If there is a single transcendent issue that most fills me with revulsion when I think about who Mitt Romney is as a person it's this perverse notion of "Hating the poor BECAUSE they are poor". It's like a whole set of value structures are imputed to the poor being Judged as - - "The other". You know in the old days I was glad when artists like Love Song and The Way and the Blessed Hope but a little honor for being Christian musicians because I figured "It's time Christian music got some of the honor from the world it deserves". But there came a time when I realized that even though I as a Christian identified with THEM, that they did not return the favor and identify with Me. But instead they became the rest successful Romney fat cats of south Orange County who identified with the Romney top two percent- - and I, as a poor person, plus a few other traits, some of them biological- - was pegged as "the other". I was people like Me whom the "Holy Spirit" to use a phrase, most wanted to eridicate. But now with an Obama win and knowing nobody can challenge his power for another four years and two months- - that there is no percentage in playing it "hard right" all the time. Grover Norquist cannot threaten this president any more. It's one thing to say that you WILL not be "tempted" by something, perhaps to "get back in to an old lifestyle" and in my case that would be Christianity. But it's quite another to say that you CANNOT be tempted ever again. Once you reach a person point- - you reach that coveted position where you CANNOT be tempted with either scenes of a religious naustalgia that never really was- or else terrorized by visions of hellfire and damnation or some apocraliptic "2016" gloom and doom scenario. For me what killed my love for Christianity once and for all- - was "finding out for myself' to quote John Lennon - - that indeed Christianity fully embraces this Gordon Gecko doctrine of "greed is good" and that Never Again can you be swayed by any talk of how "Giving" and "generocity" and "Charity" are a part of Christianity. If I learned nothing else from Neil of KFI, it's that compassion and Christianity do not mix. So that I needn't be bothered ever again with phantoms of words like love and caring as somehow things associated with Christianity. Because I know all too damn well that they are not. (Selah)
In general all the
avalanche of news has come to a grinding halt, as is none of the many foreign
crises were really crucial to begin with.
Israel and Iran, Syria and
Turkey, Egypt, Israel and Gaza, the
Bengazi aftermath- - if apparently all irrelevant now. However one revelation has come to light
today in that the head of the CIA or somebody admitted that he was the one who
issued the specific “talking points” that Secretary Rice used in her briefing
about the Bengazi killings. Which means
that it did not the directive did NOT come from President Obama. Of course there are positive developments in
society that will “make the world a better place” in the long run. There is this “Save the Children”
organization started by a twelve year old boy who began the movement in 1996
who even at age twelve and younger spoke with the authoritativeness of an adult
on the subject of making things better for the children of the world. It was pointed out, and I got a bit of Déjà
vu on this issue- - that sometimes there is initial success but then “the
powers that be” harden their resolve and things go back to the way they were
and children who had been “liberated” and given a sense of freedom suddenly due
to societl and economic pressure, go back into servitude and poverty. So perhaps when I first announced I was putting out a prophecy book it got encouragement and people first hearing about it were interested - but the powers that Be convinced me that no Christian ever acted without the leave of Chuck Smith or whatever other Big Cahuma they worshiped in church on Sunday. But now as an adult that young man is
sticking with his idea and continuing to speak out with boldness on the
subject. And now there is a new boy and
girl who are taking up the kid apostle mantel.
An eleven year old girl and twelve year old boy, both caucasion, went to
Kenya to lend their hand helping the children of that land. And the “Messai” honored them in their final
day there with a gift of a live goat. I
thought the Messai were some fictional name of an alien civilization in a sci
fi movie. At any rate the boy isn’t even
allowed to keep a dog in the apartment complex where he lives in New England,
let alone a live goat.
It seems with Lindsey
Graham’s leading cue, that republicans will be abandoning their no tax hikes
pledge to Grover Norquist. Good. Maybe we can break the back of The Beast. But like I say these news programs like Meet
the Press talk as though Mitt Romney had been elected several weeks ago and not
Barock Obama. I gleaned from stuff on
the Chris Matthews show that a lot of republicans in their saner moments will
admit that most of what Mitt Romney said during the preceding campaign was a
bunch of crap. They have Power Ball in
most states but not in California, Colorado, Utah, or Nevada, apparently. Perhaps another. So since nobody won the jackpot last night,
it will grow to 425 million this Wednesday.
You could buy out a whole fleet of expensive autos in a show room for
that price or meet payroll for a major league baseball team, or a lot of other
stuff. Now they are saying the
weekend’s Black Friday numbers were “record setting” when I had heard the
percentage increase was four percent this year, as opposed to five percent last
year, which the Tea Party dismissed as not indicative of anything. That would amount to over nine percent since
2010. Cyber sales are up 17% this year,
and Cyber Monday is hyped as the next big buying occasion. Although the trend goes back to when the work
place had the only decent computers with fast processing times. I was just reading Internet for Dummies at
Mom’s and the thing was talking about avoiding Outlook and Outlook
Express. Does anybody still use
those? A few other things in that book
were looking a little dated.
Read this whole paragraph before you jump to conclusions what's in it. We had pepper steak for
dinner and the accompanying vegetables, and decent rice, with chocolate pudding
for desert. I got seconds on the meat
and rice and she started on our side of the room. The Oriental guy gave me a bit of meat, and
most of his chocolate pudding. After a
bit I got a cigarette from Paul Evans as it was getting dark, on the west
benches. I heated water for instant
coffee. We had to go get in a long line
for Medication from Judy but it was a fast moving line. Later on the west bench about six twenty, I
got a cigarette from Mike Deletore.
Loretta asked “How come you never buy cigarettes”. That’s the first time she’s heard me ask for
cigarettes in maybe two months, and she asks that question. Loretta has this “Mitt Romney virus” of “hating
the Poor BECAUSE they are Poor”. I must
repeat that I’ve never known a relationship of in excess of a year and a half
to turn around on a dime so quickly as mine did with Loretta around the first
of March of this year. Larry Hagman died
a few days ago and Linda Gray, his long time TV wife, mourned his passing. Larry Hagman seemed to enjoy this persona of
J R Eweing, even in the later years. J R
was kind of like George W Bush before his time.
Of course you know from my blog writings who R J was in my life, and no,
the last name isn’t Reynalds. Like the
song says, “You may call me R J - - - “.
In terms of top grossing movies “The Avengers” came in at number one at
600 million. I looked and looked for
that on Yahoo and Google and for some reason never saw it. In at second was “The Dark Knight Rises” and
third was “The Hunger Games” and fourth was a “Spider Man” sequel.
In more football, the
NY Giants are beating the GB Packers.
The ‘49ers bettered the NO Saints.
The Baltimore Ravens defeated the SD Chargers in a close game that was
blacked out in the Los Angeles area, as if the average LA resident would travel
130 miles to a football game. The Miami
Dolphins defeated the Seattle Seahawks because the sprinklers went on as a
distraction, and Atlanta defeated Tampa Bay in that earlier FOX game you
wondered about. Last night the Giants
pretty well put away the Green Bay Packers.
I usually rout against the Green Bay Packers whether they are playing
the Bears, the Vikings - - or the Rams.
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