A new and serious threat

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Other than the inconvenience of having to vacuum up the glitter that falls out of the envelope, how threatening is it to receive a letter with glitter in it?

I know the pain and its affliction.

I once was involved with someone who frequented a glitzy greeting card store on Boylston Street in Boston. He would buy glitter in little bags, and then put a pinch of it, whether generic or shaped depending on the occasion, into every greeting, birthday, or “thinking of you” card that he sent. After I received the first of such cards, I opened the subsequent ones more carefully and usually over a flat, easy to clean off surface.

Lawmakers in Texas, the state of gun toters, pick up trucks, having things that nothing is bigger than anywhere else, machismo, stars at night being big and bright, and John Wayne wannabes, are facing a serious threat.

The Texas Department of Public Safety has warned them that they could be victims of glitter bombs which are thought to be the preferred weapon of Gay Rights and Pro-Choice activists.

Glitter is not just for party invitations anymore.

The memo is titled “Glitter Bombing: Weapon of Choice for Gay Rights, Pro Choice Advocates”.

It states, “Glitter bombing is a relatively recent phenomenon and has been adopted as a form of protest, particularly (but not exclusively) by gay rights activists and supporters”.

It even inadvertently advertises the best place to get a glitter bomb.
“Ruin Days (www.ruindays.com), an online business that offers a variety of glitter bomb options, including envelopes and spring-loaded tubes.”

The list price is $22.99, for the product they will anonymously ship to a chosen recipient.

To show how much of a threat it has become since glitter bombs were first included on the TV show Glee, the warning explains that in 2011 Newt Gingrich, Tim Pawlenty, Michele Bachmann, Karl Rove and Erik Paulson were all glitter bombed.

They are all conservatives who oppose gay rights, especially marriage equality.

The carnage continued in 2012 with Rick Santorum (four times), Mitt Romney, and Ron Paul. Mitt Romney’s bomber faced up to six months in jail and a fine of $1000.

Oh, the humanity!

According to the memo, “some legal officials argue glitter bombing is technically an assault and battery.”

The threat is real.

Perhaps, if negotiations go well with Iran, they might get around what they agree to by opening a glitter factory, or, to appear that they have no evil intention, the Iranians might open a chain of boutique greeting card stores as a cover.

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Benedict Arnold redux

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There’s just something about 47 Senators writing a letter to Iran’s leadership  telling them that regardless what President Obama and the leaders of the other negotiating countries might arrive at that Iran might sign on to, the GOP has no intention of honoring it.

Meanwhile, at the congressional office building….

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Revenge of the Veggie Tales

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When a highly placed Muslim cleric was asked about the West’s apparent desire and attempts to destroy the Muslim religion, in light of what is going on with ISIS and events like the Charlie Hebdo shooting, he responded that it was not the West and other religions that are destroying Islam, it is destroying itself from within.

And as much as some Christian leaders and politicians in the United States like to claim they are being attacked and persecuted by others, if they took an honest look at what is going on, they would see that American Christianity is being destroyed by its own.

One of the best examples of this, besides a rather off the rails Franklin Graham, is the never disappointing Pat Robertson with whom God apparently carries on long, detailed, and frequent conversations telling him some pretty bizarre things that he passes on to his fans on an almost daily basis.

After telling pregnant women that witches will curse their unborn children if they post ultrasound photos on Facebook, and that evil spirits could be possessing their latest thrift store purchases, he changed his past advocacy for the decriminalization of pot to a warning against the evils of weed.

In 2012 he questioned locking people up for pot violations saying, “I believe in working with the hearts of people, and not locking them up.”

But, a week ago when he was asked on the 700 Club about the legalization of marijuana, he said, “God gave you and me as human beings authority, he gave us dominion over everything on this Earth. Over all the animals, all the snakes, all the birds, all the plants, all the vegetables… Cocaine is the product of a vegetable, alcohol is the product of a vegetable, marijuana is a vegetable. And yet, people are enslaved to vegetables. You were made in the image of God. God made you in his image to reign and rule with Him. He gave you incredible authority. Why would you become a slave to a vegetable? Why? Why would you do it?”

In Oklahoma City one of the stores that had a good relationship with the school district and from which you could get classroom supplies at a good discount was a Christian bookstore, a big one, owned by Hobby Lobby.

I would take my voucher there and get things for the classroom, and would often walk around checking out the religious Chatkes and the toy section. I was teaching Special Education at the time, and they had what we called “manipulatives” that would make science easy and fun.

They were up to your bulvarinis in bulletin board decorations.

They had a whole section of Veggie Tales toys, books, and videos.

There was something a little creepy about the ever staring, vacant eyes of the anthropomorphic vegetables who seemed to always be planning something behind their frozen smiles.

Their hollow eyes followed you as you walked around. They were not the windows to anyone’s souls.

Now because of Pat’s truth telling, I now know they were there biding their time for the right moment to enslave us.

There turns out to be something satanic behind their otherwise innocent facades

And from now on when I go into the local Stop and Shop, I will definitely steer clear of the produce section and go right to the deli and frozen foods.

And, I will sever all ties to vegan fiends, and stick strictly to beef and bacon

Inhofe vs God

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Senator Jim Inhofe, exhibiting his ignorance about climate and weather, stood in the Senate chamber with a snowball, and thinking himself clever, attempted to prove that climate change was a hoax because he had a snow ball.
He has no idea that climate is worldwide, while weather is regional, and that you have to look at the whole picture to understand the situation.

Yes, we have had a lot of snow this year. But, how are conditions in other parts of the world?

What is happening that the Polar Vortex is being drawn further south?

Just as with having the majority vote on who gets what people claim are the unalienable rights that all men are endowed with by their creator, people like Jim Inhofe believe that science has to be subject to a vote of the people.

If he had been Queen Isabella, instead of paying to have Christopher Columbus sail off to prove the world was round, he would have had people vote on that, and if they decided it was flat, she could have saved a lot of time and money, and the Native Americans would have gotten a break.

But when it comes to the science of climate change, Senator Inhofe would rather rely on his interpretation of the Bible as opposed science because, as he said,

“I take my religion seriously. This is what a lot of alarmists (that’s his term for “scientist”) forget: God is still up there, and He promised to maintain the seasons and that cold and heat would never cease as long as the earth remains.”

He has stated that his favorite Bible verse backs him up.

Genesis 8:22: As long as the earth remains there will be springtime and harvest cold and heat, winter and summer

“The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous,” he has said.

He seems to be of that school of thought that holds that man has such dominion over the earth that we can do to what we will, and that God will be there to correct any of our mistakes.

A very helpful tool in abrogating responsibility.

But if, as he says, “I take my religion seriously”, then he would not be so quick s to ignore that according to the Bible we are supposed to take care of the earth, or else.

Isaiah 24:4-6
The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes and withers, the heavens languish with the earth. The earth is defiled by its people. they have disobeyed the laws, violated the statutes
and broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt. Therefore earth’s inhabitants are burned up, and very few are left.

Jeremiah 2:7. “I brought you into the fruitful land to eat its fruit and its good things. But you came and defiled My land, And My inheritance you made an abomination”.

Luke 16:2,10,12. “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own?”

Leviticus 25:23-24 “The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you are but aliens and my tenants. Throughout the country that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption of the land”.

Ezekial 34:2-4  “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who only take care of themselves! Should not shepherds take care of the flock? You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with the wool and slaughter the choice animals, but you do not take care of the flock. You have not strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound up the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally”.

Jeremiah 2:7 “I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and rich produce. But you came and defiled my land and made my inheritance detestable”.

Revelation 11:18 ” The nations were angry; and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your saints and those who reverence your name, both small and great — and for destroying those who destroy the earth”.

And I found those during a five minute search. Certainly Senator Inhofe could have found them in his life of religiosity.

Open mic

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When President Obama mentioned the Crusades as an example of one of the times Christianity was a little less than a religion of peace, people jumped all over him because, as they claimed, those were the old days, and things have come a long way since then.

Only Muslims perform atrocities these days in the name of religion.

But.

Just last year Muslims in Banqui, Central African Republic were jumping on trucks to flee from Christians who had been persecuting them. As the trucks passed through Christian areas as they fled they were attacked.

Last year is not all that long ago.

Christian vigilantes attacked their Muslim minority neighbors killing scores of them, often with machetes. Thousands fled, hoping to get to the airport.

When the country’s first Muslim leader, Michel Djotodia, stepped down, the idea was that this would bring stability to the area. Instead, the Christian population turned on the Muslims.

When one man fell of a truck, according to Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director for Human Rights Watch, he was viciously slain by a mob that cut off his genitals and hands.

No statements of outage came from Christian leaders throughout the world.

Then there’s the Lord’s Resistance Army known for giving guns to children and forcing them to fight; abducting large numbers of civilians for training as guerrillas; abducting young girls and selling them as sex and labor slaves; and giving abducted children as gifts to arms dealers in Sudan.

Besides being beaten, raped, and forced to march until exhausted, children have been forced to kill other children who had attempted to escape.

The LRA rebels, led by Joseph Kony who inherited power from his aunt who had started the Holy Spirit Movement, and who believes himself to be a prophet sent from God, has the stated goal of the establishing a government based on the biblical Ten Commandments.

Between 1882 and 1968 there were 4,743 recorded lynchings in the United States. 25% of these were white people who had sympathized and spoke for Black people.

That’s 4,743 RECORDED lynchings.

There was the case of Jesse Washington in Texas, a very Christian place. He had been accused of murdering a White woman even though there were no witnesses, just a corpse. Mr. Washington, a U.S. Soldier, had his genitals cut off before he was raised and lowered over a bonfire for two hours before finally being burned alive.

One witness sent a picture to relatives with the note, “This is the barbeque we had last night. My picture is to the left with a cross over it. Your son, Joe.”

Washington’s body was cut to pieces and these given to spectators as souvenirs. People have passed these and similar souvenirs down to family members through the years, and they are still around.

But I guess that could be excused as it happened like way back in the days of the Crusades, 1916.

In 1964 three Mississippi civil rights workers were killed by members of the local White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. The White Knights claim they are a Christian organization.

Southern Christians raped, murdered, beat, robbed, and burned blacks, and then went to church on Sunday assuring the lord that they were saving their biblically based way of life. Remember, the Southern Baptist Convention had begun in defense of slavery, and had opposed desegregation and racial equality until the very last minute

Considering that lynchings continued until 1968, at least where they were noticeable, who knows what surreptitious forms they have morphed into, those involved are still around, so it is not something from a distant past.

We have Christian politicians around today who in the name of Christianity are advocating the killing of Gay people, not just in the United States, but in foreign countries. Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” bill got a lot of help from American Christian pastors and politicians. Representative Sally Kern has stated publicly that Gay people are like cancer which needs to be removed.

This isn’t to minimize the atrocities of those who claim they do what they do in the name of the Muslim religion. It is to point out that people need to scrutinize the fear mongering by those who want war and feel that by presenting one religion, the “other”, as the only religion to commit atrocities, they can get support.

Remember, we weren’t at war with the Middle East until we went there. Before that we were dealing with a political movement whose members we had armed and trained, but who then turned on us.

Why shouldn’t they have the oil we were so wiling to have our young men and women die for.

We need to rectify that, and to do that we need an enemy people will blindly oppose. Hating an “other” is a good distraction.

And it is to question why people ask why the moderate Muslims are not speaking up against the atrocities (they are, by the way), yet do not ask why the moderate Christian leaders are silent about what their religion is doing beyond making excuses.

Besides hearing about ISIL, in the oil rich areas, by the way, why do we not hear about the Christian nuts in other, non-oil rich areas?

How “scandals” start

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Why in only certain cases?

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                           WHAT’S MISSING FROM THE PICTURE?

 

Not much to do when there is another out of the norm snow-fall on Cape Cod but watch television just to hear another voice in the house.

I have basic, I mean really basic cable so I have to do a lot of channel surfing if I don’t want to have to sit through another Murder she Wrote, or re-run of, yes, Lawrence Welk. The morning is taken up with news shows, those overly happy about nothing morning talk shows, and a good cat fight on The View.

I get to see a lot of news reports and special reports, and I have come to notice something.

Besides the necessary information that comes with a crime report, the usual who, what, when, and where, the why having to wait until an arrest, they also include unnecessary information that seems to only be there to plant some prejudgment in the viewer’s mind.

I can understand why they tell the details of the crime, but certain details about the perpetrator do not seem necessary. If someone robs a bank or runs someone over with a car, do I really have to know their religion, race, or sexual orientation, especially since none of those has any bearing on the crime.

I have heard about “Avowed atheists”, “practicing homosexuals”, “Muslim looking”, “Black man” also interchangeable with “thuggish looking”, things that have nothing to do with a DUI, running a stop sign and causing an accident, or holding up a store unless, of course, the Muslim had been pretending to pray at the check out counter, the homosexual was “doing it” and decided to run over someone with his car who wasn’t “doing it”, or an atheist hit the 7/11 because the cashier was wearing a cross as opposed hitting the store across the street because the cashier wasn’t.

What do these details have to do with anything?

I have had a car stolen and an apartment broken into. At no time was the sexual orientation or the religious affiliation of any relevance.

What I never hear is that the perpetrator is a “practicing heterosexual”, An “avowed Christian,  a “white man” or alternately “punk”.

And, believe me, I was there when the greatest act of domestic terrorism was committed on U.S. soil and neither the religion or race of the perpetrator was an issue.

So why is it done in the cases I have mentioned other than to either perpetuate or to prey on people’s fear of the other.

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