Germany could well be
the fly in the ointment that prevents any President of the United States from
solidifying a solid front against Putin’s aggression in Ukraine. In fact Germany and China have this close
trade symbotic partnership that verges on a brother and sister “bromance”. Germany needs to generate exports, and China
appears happy to receive Germany’s exports just as they are reluctant to take
any of ours. The Chinese admire the
German technology and are particularly intent on acquiring German machinery and
autos. Unlike here in the United States,
the German people don’t see the reason why the Berlin wall fell in November of
1989 because President Reagan said “Tear down this wall” in a speech or was
militarily tough with the Soviets threatening with the Stratigic Defense
Initiative or “Star Wars”. The German
people are more nieve than I dared believe if they think “an appeal to mutual
friendship” is what got the Berlin wall to come down and their country
reunified after thirty years. But if the
German people have undergone such a massive brainwashing- - then it’s pretty
hopeless because without their key cooporation, nothing that NATO revolves to
do will have any teeth in it anyhow.
Meanwhile the bloodshed and combat only gets worse in Eastern Ukraine by
the day, and the day gets closer and closer when Putin will decide to dispense
with all pretense and move Russian tanks in there.
To
do a blog post today seems almost redundant because I’d just be saying the same
things I said yesterday, but perhaps in a different, more creative way. For instance people say that “Christian
conservatives are by nature generous” and yet I can’t get the quote out of my
mind from the Rev Gene Scott years ago who said “No, I don’t really care that
much about seeing the church give to the poor; that’s the government’s job”. Gene Scott and Rush care in common a mutual
revulsion for the poor as a class and Gene will even mock the saying of St Paul
in the Bible of “Remember the poor”.
Gene Scott and Rush Limbaugh both have an utter contempt and distrust of
women, and both also share a general disrespect for children. Rush calls them “Young skulls full of mush”. Gene regards anyone under twelve as “too
young to be exposed to the principles of Christianity” and so omits religion
entirely and has these little bus excoursions planned for them to a California
mission or some other historical site to “keep them entertained”. Not only is Paul Ryan a follow of Ayan rand-
- who is a hypocrite in addition to her general life of depravity- - happy to
accept government payments while all the time criticizing others for it. Clarence Thomas will climb up the ladder of
affirmative action and then pull up the rungs of the ladder after him so that
no others who come after him cal follow.
Gene regards one quote of Cecil Rhodes as particularly dangerous, when
he speaks of “Implementing the principles of the sermon on the mount into
governmental policy”. And Gene also disdains
the quote of John Kennedy in a speech of “A free society that will not help the
many who are poor - - cannot save the few who are Rich”. Dad liked that one. I did not know that yesterday saw an all time
high in the stock market. But I’ll be
perfectly to continually taunt all of you people who invested in gold waiting
for that big run up and just salivating for that anticipated Crash in the
market they convinced you was sure to come- - and I’ll be happy to do it for
months or longer. This news of an
all-time High in the markets - -is something that in former times the
Republicans would be bragging about. But
the President doesn’t brag now because the Republicans only refer to any sort
of self recognition as “spiking the ball in the end zone” like when Bin Laden
was captured and killed almost three years ago tonight. The Republicans, as it were “have this
President well trained” not to highlight his victories even when it’s most
proper to do so. That was then the
President had his annual White House dinner for the press and gets pre written
humor material. When you’re big enough
you don’t have to BE cleaver- - you can hire out others to make you LOOK whitty
and cleaver. That’s their job.
I watched Hardball with
Chris Matthews talking about how strangely the Republicans always react upon
good economic news. In my opinion these
Republicans will be strangled on their own talking points, because that’s all
they’ve got, and after a while the same platitudes get downright stale. Take Mort Zuckerman’s “eternal pessimism”
about how the economy is primed for a major nosedive – which he’s been saying
continually now for two years. Of course
FOX news tells virtually nothing but lies.
But this isn’t a single talking point; this is a hundred of them. Just like when Rush Limbaugh claims that this
recovery has only averaged a hundred thousand new jobs per month. These tea party people claimed when the
health care sign up level was not yet five million that “No way can they ever
make seven million before the deadline”, when in fact they exceded eight million. Or Rush again claiming that “the books were
cooked on economic growth just before the election of 2012”. These economic growth figures were revised,
all right. They were revised
UPWARD. But there is an interesting
statistic Chris Matthews brought forth.
75% of those whole are optimistic about the future of the economy have a
“firm resolve to vote in 2014” whereas for those whose confidence is low on the
economy – only just over fifty percent say they’ll vote. So the Republican’s mission is clear. Just keep talking down the economy. But they have worked themselves into a trap
because they continually say “This economy is entirely President Obama’s responsibility”. Therefore if the economy should continue to
accelerate in the next six months and unemployment dip into the five and
something percent figure- - these same Republicans will have no one to turn to
as an excuse for their own - - - foolishness.
I caught the first two long segments of Thursday’s show after
lunch. President Clinton continues to be
a talented speech maker, whether Hillary Clinton runs or not. We had chicken nuggets and barbecue sauce for
lunch. We had potato salad- - and tomato
soup - - and a banana. I also watched
some of Friday’s Bill Press show and I must say Bill even with the skip option
at the ready, puts an amazing amount of stall and promo and fluff in his show,
but after five there was this guy I wanted to listen to.
It was Chef Ramsey and
another kitchen horror story. It wasn’t
quite as ghastly as the previous week, but the content of the plate did look
like something someone had barfed up, and apparently it tasted little better. At nine was Shark Tank. I watched the flower delivery guy and then
the magic tape that eliminates wrinkles on your face presentation. Both of these were deemed properly as duds
and the offers were turned down by everybody.
I dozed off after this and the next thing I know it was pushing a
quarter to ten and I retired. But I woke
just before three and suddenly had financial anxieties. I smoked a cigarette out on the patio and I
was alone. It was amazingly mild out
there for that time of night. I then got
busy with the math and kept at it counting change, till the numbers added up,
which they finally did. But by now Bill
had turned on the TV and seemed intent on watching one of these Open House
things. Then he said I could turn it off
because he thought it was a lot later than it was. Unfortunately it still took me time to get to
sleep, if I even did.
Everybody who tries to say that the doctrine of Predestination Doesn't relieve a person of "Personal Responsibility for his actions" fails to understand the logic of Calvinism. The Apostle Paul for instance, said for each of us to "reckon ourselves as Dead". Let me ask you a question. Are the Dead responsible for the things the do- - that is- - that they do After they Die? Of course not. They're dead. They can't do anything. Not to quote the Bible or anything but it says "The Dead know nothing". But always, always with these people is the notion that "It doesn't Matter whether you are included or excluded or not because if you try to be good- - reely reely hard! - - you can convince God to override whatever plans he had intended for you. However if I may invoke my dead father on this one, Dad once said 'God has an infinite ammount of time to consider each and every prayer of everybody in the whole world". I don't know about you but I had an Infinite ammount of time to weight every single possibility and permutation of my actions - - I highly doubt I'd change my ruling just because someone said at the last minute "Oh please- - pleeeze - - I really Want to go to Heaven". But Neil of KFI should consider this also. One person might say of me "You spend too much time thinking about what God wants" and another may say "You don't spend enough time thinking about God". One may call a particular action "dangerous co-dependancy" what another observing the SAME action might call it "Passive rebellion" or something. Rick Nelson said it long ago "You can't please everybody, so you've got to please yourself. After all, You are the one who has to live with You - - All The Time! And as I said about those who speak of predestination is "Only making a very good guess" are deluded because I have given examples where even I don't know what I'll do or decide when a particular moment arrives, and if I don't know- - how can anyone else? Neil has this- - Egocentric view of life that claims that if I just grit my teeth and have a reely reely firm resolve to do or accomplishes- - then any conceivable circumstance- - even ones I have no idea are Out There- - can be thus Overcome. Neil is a fool!
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