"Religion is Something I Decided I Didn't Like"

 Well we all know about the big stink that was raised at Penn State when Joe Paterno got fired for covering up a sex scandal and many defenders came out of the woodwork to lodge their objections, and among these were Rush Limbaugh.  Now you have this star football player of the Florida State Seminals, who are destined for a national championship, many believe, against Ohio State.  The problem is that their star player is accused of rape, and they have the physical DNA evidence to back it up.  But the State authorities are not going to charge him for at least the next several weeks, because they have this pesky NCAA regulation that nobody can play in a championship game with serious criminal charges hanging over their head.  This is just another case where the interests of Big Money, corrupt our criminal justice system.

This is Thursday December 5, 2013 and as to Moe Kelly’s remarks this morning I am in agreement with the stuff he said about Martin Bashier.  (Word doesn’t like my spelling of this Reigelian word.)  I am also in agreement and have been that President Obama made a major error in judgement when he pressed so hard for Universal Health Care, at the expense of dealing with the full nature of the economic crisis we were then in.  In case you happen to be wondering,  it’s our tax laws that have been instrumental in screwing up the economy now.  You know the drill.  Let’s use a medical analogy.  Someone who is physically healthy has endurance and can withstand highs and lows - - and is well able to undergo periods of physical stress.  But a person who is sickly and “has a lot of things wrong with him” won’t be helped all that much to some do gooder saying “Well- - we’ll just try and prevent and protect you from various situations that some up so people won’t see how sick you are”.  If we truly had a strong and vibrant economy it wouldn’t matter what the minimum wage laws because the job market would be healthy- - as if was for so much of our history in the past fifty years.  As to Moe’s remarks about Clinton, I think this is an issue where I’ll just chalk it up to “This is a judgement call on which learned men can disagree”.  I don’t have a problem with the remarks Clinton made yesterday.  It doesn’t register as any kind of a problem on my radar screen.  Moe Kelly on the other hand seems bent on wanting to continually peel grapes.   In terms of the remark of 1992, I’m thinking of that line I placed in the mouth of some woman in my Forest Gump parody story of October of 1994 where she looked at this little impish boy (who resembled Rush Limbaugh as a child) and I volentier that she seemed to be one of those women “Who had tried sex and decided they didn’t like it”.  I thought the line was funny.  I’d also like to address the whole possible issue of prostitution.  To my way of thinking there are certain crimes that I will not condone - - but I won’t condemn them either.  One of these is a man with some horrible terminal disease arranging his own suicide with the help of perhaps a physician.  Another would be like maybe Brady Black- - in a state of mental shock- - deciding to “take something for his condition” even if it’s on the illegal side, to “get him through the next board meeting”.  Technically it isn’t pristine pure morality- - but my motto is ‘Judge not that you not be judged”.  Ditto with prostitution.  If you “contract out” for some sexual service- - perhaps it doesn’t show the most stellar moral character in the world, but it’s the man’s personal business- - and as far as I’m concerned not for me to comment on.  Where I would obviously draw the moral line is hurting or treading on the rights of others.  So a mother who enlists her virgin daughter into prostitution - - to earn family income- - this is morally despicable.  In like manner if a hospital- - no matter how subtally- - implies or suggests that “Maybe that patient in room seven would be better off dead because I think everybody involved would be happier if he wasn’t around”.   That’s contrary to the hypocratic medical oath.

There is that commercial about “this is your day to shine” showing a woman talking to her reflection in the mirror going through an interview.  Well, here is a joke.  One young teenager in high school was on the debating team and needed to practice up on his skills so he would secret himself in his bedroom and begin talking to himself.  Then his mother came in the room without knocking, and interrupts the boy.  And the individual says, “Hey mother, don’t disturb me now, I’m Yacking Off!”  A real hoot.  Isn’t it?

I have been sucked into the vortex of an Alcyonne jinx in the past few days.  For instance that coughing bout I had last night.  I went out and bought Hall’s cough drops at the store last night because this coughing spasm I was having wasn’t going away.  This cough has gotten worse in that these spasums are harder to “get over’ now, even if the total number of coughs in a 24 hour day is not increased.  Last night Bill was looking for something to watch on TV and I think he settled on “Law and Order”.   I went through that package pretty fast and would take them when I woke in the night.  In the morning I mentioned all my coughing to Ricardo and he agreed to call Dr Saran and phone in a cough medicine prescription.  Ricardo also gave me some unauthorized cough medicine ‘just for now”.  That act is going to earn him a vote for employee of the year.  That will mean in the past three months I have split my vote three different ways, and last month’s “winner” lost a lot of points for failure to turn on the heat in the past week or so.  We had oatmeal for breakfast and it was a fried egg and a bread pudding cube with whipped cream on it.  Stephanie Miller had to leave the studio because of a bad throat condition.

This whole notion of "Testaments" in the Bible is a strange one.  Many will say that somehow "God had to die before his Testament could come into play, because as long as the individual is alive his last will in Testament isn't in force, but only after he dies".   I find this "God is Dead" theology a little intriguing.  But when you think about an actor or rock star or anybody, people joke when they hear of his death and they are in the Management business and they say "Oh, he's dead?  Good carrier move".   Because after you die all of the Ruling Power resides no longer with you but rather with whatever "Authority" or authorization, others claim to have from your "Testament".   So really Nietche is alive and well in the Catholic Church, because all the ecclisastical authorities have I guess been "Managing God's Estate" quite well, and have accumulated a lot of Gold and art treasure and the like to "build up God's estate".