It's Hillary Clinton verses Donald Trump

Well it's the campaign you were all waiting for.  The sparks will be flying when Donald Trump squares off with Donald Trump- - and the sexist remarks will be flying.  Bernie Sanders is through.  He staked all his hopes on Nevada coming through for him but despite positive poll numbers- - Clinton had a late surge of hotel union members in a get out the vote drive.   Meanwhile all those polls that suggested a late surge for Ted Cruz in South Carolina were wrong, and I was personally wrong when I predicted Trump would lose.  I wasn't reading the tea leaves correctly.  Last night they had the election results on the five thirty network news, which is about the only place you could find actual numbers.  But here’s some numbers.  Hillary Clinton won in the Nevada caucus 52.6% to Bernie’s 47.3%.  The networks called it a “decisive win”.  But it’s not overwhelming.  On the Republican side there appears to be votes missing in the South Carolina primary.  Donald Trump won with 32.5%.  It would seem it should be at least 52.5% because the others scored even lower.  Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz were neck and neck for second place and after the dust settled Marco Rubio was 22.5% and Ted Cruz was 22.3%   I watched the Mc Laughlin group and they covered five topics.  The concencus there is that the Pope was wrong to judge who is a Christian.  The judgement of the panel seemed to be that Apple Corps needs to be forced to yield up some sort of back door key to incryption.  I still strongly disagree but Trump’s view of the situation seems to be prevailing.  After this it was the LA Clippers and the Golden State Warriors, who narrowly won last night’s NBA game.  After this it was some program on FOX.  I got generous coffee from Glen’s room for four cigarettes but it still didn’t keep me awake.

As has been recently reported, many experts on international relations are saying that the danger of a nuclear war between NATO and Russia is greater now than it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 — in other words: greater than ever before in history. But it has just ratcheted a bit higher still:  The owner of Saudi Arabia, King Salman al-Saud, speaking through his spokesperson and chosen Foreign Minister, in an interview that was published on February 19th in Germany’s magazine Spiegel, says that he demands the resignation or else the overthrow of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, who is allied with both Iran and Russia. Polls of the Syrian public, by Western polling firms, consistently show Assad to be overwhelmingly approved by the Syrian people to be the leader of Syria, and show that Syrians blame the United States for causing ISIS, which is disapproved by 76% of Syrians. The other named jihadist groups, such as al-Nusra which is Al Qaeda in Syria, received similarly low approval-ratings from the Syrian public. In stark contrast, a poll of Saudi Arabians shows that 92% of them approve of ISIS. But the United States is allied with the fundamentalist-Islamic dictatorship Saudi Arabia, against the separation-of-church-and-state democracy of Russia. So too is America’s fellow-NATO-member Turkey allied with the fundamentalist Muslims, and they’re publicly threatening to invade Syria (another nation that hasstrict separation of church-and-state) with ground troops. They’re backed by planes that were supplied to the Sauds by the United States. 

Rhapsody in black featured February of 1968 though I suspect much of this stuff was from at least a slightly later date.  Particularly in the early part of the program there weren’t that many memorable hits actually from February of 1968.    They played “Dance to the Music” (March 1968), “Sweet Inspiration” (May 1968),  “Tell Mama, All About It” (Spring 1969), “Stop!” (the James Gang song), “Nobody” the original of the 3 Dog Night song (with sitar), “Dock of a Bay”, “Ain’t That a Funky Way to Treat Somebody”, and then the percentage of recognizable songs improved.  “If I Could Build My Whole World Around You” and they played a Jr. Walker and the Allstars version of “Come See About Me”.   Then it was “Boogaloo Down Broadway”, the original version of “I’m Gona Make You Love Me”, “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”, “Chain, Chain, Chain”, “I’ll Second that Emotion” and “Skinny Legs”.  There were continual pledge breaks.  They seem to spend more weeks devoted to pledge breaks than they do programming without it.   There was a Barbra Mason song.  They played a James Brown song and a Wilson Picket song I’d never heard.

The Greek term for Form denotes "physical appearence" or manifestation.   In that Talosian episode on Star Trek the Tallosians tell them "This is a nutrition drink and it can assume any Form that you desire".  Here the term Form means physical manifestation or appearence.  In a chapter at the end of Mark scripture says "Then Jesus appeared to them in another form".   Walter Martin says "The words Another Form indicate that this is not legitimate scripture because Jesus never took another form".   In the Greek the word "Form" means "What you see and experiance physically".  A better translation would be simply "Then Jesus made another appearence to them".  In English the word Form involves a Geometric shape or perhaps a Form of Government.  You think in terms of outlines- - shapes- - blueprints- - or charts and graphs when it comes to forms of government.  In English we distinguish between Form and Substance.  This distinction is not held this way in the Greek where Form and Substance appear to be much more similar if not identical.  However some will say that the scripture "Avoid every appearence of evil" means that you can leave it to imagination or supposition or conjecture to determine what is Evil.  Here again you need to look at the word.  The correct translation is "Avoid every form of evil".  That is- - to avoid every way in which Evil manifests itself.  The evil is real and not some sort of pharisiac supposition that evil exists.