It's only fitting that we honor our American heroes on this Memorial Day, even people like me, who really aren't into that sort of thing. Yesterday at the Nixon library there was a forty year reunion of all of the Prisoners of War who came home from Viet Nam forty years ago. They weren't expected to be hailed as heroes because of what they heard, or the Communists had told them. But they were heroes, and President Nixon gave them all due honor and held a gigantic White House dinner for them. But they had to erect a tent on the south lawn of the White House to contain them all. There were guest stars like John Wayne, Phyllis Diller and Bob Hope to entertain. They say that these POW's were "given the run of the white house" so they were free to wander around and drink martinis in the Lincoln Bedroom. Of course Bob Dole is a hero and FOX news interviewed him this morning. He's aged more than seventeen years since 1996. Bob Dole thinks Nixon was one of our best presidents who had ideas and was intelligent. Of course the POW's understandably regard Nixon as one of their favorite Presidents. Bob Dole said that congress is broken, and quoted Howard Baker as once saying "Leading the Senate is like herding cats". Dole said that Newt Gingrich "Was good at starting the Revolution but was utterly incapable of leading, once we'd won", and I thought I heard him say "I'm glad he wasn't our party nominee last year". Even the FOX reporters seemed sympathetic to the idea that extremists have taken over in congress. Much of the FOX news show was taken up with the notion that it's crazy for Eric Holder to "investigate himself" because of the extreme conflict of interest. Personally I stand up for the rights of any News Reporter, even one from FOX, whose rights have been violated. I think it was Dick Derbin who said that "This President has always had a major problem with comunacation", and even Bob Sheefer in his closing remarks these past two Sundays, has come down pretty hard on the Obama administration - - the way he has handled this whole treading on the rights of the Press bit. And even FOX reporters seemed sympathetic to the idea that "The President's policy on Drones should be reviewed by Congress". And Bob Dole stated that this President should have met with republican congressmen in 2009 and just to get to know them on a casual basis with no pressure.
We have a valuable new
piece of information on the whole Messiah myth contraversey that has plagued
the world for the past two thousand years.
I bagged the following paragraph last night we’ll get to in a
second. As you know that Bones alias
John the Baptist told me that he believed in a Messiah that had died, who
represented the true strain of the priesthood and not the corrupted Herodian
temple bit. Perhaps I read more into
Bones’ words than were there at the time, and he could have been referring to
the following Messiah figure who is called “The Teacher of Rightiousness”
mentioned in the Dead Sea Scrolls, of all places, but hasn’t been talked a
bit. One gets a strong sense of Déjà vu when
reviewing this whole “plot line”. I read
up on the Pharicees and saducees- - and one might wonder why I would say that
the Satucees are the forerunners more than any other group of the Christian
Church (obviously along with Marcion)
Here’s a little secret. People
change. Just ask Tammy Bruce, Dennis
Miller, or Laura Schleshenger whether they have “changed” in a lot less time
than the hundred years we are talking about from about AD 30 to AD 150 or
140. Despite the reading material of
last night saying the Nazorites were opposed to meat or meat sacrifices - - -
in the face of this - - we know that the Junta that eventually became the “Church
Universal” or “Catholic Church” - - - preferred this designation of “Catholic”
or “Universal” over and above the name of “Christian” itself. And we know in the Catholic Church the mass
is a ritual “sacrifice” that perisheners believe is literally “cared out again”
each time it’s performed. This is the breaking
of the body and consuming the blood and the body. Here’s a question for you. If we believers “consume” the blood and body
of a Dead Christ- - then he can’t be resurrected because he’s inside our
bodies, isn’t he? Rather than minimize
the idea of the blood sacrifice- - the Church Universal as we have come to know
it- - has it as it’s Central feature- - over and above any notion of a
resurrection or an afterlife. This would
fit in well with Saducee theology.
(Selah)
Michael O. Wise posits that
the Teacher of Righteousness was the "first messiah", a figure predating
Jesus by roughly 100 years.[9]
This figure - whom Wise believes was named Judah - rose to prominence during
the reign of Alexander Jannaeus, and had been a priest, and
confidant to the king. However, he became dissatisfied with the religious sects
in Jerusalem, and in reaction, founded a "crisis cult". While
amassing a following, the Teacher (and his followers) claimed he was the
fulfillment of various Biblical prophecies, with an emphasis on those found in Isaiah.
The Teacher was eventually killed by the religious leadership in Jerusalem, and
his followers hailed him as messianic figure who had been exalted to the
presence of God's throne. They then anticipated that the Teacher would return
to judge the wicked and lead the righteous into a golden age,
and that it would take place within the next forty years. Wise explains that
dating of manuscript copies among the Dead Sea Scrolls shows that the Teacher's
postmortem following drastically increased in size over several years, but that
when the predicted time frame failed to live up to expectations, his following
dissipated rapidly.
Joe has an ethics book
which includes “Lavaiathin” by Hobbs. He
is one of these people who have the classic “liberal collectivist mindset”, a
basic cynic like Dad who believes that most people are basically bad. Everybody but him. Dad is cynical about conservatives to an
extent that struck me as completely unreasonable at the time. He buys into the self loathing aspects of
Christianity, at least for the 99% who aren’t pasturing a church
themselves. He was cynical about me and
very pessimistic about his own drinking- - regarding it, so far as I could
tell, as an issue not even worth talking about.
And he was cynical about relations between me and my two brothers ever
getting better. If you are going to get on the Roman Empire
for the decadency it turned into, remember that the last century of its existence,
it was ruled by Christian emperors. And
if you are going to say of this country now, “Things are morally worse than they
have ever been” then look whose running the country. The tea party House or Representatives has
basically been running the government since January 2011. (and it seems longer) I think the Roman Emperors rather liked the
hopeless state of dependency the Christian Church laid on all the people,
psychologically. It doesn’t seem like
becoming “A Christian Nation” changed them much.
I
got some valuable missing pieces of the puzzle concerning stuff Pink
alias Syd Barrett was telling me in his April 9th appearence. But I didn't consider it appropriate to give you the unedited version till now. The part in green is new. I was on computer doing the morning blog. I announced that “Pink” alias Syd Barret- -
had paid me a visit this morning and clarified stuff he’d said on April
ninth. For one thing there was this
propaganda trash thing aimed at the Romulans of which I was the goat - - of Mal
Evans interviewing me in early July of 1963 and my making a complete ass of
myself not knowing anything. But that
Mal Evans has fired this guy from his immediate associates because of this
action and other tasteless things he’s done aimed at Romulans I'll just say that
this Sunday morning in 1990 it was obviously Memorial Day and before
heading off to Church, I recorded a good chunk of the "Beatles at the
BBC" special they had on the radio that early morning. I had heard this
exact "exclusive" almost exactly eight years previously in 1982. In
fact the original recording of Beatles at the BBC - - took place
beginning with June of 1963 for their own BBC radio program called "Pop
Go the Beatles". They would go in the studio to record four or five
songs around three o clock in the afternoon on a Tuesday, and then play
back these songs they'd just recorded the following Saturday morning.
According to Pink - - prior to this- - John Lennon was unhappy with the
way he sounded singing in a more exacting studio setting. (A live
audience would be less critical) One misconception I had was that
Stewart Sutcliffe and Brian Epstein were really tight as far as being
best buds and all. But this apparently far from being the case, and Stu
had doubts whether Brian was really the person they needed since he
didn't seem to be getting that much done for them so far. In April of
1962 the Beatles were promoted to The Star Club in Hamburg, which was
the fourth club there they'd played at, and each successive club was an
upgrade.
They didn’t get rid of
the White House swimming pool but just built a room over it and now it serves
as a secret underground compartment and politicions write graffiti on the
walls, in seeming near total darkness. (?)
I wonder how much hashish they could store down there? There was a debate on the Mc Laughlin group
about whether schools should be mandated to have storm cellars. I thought they were required but State Law
has no such requirement. But strangely I
do agree with Pat Buchannon that it’s the responsibility of the State and more
immediate governments rather than the over-reaching hand of the Federal
Government to do it. In terms of the
economy now Mort Zuckerman is “getting his hopes up” we’ll have another
economic crisis because he says “Bernanke is afraid to keep the money spigot on
because it will only spawn investment speculative bubbles like we had in 2007,
which I’m sure would make his day. But
it’s not going to happen. Mort of
clawing with his finger nails barely holding on to a hope this economy will
falter. In terms of that IRS head lady
who pled the fifth after making a speech she was innocent of all charges- -
it’s her perfect right to do so. That’s
our American system. I have a problem
with the Marenda rights wording of “You have the right to remain silent- - if
you choose to give up this right, anything you can - - “. My problem with it is- - I do not see how
“keeping silent’ is a condition to being able to invoke this right as people on
the right are now insisting. As I read
my Constitution you can say anything anywhere you want about yourself. All the constitution states is that if there
is any question you don’t feel comfortable with- - you have the right not to
answer. If cops respected this- -
suspects could tell them to go fuck off- - and not even be put in the position
to having to lie to a cop. My moral
guideline about this is, “If asked a question that’s none of the other’s
business, the person asking the question has absolutely no right to in any way
expect a truthful, informative answer”.
It’s the triple
conjunction hour of three planets according to astronomers. In Google Earth I saw these three planets
close together but the thing is- - all three planets appear incredibly tiny in
reference to the many glairing stars peppered all around them. The sun at the present time is between Aries
and Taurus, if you’re wondering. The
time of day and shadows control works wonderfully in the demonstration they
show- - but on 3 D stuff you see yourself, the control is a little bogus, not
showing moving shadows at all. Of course
you haven’t been able to change the date or get “planets in motion” since about
2007. A conjunction of Mercury,
Jupiter, and Venus is astrologically auspicious- - so we’ll see if there any
positive cosmic developments.
Well I looked at the
new Flicker because Leo Le Port mentioned it was a lot better now. I’m not convinced of that. To me it was more confusing. However - - they seem to have gotten rid of
all their old stand-bys and have all new photographs. But I just didn’t know which direction I
wanted to head in. So I didn’t download
any. Wheel of Fortune is on now.
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