It's finally the new year and it couldn't have come a moment too soon. I'm ever so happy to be seeing 2012 in the rear view mirror. It seems the House Republicans may have to put the speaker's Boehner on ice, like they did with that horse last night on Mob Doctor, because everybody knows an uncontrolable Boehner can become politically embarrassing after a while. Harry Reid and Mitch Mc Conell and Joe Byden could all come together but Eric Cantor about threw a fit when he learned what was happening. He says this bill will increase the national deficet by four trillion over ten years or whatever. Well isn't that just too bad! The People have Spoken. The Senate hammered out their bill at two o clock EST this morning or whatever working feverishly and still missing the deadline- - - and let's hope no workers stub their toes over any of the broken pieces of glass slipper. They have voted on a procedural bill a few hours ago. We've been hearing that a vote in the final measure already ratified by the Senate will take place "within the hour' and we've been hearing that for three hours now. More details will be forthcoming, I'm sure. It seems that $400,000 is the magic cut-off line. This bill contains none of the many cuts in federal programs people were fearing. It will keep the wheels of the money machine greased for a few more weeks at least. That is untill the whole debt ceiling thing again comes up for a vote. Stay tuned, and I know you will.
If people will get off their emotional high horse for one moment, there are ample good reasons why embracing the Neil Savedra kind of Christianity makes no logical sense. For instance some react with hostility to anything Christian or religious. Rather than be seen as a bad sign - - if it's true that Apathy is the opposite of Love - - then if you are at Apathy you logically have to go Through - - - Anger and Hatred arrive back to a state of Love, assuming that is even possible at all. Neil says you can become a Christian and "not sin" purely on your own mental Will and Resolve, and that to think otherwise is to "make excuses for yourself". The trouble with Neil's thinking is that the Bible itself does not agree with him, but insists that any "coming to God" has to be at the instigation of the Holy Spirit. It's at this point that Neil of KFI will tell you "I'm not going to get into the Bible Quoting Game with you". So Neil would end a dispute not by appealing to either God or the Bible but just an "I'm not going to do it" statement. I'd be curious in defense of eternal torment and damnation in Hell - - to have Neil once again to talk about how if a rabid dog bites a wino on skid row - - that's no major offense, but if that same rabid dog bites the President of the United States he merits eternal torture and torment in the Afterlife. I'd also like to again hear from Neil on the subject that "going to Heaven is like enjoying Country Music. Some people do, but if you don't - - why subject yourself to it? I'd also again like to hear from Neil how Jesus "would never have dinner with people he didn't know- - and who were not his friends" as Neil has so often intoned as to why you have to be a churchman to make it into heaven. I'd like to hear again from Neil how "being a hypocrite is no big thing because after all - - Everybody is doing it". And I also like to hear again how snuffing out the faith others already have in God's intervention in their lives. I guess I'd kind of like to see the "Snuffing out the faith in God by another" is perfectly good and acceptable behavior - - - line in the Bible. I say all this stuff not out of animosity or "laying a trap for Neil Savedra" but I'm just putting it to him in a matter of fact way. If all this is as readily resolvable as some of us would hope - - then Neil should have no problem dealing with these simple, direct questions. Neil after all claims that he is the personal Embodyment of All Wisdom from God. This paragraph represents a clear opportunity to Demonstrate it. (Selah)
In terms of my own private computer saga, Judy had my computer booting to the wrong drive, the damaged one with all the bad sectors that is slipping by the day. The bad sectors have doubled in just the past couple of days. You get that click wherr sound now- - which spells danger. But the good news is I think we knocked out the theorized "boot virus" that Staples suspects is there- - but it can only be detected by an outside computer and Staples said that Windows would not "let the Staples computer scan it for viruses", if that isn't too paranoid. It "let" me scan it- - and Mc Affee gave my system a clean bill of health after a two and a half hour scan. But what does IT know? My scratchy sound card may have been cured by switching to the new drives, and indeed I was suspecting sound "tracking errors" and disconuity in sound, not too different from bad CD player tracking. But now an Accronis "safe zone" has to be installed on my new drive. Don't worry, we have Glen Beck's private number for "safe houses" and all, in case of total disaster.
Last night someone bought sparkling apple cider and so we all had small dixie cups of that around the patio table last night well before midnight. It seems about half of the Dick Clark "discovered artists" came in the 'eighties even though Clark's carrier spans the thirty years from 1955 to 1985. The only two 'fifties artists I saw were Johnny Cash and Bill Haley, and the only 'sixties artist we saw were the Jefferson Airplane. We saw James Brown in the 'seventies doing some funk-a-delic stuff, and the rest of what we saw was "eighties till I switched to a Bones rerun at twenty to nine. I slept well last night despite the grizzly bedtime TV fare. I got up at six thirty. Breakfast ran late and I didn't turn on the TV for the Rose Parade till seven after eight. But I caught the first seven minutes since they wasted no time in reruns. They did not show the Rose Bowl on ABC, but as I told Bill and he agreed with "You know the west coast team wins more often than not, all else being equal". And they did. Stanford won for the first time since 1972, which was the first Rose Parade our family got to watch on our own Color TV. (we were very late to the game) In those days I didn't hate Stanford the way I do now. Use their pennants for target practice! Tonight Wally bought a huge thing of rainbow sherbet - - it had a be at least a gallon, if not larger. People helped themselves and I filled up my tall blue water glass and invited Bill to go get some. I also bought an eight pack of crumb donuts, and put my name on the Wall Mart shopping trip list for nine o clock tomorrow. This is one time I won't miss the boat, and save myself a lot of money. I didn't get paid by this place for the second week in a row, but I'm still living off of that sixty I got from my mother ten days ago at the family gathering.
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