Some
nineteen hundred scoutmasters have been let go since 1970, and up to 1990 due
to their being suspected of pedophilia or fondeling young boys. This is a disgusting number and as David
Cruise mentions, anyone who has ever had their kid in Scouting has to stop and
second guess himself at this point.
Personally I find the figure almost unbelievable, yet I have to believe
it’s accurate or they wouldn’t be saying it today. That is nineteen hundred, or nearly two
thousand scoutmasters committing crimes that if prosecuted could get each and
every one of them sent up the river for twenty years. So I don’t ever know what happened to the Boy
scout oath or “teaching these young men how to be morally upstanding young men”
and all of that. I was never into
scouting but of course a whole lot of my grammar school friends were. In the other news is Jerry Sandusky being sentenced
to thirty to sixty years for his many crimes, some 45 counts of sodomy and other forms
of molestation of young boys. He will allowed things like eye glasses and television and cable TV even, if he can "afford" it, but never again allowed to visit children. Others said
that he would be getting two hundred years and be in prison easily for the rest
of his life. I had mistakenly heard that didn’t
happen, and he would be out in ten years or perhaps less with good behavior.
You’ve
heard the saying “Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue”. As we
look back at President Obama’s record and contemplate the prospect of Mitt
Romney getting elected next month, a lot of thoughts have to be going through
our minds. For one it will be a gigantic
relief not to have all of our right wing friends hounding us all the time. They see President Obama as the universal
repository for all of their hate and prejudice.
And they take some of their unfocused and unresolved emotions out on us
and we suffer for it. I said in July of
2011 that if I were President Obama I would have announced I would not run
again and “defuse the Obama Hate Machine” then and there and let a more fit
candidate be the standard bearer of provressivism. One who is better able to fight for our
causes. Obama has failed at this is
about every way imaginable. One has to
ask “What more do we have to lose?” Let’s
go down this impressive and growing list of disappointment after
disappointments, and that list is still growing. The president failed to even propose any gun
regulation legislation despite the epidemic of violence. He was AWOL when it came to speaking up for
the Occupy Wall Street people. He was
AWOL in Wisconsin in the battles they were having to save unions and government
pension. I have little doubt that had
the President spoken up the vote would have gone the other way. Wall Street prosecutions have slowed to a trickle,
below what they were even in the Bush administration. The president has declined to speak up on
civil rights moral issues such as theTrayvon Martin cold blooded killing. The President still favors what he calls “clean
coal” and has suspended some EPA regulation, as places like West Virginia are
turned into a moonscape with the tops of mountains blown off. The President says he favors this “dirty oil”
pipeline from Canada to help Canada sell their environmentally dessterous oil
sands petrol to China. Rush Limbaugh
points out that the President’s address at the Democratic Convention wasn’t as
forceful as it would have been. We have
the disasterous Debate performance last Wednesday. We have the drone killings all around the
world we have talked about. We have the
Patriot Act still on the books and now added to this is additional domestic spying,
as well as a new preventative detention bill, where suddenly we are like Midevil
Europe or something. And we also have
the President breaking his promise to - - Let the Bush tax cuts expire, and
there is not the slightest indication the President will not do the exact same
thing again this time around. Once a
liar, always a liar, you know how that goes.
People like Rush Limbaugh point out that the “God” plank was illegally
crammed down the throats of people at the Democratic Convention. So why did the President do it? Pressure from the Republicans. They say “jump” and the president says “How
high”. The one lucid point that “moderate”
made in that KPFK game was that the President is charting a moderate course “Because
he wants to stay in the game”. And yet
the President is NOT in the game at all.
He has already thrown the contest.
He did that last Wednesday. He
could have just maybe delivered to knock-out punch to Romney but didn’t. Vincent Bugliosi wrote a book about how
Marsha Clark and Chris Darden botched the prosecution of O J Simpson with their
highly limp wristed approach and leaving witnesses off the list including the
police questioning of OJ. Also there was
evidence that wasn’t discussed like that sachel that was shoved into a trash
container at the LA international airport just before OJ took off for his
flight. Republicans point out that
perhaps the president has lived in an insilated bubble surrounded by “yes men”
his entire day, and doesn’t know what the “real world” is like or what “real
people” are thinking, just like the OJ Jury was shielded from that. I’ve gotten mad at the President before and I’ve
always relented. But not this time. He’s just gone too far and “broken my heart”
too many times, just like Fredo did in the Godfather.
So
what would you say about a man who displayed the following personality
qualities? He fails to “follow through
with his words and disappoints vast segments of his own followers. He is litterly non violent and passive TO A
FAULT. People all over the place
question his true love and devotion to the nation of Israel. He hardly knew his father and may have blown
up his virtues and mythologised him all out of perportion to the reality. He lives in a bubble surrounded by adoring
yes men. He’s used to favorable crowds. He seems to “be a stranger in his own town”
to quote the Elvis song. Who are we
talking about? It could be Barock
Obama. It could be Jesus Christ. There is another thing them have in common in
that for all the talking they do we actually know very little about the pasts
of either. They both seem to have “emerged
full blown out of nowhere” and somehow “assumed what their destiny would be”. We know that Jesus had anger issues with
Jewish authorities. I don’t think even
Jesus, though, threw a pastor “under the bus” the way Barock Hussein Obama did
with the Rev Jeremiah Wright. May I
suggest one trait both lack but neither will admit is real Courage. That’s another of my seven cardinal
virtues. The seven I have isolate as
root virtues are Compassion, Faithfullness or Loyalty, Pursuit of Justice, Bravery, Prudence,
Perseverence, and Honesty or
Integrety. We know the President wanted “God”
inserted into the Convention Platform even though nobody even reads those
things. How could the founding fathers
resist putting God into the US Constitution, and yet it winds up in the
Platform. Thomas Jefferson spoke of “The
Creator” rather than God. Let me ask you
something? Does God lie? Evangelists quote a passage I’ve never read
personally that “The gifts of the Holy Spirit are without revocation”. They can’t be recalled or withdrawn once you
have them. So if I ever had the Holy
Spirit I have it now- - regardless of what others say. Theologically it means the very nature and
essence of God dwells inside of me. If
you venture to say “I had the spirit but I lost it” then you’re calling
SOMEBODY a liar. And I’m not sure that “Somebody”
will take kindly to his followers refer to him as a liar. Mitt Romney is a liar. So does Mitt Romney have the Holy
Spirit? Is Mitt Romney a Christian. Will southern Baptists really “do it” and “take
that leap of faith” and go on and vote for a man who’s in a religion they’ve
been taught since they were knew high to a grasshopper to mistrust if not
outright despise? These are questions
yet to be answered.
It
seems as if I’m not the only one who has conversations with people who no
longer exist. Nicole was seen today
talking to her dead but unborn fetus saying things “You know I really miss not
being able to talk to you”. Just like I
was hoping John Lennon would put in an appearance either on Sunday for KLOS
Beatles, or else today, his birthday.
But no John. Nicole was also
speaking in the plural using terms like “we” and “us”. You see Dr Jonas still wants to move to Utah
with her and start a new life. He’s even
contemplating tending his resignation from his position at University
Hospital. It must have been bitter-sweet
for Nicole to hear these words. But now
she’s slipping into an old besetting “delusional solution” to her problem. Instead of fessing up to the fact that her
baby died- just like as with E J, she’s choosing to conceil that fact “until the
right time” even though Daniel Jonas is a doctor, a fact she seems to have
suddenly forgotten. Let me tell you plainly about our mentor,
Jesus. Two words. He failed.
Or to use Rush Limbaugh’s words about Michael Dukakis, he is “The Loser”. You can’t spin it from anything - but an
utter and complete “mission failure” into success without some mighty world
class delusional thinking and rationalistic gymnastics. But I see a connection between the two
events. Because the writers of the
Gospels knew enough about human nature not to leave some glimmer of hope so
they added “But Jesus, he may be gone now, but he’s going to Come Back to Earth
in the great bye and bye”. By the time
you “sit around waiting for Jesus to return” and spend time in the church- -
they believe you will by them have become “sufficiently churchified” so that
you just Won’t Care. In like manner- -
Nicole is thinking that “If Dr. Jonas has this hope that the Baby is Coming
Soon” there will be this “air of expenctancy” and so he will remain with her in
anticipation of said event. But after “sufficient
time” has passed (the peramaters of which remain undefined) that at “some point”
he just won’t Care, and stay with her Regardless. I’m sorry but that doesn’t work with me. My mind doesn’t think like that.
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