Pay attention to history.
I sincerely hope we are a better nation than what tRump and his sycophants are attempting to do to our country currently… I sincerely hope so.
Why Separation of Church and State IS SO VERY Important
Among all the scary s*** happening in this country and the world right now, this ranks way up there. Mike Huckabee is a true believer in the Armageddon / Second Coming of Christ fantasy. I had not realized until now that El puta pendejo naranja had appointed this whacko as ambassador to Israel. Truly the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. of the State Department. His daughter, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, current governor of Arkansas, is every bit as crazy as he is.
I would give them their religious delusions if they were not trying to push them on the rest of us…. much to our detriment. IMHO, their world view is delusional and draconian. Maybe it is a little over the top, but given half a chance, these “true believers” would make the Spanish Inquisition look like a cake walk.
God save us from the religious.
What Would Jesus Say About Donald Trump?
I am not going to comment (much) on this video except to say it echos how I feel about the current state of Christianity in the United States of America.
What I always say about religion is that life is tough, whatever gets you through the day. Of course, that is close to what I say about gender/sexuality identity. Life is tough, whatever gets you through the night. Of course, being religious is a choice. Gender identity is not.
No Kings Protest / USS Carr Hat
As I have detailed elsewhere on this blog my mother’s brother, my Uncle Paul, died heroically in the largest naval battle in history. You can read about it here: Paul H. Carr inducted into the Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame. Besides being inducted into the Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame for his heroic action he had a missile frigate named after him, the USS Paul H. Carr, FFG-52. There are several books of naval history that include his story. Obviously, having a Navy ship named after a family member is a huge honor, and all the family is rightly very proud of it. There is also a movement afoot to have one of the new class of missile frigates named after him. Hopefully, that comes to past.
I have several USS Carr hats, a couple shirts, etc. I wore them for years to honor my uncle. A few years past I stopped wearing them as it had become very fashionable to thank veterans. I became very tired of people coming up to me and thanking me for my service. More than a few wanted to shake my hand, something I am not comfortable with in the best of circumstances. Most importantly, I did not want Continue reading “No Kings Protest / USS Carr Hat”
Robert Reich: We Don’t Do Kings in America
I had a lighter posting queued up for today, but the world feels like it is spinning even more out of control thanks to the Idiot-in-Chief aka El puta pendejo naranja.
Robert Reich is my type of crusader.
Do your part – PROTEST!
What blows me away is that there are still folks out there happy that they voted for this incompetent, arguably mentally unhinged monster. This is an America I thought I would never see.
Various sources are estimating that the military parade will cost $45 million. Street repairs afterwards are estimated to cost $16 million. Whether that last amount is included in the $45 million I do not know. This at a time when the Republicans are hell bent on cutting services and benefits to the most needy among us, being the good Christians that they are.
As a reminder here is the famous poem by Pastor Martin Niemöller:
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
ELUMP – Some Ramblings
Okay I am once again a Johnny-come-lately. This time it is to the awareness that the bromance of Elon Musk and tRump had been labeled Elump by the popular press. I became cognizant of the moniker scrolling through YouTube when a video of Bill Maher’s popped up addressing the subject. I am not as big a Bill Maher fan as I used to be as he has become so self-righteous as to be almost unwatchable, but this video grabbed my attention.
A real bromance?
First, it was a bromance? I do not believe that either of them have any real friends. A real friend being someone you might call if your car broke down on the side of the rode and you needed a ride home. Would either of them do so without asking for gas money? Or perhaps you can identify friends ala the popular test, “the two beers and watch my dogs” type of person. Both of them only see other people as something – yes, something in place of somebody – to be used and exploited for their own personal gain or purposes. A romance… nah. Their toxic masculinity Continue reading “ELUMP – Some Ramblings”
Trump is now Begging Mark Carney for a Way Out of Canada’s “Anti-Trump” Boycott/Tariff War
In America, we don’t do kings — Mass Protests June 14th
We do not need wanna-be dictators in this county, nor con men sitting in the White House and Congress.
Find a protest near you by going to NoKings.org
Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #2,366
yeah I know you did not ask!
You should so be blessed – well cursed at times actually – with a mind such as mine, making all these weird connections between my rumored neurons. Just be thankful that I do not share all of my random thoughts.
Plucking a doggie poop bag from the container attached to my end of the leash, I cleaned up Prancess Lily’s offering deposited in a neighbor’s yard, thinking to myself it is amazing how much of our lives we spend dealing with shit.
Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #3,683
yeah I know you did not ask!
You should so be blessed – well cursed at times actually – with a mind such as mine, making all these weird connections between my rumored neurons. Just be thankful that I do not share all of my random thoughts.
I am still not imbibing news, at least consciously. I do follow my investments on Google’s Finance page which at the end of my watch list always has news stories related to those investments or to the market in general. Today one headline read that tRump was threatening 50% tariffs against our good friends in Europe.
For some reason a picture of the orange orangutan currently occupying the White House came to mind. In this picture he is sit squatting in the Asian manner inside a zoo cage. He is busily flinging his turds at the various zoo visitors passing in front of his cage. For reasons unclear, the zookeepers have removed the glass partition that would have kept his excrement on his side of the wall. His malodorous missiles were landing pell-mell, but damaging those among us in the most need. Maybe if he turned that Bible upright… nah.
Outside of making him and his contemptuous cronies even richer, I am still trying to figure out what the problem is that he is trying to fix. He is making America anything but Great.
While this posting, A Jack Handey Fable, is about addiction, I see MAGA’s devotion to El puta pendejo naranja in a similar vein.
And so it should not go.