Half-heartedly, half-attentively, I watched the jerk off on Capital Hill last night. I spelled Capital correctly, as that was the topic of the jerk off. I did not hear any mention of cutting spending in the military-war slice of the $ pie, which is one-half of the pie. What a joke. What a tragedy. What an indictment.
Here are three links that I found in my in-box this morning, which express views of people not brainwashed stupid by political parties.
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On this one today, I’m an old person. I cuss aplenty. I am irreverent. I can’t stand flag wavers or Bible thumpers. I especially can’t stand people who support America at war but they didn’t go over there and lead the charge. When I say the Pledge of Allegiance, I do not say “under God,” because I learned the pledge without it being there and I remember it was inserted when I attended Ramsay, as I recall, by anti-communists, perhaps by people influenced by Joseph McCarthy. I recall from the Gospels that Jesus had no respect for anyone, including old people, including his own mother, whom he did not feel were doing the will of God. He spoke roughly to his mother and about her. And yes, old people do seem to have different manners and ways from young people, even though I remember old people speaking of uppity niggers and putting them back in their places.
If you want to relate to me, do so as a person, not as a poster child for other people’s crusades. Not as a male chauvinistic pig, which you did with the forward yesterday. Not as a war monger, which you have not yet done. Not as a racist, not as a Republican and not as a Democrat. If you bash President Obama, I expect to see you also bash ex-President Bush and the Republicans in Congress. If you bash Muslims, I expect to see you also bash Christians who trample Jesus and crucify him ongoing. I think you get my drift. Thank you.
Sloan
SLOAN – does it strike you that the Jewish, Muslim and Christian religions are all apples that fell from the same tree ? The same major events and the same characters move through all of these religions and others. They differ only in the few exceptions that people focus on and have used as reasons for war for centuries
. Some diety somewhere has to be laughing at this human condition.
Ron
Hi, Ron. Only just now saw your comment. If you believe the Bible geneology, yep, all fell from the same Abraham tree. But human thinking being what it is, we see where it all ended up. Try this on. In the Koran, Mohammed says Jesus was a prophet and he did not die on the cross, but it was made to look that way. Since Mohammed is viewed by Muslims at the last prophet from God, or so is my understanding, does that mean devout Mulsims all believe what he wrote about Jesus not dying on the cross? If so, does that lead to devout Muslims viewing Christendom as being based entirely, it could be argued, on an event that did not happen? If so, does that lead to devount Muslims viewing Christendom as, well, insane? Another problem is found in Genesis, after Sarah had told Abraham to send his concubine Hagar and her son Ishmael into the wilderness, after Sarah had conceived, or already had given birth to Issac, the child God had promised Abraham would come. But Sarah was barren, she had gotten impatient, so she got Abraham to take Hagar and produce the promised child that way. Anyway, God told Abraham not to worry about Hagar and Ishmael, they would be taken care of, and Ishael’s seed would become a great nation and would cause Isaac’s seed trouble. God told Abraham that Isaac’s seed also would become a great nation. A similar passage is in the Koran, but it is said there, I think, that Ishmael was the promised child. That aside, do you think devout Muslims see it as their duty to God to cause Jews trouble, since they descended from Isaac? And also, to cause Christendom trouble, since it descended intellectually and emotionally from Jesus? Troubling thoughts I have sat with since just after 911. It was then that I seemed to get a sense that a way deal with it was for America to get out of the Middle East altogether, and stop supporting Israel, and let it and Islam deal with each other, since that is where it started, according to Genesis story, also the Koran story, as I undertand that scripture.