Popes John XXIII and John Paul II Cannonized

"We finally got that sucker downloaded"

Pope John Paul II and Pope John the 23^rd will be canonized in a double ceremony today at the Vatican, which due to the time difference has probably already happened.  It is not yet seven AM here.   Pope John XXIII is “lacking a second miracle” but was “fast tracked by Pope Francis.  Apparently this event, attended by “over a million people” is the first time that two living Popes have attended a canonization celebration of two other Catholic Popes.  This is a good thing to happen even if it betrays the whole idea of what a “Saint” is.  We’re ALL saints, if we’re professing Christians.  The Catholics regard Saints as people whom you can reliably pray to to get your prayers answered.  Of course Pope John XXIII was even more of an innovator than Pope John Paul II because he instituted the “second Vatican council”, which did not, so I understand, officially release the findings and proposed changes till early 1965 after Pope John Paul XXIII was already dead.  So we owe this Pope for having mass in English, and according to Thom Lerrer “It also introduces modern vernacular elements into the service- such as popular folk songs”.   Elizabeth (Muffin) is known to be a major fan of John Paul II.

Then we have these racist sounding remarks by the owner of the LA Clippers and understandably I have mixed feelings about this story coming out at this time.  It bothers me that the team players might be upset or distracted by the controversy and not play at their best ass they fight for their lives in the play-offs.  From a cosmic point of view I’m informed that the Taccomans were among first to raise protests about these remarks on planets other than Earth.  If you go against Magic Johnson, that’s just not smart.  He’s a formidable person.  I don’t know how many other people don’t want their girlfriends to hang out with “Negroes”.    At least he’s not saying they all oughta be put back in slavery like Cliven Bundy.  But still in the 21^st Century his remarks are an anachronism.   Incidentally as to Louis Faracon’s remarks about the mother ship orbiting earth and all the baby drone ships - - the official Federation position announced in September of 1990 was not to say one critical word about it and never to question the credibility of the remarks.  (Rush often replayed that one phone call from that Black lady)  But in my mind I say “Well does that mean there ARE ships or NOT?”   Actually the Taccomans were beginning to infiltrate Federation communications during that period, but Mal Evans has had 24 years to rescind that edict if he wanted to, and he never has.

Today is April 27, 2014 and Steve Giglio’s birthday, and also apparently the day in 1975 that Pete Ham of Badfinger took his own life.  But frankly Badfinger was by then so unpopular that I don’t think that event even made the news.  I’ve wondered in retrospect whether or not Jimmy Mc Culloch was the guy who played lead guitar on ‘Hellen Wheels” since the guitar playing on that song and on “Junior’s Farm” are so similar.  If so it would be a really early guest appearance.   I had Breakfast with the Beatles on right at nine and smartly waited till the first commercial break to smoke a cigarette, because I know the spacing on that show.  I keep getting these pop-ups from “Malware Bytes”, which is an anti-virus that is itself turning into “Malware” because it’s expired.  I am going to have to uninstall it.  In terms of more cosmic news Mal Evans decreed that the wedding between the Clapper and Patty Boyd would never be spoken of-  - - which is why I did not know, with my contacts, that all three Beatles were in attendance and even performed together there.  But there is no photographic record of the event, just like those slides that didn’t come out, from Jim Cooper’s honeymoon in Kan Coon.  John Lennon was ill that day.  And Mal Evans has no plans, he just told me, to say anything at least at this time and perhaps ever about the alleged statements of Clipper’s owner Donald Sterling.   Mal Evans agrees me that the drumming on “All Those Years Ago” does NOT sound like Ringo.  It would seem that all three Beatles performed on that track, plus Al Cooper and a bunch of others.  They played that “Fifteen dollar stake” or some poker term used on that Ringo song they didn’t identify the source of.   Junior’s Farm contains the phrase “Poker Man”.

We had an open faced roast beef sandwich with generous beef, and mashed potatoes and gravy and mixed vegetables, and a chilled apple.   So far I’m going OK in my ability to obtain cigarettes.  The Clippers and the GS Warriors are playing right now on ABC.   I had Leo Le Port on a little.  Apparently internet neutrality is again being threatened by congressional action from all these tea party corporatists.   I cleared all the furniture off for Nora to dust and she was in and out of here without doing it.  Dr Levy is scheduled to come by today, and another chance to ask for cigarette money.   Marsha said I could use her phone in her room any time I needed to.  The A T & T people won’t be out till Wednesday.  I have not checked to see whether the internet “feels like” coming in today.  If it is I may post something- - given if I don’t take the opportunity it will be gone.

In cosmic news- - there are two more “Renwah” groups- - I learned from a cosmic source that didn’t identify himself.  He claims that the Federation gave the term “Renuah” to this group because of the song “Walk Away, Rene” by the Left Bank.  Also the group Stone Ponies, is in fact a Renuah group even though Linda Ronstat herself is a Sirius A “tea party” segment.  This is like the religious fanatic side of Sirius A analogus to Ted Cruise is to the Republicans in congress.   In terms of the Torinos,  if we didn’t say, the Tijuana Brass the group is Torino, even if Herb Albert himself is not.   Some of the hits the Torinos have had include both the Batman and James Bond themes, as well as the Pink Panther theme, and also such hits as “Please, Let It Be Him” and “Step Inside, Love” the track Mc Cartney performs on Anthology, by female singers, as well as “Black is Black” and “The Cheater”, and also “Sonny”, “Time Won’t Let Me” and “Double Shot” and did we fail to mention also anything by Tom Jones, Mel Tormay and the majority of Nancy and Frank Sinatra stuff, as well as anything Petula Clark did prior to 1967.   You will notice that for certain groups we still do not have any constellational or astronomical fix on them, at least I don’t.  “Judy In Disguise” is Portland Reigelian.

From last Saturday:

They are predicting one final storm for the season in California but 4 to 9 inches is precious little snowfall for the Sierra.  Too bad you didn’t mishear it as 49 inches.  Then we’d be talking- as far as relieving this drought.  Governor Jerry Brown issued the next phase of some statewide crisis.  Home owners groups should not charge you for letting your lawn go brown. And “back east” somewhere there is slated to be a semi wintery storm with both hail and tornado action.  Wheel of Fortune is just coming on and as you can see we were reformatted and lost our spacing between paragraphs.  The final “Jeopardy” question was about Control Alt Delete being a gigantic mistake.  I think it used to be one of the most useful commands you could do.  I thought maybe they were either talking about DEFRAG or RECOVER (file fragments) or else CHKDSK for damaged sector or perhaps COMP DISC, which almost never came up with anything wrong.  I feel better having had coffee.  I think my tongue is starting to get a soreness from brushing up against a jagged point on that tooth with the missing filling or something.

I was reading up a little on Justin in both “Greeks” and “Apology I” and what struck me about “Greeks” was the completely arrogant attitude about the cultures of any other people that preceded himself.  He disparaged the oricals, the poets, and the higher philosophers, and also our old friend Pythagarus- - who according to Justin- did have something to do with the school of Gnostics named after him.   But in “Apology I” Justin went after Marcion because about him he said “Marcion’s big problem is that he believes in a God more powerful than the one who created the world and all that’s in it”.  And he also said of God “God does not exist outside his world but IN it.  Even I would have a problem with that because if God is in the world, to paraphrase Rusty Warren a little “Where is he???”    In terms of saying that God and nature are really the same force- - even St Paul has a problem with that one- - speaking of either “nature” or “the elemental forces” as somehow inferior and to “be graduated from to a higher level”.  And the author of Hebrews explains that Jehovah- or the God of the Jews offered an inadequate protection from “covering sin”.  Also Satan told Jesus said “All these kingdoms are mine and I may give them to whomever I choose” and Jesus did not dispute his word.  Jesus also spoke disparagingly of “The God of this World” in terms that leave little doubt how he felt about the whole thing of - - as Justin insists “God is a part of the world”.   But I also noticed that my friend Emperor Marcus Aurelius- - - was the emperor when “Apology I” was written meaning it could have been very late in the life of Justin- - he ever evolved such a pontithical tone in his writings.