Are Liberals Just Losers?

In the news on this Friday January 3, 2020 we have the Iraq embassy crisis.  We quelled the disturbance of the Iranian insergents that were trying to take over and cause another forced withdrawal of the embassy like Bengazi, but tensions are still mounting and now we have bombed Iranians in  Baghdad and a high Iranian official was killed.  But so far Trump has shown leadership so I don’t fault him.  In other news we have the vaping situation.  The Trump administration has banned all fruity flavors of E cigarettes including mint.  The only ones allowable now are menthol and regular tobacco.  I don’t think this is an area where the federal government should be getting involved.  It’s better left up to localities.  I’m kind of a fan of  the free market and public service announcements.  If I were president I would not declare war on the vaping industry.  Still there are those who say the Trump administration  has not gone far enough.  You can’t please everybody.  In the end you sometimes end up pleasing nobody.  We have the fire situation in New South Wales in southeast Austrailia, which has been bad for weeks if not months with a raging inferno down there and people evacuating to boats in the water and temperatures in the forties, and that’s forty degrees celcius.   We have the mountain lion saga called the mystery of the poop patrol.  I didn’t know they regularly examined  the poop of mountain lions to see if they have eaten any human flesh but apparently they do.  They found out that a mother and two of her cubs dined on human flesh the other day and since once you develop a taste for human flesh you’ll kill again, the solution is to track down these three mountain lions and kill them dead.   I happened to think what if the Christian church did that.  “Once you have tasted Truth you develop a taste for it and won’t be satisfied with a lie anymore and so have to be hunted down and exterminated”.   Finally we have the story that Julian Castro has withdrawn from the Democratic Presidential race.  This is a sad thing.  There seems to be an ongoing purge of minority races in the Democratic presidential race.  You’ve been the withdrawal of Camille Harris and Cory Booker and now you have a third minority to withdraw.  If there was a derth of minorities before in the twenty or  so presidential candidates, now you don’t have any.  Pretty soon it’s all going to be white males.  Elizabeth Warren is lagging in the polls and the concencus opinion seems to be that voters have a prejudice against women.

Are liberals just losers?  The conservatives have defined the terms of this elections.  Nancy Pelosi is now the bad guy because she won’t allow a final vote on impeachment by the US Senate despite the fact that they’ve been on vacation and weren’t scheduled to take up the matter for a few days anyhow.  Like we have said before, President Trump is content never to rise above 45% in the polls, if that because “He’s been able to get the things he wants done without a majority”.  And he’ll run and win again this election never having reached a majority in the popularity polls.  This is a new era.  In the old days a president was said to be in real trouble of his approval numbers dipped below fifty percent.  Not any more.   It’s funny how  it’s said the media is left wing and yet Trump has no trouble getting his “Message” out there.  It never stops, like North Korean propaganda.  We are pelted with it day and night.  There seems to be some overriding Force out there like God Almighty insuring that Trump will continue to be president for another four years, if not longer.  Both Clinton and Obama would have won third terms if they were allowed to run.   Some of you might say that Jesus was the ultimate under-dog and yet he arose victorious.  I would say that Death was a good carrerr move for Jesus.  Once the Church was through with the live Jesus, they killed him because a dead Jesus was safer to preach than a live one, that might have been in danger of messing up their  theology.  Of course every now and then someone talks about the “Real Jesus”.   Nobody seems to want to know about the Real Trump so why would they care about the real Jesus.  Tassitus spoke of Jesus as running afowl of the Roman Empire.  He also speaks of the next sighting of Christianity was in Rome – which hated the  government and the government hated them too.  There was no Church littergy in Tassitus view of Christianity.  There was no Big Brother church.  There was certainly no Apostie Paul with his many epistles with their rules and regulations in Tassitus view of how Christianity was in the first century.  But God Almighty seems to have decreed that we need an overriding Big Brother where Church and State are merged as one.  (Selah)    

Joel Olsteen’s crowd promises you either fortune or fame

Just when you think you’ve got it now they’re playing a different game

If you’re looking to get saved you better go back from where you came

Because the Church doesn’t need you and man they expect the same

We trans-morphed these song lyrics into what we want them to say.  This is after two thirty on Sunday December 29, 2019 and I posted earlier today.  We are in halftime as the Raiders are playing the Broncos in Denver.  If the Raiders won and a bunch of other stuff happens like Tennessee losing then the Raiders make the play-offs, something neither the Rams nor the Chargers were able to do this year.  They still have time in the first half.  I was just picking on Joel Olsteen because he’s popular and a convienient target.   I was just reading in “Rocca Rolla” from last winter.   You have the reissues of “A Lover’s Question” and also “Rock and Roll Rewind” in case you are curious.  “The 2018 Christmas Album” is listed in “Cosmic Tides” where I’m posting now.   They’ve had it a lot warmer in here the past few nights.  Yesterday I shaved at about quarter after three because there was a lull in the songs.  After dinner I went to the store and bought a pack of crumb donuts and strawberry Clippers.  But I want to check my bank balance before spending money today.  Yesterday I felt altogether healthier than I do today.  Yesterday I sat next to Gene, who has been sick.  There are people saying “Everybody is sick around here”.  I haven’t noticed as much coughing as I have in previous years.

This morning they were doing “Famous Lasts” on Breakfast with the Beatles.  I didn’t make the connection for a lot of songs.   A guy just inspected our bathroom because he says the room directly below us had water dripping from the ceiling.  The weather is a little warmer today.  For lunch we had a chicken and broccoli casserole and white rice.   We had red Jell-O for dessert.  The Raiders are moving to Las Vegas next year and the Rams and Chargers are moving into their new stadium in Inglewood.  In the early game the Lions played Green Bay on FOX and Kansas City defeated the LA Chargers.  Since Miami beat New England then Kansas City gets to host a play-off game two weeks from today and they get next week off.