Both sides in the conflict over Gaza have got to put down their arms and negotiate. Israel has overreacted grossly to a problem of a few off the mark rockets landing in Israeli space. They responded to wasting vast portions of densly inhabited Gaza including the bombing of a University and the deaths of over 360 Palistinians. I've heard the arguments from the right that Palistinians are nothing more than rogue Arabs who are "squatters" on Israeli soil. Of course the Palistinians have lived in the land for two thousand years and the Israelis have been there a little over sixty. To me that's a big "no contest". The argument has been raised if Israel didn't exist there would be a lot more youth unrest in Arab countries because the poor in Arab nations who got the shaft and aren't among the rich- - always have the Israeli to blame for everything. Some say that bombing of Gaza (and now they are massing tanks for a ground invasion) is actually a recruiting tool for Arabs to use in cultivating extremism. But the reality is that I don't believe the vast majority of the citizens of Gaza are members of Hammas. They just want to be left alone in peace. President elect Obama risks being pegged as just another tool of the Israeli lobby if he doesn't get off the dime and show a little compassion for the Palistinians. Jimmy Carter seems to be the only ex president who really understands what it's like to be a Palistinian in the mideast. The whole area including the west bank and Gaza is like a gigantic inturnment camp where the people have few rights, and need permission to pass from one region to another and where essentials like heat and water can be cut off at will. It's been noted that Isrial newspapers have shown more dissenting views than our own newspapers such as the New York Times, when it comes to opposing our own governments foray into a "War of choice". No newspaper or network outlet was the least inclined to attack Bush for the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. As Chris Matthews put it, "We are all hawks now". Basically the Arab nations don't care about the Palistinians because most of them such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia are in our back pocket anyhow. It sadens me to think that here is another area where President Obama is going to disappoint the Progressives, who are responsable for his winning the Election.
We have that guy dressed in a Santa Clause suit who came to a family gathering of his estranged wive's relatives and wasted the whole party, killing nine and leaving many grandchildren as orphans. You all know the story. He had cash with him and explosives in the car and was intending to escape to Canada except something went wrong and when he burned the house down he suffered burns himself so instead decided to comit suicide. He was 45 and a church goer who had a girlfriend in 2002 who said she left him because he refused to support his own disabeled son. Nobody who attended church with him suspected him of being a potential mass killer. If there is a Hell, then this man surely made a swift descent thence after his death.
Johnny Wendell doesn't mind that the Obama girls, Shasha amd Melique are now objects of the paperatzi. Apparently there are photos of the girls wearing bekinis in Hawaiiai. We never saw Chelsea in a bekini. She was well protected. I believe children should be protected from the paperatzi even if they are children of public figures. President Obama seems to be cultivating some of this photographic voyerism himself. Photographers would not be able to get that close to get shots of him unless he allowed it. As I have often said- - I hope that the Obama presidency will be noted something besides Berock Obama having rock star status. I would hope it would be known for reestablishing our historic progressive march forward in this country.
Apparently people who take the virginity pledge are no more likely to stay virgins than the general population. I have known many Christian couples that apparently were virgins on their wedding night, so I know (or at least "think") that it's possible. The whole idea of putting virginity on a pedistal is so "two centuries ago". This was back in the era when women were regarded as property and a woman losing her virginity meant her price went down. Dr. Laura may want to foster some idea of sexual purety. But many of Laura's ideas put women back into the dreaded role of being "sexual objects" and there for the sheer pleasure of a man and somehow not a real person. I'll tell you right now in the case of relational problem or divorce cases I have a natural bias to side in favor of the woman, because they are usually right. Let's face it- - men are jerks. We still have trouble seeing women as "people" - - you know- - like we value ourselves. Many of Dr. Laura's ideas perpetuate the idea of one dimensional view of women as nothing more than glorified whores, and house cleaners, and human incubators and nannies. Men actually deprive themselves by not fully appreciating their wives.
Delany of Delany and Bonnie, died the other day. His guardian angel visited me- - and this has happened several times where I was visited by a guardian angel after someone famous died. Delany is a pure Romulan and a citizen of Revelus V by right. John Lennon was apparently happy to see another musition from "that era" there on Sirius A. Apparently the reason why we don't get better "messages out" from John Lennon is that he suffers from depression. Some people even when they are in the same room it's hard to tell what is going on inside the recesses of their mind. The title "Stop the Killing" was my own idea although the phrase is used in the song "Freda People". John Lennon has not expressed an oppinion (that I know of) on the current mideast situation. The guardian angel of Delany told me quite a bit of other stuff and he suggested I make everything public because "If you found it interesting then your readers will probably find it interesting, too". I've known that Delany was a Romulan and destined to be among them when he died as far back as 1971 or so. Of course I'll be up front with you. I still have my doubts as to whether anyone of any stripe susvives death at all.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Vice President Chaney says, "I Did It"
Vice President Dick Chaney or "Cheeney" as he says he really pronounces it, has admitted to all the stuff he's responsible for including the idea of commencing torture of suspects and the outing of CIA opperative Valerie Wilson. These are treasonous acts. There is no getting around it. Both Dick Chaney and Karl Rove should be impeached as soon as the next congress conveins, which to my understanding is January 2nd. rather than the 20th. There has to be a way in which justice is upheld. After all, it's one of the Seven Virtues. A nation can't long exist if the guilty are allowed to go unpunished. We can start with these two and maybe deal with President Bush later. I know of no other time when such flagurant crimes as we have seen the past eight years would be winked at. To me and anybody else who is sensible it does no good to talk about "Letting the past go" any more than it would be to let some civil rights case such as a racial murder to unpunished merely because of the passage of time. We round up terrorists who were active thirty years ago but who have gone underground and are living normal lives now. We can certainly in the case of Dick Chaney and Karl Rove call a spade a spade and judge it accordingly. It is Christians themselves who say that any human being can "forgive a wrong" but God Almighty cannot due this because his sense of justice would be violated. Of course a logical outcome of this reasoning calling injustice a "thing" like money that can be traded rather than as a sin of the soul is the selling of indulgences during the middle ages. In my way of thinking Chaney and Rove cannot "buy an indulgence" after the fact by consessing their sins. How a nation deals with wrong in my way of thinking- - determines what sort of justice a nation values. I await the response of the audience on this.
Jerry Brown, Attorney General of California, has filed a brief in court to have the anti gay marriage proposition in California overturned. The reason is that fundamental rights cannot be voted out of existance. As I've noted before Proposition 14 forty years ago dealt with this same question and the courts decided then that voters would not vote rights away by a simple majority. I don't see anything but a favorible outcome for Jerry Brown. It's also a legal fact that things once legal are not automatically rendered illegal. There is a case in "The Bretherin" involging segragation that irked me but I'll tell you about it. There was a case about a guy leaving a Park to the city or someone with the stipulation that it would only be used by white people. Well of course the law changed, but according to the Supreme Court this was a violatioln of the man's express Will when he died, so remedial action had to be taken. Also in the case of building codes there are lots of instances of buildings not coming up to earthquake standards or handicapped standards or whatever or building too close to the property line. But settled law is these buildings are OK, unless new building is done. Using identical logic, I don't see how gay marriages in this state can be made null and void as much as some would like them to be, because such voiding would be against all legal precident.
I lay in bed this morning "thinking of things you're not supposed to think about". I thought of how both of the wives of my brother had brothers who committed suicide. People don't talk about so-called "loved ones who commit suicide". It's as if somehow the incident as well as the person themselves just never existed. I thought of Homer Simpson and a question I'd like to ask him. "How do you feel about the fact that due to your direct parental influence, all three of your children will grow up with an IQ 15 to 20 points lower than they otherwise would. I thought of how today's young kids are nurtured and "built up" both mentally and emotionally in a way we never were. I thought what it would be like on Christmas day to come out with the statement at a family gathering "Well, I guess Christianity is pretty much D O A this year". I've only received one Christmas card this year and that wasn't sent through the mail but given to me by a friend here. These "hard times" are in the process of killing Christmas. Perhaps this is part of a trend if this recession continues, where Christmas itself will just "wither away on the vine".
I'l like to call this paragraph, "The perals of false hope". People have high hopes for the Rev. Rick Warren that by being invited to preach at the Inogural of Obama that somehow his position on gays will soften. They should be made aware, so I've heard, that Rick Warren does not allow gays to join his church, and I would assume that means confessing Jesus at the alter. Also Rick Warren believes if you haven't "accepted Jesus" you will go to everlasting hell. Furthermore Rev. Warren believes in only two causes for divorce, either desertion or adultry. Abuse, either mental or physical- no matter how bad it gets- - is not sufficient grounds. I have heard many a preacher talk about praying for a backslidden (?) wife or husband for God to change his or her behavior. But you can't do that if you're dead. You may also want to know that these new Bush regulations will enable pharmicists to not fill a prescription for birth control pills or the morning after pill or as Thom Hartman says- - even get anti-biotics if you're a Christian Scientist or whatever. I don't see how in the bi-polar world of fundamentalism that anti-biotics could be a bad thing. It would seem to me they'd be agents of Christ fighting the devil. You know when they do a murder trial that's a capital case, they screen the jourors to make sure they were willing to impose the death penalty. As such if OJ Simpson had had such a jury his chances of conviction would have been much improved. You don't send passifists to the front line. And there are certain areas of medical science where Bush's new rules should not be allowed to interfere. Some would liken getting saved to coming into a dark room and eventually finding the light switch and switching it on. You may not understand how electricity works, but you don't have to, all you need to do is find the switch. Gene Scott likens salvation for some to trying on your grand dad's old glasses and wearing those, while others need to go down to where the lanzes were ground and watch how it's done. But the bottom line this presupposes that either set of glasses help you. But if you're a Jehovah's Witness and need a blood transfusion but are denied one because hospital policy forbids it- - this is patently wrong. Some people in looking at the Rev. Rick Warren make what I call the "slop-over" falocy. It's like a black hole. What you do with a black hole is say everything inside the circle is one thing, like Salvation, and everything outside is the state of perdition. Some would have it that if you "merely near the circle- - well this is OK because you're somehow in its influence". That isn't how black holes work. The edge of space occurrs in the black hole when light cannot escape. This is literally "the end of space" meaning there ain't no more. To paraphraise Gene Scott, "It's as hard to get out of this universe once you're in it as it is to get into it in the first place. There is no "slop-over effect" with Black Holes. The other side of the circled line around a black hole is "beyond infinity" as far as sheer distances are concerned. In other words "You can't get there from here" going either direction. In like manner once you are a Christian you can't be NOT one merely being "exposed to another message". You've heard the saying "Christianity is caught, not taught". You can't catch a disease by talking about getting it. Also there is another dirty little secret they'll admit. Christians are bold in large numbers but cowards as individuals. The whole idea of a Cult is to emerse the subject in religion so in his eyes "everybody is doing it. What's wrong with me?" As such no Christian places very much hope at all in somehow "witnessing their faith" like at a Presidential Inoguration. "You can't get there from here". The only thing this event proves of Warren appearing at the Inoguration is that Obama will do anything to win the approval of the Right Wing, which of course they will never give him, so it's a lost cause on Obama's part.
Jerry Brown, Attorney General of California, has filed a brief in court to have the anti gay marriage proposition in California overturned. The reason is that fundamental rights cannot be voted out of existance. As I've noted before Proposition 14 forty years ago dealt with this same question and the courts decided then that voters would not vote rights away by a simple majority. I don't see anything but a favorible outcome for Jerry Brown. It's also a legal fact that things once legal are not automatically rendered illegal. There is a case in "The Bretherin" involging segragation that irked me but I'll tell you about it. There was a case about a guy leaving a Park to the city or someone with the stipulation that it would only be used by white people. Well of course the law changed, but according to the Supreme Court this was a violatioln of the man's express Will when he died, so remedial action had to be taken. Also in the case of building codes there are lots of instances of buildings not coming up to earthquake standards or handicapped standards or whatever or building too close to the property line. But settled law is these buildings are OK, unless new building is done. Using identical logic, I don't see how gay marriages in this state can be made null and void as much as some would like them to be, because such voiding would be against all legal precident.
I lay in bed this morning "thinking of things you're not supposed to think about". I thought of how both of the wives of my brother had brothers who committed suicide. People don't talk about so-called "loved ones who commit suicide". It's as if somehow the incident as well as the person themselves just never existed. I thought of Homer Simpson and a question I'd like to ask him. "How do you feel about the fact that due to your direct parental influence, all three of your children will grow up with an IQ 15 to 20 points lower than they otherwise would. I thought of how today's young kids are nurtured and "built up" both mentally and emotionally in a way we never were. I thought what it would be like on Christmas day to come out with the statement at a family gathering "Well, I guess Christianity is pretty much D O A this year". I've only received one Christmas card this year and that wasn't sent through the mail but given to me by a friend here. These "hard times" are in the process of killing Christmas. Perhaps this is part of a trend if this recession continues, where Christmas itself will just "wither away on the vine".
I'l like to call this paragraph, "The perals of false hope". People have high hopes for the Rev. Rick Warren that by being invited to preach at the Inogural of Obama that somehow his position on gays will soften. They should be made aware, so I've heard, that Rick Warren does not allow gays to join his church, and I would assume that means confessing Jesus at the alter. Also Rick Warren believes if you haven't "accepted Jesus" you will go to everlasting hell. Furthermore Rev. Warren believes in only two causes for divorce, either desertion or adultry. Abuse, either mental or physical- no matter how bad it gets- - is not sufficient grounds. I have heard many a preacher talk about praying for a backslidden (?) wife or husband for God to change his or her behavior. But you can't do that if you're dead. You may also want to know that these new Bush regulations will enable pharmicists to not fill a prescription for birth control pills or the morning after pill or as Thom Hartman says- - even get anti-biotics if you're a Christian Scientist or whatever. I don't see how in the bi-polar world of fundamentalism that anti-biotics could be a bad thing. It would seem to me they'd be agents of Christ fighting the devil. You know when they do a murder trial that's a capital case, they screen the jourors to make sure they were willing to impose the death penalty. As such if OJ Simpson had had such a jury his chances of conviction would have been much improved. You don't send passifists to the front line. And there are certain areas of medical science where Bush's new rules should not be allowed to interfere. Some would liken getting saved to coming into a dark room and eventually finding the light switch and switching it on. You may not understand how electricity works, but you don't have to, all you need to do is find the switch. Gene Scott likens salvation for some to trying on your grand dad's old glasses and wearing those, while others need to go down to where the lanzes were ground and watch how it's done. But the bottom line this presupposes that either set of glasses help you. But if you're a Jehovah's Witness and need a blood transfusion but are denied one because hospital policy forbids it- - this is patently wrong. Some people in looking at the Rev. Rick Warren make what I call the "slop-over" falocy. It's like a black hole. What you do with a black hole is say everything inside the circle is one thing, like Salvation, and everything outside is the state of perdition. Some would have it that if you "merely near the circle- - well this is OK because you're somehow in its influence". That isn't how black holes work. The edge of space occurrs in the black hole when light cannot escape. This is literally "the end of space" meaning there ain't no more. To paraphraise Gene Scott, "It's as hard to get out of this universe once you're in it as it is to get into it in the first place. There is no "slop-over effect" with Black Holes. The other side of the circled line around a black hole is "beyond infinity" as far as sheer distances are concerned. In other words "You can't get there from here" going either direction. In like manner once you are a Christian you can't be NOT one merely being "exposed to another message". You've heard the saying "Christianity is caught, not taught". You can't catch a disease by talking about getting it. Also there is another dirty little secret they'll admit. Christians are bold in large numbers but cowards as individuals. The whole idea of a Cult is to emerse the subject in religion so in his eyes "everybody is doing it. What's wrong with me?" As such no Christian places very much hope at all in somehow "witnessing their faith" like at a Presidential Inoguration. "You can't get there from here". The only thing this event proves of Warren appearing at the Inoguration is that Obama will do anything to win the approval of the Right Wing, which of course they will never give him, so it's a lost cause on Obama's part.
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