(Now be honest, was there even one whose heart pumps with the essence of America blood who did not yearn mightily that the dance of the righteous triumph--the Dance of King David himself? Oh no, not a single one! In God We Trust is indeed our motto.) Psalm 30:11-12 (CJB) 11 (10) Hear me, Adonai, and show me your favor! Adonai, be my helper!” 12 (11) You turned my mourning into dancing! You removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy...
A White Guy Once Rhetorically Warmed Our Hearts from a True American Hymnbook \
Jefferson's "original Rough draught" is on exhibit in the Library of Congress.[4] This version was used by Julian Boyd to create a transcript of Jefferson's draft,[5] which reads: "We hold these truths to be sacred [and] undeniable; that all men are created equal [and] independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent [and] inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, [and] liberty, [and] the pursuit of happiness." The Committee of Five edited Jefferson's draft. Their version survived further edits by the whole Congress intact, and reads: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."[6]
The law of non-contradiction is a rule of logic. It states that if something is true, then the opposite of it is false. For example, if an animal is a cat, the same animal cannot be not a cat. Or, stated in logic, if +p, then not -p, +p cannot be -p at the same time and in the same sense. The law was stated as a principle of mathematical logic by Russell and Whitehead in Principia Mathematica.[1] ( Wikipedia )
In the Libertarian College at Looney Tunes University the Exalted Supreme Wise and All-Knowing strongly assert equal and independent individuals (like me and maybe you) enjoy the sacred and undeniable fact of absolute Liberty without which life is not worth living and happiness is impossible. They grandly assert that individuals always have free choice—if caught in a corner not unlike the free choice the Nazis graciously provided the Jews (change your DNA or die). In America the Highly Profitable Sin Enterprise Sector with full complicity of Government holds most fervently and patriotically while fully enraptured within the folds of the American flag that: EVERY INDIVIDUAL MUST HAVE THE FREE CHOICE AND UNALIENABLE RIGHT to drink freely from a flask of strychnine and to after chase it with a sweeping leap off the roof of a 50 story building. This De profundis and deeply profound understanding of the free-choice doctrine is reverently and sacredly endorsed and--beyond that--fervently enrooted by passion so pure and intense as to give birth to secret roving rag-tag armed militias (thanks 2nd Amendment) invigorated by the vital spirit and venerable heritage of all the good folks within the KKK.
The American President most essentially represents what an American would like to be like—whether quietly alone or in activities with others. In this regard, it is a false
choice--choose one and only one—whether we must choose to be a winner OR rather to play the game justly and fairly. "Cynic candy" says there is only one way—the cruel way of Me First. Those historians like Henry Kissinger understand the horrific inexorable returns of Pyrrhic victories.
********************* cynical adjective (Collins English Dictionary)
Distrustful or contemptuous of virtue, esp selflessness in
others; believing the worst of others, esp that all acts are selfish
Sarcastic; mocking
Showing contempt for accepted standards of behaviour, esp of
honesty or morality: the politician betrayed his promises in a cynical way
Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward. Job 5:7 (NIV)
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I have mentioned in past blogs two nagging conundrums. One is that introduced by my son’s Imam in one of his addresses at mosque services. Imam Wilmore Sadiki had recently read a book called Crossing the Road. In summary he reported the book detailed the lives and behaviors of certain key figures in several widely diverse religions. The thing all these leaders had in common was their proactive determination and willingness to “cross the road” (ideological, experiential, cultural divides) to meet others. What was the yeast that made such behavior remarkable and powerful? Marvin Sweat a retired United Methodist minister was well into his 90’s when he and I would run errands on Saturdays. We often would breakfast in popular restaurants, visit his tailor, stop by his dry cleaner, or shop for groceries at Publix. Our time together was always filled with my wonderment how he could strike up a conversation with total strangers whom after a few minutes of ice-breaking remarks would be willing to voice for my friend's consideration some major perplexing and/or painful personal challenges. This evening Connie and I were having dinner at Kristina's Cafe. A gracious young waitress named Tia today cracked the riddle that has haunted me for years. After pulling up a chair to talk with us a minute, Tia contributed the key observation that a sense of equality is spawn from informal, individually focused conversation. At its best, this conversation holds as pure happenstance and irrelevant any lurking hierarchical power while eliciting a compelling sense of mutual equality in which cagey and defensive small-talk rings sour and inappropriate. Equality becomes well-neigh reflexively the governing tone whose powerful currents permit honesty within a shared vulnerability. So, at last I now understand the operative factor for Marvin. It was an impelling sense of shared equality that subliminally communicated “You can trust me…I am a fellow mortal and will not be scandalously shocked nor will I judgmentally shun you aside for voicing your current perplexities.
The Necessity of Long-Term Rewards v The Tom-Foolery of Lusting Casino or....Just Why Christmas Is Worth Waiting for ?..... A long-term perspective encourages a patient and mutual investment in broadly positive, sustaining outcomes; whereas a sufficiently lustful short-term perspective can make us all beady-eyed bandits raping Black Friday Deals for all they're worth.
Matthew 5:43-48 (PHILLIPS) 43-45 “You have heard that it used to be said, ‘You shall love your neighbour’, and ‘hate your enemy’, but I tell you, Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Heavenly Father. For he makes the sun rise upon evil men as well as good, and he sends his rain upon honest and dishonest men alike. 46-48 For if you love only those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even tax-collectors do that! And if you exchange greetings only with your own circle, are you doing anything exceptional? Even the pagans do that much. No, you are to be perfect, like your Heavenly Father.
****************** ****************** Olympian Trump Political Bandits and Sanctimonious Holier-than-Thou Evangelical Snobs--Take Note! A note or two of patriotism and belief sincerely sung and enlivened by those outside your inbred coiffure hairdo huddles of on-the-cheap and cowardly patriotism and god-laced religiosity: (May it indeed be true that despite your see-on-my-sleeve rectitude and correctness you do not own nor monopolize all things worthy?)
Like most folks, my view of Christianity is heavily influenced
by my years as a child and youth growing up within local churches. I must say at the outset that whether in a more
rural or municipal setting, discussions of ethics focused upon our direct call to
responsibilities as individuals and as Christians. Whether merchants, teachers, or farmers, the
question was always how we could contribute towards realizing a more abundant life in all its
dimensions in the broadest possible way.
I knew even then that Christianity could take a turn towards
emotional fanaticism—with "End-Timers" being peculiarly suspectable to an ugly indulgence
in self-righteousness twisted together with a “burn-baby-burn” mentality towards remaining humanity. These groups evinced utter
confidence that (despite Jesus’s advice that only God knew when that date would come) the End-Time was indeed here, that they themselves were safely within the mob boss's favor, and
that all others would writhe in pain and destruction—while they themselves (being in the strong mob
boss’s good graces) would reap the rewards of triumphant gang loyalty.
This is totally antithetical to my view of Christian
ethics. We are to serve as a creative and
redemptive force often in a very local and specific sense. But even on the world stage, we are never to exalt
in the rending of civilization into smoldering heaps of ashes. We mortals
are to do what we can to help advance societal health; and not to gleefully anticipate the suffering retribution of the great-unwashed
less-worthy-than-we ourselves.
Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring Johann Sebastian Bach Jesus, joy of man's desiring Holy wisdom, love most bright Drawn by Thee, our souls aspiring Soar to uncreated light Word of God, our flesh that fashioned With the fire of life impassioned Striving still to truth unknown Soaring, dying round Thy throne
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
I know Mr. Putin you and your bed of slithering slimy snakes
know that there exist snapshots taken following 09/11 of Republicans winking at
US soldiers prodigally waterboarding captured war prisoners; and even earlier of
respectable pillars of society winking at Jim Crow obscenities during the Republican
Southern Strategy; and then there’s the total traitorous depravity of formal paradigms of rectitude winking at electoral dirty tricks during the run of several beloved Republican
presidents. But unfortunately for you
Mr. Putin, you don’t understand the force and power of equality as a baseline
belief working within and throughout broad and repetitive human experiential intimacy. My dear Mr. Putin, your cherished snapshots
are mere flecks of detritus upon the inexorable sweep of human freedom.
In
most U.S. states, high school athletic teams are divided into different
classes, usually based on the number of enrolled students, with separate state
championship tournaments held for each classification. At the time, Indiana
conducted a single state basketball championship for all of its high schools
and continued to do so until 1997.[4]
Some
elements of the film do match closely with those of Milan's real story. Like
the film's fictional "Hickory High School", Milan was a very small
high school in a rural, southern Indiana town. Both schools had undersized
teams. Both Hickory and Milan won the state finals by two points: Hickory won
42–40, and Milan won 32–30. The final seconds of the Hoosiers state
final hold fairly closely to the details of Milan's 1954 final; the final shot
in the film was taken from virtually the same spot on the floor as Bobby Plump's actual game-winner. The film's
final game was shot in the same building that hosted the 1954 Indiana
final, Butler University's Hinkle Fieldhouse (called Butler
Fieldhouse in 1954) in Indianapolis.[4]
However,
unlike the film's plot, the 1954 Milan High School basketball team came into
the season as heavy favorites and finished the '53-'54 regular season at 19–2.
In addition, the previous 1952–1953 team went to the state semi-finals, and
they were considered a powerhouse going into the championship season despite
the school's small enrollment.[4]
In Honor of the Republican Party and Its Prescient Embrace of the Southern Strategy (along with other stunning perceptual bubbles)
In American politics, the Southern strategy was a Republican Party electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans. (Wikipedia)
A word to the Elites who stole my Democratic Party that only yesterday excelled in economic and social justice but now recklessly and coquettishly proselytizes for the ancient menace of SODOMY and the SID-VICIOUS practice of yanking from nascent human life the inalienable rights bestowed and bestowable only by our Creator--these political bums seek to smear dissenters like me with highfaluting sold-out psychological phobic aspersions. Let me make very clear what I fear....I fear YOU and your ALLEY-CAT prostitution of LIBERTY. !!!! ***************************** Understandable Yet Inexcusable Apostasy
Today Connie and I saw again the movie TITANIC. The ship TITANIC had First Class passengers which were afforded every luxury and steeped in empty and conventional rituals resounding with the endless chatter of hackneyed ideas. Steerage was characterized by average folk filled with true joy and celebrating life with authenticity.
I would like to suggest something similar is a strong motif in American politics. In this context the privileged elite act and feel vastly superior to the average folk who hate like hell when the elite parade and promulgate values strongly at odds with “Steerage” traditions and values. Especially sticking in the craw of the low-life are the elite’s wide acceptance of absurdities--a human fetus is not human and its entire legitimacy as a developing human depends upon the whim of new-age doctrinaire feminists. They also refuse to understand that sodomy demands full and unquestioned acceptance. Also the low-life steerage have difficulty understanding how one’s basic purpose in life often seen as religious conviction must now in America be delimited within tiny private cubicles. The steerage low-life sees as its only hope sufficient appointments of Conservative judges to right the ship.
Please note in the movie true love has nothing in common with manipulative marriages executed for repressive hollow conformity. On viewing the movie, couples can cry when they see love committed even to the ready acceptance of death when necessary to affirm and protect loved ones with unlimited charity .
In the movie’s final scene one sees the entire cast standing in applause for humanity's stand-in couple. They appreciate the manifestation of that love most divine and essential for carrying forward the human enterprise within the glow of our prized ultimate enlightenment.
I will continue to make wordplay of a sexual nature for a simple reason--sex is a universal human experience and anyone with any sense can appreciate sexual wordplay as a method to compliment others on their equality and sense of fun. I still remember the news bulletin in which a young lady filed a complaint because a 90+ George H Bush tried to compliment her (as being an equal with a sense of play) with sexual wordplay. In my book, it was she and not George H that showed herself to be a pitiful human being. It is getting so bad in some work environments that R2D2 must give up every vestigial iota of a sense of play. Just hunker down R2D2 and be as staid, somber, and untrusting as the corporate environment dare allow. Oh I forgot you lived long, long ago and far, far away.
The Bill of Rights is a Christian creed based upon the Golden Rule. The Balance of Power in governmental structure is testimony to man’s acknowledgement of the need for humility before the human nature drive for invulnerability. The combination of the Golden Rule in concert with humility in scientific terms translates into a structured procedure of fact-finding subject to the widest possible tests of verification. In the Democracy stage of Christianity arbitrariness attenuates (It’s so because I said so) and is increasing replaced by humble demonstration (tobacco is being increasingly restricted by government regulation due to ample scientific evidence of tobacco's harmful effects). Thus, respect for mankind in this stage requires more clear objective evidence and less Daddy-Knows-Best arbitrariness. Strong-men autocracies and theocracies are profoundly unchristian since they seek to shackle man and even our great Creator in childhood immaturity.
Zuckerberg and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during their meeting at the Russian leader's residence outside Moscow, October 1, 2012 (Wikipedia) ..................... Huumm……..Wonder if there are party videos they could share with us offline? My understanding is they spend most time after midnight in Biblical-Proportion Entertainment. It’s always good to hear that Russians delight in welcoming with open arms free men from America.
One parting thought….since when for one moment has Trump appeared as a truly American President? What, after all, would it take to make his followers get up off their knees before him? Bottom Line—at present does America even have a president? .................... Let's Watch Bread Baking.....if the creek don't rise.. Print Page
Every voter is entitled to know the nature of the inner fire impelling a presidential candidate. Nothing worthwhile can be done if one is not totally-unconditionally-adamantly driven by fierce infinities of conviction within. The outer garment may provide cover, but within that insulation are 10 billion megawatts of certitude. For example, Rex Tillerson was “not loyal” to Donald Trump when the President implied he expected from him illegal actions. Like my father when I wanted to use the car at night before legally qualified to do, Tillerson in self-same manner replied, “that would be illegal” and with quiet assurance promptly walked from the room. We all know that life can be messy, but in times when surrounded by situational noise our loving Creator is pleased to lead us with assurance.
I disagree with Rev Sharpton that the nutritive soil leading to abundance consists of weeping, groveling white liberals (I add a tad of hyperbole) apologizing for infractions done years ago. To my thinking, groveling white liberals and forever wounded black victims need to exit stage right. Then we can understand a little more how deeply our nation thirsts for the spiritual freedom that the black race abundantly and somewhat uniquely can provide. (Of course, the black culture has enriched American since the beginning--but our nation has an especially urgent need for creative soul renewal (sexy new dance moves) at this very hour.)
The basic question is--are there areas that extend beyond personal privacy in sexual matters that could or should be limited or regulated. I think an arguable position is that a very high-bar of convincing scientific evidence is a necessary prerequisite, otherwise democracies should not act upon dogma alone (ideological or religious). So therefore as a Christian I base my personal actions on the following (click here). In this light I affirm my opposition to homosexuality in my belief that in the future science will discover decisive negative impacts with wider social implications.
Those who assert and assume that me and my neighbor will always have loyalty for the true democracy and thus join the true and legitimate militia while concurrently respecting other US rights AND THAT such militia will be united Nationwide and fully agree as to what constitutes justice and due process and convincingly states how such objectives could be accomplished with practical unity and command while clearly defining needed specific hurdles to determine whether present government is given-over to self-evident treachery beyond the pale and beyond normal legacy-informed repair AND with concurrent mechanisms to ensure discipline and ethics throughout the militia are solidly in-place and maintained AND that family homes are determined safe places for high-impact armament storage AND that profligate distribution of assault weaponry will not endanger societal innocents--THEN I may pray even more earnestly as to common need and common sense of this libertarian ideology based--lord knows--of a zillion assumptions that may (even probably) prove to scatter like dust in anarchic winds. Today's militia are secretive and toxic and as are all forms of underground militia--really particularly nasty forms of undemocratic theocracy.
Let's Make Clear What Is UnAmerican and Unacceptable in Our Nation SOCIOPATH: a person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior and a lack of conscience. (internet search return) This my fellow Americans this is now what we have to fear. To make it very clear: in America--in the land of the free and home of the brave----ANYTHING DOES NOT GO (ESSENTIAL ETHICAL VACUITY IN THE NAME OF LIBERTY, BUSINESS, INDIVIDUALISM, RELIGION, POLITICAL PREFERENCE OF ANYTHING ELSE)--DOES NOT GO. Sociopaths need not be fruitcake loners. There can be RA RA, TEAM SPIRIT WOLF-PACK SOCIOPATHS--SOCIOPATHS NEED NOT BE LONERS. They can cling together in circles of bizarre poisonous conspiracy theories and fireing - line macho militia -whether metaphorical or only too real. They most act like those whose brains and judgment skills have finally arrived at the tragic end-result of indulging in poisonous alcoholic soft-pack unreality and unnatural journeys into unambiguous sexual rebellion.
My mother rocked my cradle and I will always remain loyal to her in all vital matters despite what new age feminists choose to sling my way. To put it bluntly, she felt blessed and entrusted and obligated by God to raise me right. Not at any time for a single moment did she cuddle the self-absorbed conceit that she owned me as a piece of property and could willfully toss me in the trash at first sign of inconvenience in her life. Knowing the love my parents consistently manifested towards me, I am certain their prayers for my well-being began before my conception and were consistently maintained by them until their death.
In yesterday's blog I identified CIVIC LIBERTY as ideological dogma no more objectively demonstrated than religious dogma. That is, when a segment of citizens in America affirm the propriety of Sodomy, they stand on faith and belief no less than do their Christian counterparts.
We must learn that the Newest and Greatest Bandwagon Trends can deserve no less rigorous iconoclasts than ancient subjective certainties IPrint Page
Preamble to the Constitution We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. It is my opinion that the American doctrine of LIBERTY can sometimes threaten the GENERAL WELFARE. That is, we tend to leave the LIBERTY switch on full-throttle long before objective observations can provide sufficient insight as to the given induced impact upon the GENERAL WELFARE. My upbringing, education, and experience have confirmed time and again the wisdom of Holy Scripture. For example, the Bible described drunkenness as an evil to be avoided and so stated long before the modern computerized MRI could in high resolution reveal the profound destructiveness of alcohol upon the brain. The ancients knew full-well alcohol and its drunkenness were bad news and found little misguidance in calling it evil.
Consider the following passage: The fearful consequence of deliberate atheism-- Romans 1 (Phillips) 25-27 These men deliberately forfeited the truth of God and accepted a lie, paying homage and giving service to the creature instead of to the Creator, who alone is worthy to be worshipped for ever and ever, amen. God therefore handed them over to disgraceful passions. Their women exchanged the normal practices of sexual intercourse for something which is abnormal and unnatural. Similarly the men, turning from natural intercourse with women, were swept into lustful passions for one another. Men with men performed these shameful horrors, receiving, of course, in their own personalities the consequences of sexual perversity.
These Biblical warnings suggest to me there is wisdom in openness to the re-evaluation of our libertarian American doctrinaire decisions as new scientific tools become available.
We are all equally disgusted when an uncontrolled child raises havoc in a store disrupting and annoying everyone but the misguided fog of the parent convinced that the self-centered spewing of chaos by their little Darling pressages a future great man rather than a sociopathic thug getting their jollies off by tearing down and inflicting pain. It seems I keep returning to the foundational purpose of the Bill of Rights which clearly is to protect the rights of others by the Shield of the State quite plainly by curbing and regulating my own lust for complete and self-centered invunerability. Ideally in America I have absolute freedom to create and flourish SO AS LONG AS "absolute freedom to create and flourish" includes in its scope not just me alone but my fellow Americans as well--which inherently implies an over-lapping Venn Diagram mapping. So it is true that in the creative process ideation is a separate step from implementation--I have a responsibility not only to enjoy the fun of unbounded phantasmagoria --but that is only step one--the next is to is carefully access whether the great idea in theory when implemented would not encroach upon the rights of others. Say, I own a hotel chain and advertise that my beds fit all--even NBA players--but fail to mention that the beds always fit because I have warehouses stacked high with dismembered ankles and feet. (Don't worry atol .... .I employ a huge staff of Roy Cohn lawyers.) Print Page
Someone may ask me: "Do I know a foreign language?" The facts in some detail are that I took Spanish in high school and was terrible at it. I will never forget how the class guffawed when I mispronounced the sound of "See (Si) Senora" with "Sigh Senora". Since I sensed right away that learning a foreign language is a "bridge too far"for me, I aceeded I would never learn it unless forced to do so by essential life transactions. It was also a requirement in college, so had two essentially disastrous semesters in undergraduate school (at least in one term receiving an "F") and at FSU (where there a graduate school requirement)---for meeting the requirement took "Reading French" but failed. As all other diploma requirements were satisfied, it was not until I studied written Spanish on my own in Saint Petersburg some four years later that I finally was able to return to FSU in Tallahassee (in 1976) for a written Spanish test that I at long-last passed.
Now I could have answered this "Do I know a foreign language?" question with an answer that in truth would be so general and evasive as to be essentially dishonest. For example, I could strongly and positively affirm "Oh yes, a foreign language was an essential requirement for completing my graduate studies."
Of course we often would much prefer hearing a lie than the gory details necessary to really know and understand the truth. FAIR WARNING: in my campaign for the presidency, do not expect from this candidate grand generalities regarding societal dysfunctions. To the contray, I prefer that our nation hear from a relatively few individuals sharing with other Americans through their personal electronics the in-depth details of their pain and suffering deriving from the poisons of alcohol and/or from shamefully incessant recurrent cannon fodder employee abuse and practices. No doubt there will be some who will flip the channel to settle for "Great Again" re-runs of the Howdy Doody Show. How many will seek this harbor in the revelry of blind childhood innocence?
Any leader that expects to be universally loved and admired is destined for riptides of cynicism and dispair. As always Jesus should be our example--one focused on divine loyalty to God while maintaining concurrent loyalty to the realities of human nature and the human condition (and a dedication to rock-solid integrity in analysis and communication). My utmost priorities include a factual communication of the personal pain inflicted upon us by alcohol and the horrendous stress and unhappiness imposed by cannon fodder employment practices. Corrective action is long past due.
For the same reason we all prefer multiple choice tests....the bad choice seems to jump out at you! When a sid-vicious wolf prowls among the kind, just, and merciful (the truly righteous); the arrogant predator will stand out like a towering super-prick unless cloaked in hypocrisy. Yet God always sees to it that the haughty sooner or later are morphed into bare ruined cords buffeted in the relentless winds.
Ku Klux Klan /Λku: klΚks Λklan/ ♫ (abbreviation KKK) An extremist right-wing secret society in the US. The Ku Klux Klan was originally founded in the Southern states after the Civil War to oppose social change and black emancipation by violence and terrorism. Although disbanded twice, it re-emerged in the 1950s and 1960s and continues at a local level. Members disguise themselves in white robes and hoods, and often use a burning cross as a symbol of their organization. – origin perhaps from Greek kuklos ‘circle’ and clan. (OED)
The KKK failed because it did NOT remain invisible. The new militias armed to the teeth with assault weapons await only the clarion call to surface in violence and terror. Surely some timetable is stealthily creeping along. The past named Republican Party has metamorphosed with evil intent to the party of the likes of Trump and Roger Stone--The Sid-Vicious Sodomite Party. The Real Story is here (What Did He Know and When Did He Know It?): READ HERE AVOID NRA Individual-focused Decoys -- IT'S NOT JUST ONE MY DEAR !!!
NOTE found by parents in pocket of teen-age son: "I dig it Dick when you're on my back !!" (These guys can be so subtle..indication of very precious IQ.) Click here for glimpse of a passionate President: Family Ties
