Can't We Give God Three Days?

        
"Roadside alert- watch for emerging dead people"

They had a thing on the IRA and thirty years of “the troubles”.   A treaty was concluded on Good Friday in 1998.  I wasn’t aware of that date.  They changed an old adage of “Those who Remember History are Doomed to Repeat It”.  Because there was this Boston College study about this one IRA leader who claimed he didn’t have blood on his hands, but now it’s found out that he was instrumental in a brutal murder.  Then they did a thing on the Wikkipedia.  Unlike other detractors, they are claiming that Wikkipedia is more accurate than your average bound encyclopedia, and that mistakes are few and far between and the content is strictly edited.  Then I went outside and talked to Nancy around eight and the topic was Dr Levy and religion.  Nancy says “Actually Dr Levy contends being a Jew is the only way to enlightenment”, which is not what he led us all to believe about being “open minded” and such.  Nancy remarked about how that “Comparative Religion” thing was botched and heavily skewed tword Judaism” and I agree.  I went back in and it was Moses having that conversation with his mother (Bithia) about the circumstances of his birth.  Since Dennis Prager is so pro adoption (or used to be) he must hate that particular scene with a passion.  I had it on till Moses was with Nephritiri on the barge- - - and about to make that fatal mistake about “Paying a call on the Master Builder”.  [material edited out here]  I had kind of invited Glen to come over and watch the Jesus movie at nine (?) and got to the room again a couple minutes after nine when Pilate first says he finds no charge against Jesus-- - but capitulates to the crowd and takes the basin and washes his hands.  Everything in this movie seemed geared to the Gospel of Matthew.  Well- - they had stuff with Joseph and the tomb- - and Joseph was criticized for “helping to fulfill prophecy”.  Chiaphis’ wife was very vocal.  Also Pilate’s wife was very vocal in her opinion.  They had the driving in of the nails.  They had the spear thrower Longenus- - on orders from Pilate to insure his prompt death- - to make double sure he wouldn’t rise again.  They had the gathering of clouds and the storm and the earthquake and the rending of the curtain in the temple- - and all the falling concrete.  They had a dash of Judas.  They had things not in the Bible such as Peter and the disciples being approached to join the Zealots because “one by one the authorities will kill off the apostles just as they killed your leader, and the teachings of your leader will soon be just as dead as He was”.  I happened to think of the Republican party snuffing out the message of Christianity in these times.  Pilate was reluctant to appoint a Roman quatrane of guards and put the Roman seal on the tomb.  He considered it a waste of government resources and considered these Sanhedrin worry warts.   Many disciples wanted to leave Jerusalem as they had planned all along.  They had homes and families in Galilee, and it was their priority now.  But Peter said “Jesus said he would rise in three days.  Can’t we give God three days?  He gave us his life- - can’t we give him three days of Faith?”   That argument held. [material removed here] I was musing over the “Can’t we give God three days?” remark.   For that promise God gave me in January of 1988 -  -  - there was a flexable time limit “yet to be determined”.  That deadline hit on August 6^th of 1994.  And after that I knew the promise had failed.  And of course I have let down my readers.  I predicted a rapture in late September of 2014 and that prediction failed also.  My detractors would say “And if it isn’t bad enough that you failed, you had to drag John Lennon into the thing, too”.   I was thinking of that giving god three days remark, and thought of the Lennard Skynard song “Give me three steps”.  And musing on how members of that band were dying off one by one.  But just then I got a message from the drummer who had just died a few days ago and he said “I’m not dead- - I’m still here” and I realized that the jinx that got those other three- - - was because of their new guitar player, who jinxed the band, just as Crissy Hind had jinxed two Pretenders players.  I told Paul Evans that I was looking forward to the “predicted climate pattern change” this week.  It will not rain just once but twice this week, Tuesdays and Saturday.  Also basic pattern of the Jet Stream will have changed.

Wisconsin defeated Kentucky and their “undefeated streak” on Saturday in a come from behind victory.  But Duke fairly easily handled Michigan State as Wisconsin and Duke will now facve off in the final game tonight, which hopefully will be televised.   I still have the greatest amazement that the two key games of Saturday were not televised on over the air TV.

Judith Miller is now saying she was entirely responsible for the deception about weapons of mass destruction in a New York Times article.  But now she insists that the motives of the Bush administration were pure in going to Iraq in 2003. Thom Hartman said this morning that forty percent of the American people to this day STILL believe that we FOUND weapons of "mass destruction" in Iraq.  People who believe a Lie, become more ardent and hardened in their belief when they ARE exposed to the Truth, more than if they had never heard FOX news at all.  Tom says due to view numbers FOX news is Thee leading source of "News" for the American people.  But 935 specific Lies were told to the people about Iraq in the run-up to the Iraq was of 2003.   Let’s have it her way for the moment.  Let's pretend Bush was completely ignorant of the fact that there WERE no "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq.  OK?  There was a “final report” due on weapons of mass destruction in early 2003.  But before this final report was released- Bush attacked with “shock and awe” in March of 2003.  And since our victory in that war came with the toppling of Saddam’s statue around April 9^th and the “Mission Accomplished” speech came a few weeks later- I have a question.  First of all if the “Mission” was “Accomplished” then the War is over.  Right?  Secondly- - IF it’s true Bush did NOT know about “no weapons of mass destruction” before the “final report” why not when the report came out- - did not Bush say “I made a major mistake.  This war was entirely unnecessary”.  Had that happened the ensuing eight years of history would have been very different.  Wouldn’t it be better for Bush’s reelection campaign of 2004 to say “Look at the great victory over Saddam Hussein we wrought last year”?    Secondarily- - why wasn’t Howard Dean’s “fifty state” plan implemented in 2004 because once the Republicans got in control they certainly saw it as a state by state contest- - wanting to have party control at the local level and not just nationally.

Lindsey Graham rather than say the Iranian deal was unsound per se is just hold out for a better deal or “take another crack at Iran” with the next President.  Lindsey went on to talk about how Iran is “a leading sponsor of state terrorism”.  He also said that “Everybody knows Obama is a weak negotiator”.   However the Energy Secretary stated that “all of the possible paths to a Nuclear Bomb are cut off.  They don’t have an option of plutonium- - or enrichment beyond 3.5% and they will live a fish bowl existence, and aspects and prohibitions go on from the, to fifteen to 25 years, and some of the aspects have no ending.  You then have Nevenyahoo saying “Rather than block a path to a Bomb, this deal PAVES the way to getting a bomb”.  The Israeli Prime Minister offered nothing to back up this assertion.   It should be emphasized that nothing will actually be signed till June- - and that this entire “framework” is a work in progress till then.

They had their on site chapel that kind of dominates the landscape.  It’s really nice.  The service was kind of a Methodist flavor with the gospel style piano playing and theology that downplayed the trinity.  Paul was surprised that final hymn was unfamiliar to me.  We sang the usual three hymns and took an offering and they had announcements and a church bulleton.  I sat next to some Oriental lady who said she was a visitor.  An older guy did the preliminary stuff but this church has a stream of guest preachers.  This guy was six foot five or something with a large build perhaps in his mid forties, and was a dynamic speaker.  He spoke of various people in the crowd shouting “Hosanna” on Palm’s Sunday including Jarius daughter and leppers and a blind guy Jesus healed.  There are five things Jesus gives us with the resurrection.  First of all he gives us Eternal Life.  However he made a joke about “Everyone has Eternal life it’s just where they are going to spend it- - in the smoking or non smoking section, and for me I prefer non smoking”.  That one kind of hit home with me.  But Jesus gives us a Robe of Rightious.  Not just “the hem of his garment” but the whole robe.  Third Jesus gives us grace.  Forth Jesus gives us “exhusia” or authority over the power - - dynamos- - of the Devil.  So it’s almost as if we exist on a whole other plane that Satan and his demons know nothing of.  Finally, Jesus gives us his peace.  After this we went to Mom’s room and Paul mad ME direct them there.  Paul earlier had said “Mom is in that window right there on the corner on the third floor.  And later we entered on this other wing of the building and Paul says “OK, [censored], direct us there” and I was able to do that - - and went right to her door.  [material edited out] Mom does get all your usual over the air TV stations just like I do.  We went and hung around the big dining room waiting to be escorted to our private dining room.  I found the service to be a little slow.  Stewart Sutcliffe (of Sirius A) agreed with me- - - and also agreed with me that mustard DOES belong in deviled eggs.  These didn't have it. Stu seem to think that my concerns were being “buried” on the conversational agenda.  This may not have been a bad thing.  Because it would have turned into a brawl and I still wouldn't get any money relief.  I went to the salad bar but made the mistake of using straight sour cream for dressing- - in an otherwise well adorned salad.  We had cherry ham for lunch and some kind of rice pilaf.  Stu Baby was with a friend from Sirius A.  He chimed in when [name] was talking about all the other people raising wild animals such as llamas and chickens and things.  “That sounds like my kind of place” he said.   I had two cups of coffee and ice water.  We had these bunny shaped things for desert- - and I chose coconut.