People have developed an amazing habit of misinterpereting the signs. I once may have mentioned about being at a gathering where I heard only the audio of what was going on outside. It was a graduation party for my brother and people were giving him gifts. Then one person said "We need to go outside and bring our gift here". Later I heard scuffling feet along the side of the house and the sound of a gate opening and closing and the sound of the barking of a fairly sizable dog. Naturally I assumed that a dog was being brought around to the back yard, which was where this room was looking out. It was just a neighbor's dog barking because a big potted plant was being carried there. There is that Valerie Bertenneli movie where she was accused of being an unfit single mother- - and as "evidence" of this was the little girl's reaction to some doll that was presented to her. As it turns out there was a whole other scenario going on with her and the doll that the authorities got completely wrong. You have Page on today's Days of our Lives. She learns her mother had a horrible disappointment - - and the mother was with a man who wore the the same coat as Dr Jonas, whom they all knew, and later she learned Dr Jonas had just had a "final" breakup with his long time girlfriend. The daughter of the mother naturally assumed that the good Doctor and Eve, her mother, were having an affair. This was untrue. Some pastors quote the scriptural quotation of "God" saying "My ways are not your ways" and are struck with awe and reverence (one suspects more for the Pastor speaking than actually for God) Yet is you change this sentense just a little you see my point here. Suppose it's one of those green aliens from the planet Xenu (from the Simpson's) and it's one of these beings who states "Our ways" Clearly one would not expect a space alien to have the same "ways" as we do. And yet God by all testimony is completely "alien" to human life. There is no aspect of human life that is indigionous to God's nature. Here is another misreading of the Signs. Bones was in a jury trial on that program once, and a key witness "backed out of testifying in this case". As a juror Bones was made keenly aware of this. Well later after the verdict was rendered it turns out this witness has been Murdered - - into silence. This bit of information would have been most helpful in rendering a decision on the case. People "don't have all the facts - either about God or Ferguson Missouri- - and yet they make these glib pronouncements as though they knew everything. One side is not supposed to make statements to the media during a trial. And yet we in the Ferguson Missouri case have had nothing but a one sided of propagandistic statements from the authorities point to Officer Wilson's innocence. So if a race riot develops - - - just don't presume to say "Gee I had absolutely no idea such a thing would occur".
John Boehner has been making threatening statements to the President about this new ten point program to reform the immigration system. I've looked at these ten points the President outlined yesterday. Sure there is a declining to prosecute either the children of illegals themselves or their parents - - but there are other things involving criminal records and law enforcement that I take exception to. For John Boehner to say "Well if the president is going to do this thing with executive action, he'll find that he may need something from us and he won't get it". Since the Republicans in the house and senate - - Boehner and Mc Conell- - have since the first day Obama took office a "take no prisoners" give the president "No quarter" - - once this threat has been carried out, which it has, what is left to threaten this President with? Nothing. They could try impeaching him but they know ahead of time they won't succeed. And this is one time the media would be on the side of the people saying "The people elected this congress to end the log jam and get bills passed, and not to either impeach the president or hold endless hearings on Bengazi". Mc Conell and Boehner have unleashed their totality of fire power already over the course of the past six years. They have tried everything on this president even shutting down the government- - and proven nothing but only made asses of themselves in the eyes of the American public. Therefore even though I may not agree with certain points in the President's ten point plan- - I would support him in his endeavor to implement his plan.
I downloaded a file yesterday on "The similarity between prisons and war", and I should have given you the link for it in Washington's blog. There were 27 points of similarity. They are both ways to control things they are afraid of but neither ends up solving the real problem but both only in the long run - - looking back on it - - only made the situation worse. There was another article on "We are now in a state of perpetual war" and this is so highly contrary to what Jefferson and Madison wanted when they formed the constitution, it's pathetic. The founders did not even want a Standing Army, which is why the second amendment came into being. It regulated militias - - and specific laws were passed by George Washington regarding the arming of militias. "Foreign wars" were considered particularly odius- - as are wars with "mercenary armies" that will literally go on fighting a war forever. I wonder with Neil Savedra alias Jesus Christ thinks of the idea of 'Perpetual War". From all I've heard from Neil - - - of all the faults of mankind, two that are routinely overlooked by Neil are homosexuality - - and War. I would prefer a society with very little of either.
Of course it pays to listen to details. For instance Washington's blog had another hour long video containing a composite of items- - but one key phrase was their talking about this Ukrainian celebration and march on Newyears Eve - - and they said that "this one leader was a Nazi during World War II but as the war progressed he then zhzhihuh iwthsazw - - " And you go "could you please repeat that- - a little louder and slower" and then they say "And then they broke with the Nazi party later in the war". Oh- - and finally you're going to point that out. It's like Larry Elder and friends saying they dislike Senator Robert Byrd because he used to be in the Ku Klux Klan sixty years ago. Well- - here's a news flash for you - - this is not sixty years ago. Many things become out of date. For instance - - up till now it was not necessary to declare the internet a "Public utility" or a common carrier- - because up till now we haven't had any real problems. But it's like the FCC in the twenties. There came a time when it was realized we had a huge potential for chaos and abuse if we didn't regulate the air waves to be in the public interest. Also many point out that though the constitutional authors were wise men- - they were not infallible. They "didn't work tirelessly to end slavery" as Sarah Palin stated. They compromised with it. Also back 225 years ago- - there was not nearly the disparity of state populations as there are today. It was more important back then that a US Senator be a representative of "A State". His state, your state, my state, and all that. Today people like Ted Cruise represent less their "State" but rather a particularly idiology. So when it comes to political rhetoric we're all from Kansas, because that's where the Koch Brothers are from.
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