Red State Empire in Future Peril

Mr Norquist it's so great to meet you face to face
You've been getting quite a name - all around the place
Cursing women- - and stealing from the blind
And now I understand you're God
but not the Christian kind


So you're the famous Norquist
And with fame your are kissed
Prove to me that you're divine
Turn my water into wine
If you'll do that for me
and let me have it for free
Then you've nothing to fear from Me


You tell me you're so great and really going far
Then what's this crap in what I hear
 - that you have lowered the bar?
People are saying, you lack intelligence
Some around here don't take crap
 from those who make no sense


So if you are the light - of the Republican Right
Prove to me that you're no fool
Walk accross my swimming pool
Oh if this you can do
Then I'll know it's all true
Don't you give up without a fight


I only ask things I'd ask any ruling Tzar

Oh just what is it that you have got

That puts you where you Are

Uummm! Grover Norquist

Yes, I'm a captive fan

I'm dying to be shown that you are not just any man

So if you think you are Christ

And you're so darned high priced

Turn this gravel into bread

You can do it on your head

Oh has something gone wrong

Why do you take so long

Right now you're hanging - - by a - - Thread


Welll- now I'm getting real pissed,
Mr. Grover Norquist
You're some puppet - ain't no Lord
You're nothing but a fraud
Take him away
He's got nothing to say
"You're fate's gona take a tragic - twist

Well the bad news just keeps on coming, if you're a Republican.  The Montana State Supreme Court just reaffirmed their ruling that Corporations are not allowed to contribute to campaigns in the State of Montana.  Montana has always had this law since its inception, I hear.  Leave it to these new Western states to come up with the most progressive laws like Wyoming and women voting.  Tea party people want to appeal this ruling to the US Supreme Court saying that federal law trumps Montana's law on this issue.  In the first place, in many people's minds it's an undecided issue to begin with since this US Court ruling is so contraversial, and would certainly stand for some chellenges in the future.  But more importantly there IS no decision to make here because the US Constitution is already clear on the subject.  The Constitution espressly says that States are in charge of how their Elections are conducted.  They lay out the manner in which they will occur.  As such, the States and not the Feds are given the exclusive right to make their own laws in this area.  Period.  End of story.  The Montana ruling stands.  In other troubling news for Republicans, the New Jersey state legeslature has passed a Gay Marriage law, which Governor Christie promises to Veto.  But it's just another crack in the velvet ceiling or whatever for gays.  Real Estate sales, here and nation wide are up for January, even as prices continue to drop.  I thought this is what people like Mitt Romney and other "free market" people wanted was for Principle and interest rate to come down sufficiently in order to enable the average working class American to again buy a home.  Apparently there is some informal regulation the banks have instituted that says even if you are willing to pay 40% down you can't get a real estate loan.  As you know the more money you pay down the more you bypass that deadly principle decline "perabala", which is all too shallow at the beginning.  One commentator said if this one "rule" were changed the Real Estate market and the economy as a whole would take off like gangbusters tomorrow.  Stocks of all sorts were up for today as the D J I looms ever closser to that all symbolic 13,000 mark, on its way to 20,000 before the year is out in my oppinion.  Every day there are symptums of increased industrial output.  General Motors' earnings just hit all time record levels.  So the tide is definitely moving in a good direction.

So with economic news off the table for the Tea Party what are their prospects now.  There is a new book with some real eye opening psychological observations.  You've heard that old adage about "The one you least suspect is the most guilty of doing it".  We have some zingers here.  They say the average Joe tea party person- - previously known as the "angry white man" during the Clinton administration, has dropped over the years in both his moral as well as economic status.  He now has come to hate the government at all costs, and all of this is a reflection of his really hating himself.  These are the people who depend more than any other group on the government and they resent themselves for it.  As you know there is a general surplus of government revenue to the Red States- - and the demographics of these Red States show them as older, white and rural.  Remember when I said I didn't trust Hillary Clinton supporters because they were alltogether too White, too old, and too rural.  These are the people who lean more on Medicare and rely and depend on the government to take care of their parents, who would be destitute otherwise, because they are sure too poor themselves to care for them.  They say "No socialized medicine and hands off of my Medi Care".  These are the people who refuse to retrain and reeducate themselves and will say they don't need the Internet and statements like "I was born in this town and by golly I'll die in this town".  They regard any sort of change or expansion of their minds as something they have no interest in engaging in.  So politically their minds are frozen in what ever state it was in the last time they were brainwashed at a tea party rally.  They recommend that the only solution for these people is to "Come to Jesus" and find fulfillment in that way, unlike that which they can achieve in the real world.  Now people like Grover Norquist is talking about "We don't need a President to think.  We just need a guy who is good at taking orders and will sign the legislation we place before him.  All we need is a President with working digits to hold a pen and sign his name".   Back over twenty years ago I sent a risky letter to Pastor Mark about the story of the Fisherman and the Fish.  One of those Grim Fairy Tales and this one is pretty grim.  It's about a power hungry woman married to a poor man and starts off destitute.  But the man keeps being issued orders by the woman as to what to ask for from this enchanted Fish that talks.  She gets all this power and lives in a Palace but is still not entirely happy.  So she tells her husband to go down to the sea and talk to that fish of yours and tell her that she now wants power to rule the World, and from now on the fish will take direct orders from her".  Well the fish hears all this and goes "Buggar this!" and swims out to sea, but not before removing all the woman's gifts and landing her back where she started.  We know people like Grover Norquist have only come to view congress as a rubber stamp for their own bills.  And now they are talking about abandoning Mitt Romney and going to their "Presidential Candidate Farms".  I don't know if that is like the minor leagues in baseball or something more cinister.  Perhaps it's some some sort of Boys from Brazil scenario where candidates for President are eugenical bred and selected. Quino sabe?  So with the economy in such rebound, perhaps the synics are right in saying that the Tea Party has had to trot the moral issues one more time around the block.  One of them said, "You know back in my day, women didn't mess with all this fancy prescription stuff, they just used Asprine for birth control.  Yeah, they just put an Asprine tablet between their knees".  It took me a bit to get this one.  I'm not used to thinking in such crude terms.  But the whole thing about fear of having children is so misplaced on Rush Limbaugh's part.  The fact is I never heard that topic broached once before I heard Rush say it.  But that does pose a question about people like Rush Limbaugh and Tom Leykis, the founders of Talk Radio as we know it today- - about the morbid fear of either of having children.  We know the Rev Gene Scott despized women and children.  He once said "women are of no use, aside from their use as a sexual object", and went on to prove this point graphicly by how he lived.  Tom Leykis forced Laura Dias to get an abortion in June of 1990.  And I think Randy Rhodes is right.  I think Rush has an implied agreement with his women that should they get pregnent that he will fund their having a quiet abortion.  I wouldn't put this sort of hypocracy past Rush.  In the past he himself has demonstrated a basic animosity twords children.  I think the gender gap is likely to be so wide in this election of 2012 it may set an all time Guiniss book of World Records.

Of course even Stu Baby was a fan of Pope John Paul II.  Even now the stance of the Papacy on the issues of the day are a whole lot more progressive than is to the tea party's liking.  For instance the Church is staunchly against the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.  They say that "preventative wars' are wrong.  They are against the Death Penalty.  They opposed the state of Arizona in their battle against immigrents.  They believe all cultures have something to contribute.  They of course believe in "Sanctuary" a word we all remember from the Huntchback of Notre Dame.  They believe in Labor Unions.  They believe in a higher Minimum Wage.  And they believe that Americans are entitled to proper Health Care.  There is one more stance the Church has that would not be to the liking of so called strict Calvinists, though in reality I see nothing in Calvins writing to preclude what I'm about to say.  They believe that God is Sovreign and only He determines who gets Saved in the end and who is destined to Damnation.  We may make a guess and speculate about the future but in the End, only God Alone knows. Some may argue "but aren't we all covered by the blood of Christ"?  Well in theory, but if we have unconfessed Sin on our record, it could be argued we have something to account for. How seriously do you take first John 1:9 or whatever.  Is this an offer or an ultamatum?   I would speculate that this "not knowing" was so awesome that they came up with the idea of Pergitory as an intermediate step to give God a little time to "think it over" before the White Throne judgement of Revelation.

I would like to talk about the milti dimensional reality in perhaps simpler, more basic terms than you're used to hearing from me.  The whole idea of dimensions that we can't see, smell, taste, touch or whatever- - is based on the whole idea that there is something "other dimensional" or "extra dimensional" within our own souls that is part of our make-up and will survive our Death.  This is a very basic metaphysical concept which if you don't get, nothing much else about other dimensions makes any sense at all.  I have spoken of a grand total of fifteen dimensions.  Let me break this down for you so you don't get Freaked, OK. I believe in the Plecy vs Ferguson version of "separate but equal" for different things that cannot be compared as either equal or not because they have a completely "disperate' nature and so lack a common denominator.  For instance to me it makes no sense to define material or physical realities as somehow connected with moral realities and virtues as the two are completely different in their aspects and natures and have nothing to relate to in common. There are four dimensions of "Substance" or "things".  There are three spacial dimensions.  There are two dimensions of Time, which still allow for an enormous ammount of variation in theory.  There is a remaining base dimension of Awareness.  This dimension of Awareness, which may be said to be that "other dimensional" part of us, is broken down into six dimensions.  Three of these have to do with physical awareness of our "Environment" and we won't do that now.  There are three Karmic dimensions, the top one being "Karmic awareness or Will", which many theologians say is the most important thing.  As far as we know from the Scientific community we live in a "closed system" four dimensional space-time continuoum.  This is the world the Scientists know and study.  This is not to proclude "other dimensions" of a spacial or otherwise nature unknown to us.  The unknown is unknown.  (Selah)   People make the logical error saying that is something is Unknown it should be therefore "reckoned" as something which not only does NOT exist- - but CAN not exist, and this is a mistake.  It's a mistake when Atheists do it and it's a mistake of sorts when scientists do it.  It's less forgivable for a Philosopher to make this error than for a scientist to make this error, because a scientist has "logical perameters" to make his case from.  A philosopher has no excuse, because these are the things he's supposed to be aware of.  I regard part of my goal as to broaden the awareness scope of my readers.