The sharing taught by Jeshua, the Nazarene, an itinerant stone-cutter, seems missing at the Uncle Sam tea parties.
His Buddhist teachers talked somewhat differently: the itinerant healer model was based as much on sharing as on barter (Yeshua, that is - not 'Sam' who is a fictitious icon.)
But once repealed, us (those touched by Grace, I suppose) will try to get more surgical bang for our buck outa those friendly not-so-big sickness-unto-death insurance companies.
It's as good as money in an unregulated bank (an Evangelical Savin-n-Loans) without that Commie-plot FDIC of those FDR'ers.
Oh, btw, the insurance actuaries program in APL (from satanic farma-Kanada) which looks like Greek. Geee-suhs!
PS
we will keep medicare and social insecurity for gramps cuz without it how could we afford to tithe our 10% and still keep that ole geezer from groaning on the sofa bed downstairs ... he's groaning now in the Hotel-8 elder-hostel on the I-40 service road jess fine, thank all ya'll very much.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Monday, July 26, 2010
Jon Stewart Nonsense Trumps Palin
Jon Stewart's interview with Marilynn Robinson was beyond belief. Jon knows that astrophysics is based on faith. The rationality of science reduces to fideism. Truly sophomoric.
I will just stop watching or listening to Jonathon Stuart Leibowitz - the interview was not amusing, or informative or satirical or ironic - it was just dumb. Compare any interview with Murray Gell-Mann. So astronomy will now be on a par with astrology. What was the David Hilbert quote? Or do we defer to Ronald Reagan's insight? Careful observation led to the dark matter hypothesis as much as esoteric theory: so dark matter is "Devil's Dung" or is it "souls of infidels". Pick your ignorance, Jon!
"If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology. "
attributed to mathematician David Hilbert
"I don't guide my life by it ... I don't know enough about it to say, is there something to it or not ... and I don't mean to offend anyone who does believe in it, or engages in it."
Ronald Reagan on astrology
But will he interview the woman whose careful science gave us some of the first observational evidence for dark matter??? And will her personal views on mystery and faith be of any interest? Her views on sex? On vegetables? What she thinks causes her occasional constipation?
I will just stop watching or listening to Jonathon Stuart Leibowitz - the interview was not amusing, or informative or satirical or ironic - it was just dumb. Compare any interview with Murray Gell-Mann. So astronomy will now be on a par with astrology. What was the David Hilbert quote? Or do we defer to Ronald Reagan's insight? Careful observation led to the dark matter hypothesis as much as esoteric theory: so dark matter is "Devil's Dung" or is it "souls of infidels". Pick your ignorance, Jon!
"If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology. "
attributed to mathematician David Hilbert
"I don't guide my life by it ... I don't know enough about it to say, is there something to it or not ... and I don't mean to offend anyone who does believe in it, or engages in it."
Ronald Reagan on astrology
But will he interview the woman whose careful science gave us some of the first observational evidence for dark matter??? And will her personal views on mystery and faith be of any interest? Her views on sex? On vegetables? What she thinks causes her occasional constipation?
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Palin Yahoo! News
News item.
Oh yes, or should I say "Eureka!"
The Yahoo! News item of Tue Jun 29, 3:42 pm ET was posted credits to Liz Goodwin .
In the news pic the non-sentence Latin motto for the college is in full view: "Vox Veritas Vita".
Or as I would have this one in a mere Italian non-phrase topic sequence: Voce Verita Vita.
v. "botched"
Oh yes, or should I say "Eureka!"
The Yahoo! News item of Tue Jun 29, 3:42 pm ET was posted credits to Liz Goodwin .
In the news pic the non-sentence Latin motto for the college is in full view: "Vox Veritas Vita".
Or as I would have this one in a mere Italian non-phrase topic sequence: Voce Verita Vita.
v. "botched"
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Palin and the Baptist
In case you missed the salon.com story on Palin and the Baptist preacher who refuses to condemn all gays, lesbians and transexuals ... and think that she knows anything about Iran and the Holocaust.
Palin may have missed that course on "20th Century History for Journalism Students" when she was flip-flopping from one of her five (or was it six?) colleges before she somehow got her degree ... during the first months of the Russian invasion of Poland (that was fall 1939, Gov'nor P.) ... some Polish refugees did come to find shelter in Persia. The Nuremberg Laws were passed BEFORE we got to work on atomic bombs. The Warsaw Ghetto was slaughtered BEFORE the Poles were slaughtered in Warsaw (as the Russians waited east of the Vistula.) The French police were the main force rounding up Jews in France. Most Jews in Bulgaria - like most in Denmark - survived. Raoul Wallenberg disappeared at the hands of the Russians.
I know - it's complicated. Many people refused to believe the Jews were actually being gassed. It guess it kind just happened - sorta like, you know, "dropping the big one!" Many people believe the Iranians are trying to build nuclear weapons. And Obama is jest afeard to drop in a few bunk-busters! Heck, you don't go after moose with a .22 - do you Dad? (Her Dad knows all about ammunition but her got caught up in that dinosaur hoax and now thinks the World is more than 7000 years old, silly ole fool ... but he was just teaching science - it's not like he was peddling that baloney at Sunday Schools to corrupt our innocent children!)
Iran is complicated. Sometimes they call it Persia. Sometimes they speak Farsi and then they go an get a notion to goin' back to speakin' PErsian. Before our new CIA over-threw the Iranian government to install our friend and yours, the Shah, the Jews of Tehran lived in relative peace. Very naive of them. The Ayatollah was living openly in France. Only in recent years - really just since Arnold became Gov'nor - the middle-class and professional Jews of Iran have fled to Los Angeles (oops, they are on the West Coast and may vote progressive-liberal-communist-Dimocrat.)
Was it the United States which interfered with Jews emigrating from 1946 Europe to anywhere other than Palestine? Heck no! Were those conservative members of the State Department or liberals? And did France help? Should we have offerd the DP's of Europe a new home in Alaska from where they could almost see the "home" provided in Stalin's autonomous Jewish republic as far from Moscow and Leningrad as he could find on the map? Are you kidding? What would they know about salmon fishin' and moose hunting - and most all of that we do on Saturdays anyway!
Well. it's just so dang complicated. And the three words "Israel", and "Iran" and "Obama" all fit neatly on one hand. And of course Netanyahu has been organizing get-togethers - "Come on in for tea!" - at new settlements all over the West Bank and Arabs are welcome there, too! (say, Bill, is that the West Bank of the "blue" Nile or the "white" Nile? - and whose on the East Bank? - Istanbowl or Constandinopel?
Of course, if anything ever DID happen to the State of Israel, The End of Days might have to be re-scheduled - but, heck, that's happened before, right? RAPTURE! Moose-hunting in heaven means never having to say "re-load!"
PS Pelosi might be the Anti-Christ! Cuz anything's possible, right? You-Bitcha!
(per SarahP)
Palin may have missed that course on "20th Century History for Journalism Students" when she was flip-flopping from one of her five (or was it six?) colleges before she somehow got her degree ... during the first months of the Russian invasion of Poland (that was fall 1939, Gov'nor P.) ... some Polish refugees did come to find shelter in Persia. The Nuremberg Laws were passed BEFORE we got to work on atomic bombs. The Warsaw Ghetto was slaughtered BEFORE the Poles were slaughtered in Warsaw (as the Russians waited east of the Vistula.) The French police were the main force rounding up Jews in France. Most Jews in Bulgaria - like most in Denmark - survived. Raoul Wallenberg disappeared at the hands of the Russians.
I know - it's complicated. Many people refused to believe the Jews were actually being gassed. It guess it kind just happened - sorta like, you know, "dropping the big one!" Many people believe the Iranians are trying to build nuclear weapons. And Obama is jest afeard to drop in a few bunk-busters! Heck, you don't go after moose with a .22 - do you Dad? (Her Dad knows all about ammunition but her got caught up in that dinosaur hoax and now thinks the World is more than 7000 years old, silly ole fool ... but he was just teaching science - it's not like he was peddling that baloney at Sunday Schools to corrupt our innocent children!)
Iran is complicated. Sometimes they call it Persia. Sometimes they speak Farsi and then they go an get a notion to goin' back to speakin' PErsian. Before our new CIA over-threw the Iranian government to install our friend and yours, the Shah, the Jews of Tehran lived in relative peace. Very naive of them. The Ayatollah was living openly in France. Only in recent years - really just since Arnold became Gov'nor - the middle-class and professional Jews of Iran have fled to Los Angeles (oops, they are on the West Coast and may vote progressive-liberal-communist-Dimocrat.)
Was it the United States which interfered with Jews emigrating from 1946 Europe to anywhere other than Palestine? Heck no! Were those conservative members of the State Department or liberals? And did France help? Should we have offerd the DP's of Europe a new home in Alaska from where they could almost see the "home" provided in Stalin's autonomous Jewish republic as far from Moscow and Leningrad as he could find on the map? Are you kidding? What would they know about salmon fishin' and moose hunting - and most all of that we do on Saturdays anyway!
Well. it's just so dang complicated. And the three words "Israel", and "Iran" and "Obama" all fit neatly on one hand. And of course Netanyahu has been organizing get-togethers - "Come on in for tea!" - at new settlements all over the West Bank and Arabs are welcome there, too! (say, Bill, is that the West Bank of the "blue" Nile or the "white" Nile? - and whose on the East Bank? - Istanbowl or Constandinopel?
Of course, if anything ever DID happen to the State of Israel, The End of Days might have to be re-scheduled - but, heck, that's happened before, right? RAPTURE! Moose-hunting in heaven means never having to say "re-load!"
PS Pelosi might be the Anti-Christ! Cuz anything's possible, right? You-Bitcha!
(per SarahP)
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Palin on Iran
Here she is at Facebook. Of course we got the whole problem started by Cold War hysteria about a socialist (elected) government in Iran which hawks such as herself permitted the CIA to over-throw with a "private army" (not really a militia.)
So the US - I mean Obama - is the problem here and not China, France, Russia and Turkey (ignoring Syria.) China and Russia may have been the largest obstacle, so we can suppose that Palin policies toward China and Russia would have had them lining up on our side ... hmmm. Not very damn likely. A President Hilary Clinton, perhaps so.
Note no mention of the Russian-American agreement on nuclear arms reduction ...
And then there are those pesky Envangelical Pentecostal missionaries annoying a variety of nations ... but of course we can tell the Prime Minister of India that President Palin is not "really" donating to those missionaries in Hindu, Jain, Sikh or Moslem villages.
Real politics. Time to re-load!
So the US - I mean Obama - is the problem here and not China, France, Russia and Turkey (ignoring Syria.) China and Russia may have been the largest obstacle, so we can suppose that Palin policies toward China and Russia would have had them lining up on our side ... hmmm. Not very damn likely. A President Hilary Clinton, perhaps so.
Note no mention of the Russian-American agreement on nuclear arms reduction ...
And then there are those pesky Envangelical Pentecostal missionaries annoying a variety of nations ... but of course we can tell the Prime Minister of India that President Palin is not "really" donating to those missionaries in Hindu, Jain, Sikh or Moslem villages.
Real politics. Time to re-load!
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Palin at the T-intersection of the ole country road
CNN reports that
Pentecostal Evangelists in Canada - a tiny minority - have been more successful in many ways than any other crank minority in influencing a conservative political movement. Of course, Palin denies that she is a Pentecostal: she simply attends Pentecostal churches. The approach in Canada has been to get people of the radical faith into politics under other banners.
What would a "Tea Party" in New York or Washington be today? A riot only? What revolution do the gun-toters imagine they are about to ram down the people's throats? In Canada the aims have not always been modest - but eventually moderated.
Whether Palin will sign a "Covenant of Civility" remains to be seen: her raving followers may not have such scruples.
"take back our country" - but from whom and for whom and in the name of what? All this to abolish Social Security and Medicare? To abolish the Federal Reserve? To abolish the the EPA? To "restore" single-party politics? To remove term limits for true Christian conservatives wearing the badge of permanent revolution?
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin kicked off a Tea Party rally Saturday in Sen. Harry Reid's hometown, encouraging disgruntled Americans to "take back our country"The call for "conservative revolution" was also made in the 1920's in Europe in what was then the Weimar Republic. Conservative fanaticism differs little from one setting to another: Russophiles for Putin, Mullahs in Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Egypt ...
Pentecostal Evangelists in Canada - a tiny minority - have been more successful in many ways than any other crank minority in influencing a conservative political movement. Of course, Palin denies that she is a Pentecostal: she simply attends Pentecostal churches. The approach in Canada has been to get people of the radical faith into politics under other banners.
What would a "Tea Party" in New York or Washington be today? A riot only? What revolution do the gun-toters imagine they are about to ram down the people's throats? In Canada the aims have not always been modest - but eventually moderated.
Whether Palin will sign a "Covenant of Civility" remains to be seen: her raving followers may not have such scruples.
"take back our country" - but from whom and for whom and in the name of what? All this to abolish Social Security and Medicare? To abolish the Federal Reserve? To abolish the the EPA? To "restore" single-party politics? To remove term limits for true Christian conservatives wearing the badge of permanent revolution?
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
On the other hand ...
What is it that one must never find on the right hand? Nothing sinister I hope ... not that it would be something we would have in common with Him - we who are cast in His image - so what would be dextrous for Him, is merely sinister in us ... did I say "it" ? Holy sh*t! Don't tell me it's another damned objection to the the physical ascension!?! Somethings should never see the light of day!
On the other hand, what we could have is a new approach to the inevitable realization of the immaculate conception ... or of papal infallibility, whichever came first ... the right-handed chicken or the left-handed egg ... it is writ large somewheres ...
On the other hand, what if the Logos were actually merely an Indication, palmed off on us, so to speak, so as to keep us at arm's length from the Ineffable, the Immaterial and the Unmentionable?
The IIU, known to the uninitiated as the UII and spoken of in the presence of women - even in their suspected earshot - as the IUI, the triune vocable revealing that on each hand God had two thumbs and three fingers in perfect symmetry.
On the other hand, what we could have is a new approach to the inevitable realization of the immaculate conception ... or of papal infallibility, whichever came first ... the right-handed chicken or the left-handed egg ... it is writ large somewheres ...
On the other hand, what if the Logos were actually merely an Indication, palmed off on us, so to speak, so as to keep us at arm's length from the Ineffable, the Immaterial and the Unmentionable?
The IIU, known to the uninitiated as the UII and spoken of in the presence of women - even in their suspected earshot - as the IUI, the triune vocable revealing that on each hand God had two thumbs and three fingers in perfect symmetry.
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