Drew peterson is in the news again because he is getting married to victim number five. Drew Peterson is marrying Christina Rains and her family is trying to talk her out of it knowing that he's probably murdered his third and fourth wives. His fourth wife is now missing. Formerly Drew Peterson had argued that his fourth wife was alive and not dead. Will he now change his stance since he now has to prove his fourth wife is dead before he can marry Christina? It's like the song 'Henry VIII" with the line "I'm getting married to the widdow next door. She's been married seven times before". Of course the other Peterson, Scott Peterson is now in prison for offing his wife and he still gets love letters from women in prison. There is a sydrone among certain women that they believe "Love conquers all". Of course this is a Christian belief and there are times when I've been suckered into this belief myself in dealing with Christians. But the fact is Agape love, which is the kind Christians talk about has nothing to do with the character of the other person but everything to do with your own emotions, and you know what they say about "Give me the strength to change the things I can and the patience to endure those things I can't change and the wisdom to know the difference". Drew Peterson apparently did not even divorce his second wife before marrying his third. I don't know about the others.
We then have Bernie Madoff, or he "made off" with fifty Billion with a B dollars. What's ironic about this is that Bernie conned rich people who ought to know better. But I have mixed emotions. What he did was dastardly and wrong, yet at the same time it's interesting to see that even rich people can be conned by their own insecurity and greed. Chuck Smith is wrong. Rich people "have not transcended their need for money". Rich people can be just as desperate and money grubbing as the rest of us. But the ironic thing is that 50 Billion is twice the figure all three auto makers were asking between the three of them. It's a question of priorities. 25 Billion is too much to spend to save the US economy from ruin, and yet 50 Billion is not too much for rich people to spend in an attempt to get even more money. I've often said that I thought Martha Stewart should have been given a break for her insider trading charges because for once somebody "stuck it to the system" and came out ahead. But it seens either in Las Vegas or in Wall Street you are penalized for guessing right, and steep penalties are enforced to insure that you always lose money.
Then we have Rod Blagoiavitch. The Federation is still writing sympathetic articles about him. Just this morning on the Stephanie Miller show a caller was saying "In drug deals they wait till money actually changes hands before they make an arrest". Here they moved in and the guy can say "Oh that was just idle talk. I didn't mean anything by it. The idea that Offices are not For Sale all the time is a naive one. Now Blagoiavitch is out on bail and out of the prison cell and back in the penthouse, and he has to wear one of these ankle bracelets. Like Clinton he is not giving up his job merely because impeachment charges are leveled against him. He intends to fight to keep his power. It will be interesting to see how things develope.
Now we have another news headliner from yesterday. This is the fact that virtually nobody has been saved from defaulting on their Mortgage loans from the 700 Billion bail out plan. Few people have even applied for loan relief, and none have been successful. Not one person has been helped by the Barney Frank - Hank Paulson bail-out. If I were Obama and Frank were recomended to me for a job- - I'd say, 'I wouldn't hire Barney Frank as dog catcher at this point". I don't see why the senate doesn't remove him from his lofty post as head of the banking committee because he's obviously dropped the ball big time. He's played right into the hands of and the fondest dreams of the Bush banking community whose idea is to horde as much cash as possible. Like Mr. Potter from that old movie- - they'll never be able to spend all the money they are hoarding. But these people never heard of utilitarianism or the notion that you should do the most good for the most people and the way to do that is to put money in circulation, and in this way society as a whole is helped.
When it comes to belief about God, I am what you call an anti dyspensationalist, Calvinistic Deist. I believe in an all powerful overriding diety who runs things. I believe totally in divine grace, and I believe in expressing gratitude to the deity for the grace we live by every day. This morning I prayed for my TV to go on because due to the cold weather or something, my TV hasn't always come on first thing in the morning when I push the button. Gratitude is an appropiate emotion in response to divine grace. Where I part company from the Christians is that they are Theists, or Tri-thiests, if you will. The theists love to anthropomorphize God into some human quality. These Theists believe God has a personality, in fact three of them. They in some form or another believe that God is just as subject to the sway of human emotions as the rest of us. Chuck Smith has alluded to this many times in his teachings. I am a deist, on the other hand, in the finest Jeffersonian tradition. Jefferson once wrote in a letter of "Swearing before the alter of the Deity, unswarving hostility to tyrany and tyrants in all forms". Of course if God is a person then the next step for a pastor is to "Assume the role of God by adopting what you think is God's personality". These people don't appreciate the inherant unapproachable nature of God. Some say Adolph Hitler was a Christians. Evidence would suggest he wanted to bring back the nordic Myths of old. One Christian is even now saying on the radio that Adolph Hitler was an atheist. Of course Tom Hartman and myself shouldn't mind the notion of "Atheist" because both of us are Deists and not Theists.
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