Last week, the meandering conversation of several men in the lunchroom stumbled into the first Gulf War. At the time, I interjected, “I’m so glad we sent our soldiers to the Middle East to help the Iraqis; life for them is so much better.”
I’m pleased to observe this week’s events have proven my hope justified.
Lewis received a diagnosis of stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
A decade ago, Oprah Winfrey declared, “Those old white men just have to die.”
Now that the old black men are dying, I wonder what she thinks.
That’s all the spoiler you’ll get from me.
Still, don’t pay Disney to see this film.
Find some spoiler website and read the plot.
It’ll be 5 minutes better spent than 2 hours and $15 at a theater.
It astounds me that Democrat Party Representatives invoke the founders of America to support their effort to impeach President Trump when each of those men would consider Democrat Party Representatives usurpers with no claim to American suffrage or citizenship.
Isn’t it interesting that a political magazine editorial which argues that news reporting organizations should publish the name of Trump’s Ukraine phone conversation whistleblower doesn’t include whistleblower’s name.
Katie Hill has formally resigned her office as a Representative to Congress. She blames the nude photos posted at two news outlets for her downfall.
Meanwhile, Kim Kardashian successfully advocates for criminal justice reform at the White House. There she is, sitting between Jared and Ivanka. I guess a sex tape isn’t really that much of a problem in politics, despite Hill’s pose as victim.
I wish Hill’s husband good fortune in divorce court.
It’s just a coincidence. There’s nothing to see here.
Vindman left Ukraine in 1979 with his brothers after his mother died. They immigrated to New York, where his father lived.
Various sources allege Ukraine to be an “anti-Semitic” nation, despite it’s election of a Jew to the Presidency and to several other high elected offices, and the leadership of major Ukrainian businesses by Jews.
But it’s still a coincidence that Vindman opposes Trump’s efforts to force investigations of political corruption in Ukraine that may involve Joe Biden and other Americans. His Jewish ethnicity is entirely unrelated to his accusations against Trump.
But my thing here is: I’m not exactly sure why this would be considered inappropriate.
I mean, we’re shooting little boys with puberty-blocker hormones to chemically sterilize them in advance of cutting their dicks off. The state is literally mandating it. A little threesome action is the virtual ideal of sexual innocence in this modern culture.
UPDATE: Katie Hill since resigned from Congress.
I never thought that my imperfections would be weaponized and used to try to destroy me and the community that I have loved for my entire life. For that, I am so incredibly sorry.”
This confuses me. To which imperfections does she refer? Is a bisexual female Congressional representative supposed to refrain from bisexual relationships? Or is the problem that she maintained a sexual relationship with a campaign staffer or Congressional staffer (like McCain)? Is the problem embarrassing nude photos? She looks healthy and fit. Smoking marijuana from a bong? Isn’t that mostly legal now?
Somebody please help me understand what offense drove her to resign. I can’t believe it would be shame, but that’s all I can imagine.
Here’s another story about an immigrant who may be a traitor.
The accused Lieutenant, Fan Yang, is 34 years old. He immigrated in 1999 (age 15) and joined the Navy in 2006 (age 21). Apparently, magic dirt isn’t magic enough to make the Chinaman a loyal American. Perhaps Americans are too racist for Chinamen to learn loyalty.
Or perhaps we shouldn’t enlist immigrants into our military. It appears risky.
To Romney, Trump’s performance as president is inextricably tangled up in his character. “Berating another person, or calling them names, or demeaning a class of people, not telling the truth—those are not private things,” he says, adding: “If during the campaign you pay a porn star $130,000, that now comes into the public domain.”
Meanwhile, in the Bible…
While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
And later.
Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
“Everything they do is done for people to see: They make their phylacteries[a] wide and the tassels on their garments long; they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues; they love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and to be called ‘Rabbi’ by others.
“But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers. And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah. The greatest among you will be your servant. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.
“Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gold of the temple is bound by that oath.’ You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred? You also say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gift on the altar is bound by that oath.’ You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred? Therefore, anyone who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. And anyone who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it. And anyone who swears by heaven swears by God’s throne and by the one who sits on it.
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. Go ahead, then, and complete what your ancestors started!
“You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town. And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. Truly I tell you, all this will come on this generation.
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’ ”
And finally…
Those who had arrested Jesus took him to Caiaphas the high priest, where the teachers of the law and the elders had assembled. But Peter followed him at a distance, right up to the courtyard of the high priest. He entered and sat down with the guards to see the outcome.
The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for false evidence against Jesus so that they could put him to death. But they did not find any, though many false witnesses came forward.
Finally two came forward and declared, “This fellow said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.’”
Then the high priest stood up and said to Jesus, “Are you not going to answer? What is this testimony that these men are bringing against you?” But Jesus remained silent.
The high priest said to him, “I charge you under oath by the living God: Tell us if you are the Messiah, the Son of God.”
“You have said so,” Jesus replied. “But I say to all of you: From now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.”[e]
Then the high priest tore his clothes and said, “He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Look, now you have heard the blasphemy. 66 What do you think?”
“He is worthy of death,” they answered.
Then they spit in his face and struck him with their fists. Others slapped him 68 and said, “Prophesy to us, Messiah. Who hit you?”
I had no idea Romney was a Jew.
Also, next time some fool complains about “Russian bots” or other nefarious agents working within internet media to manipulate the electorate, remember Romney, a man aged 72 years, managed a Twitter account, Pierre Delecto, for the express purpose of manipulating his own constituents.
Thoughts from a happily married father on a post feminist world.
