Now They've Gone Too Far!

Now the fundamentalists have gone too far. There scriptures on bumper stickers and coffee mugs with Psalm 109 verse 8 on them. The verses read something like this: May he get a venial judge. May charges be framed against him. May he be tried and convicted. May his days be cut short. May his place in office be taken by another. May his children be orphans and his wife be a widow. These bumper stickers have as their tag line “Pray for Obama”. I would like to point out when the OT says “May his days be short” they are most often referring to a short life. And if I’m not wrong the word “venial” means “easy to bribe” or “petty”. Am I right or not? These Republicans have forfeited the right to ever be called patriotic. They have long ago forfeited that title. You hear Rush Limbaugh saying things about Presidents Clinton and Obama that a democrat on their worst day would never have said about President Bush in the way of personally below the belt jabs and utterly tasteless attacks. Francis Schaffer’s son, Frank is personally disgusted by these professing Christians. Ron Reagan wonders why they would quote Leviticus on matters of whether homosexuality is proper conduct, but would not quote verses in the same book about wearing cotton and linins together. Of course the right is quick to point out extremists of other religions such as Islam. If a Moslem had expressed these same sentiments and quoted their scripture to back them up, you have to know that the Secret Service would be all over them. It seems that our friend Hasan, has been exchanging some suspicious E mails, in which he ponders whether becoming a suicide bomber is what Allah wants him to do. I have no doubt that the government will get to the bottom of this Ft. Hood shooter’s case, and they should keep in mind that it’s a question of security and the man’s “mental state” rather than some crusade against any one religion. If Hassan has Al Qaeda connections, and it sadly appears at this point that he does, then obviously this is a security that should have been “profiled for” if I dare use that word. Clearly the issue to me is that the Army was so desperate to keep their personnel, they would have done almost anything.

After things are "settled" - - then what?

Harmid Karzai was officially sworn to his second term of office as President of Afghanistan. Apparently he underwent a multi hour “arm twisting session” by Hillary Clinton trying to get him to agree to govern the country in a manner we would like him to. But if he doesn’t really have the support of the people then perhaps President Obama “should think twice – at least once more” when it comes to putting another forty thousand troops in that country. Clearly the President doesn’t see withdrawal as an option. But in the words of psychotherapists everywhere “You always have a choice”.

Flash: Nicole takes Sabbatical from her Marriage

Oprah Winfrey has decided to bow out of her long standing TV program after twenty-five years, but she won’t be leaving till 2011. One wonders why somebody would commit themselves to a date far off in the future. When some people leave the airwaves they are serious, and Sylvia Browne is a prime example of someone that announced they were leaving after seventeen years on the Montell show, and nobody has heard of her since. Perhaps Oprah just wants to go out on a high note, and is obeying the Colonel Tom Parker adage “always leave the audience wanting more”.

The Killing Floor

Tomorrow is a big date in the history of Health Care in America because Saturday night is when they are holding a vote on whether to put the bill up for full debate on the Senate floor. Many who plan to vote against cloture to end the debate, when we reach that stage, will be voting to at least let the full Senate debate this compromise bill between the ones from the Health committee and the Finance committee. This is the bill with the Public option that red states can opt out of. In general it’s an awful bill in that its net effect will to be to raise the price of health care for the average American with all sorts of new taxes on broad segments of the population, rich and poor alike. It was pointed out that with one tax, 71% of the tax would be paid by people earning less than a hundred and fifty thousand. There will be layer upon layer of government beaucracies instated, and we all know once government has its nose in the tent, it only presses for more and more, like the proverbial camel. It seems clear that senators want provisions to allow government funded abortions included in this bill. And many such as Thom Hartman say it’s only “logical that we should include illegal aliens”. Either one of these inclusions would be a deal breaker to me, were I even inclined to vote for the bill.

One Photon = one electron and one positron

headed opposite directions

I’d like to return at this time to the notion of “bridging infinity”. Some see infinity as an obstruction to ever “finding God”. They tell us “Even if there is a realm we’ll call “The Other Side”- - - you can’t get there from here”. We proved that ourselves. Others see God AS “the bridge across infinity leading to the Spiritual aspects of existence”. Others say, “We are our own saviors”. Other people honestly don’t know which way is up and which way is down. They are morally upside-down, inverted. Homer Simpson one spoke of “opposite land”. In this land matter looks and tastes and acts the same in it’s own land- -there are not electrons, protons and newtrons, but rather – positrons and “antitrons” - - etcetra. So if I live in opposite land and I have four apples of negative matter where all of the atoms would have negative mass in positive space but have positive mass in negative space, and I give four apples to my friend on the other side of The Void in positive land, but to me it’s negative land - -after he gets my four apples he now has negative six when he used to have negative ten, in my point of view, - so have I not made him four apples richer? As you know a Calvinist’s favorite scripture is “- - with man this is impossible, but all things are possible with God”. If you’re like me, sometimes trying to conform to what is to me inverted morality of the other side is just more trouble than it’s worth. Weighing their moral arguments gives me a headache.

On Baker Street, twelve becomes thirteen

and Submission becomes Conquest

Some say that if you are in the will of God, it’s harder to get out of the will of God once you’re in it. If you’re a Calvinist, all virtue stems from the initiative of the Lord. Let me just say that even I can build a case for this line of thinking. As you know in our famous spiral staircase of karma - -each turn to the right lands you on a step higher and 22.62 degrees (approx.) to the right of the twelve by thirteen by five triangle. But right now I want to talk about the five. What is the significance of that? Well the five could stand for the human body with it’s limbs extended kind of like a pentagram, like on Rush albums. Five could stand for God and the Holy Spirit. And five could stand for Satan and the Goat’s Head upside down pentagram, like adorns the Republican Party logo. My point is that to do anything Good you have to go through God. He helps you briech the unbreachable and come to a higher level. Conversely, if your karma is to head down hill, you can’t do it without going through Satan. Now when you move to “an enlarged place” you get to control more of the squares on the chess board and have increased mastery over your opponent. If you are in a “tight place” you have fewer options. People should live by the grace of God, even if they can’t control it. (Selah)