others - and at other times went on random shooting sprees.  It's been my contention that the hottest places in Hell are reserved for those individuals who "see how many people they can take out" before then killing themselves.  This is particularly true in the case of a father killing his entirely family, and then himself, as if his own death could in any way atone for the other lives he's destroyed.  We also heard today that the Sandy Hook school shooter was hoping to mow down 77 people and set a new record for mass killing.  There is something downright demonic about these individuals.  It's symptomatic of a new, scarey age we live in now.  In the past seven or eight months we have been pummeled with gun shooting after gun shooting, and one wonders how long this can go on.  David Cruise' response to all this is "Well, I'm just not going to talk about these stories any more".  I can guarentee you that if David Cruise had discussed last night's Televised Mayoral Debate  on KABC - - I would not have tuned in for the entire hour.  That is when I wasn't down seeing Dr. Saran.  And by the way my blood pressure was actually down twenty points from last time.  And I managed to secure a cough medicine prescription from him, which I am grateful for.  The trouble with these mass shootings if that you can't really blame them on anything the Tea Party did.  The gun used in Sandy Hook was legal even under their newly tightened restrictions.  We learned from Sandy Hook that neither personal heroics nor stringent security measures and training were enough to stop the slaughter.  The best it could do was to minimize it.  Something is going on today - - I just haven't figured out exactly what it is.

The role of the White House First Ladies should not be minimized.  Lucy Hayse attended Sufferegette and Temperance meetings, encouraging like minded people throughout the country as if sending them some sign.  Of course Eleanor Roosevelt only invited women reporters to her personal Press Conferences, meaning that newspapers would be strongly encouraged to go out and hire women reporters themselves.  Mamie Eisenhaur was the first woman to be aware of the fact that more women Voted in elections than do men now.  And she is noted for "doing the first political add for her spouse".  Lady Bird was said to have encouraged the infant Ecology movement.  I didn't know that.  Martha Washington was a widdow at 25 and a rich Virginia matrin when George Washington met her.  Of course we know Bettie Ford championed both the causes of breast cancer and alcoholism.  Some author says "But other first ladies like Sarah Polk and Abigail Adams were influencial.  Abigail Adams used to write editorials in newspapers, defending her husband against various political charges.  There is a whole new TV series coming - on this whole subject.

There is a line in the BOC “Black Blade” that goes “It keeps telling me it’s my servant but I feel more like its slave”.  They have computerized heating systems now for energy efficiency.  I’m dreading the day when they come out with the “Official Jimmy Carter thermostat”, where the highest you can possibly set the thing is 68 degrees.  And they have these GPS cars now where if you let your teenager drive they you can program the car to notify you immediately when the car is driven into neighborhoods forbidden, or farther away from home than you allowed.  Of course since teenagers are tethered to their cell phones, often at the behest of parents – expect a call immediately.  Even Norman Bates would chafe at the short apron strings today’s teenagers are under.  Now mothers are able to access the school computer to check up on their sons to see whether or not they have completed last night’s homework assignment.  Of course soon they won’t even have text books in the classroom and everything will be done on line.  But I say there is something romantic about dusty old books in a library by the original authors hundreds of years ago.  But now someone’s two year old niece was complaining that one cell phone was “broken” because it didn’t have a touch screen.  Five year olds are more savy about how to use one of these Smart Phones than - - well, I would be.  I don’t know.  Nicole Sandler was saying that like a car, or even a dog that could bite someone, a gun ought to be registered, meaning – the physical possession - -  as well as being insured.  I already stated I thought that measure was a little draconian for right now.  But as times get more desperate – who knows?  After all if you’re a professional bar tender and knowingly serve a drunk that will get into his car and drive- - then you are seen as liable since the patron at that point is seen as too inebriated to exercise his own judgement so you have to exercise it for him.  Apparently there were fourteen and eighteen year old sisters listening to Obama’s speech in Chicago or someplace yesterday and hours later, the eighteen year old was shot down in a hail of gunfire walking quietly at 11:30 at night.  Nicole does not believe natural gas “fracking’ is safe yet.  I haven’t definitely decided on that.  Perhaps we could put T Boone Pickens plan into action of converting autos to natural gas - - since we seem to have an increasing supply of that.

It’s funny how we often “over think” things.  For instance people get hung up on terms like “The Meaning of Life”.  If they are talking about some “Ulltimate Reality” or a God’s eye view of the Cosmos - - it might be nice to have that.  I have stated that I am more a Realist than a pure Empericists – as a dedicated scientist would tag himself.  But there is one problem with virtually all of the people who talk about “Ultimate Reality” in that the “Reality” they would attempt to Convey - - isn’t Real.  You see it works like this.  “Ultimate Reality” is a subset of All Reality.  Not the other way around.  We spoke at length around September first, that a man’s eye view is that there eleven dimensions, but that God was “the twelfth man”.   Do you follow?  The other thing is - - my own hand crafted definition of Exestentialism is fundamentally different from the usual one.  I for instance talk about “existential Algebra” in a logical, functional sense.  But normally the Exestentialist is one who says “Life has no meaning”.  Having said that- - if one were being logical, there would be nothing else left to say.  It’s kind of a thing where you see there is nothing there - - and logically go elsewhere and look where there is Something.  But the Exestentialist makes the logical gaff of saying “We know there is nothing - - but we have to dedicate out whole lives to making sense of that very Nothing”.  You know that rich guy whom Jesus said to go sell all his possessions and give to the poor and come and follow him?  I got to thinking – “What would following Jesus” consisted of in those days.  Jesus was a one man band who thought everybody was an idiot but him and nobody held the Truth but him.  So what could I add to that?  Remember at this time the whole “Jesus Myth” had not bee created yet.  So it’s not like I’m going to spend all day long passing out Calvary Chapel Born Again Christian tracts.  At least in the Bible when someone said “The hand is writing on the wall” it was actually happening.  Today it’s just an idle expression.  And some people have more, shall we say “Basic” ideas of what is meaning and relevant.  If you’re in an area of vast famine of the sort we’ve never known- - having one ounce nuggets of gold in your pocket are worthless, if they won’t buy you a loaf of bread to keep from starving.  Many people’s lives – including Rush Limbaugh by the way- - their lives again become more meaningful and relevant once they have needed surgery such as cochlear implants.  And now they are working on a bionic eye.  They say you can see light and dark now.  I’ve got an idea - - just thrown a focusing lens in there and you’ll be all set.  There are people who run track races with artificial legs.  And they just did a double arm transplant on a quadruple amputee who suffered in Iraq.  I can assure that made his whole life a lot more relivent and “Meaningful”.  One Christian preacher put it aptly.  If two people look at a beautiful sunset – both may carry away slightly different impressions from viewing it – but at least both people can agree that they are in fact looking at a sunset.  But if you’re looking at existentialist abstract Art- - - Who the Hell knows what it’s supposed to Be?

The long awaited “Rest of the Cosmic News”.  Johnny Cash (the guy who’s dead now) said a week or two ago that Elvis Presley in his current walk in incarnation has “again taken up a fondness for guns”.  Since this was an individual was a former housemate of mine - - I can tell you that all the time I knew him there wasn’t a hint of wanting to own a gun, or having shot guns when he was younger.  I guess what disturbs me most about this news is that Jim may have “fallen into the tea party way of thinking” on issues when my last report from Bobby Hayden indicated he was becoming more progressive in his outlook, but that was years ago.  Two other things were the cosmic history of Tommy James and the Shandels.  I’m not sure how the subject came up with Mal Evans but the original 1963 lineup of the Shandels – doing ‘Hanky Panky” is that group I wasn’t sure of the name of the “Metzerschmetaen”.  No wonder I couldn’t remember it.  Other groups from this race or whatever are Bobby Lewis, the Marquettes “Last Night” and “Purple People Eater” and also “Joe Jones” – remember him?  This group is under strong control by the Federation, if you’re curious.  However most Tommy James songs are associated with a group tagged “The Aquarius Group”, which as you may guess covers the “Fifth Dimension” and ‘Alive and Kicking” and also the Cowsills.  There are four Aldeberan IX groups that were around prior to the planet being blown up around June first 1967.   These may or may not surprise you.  They are the Mermaids from late summer 1964 and “Bruce and Terry” and also the “Sun Rays”, which I suspect of being the game group, and also the “Cyrcle” and also the group that made “Sun Shine Girl” and you can look for the group name on Hit Parade charts.  The name escapes me.  And there is one interesting light bulb moment it took me 25 years, literally to figure out (OK, it’s actually been 26 years)  Groups with the letter “B” after them contain what is known as the Reigellian immunity factor.  People from Reigel races have even said that even THEY don’t have as prominent a “Reigelian immunity factor” as these “B”s.  They are immune to curses from Alcion.  One thing about “B” groups - - both Sirius B groups, and Bele Tagis B groups, is that these people “die a good death” almost regardless of the type of life they led here on earth.  In the case of Elvis he was a Sirius 0 when he was alive but reverted to his former Sirius B status once he died- - - was reincarnated.  Ronnie Van Zant was a Bela Tagis B and “died a good death”.  Richi Valenz - - cane under an Alcyonne spell - - because he was under Sirius 0 influence but when he died he reverted to his former Romulan status.  As for the Asberry Park group - - besides Messers Seeger and Springsteen - - Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels is another group you’d know.   As to the Detroit Romulans - - the four groups you may or may not be fermiliar with with them are Blue Cheer - - but also the Dave Clark V, the Champs, and also Bobby Day from the ‘fifties.   Oh yeah - - and also the Detroit Redwings, Pistons, and Lions.  Blue Cheer is the “Charriot” card, and Burt’s fondness for Blue Cheer occurred independent of my own fondness for them.   I’ve always regarded them as the first true “Heavy Metal” group.