Syrian Menace Continues to Go Ignored

John Mc Cain was on Face the Nation today and he brought the situation with Assad in Syria once again.  What’s so funny is that everybody is predicting, like Hillary was a few days ago that “President Assad will be gone soon”.  But I’ve been hearing that for months now from all sorts of people.  We hear continually of promised action but nothing ever happens. We need to heed Mc Cain’s words and the President should speak out on this subject.  Of course if our side continues to whoos out perhaps Turkey will take independant action on their own since they lost that plane and all.  You know a President Reagan or Kennedy would speak out on such ongoing atrocities where a government has massacred thousands of its own citizens and sought to export this terrorism to other countries.  I’m not saying we necessarily should have boots on the ground next week, but I think it’s time we should threaten such an action and openly confront both Russia and China.  We hear Communism is dead and the era of these “warring blocks” of nation and proxy wars is over.  And yet we have Iran and Russia and other nations openly defying the wishes of the UN and continuing to defend and advocate for Syria.  I personally don’t get it.  This would be an excellent way for the President of the United States to boost his rating his rating in the polls against Romney, and why he is stubbornly declining to take action eludes me.

Rand Paul introduced legislation last week that police drones needed a court issued warrant to play the heavens with their surveillance crafts and spy out latterly everything you and I do in what we believe in private.  Oddly Rand Paul’s view got little sympathy from the members on the Mc Laughlin panel, most saying that such concerns about violations of our civil liberties is way overblown.  Certain things are just nuicence factors- -  and one might think you could ban drones in that they are just annoying- - and won’t do the job police think.  Meanwhile in Texas the long arm of the law is extending to free speech and the right of a woman to stand on the side of the highway warning passengers of an upcoming police speed trap.  The police arrested her to “teach her a lesson”.  Clearly this is an upcoming issue that a Higher Court should rule on.  These cases are becoming accepted police practice now.  They even claim it’s illegal for drivers to put their high beams on as a warning to oncoming traffic of police action down the road.  Meanwhile citizens are less free to travel in State Parks because whole parks are either closed down, or else certain areas have been declared off limits because they can’t be “properly maintained” or something.  Cops are not timid about arresting hysterical people if they believe they are too zealous in defended the arrested person for interfering with law enforcement.  The police have a whole bag of tricks they can unleash at any time up their sleeves.

In other news there is tomorrows threatened internet virus attack, but personally I think I’ll chance it because I am pretty well protected.  Speaking of protection they say that people who have biologically become parents may have only half the vulnerability to the common cold as other adults.  I have heard stories of unmarried female school teachers and pre school care givers constantly getting sick and have been puzzled why.  But apparently the old adage “Your parents are too important to get sick” is in fact reality, and clearly parents did not get sick nearly as often as us kids did.  I think my immunity factor around here is pretty high right now.  Ernest Borgnine died today at age 95 of renal failure.  We all know him from Mc Hail’s navy and I recognized him in “From Here to Eternity”.  I never saw “Marty”.  I always thought that was a Western.  He obviously was in a whole lot more movies than I thought.  They now have a composite photograph of a circular, panoramic nature of the planet Mars with eight hundred individual photographs stitched together.  Of course users of Google Earth can have the experience any time of experience only lunar astronauts had before them of actually exploring lunar craters and going all around exploring them from various angles.  Of course “Star Tours” at Disneyland was a real eye opener as far as obtaining a real “flying craft” experience”.


NEILING AT THE ALTERATION OF WORSHIP

I had hoped to get up early at five to catch that before six KFI program.  I completely missed that program.  I decided to watch the Jesus Christ show which was about fifty percent commercials, if not more- - till twenty to seven.  Just how manipulative he is is amazing.  The guy was like me who concluded that it’s best just to be a good person and lay aside too much trust in any institution, be it government or church.  Jesus responded, “Well we all have a Faith problem now and again”.  The guy didn’t have a Faith problem, he had an institutionalized religion problem.  Why do pastors get so whiney about 'You believe everybody else.  You believe your boss when he says you'll get paid on Friday.  You believe your best friend when he says he'll pay you on Tuesday, and yet you won't believe a person who speaks from a church pulpet when he makes promises".  Gosh - I wonder why.  If you loan a guy at work ten dollars and he doesn't pay you back- - according to Neil- - YOU and not he - is the one who has a "faith challenge" now you didn't have yesterday.  Since the Bible says to lack faith is to sin, then now you've got sin, not the guy who cheated you.  Then Neil begins talking about himself as his own producer, Neil saying “I was over at his house the other day”.  Then the guy says “But I do have a fear of death and perhaps going to Hell”.  Neil then says “How can you believe in Hell without being religions?”  Is he serious.  Hell is common imigry in our art and movies and Simpson cartoons and everywhere else.  It’s like someone saying “I have worried about whether or not we are in global warming because of the heat” and one would respond, “Well then, this statement proves you’re an Al Gore leftist”.  At one point he seems to sympathize with the man saying “I don’t doubt you’ve had your struggles”.  But then exhibits no real interest in details of the man’s concerns.  Then Neil goes further off the deep end by saying that a man cannot believe in either good or evil without being religious “where these beliefs come from”.  Then he goes off in a Newt Gingrich type rant about how all the Colleges were first set up because of Religion, and also our Constitution is strictly based on religious Christian values.  He was talking about why people don’t pay attention to alarms.  Obviously Neil has never read the story of the boy who cried wolf.  It never occurred to him that an alarm might be malfunctioning.  Alarms go off with me all the time listening to Neil.  My "mental radar" has gone off in various Bible Studies but since James Dobson says "your feelings will lie to you" this is one "alarm" I ignored too many times.  He talked about the idea that just because God devises an Evil play for a cruxifiction, that doesn’t mean all the other players like Judas and Pilate have to go along with it.  And concludes “Therefore God is not Evil”.  No.  The point of the little example is “Just because God devises an evil plan, individual men don’t need to go along with it” and in this I agree.  He also said “Actually I’m not about any religion but a personal relation with Me”.  But in his very next breath in the best Mitt Romney flip flop, he says “However if you’re going to be religious, it’s best to join institutional religion”.  This begs the question whether not being religious at all is an option.  He went on to say that forgiveness has nothing to do with the pardoning of a person for past sins.  What Bible verse does he get that one out of?  Neil is boxed in by scripture here since Judas hanged himself BEFORE Jesus went to the cross, while he was still alive.  As such technically Judas is not yet guilty of Murder.  Jesus says that 'Judas never repented but only regretted being caught".  Not according to scripture.  In Jesus Christ Superstar Judas protests repeatedly "I don't want your blood money" and the Priests say, "It isn't blood money it's a fee nothing more.  Then Judas returns to them after the deed and "turns himself in" and throws down the blood money and says 'I have sinner in betraying innocent blood".   Judas goes on to say "By God I saw him- - he was three quarters dead".  Clearly this is a case where Bible writers could not explain why the Betrayer of the Annointed One- - - wasn't around to explain his actions.  If you believe Judas was the one who ended up getting crusified by some cosmic trick- - this rather than suicide would explain a now Dead Judas.

I decided to shave and I guess I had the TV on.  We had Raison Bran for breakfast in a half filled bowl.  We had a smaller portion of scrambled eggs than usual and toast and butter and jelly.  The Oriental lady’s giving me food has become a thing of the past.  Then it was ABC news and “This Week”.  They had Mitt Romney’s apparent pick for Vice President and he’s a real asshole.  Not Tim Pawlente but the other guy.   There was some democrat on.  The reporter this week was pretty inciteful but the interview concluded really soon and then went into their roundtable dominated by brain dead conservatives.  All the right wing bullshit platitudes were restated and never challenged by those who did have a brain cell that still worked.  So I switched to Face the Nation at eight thirty and that was better.  Someone said ABC news had taken a turn to the right and I should probably switch to NBC news.  It’s just that Bill likes ABC news in particular, or used to.  John Mc Cain was on.  They had a roundtable and ran past nine, and then had some baseball stuff on.  The All Star game is this Tuesday.  I hope it’s on TV.  You never know these days.  We are in the Dog Days of Summer when nothing happens.  I finally turned the calendar page today to July.  We can probably pretty much sleep through the entire month until Friday July 8, 2012 when the London Olympic games commence.