Due
to a state Supreme Court ruling, medical marijuana facilities in the cities of
Garden Grove and Anaheim have just closed down.
The axe fell in Garden Grove a couple of weeks ago and those customers
were referred to an outlet in Anaheim – only to be denied there. However I don’t think marijuana is a remedy
for bi-polar syndrome, just as I don’t think it would be a very good remedy
for, for instance, vertigo. Ten of the
eleven dispenseries in the City of Anaheim had to close down today or be
subject to fines or worse. One
dispensery is still open in defiance of the order. Personally I think the ruling sucks. And Mike Bloomfield chimed in from the “other
side’ to express his disapproval saying “Those Anaheim police are really getting
out of hand, somebody ought to do something about that”. To me marijuana is an organic herb and as
such ought to be subject to similar (meaning no) regulations such as mint or
camimile or dandelion. I think the
closer we can get back to Mother Nature, the better.
A
major bridge just collapsed in Washington State near the Canadian border. There is a mind boggeling number of bridges
that are no longer structurally safe in the United States. We have seen an increasing number of these
bridge accidents, and we will see more.
But these Oklahoma senators like Coburn maintain that “Since we just had
a major disaster, we know that no other disaster will happen for a long time”. These two Oklahoma senators first tried to
deny disaster relief to their state but when informed that F E M A found
funding for them said, “you see we got all excited over nothing”. But to anyone with sawdust in their head, it’s
plain that disasters do occur. That’s
why you need basements in every school, and personally I thought that was
mandated by law in Oklahoma and was surprised to learn it is not. Clearly there many infrastructure jobs that
need to be done- - and there are many people who need the jobs, so I don’t wee
why we don’t exercise a little common sense and bring these two needs
together. But the President has been
stonewalled by the tea party anytime he brings up a jobs program.
President
Obama made a major speech yesterday on terrorism, and how he intends to refine
and focus our anti terrorist policies.
We are going to tighten the conditions under which we use Drone attacks,
and the government is now placing “collateral damage” in single digits
only. They’re kidding themselves! But the facts were reviewed and it’s clear
that President Obama has been a lot more proactive in going after Islamic
terrorists than President Bush ever was, and Al Qaeda has been decimated. But the Republicans can only respond that “Our
foreign policy is headed for disaster and soon the whole Middle East will be
exploding. It’s almost as if here these
Republicans are trying to “talk a disaster into existence”. As I said on that other page I’m really
getting a little weary of all this military stuff. Maybe you had this much military hype in the
media during World War II, I wasn’t around them, but we have kept up the media
hype for twelve years now. Not that I
begrudge honoring our veterans- - but it’s like the old saying “When you’re a
hammer you view everything as a nail” and get tunnel vision.
This
next one is music to my ears. Scientists
have discovered a use for the tobacco plant that is actually good for you. They have just perfected a flu vaccine from
the tobacco plant because they now have discovered that the tobacco plant has
substances in it that actually stimulate the immune response of the body, and
it’s easier to make in mass than culturing eggs. We were talking about “therapeutic” a minute
ago. Well, I’ve found when you’re sick
as a dog, the one activity you can engage in to make you feel at least “better”
approaching “doing what you normally do” is smoking, and that’s saying
something those times when you can’t keep anything in your stomach - - and the
sight of food just makes you cringe.
Also
yesterday they said that cockroaches are evolving. Al yes “Satanic doctrine in demonstration”. How the fundamentalists must hate reading
their newspaper. You see cockroaches
have “lost their sweet tooth” because so many roach poisons are sweet because
roaches used to gravitate twords sweet things, like ants do. But now they have “learned” through natural selection
that if you’re “into certain types of food” the odds of your impending death
increases amazingly. Now they are saying
that tanning lotions with a rating of 50, don’t live up to that lofty
claim. Back in my day if you had a sun
tan lotion with a rating of fifteen you really had something. That means if you spend seven & a half
hours in full sun (and who, for Christ’s sake does that?) then you get a half
hour’s worth of sun tanning. Someone
like me doesn’t even have to even think of the possibility of too much sun till
over an hour has elapsed, but I realize some of these albino blue eyed types
among us are different. Shifting gears, it seems that planes are
falling out of the sky now because are fleets are getting older. Atlanta was subjected to a rain of air craft
parts a couple of days ago, and some wing part came right through some lady’s
roof pretty much wasting her house, but luckily she was uninjured. Charles Ramsey gets all the hamburgers he
can eat for life in the city of Cleveland.
He must love that. Personally I
think ordinary American citizens besides “Joe, the plumber” should be given
honor due them.
We
waded through all the “fluff” on today’s soap opera to get to the last five
minutes, the only time when anything significant happened. Johnny Di Mira- - showed his grandmother
Marlena the little secret he’d been carrying around with him. No doubt Marlena’s ears perked up when he
said ‘It’s a photograph and I think it belongs to Christine because she’s in
the photograph”. Then the little boy at
last revealed this photo of Rosetta Stone implications for Marlena and what
this photograph is able to “arm her with” in going after Christine. It’s Christine and that Mugger obviously
chummy- - - the same mugger who almost beat to death her step son. As the lyrics in “Dear Doctor!” go - - - “There
will be no Wedding Today”.
Speaking
of profound revelations, Pope Francis came up with a real Lulu today. The pontiff stated that people needn’t be
Catholics or even profess faith in Christ, in order to go to heaven. In fact, they’re now letting Atheists into
heaven according to this Pope. I’m
surprised God just didn’t strike the pontiff with a lightning bolt right
there. According to Pope Francis, all
you need do is to “do good works all your life” because God doesn’t care that
much about “Faith” these days but is a lot more interested in “whether you are
basically a good person”. That doctrine
is just fine with me, but were I were in any position of power within the
Church, I’d never have had the balls to say such a radical thing. Of course there is only one lone story about
someone in the Bible that goes to Hell.
And he got there NOT because he “failed to profess Jesus Christ as his
personal Saviour” but instead- it’s because he was greedy with his property and
his wealth. Tea party members shouldn’t
be able to sleep that well after reading this indicting passage in Luke
(somewhere in the middle) just as in the story of Nabal, it’s taught that “being
a citizen of a country” even a wealthy one, isn’t free. You have to pay your dues, and if you don’t
God will be very unhappy, and we don’t want God to be Unhappy.
Bill Gunderson ave me a big build-up this afternoon because of something Pete Richards has
attributed to me - - riding in his car on the way home from the bank. This Latino neighbor was told “Marcus is like
a walking map. He knows how to get
literally anywhere and give directions.”
Well, I added “Well I USED to be that way”. Not so much now. But you know- - I actually dream in Directions,
as well as the time of year. I think in
geometric terms more than your average bear.
I think I got into maps and such as a survival mechanism because when I
was in second grade I rode on the bus for a long ways getting to this special
school- - and I’ve always been one of those people who likes to be aware of
where he is going- - and how to get back once I get there. I told you once on an errant Green Harbor
outing- - one day we took a little “detour” to Fountain Valley. I was probably the only one in the van who
knew just how far afield we were. Cindy
Little was the only one who backed me up- - joining me in the complaint that it
was going to take forever before we ever got back home.
Existentialists have forever asked the question, “And just WHAT is Reality?” Because no matter how hard you try you have
to in the end define “reality” by some measurable or perception yardstick. And there is more than one kind of yard
stick. For instance we have said that
Time itself is “sequestered” in Black Holes.
What this means - - is that there just is No Way we can even “say what
is happening” either Time or Space wise, because we have no common point of
reference. We could say in general
massive or big objects- - - are by
necessity - - in a slower time frame by Newtonian physics, and also the physics
of sound and musical tones. So if your
wiener dog really perceiving “Time’ differently from you? But you say “Well if he is, it’s just
subjective and dogs do a lot of things quicker than humans”. That is they eat, age, have sex, relieve
themselves, and get up and lie down - - more quickly than do their human
counterparts. Now the religious community would have you
believe that- - once you’re dead that time or if you will “karmic progression”
stops, and freezes presumably at the moment you die. But is there a form of existence where Time
is not even necessary at all? I can’t
conceive of one, and neither could the author of the Book of Revelations. But evangelists are insistant that such a “Timeless”
state awaits us. We have given you
shadows or “images” to use the Dr. Levy term, for- - - what existence Could be
like when you’re Dead, or “absent a biological life form”. We have spoken of “Space” as not measured by
feet and inches but rather of “Options” and “opportunities to change” or one
might say maneuver. Substance in that life is not made of the 103
elements known to scientists- - but rather- - may well be Generated by our own
Mind. Indeed when we speak of “karmic
jousting” in the afterlife- - the tools we HAVE to fight that battle may be
ones we ourselves Generate with our minds.
And as to Time- - if you don’t like “instant messaging’ down here- -
everything is instant and telepathic up there.
In other words there is an Immediacy to literally Everything- - and the
concept of “waiting around” may not exist.
So if we don’t experience Time- - as we do down here of “waiting” as we
do down here- - then - - - there is something Else- - some “State of Being”
that doesn’t exist here. As we have
intoned - - - people can get used to
anything - - even things happening backwards, or perhaps happening forwards,
backwards, sideways- - and whatever else- - - All At Once. (Selah)
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