Unrelated

I'm going to combine two unrelated posts into one, because.

1.  I'm in the middle of reading the McCullough biography of Truman, and was watching Thanksgiving episodes of West Wing last night, and I realized something that bears on our current political situation.    I realized that whether in fiction or in real life the "quid pro quo" is part of virtually all aspects of the presidency.  Especially the executive branch and more especially foreign policy.     WWII was literally ended with a quid pro quo, "If you surrender unconditionally, we'll stop bombing you".     It makes me wonder why more presidents haven’t been impeached.

2.   Thanksgiving day, in OK.   A patrol officer stops into a local Starbucks and orders coffee for the people working as dispatchers on the holiday.    When he looks at the spot on the cup where a name should be, his reads “Pig”.     For all the crap that people on the right take for all sorts of things, I’ll be willing to bet that this flies under the radar and is met with silence from the left.

Quote

“"[Satan] wants us to laugh at sin rather than mourn over it, and to rationalize it rather than confess it and bring it to the Lord for forgiveness. He seduces us to become so used to sin in us and around us that it no longer bothers our conscience." 

Apocalypse when?

"Show me anyone-anyone!-ho acts like the planet has 12 years to avert the apocalypse.  No one ACTS like it which means that no one BELIEVES it.  Climate change is an obvious political racket!"


I'm not sure I totally agree with this, but the actions of people who push this agenda certainly don't match their predictions.   It'd be a lot easier to take these folx seriously if they were living like they really believed this.

Just think about

Just think about what you stand to lose if you don't eat Romaine lettuce from Salinas CA.

How to

If you’re Forbes magazine and you want to piss of a bunch of progressives, here’s a suggestion.     Tweet a link to your article about Bezos donating 98.5 million dollars to help the homeless.  It’s like throwing chum into the middle of a feeding frenzy.   I’ve never seen people so pissed at such generosity.  

????

It seems as though renaming incest as GSA (genetic sexual attraction) might be the first step in it going mainstream.

Not

I know it's been asserted that some people are "good" and that they can be identified by the visible portion of some of the actions they engage in.

If that's the case, then by the same criteria some people are indisputably vile.

Good People

It's been asserted that it's possible to tell which people are "good people" by observing some of their public behavior.  If this is true, then it should be easy to come up with a list of good people, right?  It's just a random list, I'll probably add as I think of more.

I'll start a list and y'all can vote good/not good if you want.   I'm sticking to people who are in the public sphere, because putting Uncle Bob would be stupid.

Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
John Adams
Alexander Hamilton
Dwight Eisenhower
Harry Truman
Jesse Jackson
Al Sharpton
Bill Clinton
Jimmy Carter
Margaret Thatcher
Joan of Arc
Ghandi
John Perkins
Martin Luther King Jr
John Knox
Jonathan Edwards
Golda Mier
Margaret Sanger
Charles Darwin
Billy Graham
Clarence Thomas
JFK
Madonna
Katy Perry
Taylor Swift
Martin Luther
Mother Theresa
John Paul II
Jeffery Epstein
John Wayne
Marilyn Monroe
Hugh Hefner
Nelson Mandela
Che Guevera
Neil Armstrong
Coretta Scott King
Malala
Michelle Obama
Helen Keller
Anne Frank
Princess Diana
Marie Curie
Anne Richards
Anne Graham Lotz
Joni Earickson Tada
Tammy Baker
Joanna Gaines
Vera Mae Perkins
Kanye West
Kim Kardashian
Mia Khalifa
Dana Loesch
Allie Stuckey



That's plenty for now.

Un update and reality check.

Wintery Knight,

Takes a look at how Britain"s first married gay couple is doing.  Because we all know that gay marriage is exactly like  non gay marriage, except for the gay part.   That gay's just want to live and let live in happy monogamy "until death parts" them. 


https://winteryknight.com/2019/11/18/lets-check-in-on-britains-first-married-gay-couple-and-see-how-theyre-doing/

Heaven

I've been thinking a lot about the notion of Heaven recently.  As well as the concept of the Kingdom of God and what those sorts of things look like.   This video was shared with me a while ago, and I like the way that it approaches the notion of the sphere of God, the sphere of man, and how they relate and overlap.   I like the idea that the spheres were created to occupy the same space, but that they became separated.  After Jesus, we see some overlap, that there is a space where God's sphere and our sphere meet, as it were.  But that the ultimate goal is the final reconciliation of and restoration of the original creation. 

I'm sure that, like every attempt to explain the nature of the Kingdom of God, it's not perfect.  Having said that, I think that talking about "going to heaven when we die", doesn't really capture the entirety of the future and of God's redemptive plan.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy2AQlK6C5k

Believe

"Believe in climate change as if it's a religion, and not a science."

Mazie Hirono

KH

I’m not necessarily a Kamala Harris supporter, but I keep seeing headlines that her campaign is failing because of some combination of racism and sexism from the voters.

Or, to put it another way, DFL primary voters are too racist and/or sexist to support a black woman.

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that the front runners are all old, rich, and white.

Well, y’all got one Hispanic to drop out and cut another from the debate.  Just getting whiter and older.

Please elect stupid

“Q: Where do those who work in health insurance go when private insurance is eliminated?

Sen. Warren: "No one gets left behind. Some of the people currently working in health insurance will work in other parts of insurance. In life insurance, in auto insurance, in car insurance."”