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8/08 STEVE & WINNY, AUDREY & ERIC, FOOLED US ALL !

8/08

STEVE & WINNY BRINKS FOOLED US ALL !

AUDREY & ERIC VANOEN FOOLED US ALL TOO !

 STEVE DEVRIES & RICK DEVRIES FOOLED US TOO !

When a shrewd Dutchman marries a shrewd Dutchwoman (or Dutch-American) what do you get ? A SHREWD MESS.

And that’s what we GOT now in Grand Rapids. I know it and I’m NOT even there anymore. But I began to suspect something was AWRY already back in 1985 when I was a freshman at Calvin College in BEETS dormitory.

Like many Grand Rapids Christian High (GRCH) students FOR ME AS WELL it was part of the Dutch-Christian Reformed (or simply Christian Reformed, CRC)  TRADITION to go on to Calvin College, down the street from our high school.

And so I arrived at Calvin College –already fairly familiar with the campus just from having grown up in Grand Rapids (MI) and from attending Calvin College Knights basketball games and having attended basketball camp & one session of music camp at Calvin College. But that didn’t make me a TRUE KNIGHT. I had FOUR YEARS to prove myself as an undergraduate in order to become a TRUE KNIGHT.

And I don’t remember exactly how it came about but I was paired with KEITH STEENSMA in the dormitory. We must have arranged it that way. I knew redhead Keith from elementary, junior high, & high school. His dad, Andy, was our math teacher in junior high, as well as our baseball coach (briefly, that is, until I quit). The Steeensma family was something else. Keith’s older brother, Darryl, was a character, and the two younger sisters were nice.

So we moved into BEETS dorm together—2nd floor. And we met our suitemates—ELIOT VANDERLUGT & GREG ___, both of whom were PRE-SEM and both who went on to become CRC PASTORS, but Eliot ultimately left the ministry, got divorced, and ended up in San Francisco.

I remember Eliot & Greg because they requested a  NON-SMOKING dorm suite, BUT they themselves happened to be smokers. Thanks (NOT).

And then, across the hall, there was STEVE BRINKS, and his roommate TODD MARTINEZ—a rare Latino name around Calvin College amongst all the DUTCH “VAN__’s” and ‘DE___’s”. As I found out later, Brinks knew Martinez from his family’s missionary travels in Latin America and had recruited him to Calvin College.

And as it turned out, Steve Brinks grew up in Argentina, where his dad , Ray (originally from Newaygo, Michigan ? or somewhere in Northern Michigan) was a missionary with his mom, Gladys. As best as I can recall, Steve had two older brothers, Dave & Dan, both of whom also went to Calvin College and subsequently to University of Michigan Law School.

I briefly connected with one of the older Brinks who was (and maybe still is) teaching at University of Texas (Austin?) in some sort of associate law professor position. I remember my initial e-mail to him saying, “Are you the son of Ray & Gladys?” He responded “Guilty”, but then never followed up in any subsequent emails. I figure he did some checking with his brother Steve or Ray & Gladys and they told him NOT to talk to me (and I’ll explain why).

You see, that first year in the dorms—I just focused on studying. I decided to MAJOR in psychology , while Keith started out as a major in engineering (but subsequently switched to business). I also made the mistake of taking ART HISTORY as a freshman, an elective I was persuaded to try by the department chair who I randomly encountered during registration in the gymnasium, not knowing that it is the MOST FEARED class for even the ART MAJORS. I managed to survive but it BOGGED me down more than most freshman—with a lot of memorization and note-taking.

Meanwhile, I managed to stay somewhat social –and kept healthy by playing intramural basketball and working out. I remember a date I had with KRISTY WIERS who subsequently went on to marry one of my high school classmates, Bruce VanDraager. She invited me out, ironically—and we went on a DOUBLE DATE—some sort of search for things—what do you call that? She was from Celeryville, Ohio. Nice gal. I was TOO SHY back then to make a good date though.

Talk about SHY—KEITH MADE me look extroverted and outgoing compared to him. Keith NEVER spoke to girls, and even rarely spoke out loud amongst the guys. It took a while for him to relax and have a beer as well—albeit ironically maybe later on having a beer became too easy for him. I hope he didn’t become an alcoholic.

Anyways, back across from us was Martinez & Brinks. And I occasionally interacted with them socially that freshman year. Brinks suitemate, by the way, was the R.A.—the RESIDENT ADMINISTRATOR—an older student who made sure the students obeyed the dorm rules.

Nonetheless, even though they were connected to the R.A. BRINKS was still a little wild. And he had a pretty good taste for Latin music. He was a good sport about most things—a fairly nice kid. We  played a PRANK on his roommate TODD one evening. Brinks & Martinez had a habit of staying up all night, and so sometimes Martinez would sleep during the day.

One afternoon we were in BRINKS room AND somebody had a pair of handcuffs. Martinez was snoozing in his bunkbed loft and we said, “Let’s put the cuffs on him.” So we handcuffed his arm to a lamp as he slept. After a few moments Martinez slowly woke up and suddenly realized he was handcuffed ! But the JOKE wasn’t very funny to him. He did NOT take it like a good sport. He went ABSOLUTELY BERZERK !

He started STRUGGLING with the cuffs and with the lamp as he tried IN VAIN to get it off of him. He started thrashing wildly around  and ended up stumbling out into the hallway. We finally got him to SETTLE DOWN so we could remove the cuffs, but he was ANGRY AS A HORNET. Fortunately, he didn’t take a swing at anybody. But we NEVER MESSED with him again after that.

That freshman year went fast. I didn’t become great friends with BRINKS that year, but we knew each other enough socially to say hello and LATER ON (several years later) we would become more inter-connected socially.

The next y ear—first semester I went to Chaminade University of Honolulu AND then returned to Calvin College. A few semester later, I went to SPAIN with a group from Calvin to complete my foreign language requirements. It was in Spain that I FIRST MET Audrey Van Oen from Canada. She had transferred from Redeemer College (?) if I recall correctly.

It was also in Spain that I first met BARB WIERSMA from Kalispell, Montana. We would later have a brief romantic fling BACK in the USA, but as far as I knew she ended up marrying a Costa Rican and is now back in Kalispell with him washing windows.

All of these people (except for Martinez) were of Dutch origin, many ancestors removed. But that’s “the thing” about being Dutch in America—the tradition goes ON, and ON, and ON… persons with DUTCH ANCESTORY still think of themselves as Dutch and marry other persons of Dutch origin several centuries after their ancestors originally came from the Netherlands.

I recently randomly met a Dr. Greg Keller around Westwood (UCLA)  on a plastic surgery consultation for a small bump on my forehead and he was from Chicago and knew about the Dutch and mentioned the problem of “intermarriage” or consanguinity, and something about the problem of congenital deafness amongst Dutch because of consanguinity.

I don’t know about the problem of deafness but I do know about the problem of SHREWD intermarriage and PILLOW TALK that creates “in” and “out” designations. Dr. Keller mentioned being an “outsider” amongst the Dutch in Chicago, and I subsequently sent him a letter saying that “I’ve become an OUTSIDER too NOW that I’ve been in California for so long.”

The DUTCH disown their own people if you don’t stay in the CLAN, which means in the CRC (Christian Reformed Church). I grew up in the CRC. My grandfather & father were BOTH ordained CRC pastors. It was  EASY to be part of the CRC CLAN , but I ALSO see the problems that arise because of the DUTCH INTER-CONNECTEDNESS.

It’s the same problem in ANY ETHNIC GHETTO—people protect each other irrespective of truth and integrity. This has PROS & CONS, the primary con being that when all integrity is lost, it is NOTHING MORE THAN A GANG. A well-heeled and Caucasian gang, but nonetheless, still a gang.

And at CALVIN COLLEGE as people slowly lose their compulsion to EXCEL academically or otherwise the ethnic clan comes together more like a gang sometimes. Even with the church trying to PROMOTE integrity and the fruits of the Spirit, the Ethnic aspect remains.

This ETHNIC aspect has its strengths and can produce good things, but also has its shortcomings. One of the shortcomings is that once an ETHNIC DUTCH falls short of the mark academically or in other ways they may RESORT to things that are NOT of the SPIRT—including GOSSIP to make themselves a HERO at the expense of others.

After I returned from Spain—for a few  years I remained in Grand Rapids finishing my education—and for a short while was hanging around with Barb Wiersma and subsequently Audrey Van Oen would appear at gatherings, as well as Steve Brinks. It was this connection that led to Steve & Audrey being connected. And later, Audrey met Eric Kooyer and they married. While Steve went on to marry Winny DeVries—YES another Devries.

Most of the GRCH kids including my roommates and friends were REPUBLICAN in thinking, style, dress, comportment, and subscribed to REPUBLICAN values, in general. Grand Rapids is a REPUBLICAN TOWN.

On the other hand, Steve Brinks, Barb Wiersma, Audrey Van Oen, & Eric Kooyer SORT OF tried to contrast themselves to the REPUBLICAN way—but ONLY SORT OF—in a mixed way—often confusing me and others.

I think they were sort of WANNABEES in such regard—and tried to do a 60’s WANNABEE thing in Grand Rapids, maybe including smoking dope, although for some reason they always tried to HIDE it from me.

I would drink with them from time to time. I would go out and party. That was NO SECRET. I HAD my different girlfriends, including Barb Wiersma—but none of these relationships ever came to any fruition. For many of my friends Grand Rapids was the END OF ROAD, whereas for me it was a rest stop.

Many Calvin College students come to Calvin just to get married. They call it the Mrs degree. Brinks, Vanoen, Kooyer—they were NO DIFFERENT. I think the move to California in 1984 when I was still in high school gave me a LONGER LOOK at life. I didn’t get my MR./MRS. DEGREE –I just got my BA and later another BA and then my M.DIV.

BUT it was while I was lingering in Grand Rapids and still hanging out with these  young couples: Kooyer (Eric) & Van Oen (Audrey, Brinks (Steve) & Devries (Winny) AND BARB (Wiersma) that they KEPT TRYING SO HARD I realize now, in retrospect, to IMPRESS UPON me their pseudo-democratic values—including their SELF-PROFESSED higher concern for the poor than anybody else.

Occasionally Audrey would make INSULTING COMMENTS about GRCH STUDENTS as well—APPARENTLY self-conscious  of the fact that her husband, ERIC, who went on to med school, was from the Grand Rapids PUBLIC school system, not GRCS.

And that was PART OF THE PROBLEM—I was hanging out with all ‘OUTSIDERS’ of the Christian schools and all OUTSIDERS of Grand Rapids, apart from Eric Kooyer. And they were TAKING FREE SHOTS at me—I WAS TOO DUMB at the time or dumbfounded to realize what was going on.

On top of that I THINK BRINKS tried to turn me into a drunk. I think they were systematically trying to make me LOSE my way—even one evening trying to get me to over IMBIBE on a sledding trip in the snow out at HOLLAND, along with MARTY FREEMAN . 

The other part of the  PROBLEM came before the COUPLES were formed—when Steve Brinks had gone on to Notre Dame to work on his Masters degree in Economics. I visited Steve once when he was at Notre Dame. He lived in a small apartment by a river where he would go fishing. He loved fishing.

Later, Brinks would become roommates with Rick DeVries (yes another Devries) at Notre Dame. Rick was from Grand Rapids & Calvin College and GRCH—so suddenly you have a Devries from GRCh – a DEVRIES who did NOT like me at GRCH paired up with BRINKS—and the two of them drinking together. You get the picture ?

Over time the two of them Brinks & Devries returned to GRAND RAPIDS and both of them briefly taught in the Economics department at Calvin College, but both subsequently went into teaching at the elementary & junior high level. As far as I know Devries is still teaching at Sylvan Christian Junior High—a stone throw from Calvin College, and Brinks is teaching at Alexander Elementary—an inner city , ethnically mixed school, where Brinks knowledge of Spanish comes in handy.

But in spite of this PROFESSED concern for the poor and alleged decision to become IMMERSED amongst the poor in Grand Rapids, I recently noticed that, in fact, the BRINKS are living in an upper-scale area of the city by BRETON VILLAGE now ! IMAGINE THAT !

And Brinks parents, Ray & Gladys, are in Falmouth, MICHIGAN,–a tiny northern Michigan city—I passed by their home once several  years ago—pretty nice for a retired missionary—along a beautiful river.

And  I first met Ray & Gladys on a trip to the Dominican Republic at the invitation of Steve. Ray was a missionary in the Dominical Republic at the time (1990 ?) . I went with Steve, Audrey, Barb, & Eric. It was a good trip, SORT OF. But it made me aware of a few things.

First, a lot of MISSIONARY WORK is hit-and-miss and some of our missionaries in other countries are in OVER THEIR HEAD. The ACADEMIC education they have, be it an M.DIV or even a doctorate may NOT be sufficient for the HARSH REALITY of mission work.

In fact, I reflect on the MORMON church in that regard and the requirement that their young men do two years of work “in the field” and I realize why that MAKES SENSE. When they are young and physically able to EXERT themselves they gain as MUCH KNOWLEDGE OR MORE being OUT IN THE FIELD than they do in the classroom .

This is NOT to say that academic study should be thrown out the window in favor of experiential learning, BUT there should be much greater emphasis on experiential in conjunction with academic.

Being in the DOMINICAN REPUBLIC gave me a first-hand close-up look at a missionary family. And as much as they may WANT to be “saviors” to the poor impoverished folk of Central or South America or any third world country—the reality is that being a MISSIONARY is as much or more of a PHYSICAL ENDEAVOR than a mental, academic, educational endeavor.

The BRINKS can’t win DOMNICAN REPUBLIC for Christ by being BRAINS for CHRIST. There has to be a physical aspect to what they are doing. And NOT just going out fishing, but TRULY being FISHERS OF MEN.

After returning from the Dominican Republic I still saw Steve Brinks from time-to-time . We had social gatherings. I did my best to include Steve & later Winny as well as Eric & Audrey. It was my sense of obligation as the son of a Christian Reformed pastor. Was it IMPOSED or SELF-IMPOSED ?

I’M not sure. My CHRISTIAN FOCUS today is not done with GRUDGING sense of obligation. And that’s NOT what GOD wants from us either. My evangelical life is done with GRATITUDE and pleasure to be serving a GOD who has done so much for me.

But back in Grand Rapids it did get a little too HEAVY sometimes. You see, these two couples (Eric & Audrey, & Steve & Winny) really did NOT understand the church, the Christian Reformed Community, nor Grand Rapids. Eric, obviously, having grown up in Grand Rapids had the best understanding of Grand Rapids, but it was still limited at best. And obviously because he went to the public schools he did NOT truly understand or appreciate the Christian school community—much of whom he was now interacting with at Calvin College, apparently to his dislike.

And perhaps as they felt themselves SLIPPING OUT OF CONTENTION because of their ignorance about the community—perhaps this caused them to start engaging in self-serving GOSSIP. But of course the CRC in general has a sense of ENTITLEMENT towards each other like a family  in regards to talking about others, cajoling others, maybe simply harassing others, sometimes under the umbrella of “CARE.”

The EMOTION of distress perhaps felt by Eric &Audrey and Steve & Winnie at NOT truly understanding the world around them, let alone the local community would UNDERSTANDABLY cause them to feel as if they were grasping for straws.

But then the Calvin College /Christian Reformed community in general with their emphasis on being “ELECT” pursuant to the DOCTRINE OF ELECTION and PREDESTINATION—in combination with starting families at such a young age out of college or even high school before EXPLORING THE WORLD and other church communities around them  leads to their becoming all the more CLAN-LIKE in a bad way.

Clans, like gangs, STICK TOGETHER and protect each other, NO MATTER WHAT. And this is NOBLE to a certain extent BUT it is also FEAR-BASED in some ways. And SOME FEAR is due to IGNORANCE. Ignorance about the world around us creates FEAR and FEAR leads to knee-jerk reactions that can sometimes HURT innocent people.

Even with a BA or BS from a college at the age of 21 or so—as GOOD as that degree is –and as WORTHY the self-sacrifice and dedication that degree indicates, it should be REMEMBERED that graduation is also called COMMENCEMENT—which means ‘BEGINNING.” Graduation from college is supposed to be a beginning—the things learned are supposed to be tools to help us run the race. But for some, graduation is TOO OFTEN the END of running the race. In the Calvin College community it means it is time to get the MR/MRS. Degree—to get married, have kids, buy a house, etc.

And with the TROPHY SPOUSE and TROPHY KIDS and TROPHY HOUSE you start to think you are smart. Look at what I got ! A beautiful spouse, healthy kids, a nice car, house, etc. I HAVE MADE IT. The only problem is that too many people are STILL LIVING IN THE DARK despite these symbols of success. And that is BECAUSE they still have not yet TRULY STEPPED OUT and taken a risk.

This growing sense of  distress amongst young couples is confounded in the CRC by the doctrine of election & predestination and the belief that they are SAVED no matter what. With his belief in hand, they JUDGE the ‘world” according to their own terms, and even condemn or falsely libel or slander others—i.e. a “witch hunt.”

I believe this is WHAT TRANSPIRED over time amongst Steve & Winny Brinks, Audrey & Eric Van Oen, as well as Rick Devries, and perhaps Jack Holwerda. Due to FEAR caused by ignorance they started to GOSSIP and SLANDER and forgot about taking the LOG out of their OWN EYE first.

With RICK DEVRIES the problem began WAY BACK in high school—and perhaps gossip with his dad about me. His DAD was the CUSTODIAN at GRCH for many years, including while I was a student there. And for whatever reason neither his dad (George?) nor Rick liked me.

In fact Rick once hit me in the head (around 1983 ?) and called me a  “jerkoff”. And the STING of that hit in the head and the words spoken lasted a long time—-so long that I STILL felt the pain when I came back to California and was attending Fuller  Seminary around 1998 et seq.

The pain of that MOMENT loomed so large and lasted so long I took JUSTICE into my own hands and wrote some letters to LIBEL him as best as I could (correction, NOT as best as I could—but enough to make him, perhaps, feel a little of the pain that I felt for so long because of him). . I DON’T APOLOGIZE for taking justice in to my own hands.

And for that matter—this problem of the DOCTRINE OF ELECTION & PREDESTINATION extends beyond Steve & Winny, Eric & Audrey, Rick Devries—to a  man named MIKE Van Dennen. It’s a repugnant sense of ARROGANCE that coincides with a self-serving claim to being “elect.”

Mike Van Dennen and a few others at 1st CRC did DAMAGE to me as an adolescent. I would include Joel Ruiter in that group. It’s a PREMATURE sense of JUDGING others—and even UNDRESSING them—almost emotionally raping young people that bothered me, in the name of Christianity. They didn’t have a proper sense of BOUNDARIES. They had a sense of entitlement that led to a FALSE SENSE OF FAMILIARITY.

Combine this with the NEED FOR CONTROL in the CRC and at CALVIN COLLEGE and the sense of entitlement to make sure the young Calvinist men don’t get “TOO BIG FOR THEIR BRITCHES” that leads to a  BREACH OF BOUNDARIES.

In some ways, the CRC seems committed to saying the EARTH IS SQUARE despite all the evidence to the contrary. That is, there are those in the CRC who have NEVER attended a service at a Catholic church, nor would ever even go to a Reformed Church service (RCA & CRC were once one and the same—the DUTCH Reformed Church) . they might be so “LOYAL” to their local CR CONGREGATION that they wouldn’t explore the Presbyterian church, or any of the various other protestant or catholic denominations—and the PROBLEM is this: TOGETHER—all the denominations , both PROTESTANT & CATHOLIC are the BODY OF CHRIST.

When we make a congregation MORE LIKE A BASEBALL TEAM to whom we are loyal we LOSE a larger corporate sense of being the BODY OF CHRIST at large. In the  CRC there are even softball teams for each church—along with a large RECREATION CENTER where they have league play.

I applaud physical exercise and healthy competition but if it gets too competitive and to divisive it LOSES any ability to be edifying for a LARGER PURPOSE—mainly—the UNITY OF THE BODY OF CHRIST.

There are those in the CRC who would like to maintain that the Roman Catholic church has it ALL WRONG. Notice they want things to be black-and-white, nothing partial. I would say, there are some things in the Roman Catholic church that have been abused (confession, penance, etc) but does that mean the ENTIRE Roman Catholic church is wrong?

Likewise, there are things in the CRC THAT are problematic—some of which I mentioned—but does that mean they are completely worthless and wrong as well ?

This STRONG NEED for black-and-white answers sometimes leads to wrongly condemning others, and in the CRC ignorance leads to fear—and there are those with a lot of ignorance about anybody outside the clan—even if they are in the CRC in California—for some in Michigan—that’s WAY TOO FAR AWAY-and makes you  a “suspect person” at best.

This is, I believe, the way Steve & Winny , Audrey & Eric, Rick Devries (especially) and a few others from “inside” the clan think and talk. And even though I grew up INSIDE the Grand Rapids CRC clan—when our family moved to California in 1984 suddenly I became a SUSPECT PERSON.

You see the problem—when a TRULY CORPORATE NOTION of the BODY OF CHRIST is not instilled in the people. I myself used to say, “I’m not Christian, I am Christian Reformed. “ That’s how much being “CRC” is, or was, instilled in young Dutch-Americans in some places. Likewise, I’ve heard a few young Catholics say, “I’m not  Christian, I’m Catholic” –which I always try to correct by telling them “You are Christian if you believe in Jesus Christ, which Catholics do…”

Anyways, around 1989 as I was finishing my first bachelors degree I got the DISTINCT feeling that my friends Eric & Audrey and Steve & Winny were becoming self-indulgent in Grand Rapids. Furthermore, they didn’t TRULY know the history of the city or the area. All of them came from somewhere else, except Eric, and ERIC had a grudge against the Christian schools.

I could see the seeds of destruction being sowed by these two couples. The mix of Rick DeVries alongside Steve Brinks did NOT help either. And then a few times I was in Grand Rapids I visited with Steve Brinks and his dad, Ray, just happened to stop by. One time I was out running and didn’t see him. The other time I was at Steve & Winny’s on Godwin St with my dog LOLA and he came by.

The city was LOSING ITS SOUL. I had grown up there. I knew so many people and cared about them. But the seeds of destruction had been sown by just a few. Everytime I was at Steve & Winny’s—all I heard them talk about is Winny’s job working with poor black women at a half-way house. It got to the point of being pathetic. And Rick Devries added to the mix by playing up his own hard knocks “poor roots” upbringing (his father being the custodian at GRCH).

Not only had they started a POOR ME narration but they had also started a RICH THEM narration—and they whispered and gossiped about ME as one of ‘THEM’—apparently having gotten a little bit of knowledge about my grandfather LEO PETERS.

Their story-telling was NOT ONLY self-serving BUT it was destructive of others, including me. And I had NO WIFE to defend me.

But what SURPRISED me most of all was that, in fact, these two couples, as well as RICK DEVRIES actually wanted to be RICH. They coveted a better way of life, despite all the words about caring for the poor and being poor. And apparently, they GOT what they wanted but pretended not to care about. All of them are financially stable now and the Brinks just moved into a very nice neighborhood by Breton Village.

I myself grew up in Alger Heights, a normal middle-class neighborhood. I had a paper route. I shoveled snow. I raked leaves. I delivered magazines. I worked as a carry-out/stocker at Boorsmas grocery store. I rode a moped. I played Little League. I went deer hunting and goose hunting, and occasionally fishing.  I went to church. I tried to be good at school. It was a NORMAL youth. My grandfather on the other side of town lived in the MANSION, not me. I had NORMAL expectations of meeting a nice girl and getting married and maybe even settling down  right there in Grand Rapids…

But somewhere along the way somebody started a FALSE NARRATIVE about the KOK family—whether it was combined with the PETERS MANSION story or the CALIFORNIA CRYSTAL CATHEDRAL chapter, I do not know.

Whatever it was, it was FALSE and self-serving to a few in Grand Rapids who decided they wanted to be the small town kids done good. And like any FALSE STORY –it can only be sustained for so long before it starts to UNRAVEL. And no matter how many times they tell the false story it will NOT BECOME ACTUALLY TRUE.

What is at the HEART of the false story is a tale of some IMPOSTERS coming from elsewhere and deciding to make Grand Rapids their home—and in the process DENOUNCE any truth tellers. These NE’ER DO WELLS decided that Grand Rapids is their town, history be damned.

It’s a story of the TRAGEDY of missionary kids—BEING raised with the SILVER SPOON in foreign countries. Isn’t that IRONIC ? That is part of the MISSION story you don’t hear too often—the fact that being an American missionary IN  a foreign country can be a luxury, more than a hardship. YES, it is true. With the American dollar, more can be bought, maids are maintained, the kids go to American boarding schools in the foreign country—with pools, nice facilities, etc.

And then they arrive in America when it is time for COLLEGE. They have NO REAL SENSE of patriotism for their own country. Furthermore, they have no sense of history for the local community in which they are going to college. In fact they DON’T have a local community anymore.

Steve & Winny made their mark in Grand Rapids by LEGALISM—ignoring the roots & history of the families who grew up there. Eric & Audrey, in part, did the same. Rick Devries was glad to jump on this bandwagon because he had a SELF-HATE, poor me complex. This little group SOWED the seeds of destruction in Grand Rapids—and add STEVE DEVRIES—another missionary kid to the equation. He became a CRC pastor after a few years of mission work back in the Dominican Republic—which is where I thought Steve Brinks would end up—with his knowledge of Spanish, of the people, and his professed concern for the people there (as well as in Argentina).

But growing up there and loving the people or loving the life of being a missionary kid is NOT the same as knowing how to be a missionary and accepting the discipline and sacrifice required. These missionary kids became WHINERS and Steve Devries apparently couldn’t take it upon return. He came back to Grand Rapids and became a church pastor. They are RICH in Grand Rapids AND love being rich. Their ‘god’ is money and materialism.

How this could happen I do not know. Audrey married a doctor—because she wanted to marry into ease & wealth. Audrey’s older brother married a doctor too. This FEAR of being poor drives some of them to do the craziest things. CARE FOR THE POOR was just rhetoric. It was actually FEAR OF BEING POOR. What a shame.

They are LIVING on an iceberg in a time of global warming—the story they have created is made of ice that is melting. They DON’T care for the poor and their greatest FEAR is of being poor—and in the process they TALK TRASH about people around them, including me. SHAME ON THEM.

JOHN PHILIP A. KOK
JOHN THE EVANGELIST FOR CHRIST

8/30/08 DOES THE CRYSTAL CATHEDRAL BAIT & SWITCH ?

                           

DOES THE CRYSTAL CATHEDRAL

BAIT & SWITCH ?

                     

Some of you know about my MIGRATION from Grand Rapids, Michigan to Southern California, partially compelled but later on of my own volition. Let me REHEARSE some of it for you so that I can SEGUE on to my main point. In 1984 when I was a junior at Grand Rapids Christian high my father,. the Rev. James R. Kok, who was a chaplain at Pine Rest Christian Hospital at the time accepted a NEW JOB in pastoral care at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, CA. In fact, for a few months he was ‘OUT’ in California looking for a house for our family and actually starting to work at his new job as DIRECTOR OF PASTORAL CARE at the “world famous” Crystal Cathedral where the TV SHOW and WORSHIP SERVICE entitled THE HOUR OF POWER is produced every Sunday (minus the summer months). The Crystal Cathedral was FOUNDED by Robert H. Schuller,  a Dutch-American originally from Iowa (like myself—I was born in Iowa City in 1967) and the Crystal Cathedral is part of the REFORMED CHURCH OF AMERICA, which was also DUTCH in origin, and at one point in time there was ONLY THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH in America. Since that one point in time when the Dutch came to America and landed on what is now Manhattan Island (originally New Amsterdam) the DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH has splintered into new denominations. The original SPLIT created the Christian Reformed Church (CRC) and the Reformed Church of America (RCA). Today, there is also the Protestant Reformed Church & the United Reformed Church, among others. But as far as I know  the CRC & RCA remain the TWO largest segments of the original DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH .

I was born in IOWA but at the age of FOUR we moved to GRAND RAPIDS and while growing up in Grand Rapids, I slowly but surely gained knowledge and appreciation for the differences between CRC  & RCA. I was raised CRC. And my dad was ordained in the CRC as was my grandfather, the late Rev. Gareth Kok. We attended a CRC all the while we were in Grand Rapids and when my dad took us to California we moved in to a house in Bellflower, a DUTCH CRC settlement where my grandfather originally came in 1936 and pastured a church as well as FOUNDED the VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS.

And while CRC & RCA folk are friendly towards each other—growing up in one or another  a lot of young people back then ( I don’t know about now) were STRONGLY instilled with an identity that belonged to EITHER ONE OR THE OTHER, CRC or RCA, not both.

And so it was a little SURPRISING to find out that my dad from the CRC  was joining the Crystal Cathedral of the RCA. The actual differences between the two denominations go back to a few doctrinal distinctions and some psalms or hymn differences and traditionally the RCA has been more inclined to be AMERICANIZED whereas the CRC has held on more dearly to its DUTCH roots, albeit you might not know that with all the talk you hear from the senior Schuller from time to time about being Dutch.

So we arrived in Bellflower in June of 1984. I had just finished my junior year at Grand Rapids Christian High and was expected to attend Valley Christian , my grandfather’s school for my senior year. My grandfather was still there in Bellflower at the time, with his second wife, Ada Timmer VanZee Kok and they attended the Bethany CRC, just down the street from their house. I practiced FOOTBALL with the high school team that summer and school was just about ready to begin when I made a decision to return to Grand Rapids and finish my senior year of high school back at “home.” I lived with a friend for a semester and with my uncle for another semester.

It was a great year back in Grand Rapids. I graduated from GRCH, and went on to Calvin College and henceforth regularly came to my new “second home” out in Bellflower—for holidays. This was the WAY IT WAS for several years. I attended Calvin College and did a few brief stints at a few other colleges, including Chaminade University of Honolulu in Hawaii, and also the National University of Spain, Denia.

And all the while I HELD on to my FAITH IN CHRIST and my identity as being CRC, but also because of the MOVE we made in 1984 I had a SPECIAL PLACE in my heart for the Crystal Cathedral. You have to remember that this was a HUGE MOVE for my dad—who went from being a Chaplain & CPE (Clinical Pastoral Education ) supervisor at Pine Rest Hospital  with a small office and a humble salary to being the Director of Pastoral Care at the huge Cathedral, with a 10th floor  office larger than the square footage of some people’s homes.

And we were always INSPIRED by Schullers  positive-thinking messages and SPECIAL GUESTS who spoke of their faith next to Schuller in the pulpit for all the world to see and hear on television. It was SPECTACULAR and in contrast to the relatively quiet Grand Rapids life. And of course even BEFORE we moved to California we were exposed to the Cathedral, like most people, via television. One rule in our house was that if we were too sick to go to church we were required to watch the HOUR OF POWER on television. So we KNEW about the Crystal Cathedral and Schuller WELL BEFORE moving there in 1984.

And in addition to TV we had visited the CATHEDRAL—before it was the CATHEDRAL—and simply an arboretum with a drive-in worship service. I can BARELY remember visiting before the Cathedral was built. That was BACK when LION COUNTRY SAFARI was still in operation in Irvine and MARINELAND was still operating in Palos Verdes. Those are a few of the big landmarks I think of when coming to visit grandpa during Christmas.

In fact, in some ways it was a RETURN by my dad to Southern California who grew up here in Bellflower in 1936 for several elementary school years. I suppose there was this FACTOR at play as well when my dad decided to move BACK to California in 1984. He bought a house only a few blocks away from my grandfather. And my younger brother who was in 7th grade at the time went on to graduate from Valley Christian and attended Calvin College as well. Today he lives in Redlands with his wife and two kids.

Meanwhile, my TIES to Grand Rapids REMAINED strong. I grew up there, worked various jobs there—was a grocery store stocker/carry out boy at Boorsmas Grocery, and I had a paper route for the Grand Rapids Press, and played Rocket Football, and shoveled & snowblowed snow and raked leaves and played Little League Baseball and went golfing at Indian Trails and had fun at Lake Michigan, and went deer hunting & goose hunting with friends, among many other things. Grand Rapids had a lot of ROOTS and connections for me.

But as I went through COLLEGE and sought a career direction for my life…I originally graduated with ACADEMIC HONORS in psychology in 1989, BUT after working at Pine Rest Hospital for a year as a MENTAL HEALTH WORKER and going on to LAW SCHOOL at Wayne State—I REALIZED LAW  was not my calling.. .and after a semester there I  LEFT.

I LEFT WAYNE STATE LAW SCHOOL with a heavy heart but also a feeling of RELIEF. It became OVERWHELMINGLY CLEAR during the few months I was there that the practice of law did NOT have meaning or purpose for me and I realized while there that I was QUICKLY sinking into a depression and had to MAKE A CHANGE for the better. I did NOT know what “BETTER” was at the time but just decided to GO and head out west in my little blue 1979 TOYOTA CELICA with my bike on top.

Before leaving MICHIGAN I stopped at the house I lived in on KALAMAZOO street WHERE an old acquaintance, Dave Dejong, was now living. I talked to him and Steve Korhorn and a few others, including Doug Kosters, before hitting the road. I stopped at Western  Michigan University and found Rick Byle and said farewell too. I DON’T think they understood the implications of my saying farewell. This was a MOMENTOUS change in my life—a decision to LEAVE MICHIGAN.
But as it turns out I would BE BACK.

I ARRIVED in California a few weeks later without any idea about what I was going to do. I knew I was CRC CHRISTIAN and kept asking GOD for guidance. But BEFORE any direction could be found for certain I suddenly received a phone call from Dave Dejong again. He sounded VERY UPSET on the phone and UNDERSTANDABLY SO—our friend DOUG KOSTERS had commit suicide ! WOW—shocker. I couldn’t have ever imagined.

I knew he was STRUGGLING as I was leaving MICHIGAN back in October of 1990 BUT didn’t know he was struggling that much. I had known DOUG all my life—SINCE nursery at FIRST CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH to high school and parts of college. We even shared an apartment with Rick Byle for a semester.  I knew his dad, JULIUS, and mom, MARILYN, and his brothers Steve & Jim, as well as his sister, Gayle. I had hung out over at their house on Burton Street from time to time and even briefly worked for Kosters painting business at one point.

I remember hanging out with DOUG–, going water skiing on Reeds Lake & Lake Michigan. I remember watching MOVIES at his house and his favorite show, M*A*S*H, with Alan Alda. I remember doing  meaningless PRANKS with DOUG and a few others. When I moved in to the house on Kalamazoo Street with Kevin Vrdeveld, Jack Holwierda, & Dan Dekam, the KOSTERS HOUSE was just around the corner.

It was while we were living at the KALAMAZOO house that I met KIM KOOIKER and she came over once and we walked up to OTTAWA HILLS HIGH and played tennis. It was while at the KALAMAZOO house that BARB WIERSMA visited a few times, and even brought me soup once. The KALAMAZOO house proved to be a pivotal place—AFTER WHICH everything and everybody seemed to scatter and go their own ways.

Anyways, I flew back to Michigan for the funeral and DAVE DEJONG allowed me to use his car for a few errands around town including meeting with LISA KORF of all people—who showed up for DOUG’S funeral. Hmmm. Lisa Korf. Wow. She was something else. I still have fond thoughts about her . She seemed like an angel to me going thru high school. But she changed later on. Maybe it was all a masquerade.

I returned to Calilfornia and continued to WAIT ON GOD –asking HIM  “WHERE” “WHAT” & “WHEN”…and lo-and-behold—sometime in the Spring of 1991 an EARTHQUAKE hit Costa Rica and  our church (Bethany CRC) was asking for disaster relief volunteers—and I volunteered to GO as part of a CRWRC—(Christian Reformed World Relief Commission) team. As it turns out—guess who else also happened to be in Costa Rica ?! BARB WIERSMA—my brief romantic fling from Spain & Grand Rapids—and who was from Kalispell Montana. WHAT A SMALL WORLD .

And for a few weeks I was doing DISASTER RELIEF with TOM POST—the director of the CRWRC who was married to a BELIZIAN gal and who lived at the time way up on a HILL above SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA with their kids and two golden retrievers.

After we finished doing DISASTER RELIEF—I had ANOTHER CHOICE to make—stay in Costa Rica and TEACH or go back to USA—I DECIDED to try teaching at a place called DRAKE BAY WILDERNESS CAMP—where HERB MERCHANT, an AMERICAN lived with his COSTA RICA wife, MELANIE and three kids, including Brian & Adrian. Herb put an ad in the TICO TIMES seeking a teacher or tutor for the two boys. I originally met Herb at a café in San Jose and he said I should come down to the camp and visit and see if it works out…

So a few days later, after coming VERY CLOSE to leaving COSTA RICA (Melanie actually drove me halfway to the airport before I decided to give it a try and stay for a while) I took a bus with some tourists  down to a port town near Drake Bay and was picked up by a small boat that took us to the camp. We crossed over  Drake Bay and entered the mouth of a river where we were met by Herb  Merchant.

He ASKED ME TO STAY and tutor the boys. He gave me a place to sleep and a little money—but it obviously was NOT to get rich or live in a huge house. It was an ADVENTURE. This was very close to CORCOVADO NATIONAL PARK  which is world famous for its RAIN FOREST. Professors, biologists, wildlife enthusiasts, and random tourists from all over come to visit this area—to SEE the rain forest—the TOUCANS, the SCARLET MACAWS, the sloths, monkeys, butterflies, bugs, YOU NAME it—INCLUDING all the sea life. IT’S AN INCREDIBLE NATURAL AREA.

And so there I was and there  I stayed FOR several months tutoring BRIAN & ADRIAN and doing my best to be a teacher and a part time assistant for the tourist camp. Had I ever PREDICTED this ? Never in my wildest dreams. Meanwhile, I had my RELIGIOUS TRACTS that I handed out to people and continued MY CHRISTIAN WALK—doing evangelism when able.  I was STILL CALLED…
I stayed LONG ENOUGH to get to the front edge of the RAINY SEASON and even had the opportunity to see t he TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE, and then I finally decided it was time to go…

And  I headed back to ESTADOS UNIDOS (USA) and returned to California with the intention of going back to Michigan for seminary. And so I drove from California to Michigan and arrived at Calvin Seminary—but didn’t stay for very long—I became disillusioned and headed back over to the college for a teaching degree. I stayed at the COLLEGE getting a second BA –English/education degree—and did student teaching at Holland Christian Middle… and got my teaching degree.. board certified… also during this time I did a summer mission in the Philippines—a LIFE IMPACTING experience..

And WAS getting ready to go to HUNGARY to be a MISSIONARY TEACHER when suddenly I  got a call from an acquaintance, Jim Zoetewey… who said there was a teaching  job available where he was in Coachella, CA—NEVER HEARD OF COACHELLA at the time… now I am VERY FAMILIAR with it—on the east side of the valley where  PALM SPRINGS  is…

Taught there FOR TWO YEARS—and got the feeling again—to go back to SEMINARY and fulfill my calling—and once again headed back to MICHIGAN and this time STUCK IT OUT at the seminary—for a year. And THEN—on the road again—by the way I had LOLA WITH ME THE WHOLE time (my Golden Retriever since the teaching degree years starting in 1993)… ON THE ROAD—back out west—THRU Jackson Hole, BUT didn’t stop…

Arrived in California and FULLER SEMINARY—where I would spend the next several years finishing my MASTERS-IN-DIVINITY degree AND starting my own ministry MUSTARD SEED MINISTRIES. And it was AROUND THIS TIME that I was ACTIVELYT attending the Crystal Cathedral—OR actively OBSERVING it may be a better way of describing it. This time I was more THOUGHTFUL—not skeptical , BUT curious in a NEW WAY about the CATHEDRAL—in  conjunction with my studies at the seminary.

And I eventually decided I should at least go thru the MEMBERSHIP  process AT the CATHEDRAL to see what it was all about and it was this experience that made me wonder if they practice a subtle form of BAIT-AND-SWITCH.. WITH the insinuation or innuendo that new members come there because they are attracted to the SHOW OF WEALTH and hope to get something from the Cathedral in this regards..

This was OFFENSIVE to me because I did NOT come to the Cathedral for money –and in fact had already DONATED over $500 to them, but during the membership process—which includes five or six Sundays in a room with various pastors and church leaders introducing themselves I got the DISTINCT feeling that they were “TURNING THE TABLES’ on us—and that our BEING THERE—as a contribution of ourselves and support of the ministry was not being SUBTLY TWISTED into a perversion of such—that we were there hoping to GET SOMETHING from “THEM.”

It became clear that MEMBERS were part of one group and LEADERS were part of another group. And in fact it was the LEADERS who were the ‘GETTERS’ and the MEMBERS who were the ‘GIVERS” but you wouldn’t know that by the way the leaders talked DOWN TO US as if we were the parasites hoping to GET something from them. I even heard ROBERT A SCHULLER mention in a message once about people thinking we are a “RICH CHURCH” and therefore don’t give as much money as they normally would.

In fact it was this CONSTANT CRY for donations, tithes, the fear of being taken off the air if the money didn’t come in—that slowly but surely made me DISENCHANTED with the CATHEDRAL.

A few weeks ago I WROTE A MESSAGE ENTITLED ‘THEY FOOLED US ALL: RE STEVE & WINNIE DEVRIES BRINKS, AUDREY & ERIC KOOYER-VANOEN, & STVE & RICK DEVRIES and my feeling was the same about them—a CONSTANT GAME OF TRYING TO GET—using whichever emotional heartstrings they could pull to get what they want, regardless of the integrity of the PLEA.

Sitting in the MEMBERSHIP ROOM at the  Crystal Cathedral I GOT THE FEELING that a little bit of a BAIT-AND-SWITCH was happening. That our DONATION OF SELVES was not being SPUN in a wicked way to make it appear as if we were there to GET SOMETHING. I felt disillusioned and disheartened by it. But then SO MANY organizations and some individuals PLAY THE GETTING GAME. So many that it becomes DIFFICULT to live peacefully in our country. Even our POLICE—whom you would think you can count on to help you—that’s what they are paid for, right? –Sometimes they play the BAIT-AND-SWITCH too trying to make  the good citizen feel guilty for being a good citizen.

I started asking WHY SCHULLER would play this game as well and realized that SCHULLER grew up on a farm in IOWA and this farm was destroyed by  a tornado and that the BASIS of his entire ministry may go back to this difficult life experience where he had to FOCUS on being positive and with the FEAR of being POOR and  a NOBODY in life. And so all the MONEY and show of WEALTH by SCHULLER may be related to this TORNADO EVENT and the subsequent fear of being poor and of no consequence in life… And it may have SEEPED INTO THE CORPORATE CONSCIOUSNESS of all his employees—the other worship leaders and pastors.

I came to the CRYSTAL CATHEDRAL originally because my DAD came there. I returned there with a new curiosity. I stuck with them and around them long enough to get a FEEL for what it was all about, but never got the feeling that they would TRULY SUPPORT ME as a MISSIONARY-IN-PERSON to the world, as I had been with the  CRC (CRWM/CRWRC). The MISSION WORK done by the Cathedral is done either ON CAMPUS in the form of various groups or ON-THE-AIR by one of the SCHULLERS. And the AIR TIME is definitely restricted to the SCHULLERS—either ROBERT SR. or ROBERT JR.

But if all the time and emphasis goes into SAVING SOULS over the air and a few ON CAMPUS MINISTRY GROUPS—the incarnation interaction may get lost. I’ve talked to people who “know” Schuller by the TV MINISTRY but I wonder how has it really made a difference in their life? For some, it brought them to California. But I’m wondering, as they say, ‘WHERE’S THE MEAT ? “ That’s what I felt to be LACKING around the ministry—the MEAT. An ALL-AIR ministry has a definite feeling of being MOSTLY AIR to it.

If I want ALL AIR I can go into any random shop, store, restaurant, coffee shop where I am greeted with a OVER FRIENDLY HELLO AND HOW ARE YOU ? AND I pay my bill and get an OVER FRIENDLY HAVE A NICE DAY, GOODBYE. But that feels like AIR TO ME. I want MEAT ! I want a little MORE AUTHENTIC INTERACTION…If I just wanted a friendly smile and how are you for a few dollars I guess I could go to MCDONALDS where they do it my way and get a tiny speck of meat on a bun.

BUT WHEN I SAY I want some “MEAT” I’m NOT talking about a hamburger, nor a STEAK. The MEAT I am talking about is a LIFE-CHANGING authentic interaction, not just another ‘CLERK’ saying ‘have a nice day” or ‘have a good one.” The MEAT I am talking about is SUBSTANCE—something radically different and exceptionally good.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,  gentleness and self-control.
 Against such things there is no law.                             
 Gal 5:22-23

AND let me say this: at one of the MEMBERSHIP PROCESS MEETINGS my own dad, Jim Kok, actually got up in front of the group and delivered a message about his job and his department at the Crystal Cathedral—the pastoral care department. I, myself, have been involved in pastoral care. BUT what I remember my dad saying had NOTHING to do with pastoral care: the BLURB I remember him saying tongue-in-cheek was that if ANY OF US WIN THE LOTTERY WE HOPE THAT YOU WILL SHARE PART OF IT WITH US… and then here came the SPIN and TWIST or SWITCH: IF WE NEED FINANCIAL HELP FROM THE CRYSTAL CATHEDRAL, Jim Kok said, ‘THEY’ will help us but ‘NO MORE THAN $300 PER PERSON” He had a SPECIFIC NUMBER IN MIND about how much money he would give any individual (or maybe that was the entire family).

I LOOKED AROUND THE ROOM and I did NOT SEE ANYBODY who looked like a WELFARE RECIPIENT. This was NOT  a group of lackadaisical take-what-you-will-give-me loafers. This was NOT a group of parasites. This was a WELL-DRESSED, WELL-HEELED, WELL-INTENDED GROUP OF people who had HEARD ROBERT Schuller’s message of HOPE & POSSIBILITIES and HELPING OTHERS and took it AT FACE VALUE. And people are TRAINED in AMERICA to take every message & advertisement AT FACE VALUE. People who watch the HOUR OF POWER in other countries and on the EAST COAST and JUST ABOUT EVERYWHERE ELSE take the MESSAGE AND MESSENGER AT FACE VALUE. Robert Schuller has said from the pulpit ‘COME’ and people DO COME, and they have the RIGHT TO BE RESPECTED for believing what THE SCHULLERS say. FOR THEM to arrive and be treated like welfare wannabees is a MAJOR INSULT and a form of FRAUD.
I wanted to stand up and say to my dad SHAME ON YOU for mentioning money so flippantly and even mentioning a specific amount as if anybody in the room came to the CATHEDRAL for a financial handout. IF anybody comes to the CATHEDRAL on any given day and ONLY gives a dime it is a DIME more than the CATHEDRAL can demand of that person. Some of the CATHEDRAL people have gained a SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT about asking for money from people. And then, to make matters worse, ON TOP OF THAT, they pull this SWITCH on us—and treat US—the GIVERS as if we were there to get something from THEM.

And there’s a DEFINITE US-THEM attitude at the CATHEDRAL. There are  TIERS of entitlement—with the SCHULLERS, obviously, at top, AND then the hired pastors on the next tier, and then you have the VARIOUS other employees, including the security, NOT all of whom are always so NICE & LOVING. In fact when I first returned there and was starting my ministry and observing the CATHEDRAL ministries (around the time they were building the hospitality center) I was HARRASSED and mistreated by Cathedral security. In fact, a SECURITY SUPERVISOR was subsequently fired for his mistreatment of me—ONE OF THE GOOD MOVES by CATHEDRAL PASTORS.

Anyways, I CAME to the CATHEDRAL originally because of my dad and his move in 1984. I returned to the CATHEDRAL because of my own NEED TO KNOW whether this was a TRUE ministry FOR the FATHER-SON-and-HOLY SPIRIT and I left the CATHEDRAL not sure. I left the CATHEDRAL still trying to figure it all out, having NEVER personally met the senior Schuller, AND still feeling a little bit INSULTED by some of the way things are at the CATHEDRAL, and having GIVEN, FINANCIALLY, MUCH MORE THAN THEY EVER GAME ME .

I’ll leave it at that for now—and as for LAST WEEK’S MESSAGE—more to come about “CONVERTING  LESBIANS FOR CHRIST” and the STRAIGHT PATH—WE CAN HAVE a tremendous impact, as CHRISTIANS,  on the WORLD , and we must continue to try to be a POSITIVE IMPACT—doing the right thing, saying the right words, being a WITNESS TO CHRIST for CHRIST. ..

Last week’s message was  PART 1 in the HEALING PLAN for deviants. The first part is to STOP GOING SOLO in your sexual life. The second part is STOP GOING MERELY MUTUAL in your sexual life. The third part is START GOING FULLY AGAPE in your sexual love life . If your sexual life is not also your love life then it is selfish and sinful. Sure, maybe SOME EROS will be integrated with your AGAPE love, but AGAPE should be the STRONGER element. Take the STEPS toward healing. GROW IN CHRIST !

JOHN THE CHRISTIAN
EVANGELIST FOR CHRIST

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PREACH WHAT YOU PRACTICE !

MARCH 30, 2008

PREACH WHAT YOU PRACTICE !

IF IT IS THE GOSPEL !

We’ve all heard the saying, :practice what you preach” which is okay, but I SAY, “PREACH WHAT YOU PRACTICE !” A lot of people tend to think that they are being HUMBLE when they simply “live” their faith by being KIND, and CHARITABLE, and exhibiting the FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT, and so on and so forth, rather than go around TELLING people to do this or don’t do that.

It’s kind of an OLD SCHOOL way of thinking, perhaps also affected by some HOLLYWOOD films that have gone out of their way to make the preacher appear to be a “do what I say, not what I do” type of personality.

And that is a PROBLEM—if preachers don’t LIVE out the FAITH that they are preaching, but is that the MAIN PROBLEM ?

I believe there are TOO MANY people who, in the name of FALSE HUMILITY, refuse to preach and/or maybe are not TRULY living a life of faith that allows them to preach what they practice. It is ACTUALLY VERY DIFFICULT to live a double life and preach what you don’t actually practice and believe yourself.

And then there are those who think it would be nice to be a preacher or pastor and simply show up every Sunday and tell people what to DO and DON’T DO . But is it that SIMPLISTIC ? I wish it were so. In fact, the kind of PREACHING I am thinking about doesn’t DWELL SO MUCH on do’s and don’ts as much as it DWELLS UPON the GOOD NEWS and reaching people with it in an AFFIRMING MANNER. That’s the POWER of the GOSPEL! And I do a LOT OF IT ONLINE—and even offer HOLY COMMUNION by email, among other things.

But then I try to make EVERY ASPECT OF MY LIFE a TESTIMONY to GOD. Recently I stopped in at a hair salon inquiring about services in the little city of Alhambra, CA and the lady asked are you “OF A RELIGIOUS ORDER…?” I was not dressed like a monk, nor a priest, just a collared shirt and a jacket, but she said that there was “something about me” that made her think so.

I didn’t stay for a haircut because the haircutters were out for lunch (it’s a “beauty college” that gives reduced price haircuts because it is students who are cutting your hair), but I left thinking, “IS THAT GOOD OR BAD?” that she thinks I am “religious.’ One problem is that it leaves you SUBJECT to THEIR VERSION of what a “RELIGIOUS PERSON” or “HOLY MAN” or “MAN OF GOD” should act like, look like, be like, etc. On the other hand , if their impression is positive, it allows you to have a positive impact on their life.

But LIVING ONE’S FAITH is MUCH MORE than a certain LOOK. In MY CASE, 90% of my FAITH LIVE is lived out BEHIND THE SCENES. It is usually not OVERTLY confrontational. And the GOOD NEWS I deliver is often done through literature, or pocket BIBLES, or the DVD’s I used to make, or my CHRISTMAS CAMPAIGN, etc.

And it is ONLY AFTER I’ve done all the grunt work behind the scenes that I finally DELIVER A MESSAGE on SUNDAY—and even this is done somewhat anonymously in a coffee shop somewhere (usually Starbucks which offers electric sockets on the wall). But yet some people are NEVER SATISFIED (including my brother-in-law & sister, Engelbert & Sissy), and will attempt forever to make pastors, preachers, and people of faith out to be hypocrites and themselves the real deal.

But that is an ASIDE for the moment . let me talk more about PREACHING WHAT YOU PRACTICE. There are a LOT OF BIBLE VERSES that support TELLING the GOOD NEWS to others :

JESUS HIMSELF, said,

“…As you go, preach , saying,’

The kingdom of heaven is at hand….”’

Matt 10:7-8

And again :

“Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light;

and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops.”

Matt 10:27

And again:

“Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also,

because for this purpose I have come forth.”

Mark 1:38

And again :

“Go into all the world and preach the

gospel to every creature”.

Mark 16:15

And again :

“He sent them to preach the kingdom of God”

Luke 9:2

And again :

“Let the dead bury their own dead,

but you go and

preach the kingdom of God.”

Luke 9:60

AND THAT’s JUST JESUS. That does not include PAUL or others. SOME SAY that WORDS WITHOUT DEEDS are meaningless—and there is some definite truth to that, but I also say DEEDS WITHOUT WORDS is only HALF of the equation AND therefore DOES NOT FULFILL the GOSPEL.

So the WISEGUY says, “Well what about the MUTE person WHO cannot talk?” And of course there are always certain exceptions. There are those who have SPEECH impediments, who don’t have a command of the language, who are shy, etc. But then there are also those who SPEAK WELL but are physically handicapped and cannot travel or move very easily to do physical deeds of charity and acts of great kindness; or who are financially poor so they cannot give much more than the widow who gave her last penny (Mark 12.42) —does that mean they are hypocrites for believing and preaching the GOOD NEWS ?

A PREACHER of the GOSPEL is, by and large, somebody who INSPIRES others to LIVE FOR GOD ! And what does it mean to LIVE FOR GOD ? To exhibit the FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control” (GAL 5.22). And I believe these FRUITS become MORE RIPE and RELEVANT when we BEGIN BY CONSCIENTIOUSLY adjusting our lifestyle to INTENTIONALLY preach the GOSPEL.

I grew up going to CHURCH every Sunday—sometimes TWICE every Sunday, back in Grand Rapids, MI, and I became a GREAT CHURCH ATTENDER, sometimes even taking notes, and sitting in the wooden pew WITH PERFECTION starting straight ahead with attentiveness to the sermon; BUT for a long time I didn’t know how to LIVE OUT my faith—and reach people with the Gospel.

Going up to people and yelling “BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST!” or even handing out pamphlets or going door-to-door as do some persons of various other religious orders (especially Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons) didn’t seem to work that well for me (in the beginning). Some people (especially in the United States) DON’T want to engage in conversation with somebody on the street, or going door-to-door; and I don’t like to FEEL REJECTED, and so I began by putting pocket Bibles and pamphlets and my ministry card UNDER windshield wipers around town and on a few trips across the USA, including last summer, 2007.

That was MY INITIAL WAY of doing evangelism. It was NON-CONFRONTATIONAL. Some people might say, you have to be confrontational to be effective. Maybe so, depending on the situation and the person or persons. For me, I had to start my ministry in a non-confontational manner, and it meant MOSTLY GIVING of myself and actual gifts to others.

And so when I SAT DOWN and composed my MESSAGE I felt as if I was TRULY PREACHING WHAT I PRACTICE. I was doing good deeds and being EXCEPTIONALLY KIND and longsuffering rather than demanding my legal rights as a “ROMAN” (i.e. American). And in the process I GAVE A NAME to what I was doing—MUSTARD SEED MINISTRIES; and went through the process of having it organized as a non-profit organization and filed as such with the state of California. BUT naming & organizing & filing it was the LEAST of my concerns—LIVING the IMPERATIVE to “PREACH” was my first & foremost and ongoing concern.

And so I have concentrated on REACHING PEOPLE with the GOOD NEWS. Why do some people in the world try to make preachers and the GOOD NEWS out to be a matter of DO’s and DON’Ts ? That’s something I do much more when I am substitute teaching—where I have to SPECIFICALLY CONCENTRATE on telling kids “do this” and “don’t do that.”But the GOSPEL is so much MORE ENRICHED than do and don’t.

And while I often talk about ME—that is for the sake of REPEATING MY STORY—and getting the TRUTH known to others ( I do have a few enemies who would like you to think bad of me), but PRIMARILY you should come away from me and my message thinking about JESUS CHRIST, love, and SALVATION, and less about me, the person:

The APOSTLE PAUL, himself, said,

For we do not preach ourselves,

but Jesus Christ as Lord,

and ourselves as your servants

for Jesus’ sake”

2 Cor 4:5

“Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel “

1 Cor 9:16-17

However, I will also KEEP TELLING MY personal story—and how it INTERCONNECTS with others because is is part of TRUTH TELLING; and also, because in the process of our FAITH LIFE we become more and more part of the BODY OF CHRIST. And if we are part of the BODY OF CHRIST, part of preaching the GOSPEL becomes, to a certain extent preaching ourselves, BUT NOT OURSELVES ALONE—the entire BODY OF CHRIST that began with JESUS THE GODMAN HIMSELF who DIED on the cross over 2000 years ago, last week; and ROSE AGAIN !

MEANWHILE, there will always be QUESTIONS and CONCERNS about whether a person is SINCERE or a TRUE BELIEVER, and preachers or pastors and evangelists will ESPECIALLY come under scrutiny as leaders of a congregation—and perhaps especially those who get a salary for what they do, but is it OUR JOB or YOUR JOB to ‘WEED OUT’ the false believers?

“‘No,‘ he answered, ‘because while you are

pulling the weeds, you may root up the wheat with them.

Let both grow together until the harvest.

At that time I will tell the harvesters:

First collect the weeds and tie them in

bundles to be burned; then gather

the wheat and bring it into my barn.‘“

Matt 13:29-30

In fact JESUS may have specifically told this PARABLE because of the fact that it would be the FALSE BELIEVERS calling the TRUE BELIEVERS FALSE !! It would be the HYPOCRITES themselves, so well-versed, academically, in scripture, that would be crying ‘SPECK, SPECK!” not only when no speck existed, but that, in fact, an ENTIRE LOG is in their eye ! It is FOR THIS REASON that JESUS GAVE US A CLEAR PARABLE to fend off these attacks.

And my friends, I can tell you that I personally am periodically ATTACKED by some of these people, including my brother-in-law, ENGELBERT SLANDERSON ( a lawyer), as well as my own brother (Slandrew Kok), and recently I noticed SKIP GREENFLAKE (Scott Greenway, a CRC PASTOR and son of REGGIE GREENFLAKE (i.e.Roger Greenway) was attacking me in a COWARDLY manner.

And YOU KNOW how some of these people attack me? For no outward breach of any laws or violation of other peoples rights, nor for anything that is TRUE to me as a person and my CHARACTER & INTEGRITY. They attack me with INNUENDO and sometimes HIGHBROW suggestiveness, and occasionally direct words: And it is a despicable BELOW-THE-BELT juvenile attack—directed at my MANHOOD-things some men (& women) do in the darkness:

They attack me—saying I am a ‘masturbator” or as they sometimes say, or said, a “jerkoff.” If they don’t say it in direct words they say it with HIGHBROW MANNERISMS or suggestiveness. IT IS COWARDLY and not only FALSELY SUGGESTIVE but probably HYPOCRITICAL and probably a direct revelation of their own issues.

And ALL I CAN do most of the time is TURN THE OTHER CHEEK, but recently I actually went so far as to CHALLENGE my brother-in-law, ENGELBERT SLANDERSON to a SANCTIONED BOXING MATCH, in accord with all local, state, and federal laws. And now I EXTEND the same CHALLENGE to SKIP GREENFLAKE, as well as my own lawyer brother, SLANDrew Kok (slandrew is derived from the world SLANDER and the Bible speaks of SLANDER as “throwing across” or dia ballo –throwing across evil words about others—hence DIABLO –a word used for DEVIL essentially means ‘THROWING ACROSS EVIL WORDS’ or SLANDER.

It is SAD that I have to go so far as to BE WILLING TO PHYSICALLY FIGHT for my FAITH, but if it is necessary to DEFEND my reputation, integrity, and manhood, SO BE IT. And let me repeat—the CHALLENGE is EXTENDED WITHOUT ILL WILL, but solely CHRISTIAN LOVE, and if any of the recipients of the challenge DARE to accept the challenge, I expect the BOXING MATCH to be done in a SANCTIONED manner according to amateur and/or professional boxing safety standards, with WITNESSES and any proceeds going to a reputable CHRISTIAN MINISTRY or CHRISTIAN CHARITY (and not my own).

Is a boxing match UNBIBLICAL and in contrast to TURNING THE OTHER CHEEK ? I’m NOT SO SURE. I am PRAYING about it—whether it is in accordance with GOD’s WILL or not. If it becomes clear that it is not according to GOD’s WILL I will retract the challenge, but as of the moment, it seems FITTING, given the UNWARRANTED attack on my BIBLICAL MANHOOD from a few of the above-mentioned persons.

And because I am not yet married these people ATTACK WITHOUT MERCY, as if marriage is the sin qua non of the faith life. As if being married proves your manhood. My friends, I actually do wish to have a WIFE and have been actively seeking a LIFE PARTNER with whom to have children, but it has not yet happened. Does this mean I spend my nights alone engaged in selfish activities?! GOD FORBID ! The APOSTLE PAUL says it better than me:

“When I was a child, I talked like a child,

I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.

When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me”.

1 Cor 13:11

And let me assure you, BEING UNMARRIED forces one to be MORE DISCIPLINED, NOT LESS. And it also COMPELS growth IN one’s MARRIAGE to JESUS CHRIST. Both the SINGLE LIFE as well as the MARRIED LIFE have their pros and cons, their merits and limitations.

But if people simply don’t believe that I live a life of integrity as a single man perhaps a CHALLENGE to my detractors will settle this once for all, IF THEY DARE ! If they are so MANLY let us settle this in a way they think is manly. And BY THE WAY, in some cases, it is COWARDLY WOMEN who are INCITING their man to attack me. SHAME ON YOU, TOO !

And, my friends, I will END today’s message with this:

“Preach the Word; be prepared in season

and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage —

with great patience and careful instruction”.

2 Tim 4:2

TRUST GOD, follow JESUS, allow yourself to be LED by the HOLY SPIRIT !. And KEEP or START PREACHING WHAT YOU

PRACTICE !

SINCERELY

SIR JOHN THOMAS PHILIP A. CHRISTMAS KOK

PASTOR KOK III

CHIEF BIG FAITH

3 YEARS IN THE NEWS BY PASTOR KOK III 5/14/06

3 Years In the News

The Good,the Bad,& the Ugly

 

“In the News “

(by Pastor Kok III, Mustard Seed
Ministries)

Selected Excerpts from the News

Compiled April 11, 2004 through May3,
2006

(every letter typed by J.P. Kok. No
“Cut-n-Paste”).

 

3 YEARS IN THE NEWS BY PASTOR KOK III
5/14/06

TAGS: NEWS, YEARS, MUSTARD SEED NEWS,
MUSTARD SEED MINISTRIES, MSM,

 

News was Compiled Daily from Various News Agencies,
almost exclusively via my Cell Phone. Stories are referenced by news agency
along with the reporter (if it was included with the story, sometimes the
writer/reporter is not included, and sometimes, especially when I first began
doing this, I inadvertently ommitted  the
source).

 

Warning: Some of the news is graphic and can be
disturbing to read. Disturbing things happen in our world and they are reported
by various news agencies. Almost everything I personally read on my cell phone
news is included below, verbatim (meaning it is word for word even if all of
the below is not in quotation marks. Quotation marks are implied, unless I’ve
made a comment in brackets).

 

I’m bringing the World News to you along with the Good
News and my Sunday Morning Message for a particular reason, which is discussed
in more detail in the Sunday Morning Message.

 

             

April 11, 2004

 

Condoleeza Rice

Sony Pict Purchases Clarke Book “Against All Enemies”

Dozens dead.trapped in Russian Mine Blast

Al Quaeda memo shows FBI suspected hijack plot ( Bush
was aware by PDB)

Cory Spinks wins fight

 

April 19, 2004

 

A fan fell from the baseball stands trying to catch the
history 661’s career home run hit by Barry Bonds. The fan fell 20 feet landing
on his wrists,  and suffered a
laceration  to his head. The ball
ended  up splashing into the San Francisco bay

 

On an island in the middle of the Indian
Ocean is the world’s largest raised coral atoll. 1000’s of giant
tortoises roam, and huge robber crabs, the worlds largest anthropods up to 3
feet in length scour the beaches able to rip open coconut shells with the
pincers.

 

White throated rails the last surviving flightless bird
of the Indian Ocean wander the island.  Hawksbill and green turtles come in the
1000’s to breed.  There are over 200
plant species. Waters teeming with life include sharks, stingrays, groupeers,
and aldabra, Along with the Galapagos
Island it is one of the
world’s greatest natural treasures. Now this is threatened say conservationists
due to plans of the Seychelles
government to build .

 

Two fraternity brothers Friday were sentenced to
community service but escaped jail for stealing and eating a jumbo goldfish at
the University of
California Santa Cruz..
..the men were drunk when they snatched the 18 inch koi  fish which was referred to both as Midas
& Goldie  and lived in a university
of owned pond the men fried the gold fish and fed to fraternity pledges last
year as part of their sentence each man will have to work forty hours at a
Japanese …institute that has a pond filled with koi.. the incident was filming
for the MTV series fraternity life but never aired..

 

A Fort Meyers Florida
teen has been charged with hiring an undercover policeman to shoot and kill his
mother while instructing the purported hitman not to damage the family
television

 

More than a century after they died the men of the CSS
Hunley are finally being laid to rest.. the confederates had a primitive
submarine at their disposal during the Civil War and was the first submarine to
sink another ship.. but in the process it also …sank itself.. killing the 8 men
who volunteered for the mission.. a funeral ceremony will be held for the men
this week at Charleston’s historic Magnolia cemetery   The average retail price for a gallon of gas
has hit a record of $1.80  said AAA on
Saturday while in California the average is closer to  $2.15

  

The body of DruSjodin ..the University
of North Dakota student was found in Minnesota.., 5 months after she disappeared from the
parking lot of a N. Dakota Shopping mall where she was an employee at Victoria’s Secret..the
Body was found in a ditch in Crookston,
MN, the hometown of the suspected
killer.

 

An NHL player, Mike Danton of the St. Louis Blues has been arrested in
connection with an alleged murder-for-hire scheme..according to a criminal
complaint filed in federal court, Danton, age 23, and a woman face charges of
conspiring and using a telephone across state lines to set up a murder. The FBI
said Danton wanted somebody to kill a man hired to kill him, and that he
hatched a plot for the hitman to kill the hitman and make it look like two
burglars had broken in.

 

14 African migrants drowned trying to reach Spain’s Canary Islands
Saturday when the boats crashed into each other and capsized. Two persons were
missing incl a 9 mo. Old baby…

 

April 25, 2004

 

A German Shepherd ate 28 golf balls owner Mike Wordrop of
N. England says.

Pat Tillman—killed in action, former St. Louis Cardinals NFL player

 

OTHER

Sad story of year—gal in coma after being beaten by
others after she kissed another girls boyfriend on a dare. Nicole Townes in Baltimore.

Sad Story—the gal dragged to death by the sleeve of her
jacket which got caught in the door after she was dropped off for school

 

News from Fresno..—man
killed wife or wives & children, some of whom were one and the same (so to
speak) . He was the father & grandfather of some of the children

 

May 2, 2004

 

Supreme Court Justice David Souter gets assaulted;
Kentucky Derby, –Smarty Jones wins; Emily Yzaguirre age 7 escapes from would
be kidnapper; Texas Floods; Hotel
Fire-Rome—Spotlight—Norman Jackson Flight bomber—Lancaster,
Honor Killings—Turkey..
Lakers-Angels, Tigers, Yankees. 7 Hubble stocks 9) Weather , 10 Koroneburg
–Renaissance Faire..

 

May 9, 2004

 

Iraqi abuse, Defense secretary Rumsfeld, Psychologists
opinions, Philip Zimbardo—Stanford University, Palo Alto, Blue Roses (Liver
Enzyme), Hydrogen Fuel (converter), The Sasser worm—18 year old boy in Germany,

 

May 16, 2004

 

Allegations of Prisoner abuse continue…

Prosthetic Limbs for Amputated Prisoners..

Brazil—33 persons
die in plane crash, propeller aircraft

Did Al-Zarquawi behead Nick Berg?

Cuban Protest against U.S. squeeze…

Daily Mirror admits fraudulent photos… Editor Piers
Morgan Resigns…

2 Disc Jockeys fired for laughing about beheading of
Nick Berg..

NBA Game of the Week Lakers v. Spurs last shot .4 seconds
by Derek Fisher

Baseball—Angels keep winning

 

May 24, 2004

 

Bush injures self on bike

Did U.S. bomb a Wedding party.ceremony?

Suspicious activity on the  NY—Philly- Washington Rail Corridor

Blimp crashes in Las Vegas.

Reggie Jackson’s Jersey retired.

Lakers beat Spurs, win first game against the T-Wolves.

Prisoners released in Iraq

New Dinosaur discovered in southern Montana.

 

May 30, 2004

 

Mexoryl— a powerful sunblock chemical

Pat Tilman—killed by friendly fire?

American Airlines attendant Gay Wilson

Arrested for penning a bomb note

Libya—not sure where missing nuclear parts are

Garden Grove Strawberry Festival

5.5 Earthquake in Iran

3 Children dead.decapitated in Baltimore

Smarty Jones

Pacers-Pistons

Am Military Vets. New Memorial in Wash D.C.

 

Ronald Reagan has died at age 93—on Saturday in his
Bel-Air home, the nations 40th president told the world in November of 1994
that he had  been diagnosed with early
stages of Alzheimers , an incurable illness that destroys brain cells. His body
was expected to be taken to his presidential library & museum in Simi
Valley, CA and then flown to Washington to lie in state in the capitol rotunda.
His funeral is expected to be at the National Cathedral and then the body
returned to California for a sunset burial at the library. Reagan lived longer
than any U.S. President, and spent his last decade in seclusion because of the
disease. Surviving ex-presidents today include Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter,
George Bush Sr., and Bill Clinton.

 

A month ago Nancy Reagan told the media that ‘Ronnie’s
long journey has finally taken him to a place where I can no longer reach him”
Reagan’s oldest daughter, Maureen, from his first marriage to Jane Wyman died
in August 2001 at age 60 from Cancer. By the way—she had been scheduled as a
guest speaker at the Care & Kindess conference at the Crystal Cathedral for
2002 until her unexpected death. Three other children survive, adopted son,
Michael, from his first marriage, Patti Davis and Ron from  his 2nd marriage , from ’81 to’89 Reagan
reshaped the Republican party reshaped the Republican party in his conservative
image, fixed his eyes on the demise of the Soviet Union—and E. Europe communism
and tripled the national debt to 3 trillion in his single-minded competition
with the other super power.

 

Before Reagan became president he had been involved in
radio broadcasting, acting, television performing and now is a spokesperson for
General Electric Co. as well as a two term governor for the state of
California. Reagan was known for his strong opinion about needing to downscale
government saying government is not the solution, it’s the problem. He
challenged welfare and other handout programs that had been started by FDR’s
New Deal. He managed also to achieve arms control agreement between the U.S.
And the Soviet Union . He was criticized for suspicions that he had authorized
secret arms sales to Iran while seeking their aid to gain release of American
hostages in Lebanon.

 

Despite that, he left office in 1989 with the highest
popularity ratings of any retiring president in the history of modern day
public opinion polls (according to ABC), 
The reason for his popularity, some say, was his ability to communicate
and connect with ordinary Americans even though some of his policies infuriated
the liberals. At age 69, Reagan was the oldest person ever elected president.
He came close to death when he was struck by at least one of six bullets
fired—which came close to his heart. On March 30, 1981, Regan was leaving a
Washington Hotel after addressing labor leaders when a young drifter John
Hinckley fired six shots at him. His wit even in times of gravity is shown by
his comment to his wife. Shortly later, saying, ‘Dear, I forgot to Duck.”
Another time as he was going in for surgery he quipped to the surgeons, “ I
hope you are all Republicans.” Four years later he was re-elected, defeating
Walter Mondale, while winning 49 of 50 states.

 

At the time of his death Reagan was apparently at a
stage of life when he could no longer speak, feed himself, or recognize his
family. President Bush was in Paris at the time of his death and said, “It’s a
sad day for  America.” All government
buildings are ordered to fly the flags at half-mast for thirty days. Reagan’s
politics were known as “Reaganomics” and was highlighted by his so-called
“Trickledown theory” .

 

Despite criticism, Reagan was able to deflect and
because of his thick skin, became known as the Teflon president. His tough talk
against the “evil empire” of the Soviet Union brought him  support at home and abroad. Some credit him
for hastening the demise of communism around the world. Reagan was born on
February 6, 1911, in the little town of Tampico, Illinois his father was a shoe
salesman who drank his slim profits, and the family moved often. His mother was
very religious and raised Ron and his brother Neil in the Disciples of Christ
church. Ronald was athletic, a lifeguard, a football player and participated in
drama. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in economics and sociology. He was
a radio announcer  for a while and was
known as “Dutch”, albeit apparently had Irish heritage . Later, he acted in
movies such as “Bedtime for Bonzo”  as
well as “King’s Row” and “Knute Rockne: All American” which led to his
nickname, “The Gipper” .

 

Because of his poor eyesight, Reagan was ineligible for
combat duty , so he spent the war years in Los Angeles making army training
films and patriotic features, although for a while he apparently hung around
with a communist sympathetic group and he was president of the screen actor’s
guild from 1947-1960. However, his second wife, Actress, Nancy Davis Reagan
encouraged him in the Republican direction and Reagan ended up participating
with the FBI and Senator Eugene McCarthy in the blacklists of alleged
communists in Hollywood. Reagan was elected governor in  1966 and served two terms. His biggest
controversy was the arrangement he made with Iran to sell them arms n exchange
for release of hostages from Lebanon ( or help in procuring their release).

 

The arms sold to Iran apparently were given to
right-wing contra guerilla in Nicaragua which led to the involvement of Oliver
North, Reagan contended he had no idea what Oliver North was doing. He left
office at a time of high prosperity for the Nation—and it wasn’t until many
years later that the effects of a huge federal deficit and savings & loan
crisis were felt. Yahoo reports that early in his career analysts had  laughed him off as a shallow show business
buffoon—all grin and pomp. Clark Gifford called him an amiable dunce.

 

Nonetheless, Reagan was the answer to conservative
prayers, following in Barry Goldwater’s footsteps . His parting comments from
the president’s office were “We meant to change a nation, instead we changed a
world.” Despite Alzheimers, he was till able to write on November 5, 1994,
“When the Lord calls me home I will leave with the greatest love for this
country of ours and eternal optimism for its future. I know that for America
there will always be a bright dawn ahead” . IN 
addition to the surgery for gunshot wounds. Reagan was also strong in
his position against terrorists. In April , 1986 he ordered air strikes on
Libya. He also protected gulf oil shipping lanes during the Iran-Iraq war, by
having warships escort U.S. Flagged Kuwaiti tankers . He invaded Grenada in
Oct. 1983, ousting a Marxist regime and rescuing stranded American soldiers.

 

..on his funeral crypt the memorial will read “ I know
in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually
triumph, and there’s a purpose and worth to each and every  Life” He attended Bel-Air Presbyterian after
leaving the office. The funeral service will be at the National Cathedral in
Washington D.C. at 11:30 est. Reagan once said, “I wonder what the Ten
Commandments would look like If Moses had run them through congress first

 

 

Meteorite hits New Zeeland home.. 3 Peru Men lost at
Sea survive on Turtle Cassini Nears Saturn seven years after leaving earth ..
Cassini will release Huygens  to land on
Titan in December… at least 3500 Iraqis have had their ears cut off by
Hussein for deserting the army in 1994.

 

Texas Man throws woman off overpass and then jumps off
himself…. Lake Chesterfield in St. Luis dries up…Malone accused of poking

Three officers killed in Birmingham , AL.’’’….
American executive killed in the Dominican Republic

 

June 19, 2004

 

They say Paul Johnson was beheaded .Shaquille
O’Neal   says he wants to be traded

 

June 20, 2004

 

Al quaeda claims it was justified in beheading Paul
Johnson because even though he was not a member of the military he worked on
military aviation, and therefore assisted the military, —Lakers are expected
to offer Kobe Bryant 7 year contract—140 million dollars—20 million per year.
Lakers say they will accommodate any trade demands or requests re. Shaq. What
makes Kobe different is the fact that he grew up somewhere else—not in
America—he’s not a typical or true American black, –with the same semi-veiled
anti-white sentiments as many black Americans.

 

Al quaeda is now holding a S. Korean man hostage with
demands that S. Korea pull out of Iraq or else the soldier will be killed. I’m
on Hwy 16, at 8 pm. An adult and two children are found dead—washed up on the
shore of Lake Michigan—all three tied together at the waist—which says an officer
would be expected if a boat capsized to keep each other together.

 

 A Northwest
Flight mistakenly lands at Ellsworth AFB rather than the commercial airport in
Rapid City. There is no explanation for it. An article about an internet
company that verifies internet mail delivery, called “Didtheyread it.com”. In
1975 there were only 250 bears left in Yellowstone, now it has doubled.
Vassopressin is released when humans have sex. The six day war—anti-Semitism is
at its highest since the holocaust.

 

Man spends 8 years in an apartment until elevator is
fixed. Barry Bonds has had 94 walks in 
57 games this year. Hope Clark was arrested for allegedly not paying a
fine she got in Yellowstone for not having kept a jar of peanut butter and
jelly closed

 

June 22, 2004

 

The S. Korean man was beheaded

 

June 24, 2004

 

 I get on my
wireless , AP tells the story of the day John Kerry killed one of the Vietcong
in Vietnam. HE was assigned to go up one of the rivers in a boat with a few
other soldiers and suddenly the came upon a Vietcong with a rocket blaster—
of some sort—which, if launched, would blow up the boat —so Kerry apparently
gave orders to “beach the boat”  so as to
make it impossible for the man with the rocket launcher to arm it—the rocket
apparently needing a few more yards to build up the speed needed to fly, and.or
the person holding the launcher unwilling to fire in such close range because
it would probably kill him as well.

 

So they beached the boat, and they say the launcher man
was still trying to arm the  thing—at
which point Kerry felt it was necessary to kill him. And he pulled out his gun
and shot him at close range. Sounds plausible, but—the question is were these
like the terrorists we know today who are willing to commit suicide for the
cause. If not, it lessens the likelihood that he was still trying to fire or
arm the gun at that point.

 

June 23, 2004,

 

AP says that the soldier who accidentally bombed the
Canadians  will not receive judicial
punishment. He will receive military punishment, probably thirty days of
confinement or one month of missed pay.

 

June 25, 2004

 

Judge Calabresis of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals
has apologized for making comments that compare the election of George Bush to
that of Adolf Hitler and Mussolini. The comment he says was meant to compare
the way Bush got elected not so much Bush as similar to Hitler or Musollini—the
judge says that Mussolini was appointed dictator by the King of Italy and
Hitler was appointed by Hindenburg.

 

Apparently he makes the comparison because of the
closeness of the election, which was ultimately determined by the court—which
concluded nebulously that Bush won. Also AP reports that Dick Cheny, the
vice-president, used the “f word” towards 
Senator Leahy after a congress session, overheard by many.

 

There’s an article on the wireless about the Kobe
Bryant trial—and an accidental leak of a transcript from a closed trial. The
judge subsequently issued an order prohibiting any publication of that
transcript. And the press is contesting it to the court of appeals on the basis
of “prior  restraint” not being allowed.

 

June 26, 2004

 

Saddam Hussein had his first appearance in Court,  declaring that he is the President of Iraq,
saying this is all about theatre for Bush. Cassini Probe doing exactly what
it’s supposed to says NASAM…Man with a Million pennies in Los Angeles. Spain
is proposing to double their troops in Afghanistan. , perhaps a diplomatic
gesture for heir planned pullout of Iraq. Slept by Castle Bluff—7-11—new
condominium complex

 

June 27, 2004

 

on my wireless they say that now Al Quaeda has
kidnapped three Turkish soldiers and are threatening to behead them as well if
they don’t with draw from Iraq. The president of Turkey has vowed he will not
negotiate with the terrorists.  —John
Kerry has cancelled a speaking engagement for a Mayors convention—because he
refuses to cross a police picket line.

 

There’s been another Mt. Lion attack in California—this
time central. They say there were 48 deaths in schools across the country this
year—one of the highest years ever. There’s news about a  man making a new world record in taking a
photo  of 2700 nude people on Lake Erie.
George Bush is at Dromoland Castle.

 

July 2, 2004

 

Marlon Brando died.

 

July 4, 2004

 

A man is attempting to golf across Mongolia.  wireless news—that  this Fahrenheit 911 film— by Michael Moore
is the Michael Moore who produced “Roger & Me” the documentary about the
closing of the auto plants in Flint , Mi, his hometown

 

July 6, 2004

 

The Austrian president died on the even of his
retirement.  Gay film producer  Von Praunheim is making a movie based on the
life of the fellow who wanted to have his penis eaten and then killed. This
fellow also made a film entitled :Can I be your bratwurst please?”  the running of the bulls in Pamplona Spain
starts Wednesday in the San Fermin festival and protestors are stripping in a
nearby town to gain attention , or take attention away from it—

 

July 7, 2004

 

 Leopards are
killing people in Bombay—they killed ten people in one month.

 

July 8, 2004 

 

There was a triple murder at the ranch of Sam
Donaldson—the TV newscaster—the son is suspected of killing his father, mother,
and sister. There’s a report about leopards killing humans in Bombay India—coming
out of the preserve and in one moth killed ten people. Now they’re dumping pigs
and chickens and other animals into the preserve for the jaguars.

 

[This has to be one of the saddest stories I’ve
heard]—a pregnant lady goes out to the bars with her friends—they don’t know
she’s pregnant. She’s high on cocaine. She gives birth to the baby in the
bathroom unbeknownst to anybody else—when one of her friends comes into the
bathroom she tells them she passed a kidney stone—to explain the blood. She
stuffs the baby into the trash can, leaving it there to die. She goes home with
her friends, changes clothes and goes out partying some more the same evening.
Later , somebody finds the dead baby, and puts the pieces of the puzzle
together. She’s arrested for murder. That was in Denver, CO, apparently the
second  instance of its kind in a few
months

 

Another sad story—a man sues his wife for divorce after
discovering she is bald—apparently she had an illness at an early age that
caused her to lose her hair and wore a wig all the way through their courtship.

 

July 10, 2004

 

 AP reports that
some missing nuclear information has been reported at Los Alamos. Also, the
Australians have discovered the chemical in smoke that causes seeds to
germinate.

There’s a story about a man raised by chickens —in
Fiji—apparently his parents locked him up in a chicken coop at a young age for
extended periods of time—or permanently—and when he was discovered they took
him to a psychiatric hospital—and they locked him to a bed in a confined
room—so he continued to act like a chicken for years before a social worker
discovered him and is now doing therapy with him —New Jersey of all
places—where I am right now—has ratified gay marriages. Bush proposes an
amendment to stop gay marriages permanently. I agree. —there’s an article about
so-called “Honor killings” in Pakistan—-when brides marry without the
permission and arrangement of family—some of the families go so far as to kill
their daughter.sister—because it was done without permission .

 

July 12, 2004

 

 Ronald Reagan
Jr. is now speaking out against George Bush and his policies for going to war
and also for his refusal to federally fund stem cell research. Convicted rapist
Scott Miller is holding a hostage in a Delaware prison right now.  —Iraq rebels—with the threat of death if the
Bulgarians do not withdraw, are now holding some of the Bulgarians hostage

 

July 14, 2004

 

The vote on an amendment to ban gay marriages—was
turned down 50-48—Orrin Hatch spoke out in favor of the amendment saying “If
protection of marriage—for male.female only doesn’t deserve protection I don’t
know what does.

 

July 15, 2004

 

Three kids survived a capsize but there’s no sign of
their parents and infant sister—they spent several days on deserted Islands or
in between swimming in Australia’s Cape York Peninsula near Papua New Guinea
–after their boat capsized—their parents told them to swim for it—and they
separated–.

 

Also —there’s a story about a conflict in China about
“cloud seeding”’—a process where they shoot some sort of chemicals into the
clouds to make them rain—and now different regions are claiming rights to
clouds or infringements of those rights“

 

The baby boomers largely managed to convert a
historically unique advantage in prosperity, education, and…into narcissistic
blight…it will take fifty years to overcome the damage wrought by the baby
boomers” this fellow asserts.

The writer is a self proclaimed hyphenated
hippie-yuppie who grew up wandering at Haight Ashbury—what’s Haight Ashbury?

 

Bobby Fischer 
was arrested in Japan after being detained by airport authorities for
passport discrepancies. Apparently Bobby Fischer is still wanted in the U.S.
for violating sanctions against Yugoslavia 
many years ago—and  played a chess
match there despite the then-current sanctions for which he is still wanted.

 

He was trying to go to the Philippines—now they are
sending him back to the U.S. I had come across something about him in
Pasadena—he posted something on the internet indicating he had been treated
wrongly by the Pasadena Police—which doesn’t surprise me What I didn’t know is
that Bobby Fischer praised the Sept 11 attacks—that surprises me

July 17, 2004

 

The CIA is being highly criticized by  Congress and the Committee formed to oversee
what went wrong that allowed the  9-11-01
attack to occur… and it appears that a lot of power will be taken away from
these so-called intelligence  .

 

July 18, 2004

 

This is the 5th anniversary of the death of  JFK Jr. —who crashed  in a plane with a few others after taking off
from Martha’s Vineyard—five years ago—they say he did a “death spiral” into the
water—having become disoriented in the 
overcast weather  –Tim Berners
Lee—the founder of the Worldwide Web is being “knighted” at Buckingham today—for
his achievements as the founder of the Web. William Bennet—admitted to being a
high stakes gambler about a year ago—I didn’t hear about that then—Bennet is
the  or was the U.S. Secretary of
Education.

 

Every July 20 Germany remembers those who attempted to
kill Hitler in a coup attempt- but failed –the bomb killed many of those around
Adolf but not Adolf himself—who apparently was unscathed by it—and this led to
deadly repercussions by Hitler against those he suspected of being against him.  A sign on the side of the road says “Get us
out of the United Nations” John Birch Society.

 

They’re talking about a Civil War fort on an island 68
miles west of Key West Florida—Fort Jefferson –apparently being  ravaged by the sea—but now being prepared for
renovations—the fort itself is gigantic—big enough to hold two coliseums—or a
pro football stadium—it was used to house prisoners during the Civil war.
There’s been a big dinosaur bone discover near Aragon Spain. Hoodia cactus has
been discovered to be an appetite suppressant—found in Africa—now being
marketed.

 

July 19, 2004

 

 Arnold
Schwaarzenaager calls some of those legislators who cater to special interests
“girlie men —fire in N. Los Angeles County keeps burning. –in Santa Clarita—and
something about the Scott Peterson murder trial Apparently a hawk electrocuted
by a wire—which  then fell to the
ground—started the So. California fire.

 

July 20, 2004

 

They say the prosecution interviewed or investigated
several hundred  sexual offenders in the
area where  Laci Peterson
disappeared.  But in some cases never
followed through on all the potential leads. —Lance Armstrong is doing
well—with five days left to go.  And the
Filipino hostage has been released —a story about Brandy Briggs in
Texas—accused of killing her infant baby by shaking–..—at the time of the
prosecution—her attorney advised her to plead guilty and that there was no way
the judge would give her prison time. She agreed—not able to pay the mounting
legal costs, but then the judge did, in fact, give her jail time—17 years.

 

Now—several years later—some attorneys took a closer
look and had some other coroners give their opinions—and  several coroners concur that they don’t they
the baby was shaken at all—and that there is evidence that hospital personnel
put the oxygen tube  into the stomach
rather than the lung for a while which could have contributed to the death of
the baby—who had been sick prior to being brought to the hospital. Now they’re
talking about Brandy Briggs being released.

 

Also —the identity of the scribe for Geoffrey Chaucer
edges of that bond—in fact—when I first arrived at Seymour–r has been
identified by matching signatures—this is the scribe who helped copy
“Canterbury Tales” for Chaucer—and whose name was never known until now.
Muhammad Ali’s daughter is a boxer—I didn’t know that and she apparently is
undefeated.

 

July 21, 2004

 

Stephen Hawkings now concedes that black holes may not
permanently swallow up everything—a departure from his original claim—black
holes are formed when stars lose their energy and collapse inward, causing
significant gravitational pull. Hawkings has a development disorder of some
sort—although it apparently does not effect his cognitive abilities—and he is
also the father of three children

 

July 22, 2004

 

The husband of the missing Utah jogger apparently lied
about having graduated from the university and  
apparently lied about having been accepted into medical school at UNC—in
Chapel Hill, NC

 

July 23, 2004

 

The existence of freak waves—these waves that
purportedly rise up –up to 100 feet high—out of a flat or calm sea—often the
topic of folklore, in some cases myth, and other cases debate—and the purported
cause of  many shipwrecks, has now been
documented by some sort of study—indicating they do , in fact, exist, albeit
the causes  are not yet known or
understood.

 

Talking about the Los Angeles Lakers—an interview with
Jeanne Buss—the daughter of Lakers owner, Dr. Jerry Buss—and girlfriend of  former Lakers coach, Phil Jackson. Jeanne
Buss says she wants a stronger commitment from Phil—and mentions marriage but
that Phil is not willing to commit himself that far.  And they ask her if Kobe Bryant was at the
heart of the big “shakeup” in the Lakers following their loss to the Pistons in
the championship series and she says she is not sure—only her father knows for
sure, but she says they did try to sign Shaquille O’Neal  but that the price he had in mind was more
than they could pay, and that they also offered Phil Jackson a contract but
that it wasn’t a matter of money with him—he just decided he was through
coaching for the time being.

 

July 24, 2004

 

There is continued talk about an intelligence director
to oversee the 15 agency intelligence community, Armstrong is now 3rd in terms
of number of stages won at the Tour de France, but will be first when he wins
the Tour de France on Sunday, making it his sixth consecutive.  —a robber in Milwaukee tried to return the
money he stole from a bank the same day—and was arrested upon return.

 

Senior golfer Graham Marsh gets two holes-in-one in the
same tournament on the same hole—at the British Seniors. TT1 finally got enough
gumption later in life to risk rejection.

 

July 25, 2004

 

There’s  a
story  about a woman beaten so badly by
her husband—an air traffic controller—in Wisconsin—she came to take custody of
her daughters—and he allegedly beat her—and stuffed her in some sort of garbage
bin, left her for dead—she had a cell phone in her pocket—and was able to call
the police, but was not found until the next 
day—having spent an entire evening in this garbage bin—with not much
clothes on—and it was close to zero degrees–.

 

 The police found
something that led them to the dumpster—and heard her yelling for help—which
saved her life—but because of the frostbite—all of her toes had to be
amputated—and now she cannot walk, or not 
very well. Her n me is Teri Jendusa Nicolai—and there is  a fund set up for her…at the 1st Ban king
Center 7998 S.  Loomis Road, Wind Lake
Wisconsin 53185.

 

With the Democratic National Convention this week in
Boston—there are concerns about White Supremacy groups being in or around the
area.. including Volksfront and White Revolution.

 

John Kerry asks the age old question in an
interview—‘Does life imitate art or does art imitate life” in regards to the
probing question by an interviewer about the problem of increasing violence in
Hollywood and his position on it given his closer affiliation with the
Hollywood people than George Bus—and his daughter went to film school at USC or
UCLA.

Lance Armstrong wings the Tour de France. –his sixth
consecutive -=-the son of a Kansas representative kills himself.

 

July 27, 2004

 

Dick Cheney, the vice president, says in defense of
going to war against Iraq—that terrorism “ is not increased by the use of force
against terrorists but is triggered by the perception of weakness” . One of the
Kennedy’s however suggests that we were better regarded by the world shortly
after   the attack despite our being in a
position of “weakness”.

 

July 28, 2004

 

Another suicide bombing goes off near a bus and kills
around 60 or more Iraqi citizens—not the apparent intent of the bombers.

 

David Kay the former chief weapons hunter for the U.S.
In Iraq  says it is fanciful to keep
hoping that we will find WMD’s in Iraq—he says there is none—and he also scoffs
at the misnomer of “intelligence community” 
saying that the various agencies that gather intelligence are not
cooperative  as the word “community”
suggests—he says they are more like  a
bunch of    feuding empires not wanting
to be  led by any other.

 

July 29, 2004

 

The judge has denied the defenses motion for mistrial
and dismissal of charges—and now Mark Geragos is saying that his client has run
out of the funds to pay the attorney fees. 
they say that Stephen Bing is the #1 political contributor to the
Democratic Party—having donated up to 16 million dollars—and he’s a Hollywood
behind-the-scenes figure—who he is—it’s not clear—they don’t say what he has
done in Hollywood just that he’s connected there somehow—but that he is also
affiliated with mobster “Donnie Shacks” who is now in jail for racketeering.

 

What will that contribution lead to if Kerry becomes
president? You can’t help but believe there will be some favoritism shown.  they are saying that John Kerry can prove
he’s not an Olympian Oratorian with his Democratic National Convention address
tonight.

 

Major floods in Dallas—two days after I passed through
there. -. —there’s a story about a dentist by the name of John Hall near
Mecklenberg County—accused of discrepancies with his patients. Concerning the
Kobe Bryant case—they say the alleged victim (or accuser) has already received
$20,000 from a victims compensation fund, which the defense says is an
incentive to make up a story. “Once in a blue moon     excoriating—attacking that was one word
used to describe the Kerry Speech—he attacked Bush and all things related.

 

July 30, 2004

 

Bush—picking up on Kerry’s’ theme of  “commander-in-Chief”  says he will not allow the U.S> to  appear weak on his watch—otherwise we will
drift towards tragedy. —there’s a new reality television show in which they
watch the Amish in action—some people are protesting that it exploits their
innocenceMike Tyson—the boxer—the aging boxer——apparently was knocked out in
the 4th round.

 

 July 31, 2004

 

A big mafia fellow, Massino, has been convicted  on numerous charges—there’s mention of him
being associated with Donnie Brasco—who is associated with this fellow by the
name of Stephen Bing—the #1 contributor to the Democratic political party.  Now were’ in the Arkansas Valley and various
national forests. — American soldiers admit that they forced Iraqi
soldiers  to jump off a bridge into the
water but didn’t think they died or drowned . 

      

August 1, 2004

 

New information from the husband of the missing Utah
jogger apparently has made further searching unnecessary. —a man in Valley
Springs, California—paid $10,000 ransom to get his dog back  . Through the town of Olathe at 1045 a.m.
–Ferial Masry, a teacher in Los Angeles, Is running for the assembly

And if she wins will be the first foreign-born assembly
person—she’s from Saudi Arabia

There’s an impending hurricane or tropical storm on the
east coast causing flooding and evacuations—only a week or so after I left—

 

August 2, 2004

 

I manage to get a little from my wireless—brief
connection—Bush apparently has  agreed to
go along with the 9.11 commissions 
recommendation to have an intelligence director—somebody who oversees
all of the so-called “intelligence community” which others ay  isn’t a community at all—but a group of
“feuding empires” –apparently the only stipulation Bush is making is the
question as to whether  the intelligence
director will be part of the executive office.

 

Bush apparently wants to retain the autonomy of the
intelligence community , which would be potentially diminished if the director
were politically influenced by the executive office.

 

The arrest of a terror suspect in Pakistan led to
intelligence from his computer—that may have contributed to the heightened
terror alerts in the financial districts of New York and New Jersey. There’s a
military branch called the Northern Command which is dedicated solely to
defending U.S. boundaries. —464 people died in the Paraguay Supermarket fire  a woman will apparently testify in the Kobe
Bryant trial that he “groped” her at a part at Shaquile O’Neals house in
Orlando several years ago. We just passed through and over the Virgin River and
Virgin Mountains prior to entering Mesquite.

 

For the defense in the Kobe Bryant case—an expert will
testify that she believes, based on tests of the accusers panties, that the
accuser had sexual intercourse with somebody else shortly after having sexual
intercourse with Kobe Bryant. This is starting to sound more and more like a
repeat of “To Kill a Mockingbird”—the only thing Kobe Bryant may be guilty
of  is being a black man having sex with
a white woman. If it is true that she had sex with somebody else shortly after
the Kobe Bryant sexual interaction—it would seem that she was not, in fact, a
that distraught about the incident. The prosecution says that the sperm of “Mr.
X”—found  alongside the sperm of Kobe
Bryant on the same pair of panties is old and that residue of sperm can remain
in panties even after being washed. The defense expert says that it is unlikely
because of the significant amount found on the panties—not just traces.

 

August 4, 2004

 

The American basketball team got beat by the
Italians—90 something to 78—wow—that’s an upset. A thirty-four year old
female teacher who has been in prison for seven years for seducing a 6th
grader  and having two children from him,
is being released from prison in Washington. I just saw  a mirage at 123 pm. —the accuser of Kobe
Bryant is now wondering if she will be able to get a fair criminal case and
may, instead, do a civil suit, Scott Peterson allegedly shopped for boats on
the internet the day after he was confronted by Amber Frey’s girlfriend for
being married. In Beijing a man slashed 15 kids in a kindergarten classroom
with a knife.   a Siberian boy was
discovered apparently raised by a dog—for 
5 or 6 years. —a Romanian man keeps a dead cow in his apartment—cutting
off pieces of it to eat when hungry. Three banks are robbed in Davenport, IA
while Kerry & Bush are campaigning.

 

August 5, 2004

 

Bobby Fischer wants to renounce his American
citizenship, and he also says that there’s an American-Jewish plot against him.

They are still reporting on Bobby Fischer’s
dilemma—detained in Japan for having an invalid U.S. Passport, he is now
seeking to renounce his American citizenship and to be given refuge in Japan.
A.P. News says that he has reportedly praised the 9.11 attack on America and
also denies the actuality of the Holocaust.

 

AP Science reports that a new study has discovered that
there is something in a mother’s hormones that makes her super-protective of
her children—and that their protectiveness is not necessarily due to “love” for
them, although I have to ask if God did not wire our bodies so that the various
mechanics of our human biology serve to create actions and feelings which we
call “love.” Love is what love does—so if a mother fiercely protects her baby
because God wired our bodies in such a manner—he wired mother’s to have
“superlove” for their children.

 

Sports: Lakers trade Gary Payton and Rick Fox to the
Celtics, further changing the chemistry of the Lakers team. International  An American woman in Oman faces death by
execution for the alleged killing of her husband. Some say that the woman had
been abused repeatedly by her husband and that therefore, there should be some
lenience. Mexican and Canadian border is now becoming an increasing place of
potential entry for terrorists which is difficult to guard say U.S. officials.
Ben Vanderford placed a tape on the internet showing him being beheaded by
terrorists, but now has told the media that he did it as a hoax and as a
commentary about how easy it is to fake a beheading and have it aired on the
internet. FBI is investigating and may pass it on to the D.A. for prosecution.

 

Talks between India and Pakistan continue concerning
the boundary line around Kashmir, Himalayan area, and the “Sir Creek” area.
Both India & Pakistan have nuclear capability. There’s a severe locust
plague in West Africa. After a woman died an autopsy revealed that there had
been a towel left in her body behind the lung after surgery for emphysema
several years prior. She had managed to live several years with it imbedded in
her body, but the attorney for the family says that it obviously caused her to
die earlier than she would have had it not been in her body. Danny DeVito was
born in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Jack Nicholson was born in Neptune, New
Jersey, and Bruce Springsteen was born in Freehold, New Jersey—AP reports in
regards to New Jersey born celebrities and the rise of movie making in the
state itself

 

August 7, 2004

 

They think they have detected a ghost in the Kent
County, Maryland courthouse. The story about the movie “Garden State” was by
Reuters, not AP. Angels have won six of 
their last eight. The son of Jeb Bush, governor, got married this
weekend—and they say that his mother was born in Mexico and that their
grandfather, George Sr. , referred to the kids as “the brown ones.” So the wife
of Jeb Bush is Mexican-American?

 

Reminder about Sr. Bush and his re-election bid. Bush
Sr. was not re-elected. This story says that Bush Jr. has planned
better—preparing for the campaign in advance.

Western flank of Volcano in Canary Islands, La Palma—if
it breaks off, which it will they say someday, it will cause a tsunami that
will swamp the east coast.

 

They say that the accuser in the Kobe Bryant case has
filed a civil law suit and that her chances are better in that venue because
the criteria is “more likely than not” whereas in the criminal court the
criteria for conviction is “beyond a reasonable doubt” . There’s a bill being
proposed that will make it legal to hunt Mute Swans which some people say are
over-protected and becoming a nuisance. Peter Goss  has been proposed as the new CIA director and
director of intelligence at large by President George Bush Jr.

 

There’s a new acronym being used—“Wendys—Would be
Environmentalists, Not Doing it Yet” . They say a company has invented an
edible plastic wrap

 New Jersey’s
governor has admitted to being gay, albeit married, and having had an affair
with a man on staff in the state office and says he will resign because of it.
In England, a convicted rapist won the Lotto—about 13 million U.S. dollars.

 

Something about the late John Steinbeck—the author of
“Mice And Men” among others—his son is still alive and is a writer and
participates in various Steinbeck 
festivities that periodically take place around Monterey, California.

 Michael Phelps
wins the first American gold of the Olympic Games and sets a new world record
in the process. —sports—in a gigantic upset—Puerto Rico defeated the U.S. men’s
basketball team—and soundly.

 

The U.S. Beat the Netherlands in men’s volleyball.
Attorneys for Peterson say being a “cad” doesn’t make him a killer. . A “cad”
is somebody who is “piggish”—takes advantage of others, out for the “score”—to
meet women for a one night stand, etc.—the 9.11.01 plane crash in Pennsylvania
occurred near Shanksville, PA which is southeast of Pittsburg  they say Ted Kennedy the senator had his name
on a no-fly list and had to call the Department of Homeland Security three
times before he was allowed on the plan  
—John Kerry says Bush vowed not to attack Kerry’s war record but he is
allowing other Republicans to do it for him instead with Bush campaign money.

 

Phelps wins his 5th gold medal  and decides not to swim in the Olympic teams
final relay—allowing his teammate Ian Thorpe to do so instead. Bob Perry
apparently was the biggest contributor to the Texas Republican party in 2002
–giving about $900,000, and is now part of the Vietnam Veterans Swift Boat
group which is placing ads on television questioning the truth about John
Kerry’s Vietnam War record. In Spain—the people are celebrating Holy Year with
a trek to the area which legend has it that St. James was buried, and  where they believe they can receive God’s
forgiveness if they enter a specific Cathedral which only opens its front doors
during Holy Year and only on July 25—-when July 25 is a Sunday, because
that’s what makes it a Holy Year—when St. James Day,  July 25, is on a Sunday. The last time it
happened was in 1999, and the next time will be 2010.

 

Visitors from all over Europe celebrate it with a
trek—sometimes a few days, for others a few months—walking to Santiago which is
in the northwest corner of Spain.

 

August 21, 2004

 

William Rood, an editor for the Chicago Tribune and a
member of John Kerry’s Vietnam group has confirmed the account by John Kerry of
what happened in Vietnam and has said that the Swift Boat Veterans account is
inaccurate and misleading. You see—there are those kids who never were forced
to undergo the humiliation of frustration that comes with learning things that
require diligence such as playing the piano. For me that took time—and
humility—a lot of kids never have to experience that.

 

 August 23, 2004

 

The men’s basketball team loses to Lithuania. Mike
Phelps gets his record-tying 8th medal. Thieves rob a Museum in Oslo Norway
taking Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” and “Madonna”. Ancient Greek athletes
competed in the nude. They went to the “undressing” room rather than the
dressing room. There was an event called the pancreateon in which anything
goes, break fingers, break legs, what have you to get the opponent to let go.
The archeologist Steven Miller says he thinks nudity was the “great equalizer”
regardless of social standing, economics, politics, and he says that he thinks
this is what gave rise to democracy. Stephen Miller’s project is at
www.nemea.org.

 

Stephen Miller is rebuilding the temple of Zeus where
athletes once made their offerings to gods and they once carved their initials
in the tunnel. Senator Pat Roberts R-Kansas and the Senate Intelligence
Committee are discussing completely dismantling the CIA. The doyenne of
domesticity, Martha Stewart.  .. at the
Peterson trial, when Mark Geragos got up to cross-examine the former mistress
of Scott Peterson he first said “No questions” and waited a moment while everybody
became wide-eyed, then he said “Just kidding.”

 

August 24, 2004

 

 Peterson
apparently never told Amber Frye, his mistress, that he loved her, and he never
tried to stop her from going to the police. The gal from Facts of Life who
played Blair (and who has also been at the Womens Conference at the Crystal
Cathedral) believes in using “hotsaucing” to discipline her children—with a
drop of hot sauce on their tongue for bad behavior. Others vehemently object.
Lisa Welchel played “Blair” on Facts of Life. Two planes crash shortly after
taking off from the same airport almost simultaneously. “…as hose on the
autistic spectrum may lack understanding of emotions…or may have difficulty
interpreting facial expressions and body language.…teaching them to appreciate
theatre is a particular challenge…Convicted rapist in England wins 13 million
dollar lotto.

 

Angels sweep the yanks at the Bronx.. Japan wins the
women’s marathon leaving a British runner in tears who didn’t make it. Jack
Lalanne, physical fitness guru, is stil alive at age 89. Scientists are trying
to develop a robot that will use plankton as fuel.

 

August 25, 2004

 

They say that at the Republican Convention they will be
using new technology that “throws” sound in a “beam” of sorts, they will use it
for crowd control as well as a presidential display The son of Margaret
Thatcher was arrested in South Africa by the Scorpions on suspicion of a
mercenary plot against the president of Equatorial  Guinea. The 33 year old son of Johnny Cash is
continuing to produce his father’s music along with other country stars, and he
is auctioning off a lot of his father’s belongings. Why not a museum? It’s
half-time in the Spain-USA Olympic basketball game… eventually the U.S. went on
to defeat Spain

 

A father of a 20 year old Marine killed in Iraq set himself
and the Marines van on fire (the van of the Marines who cam to inform him of
the news).

 

August 28, 2004

 

USA wins gold in women’s soccer… Tlenzuela at parking
office. here’s a festival in Tomatina, Spain 25 miles west of Valencia, around
late August in which the entire day is devoted to a tomato throwing contest—at
each other. Carolyn Parish, a Canadian politician, called Americans “idiots”
recently. Last year she called them “damn bastards.”

The CIA, Department of Defense, and the National  Security Counsel was established in 1947 at
the outset of the Cold War.

 

Shocker: Mens U.S. Basketball Team loses to Argentina
at the Olympics thus  eliminating them
from Gold Medal competition. Concerning stem cell research—it apparently is
possible to get adult stem cells from body fat—and they tell a story about a
doctor who did liposuction on himself towards that end. Italian Journalist
Denzel Valdonian (?)  was apparently
executed by terrorists.

 

August 31, 2004

 

On the day she disappeared, Somebody surfed the web
between 830 am and 845 a.m from the Peterson House for a Sunflower umbrella.
Laci had a sunflower tattoo on her ankle. Prosecution says the dogs picked up
Laci’s scent at Berkley Marina, but isn’t it possible that if Laci hugged Scott
that he would have her scent on him. Or if she had even touched anything that
Peterson took along with him?

 

September 1, 2004

 

A fellow didn’t have enough money to pay for his front
bicycle tire to get fixed so every since then he has gone around on the back
tire only doing a “wheelie”—he did the longest wheelie –30 miles, says the
report.

 

The Kobe Bryant trial has been dismissed—the alleged
victim (or accuser) decided she could not go on albeit made one condition that
Kobe Bryant apologize and say that he while he may have believed it to be
consensual she did not perceive it to be that way. Turkey wants to make
adultery a crime.

 

September 2, 2004

 

There’s a story about 
the so-called “giraffe women” of Burma, or Myanmar, –women who wear
these metal collars of sorts around their necks to elongate them or give the
appearance of elongating them, which attracts tourists and provides income. And
there apparently is also a  tradition
behind it—mythical or partly fictional—i.e. to protect the ladies neck from the
teeth of tigers, etc. Doctors say  the
collars don’t actually elongate the neck of the women—but forces the collarbone
down thus giving the effect of elongation; but even after the collars are taken
off, the necks are no longer than before.

 

Bill Clinton apparently keeps an office in Harlem, New
York. His home is in Chapaqua.

 

-re. Arnold Schwaarzenaager’s Republican National
Convention Speech:

In Ananova (a British News Corporation) under their
section entitled “Quirkies”  there is a
story entitled “Historians Blast Arnie’s Bush Speech”: Arnold Schwarzenegger
was told to go back to school after his speech supporting President Bush’s  election campaign. Austrian historians say
the California governor made some schoolboy howlers in talking about his
homeland. Schwaarzenegger, up until now, Austria’s favorite son, upset
politicians  across the board with his
speech to the Republican National Convention in New York.

 

He told  how
Austria became a socialist country after the Second World War and said he
remembered seeing Soviet tanks in the street. But when Schwarzenegger emigrated
to the United States in 1968 Austria was ruled by the conservatives People’s
Party and had not had a single socialist chancellor. Martin Polaschek, a legal
historian at the Karl Franzen University, accused the Governor of “trying to
use the old communist threat for  Bush’s
election campaign. Saying “Austria was ruled by a  coalition government. He is getting a free
country mixed up with a socialist one.”

 

Another Austrian historian, Stefan Karner, added: “The
child in Styria, he could not have seen Soviet tanks. By the  time Schwarzenegger was born in 1947, the
province was occupied by the British.”

 

September 6, 2004

 

At least 350 persons were killed in the hostage
situation in southern Russia—it’s related to their relations with Chechnya.

Did you know the back half o the hurricane after the
eye is stronger than the first half, or is supposed to be. John Kerry has cut
short some of his campaign schedule to be with his ailing wife in the
hospital—who appears to be okay after all. The name of that southern Russian
town is Beslan. Ichiro Suzuki needs 35 hits in 27 games to pass the season hit
record set by George Sisler 84 years ago who has 257 hits. 151 game winning
streak by Dela Salle came to an end last night—the longest high school football
streak ever—they hadn’t lost since 1991. Sara McMann, female Olympic wrestler,
was charged with reckless driving in the death of her boyfriend, an NCAA
wrestler, as she was driving him from Colorado Springs to Washington DC where
he was a law school student.

 

They say that the hospital at which Clinton is
scheduled to have surgery has a higher percentage rate of deaths for this kind
of surgery than any other hospital in the area—double that of any other—at 4%
which is still very low, but does raise eyebrows.

 

September 7, 2004

 

Bush said because of medical  lawsuits too many doctors have been put out
of business  and too many OB.GYN’s are “
unable to practice their  love with women
all across the country

 

September 9, 2004

 

New robot is made to eat flies for fuel, but needs to
attract flies so it will have to carry garbage or excrement —Scott Peterson’s
father testified on behalf of his son

 

September 10, 2004

 

They may still be able to fulfill some of the
scientific objectives via the Genesis capsule after all, despite it crash
landing in the desert, they said that there is still some intact pieces

 

September 12, 2004

 

A mushroom cloud was observed in N. Korea near the
border, on the same day as N. Korea’s anniversary. Now N. Korea is saying it
was due to a demolition of a mountain which is part of their hydroelectric
planning. U.S. Airways may file for bankruptcy.

 

September 14, 2004

 

 AP reports on
the plight of animals during hurricane seasons, including squirrers, but also
Dove chicks, and even fish—because sometimes too much rain can deplete the
oxygen in the pond—or right after the storm when sun shines, algae rapidly
increases thereby also depleting oxygen. Oprah Winfrey gave a brand new car to
each member of the audience.Brian DeVries –was convicted as a child molester,
recently released to live in Washington state—voluntarily castrated himself.

 

September 16, 2004

 

And the Scott Peterson case—prosecution experts have
testified that the concrete used to make an anchor on the boat is not the same
concrete he used to fix the driveway. But the defense made the point that the
samples used from the driveway included large granules mixed in from the old
part of the driveway..  or something like
that. —Hurricane Ivan has already caused at least 20 deaths, and now they’re
talking about Hurricane Jeanne and possibly a Hurricane Carl.

 

The interesting thing about the Laci Peterson
death—despite her limbs missing the experts testified that there was no
indication that the bones had been sawed which would be the expected method
used by a killer trying to de-limb her so she may have been picked apart by
marine life. Another adult female teacher has been accused of having sex with a
fourteen year old male student.  they’re
saying the circadian rythyms of the body affect sleep and work performance in
space.

 

September 18, 2004

 

 “The worst in
mother nature brings out the best in human nature” said Betty kaster (?) a
member of some democratic senate committee in regards to the victims of the
hurricane being neither republican nor democrat at the moment, just human.

 

September 19, 2004

 

Pancho Doll searches for Americas best waterholes

 

September 20, 2004

 

Former pop singer Cat Stevens who converted to the
Muslim religion—and changed his name to “Islam” caused a plane to be diverted
upon entry to the U.S. le El was not allowed to enter.  Cat Stevens who changed his name to “Islam”
caused a plane from London to D.C. to be diverted to Maine and he was sentback.
700 are dead from Hurricane Jeane in Haiti. Scott Peterson bought a bought for
cash and didn’t register it. He also told somebody he went golfing all day and
later said he went fishing —prosecutions expert witness testifies that the baby
must have died the day after or the day that Laci Peterson was reported
missing. But another expert said the baby must have died on the 28th.

 

September 23, 2004

 

Intel says multicore is the wave of the future. So
there is a series between the Angels vs. A’s coming up—that could be the
clincher for who takes first place or the wild card. “Huge buildings reveal the
Nazi’s love of the bombastic and hatred of individuality”  says a news article about this old Nazi
building built as a vacation hotel that could hold 20,000 just sold for only a
few $100,000. New film including full shots of “fellatio”—what is
“fellatio”?  death toll of Hurricane
Jeane in Haiti may reach 2000.

 

September 27, 2004

 

  “Allad Alawi is
the interim prime minister of Iraq”  
Scott Peterson said he bought chicken wire to keep the cats from
scratching his trees. Detectives admitted they saw the cats scratching the
trees. —dogs are now being trained to smell bladder cancer.  a man changes his name to “they”.’You can’t
eat buckeyes.” —Governor Schwarzenaager says classic cars must be smogged;  dinocephalosaurs discovered long neck;  Montreal Expos might move to D.C. or
Arlington Bobby Shriver—the younger brother of Maria Shriver  is running for Santa Monica City Council; Don
Haidl OC County Sheriff resigns amid accusations concerning son.

 

September 28, 2004

 

Ministers in pas/alta are trying to prevent further
gang violence—including Dorothy Evans at the Christian Refugee Center.

 

September 29, 2004

 

Ichiro Suzuki is now two hits away from the most hits
in one season with three games left.

The Pope will beatify Anne Katherine Emerick (?) the
one person who inspired Mel Gibson’s “The Passion”  which some people think is controversial
because Gibson based so much “factual “evidence on her account oof the
Passion—with a devil chasing jews and incinting them to be mean towards
Jesus—the Jews think this is anti-semitic or encourage anti-semitism. More
controversial is the beatification of Karl I —Ichiro Suzuki needs two hits
with three games remaining to take the most hits in one season record.

 

October 1, 2004

 

 Ichiro Suzuki
got a single—nearing the single season hits record. Mileage at Edwards Air
Force Base– 71184 ;

 

October 2, 2004,

 

Angels won—big! Suzuki breaks Sisler’s 85 year old record.

October 2-5, 2004 : there’s a headline without
explanation asking, “Is Tuna red because of Carbon Monoxide?”  Curtis 
Lucas is the pastor of Mt. Carmel Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia
(?) Fort Bend? —he was accused of biting a police officer. Deep sea trawlers
destroy sea mounts for the sake of catching fish considered to be a
delicatessen such as Orange Roughy.

 

October 5, 2004

 

Rodney Dangerfield died. While the hearing was
proceeding the Angels lost 9-3.  they are
saying something about Bob Dylan being a great poet –and note that he was born
“Robert Zimmerman”.

 

October 7, 2004

 

They’re talking about the retirement of St. Bernards
from the service they provided at a monastery in Europe and which is where they
originally got their reputation as helping dogs.   —I listen to AP update on the hour and they
give a clip of John Kerry’s speech—and it is the first time I’ve ever heard
Kerry speak so adamantly—saying “When I take over in January…”—wow, I think to
myself—that’s the most assertive speech I’ve heard so far.  He goes on to say “ I hope I don’t inherit a
Lebanon”—referring to Iraq.

 

Now they are saying there is no actual link between
Husseim and Zarquawi, despite the assertions of President Bush otherwise a few
months prior.

 

Sammy Sosa was fined $87,000 for leaving their last
game early. Wangari Maathai  wns the
Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts in Africa to plant trees among other things.
.   a young man from Carrol College (is
that in Helena Montana?) apparently committed suicide after he found out he was
going to be charged with rape of a young lady who maintains that she fell
asleep or passed out and woke up to find him sexually penetrating her in his
car. He maintains it was consenseual—the college had been informed but had
declined to do anything further saying it appeared consenseual, but apparently
the police decided to press charges. He apparently was mortified that this
would become public and killed himself instead.

 

A female guard helpd a prisoner escape and the guard (
married and a mother ) ran off with him. They were caught shortly later at a
hotel. Elsewhere, a man was burned alive for stealing a gas can in Peru. The
rural village where the murder took place apparently has been the site of some
other atrocities as well. In this case they doused the man with gasoline and
set him on fire as he was attached to a post with ropes. When the ropes broke
loose he stumbled away and may have been able to extinguish himself but someone
came along and re-ignited the fire with more gas. There’s an article  about a book by Alaim Clement called
Underground Paris—concerning the catacombs under the city of Paris—and the
night life that takes place down below.

 

Here’s something—there’s a “Sex Fair” planned to take
place in Warsaw Poland which involves X-rated actors (and anybody else
interested) to compete for the “sex master” prize—whichi they don’t eleaborate
upon but apparently is open to anybody interested to watch.  Protests are planned, but they say they
intend to go on with it.

 

October 10, 2004

 

They talk about a movie made by the producer
of____________, Cimini, who later produced an apparent box office bomb called
“Heaven’s Gate” which they are now trying to re-do again. This movie—despite a
lot of negative criticism apparently did better overseas.  They say Cimini was given “carte blanche” for
this movie. —in Morocco—the importance of virginity in newlywed females is so
vital that some of them have operations prior to their honeymoon so that bleeding
will occur. If bleeding does not occur and the husband suspects they may not be
virgins, in some cases it could cost them (the wives) their lives.

 

They say the highest priced gas is in San Diego—the
lowest in Houston.   —Christopher Reeve
died a day or so ago—he was the actor who played Superman—and became paralyzed
in 1995 after a horseback riding accident. He’s also looming large in the
debate over stem cell research—which Bush is against but Kerry is in favor
(of).

 

Other news—Robin Ventura, the baseball player,  is retiring. Apparently he grew up in Santa
Maria (where I just passed through). Nebraska Cornhuskers lost 70-10 to Texas
Tech.

Other sports news—Lebron James the rookie basketball
star had a baby—or his long-time girlfriend did—but he doesn’t want to talk
about it. —in Venezuela they toppled a statute of Columbus, according to the
dictates of the Venezuelan president who thinks that Columbus was as bad as
Hitler.

 

October 15, 2004

 

ABC went to Vietnam , to the specific place where this
little skirmish took place in which John Kerry killed a Vietcong soldier, man,
or boy. There are different accounts—some say it is exactly as Kerry told it.
Others say that Kerry shot a boy in the back, running away afterbeing wounded.
Still others say he shot the soldier in the chest.  , Kerry mentions Dick Cheney’s daughter in
the debate telling the world that she is lesbian.

 

The brother of Sara McMann, the female Olympic
wrestler,  who was convicted of
manslaughter when she accidentally killed her boyfriend in a car accident, was
murdered by somebody and the murder was convicted yesterday. , Felipe Solis is
the person of the week. He’s the curator at the Guggenheim Museum in New
York,  in charge of the Aztec Exhibit-,
the largest of its kind.

 

The boy/man who cut off his own arm in the rock
climbing accident is Aron Ralston—and now he wrote a book entitled  Between a Rock and a Hard Place. He lives in
Aspen. At the time he was climbing in Canyonlands NP in Utah.  IN  the
news, they’ve found a new fish in Lake Michigan called a “Frankenfish” which
apparently is an aggressive breed.

 

They are hoping somebody just threw it out of their
aquarium and that it has not infiltrated the lake. Other predator fish in Lake
Michigan include the Zebra Mussel, Sea Lamprey, the Round Goby, and now they are
taking steps to prevent the Asian Carp from entering in through the Mississippi
River—it is only fifty miles away they say—so they are setting up some sort of
electric filter at the mouth of the river. They are celebrating the  anniversary 
of the Taj Majal, which was completed in 1654—350 years ago.

 

New Book by Alan Tennant who followed falcolns in their
airplane—to see the effects that the changes in environment had on the
falcolns. R. Redford has the movie rights to it, for national geographic. A
scientist is trying to teach bacteria to eat caffeine so that eventually it can
make a better tasting cup of decaffeinated coffee

 

October 16, 2004

 

Houston Astros win, cutting the lead to 2-1.  Clemens was the winning pitcher. Currently at
707 pm. The Yankees and Boston are tied at 4-4 in the top of the 4th inning.
Yankees lead 2-0 in the series.

 

October 16, 2004

 

Navy has not beaten Notre Dame since 1963 when Roger
Staubach led them to victory—the same year he won the Heisman Trophy . TRAIN
accident in Whittier California caused evacuation of homes. Riddick Bowe ,
former heavyweight champion, is fighting again, hasn’t fought sinc- e 1996….
And served  15 months  in prison for kidnapping his ex-wife.  41-1 
He fought yesterdy on an Indian reservation and he won. Yankees win
19-8.

 

Ozzie Ozborne was banned from San Antonio Texas for
twenty years for urinating in front of the Alamo. Sheila Biliyeu lives in her
car in Oklahoma.. six percent of the vote… The Gherkin wins architectural award
in England . The highest architectural award is the Pritzker. Pierre Salinger,
former press secretary for JFK died, and he apparently insisted that the 1988
plane crash over Lockerbie Scotland was in fact a drug enforcement operation …
that went wrong.

 

And that TWA flight 800 was actually shot down by an
errant Navy Missle in 1996 Bush wrote a letter to Zapatero—the new president of
Spain.. saying friends shouldn’t act the way they did pulling their troops out
of Iraq, and Zapatero responded that sincerity is the highest value of
friendship.

 

Astros and Cardinals tied 5-5 seventh inning. Veronica
at Fair Oaks Mobil—not Martha, although heavy set like Martha—but polite.
Astros 6-5 bottom 7th. . Donated Jean Jacket to Good will. Astros win, tying
series at 2-2. Carlos Beltran has hit 5 homeruns in 5 games for Astros and 8 in
the post season son far.  Red Sox win
6-4, 12 innings, (and the next night win in 14 innings).

 

October 20, 2004

 

 Sgt. Ivan
Frederick gets eight years in prison for Abu 
Ghraib prison abuse scandal. After pleading guilty.

 Fidel Castro
falls and breaks his knee.  they’re
talking about the deterioration of Mexican historical ruins such as the Zapotec
Kingdom of Monte Alban in Mexic’s southern state of Oaxaca.

 

The expensive cost of dam removal. The Matilja Dam has
to be removed in Ventura County.  : Scott
Petersons parents took the stand—Scott’s mother and father took the stand.
Scott’s mother said that she gave $10,000 to Scott that day because of some
sort of bank account confusion. His father said that he told Scott to bring his
brother’s driver’s license with him so that he could get the San Diego County
golf discount, admitting he is “cheap”. And she told him to buy a Mercedes in
her name because of all the hooplah going on about the murder of Laci—and the
fact that the police would immediately trace a vehicle in Scott’s name and
attach a GPS to track him.  And they said
that Scott had been living like a nomad out of his car trying to avoid the
media—thus explaining the camping equipment. They have not explained, however,
the bleached hair—and the discrepancy between his testimony that it was because
he had been swimming in a friends’ pool versus the testimony of the friend who
said that was not true.

 

November 4, 2004

 

Chen Chung Ho at the city zoo in Taiwan  tried to convert the lions to
Christianity—jumped into the lions pen and said “Jesus will save you Come bite
me” and they attacked, he escaped with minor injuries. At the Taipei city zoo
in Mucha.  farmers in India are using
Coca cola or cola as pesticide –saying it kills bugs , Coke denies the use of
Coke as pesticide. Theo Van Gogh was killed by Muslims, found with knives in
his body.. he had  been a critic of
Muslim religion outspoken.. is he any relation to Vincent?  , man at LAX angered because he couldn’t buy
a plane ticket using a receipt stripped naked jumped the fence and ran over to
a departing plane and jumped in the wheel well

 

November 5, 2004

 

Pakistan   gal by
the name of Mai …. Was gang raped by  her
village me about 200 watched when she went there to ask for forgiveness for her
brother who had been accused of having sex with a woman from another tribe
(which he denied). The news of the story got out and the world was shocked.

 

Mt. St. Helens erupts magma.  Cofer Black the point man  for counter terrorism in Bush administration
resigns  ..he was embarrassed by a
botched report he made about the casualties due to international terrorism, and
then he compounded the mistake by apparently doubling it without checking
actual statistics and figures. —a National Guard pilot mistakenly shot off a
few rounds at Little Egg Intermediate School in Southern New Jersey a few days
ago.

 

Two boys may have died in a Mexican cave after falling
in.. and then it rained, flooding the cave while rescue attempts were
underway.   The Sir Creek area  between Pakistan and India remains a
contentious point between the two countries and fisherman regularly wander over
the boundary and get arrested either by Pakistan or Indian  police.

 

November 6, 2004

 

Grey  Seal Pups
Found bludgeoned on Beginish Island in Ireland, nails in their head. Baby pups
, 60 or more. First spaceship to go into space in the span of five days
(minimum allowed was fourteen days) on a private level got a check for 10
million dollars today. Burt Rutan 
accepted the prize money at the St. Louis Science Center .   The Spaceship was financed by more than 10
million dollars by Microsoft’s co-founder Paul Allen.

 

Upset Miami defeated by Clemson, Tennessee defeated by
Notre Dame—college football. Officials in Iraq are concerned about missing
SAMS—maybe as many as 6000 SAMS circulating worldwide outside of govt. control.
Some new archaeological discoveries in Bulgaria. In Uganda there’s been an
outbreak of Hippopotamus deaths due to anthrax poisoning—which breeds in dry
ground, and in dry weather when the animals eat dry vegetation they sometimes
get poisoned by the anthrax.

 

Radon baths in Japan –some say they cause cancer others
say they don’t—insisting they are curative. Man by the name of Andrew Veal
commit suicide at ground zero in protest of the re-election of Bush. The Dutch
have responded to the killing of Theo Van Gogh by attacking some of the
mosques, and tried to set fire to one of them.

 

Solar Sailing—the wave of the future.  Louis Freedman of Carl Sagan’s Planetary
Society in Pasadena, Ca plans a test along with cosmos studios in January.  More news—the Peterson jury may already be
deadlocked.

 

November 8, 2004

 

Mike Danton, NHL player was found guilty of plotting to
conspire to murder his agent and has been sentenced to 7 ½ years in prison. He
played for the St. Louis Blues. Truffles are a fungus that grow in symbiosis
with tree roots

 

November 9, 2004

 

A kid/student (college?Striegel finds a new
amphibian—new genus, new species near Pittsburgh.

Diane Sawyer spend a few days inside a women’s prison,
undercover, and said 90% of the inmates have a lesbian relationship with
others. Clergy in Canada are joining an Auto Union saying they need as much
protection as anybody else.  They’re
saying the Anaheim Angels may become the Los Angeles Angels. Kansas Jayhawks
are ranked #1 in college pre-season basketball. They haven’t been ranked #1
since Wilt Chamberlain played for them in 1950.

 

November 10, 2004

 

Hostage Slaughter houses were found in Fallujah. Meteor
field discovered under the Sahara desert—craters. Djibouti female circumcision
in this East African country. Rapala lures gained fame because of an article
about them in the Marilyn Monroe edition of Life Magazine Arafat dies Author
Iris Chang found dead apparently from suicide.

 

November 11, 2004

 

“Peterson convicted of killing wife and baby “found
guilty of first and second degree murder they said that  somebody yelled at Scott Peterson’s Mother”
“I hope they fry your son”  as she left
the court house. And that when they polled the people on the street most of
them were “ecstatic” about the verdict. 3:40 p.m. And the newspaper had already
printed a late-afternoon extra edition that said “Guilty” on it.

 

November 13, 2004

 

Evander Holyfield loses to Larry Donald—in an apparent
embarrassing fight for the former four time heavyweight champion. MSU beats
Wisconsin. The unclaimed baggage center in Scotsborough Alabama. ODB the rapper
dies of an apparent heart attack (Old Dirty Bastard)

 

November 15, 2004

 

Condoleeza Rice is named Secretary of State, Colin
Powell resigning; Man sets himself on fire outside the white house says they
hear him crying “allah, allah”; Hussein took 21 billion from the oil for food
program —smuggled it. They’ve found the Lost City of Atlantis off the coast of
Cypress. Mormons are the fastest growing denomination in America. Peruvian drug
smugglers are caught with drugs inside a squid.

 

November 17, 2004

 

 NASA
successfully launched the Scram jet which went 7000 mph over the Pacific Ocean
New translation of the Pentateuch  Robert
Alter.  A deer wandered into the O’Hare
baggage claim area. This CIA agent who just quit says that at one point a top
Osama Bin Laden associate was trapped and they knew where—the hotel and the
exact room and the CIA told  the military
but  the military declined.

 

At the Vibe awards in Santa Monica—at a Santa Monica
airport hangar—there was a fight and somebody got stabbed—apparently a man
approached Dr. Dre and slugged him and then David Buck aka________ rapper name
stabbed Johnson. Johnson is in stable condition in the hospital. David Buck is
wanted by the police. NASA has a research center in Langley and were part of
the participants in the SCRAM jet experiment. News I s Margaret Hassan Dead?
They’re starting to think so. Sears and K-Mart are going to merge.

 

November 18-19, 2004

 

Billy Graham .They’ve discovered the skeleton of what
they now consider to be the last common ancestor of all great apes. Peyton
Manning is quarter back for the Baltimore Colts. His brother Eli is with the
Giants. Their father is former Saints QB Archie Manning

 

Only 13% of Americans think that God had no role in the
creation of the world, but yet we still have evolution being taught in almost
all the schools. However, Dover area school district in southeastern
Pennsylvania has decided to teach “intelligent design.” Last time U. of M. was
national champion was in 1997 when they were co-champs with Nebraska. OSU has
beat U of M in 94, 98, and 2002; UM won in 96 and 2002  and is 11-4-1 against OSU in the last fifteen
games. In 1998 OSU defeated UM to thwart their hopes of an undefeated league
record. This is Billy Graham’s 416th crusade and his next to last.

 

NASA launches spacecraft named “Swift” to search for
black holes. World’s oldest living man dies at age 113. Michigan loses to OSU
but will go to Rose Bowl because Wisconsin lost to Iowa. Charles Manson got
turned down for a record contract by the son of Doris Day who died today.
Prince William of England says he does not want to be “mollycoddled” if the
order is for him to go to war Lori Berenson has been in prison in Peru since
1995 based on terrorism charges.

 

Flash floods kill 250 in the Philippines, Quezon
province.  Yale fans fool Harvard fans by
making them hold up signs to read “we suck. Ken Jennings, Jeopardy champion
finally lost. Dianna Deetric Berns is subject to excessive force by Atlanta
police and it is caught on video at the airport. Officer Clarence Alexander was
the instigating officer, seven other officers arrived thereafter. The district
attorney was Bob Keller, Berns attorney is Steven Lister.

 

Airplane attempting to make first round the world
nonstop , non-re-fueled flight.Dick Ebersol the NBC sports announcer was in an airplane
that crashed in Colorado. He apparently was returning from the Notre Dame-USC
football game and has one son at USC and another son at Notre Dame.  He and his older son survived but his
youngest son apparently died. Kevin Grady or O’Grady, of East Grand Rapids High
School,  is breaking all the Michigan
high school football records.

 

December 2, 2004

 

Giant Christmas tree sits on eleven barges in Rio
DeJaneiro-; . South Haven female middle school teacher is in jail for allegedly
having a sexual interaction with a female student. Friends and family testify
on behalf of Scott Peterson to try to convince the jury not to give him the
death sentence. A recount of the Ohio results is still slated to go forward in
the presidential race.. they’ve paid the 113,000 fee… if democrats had won the
20 electoral votes in Ohio they would have won the election. Class A
bio-terrorism agents include: smallpox, plague, botulism, and tularemia,
hemorrhagic fever, and anthrax.

 

December 3, 2004

 

38, 000 people die of influenza every year. Spanish flu
of 1918-19 killed 25 million people worldwide, more than all of WWI. They have
found a way to reverse paralysis in dogs if it is injected in the animal within
three days of the injury. School bus driver near Buffalo New York is fired for
talking with the students about stem cell research.

 

Some scientists are now saying that the global warming
leads to greater chill in the long run. It causes the icebergs to thaw and
causes fresh water to flow into the salty 
north Atlantic changing the balmy flow of water in the North Atlantic
Gulf Stream into cold water and around 8200 years ago caused a great chill.
24-year-old American Nancy Randall is favored to win the Miss World contest
being held in China. The Irish are the wealthiest of the European countries
according to AP.

 

December 4, 2004

 

Cheney and Rumsfeld apparently worked together for the
Ford administration in AP describes Rumsfeld as acid-tongued and hawkish…
Oklahoma, USC, Auburn all win.. they all remain undefeated. Columbia drug team
is extradited from Columbia to U.S. Jail. 
The Founder of Habitat for Humanity was under pressure to resign because
of sexual improprieties, but then Jimmy Carter stepped up and threatened to
revoke his support of Habitat and so they let him remain in an honorary
position. His name is Millard Fuller. In every profession there are
professionals and there are those who play the part.

 

December 5, 2004

 

Tilman apparently was definitely killed by “friendly
fire.” Story about e-junk took nine minutes to read. What do we do with all the
electronic gadgets we no longer need? Woman passenger may have fallen over the
Carnival Cruise ship 30 miles west of Ensenada Mexico. Man runs on court at the
Davis Cup Match between Roddic and…Carlos Moya (put a hat on top of Moya’s
head).

 

Black tomatoes are supposed to be an aphrodisiac.
Michigan will play Texas in the Rose Bowl, not California. More Peterson
relatives testify on behalf of Peterson. His father grew up poor in Minnesota.
His mother grew up an orphan after father was murdered. Chinaman wins lawsuit
concerning manhole covers..after breaking his leg in hole, a few months after
somebody fell in and drowned.. all because people steel the manhole covers and
sell them for a couple bucks which is a day’s wage for a lot of them.

 

In Zimbabwe they steal coffins for money. High Suicide
rate in China. Motorola makes a phone cover that will  grow into a sunflower. Possibility of
predicting earthquakes via chemical analysis of water in Iceland’s “tin bath”..
The 91101 tragedy has been deemed two separate attacks for the sake of
insurance. . St. Mary’s Coptic Church on Robinson  is architecturally impressive.  Good soup at the bagel show down the street
from Hamilton.

 

December 7, 2004

 

Trampled by his own wildebeest he was trampled and
bludgeoned to death in South Bend Indiana. …white boys beat up black boy in
Simi Valley … white hate incident.. or white supremacy… Scott Peterson went to
Cal Poly University and graduated with a 3.28 GPA.

 

December 8, 2004

 

The story about the “Penis Tree “ in Tuscany Italy
apparently used as political propaganda in an election against the opponent
saying that if they are elected they will bring perversion and problems
(originally this was thought to be a symbol of life(. HB at 1233 at school.

 

Researchers in the Netherlands theorize that some of
the inexplicable desert disappearances is due to “dry quicksand” which doesn’t
pack down but will swallow you up if you step in it. Lone whale accounts for a
unique speech pattern nine years in the Pacific.  Ronald Keith Williamson was taken off death
row five days  before he was to be
executed for  a crime they now know he
didn’t commit.

 

December 10, 2004

 

Lit up festival homes across the U.S. includes Elvis’
home, and the Vanderbilt home in Asheville, NC, and for information about the
Biltmore home call 1800624 1575. The Hearst Castle is also lit up around
Christmas. The U.S. Coast guard helicopter that rescued six people from a
freighter in the Bering sea subsequently crashed and now they’re looking for
the helicopter.

 

Arbitration hearing took place in Manhattan concerning
the NBA brawl.. despite NBA’s objection that the arbitrator has no
authority..They put an ice skating rink on top of Eiffel Tower in France. Kevin
Keogh city finance mgr. In Phoenix or Scottsdale got on top of his car as it
was moving and then fell off and died. His wife said he relapsed from a
tropical disease. He was a top city manager. Bennington College in Vermont is
one of the most liberal colleges in America. 
Possibility of predicting earthquakes is increased .. per the tremors
beneath the quake.. prior to the quake itself.

 

John Michael Harvey was released from prison after 12
years when alleged victim of child molestation—who was three years old at the time
–testified as an adult just recently that, in fact, she had not been molested
but had been coached to testify against him by a relative with a grudge against
him. Philip Badowski of Tennessee , 22 years old, shot and killed his parents
after they scolded him upon return from a mission trip to Haiti. Then he tried
to dismember their bodies with a chainsaw. Roger Clemens has not decided
whether he will play next year or not.

 

December 11, 2004

 

They apparently had a Martin Luther King memorial march
today and some were concerned that it was being used as an anti-gay platform.
Total of 2390 people died in the Pearl Harbor attack on Dec. 7 1941. During
summer peak months the Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor receives up to 4500
people daily

 

December 12, 2004

 

Bomb blast in southern Philippines in supermarket in
General Santos town. Saddam Hussein was captured on Dec. 13, 2003. “Life after
Exoneration “ programs based in California tries to  help wrongly convicted persons put their
lives back together after release. Founded by attorneys related to the
“Innocence Project”

 

December 13, 2004

 

People are stealing Cycads out of yards because they’re
so valuable. Jay VanAndel passed away. Tyrone Willingham fired by Notre Dame
has now been hired by Washington Huskies. He also used to work for Stanford
football. Matt Leinart won the Heisman trophy beating Jason White who won it
last year (and came in third this year) but they will face each other in the
Orange Bowl on Jan 4.

 

Charlie Weis of the New England Patriots takes the
Notre dame position and apparently graduated from Notre Dame but did not play
football there. Walt Harris takes Stanford football position. Norm Chow was
considered—he remains offensive coordinator for USC. The jury has reached a
sentence for Scott Peterson—to be announced any moment now ( 223 pm)  I heard the news at 421 pm ..the jury
sentenced him to death.

 

News Mars Rover discovers geothite which is formed by
water. Only ten executions have taken place in California since 1978 despite the
fact that California’s death row is the largest and most crowded. There are
currently 641 prisoners on death row.

 

Judge Ellender of Louisiana has been suspended for
dressing up as a “black” at a Halloween party. Scott Peterson Jurors include:
Steve Cardosi of Moon Bay. He apparently was the jury foreperson. Another juror
was Richelle Nice of East Palo Alto. A third juror was Greg Bertalis. They all
indicated that it was Petersons’ courtroom demeanor which made them most
suspicious saying he never showed any emotion.

 

But this contrasts with the journalists reports that
Peterson at times wept. This makes me think that for Anglos in good standing
suddenly up against the judicial system it can overwhelm you and the first
reaction is to try to  be a “good boy” to
comply with everybody and thing and clam up. Ironically, one’s “obedience” in
such regards may ultimately work against them aeb (as evidenced by)  the 
jury who thought his silence was suspicious.

 

Michigan teacher found guilty of murdering husband—the
jury was not convinced that it was justified because of the abuse she
experienced. Ashley McKathan wears ten commandments on his robe in Alabama
court—an attorney objected

 

December 15, 2004

 

Marion Jones is suing the owner of Balco for accusing her
of taking steroids.

 

December 16, 2004

 

The BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) Killer from Wichita who
killed ten or more in the 1970’s has reappeared leaving clues about himself.

 

This is the 20th anniversary of the Bernhard Goetz
subway shooting in New York City… that caused such a stir..some  applauding Goetz, others critical.. he was on
a subway , had his own gun (illegally) and was approached by four black boys
with sharpened screwdrivers, and he opened fire, leaving one of them paralyzed
from the waist down. He ran for Mayor in 2001 but lost.

 

 

December 17, 2004

 

Johnny Carl, the orchestra conductor at the Crystal
Cathedral, commits suicide.

 

December 18, 2004

 

A new building in the Brazilian town of Cureteba can
revolve, each room taking an hour to turn around completely. Search for Amelia
Earhart plan planned to commence soon (for the second or third time) near
Howland Island;

 

December 19, 2004

 

Man at Indiana University charged with animal abuse
after letting guinea pig fly out of his window on a balloon, and got caught in
a tree.

 

Defense attorneys in the Michael Jackson case are
asking for a dismissal based on “vindictive prosecution.” Bob Simonds in his
newsletter for November says Proctor and Gamble used homosexuals to advertise
their products, showing them in bed together, and asks consumers to stop buying
Tide, Crest, and Pampers. This ad is on www.pgboycott.com. And he says that
Arnold Schwaarzenager signed a bill that lowered the age of consensual sex to
14… making it more difficult to prosecute cases of adult-child sexual
relationships.

 

December 21, 2004

 

Settlement made in “Gold Train” case on behalf of Jews
robbed by American soldiers near the end of WWII. . : Something is cleaning the
solar panels on the Opportunity rover. This is National Homeless day. . And the
actor Poe—also a politician contender at one point in the Philippines died, the
funeral was today.

 

December 24, 2004

 

David Letterman is in Iraq for a Christmas special.

 

December 25, 2004

 

Genetic Savings & Cloan in Sausalito CA has cloned
a kitten for $50,000 and will begin cloning pets on a commercial basis. Miami
Heat and Shaq beat Lakers & Kobe in overtime by 2 points. Com Air has
cancelled 1100 flights due to computer breakdown, causing 30,000 passengers to
be delayed A play in New York called “Fat Pig” about an obese woman and the
insults she must endure. Shaquille O Neal says he misses the Fox Hills Mall and
the Beverly Center.

 

Celebrities at 
the game included Courtney Cox and Dyan Cannon. Who are they? Others
included Henry Winkler, Penny Marshall, and Sugar Ray Leonard.  They think they may have found the Siloam
Pool where Jesus healed a blind man near Jerusalem. NY Times says there is some
controversy about this new California web site which allows people to look up
registered sex offenders to see if they live in their neighborhood.

 

December 26, 2004

 

8.5 or more earthquake reported to have hit Indonesia
(1;32 a.m.). India & Sri Lanka have already reported 1000 deaths apiece due
to the tidal waves.

Reggie White—the defensive NFL star died today at age
43 of a heart attack.

 

December 27, 2004

 

Now they say the death toll for the Asian earthquake is
at 14000. Now the death toll from the Asia earthquake is at 23000.

 

December 28, 2004

 

The woman who killed the pregnant lady and cut the baby
out of her womb appeared in a Missouri Court today and the judge said she
“appeared to qualify for a public defender” . My question is (and not to
protect this woman who apparently is obviously guilty) but is a public defender
a farce—a sure failure? I would like to know Steve Boysaw’s record for
exonerations. I think the public defender is part of the evil system , putting
on a display of  caring for the
defendant, but not really .1055 am-the earthquake death toll is now at 40,000

 

December 29, 2004

 

on NPR a story about an organization called “Sound
Exchange” which tallies the number of times a song is played on the radio, or
on an elevator, or even as background music when you’re on hold and pays out
royalties to the singer.  They’re making
a mockery of American troops in these suicide attacks and other sneak
attacks—yesterday somebody gave the Iraq police a tip that insurgents were
hiding out in a house and when they went to check the house blew up, killing 29
people. Storm in Southern California. . 
The remarkable thing they say about this tsunami tragedy is that they
haven’t found any dead animals, as  if
they had sensed it and had gone inland before it hit.

 

December 31, 2004

 

174 people die in an Argentinean night club fire
(reports say the fire exits ,may have been locked). .  Attorney General Mike Hatch is suing Capitol
One Credit cards for their deceptive billing practices..advertising a fixed
interest rate and then raising them to 19% if you are one day late in paying
your bills

 

                                        2005

January 1, 2005 New Years Day

a Three-year old adopted  child is 
being returned  to it’s biological
parents per court order.  The U.S.
increased their donation amount from 35 million to 350 million after Sweden
topped the U.S with 50 million, but now Japan has pledged 500 million. The
island of Phi Phi was hit hard by the earthquake/tsunami (and is apparently
where the film “The Beach” was shot).

 

AP News Blooper: Sandy Cossel reported around 104 a.m.
that an aftershock hit one of the Asian areas but there is “ no report of
serious casualties”.  The U.S. Based
Christian Children’s Fund is involved in therapeutic intervention in the
tsunami areas—trying to create space for the children to recuperate, vent,
feel, talk, play etc.

 

January 3, 2005

 

Floyd Mayweather Jr. didn’t show up for his court
hearing in Grand Rapids. He’s a boxer who grew up in Grand Rapids and is
undefeated (31-0) . He’s scheduled to fight on January 20 in Miami but now
there’s a warrant for his arrest

 

January 4, 2005

 

Nelson Mandela’s son died of AIDS.

 

January 14, 2005

 

There’s been a mud slide in Ventura County that killed
at least five, although twelve are still missing. Woman who drove around
barricades ended up in river, lost grip on child while being saved, her 2 year
old child drowned. She may be charged with manslaughter. 

 

At least 10 killed in La Conchita Mudslide in Ventura
County. Man saved from icy creek—pants pulled off by river. Pulled up at
bridge.  they are amputating rather than
trying fine-tuned surgery with some of the tsunami victims, which is
problematic in addition to loss of limb is being outcast from a labor-based
society which doesn’t have sympathy for handicaps.

 

The foster home nearby where John Lennon grew up,
called Strawberry Fields, and the inspiration for the Beatles Song is closing
now because smaller homes are preferable to institutions. The Madden-Jullian
Oscillation is the cause of the storms on the west coast today…due to this
weather pattern over Asia and India Ocean. Burmese persons who were working in
Thailand are now in hiding for fear of deportation (because they lost their
papers).

 

Prince Harry has caused a stir  by going to a costume party dressed as a
Nazi. Son of Margaret Thatcher, Mark, has pled guilty to being an unwitting
participant in a plot to kill a political leader in provincial New Guinea.
Professor Ronald Jurische from Dessau in Sachsen-Anhalt Germany went to Costa
Rica  for a vacation went to a doctor for
a sore foot (something he’s had before due to diabetes, but nothing serious)
but the doctor decided to amputate against his will —and while still
protesting they drugged him, did the amputation, and he woke up at the
departure gate, and has since had to have 20 or more further surgeries back in
Germany to correct all the problems. He is now suing Costa Rica.
Schwaarzenaager visited the mudslide scene and said they said “We’ll be back..”
The CFO of Office Max is retiring after two months on the job.

 

NASA launches a comet smashing spacecraft scheduled to
get there on July 4. British Airways flight turned away due to suspected
militant on board. Mild winter in Russia. Radiation-proof RV’s. News:Aerogel is
now being used to warm jackets (one brand is called “frozen smoke”).

 

Tom Coleman, a former police officer suspected of
framing many blacks with drugs is now being put on trial for stealing gas and
subsequent perjury. New England Patriots have been in 3 of the last 4
superbowls? Mike Vander Jagt is the outspoken field-goal kicker for the
Indianapolis Colts. Andrew Geiger really screwed things up at OSU. I had never
heard of the term “flopping” before used to describe those who theatrically act
out a charging foul against them by “flopping” down.

 

Spaceship Cassini-Huygens has landed on Titan—one of
Saturn’s moons, and photos appear to indicate liquid on the surface of
Titan—perhaps methane they say although they do not indicate why it isn’t
frozen, it being around 200 degrees below zero on this moon. Seven year journey—they
left in 1997. They apparently evacuated the entire town of Corona ,
approximately 2300 people because of a dam seeping water. Officials say that if
the dam broke it would wipe out the entire town in 2 ½ minutes.

 

Problem in the Prague with taxis overcharging tourists,
up to 500 percent over the fair rate. Listerine mouthwash has  up to four times that of malt liquor, 27
percent alcohol. …a lady was charged with drunk driving after she admitted to
having drank four cups of it.  increase
the tsunami warning system for the United States perimeter.

 

James Cameron just completed a documentary on the
creatures of the deep sea—way down—miles below the surface, and now he’s going
to begin working on a science fiction project but says that we’ve lost real
science fiction ever since Star Wars which he says was “eye candy” He says he
is going to try to get more of a 
diatopian message with this movie about a cyborg of some sort.  to the tsunami , but due to global warming
could cause significant problems in 100 years they say.

 

There’s a ban on U.S selling arms to Indonesia Jets
lose to Pittsburgh Steelers. Jets could have won in over time with field goals,
one from 49 , the other from 43 but he missed both, despite being 24 of 29 for
the season. St. Louis is losing to Atlanta. Miami Heat is in first place but
Lakers are in the middle-just barely above the Clippers way behind the Phoenix
Suns and Kobe Bryant is out with a sprained ankle for 5 days. Mens College
Basketball—University of Illinois is undefeated.

 

The Ferrari motorsports team is going to meet with the
pope. Tsunami relief concert at Minute Maid Park in Houston TX. Three-year –old
boy is being returned to his natural parents after living the first three  man had nail in skull causing him paint and
he didn’t even know it was there.

 

Crimes involving persons posing as police officers are
increasing. When James Gottlieb  didn’t
come home for dinner, his wife and children went looking for him. They went to
his place of work and then to a restaurant to see if he had stopped to eat,
then they traced his usual route home. Stopping to see what the commotion on
the boulevard was all about, pulled over by an imposter, Gottlieb, a father of
three who was about to celebrate his 25th wedding anniversary, was dead. He was
pulled over by someone in a vehicle with flashing lights, Franklin Square…New
York this wasn’t an ordinary traffic stop…attempted robbery, and he was shot
and killed by someone impersonating a police officer. The loss has left a hole
in the lives of his loved ones.

 

This type of crime is not new but it seems to be
happening at an alarming rate. In nearby Valley Stream a few days later a pair
of  fake police officers robbed two men
on a busy road in broad daylight. Police officer Kirk Faraczek was on patrol
when he spotted the robbery and went after the crooks. “I looked at the guys”,
he said, and “I didn’t recognize them as any officers I worked with.” As soon
as the two imposters saw Faraczek they jumped in their car and took off. After
a short chase the suspects crashed their car and were arrested. Outside of
Washington D.C. a woman was pulled over by someone with flashing blue lights.

 

When she rolled down her window the fake police officer
grabbed her shirt. The woman hit the gas and got away.  In Miami a robber pretending to be a police
detective talked his way into a fast food restaurant where unsuspecting staff
workers took him behind the counter and into the officer where they kept the
money.

 

There have been 660 deaths due to bombings  and drive-by shootings by Muslims in the
southern Thailand area in the past year. years of his life with the adoptive
parents. Private Graner who was accused of 
prisoner abuse in Abu Gahraib, Iraq has been found guilty and sentence
to 10 years in military prison

 

A fishing boat recently sunk –drowning five, off the
coast of New England—some are comparing it to the sinking of the Andrea Gail of
a decade ago, about which the movie “The Perfect Storm” was based.

 

The Indian Ocean tsunami traveled at speeds of 500 MPH
and was 180 miles wide. 20 or more whales stranded themselves on the Outer
Banks of North Carolina, killing 17. A lot of the damage I saw in Thailand was
above Phuket in the Khao Lak area. The movie called “Sideways” was filmed, in
part, near Buellton, CA, and part of it at the Fess Parker Winery (Fess Parker
played Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett or both at one time). 5000 more corpses
found in Sumatra—an area yet untouched by recovery efforts. In the U.S there
was a tsunami relief concert with Pink Floyd et. al. and Brad Pitt, Clint
Eastwood et. al. Man had nail in skull causing him pain and he didn’t even know
it was there.

 

January 16, 2005

 

Golden Globe Awards—“The Aviator” with Leonardo
DiCaprio wins Best Actor award.  South
Africa is trying to tout Johannesburg as a great place for tourists to visit.
Rolling Stones Magazine rejects a ad from Zondervan Books hoping to capture a
new audience with a different kind of Bible. 
Germany  is planning a TV show
called “sperm race” where men donate their sperm and they have the sperm race
in a test tube—winner gets a Porsche.

 

The police officer, Jeremy Morse,  who was sued or charged by the DA for
assault  of a black teenager in Ingelwood
resulted in a hung jury, twice and so the charges were dismissed. Morse was
fired two months after the incident. The chief-of-police of Ingelwood is black.
Jeremy Morse and his partner are white.

 

Then the police officer and his partner sued  for reverse discrimination and today were
rewarded 1.6 million and .8 million respectively in civil damages. The video
tape showed the police officer pounding the head of the boy, but the officer
said it was because the boy had a grip on his testicles, which the video did
not show. That low—so there was no way to corroborate yes or no. T

 

The group “Fuel” singing at the youth inaugural concert
in Washington D.C.  hosted by the Bush
twins  started the concert by saying
“Welcome to the greatest fucking country in the world.”  And then the lead singer, Brett Scallions
quickly apologized.  One of the NASA
rovers finds a  metal meteorite on Mars.
A new plane being built in France—the A380, has 
enough room to park 70 cars on its wing. It’s double-decker, with a  top section stretching all the way back to
the tail, not just a little hump like on the 747.

 

Bob Jones of Bob Jones University—is going to retire
as  president of Bob Jones university,,
ending a 34 year reign …the school grabbed headlines in 2000 after George Busch
spoke there because of it’s racist policies and its fundamentalist views and
their ban on inter-racial dating which has since been changed.

 

Jones son, Stephen, age 35, will take over the school
in May. The 65 year old Bob Jones’ grandfather founded the school  78 years ago. He says “It is time for someone
younger and closer to the present generation to take over. I’ve seen too many
institutions, churches, Christian ministries suffer when somebody stays on too
long. I never wanted that to happen here. Jones said he will spend more time
traveling and preaching but will remain a visible part of the campus as
chairman of the board of trustees and perhaps as “grandpa” to the 5000 student
campus.

 

A Nevada man castrated himself to lower his libido, but
ends up in the hospital. Senator Kevin Parker was arrested for allegedly
punching a traffic agent/officer who was 
writing him a ticket. The Brooklyn Democrat was charged with 3rd degree
assault. 100’s of giant squid are washing up on 
Orange County beaches, the Humboldt squid. Approximately 500 of them
began washing up on the sands of Laguna and Newport Beach, one of them up to 17
pounds.

 

J.P. Morgan apologizes for participating in slave trade
before the Civil War—having taken slaves as collateral for unpaid loans—their
researchers discovered, and so now they are setting up a scholarship fund
for  African American students in
Louisiana, with a program  called Smart
Start which will provide 5 million dollars for 
full tuition.

 

Battle of the Anaheim Angels baseball team name is
going to OC Superior Court—the Angels want to change their name to the Los
Angeles  Angels of Anaheim, but both the
city of Los Angeles and the City of Anaheim are contesting it.  When the Angels were founded in 1961 with
Gene Autry their owner they were the Los Angeles Angels and they played in Dodger
stadium. In 1965 they became the California Angels and moved to Anaheim.

 

When Disney bought 
the club in 1997 they changed the name to Anaheim Angels.  New study suggests that person with lower IQ
are more prone to suicide, and persons with low IQ as well as highly educated
parents are even more prone to suicide. 
Researchers from Bristol and 
__________________ conducted the test, although they note previous
conflicting results –one of which indicated that persons with higher IQ were
more prone to suicide ( Israel), whereas in Australia they found the opposite.

 

Lady went into labor during a parachute jump and
delivered the baby on the ground minutes after she landed. ).

 

January 21, 2005

 

An article says “An ancient version of global warming
may have been the cause of the greatest mass extinction in history…the event
known as the great dying  some 250
million years ago 90% of all marine life and nearly ¾ of all land-based plants
and animals went extinct. Scientists 
think it’s due to volcanic activity.

 

They think some animals evolved to survive at lower
oxygen levels, such as birds, —the atmosphere currently consists of 20%
oxygen, but at that time it could have been as low as 16%, or less. The Coqui
Frog is infesting the Hawaiian big island and is a problem because of the
shrieking loud noise it makes at night, it came over from Puerto Rico, which is
fond of the frog. The judge refuses to grant a 
preliminary injunction stopping the Anaheim Angels from changing their
name, meaning it will go to trial.

 

A real life Romeo & Juliet Story near Verona
Italy.. a 78 year old man, Ettore,  sat
by the bed of his comatose wife for four months and finally in despair took his
own life. Less than a day later his wife awoke and asked for him, just 40 miles
from Verona.

 

Movies like “Braveheart” and “Legends of the Fall” are
on a growing list of movies inspirational to some Christians that encourage
them to throw out the “nice guy” act and emulate warriors. John Eldrige
inspired the movement…with his book “Wild at Heart” which  has already sold 1.5 million copies . Eldrige
believes that many Christian men have become bored really nice guys and invites
them to newly discover passion by thinking of life as a battle to win and a
mission to accomplish, including somebody (such as their wife) to rescue. He
says the modern era has brought up immense conveniences but at what price? The
human heart is desperate for more than a quicker serving of popcorn. “Eldrige
calls on men to be prepared to take risks and re-discover their dreams,  but does not provide a specific route to
find. Career, marriage, and family become heroic quests  rather than chains that bind. He focuses on
how men can become less passive  and
engage those around them particularly 
their wives and children. The …who sits in front of the television is
unengaged..they need to be engaged whether it is playing on the floor with
their  1 year old or tougher games with
their fifteen year old. Eldridge has said he has been astounded by the response
to his book, steadily gathering since it was published by Nelsons in 2001. Men
have been  going to retreats even tribes
on the Amazon River, he said. One of these believers in “Wild at Heart”
___________ says it does remind you that we are in a battle every day, it might
be boredom and routine, but ..the moral of the story is that God has written a
story and we have to find  what the story
is and live it , Chase says. He says the book inspired him to teach his 15 year
old to ride a motorcycle. Eldridge was a trained counselor for fifteen years
with Focus on the Family,  and says we
are currently living in a fatherless age, with many men having abandoned their
children,  if not physically then
emotionally.  One father was an alcoholic
who after_____ years…became increasingly distant Chase had lost his father..who
he  described as very cold just months
before he attended the retreat…and makes the analogy of father figure to God
figure. Some women have welcome receiving more attention from their husband
than flowers. The movement has stirred controversy and criticism from some
Christian leaders who fear he may just be reinforcing stereotypes. While some
women have welcomed….[it] they are concerned about the long-term impact on
marriages…A professor at Fuller Seminary said that needing a “princess to
rescue has set back marriage and family relationships in the church by 30
years..sanctifying the mythological 1950 view of manhood says Chapman
Clark,  associate professor of family and
marriage at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena.. says “It is destructive to marriages
in the long run, “ Clark said, that “Treating women as a figurine rather than
the personal image of God will hurt relationships over time.” Clark says
Eldridge had “tapped into an angst  among
middle-aged white men who are 
dissatisfied with their lives and for whom depression had become a very
serious problem. “ Eldridge acknowledges the success of it will be judged by
the impact it has on family lives…and whether Wild At Heart makes life better
for children and/or women. When I receive letters from women who are immensely
grateful [I am happy].

 

The Alfalfa Club is named after the plant which has
roots that will go anywhere for a drink—and Bush spoke at their club a day
after the inauguration.

 

Donald Trump gets married again for the third time his
first two wives included Ivana Trump and Marla Maples, —in Palm Beach FL…
guests included Katy Couric and Barbara Walters. [ Stop at #21] now he married
Melania Kanuss, also guests Star Jones and Billy Joel & Tony Bennet and Rudy
Guilianna.   And Matt Louer. Married at
the Episcopal Church of Bethesda by the Sea. She’s 34 , he’s 58. She’s from
Slovania

 

The Green party in Austria is angry at Governor
Schwwaarzenaager for allowing a death penalty conviction to proceed. Arnold was
born in 1947 in the Village of Thal, just outside Graz. He still has Austrian
citizenship. They’re saying he should be stripped of his citizenship because of
it. A 40 year old mother in the Denver area had a party and supplied teenagers
with alcohol and methemphetamines and marijuana and  had sex with five of the boys—her name is
Sylvia Johnson. She said she wanted to be a “kool mom.”

 

Non-alcoholic beer can reduce the risk of cancer.
Scientists say it helps protect liver, lungs, and kidney against DNA damage. A
Japan University gave mice NA beer once a day and found it reduced cancer  by 85 %. 
It is thought that a compound in the beer blocks  harmful chemicals and  protects liver, lungs, and kidney from DNA
damage.

 

Evander Holyfield visits Sri Lanka and India to assess
the tsunami damage. Hector “macho” Camacho was released from jail in Gulfport ,
Mississippi after being charged with burglary of a Gulfport computer shop. Also
charged with drug possession after officers said they found him with ten ecstasy
pills. Camacho 70-5-2 with…he had been scheduled for a middleweight fight on
Jan. 21. He lost to DeLa Hoya in1997; Chris McCarron is retiring from his job
in administration at Santa Anita race track—moving to Kentucky to start a
jockey school. Russel Baze moved into a tie with Billy Shoemaker for second on
the all time victory list with  8330
wins.

 

Johnny Carson passes away age 79, due to complications
from emphysema. Letterman says a night doesn’t go by that he doesn’t ask
himself “What would Johnny do?” A former amateur magician and ventriloquist,
Carson started his career in Lincoln Nebraska 
in 1948 after a stint in the Navy during World War II. He was a writer
for the Variety series , “The Red Skelton Show” 
and hosted his first TV show “Carson’s Cellar” in 1951. He also hosted
the early ABC game show ‘Who can You Trust?” where he appeared with McMahon for
the first time in 1958.  He replaced Jack
Paar as the host of the Tonight Show in Oct 1962. Paar died only last January,
2004.  Steve Allen died in October 2000.
He was the first host of the Tonight Show. No Memorial Service—very private off
stage. He even refused to appear on NBC’s 75th anniversary show. Carson was
born in Corning Iowa in 1925. His family 
then moved to Norfolk NB. As he moved into the nascent [i.e. promising]
world of television at an Omaha station.

 

The federal court in Pittsburgh which the federal
government has been trying to implement—federal 
judge declared that the government’s anti-obscenity laws were
unconstitutional The Michigan elementary school teacher who hacked her husband
to death with a hatchet was sentenced Monday to life in prison without
possibility of parole.

 

January 27, 2005

 

Man parked his train on train tracks in Glendale—wanted
to kill himself, , changed his mind just moments before the train hit and
jumped out.. Manuel Alvarez of Compton, age 25, his Jeep Grand Cherokee, also
stabbed himself  and slashed his wrists.
Alvarez’ sister told TV interviewer that he had separated from his wife … then
the wife got a court order to keep him away from her and the children…he wanted
to see his wife and son… he was having problems with drugs she said and was
violent… he went around as if he wanted to kill himself.., she said to him if
you’re going to kill yourself  kill
yourself far away,  don’t come by here
telling that to my sister [ his wife] 
she said he had also threatened 
suicide in front of his son [ you see the problem, in part, there—they
further ostracize him in his grief,,.. making him all the more despondent..
taking away his manhood. ] They don’t have sympathy for his grief and despair..
the treat him like a lunatic, making him all the more  dejected… [creating a killer]  … at the same time if you indulge his  behavior too much you allow him to manipulate
you.. is there a happy middle? Yes.

 

This was the worst train derailment since March,
1999…in this particular case the accident was compounded by the fact that the
locomotive was pushing the train, not pulling , they said that if it had been
pulling the train it might have simply pushed the car off the track.. but as it
was—there was an accordion effect, increasing the damage to the middle cars.

 

Architect Philip Johnson died at age 98. HE did
participate in the Crystal Cathedral drafting. He also was known for the Glass
House—the centerpiece of his bachelor pad enclave in Connecticut. He also was
involved  with the Seagram building in
New  York. He did the west wing of the
Museum of Modern Art..and the library at New York University… and the
distinctive stacked lipstick ovals in New York.

 

Larry Green, a 29 year old man , was hit by ac car and
declared dead ..already in the morgue when an inspector came by and found him
barely breathing. JP Perdue, the medical inspector who found him  still alive…/ , several medical employees
were suspended pending an investigation.

 

A seven year old gal was found stabbed to death at a
Catholic school 50 miles north of New York City—no suspects they say( one day
later however they say , in fact, the gal was found in the men’s restroom and
the father was arrested). Jerrica Rhodes was the daughter of Chris Rhodes, the
son of a former police chief. A long article about detainee interrogations and
how they used women to interrogate Muslim prisoners using sexual tactics—some of
them highly offensive to Muslim norms. Scientists have discovered that hydrogen
fuels microbes at Yellowstone, not sulfur.

 

Michael Ross, the Connecticut serial killer–, was due
to be executed last night—but the execution as postponed at the last moment—he’s
an Ivy League graduate. Estes Park Town Trustee David Habecker is being
challenged to a recall election because he refuses to stand for the Pledge of
Allegiance and say the words “under God.” Those allegedly missing computer
discs at the Los Alamos Nuclear Plant computer lab—they now say never actually
existed. Methamphetamines become a bigger problem—across the USA—can quickly
make it with cold medicine and battery acid and a few other ingredients.

 

January 30, 2005

 

Angeline Jolie is am ambassador for the United nations
High Commission of Refugees, a Good Will ambassador, she says she would just as
soon do her ambassador work full time but realizes she needs to keep making
movies for the publicity and money… . 
Stem cells taken from human embryos were coaxed into becoming motor
neurons in an experiment that might one day help scientists to repair damaged
nervous systems…researchers say they can train embryonic cells to develop on
demand into any type of tissue in the body.. 
SBC one of the baby bells created with the break up of Ma Bell is now
buying AT&T the original ma bell

 

January 31, 2005

 

 Phytocerols in
potato chips—supposed to block the cholesterol. Usually the owner/founder
maintains control, but just recently 
they said that the founders of Habitat for Humanity had actually been
kicked off the board of directors and was no longer part of the Habitat (not
even in an honorary way Ward Churchill, 
a professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder has compared the
victims of the World Trade Center attack to Nazis  and the attackers as good… it’s mentioned
because he was scheduled to make a speech at a college on the east coast but
there were death threats and it had to be cancelled.. subsequently  he has resigned as the department chairman..
but his colleagues defend his right to free speech…  and have no plans to fire him altogether.. …

                                

February 1, 2005

 

James Pitino—one of the casualties from the train wreck
in Glendale and  a sheriff’s deputy was
mourned at a funeral by 1500 people, including letters and calls from prisoners
where he was a guard. Circus employee was trampled to death by an elephant
after falling down inside the truck/pen.

 

February 2, 2005

 

they’re doing a “Minuteman Project” in Arizona around
Tumbleweed along the border they are going to set up their own citizen
patrol,  ….Chris Simcox is the founder of
Civil Homeland Defense which runs its own 
border patrol with 417 people from 41 states had volunteered to take up
positions between two Arizona towns, one of them Douglas…the rally is planned
for April 1…when organizers expect 2000 people to park their cars along the
border.. stared by James Gilchrest of Aliso Viejo, CA, a retired
accountant…,they had a meeting at the Crenshaw Christian Center…one of the
largest L.A. Churches…of ministers who backed the Bush  re-election with an emphasis on the anti-gay
agenda.. Bishop Frank L. Stewart, Pastor of the Zoe Christian Church .. of L.A.
said he is a life long democrat but backed Bush because of moral issues.

 

The Nixon Library is now eligible for federal funds… a
young woman who had a friend call in a bomb threat to the Philadelphia Airport
in order to avoid missing a flight to London 
was sentenced Wednesday to a year in prison..Ceylan age 19  and her friend Ilays Savas was also ordered
to reimburse American Airlines 9000 dollars 
to and to pay 100 dollars to each of the 17 people aboard the delayed
flight…the two were arrested in June when they tried to redeem the unused
tickets.

 

The King-Drew Medical Center in South Los Angeles is
losing its accreditation…the commission found incompetent staff, inconsistent
patient care, incomplete medical charts, 
and other problems.

 

February 3, 2005

 

Max Schmelling died 
at age 99 .. he was the German who fought Joe Louis back in 1932 or
thereabouts and was knocked out in the first round,  but the fight was billed as white v.  black and was intertwined with the Nazi
notion of superiority, so it was a big blow to them… he apparently had a decent
boxing career apart from the Joe Louis defeat—going about 50 wins out of 70
fights…..

 

Ossie Davis died. Alan Alda says he was his hero
article about Somalia. difficulty of doing tsunami relief  there because Somali has no central
government ever since the dictator was assassinated in 1991.. only recently
have all the factions and outlaws agreed on people to lead, but the leaders
don’t even dare live in their own country—they live in Kenya. Delivering aid
there is dangerous On Jan. 9 one of the aid volunteers was shot and killed by
bandits.  Sec of State Kevin Shelley
stepping down amid allegations of improprieties…he was a democrat.

 

February 4, 2005

 

Afghanistan airplane goes down in Afghanistan killing
around 100. As many as 6 of the passengers may have been Americans. Dr. Richard
Olney  a top neurologist who dedicated
his career to fighting Lou Gehrig’s disease suddenly became afflicted by it
himself. Idaho’s most famous outlaw, Claude Dallas, is scheduled to be released
from prison after 24 years for killing two game warden officers  who had come to his “campout” and found him
with bobcat hides in one of his tents—thereafter a gunfight ensued with Dallas
taking both of them down, and then putting a bullet into the head of each for
good measure.

 

They made it sound as if,  however, the game wardens, had tracked him
down looking for a fight and that he, Dallas, did not believe he was actually
poaching. A political associate of the Georgia prime minister found dead two
days ago commit suicide today. Ossie Davis died—he was a black man who was in
some of the Spike Lee films, including “Do the Right Thing”, but prior to that
he was involved in many many films dating back to the 60’s… he was also a guest
actor in Showtime’s “The L Word” series—so he was a radical liberal.  He also wrote Purie Victorious in 1961 which
lampoons racial stereotypes .

 

Alan Alda who 
appeared in the film version of Purie Victorious said Ossie was his
hero. Ossie delivered a eulogy for Malcolm X in 1965 and then he repeated it
for Spike Lee’s film, “Malcolm X”. He directed a film  called “Cotton Comes to Harlem.” He also did
“The Cardinal” in 1963, and “The Client “ in 1994, and “I’m not Rappaport” in
1936.  He also appeared in “12 Angry Men”
in 1997.

 

Burt Reynolds an aging actor also has high praise for
Ossie Davis saying “ NO man comes close to representing the man I want to be
“(apart from his late father he says). He goes on to say , “I know he’s sitting
next to God and I know God envies that voice.” He spent four years in the war
as a surgical technician in an army hospital in Liberia

 

NHL Hockey Star Dany 
Heatley thanked the family of Dan Snyder, his teammate, who was killed
in a car accident when Dany Heatley crashed his Ferrari into a wall, forsaking
the judge to keep him out of jail. He could have gotten up to 20 years in
prison. He got three years probation. No driving except under certain
circumstances and the car must be  six
cylinders or less and will be rigged to ensure it cannot go faster than 70 mph.
He also has to make 150 speeches about the dangers of speeding.

 

Attorney Dressbold says 
that a man given a ticket in Pennsylvania for following too close behind
another car was also given a citation for a incorrect hand signal—when he
actually apparently flipped the police officer off—(i.e. stuck his middle
finger up at him). The attorney says “either way its an abuse of his
constitutional rights” and that it is “lawful under the constitution to give
the middle finger” The trooper , Nassan, says the driver, Corey,  gave him a gesture indicating he was changing
lanes, making it an improper lane change signal. The trooper acknowledges Corey
has the right to give him the finger under some circumstances unless it is in
plain view of the motoring public.

 

Home of the Pixley national Wildlife Refuge. Every year
before the Superbowl apparently they have a festival of “wings and breasts”—not
chicken breasts—human female breasts in the stadium along with a chicken
wing-eating contest—scantily clad gals entertain the crowd while contestants
try to eat the most chicken wings in a specified period of time. This year
there were 23, 000 spectators. This is the 13th annual event.

 

In Texas a woman caused her husband’s death by giving
him a “Sherry enema”—because he couldn’t drink due to a sore throat she poured
two 1.5 liter bottles of Sherry in his butt. HE was an alcoholic and apparently
craved it—but it was too much to handle. Male model in San Francisco posed
for  Tasters Choice/Nestle and got a
nominal payment for it but didn’t think they actually used his picture…until
one day he comes across a bottle of Tasters Choice in the Supermarket and finds
his face on it… the court awarded him  16
million dollars.

 

Yogi Berra is suing TBS for their advertisements which
I include his name for the series “Sex and the City” saying it casts him in a
false light and damages his reputation and offends his personal sensibilities.
His attorney says he is religious,  and
has children and grandchildren. 
Prostitution was  legalized in
Germany in 2001.

[That’s a really bad sign I think—in terms of morale
and morality—when the country legalizes something immoral.  It’s a sign of depression. ]Their  unemployment rate is also going to be as high
as it has been since the re-unification of west and East Germany in ’91.

 

Rotterdam Independent Film Festival is one of the
premier showcase places for independent films.

 

Prime Minister Thaksin 
of Thailand got his college degree at Sam Houston University in Texas,
and has presided  over Thailand during a
time of enormous economic growth, but critics are worried he is going to become
too autocratic and dictatorial with a tendency to violate human rights, noting
the deaths of numerous drug dealers..and also some of the Muslim insurgents…and
say that the tsunami has actually helped his popularity in the way that he has
dealt with it—perhaps saving him for the upcoming election… he has refused
international aid and started the motto “Thais love Thais” which has increased
patriotism.

 

Sports: The Skins Game is in Hawaii this year—and this
will be the first time that Craig Stadler plays in it—alongside Tom Watson,
Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicholas, ; Arnold Palmer just got married—doesn’t say if
it’s re-marriage or not, and Nicholas just had back surgery in November.

Around 190 person have been kidnapped in Iraq in the
last year the latest being the Italian Journalist kidnapped near Baghdad
University. the president of Togo, a small African country, died today.

 

February 6, 2005

 

Couple wanted for Child torture in Florida have been
arrested in Utah. Alice Resnick, a state supreme court justice in Ohio, was
arrested for drunk driving. “My golly I decide all these cases in your favor
and look what you are doing to me” she said to the trooper. Her blood alcohol
content was twice the legal limit

 

February 7, 2005

 

Screen writer or alleged screen writer for Devils’
Advocate, Jonathon Lempkin, age 43… got lost hiking around Mt. Baldy along with
a friend Clay Senechal… Senechal is the son of Potts who starred in Designing
Women and who played bo peep in Toy Story 2..also his father is Scott Senechall
a director.

 

February 8, 2005

 

IN Affluent Glen Ridge New Jersey a soldier was
involved in shooting at his ex-wife (injuring her) as well as a man that was
with her and then killing himself.. He was involved in a case back in 1989 in
which a group of popular kids raped a mentally retarded girl with a broom and
baseball bat.

 

Corchoran  the
son of a police lieutenant was one of several involved but was acquitted or not
charged …three other boys were sentence to jail…in ’97 Corchoran won a $200,000
settlement… in a federal civil rights lawsuit that charged Essex County with
malicious prosecution…Corchoran was in Afghanistan for a year.

 

13 year old Devin Brown was shot and killed by police after
he stole a car and backed into the police vehicle.. 9 year veteran age 31 fired
the  shots and six year veteran  age 26 was also involved.

 

Britain’s Ellen Macarthur became the world’s fastest
person to sail solo around the world.. 71 days 14 hours.  Israeli born officer says China will take over
the U.S. economically by 2025… author’s name is Oded Shenkar… book
entitled  The Chinese Century  and he is a professor at Ohio State
Univ.  A Welsh rugby fan cut off his own
testicles to celebrate Wales beating England in rugby… age 26 was so convinced
that England would win Saturday’s match 
Geoff Hush  told fellow drinkers
at a club that he would cut off his testicles if Wales wins… he is hospitalized
in serious condition    they discovered a
new species of monkey in Brazil.. highest bidder gets the honor of naming it…
carbon increasing on all planets.

 

Notre Dame upsets Boston College in Top 25 basketball.
.  man found with rusty nail in
neck…stalker arrested for swimming across Miami Beach Bay and laying spread
eagle naked on the beach near her house… a four year old in Sand Lake Michigan
drove his mom’s car to a video store he would jump down hit the gas and then
jump back up to see where he was going..… at 2:00 in the morning and made it
there without incident but hit two cars and then a patrol car on the way back.
Refugee camps in Sudan.

 

Man who video tapes prostitutes for public awareness is
arrested for allegedly paying the prostitutes to do their sexual acts in front
of the camera.

 

Hakeem Olajuwon, former Houston Rockets star, is under
investigation for contributions his mosque made to various terrorist related
organizations…researchers are now saying it may be possible to predict some
tsunamis by watching the coastline .. a phenomena called subsidence before a
quake..as the oceanic plate dives under the continental plate it pulls the
continental plate down slowly and eventually so much so that it  snaps.. there seems to be a bending before it
snaps… so that the shoreline/tide levels decrease slightly—by watching for
slight decreases (which can also be determined by the life of microorganisms
along the shoreline) it may be able to predict future tsunamis but without any
way of saying exactly when.. but not all earthquakes move up and down  for example the San Andreas fault moves
laterally.

 

They are less concerned about this happening on the
southwest coast than the Cascadia subduction Zone which stretches from North
California to British Columbia, and also mentioned  parts of the Northeast coast.

 

The moose population in West Wyoming has become lower
than normal.. now about at 2700 some studies suggest malnutrition and
starvation , others say it was due to grizzly bears , 8% caused by car crashes,
wolves 2%, …North Korea acknowledges for the first time it has nuclear
weapons.. young gals and women are being sexually abused in Congo… new U.N
resolution makes it unlawful for them to have sex with the Congonese
women…Zimbabwe arrest man for competing as a woman athlete.. boy  stunned by police officers in Chicago with a
stun gun experienced cardiac arrest and has still not regained full
consciousness… the problem of actor missionaries.

 

February 10, 2005

 

Story about “John of God “ in remote Brazilian village
Abediania who calls himself a healer and has an avid faithful following of
people coming to him for healing .. some say 
he is successful… actor Corey Feldman has been subpoenaed to appear in
the Michael Jackson trial.

 

Now researchers are saying that even so-called
“healthy” juices are not much better for children (or adults) than sodas—the
juices being simply sugary water, not much different than soda…better off
drinking milk… a newborn boy was tossed out the car window with umbilical cord
still attached found on the grass less than an hour old ..serious condition in
hospital. Found in plastic bag.. in Fort Lauderdale

 

Minny Mandela, Nelson’s wife… was convicted of fraud in
2003.. bank loan scam.. sentenced to 3 ½ years of prison in ’91 convicted of
kidnapping a 14 year old Soweto 
activist… later found dead… she was 
sentenced to 6 years in prison which was reduced to a fine on appeal…
[Nelson’s son died of aids] … There’s fighting on the island of Jolo in the
Philippines…  30 soldiers and 60 rebels
have been killed since…Monday.

 

Tsunami/earthquake was 
9.0 on Richter scale and largest to rattle the earth since the 1968
Alaska quake..disrupted  the planets
rotation and shaved 2.8 microseconds.. from the length of a day…shifted the
earth’s north pole by 1 inch and made the earth slightly less  oblate , or flattened at the poles.. [this is
based on calculations rather than measurements].

 

Mangroves..and coral reef was destroyed by the
tsunami…. Leprosy in Tanzania—trying to create awareness that it is potentially
curable in some cases…or at least not as hopeless as once thought or commonly
believed…a couple from Michigan  who
brought medicine to a convent in Cuba were fined $5000 by a federal judge for
traveling to Cuba without a license…they should have applied  for a license to visit Cuba for humanitarian
reasons…which are issued by the OFCA.. for various reasons.

 

THE ABA reports that negligent or unprepared
lawyers  are leading to faulty
convictions…and more serious punishment than should be given.. lack of training
for lawyers for the indigent most states pay more for prosecutors than for
public defenders.

 

California allocates defense counsel $60.90  for every $100 prosecution receives…some
defense attorneys even negotiated plea agreements the first day they meet their
client.. reports of incidents of 
indigent clients languishing in jail for months…the study says that the
representation of indigents is in a state of crisis… the ABA committee wants
Congress.. and local governments to spend more money.. against shoddy legal
representation… an ABA meeting right now in Salt Lake City that runs through
Tuesday.. has not put this issue on its agenda..an Ohio State University
Professor by the name of Doug Bermin was interviewed by AP news in regards to
the ABA report…

 

February 11, 2005

 

Arthur Miller died. Christo & Jeanne Claude are
setting up an art exhibit in Central Park that cost them 20 million dollars to
create and display—called “The Gates” It will unfurl  Saturday…they’ve been working on it for a few
decades…Karl Malone has decided to retire—he considered playing another year
for the Lakers and also talked with the Spurs but finally said he would call it
quits altogether, finally—leaving the game as the 2nd highest scorer in NBA
history –his only regret not ever having won a championship ring, losing twice
in the finals with the Jazz to the Bulls and M. Jordan, and last year losing to
the Pistons with the Lakers.

 

Doctors say eating Thai Curry can help protect against
cancer.. ginger root called galangal used to flavor the dishes appears to kill
cancer cells..and the researchers at King’s College in London also believe it
can also protect healthy cells…Galangal has already been used as a treatment
for stomach cancer..and has also been used as an aphrodisiac…

 

74 year old American nun was shot to death in
Brazilia’s Amazon Rain Forest … she worked for decades to defend human rights..
Dorothy Stang..was shot in the state of Para.

 More about the
“Gates” exhibit in Central Park there are 7500 Gates along 23 miles of pathways
in Central Park.

 

Remember the lady who sued the two girls for delivering
her cookies… now she, Renee Young,  and
her husband, Herb,  have gone on Good
Morning America and told their side of the story—saying the two gals had to
scale two fences and crawl under a third to get to her door and then they
banged on the door so hard she was sure that somebody was trying to break in.
The two gals, Taylors Ostergaard and the other Linsey Zellitti, now 19 years
old…the girls on Good Morning America said they offered to pay them the money
without going to court but Renee & Herb say that is not true. The girls
have gotten all kinds of contributions because of this.. and a cookie company
has named a cookie the “Kindness Cookie” in regards to it. Ray Kurzweil,
professor & scientist, thinks he can live forever..and plans to do so.

 

A Tennessee community’s image of a teacher is shattered
after finding out that this female teacher, Pamela Turner, a physical education
teacher, a former college basketball player and blonde with “movie star looks”
—trying to reconcile the wholesome image with charges that she sexually
assaulted one of her male students, a 13 year old boy. “She’s absolutely
gorgeous” Warren County Sheriff Jackie Mathanie said…” I hate it for everyone”
She was charged with 13 counts of battery 
by an authority figure and 13 counts of statutory rape for allegedly
having sex with the boy at his home and school . Turner lived with the boy and
his family for a brief time after her marriage to a high school basketball
coach ended. School superintendent Hale said Turner was adamant in her defense
… ‘basically said she wasn’t guilty. She was shocked that she had been
accused.”

 

Kansas State University Education professor Bob Shoop
who has testified in 40 court cases 
involving sexual abuse in schools says people are always surprised when
a woman is involved  in such cases
because they assume boys are sexually aggressive and cannot be the victim. The
reality is a child is a child regardless of the gender, Shoop said. It’s
immoral, illegal, and unethical, for any educator to have sex with any student.

 

The case is reminiscent of the one involving Mary Kay
Letourneau, an elementary school teacher who had  sex 
with a 12 year old student  in suburban
Seattle. Letorneau eventually gave birth to two of the boy’s babies. She spent
seven years in prison.

 

Senator Larry Mumper is a former high school teacher
now a Republican Senator from Ohio (?)…is trying to get a bill passed that
would prevent public & private school professors from presenting opinion as
fact and for penalizing students for expressing their viewpoints in an attempt
to stop the liberal agenda in academia. Similar legislation failed in
California and Colorado last year. The California Bill that would effect only
public schools has been re-introduced.

 

February 13, 2005

 

Red Roses are banned in Saudi Arabia due to Muslim
religious rules.  Neo-nazis marched on
the 60th anniversary of the Allied bombing in Dresden, marring an otherwise
usually bright moment in history for Dresden to re-live. Dresden is known in
Germany as the “Florence of the North” and was untouched by WWII battles until
Feb 13, 1945  only a few months before
the war ended when it was bombed by British and American planes.

 

The neo-Nazi march was scheduled by the German’s
National Democratic Party (NDP) and Udo Voight one of the leaders of the rally
expressed great admiration for Adolf Hitler. The leader of the Christian Party
in Iraq was abducted. Lucia de Jesus de Santos 
(Sister Lucia Martos) was one of the three children who saw the vision
of  the 
Fatima  Virgin in 1916 died. She
was born in Aljustral, Portugal. Her two siblings, Jasunta and Francisco, died
shortly after the vision around 1920, both of them were beatified by the pope.

 

One of Lucia’s last visitors was Mel Gibson who brought
her a copy of his dvd in July, 2004. She says the main theme of the visions was
the struggle of Atheistic communism against Christianity. A fire in Madrid,
Spain destroys a sky scraper.

 

February 14, 2005

 

Michael Jackson is lining up defense witnesses which
include Kobe Bryant, Elizabeth Taylor, and Jay Leno. Have to wonder about the
wisdom of putting Kobe Bryant as a character witness for Michael Jackson.
Prince Charles is getting re-married.. The initials HRH mean “Her Royal
Highness” and it is a coveted title says AP News concerning the upcoming
marriage of Prince Charles to Camila Bowes who will become the Royal Duchess
rather than a , and it was “HRH’ that was taken away from Lady Di when she and
Charles got divorced.  Michael Jackson
comes down with severe flu on the way to court—goes to hospital for help—is
in stable condition… delays jury selection process. Cup of coffee per day may
be good for you they say now…. Can help prevent liver cancer

 

February 15, 2005

 

100’s mourn the death of Devin Brown—the teenage boy
show stole a car and was shot to death after a chase.. subsequently the LAPD is
revising their shooting policies for moving vehicles. Baby 81 is re-united with
its parents in Sri Lanka—after the baby was swept away from the mother’s arms
in the tsunami… 8 couples claimed the baby was theirs—but DNA tests proved
whose it was…entering Vacaville at 124 a.m. .. Department of Interior Secretary
Gale Norton took a trip through Yellowstone to see how the snowmobiles affected
the environment  and seemed pleased that
they did not seem to have a negative effect on the wildlife.

 

The presumed myth of Romulus and Remus—the two babies
who lost their mother and were raised by wolves, breastfed by wolves… the
myth  is that these two babies founded
Rome in 1753 B.C. and Romulus and Remus were the twin sons of the god Mars, the
god of War.. recently they found archeology that uncovered more royal remnants
than previously realized.. the previous archeologists found only huts.. ..
______________ discovered traces of regal splendor… at least 8 passengers
departed from the Cruise Ship Voyager with broken bones after waves pounded the
cruise liner in the Mediterranean Sea near Menorca (which is not far from
Mallorca). .. pummeled by Force 11 gales and waves u p to 45 feet while on
route from Tunisia to Barcelona… Harnessing the energy of the waves is becoming
a new challenge for energy companies.

 

St. Patrick was first taken to Ireland as a teenager
when raiders kidnapped him from his Roman parents British home…and used him as
a slave… he escaped years later but returned later as a clergyman…religion has
him introducing Christianity to the pagan islanders and banishing
snakes…historians dismiss both claims saying there have never been any snakes
in Ireland and there’s evidence that other Christians had attempted to convert
the island previously. However, Patrick was an astute converter who
incorporated pagan imagery into Christian evangelism…celebrating Easter with
bonfires…and placing a sun at the center of the cross…to produce a Celtic
cross..Patrick tried hard for 40 years to make Christianity work… and truly
dominated Ireland by targeting Irish Gaelic aristocrats…

 

February 17, 2005

 

Shots fired on bus in Milwaukee, 1 dead. … Former prime
minister of Lebanon was laid to rest today after being assassinated a few days
ago..Giuliana Sgrena a 56 year old Italian journalist was kidnapped a week or
so ago and was now forced to appear on videotape to plea for her life. She was
a journalist for the Communist Daily II Manifesto. Two ships collide in the
foggy port of Hong Kong. At least 100 people injured

 

Woman who dressed up as a giant Hummer in New York is
suing the city for false arrest saying she had the right to speak and demonstrate
against the sale of giant SUV’s.

Panda bears are expanding their territory according to
a study of their feces found in new areas. New emphasis on frog safaris.

 

Story about a group in New York that started
specifically to clean up after death scenes—i.e. to clean up the guts, body
parts, brain splatter, etc. Journalists on the Mexican side of the U.S/Mexican
border are facing increased persecution by the drug lords.. three journalists
killed recently … University of Illinois is 26-0 ,#1.

 

Lance Armstrong declares he will race again in the Tour
de France … Russian Astronaut  Salizhan
Sharipov is too tall to fit into the seat of the spaceship Soyuz to return
home.. in order to fit he will have to squeeze into what they call a “penguin
suit” which will shorten him. Sharipov lost the natural curve in his spine
after four months with no gravity, making him taller.

 

Sella Field Nuclear plant cannot account for 66 pounds
of plutonium but they say it’s not necessarily an actual loss but a “paper
loss.” Italian researchers are urging over weight kids to drink more milk.
Calcium  increased the rate of fat
burning  and slows the growth of fat
cells. It flies in the face of the notion that 
diets should include less milk and cheese.. which actually is not helpful…
because it not only prevents the burning of fat but also you lose the benefit
of calcium intake.

 

Arlen Spector, senator, has Hodgkins Disease and will
under go Chemotherapy.Cyclone Olaf is causing damage in the Cook Island area.
Two Kenyan boys were attacked by some sort of tribal group and had their
penises cut off with the intent of making an anti-aid potion. A Kenyan doctor
reconstructed their penises  so they can
live without a catheter.

 

The largest Presbyterian branch of churches is
threatening to divest the money they have invested in Palestine/Israel if peace
does not  prevail. Hole in the skull of
King Tut sparking questions about whether he was murdered—they are now doing
Cat scans..to determine the significance of the hole-in-the-skull. King Tut was
found in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter…King Tut  ruled during a “troubled and confusing”
period of Egyptian history, shortly after the death of monotheist (?) Akhenaten
in 1362 B.C. who may have been King Tut’s father. Michael Jackson’s Neverland
Ranch is near Vandenberg Air Force Base.

 

Mark Thatcher, son of Margaret Thatcher, had to appear
in court and answer more questions his involvement in the plot to
assassinate  the equatorial New Guinea
president (and he admitted purchasing a helicopter with a group of people)
—his wife and children are living in Texas.

 

Talking about the plaintiff in the Michael Jackson case
–defense attorneys are calling them “professional plaintiffs” and want the jury
to know about their involvement in lawsuits against J.C. Penny and Tower  Records in 2001.

 

The man who parked his SUV on the railroad track in
Glendale—initially it was thought to be a suicide attempt, but now prosecutors
point to the fact that he poured gasoline on the vehicle which would not be
necessary if the man simply wanted to die, himself. They say it indicates he
was trying to cause an explosion. Lindsay Lohan—the gal who  played the twins in the re-make of Parent
Trap (1998 version)—now is 18 years old—and is playing more controversial ,
risqué films.

 

February 18, 2005

 

U.S. is running ad in Pakistan on TV for the capture of
Osama Bin Laden, dead or alive, 25 million dollar bounty. Judge Ernest Murphy,
a superior court judge in Boston, sued reporter David Wedge of the Boston Herald
for misquoting him as saying “She should get over it” in a callous manner about
a 14-year-old rape victim.

 

Jury awarded 2.1 million for libel saying the paper and
reporter were wrong. The gorilla Koko in N. California.. two employees are
suing because they are saying the keeper who employed them wanted them to
expose their breasts for the gorilla in view of him saying he (the gorilla) has
a nipple fetish.

 

The tsunami uncovered an ancient town in India, covered
by sand near the coastal town of Maha Balapurum…another earthquake hits in
Indonesia at 6.9 on Richter scale in Sulawesi region.

 

California is one of eleven states allowing marijuana
for medical reasons. Mexico begins a new trial process, changing their system.
From secretive corrupt trial to oral trial similar to the U.S. system. Mother
of the Detroit Tiger pitcher who was kidnapped in Venezuela and held for 6
million dollar ransom was rescued by a law enforcement team , killing one of
the kidnappers in the process.

 

They raided the camp ..taking Urbina’s mom back. She
had been held for 5 months. Sr. Bush and Clinton  are in Thailand assessing the tsunami
disaster. USS Carter, a sea wolf class submarine is scheduled to be
commissioned tomorrow, Jimmy Carter was a submariner in his military years.

 

February 19, 2005

 

China is becoming more and more an economic power,
China is attempting to woo relationships with other countries away from rival
Taiwan, China has set a force of police to Haiti to help the country in the
first communist deployment in the western hemisphere, and they are especially
targeting the Caribbean, two countries in the Caribbean—Dominica & Granada
switched allegiance from Taiwan to China despite Taiwan’s “money diplomacy” and
the recent offer of 9 million dollars but China counter-offered 112 million
over  6 years.. …China still insists that
Taiwan is part of China. The two sides split in the Civil War in 1949  and Beijing has since refused to have ties
with  any government that recognizes
Taiwan. The Bahamas abandoned Taiwan in 1997. And it has added Antigua,
Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Jamaica, and 
St. Lucia  as approved travel
destinations for Chinese tourists. China is the leading importer of Trinidadian
asphalt used for highways and airport runways.

 

Only four countries maintain relationships with  Taiwan—Dominican Republic, Haiti, St. Kits,
St. Vincent (Grenadines), but China has economic missions in the Dominican
Republic and Haiti.  When China became
communist in 1949, the U.S. supported Taiwan, the island where the former
Chinese government had taken refuge. U.S troops fought Chinese soldiers in the
1950-53 Korean War. In 1979  the U.N.
gave Beijing the China seat and Taiwan was expelled. In 1979 the U.S.
Recognized China’s legitimacy. IN 2001 
China entered the World Trade Organization and trade  is up 33% since 2003.

 

 The Father of
Lindsay Lohan who I just mentioned a few days ago as the star of the Parent
Trap (re-make of 1998) was arrested for driving under the influence in New York
and apparently has had several scrapes with the law over the past few years.

 

 George Bush Jr.
admits to having tried marijuana. In audio tapes before his initial run for the
presidency, in conversation with a friend he says “ I would never answer
question to the press like Al Gore did [about smoking marijuana] because I
would not want some little  kid doing
what I tried.” This conversation was with his friend Doug Wead, a former  aid to George Bush Sr.

 

Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice  Thomas Saylor could be fined up to $6000 for
trying to sneak a small pocketknife on to the airplane. He was initially told
during check-in that he could not carry the pocketknife on the plane and that
it must be put with stowed luggage. He apparently then tried to hide the knife
inside a shoe and was caught with it  at
the Harrisburg Intl. Airport.  Bush Sr.
and Clinton are in Thailand assessing tsunami damage and both of them
reportedly almost came to tears because of what they observed and their
interactions with some of the children who lost their parents, especially
around Ban Nam Khem, where an estimated 1500-2000 people, more than a third of
the village,  lost their lives.  I thought Thailand had refused any foreign
aid. They also observed the ruins in Khao Lak.

 

An Egyptian Doctor removed the second head of a 10
month old girl suffering from 
Craniopagus Parasiticus one of the rarest birth defects, the parasitic
head had been capable of smiling and blinking, but not independent life.
Correction about the Kenyan boys who had their penises cut off—it was not a
Kenyan doctor who did the surgery it was a doctor from Spain. Sports: Illinois
continues their unbeaten streak with a win over Iowa. Former baseball player
Canseco owes $32, 000 in back taxes to the state of Massachusetts but his attorney
says that it is a clerical error and that these taxes were deducted from his
payroll when he was playing baseball, but that the baseball clubs have not sent
the affidavits to the state. Iowa State upsets #2 Kansas in men’s basketball.
Iowa State started the season 0-5.

 

The Lakers are 26-24 this year and Shaquille O’Neal
says their record speaks for itself. Teacher at Fenway High School in Boston—an
immigrant from the Ivory Coast is being deported in a few weeks but parents,
students, teachers, and administrators are fighting to keep him here. He missed
an immigration hearing scheduled for June 7, 2001, saying he thought it was on
July 7, 2001 and because he missed the scheduled hearing he was ordered
deported, in absentia. He spent a few months in prison later.. and then was
ordered deported. He says that if he goes back to Ivory Coast he could end up
in prison or killed. He has been given three extra weeks to find a country to
go to that is safe for him.  His name is
Attouman, Obain.

 

 Spotlight Story
(AP NEWS)

“Do Red-Light Traffic Cameras Help?”

      Are Cameras
at Traffic Signals the Answer to     
Dangerous Intersections, or Part of the Problem?”

 

As red-light traffic cameras spring up at intersections
across the country, critics are raising questions about whether the devices
actually deter red-light running, or are just a way for local authorities to
make a quick buck. The cameras snap pictures of vehicles that run red lights.
The violator then receives a summons in the mail for the infraction. There’s no
exact count of how many cameras are being used, but one recent study shows that
they are currently used in more than a dozen states and more than 70 cities
across the country. Proponents say the cameras make roads safer by deterring
red-light runners from breaking the rules, but detractors say dangerous
intersections are the result of engineering deficiencies and the cameras are
just a way to increase revenue on the backs of unsuspecting drivers. Do we Need
them? “Red Light cameras just reward cities for bad  engineering” said Eric Skrum, spokesman for
the National Motorists Association, a motorist advocacy group that has been
arguing against the use of red-light cameras nationwide. The group contends
that the best remedies for dangerous intersections are engineering improvements
like longer yellow lights and shielding signals to prevent glare and make the
lights more visible as the sun sets.

According to the group’s web site, the organization
believes that “with properly posted speed limits and properly installed
traffic-control devices there is no need for camera-based law traffic law
enforcement devices.” The NMA  points to
studies of red-light cameras that show that while there is generally a decrease
in side-impact collisions, there is an increase in rear-end collisions as
drivers slam on their brakes to avoid running a red light. Robert Sinclair, a
spokesman for the Automobile Association of 
America’s New York offices, says the risks are too great not to have the
cameras in certain areas. “The nature of the collision that takes place when
someone runs a red light is a very dangerous one, the so-called ‘t-bone’ he
said is “the weakest part of the vehicle is its side. So someone runs a red
light and smashes into the side of a vehicle and lots of bad things can
happen.’ But Skrum argues that the cameras are not the only way to deal with
dangerous intersections.” Most drivers don’t want to run red lights” said
Skrum, ‘but due to engineering flaws at some intersections they sometimes have
no choice. Speed up or slow down? A number of studies have shown that by simply
increasing the length of “amber” or “yellow” lights dangerous intersections can
be made safe.

“By increasing the length of yellow lights,” Skrum
explained, “you can cut down on  the amount
of violations and accidents at an intersection. “It’s the moment for a  driver when he must make a choice. As a light
turns yellow he has to decide between speeding up to get through an
intersection and trying to stop in time to keep from running a red light.
Sinclair said that time of dilemma is shortened if a yellow light is too quick.
“It might actually encourage people to try and run the yellow” he said. “It’s
that go, no-go decision time we worry about.” Studies show that lengthening the
amber light gives  drivers more time to
make that choice and more time to brake. But in some cash-strapped communities,
shorter  yellow lights at intersections
equipped with red-light cameras means more tickets—and that means more money.
The AAA  supports the use of cameras, but
Sinclair agrees that their use needs to be monitored so drivers aren’t taken
advantage of. ‘We’ve seen ambers as as short as a second in those areas where
they might be  wanting to, lets say,
enhance revenue,”he said. There needs to be a national standard for the length
of amber lights.” A study released in January by the Texas Transportation
Institute concluded that extending a 
yellow light by 1.5 seconds would decrease red-light-running by at least
50 percent. The institute also found that cameras do have a positive impact:
that intersections equipped with the devices saw a 40- percent decrease in
violations on average. They also found that the cameras had a kind of ‘halo’
effect where nearby intersections also saw a drop in violations. Who is
profiting? The NMA says that towns and cities that want to  use red-light cameras disregard studies that
question the cameras effectiveness, instead turning to studies quoted by groups
like the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety which is supported by many of
the nation’s insurance providers. The insurance institute’s Web site shows that
it believes in the cameras and sees them as a powerful weapon against red-light
runners. Skrum argues that insurance companies have a vested interest in the
success of the cameras. “The insurance industry is going to profit from the
cameras” he said “because more cameras means more tickets being issued and then
they can raise the driver’s insurance rates. “

 

In addition , the companies that manufacture , install,
and maintain the cameras generally make their profit from a portion of the
ticket revenue the devices generate. Because of this, Skrum says, anything that
might cause a decrease in tickets generated by the cameras would mean a
decrease in profits for the camera manufacturers, the insurance companies and
local municipalities. “In  many instances
engineering is being ignored because it’s easier to put up a camera,” Skrum
said. “It’s more lucrative to put up a camera.” Motorists groups offers $10,000
challenge a “prove us wrong” type move—NMA is offering a cash prize for proof
that dangerous intersections can’t be improved through engineering.

 

IN certain parts of the country, NMA is offering to
bring in its own engineer to study any intersection equipped with a camera and
to make recommendations on how the intersection could be made safer through
improved engineering. The group says that if its recommendations are
implemented in place of the camera the intersection will see at least 50
percent decline in red-light violations. If not, a $10,000 donation will be
made toward a road safety or road improvement program of that community’s
choosing. “We’re putting out money where our mouth is,”  Skrum explained, ‘We’re saying if you address
the problem with an engineering solution, you won’t need a camera.” So far no
one has taken the challenge.

 

February 20, 2005

 

Teen Film Star Sandra Dee, age 62, died. She starred in
“The Gidget” and other popular films such as “Tammy and the Doctor.”  The Dollar couple was arrested in Salt Lake
City and brought back to Florida for trial on child abuse. They had adopted
several children and were seemingly okay, the social workers thought everything
was okay but then suddenly it was discovered that they had beaten and starved
their children and even pulled out their toe nails. Los Angeles has already
gotten 28.55 inches of precipitation since July 1, the 7th wettest year on
record, the record being 38.18 inches from July 1883 to the following June. If
L.A. gets 10 more inches of rain by the end of June it will beat the record.
Thai Sex czar Chuvit Kamolvisit  has been
elected to parliament, and that he has put massage parlors behind him, now in
real estate and living an honest life, he says. 
Send tsunami video to Jean Throckmorton on Country Club Dr. in
Burbank.  Hunter Thompson, eccentric
writer commit suicide in Aspen Colorado

 

February 21, 2005

 

Levels of mercury found to be extremely high in Salt
Lake (Salt Lake City UT). 6.4 earthquake hits Iran, killing maybe up to 400 or
more. The quake was centered in the city of Zarand , in the province of Kerman.
Winn Dixie has filed for bankruptcy protection. 
Los Angeles mayor election coming up soon— recent events may  have lessened his popularity, the shooting of
Devin Brown and the beating on the head of the black man (no charges filed
against the officer).

 

February 22, 2005

 

Man accused of plotting to kill George Bush Jr. in 2002
and 2003 was indicted by a grand jury today in Virginia . He’s from Falls
Church. His name is Ahmed Omar Abu Ali . Danger of so-called “bird flue”—they
say it could become a pandemic.  Lady in
vegetative state for several years, debate continues whether to take her off
the tube and let her die, or keep her alive but maybe brain dead (15 years on
feeding tube).

 

Husband wants her taken off. Family wants to sustain
her and contends she is alert even though she doesn’t show it. They want
husband to divorce her so that they can become the guardians. Stephen Dale
Barbee  was charged with capitol murder
on Tuesday after  confessing to the
slaying of his wife, Alise Underwood and son Jayden (it turns out that Alise or
Lisa Underwood was not his wife—she was his mistress—he was married to somebody
else who did not know about this relationship.

 

Lisa wanted Barbee’s wife to know….they argued about it
and he killed her—while doing so, son Jayden walked in and so he killed him
too). His wife owned a bagel shop (in Texas?). More rain—1 a.m Feb. 23.
European Space Probe has unveiled a sea of ice on the equator of Mars, and that
it lies just below the surface. Total of 33.09 inches of rain has fallen in
southern California since July 1, 2004. The record amount is 38.18 inches set
in 1883.

 

February 24, 2005

 

 Surveys suggest
Schwarzenager’s popularity is declining. In Pennsylvania a police trooper
killed himself after police searched his home for child pornography  paraphernalia,  Dairy Cows affected by rainy season—Chino
area—losing cows mud piles up so fast, cows refuse to lie down in muck and die
of exhaustion, and they cannot let the water run off because laws re. Manure
water,. The dairy farmers say they’ve lost at least 38 million in milk
production because of dead and sick cows.

 

One farmer says he’s lost at least $2000 per day.
Normally the region receives about 14 inches of rain in the winter, so far this
year it has already gotten 30 inches since October. He says “Cows give less
milk when they have to expend so much energy slogging through muddy water.
Gunman shot his wife and another man with a rifle before being killed by police
Hernandez Arroyo also wounded four people in the rampage in Tyler Texas,
including two police officers and his own son.

 

The Pope is back in the 
hospital. A City employee in Los Angeles opened fire with a  _ killing two fellow employees at a city
yard. The Michael Jackson case is ready to begin on Monday with opening
statements. Lute Olsen got his 304th Pac 10 win in men’s college basketball
with the Arizona Wildcats, tying John Wooden’s Pac 10 record.

 

Former Steeler Lynn Swann is considering a run for
governor for 2006. He was with the Steelers who won four Superbowls, from ’74
to ’82. He’s a Republican. Criticism of George Bush in Russia for not taking
his gloves off to shake hands with Putin /. Discovery of a skull of an animal
that looks  like a cross between a bear
and a pit bull in California’s San Joaquin Valley. United Nations predicts
there will be 9.1 billion people on planet earth by the year 2050. A  drunk prosecutor Monroe County Asst.
Prosecutor Edward Tasker, age 28, … streaked across a motel parking lot naked
and jumped into the car of a person he thought was a friend, but turned out to
be a woman waiting for her boyfriend. ..Key West Police arrested Tasker

 

February 25, 2005

 

Paralegal who worked for the attorney representing the
the mother of the Michael Jackson accuser…says the mother lied and told her son
to lie and she (the paralegal) will testify about it.  The court has allowed the husband of the
woman in a vegetative state to take the feeding tube out of her mouth so that
she can die, but the parents of the woman have been given three weeeks to
appeal.

 

Wife of Hunter Thompson said he had mentioned suicide a
few times in the past few months. Operation Blue Book was supposed to
investigate UFO”s  in 1950-60 but they
say it never became a truly scientific inquiry—but they mention the fact that
some trained Air Force employees had even reported some unexplicable sightings.
Norwegian man caught a 320 poound 
Halibut—almost too big for his boat—he had to tow it in. Giant Panda
skeleton found in tomb in China-Wide.

 

Receiver Jerry Rice has been released from the Seattle
Seahawks—the Mississippi Valley State University grad played most of his career
with the 49ers,  and a few years with
Oakland  and will definitely be in the Hall
of Fame having broken and holding many of the reception records. South Carolina
Supreme Court has delayed its enforcement of Charm school for law school
graduation, or post-law school requirements.

 

Paris Hilton’s cell phone account got hacked ..a list
of celebrities, pictures of herself topless, and others stuff were plastered
all over the internet. An artist plans to tow an iceberg  to the city where they built the Titanic as a
tribute to the titanic. Hunter Thompson wants his ashes shot out of a cannon as
a final tribute to himself. Doctors in Thailand are trying to restore the
eyesight of a monk who mistakenly  used
superglue on his eyes, thinking it was eye drops. Both eyes are apparently
okay, but they have not yet separated the eyelids.

 

Authorities kill a tiger in Moorpark, near Simi Valley
(Reagan Presidential Library) , apparently somebody’s private pet got loose.
Woman in Alaska jealous about impending breakup with boyfriend or husband cut
off the man’s  penis and flushed it down
the toilet. They recovered the penis and re-attached it surgically. Sammy Sosa
has been traded from the Cubs to the Batlimore Orioles. Downtown Los Angeles
has had 27.37 inches of rain. Since December 1. beating the 24 inches recorded
in 1889-90.

 

They’ve found a person of interest in the BTK case.
Family of person having heart problems in the emergency room at the Hospital in
Santa Barbara might sue Michael Jackson and the hospital because when he came
in they put him (Jackson) in the larger room where the heart patient was and
moved the heart patient to another room where he subsequently had two more
heart attacks and died. Wife of Hunter Thompson says he talked about suicide
for a few months prior.

 

February 26, 2005

 

They have arrested somebody in Wichita Kansas who they
suspect to be the BTK killer.

 

February 27, 2005

 

The man arrested as the BTK Killer is Dennis Rader, a
cub scout leader, active in his Lutheran church , married with two children,
the municipal codes enforcer  supervisor
for the city, . Van Orden is suing to have the ten commandments monument from
the Texas Supreme Court state grounds . He is a former lawyer, now homeless
Vietnam veteran. They note that the U.S. Supreme Court has a display in their
marble lobby  of Moses holding a marble
carving of the ten commandments, but Van Orden 
rejects the comparison noting that the display also includes other
historical law givers such as Hammurabi, Confucius, and Muhammad, as  well as Napoleon and Cesar Augustus.

 

He said he would not have sued if the capitol bldg.
paid similar homage to other law givers/historical figures. He’s had his law
license suspended several times for issues ranging from taking  money for work he didn’t perform …[and other
things] he’s almost 60 years old. Gathering of governors from many of the
states to try to improve high school education, absent was Arnold and Jeb.
Benenson, founder of Amnesty Intl. Died 
at age 83,

 

Rosswell New Mexico –they found metal a few decades ago
that some insisted was from a UFO, but the govt insists it was from a hot air
balloon project they had participated in. It was a secret govt project known as
Mogul. Same  security as atomic bomb. For
surveillance. Jeff Kent—former S.F. Giant player , former team mate of Barry
Bonds, says all the hooplah about him and Bonds being enemies is exaggerated,
is now with the Dodgers. He was on the Giants when they played the Angels in
the world series. IRAQ or Syria captures Saddam Hussein’s half-brother, Sabawi
Ibrahim al-Husan.

 

February 28, 2005

 

Suicide bomber kills more than 100 and wounds  133 in an attack south of Baghdad. A
suicide  car bomber blew himself up
Monday in a crowd  at a police and
national guard recruit site south of Baghdad killing at least 106 and wounding
133, police and witnesses said. IT was one of the deadliest insurgent attacks
since President Bush declared the war over in May 2003. AP television news
footage showed large pools of blood outside the medical clinic, located on a
dusty street in Hilla, sixty miles south of Baghdad.

 

Scorchmarks infused 
covered the clinic walls and dozens of people helped to put body parts
in  blankets…soles of shoes and tattered
clothes were piled in a corner.  A
suicide car bomb hit a gathering of 
people who were applying to work in the security services. The incident
led to the death of a 106 people and 
injured 133 citizens,” Babil province police said in a statement
released to reporters. He added that several people were arrested about the
blast but did not elaborate. Iraqi security forces  have been regularly targeted by insurgents
who see them as collaborating with U.S. forces and want to undermine Iraq’s
American-backed government.

 

Dozens of bodies could be seen  lying on the ground after the blast and half
a dozen ambulances ferried casualties to  a nearby hospital, witnesses said.

 

The huge blast damaged 
nearby shops and  parked cars  and sent panicked people fleeing.  People were queuing up to get checked
medically in order to become policemen. 
A car came and exploded killing more than 50 people, more than what you
expect said ammar mosa  a wtiness told
EPTN. A second car exploded Monday at a police 
checkpoint in Musayyib, about 20 miles north of Hilla  killing at least 1 policeman and
wounding  several others, police said on
condition of anonymity.

 

The twin attacks came a day after Iraqi officials
announced that Syria had captured and handed over Sadam Hussein’s half-brother,
a most wanted leader in the Suni based insurgency, in the latest of a series of
arrests which the U.S/Iraq leaders hope will deal a crushing blow to violent
opposition forces .

 

The arrest of Sabawi 
Ibrahim al-husan ended months of Syrian denials  that it was harboring fugitives  of the ousted Saddam regime. Iraq authorities
said Damascus acted in a gesture of good will. Sabawai al husan   who shared a mother with Saddam, was nabbed
along with 29 other fugitive members of the former dictators Baath party in
Hasakaah, in northeaster Syria, 30 miles from the border, officials said Sunday
on condition of anonymity. U.S. military had no comment.

 

Syria is under 
intense pressure from the United States, United Nations, France &
Israel to drop its support for radical groups in the Middle East,  to stop harboring Iraqi fugitives and to
remove its troops from Lebanon. A week ago authorities grabbed a key associate
and the driver of Jordanian born terror leader Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi (who has
not been caught yet), a leader of Al-Quaeda in Iraq, and believed to be the
leader of the ongoing bombings, beheadings and attacks on Iraqi and American
forces. Iraqi officials said they expect to take al-Zarqawi soon. Iraqis broke
the news of al Husan’s capture.

 

“I hope all the terrorists will  be arrested soon and we can live in
peace”  said Sophia Sood,  a 54 year old Baghdad housewife. “Those
criminals deserve death for the crimes they committed against the Iraqi
people.” Iraqi officials did not specify when al-Husan was captured , only
saying he was detained after  the Feb 14
assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri in Beirut Lebanon,
in a roadside bombing that killed 16 others.

 

Syria fell under suspicion in the killing  because of its military and political
domination of the country, where it maintains 15,000 troops. Hariri had quit
the premiership over Syria’s continued presence in Lebanon. Captain Ahmed
Ismael, an Iraqi intelligence officer said al-Husan was handed to the Iraqis
Sunday.

 

ANOTHER   Iraqi
official said Syrian security expelled al Husan after he and supporters  had been turned back in an earlier attempt to
cross the Syrian border into Lebanon and Jordan. Al-Husan was #36 , the six of
diamonds, on the list of most wanted terrorists in Iraq, compiled by U.S.
Authorities after Saddam was toppled in April, 2003. Eleven of the deck of 55
remain at large.

 

The U.S. had offered 1 million for Al-Husan’s capture.
Iraq’s post-election Shiite Muslim  power
broker united alliance leader Abdel Aziz al-Hakim told AP that Husan’s arrest
signaled troubled times for  insurgency.
“those criminals are on the run and we will chase the rest of them . We will
work on arresting all the criminals, either those inside Iraq or those  in other neighboring countries so that they
can stand fair trial and be punished for the crimes  they have committed against the Iraqi
people”he said. AP reporter Salah Masrawi 
in Cairo contributed to this report.

 

March 1, 2005

 

New research  and
bran scan technology shows that some brain does originate in the brain, it’s
not imagined. Chronic back pain can even cause brain tissue to  shrink if it is prolonged. When people say
“pain is all in the head” some people think they mean it’s not real” says
Katherine Bushnell.

 

Researchers at ____________ University …through brain
imaging Bushnell has shown that something as simple as being distracted has a
real effect in decreasing the intensity of pain signals  in the brain. They had patients listen to
tones , while so their perception of pain diminished, and brain scans showed
the pain did lessen while they listened to the tones. She says this means that
having family around constantly asking how one is feeling can actually draw
more attention to the pain and enhance it. Emotions can either enhance or
decrease pain. Pleasant odors ease the sensation of pain while unpleasant
smells made the pain feel worse. Now they are looking for ways to target
pathways to the brain to stop some of the pain sensations.

 

A federal judge found two dead bodies in her home. U.S.
District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow found [what turned out to be, in fact, her
husband and mother, dead in her home] around 6 pm in the Chicago area. Another
kidnapped journalist pleads for help on a video tape. French journalist
Flourence Aubenas appeared on video tape begging for help. She went missing on
January 5, 2005.

 

Michigan State University is considering moving it’s
medical school to Grand Rapids. Ichiro Suzuki hit .429 from the All-Star Break
to the end of the season. Steve Fossett 
who sailed around the globe in a balloon two years ago  took off from a Kansas airfield on Monday
trying to circle the earth in a non-stop, non-refueled, one engine plane,  solo flight.

 

He hopes to touch back down in Kansas in three days, or
less. It would not be the first non-stop, non-refueled flight but would be the
first solo of that sort. Jeanna Yeager and Dick Rutan did so in  1986 but that took nine days. The fuel takes
up 83 percent of the aircrafts weight. University of Illinois is 28-0 and they
are two wins away from a perfect regular season.

 

The judge who was on the tribunal that was going to try
Saddam Hussein in court was assassinated outside his home. Judge Barwez
Mohammad Mahmoud, and his son, a lawyer, were both killed.

 

March 2, 2005

 

Clark, pastor of Christ Lutheran church in Kansas said
Dennis Radar, the alleged BTK killer, will continue to be a member of their
congregation and will remain on as president of the church council. Wow. Martha
Stewart is scheduled to be released from prison this week. 14 year old boy was
charged with shooting the bus driver in Tennessee. She had reported the boy a
day earlier for using smokeless tobacco on the bus.

 

The bus crashed into a utility pole Supreme Court
justice Anthony Kennedy suggested that for the court to tell the state that it
can not allow the Ten Commandments on state land would reflect on obsessive
concern with references to religion. They have not yet made a formal decision
yet. In The Van Orden Case,however,  the
homeless lawyer from Texas who wanted the 10 Commandments display removed from
the Texas Supreme Court lost his bid.

 

The name of of one of Michael Jackson’s attorneys is
David LeGrand. Kobe Bryant settled the civil case with accuser who is now
pregnant and married. The name of the Michael Jackson accuser is Gavin
Arvizo.The trial is in Santa Maria.

 

Sports: Illinois plays Purdue tomorrow and  play Ohio State on March 6  for their final two games . Mario Lemieux is
owner/player for Pittsburgh Penguins

 

March 3, 2005

 

Thermal vents near middle of Atlantic Ocean—discovered
new creatures by these vents. Near an area called the “Lost City”—black smokers
are chimney-like structures that form when very hot water from the earths
interior, up to 700 degrees fahrenheit breaks through into the ocean water
coming into contact with the frigid ocean water…minerals crystallize during the
process…and give the chimneys their black color.

 

They’ve discovered Tube Worms that can grow as long as
eight feet. Also tiny shrimp and crab, often translucent, and less than an inch
in size. Pilot Steve Fossett made a new world record by flying around the world
without refueling or landing, and doing it solo. He landed in Kansas. It took
him 67 hours to make the 23,000 mile flight. He survived on 12 milk shakes and
water. His main problems were headaches and lack of sleep. He used bottles for
a bathroom. He also set a ballooning record in 2002, has swum the English
Channel, taken part in an Iditarod Sled Dog race, and driven in the 24 hours of
LeMans auto race.

 

Umbilical cord blood apparently has high healing
powers—but is expensive to keep in a blood bank. Research suggests that those
who perform last in a contest will get better scores. Bruine de Bruin from
Netherlands conducted the research. They are going to sink the USS America—an
Air Craft Carrier—for the sake of research—to study its vulnerabilities and
strengths—since it was ready to be retired anyways…it will cost them 20 million
to sink it.

 

Mel Gibson appeared in court to testify about the
experience he and his family had with a stalker. Zack Sinclair, native of Idaho
is charged with one count of felony stalking—for writing unwanted letters and
showing up at Gibsons church and home (today, 3/4/05, he was convicted).
Archuleta. Gibson lives in Malibu with wife and children (or at least one
child).

 

Tyler Perry made film called “Mad Black Woman” and despite
having been homeless for a while has recently made a number of successful
movies which have made him wealthy. Coyotes are increasing in the Washington
D.C. area..Illinois defeats Purdue in mens college basketball 84-50 and is one
win away from a perfect regular season.

 

In the five month absence of Martha Stewart from her
company the value of the stock has increased times four. She was in Alderson
Federal Prison. Shaaban Hifiz Ahmad Ali-shaaban age 52 from Indiana was charged
with agreeing to act as a foreign agent for Iraq  and immigration violations…and was arrested
on Thursday. He agreed to sell the names of U.S. Intelligence Agents to Saddam
Hussein’s government  for 3 million
dollars, said Susan Brooks attorney for southern Indiana. Uri Kravachenko ,
former Ukranian interior minister, linked to the murder of investigative
journalist Georgiy Gangadze  committed
suicide.

 

March 4, 2005.

 

Military death toll in Iraq is now up to 1500. Raining
again. Four Canadian mounties were shot and killed while investigating a
marijuana farm.  The Jury has begun
deliberating in the Robert Blake Case. They say that the power being produced
in Iraq meets less than half of the demand,

 

The Mall Rapist “James perry” over five years committed
dozens of sexual attacks on children and women, many around Madison
Wisconsin,  (but also Illinois, Ohio, and
Texas), and  Harry’s wife may have been
his first victim. He made videos of his attacks and put them on internet porn.
When confronted with abuse the typical child will shut down and gets like a
small animal, like a rabbit or something, and just freezes, (said ___________),

 

Perry’s success depended upon that blank frozen
reaction from his child victim. James Perry, now 35, was sentenced on November
2004 to 470 years in prison for creating child pornography, child rape, and
kidnapping, the longest sexual crime sentence in Wisconsin history.

 

Glen Matlock, former bassist for the Sex Pistols, who
was subsequently replaced by Sid Vicious, –is now calling for the media to stop
using so much profanity—ironic given the Sex Pistols penchant for using
profanity themselves to shock people, years ago “When the earth shook and the
waters began receding from the creek near their 
settlement, the  Onje’s if India’s
little Andaman Island knew nature was telling them something and the primitive
hunter-gatherers did not wait to pick up their possessions or passports but
instinctively made for higher ground.

 

All of the 100 or so Onje left in the world seemed to
have survived the tsunami’s deadly power, now they are wondering what to do
–given their village has been destroyed.. they are considering moving inland
which may in fact be the best thing for them after all—a blessing in disguise.

 

March 5, 2005

 

New fighter technology or defense technology allows
Israel soldiers to wear wrist watch video monitors with footage from unmanned
drone planes video-taping the ground below during battle.

 

A LOT OF  people
adopt in the United States but not African American boys—they are, for some reason,
overlooked—Americans go abroad to find babies to adopt when there are a lot of
African American babies right here up for adoption—so many that other countries
are coming to American to adopt them.

 

Some people who 
say that Love is color blind and race is not an issue are naive says
Hughes (full name and title not provided), Phil Bertleson  an African American filmmaker in New York who
grew up in a white family in New Jersey says 
his upbringing almost created a cocoon of protection from the reality of
race in the world around him.

 

He began examining the issue in his new film “Outside
Looking In” about transracial adoption, and the impact it had on his sense of
cultural identity. He said it was a challenge facing the discord outside the
home when all you had experienced was something else.

 

They say while progressive minded adoptive parents may
be well intended  in the matter of race
it doesn’t matter Bertleson says –it can be dangerous and damaging because when
you ignore my race and ethnicity you are essentially taking away  a part of who I am.

 

Former Korn guitarist Brian “The Head” Welch was
baptized in the Jordan River weeks after quitting the band and quitting drugs.
He and about 20 others from his church in bakersfield were baptized by Pastor Ron
Vietti.  Dolphins beached themselves in
Marathon Florida—some are wondering if it is related to the submarine tests
done by the military off Key West around the same time.. The mother of the
accuser of Michael Jackson is Hispanic. They apparently interacted with a lot
of celebrities including Kobe Bryant and a fellow by the name of Tucker, and
Jay Leno apparently was approached by them at one point—but he called the
police telling them he thought they might be looking for a mark.

 

Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book entitled “The Tipping
Point” and cites a bottle of Ketchup for analogy—saying if you tap it a few
times it will come out little by little but then suddenly it will pour
out—[same analogy as ‘critical mass’ I think]Chief of Police Bratton of LAPD
(former NY)said that for three years they intentionally enforced even the most
minor crimes and in that same period the violent crime rate dropped by double
digits.

 

In New York’s most murderous precinct aka “The Killing
Fields” Bratton thinks the failure of the army to stop the looting in Iraq
after the initial bombing was a tipping point for the terrorists and insurgents
to rebel. Tom Friedman from NY Times gives an example of rock music having a
tipping point in th 60’s with the rise of portable radios and batteries …
Bratton hopes the election in Iraq will be a tipping point in the right
direction—Story by Chris Bury and Ted Koppel on Nightline

 

March 6, 2005

 

Mark Saina of Kenya wins the 20th annual L.A. Marathon.
Illinois loses 65-64 in final game of season vs. OSU—last  Big Ten team to go undefeated was the Indiana
Hoosiers of 1976.

 

Surfers created new world record  by surfing a 40 foot 10 foot wide surfboard
in Australia—20 to carry it to the water, 44-47 rode it beating the 2003 record
of 14 people. New implant for women who have had mastectomies—they use pig fat
cells—that will grow to the size of tennis balls in 12 weeks.

 

Reggie Jackson was hit by an SUV traveling at a high
speed—both vehicles flipped—Jackson was treated and released, the other driver
was in critical condition. Ethiopian archeologists have discovered 12 fossils
that appear to be older than the famous fossil Lucy. The specimens, estimated
to  be 3.8 to 4 million years old will be
important in terms of understanding  the
early phases of  human evolution, before
Lucy, said Yohannes Haile Selassie , an Ethiopian archaeologist. The discovery
of Lucy, the hominid skeleton estimated to be about . 3.2 million years old  in 1974 was a landmark in the search for
the  origins of humanity…the new
discovery was found approximately 37 miles north  of the site where Lucy was discovered in the
eastern region of Afar.

 

In my manual about “Missiology for Islamic Women” they
say too often missiologists have treated male and female  Muslims as the same—gender blind.  A Homosexual man, James Maestas age 21,  was beaten unconscious in Santa Fe Mexico in
a “hate crime”—Santa Fe is second only to San Francisco in the percentage of
same sex households.  The community holds
a gay pride parade each summer, and is know for its progressive politics.
Gabriel Maturan, age 20, Isaiah Medina 19, and David Trinidad were charged with
assault & battery.

 

March 7, 2005

 

Michael Jackson Case. They’re cross-examining the
accusers sister, Bryan Bland says, for AP news. Cross-examiner wants to know
why if they are such a close-knit family (which she claims) they have never
discussed the 1993 JC Penney Case in which her mother was awarded $150,000
after contending the guards abused her?

 

Former Sports Illustrated Cover Girl Model was in
Thailand when the tsunami hit—her boyfriend and photographer was swept away by
the tsunami. She was at the Khao Lak resort when the tsunami hit. She’s age 25,
her boyfriend, Simon Atlee,  was 33. The
other brother of Jacksons accuser, age 14, 
said he saw Jackson touching his brother when they were sleeping on his
bed together.

 

He said he twice saw Jackson masturbating with one hand
while Jackson’s others  hand was in his
brother’s underwear (today 3/9/05 they said he claimed Jacksons hand was on top
of the brothers crotch). He did not state the dates but that it occurred two
days apart. The defense says the allegations are  a fiction created by the children’s mother in
an attempt to extort money. He also described a time when Jackson grabbed a
female mannequin in his bedroom and pretended like he was having intercourse
with it on a bed fully clothed while laughing. Jacksons mother and father were
present but showed no reaction.

 

 A prison in the
Dominican Republic with a maximum capacity of 25 had 178 people in it when a
fire started. Prisoners have access to knives and drugs, 34 died, 2 Americans
from Puerto Rico apparently died in the fire. Garcia drank more than 50 shots
of tequila in a drinking contest and died of alcohol poisoning a few hours
later in Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic.

 

The Governor of Georgia, Perdue, is apparently a
licensed veterinarian—and is planning to participate in neutering a dog for
some sort of awareness campaign.

 

Bobby Fischer is still in Japan—apparently in solitary
for a few days because of some fracas he had with prison guards about a boiled
egg. Iceland has offered to give him citizenship if Japan will allow it
(Fischer wants to renounce his American citizenship but is currently wanted by
the U.S. for violating a ban on entering __________ a few decades ago—to play
Chess. His fiance,  Miyoko Watai,  a four time Japan women’s chess champion,  is supporting him from the outside.

 

 Michael
Jackson—the other brother is now testifying—says that Jackson showed him a
pornography magazine entitled “Barely Legal” 
but when the defense attorney asked him if this was it (having an actual
copy of “Barely Legal” ) and the boy said yes—he indicated the date on it was
after they had been there (to which the boy responded that he did not
necessarily mean that exact magazine but one like it , which is possible if
Jackson subscribes to it—he would throw out the old ones), the boy also
admitted that he lied under oath when he swore his mother and father never  fought and that his father never hit him.

 

The lawyer asked him if somebody told him to lie  in the JC Penney case and the boy responded
that he didn’t remember. The attorney then asked him about this alarm system
Jackson has which goes off anytime somebody enters the hallway outside his
bedroom, and the boy said that is true but that it only goes off if a second
door is opened. The attorney asked him if in both cases that he saw Jackson
touching his brother the alarm went off? Yes the boy said, but the previous day
he did not mention any alarm and that his brother slept through both incidents,
snoring at one point.

 

The Dept. of Engineers gives the United States a D for
infrastructure.  High School Football
coach in Oregon was accused of licking the scab 
or cut on the knee of one of his players. Missouri apparently has a
reputation for being pornography friendly and the governor wants to change it.
New female champion surfer in peru, 21 year old Sophia Mulanovich, puts Peru
back on the map as a surfing country.

 

March 9, 2005

 

Mt. St. Helens had a small eruption. The unpopular
leader of Hong Kong steps down—Hong Kong wants “universal suffrage” and  uninhibited democracy but Beijing—is holding
them back they appointed a leader by the name of Tung Chee-Hwa  who is disliked by the Hong Kong people—and
announced he is stepping down due to health concerns.

Star of heavy metal band Motorhead Ian Kilmeister aka
“Lenny” speaks out on WWII—saying he doesn’t think it was just the Germans
who were bad and Americans/British good—says he didn’t make as much money as
Metallica and Ozzy Osbourne—because he had warts on his face—he’s fifty
nine—and has many girlfriends some of whom he has shared with his son, but
draws the line about sharing his son’s wife.

 

The Barnes art collection , which has one of the
largest collections of Picassos, Cezannes, and matisse  is scheduled to move a few miles closer to
Philadelphia to make them more accessible to the public.

 

March 10, 2005

 

News professor who compared the victims of the World
Trade Center to little Adolf eichmanns at the Univ. of Colorado
—-negotiations are under way to buy out his contract—to get him to leave-,
professor Churchhill?.  Michael  Jackson showed up an hour late due to bad
back. Marijuana usages is increasing in Canada.

 

The Word Anaheim comes from German –Heim means home and
Ana comes from Santa Ana—the river—hence “home by the river.” The Mexicans
called it Campo Aleman. It originally had four gates to keep the cattle away
from the grape vines—the gates were the Los Angeles, the San Diego, Yorba,  and San Pedro,

 

The German families did not come to Anaheim until the
1859 when the grape vines began to produce. The Mission grape helped them
establish their wineries…brought to California by the Franciscan fathers, but
other grapes included the Barcelona, 
Malviosic, Zinfandel, and ____________ grapes; 400, 000 vines were
planted the first year. In 1861  75,000
gallons of wine were produced; by 1884 with 50 wineries in operation Anaheim
produced 1, 250,000gallons. Anaheim wine was said to be better than some
European wines. Between 1884 and 1888 the vines were destroyed  by disease—thus killing the wine industry.

 

Other crops took their place including walnuts, sugar
beets, lemons, apricots, and the Anaheim Chili pepper,  but most successful was the Valencian
Orange—so much so that they named the new county after it.

 

March 11, 2005

 

Shooting at a Fulton County Courthouse—in Georgia—an
accused rapist/defendant was being escorted into the court by the bailiff when
he grabbed the bailiffs gun, shot the bailiff, the court clerk, and the judge,
killing all three. Then he may have stolen a green Honda Accord—and is on the
loose.

 

Two  former
Police Officer/Detectives, Luis Espolito and Stephen Caracapa,  from New York , living in Nevada, were
arrested for conspiring with the mob/mafia. Spain is commemorating the March
11, 2004 bombings of the trains. The accuser in the Michael Jackson case says
that Jackson told him if he doesn’t masturbate he may be inclined to rape
somebody, and he said he once looked over the balcony and saw a boy having sex
with a dog.

 

 33 year old
Bryan Nichols, former computer technician, on trial for rape,  stole a gun on the way into court, shot the
bailiff, shot the clerk, shot the judge, shot a officer, killed all three but
the bailiff (who is in critical condition) 
(and the next day 3/12/05 shot a marshall and stole his truck), on the
loose (now caught 3/12/05).

 

Judge Rowland Barnes and Court Reporter Julie
Brandaus   were killed inside and Deputy
Sgt. Hoyt Teasley was killed outside the court. The bailiff/deputy, Cynthia
Hall, was in critical condition after being shot in the face—but will probably
survive. He was not handcuffed because the law requires they do not wear
handcuffs so as not to unfairly influence the jury. 27 kids died perhaps
of  food poisoning on the Island of Bohol
in the Philippines.

 

The state of Washington is experiencing a drought this
year—driest since 1977. Seattle, know for being 
one of the rainiest cities in the U.S., actually receives less rain, on
average, than does New York City. Seattle averages 37 inches whereas NYC
averages 47 inches. Harvard Sophomore Michael Kopko  has started a dorm cleaning business but
others are against it because they say it differentiates between the “haves”
and “ have nots” –.

 

Canadian Marlene Jennings (actually half american_)
parliamentary secretary for U.S. Canadian Relations who reports to Prime
Minister Paul Martin said “Lets embarrass the hell out of the Americans” in regard
to their reneging on a treaty—while they (the U.S) is attempting to negotiate
treaties with other countries.

 

Tax Defaulters in Southern India have to put up with
drummers assigned to drum outside their door until they agree to pay their
bill. North Carolina State upset #3 Wake Forest in the ACC quarterfinals,
81-65,—. Doug Flutie, age 42,  is being
released by the San Diego Charges.  He
played for Chicago, New England, Buffalo, and now San Diego—he started out with
the now defunct USFL, and also played in the Canadian League. The mother of
Univ. Illinois basketball  coach, Bruce
Webber, died of heart problems, and his brother is coach at Glenbrook North
High School in the northern part of Chicago.

 

March 13, 2005

 

In Japan mass suicides are becoming a problem—people
are going on line to make suicide pacts—most often done by lighting charcoal
inside a car and dying of carbon monoxide poisoning, most recently 7 people in
Siatama died together, six in Kanagawa, and 
four in Hokkaido died this way.

 

Geraldine Mccaughrean has been chosen to write the
official  sequel to J.M. Barrie’s Peter
Pan, said the hospital who holds the copyright to the book. Barrie willed the
book to this British hospital in 1937. The New work will be entitled Captain
Pan.

Disney Company is expected to  announce that Robert Iger is going to replace
Michael Eisner as chief executive in September.

 

A team of American Dr.s flew secretly to Ukraine in
mid-December  to assist in the care of
Victor Yuschenko and made the assessment that he had been poisoned. 5.9
earthquake hit southern Iran on Sunday, but damage was minimal to the sparsely
populated area. A two year old was shot by his four year old brother who pulled
a loaded pistol out of his mothers purse. The baby  is in critical condition at the Ben Taub
Hospital in Houston Texas. The pope is leaving the hospital

 Randy Gregory
the pastor, age 51 and his son, James Gregory age 16 of Gurnee Illinois both
died in the shooting at the hotel worship service in Wisconsin.

 

March 14, 2005

 

Filipino Guards shoot dead 17 prisoners. In beijing
240,000 manhole covers have been stolen, in 2003. they are going to replace the
manholes with non-metallic, non-recyclable materials.

 

March 15, 2005

 

Bill Clintons home in New York isin Chappaqua 40 miles
north of Manhattan. “These people are not above the law you know, they may fly
on private planes, make millions of dollars, and be on baseball cards—but a
subpoena is exactly what it says it is and they have  to appear”, Representative Tom Davis said.
Davis, a republican from Virigina, said 
that Congress would issue contempt of Congress if they did not show up.

 

The subpoenas were issued after most of the witnesses
refused  invitations to appear, the panel
says. Some Muslims being held prisoners by the Fliipine govt took the guards
guns and shot through the guards—as they were being served  breakfast in a Manila Jail. One of Harvard’s
Colleges passes a no confidence vote about the Harvard President, Lawrence
Summers.

 

St. Nicholas was a 4th Century Christian Bishop who
lived and worked in what is now the southern Turkish town of Demare. He was
especially revered by Russia’s Orthodox Church. They’ve changed the statute
from an old bronze one with a Bible in one hand to the modern day Santa Claus
image—with a red & white suit. Schiavo speaks out about his wife in a
vegetative state—she had a heart attack in 1990—and she’s been
non-communicative for fifteen years now. Grizzly bears and Polar bears are
clashing on Melville Island. They’ve created a hydrogen powered bike in England
which can reach 50 miles per hour in 12 seconds.

 

March 16, 2005

 

Robert Blake was found not guilty of murder. They say
that Jay Leno will  testify in the
Jackson case that the accuser called him but that the boy sounded as if he were
rehearsing something… and that his mom handed the phone to him, whereas the
accuser has said that he only got through to an answering machine. Scott
Peterson moved to San Quentins death row

 

March 17, 2005

 

Police Chief Sam Roundy who operates a police station
in Colorado City Arizona which crosses over into Utah has been recommended to
have his license revoked due to a polygamous life style.

 

Julius Caesar was stabbed to death by senators in Rome
in 44 BC on March 15, the Ides of March. UCLA 
is planning a 20 million dollar stem cell research center—creating 12
new faculty positions and a lab.

 

A new species of shrimp has been found in Idaho—one of
only four species, among hundreds,  that
are longer than an inch and eat their relatives. John Aschroft is going to
teach a class “Leadership in Times of Crisis” 
at Regents University—which was started by televangelist Pat Robertson
who is still the president. It has 3000 undergraduate & graduate students
(combined?), Ashcroft’s father & grandfather were Assembly of God
ministers–, as is the university.

 

In 2002 the justice dept. spent 8000 dollars for blue
drapes that were placed over a bare breasted statute near the office. Before
becoming attorney general Ashcroft served two full terms as Missouri’s
governor, and a six year term as a U.S. Senator.

 

Family of murdered Belfast man, Robert McCartney, will
take their campaign  for justice to a new
level when they meet president Bush among growing outrage of the brutal murder
,  St. Patricks day celebrations   in Washington carry  particular resonance as Sinn Fein  (the country?) battles to win back valuable
support from Irish leaders. Leader Gerry Adams 
has been warned by senators that time was running out to make a break
with the IRA, but has not done so, and therefore he was excluded from the White
House invitation…for the first time in a decade all Northern Ireland  political leaders are banned from the annual
shamrock ceremony  at the white house,
but the McCartney family has been welcomed.

 

The  name  of the brother of  the Michael Jackson accuser  is Star Gavizo. Prostitutes in Groningen Netherlands
complain that the police have been watching them have sex with their clients
–prostitution being legal there in the sex zone

Priest in Italy by the name of Cesare Lodeserto ,
former head of an Italian foundation that looks after the welfare of
prostitutes, was arrested for mistreating prostitutes—being accused of keeping
them against their will; but he claims he was doing it for their own welfare—some
of them were drunk and if they had been allowed to wander in the streets they
would have been take advantage of. Another person claimed the scandal was a
setup and that he had been offered cash to file a complaint against the priest.

 

Millionaire by the name of Phil Walker, age 53, who
owns a warehouse , noticed a 6 year old gal with cerebral palsy and was so
touched by her physical challenges he bought a pool for her for $15,000 pounds.
Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates  is said to be the most expensive hotel ever
built—at an expense of 3 billion dollars.

 

The Ten Commandments monument at the center of
controversy in Alabama (and Judge Roy Moore) has been brought to Kalamazoo, MI.
(NFI),

 

Boy Named Zach Ingels hit a 3 pointer at the buzzer to
help Eastern Kentucky into the NCAA basketball tournament—they tell about his
life growing up in Michigan  (Gowen or
Greenvile) and the early death of his mother—sister left in a coma, but he had
vowed shortly before she died that hee would make it into the NCAA tournament,
and he did!. His other sister works as a high school basketball coach in Big
Rapids. Only 23 of the men’s NCAA tourney’s 65 managed to graduate at least 50
% of their athletes .

 

They are talking about changing the color of the NHL
ice from white to blue, and the lines to orange. Tennis tournament at Indian
Wells is underway?   Bill (?)
Schwartzbach was the attorney for Robert Blake, who was acquitted. Lakers play
the Heat today.

 

Little Kim the female rapper was convicted of perjury
and conspiracy. Dutch Court opens hearings on Friday against man accused of
helping former Iraq leader Saddam Hussein commit war crimes and genocide by
providing him with materials for chemical weapons.  Franz Van air iat, age 62, is accused of  1000’s of tons of raw materials for chemical
weapons used in the 1980-88war against Iran and Iraqi Kurds, including  a 1988 attack in which  and estimated 5000 people were killed.

 

Harold David Goldstein was convicted of impersonating
an attorney,  falsely representing
himself as an attorney, and was sentenced to 12 ½ years in prison . Goldstein,
age 59, said he sincerely did his best for clients and won 25 cases. He
operated a busy Newport Beach law practice. Goldstein represented 100’s of
clients, including many immigrants that were deported. Goldstein has
convictions dating to the 70’s when he was found guilty of defrauding 13, 000
investors in a commodity scheme, and selling millions of dollars in phony
contracts. In 1980 L.A. District Attorney charged him with stealing 4
million  from small businesses …and
seeking loans with a phony overseas bank that he and a partner established. He
was sentenced to 10 years in prison but was released in ’86.

 

Genetic mutations and diseases such as color blindness
, autism, and hemophilia , are linked to the X Chromosome, and therefore more
common in males because they do not have another X to compensate for the faults
of the other, whereas females have two X chromosomes , one of which  is largely turned off because a single X is
all they need, whereas males have an X and a Y. The X chromosome is larger than
the Y chromosome. There are disproportionate number of diseases associated with
the X chromosome, said Dr. David Bentley of the Welcome Trust Sangar Institute.

 

Experts are now suggesting the coast along the
Caribbean Sea is vulnerable to another tsunami /earthquake. At least  10 significant tsunamis have been documented
in the northern Caribbean  since 1492
…movement along plate boundary  that runs
2000 miles off the north coast of the island of Hispaniola, which includes the
countries of Haiti and Dominican Republic to the lesser Antilles.

 

And British experts are saying that  another earthquake/tsunami could occur in the
same area as the one on Boxing Day 2004 within the next year—perhaps even of
the same magnititude and re-occuring in some of the same places, including
Bande Aceh.  One of these destroyed Port
Royal Jamaica in 1692, another killed at least 10 Jamaicans in 1780. In 1946 a
magnitude 8.1 earthquake  hit  near the dominican republic causing a wave
that killed 1800 people.

 

Shaquille O’Neal had 25 points and 12 rebounds  as the Miami Heat beat the Lakers in the
second meeting between the two teams this season. In the first matchup the Heat
won by 2, in this matchup they won by a score of 102-89. This was the Heats
11th straight win and their single season record of 14 straight at home, just
behind San Antonia for the leagues best record

 

Kiki Fournier , a former housekeeper for Michael
Jackson, was called by the prosecution to testify. She said there was a parade
of boys who stayed at Jacksons estate, among them were the accuser but others
such as McCauley Caulkins , and that sometimes they ran wild and trashed the
living quarters, toward the end of their stay. She said she saw Jackson at the
dinner table with some children who appeared to be intoxicated ;  other times she saw them in an outbuilding
with local children, some of whom appeared intoxicated.  She described Jackson as an indulgent host
and suggested that the children took advantage of him .

 

She said that with the absence of an authority figure ,
the children became wild and without their parents there it became like
Pinocchios Pleasure Island.

 

Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy is publishing a book
featuring naked fat bottom girls, members of the  cabaret group, the Fat Bottom Revue, are
photographed in similar poses to models used by acclaimed erotic photographers
. Nimoy age 73 previously caused controversy with a book of photographs featuring
women wearing only ritual Jewish prayer items. The book was entitled Shekinah.
Islamic militants killed as many as 12 barbers for shaving their beards or
giving them western hair cuts. NCAA: UCLA lost to Texas Tech. Illinois beat
Farleigh Dickinson and play Nevada on Saturday.

 

Man named Mr. Frank who was working on David
Letterman’s ranch as a painter and hatched a plot to kidnap Letterman’s newborn
baby and their nanny—and hold them for 5 million dollar ransom. He confided in
somebody who reported it to police.

 

The Santa Anita Race track was used as a relocation
site for Japanese-Americans during WWII. 
Now the feeding Tube in the Schiavo case has been removed—the presiding
judge stepped in and ordered it removed. She could live two weeks without the
tube.

 

The accuser of Michael Jackson and his father went to
the home of George Lopez, the comedian, as guests and the boy left his
wallet—they called back to get it and said there was $300 in the wallet, but
Lopez said there was only $3.00. The prosecutors said that was the dad’s con,
not the son’s—the son didn’t want to go along with it.

 

Former Governor of Connecticut, John G. Rowland,  gets a year in prison The governor of
connecticut was sentenced to a year in prison for accepting bribes. Amina wadub
a professor of Islamic studies at Virginia Commonwealth University led a Muslim
service that included a mixed congregation, using the pronouns it, she, and he
for Allah, causing some Muslims locally and around the world to become very
upset, –one of the buildings they had planned to originally hold their service
received a bomb threat forcing them to move to a different location.

 

She said she was trying to address the problem of women
being treated unequally in the Muslim religion but others say it is not a
matter of being unequal, just different. The 1899 insurrection  in the Philippines costs 1000’s of more U.S.
lives than the Iraq War (so far). What was this insurrection in the
Philippines? The U.S. was in WW1 for only one and a half years, although the
number of American lives lost was greater than Iraq. Now they are saying it
is  possible that we may be in Iraq
longer than we were in WWII. The numbers of soldiers killed in Iraq (about 1500
so far) is far less than either WWI or WWII, which was in the 100’s of 1000’s.

 

A Belgian man is on trial for having sex with dogs,
saying he did it out of compassion and love for the dogs,  some of which cannot have sex because they
are in kennels, and posted pictures of himself having sex with dogs on the internet.

 

A 5 year old 
kindergarten gal  in Florida was
arrested by police and put in plastic wrist cuffs and metal ankle cuffs and put
in the back of the police cruiser for having a temper tantrum. Syracuse was
upset by Univ. of Vermont in NCAA college basketball tournament. Now they play
MSU. More than 700 people were arrested in Ireland on St. Patricks day for
drunkenness and vandalism Andre Agassi has pulled out of the Indian Wells
tournament due to a sore toe.

 

March 19, 2005

 

They found the body of the Jessica Lundsford gal.
Tustin Museum One of the most remarkable photographs in that museum was a photo
of an airplane flying above a car (VW BUG?) with a rope hanging down pulling up
buckets of gasoline to re-fuel in flight, in order to make a endurance flight
record

 

Former Prosecutor, David Masters, died of drug
overdose—apparently got involved in drugs after a life time of busting
druggies. His body was found by the ozark River in Missouri. He had practiced
law in Macon County (Georgia?),  , father
of seven, owed three weeks rent, had made passes at the woman in the place he
lived, 52 years old.  Two arrested for
murder.

 

Condoleeza rice is the daughter of a preacher, and she
made a point of attending church on Palm Sunday in China. Manila is on high-alert
for terrorist/Muslim bombings. LeBron James scored 56 points against the
Raptors but they still lose; their 9th consecutive road game loss. Three big
ten teams made it to the sweet sixteen: Wisconsin, Illinois, and Michigan State

 

WWII  Japanese submarine
found of the coast of Hawaii. John Delorean dies at age 80. Japan had a 7.0
earthquake, killing one, injuring 500, on the island of Genkaijima a small
island of the northern coast of Kyushu.

 

March 20, 2005

 

A high school student went on a shooting rampage on an
Indian reservation, killing his grandparents at his home in Minnesota and then
killing seven people (five students, a teacher, and a security guard; and
fifteen others were injured), at his school , as well as himself. This is the
nations worst school shooting since the Columbine Massacre in 1999 that killed
13 people. His grandfather was a police officer with the Red Lake police Dept.
Midwest & United Arilines are now offering extra frequent flyer miles when
a passenger travels with his or her pet.

 

Hogzilla was caught in Georgia—about 7 ½ feet long,
weighed  up to 800 pounds. The tusks of
hogzilla were 16 to 18 inches.  And this
was after the pig had been buried for six months.

 

The owner of the land where the pig was shot insisted
that it was even larger than that  before
it was buried. Hogzilla was shot by guide, Chris Griffin. Lady librarian at
Harvard trying to get a promotion is suing Harvard for discrimination,
contending that they have not promoted her because of her race or the way she
dressed and despite the fact that she has a masters degree.

 

Laura koenig is doing research  at the University of Minnesota asserts that
some of the religious differences between individuals is, in part,
genetic.Identical twins showed strong overlap in spirituality—twice as likely
as fraternal twins to share as much as or little faith . Indian woman (from
India) killed herself so that her kids could see—both born blind , but Dr’s say
a a cornea transplant may not be cure them.

 

The Cavaliers fire head coach Paul Silas thinking they
should be doing better , and still struggling for a playoff spot. In the
Schiavo case—after al the dramatics by congress and rushing the bill to the
President and sending it to the federal judge at 3 a.m—after all this—the
judge  (Whittemore) denied the request,
and now it  goes to federal appeals, the
11 th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.

 

A man in Russia had his penis removed, sewn on to his
arm so that it could grow, and then re-attached to his groin—supposedly it will
be fully functional.

 

Jeff Weise was the one who killed the students in
Minnesota. Louise Palanker is a comedian who said she got a phone call from the
accusers mom as if they were being held against their will. Did she call the
police? Federal Appeals refuses to re-consider the Schiavo Case

 

March 23, 2005

 

Now they are saying Social security will probably go
broke in the year 2041. Jeb Bush says a neurologist thinks the physicians made
a mistake  and thinks that Schiavo is
actually in a state of minimal consciousness rather than vegetative. Wouldn’t
that be something if they re-insert the tube and later she comes back to full
consciousness?

 

Man accused of pointing a laser beam at a small
passenger jet has been charged.David Banach was charged …he claims he was
looking at stars with his daughter. The pilot and co-pilot were hit three times
as the plane approached the airport (where?).

 

Bobby Fischer 
has been released from prison and is on his way to Iceland. He’s  a feisty personality. Apparently at one point
he stopped unzipped his pants and pretended to be urinating on the wall in
defiance of  Japan. He referred to
President Bush and Koizumi (the Japanese President) as war criminals and that
they should be hung. Fischer, age 62, 
had a long white beard and was wearing jeans and a  baseball hat. 
He said the Japanese ruling party are “gangsters” and that America is
Jewish-controlled. Iceland is where Fischer won the chess championship in 1972,
defeating Spassky (Boris?) . In 1992 Fischer accepted a re-match with Spassky
and won again—but did so in violation of U.S. sanctions imposed on Yugoslavia
to punish Miloslevic (the president). If convicted he could face up to ten
years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

 

Researchers did a test with rhesus monkeys to  see if and how they would steal grapes  when in the presence of human beings. They
discovered almost invariably that the 
rhesus monkeys were more likely to steal when the humans eyes were
averted or covered by  cardboard.  State of minimal consciousness versus
vegetative state.

 

Physician by the name of Bernat from New Yorks
Presbyterian Medical Ctr. Says the key parts of the brain are the cerebral
cortex and the thalamus and the connections between them, damage to these parts
can strip a person of his or her awareness, even though the undamaged brain
stem  keeps the autonomous functions such
as breathing, sleep & wake cycles, and eye movement operating somewhat
normally. Cerebral cortex and thalamus are the most important parts of the
brain in terms of consciousness. This is what differentiates us from lower
animals in terms of our ability to use language and communicate.

 

Sufficiently preserved brain stem permits survival –i.e
breathing, with medically assisted  bowel
and bladder continence. Variably preserved cranial lower  functioning permit spinal reflexes, the
person may blink or smile, but AAN considers those who have been in this
condition for a year or longer to have “almost no probability  of recovery” A neurologist at the University
of Minnesota says that Schiavo’s cerebral cortex suffered severe damage from
the six minute period in 1990 when her heart stopped and her brain was without
oxygen. He says Eeg’s and brain-wave tests reveal no activity, and that areas
of her brain have shown shrinkage, a sign of irreversible damage.

 

Jurors in the Michael Jackson case were shown more than
75 pornographic magazines, but the judge did not allow them to see website
pornography that was on Jackson computer saying some of it or all of it could
have been “cached” from pop-ups. They also included a framed photo of celebrity
McCauley Caulkin who the housekeeper said Jackson was  close to for a period of time. One of the
attorneys for the defense, Brian Oxman, suddenly took ill. They had to take him
by ambulance to the nearby medical center.

 

Dr. Hunter Adams , aka Patch Adams , dressed up in a
clown suit a t a hospital in Sri Lanka, where 
a lot of tsunami survivors are being treated. He thinks the tsunami has
changed the world for the better, for a moment 
making people forget their greed and power and for a moment think of
humanity.

 

He is visiting refugee camps and hospitals in the
Balkans, Africa, Afghanistan, and Cambodia. The Karapitya Hospital he visited
in Sri Lanka handled over 1200 bodies in the aftermath of the tsunami. One
clown raced down a dimly lit hospital ward on a unicycle while juggling
oranges; another person dressed up like a macaw, sprayed the wards with soap
bubbles while another group of three clowns staged a puppet show for kids with
cancer . A study shows that elephants can learn to mimic sounds—one elephant
learned to mimic a truck after living near a highway for a long time.

 

An egg built with at least 50,000 bars of chocolate
measured 8.32 metres  high , making a new
worlds record for the largest Easter Egg, produced by Belgian chocolate maker
Guylan. It took them 525 hours to build the egg. Not meant to be eaten they
say.

 

March 24, 2005

 

The gal who turned in the courthouse shooter in Georgia
received $79,000 in reward money. 
Researchers from Berkeley have observed Octupi  trying to escape from predators by tiptoeing
away and wrapping other tentacles around themselves to disguise themselves as
algae.

 

American Prison guards in Iraq have discovered a tunnel
leading away from one of the pow prisons, apparently dug by prisoners. Bush
agrees to sell F-16’s to Pakistan. Michigan State upsets Duke (they lost to
Duke in November). Wisconsin wins. That leaves three big ten teams in the Elite
8. A boy in a mall hit the Easter Bunny in the nose giving him a bloody nose.
Lawyer by the name of  Stephen V.
Copenhaver was approached by a friend—somebody he knew—asking him for legal
help, but said she didn’t have any money. He offered her legal help if he would
have sex with him and another gal. He’s on the School Board.

 

Former Chief-of-Police, Daryl Briston tried to eat a
receipt during a hearing, scuffled with a state trooper and elbowed him. He was
fired last year from Ranking Police Dept. when convicted of stealing $5000 in
cash seized by police, and falsifying receipts. Baggage handler in Milwaukee
trying to put a wheel chair into a compartment in the plane was locked into the
compartment before takeoff and couldn’t get out. They didn’t find him until
they landed at their destination.He was okay.

 

Russel Stover is producing a milk chocolate cross, with
caramel made of goat’s milk. Four times more women than men were killed in the
tsunami. Anthony Urquiza , a psychologist specializing in sexual abuse,
testified in the Michael Jackson Case testified that pornography can be used as
“grooming” material to coax a child into molestation.

 

Professor by the name of Churchhill at the University
of Colorado who compared the victims of the Sept 11 attacks to “little
Eichmanns’ of the Holocaust is being increasingly scrutinized for other
matters—including possibly plagiarism as well as misleading statements of his
nationality—saying he was an American Indian… an “enrolled member of the
Keetowah Band of the Cherokees” but the chief of this band said he is an
“honorary associate” member, not an “enrolled” member.

 

Question about whether the death of Schiavo is painful
or not—they say over-hydration can be a problem and note there is a “death
rattle” shortly preceding actual death.

 

Spacecraft “Deep Impact” is scheduled to reach a comet
on July 4, at which point it will release an “impactor” and study the results
of the impact which could leave a stadium sized impact. What hospital is
Schiavo in? Woodside Hospice.

 

Garcia Esparat, age 45, in the Philippines was gunned
down by a gunman in front of her children. She had been assigned two police
escorts but had let them go on leave early for the Easter Holiday. She had many
enemies because of her exposes on corruption.

 

Fourteen journalists were killed in the Philippines
last year, more than any other country except Iraq.

Derek Brun was a security guard who got shot and killed
by the high school student who shot several others on the Indian Reservation in
Minnesota—Bush commended his bravery because he rushed the kid, despite not
having a gun, and giving time for the other students to take cover.

87 Year old man is being tried for “sex tourism” what’s
that? French woman rowed solo across the Pacific.

 

March 27, 2005

 

Man by the name of 
Vitalmiro Bastos De Moura suspected of killing  Dorothy Stang, the nun in the rain forest in
Brazil was taken into custody .

 

March 28, 2005

 

Natural serum eyedrops—better than artificial, take
blood from a person mix it with saline solution and use as eyedrops—researchers
say is superior than artificial.

 

Son of a tribal chiefsman was arrested in relation to
the teenage shooter on the Minnesota Indian reservation, no further details. In
Colorado, a Death Penalty Sentence was thrown out after the judge heard the
jurors consulted the Bible in making their determination to apply the death
penalty. Woman survives fall in SUV off bridge into Oregon River. After sinking
55 feet to the bottom of the river she broke through the window and swam to the
top with nothing but minor cuts. Adolf Hitler’s anti-semitic book entitled Mein
Kampf “My Struggle” has been on the top ten seller list in the past two months
in the country of Turkey.

 

Now experts are saying there is a potential for a third
earthquake in the tsunami area. State of Wyoming has a budget surplus larger
than any other state—mostly due to their abundance of natural gas. In 1999 it
was $2.19  per 1000 cubic foot of natural
gas. By 2004 , it was at $5.49 , a 150% increase. Wyoming has increased their
spending on government operations from 1.6 billion to 2.5 billion in two years,
a 56% jump.

 

A National Guard Officer by the name of  Capt. Scott Southworth in Iraq , a Christian
man adopted a disabled Iraqi boy with cerebral palsy and brought him back to
Wisconsin. He’s a bachelor and is now taking care of the boy back in the U.S.
Doctors say the boy may walk after all ,despite cerebral palsy. There’s been at
least 600 vehicular suicide attacks in Iraq from May 2004 to January 2005.

 

March 29, 2005

 

The stewardess from the flights Jackson took with the
accuser says she did serve wine to Jackson in soda cans but  says she did not serve it to the kids, nor
see him sharing it with them. The Weinsteins—who founded Miramax which merged with
Disney are now going independent again, leaving Miramax under the Disney wing,
and starting anew—calling themselves the Weinstein Group or something like
that.

 

Former Boy Scout Task Force Person Douglas Smith, age
64, who worked to protect children from child pornography is now being indicted
for at the federal court for receiving images over the internet of children
engaging in sex.

 

Jerry Falwell is in the hospital. Study on Marmoset
Monkeys indicates that they will turn down opportunity for sex outside of
marriage or their partnership if they have a child or children… in the study of
these monkey—only the monkeys without children were aroused and accepted the
opportunity to get sexually involved with a female monkey , whereas the male
monkeys with children showed no or very little sexual arousal around a third
female. They wonder if this crosses over to humans.

 

Blink, a former Iowa juvenile court judge, says several
factors  such as age of the
offender,  the relationship to the
victim, and the severity of the offense went into the judge’s decision …sex
offender under the age of 20 at the time of the offense, the victim is fourteen
or fifteen years old , the offender cannot be placed on the registry’s website.
, but perhaps the most important consideration, Blink said, was whether the juvenile
is likely to commit another sex crime. ABC NEWS affiliate WOI TV in Des Moines
Iowa contributed to this report.

 

Study of Monkeys & Celebrityism suggests Monkeys
would rather forego juice despite being thirsty in order to view dominant
monkeys, or high-status monkeys, or “celebrity monkeys”; while the same monkeys
would rather drink juice than view pictures of low status monkeys.

 

Psychologist Stan Katz said that children over five
years old rarely fabricate claims of molestation. He said that accusers who
appear to be truthful sometimes change their stories or embellish or
exaggerate, whereas children who make false allegations are usually consistent,
almost scripted. Thursday is Cesar Chavez Day in California, a state holiday. “

 

The withdrawal of the Gaza Strip by the Jewish—a forced
withdrawal is scheduled for July 20, 2005, at which point a lot of Jews are
planning to resist the withdrawal. It could become a violent scene, even
suicidal.

 

A Beard gets a lot of respect in Saudi Arabia and other
Islamic countries. There have been persons in journalism making fun of people
with beards and in one case a judge gave a stiff sentence to a journalist for
his parody of persons with beards, and now the questions is whether or not the
sentence will stick, because one of the royal leaders has said it does not.

 

The earthquake that triggered the tsunami on December
26 was a long one—lasting 8 minutes at its peak power. Now researchers are
saying that a tsunami from the same fault area is unlikely, due to the unique
characteristics of the Dec. 26 quake, but there is a threat of a tsunami from a
fault segment to the south still remains.

 

Former wife of senator Edward Kennedy, Joan, was found
unconscious in the street—suffered concussion and broken shoulder, former
alcoholic. Rick Pitino, coach of 
Louisville, is the first  college
coach to take three different teams to the final four. MSU is close to a
championship in womens basketball.

 

March 31, 2005

 

Teri Schiavo passed away today. The husband would not allow
the parents in to the room during her dying moments

 Former national
security advisor Sandy Berger is being indicted for taking classified documents
from the National Archives. Berger who served under the Clinton administration
will enter a plea on Friday in U.S. District Court in Washington. Jerry Falwell
is recovering in the hospital after experiencing breathing difficulties.

 

Five GI’s are under investigation after allegedly
trying to smuggle 25 pounds of cocaine out of Columbia on a military plane. The
pope apparently suffered heart failure and is now in grave condition says a
Vatican spokesperson. A new report severely criticizes both the CIA and the DIA
(Defense Intelligence Agency) for their failures to give reliable information
on Iraq prior to the U.S. invasion.

 

At a horse race in 
the horses were on their final turn toward the finish line when suddenly
a flock of seagulls rose in the path and flew directly in to the running
horses, causing several mishaps and some injuries to jockies, including one
broken arm.

 

Jane Fonda apologizes for her appearance on a Vietnam
anti-aircraft station in 1972 when she visited Vietnam, now realizing it was
a  bad judment, although she defends
visiting the American POW’s. Lance 
Armstrong’s former personal assistant now claims he once found a bottle
of steroids in the bathroom of the hotel room in which Lance stayed in Spain
for a period of time.

 

April 1-April 7, 2005

 

Aid workers are still trying to reach some of the
outlying areas of Indonesia’s devestated Nail Island…1000’s are still homeless
and some possibly trapped following the 8.0 earthquake . Open Loop Terminals
take in sea water to warm LNG (liquefied natural gas) from 260 below fahrenheit
until it returns to gaseous state and then return the water to the gulf, the
temperature changes 10 to 20 degrees 
fahrenheit which is shocking to sea life researchers say.

 

Several off shore 
LNG terminals have been proposed for the U.S. Gulf Coast. National
Marine Fishery Service says the threat to wildlife demands a closed system that
reheats and recirculates water like a radiator. They say  a closed loop system is worth the extra
expense to protect fish. Red Drum is the species that will be most impacted
referring to the popular species that is recovering from being
over-fished.  They pump 150 million
gallons of water per day which amounts to billions of gallons of water  sterilized per year.

 

Former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan spoke at
Western Michigan University and somebody threw salad dressing at him, dousing
his head, and causing him to cut short his speech. He could have pressed felony
charges but he didn’t—so the person was charged with a misdemeanor of
disturbing the peace.

 

Sixty-nine officers combed Michael Jacksons 2800 acre
ranch all on one day per subpoena. Brain implant has given a man an ability to
think what he wants to happen such as turn on a tv with remote—these are
electronic implants connected to software. 
Daylight Savings: Spring ahead, fall back.

 

 Man in Gallup,
New Mexico dragged a man  by rope behind
his car causing severe injuries to the man. The pope died at 237 pm eastern
time, 1137 am pacific time probably while I was on the toll road 241 south

 

They say one place a new pope will not come from is the
United States although there is much greater latitude for selection from all
over the rest of the world, including Latin America.

 

Pope John Paul was the first non-Italian pope in 455
years ! Wow. They say that a new pope would not be elected from the United
States  because it would not appeal to
the rest of the world, people would be suspicious of it being a CIA planned
election or backed by Wall Street.

 

The man convicted of killing Martin Luther King, James
Early Ray died in 1998. MLK was killed in 1968. 
LAUSD owns the Ambassador Hotel where various famous guests stayed over
the years including Albert Einstein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Rudolph
Valentino, and is where R. F. Kennedy was assassinated, and  although the LAUSD plans to build a 4000
student campus for 318 million dollars, currently plans are on hold due to
preservationists attempts to keep the building, as is, or to have it renovated
rather than torn down.

 

Will Pope John Paul II be made into a saint? Some say
not for the big things he did such as support the downfall of communism, but
for some of the seemingly smaller things such as forgiving the man who shot
him.  The pope’s birth name was Karol Woj
tyla from Krakow Poland. He became pope on October 16, 1978 when I was about 11
years old. He was a conservative who maintained a stand against contraception,
abortion, married clergy, and woman clergy, sometimes antagonizing the
liberals.

 

College basketball: Illinois beats Louisville, giving
them a tie with UNLV and Duke for 37 wins ina 
seasons (Duke did it twice). Illinois defeated Louisville 72-57, blow
out. Near fatal shooting by the Turkish gunman in 1981. Pope was the first
pontiff to preach in a protestant 
church, and in a synagogue, and to set foot in a mosque. March 2000—he
prayed at Jerusalem’s western wall and asked for forgiveness of Catholic sins
against Jews over the centuries. He appointed over 95% of the cardinals
who  will elect his successor.

 

Sports: High-Five wins the Florida Derby  ridden by Jerry Bailey. Kentucky Derby is in
five weeks—making High Five the favorite.

 

MSU loses 87-71, so it will be Illinois  v. North Carolina. This is a poignant
championship game pitting the #1 team versus #2 North Carolina. For ministry
to  be effective we must think of each
other as teammates rather than competitors—both intra church and inter church.

 

The adjusted scoring margin (asm) is the sum of the
offensive quotient and the defensive quotient. If Duke’s opponents allow an
average of 70 points per game, and the Blue Devils average 75, the offensive quotient
is 5. If Dukes opponents  score 70 and
Louisville allows 60 points on average the defensive quotient is positive ten.
So their Asm would be 15.  An ASM of
positive 10 is typically that of a very good team. An ASM of 20 is elite or
final four.

 

San Bernardino Valley played the starring role in the
worlds’ municipal power development. While many assume the development of
electrical power usage was primarily in the east, inland empire capitalists and
engineers created the worlds standards…the problem is that Edison & Brush
relied on DC power, but DC power could not be transmitted over three miles from
the generating source.

 

This meant that generation would have to be local.
Edisons’ light bulb , incandescent, could be run using AC or DC. Brush started
the arc light in the late 1870’s but it was too bright and dangerous for indoor
use. Theodore Roosevelt stopped in Redlands to visit once. The Two Smiley Bros.
were twins born in Maine  in 1828
graduating from Haverford College in Philadelphia… they purchased Canyon Crest
Park…March 31 to May 21 is Redlands 8 week festival celebration of the citrus
industry. The area could boast home styles from California Craftsman, High
Victorian, Classical Revival, and Missionary Revival.

 

A fertilizer venture Cotton Farmer says he gets 14 buds
per branch with the new feritlization, whereas without it, farmers right next
to him only get three per branch. Physio Nutritional Management (FNM). Redhat
society for women over fifty who want to have fun.

 

Recent earthquake in Indonesia was on the Sunda Trench
which is what triggered the tsunami in December, this trench had previous
tsunami creating quakes in 1833 and 1861. Both earthquakes were caused by the
Australian tectonic plate grinding underneath the Indonesian Plate, which
affects a zone running for about 2800 miles from Myanmar to Indonesia’s java
Island. Seismologists are now looking at the country of Turkey for clue as to
what might happen in Asia. Turkey situated where the Arabian & African
plates clash…w as hit by eleven earthquakes in the last century, the latest
was  in Izmit at 7.4 that killed 30,000.
1000’s of oil and natural gas platforms could be turned in to fishing farms
that would include mahi-mahi, red snapper, 
yellowfin tuna, and flounder under a proposal backed by the Bush
Administration. The solution to pollution is dilution.

 

Alex Sanchez has been suspended for ten days for
testing positive for steroids, He plays for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Pastors
don’t need unemployment because they can’t do anything wrong apart from murder
or something of a giant magnitude

 

Billboard says, “50% of women get heart disease, that’s
100’s scary”  Physicists from the Federal
Radiological Physics Center detected  an
error on March 7 at the Lee Moffitt Cancer

Center Research Institute…they noticed on March 7 that
the radiation machine was giving out 50% more radiation than was required. .
The research institute did not acknowledge it until Friday. Officials said 77
patients  were affected, 12 have since
died.The physicists calibrating the machine used an incorrect formula. They are
supposed to have a second physicist confirm the settings, but they apparently
did not do so. They were only fined $1000 on March 24.

 

Insurgents Attacked Abu Gharaib Prison in Iraq wounding
44 American soldiers  Son of one of
Michael Jacksons’ housekeepers testified that Jackson touched the boys groin
area in a tickling session maybe two or three times Today is the big college
basketball game , Illinois v. North Carolina

Illinois is losing 14-12 first half. Illinois is
leading 18-17. North Carolina is leading Illinois 35-27 first half. Illinois is
losing 40-27 at half time. Illinois is losing 52-48, second half. Illinois is
losing 75-70 one minute left. And it’s Over, Illinois loses 75-70!

At around 820 pm pst. Illinois shot 38 percent, 12 for
40 from long range.

 

James Earl Ray died of liver disease while in prison in
Nashville serving a 99 year prison sentence. His brother is now trying to sell
a video tape of the autopsy of James Earl Ray, setting up a tent right outside
the Civil Rights Museum  and where King
was shot, and on the anniversary of the shooting. Border Patrol is complaining
about the volunteer “minuteman” near Nogales texas/Mexico border saying that
some of them are triggering the alarms they have set up.

 

 Kirk Gibson is
the Tigers bench coach. 105 year old man is challenging the 100 metre running
record for centenarians. Guo Cairu of Nan Jing City, Jiangsu Province. Current
centenarian record is held by South African Philip Babonowitz with a time
of  30.86 seconds.

 

Woman is breastfeeding a pair of tiger cubs in Myanmar
which had to be separated from their violent mother at Yangon Zoo. She’s been
breastfeeding the cubs for thirty minutes four times per day. They had to be
separated from their mother after she killed a third cub. The Minuteman Border
Patrol is near Nogales, Arizona, between Yuma and Douglas.

 

Roger Williams holds a degree from Julliard School of
Music, He has played at the Hollywood Bowl, the White House, and at Carnegie
House. He’s gotten the title of “Pianist to the Presidents” having played for
eight chief executives. He holds the record for the longest piano playing
marathon. October 1 he celebrated his 80th birthday with Jimmy Carter at the
Carther Library/Museum logging 13 ½ hours on the keyboard, with five minute
breaks allowed once per hour. He’s performing at mcCallum Theatre in Palm
Desert on April 1. His first degree was in Mechanical engineering, He served in
the Navy in WWII and was sent to Officers Training School. He’s also a former
boxer and has taught karate. He lives in encino, has two daughters, a son, and
five grandchildren

 

Convicted Murderer and Deputy warden’s wife,
Parker,  have been found living together
in Texas, ten years after he kidnapped the deputy warden’s wife. The woman said
she was held captive the whole time staying with the man due to fear. She was
reunited with her husband and children, two daughters.  They were living outside Campti near the
Louisiana border. The man was convicted of a 1981  murder of a karate instructor . They likened
Parker’s relationship to him  as
Stockholm Syndrome where kidnapping victims become sympathetic towards their
captors over time. Some people note that California’s success is due to the
phenomena that people who came to California were running “to” the area, not
“from” something else, making it a more optimistic settlement.

 

More than 100 prisoners are loose on the island of Nais
after the earthquake jolted the region, the prison being one of many buildings
affected. Turkish officials rejected the prisoner who shot the pope’s request
to be allowed to attend the pope’s funeral. Iraq had named a president—a
veteran Kurdish leader, and a Sunni as a VP and a Shiite as the other VP, no
names provided.

 

 British tabloids
reported a conversation between Prince Charles and his wife-to-be Camile in
which he purportedly said that he would like to 
be reincarnated as her tampon. A new blue light instrument may replace
tooth brushes for cleaning the gums—it will kill the bad bacteria.

 

Lakers have been eliminated from playoff contention.
Scotty Skiles is now the head coach of the Chicago Bulls. Florida has passed a
“stand your ground” bill which allows people to self-defend themselves with
deadly force if they believe they are in danger of great harm or death, rather
than fleeing.

 

An experience called “suspension” where they raise
one’s body up off the ground via fish hooks attached to the flesh, supposedly
giving a transcendent experience.

 

Man in the Bronx was stuck in an elevator for 80 hours.
The Town of Cuatro Cienegas in Mexico 
has 170 cactus ringed lagoons around the town which have been a source
of intrigue for evolutionary biologists because the fish and turtle species
rival the Galapagos Islands. Baylor defeats MSU (Michigan State University) for
the women’s college basketball championship.

 

Becky Zerlentes took a shot to a head in the third
round of a womens’ boxing match, staggered forward , collapsed, and died. She
was the wife of a Colorado professor, a karate instructor, among other things.
Miami Heat have clinched the top spot in their division for the playoffs on the
same night that the Lakers were eliminated from contention.

 

The line to see the 
pope is over one mile long and takes 12 hours to get to see the body of
the former pope. Peter Jennings has been diagnosed with lung cancer and is due
to begin chemotherapy but will continue to anchor ABC News as much as he can.

 

Johnny Cochran funeral today. A New York Lawer accused
of abusing foster children, killed himself as the jury was still deciding a
verdict. Andrew Dunn, age 40 , was accused of sodomy on a ten year old and a
fourteen year old boy.

 Michael
Jacksons’ former security guard told jurors that he witnessed Michael Jackson
performing oral sex on a ten year old boy who later received a financial
settlement from the pop star. The defense attacked security guard Ralph Chacon
as making the whole thing up, to get even with the singer, and said the other
witness Adrian McManus is a thief and a liar.

 

He accused Chacon 
of trying to extort 16 million from Jackson in a lawsuit, which he,
Chacon, and McManus (a former Jackson maid), lost. They ended up paying Jackson
1.4 million after the 6 month trial. McManus also testified that she saw Jackson
kiss McCauley’s cheek while his (Jackson’s) hand was on McCauley’s bottom.
McManus an d her husband were also found in a lawsuit to have defrauded three
children of more than $30,500 from their estate, and in the Jackson case she
(McManus) was fined $30,000 for stealing a sketch of Elvis Presley drawn by
Michael Jackson. She said she found it in the trash and didn’t think it was
worth anything. Berlin Art Museum is holding a live nude exhibit, with
live  females nudes in various poses. Two
men trying to cross the Bering Strait to set a new record were stranded on an
ice flow and had to be rescued.

 

Italian Restaurant Buca di Beppo in the United States
has already begun removing the busts of 
Pogpe John Paul II from their restaurants. State Supreme Court in
Washington announced a two year suspension for attorney caught having jail
house sex with her client, a triple –murder defendant. Theresa Olson’s
suspension begins Friday. IN 2002 guards outside a ______ County Jail saw Olsen  with her dress pulled up and her client
Sebestian_____ Byrnes(?) standing behind her with his pants down. At the time
Olson was age 43 and married. Byrnes was 26. He was convicted last year of
beating a friends sister and parents to death in 1994.

 

April 8, 2005

 

They quote Bush as saying he disagrees with Clintons
assessment of the Pope as having left a “mixed legacy.” Woman who washed her
head in a stream got a leech up her nostril. Man at an airport in Australia (?)
had a camel uniform in his luggage suddenly saw a baggage handler for Quantas
wearing it.

 

34 year old high school math teacher was arrested after
two female students  said he served them
vodka drinks and smoked marijuana with them at his house. Michael Zieman showed
the gals how he grew marijuana in his garage, a Sarasota County sheriff’s
report said. They found a skeleton of a mammoth elephant in Moorpark, 50 miles
west of Los Angeles—75% complete with tusks up to eight/nine feet long. The
tusks are believed to be between 400,000 and 1.4 million years old. Scientists
create remote control fruit flies using some sort of laser light to trigger the
neurons.

 

April 9, 2005

 

Montana becomes the second to last state to ban open
alcohol containers while driving. Mississippi still allows it, in parts. Arthur
Finkelstein, a prominent Republican consultant, said he married his male
partner in civil ceremony  in
Massachussets.

 

One of the “Minutemen” volunteers patrolling the border
in Arizona caught a immigrant sneaking across and made him pose with a t-shirt
saying, “I snuck across the border and all I got was this lousy t-shirt”With
six games left in the season, the Cavaliers are tied with Philadelphia for the
number seven playoff spot in the east. Lebron James had a triple double, 10
assists, 10 rebounds, and 40 points.

 

Jane Goodall who is best known for her work with
primates now wants to see the exotic deers in Pt Reyes National Seashoore
saved, 40 miles north of San Francisco. The park is proposing to kill about
1000 of the non-native deer using shotgun and contraceptives. Two pandas at San
Diego Zoo were successfully mated a day ago. Researchers detected live sperm in
Bai Yun’s urine. Female pandas are in heat for only a day or two per year. Less
than two dozen pandas are kept in captivity outside China. About 1600 still
live wild in China while 200 are in captivity in China. All offspring of pandas
“borrowed” from China must  be returned
to the country when they reach maturity. Ariel Sharon, prime minister of
Israel,  is coming to visit Bush at his
ranch.

 

 

Tiger Woods is four strokes behind Di Marco at the
Masters with 27 holes to go on Sunday. Update: Tiger Woods is leading at the
Masters by three strokes over Di-Marco , at 4:30 pm. Eastern time. Tiger has a
two stroke lead over DiMarco Tiger Woods wins Masters with a birdie in the
playoff hole, the first playoff hole. Moose in Massachusssets getting hit by
cars more often.

 

Three college students killed in a Miami of Ohio house
fire. Undersea earthquake near Sumatra—no damage, no tsunami. 1000’s of
villagers rioted  in Eastern China
injuring dozens of police after 2  of
about 200 elderly women were killed by police during a protest over factory
pollution.

 

Rioting in Huan Kan Tou Village in the wealthy coastal
province  of Zhejiang  coincided with violent anti Japanese protest
…in Chinas capitol Bejing. 50 police were injured and rushed to hospitals, with
five listed in critical condition. Two women were run over by police cars.

 

Smugglers have recently killed at least 50 bald eagles
in Canada, and as many as 500 annually in southwestern British Columbia.
Smugglers sell the Eagles body parts on the black market  Man with two black suitcases may have
explosive at the Capitol Bldg in Wash DC.

 

The mother of one of Jackson’s accusers testified that
Jackson begged her at one point to allow him to sleep with her son, and after
she acquiesced, she received lavish gifts. The defense attorney asked her about
being counter-sued for extortion but she said she knew nothing about that, and
that they never paid Jackson any money. The woman said her son is now 25 and
she has not spoken to him in eleven years. Jackson stayed at the residence of
this lady and her son “more than 30 times.”The mother testified that they
stayed in “her son’s bedroom.”

 

It cost 700000 dollars to build that giant thermometer
in Baker CA or NV. At one point , shortly after it was built—it was knocked
over by high winds… so they rebuilt it reinforced with concrete. It was built
in 1991.

 

Man from China with no ID, had two black suitcases, was
asking to speak with President Bush… the police thought he might have a bomb,
took the suitcases, blew up one,,,discovered it was only a CD player.. the man
was arrested, and did not resist Oysters from Chesapeake Bay used to account
for half of the oyster harvest, but today only 3 percent are taken from the
Chesapeake. .. but new breeding experiments may increase the crop.

 

Mt. Thalang  in
Indonesia near where the tsunami hit is nearing eruption or at least highly
active or turbulent…

Andre Lopez Obrador—the mayor of Mexico City and
challenger to the President Vicent Fox in the upcoming election is in jail due
to a land dispute—and now says he wants to stay there. Mexico has just become
democratic in 2000 and this places in question the honesty of the intentions to
be truly democratic. Ariel Sharon from Israel is meeting with Bush at his ranch
discussing the upcoming planned withdrawal from the Westbank and Gaza Strip—21
settlements in Gaza and 4 in the West Bank. Pornography pioneer
Goldstein—founder of Screw Magazine after going from millionaire to being on
the street homeless.. and working at a bagel shop is now back in pornography as
a marketing director for XonDemand.Com—an internet pornography site.

Wisconsin is trying to pass a bill to allow the
shooting of wild cats—already allowed in Minnesota & South Dakota—they say
these cats kill millions of Song Birds every year. They kill up to over 100
million Songerbirds per year. A Beluga Whale was found in the Delaware River
near Trenton New Jersey—having had to swim past Philadelphia to get there. Mike
Tyson, 50-5-5 is going to fight Irishman Kevin McBride.. Tyson has lost his
last two The Mother of Michael Jacksons accuser pled the 5th amendment in
regards to welfare payments she received—the defense suggesting she committed
welfare fraud

 

April 14, 2005

 

Mother of the Jackson accuser testified that she
observed Jackson licking her son’s head on the flight from Miami to Los
Angeles. Man by the name Gerhard Haderer made a comic book about Jesus Christ
being a drinking buddy of Jimmi Hendrix and a marijuana smoking naked surfer
–the comic book was originally considered to be malicious public blasphemy and
the book was banned, and he was given a six month suspended sentence, but the
appeals court over-turned the decision saying it was not blasphemy

 

New bill to put a state tax on prostitution is being
proposed. Proposal to legalize killing of feral cats in Wisconsin is not going
to succeed said the governor .

 

Cloned cattle are found to be almost identical in terms
of meat & milk as the natural cows, but they haven’t tried eating them yet.

 

A Teacher, Linda Walker, age 48,  was jailed for six months for firing a
starters pistol at the ground to scare a few alleged teen vandals… she’s now on
a hunger strike, good for her. She described the kids as a “gang of yobs.” She
had received nuisance phone calls, her garden shed had been broken into, and a
car and a garden had been vandalized. Her husband

 

John Cavanaugh said her wife is refusing to eat and was
extremely disappointed she would not receive bail. She’s been in jail in
Manchester Crown Court since March 29 and is sentenced to six months. Rogers
Dept. Store in Wyoming MI is going out of business. Lord Shaftesbury was found
murdered, his third wife is a suspect. He was the 10th early of Shaftesbury,
his real name is Anthony Ashley–_________, found dead along the French Riviera
near Cannes.

 

Eric Rudolph pled guilty to the 1996 Olympic blast in
Atlanta—he appeared in two courts today… Atlanta & Birmingham…he confessed to
planting the nail bombs… which killed two people and wounded more than 150
others.  Under a plea bargain  to admitting guilty , prosecutors agreed to
drop the death penalty, and will be sentenced to multiple terms of life in
prison without parole. Rudolph  said that
the U.S. Government tolerance towards abortion was the driving force behind
three of the four bombings. He was on the run for five years before he was
caught in 2003. He said the 4th attack 
on July 27 was to “confound, anger, and Embarrassment the U.S.
Government in the eyes of the world for its abominable sanctioning of abortion
on demand”, saying Bush was a coward for failing to put an end to the practice.
He  expressed no remorse for the bombings
that exploded outside an abortion clinic in Sandy Springs, Georgia, in 1997 and
one in Birmingham .

 

Howard Sanderson, an off-duty police officer, was
killed in the explosion in Birmingham. Emily Lyons, a nurse was blinded and
disfigured…others suffered hearing loss & various injuries, after the Sandy
Springs blast. His distaste for gay rights was his rationale for the final
bombing –the 1997 explosion  at the
Otherside Lounge—a lesbian establishment in Atlanta Georgia. Some think that
persons in Western North Carolina helped him hide from the law for several
years, a strong anti-government area .

 

Prosecutors were afraid that the jury in Alabama, which
has a significant number of Christians opposed to abortion would not sentence
Rudolph to death—so they decided to bargain with Rudolph.