I think the Tea Party knows their Sol Allinsky a lot better than the Democrats do. Tom Hartman is making a fundamental flaw in his whole mindset on protestor psychology. He says the purpose of the protests are to “provoke the state into removing the velvet glove”. Maybe this is a bi-product. But for instance I don’t need to protest Christians to realize how ugly some of them can be. That accomplishes me absolutely nothing. The whole idea of protests are to put pressure pm the establishment and make them secretly afraid such that it will affect their subsequent decisions. Frankly, protests are to enable You being the one who is making all of the real choices for once. Some say violence is always wrong. I don’t know. If you were desperate enough you might want someone dead and not much care what the consequences were. The trouble with Ghandi is that his people "opporate outside their basic zone of comfort" and Rules for Radicals says, "no, you make the government go outside THEIR zone of comfort. And frankly - acts of violence by the government don't make anyone on the right uncomfortable these days. To them it's blood sport. The way I see it we shouldn't be "doing it to ourselves" The way I see it, we should make it so we hold the whip, we have the cattle prod. In other words, - - it isn’t their job to punish us but for us to punish them. (Selah)
Dr. Conrad Murray was found guilty of involuntary man-slaughter today in court around one. The proceedings were a little late in starting. They polled each of the individual jury members. This means Dr. Murray has been convicted, but not necessarily jail time. He could be sentenced to “house confinement”. They say the maximum for this crime is only four years to begin with and that will be cut down by
In late developing congressional news, there is now a mass boycott developing among republican congress of their written pledge to Grover Norquist. As one man put it, “I signed that thing way back in 1998 and didn’t think I was signing a marriage contract”. Randy Rhodes is tooting her horn over being right in this saying that President Obama isn’t as dumb as he looks. (my phrasing) The thing is that these republicans on the Gang of Twelve committee don’t want their precious defense spending cut. So now they have to engage in the disgusting alternative of raising revenue, one way or another. My guess they are going to try and come after the poor first, if possible. I guess congress still needs to officially act on legislation quickly now so that the government does not have another shut-down, which wouldn’t be the most unpleasant thing for these people.
Herman Cain is such a crock. He flips and flops all over the place on negotiations with terrorists. And he says “Did you know that Red China is working on an atomic bomb now?” Yeah, only since October 1964. Apparently this man comes within a point or two of beating President Obama in a head to head contest. Unbelievable! He says “I am the Koch Brother’s brother from another mother”. Do you know what Malcolm X would respond to that? He’d say, “So you are admitting you have bastard parentage”. He talks about “journalistic ethics” when reporters pursue their questioning. But now we have not only a third but a fourth woman coming forward. This fourth woman wants us to know that she wants to “give a face” to all those prior women who dare not, for whatever reasons, to come forward. Apparently Cain was driving woman number four home from a meeting. She was wearing a black dress and a blouse. But then Cain pulled over and said “I want to show you my office”. But instead of going into the lit office area he instead puts the sexual moves on the woman, opening his shirt and pushing her head tword his genitals. At the same time he reached up her thy and fondled her genitals.
Senator Jack Abramoff was being interviewed on Sixty Minutes last night. When I first heard of him Rush Limbaugh was excoriating him and I naturally assumed he was a democrat. Well it turns out he’s ready to reveal the “inside secrets” and in the spirit of Gordon Gecko, I think he’s just a little surprised that all the things that were shocking and illegal when he went to jail are standard opporating procedure now in the Republican party. Abramoff says that most regulations are pointless because of the legalistic and slippery way in which they are written. I don’t know but perhaps now Rush Limbaugh regards him as a “traitor” now for “joining the other side”. One is tempted to use the tag line “You don’t feel bad about what you did; you just feel bad because you got caught”. Unfortunately this saying had a double meaning for it could mean “You knew you were just being one of the good old boys before but now you’re getting spooked because you’ve seen the force of the law”. We then have the “Proper Exit” program where troops who were taken out of
Andy Rooney died at his home last Saturday morning at age 92 just one month after doing his final Sixty Minutes commentary. Andy’s parents earned $18,000 during the depths of the great depression when the average family was earning two thousand a year or something. He served as a journalist during WW II and was “allowed to get as close to the combat as he dared” and Rooney pushed the line. He met Walter Cronkite and they remained good friends to the day of Cronkite’s death. He wrote jokes for Arthur Godfrey and didn’t mind other people doing his lines then. He also wrote for Harry Reasoner and they were friends for a long time. Harry liked to hit the bottle. He said that Reasoner was basically a lazy person and basically he could his own material that would be as good or better than anything Andy could do. Rooney still doesn’t sign autographs saying “anybody stupid enough to write me a letter, doesn’t deserve a response”. He also said that “people who write letters aren’t my kind of people”. I wonder if Jesus Christ has the same philosophy. One thing I’ve been puzzled by is that though Andy says he is a pack rat, he seems to regard it all as “junk”. So then why does he keep it? By the way as an aside I portray Mal Evans as a bit of a pack rat not based on anything he said but rather on a few deductive inferences. I was influenced partially by Andy to put that bit in the story, and it’s also that Pete Richards is a neat freak, and this just another of the many things that happened with Pete that kind of ticked him off.
Sunday morning on the Jesus Christ show "Jesus" said that certain things are valuable because they are rare. At times I question whether my definition of what's rare and precious as the same as Jesus's. I doubt I hold words in some ancient book as precious as other things that are more pervasive in their reality and presence. For instance giving someone an undying declaration of faith and trust in them is a rare thing, and it shouldn't be held cheaply by the one being offered it. And I went on to say that if God values our Faith so highly that God himself must have some sort of identity problem. Gene Scott says the highest thing he would want for his son if for his son to believe in him. I say that a son's belief in his father should be a given. The only tension there should be is how much does the father believe in the son. That's what the son wants to know. In the above example then, I am playing the "parent" and God is playing the "child". God KNOWS that I have good character. I can only pray that I would know as well of his character. The way I see it God's track record in matters lacks both moral equity and in general suffers from a void of any real "evidence" at all. I'd also like to make a point not made yesterday. The tea party preaches monetary selfishness. Among the Calvary Christians, selfishness on emotional levels and ego centrism is there for all to see. But I never had any complaints about how they dealt with money problem. Of course prior to mid 2006 I never ad any money problems. I found out. In keeping with Matthew 25 just because a person doesn't have a problem now, doesn't mean he won't ever have that problem. I had an option of eating ice cream last night. It was entirely my choice. Seid came to the door last night as I was making coffee asking me if I wanted to come down stairs. I told his I didn’t feel well but he could pray for me. Just now I had one of the worse coughing spasms of the entire week. I went to the store around ten to nine this morning for a final pack of John Blacks and to check out cough medicine prices with money I didn’t have, yet. It seemed like $6.99 for a small bottle. Maybe it’s too much to hope that Dr. Levy would give me money. A after some T H, I went down to the courtyard to see if they had coffee but I was way late. It was pushing 10:30.
Air tight
All his ducks in a row
Ante up
Are you packing?
Benedict Arnald
Bloom is off the rose
Carbon footprint
Chill out
Code blue
D O A
Do you copy?
Drink the Kool-Aid
Eleventh hour
Exit strategy
Feed the kitty
Flush (construction0
Gen-X’er
Hang-ups (business sense)
Irregularities
It all boils down to- -
John Hancock
M O
Nixed
Non compus mentus
On the hook, off the hook
On the rocks (another meaning)
On the rocks (one meaning)
One your game, off your game
Opus magnum
Paperatzi
Red flags, no red flags
Rubber checks
Squat diddley
Stalling out (flying)
Strings, no strings
That won’t fly
The balance of- -
Tween
Underwater (mortgage)
Victory lap
What’s the bottom line?
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