Who’s to say whether I
should do a posting today or not? I’m
sure people would much rather be celebrating Christmas joy with their families
than reading my remarks. Of course we do
need to think about what it means to be a true Christian. It’s “Peace on Earth – God will to men” and
all of that. We can always use more of
that. We have to hold out the Hope of
that and this season is as good a time as any for doing that. But as we were told in Church, true
Christianity means doing a sacrifice of yourself. In the Age of Rome they had bread and
circuses, and a lot of their “circuses” were at the expense of Christians. Amidst the gladiator games by convicts, the crowd
I’m sure cheered when Christians were being thrown to the lions. And as Thom Hartman says “Torture in the long
run does not work”. In the case with
the Christians it’s not just torture but martyrdom, although on the way to
martyrdom I’m sure there was a lot of torture, too. People are prepared to die for an idea if it’s
powerful enough. Certainly the Leninists
and other Russian Communists were willing to pay a high price in the body
count- - to insure that their nation stayed true to its Communist doctrinal
purity. Of course we in America had
Franklin Roosevelt. Just as it’s argued
that Jesus’ coming was Divine providence, could it not be argued that FDR’s
coming was divine providence? Would you
not say that he was the right man for the right time and situation? Interestingly it can be argued that Roosevelt
did what he did in terms of the New Deal and all less because “he just loved
poor people” but more to save Capitalism from its own greed, which eventually
would destroy it. There were the
fascists on one side and the communists on the other, and FDR had to walk that
middle path. Jesus was billed as “The
redeemer of Israel”. Whether he did that
I’ll leave to your particular feeling on the subject. But I think we can argue that Roosevelt “redeemed”
or “saved” capitalism. Actually the
fundamentalists themselves admit the startling fact that “We will never live to
see the day that Israel is redeemed by Christ” because it happens after we’re
gone, because the Rapture of the Faithful has taken place. Of course if we follow the Neil Savedra (of
KFI) doctrine, of how those in Heaven have no way to know what goes on down
here on earth because they are in such a constant of euphoric Joy they wouldn’t
care anyhow- - - following this logic- - - since it’s something that happens
after you’ve died and have no way to prove it- - from a strictly subjective
basis, it almost doesn’t matter whether it happens at all. Yet we talk about it every Christmas how “Jesus
was the born redeemer of Israel”. Well
that’s find for a baby dedication, but what about when the baby is three years
old- - or six years old- - or older? In
other words- - what about the REST of Jesus’ life? Some like Judy say ‘Jesus was born to die”
and yet if we use a Dr Phil argument “The only reason why Jesus died is because
he made a choice to violate a Jewish law that states that you can’t claim to be
the Son of God without mighty powerful proof to back it up”. I guess the proof - - if any, was
insufficient. So Dr Phil would be
talking about “Owning your own actions” and “You only got the consequences of
your own actions”. I know that sounds
highly blasphamus. Well pardon me but we
of the laity have been routinely “blamed” (after the Jews themselves) for “crucifying
Jesus” and we were told that we owe our “redemption” to him. It’s funny but I don’t feel “redeemed”. If I am, I’d like to know just the minute it
happened, and what proof of it can be offered.
That is- - how was my Life inexorably altered for the better from that
moment on, as opposed to before I got said “redemption”? I’m not trying to be a jerk or anything. I’m just looking for an honest answer.
Just now after three
Hal Sparks is coming on. Janet and Paul
were both talking about how “It just doesn’t feel like Christmas this year”. People are psychological beings. You can say that presents and money don’t
matter but it’s the “Spirit of Christmas” that counts. It’s easier said than done, deep down in the
recessions of your soul “In places you don’t talk about, where the sun don’t
shine” to quote Jack Nicholson. It’s not
just a question of whether I get any money for Christmas but it’s the whole “disfunctionality”
of family relations in general that it weighting me down this holiday
season. This morning I had the Thom Hartman show
replay from yesterday, but today’s segment was a rerun. So I turned it to Buck Sexton on the radio
and I’ll get to that in a minute. Then
it was the coffee outing in the courtyard.
We had two cups of coffee and I took one Snickers bar from the candy
jar, and then put back the over-sized jaw breaker I’d also picked up, and got a
“Twix” instead. There was some kind of a
“free raffle” but my slip only said “Merry Christmas” on it. We had Shepherd’s pie for lunch, an intact
piece of pie with a crust and everything.
Loretta says she likes that. This
guy on KFI has such a strange voice I didn’t know whether it was a man or a
woman. It was a real weirdo anyhow, and
he babbled for the whole hour about useless trivia. I guess it was supposed to get us all in the
spirit of Christmas. The Days of our
Lives episode was the most outright depressing Christmas Eve episode I think they’ve
ever had. The whole sex thing between
Eve and J J makes less than zero sense.
Sonny got a late night phone call with someone extracting still more
money from him when he’s already squeezed to the max. Maybe the Pope’s midnight service would get
me into the Christmas spirit. Too bad I
can’t just zap myself there live. Pope
Francis has been attacking difficult social issues. I wish him God’s speed, and realize he’s
going to need it, because of the immense political pressure at least from the
Pat Buchannon Catholics nipping at his heels.
Thom Hartman had an “Ayan
Rand Christmas Card collection”. Of
course Hal Sparks reminds us that Paul Ryan is an avid Ayan Rand devotee. Hal Sparks reminds too that Paul Ryan is a
complete hypocrite in other ways and is not morally qualified to even make the
classic “boot straps” conservative argument.
Jeb Bush will be cutting into Governor Christie’s financial support from
“The Republican establishment”. They
asked Christie if he was going to mellow out his rhetoric any if he runs and he
says “Heck no. This is what I am!” In terms of the Republican preference polls
Mitt Romney is number one, over twenty percent.
Jeb Bush comes in at second choice for President at fifteen
percent. And all of the other
conservative jokers you heard about like Rubio and Cruz, are way down from
there. Buck Sexton was in for Rush
Limbaugh. I had been looking forward to
perhaps a little Rush Limbaugh Christmas music.
This Buck Sexton guy spews pure hatred.
He’s a classic venomous flame throwing spewer of racial hatred and had
virtually no regard for the facts and his grip on reality is tenuous at
best. He claims to be a former
government CIA Analyst. If he’s the type
of person our CIA is filled with, I fear for our country. He throws everything together. He says the protests over the Ferguson and
NYPD police shootings are all tied in with “Occupy Wall Street” and it’s really
all the same people going through “mindless zombie motions”. He claims to have been right on top of all
of these protests, so I guess he’s a New York resident. (I thought he lived in San Diego) He stressed how knowledgable he was about
these protests. He used an example of “What
if the head of the tea party announced that they intended to kill a certain
left wing politician, and then a few days later that politician was found
killed” and asks “Would not the liberals link the two events together?” The answer is of course they would. But there is no real life situation that in
any way relates to the scene Buck Sexton just described. But then - - he drags in ISIS and says that
all of these leftist groups - - ISIS, Occupy Wall Street, and the NYPD police
death protestors- - are all working together and are orchestrated by the same “Saul
Allinsky type tacticts. And of course Hillary
who is running for President - - and Saul Allinsky are good friends”. I really felt that Ihad been slimed from
even hearing all this stuff. KEIB
obviously has no shame in putting such complete garbage on the air. Of course KEIB as a radio station is 35th
in rating in radio stations, out of a total of 45 or something. So it’s not like “Everyone in America” is
listening to this nut case and somehow roaring their approval.
I happened to think of
that Bible verse “a soft answer turneth away wrath”. That scripture wouldn’t apply very well to
President Obama. He is the recipient of
all sorts of vile invective and insult by the Republicans and he virtually
never responds negatively to any of it.
Their fierce loathing and anger- resentment- - or him is not diminished
one bit. But a lot of things are not “like
they’re supposed to be”. Sean Hannity
said that if we just got out act together and started drilling and extracting
shale and fracking all over the place, we could drive the Saudis and OPEC out
of business. Never has there been a
completely stupid remark. The reason is
because if the price of oil falls to twenty dollars a barrel, the Saudis and
OPEC can still make a profit. All these
pipe dreams of Sean Hannity of promising young people starting out a life time
of high wages in a carrier in the oil business- - are drowning in a sea of
sludge. There are those conservatives
who warned you to get out of common stocks and into gold and silver. Now gold is still where it was and the stock
market just closed on a new high this Christmas Eve in this year’s “holyday
rally”. So those of you who listened to
these right wing alarmists, “How’s that one working out for you?” We hear endlessly that the reason why the
economy is so sluggish is because of “all the new taxes and regulations that
Obama has saddled business with”. Judy
complains about “businesses not making money in the first five years” and yet
she has been in her Nutrition Product business for twenty years- - so I’m
wondering what her excuse is for not making money, if indeed that is the
case. We hear from her endlessly about
all of the forms and quarterly reports she has to fill out. Is she telling me that while Bush was in power
none of this was the case? Buck Sexton
on his final call of the show today fielded a caller who was in the military
and training Iraqi Air Force pilots. His
words were a little confusing because he says “The Iraqis call the United
States - - the friendly side”. (As
opposed to Al Qaeda, I suppose) But he
then slips this barb in at Obama saying “But the President campaigned on a
platform of pulling us out of Iraq and so he yanked the rug out from under us
leaving these new trainees to languish and eventually to fail”. I got to thinking about this. They are being trained, supposedly for three
years under President Bush, and two and a half more years under President Obama
till summer of 2011 and they’re blaming US because they fell to ISIS troops so
quickly? It’s hard to relate to right wingers
because at Thom Hartman puts it, “It’s so rare when you ever hear an honest,
consistent argument from these people”.
You just can’t respect them.
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