Republican Gamorah

People love to equate the right wing with "Right" be it morally or politically and people think of Left as cinnister or "wrong". Many people, perhaps including myself, have been brainwashed into believing that Christians on the right are inherently more moral than us "ordenary" people. But let's look at some examples to the contrary. Today Randi Rhodes had on her program Max Bloomenthol, author of "Republican Gamorah". First look at James Dobson. Would you believe that he owes a lot of success for the funding of his Ministry to none other than Ted Bundy, who was a multiple murderer - rapist? As you know in an Exclusive interview with Bundy before he was put to death, James Dobson fawned all over Bundy, as Bundy explained that the cause of all of his violence against women began when he started reading Playboy as a youngster. By the way, did you know that Bundy used to be a politically minded Republican who worked in the party? Some mave said that the sort of physical discipline that Dobson teaches turns kids into sado-masochists. Of particular interest was the notion of hugging your kid after you spanked them. That sure wasn't my house. I don't recall "hugging" ever being a part of physical punishment. I kind of viewed discipline in my home as storms that would come at sea and they seemed to erupt for no reason and they were pretty much uncontrolable like the weather, and you pretty much had to wait for them to blow over. Dobson also says it's a good idea for fathers to shower with their young sons, so the little boys can observe the size of their father's penis, as some symbol for authority. Randy Rhodes is disgusted by people like Tom Delay, who used to be called "The Hammer" because he was so virelent in demanding President Clinton's impeachment. In my wrotings of 2005 I thought the laundering charges were flimsy, but I was in a different frame of mind in those days. But Tom Delay has defended guys like Abramoff, who was associated with a prostitution sex slave ring on some tropical island the US owns. It seems these "workers" were forced to get abortions should they get pregnent, so they could go on plying their trade without interruption. Apparently there was a bill before congress to put an end to all this sex slave business and Tom Delay, as a favor to Abramoff, blocked the bill and it died. Tom Delay also had some Texas senators chased down who were "hiding out" in a city in Oklahoma because they didn't want to vote on a heavily biased redistricting bill. After the FAA told Delay to fly a kite, Delay began hassassing other federal agencies for action. Also Tom Delay was one of those in the forefront of the Terry Shivo battle in 2005. But now it turns out that Delay was the one that signed the death order on his own father, ordering the hospital to pull the plug. Hypocracy is rampent with these people as you can see. But I think there is an element of truth in Thom Hartman's assertion that these people on the right believe that "Man" is basically immoral and depraved and can't be trusted, but there are a few "Naturally Annointed Leaders" who can. In the book, Mel Gibson, who did the Passion of the Christ- - is criticized because he believes the movie glorified Sado-Masochism. That's an interesting slant on reality. In the book "Escape from Freedom" Eric Fromme says that people are basically like sheep and their greatest fear in life is having to make decisions. And so some dictator like Hitler promises them "relief from all this stress". People under Nazisum, like Churchmen, I suspect, are sort of a sado-masochistic relationship. They are told whom to hate and despize, while they in turn are often looked down disparagingly from "On High". You never know. Maybe Eric Fromme had the answer all along and I didn't see it. My natural bias is fading vain hope is that "If I look hard enough, I can find good things in right wing Christianity. A lot of radio comentators have it half-ass backwards. They say "Basically the system is good; it is only isolated people who are bad apples". I turn that around. There are a few isolated very moral apples in the mix, and I indeed have met quite a few very moral, decent Christians. But they can never get that far, because the system of Christianity is utterly corrupt. There is one more angle to all this. Mass murderers often get their start torturing and abusing animals. I know a guy who used to live in the Bosc house who used to brag that he tortured animals when he was younger. Apparently a favorite pasttime among Texans is sticking firecrackers up frog's butts and setting them off. Of course the book "Republican Gamorah" apparently spends a lot of time talking about old fashioned sexual immorality and bad judgement Republicans are guilty of.

President Obama cams up with the statement of the day when he said "Believe it or not I was black before the election of 2008". OK. Point made. But I also know if I were President I would pretty much feel like Obama that I had to downplay the whole racial thing. Even as just a blogger I didn't want to be pidgion holed by my readers as "Another one of "Those People" who obsesses on Race". So I dragged my feet in bringing up the whole racial issue. It struck me while watching "Inheret the Wind" yesterday that maybe conservatives hate evolution because they look down on Black people, who remind them of apes, and so they look down on apes, too. After all they need someone to look down on because God hates everybody. As Homer Simpson put it brilliantly in one episode, "Now I know how God feels. I'm beginning to hate my own creation".

And now for today's music interlude. I don't think I ever included "Take a Walk on the Wild Side" by Lou Reed in any of my rock compilations. If so it's a case of a song slipping through the cracks because I intended to include it "sometime". Here is today's light bulb moment. There is a commercial where there is a slightly different version of "Come Together" and I happened to notice the starteling similarity in this song and "Crawling King Snake" by the Doors, particularly in the electric piano part. It's something to ponder.

Apparently the name of the main Talliban terrorist captured is Nija Bula Azazi. This is the most significant Talliban plot unearthed since 9 - 11, and it wasn't just in the speculation stage but well under-way. I have kind of a personal biaz that says "We won't have any repeats of 9 - 11". It would seem that an axiom of law enforcement is "We don't know what we don't know". What this means to me is that the scope of what you don't know is not defined. The new information could come from anywhere, and perhaps a place you aren't looking or suspecting. So what you THINK you don't know could be a lot less signifant than what you REALLY don't know. Some theorize that Islamic groups are doing such a good job of infiltrating our society and turning us secretly subtally pro Islamic, that an overt attack is less and less necessary.

Sometimes you can do a job too well. As a price for doing a "clean wipe" of all damning evidence, Stephano is being wedded to Kate Roberts tonight, which is something he's actually wanted to do for a long time. But now there is another problem. Kate Roberts won't be arrested for any crimes but the police marveled that the Motel where the crime was committed was clean, all right. It was emaculate of any DNA or finger prints or any evidence that anyone had ever been there. This seemed odd. But in Christian history the same thing seems to have happened in the hundred years after Christ was crusified. You don't find any relyable documents that can be pinned down in date till about 112, as the very earliest, and most likely later. And yet there are a ton of - -third, and fourth, and fifth century documents. But why is there that seeming eighty year "dead zone" after the death of Christ? Was either writing or paper or something to write with not invented yet? Or were these documents deemed "dangerous" because their theology was contradicted by later writings of the Church Fathers? Or, there is one more possability, that Christianity itself did not even exist till sometime in the second century. Or as I have said in my blogs, there was a "Crestus" but the "Christians" described, for instance in the writings in Pliny the Younger, were in fact NOT the Holy Catholic Church but a whole other outfit.