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.
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