Author: Rev. Joe Dirt

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Glitter Is Not Dirt

Robin and I were at Pho Grand waiting to be seated.  It was a nice night and we were sitting on the bench just outside the entrance anticipating our number coming up.  As we sat there a family was leaving.  It consisted of both parents, and two children.  I only discovered the gender of one child from her voice as I would have had to turn around to see them.   The father and daughter were discussing whether or not a bath before bedtime was needed.  The father was of the opinion that one was not.  The daughter’s opinion differed.  I could not hear her reasoning, but was able to intuit her logic a minute later upon the father’s reply.

“Glitter is not dirt,” he said.

Apparently they had been someplace where glittered had been applied before going or perhaps there.

I do think that will be my new motto, “Glitter is not dirt.”

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Rev. Joe’s Random Thought # 9,726

yeah I know you did not ask!

I think I figured out why so many folks tend to dislike classical music.  Think back to the last time you were on hold.  What was the music?  In my experience it is usually classical, followed by what we used to call Muzak, or on rare occasions easy listening.  The combination of being on hold for far too long listening to unfamiliar music may generate this dislike .

Just for the record classical music is one of my favorite genres, but I still hate being on hold!

 

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R.I.P. Jimmy LaFave

Of course, I was way on the outside looking in, but in Jimmy’s final days he gave to us a wonderful lesson on how to die well.  Something we all hope to do.

Below is a link to the article in the Austin Chronicles about his passing.  Very sad day indeed.  I cherish each and every performance of this great musician I was able to see.

R.I.P. Jimmy LaFave

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Cabinet Can Fire President

“The cabinet has the constitutional power to remove a president by majority vote under the 25th Amendment (if the president protests, this must be confirmed by two-thirds of each chamber of Congress). Such a vote is unlikely, but in the event of a crisis like the one Schlesinger envisioned, it would be essential.”

Of course, if possible Trump has appointed people to Cabinet offices that are bigger bozos than he is.

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Rev. Joe’s Random Thought # 97

yeah I know you did not ask!

My next bumper sticker, “Remember which party brought you Trump”.  Only problem is that many of the folks that voted for Trump are not in the educable class.  I personally think they should all be made to go sit in a corner with a dunce cap on until they come to their senses.

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Trump has a dangerous disability – George Will Washington Post Editorial

There are very few issues that I agree with George Will on.  However, he is spot on this time.  The opening sentences sums it up perfectly :

“It is urgent for Americans to think and speak clearly about President Trump’s inability to do either.”

I have so many issues with Effingham Trump that the list begins to become infinite.  Three significant ones are his inarticulateness, his shallow intellectual depth (I once commented he had the intellectual depth of a sewer lagoon), and total lack of a sense of history and what truly means to lead a democratic nation of free citizens.

Another thing that has bothered me about Trump is how he seems to have embraced Andrew Jackson  Jackson was wildly popular in his time, but in retrospect he was not a good man.  He practiced genocide on the native population, he was a huge slave owner and racist, and a proponent of expansion of the country by  military means.

Mr. Will has the my  same concerns about Effingham Trump.  Below is a link to his editorial in the Washington Post:

Trump has a dangerous disability – George Will Washington Post Editorial

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Rev. Joe’s Random Thought # 5,506

yeah I know you did not ask!

I was ruminating about the heartlessness and hollowness that is Effingham Trump.  I begin to wonder what would be inside him if you sliced him open.  I have a horrific vision of maggots spewing from the incision.  Alternately, I see it as opening up the mother of all black holes that sucks everything into it.  Obviously, having too much is not enough for such a creature as Effingham Trump.

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Rev. Joe’s Random Thought # 5,893

yeah I know you did not ask!

With Effingham Trump firing the FBI Director, James Comey, I had a brief vision of seeing him at the unemployment office applying for benefits.  Would that not be surreal on both sides of the desk?

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We Need Woody Guthrie and Jimmy LaFave

Last weekend Robin and I made a pilgrimage to the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  The reason for this pilgrimage was because Jimmy LaFave was going to be playing there. Jimmy is at the top of my list of favorite musicians.  I have been listening to him for 20 years, and if I do not have all of his CDs, I have the vast majority. His music speaks to me on so many levels.  The fact that he is not more famous than he is, says more about the music industry Continue reading “We Need Woody Guthrie and Jimmy LaFave”