January 25, 2005 journal, 30 Marines die in a helicopter crash in Iraq today accidentally.

Like the city of Las Vegas there is nothing good to report about the war in Iraq, only that all is bad and sad. Tell me something good that I can paint about Las Vegas. A requested

painting and approved 10 x16 feet wherein I will paint the Bride of Christ with Las Vegas

underneath, if I can establish the proper separation between good and evil. Christ will be coming on a white horse with the new Heaven following and the saints of God rising up in orbit to meet Him. Meanwhile down below those involved in the sin of gambling, worldly mindedness and drunkenness will be continuing their affairs staying in Las Vegas until the destruction of God overtakes them. The saints of God will be rising from a global position while sin city is shown as local and no doubt the most lustful or hellish place on the earth. This is really the opportunity of a lifetime for an artist to reveal the separation of good and bad. What we consider as good the mentality of Vegas considers bad, what we consider bad the Vegas mentality considers as good. What is offensive to us is unoffensive to them. This has been a monstrous challenge for me but I am determined to paint it with my soul. Nothing is mentioned about The Donald's age in the Great wedding party in Palm Beach as he takes his 3rd wife. "In the last days they will be marrying and giving in marriage". Smoking kills Johnny Carson who was somewhat worshipped for his dry wit on the late show. It does not take much to entertain people who have loose minds and empty brains. The Mitchell building downtown was condemned by the city, taken by eminent domain. The money wrecking ball had to hit it eight times to knock off one corner showing that the $ condemnation was a shame; the city needed it to spend more money building a stair way down. The Jesse Jackson march on Main Street against the County Council holiday effort for MLK holiday was considered a failure. The Communist Party handed out fliers promoting revolution entitle "The battle for the future will the fought from here forward!" I now quote the first paragraph of it-"Straight up-Bush and his people aren’t just ordinary Republicans, and they're not ordinary Christians either. They are Christian fascist dangerous fanatics who aim to make the U.S. a religious dictatorship and to force this upon the world. If they get their way-and they are very far along the road to getting it-society will be plunged into a high-tech dark ages. Those who compare Bush to Hitler are right! But, don't be waiting for people wearing little mustaches and marching the Nazi goose-step to come to your town. This brand of fascism is coming differently, and it is coming straight from the White House. People say, they couldn’t, no they just wouldn't strip away classic U.S. democracy and plunge us into fascism. But let’s see what they’ve done ... and what they plan to do. Bush believes he’s “on a mission from God", and so do his cronies, Army General William Boykin recently declared that the Iraqi people were the “Face of Satan”, that the Christian God was the only true and “real” God, and that “God himself" put Bush in the White House. He said all this publicly and in uniform, no less-and after people protested it, Boykin was promoted. Over the years these Christian Fascist have dug in at every level of the courts, the army and Congress. But now they plan to go further, moving more thoroughly into the highest levels of power. Supreme Court Justice, Scalia and other highly placed Republicans want to wipe out the separation of church and state, and use government to support and enforce religious belief. B-u-s-h has launched a worldwide "crusade" In the name of “good verses evil", he killed tens of thousands of people in Iraq, and maybe more-and still war rages. In the name of “fighting terror” he justifies torturing people in prisons like Guantanamo and murdering wounded prisoners in Iraq”.