Wasting Time in the New Year

In the news the defense secretary denies that four embassies were targeted by Iran to attack.  Of course if a cabinet member disagrees with the president he runs an immediate risk of getting fired by Trump, as so many high officials have.   We have heard that Hillary was exhonorated by yet another investigative committee, that has not gotten attention in the press.  And we have the crisis of the Royals.   It seems they are having a big pow-wow today with Prince Charles and Prince William and Queen Elizabeth about this “family crisis” and whether Prince Harry will be stripped of his royal title of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall or whatever it is.  Where do they come up with these titles?  Maybe from reading too many Harry Potter books.  You would think in this day and age in the 2020’s that a man would be free to earn his own money and that he and his wife would be free to live wherever they wanted to.   What is Prince Charles’ roll in all this, except it’s the first time his name has been in the headlines since Princess Dianna died over twenty years ago.   They had a lot of Nancy Pelosi on the internet yesterday telling of her strategy for waiting three weeks to submit impeachment charges to the Senate.  It appears it was a fruitless endeavor.  The only thing that came out of it was three weeks of negative headlines for the democrats.   We have some fifty year anniversaries.  “Come and Get It” was released as an Apple single yesterday fifty years ago by Badfinger.  The Jackson 5 has been around fifty years.  If Michael Jackson were still alive he’d be sixty.  He was ten years old when he got started.   Nobody ever heard of Chicago, the band till fifty years ago this month, or at least I hadn’t.   January 3^rd was the fiftieth anniversary of  the recording of “I Me Mine”, the last time the Beatles recorded together as a group.  In my personal life I’ve been putting off going to the dentist and I still haven’t gotten that haircut.  I have the cash for that now.   

If I've gotten one message from "God" over the past few weeks it's to never portray Jesus Christ as weak or in any way vulnerable or subject to human emotions that might inspire sympathy.  Scientology has a thing against "sympathy engrams" so you're not supposed to allow it to enter your mind what was going through Jesus' mind when he contemplated his own upcoming suffering on the cross for our sins.   The messages I've gotten from "God" have been rather devoid of anything you might call love or compassion.  All of them have been pragmatic and coldly analytical.   There has been a tendency to NOT identify with others but concentrate on yourself.  God says "Don't worry about how I treat others- - - I haven't treated you that way, have I?"   This idea that one should engage in the relentless pursuit of Truth is not an idea God is very fond of.  He prefers to just be believed.  And if you don't "just believe" you might up paying a price.  

Last night they announced the Bible study about twenty after five.  That was too early.  I needed to finish drinking my coffee and go out for another cigarette.  I watched part of the ABC network news but at a quarter to six they announced again that Norma’s Bible study was already under way.  I followed the singing and ended up in the wrong room.  I moved into the dining room when the singing stopped and Norma was not there.  Then Norma came in a few minutes to six.  She asked for prayers and there were very few.  She prayed a nice, all-inclusive prayer.  Her Bible study was a brief one.  It was on the first verses the second coming of Christ.  First we are saved from our original sin in the Garden of Eden.  This is the first resurrection.  Then “If we don’t hear our name called” to be resurrected then, we have to wait a thousand years where then our destiny will be in the Lake of Fire.  Then we had our fried chicken and I got a thy and a drum stick and two pieces of bread.  She came by with orange drink.  After eating the chicken I was still hungry.  That was OK because a few minutes later Cathy Larsen showed up at the door with a piece of chicken for Joe and another one for me.  I went for medication after that and also had a cheese sandwich.  The Tennessee Titans were beating the Baltimore Ravens at the start of the fourth quarter and I can only assume they won.  I had to watch with the sound off because of Joe’s edict.  I switched to “Major Crimes” and slept through part of this show.   The thing is when I do go to bed I sleep OK;  it’s just that I wake so darned early.

The score when I saw it was 28 to 12 GB Packers over the Sea Hawks.  That turned out to be the final score.  I’m glad Seattle got defeated.  I don’t like Seattle.   I watched the ABC network news and then I dozed off a little.  By the time I had the game on at six it was already the second half.  The game was over by a quarter after seven and they were showing cartoons on FOX.  “Bob’s Burger” is the most nauseating of all the cartoon shows they show on FOX.  I had up Yahoo Sports this morning and they broke the scoring down by quarter and Seattle had a spurt in the third quarter but it wasn’t enough.  They showed clips of the game.  Sixty Minutes had a thing on Venice sinking, which we are all familiar with.  They’d have done better to have a piece on the Austrailian fires.  They an area the size of West Virginia is in flames.   Then I got my medication and smoked.  That thing on the tennis star from Mayorka, Spain was boring and I don’t know why they had it.  It was a dud night.  I had “God Friended Me” on but I fell asleep, which is a bummer.  I was hoping to get material for blogging today.